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Let's bring in judge andrew napolitano. what is your take on this story. >> reporter: there. >> reporter: there are a lot of legal problems in this case because of the laws that have been written to help the government fight what it calls the war on terrorism. first, because the government has declared him a terrorist it is unlawful for lawyers to represent him without themselves being charged with providing material assistance to terrorists. the lawyers who want to represent him have asked the treasury department for a license for a waiver from the anti-terrorism law which would permit them t...

Washington. so james, who's behind trying to change the constitution? >> reporter: well, right now, only one lawmaker has floated this idea. that would be republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina, who is, jenna, an attorney and member of the senate ju -- judiciary committee and float this on on the record with gret va van sustern. the 14th amendment states plainly in the first section, quote, all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the united states and of the state wherein they reside. >> if you come across the bo...

Federal judges. testimony was given for 13 days in january, proceedings that were punctuated by heated and emotional debate inside and outside the courtroom. you saw some of the protests happening there. supporters argued this a been on gay marriage was needed to safeguard traditional marriage and encourage responsible child bearing. opponents said that tradition or fears of harming heterosexual unions are legally insufficient grounds to discriminate against gay couples and most courtroom observers will sell you -- tell you that they believe the opponents to the ban did present the stronger ca...

What we call a coronal mass ejection, which is what happens when it leaves the sun. it flows around on the earth's magnetic field. it has few positive effects, it has several negative effects one is -- jenna: walk us through a few of those. >> reporter: okay. the first one is it can hit satellites that are in orbit around the earth, especially the ones that are out in go stationary orbit. jenna: what exactly does that control, is it like television satellites, for your cellular phone, what do they do. >> reporter: they are more communications oriented because they sit over a spot on the earth....

Jenna: sure, we also don't want that. real quick here global warming, is this direct global warming when you get plasma from the sun bursting into our earth's atmosphere? >> reporter: this is not as far as we know a direct cause of global warming. we do see these effects come and go with the solar cycle. we are currently starting up the solar maximum mum so we'll see more and more of these storms as we move towards solar maximum yum, say in about 2014 and they'll taper off again. if there is a effect it comes and goes with the solar cycle. jenna: all right, dean, thank you so much for joining ...