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You want to attack us as an enemy? you should not be able to be here. >> neil: got ya. fred? >> if you're an enemy 0 combatant i agree with you, i'd nuke him with a drone but this guy was an american citizen, naturalized american citizen, on american soil, and he killed americans and i'm sorry, if our bill of rights and our rights as citizens -- it is a living document but i'm not going to let you and a lot of other people strip the rights from us because you don't like what this guy did. we defend a lot of people. murderers, serial killers but this guy is attacking america and we're in a war ...

A portion of this act -- >> come on now, our constitution was absolutely not meant to be color blind. if we are honest about the initial document, it is many things. color blind is not one of them. it is a living document, a document that allows us to become more perfected over time. that initial document that renders my ancestors is certainly not color blind. >> i'm take thg after the 14th amendment. they say, this is a color blind document. it's taken 100 years to get to a point we are at now. >> congress has power and four other amendments say that. congress, not the court, congress gets to...

Supreme court justice antonin scalia says the u.s. constitution is not a living document. that's acarding to the "dallas morning news." the paper quotes scalia telling an audience at southern methodist university on monday, "it's dead, dead, dead." the justice also reportedly said law schools do not adequately emphasize decisions should reflect the letter of the law. a political crisis over the debt ceiling might be further off than you think. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us about an idea to push the deadline the summer. >> sources say treasury officials told them to ex...

Have it against murder, can we have it against other things. do you agree with the idea that as more states continue to accept gay marriage and public opinion moves gay marriage, it will move the supreme court? >> well, it is. it's not gay marriage, it's just marriage. so we're talking about the freedom to marry with people who they love. so that's scalia being scalia. he also doesn't see the constitution as a living document. jefferson made a comment about that, if it's ill-fitting, if a coat is ill-fitting, you adjust it or tailor it. founder of my party, abraham lincoln, amended the constit...

And put it into the platform of the national party. and so particularly when your nominee has made it clear that i make exceptions on the pro life question with respect to rape, incest, and life of the mother. so to then follow that up, and i understand the chairman was quoted a little bit earlier today saying something to the effect of, well, you know, that plank doesn't apply to mitt romney. wait a minute. he's the head of the party. the nominee of our party. you're telling me that he's going to walk into that convention and snub his nose at the planks, this doesn't mean anything? the platfo...