. >> in fasnational conservativese confident about mississippi, oklahoma features a candidate half blackhickasaw indian. james langford has emerged as a pretty strong candidate. has had some kind words from tom cobu coburn. his old house seat in oklahoma city will boovt turnout. does either of them reach 50% because that way it would avowed a runoff. most of the betting though in oklahoma still probably goes to a runoff. >> great race. >> most of the attention on tuesday is going to be on mississippi. another runoff that's fun for political junkies in my favorite state of south carolina. sally atwater, the wife of the late controversial republican strate strategist lee atwater. this is a pretty powerful position state wide. controls a lot of the budget there. atwater's backed by the old bush forces. the old mccain folks are against her opponent. common core is the big issue in the republican primary. >> we'll watch the republican divide play out on any level. >> at first they were amused and a little curious, but not top advisors to mitt romney are starting to get annoyed that portions l

there is a reason conservativeses won't agree to this type of solution. they are going to fight it politically. >> quickly, finish that thought. >> hobby lobby and the green family never objected to their employeeses obtaining contraception on their own. this is about whether the government can force them to be involved. >> thank you both. >>> coming up, much more on hobby lobby and how both sides are headed to the battle stations. the far right are is using this to say the obama administration is waging a war on religion. progressives hope it will fire up women voters. plus, president obama says he'll do it on his own. never mind those who want to sue him over kwus of executive action. >>> and 12 years after being convicted for rack are tiering he's running for may again in rhode island. first stop on "hardball." finally, let me finish with political paralysis and the one with are branch of government immune toou gridlock. this is "hardball," the place for politics. e during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and whe

conservativesing, on the court would have gone farther to limit presidential recessed powers to onlyween sessions rather than during recesses within sessions of congress, and the majority, led by justice breyer, suggested that if the conservatives, led by mr. scalia, had their way, there would be countless numbers of nominations and appointments in the past that would be now thrown into question. atyou can read this work thehill.com. thanks for your time today. >> you bet. >> that decision was handed down today from the supreme court. as we wait for president obama, he could get a question or two on the decision during this town hall meeting, about to get underway. in the senate, chuck grassley came to the floor this afternoon to talk about the decision regarding presidential recess appointments. here is what he had to say. >> i ask for permission to speak. i come to the floor today to praise the decision to strike down obama's illegal recess appointments. our goal -- article two, section two of the constitution provides ways in which the president may appoint certain officers. it fi