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Immigration is the job of the federal government, not the states. governor jan brewer says shes confident the outcome will be in her states favor. >> i dont believe that arizona is wrong. i believe arizona is right, and i believe that taking everything into consideration all the dialogue, everything thats been taking place in arizona in regards to illegal immigration whether its a state law or if its a federal law, but in regards to senate bill 1070, it mirrors federal law. and they arent enforc...

Technology and risk it falling into the hands of an enemy government, martha. martha: boy, changing times and changing defense needs and that is the story for the f-22. jonathan, thank you so much. bill: there is a major showdown in congress will happen today. first on the floor of the house with regard to extending the payroll tax cut. speaker john boehner believes he has the votes to get his through idea. what will that be with only two weeks to go before they expire? were live in washington o...

Supreme court and the white house for that matter. >> well, at roughly the same time the court is expected to issue an opinion on the administrations signature achievement. the presidents health care bill. also ruling on the controversial immigration law. only the fed should be in the business of setting immigrion policy. >> and the reason we have one and only one quarterback is because immigration decisions have humanitarian consequences. they have law enforcement consequences. and they have fo...

And confident that the supreme court will agree with us. >> by the way, justice kagan appears to be sitting out the case because she served as solicitor general. she took part in some of the strategizing in the law. blocking portions of sb 1070 will stand. shep? >> shepard: shannon bream in the d.c. newsroom. an american teenager says militants held him hostage for months on end. now he is free and telling the story of how he says he slipped away and ran for his very life. thats coming up along ...

From other state because of immigration law. alabama, south carolina and utah. private groups filed suit against georgia and indiana. >> the administration will continue to take aggressive approach before the supreme court to say that the state has no authority to regulate in an area that is a federal prerogative. >> elena kagan did not participate in the decision to take up the case and presumably wont hear oral arguments next spring. if the case ends in 4-4 tie, the ninth circuit decision bloc...

Interested in how you see this supreme court making its decisions on the health care reform and arizona sb-1070 law. what is at stake for these decisions? >> well, the stakes couldnt be higher. and they really involve the basic contours of federal versus state power. its the central issue in the presidential election. you have most of the main republican candidates insisting on a smaller federal government. and here so starkly you have the obama administration begging the supreme court not to he...

Requirement that sex offenders register themselves so you know when they are moing into your state. now, the news isnt all good, though, on this commerce clause. three cases in the last decade and a half have actually restricted the federal governments regulation capacity. and those cases involve things like protecting against guns in schools. gender-based violence. and, oh, yeah, clean water. when you see the supreme court about to take up cases where the commerce clause is at stake, pay attent...

The supreme court today agreed to hear an emergency appeal on arizonas papers please immigration law. sb-1070. after parts of the bill were blocked by a federal appeals court earlier this year. now, the most infamous of those four blocked provisions is the part of the law that would allow law enforcement to request anyone they stop or arrest must prove their citizenship. if they suspect for style of dress or english or content, that that person might be an illegal immigrant. although the white h...

Immigration law. sb-1070. after parts of the bill were blocked by a federal appeals court earlier this year. now, the most infamous of those four blocked provisions is the part of the law that would allow law enforcement to request anyone they stop or arrest must prove their citizenship. if they suspect for style of dress or english or content, that that person might be an illegal immigrant. although the white house said theyre looking forward to arguing the case before the supreme court, this i...

Reform and arizona sb-1070 law. what is at stake for these decisions? >> well, the stakes couldnt be higher. and they really involve the basic contours of federal versus state power. its the central issue in the presidential election. you have most of the main republican candidates insisting on a smaller federal government. and here so starkly you have the obama administration begging the supreme court not to hear a case that might reverse in arizona a courts decision not to allow this arizona l...