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Guests: Monica Crowley and Alan Colmes
â??Shortly after the decision came down, Homeland Security announced that it is suspending its agreements with Arizona police over reporting illegal aliens found in the state. So while the Supreme Court upheld police officers' right to stop and question suspects regarding their immigration status, the feds won't act to deport these individuals unless the suspect already has a felony record, has previously been removed from the country, or is a recent border crosserâ?¦
â??Ironically, just 2 years ago the Obama Administration began ramping up the "Secure Communities" program which was started under Bush. The initiative meant that local law enforcement would send fingerprints to the Feds to check the immigrations status of suspects. Today, it's all for naught -- in reality Obama's no-deportation policy extends to everyone, not just those under-30â?¦
â??The difference between Obama in 2009 and today of course, is that he is fighting for reelection and needs Latinos to turn out in November.â??
Conservative Monica Crowley suggested the President is behaving in a rogue fashion to pander to a constituency he needs to win re-election. She argued that President Obama has chosen unilaterally to no longer enforce the immigration laws of the land, essentially making us a banana republic.
Liberal Alan Colmes countered that there have been more deportations under this President than any other previous president. In addition, he pointed to the Constitution reading that itâ??s the federal governmentâ??s role â?" not state governmentsâ?? â?" to enforce immigration law. |
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Guest: Alexis McGill Johnson, executive director of the American Values Institute
During a campaign speech at a New Hampshire high school, President Obama said voters can decide that instead of defunding Planned Parenthood, this should be a country where women make their own choices about their bodies.
Laura started the conversation by challenging whether it is the role of the President to invoke the so-called war on women while speaking to such a young audience. Ms. Johnson insisted that high school kids are having sex whether weâ??re talking to them about it or not. She defended the President, saying contraception is a huge part of womenâ??s health services and when we begin denying access through defunding, weâ??re compromising the health of American women.
Laura refuted the idea that women are being denied access to contraception just because the government doesnâ??t pay for it. |
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Guests: Dick Morris
President Obama is in Florida for yet another fundraiser. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney receives criticism that heâ??s not showing enough fire in his belly and is failing to capitalize on the Presidentâ??s political liabilities.
When Laura questioned whether Romney is being too timid on the campaign trail, Dick asserted that itâ??s his job to avoid being threatening or striking so as not to get in the way of Obama losing voters for himself. Dick claimed that itâ??s been a good month for Romney in the polls, so any criticism of the campaign heâ??s running is just nitpicking.
On the Latino vote, Dick said he believes picking Marco Rubio as VP would be the panacea for Mitt Romney. |
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Guests: Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
In a New York Times column this week, former President Jimmy Carter blasted the current administrationâ??s drone problem, as well as U.S. treatment of terror suspects.
Laura posited that Carter has long been a thorn in the side of Republican administrations, but for him to go after the Obama White House is taking it to a whole new level.
Lt. Col. Peters accused Carter of attacking the single program that is actually working to kill terrorists directly. |
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Guests: Lis Wiehl and Kimberly Guilfoyle
Attorney General Eric Holder faces a contempt vote for refusing to give Congressional investigators documents pertaining to the Fast & Furious gun-running scandal. Did the President overstep his legal authority by using executive privilege on this matter?
Lis explained that executive privilege can be invoked in cases of national security, but canâ??t be used to cover up a cover-up. Kimberly said executive privilege should be applied selectively and not in this case. She opined that refusal to comply with providing information in this instance makes it look like the administration has something to hide.
Switching gears, the legal ladies took a look at the guilty verdict against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, who faces 450 years behind bars on child sex abuse charges. His defense team plans to appeal, but all three women agreed the conviction will stand. |
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Guests: John Stossel
A new study by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse says 40 million Americans 12 and older have some sort of addiction problem. Does this mean the government needs to intervene with stricter regulations against drugs, nicotine and alcohol?
Stossel denied that the government can control addiction and said any rules to try to quash the problem only make it worse. He described CASA as a big government sort of organization that wants to control our lives and classifies most anything as addiction. |
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| At a fundraiser in Boston last night, President Obama made the mistake of messing with Red Sox fans. He thanked them for Kevin Youkilis, the longtime popular third baseman in Boston who was just traded to the Chicago White Sox. Viewers can decide if this makes the President a patriot or a pinhead. |
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