juan: would like to bring in marc mauer of the sentencing project. whole issue of felons felon disenfranchisement across the country. are you saying at the national level any move to refeform these policies? and also this selective prosecution, are using any of that as may be happening here in fort worth? >> right, well we have record numbers of people who can't vote a felony, but the encouraging news is over the past two decades, a good number of states have begun to reconsider these laws. in many cases, they have been on the books for 100, even 200 years with very little scrutiny. so several states in receipt years have cut back the ban on voting after you complete your sentence. other states, maryland, connecticut, rhode island, no permit people on probation and/or parole to vote, too. tothere's a growing movement reconsider these to reconsider these policies, to scale back. nonetheless, because of the rise of mass incarceration, the number of people with felony convictions, we still have this record six many people who cannot vote. in terms of pr

one moment of fame and plenty of emotion every sunday at berlin's mauer park. it's time now for a new episode of our serious you know mix the lax which takes us to iceland this time around the country is known for its breathtaking landscape with many volcanoes and springs we were invited it's to a house that i care vic which was once just an old conquered bungalow but a make over turned it into a really modern home. hello welcome to my house. please come in. on a good as doctors bungalow in a suburb of the icelandic capital reykjavik is a modern concrete looking below with a previous life. like almost all the houses here it was built in the one nine hundred sixty s. on and her husband have modernized the bungalow and renovated it competing with its surroundings. i am told to stay here all the lights and the nature to be in contact with the nature here it's very much a balance between inside and outside that you feel very. good connection only that just. the idea for the conversion came about in twenty fifteen but first on i only wanted to redesign the kitchen a

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one was written by david mauer, which was a fiction account called the driving place -- dining place. it was the same unit i was in. the other was a scholarly work by a gentleman named john plaster and wood bed cnc central and ran recon. most of the people that john plaster tried to interview refused to speak to them in myself when i first started writing about because as far as we know, they were still classified. a lot of the information in john's book, got the one or two people they were willing to talk to and in all cases, eyewitnesses, everyone of them has a different view of the same incident. there were things that were left out. but today, more and more authors are coming forward in writing about special projects. john mayer has written to really find the and toby todd and i think a couple of the others. i love them in their effort to come forward and tell people about their peers. i didn't write it for myself. i wrote up for the guys i was there with. the most incredible people i've ever met in my life, all of whom are old friends of mine. i hope that the book gives you an id

the director of the monmouth university polling institute, patrick mauer r patrick murray, is joiningus now. give us the upshot on the president's approval rating. >> you just mentioned 43% to 50% disapprove. the disapproval is a few points up from the last time we measured it, but that was right after his meeting with kim jong-un where he got a slight bump in that meeting. it's been really consistent. there has not been anything that's moved his numbers significantly. >> looking at your polls in june after helsinki, his disapproval was 46%. his approval number was 43%. it's 43% now. there's another number that always jumps out at me as a political nerd. right track, wrong track. is the country moving in the right track or wrong track? right now, 35% of the american public believes the country is moving in the right direction. 57% think the country is moving in the wrong direction. that's a number political analysts look at closely, especially in advance of the midterm elections. >> right. and i think it's going to have an impact on the midterm elections and who's in power. but we've