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Be -- >> we should note to that point, this order doesn't take effect until march 16. this is not something that takes effect like that, and again, as we're having the conversation on this fast-breaking story, the house democratic leader to your point, carkaren, nancy pelosi s take two, changes nothing. she calls it immoral and unconstitutional. we know the democrats will argue constitutionally against it. we know legally we're going to end up back in courts. the first roll-out, general kelly has taken the hit. he says i take responsibility for this. we know from our reporting that he and othe...

Do about this big progress, right, shrinking the uninsured rate. here are the numbers. about 29 million people right now uninsured. the urban institute says if you just repeal obamacare, you'll have close to 60 million. democrats say that is a huge political burden for republicans. republicans say, well, we're going to replace it. we're going to have a new system to do it, but democrats at the moment say, go ahead. >> just repealing obamacare, even though they have nothing to put in its place and saying they'll do it some time down the road will cause huge calamity from one end of america to t...

Forced to do it this way because under the senate rules you can actually avoid a filibuster by repealing most of the law, doing it through the budget process and that's going to happen in january, but you can't replace the law by avoiding a senate filibuster. you need to get democratic support in the senate. you need 60 votes. that means eight democrats, 52 republicans, and it's going to be very difficult for republicans to stay united, let alone get democrats onboard. you're already hearing democratic leaders say we're not going to work with republicans on replacement. if you're going to repe...

They plan to keep arresting people just as they do now for pot related offenses. their argument in spokane is the only legal way to get pot in washington even after this new state law goes into effect will be to buy that pot from a state regulated pot store. and those state regulated pot stores don't exist yet, but they might soon be created if the federal government allows that to happen and nobody knows that the government will allow them to happen. this is policy soup, and i don't mean this as a munchies joke. this doesn't make any sense yet. joining us for the interview is neil frank linn....

Marijuana law hasn't yet taken effect. people are already getting the benefit of it? prosecutors across the state have started dropping demeanor drug possession charges for adults bust for less than an ounce of pot. election day voters in colorado and washington state voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana. in other words, you can smoke weed just to get high. legally. the law in washington doesn't take effect until next month. prosecutors say they decided to start dropping cases early. of course, one potential problem with the new law is that the federal government still considers mar...