kristof says the sentence and outrage unfair at every level.ng now 43 convicted of several burglaries young man then resolved he would turn his life around. released from prison in 1996, married, worked six days a week and raised four children in hixon, tennessee. then he became a suspect and burglaries storage facilities and vehicles in the area. the police searched his home and found the forgotten shotgun shells as well as some stolen goods. the shotgun shells according to kristof were given to young by nancht is against the law for convicted felon to possess guns and ammunition. so when police found the ammo in young's home he was charged in federal court. nicholas kristof wants us to believe that edward young is being put in a federal penitentiary for 15 years because he innocently held some shotgun shells. now, we asked mr. kristof to appear on the program this evening. he did not respond to that request. and i don't blame him. because here's the truth about edward young. he has a rap sheet that includes 22 felony charges. 11 violent becau

here to talk about his find is zoologist kristofer helgen, who spent the last decade tracking the two critters. welcome, and congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> brown: so tell us first about this critter. what is it? >> i want you to meet the olinguito. so this is the latest addition to the raccoon family tree. until now, it's been confused with another kind of animal called the olingo, but it's really quite a different animal. we published today a scientific paper where we gave this animal, the olinguito, its scientific name for the very first time. >> brown: when you say it's been confused, that's part of the intriguing thing of this story, right? these have been around-- you found them, where the evidence, first, in museum collections like this. >> that's exactly right. the story of the olinguito is one of mistaken identity. so i first realized this animal existed by finding specimens in museum collections that had been put in the wrong place, identified as the wrong animal. but i realized as soon as i saw it, the significance of this animal. it was first in the chicago fie

john mearsheimer, kristofer helgen, ivo dahlder, th all three. >> ifill: now, the other news of the dayre's kwame holman. >> holman: a military jury at fort hood, texas sentenced army major nidal hasan to death, for killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 in a 2009 attack. he could become the first american soldier to be executed since 1961. the american-born muslim has said he acted to protect islamic insurgents in iraq and afghanistan. he represented himself at his court martial, but offered no defense. the new york city police department is facing new questions about its surveillance of muslims. the associated press reported today that since 9/11, the department has labeled at least a dozen mosques as terrorist organizations. the tactic allowed officers to spy on imams, investigate worshippers and plant undercover officers in those organizations, often without direct evidence of wrongdoing. in iraq, coordinated car bombings in baghdad killed at least 70 people and wounded some 200. the charred wreckage of cars and buildings littered streets. the iraqi capital and other cities hav

nick kristof is right. a large swath died not because of chemical weapons but because of the assad regime. is that a compelling reason to send in troops? i don't know. i don't cover foreign policy or syria. this is a very complex issue. the scariest thing i read -- >> you cover the white house. >> the scariest thing i read was in the a.p. yesterday, they were talking about how little intelligence they actually had about where assad was stockpiling his weapons. there was a line in there to the effect that we could end up bombing syria, sort of blind and trigger a chemical weapons reaction because we hit the stockpile. that's how little intelligence we actually have about the situation right now. it should give people a lot of pause before we devote any resources into the country. one last thing. with respect to the military generals quoted in the post piece, we're seeing the residual effects of iraq still. i think there's so much antipathy toward using military action partly because they were making the same