felon in possession, we have had those statutes forever.your rationale, saying that the second amendment is special and somehow the government's reach in the second amendment under the commerce clause is not as great as it would be in non- second amendment cases. ok. there's nothing in the felon in possession statute requires anything under interstate commerce. it is just a felon in possession. that applies even in your own home. how do you distinguish the felon in possession statute from the commerce statute? >> except for homemade weapons, all guns have to come in through interstate commerce. the felon in possession case, that has been denied a number of times. that is strictly a second amendment issue. the homemade machine-gun for someone not prohibited, that is not only a second amendment issue, but a commerce clause issue. >> we have taken you over. we will get a -- will make sure you have a chance to respond. >> good morning, your honors. >> could you keep your voice up, please? >> mr. henry was found in violation of section 922.0 for

as a felon, you have violated the rights of other citizens.the way, criminals not being able to vote goes back to romans and the greeks. >> i get it. but in most states, as you well know, in the united states, that's not the way it is handled. now there are just handful of states that do not allow you to come back and immediately re-enter -- i'm not for felons but if you paid your debt to society we have to let you walk out and re-establish your ties to the community. eugene robinson, where am i wrong in all of this? >> you are right. look, why -- why do we have prisons? we have -- we have prisons and prison sentences to punish people for the crimes they committed. and -- so if you committed a felony, you should go to jail. and you should -- you should pay your debt to society. once you paid that debt, it is paid. and -- i do not believe and will never believe that you should give up your citizenship and your rights as a citizen because of a crime that you have already paid your debt to society for. >> eugene, i have said that -- i don't belie

president come out and do nothing to walk back the accusation that he is a felon.t is shocking to me and i think your question is the right one. i think that at some point, americans don't tend to fall for class warfare tactics all that well. they don't turn out well in national politics, and i think that -- i would call it a desperate effort by the president to avoid talking about the economy. i think it very well may backfire on him. >> jamie: that's my next question. here's a statement from a romney spokesperson. calling the accusations regarding bane primarily, but goes further than that, the president in his campaign, dishonest, totally unsubstantiat unsubstantiated. and, attacks meant to smear the reputation of his oenlt. now, the president has a mandate for americans to buy health insurance, and, is planning to raise taxes and many say it will lose jobs and is a job killer and the question is, is it just a distraction because those are things the president wants to avoid? >> oh, absolutely. the president -- president obama is willing to talk about absolutely

of people who actually are felons they can't find a new job making it very difficult for them to earn a living despite having done the time they were sentence despite however big or small the crime and many other times they do get a job they pay taxes they remain good citizens and yet they're still not able to take part in the most basic part of being an american being able to vote and this is becoming more and more widespread there's a new study that just came out that shows a record number of felons five point eight five million are not able to vote and of those four million of them have already been released from prison now all of those the majority reside in six southern states alabama florida kentucky mississippi tennessee and virginia more than three million people are banned from the rolls now some of these states as we know are longtime red states but florida and virginia both went to president obama in two thousand and eight and will be extreme battleground states in two thousand and twelve and let's be honest folks when felons or people on parole or the target of anything we

if we deal with addiction it makes no sense to turn an addict into a felon. [applause] >> chief, you've been committed to evidence-based practices in your administration of the adult probation department. to what extent does that inform your approach when you look at senator leno's measure and deciding whether or not to support it? >> my view is not only from evidence-based practices but also from spending almost 30 years working in the california prison system, managing prisons, working in prisons, performing oversight, and what i know and what i can definitively say after 30 years is that prison does not address more change behavior. in fact, it actually, for those who do have addictions and illnesses, in fact it actually makes them worse. it's like sending individuals that have a sickness to criminal camp, they learn how to be better criminals but still don't get their addiction addressed. and the research out there tells us that incapacitation, period, does not change behavior. it also tells us that basically what changes behavior is approximate 200 hours

stiff, but felon he is not.doesn't have a skeleton in his closet, he doesn't have a closet. he is as clean as they come. so when they accuse him of deliberately lying to the sikh and committing a felony, they are then are the row actively questioning all the series -- retroactively questioning the series of charges, jumping the shark. that is a mistake. there is not, you know, evidence on both sides on this. it's all on one side. what happened is he left bain capital suddenly. offered job and nine days later accepted it. bain is incredibly complex. normally you have years to unwind a guy stepping down with all of the associated investment. he leaves in nine days. his own company, as you quoted which included obama contributors said he had no involvement whatsoever, unequivocally ever after that day. there is not a shred of evidence he was involved in anything after that date. he signed documents because officially or at least technically he had to unwind his position. that is all that you see in the sikh documen

when you say that mitt romney is a liar or a felon that is pretty tough. megyn: a sense of unity. and it sort of goes back to what he ran on in 2008 -- well it was from his 2004 convention speech. he also ran on it in 08 talking about how we are not the red states, the blue states we are the united states of tpherbg. can he now after he has america. can he now after a record full of contention the past three years, if whether you want to blame the president or republicans in the house since 10 he had democratically controlled congress for the first two years, in any event can he recapture that despite three and a half years of being president that people are going to judge him by. >> the hope is he can dump all this napon on mitt romney now, and make him seem unfit for the presidency and really burn him down. after the convention in charlotte he'll pivot back to a hope and change light to take the motives from 2008 and try to remind voters especially women in the suburbs of the good feelings that they had about him and that positive message hoping that the damage that he has done

we are still going after felons and serious law breakers.s acquitted, does he qualify? and even if he does qualified, under the obama administration's definition does the city refer him? >> the city probably won't refer him. but he's already on i.c.e.'s radar. even if he posted it, i.c.e. would take over from there and he will not get out of the cell. he's on the radar. they will do with him what they want. the sanctuary city doesn't have to refer hip at this point. megyn: how much time is he facing in prison? >> up to 10 years. megyn: is that realistic give and prior conviction of dui plus driving without a valid license. those are the only criminal violations we know of. >> at some point immigration authorities will step in and deport him. if he's deported he's out of the country 10 years after he served his time. megyn: this poor girl. this family. they emigrated from ethiopia. the mother just mustered the strength to go to the place where she was killed and placed her hands on the soil. she says it's not about illegal immigration. it's a

the felons are the color of teeth. researchers found that children were likely have behavioral problems. >>> at risk of depression or other psychological issues. >>> it is used in plastics and canned goods it is banned from baby bottles and sit teacups. the researchers stress they did not measure bp levels in children unclear if the chemical is responsible for the problem. >>> i would not avoid dental fillings because of this one risk >>> dentist says there are bp a free options, which is what her practice offers. >>> we come here so the kids have safe products >>> dentists say the best advice is to prescience of regular day so felons are never needed. >>> another ted don't put your child to bed with a baby bottle going to sleep will expose the baby's teeth to excess of sugars. they can affect the health of your baby's permanent teeth. >>> no sugar no candy. will be right back. >>> i'm dana king here's what we're working on 4 6:00 news state parks are on the chopping block officials were cashing in how they're accused

>> i haven't seen anyone accused of possibly being a felon. i would have never considered any opponent of mine saying they could be a felon, but that's part of the campaign. >> let me throw it back at you here. >> sure. let me just make one additional point if i could. new making fun of mitt romney singing america the beautiful. now, is that really the right thing to do? i hope that every american at every event will sing america the beautiful, where people do that. so now you ridicule somebody because they sing that off key? that's this chicago style politics. >> go ahead. >> having dispute that, and i don't dispute what you said at all, and many people wouldn't, is romney a victim of his own savagery. when i was running around the political race, whether he admits to knowing it or not, he was absolutely brutalizing his opponents. certainly far more than anything i have seen in british politics. i was stunned. i'm not sure you can do that campaign and then stand back and go, oh, come on, you're not being fair to me, can you? >> well your poin

quite often end up as felons in jail.y havewo governors in jail right now. this is the president that cut a very snarky real estate deal with tony resco who is now in prison who tried to extort money on a political basis. why would the president want to give people an opportunity to raise his wallowing with felons in the past by raising that question? i have no idea. i think it's a silly move on this part and i think it's going to come back and bite him. megyn: governor romney has come out this weekend more on the offense to president obama trying to get the message focused on his opponent. we had a segment half an hour ago talking about how turned off the american people are by this. >> the governor would rather talk about the other. megyn: what position are they? governor romney, it's not like he's ward cleaver with completely clean hands, they both do it. they both do it. i get the emails from my viewers, they are sick of it, they are sick of this kind of back and forth. >> with all due respect and i appreciate you try

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the obama campaign says mitt romney either misrepresented his time at bain or committed a felon. tonight i'll let you make the call. let's get to work. >> they say in politics if you're responding you're losing. >> a bombshell report claims mitt romney is misleading americans about his time at bain capital. bengi sarli is here today. the obama campaign says romney may have broken the law. and there are brand new allegations of outsourcing. sherrod brown, senator from ohio, tells the story. >> they're bringing people in that aren't active. >> the romney campaign denied flying in supporters to the naacp's convention to support mitt romney in his speech. >> eliminate every nonessential program i can find. that includes obama care. [ booing ] >> tonight a prominent african-american republican is contradicting the campaign, and

>> i've not seen anyone accused of possibly being a felon. i would have never considered any opponent of mine saying they could be a felon but that's just part of the tenor of the campaign. now, i -- >> let me throw it back to you though on that point. >> sure, but let me finish with one additional point if i could. now they've run an ad making fun of mitt romney singing "america the beautiful." now, is that really -- is that really the right thing to do? i hope that every american at every event will sing "america the beautiful" where people do that. so now you ridicule somebody because they sing that off key? that's this chicago-style politics. go ahead. >> having said that, and i don't dispute what you said at all, and many people wouldn't, isn't mitt romney a victim of his own savagery? i mean, when i was running around the republican race, he was using this to absolutely brutalize his opponent. the most negative stuff i've ever seen. certainly far more negative than anything i've seen in british politics. i was stunned. i'm not sure you

matt rhodes is calling on obama to apologize for calling the gop nominee a felon. this is a very heated story. think is only going to heat up this summer as the obama campaign zeros in on bain capital. >> as the employment numbers drop, unemployment goes up, the economy gets worse and they get more desperate. thank you, buddy. we have with us howard dean, tony fratto, former bush press secretary. if they threw all that stuff at you and questioned your medical credentials, wouldn't you be furious at that? >> let's decide what they nearly did they. they didn't say mitt romney was a felon. they said misrepresenting yourself to the s.e.c. is a felony. mitt romney signed papers that were filed with the s.e.c. in 2002, three years after he said he left bain that, said he was the ceo and the chairman. and was 100% owner of bain. that's what it said in the s.e.c. filing. it seems to me a reasonable person would suspect the ceo was running the company. we know he was the ceo and not running the company. >> in name only. >> it's a hard case to make here. >> read the prospect