"The tape was made aware to me the night before that it was shown in court. That's when I first saw it, and I was mesmerized by it, as (was) everybody else," Landrieu said. "The entire management of the prison system is in disarray."

Landrieu said the release of a video inside the prison showing a loaded gun and drug use makes him question spending $22 million on a proposed federal consent decree.

"It's very hard to go to the public and ask them for more money just to get poured into that system. That's one of the reasons (why) very early I started fighting this consent decree," Landrieu said.

The illegal activity shown in the video was alleged in a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which helpedX & and Z" remarks as if she were a newcomer to the political scene, who bears no responsibility for American policies stretching back years. Jim Geraghty's snark was on point:

If only Hillary Clinton had been in a a position to influence U.S. policy against ISIS…

She voted for the Iraq war, then became the foreign policy face of an administration that first irresponsibly "ended" that war in such a way that paved the way for ISIS' rise, then for political reasons suppressed and manipulated intelligence that pointed to the burgeoning threat they'd fueled. Clinton also called for new gun restrictions on "weapons of war," referring to "assault" rifles that differ enormously from actual military-issued firearms. I'll leave you with this simple critique of trying to slap a constitutionally-problematic