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Most people who cover politics know that a book is almost mandatory for a presidential run. you got lay out where you are and set out some beliefs, et cetera, et cetera. why did you write it? >> in our case, it's pretty unique. people want to know about my biography, how i became an eagle scout, what sports i did as a kid, they will be disappointed because this is really a book about the reforms we did in wisconsin, what we did, how we did it, most importantly i why we did it and at the end, a reaction how it can apply to other states and our nation's capital. we went through some pretty big a...

Of the country could he refer the matter to the full court. the next couple of days we will see whether religious groups is to sign these forms. now this is one part of the contraceptive mandate. >> they say they don't want to because it makes them complicit in it? >> yes. yes. there are other groups that you fall under it. in fact, the supreme court has a contraceptive mandate case that it's going to hear in march that's come from a for-profit business by the name of hobby lobby, also based in the tenth circuit in oklahoma. and what that group is saying is that our business owners have religi...

Wait until the merits decide. don't let gay people get married in our state. 1,000 have gotten licenses. >> hard to undo, what california proved. >> and it sends mixed signals to people in the state can they get married or not get married. . that's right now before the justices also. >> just quickly, looking at what's on the court docket, what case must we pay attention because it will have the broadest impact? >> all of them. all of them. sorry. the same-sex marriage and the contraceptive mandate ones up there right now are not up there on the merit bus campaign finance on the merits. right o...

Coverage but i was in the courtroom for the sentencing for bulger. the victim paimpact statements were no different than the victim pact statements you hear every single day in court. these people, you could just still hear and feel the passion and the pain that they suffered. >> bulger, what he was so concerned about was not being seen as a rat and not being seen as somebody who killed women but apparently he did. >> he did. it is too bad there weren't cameras in the courtroom because his whole defense in the case was not that i'm not guilty of being a gangster, i'm not guilty of being a drug...

The case. >> jeff, what were you most interested in in terms of legal rulings, trials this year -- >> i mean, in terms of broader rulings, i thought the supreme court ending the vetter rights act is a hugely important case. the windsor case, a very opposite ideal decision that ended the defensive marriage. those were enormously important and one, we just got mentioned in passing, the bulger case which was an extraordinary story about a family that dominated boston for many years, and inkrepdble fbi corporation. >> corporation. >> the abuses that went on with the fbi. >> fbi turning for years a...