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Caramagno might wise up, he makes another convoluted attempt to defend himself, and it backfires. >> your honor, i can represent to the court that i had a heineken at lunch yesterday. >> you drank a beer at lunch yesterday? >> i did, your honor. >> before we picked the jury? >> yes, ma'am. and the reason i raise that issue is that, judge, because if i have one beer at lunch, it's not going to affect my ability to effectively represent my client. >> you really can't have a heineken during lunch when you're in a jury trial. you just can't. that's bizarre to me. >> at this point even the prosecut...

Is becoming more common. >> it's an intimidation tactic that once discovered clearly gets shut down right away. >> reporter: it backfires. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the hotel's rating on yelp, plummeting, as a barrage of users posting angry comments. one person calling it the worst hotel in history. on some levels, you are what your yelp reviews say you are. >> 100%. >> reporter: in some cases, businesses have even taken the extreme step of suing reviewers. yelp says the law is on the side of the consumer. >> they have a right to express their opinion and accurately and truthfully describe t...

Suing. if the case gets dismissed, that will look bad for republicans and be a little bit embarrassing but there's a long road. >> it seems to be risky for both sides quite honestly. president obama on one hand says he's issued fewer executive orders than many of the past presidents before him and i know people will say he's issued different kinds of executive orders. it's also, you know, could be dicey for the republicans in case it backfires, right? >> right. i think it could. when i asked them about that specific thing, i said are you worried this could backfire and maybe end up being somet...

To do a survey, and a lot of the kids said they didn't like it, but a lot of the kids do like it, and a lot of the parents do like it -- >> maybe they're afraid. >> i guess the real question is, and i guess we need somebody who's an atheist, what's so fencive about this in -- offensive about this? >> just ignore the prayer while it's occurring. yes, indeed. it is a private institution, but i would guess that at mit most of those, like, big bang theory kind of nerdy types -- [laughter] i would say that they are probably mostly religious, and they would opt, they would want to pray. and bloomber...

Campaign finance laws. stop for a second. normally, any legal authority using the word "circumvent" about law is saying you're doing the wrong thing. >> in fact, circumvention appears over and over again in the penal code, the criminal code, as something you should not do. >> right, exactly, you don't say, hey, mom and dad, i'm going to go out and circumvent some laws today. then he goes on to say, that circumvention should not and cannot be condemned or restricted. instead, it should be recognized as promoting political speech and activity that is engrained in our culture. so you have this wo...