but the facility also houses richard ramirez, better known as the night stalker, and richard allen davis, polly klaas' killer. the prison is more than 150 years old. the walls are crumbling. and the institution is outdated, contributing to an overwhelming increase in both the number and severity of brutal assaults by inmates. during the next hour, you will witness life inside san quentin, including a look inside california's vicious death row. >> san quentin opened in 1852 and today, seems physically trapped in the century in which it was conceived. old and decrepit, san quentin is riddled with shadowy alcoves and blind spots. there are no electrified, lethal fences. the towers around the perimeter must still be staffed where, incredibly, there are fewer surveillance cameras than a single convenience store. and worse yet, a lack of modernization has put officers in constant risk of inmate attack. >> every day i walk through those gates, the thought crosses my mind. is today going to be the last? >> the grounds are a sprawling 432 acres located on the shores of beautiful san francisco bay

and richard davis who kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old pollee class in 1993. father and low rain lohr's twin sons have been gunned down in a drive bishooting. does the money argument about how much it costs to sustain the appeals process, to keep death row inmates on death row does it influence at all your opinion about the death penalty? >> thank you for having me on, but let me say that this is nothing measure a cynical attempt by the california legislature to undermine the will of the people and to subvert the law of the land. there are very easy fixes that could streamline and push this process forward much more quickly. for instance, in california we have more than 170,000 practicing lawyers. however only 100 lawyers or less than 100 lawyers are qualified to handle death penalty appeals. this creates a backlog of a decade before they first get those appeals to the california supreme court. secondly, a state amendment could -- a constitutional amendment could very easily create an environment for the state court of appeals would be able to hear devaluate p

bank ceo richard davis documented meetings held march march 10th in 2011 and march 11th of 2011. what was the nature of these meetings and was anything but the settlement discussed in those meetings? >> what mr. davis to as you say is the ceo of u.s. bank and i've had the opportunity to talk on several occasions in the past about a variety of issues, the nature of my role in particular is to lead the of markets and regulations, and indeed my intent and the division's intent is to make sure that which we do from a policy point of view is simultaneously ground in the empirical analysis on the one hand and a deep grounding and the pragmatism of what actually happens in the marketplace. to my recollection any conversations with mr. davis and or his team have been with that in mind and in particular the meeting that you were discussing i recall professor who warren actually prefaced some of that meeting with an explicit statement that what that meeting is about is about the market probably and not -- >> let me refresh your memory a little bit. in that e-mail it describes the needs tes

davis, jr. embracing richard nixon. >> yes. >> and nixon looking like, oh, this is just awful. >> he'd rather beplace else in the world. that's right. [ laughter ] >> it just showed you something about richard nixon. >> right. >> and then you come forward, fast forward to bill clinton, and clinton has an ease, and i think it's being a southerner. >> yeah. >> being a southerner, he had an ease with black people. having grown up in arkansas and having lived around black people and havingú black people come into his uncle's store.. >> right. >> .and having a friendly relationship with them. i think he was a different person.. >> yeah. >> .than the other white presidents we've had. it doesn't mean he's lacker than barack obama. >> right. but being, being a southerner were, were, a preconditioned coofort wwthú that and serving effectively as president, haley barbour might be running for president. >> but you know, i think haley barbour probably is more comfortable with black people than many northerners are. >> really? >> yes i do. >> the accusations of racism against him notwithstanding. >> oh yes.

richard nixon, we haven't talked about him at all. interesting figure. you have the picture in the book. the picture of sammy davis junior giving him a hug which he got blasted. talk about nixon and his racial sensitivities and insensitivities. >> guest: right. look now at some of the tapes. he had terrible insensitivity. he made terrible racist remarks, previously. so he never quite escaped the last that he had of insensitivity on racial issues. one the big things on policy that historians remark on is the southern strategy. the idea that during his earlier career, he was not thought of as a particularly hostile person to racial progress. in the 1960 election, he got a substantial portion of the african-american vote as presidents had gotten going back to the lincoln experience. >> host: yes. >> guest: but when he got to running in '66, he developed a southern strategy, so he could carry the white south and northern states. he could never get past in a lot of his dealings with the african-american community. he was widely reviled in the african-american committee for this. some of his policies on segregation and

richard nixon, we've not talked about him at all. interesting figure. you've got the picture in your book, the infamous picture of sammy davis, jr., giving him a hug for which he got basically blasted among african-americans. talk a bit about nixon and his racial sensitivities and insensitivities. >> guest: if you look at some of the -- the tapes that are coming out, he had terrible insensitivity. he made terrible racist remarks, remarks anti-semitic remarks privately and so he never -- could quite escape the past he had of insensitivity on racial issues. one of the big things on policy that nixon could never escape and historians remark on to this day is the southern strategy that he developed. this idea -- during his earlier career he was not thought of as a particularly hostile person to racial progress. in the 1960 election he got a substantial portion of the african-american vote as republicans had gotten going back to the lincoln experience. >> host: yes. >> guest: but when he got to running in '68, he developed a southern strategy which is essentially designed to pit people against each other on racial grounds so he could carry the white vote in the

we do have an e-mail between richard davis of the west bank to you and ms. warren from back in march where it appears it is a follow-up from the conversation you're asking about details of a needs test. sometimes you are soliciting opinions from the mortgage servicer on what would be workable and i give you another opportunity to answer the question and perhaps i did not worded correctly. . . will cease. we have two special guests at the table. scott pace, george washington university's space policy institute director, and mark matthews, he writes about the space program and policy out of washington for "the orlando sentinel." reflections -- let me start with you -- this historic final day. what are you thinking about as the space shuttle program comes to an end? guest: when i was a young engineer and i could walk out on the shop floor and watch the machining -- i still had to go back to my desk and push paper but it was still cool to see that. i am actually both clad and sad that it is happening -- glad and sad. sad because it is an end of an era but i thin