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Attempts to bedevil this process, i wonder what the number could be. what it speaks to is the real demand for health coverage, for the reasons that zeke suggested. and so it's very, very heartening. alex, i've said before, maybe not on this show but elsewhere, i have a child with a preexisting condition, started when she was 7 months old. i went through the dreadful period of time in my life where i thought we were going to go broke because we didn't have health coverage that could handle her health care. and so, i think of all of those folks who aren't going to have to go through that kind of...

>> funding for the law down, way down, and take the whole thing down. that's next. 

I.r.s. can spend $1.4 million on convention. fiscal year 20 12? 10? the president wants 13.3 billion for fiscal europe 2013. advance it one time. that is an increase of $440 million for the i.r.s. and healthcare to bring on an additional 2,000 new employees. that is what the law mandates. >> that's right. one other statistics if you look over the next ten years the i.r.s. is in charge of collecting about one trillion dollars of -- i was going to call them fees but remember the supreme court called them taxes and that's what they are. this is also a big tax collection effort by the i.r.s. to fu...

Crazy. >> to pete's point, this law will have broader implications for the amount of monkey business that states can get into with their voter registration process. i have to say republicans for the long term, if they're serious about the rnc's new plan and booklet thingy and petitioning to groups, they ought to be cheering for this law to be struck down. no person is going to vote for a party that thinks they don't want to see them at the ballot box. so i think by striking this law down, you would you they eliminate some of the temptation for the electoral math in republicans' favor. >> there...

Same-sex couples are now legally getting married in washington state. the state started handing out marriage licenses last thursday. but a three-day waiting period made sunday the first official day for couples to tie the knot. as those weddings are taking place, the supreme court is preparing to take up two challenges to same-sex marriage. what are being billed as the civil rights cases of a generation. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. pete, we learned that the high court is going to weigh in on these two cases. tell us about them. how are they different? >> well, th...