but he essentially said he thought it might strengthen the argument other tover the need fr health caree court was going to uphold the law and he said if the supreme court in his view does in fact do that, it will help kind of solidify the support, and the strength of this affordable health care act. do you agree with that potential? >> i do. and the thing is, this isn't just about the uninsured americans, this is about the insured americans as well. as i mentioned earlier, talking about lifetime caps. we'll no longer have to deal with these lifetime caps, or annual caps that if you're struck down with a life-altering disease or cancer, that your insurance company won't deny you. and these are insured americans. so this is -- health reform affects not only the uninsured but the insured as well. that's something that really needs to be emphasized. >> the issue is whether the legitimacy of the act. stupack believes that law is constitutional. of course, we'll begin to hear those arguments this week to see ultimately what will happen. ellena young, appreciate your time. >> thank you, fredr

when you look at the taliban today, how are they different today than they were a ar ago when you tover? re, whei was down in kandahar, kandahar province, kandahar city not long ago, i had a conversation with an afghan commander out of the afghan national security forces, and at the end of 2011, which was a pretty important year for the success of the campaign and not a particularly good year for the taliban, that commander said that, that year, this year, 2011, he said the taliban was the away team. so what's happened is in many respects where the taliban had been inside the polation and in insurgency, the ctic terrain is not physical terrain, necessarily. it's the human terrain. in many respects, the taliban have had difficulty sustaining themselves insided human terrain. because they've been rejected, frankly. the people do not want to go back to a taliban environment purpose they were on the fence fair while because they weren't sure how this would all turn out but as the ansf continued to build in their capabilityes, as local governments continued to gain traction, as economic oppo

that means is most of the construction activities for highways and bridges occurs in this country tover summer months and you do have concern that winter will arrive and a lot of states slow down their activity in the september-october time frame. so what that means is the federal program states are using that money to put that towards projects. then they have to go through a bidding process where they put out a plan for a road or bridge in the local community, a contractor will then submit a bid and that contractor is awarded to the lowest bidder. now, that takes time from that obligation, that initial obligation of that federal money so the longer you delay giving states an idea of how much money they will have from the federal government to obligate towards their programs, it means that they're going to delay that entire process and construction work will start on those projects much later than originally. so a delay of a couple of months actually shifts things beyond the construction season. so that money is not in the system, it's not being put to good use. those workers aren't get