Michigan Lawmaker Speaks Out On Flint, Another GITMO Closure Plan, And Marco Rubio's Last Stand

This week, one of President Barack Obama's oldest campaign promises -- his pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility -- is back in the news after the Pentagon put forth the latest version of a plan to finally fulfill this commitment. Meanwhile, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is coming to Washington to testify about the Flint Water Crisis. We'll talk to one member of that committee about the extent to which Snyder is himself culpable for the poisoning of Flint's citizens.Finally, Alexis Goldstein joins us to talk about a great new plan from DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schutlz that would gut a new rule from Elizabeth Warren's consumer financial protection bureau that would regulate the predators in the payday loan business.

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