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If he wanted to set the record straight perhaps he should be speaking to the criminal investigators. he still has not spoken to the fbi or anybody at the department of justice. you know, he takes no responsibility for the financial devastation he's created and the dreams that are lost and you've got all of these longer-term investors and i don't know where he is getting his 18% from. no one got anywhere near that. the people, the innocent investors, the longer term investors who lost their entire life savings, who have been denied their insurance claims, are now the subject of some very seriou...

The white house says a crucial provision of the law that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. jeffrey toobin is joining us now to discuss. can the president set aside a law that congress passed? bill clinton signed it into law back in 1996. >> well, he's not setting aside the law. he's still honoring the law. married same-sex couples in massachusetts will still be denied the tax benefits that married couples all over the country get. but they are no longer defending it in court. and that's very unusual. presidents usually defend laws, even the ones they disagree ...

That our interests were so great that they should evoke in us a unilateral action. i'm not sure that's the best course, but i do not fault the president for taking the time it takes to work through these diplomatic steps and get with our partners and try to come out of the box as george w. bush and his father before him and president clinton in there, too, did, is the more partners, the more likely the effective -- the positive nature of the outcome of the conflict. >> let me switch gears briefly, donna. i want to get your quick reaction to what the president and the justice department announc...

That marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. attorney general eric holder told congress today that the president has concluded the law is unconstitutional. the federal law will still be observed but the justice department is leaving it to congress who passed the law back in 1996 to defend it in court. the u.s. military working with the fbi and justice department today to determine where 15 somali pirates connected to the murder of four americans at sea will go next. a spokesman from central command won't rule out the possibility that they could be brought to the u.s. to stand tria...

Aspects of this bill met at least temporary defeat today at the hands of this federal judge. on the losing end of this court battle, arizona's republican governor jan brewer, who signed this bill into law back in april. governor brewer was, not surprisingly, defiant today. >> obviously, it's a little bump in the road, i believe, and that, you know, until i get my whole arms around it, we don't really exactly know where we're going to go. i think that it's important to remind everybody that today, they, absolutely, the federal government got relief from the courts to not do their job. >> all th...