. >> our "newsmakers" guest is ken cuccinelli poverty -- and virginia's attorney general. -- is ken cuccinelli, va.'s attorney general. thank you for being with us. let me introduce our reporters. we're going to start with health care. i will ask, if you would not mind, to give our viewers a short-hand view of your constitutional issues with the health care law. >> this under peace issue is the individual mandate, the requirement and the federal -- the centerpiece issue is the individual mandate, the requirement in the federal had bill thati-- federal health cae every individual have health insurance. is congress power to resonate -- does congress' power to regulate interstate commerce allow them to compel you to buy health insurance? there has never been the case before like this in the over 200 years since the constitution was passed. the federal government has never compelled people to buy a product under the guise of regulating commerce. that is the centerpiece of the case. there is another constitutional issue, the tax argument. it rose after the case began. we fire of our case on march 3

ken cuccinelli. because he has been so involved in the health care law, he has suggested that, in the race between mr. santorum and mr. romney, people will have to make the decision about how important health care law is to them. >> he basically said, if we go with romney, you're giving that issue away to president obama. he did that without endorsing santorum and without telling us who he supports. >> he also made a couple of how -- couple of critical comments on the health care debate. may the point of how critical the health care vote was to virginia voters. how important is health care to voters this time around? >> the polls consistently show that it is about jobs and the economy. the public remains stubbornly divided on this issue. that said, it continues to dominate the news. we have the contraception-coverage rule. that took a lot of attention and oxygen now of the discussion -- out of the discussion. was that working for the republicans or democrats? it has this way of warning itself into th

. >> finally virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli has made his quest for higher office official filingthat they board yesterday to establish a campaign committee for his gubernatorial run. so far his only challenger is former dnc chairman. >> making news in america's money -- bank of america tests in foreclosure program. mitt romney's loss is etch a sketch's gain. >> topping america's money, a possible takeover of american airlines. bloomberg reporting u.s. airways had talked to creditors of the bankrupt carrier about a merger and a reception has been positive. bank of america is testing a program involving foreclosed properties that would offer customers an option to remain in their homes and rent -- they would sign over the deed and the bank would forgive debt. agassi groups -- advocacy groups say women pay much more for health insurance while getting less. plants can cost as much as 80% more for the same coverage. only a few states ban so-called gender rating. mitt romney's opponents are not the only ones profiting from the etch a sketch comments -- the company says it is glad to se

according to the republic attorney general of virginia ken cuccinelli. he has not endorsed anyone in the g.o.p. primary battle brought one of the first lawsuits against the president's reform and says nominating the author of romney care will back fire. >> it doesn't have the power politically to motivate people to vote or volunteer that someone who has been a permanent opponent does. i mean, you are effectively giving that issue up if you select romney as the nominee. we may be doing that. >> for two years the white house has said the more the public learns about the law the more they like it. why are the poll numbers so bad? he blames it on attack ads. they still believe this is about messaging, not the subject of the law. >> >> bret: health care is one of the issues. and central illinois is the battleground tonight as republic candidates prepare for a huge primary in that state tuesday. both mitt romney and rick santorum are holding events this evening downstate. correspondent steve brown sets the stage from chicago. >> thank you puerto rico. >> mitt

states involved in this lawsuit speaking with reporters including virginia's attorney general ken cuccinelli. lot of people were outside the supreme court all morning trying to get inside. some were lucky and others were. were with historical legal arguments under way, hundreds of people remain camped outside the supreme court waiting to see if they will be one of the few to get a red ticket for a seat inside. >> very disappointed if. >> became all the way from new york, but missed being one of 60 to get a ticket. >> that's why i'm here because i want to be a part of what's going on in our country. >> 26 states including virginia are part of this monumental lawsuit against the federal government. they are challenging the health care reform act signed by the president two years ago, saying it is unconstitutional. at the center of this debate is whether or not it is legal for the government to require citizens to buy health care. many say it violates basic freedoms. if it is a health care provision that violates our conscience then we simply cannot accept that. >> but the obama administration

. >>> the virginia supreme court ruled today attorney general ken cuccinelli has no authority to demand records from a former university of virginia climate researcher. cuccinelli, a global warming skeptic, wanted copies of michael mann's e-mails. the republican lawmaker said he was investigates whether mann manipulated data to get federal grants for his research. cuccinelli appealed to the supreme court after another judge didn't address him. >>> john leopold has been indicted, run run county director. he's been charged with four counts of misconduct in office and one count of fraudulent misappropriation. among the allegations, that leopold had his executive protection squad wait while he had sex with a county employee in parking lots. he also allegedly had them remove political signs of opponents. the 69-year-old lee pole said he will vigorously fight -- leopold said he will vigorously fight all the charges. >>> from law student to white hot media spotlight rush limbaugh called her some horrible names, but today president obama and the president of catholic university are rushing to t

doug gansler and ken cuccinelli join us tonight at 11:00. >>> outrage over the trayvon martin shooting has taken a scary turn for a florida family. elaine and david mclean say director spike lee mistakenly tweeted their address and said it was george zimmerman's. zimmerman is the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed the 17-year-old martin last month. lee is not responding to this report tonight. >>> prince george's county council member karen toles going to court despite her citation for reckless driving. toles was caught going more than 100 miles per hour on the beltway in a county owned vehicle last month. she was initially cited for unsafe lane change and given a warning for speed, put police reviewed the case and cited toles for reckless driving. her trial is set for next month. >>> coming up later on 9 news now at 7:00 a former tsa agent is grounded for allegedly operating a prostitution ring out of a silver spring hotel. those stories coming up at 7:00 on 9 news now. >>> still to come in this half hour the nation is knocking on the door of a $4 average at the pump, what

. >>> virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli will run for governor in 2013. the attorney filed yesterday to run. he wants to continue the work he started to strengthen the economy and promote smaller governments. >>> a budget proposal debate is brewing in the maryland house of delegates. it calls for an increase to the state's income tax. they scrapped a plan to tax people making $500,000 a year or more at the highest rate possible. under the house plan, people making $100,000 or less would not see a tax increase. once the house passes is budget plan, it then moves to the senate. >>> here's a look at some of the other things making news now. the official cause of whitney houston's death is drowning. but the los angeles coroner says heart disease and cocaine contributed to the singer's death. houston was found in the bathtub of her hotel room in beverly hills last month. >>> today, pope benedict xvi arrives in mexico. the pope says his goal is to bring mexican catholics back to the church. mexico has one of the largest catholic populations in the world but it'

book but i've also been talking quite a bit about this recent decision that you allude to so ken cuccinelli the attorney general of virginia. sort of taking a page out of the playbook that has been used against climate scientists now for well over a decade in an effort to try to discredit me and other scientists and climate science itself tried to sue the university of virginia. to turn over all of its e-mails and private correspondence is from my time as a faculty member there with thirty nine other scientists around the world and it was pretty clear that what he was hoping to do was to do what climate change deniers have been trying to do to us for more than a decade try to find words and phrases that we've used and take them out of context and twist them to make it sound like you know the science has been rigged like you know climate change is the elaborate hoax that james inhofe claims it to be and so what they did was to what we did was to use what's called a civil investigative command basically a superior to demand from the university all of my e-mails based on this law that allows h

>> virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli is running for governor. republican said yesterday that he filed the necessary paperwork with the state board of elections and the new wants to continue to strengthen the economy, preserve citizen liberty, and promote smaller more efficient state government. the louisiana gop primary is tomorrow. rick santorum yesterday and again compared mitt romney to an etch a sketch. he was referencing never marked by a romney advisor if that everything changes for the fall campaign almost like an etch a sketch. romney is picking up more support. south carolina senator jim demint says he's excited about the possibility of romney becoming the nominee and is considered a scott-- and jim demint is considered the godfather of the tea party movement. yesterday president obama accused congress of playing politics. the president leaves tonight for a trip to south korea. >> some people may have made money off the etch a sketch comment. the company that makes the point profited. on wednesday the company's stock rose from $4 to nea

." >> ken cuccinelli discussing his date's lawsuit going before the supreme court, challenging the affordable health care act -- >> justice roberts, some people look at this the week before the federal government filed a motion to dismiss as a harbinger of doom for our side. i do not see it that way. despite the broad language of the, scott case, which was necessary, the very last paragraph brings a broad language through a thin funnel and the federal government cannot get this bill through the funnel. if that is a requirement for justice roberts, i am confident that -- there has not been enough time for us to really assess how he -- host: this is necessary and proper? >> you can see the entire interview on "newsmakers" sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on c-span. it is available online at c- span.org. >> president obama spoke at a campaign fund-raiser in his hometown of chicago yesterday. it was the first of two fundraisers the president attended in chicago. he then flew to atlanta for three more. this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> hello, chicago. thank you. thank you so much. thank

this week's guest, attorney general ken cuccinelli. then at 10:30 actor and activist george clooney's testimony about the humanitarian crisis in southern sudan. here's a look at guests coming up on "washington journal." at 7:45, susan if a rich yo and npr's ken ruden join us to talk about the republican presidential race and president obama's campaign documentary released this last week. then overseas for the latest developments on the war on afghanistan. at 9:15

. >>> attorney general ken cuccinelli is running for governor in virginia.led paperwork with the state board of ed yesterday and formally established a campaign committee. the republican says he is running for governor to continue the work he has done as attorney general and as state senator and says that work includes strengthening the state appear economy and promoting smaller, more efficient government. >>> coming up next, we'll go live to fox business network in new york. what a new study says about coworkers who use lets sea a some colorful language. >> that is a nice -- let's say some colorful language. >> that is i nice sort of pc way to say it. >>> $1 could turn into $ 290 million for a luck you winner tonight or winners. the megamillions jackpot is closing in on $300 million. we're back in just a moment. a  >> it's our turn. >> it is!  >>> maybe you've got a coworker who isn't afraid to use a few four-letter words now and thenen a new study says it could be a good thing. we'll have more on that coming up in a minut

. >>> ken cuccinelli will run for governor in virginia next year.ly filed to create a campaign committee. >>> alex ovechkin scored the 33ed goal of the season last night but the caps fell to the flyers in a shootout. the final 2-1. d.c. picks up a point though in the standings. the caps host the jets tonight. >>> and time now the reveal the answer to today's question of the day, the question was -- >> the answer is b., vacuuming. hopefully they don't have dogs because that would be hair everywhere. we'll have one more check on -- one more check on traffic and weather right here on 9news now. stay with us. >>> we've got some patchy dense fog out there. dense fog advisory north until 10:00 a.m. but partly to mostly sunny, low 80s, scattered showers and some storms over the weekend. 70s saturday. 64 sunday and sunnened monday. beverly? >>> one problem right after another. we resolve one and we have another one howard. connecticut avenue has been reopened into chevy chase. that's the good news, south from the beltway you'll pass 410 and chevy chase circ

and of course that's maryland's attorney general and followed by virginia's attorney general ken cuccinelli. the stand your ground law in florida allows you to fatally shoot someone for instance in this case george zimmerman said he felt threatened and that's why he pulled the trigger and shot and killed trayvon martin. however we know police said during zimmerman's phone call, his 911 call the police, we know the police officer told zimmerman not to follow that 17- year-old. however, he continued to pursue and eventually shoot and kill trayvon martin. back to you andrea? >> all right, delia goncalves with that update from our satellite center. >>> an overnight chase and crash sent at least one prince george's county police officer to the hospital. around 1:00 a.m. in chillum police spotted a car that had been connected to an earlier carjacking. authorities say the driver of that car rammed the police cruiser that was trying to stop him at eastern avenue and rigs road. two officers were inside the cruiser. the suspect's vehicle was found in northeast d.c. but the suspect remains on the loos

. >>> ken cuccinelli will run for governor in virginia next year. the republican attorney general officially filed papers thursday to create a campaign committee. he's running continue the work of strengthening virginia's economy, preserving liberty and promoting smaller governments. state law prevents current governor bob mcdonnell from seeking a second term. >>> the time right now is 5:06 and i am watching your money. it would be nice to end the week with a rally on wall street but so far today unfortunately red arrows around the world. europe and asia following wall street lower. here at home stocks dropped. instead investors were keying in on worries about possible economic slowdown in europe and china. checking the numbers, the dow stands just above 13,000, dropped 78 points in trading yesterday. the nasdaq was down by 12 and the s&p 500 was off by 10. >>> a democratic senator from connecticut is writing a bill that would stop the practice of employers asking job applicants for their facebook or other social media passwords. we told you about t

. >> you can see the entire interview with virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli on newsmakers, sunday morning at 10 eastern and sunday afternoon at six, on c-span. it's also available online at c-span.org. >> i was quite a radical as a young person. i was the one that thought that though we shall sing we shall overcome was when not a very, very effective way of gaining civil rights but i think i thought that more confrontation was needed. >> economics professor, columnist and substitute host for rush limbaugh, walter williams, on being a radical. >> i believe that a radical is any person who believes in personal libey

republic in ken cuccinelli attorney general in west virginia one of the first conservative republicans and file a lawsuit against the president's health care reform law. he told c-span yesterday that he basically thinks if mitt romney gets the nomination health care will essentially be off the table. take a listen. doesn't have the power politically to motivate people to vote or volunteer as someone who is an opponent does. you are effectively giving that issue up if you select romney as the nominee. we may be doing that. >> mitt romney has said many times what he did was on the state level and that he didn't want a mandate like the president pushed through on the federal level. but the bottom line is, as you saw from that clip, that even some republicans are now saying this issue could be neutralized for the president if mitt romney is the republic nominee, shep. >> shepard: ed henry at the white house. ed, thanks. so now this little guy in colorado, who says raising money for charity is better than having presents. he turned his ninth birthday party into a fundraiser for rescue helic

they heard from virginia attorney general and gubernatorial candidate ken cuccinelli, the first state attorney general to file suit against the individual mandate. he won that suit. it was overturned in an appeals court. and now stands before the high court. cuccinelli urged attendees to support anti-health care law candidates in the upcoming 2012 elections. >> the battle for the principles that are at stake in this case will go on in these elections this year. they will go on this year. and we've all heard the hyperbole in election, but i think i can make the case that you will never live through a more important election than this year. >> friday, house speaker nancy pelosi expressed confidence that the court will find the law to be constitutional and she criticized opponents of the law as extremists. >> there are people out there who oppose the bill who are antigovernment ideal logs who don't think the government should have a role in clean air, public safety, public education, public transportation, health care, medicare, social security, medicaid, any of it. and no, but they love

and as ken cuccinelli that, they can't make you buy insurance.he obama administration's main argument is that there is commerce in insurance so congress can pass this law. it doesn't have anything to do with tax. the government would be okay losing this argument. today they get out of today's argument, they get a ruling that the lawsuit can go forward. we'll get an answer. tomorrow they hope to get out of that argument a ruling. between the states. >> it is interesting that this is happening this week. this whole issue of mandate. you can't help but look at this and say, republicans don't like this plan so they're trying to find a way out of it. that's the argument here. >> the opponents. they're arguing in the '90s. it is interesting, this sort of, what mitt romney has been caught up in, of course. because -- he is now opposing nationally. but this is, in regard to this whole tax versus penalty fee question. this is one that i don't think the court wants to put off a decision on this. because the more it goes into effect, the more precedent is s

ken cuccinelli is running for governor of virginia. he filed the official paperwork yesterday.n a statement he called his current role as attorney general the most rewarding and fulfilling position he's ever held. cuccinelli says he wants to continue the work he's done so far. he will likely challenge the current lieutenant governor, bill bolling, for the gob nomination. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray is trying to make a case to bring the redskins training facility back into the district. he wants the team it build the facility near rfk stadium. he says it could boost the local economy. opponents say the land should be better used on housing or neighborhood improvements. >> the most important issue is, you know, how do we do something that we think will benefit the district of columbia, all eight wards, all 618,000 people. >> gray says there have been no official talks with the team, and it would be years before anything could happen. >>> maybe the redskins will be fortunate and get this guy, quarterback andrew luck pout an impressive show at his pro day at stanford. luck complete

>> we have booked ken cuccinelli this week because of his involvement to the challenge to health care. would you tell us your understanding of virginia's -- if they lose this, if the health care law is upheld by the court? >> he wanted it -- but that said, we would really face -- he did concede that. they are missing all kinds of deadlines to get federal funding, and they would have a very short window for this january 1 deadline to show they have made significant progress. >> the attorney general suggested they might revisit it. >> i'm not hearing that. the sense i have gotten from talking to people on both sides of the issue is more that the court sort of shows as many issues as it will ever address in a one-shot -- they are holding five and a half hours of meetings, and they have included all kinds of issues, some of which are more long shots than the individual mandate question, the implication being, they are going to take one bite of this apple, and they are not going to be coming back for more. >> thank you both for your opinions on national health care and politics. >> thank y

to the attorney general, ken kuch nelly discusses -- the attorney general ken cuccinelli. >> i don't see things as the harbinger of gloom. despite the language which was an unnecessary and lost our brod language down to a very thin tunnel. and -- so if that's a -- again, there hasn't been enough time since the comstock case before we establish how he is going to -- host: and the -- >> you can see the entire interview with virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli on news makers, sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern and sunday at 6:00 p.m. host: our guest, steven schooner of the george washington university. he is a law professor there. . mr. steven schooner we mentioned on this program. it's been mentioned by others. something called the davis-bacon act. if you had to boil it down in english, what is it? >> it's on government construction -- guest: the government is perceived to pay construction workers significantly more, another way is this is a classic pro union and protects the workers from being taken advantage of or being exploited. >> so you can put it into play november -- gue

ken cuccinelli weighed in on all of this. he is going to be next on " newsmakers." the health-care debate came up and he thinks the supreme court will decide -- [video clip] >> some people look at justice roberts joining the case as a harbinger of doom for our side. i do not see it that way. despite the broad language of the case, which is a necessary cost case, the very last paragraph of the majority opinion brings very broad language down for a very thin funnel. the federal government cannot get this bill through that final. if that is a requirement for justice robert, i am confident that -- there has not been enough time since the case for us to really assess how he will -- >> this is necessary and proper? host: you can watch our interview with ken cuccinelli, virginia's attorney general after this program at 10:00 eastern time it it re-years -- it it re-errors at 6:00 p.m. the commerce clause is key in six hours of oral arguments over three days later this month, the most on the court has been on the case in 45 years. the obama administration will try to convinc

also, virginia has a great up- and-coming governor, ken cuccinelli, who was here today. him in office. god bless you all. repeal. >> thank you, rita grace. next, it is herman cain. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> thank you. thank you. >> you guys are great. you know, -- >> you were railroaded. >> you are right. you know, the liberals and the establishment they thought that because of a few raindrops you were going to stay home today. i was in harrisburg this morning for a speech. i was in north carolina yesterday for a speech. i was in nevada last week. i have been across this country and traveling, wanting to get here to be here with you, to deliver a message to the people in washington, d.c., and to deliver a message to obama and his administration -- we the people are here. we want our freedom back. [applause] >> this is about freedom. we want our freedom back. that is what this is about. it is the freedom to choose our own doctors, the freedom to choose our own health providers, freedom to choose our own treatment, freedom to choose our o

one of those challenges was posed by ken cuccinelli and here is a portion of his recent appearance onnewsmakers" talking about the health care law. >> we start health care and i am going to ask you to give our viewers a sure hand view of our -- of your issues with a lot. >> this is coming before the supreme court at the end of the month. the centerpiece issue is the individual mandate, the requirement in the bill that every american by government approved a health insurance. this is done under the commerce clause and was commonly talked about as a 10th amendment case. it is a commerce clause case. the question there is, is the congress's power to regulate interstate commerce allowing them to compel you to purchase health insurance? and our side says no. the federal government says yes. there has ever been a case like this ever before in the over 200 years since the constitution was passed. the federal government has never compel people to buy a product under the guise of regulating commerce. that is the centerpiece of the case. there is another constitutional issue, that is the tax ar

how you can see the entire -- you can see the entire interview with ken cuccinelli on "newsmakers" on sunday. you can also find it on c- span.org. >> i was a radical as a young person. i was the one that got that we should saying we should overcome is not an effective way of gaining civil rights. and i thought that more confrontation was needed. economics professor walter williams on being a radical. >> i believe that a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical. i have always been a person who believes that people should not interfere with me. i should be able to do my own thing without -- so long as i did not violate the rights of other people. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q. and a.." >> nuclear regulatory chair testified yesterday on the recently approved rules to improve safety at the nation's 104 operating reactors. this is coming one year after the fukushima meltdown calling a nine point earthquake. plants have five years to comply with the new rules. and the environment committee

>> we have booked ken cuccinelli this week because of his involvement to the challenge to health care. would you tell us your understanding of virginia's -- if they lose this, if the health care law is upheld by the court? guest: he was more optimistic than some to form these exchanges. if it came to mit, he wanted virginia to run its own exchange and not let a federal person come in, which is not the case with a republican political leader. they would face scrambling. they're missing all kinds of deadlines to get federal funding and they would have a very short window to meet this january 1 deadline. host: the virginia tech to go it alone case did not get standing by the attorney general. fisher reporting suggests that is a possibility of revisiting it? guest: i am not hearing that. the sense i have gotten from talking to people on multiple sites of the issue -- the whole spectrum is more that the court shows as many issues as it was ever going to address in a one shot -- they are holding five and a half hours of uranus. it is fairly unusual. they have included all kinds of issues, s

one of those people is attorney general from virginia, ken cuccinelli! [cheers and applause] whoo!good afternoon. [applause] you know, that's exactly what it sounds like when i go in the "washington post." [laughter] all right, maybe not quite like that. not quite like that. you know, yesterday was the second anniversary of the president signing this bill. that's the bad news. the good news is yesterday was the 237th anniversary of patrick henry's give me liberty or give me death speech. [applause] and he gave that speech at st. john's church in richmond. that's in virginia, for some of you all -- [laughter] and then it was on broad street and richmond, and two years ago yesterday, 17 blocks west on the same street is where we filed the first lawsuit by any state that got the individual mandate declared unconstitutional. [applause] now, many of you will remember reading about that earthquake we had in virginia last august. we don't have a lot of those in virginia. that was right near montepelier. so obviously what had happen is james madison was turning over in his grave. [laughter

also, virginia has a great up- and-coming governor, ken cuccinelli, who was here today. get him in office. god bless you all. repeal. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> thank you, rita grace. next, it is herman cain. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> thank you. thank you. >> you guys are great. you know, -- >> you were railroaded. >> you are right. you know, the liberals and the establishment they thought that because of a few raindrops you were going to stay home today. i was in harrisburg this morning for a speech. i was in north carolina yesterday for a speech. i was in nevada last week. i have been across this country and traveling, wanting to get here to be here with you, to deliver a message to the people in washington, d.c., and to deliver a message to obama and his administration -- we the people are here. we want our freedom back. [applause] >> this is about freedom. we want our freedom back. that is what this is about. it is the freedom to choose our own