could for eight years and did a lot of good things and passing the baton over, and don t be fearful, and keep faith, and move forward. that s what i expect to hear. jay, j.d., thank you very much for your perspectives and previewing this with us. nice to see both of you. thanks. back to chris. we have a really important and interesting situation going on. the president-elect is testing an anti-nepotism law by tapping his son-in-law to be a senior white house adviser. what does the law say and not say about a west wing role? what is going to happen with conflicts of interest? very big question and we have a great panel for you ahead. your insurance company
people as possible. of course. why we have all kinds of rules and standards for hospitals and medical facilities to protect citizens. of course, what the proponents of the law argue. the only reason we have the rules to make abortions safer. people who oppose the law say, no, no, no. while it may make them safer, the neglect effect make it more difficult to find a place that can do an abortion, therefore undue burden is achieved. not to make it better, how to make it harder. is it a legal issue? a complicated case. how about mary jane. marijuana making its way through ditch state legislatures. found fairly significant legal approval on the federal scale. what do you think we ll see there. as a criminal defense attorney i am grappling with this i feel in the trenches when it comes to the legality of marijuana, because we re in a bit of a crisis of federalism, because under federal law marijuana is still illegal. it s a scheduled drug. but when you get out to
can anything be done legally to save this dog? let s ask our experts joining us now for a fair and balanced debate is defense attorney eric guser and attorney lisa gia thank you so much for being with us, guys. thank you for having us. what do you think about this? legally what does the law say. just like we were talking before the camera shot, the law is son the owner s side but the judge is who is going to preside over this will has a right to deviate from what the will states because sometimes if something is unconscionable in a contract or a will, then the judge can say or the executor of the estate can say we don t want to do this. we want this dog to live and let s look at another option. lisa, the dog does not have the same rights as a human snk is what the law states? a dog doesn t have rights. we find it kind of unbelievable. i love dogs myself. i have dogs. they don t have rights. we buy and sell them.
i don t want to draw that parallel but it struck me. tell us what s going on. i drove into mexico to the places in mexico. if you are getting deported, you end up on the other side of the border in mexico. that s all the families with fathers. if you are an 18-year-old woman, those women you saw in that piece are 18 years old and they are there alone with a young, newborn child. well, at some point, we have to give them due process and say why are you here, what does the law say we can t just put them on the bus and send them back to mexico. they are not from mexico. they are from central america. what do we do with these people? so with the women and children, we are having a little more sympathy and we are processing, you know, they are applying for amnesty, saying they can t go home, so there are different standards. i didn t see any men in the greyhound station. if you go to the tucson, arizona greyhound station any day of the week, you will find 80, 90 families like this. but
thank you. thank you. ken, you ve been on both sides of the stand your ground law. but you think it s a bad law. explain why. well, absolutely. i m a former homicide prosecutor. i was a prosecutor for 16 years here in florida. and now i ve been a defense attorney for the last 12 years or so. and i use it for my clients. if my client needs me to use this law to try to win for the defense, of course i use the law. but it s a bad law for citizens of the state of florida. me and my family are citizens here, and i fear for my children with this law on the books. you know, i have to commend the sheriff of jacksonville. he is from a very conservative area, and he has the backbone now to realize the law he once supported, this stand your ground law, it really should be tweaked, as he said. and interestingly, the tweaking that he wants to do is have the law say that you have a duty to retreat if you can retreat safely. well, that s the original self-defense law in florida.