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I'm asking you a tough question. is he playing the same game those people played back then? >> i can't attribute any motives to this governor but let me say this. since 1937 this country has been very clear through our u.s. supreme court that congress has a very, very expansive commerce clause power. and they can regulate both interstate and intrastate. there's no question, as i've looked at that whole issue, that congress has the authority to pass the statute that they did. now there's a lot of policy disagreements out there, a lot of budgetary disagreements out there about the new act. in my...

You say it's constitutional. talk about different strokes. >> yeah, completely different strokes. and i just respectfully disagree with my colleague in the state of florida. listen, we're all looking at the same set of laws. we understand that commerce has an expansive commerce clause power. we understand that the medicaid program that we're all engaged in at the state level, that it's a voluntary program. right here in georgia, almost 60% of the moneys that we get come from the federal government. states can choose to opt in or to opt out. so we understand that, and there is something we call...

Understanding that there was simply no basis at all upon which to file a lawsuit, and if we were to proceed in that direction, we simply be wasting taxpayers' money in doing so. >> well, let's cause some trouble, that's what i do here. you know, back in '64 when we passed the civil rights bill in this country especially that key feature that public accommodations act that said basically if you open up a dog store, i don't care if you sell tomatoes, if you grew out back, open up that store for business, serve people regardless of race, color, creed. that's the law of the land. interstate commer...

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