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Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently he's shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought he'd never be is a math tutor. >> all right. let's start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail he's grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and now he wants to pay it forward. >> i'm helping the gentlemen get ready for their ged test. it's ...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently he's shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought he'd never be is a math tutor. >> all right. let's start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail he's grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and now he wants to pay it forward. >> i'm helping the gentlemen get ready for their ged test. it's ...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently he's shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought he'd never be is a math tutor. >> all right. let's start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail he's grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and now he wants to pay it forward. >> i'm helping the gentlemen get ready for their ged test. it's ...

The evidence that you have seen, that illegals will get protection? >> criminal illegals? >> at first we said it was only for people who have graduated high school. and have been here for a certain amount of time. now it turns out that all of these adults have been here for a while who didn't graduate high school, but quickly enrolled in some kind of ged program, and that is about six or 700,000 additional people. and now looks like we might be pushing 2 million people. to remind your listeners, thisie on its own. they have averted what congress has mounted. bill: what do you think they are do...

Sides to get to a deal. is that the kind of thing democrats will be following compromise on or it should stay at 99 weeks and absolute fundamental that that stays in for you guys. the key is what the trend in the economy is, as long as there are four or five people competing for every job that is available it doesn't make sense to reduce the eligibility time f that goes down to two or three jobs for every person, then it might make some sense but the republicans want to make some fundamental structural changes in unemployment that i think the american people would not be very receptive to, thi...