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Jamie: thank you alicia. bill: arizona lawmakers accusing the obama administration of declaring war on their state. the homeland security department announcing federal agents would no longer help the state authorities in arizona enforce the show me your papers provision, only if it applies to felons. welcome back to america's newsroom. how do you feel about your colleagues in arizona? >> they are absolutely right. what this president is doing is declaring war on arizona. states are trying to enforce federal law where his administration has been unwilling to do so. i agree it is about president...

A distraction from the economy, and i think if the law were to go down, they would continue to make that argument. they would say, look, this was -- the president should have been focused on the economy. instead, he focused on passing health care reform. and those are the two ways i would expect them to make their arguments. bill: but you argue philosophically on this, though, too. you think republicans should use this as an example of liberal policies more than anything else. explain that. >> yeah. i mean, what's been striking to me is think about the debate we've had about president obama, t...

Be difficult for him to interfere with funds that have begun to flow. pelosi and company were shrewd in the fact that they caused the statute to take effect in stages so that it would be difficult for a president to unseated obama to unwind it. there are some parts that republicans agree with like the insurance carriers have to coffer children up to age 26 -- bill: pre-existing conditions. >> and pre-existing conditions. so there probably will be some subsequent legislation whether president obama is reelected or governor romney is elected president, there will be some subsequent legislation -...

>> reporter: justice kennedy is not exactly a slam dunk. he did express concerns about all the people in the u.s. who aren't insured and how that impacts the rest of us throughout who do have medical expenses. we don't know which way he's going to go, about it was interesting to see what he had to say in march. heather: what else should we be watching for. >> reporter: day one they argued about whether this case was ripe. whether you needed to wait for the mandate to kick in. for someone to pay the penalty and wait for that injury to occur. also the issue of severability. what happens to the r...

Hours, give or take, you know, 60 minutes on either side of this. >> yeah. bill: how do you think mitt romney gets ready to react to this ruling? >> i think this will be one of the most fascinating things to watch. in a sense, the supreme court decision is going to be what the supreme court decision is, and people have speculated about what it means for president obama and what it means for obamacare as policy. one of the real questions is how does mitt romney handle this, and i think at's sort of central to the way that the election's likely to play out for the next four months. if the law is...