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The request of dock meants. judge, significant of this? >> there is two processes. criminal process where he could be indicted. that is not going to happen. no patrol prosecutor -- they all work for him -- is not going to indict him. it is not going to go anywhere until after election day. this will become a footnote. >> bret: politics? >> i think the politics are that i mean, republicans even though they probably dont argue merits of this. speaker boehner does not want this to become a huge foc...

With the same strong support that it was even i would say 15 years ago. >> dont you think thats really happened since bush v gore, where there was so much politics involved in the reaction to the most important decision, lets say, of generations. >> i think thats partially true but the court recovered a lot of its credibility really after 9/11. bush v gore seemed like a footnote. then it sort of evaporated again in the times we live in. >> one of the things thats been noted is since sandra day o...

Sotomayor. >> i think theres a likelihood that those who obtained insurance up to this date may be okay. >> harris: grandfathered in. >> will not be retroactive, but well have to see the language of the opinion. and the larger is the severability. to put it in english, this law did not have a severability clause. what that means, if a court strikes down a portion of it the rest can stand. and its generally accepted that if theres no such clause, then it cant be the case. however, tricky footnote...

For todays footnote, a reflection on marriage, that terrain where the personal is indeed political. marriage is not solely about lovely attachment. its also about state recognition and a specific bundle of rights and privileges. but these rights are not enough to explain why people choose marriage. the desire to express love, to commit, and to consent is more deeply human than that. take black american slaves, who were legally barred from marrying. but who created their own ceremonies and adhere...

Already. >> one of the things thats unique to this president is the fact and you have a radio show, very popular and nationally syndicated show based out west is this president has fantastic support from the mainstream media so even though youve laid out the case against him, theyre not going to report and repeat a lot of that stuff. >> fred barnes said heres what youve been waiting for which is a comprehensive list of all those promises, pledges and polemics, one by one, quote a source in the f...

Into the political corruption. they went to the local library. and with the help of the librarian that they went through the stacks and figured out where i lived. and i said, well, mr. cuffy, why didnt you just look in the phonebook? he said, youre in the phonebook? i said, yes, im the only j. tom morgan in the phone book. he said, well, damn, we wasted all that time. right then i knew who am i dealing with? >> but perhaps the most stunning footnote to this story came late in the summer of 2007....

Throttling down. what this means is that these should be the priorities of the future. investing in young people so they are going to be the citizens and workers in the future. >> absolutely. and in just a moment, my footnote on one womans final wish. first, its a preview of "weekends wi ""weekends with alex witt". >> hello. one queen celebrating 60 years. one person is uniquely qualified on the topic. >> the race for president took on a tougher tone from both sides. in todays office politics, m...

the truth if thats a promise he can keep or whether its his version of read my lips or ill close gitmo. this evening with presidential politic, and a focus on key battleground states. president obama is in iowa tonight. six electoral votes but a hotly contested tossup state at a wind turbine plant in newton, iowa, the president said he understood times are tough but he argues the republican agenda isnt the answer. >> when you hear somebody say, we should cut more taxes, especially fo...

Weekends have been so nice, but -- >> theres a pattern developing. beautiful weekend, ugly week. >> a lot of us would continue that through the summer. one thing of interest, a tropical storm formed. it begins june 1st, and have had them in may but it was off the coastline, spinning some showers every now and then toward the coastal arias of north carolina, south carolina and georgia. its a weak system, very small. going to have very little of any impact on anyone on the eastern seaboard, just a...

the united states. we talk about his personal relationship with president obama and even his personal relationship with mitt romney. stand by for that as well. and the man sometimes nicknamed americas supermayor, has made a super gaffe. im wolf blitzer in chicago. youre in the situation room. but first, through my exclusive far reaching interview, i just completed only a few minutes ago with the afghan president hamid karzai, its his only interview while here in the united states...