coakley's opponents got almost exactly what they wanted out of the convention while coakley is left toelf. so where does this race, does where martha coakley's bid for the ultimate redemption, where does it go from here? we're joined by the candidate who won that convention yesterday, steve grossman, the massachusetts state treasurer. he's now the democratic party's officially endorsed candidate for governor. mr. grossman, thanks for joining us this morning. nationally people remember martha coakley from 2010 and we're saying the threat to her is what these headlines might look like. let me put up a taste of what it looks like. this is "the boston herald." this was yesterday as it became clear she was going to be losing in this convention. coakley way ahead in the polls, could make history as the first woman elected governor and the party is poised to reject her. really? in bold print there. you said before this convention if she doesn't win, she has some soul searching to do. she didn't win, you won by 12 points. do you think martha coakley should be thinking about getting out of this

joining me now, martha coakley. she's a democratic attorney general for massachusetts. what did the court get wrong? they unanimously found that your arguments were insufficient, that you are unduly restricting free speech. what did they get wrong? >> well, it is a little ironic, chris, as you pointed out that somehow, you know, the donning of a black robe lets them say, do as we say, not as we do. particularly this is about the rights of women who have constitutionally protected rights to access health care, to enter freely, to not be intimidated or harassed or have to worry about being intimidated or harassed. >> public sidewalks with public places. it's the place where our great civic democracy takes place. why can't i stand outside any building i want to on a public sidewalk and express my first amendment rights if that place happens to be a clinic that provides abortion? >> well, because we've had a history of violence in massachusetts, a history of trying to do more narrowly tailored ways to balance the right. as the court acknowledged we have a right to protect s

he sort of got pushed into it and it was sort of like, hey, i hope martha coakley wins. he's not good at that. putting him in his best frame of mind should not be underestimated as a way to get his numbers, which are not good, better. >> and response now from michael steele on boehner's behalf. the american people, their elected representatives and the supreme court have all expressed serious concerns about the president's failure to follow the constitution dismissing them with words like smidgen or stunt only reinforces their frustration. >> it's a battle for the bases now. what's interesting, i thought about that obama speech, you heard him earlier this year talking about don't boo vote and all those. now it's more like, here are the policies that republicans believe in trying to get the base more angry as opposed to saying, there are big stakes here. here's what they stand for. you know, the lawsuit and the statement by michael steel, it's all midterm election strategy. it's about the bases of the two parties and firing them up. >> and his final part of the speech was

massachusetts attorney general martha coakley said today's ruling would harm women. >> now we are puttingdditional stresses on women who are just trying to get health care. >> reporter: but, justice antonin scalia reject that notion writing -- >> protecting people from speech they do not want to hear is not a function the first amendment allows government to undertake. >> reporter: president obama losing in this court on whether or not the president has power to make a decision when a few senators are in session. and they are trying to bypass the partisan grid lock. but no, no president has that power. david? >> abc easterry moran, knows the court so well, thank you. >>> back to the president now. you heard alex perez report earlier, he was in the flood zone today. george stephanopoulos on air force one today. asking him about the mour who collapsed when told she had reached u.s. soil. and the president offers a message to immigrants thinking about sending their children across our border. >> the message, don't send your children unaccompanied on trains or a bunch of smugglers. we don't k

martha coakley spoke to msnbc's chris hayes about the decision. >> this particular statute was a carefully could balance all the interest involved. it worked. it was effective. it was predictable. people knew where they could go, what they could do. and striking down this law seems to me now to say you have to wait until someone's hurt or someone's been interfered with. and we will do that. we are prepared to go back to the legislature. we're prepared to do whatever we need to do to make sure that women in massachusetts have access to it. >> all right. you have to look at this. texas republican is getting pretty good at photobombing his fellow lawmakers. well, oklahoma republican james langford was being interviewed by fox news, and he walked up behind and stared at the camera for a few moments before walking off. just last week, gohmert made an appearance in a picture of kevin mccarthy and ralph reid. there he is in the middle spiling. >>> everybody enjoys some ice cream in the summer, including the president in minneapolis on thursday, president obama stopped at a local ice cream parlor

massachusetts attorney general martha coakley said today's ruling would harm women. >> now we are puttingdditional stresses on women who are just trying to get health care. >> reporter: but, justice antonin scalia rejected that notion writing -- >> protecting people from speech they do not want to hear is not a function the first amendment allows government to undertake. >> reporter: a win for free speech. another big ruling here. president obama losing in this court on whether he or any president has the power to make a decision when a few senators are in session. does he have to wait for the full senate. the president trying to bypass the bipartisan grid lock. today, they said, no, no president has that power. david? >> abc terry moran, knows the court so well, thank you. >>> back to the president now. you heard alex perez report earlier, he was in the flood zone today. george stephanopoulos on air force one with him, asking him the tough questions about young immigrants, many without their parents, crossing the border. and the mother who collapsed when told she had reached the u.s. soi

the case is mccullen versus coakley. >>> mccullen versus coakley. mr. rienzi? >> this court has held the sidewalks are a natural and proper place for free citizens to exchange information and ideas. for that reason the court has held public sidewalks occupy a special position in first amendment analysis. yet the massachusetts law at issue here makes it a crime to enter on to certain public sidewalks even for the purpose of peaceful conversation or leafletting. the law applies at abortion clinics throughout the state on every hour of every day that they are open regardless of the circumstances. massachusetts asked this court to uphold that statute under the time, place and manner test, but the law fails each aspect of that test. i would like to begin with narrow tailoring. the state says the law is necessary to protect its interest in preventing obstruction and congestion. the law is not narrowly tailored for three reasons. the law is regardless of any threat of construction even when the sidewalks are open and empty. mrs. mccullen does her counseling early on t

we have great support from our governor deval patrick and attorney general martha coakley as well as legislative leadership. so everyone today said, all right, let's read the decision and let's find out what the answer is and what law might be constitutional and let's get that law through the legislature. >> marty walz, president of the planned parenthood league of massachusetts, and author of that law that was striked down today by the supreme court, the 2007 law. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. >>> a lot still to come tonight. please stay with us. [ brian ], it's about getting to the finish line. in life, it's how you get there that matters most. it's important to know the difference. like when i found out i had a blood clot in my leg. my doctor said that it could travel to my lungs and become an even bigger problem. and that i had to take action. so he talked to me about xarelto®. [ male announcer ] xarelto® is the first oral prescription blood thinner proven to treat and help prevent dvt and pe that doesn't require regular blood monitoring or changes to your diet. [ brian ] for a p

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we have great support from our governor deval patrick and attorney general martha coakley as well as legislative leadership. so everyone today said, all right, let's read the decision and let's find out what the answer is and what law might be constitutional and let's get that law through the legislature. >> marty walz, president of the planned parenthood league of massachusetts, and author of that law that was striked down today by the supreme court, the 2007 law. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. >>> a lot still to come tonight. please stay with us. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can't stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mercedes-benz you've been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer. hurry, before this opportunity cools off. ♪ to map their manufacturings at process with sticky notes and string, yeah, they were a little bit skeptical. what they do actually is rocket science. high tech components for aircraft and fighter jets. we're just their bankers, right? but financing from ge capital also comes with expertise from across ge

massachusetts attorney general martha coakley said the ruling would harm women. >> now we are putting: but justice scalia rejected that notion writing, protecting people from speech they do not want to hear is not a function the first amendment allows government to undertake. so a big win for free speech. and another big ruling out of this court. president obama losing here. on whether he or any president has the power to make high-level appointments when only a few senators are in session or does he have to wait for the full senate to confirm nominees. the president trying to bypass all the partisan gridlock but this court once again unanimously saying, no, the president, no president, has that power. terry moran, abc news, the supreme court. >>> coming up, some fun with our own george stephanopoulos playing a big role on "jeopardy!" last night. he'll put our knowledge, you and me, our knowledge to the test. >> i'm a little nervous. >>> the next half hour, an appropriately named pilot trying to do today what her namesake did not. stay with us. you are watching "world news now." >> an

the coakley testimony of ja-51, and the capone testimony at ja-19. there are specific arguments as to why these did not work. the argument petitioners make here, your honors, is very, very broad. the lower courts have upheld buffer zones around political conventions, around circuses, around funerals. the idea that you could defeat those buffer zones by simply saying, i would like to have a quiet conversation with the delegates as they go into the political convention, would wipe out a number of court of appeals decisions and the kind of buffer zones that this court, i submit, and that the lower courts have found are -- are needed. >> well, how far do you think -- what do you think a state legislature or congress needs to find in order to establish a zone around some category of facility at which there -- they have some evidence that there have been some disruptions and some obstruction? >> take the example of -- i think it's -- it's a real -- real ordinance someplace you can't have, there's a buffer zone around fraternal lodges. >> so, your honor, i'

coakley. mr. rienzi. >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, this court has held that the public sidewalks are a natural and proper place for free citizens to exchange information and ideas, and for that reason the court has held that public sidewalks occupy a special position in first amendment analysis. if the massachusetts law at issue here makes it a crime to enter onto certain public sidewalks, even for the purpose of peaceful conversation, or leafletting, the law applies at abortion clinics throughout the state on every hour of every day that they are open, regardless of the circumstances. massachusetts asked this court to uphold that statute under the time, place, and manner test, but the law fails each aspect of that test. i would like to begin with narrow tailoring. the state says the law is necessary to protect its interests in preventing obstruction and congestion. but the law is not narrowly tailored to those interests for three reasons -- first, the law applies regardless of whether there

nearly three quarters of eligible voters cast their ballots defense and foreign affairs expert gregory coakley thinks the poll could prove to be a major breakthrough for the warhead nation. a lot of syrian people the majority of syria's syrian people overwhelmingly find that they hate the jews. artists and they hate even the so-called moderate opposition more than they hate. the shah and the government of the anyone's head of actually tried to protect the population the fight is all be all of them being supported by foreign governments saudi arabia qatar turkey and the united states in particular and as a result of that driven a lot of syrian people to say well the only people who would actually try to protect us is the government the possibility that you could have a multi-party election in syria this is something totally new what we're going to see from now is the start of a process and when you see this happening wherever it is in the world the first one or two or even three elections you gradually see the transfer of power becoming more and more legitimate and frankly that's what it's goin