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implicitly and explicitly go at the stirrers and say it was never fair and he never had a chance, your lawyer chose them, spoke to them personally. this was not the judge. at the end of the day, you picked the jurors, you did not object, and we got the outcome that we have. >> thank you both, that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts now. >> you are not going to have kokomo played well for the weekend? >> how good was that clip? >> i got to say, i was laughing. maybe that's what needs to happen. >> shout out to our beloved and arranged senior producer who watches that ...

Supreme court. but i think it really just depends on the issues. if there are any of these issues that are attractive to the supreme court, it may very well be the preemption argument that we just discussed. although, i do think it is a really heavy lift, and it would kind of upend a lot of the established law. >> that sounds like it is tailor-made. >> is one of those moments you wish you had a supreme court that was not enmeshed with all these controversies, where you would believe that if they took a case it would be on the merits of it and not because they are fully radicalized in any way. ...

Keep in mind, this preemption argument is one that they already made last summer. they tried to remove the proceedings to federal court from state court to federal court. >> something they have done in other cases. >> in georgia, exactly. yes, exactly. so, what judge heller, the federal judge, said, is no, there is no issue of preemption here. why? because this is not a law that targets any of these federal campaign finance issues, it is just a state law, the object defense is a state law. it just happens to be that one aspect of that state law has to do a little bit with the campaign finance....

Don't know exactly what the charges are. of course, that's going to impact any defense arguments, but jake for hypothetical sake, let's say it is this misdemeanor falsification of business records charge combined with an accentuated to a felony, because it's to cover up another crime and that other crime being ah, violations of campaign finance law. i think there's a lot of defenses that are going to come because that's a very novel legal theory in new york. first i would expect challenges on the statute of limitations. statute of limitations in new york for this type of felony would be five y...

Not state, not local. supporters of the arizona law argue the feds are not doing the job so the state had to take matters into its own hands. senior white house correspondent major garrett on the top story at the bottom of the hour. what's the administration's central argument here, major? >> it can be summed up in one word, shepard. preumption. what the administration is saying is the arizona law interferes with powers exclusively granted by the constitution to the federal government. not just border control, but what to do with anyone who interferes with the legal movement in or out of this ...