crowd could it actually help radley balko is going to give us his take and we'll speak to kashmir hill about the use of drones right here in america law enforcement getting their hands on the news corp has one so who could be next going to get it all that and more tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so obviously all eyes were turned of the g.o.p. presidential debate that took place in iowa last night because after all one of these people could be the next president of the united states but also worth discussing safe to say that the mainstream media doesn't just discuss oh no no they obsess they parse over every single word that gets. a night in iowa the republican presidential hopefuls take sam the each other and president obama did anyone come out the clear winner him try to break out of the pack he repeatedly zene fellow minnesotan michele bachmann if there was a surprise performance it might have been newt gingrich's but the winner of the debate overall in terms of how it changes the election and w

feminists bitch thing like oh and i want to respond to a viewer who commented on my interview with radley balko last night about the criminalization of childhood here in the us air and political set on you too much of this is related to the fact that there are so many private for profit prisons in this country i'm disappointed that neither of you discussed this and many cases this is an extension of the problems with corporate america now we didn't while we didn't address this particular piece of the puzzle last night we've covered the. it is an industrial complex in the proliferation of private prisons many many times on this show and in fact we spoke in a rather himself about it so i can assure you that we will continue to cover a very important topic there's just not room for it every single day now finally i would respond to our monday happy hour segment chris gill said on facebook peta combining porn with images of animal torture is not such a great idea well and of attracting some true sickos i predict the web site will end up being monitored by the f.b.i. in order to keep tabs on possibl

about the kind of president that some republicans just might want joining me to discuss this is radley balko senior writer and investigative reporter for the huffington post rather i want to thank you for joining us tonight and for starters i want to ask you the same question that you asked on your blog tonight which is why is rick perry the poster boy for limited government. yeah i mean if you look at the death penalty like a government program you've got here you've got a guy in perry who you know this covered this program a huge mistake they possibly executed it as a person i mean this is the most probably solemn power we give to a state government to execute its own citizens in may and may have killed an innocent person and kerry's response to that was you know not to alarm not you know we should give government less power because what happened here is response to that was to cover it up he you know not only did he insists that willingham was guilty he brought in a bunch of stuff about williams' character that doesn't do the case and then one of the state forensics commission tried to lo

begin with and what does that mean for young people in this country joining me to discuss this is radley balko senior writer and investigative reporter for the huffington post rather thanks so much for joining us tonight this is this one really has my blood boiling this story makes me so angry but maybe you can try to rationalize for a for us a little bit and go back through history tell us how it is that we came up with this system with the zero tolerance policies. well i'm not i'm probably not going to ask you any less angry. look i mean i think we are criminalizing everything in our society and we finally reach a point where we're criminalizing childhood look i mean kids need to be able to make mistakes and part of being a kid is making mistakes and they need to be able to make them in a way that doesn't affect them for the rest of their lives and you know the criminal justice system is a very long instrument for correcting mistakes and you know i think we saw it starting with these texting arse excuse me sexting prosecutions where you know teenagers have been showing their body parts to on