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Sold stuff nix way, carson, dr. carson defended his belief that the president can ignore decisions of the supreme court. catch this one. >> but does the president have to carry out a supreme court ruling? >> the laws of the land are not provided by the judiciary branch. >> since 1803, we have lived under the principle of judicial agree. if the supreme court says this is the law, the executive has to observe that. >> and i have said this is an area that we need to discuss. we need to get into a d...

Judicial law. which raises the question do you believe that the president must observe a decision by the supreme court? >> well what i said is this the president doesnt have to agree with this. >> of course not, but does he have to enforce it? >> a perfect example, the supreme court came up with this and abraham lincoln did not agree with it. admittedly it caused conflict and led to a civil war but were in a better place because of it. >> does the president have to carry out a supreme court ruli...

Treatment, we then not only save lives, we start saving serious money. >> i dont know what he was doing talking about there. but i think he was explaining somehow in a way that probably tom brady explains things that i sold stuff nix way, carson dr. carson defended his belief that the president can ignore decisions of the supreme court. catch this one. >> but does the president have to carry out a supreme court ruling? >> the laws of the land are not provided by the judiciary branch. >> since 18...

So if the legislative branch creates a law or changes a law, the executive branch has responsibility to carry it out. doesnt say that they have the responsibility to carry out a judicial law. >> wow. this goes back to marberry versus madison. beginnings of our administration, right of the supreme court for judicial review. the constitution is what the supreme court decides it is after deliberation. theyre saying we can ignore that. then what is the constitution? what is if it is is not decided b...

You know, carry out the laws of the land. the laws of the land come from the legislative branch. so if the legislative branch creates a law or changes a law, the executive branch has responsibility to carry it out. doesnt say that they have the responsibility to carry out a judicial law. >> wow. this goes back to marberry versus madison. beginnings of our administration, right of the supreme court for judicial deview. the constitution is what the supreme court decides it is after deliberation. t...

States who without authority of the united states carries on any correspondence with any foreign government with intent to influence any foreign government in relation to any disputes or controversies with the united states shall be fined or imprisoned or both." thats pretty strong language. and it seems very clear. what in this doctrine or this statute stands out to you in this case? >> what stands out is that it was enacted in 1799. thats when president adams was leading us when this law was e...

Governments. what do you make of that? do you think anyone broke the law here? >> i dont make much of it. if they did, then many people over a long period of time have done the same. no i dont believe it rises to that at all. like i said i didnt think it was appropriate for me to do it but im not going to criticize those who did. >> the last time somebody was indicted by the way in connection with the logan act was 1803. that person was not convicted. in fact no one has ever been convicted appar...

To hear cases before theres a trial. in 1803 the supreme court said to enlarge its jurisdiction would be unconstitutional so this typically begins at the trial level. thats how the nixon tapes case began. theres nothing atypical about that. this is the kind of case when the president is involved where regularly the supreme court will commit a leap frog over the court of appeals and go directly from a district court decision to the supreme court. thats what happened in the nixon tapes case. >> i ...

Down in texas. how many acres did they stand to lose if the federal government goes and head and says, by the way, we own that land, get off. >> several hundred acres. and this is a situation where this young man is a cotton farmer. this is irrigated cotton land, some of the most valuable real estate in the state of texas when it comes to agricultural property. $4,000 an acre. losing several hundred acres of that could -- i dont know his situation personally, but someone like that could stand to...

Upstate new york, u.s. citizens involved in aiding and abetting. and a training camp. a number of citizens who established links with foreign terror, with al-qaeda and foreign terrorist elements and have been subsequently arrested. can you imagine what would happen during the bush years if wed taken and unleashed a drone on the lakawana nine and blown them up? who would be leading the fight against the bush administration would have been barack obama and eric holder. yes, we get the wishy-washy ...