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jelani andrews. >> that's right. come in the other room. >> why you do that, pro? laughter ] >> i'm tired, bro. >> he's really cool. like, i respect him. he's not a judgmental person at all. he's my best friend. >> i don't know. just woke up. >> why didn't you wake me up? did you touch my feet again? >> yeah. >> i've known shaquille since seventh grade. >> he cool as hell. i'm proud to say that my gay best friend. >> he's nearing the end of a sentence for marijuana and carriage a concealed weapon. >> that when they have balls. >> dude's like, i got strap for sale. want to buy it? what kind of strap? >> a 40. it was like the most beautifulest gun i've seen in my life. >> the gun might have been beautiful, but it was hot. >> the dea agent said did you see what you had done? what you talking about? yes, you did. i didn't get in trouble because i never shot the gun. didn't scratch the serial numbers off and all the original hallow tips was in the clip. nothing in the chamber. >> if he done any of those things, andrews could have faced a stiff sentence in federal prison

. >> for now, though, younger inmates in the hamptons line denbraven, shaquille washington and jelaniexperiences. they first came before any of them were born. >> change your life. to start all over again. use it. you know? >> work at mcdonald's flipping burgers and mopping the floors, if i got to clean up [ bleep ] i'm going to do it. >> you think about more things. think about the things you're about to do before you do them now. >> exactly. >> me and some of the older guys we try to talk to them and let them know, it's no place to be. let them look at me and see, you know, that, you know, you could very well be me, if you don't change your ways now. >> we do the things we do, because we want to do them. we want to go out and drink or smoke weed, whatever, that's because we want to do them. we ain't got to do them. we want to do them. >> it's the choices i made in life. to continue a life of crime, and as i was continuing i got the same old results kn. no matter which direction i went, the same results. i didn't want them to go through the same thing. >> i've been here 70 days now,

but to jelani's point, republicans don't control half.owards their model of sequester cuts on this deal. so what gives? >> well, you know, it's -- we can say that if we want. but the way they look at it is, they think they are the group, you know, the faction of a faction, with the only ones who are the bearers of legitimacy. they don't think president obama is legitimate. they don't think the senate is legitimate. and by the way, they thought the same thing about bill clinton and al gore. that's what the whole -- the idea of the red states versus the blue states. the red states, that's the heart of america, authenticity, all that sort of stuff. the rest of us are these kind of, you know, up rooted, derasnatured, you know, people who, you know, intellectuals who read fancy magazines and stuff like that. they think of themselves as legitimate. >> let me bring in angela. speaking myself as someone who is, you know, written for fancy magazines and may not be a real american. but an larks i know you to be a real american. what do you make of

but as jelani said, if this man after 27 years in prison could bring down the institution of apartheid anyone can do anything when faced with challenges, including an african-american man become k president of the united states. i think that broader symbolism meant a lot to president obama. >> there have been for several years now of course a number of comparisons made between nelson mandela and president obama. "the washington post" characterized how the president in the past has dealt with those comparisons saying in part, quote, the american president regularly shied from direct comparisons with mr. mandela. mr. obama often noted privately and publicly that his sacrifices would never compare to mr. mandela's. aide to mr. obama said he was uncomfortable when people drew parallels between them as often as they did. this is from "the new york time times", not "the washington post." i apologize. how fair are those comparisons? they are inevitable and now we're going to continue to read and hear more about them over the next few days and weeks. how fair are they? >> it depends on which m