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No tax, no estate. it just goes to the spouse. the spouse, it is two women who sued. one of the women died. the spouse died. the internal revenue code doesn't treat them as married and they had to pay $350,000 in taxes that they wouldn't have had to pay had they been a straight couple. it is a very compelling case. >> here's a question. i was an attorney general of new york. >> no way! >> i had to defend a lot of statutes that i disagreed with. >> i think this is a bad law. a black mark on our statutory history. but the supreme court has not yet said that. the supreme court has not yet agreed ...

>> it's some evil power grab. >> reporter: teachers argued being terminated instead of laid off would make it harder to fine another job. >> you put a black mark, a stig stigma. >> reporter: despite repeated plays the board voted 5-3 to fire the teach ofs at the end of the veer prompting face-to-face confrontation. >> i'm going to be fired. >> reporter: the chair not talking. >> can you tell me why you couldn't do lay-offs instead of terminations? >> we have to go straight to executive session. we'll continue this conversation at a later date. >> it provides the most flexibility, and that's wh...

Clinton that it helped define his presidency in 1994. could this be 1994? could it help president obama to have gop control on capitol hill? >> sure. that was a huge black mark on the clinton presidency when republicans came back and they took over the house and senate after so many years of democratic control. you know, there is an argument, you know, democrats won't say this openly but there's an argument openly that if republicans take back the house it really does give president obama a villain to point to as he heads into his own election in 2012. he needs a villain he can point to house ...

Could this be 1994? could it help president obama to have gop control on capitol hill? >> sure. now is a huge black mark on the clinton presidency when the republicans came back and took over the house and senate after so many years of democratic control. there's an argument, democrats won't saw this openly but there's an argument that if the republicans take back the house it really does give president obama a villain to point to as he head into his own election of 2012. he needs a villain and he could point to house republicans and say, they're not working with me and they're not trying to g...

Greatest expansion of our economy, especially after world war ii, and there were very strong restrictions on banks. i mean, keith has had elizabeth warren on the show, and she makes the point very clearly that from the time that those laws were put in place during the depression by roosevelt and the congress, up until the '80s when we had the savings and loan crisis, when reagan started removing the regulations, for all those years there was never one huge banking mess or huge failure where the economy was going to collapse. those regulations worked very well. and once they were removed, by re...