i mean, even elena kagan wasn't buying that. i think the president's going to be slapped down and we're going to run the senate next year with a new majority and a more open and respectful way of the process, and still move america right of center. >> senator, this week, you have also taken action to protect the coal industry. it's a big industry to kentucky and also to west virginia and virginia. there are many states where coal is critical. what action are you taking to try to stop the epa from what is nothing less than a very heavy handed approach to destroy the coal industry in america? >> yeah, it's tragic. we've got a depression, not a recession, a depression in central appalachia. we have lost 5,000 out of 18,000 coal mining jobs in my state. for every coal mining job you lose, you lose three more. a depression created by this administration and the epa. they're issuing a regulation, governor, that if it goes through, will guarantee there will never be another coal-fire plant built in america. and that's 40% of our electr

one particular moment that stood out to me was elena kagan, who was once holding that same job was up to the session to decide when they are in session or not in session. that is not a good sign for the obama administration. >> going back to the first days of the republic a common happenstance in washington. >> this is something that the general so solicitor tried. from making these appointments. so the senate is on the record of saying it is in session even if it is every three days and if it is not conducting business, that seems to me to persuade a majority of the justice that is the obama administration appointments in this case were not constitutional. >> jacinta singh, do you think when the framers wrote "in session," that they were in chambers, not conducting business but gaveling in and gaveling out. >> i don't think that's necessarily what they meant. but what is interesting about this case because there is not a lot of judicial precedent on the question that winds up being the question that we ask. there is no question that the senate operates fundamentally differently from

even liberal justice elena kagan, during an exchange with miller, expressed concerns the buffer zone was too big. >> reporter: just ruth bader ginsburg provided by one reason: but opponents say that there are other laws designed to protect clinics from violence and obstruction and that this one goes beyond what's in place in other states and, scott, after listening to these arguments, it appears a majority of the justices will agree it goes too far. >> pelley: but that decision won't come probably until june. jan, thanks very much. stock prices made big gains today. the dow picked up 108 points, the s&p closed at a record high. the market was reacting to strong earnings reports from bank of america and a federal reserve report that the economy is growing at least moderately in most of the country. we'll be right back. in most of the country. we'll be right back. y there's cori it relieves cold symptoms without raising blood pressure. so look for powerful cold medicine with a heart. coricidin hbp. of the dusty basement at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...a

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. >> even elena kagan can't get out of jury duty. she showed up in dc's superior court.o word whether or not she was chosen as a juror. she was also called p back in 2011. a fellow injure or snapped that shot of her then. >> here's a top five list you don't want to be on. shelby county in tennessee has a list. the office is posting names of people and businesses they are delinquent on their taxes to facebook and twitter. each week a top five list will be released from a new zip code. the office says the people on the list already know they owe that money in taxes. >> a time now almost 10 minutes until the top of the hour. you have to see this. he's a pint sized guitarist has guts. he dares his favorite band to let him play. wait until you see what happens when he makes it on stage. >> a daring rescue caught on camera. look at this. wait until you see what happens to that goose stranded actually in the ice. now let's check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> senator marco rub joe is going to be joining us. congress whether or not they should

justice elena kagan appointed by the president used to be slither general. questions i read from what you are saying her questions were quite sympathetic to the president stepping over his powers. she thought the president might be. >> she had questions about how do we play this game? can the senate say we're going to gavel in every five minutes and name a post office in honor of someone. we will continue to conduct business and work around this to say we are conducting business. she along with several other of the justices said too when this was written things were different. people would ride their horses and go home and be a recess for nine months. right now just about everybody who serves in the senate could be there 24 hours if the president called them back. >> the recess is for porch appointments nobody was there the president needed to continue the continuity of the government. here it's a different situation. >> now we wait. >> it will be before june. >> it will. >> nice to see you as always, shannon. liberals claiming republicans are taking aim at

. >> justice elena kagan said she was quote a bit hung up on why the space buffer needs to be so big.he gestured to show how much space she was talking about by using the court room. also, an tonn scalia said he needs to see a difference between people showing up to pray, and people blocking entrances, so it looks like it could be a majority. cobbled together, it could revice the statute, if not, strike it down completely. we'll have to wait until june to see what they decide. >>> the national security agency, nsa, has implanted surveillance software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world. that's according to the "new york times." they have no evidence they have used technology on computers in the u.s. the nsa says its activities are focused and specificsly deployed against and only against valid foreign intelligence targets. >>> the u.n.'s climate chief is urging global investors to pour a trillion dollars a year into clean energy technology. that's $1 trillion with a "t." we're told it's needed by 2030 in order to keep global warming from reaching a dangerous threshold. worldw

don't want anything to do with, is hopeful the supreme court is going to make a change, just as elena kagan said, quote, would radically restructure the way workplaces across this country are run. in 2003, the state of illinois amended its public relations act to name them as state employees for the purchase of bargaining. home health workers who refused to join still have to pay dues. they're stabilizing industry in illinois. >> wages have increases, benefits have increases, and therefore, we're able to provide a situation where people with disabilities and people who are aging can still remain in their homes where they want to be. they can still remain independent. >> but workers like suzy watts, who is a home attendant solely so she can care for her disabled daughter, say they shouldn't have to pay a dime backing a union message they don't agree with. >> she's not able to walk or talk. she's had 79 surgeries. i love her to death. she's my daughter. i don't need the interference of a union. i am angry that i'm considered a public employee. it was not by chose. >> today, the justices spa s

i was at a social event a few years ago talking to supreme court justice elena kagan, who i think is a wonderful person and she said i love to watch football games but is it a guilty pleasure, like watching boxing? should ill turn the tv off and not enjoy a football game? so i think anybody who's asked themselves that is question should read this book baud -- because it ends with a reform agenda. host: someone told me he was taking his son to a dallas game and the tickets were $1,200 apiece. guest: that would be a good ticket. host: but why would somebody spend that kind of money on a two 1/2 -- two and a half hour football game? guest: why would somebody spend money on designer clothes? is a b.m.w. meaningful better than a honda? if you have the money i don't object. what i object to is the taxpayers spending a lot of money on football games. host: what about the anti-trust exemphasis? guest: that -- exemption? guest: that has to do with the with -- negotiates with their broadcasts. otherwise individual teams would negotiate directly with networks. host: there are 32 nfl teams. gues

some justices, elena kagan among them thought it was too big, restricts too much speech.ricting speech on a public sidewalk is something that many supreme court justices are reluctant to do. so based on the comments made today, richard, i'd say the massachusetts law may be struck down. >> busy week at the supreme court. nbc's pete williams following that for us. thank you so much, pete. >> you bet. >>> back to business, after chris christie's state of the state address, how does he focus on governing in the wake of the scandal? that's today's topic for our agenda panel. cory dade, susie kim is a reporter for msnbc.com, david corn, the washington bureau chief for mother jones, and msnbc political analyst. all three, thanks for joining. david, starting with you, my friend, did christie address the scandal enough in his speech? he did it right off the top. what else actually stuck out to you when you were listening to it and were looking at how he dealt with this? >> you know, i think he did what we expected him to do, acknowledge it and then move on to the business of the s

here is stephen breyer and elena kagan walking by.hey tend to not react, stand up and applaud and cheer. in fact, justice antonin scalia has voiced concern about going to these speeches in the past because he says it feels more like a pep rally. >> it makes what i'm about to describe even more surreal and bizarre. who i'm looking at right now is willie robertson. one of the stars of "duck dynasty." and he is here as a guest. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. you're discussion one of the stars of "duck dynasty" but do i have the vice president and the senate majority leader harry reid. vice president biden, good to see you. leader reid, how are you? good to see you, sir. mr. durbin, how are you doing? good to see you. mr. bennett. we have all the senators coming in now. now you know we're getting serious. supreme court justices, members of the senate. things are getting serious here. dana, i'm sorry, you were talking about one of the stars of "duck dynasty". >> i'm emphasizing this not because i think it's necessarily important but because i

elena kagan you saw there and you saw some of the members of the joint chiefs of staff warmly received by the president as well. a lot of those members were very excited. there he is. the vice president with the speaker. they've got a little protocol. let's listen in. >> members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the united states. >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. mr. speaker, mr. vice president, members of congress, my fellow americans, today in america a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it and did her part to lift america's graduation rate to its highest levels in more than three decades. an entrepreneur flipped on the lights in her tech start-up and did her part to add to the more than 8 million new jobs our businesses have created over the past four years. an auto worker fine tuned some of the best, most fuel-efficient cars in the world and did his part to help america wean itself off foreign oil. a farmer prepared for the spring after the strongest

. >> elena kagan, steven breyer. but it's not mat jort who sit with the other party. by and large the democrats sit on one side, and the republicans sit on the other. president greeting members of the joint chiefs of staff, the head of the military branches, as he makes his way up to the podium, the front of the house of representatives. >> ifill: you'd think maybe he's done this before. now comes the moment in which he makes his nirs address, and then the applause continues a little bit longer because that's the way they do it. >> woodruff: and the tradition has it that the president-- if i thought we could hear, i'd stop talking. if the president gives the speaker a copy of his remarks, one year, when bill clinton was president, he handed a copy to the then-republican speaker, and there was nothing. all that was in it was a line about "the joke's on you." and i'm resigning as president. >> ifill: michele obama. >> woodruff: i don't think president obama is going to do that tonight. >> members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to