let me ask you this i can t. okay, i m high. this man is a pothead. now i know i am going to get nailed from the pro-pot people. saying you went out and got the dopeyest people you could find. was not hard to find. was not hard to find. no. most of them are just basically, middle intellect. they just want to get high. that s what the drug and intoxication world is. that was bill o reilly s pot special. he may be left of the anti-pot camp. 65% of the people over the age of 65 are against legalization. so are 59% of republicans. and by the way, 53% of hispanics when you break it down. politics of pot have memorably changed as well from this when i was in england, i experimented with marijuana a time or two. and i didn t like it. and didn t inhale and never tried it again.
that prominent setting, people are asking, does that send the wrong message? i don t know who these people are. i saw those young men. i talked to those young men afterwards. all he did was remind them that he too knows what it is like to go through difficult times and to make bad choices. i look back at the white house and i think the president before him was arrested for a dui at 30. the president before that said he smoked pot but didn t inhale, whatever the heck that s supposed to mean. it is not as if the conversation of drug use in our presidents is brand new. the fact that he owned to it and incorporated that in the overall conversation of how to pull yourself out of negative behavior was an important step. marco rubio, the senator from florida, not talking about this event but a couple of weeks ago was talking about whether he smoked marijuana. he said, if i tell you i haven t, you wouldn t believe me. if i tell you i did, kids will
tried it but didn t inhale there are no referenced partisan requirements in texas. but she voted in the republican primary at least three times. when i asked her about that, that was back in 1976 and following that. but i asked her about it, she said that was because she wanted to vote for her friend, the republican mayor who was subsequently running for congress. kay granger. she also said that she wanted to vote in the republican primary because there were judges that she wanted to have a say in who was going to be her judges. she is a lawyer. but, she also said that, you know, partisanship wasn t all that important to her at that time. and subsequently, she has emerged as the sort of progressive democratic star and i think some democrats might be surprised to know that she was a republican at one time. who changed your mind. in 2006 she was a republican why did she become a democrat? was there an issue? i think the seat was open. i don t know of any specific
jail more than whites. we ve been counter productive. many of you may be thinking, well, drugs don t concern me. reporter: but the president s stance marks a big change from nancy reg began s warning on drugs in the early 80s. when it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say no. or bill clinton s embarrassing admission in the 90ed. i didn t like it, didn t inhale and never tried it again. reporter: another sign that the nation is evolving. i think he s very much a president in flux on this. i don t think he feels comfortable coming down on the side either of we support legalization. this is the right way to go. or saying we re against it. reporter: further evidence of those mixed feelings, the president also warned in that new yorker interview says that legalizing marijuana could be a gate way. they point to other comments that the president still believes marijuana use is a bad
don t think we want to have kids consuming it or present it that way. jon: it was interesting bill clinton smoked it and didn t inhale and now we have a president who said i smoked it but don t do it. we ll see. jenna: routine traffic stop, a cell phone surge and life in prison? it could happen and it s all part of a new debate over cell phone searchs without a warrant. our legal panel weighs in. if you get pulled over, can the cops just look at your cell phone? a strong earthquake shakes new zealand, rattling billions and knocking out power to thousands. we ll show you pictures coming into the news room next. this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he s agreed to give it up. that s today? [ male announcer ] we ll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i ve got to take more pills. yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet?