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State of georgia. georgia's republican governor sonny purdue wanted very badly to get in on the frivolous anti-health reform action, but his attorney general, thurbert baker refused. telling the governor in a letter, quote, considering the state's severe budgetary crisis with education and law enforcement being cut deeply, i cannot justify a decision to initiate expensive and time consuming litigation that i believe has no legal merit. in short, this litigation is likely to fail and will consume significant amounts of taxpayers' hard earned money in the process. georgia republicans, however, a...

Money. we could have our lawyers off engaged in other areas that are going to be critical to the budget of this state, to talk about teachers and education. any of those areas where we could have our lawyers applied would be a better use of the employees and the staff. but i'm not aware of any way that you can do this without there being some inherent cost. >> me, neither, and i'm not a lawyer. mr. baker, let me also ask you about something that broke today that was new in this whole debate, that's that the attorney general of the state of oregon announced they will not sue the federal governm...

Conclusion. that, given the broad expansive powers of the federal government and its ability to enact laws, especially in this area, areas that impact interstate and intrastate commerce, that they came away with the same idea and the conclusion that i did. that there is no basis for moving in this direction. you know, so now they're going to move forward and try and assist the federal government in defending against these lawsuits. they must have came to the same conclusion that i did. >> mr. thurbert baker, the attorney general for the state of georgia for the past 13 years now, running for t...

Mr. baker is also running for the democratic nomination of governor in his state. mr. attorney general thank you very much for coming on the show. >> glad to be here. thank you. >> the move on republicans to impeach you seems fairly symbolic. there are just a few days left in the legislative session. but even if it is just symbolic, what's your reaction to this? >> very surprising. you know, i've been the attorney general in this state for 13 years. i would have never thought that there would be an effort in the legislator of this state to impeach the sitting attorney general for doing his job...

This is not a matter of being afraid of one person or the other. what i've been required do as the attorney general is to talk about the law, to give my best legal opinion. that's what we've done here and that's what we're going to continue to do. i would not relent from my position. >> good for you. you know if you had you said were afraid that would had been a hell of a news story. thank you very much. thurbert baker from the state of georgia. thanks for coming up "hardball." the late-night comedians go to town on the republican party's approval of a payment for a sex club out in l.a. i'm ...