Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100327:14:58:00
Once again leading up to the november election? >> yes, i think you are. bart stupak can't have it both ways. >> but there's no language in this bill that says federal money will be used to pay for abortions. >> here's the key. here's a little caveat though. the reason the hyatt amendment was passed in 1976 was because if you specifically don't exclude it, it can be included. and that's the language it wasn't in there. that's where -- what the president did doesn't trump federal law. otherwise we won't need courts and we wouldn't ned legislatures. you just need a presidential directive. that's...
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