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To mention the 2 million americans who would directly benefit from that assistance. but instead relief, those americans of americans are getting hit again today with a tax bill. msnbc's susie kim explains all federal jobless benefits are taxed just like wages. 33 states plus the district of columbia fully tax their unemployment insurance as well. one of the millions of jobless americans who will be having a tough time april 15th is mary mitchell. mitchell estimates she'll owe some $3,000 in taxes on the unemployment benefits she received in 2013. i've barely got gas to get to class, she says. ...

Number of heroin users 12 and older from 2007 to 2012. joining me now is dr. drew pinsky. >> let's talk about that data, first. that's a story of pills. most of those overdoses were pills. and most of the reason that people get to heroin, they start with pills and graduate to heroin, because it's a cheaper, higher high. >> is it the same sort of high that -- >> all opiates and open yoids, really no difference. the fact that people don't understand that is what drives me to distraction every day. >> we all know prescription pill abuse is up. is that what's leading people -- >> they can't get ac...

Problem, of course, but there are signs that it's getting worse, at least where heroin is concerned. deaths from drug overdoses increased 200% between 1999 and 2010. more people than ever apparently using heroin. they found a 79% jump, the number of heroin users 12 and older from 2007 to 2012. joining me now is dr. drew pinsky. >> let's talk about that data, first. that's a story of pills. most of those overdoses were pills. and most of the reason that people get to heroin, they start with pills and graduate to heroin, because it's a cheaper, higher high. >> is it the same sort of high that --...

Rebels executing soldiers loyal to the assad regime. what the "times" describes as the brutal and ruthless tactics adopted by groups in syria. the images are incredibly disturbing. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> the video obviously got a dramatic response from everyone up to and including secretary of state john kerry. it's a video the "times" said was filmed in april of this year but now, the "times" has issued a correction saying the video was actually made in the spring of 2012. joining me now live, cnn national secure analyst fran townsend, member of the cia and dhs external advisor...

Opinion george zimmerman would, quote, find himself lacking during a physical altercation with trayvon martin in february 2012. joining us now is nbc's craig melvin in sanford, msnbc legal analyst, lisa bloom and professor cobb. professor cobb, thanks so much for joining us today. from what you've seen so far with the defense about to rest its case, how do you assess how this trial has gone so far from the standpoint of the prosecution and the defense? >> well, i mean, i think there was kind of an arc to the prosecution's arguments. they started off strong and then toward the middle of their p...