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>> greta: i don't know if they've made up their minds. i won't get into that. shannon, thank you. the fl florida attorney genl is one of the 26 attorneys general challenging the law. she was in the united states supreme court, she joins us. >> nice to see you, greta. >> let's get the inside scoop since they won't let us have cameras in the courtroom. tell me what it looked like. what was it like inside the courtroom? >> well, it was a packed courtroom. there was a lot of excitement in the courtroom. shannon was in the courtroom as well, and it was great to see her and i think that the justic...

Product. they're not separable. and the solicitor general was trying to separate them. tomorrow he wants to argue they're two different thing to preserve the tax argument and the mandate argument under the tax laws. >> you and i did an interview during the midst of your lawsuit when you first filed it. you said you would not have filed the lawsuit had the government argued that it was a tax. that you would have said -- >> no, no, if they had passed it as a tax that you did not believe you had any standing to challenge. so you may not like the legislation but that is a political argument. that ...

Bill: what does it say to you that more than half the country is now challenging the law? >> well, it says that obviously, the congress and the president were out of touch with what the voters and what the people of the various states around the country really want. they wants to make sure that we have a law-abiding congress and a biding president and whether they are in favor of the national health care program or not, everybody universally wants us all to stand by our constitution. and when over half of the states, 26 in the lawsuit and throw in virginia, there are 27 and a few other separat...

>> greta: i don't know if they've made up their minds. i won't get into that. shannon, thank you. the fl florida attorney genl is one of the 26 attorneys general challenging the law. she was in the united states supreme court, she joins us. >> nice to see you, greta. >> let's get the inside scoop since they won't let us have cameras in the courtroom. tell me what it looked like. what was it like inside the courtroom? >> well, it was a packed courtroom. there was a lot of excitement in the courtroom. shannon was in the courtroom as well, and it was great to see her and i think that the justic...