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Days. great to see you. >> thanks, kate. happy thanksgiving, everybody. >> thank you. thank you very much. you can get a behind the scenes look at another very busy airport, atlantas hartsfield jackson digital project, atl24. see it right now on cnn.com atl24. next on "new day," whats the real story about obama care? is it about affordable care or is it a nightmare? were taking an inside look at two test cases which you really should see in forming an opinion. james ray, once a famous moti...

Its like the 15th vote they were taking in three years. he was able to get like 11% of obama voters. part was they were anti-recall. if you are looking looking at ts saying people are thinking hes going to push the envelope, those are generally people who arent going to cross the aisle just for a recall vote, they probably wont turn out. so if they still turnpike out and voted for the governor, that shows that he has a lot of appeal. >> but do you think wisconsin voters, i think thats the thing....

Important sections of the pennsylvania constitution that sort of disagree with that. i was sworn in in 2008 and again when i was re-elected in 2011, i was sworn in. just last year, 2012. and i swore to uphold the constitution of the commonwealth. and i take the position. i took the position and i take the position currently that when a statute is in opposition to the constitution, im going to follow the constitution. >> do you think that these -- >> i did that. >> sorry to interrupt, sir. do you...

Important, shannon, we "happening now" -- know that this went to the irs chief counsels office, a political appointee, mr. wilkins. that office looked at the two tea party test cases -- when they were recommended that they actually approve one and deny the other, they said no, we are going to take the cases from a 48-year veteran of the irs, the expert in this area, we are going to take them from him and give it to someone who had been at the irs 4 months. when theyda they dthey never made a dec...

Exam status and conservative dwriewms are still waiting. is it possible the tea party groups were so ticked off for obama-care that the rush of applications outnumbers those on the right. is that possible or beyond the sense of logic or reason, sir? >> i think it goes beyond the sense of logic. they took these hundreds of cases and distilled it into two. there were two so-called test cases. one of those, mr. hall said he accepted the other one he was going to deny. but after that they reassigned...

Infamous test cases. they take them from a guy who has been there with 48 years stellar evaluations and give them to this individual, correct? >> so. >> >> okay. fine. here is-what i want from your testimony. they everywhere taken after you made recommendations on how to deal with the test cases. is that correct? >> thats correct. >> hall says in his vast experience, taking applications out for extra review was rare. there is also the issue of the blame game and you may remember the initial stor...

Way. it gives the impression, it doesnt say this, but any sort of discrimination that puts gay people in one category and straight people in another is unconstitutional. thats the implication of his decision. the implication of his decision is that same-sex marriage has to come to the whole country. he didnt say that. that has not yet been -- thats the law of the land but certainly there will be test cases brought in short order which may yet establish it. >> going to be a lot of loose ends to t...

Now? where do they go from here? >> theres enormous practical and symbolic victories in both of these cases. there are all these federal benefits whether its filing joint returns, social security benefits. those benefits are available to gay people who are married. if you look at the language of justice kennedys opinion. it really does suggest that there is a constitutional right to be married if you are a gay person. theres certain to be new test cases in the 38 states that do not have same-sex...

whether or not police questions peoples immigration status based on reasonable suspicion. joining us to talk about immigration ruling and what it means is our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and white house correspondent jessica yellin. jeffrey, please start off by saying what the court accepted and rejected. >> well, the heart of the case is about state power versus federal power. immigration is an area that is traditionally one where the federal government exercises most of the p...

Classes for native americans because theres a federal law requiring to have those classes and it also says they cannot ban courses that include the history of ethnic groups in general as long as theyre open to everyone, as long as they also dont break any of those other rules. its very complicated, very subjective. you can see a lot of potential questions about it. ive posteded the entire law for you on my facebook page. its exactly what you guys are saying. we start to see cases where we dont k...