the last possible day of the 2013-14 term to release their decision in the case originally called sebelius vs hobby lobby. hobby lobby is owned by christians who say that their religion for bid the type of birth control offered in affordable healthcare. rif ra gives employers the legal right to change what is offered in healthcare insurance. president obama changed them and supreme court changed them again. >> advocates on oil sides crowded the steps of the supreme court in anticipation of the final decision of th of the hobby lobby case. the court ruled for hobby lobby saying closely held companies can opt out of the federal mandate to provide birth control to their employees if it goes against the company owner's beliefs. a:he also argued that since non-profit institutions like churches can opt out, for-profit, closely held companies can as well. read from the bench: >> at the heart of the argument is rifra, it is meant to shield from the burden if they practice their faith. >> this is a stand for religious freedom. the supreme court recognized that american families do not lose their fu

secretary sebelius and her team were always there to listen.they didn't always agree, they didn't always support our position, but they were there to listen. in the insurance industry, there was a lot of concern about reform. some insurance companies decided, well, we're going to wait it out. we're going to see how this plays out. but the blues, for the most part, jumped in. and at independence blue cross, i'm happy to say we led the charge. here's why. regardless of one's politics, regardless of where you stand on the affordable care act, regardless of who you support in your local elections, in your state elections, in your federal elections, the health care system was andsome in some ways continues to be broken. we needed to change it. when health care spending accounts for nearly a fifth of america's gross domestic product and when more than half of american adults go without recommended health care, when we spend more on health care than any other nation in the world and yet americans are no healthier, when 50-60 million americans have no

>> of course they are saying th that, and saying that the right wing somehow caused sebelius to go toanada to spend hundreds of billions and she could have hi hired a couple of guys in silicon valley who built things out of their garage. but you can't, surprise. and etch boehner who said that you can keep your health plan, and you can't. they say it is going to work, but it is not working, and right now it is paid for by subsidies and increased taxes which is opposite of what they said they would happen. >> and the subsidies are quite substantial, sascha? >> well, the reality is that all of us have subsidized health care, so if you are thinking of that is being spent in the deductions of the employer health care, and looking at the $11 billion. i am not saying it is not a lot of money, but it is not anywhere near. and who among us is going to say, here, take my subsidy back. >> gary b, what do you say? >> well, the bigger issue is that once again we have faith that the government can somehow run an efficient program. it can't whether it social security, the v.a. hospital or for crying

secretary sebelius and her team were always there to listen. they didn't always agree, they didn't always support our position, but they were there to listen. in the insurance industry there was a lot of concern about reform. some insurance companies decided, we're going to wait it out. we're going to see how this plays out. but the blues, for the most part, jumped in, and at independence blue cross, i'm happy to say we led the charge. here's why. regardless of one's politics, regardless of where you stand on the affordable care act, regardless of who you support in your local elections and your state elections and your federal elections, the health care system was and in some ways continues to be broken. we needed to change it. when health care spending accounts for nearly a fifth of america's gross domestic product and when more than half of american adults go without recommended health care, when we spend more on health care than any other nation in the world, and yet americans are no healthier, when 50 to 60 million americans have no covera

if i remember correctly, secretary sebelius offered her resignation after healthcare.gov failed, and you refused to take -- declined to take it. i wonder if there is scapegoating taking place here -- >> meaning? >> the dysfunction in the department seems to have been very deep and very widespread. is lopping off the head of it really the best step to take going forward here? is there a political reason for removing him other than going straight to the problem? >> the distractions that rick refers to in part our political. at this stage, what i want is somebody at the v.a. who is not spending time outside of solving problems for the veterans. i want somebody spending every minute of every day figuring out, have we called every single veteran that is waiting, have they got in their schedules, are we fixing the system, what kind of new technology do we need, have we made a realistic assessment of how long wait times are right now, and how are we going to bring those wait times down in certain facilities where the wait times are too long? if we need more money, how much more money do we

and sebelius over obamacare, and hillar clinton over benghazi.nd scandals involving the nlob, and homeland security's janet napolitano over scandals at tsa, and customs enforcement and attorney general eric holder after "fast and furious" and justice department surveillance of journalists, it now looks as though the white house is trying to pin the bergdahl terrorist swap on defense secretary chuck hagel. plans it is a matter of time before hagel makes the obama hit parade. but it is these cabinet members who have chosen poorly a president to serve, not only do they not elevate themselves by being associated with the other cabinet secretary was of this president, but there are presidents in his cabinet -- their present in his cabinet does not matter much in to boss, why would he ignore them? ly first took fice in 2009, president obama held 6 full cabinet meetings, as you see there on your screen, those cabinet meetings, have dwindleed steadly each year to just one held so far this year. y would anyone choose to obsessiateed with such leader -- ow

the case of sebelius versus hobby lobby stores. the owner of hobby lobby said that providing contraception would violate his beliefs. >>> harris versus quinn was caring for her 24-year-old son in her home and was forced to pay union dues even though she was not an union member. >>> thour segment called "a deeper look" right here on al jazeera america. >>> children risking it all to find freedom. >> not even the military or the government can control the gangs in honduras. they recruit the kids by force to do their dirty work. those who don't want to be in a gang, who knows what happens to them. >> young boys and girls making their way to the united states all by themselves. the emotional reunion of one man hoping to live the american dream legally. >> this time i'm gonna fight it. >> the system with joe burlinger only on al jazeera america >> we're following the stories of people who have died in the desert >> the borderland marathon >> no ones prepared for this journey >> experience al jazeera america's critically acclaimed origin

i want to just take a moment to thank secretary sebelius for her service to our country. she through very difficult times -- this has not been easy political times in our countr country -- she has steered a very steady ship at h.h.s. and i think did this country proud. and i thank her very much for her service to our country in helping hundreds of millions who have benefited from the services at h.h.s. but a significant part of the mission at h.h.s. is the implementation of the affordable care act since 2010. and i've heard my colleagues talk about it, so let me just point out how much progress we have made. what a difference the affordable care act has made. and i would just urge the people in this country to look at the facts. my colleagues say things that just aren't true. look at the facts. and that is that the growth of health care costs have gone down. the projected expenses are less today than they were in 2010 when we passed the affordable care act. we have bent the cost curve of health care. and, yes, the affordable care act has helped us do it. one of the reas

they let kathleen sebelius walk on her own. lois lerner gets to take the fifth time and time again.here's the accountability? >> there's a difference in saying you have an investigation and being held accountable. in the case of the irs, one or maybe two people were fired and nothing actually changed and juan you keep saying we had all of these investigations in benghazi, who has been held responsible? what islamist has been killed or has been captured? that's called being in the american chief. the president is completely awol. forget the scandal. the scandal is we haven't found the perpetrators of this terrible crime against america. >> hang, on, juan. i want wayne to weigh in on something. this week on thursday, i believe it was, the president decided amid all the investigations and all the scandals going on whether it's the cia leak he decided it was very important to sit down with leaders and talk about concussions. >> well, eric, once again this is dodging the bullet, where ever it may land. i don't understand why juan can say that. we don't even know. you know, you said you h

it is a stark contrast with how republicans were talking about kathleen sebelius, and health and humanervices in general. the number one issue, and health and human d a giant target on its back. what popped out to me was that he said they would be focusing on jobs in the economy, but it is in the context of obamacare, obamacare being the number one issue. it is a departure from what republicans were saying two months ago. >> are they backing off of going after the health care law? >> i think they are. republicans always pushed the repeal. what part of the problem is you cannotand then repeal obamacare right now without replacing it because if then you'reeal it, going to be taking away benefits from people. that is not popular with the voters. e republican leaders are pushing their people to say we want to repeal this but we have to replace it or else we are going to face a huge backlash because we have taken these benefits. >> the epa ruled recently on the clean air act. does congress get to weigh in on this? i know the republicans are upset with what the administration did , but did t

general america hosted a discussion -- enroll america hosted a discussion that included kathleen sebelius. this was her first public appearance since she stepped down. this was an hour and a half. >> good morning. please welcome the president of enroll america. [applause] >> hello. good morning, everyone. welcome to the first national enroll america conference, the state of enrollment, getting america covered. very excited to have you all here today. [applause] we first started planning this conference months ago, our hope was to bring together enrollment leaders from across the country to reflect back on the historic first open enrollment and share best practices for the future. ofthought maybe a couple hundred of our friends would come for this. but we never expected more than 900 attendees would join us from communities in 48 states. incredible. [applause] not just that. including the district of columbia and as far away as guam, thank you all for being here. whoks for generous sponsors make our work possible. especially those who helped make the conference possible. health for, go hel

she replaces kathleen sebelius, who resigned in april. big task already burwell will be to smooth out the law. in. >> california chrome has a lot of people in the horsing world counting on him for betting on the ponies, because a lot of people who used to bet the tracks have turned to other places to gamble. >> shines bright in the kentucky derby... >> since he followed through at the preakness, this three-year-old colt has captured the attention and won the hearts of horse lovers. if he wins again on saturday, california chrome will be the first triple crown champion in 36 years. >> i'm learning to bet, but i'm not a better and i'm not going to actually bet. but i'm hoping he wins. >> california chrome's co-owner, steve colburn, has bet his own money on the horse when he defied odds of 200 to 1. >> he loves people, and we have all of america on our side, other than the people that have the horses running against us. >> coburn and his gins partner are rare breeds in the sport of kings, without much personal wealth, they bought his mother

last week sailing through confirmation hearings following the rez sags of sebelius. house office of management and budget, and tonight, game three of the stanley cup final, rangers head back to madison square garden to avoid going down 3-0 to the kings, and they won games one and two in overtime. that's all for "way too early"." "morning joe" starts right now. >> visiting professor at nyu, you two are bickering. senior correspondent, now, stop. in washington, and in washington white house correspondent for the press, julie pace. >> how was your weekend? what did you do? >> i finally relaxed. finally thrived. >> fantastic. >> you meditated. >> took a while. >> did you meditate? >> i just sat in a chair. >> yeah. >> and that's all i did. >> that's a good weekend. kind of like the final scene of "god father 2," sat there thinking about -- >> that's what i did. animals around me. >> how about you? >> i just sat in a chair. sat. >> do that together sometime. >> i wish. i have 87 kids. >> oh, my lord. >> you don't sit down for a while when you have 87 kids. >> are you all

sailed through her senate confirmation hearing, her role comes after the resignation of kathleen sebeliusshe had been director of the office of management and budget prior to her appointment. >> about 250 families have been forced to leave homes by wild fire in oregon. this is time lapse video, check this out, of the so called fire. it started out as two separate fires saturday but because of wind and dry conditions the fires quickly merged. you can imagine how worried about this situation the people in this town are. the fire has burned about 6,000 acres. >> pete rose is back in professional baseball. at least for one game. the bridge port blue fish have invited the all-time hit king to manage their team for one game next week. the independent atlantic league has no affiliation with the mlb, hence its independentens. rose has not managed or played for a professional team since 1989 when he was banned from the league for life. for gambling. >> 5:19 now. monday ride to work let's check the roads. >> a wet monday ride to work for some. jillian mele is keeping our eyes on everything out ther

and kathleen sebelius, trying to calculate it in this fashion and the department of justice tightening rules on subpoenas involving journalists and attorney general eric holder still heading the department. and it is an unprecedented parade about outrageous scandals. this president has yet to be held responsible for any of it. the quotation of the evening of the mindlessness of those who offer this scandal. and we are not naming names tonight. we are coming right back. >> trying to fight off a hot tea party challenger in mississippi. the former house speaker telling us what all this means for the (vo) rush hour around here starts at 6:30 a.m. - on the nose. but for me, it starts with the opening bell. and the rush i get, lasts way more than an hour. (announcer) at scottrade, we share your passion for trading. that's why we've built powerful technology to alert you to your next opportunity. because at scottrade, our passion is to power yours. ♪ lou: voters in each state's going to the polls today, but it is three races receiving the most attention. first a marquee matchup in mississippi

it was a decree from the department of health and you machine services and cathleap sebelius. >> andack it up a second. before obama care, hobby lobby was paying for the birth control when it was not shove down its throat. are they saying if you let us dictate our. o health care we'll do the right thing. but you shove it down our throat this is a consequence. maybe there will be headway there. >> and the distinction, this is not all methods of birth control. there are four they consider to beitanta amount to abortion and that's what they objected to. and we'll tufrp to the oscar pistorias trial. he was ruled not mentally ill when he shot and killed his girlfriend last year. from a panel of experts who studied him and released the report today as the murder trial gets under way. the mental evalues ordered after a psychiatrist said he suffered from a anxiety disorder. is this a game changer in his trial in >> i don't think it is a game changer. the defense didn't need this. it was self defense. they said he acted in self defense and might have suffered from anxiety and a heightened sen

and kathleen sebelius, trying to calculate it in this fashion and the department of justice tighteningon subpoenas involving journalists and attorney general eric holder still heading the department. and it is an unprecedented parade about outrageous scandals. this president has yet to be held responsible for any of it. the quotation of the evening of the mindlessness of those who offer this scandal. and we are not naming names tonight. we are coming right back. >> trying to fight off a hot tea party challenger in mississippi. the former house speaker telling us what all this means for the midterm. ry. thank you colonel. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. .. [ laughter ] smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day l

she replaces kathleen sebelius who resigned in april after the botched healthcare.gov rollout.s getting less profitable to underwrite bonds these days. we have been tracking this trend. lisa, good to see you. why hasn't been so tough? >> there isn't a lot of money to go around as far as profits for these dealers. comingld on bonds are down, volatility, you are not seeing the trading volumes or revenues coming in. banks are turning to underwriting, which is the one bright spot. the low rate and policies of central banks oblique have spurred companies all over the world to sell record volumes of debt. are nots, at the least, profiting from the trading, but they can profit from the managing of these sales, helping these companies to shepherd trillions of dollars into the market every year. >> will be see that pick up after the ecb's actions today? >> it will lower rates, but how much can you borrow? at a certain point, unless they do more mergers or acquisitions, frankly, less friendly actions for debtholders, more friendly for shareholders, unless they start engaging in a kind of

fliz the obamacare scandal cost kathleen sebelius her job.perhapses we'll never know because the congressional budget office has given up trying to calculate it in any fashion. the scandal plagued era is issuing job-kill iing regulatio but hopefully the new administrator isn't using private e-mails to conduct official business. the department of justice tightening rules on subpoenas and warrant ares involve aring journalists but attorney general holder still heads the department. it is no wonder that president obama's approval ating is under water for nines months now. with more than half of those surveyed by gallup disapproving of his conduct as president. it's an unprecedented parade of scandal. this president has yet to be held responsible for any of them. we close tonight with the quotation of the evening on the mindlessness of those who authored the obama scandal. this quote from philosopher eric hoffer, american thinker and author who said an empty head is not really empty. it is stuffed with rubbish. hence the difficulty of forcing any

she replaces kathleen sebelius.the big task for burwell to be to smooth out the new law. >> north korea today said its holding another american. the country's official news agency said he was detained for committing an unspecified crime. john terrett has more with this story. what do we know about the person being held here. >> reporter: they have another american in custody. according to the korean center news agency this man is paul jeffrey edward ball, and he has been detained for reasons acting against the spirit of tourism. he went to the country on april 29th we are told. marie hart, the spokesperson for state department, has been promising within the last couple of hours saying that they're well aware of the case, but they can't say too much at the moment because they don't have written permission from his family. >> we are aware that an u.s. citizen has been detained in north korea. this is the third u.s. season detained in north korea. obviously no greater priority for us than the welfare and safety of u.s.

unanimously approved for that, will replace outgoing health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius posted on this. >>> in other news, if your friends are pregnant or maybe the news anchor you watch on a regular basis, chances are, you could be next. yes. according to a new study, pregnancies actually may be contagious, especially among longtime friends. women whose friends are expecting are more likely to have a baby within two years. and researchers say there's a few reasons for this. one, women may become more open to the idea of having children after seeing their friends go through it. and another is that friends don't like being left out. but we had a little cluster of people having babies -- i'm like the last in the line. do you feel risky hanging out with me? >> don't look at me. >> we'll see. maybe you need a profile. there it is. >>> all eyes on the belmont stakes this weekend as california chrome goes for a possible triple crown. but many in the horse industry turn to a reverend who's worked behind the scenes for many years. >> turns out people can find god in some of the

presidency and whatever cabinet member they can use that's part of going after holder, going after sebelius. remember, part of oh this is about attacking the president and his legitimacy. number two, what ted cruz is not reminding the american people is let's talk about the last time republicans impeached a president. after a 70 to 80 million expenditure of an investigation that then led to impeachment of the president and i seem to remember that president's numbers went skyrocket are iing. it pointed out to the american people that republicans are often willing to go too far, get drunk on power. in this case you try to impeach or sue. what it points out is what's not getting done in congress. >> there is one big difference. at least there was an allegation. >> right. >> at least there was something to try and make impeachable. this this regard they don't have an allegation. this is all imaginary. reaching in thin air. they raised the question to speaker boehner, what is the specifics of your lawsuit. let me let the speaker speak for himself. >> what specific executive action or actions are

take a look at sebelius, hhs secretary, how long did it take him to finally lop her head off? >> it seems to me the press was writing stories about obama's failure to show leadership in this scandal. >> there's a bit of difference in that obamacare was scene as a partisan scandal. this affects every single person. >> jona, i understand the need for the president to show leadership action by doing something, making the change. >> a cool change of pace. >> why did the media focus so obsessively on this one personnel move? >> i have to say, it was strange to me. almost by universal consensus in washington, everyone understood this was essential i a prewrittpre written kabuki theater sort of thing. everyone should fall on the sword. they kept the dream beat going. everybody agrees that it's unfair to shinseki. i think he was a bad manager, great american, great patriot, bad manager. they knew they had problems. his leak team lied to him, apparently, according to reports. there was an expectation, this is how these scandals unfold and the guy's got to do what he's got to do. >> you

guest: president obama has said that kathleen sebelius does not shows how and it important that it is to get these technical issues right. this is something that you would think would be simple but it really has caused so many problems in the first year. host: james on the line for caller: hi. i am about away from the previous caller in panama city here in florida. i had a car accident two years ago in atlanta, and i broke my back. i got rods and it. i broke my neck also. metal plates attached to my tailbone. i have been going round and round with medicaid here in florida. i went to the hospital after obamacare was passed and the attendant told me because my condition is not an emergency, they can charge $300 of the co-pay. when everything gets said and done with social security you might get a little bit of cash. i have been going to the hospital for two years. i have been battling with the state. an immigrant there. they do not even speak english as they have a medicaid card because they have a baby. any type of fast action lawsuit we can file in the state of florida saying it is di

it came through then secretary sebelius and that's something that kennedy brought up during the oral arguments. i'm concerned this rule doesn't come from congress. it's coming from an executive agency. it's not even a brfanch. a lot of people think it's turned into a fourth branch but kennedy seemed to have a problem with that. the executive is enforcing its will through an executive agency. >> you know, shannon, kennedy had a problem with some lawmakers are saying they did, too. barack obama is now googling, quote, can an executive override the supreme court, hashtag hobby lobby. i was curious about the other cases pending like this one, shannon and i know there are some because we're already hearing from attorneys who say, you know what? this means victory for my case and the client that i represent. can you tell us about what's out there and what could be coming down the pike? >> we actually have another set of challenges to the contraceptive mandate. these are coming from religious groups and there are some emergency petitions filing right now because a new deadline kicks in tomo

eric shin saky over the va scandal, kathleen sebelius over obamacare, there i said it, hillary clintonver benghazi, labors held over he is lease in scandals and homeland security's janet napolitano over immigration and tsa and customs enforcement and border protection and eric holder over fast and furious and the surveillance of journalists. and as we reported, it now looks as though the white house is trying to pin the bowe bergdahl terrorist swap on chuck hagel. so perhaps it's only a matter of time before hagel makes the obama hit parade. but it's these cabinet members who chosen poorly a president to serve. not only do they not elevate themselves by being associated with the other cabinet secretaries of this president, their presence in his cabinet doesn't seem to matter much to their boss. otherwise, why would he simply ignore them? when he first took office in 2009, president obama held six full cabinet meetings. as you see there on your screen, those cabinet meetings have dwindled steadily each year. to just one held so far this year. why would anyone choose to be associated wit

how long did it take president obama to finally lop off sebelius? >> the president was writing stories about obama's failure to show leadership in the scandal. >> there is a difference. obamacare was seen as partisan scandal and this is affecting everyone. >> i understand the need for the president to show leadership and making the change but why did the media focus obsessively on this one personnel move? >> it was strange. by universal consensus everyone understood this was essentially a prewritten kabuki theater, the guy has to fall on his sword and everyone had written the copy in advance and wanted to get to the beach so they kept the drumbeat going. it is unfair to shinseki. great american, great patriot, bad manager. they knew they had the problems. the leak team lied to him according to reports. there was the expectation, this is how the scandals unfold. >> you called for him to be pushed out in the "washington post" column? >> he responded to me personally. >> what has been accomplished other than the political appearances? >> i'm not sure a

sebelius versus hobby lobby stories, the issue is whether the company can refuse to offer contraceptiveervices as part of the health insurance plan offered to employees. the owner of hobby lobby said doing so would violate his regi religious believes it challenges an illinois law. to pay union dues. otherwise, they are indelible. the ruling could affect millions of public sector workers across the country. we will take a deeper hook at the potential impact of both supreme court. the court ruled on earlier this week. >> that's tonight at 8:00 p.m. east he were, 5 pacific right here on al jazeera america. coming up on al jazeera america, the first lady of hon did youas tours immigration facilities to address the alleged smuggling of thousands of undocumented children marking the upcoming 100 year anniversary of world war i. we look at the great war's legacy. >>> undocumented children from central america continue to flood the u.s. border. a majority come from hon did youas. the first lady there has been touring immigration facilities in shelters in south texas since thursday. influx from

sebelius. mr. clement? >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, when a federal government agency compelled employers to provide something as religiously sensitive as contraception, it knew that free exercise in rfra claims would soon follow. in particular, the agency itself provided exemptions and accommodations for the religious exercise of a subset -- >> is your claim limited to sensitive materials like contraceptives or does it include items like blood transfusion, vaccines? for some religions, products made of pork? is any claim under your theory that has a religious basis, could an employer preclude the use of those items as well? >> well, justice sotomayor, the first step in the analysis would be to ask whether or not there's a substantial burden on religious exercise. i do think this case is, in a sense, easier than most of the examples that you've brought up because here's one where it's so religiously sensitive, so fraught with religious controversy, that the agency itself provides a certain num

burwell takes over from kathleen sebelius who oversaw the difficult rollout of the healthcare.gov websitet year. >> ifill: in iraq, sunni fighters stepped up attacks in the north against forces of the shiite dominated government. dozens of gunmen ambushed security checkpoints and police stations in samarra, starting a day long battle. seven police and soldiers were killed. the militants have already seized parts of ramadi and most of fallujah. >> woodruff: president obama and british prime minister david cameron had a new warning for russia today: block weapons from entering ukraine, recognize the new leader in kiev and stop supporting pro-russian separatists or face new sanctions. the leaders met as part of the "group of seven" summit in brussels without russian president vladimir putin. president obama said putin can choose to rebuild trust or not. >> we will have a chance to see what mr. putin does over the next two, three, four weeks, and if he remains on the current course, then we've already indicated that kinds of actions that we're prepared to take. >> woodruff: putin answered by

. >> my other prediction besides rice to wellesley, sebelius taking over the v.a. there you go. questions. vince meridian connecticut. >> what's his name. >> vince ferrigno. >> i pulled a neck muscle. >> one only has it to look at your early work, miller, to see you were a liberal. what caused the turn around. >> david spade snyder middle of the road as far as politics go. i'm socially liberal i always have been. i want to kill the bad guys before they kill us and i would lining to keep half my money. as far as the government goes, protect us, pave the roads and shut up. i don't even want to know your names. >> you have always been pretty much that way. >> when i started to turn is when they made fun of stockdale. i remember thinking this room is getting too hip for me. stockdale we would have been blested to have him as a president. >> he is a pow. >> he was a hero and icon. >> i saw people on the left who is this old guy on tv. this room has gotten too hip for me. not give out the faith and stuck it out over there. come back and lived life. if he is the problem, too hip a room

the case drawing the most attention is sebelius versus hobby lobby stores.: whether countries can refuse to offer contra septemberitch services as part of the health insurance plans offered to employees. the owner of hone lobby says doing so would violate his region liunchous marines. pam lar harris was 40sed by the state of i will oil in to pay union dues even though she wasn't a union mer. the ruling could have a major impact on public employee unions. the details of both cases and their potential look at 8:00 p.m. eastern, right here on al jazeera america. we are seeing a more and more thunderstorms brew up through the midwest and farther up to the north, towards the kane addian border even, storms have been very strong. in kansas we had video caught. it looked like a tornado but it's what we call a gustnado and it's ferocious weather, dark clouds lowering down closer to the ground. there, you can see what appears to be a tornado, about it was confirmed that this was not actually a tornado, itself. it's sort of the in-between of a tornado and a dust devil

jackson, sebelius.irs is such a hot mess it has this crappy irs server and that it rewrites. they always have the records to audit us but when it comes to their bad behavior, it disappears. is it so implausible? >> yes, it is. those e-mails went to other people. the department of justice, the federal election commission. there were recipients to these e-mails, unless all of theirs were mysteriously wiped out. there is a federal record-keeping act here. you are supposed to keep hard copies of significant data. this would be significant data when you are talking about mass criminal indictments when you are talking about people engaged in free speech activity. they went to somebody. where can you you get them in discovery if the white house doesn't produce them? >> the white house came out and jay carney said, hm, there are not. if you want the communications, we checked and there are no e-mails between lerner and the executive office of the president. >> except nicole flax we know was the conduit to the w

fine on the overall poll numbers but what we're seeing with sebelius basically forced out, and shenseki be forced out. in january, the president called this group jv. now, iraq is all but lost. not to mention the lack of faith the american public has in eric holder who misled the public saying he never heard of criminal prosecution of a journalist, meantime alleging james rosen was a criminal co-c co-conspir tore. >> well, one of the things is that i think this administration is gone beyond looking at polls or even, frankly, caring about them at this point. you're talking about the end of a presidency. they're looking at iraq and all of these questions. not where i am, where they under poll numbers but how do they deal with this situation with, i mean... >> i get that. that is not my question. my question is are these, is it just reaching critical masses? why are there 10 to 12 scandals now engulfing this administration? all made up by the opponents? >> no. well, look. i don't know they're all made up, but having opposition, coming out as strong as they have does matter. you know, look.

she replaces kathleen sebelius who stepped down earlier this year following the botched rollout of thealthcare.gov website. >>> now other headlines for your day. former investment adviser once declared dead, pleading guilty to three counts of fraud. he fannished in 2012 after allegedly misspending, ' embezzling and losing millions of investors' dollars. >>> and gm today announcing it's fired 15 employees and is launching a compensation program for crash victims, all after an internal investigation into fatally flawed ignition switches. it sparked the recall of millions of vehicles. so far, it's been linked to at least 13 deaths. >>> a high-level member of the obama administration stirring up a hornet's nest defending the president against the bergdahl backlash. brandon friedman taking to twitter, writing this -- here's the thing about bergdahl and the jump to conclusions, what if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership? what if he grew disillusioned with what he saw, didn't trust his leadership and walked off? legal? no. worthy of sympathy? maybe. if that were the c

. >> before kathleen sebelius went to washington to overtake our health care system, she proposed a mand. >> the director just admitted to helping set up a group to send out postcards to kansans saying green energy makes their bills go up, and state activists say afp and their allies have tried six times just this year to repeal the renewable energy mandates in the kansas legislature, so why is the fight against green energy so important in kansas? could it possibly have anything to do with the fact if you want to see some of the best examples of benefits of renewable energy, you need look no further than the koch brothers' own backyard? >> we hope those of you in greensburg will remain in your shelters, a tornado emergency declared by the national weather service. >> the night of may 4th, 2007, a massive tornado more than a mile and a half wide tore through the tiny western kansas town of greensburg. 11 people died. greensburg was utterly destroyed, 95% of it erased. but when it came time to rebuild, the city decided to embrace the same force of nature that leveled it. >> 100% of the c