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conclusions so you can decide for yourself, based on the evidence, what happened that night. today a leading forensic audio expert listened to george zimmerman's 911 call and weighed in on whether zimmerman uttered a racial slur when he got out of his suv to follow martin. it's only 1.6 seconds of audio, but it's important because the federal government is investigating this as a possible hate crime, and the audio in question could be a major piece of evidence. the fbi is certainly treating it that way. they are doing their own analysis of the tape. before we go any further, though, ...

>> 48 hours after president obama gave the supreme court what appeared to be a warning to not overturn his health care law, attorney general eric holder now weighing in on what the president meant. >> i think that, you know, what the president said a couple of days ago was appropriate. he indicated that we obviously respect the decisions that courts make under our system of government and since marbury vs. madison, i think it's back in 1803, courts have the final say on the constitutionality of statutes. >> it's nice that he would say that although it didn't sound like his president felt that ...

Including the supreme court -- have the right to review legislation, have the right to declare the constitutionality of legislation? she said, of course, yes, they do. which any lawyer in the country would agree with, and the president clearly misstated the facts when he suggested it wasn't the case, and that's why he came out the next day and clarified saying he doesn't mean to suggest they didn't. the department has not in this litigation nor in any other litigation of which i'm aware ever asked this or any other court to reconsider or limit that long-established precedent. well, of course i...

Was appropriate. he indicated that we obviously respect decisions that courts make under our system of government, and since marbury versus madison, 1803, courts have the final say on the constitutionality of stat statutes. but courts are also fairly differential when it comes to overturning statutes that congress has passed. it's been examined by a number of courts and held constitutional by a number of courts, including by a couple of very prominent conservative jurists. >> there is less than 14 hours to meet the court's deadline. what should the obama administration be doing? karl rove is h...

That and breaking news as the second hour of "happening now" starts right now. jenna: well, back to our top story, the deadline fast approaching for the department of justice. jon: the federal judge orders a report from the department of justice detailing whether the supreme court has the right to overturn laws passed by congress, specifically referring to president obama's health care law. jenna: that's jon scott, i'm jenna lee, and lis wiehl is here, a former federal prosecutor and fox news legal analyst. so, lis, what do you think we're going to see here? >> well, the department really is i...