matt zeller, good to have you with us.at efforts. >> thank you. >>> what price would you pay to blow the whistle at widespread wrongdoing. we hear from someone who felt she had to quit and whose next step is to testify in congress. but first, why is the catholic church losing so many. that's next in our data dive. . >> today's data dive focuses on faith - a new pew study finding latinos are abandoning the church in big numbers, and fast. only 55% of american latinos consider themselves catholic, a 12 percentage point drop since 2010 and a 22% different between people that say they were raised catholic and those that are. catholicism remains the largest denomination with 66 million americans - baptiste are the second largest. there are so many former catholics that they, as a group, would come in third. so why are they leaving? 55%. latino who left said they gradually drifted from the faith. many stopped believing in the church's teachings. close to one in three said they found another congregation. the number of latinos wh

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joining us to discuss this is captain matt zeller, an african war veteran pushing hard to extend the programme. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> help us to understand how difficult it is for afghans that worked with u.s. forces to get the visa. >> it's next to impossible. it's akin to winning the lottery. my translator, for example, saved my life, literally killing two taliban fighters about to kill me, on april 28, 2008. he plied for a visa in january 2011. it took 2.5-3 years - the personal advocacy of three u.s. senators, and four members of the house of representatives to compel the state department to grant his visa to come here. of thousands of interpreters who served the forces in afghanistan. approximately around 3,000 at the most have received visas since the programme was first created in 2009. that is far short of the 9,000 that we were supposed to have handed out at this point. >> what is going on? why is it taking so long for the visa to improve, and why hasn't congress made more of an effort? >> the state department basically didn't implement the