joining me here for that: christine owens, executive director of the national employment law project, an advocacy group representing the interests of lower-wage workers; and william beach, director of the center for data analysis at the heritage foundation, a conservative public policy research group. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> brown: christine owens who is impacted by the actions or inactions of congress and how. >> by the end of this week 1.7 million long-term unemployed workers will be affected because their benefits will be cut off. they either will finish upstate benefits and not be able to move to the federal program or they'll end up one tier of the federal benefits and not be able to move to the next tier so 1.7 million workers by the end of this week. 2.5 million workers by the end of the first week that the congress is back. and over 3 million by the end of the month. >> and you work with a lot of people in this situation. what difference do the benefits make. what role does it play for them? >> they play a huge role. we know that without unemployment benefits

are backing the insurgency earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to our correspondents on both sides of the atlantic laura i met in london and christine for zahau in washington. well there's certainly is some suggestion that this is nothing new we knew this before we knew that there was corruption running right through the war in afghanistan and we knew that this was going on but certainly to see it in black and white particularly represented by as you say more than ninety thousand documents is something quite extraordinary what happened was that julian assange the founder of wiki leaks released this information ahead of time to three newspapers one here in london the guardian one in germany biegel and also to the new york times they then looked at that information and assessed what they wanted to write about and whether the information was genuine and he then held a media conference. and talked about it and one of the things that he said was he was pressed by journalists on war crimes whether he thought there was evidence of war crimes here and eventually he said that he felt that it was for a cool it's of course to decide what const