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Billion defense spending bill for 2015. it happened friday. the recent prisoner swap of five taliban members for sergeant bowe bergdahl prompted one significant amendment to the bill, though, blocking any guantanamo bay detainee transfers for a year. 149 prisoners remain at gitmo, consider 15 who are considered high-value detainees. and among them, the five 11 9/11 co-conspirators who are on trial. this week they attended a meeting that the fbi tried to spy on their defense team. joining me now, shawna thomas, who just returned from gitmo. good to see you and welcome. let's first talk about th...

New case that could destroy an union corner stone . it challenges that workers that refuse to join a union that represents them are required to pay agency fees for that representation. the reason, which the supreme court affirmed in 1977, is that unions are legally required to represent all employees. and being represented by a union raises an average workers' pay by 11.9%. that may soon be tossed aside. the court blocked a class action lawsuit brought by 1 million women against walmart alleging rampant gender discrimination. it -- in 2012, ca conservative

And democrats. government may be able to do a lot about this but unless government goes out and hires every single unemployed person, this is not a governmental problem. this is structural economic problem. these reports show that we're not in a crisis but we're not in this massive interesting job creation engine going forward. >> some of the breakdown here. national unemployment rate 6.7 as i was saying. among african-americans looking at this number here, you can see 11.9%, almost double the national, latino americans, 8.3. asian americans, 4.1. about the african-american unemployment rate, ...

Knucklehead stuff i've done in the past, we're sitting in your home and you're thinking, this guy's a loose canon. in guy's a terrible person. this guy's a racist. that couldn't be farther from the truth. if i was a racist and i was bullying john martin, this locker room would have said, we saw this and that. >> he regrets the language he used with martin and he would apologize. gasoline prices in the u.s. have dropped 15 cents a gallon over the past three weeks. home prices are on the rice in all 50 states. led by the top five. michigan is number five, with 11.9% year over year gains. fol...

Unemployed, also. i think we can't -- this whole thing of austerity is not the way to do it. keep in mind, in europe, the unemployment rate is 11.9%. they have gone on that austerity type thing. we have to find ways to stimulate the economy. the van hollen proposal is one where he addresses this issue by having targeted cut so you don't do so much damage to the economy bringing back up the boca rule and having tax reforms that address loopholes for these gas companies, oil companies. we have to do things like that. again, i want -- everybody is excited and i watch the talk shows today, oh the ...