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Today that prohibition, the 13-year ban on alcohol ended. the movement to pass the hotly debated 18th amendment that banned alcohol was led bay rural protestant who saw it as a victory for public health and morals. >> during the 13-year run the law was widely ignored most famously by joseph patrick kennedy, late father of john f. kennedy who amassed a fortune in bootlegging. >> he made even more after the 21st amendment was repealed with his exclusive distribution rights of scottish whiskey. >> one of the unintended consequences was the black market it created and the rise of organized crime s...

It will backfire on them. but let me come back to something we talked about earlier, and i think michelle was right, the pool that everybody's going into make this work has to be balanced by younger people coming into it. the younger people are not going to sign up for it because it is too expensive because it requires things for them to do that they don't need yet. and they are not going to sign up for it, so it's not going to work. it's a debacle. everybody predicted that. and why we can't reverse that, i don't know! we reversed the 18th amendment for booze. we reversed it with the 21st amen...

>> that's good rhetoric. >> that's the same thing you use. >> no. this isn't a rhetorical question. you said it happens all the time. you said in previous debates and fights over the debt ceiling. fair enough. has there been a time the congress held up the president of the united states and said kill the law of the land? say it's never happened before and say we're done. >> i don't know if it's happened before, but i can tell you this. the 18th amendment to the constitution was prohibition. which was repealed by the 21st amount. it was the law of the land and it was repealed. slavery was legal...

And you're in the lead by $1,600 over our champion, prabhu. um, i'll go ahead and wager $2,000. okay. here is the clue for you... who is nureyev? no. who is george balanchine? ah. let's look at the $600 clue now... what was the 19th amendment? nope. prabhu. oh. what is the 18th amendment? and with that, you lead a.j. by $1,000, and lynn gets to go first in double jeopardy! and we'll start that round in a moment or two.

>> megyn: tom? >> megyn, look, i'm not here to debate whether this is legitimate surgery or not or whether someone can have a mental illness that requires this type of procedure. what i suggest we do is look at what the 8th amendment says, and ask ourselves, is the state inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on this inmate? let's go back to 1848 very quickly. that was the first time the supreme court was ever asked to decide what is meant by cruel and unusual punishment. you know what they said, cruel and unusual punishment. beheading, burning alive, dissecting. and it now is not providing a...