joining us uc hastings law professor rory little. james taylor, university of san francisco political scientists. and marisa lagos. senate gop leaders finally unveiled their health care bill yesterday. what are some of the key provisions? >> it's not as different from the house bill as a lot of folks expected. we're still seeing these massive repeals of the tax hikes that funded obamacare on the rich. we're seeing deep, deep cuts to medicaid. in california that's the medi-cal program. the house version would have been that faster, so the senate version is a slower rollout. but it would still slash payments and put a cap on that really kind of making it not an entitlement program anymore. it would allow states to drop what is considered essential benefits under obamacare, like maternity care, mental health care, emergency services. it does keep more subsidies for the exchange than the house bill. but i think on balance, this is a very draconian change. would be for a lot of americans. >> how does this affect california? because califo

. >> reporter: uc hastings law professor rory little is a former federal prosecutor. he said the president could be investigated for things other than firing the fbi director. >> we know that hacking costs money. they are going to have to follow the money, and that is mueller's focus, is the russian hacking. he is following the money. a lot of the money in russia may tie back to the white house and the white house interests. >> reporter: special counsel mueller hired 13 lawyers, including one with an interesting specialty. >> one of his hires to this office, 13 lawyers, is international money-laundering prosecutor. >> reporter: but he says mueller will probably have to hire even more lawyers. >> in a national election, they say some 30 states may have been hacked into. that's a massive enterprise to undertake to investigate that. 13 lawyers is not enough. the fbi is presumably involved. it's a sprawling investigation. >> reporter: in the newsroom, melissa caen. >>> breaking news out of london where a vehicle has hit a group of pedestrians leaving several casualties. t

. >>> joinings now is uc hastings law professor david levine. we've seen a legal challenge from the state of hawaii. what are they challenging. >> reporter: i got a motion. what they are challenging is the position that the state department has chosen for close family developings ships. and -- relationships. what the state of hawaii is pointing to is why are step sisters included but why not grandparents or uncles. the state of hawaii has filed the case with the federal judge who officially held the case in honolulu to say that this new set of regulations needs to be broadened and certainly needs to be clarified. >> reporter: what affect could this have, could they stop the travel ban once again. >> reporter: it wouldn't stop t but potentially it would broaden the categories of people who could come in under this idea of close family relationships. >> take us back to monday, the u.s. supreme court, it weighed in, it is going to hear the full days in october, but on monday they had several options. they could have left the stay in place. it kind

. >>> joining us now on the set uc hastings law professor, we heard them calling this a huge victory for trump. do you agree? >> let's go a little when. a happy dance but a short one. the reason is what the court did agree to hear the case and did agree to lift the injunction , the reality is that for most people who might want to come to the united states, the span, the current order should not affect them. >> do feel there is a gray area? there's been many discussions about if you have a bona fide relationship or connection with the us, what about visiting a friend attending a wedding. what happens? >> we don't know. a bona fide relationship, it something new to us as of a few hours ago. it seems like it's a bit of a compromise to have enough justices to come to some agreement in the case. there relatively clear cases. let's say for example in the hawaii case, a man wanted to bring his mother-in-law, that clearly applies. let's say you're a student who has been admitted to the university of washington or hawaii, clearly you are fine. have been invited to lecture. but if you want to

and for more on the topic i'm joined by a professor from uc hastings college of law. everyone seems to get up in arms about the death penalty, for or against, but why does it take so long for these cases to work their way through the courts? >> basically what drags is for the most part the appellate and habe i couldn't and -- the appellate and a habeas corpus process. sometimes new evidence comes up, sometimes there's new cases coming up. there's always new creative arguments coming up, some pertaining to the chemicals, some of them pertaining to the individual features of the case. so yes, there are delays. >> can we get a case resoifnld five years? nobody wants an innocent person put to death. five years long enough? the voters of california seem to think. so. >> 51% of the voters in california seem to think. so the folks that vote don't always know the particular technicalities. the issue is if you try to speed things up you are compromising the quality of the process. so essential capping these cases for five years might deprive people of discovering new evidence.

first we begin here at uc hastings college of law to talk about the week's big political and legal newssterday senate republicans released their long-awaited health care reform bill. and earlier in the week the u.s. supreme court decided to hear a case on political redistricting. a closely watched congressional race in georgia has september r -- september ripples throughout the country exposing

first we begin here at uc hastings college of law to talk about the week's big political and legal news. yesterday senate republicans released their long-awaited health care reform bill. and earlier in the week the u.s. supreme court decided to hear a case on political redistricting. a closely watched congressional race in georgia has september r -- september ripples throughout the country exposing

law and senior advisor. >> now joining us to pull this together or look at what's next is roy little. a former prosecutor himself and uc hayings hastings professor. >> i have known them for a long time. they are career prosecutors. they are not political. they have worked for both sides of the aisle, democrats and presidents and they have been doing it for 20, 30 years. they are not publicity hounds, believe it or not, because in today's world the social media makes everybody public. but they don't seek publicity. mueller doesn't leak. they are concentrating on what they have to do in their jobs. >> let's look at what they have to do in their jobs. it's around about vladimir putin and interference in the u.s. elections. that's the starting point? >> right. >> what are they look at? they are not going to interview him. where do we go with it? >> we are pretty sure that the russians were hacking in. somebody in russia was hacking into a lot of electoral systems. not just the federal, but the state. and what we know is that hacking costs money. so they are gonna have to follow the money. that is mueller's focus. a lot of the money in russ