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Coming home. he wasn't forgotten by his community in idaho or the military, which rallied to support the bergdahls through thick and thin, and we wasn't forgotten by his country because the united states of america does not ever leave our men and women in uniform behind. >> since the surprise and joy at that shock announcement on saturday, president obama's republican critics in washington have been trying to figure out how to make the return of a u.s. prisoner of war into bad news. slate.com today posted this tweet from republican spinmeister frank luntz warning republicans they're kind of st...

Else that has emerged as sort of a new theme in this whole debate. michael bloomberg, former new york city mayor, financing every town with $50 million of his own money. a drop in the bucket for michael bloomberg. there's a story on slate.com headlined "why the nra loves michael bloomberg." dana, i mean, is bloomberg -- is he helping or hurting the cause? >> i don't think he's really hurting the cause because it's such an uphill climb to start with. but they want -- you know, every cause wants to have somebody to fight against. now wayne lapierre can get up there and say, michael bloomberg is ...

Allows users to search for mates in response to questions like would you date someone shorter than you? one question caught the eye of course of a slate.com writer. would you strongly prefer to go out with someone of your own skin color and racial background? salom was shocked that many responded yes and many were self-righteous liberals he knew in real life. love is blind, but apparently not color-blind. the preference to date your own race is not new, but he was surprised that in our pc world so many people would be open about it. at least not everyone is so closed minded sexually. >> it is ...

Really have at this point is the analysis that inmarsat carried out on this data that it received, and nobody -- i have a piece up on slate.com just yesterday, actually, pointing out that nobody knows what this analysis was about, how it was carried out. and so, maybe it's valid, maybe it's not. we really just have their word for it. and even very intelligent people can make mistakes or jump to the incorrect conclusions. so i think it's a fantastic idea to bring in a new set of ideas. >> all right, jeff, peter, sylvia, thank you to all of you. our panel will be back later on to talk about the ...

Including where the investigation into the missing plane stands right now. jeff wise is here to walk us through the questions. he's an cnn aviation analyst and contributor to slate.com. jeff, broadly speaking first, what do we know about the family of questions they're asking right now? >> it really runs the gamut to soup to nuts. this is a grab bag of questions that the family members have. everything from incredibly arcane details like the serial number on the black box to much more general questions about how the search is being conducted. >> let's talk about the specifics here. they asked ...