high court in the midst of the final day of arguments on the president's health care law. can the mandate survive? and here on the streets of havana, if you think the yankees versus the red sox rivalry is heated, just wait till you see the version in cuba. >> now, which is the best team, the industriales? >> no, the santiagos. >> yankees! >> and good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in havana. at the supreme court today, the third and climactic day of arguments focusing whether health care reform can survive without the insurance mandate. after yesterday's arguments many think that the law could be on the critical list. chris cillizza is managing editor of post politics.com. pete williams is nbc's justice correspondent. and he has just come trt chamber. pete, first to you. what was your impression of

today's argument after a lot of impressions yesterday that there were a number of justices very critically questioning the health care mandate? what was the take away today? >> andrea today's question is, if the supreme court were to find that the insurance requirement is unconstitutional, can the rest of the law stand? i think it's fair to say that perhaps a bare majority of the court thinks the answer is either completely no or mostly no. a majority of the court seemed to think that maybe there are sort of things on the very periphery of the law, things that were sort of tacked on to it as the train was leaving the station that maybe are so completely unrelated to the insurance mandate that they can survive. but frankly, that's not the heart of what the law does. i think the conservatives plus justice kennedy are worried about two things. one is the shore of the supreme court trying to figure out, well, if the mandate's gone then certainly the things right around it go and the things

around that go, but where is the line? i think the supreme court thinks that's either a very hard thing for it to do or something it shouldn't do. that's congress's problem and not its problem. secondly, there are at least two justices kennedy and alito concerned about what would happen to the insurance industry if you strike down the income stream from the individual mandate, the insurance requirement but leave in place all the obligations that the law puts on insurance companies. they were worried about the effect that would have on the industry and as a legal matter, where the industry would go to sue if that happened. now, the court's liberals said you know, really as justice ginsburg said this should be a salvage operation, not a wrecking operation. and that the court should strike down only those things it's absolutely sure are tied to the mandate and leave the rest of it up to congress if they want to put it in or take it out. right now the court is considering the final question which is what about the medicaid requirements, the expanded requirements on the states,

andrea. >> and pete, as you've been pointing out, the key justice that everyone's been focusing on potential will i a swing vote, he has been in other cases, justice kennedy. this is one of the questions he was asking yesterday, the key question of constitutionality. >> when you are changing the relation of the individual to the government in this -- what we can stipulate is i think a unique way, do you not have a heavy burden of justification to show authorization under the constitution? >> that's right, andrea. >> pete and chris -- >> go ahead. >> you go ahead. >> i was going to say, we didn't hear much about that bare constitutional question today. here's a possibility. obviously, justice kennedy is kind of i think leaning against this constitutional question, agonizing over it, saying yesterday maybe the health care market is so different you can justify regulate heren and that wouldn't mean congress could

force you to buy anything in other markets like food or cell phones. maybe he'll say today look what we would do to the insurance industry if we threw the mandate out. maybe we'd better leave the whole thing intact. i think the lesson of that is, it seems to me at this point at least, he's inclined to say the mandate is unconstitutional and most of the law should go. how it comes out when the decision is written, who knows. that seems to be where he is now. >> what a case. what a historic moment. meanwhile, of course, this is against the backdrop of a presidential election year. chris cillizza, let's talk about the impact of that and a question raised by jaly leno of mitt romney last night on health care. >> seems like children and people with pre-existing conditions should be covered. >> as long as you've been continuously insured you ought to be able to get insurance forward. >> suppose they were never insured. >> if they're 45 years old and show up and say i want insurance

because i've got a heart disease, we can't play the game like that. >> chrysalis cillizza, romney ry being questioned rigorously by jaly leno. his answer makes it clear what the differences are between the romney position now at least and the white house position on health care. >> yeah, and you know, andrea what's interesting about this, jay leno whether wittingly or unwittingly hit on something fascinating which is if you look at polling overall on the its affordability care act, it's about low 40% approval, high 40%, maybe low 50% disapproval. if you look at certain elements though, many of the individual elements pre-existing conditions, children under 26 being able to be covered, those things are incredibly popular. it's this very odd political dichotomy where many of the pieces of the bill are popular. but the bill itself is unpopular. so i think one thing you will

see regardless almost of what happens at the supreme court, one thing that you will see the obama team focus on with romney is what would you do to solve these problems? because they know those individual pieces are popular. plus, you've got this whole overriding narrative as you mentioned of mitt romney having been for something that looks kind of like the individual mandate when he was the governor of massachusetts. >> of course, a couple other quick political points today. chris cillizza, mitt romney gets a big endorsement. we expected it but from bush 41 in houston and the other pieces that newt gingrich is scaling back his campaign firing a third of his workers and basically his travel schedule out of money, out of time. heading towards tampa. still thinks he can stir it up at the convention. >> very quickly on george h.w. bush. he had kind of informally endorsed mitt romney in december. this is just more of the

establishment of the republican party coalescing behind romney making clear he's going to be the nominee. on newt, this is what the end looks like, andrea. he's out of money. he's acknowledged that. he's cutting back on staff, he has no access really to more money unless sheldon adelson opens up his checkbook again which we don't think is going to happen. newt doesn't think of himself as the traditional normal politician. the traditional drops out in this race. newt is going for the big convention strategy. he is no longer a factor in this thing and mitt romney is the very likely republican nominee when the delegates gather in tampa in august. >> and one other thing, both of you gentlemen, we saw something very unusual on house floor today. there is a dress code. it's part of the rules. we saw a political protest by a congressman bobby rush from chicago who, of course, was one of the chicago seven all the way back in '6, '69 for the protests back at that the convention.

and we saw him on the house floor protesting by wearing a hoodie. protesting the stand your ground laws and the treatment, the killing of trayvon martin and the way that george zimmerman has been handled. pete, this is a legal and political issue now. >> very much so. and you know, obviously the justice department is watching very closely what is done in the state. i think the feeling from the government lawyers up here is that if charges are going to be filed, they would be most likely state charges since they have more to choose from in terms of possible statutes. but the question will be if the state decides not to, what will the federal government do. >> thanks so much, pete williams at the supreme court. chris cillizza, our man on all things political. we appreciate it from both of you. and for more than two years, the state department has been calling on cuba to release alan gross, the usaid subcontractor who was arrested and convicted

of violating cuban laws. gross's family and friends had hoped, hoped that the cuban government might release the ailing gross on humanitarian grounds during the pope's visit. that has not happened and the pope to our knowledge has not raise the issue. senator patrick leahy joins us now. last month you were here and visited the military prison and you met with alan gross. first of all, what is his condition and what can you tell us about the conversations you had with raul castro about his release? >> first off, i was surprised, i'd seen pictures of him before he went down. he's lost a considerable amount of weight. certainly the facility he's staying in is not something that you or i or anybody else would want to. a very small cell he shares with two other inmates. he's finally getting to get some exercise but very little. i talked to raul castro about this, and i did to the foreign

minister and other cuban officials. they all acknowledged to me that mr. gross, they do not consider him a spy. they considered that he broke cuba's laws. i said, well, given that he's not a spy, don't you think two years, he spent two years there. he's not in the greatest of health, his family has health conditions. why not release him? i feel that he was probably misadvised and i think a poorly designed aide program that we have in cuba. i said, why don't you just say you made your point and let him go. i said to raul castro that i had an airplane there. i could take him off his hands and put him on the plane and bring him back. basically he said to me nice try. >> well, i met -- i interviewed here on our show josephina vidal

from the cuban foreign ministry. they said cuba has made an offer to the state department and they have not heard back from the state department. let me play a bit of that for you. >> we have conveyed to the united states government our willingness to have a dialogue to look for a solution on this case on humanitarian reciprocal basis and we are waiting for a response. >> waiting for a response from the obama administration right now? >> yes. >> senator, do you think that this is all wrapped up in the case of the cuban five, the prisoner oz who have been in jail for years convicted in the u.s., one released very briefly on humanitarian grounds but has to go back to -- back to the united states in ten days? is still on parole and also, of course, the continuing embargo, all the other political differences? >> well, there's knows question it's tied to the cuban five. everybody when i would raise this, they would then raise the

cuban five. the cases are not similar at all. and it's not going to be a quid pro quo there. you know, i was told by the cubans i'm somewhat of a hero there because of what i did behind the scenes to help with the return of elian gonzales to his father after he saw his mother drown when they were escaping cuba. i said, we didn't ask for a quid pro quo there. i did that because it was the right thing to do. releasing alan gross is the right thing to do. they can continue to ask the questions about the so-called cuban five. we've done something even though the prosecution was opposed, our court system allowed one of them to go back for ten days. he holds dual citizenship. there are a number of steps that we do take quietly with the cubans even today that don't become public but they're not done as a quid pro quo.

and my recommendation to them is nobody -- revolution. i think the embargo on the part of our country is a mistake. it probably helps cuba in the long run because it lets them blame everything on the u.s., every mistake they make. but i said how about letting our children, our grandchildren grow up in a different world? why don't we start acting more normal, act like countries 90 miles apart? alan gross is no threat to cuba. we can work out these differences. but not if it's done in a way that looks like a quid pro quo. that was the same mistake in northern ireland they made for years. looking for quid pro quos when they got away from that, they finally had peace in northern ireland. the same thing could be done with cuba. >> senator, finally, let me ask

you, as head of the judiciary committee, you've watched the supreme court. you were in charge of confirming justices. what is your impression based on at least two and a half days of arguments? >> il spent yesterday there. i sat through all of the arguments. one mistake anybody can make is to assume up an just from the questions of justices how they're going to rule. the question i raise, if the mandate on the health care is unconstitutional, well, then couldn't you raise the same question about social security? that's a universal mandate. does that make social security unconstitutional, is medicare unconstitutional? i mean, these are some very serious political issues. the supreme court is going into. although this is the court that said a corporation is a person so we can elect general electric as president the same way we elected general eisenhower as

president. >> i should point out general electric is still part owner, of course, of nbc and msnbc since you mention it. >> i can say some -- general motors then, how's that? >> thanks very much, just a disclaimer. thank you very much, pat leahy, important points about the cuban relationship. you know it so well. appreciate you being here. next, my trip to the hottest place in havana in a country where free speech has some limits, everyone is free to speak their mind about baseball at caliente corner. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from cuba. ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it!

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on his final day here in cuba, pope benedict noted that cuba's government has taken some steps to allow greater freedom of religion but still has room he said for improvement. the pope delivered his homily at a giant mass in havana's revolution plaza where he also called for a spirit of love and reconciliation. joining me now vatican analyst george weigel. a long-time paper you expert. george, first of all, the one request that the pope made of raul castro in their 40-minute meeting last night was that the government here recognize good friday. as it has now finally recognized christmas in the years since pope john paul ii's visit. what do you see in terms of the

church's role here in cuba and its increasing power and authority in a very careful way of raising these other political issues? >> i think this is a very interesting process that's unfolding, andrea. everyone knows that cuba is in transition. the question is whether the transition is going to resemble that in spain where it was fairly quick to democracy and a free economy. or the transition we've seen unfold in china over the past 40 years where there's still incredible political repression on top of a free economy. it seems to me that the castro regime may be trying to take a page out of general jair rozelle can i's playbook in poland in the 1980s. during that period, he proposed to the church that it become the

interlok cue tore with the government. john paul ii said no. the solidarity movement is what is going to be the interlok cue tore with the government. if that's the game being proposed to the church in cuba today by the present government, i think the answer is going to be the same. the church will support the institutions of cuban civil society. like the ladies in white, like the pro democracy activists who have been hounded by the cuban police for the past several weeks. but the church is not going to play little opposition in a way that it can be manipulated by the government. >> and we know that fidel castro has blogged, would you believe has blogged on the website that he is hoping for a meeting with the pope today. that is probably taking place. there will not be video. we expect perhaps we'll see a still photo. that will be symbolically very important here but they don't

want it, the church certainly does not want that to overshadow the rest of the visit, which will condition include today later this afternoon with his departure comments. he has been speaking out for religious freedom and for reconciliation. and it was very interesting, george, that cardinal wen ski in the church right behind me here late yesterday afternoon into yesterday evening, he, of course, excuse me, the archbishop from miami, archbishop wenske held a reconciliation mass and hundreds of cubans were here who would not have come 14 years ago, hundreds of cubans from miami, cuban-americans i should say and other americans came here to have this mass with cubans here in havana. is he a lot has changed but it is as you point out, a slow work from progress. thank you so much, george. meanwhile, there is one thing that while american and cubans could disagree over politics, one thing that they doe unite

behind. both countries' love of baseball. cuba baseball is more than a national pasttime. it is a passion. the source of all-day arguments by men who gather every day in a corner of the city known locally as the hot corner. i went there last night to see for myself with a baseball legend here, second baseman, retired second baseman juan padilla, an olympic medalist. he played for the cuban equivalent of the yankees. the industriales against santiago. think of them as the red sox. which team is better? it didn't take long for that argument to begin. >> which is the best team, the industriales? >> your team is the best team. >> santiago is better than his old team? >>. [ speaking foreign language ] >> who has the better team? santiago or industriale? >> impartial.

[ speaking foreign language ] >> he's talking about best pitcher. >> who is the best pitcher? >> no play today. [ speaking foreign language ] >> santiago. >> santiago. >> do people here argue about baseball all day? >> oh, yeah, cuba is baseball. baseball, boxing could be another one more. boxing, baseball. >> but we love baseball. >> you want to play?

oh, padilla. oh, my goodness. padyia, it's my hero. it's my hero. >> wait a second. >> what about american baseball? >> yankees? [ speaking foreign language ] >> you like our cuban players. was he a better second baseman than a hitter? [ speaking foreign language ]

>> you are the man. baseball. >> number one. >> baseball number one. >> number one. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> andrea, he speaks english. >> yankees fan. >> yankees! >> yankees. >> i think they're still arguing at that corner as we speak. official opening day for major league baseball in the u.s., of course, is next week. april 5th. here in cuba, the arguments about baseball, there is never an offseason. and stephanie cutter, deputy campaign manager for the president's re-election campaign joining us next. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from havana. stay with us. if you're one of them folks who gets heartburn

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and you're watching live pictures here of vice president joe biden kicking off his third of four swing state campaign speeches framing the general election in davenport iowa today with a blistering attack on mitt romney. stephanie cutter is deputy campaign manager for the president's re-election bid. good to see you. >> hi. >> this is a critical point for the administration. your signature health reform law is on the block in the supreme court in these three days of arguments. the republican national committee is already out with a video critiquing and attacking the job done by this solicitor general, john verrilli. >> for more than 80% of americans, the insurance system does provide effective access.

excuse me. because the excuse me. >> that's hardly the kind of forceful argument. there were times during the argument yesterday where justice ginsburg seemed to be trying to help him out. this is a u.s. solicitor general. they've certainly practiced this argument. could they have done a better job of defending the president's health care law? >> well, you know, i think that's a low blow from the rnc. and it should come as no surprise. they've been trying to undermine the president's health care law before it passed and trying to repeal it since it passed. i know don verrilli personally, one of the most talented attorneys in this country. and he made a very forceful

argument. we knew these arguments were going to be tough. we had very similar argumentation in the sixth circuit by conservative judge sutton who ended up upholding the law, a very similar tough argument in the d.c. circuit by judge silverman, he ended up upholding the law. we believe the law is constitutional. we believe it will be upheld. we think this is going to be close. it's a closely divided court, a tough issue. we are completely faithful this law will be upheld. >> how much of a setback is it for the president's re-election campaign if the law is not upheld? >> well, we're not going to engage in hypotheticals. the president didn't pass this law because of the politics. he passed the law because it was the right thing to do. we're not going to engage in what ifs if the supreme court doesn't rule our way. this is an incredibly important law on the books that is already

having an impact on people's lives today, whether it's insuring kids can get the care they need if they have a pre-existing condition or seniors have the ability to afford their prescription drugs. it's having a positive impact on people's lives all over the country. we're not going to engage in what ifs if the court doesn't rule in our favor. we believe the law is constitutional and the court will uphold it. >> the nation is also engaged in an emotional and very difficult debate over trayvon martin's death over the stand your ground law in florida. and over whether or not george zimmerman should have been arrested and now a political debate over the president's remarks. what the president said is if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. he was careful not to say it was a racially inspired death. he was careful not to infringe on the prerogatives of the prosecutors. that said, his opponents have jumped all over him. his republican opponents. your response to that. >> yes, they have.

well, his republican opponents have jumped all over him because they do want to play politics with this issue. the president spoke from his heart on this. and was trying to empathize with parents who just lost a child. by any measure, this was a tragedy. we need to let the investigation take its course. i noticed one of your reporters said today the leaks have to stop coming out of the trayvon martin case and people have to stop politicizing it. it's no surprise some of our republican opponents are tray trying to make an issue with this. but the president spoke from the heart and we need to let the investigation take its course. >> stephanie cutter, thank you very much for joining us today. good to see you. even by satellite. >> you, too. safe travels. >> we continue here in havana. thank you very much. coming up on this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports," live from havana, he is on everyone's short list for vice president. marco rubio. he's an ardent critic of

relaxing the trade embargo with cuba. the senator joining us next. we'll be right back live from havana. what's with you? trouble with a car insurance claim. [ dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so good, now it's guaranteed. [ foreman ] so i can trust 'em. unlike randy. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate.

you don't have to go to a club to hear live music here in havana. it is everywhere. music on the treat corners, in parks, hotel lobbies fused with a unique blend of latin and jazz rhythms. music is taught in the schools and in special performing arts high schools. think of "glee." here to give us a taste of music cuba style is a musicologist and expert on music and on cuban music. what is the importance of music to the culture here? >> first of all, cuban people react to music better than to any other art form.

so 80% for professional artists in cuba are musicians or people tied to them. and that makes music in cuba something very important. >> what about the blend of music? because there's a mix of an american, jazz influence. there are african influences. there's a wonderful you know potpourri of different musical elements here in havana. >> yes. yes. first of all, because our roots come from spain and from africa. as the roots in the united states, most of them come from africa and england. and but that gives us a common thing and that is africa. antecedent to our musical cultures. the musical culture of the united states is perhaps the most strongest one among the english-speaking people of the world and cuba has one of the most important music to the spanish speaking people of the world, the latinos. so if you put these things

together, you have a drum set with the congress ga drums, with the bongos beside it and that changed the rhythm concepts in both sides. >> and olava, we want to hear from two of cuba's best musicians, al doe lopez gavian, a keyboard artist and jasak monza no on trumpet. he's going to be playing at car gi haul with wynton marsallis. he was here teaching students in havana and has done so much work 0 bring the culture together. let's hear a little bit. ♪ ♪

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hundreds of thousands of people here, pope benedict today called for more religious freedom but is now meeting with fidel castro. with me, florida republican senator marco rubio. senator, it's very good to see

you. thank you so much for joining us today. first of all. >> thank you, andrea. >> your reaction to the pope's visit. he has called for more religious freedom, he has called for reconciliation. his political points much more muted. he has yet to -- he's delivered his homily and yet to make his farewellra, at the airport later today. do you think this is a missed opportunity for the vatican. >> the pope is a spiritual leader and his number one objective is to bring the people of cuba closer to the church. i congratulate him for that and respect that. i think he's said some power full things when he talks about freedom and liberty and singled out marxism, our bishop wenske of miami yesterday in a mass for cuban exiles talked how it's failed. i think they made some powerful statements. the pope's visit to the cuba has been a net positive and shown the reality of light of cuba in that there is no political

liberty in that country. that's the number one issue i'm interested in. i want the people of cuba to have the same political freedoms that people throughout latin america and the western sphere have. >> senator, i interviewed arnl bishop wenske here yesterday. he said he thinks things have changed and it was important to come and lead hundreds of cuban-americans and other americans here for this papal visit. hundreds came from miami. they included people who had refused to come 14 years ago for pope john paul ii's visit. they in fact protested against a large cruise ship deployed so it wasn't. so they have changed. do you think that that change could influence you to see the value of cuban-americans coming back in larger numbers and traveling more regularly to cuba despite the many embargo. >> i've never criticized anyone who goes back to cuba to see a relative. i have always expressed concern about people that abuse the

travel policy because it's a source of hard currency for a regime that uses that money to jail people and exile people and discriminate against people. so that's been my concern all along. let me repeat, my interest, the cuban people have a right to choose any economic model they want. what i want for cuba is political freedoms and the people of cuba to have the same freedom the people of brazil and argentina have. why are cubans is the only people in this hemisphere that cannot vote for their leaders? >> do you believe that some do that the embargo is only emboldened the regime and given them a way of arguing against the united states? what about relaxing the embargo even though it would mean, as you say, more hard currency to prop up the regime but at the same time, it would open things up more is the counter argument. >> well, the first thing i would say is that the upper echelons of cuban society have the access to everything. do you think ru you'll and fidel don't have the best of everything? and so do tourist who's visit

the island and people of a privileged class. the cuban economy to the extent it exists can buy products from everywhere in the world. that's not the cause of the suffering of the cuban people. the cause of the suffering of the cuban people quite frankly is incompetence of the people that run the country. we spend a lot of time focused on the fact that raul castro is a dictator. this is a man and his people that have no idea how to run a country or economy. the reason why the cuban economy is in shambles is because of the people in charge of the country have no idea what they're doing. >> now, there's a lot of talk about you on everyone's short list for vice president. what about the prospects of you joining the ikt tact, whoever ticket it is, most likely mitt romney? >> that's not going to happen. i'm flattered people think about me that way. there's things i would like to get done in the united states senate. on issues like this and democracy and human rights around the world is an issue

i've enjoyed working on in addition to some of the significant issues we face here domestically here in the united states. there's a few things i'd like to get done here first in the senate. >> of course, you would have a lot more power as vice president potentially. >> you think so? i think that's debatable. >> to get some of those things done. >> i'm enjoying my time in the senate. it's a privilege to serve here. i'm not going to be the vice presidential nominee but i'm flattered when people bring it up. i think they mean it as a compliment. >> they do mean it as a compliment, clearly. and what about the big dispute over trayvon martin? the stand your ground law, do you think that needs to be revisited in your state and in other states? >> i mean first of all, that case is a terrible tragedy and our heart goes out to their families and for that young man. we don't know all the facts. that's why the state attorney's been empanelled and why the fbi and justice department is there. let's see the facts that come back. their involvement is going to mean we're going to know the

truth about what happened. on stand your ground, there is no law in the books anywhere that should not be subject to continuous review. we have no idea if that applies. we have no idea if it applies here. it is a self-defense law. it does not allow you to get in a car and follow someone you think is suspicious, get engaged in a confrontation and end up shooting them. i don't know if that's what happened here. if that is what happened here, the stand your ground shouldn't apply. let's wait until all the facts come out. i am happy the justice department and fbi have impaneled a state attorney to come in and look at it. we should all clamor for the truth. we will know what the right response will be. >> briefly, senator, the stand your ground law, the sponsor says it doesn't apply here, but if it does lead people to think inappropriately they can come out with a weapon and use it to shoot at someone, have those laws create a false impression that needs to be addressed? >> yes, but i don't think that's

the case here. we don't know all the faks. i think what we have is unfortunately someone who did what they were specifically asked not to do. everything i know about this case is through media reporting. we have an video a 911 call was clearly told we don't need you to follow this person. yet they decided to do it anyway. what happened after that is what we're hoping to find out, what the justice department gets involved and others, i know that angela cory, a state attorney from northeast florida is in charge of the case and hiring experts to come in and listen to the audio tapes and before we have the debate about the law let's wait for the facts to come in. i think it will make it more productive. >> thanks so much. thanks, senator. we will be right back. this is andrea mitchell reports live from havana. [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice? when you pour chunky beef with country vegetables soup over it...

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what political story will make headlines, chris is back, i think everyone is talking about the hoodie on the house floor. bobbie rush, what an image, and trayvon martin's parents apparently are commending congressman rush. >> yes, to the washington post actually, pump up our own reporters, got footage of trayvon martin's parjts commending congressman rush for what you just showed, the action of putting the hoodie on the house floor. all of this will do is draw more and more attention in washington and nationally to the issue. you heard senator rubio. they're weary about getting too close to until all the facts are known and this has clearly become a huge, huge national story, somewhat out of nowhere. two weeks ago we weren't talking about it and now we are. >> which tells you everything you need to know about the unpredictability of life in the u.s. and politics. thank you so much. that does it for this special addition of andrea mitchell

reports. our thanks to all of our cuban colleagues and our american colleagues here in havana. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what's next. >> another great show from cuba. we have dramatic moment on the house floor. >> the member will substand. >> the person in that hoodie is congressman bobby rush, asked to leave the chamber after he defied the rules on wearing hats on the house floor. it was done in support of trayvon martin and we have breaking details on what happened after the lead investigator in the case recommended george zimmerman being charged with manslaughter exclusive new details to report. and is the supreme court as partisan as congress these days? that's one of the questions being asked by court watchers who say the justices are essentially political actors wearing black robes. on this last day of argument we'll talk about it.

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