russell pierce co-wrote the law and wanted to join in and be a party to his state's appeal of the rulingaid no way. co-sit in the audience not in the well of the court. what now? he joins us live. good evening. did you want to argue the case and get a chance to go into the well of the court and argue the appeal? >> well, greta, yes i do. first of all, nobody knows this issue, i wrote the bill. i wrote the bill,. in is critical. this is inherent authority of the states. not delegated authority. states have a constitutional duty to their citizens to enforce the law. if congress had wanted to preempt the states they would have used [ unintelligible ] never have done that. in the in they've codified that. five years ago the united states supreme court in a 9-0 landmark decision made it clear. i think those arguments ought to be made. nobody knows this better than me. >> greta: you got to sell that to your governor. the problem is, there is going to be one lawyer arguing it. you gotta convince the governor to let you do it. if you want to argue it. that's who you gotta convince, she's the cli