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Punished. now 80% of the residents have been driven out. our guide was 21-year-old sara. the few people who remain here are too poor to leave or, like sara, too committed to the anti- regime fight. youre among the 20% who stayed. why? better to live here and die with dignity than go to a refugee camp? >> yes, die and we will be proud. >> reporter: at home, most days there is enough to eat for three generations of this family. but only sporadic electricity and the children havent been to school f...

Wasnt concerned enough about the consequences of this declaration by the general assembly to take adequate steps. you know, we faced this back in 1989 and 1990 and the george h.w. bush administration then secretary of state james baker said unequivocally, made a public statement that he would recommend to the president na the united states cut off all funding, assessed or voluntary to any u.n. organization that enhanced the status of what was then the palestine liberation organization. and it wa...

Burma, a positive. but she has a legacy with libya which is at best incomplete and legacy with syria which is seriously worrying. in many ways the big issue of her time as secretary of state was this arab upheaval that happened on her watch. so far, the u.s. record has not been very good and we have not been leading for the most part. and we have left a lot of problems for the future. >> supporters say clinton leverageed her unique star power and global rolodex to elevate and advance a set of is...

Is now over. police raying and charging a staten island sales man who is caught on video at the crime scene. spent 24-hours being questioned finally cracked and confessed. he knew all three of his victims and might have been planning to strike again. they found this gun in his bag which he kept at his girlfriends apartment. it was the same one used in all three attacks. >> hobby lobby is not giving up its fight against obama care. it forces the supervised morning after contraception to the worke...

>> thank you very much. we appreciate it. gregg: twinkie lovers. sorry, no deal. an attempted mediation has failed. now the company is asking a judge to liquidate its operations. a union lawyer wouldnt comment on the sticking points. the bakers union rejected a 5-year deal including an 8% wage cut. hostess filed for bankruptcy saying it has $1.3 billion in debt. well have more later on in the program. >> a run on hostess products across the country. folks lining up to buy twinkies, ding dongs, h...

>> they are rolling down there with the 18-wheelers and theyve got a great tradition of being rough and tough, but they are also sensible and smart people. these unions are trying their very best in most instances to at least represent what they think is the interest of the workers, the bakers union is out of its mind. megyn: in honor of this debate today ive dressed for this segment as a black and white cookie. you can see how my arms are all black from the elbow down. >> that is elegant. megyn...

To organize already civil service-type jobs unions right now would be but a 7% sliver of the entire economy. megyn: but the unions maintain and richard trumpka came out, hes the afl-cio president, he said dont be so quick to blame the union. he seems to be defending even the bakers union by saying they use bain-style wall street srul taours who made themselves rich by making america poor he says it was consistently poor management that drove hostess into the ground but the workers who are going ...

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Workers and grain millers international union couldnt reach an agreement with the manufacturers of twinkie and coffee cake and wonder bread and all of this. they were this close. the teamsters had already agreed to the conditions that would have allowed them to all keep their job but then this much smaller union said no, we dont like the agreement. we dont like them. >> we dont like the 6% cut. >> in their benefits. >> they wanted more dough. >> that is genius. >> it was made in social media hea...

The union blames mismanagement at hostess. they said they had seven different ceos in the past 10 years. they blame all that other stuff. but the workers today who are out of work thought they were close to a deal. they had agreed on a deal about their salary. about their pensions with the teamsters. they thought they were close and at the last minute at the 11th hour the bakers union said no. >> here is that bakers union, bakers dzen comment. we are are not willing >> it is is a sad story. we d...