should stay in place. how would they decide that? they re first going to talk about standing. it s a legal concept. do the states have the right to sue? that may take up most of the hour of the argument. if the states can t bring this lawsuit then we never reach the constitutional question. does washington, minnesota have to say that we as a state and states have been irreparably harmed? that s a high bar for them to prove. usually it s just individuals who would have standing. how difficult will this be for them? we ll have to wait and see what the court thinks. their argument kind of rests on this idea that, look, they have a number of public universities and medical students and faculty who are abroad or want to travel back and forth between the u.s. and home. and so their tax revenue is affected if they are prevented from coming in the u.s. we ll have to see whether that stands up for the 9th circuit. it was interest with the attorney general of virginia on with us the la
strategy and plan here. john, let s talk about a candidate who doesn t have an organization on the ground but is doing well in the polls, that s joe biden not even in the race gaining ground on clinton. polls showing in part because he has a quality that voters don t appear to see in clinton, tha s honesty, sincerity. does the democratic party need joe biden to run? are they getting nervous with clinton that they want biden as plan b? plan b is what joe biden is for the democratic party. in any normal year the vice president of the united states running to succeed a two-term president would be the favorite to win a party s nomination. that s not the case for biden. people thought clinton would be the strong front runner but democrats have to worry about the question whether hillary clinton might i m ploid and if she does that, they need
california law, not the courts but california law at the time as a matter of conscience. kim davis says she s defying the court in this case as a matter of conscience. isn t there an equivalent there? no, the law is settled or constitutional da democracy. she s an agent of the state, the constitution has been settled, the constitutional question. what we did in 2004 wasn t settled until the california supreme court ultimately adjudicat adjudicated. when they did, we stopped and that s the difference between the two cases and mike huckabee is simply blantley wrong on the facts and law. kentucky has something many viewers might not be aware of, the rfra which states that it requires government agencies to
will last? it s not easy to up stage two presidential candidates, yeah, that s what kim davis did simply by walking out the door of that detention center, and now tonight, she s at home with her husband and clearly, trying to recover from everything that she has seen and been through but the question remains, what will she do when she shows up back on the job and there could be a lot of pressure on her because you see, kim davis is not just a clerk anymore, she s a cause for religious freedom. jim? no question that cause very much part of the 2016 race. martin savidge in kentucky. outfront gavin issued same sex licenses when he was san francisco s mayor this year
no question. brian stelter in new york. joining me now is katrina pierson and mike shields, former chief of staff for the rnc that worked in the bush administration. mike, i d like to start with you. this is a big night for jeb bush. the premiere of stephen colbert, is this a risky way to turn around a low energy image trump has been successfully promoting? no, i don t think so. it s a good strategy and really shows that what jeb has been doing recently has worked. he started off as what was considered to be the front runner by everyone in the campaign and we saw the trump surge and bush wanted to take him on. . media loves a fight. they decided we ll fight donald trump and show we really are someone that s a leader in the campaign and i think being the first guest on colbert s first show i think is a sign that that s kind of worked and he s out in front of the republican pact and that s a good sign for him. to be fair, you say it works. that s certainly not reflected in the po