joining me now is ron reagan and jamelle bouie.t time this initiative has been brought up in the state of california, the plans to divide the electoral college last winter after president paobama won a second term. what's behind it? >> the republicans are getting older and there are fewer people who identify as republicans, so the idea is how do we win big national election, how do we win presidential elections when we can't really win when we don't have wide support, and the answer is cheat. so you change the rules. and it's very important. you only change these rules in big blue states like california that normally go for the democrat, would take all the electoral votes, you know, and give them to the democrat. well, you make them proportional. it's important that you don't do that in red states. if you do that across the board and make it essentially a popular vote election, then the republicans lose even worse than they do now. >> jamelle, is there something a little more nuanced in here too? are there any particular minority g

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. >> jamele, you guys have been working at the aclu on these cases for years.nk it's a really big deal. it's a carefully reasoned decision by a bush appointee. and it's not -- i think i disagree with matt that it's something that the administration is just going to brush off. i think they're going to take it real seriously and i think they have to take it seriously. >> yeah. >> it's a 70-page decision explaining this major surveillance program, this major surveillance program the nsa has been defending the last six months, that program is unconstitutional. >> matt, let me read from more of this opinion. i agree, it was pretty striking and strong in its rejection of basically saying the nsa doesn't have these powers under the constitution. whatever you think of its efficacy. and then as mentioned, the judge didn't find the nsa carried the burden of proof about these programs stopping terrorism. but take a listen. the judge writes that simply the government wants it both ways. all of the government's briefs and arguments to the court explain how it's acted in goo

this happen as they feared mistreatment or torture upon their return home the lawyers of the two men jamelle and ms yon and some have described the move as political expedience callous since the prisoners had made it clear they fear of persecution back at home while countries in europe have been willing to accept that the pentagon has stated however that humane treatment assurances had been made prior to this this is the first transfer since two other men were sent. in august this year notoriously standard one tunnel neither of the men transferred were ever charged with any crime during the entire decade be spent behind bars at the scandalous detention camp the algerian natives were brought there back in two thousand and two and taken to camp x.-ray which we've actually visited when reporting from guantanamo it's an area where some prisoners had been once controversially interrogated with no one actually held there today the number of detainees at guantanamo is now at one hundred sixty two fifteen prisoners continue to be on a hunger strike years since obama had promised to shut the presiden

jamel, let's just remind everybody, this was an incident where this young woman had been involved in a night of drinking so she was allegedly drunk, had stumbled on to this man's porch. the man being theodore wafer who approached her with a shotgun. >> she had knocked on the door repeatedly asking for help. as far as what we know, wafer shot through his screen door at her, killing her, and i believe the blast hit her in the face. it's actually quite similar to a case earlier this year in september, north carolina with jonathan farrell, a young man who also got into a car accident and gone to a nearby house. in that case, the woman at the house called the police and reported a robbery in progress and called the police. those are the basic details of this and as with the farrell case, i think this galvanized a lot of people, and raised questions or forced questions about the the relationship, young african-american people have to strangers and the ambiguous circumstances. >> this happened on november 2 rnd. renisha was only 19 years old. the man in question here, theodore wafer will be