fascinating. anyone who s been to an emergency room is very familiar, of course, with being asked almost immediately for your insurance card and i.d., right? in arizona lawmakers want the hospital staff to also at that moment check for a patient s citizenship before they treat them. as you might imagine this is pretty controversial. keith yaskin of kfaz has more on this fiery debate. reporter: opponents of this bill say it will create a health care disaster. and a police state, trying to catch people while they re sick and they ask, who s going to decide what s an emergency? i think it would probably stop some people for coming in for health care and it would also create a moral and ethical dilemma for all health care institutions and providers. reporter: opponents of the bill held signs outside the state capitol, those opponents included a retired doctor and nurses. we are medical professionals, not immigration agents.
opposition to this flawed health care bill. what we re seeing right now is very interesting. they want to be able to have formal remarks because of time constraints right now they can t do so. actually on the floor of the house. they want to be able to insert some statements into the record so republicans are lining up man and woman, man and woman, making these statements. john king, fascinating what s going on right now because, you know, it happens all the time on the house floor. we re seeing this up close on such an important piece of legislation. what we re seeing now, wolf, is the pivot. it s clear the democratic leadership has the votes this is a policy debate, a huge policy issue. there will be back and forth about the specifics. maneuvering by the politician now is about the election year. the republicans lining up want to get a speech on the record to send it to supporters back home, send it to their fund raising community, the interest groups saying here s what i said to
relying on yemen s president to rat out the al-qaeda fighters hiding in that country who launched several attacks against the u.s. martha: fascinating what s going on. steve, thank you very much for the update, steve centanni in d.c. bill: to this news, a judge ordering the italian prime minister, silvio berlusconi to stand trial on charges related to a sex scandal. he s 74, he s a billionaire, accused of paying a 17 kwr-rl teenager for sex and then trying to cover it up. berlusconi denying any wrongdoing, set to go on trial the sixth of april, it will be one of four court trials berlusconi is facing in the coming weeks, and it s a big, big story happening today in europe, martha. martha: how about this? he won the straw poll at landmark conference of conservatives two-year in a row but will that stamp of approval give ron paul the boost he may need if he does decide to run and as a budget hawk, what does he think about the white house s proposal on the table for the budget of 2012