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So many formulas and just -- >> fast. >> the producer of "sleepless in seattle" explains that there is hard logic and cold cash behind it all. and as egypt goes through convulsio convulsions, we found a dangerous near-failed state that is actually looking up. but first, heres my take. let me tell you what worries me most about the events in egypt. the greatest blow to islamic terrorism in recent years came not from the killing of osama bin laden in his compound in abbottabad, pakistan but rath...

Grow up or still growing up, obviously, through all of this process that youre seeing with the study, were taking a look at things analytically but we also have a gut check when it comes to decision making and as we get older, we get more jaded based on life experience and how were making our decisions. does that sort of sum up what youre finding? >> that sort of does. i would -- instead of jaded, i would call it insightful intuition. >> thats better. >> i think we get better insight and its int...

The question is, do we have to have these mathematical formulas to bring something forth. 218, thats a majority in the house. >> thats democrats adhering not only to a majority of the republicans. >> right. >> on abortion rights, look whats happened, this back-and-forth in texas this week, an attempt to narrow abortion rights there. as you look at it, heres the supreme court giving back to the states power over big issues, like gay marriage. do you see whats happening in the states as the potent...

Because on their own, existing statutes cannot totally fill the void left by todays supreme court ruling. and i am hopeful that new protections can and will pass in this session of congress. the voting rights act has always had strong bipartisan support on capitol hill. and todays ruling should not change that. >> joining me now are msnbcs melissa harris-perry and amy howe. amy, the court surprised me today when it decided that the formulas that congress was using in legislation in 2006 were sim...

The same thing happened. you have barbara jordan trying to expand it, bringing in hispanics in california and new york. and worrying all the time that just that change, the tweak, could bring the whole thing down, again, this was with democratic congresss. so when you think how difficult it was to change the formula, when they finally did a big extension, it was 45 years, to make it solid. >> this is the history of the formulas, very difficult to get them in the 50 states, it is true whether it ...

Formulas, very difficult to get them in the 50 states, it is true whether it is the farm bill, medicaid, all sort of things that have these formula. it is why theyre very difficult to undo them. why every time you renew one of those laws you are actually reauthorizing that particular formula as the best one we can come up with under these governing circumstances. >> yeah, and when we think about the whole notion that the formula needed to be changes, that is nonsense, because what it did was pre...

Argument, it came up in oral ar uments all the time from skeptical justices, this is a law from the 1960s. do times change? why is this -- >> time has changed but, you know, the legacy of discrimination in the south is still very apparent if you look at voting patterns there. who they elect and who votes in those elections. you know, this is interesting, in 2006 you see how the political will has changed. in 2006 boehner and issa both voted in favor of this law. republicans right now are trying ...

Rights act will be overturned. during oral arguments they seemed to argue section 5 formulas that use data from the 1960s and early 70s to determine what states and localities will be put under scrutiny have become a relic. >> the formula was rational and effective in 1965. the court upheld it then. it upheld it three more times after that. >> the marshall plan was very good, too, the morrill act, but times change. >> were not predicting its going to happen but we should be prepared for the poss...

Jump-start legitimate marijuana businesses. what are some of the more interesting and innovative products you have seen? >> we have seen all sorts of things from hand-held portable vaporizers to lights that you can dial in the spectrum of the light and grow cannabis more efficiently to new formulas and ways of making beverages and other products out of some of the elements that are in cannabis. >> sounds very cool. do you think we are going to see legalization, decriminalization of marijuana wit...

Jon: credit goes to the woman and good of you to give it to her right now. go ahead. >> yeah, she has some skills that i dont have. im not much of a computer person, but in my head i can think of what i wanted to do with this data to potentially reveal ship wrecks. she was able to take the data, we wrote the formulas she grafted it and -p all of all of a sudden these anomalies started sticking out. we could see where there was a nice a tphol le, a nomalaly. where we knew there was a shipwreck. >...