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Caramagno might wise up, he makes another convoluted attempt to defend himself, and it backfires. >> your honor, i can represent to the court that i had a heineken at lunch yesterday. >> you drank a beer at lunch yesterday? >> i did, your honor. >> before we picked the jury? >> yes, maam. and the reason i raise that issue is that, judge, because if i have one beer at lunch, its not going to affect my ability to effectively represent my client. >> you really cant have a heineken during lunch when...

Is becoming more common. >> its an intimidation tactic that once discovered clearly gets shut down right away. >> reporter: it backfires. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the hotels rating on yelp, plummeting, as a barrage of users posting angry comments. one person calling it the worst hotel in history. on some levels, you are what your yelp reviews say you are. >> 100%. >> reporter: in some cases, businesses have even taken the extreme step of suing reviewers. yelp says the law is on the side of th...

Suing. if the case gets dismissed, that will look bad for republicans and be a little bit embarrassing but theres a long road. >> it seems to be risky for both sides quite honestly. president obama on one hand says hes issued fewer executive orders than many of the past presidents before him and i know people will say hes issued different kinds of executive orders. its also, you know, could be dicey for the republicans in case it backfires, right? >> right. i think it could. when i asked them ab...

To do a survey, and a lot of the kids said they didnt like it, but a lot of the kids do like it, and a lot of the parents do like it -- >> maybe theyre afraid. >> i guess the real question is, and i guess we need somebody whos an atheist, whats so fencive about this in -- offensive about this? >> just ignore the prayer while its occurring. yes, indeed. it is a private institution, but i would guess that at mit most of those, like, big bang theory kind of nerdy types -- [laughter] i would say tha...

Campaign finance laws. stop for a second. normally, any legal authority using the word "circumvent" about law is saying youre doing the wrong thing. >> in fact, circumvention appears over and over again in the penal code, the criminal code, as something you should not do. >> right, exactly, you dont say, hey, mom and dad, im going to go out and circumvent some laws today. then he goes on to say, that circumvention should not and cannot be condemned or restricted. instead, it should be recognized...

>> in fact, circumvention appears over and over again in the penal code, the criminal code, as something you should not do. >> right, exactly, you dont say, hey, mom and dad, im going to go out and circumvent some laws today. then he goes on to say, that circumvention should not and cannot be condemned or restricted. instead, it should be recognized as promoting political speech and activity that is engrained in our culture. so you have this wonderful full circleness. you have money pouring into...

>> you could really argue that charles kochs original passion in politics was the war of ideas. >> right. >> and in a recent story i did, i found a speech he wrote where he said, the most important thing we should do as businessmen is not get involved in politics, it backfires. we should create a cadre of well-funded proponents of the free market of capitalism, in the researching institutes, in the lobbying industry, and over the years since over the last 40 years, they have poured tens of milli...

Spending money directly on candidates, theres this entire iceberg beneath the water that theyve been building for decades to influence all kinds of americans. >> you could really argue that charles kochs original passion in politics was the war of ideas. >> right. >> and in a recent story i did, i found a speech he wrote where he said, the most important thing we should do as businessmen is not get involved in politics, it backfires. we should create a cadre of well-funded proponents of the free...

Into. and he says, the plaintiffs have found a way to circumvent campaign finance laws. stop for a second. normally, any legal authority using the word "circumvent" about law is saying youre doing the wrong thing. >> in fact, circumvention appears over and over again in the penal code, the criminal code, as something you should not do. >> right, exactly, you dont say, hey, mom and dad, im going to go out and circumvent some laws today. then he goes on to say, that circumvention should not and ca...

>> the odor of alcoholic beverage was very prevalent in the courtroom and on him, so i knew that he had had a lot to drink. >> take a deep breath. just blow in it. >> okay. for the record your blood alcohol is .075. >> i admit that i did have drinks last night. i lost my grandmother about two weeks ago, and ive been under a lot of pressure. >> the drunk driving limit in nevada is .08, and its been ten hours since he says he had his last drink. caramagno still insists he can move forward with the...