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You cant pay attention. >> if you keep stressing that marijuana is fun, no one is going to legalize it. or if you call it medical marijuana no one will legalize it. that works. brooke you are high right now. i can smell you from a mile away. do you think obama is a hipocrite on drug laws? >> loaded question. i want to address your other point. if you are going to admit to smoking pot while running for congress, admit you like it. thats the reason. none of this bs, the add or attention deficit di...

You cant pay attention. >> if you keep stressing that marijuana is fun, no one is going to legalize it. or if you call it medical marijuana no one will legalize it. that works. brooke you are high right now. i can smell you from a mile away. do you think obama is a hipocrite on drug laws? >> loaded question. i want to address your other point. if you are going to admit to smoking pot while running for congress, admit you like it. thats the reason. none of this bs, the add or attention deficit di...

Them they have to buy something is not the same as regulating commerce and you cant go that far? >> well, there are two arguments which show that thats a bad argument both have been made by very conservative federal judges. i think the best is the argument by judge sutton in ohio who said the whole thing about compelling people into commerce, which they are not in, is a red herring, because the thing thats being regulated -- the thing that people are being compelled in is not health insurance, b...

We will have 90 minutes and the anti-g -- injunction act, whether or not somebody when they break the law and refuse to buy health insurance and are fined for it and they pay a penalty, the question is, can you -- can you -- is this the whole case premature because nobodys paid that penalty yet in thats basic it. >> thats the first hurd toll get to. thank you for the preview. >> reporter: you bet. >> conservatives are fighting to convince the justices that it is unconstitutional. a former solici...

So close enough for government work, everybody is in the health care market. and shelght -- health insurance is just one of several ways in which the goods which you get in the health care market are paid for. and that plainly is something the congress can regulate and has been rellulated for decades. so thats the first argument which i think knock this is down. the second argument made by judge silverman in the d.c. circuit is even more weeping. it says -- just look at the words of the constitu...

History of the country. >> now the main issue at hand is whether consumers can be forced to buy health insurance. thats the so-called individual mandate. the issue will be the focus of oral arguments for two hours on tuesday. oppons say the commerce clause of the constitution cannot be construed in such a way that someone is forced to buy something -- anything -- including helt insurance. supporters say there is nothing more vital to u.s. commerce and the u.s. economy than the issue of health ca...

Tell us about how you think that will stand up before at least five of the nine judges. >> i think the justices are going to uphold the individual mandate as constitutional. i think there is very little argument about that. lets just cite two conservative experts, professor charles freed who was solicitor general under president reagan, and judge silverman of the d.c. circuit, both said there was no constitutional mandate for the claim the individual mandate was constitutional. they make a very ...

Healthier food, too? >> everybodys in the market. therefore, you can make people buy broccoli. >> it seems pretty clear that if there are substantial effects on interstate commerce, congress can act. >> reporter: liberals argued theres a ripple effect. >> people who dont participate in this market are making it much more expensive for the people who do. >> reporter: justice kennedy, the swing vote, suggested a unique solution may be warranted, if the government can justify it. >> the reason this...

Do this using interstate commerce, namely through a website. >> i want to remind viewers of what were talking about. this was a "south park" episode, and "south park" has poked fun at everybody, every group. in this episode they were poking fun at jesus, at buddha, if memory serves me correct. i think we have a clip of part of this episode. >> youve done the town a huge favor, muhammad. >> hold on a second, stop. theres some extremists threatening if we give muhammad to the celebrities, theyre g...

House, and will they act on this? there is still real resistance of the piece of the estate tax and hard to imagine that can be changed significantly, perhaps some little tweaks can be made that will bring them along, but still democrats in the house are expecting that they there will be a vote, and somehow or another, it will get through. >> thank you, kelly odonnell. we have breaking news coming in from virginia a. federal judge there has found part of the health care reform bill that was pass...