jimmy reid. >> if you lock me up i'll burn my peter. >> burn your peter? >> yeah. >> all right. >> his disciplinary hearing for a night full of harassing correctional staff. >> yeah. i've let that escalate. i escalated that. >> reid was serving an 11-year sentence. he had stabbed a friend during an argument, and the man died. but reid's personal demon had made him no stranger to prison. >> how long have you been in prison? >> most of my life. >> why? what was your life like out there before prison? >> just spun out of control through alcohol, you know. >> jimmy reid was probably one of the most forthright inmates i've ever interviewed. he was just was completely uncensored. very self-facing. very honest about who he was, what he did, why he did it. and he had a great face. he had a face that looked like he had seen many, many bar fights. and the other crimes that put you in prison before, what were those? >> very different. a lot of different things. thieving, fighting. but the majority of them were through drink. >> reid recently transferred to protective

jimmy you're chuckling as you are wont to do. >> this theory that the president's control the economy per se is foolish. barack obama doesn't create jobs. harry reid doesn't create jobs. john boehner doesn't create jobs. people in private companies and publicly traded companies create jobs. they also destroy jobs. i think ratner's right. i think it's completely unfair for the president of the united states to put out an ad and say something along the lines of mitt romney did this. by the way, ted kennedy ran the same ad when romney ran against him. >> rick perry i believe also ran similar ads, newt gingrich had similar ads. >> it's simple. you're in the private sector. you're going to create jobs and get rid of jobs as the economy dictates it. so in politics, nothing is fair. i think this is a little bit disingenuous here. the obama people will get mad at me for saying this. >> if we're talking about mitt romney, he is to some degree i think a cipher in terms of the america public's full understanding of his record. and i think this is a turning point in the race insofar as it's the first time the white house has said look, he was a corporate raid