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Jamie: thank you alicia. bill: arizona lawmakers accusing the obama administration of declaring war on their state. the homeland security department announcing federal agents would no longer help the state authorities in arizona enforce the show me your papers provision, only if it applies to felons. welcome back to americas newsroom. how do you feel about your colleagues in arizona? >> they are absolutely right. what this president is doing is declaring war on arizona. states are trying to enfo...

A distraction from the economy, and i think if the law were to go down, they would continue to make that argument. they would say, look, this was -- the president should have been focused on the economy. instead, he focused on passing health care reform. and those are the two ways i would expect them to make their arguments. bill: but you argue philosophically on this, though, too. you think republicans should use this as an example of liberal policies more than anything else. explain that. >> y...

Be difficult for him to interfere with funds that have begun to flow. pelosi and company were shrewd in the fact that they caused the statute to take effect in stages so that it would be difficult for a president to unseated obama to unwind it. there are some parts that republicans agree with like the insurance carriers have to coffer children up to age 26 -- bill: pre-existing conditions. >> and pre-existing conditions. so there probably will be some subsequent legislation whether president oba...

>> reporter: justice kennedy is not exactly a slam dunk. he did express concerns about all the people in the u.s. who arent insured and how that impacts the rest of us throughout who do have medical expenses. we dont know which way hes going to go, about it was interesting to see what he had to say in march. heather: what else should we be watching for. >> reporter: day one they argued about whether this case was ripe. whether you needed to wait for the mandate to kick in. for someone to pay the...

Hours, give or take, you know, 60 minutes on either side of this. >> yeah. bill: how do you think mitt romney gets ready to react to this ruling? >> i think this will be one of the most fascinating things to watch. in a sense, the supreme court decision is going to be what the supreme court decision is, and people have speculated about what it means for president obama and what it means for obamacare as policy. one of the real questions is how does mitt romney handle this, and i think ats sort o...

Federal activity with the local activity. if you pull somebody over and you have questions, the feds come in and intervene if this person was worth holding, that would do that. now based on the rule, only if they are recent border crossings or if they are wanted for a felon for the feds to get involved. >> thats correct. this administration -- eric holder said hes not going to enforce federal law in many areas. we are seeing that with the immigration laws. over and over again. then this southern...

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