Follow Friday: Unemployment, Romney’s Nomination, DOMA

The Takeaway

This week, our Follow Friday panel includes  Jeff Yang,  author of the Tao Jones column for The Wall Street Journal and blogger for WNYC’s It’s a Free Country, and  Ron Christie, Takeaway contributor and Republican political strategist. Ron and Jeff discuss the unemployment numbers for May, Mitt Romney clinching the Republican nomination and where his campaign goes from here, the Circuit Court decision holding the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, and President Obama’s “Kill List.”

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