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Im a numbers cruncher. im just telling you what the data shows. is that where youre coming from? or are you an advocate? >> no. when we did the study, we were just trying to understand one of the most profound social events in american history, which was the very dramatic drop in crime that was observed in the 1990s and it turned out that the data supported this conclusion. then we made predircks if our thesis were correct, we would see about 1% drops in crime over the next 20 years. and thats w...

Top of my head, would be 1 to 2 million new democratic voters. republicans should be more worried about the 50,000 u.s. born latinos automatically citizens and turned 18 here every month. those are going to be what is driving the latino voting bloc into the next decade. >> so harry, political numbers cruncher, writes for "the guardian," he went through this step by step. he talked about what just said, jordan, first of all, a fifth of the undocumented are not latino. many of them are asian and a...

their ground. were going to take you live to washington in just a few minutes. in northern florida, it looks like the aftermath of a bombing. look at these pictures. but these vehicles were actually incinerated by fire after a string of crashes on interstate 75. ten people lost their lives in the wreck. drivers say they could barely see anything because of smoke from a nearby fire. >> there was absolutely no warning whatsoever. it went from being just, i mean literally i dont know ho...

Today to get americans back to work is his claim. now there is new report claims the exact opposite would happen if the bill were enacted. according to the american action forum, president obamas jobs proposal they say would destroy more than 230,000 jobs? doug holtz-eakin joins me now, he is president of the conservative think tank that came up with this analysis. he is also former director of the congressional budget office so he is an expert numbers cruncher. >> good morning, martha good to s...