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>> today the u.s. supreme court will take up the first gun rights case in nearly a decade. handgun owners are challenging a new york law that limits the transportation of guns. that law has since been amended but the case is moving forward with some gun rights advocates framing it as a test of the second amendment. joining me now jeffrey toobin. the circumstance of this, new york has amended this law, take it out of the legal pipeline here. will the supreme court likely declare it moot or take it up? >> that will be part of the argument. one of the arguments new york city is making to the just...

They start, you know, expanding the meaning, background checks could definitely be unconstitutional. it's such a perfect issue about the polar ags of the country. you have the gun lobby moving in one direction, much of the rest of the country in the other. >> to be fair, the polls are massively different sides because the public polling shows a large majority of people do support measures like this, right? so you got a very powerful but small poll. >> but you have an even more powerful united states supreme court who honest to goodness don't follow the polls. i mean, those justices do what the...

Do any favors to democrats. >> republicans would face risk if they showed up, would they not? repeatedly claiming the executive privilege. having to defend some areas where the answers from republican witnesses just don't ad up. >> listen, i don't think wednesday's hearing is that big a deal because it's constitutional scholars. i think what the white house has become expert at is making excuses. then forgetting they made the previous excuse and the previous excuse before that. but they do face risks when they get into any of the evidence. because it's okay for a member of congress to ask a mi...

Black folk and gay folk. >> reporter: i can tell you, craig, though, that folks in iowa are also looking at what's happening down here. intalked to wendy hyatt, and she says that she is now hesitant to support pete buttigieg because of his polling numbers in places like south carolina, saying in 2020, they need to build up that coalition. that is what pete buttigieg is trying to prove from the southern swing, from north carolina to south carolina, he'll be in alabama later this week, craig. >> vaughn hillyard there, off a dirt road in round o., south carolina. vaughn, thank you and a big thank...

The supreme court just finished hearing arguments in its first major case on guns in a decade. and it's a case that could have some major implications for gun rights nationwide. our justice correspondent, putin williams, was inside the court this morning, listening to those arguments. pete, what can you tell us? >> could have major implications, probably won't. i think this case has sort of fizzled out. and here's the reason. the law at issue here was a strange one. it existed only in new york city. it said that if you had a permit to have a gun at home, you could only carry your gun for targe...