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Now tu speaker on your side. >> yes, my first amendment i proposed for hr one. shout out to the chairman, jim mcgovern there and we earned 126 votes on the record in support of lowering the voting age. i was very proud to have john lewis enthusiastically cast a vote in the affirmtive for that. and to learn today that our speaker is supportive. we advanced the debate and the conversation. people have been able to get on the record on the issue. although they were unable to get it included h.r. 1, we were able to include it in that. >> when it was lowered from 21 to 1, the argument was if you ca...

Specifically? >> yes. >> did you discuss specifically self-defense and stand your ground laws in the connection of violent crimes such as murder? >> yes. >> and did you address the particularities. strike that question, bad question. professor carter, what can you tell us about how long you spent as part of that course covering ideas like self-defense and stand your ground? >> right. self-defense is a affirmtive defense. it's a big self-defense. it's not one of those things that you are just going to just whisk through in a day or after you teach it, you're going to neglect from bringing it ba...

Serious than people thought. >> let's open this up to the panel, we are talking about the health care insurance mandate and the immigration law in arizona, how does it play out to presidential stage? >> in 2004, there was the michigan case on affirmtive action that played a role in that campaign year, we have known that the 2012 election will focus heavily on the health care reform. >> repealing obama care. >> the issue is, does the supreme court throw something else in there, are there potential land mines that the supreme court do introduce in year and that become as story. >> and in fact th...