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I think it needs to be paid for. >> we know how it's paid for. $150 billion from us to taxpayers. >> they did a deep dive into president obama's green renewable programs and found politics at every level. it was memos and internal emails. it is krony capitalism on steroids. >> mike, hillary never mixes politics with personal business, does she? correct me if i'm wrong. maybe i missed something. i don't know. >> that's one of the best lines i've had in a long time. that's great. you know, it depends on how we're going to pay for it. even if we have a windfall, we shouldn't spend a dime on it be...

Care. maybe there will be more nurses because there will be fewer doctors. >> that's happening already, david. politically this is a smart move for sanders, right? obama care is forcing out doctors. they're being replaced by nurses. as for the nurses and the future pay, don't you realize that bernie would push through another immense tax increase on top of obama's big tax increase to pay for this? >> again, i can't wrap my head around why the union would defend something that's going to make their union members make less. >> nurses are already raising a ruckus across the country. you can't imp...

Money is funningible. this just goes to the spirit of the 1970s law. no funding for abortion. >> okay. >> and shafer and lizzie are right here. they have -- sabrina are right. you have health centers that can use this money for things like cancer, not abortions. >> so according to steve, john tammany, the situation is pretty simple. they violated the rules they were supposed to operate by. >> even if they didn't violate the rules, they should defund it because government should have no opinion or another about abortion. planned parenthood wouldn't disappear if it were defunded. it would still ...

For all of your -- with terror threats rising here and around the world, is this any time to be closing gitmo down? cuba is demanding it and now the white house is appoint agnew envoy to help do it. the white house says keeping gitmo open is too costly. it puts a target on our backs, but john tammany disagrees. what do you think, john? >> i have lot skepticism about the war on terror too, but if we're going to be at war and if in fact gitmo keeps us safer and if it makes it less likely that terrorists will reach the united states and bring us harm well need to keep it open because, let's face ...

Welcome back, everybody. the labor department released new monthly unemployment numbers yesterday and the jobless rate is down to 6.6%. a five-year low, but experts, some do, say this number is misleading because thousands of people have been leaving the workforce each month reducing the number of people the government counts as unemployed. so what does this really say about the state of the economy? joining us now to weigh in on this is john tammany of re realclaremarkets.com. >> great to be here. >> 6.6 is better than 14% unemployment rate. it seems like things are getting better. >> yeah, b...