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The governor announced last week since the real attorney general in his state refused to sue the government over health reform, he intended to appoint a special attorney general just to file that lawsuit. but now it looks like republicans in the state house have one-upped even that move by georgia's governor. a republican legislator has introduced a resolution to impeach georgia's attorney general. to be clear, they want to impeach thurbert baker because he says he doesn't want to waste taxpayers money on a redundant frifgs lawsuit with no grounds for success. joining us for the interview is t...

Even consider joining their efforts to defend the bill. >> well, the oregon attorney general has not reached out to me. but i can almost understand what's going on. that governor and that attorney general looked at the same constitution that i looked at. they came away with the same 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 kn...

Absolutely correct. and you know this effort to impeach me here in this state because i've told this state what the law is and really told the truth, it's something that we'll talk about. i'm sure others will talk about as well. but we've done it for all of the right reasons. we've given our best legal advice. that's what the people of georgia elected me to do. that's what i'm going to continue to do and i cannot be intimtated die threats of impeachment. >> so you're not afraid of the governor? you're not afraid of governor perdue? you're not afraid of governor perdue? >> listen. we're going t...

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 said you were afraid, that would have been a hell of a news story. thank you very much. thurbert baker from the state of georgia. thanks for coming up "hardball." up next, the late-night comedians go to town on the republican party's approval of the payment for a sex club out in l.a. i'm not sure what kind of a club it was but certainly n...

The governor's request on both legal and fiscal grounds. didn't want to waste the taxpayers' money, he said. now republicans, some of them in the georgia state legislature down there are calling for the attorney general to be impeached. georgia attorney general thurbert baker joins us. general, thanks so much for joining us. is it impeachable? i was looking at the law down there whereas refusing to failure to perform its constitutional and statutory duties. are your critics saying that you failed to conform your constitutional duties? is that their argument? >> chris, that seems to be the argu...