Ana Kasparian joins John Iadarola for Hour 2. Ana talks about her recent jury duty for an asbestos case that ended up settling out of court. The housing market is seemingly starting to stabilize. However, corporate buyers are purchasing foreclosed homes in undesirable areas and renting them out instead of the usual “flipping”, possibly creating another housing bubble. Pope Francis backpedals on his recent progressive stances on abortion. Is this an indication that he is caving to pressures from the more conservative members within the church? The Vatican communication advisor attempts to control the damage. NASA pays volunteers to lie down for 97 to 105 consecutive days in order test the effects of long term habitation in space. TYT Supreme Court weighs in.

The private for-profit prison system in Arizona and elsewhere in the US is disgusting. Quotas are fixed at 95-100%. ALEC and other prison-industrial complex proponents are partly responsible for the predicament. All of this is occurring while SNAP and other social programs are under the knife. Undocumented and unidentified immigrants are dying while crossing the border and are being buried in mass graves in Pima County, Arizona and Brooks County, Texas at alarming rates.

John reads #tytlive tweets. Gretchen Carlson talks about her not being allowed to wear pants on Fox and Friends on Brian Kilmeade’s radio show. Is this true or a joke? Ariel Castro’s son, Ariel Anthony Castro, breaks his silence on his father’s atrocities after his prison suicide. An elementary school in Michigan applies ice cream sandwiches to 7 year old Brianna Hill’s broken arm. Cassidy Lynn Campbell becomes the first transgender individual to win a homecoming queen title.