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On a daily basis. could it have been that maybe these workers down there saw what happened in detroit in the last couple of years, and there were a lot of investigative reports that showed some of these workers were off site and doing things. but they still remained -- they still kept their jobs. was that maybe a bad mark on unions? >> i think detroit left a bad taste in everyone's mind, and it could have been bad for this situation here in tennessee. what's interesting about the volkswagen vote is so many of these workers are happy with the conditions they work in. they also make more than ot...

Should have been collected back in 2006 was never collected because of those apparent job cuts. well, that number could now grow. so kyle, where do you see this going with the irs? they've already gotten a really bad rap for targeting tea party groups. >> gretchen, it's an institution in crisis. there's no doubt about it. i'll give you an example. 109 million phone calls in 2013 to the irs from folks just like us that want to talk about their taxes. only 60% of those phone calls returned. so if i have a private business, like i do, and i'm only returning 60% of my calls to essentially customer...

Sequin jump suits, platform heels. but do you know why they wore all that? it had to do with the swedish tax code. seems the cost of the costumes could only be deducted if they were so over the top that they couldn't possibly be worn on the street. more on the business angle of abba's style coming up next hour. new controversy over the common core curriculum. that's the national education initiative promoted by the obama administration with growing pushback from some of the most liberal states in the country. in new york, leaders of both parties calling on the legislature to rethink how the ...

went into effect already five years ago. it dumped more than $800 billion into the economy in an attempt to reverse the country's economic slowdown. some dems say it didn't go far enough. while republicans push for budget cuts to offset the huge price tag. president obama planning to push his economic agenda this week in hopes of getting congress to raise the federal minimum wage. chief white house correspondent ed henry live with this part of the story. ed, republicans have been using the five-year anniversary of the recovery act to attack the state of our nation's economy, correct?...

0 oh, even if the government shuts down we don't plan to any time soon [ laughter ] and speaking of a government shutdown, if congress can't agree on a budget by the end of the month, here's a word of counsel to my fellow republicans, why would you rescue the democrats from their determined self-destruction? the democrats in congress and president obama, they own obama care. completely and totally. not one republican in the house or senate voted for it. they've repeatedly tried to repeal it. they've tried to replace it and get rid of it. but every time they get blocked by harry, the hand reid ...