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Most people who cover politics know that a book is almost mandatory for a presidential run. you got lay out where you are and set out some beliefs, et cetera, et cetera. why did you write it? >> in our case, its pretty unique. people want to know about my biography, how i became an eagle scout, what sports i did as a kid, they will be disappointed because this is really a book about the reforms we did in wisconsin, what we did, how we did it, most importantly i why we did it and at the end, a re...

Of the country could he refer the matter to the full court. the next couple of days we will see whether religious groups is to sign these forms. now this is one part of the contraceptive mandate. >> they say they dont want to because it makes them complicit in it? >> yes. yes. there are other groups that you fall under it. in fact, the supreme court has a contraceptive mandate case that its going to hear in march thats come from a for-profit business by the name of hobby lobby, also based in the...

Wait until the merits decide. dont let gay people get married in our state. 1,000 have gotten licenses. >> hard to undo, what california proved. >> and it sends mixed signals to people in the state can they get married or not get married. . thats right now before the justices also. >> just quickly, looking at whats on the court docket, what case must we pay attention because it will have the broadest impact? >> all of them. all of them. sorry. the same-sex marriage and the contraceptive mandate ...

Coverage but i was in the courtroom for the sentencing for bulger. the victim paimpact statements were no different than the victim pact statements you hear every single day in court. these people, you could just still hear and feel the passion and the pain that they suffered. >> bulger, what he was so concerned about was not being seen as a rat and not being seen as somebody who killed women but apparently he did. >> he did. it is too bad there werent cameras in the courtroom because his whole ...

The case. >> jeff, what were you most interested in in terms of legal rulings, trials this year -- >> i mean, in terms of broader rulings, i thought the supreme court ending the vetter rights act is a hugely important case. the windsor case, a very opposite ideal decision that ended the defensive marriage. those were enormously important and one, we just got mentioned in passing, the bulger case which was an extraordinary story about a family that dominated boston for many years, and inkrepdble ...

Home, and for ten years, no one did anything or saw anything or suspect anything. >> the castro case reminded me in a weird way of jerry sandusky case, the penn state assistant coach who was such a serial child abuser and all i could do and think in both cases, is there is evil in the world. >> absolutely. >> and no explaining. i dont know what causes it, but there are people who are stone cold evil. >> the second log of the castro case is the sentencing where you see him. to build on the evilne...

Your point i think it was right one. >> well, thank you, sunny. i have no response to that. laugh will have. >> the wheels came off the bus with rachel jeantel with that particular jury. >> this case was so racially device and we havent seen something like this since o.j. and here is the thing. i think this is where we disagreed a lot. mark and i are criminal defense attorneys and if you want to make the case race is an issue, well agree with you. we see it every day. when we walk in prison and ...

>> clearly a busy year. we sat down for highlights and low points. >> joining us, mark geragos, sunny hoosten, mark toobin and d dan danny. >> the most interesting was the zimmerman case for the way it gained momentum and it was a reverse o.j. as angry as whites were at the o.j. verdict, you had the reverse phenomenon with the zimmerman and martin, so i think that one clearly brought up all kinds of great issues i think for people to talk about and to me, at least, it was the most compelling. >>...

Trying to answer both. so break this down for us, jeff. this is really interesting. a couple weeks ago we have a judge down in washington appointed by or nominated by george w. bush who says this will not stand. we cant hoover up this meta data and keep it forever. this judge here in new york two weeks later appointed by clinton disappoi disappoigree disagrees. >> ive never seen something pre sicily like this. you have two judges, exactly the same legal issue inside a couple weeks deciding it co...

The day. castro is no longer with us so that diminished the interest. has there ever been anything so bizarre, three women shackled in an attic for not one year, two years, ten years. what were you doing ten years ago and make that the marker and go wow, they have been upstairs on the third floor since that day. >> an interesting thing that came to that case is it gave renewed hope to parents and relatives that have these missing -- >> i can see that -- >> there is hope they are still alive. >> ...