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Response to someone who reportedly assaulted an officer and was wielding a broom stick. when a subject is threatening or assaulting an officer, it is the job of law enforcement to subdue him and take him into custody, not to execute him." the central question of whether officers were justified in killing mr. todashev, why a man wielding a broom stick needed seven bullets put into him remains frustratingly and disappointingly unanswered." now, we asked the fbi if they would please make somebody from the bureau available for this show tonight to talk about this case. we've reported on this case ...

When a subject is threatening or assaulting an officer, it is the job of law enforcement to subdue him and take him into custody, not to execute him." the central question of whether officers were justified in killing mr. todashev, why a man wielding a broom stick needed seven bullets put into him remains frustratingly and disappointingly unanswered." now, we asked the fbi if they would please make somebody from the bureau available for this show tonight to talk about this case. we've reported on this case more than anybody else in national media. we would love to talk to the fbi directly inst...

And how broadly applicable is it beyond the initial facts of this challenge? >> well, the key legal point that ought to decide the case is whether companies can use their economic leverage to impose their own moral views on their employees. no one doubts that the green family has sincere objections to contraception. they own a company that employs 13,000 people. and they want to impose their religious views on those 13,000 people. and if they succeed, as justice kagan pointed out later in the argument, rachel, if they succeed in this claim of imposing their burden of their religious beliefs on...

That would stop. >> i know it is foley to make predictions on the basis of oral arguments, but you've seen a lot of them. you've argued before the court. having seen what happened today, did you have a sense of which way the balance of the court might be leaning on this issue? >> rachel, i did not. clear, i can tell you how eight of the justices are going to vote. four on each side. justice kennedy at one point indicated he understood that this was a burden on the employees, on the women. at other times, he expressed concerns with the government's case. i really found it a case where it was no...

And there's no telling where that would stop. >> i know it is foley to make predictions on the basis of oral arguments, but you've seen a lot of them. you've argued before the court. having seen what happened today, did you have a sense of which way the balance of the court might be leaning on this issue? >> rachel, i did not. clear, i can tell you how eight of the justices are going to vote. four on each side. justice kennedy at one point indicated he understood that this was a burden on the employees, on the women. at other times, he expressed concerns with the government's case. i really fo...