dishes making 50 cents an hour to pay his way through college and start a small business you appreciate how precious and fragile liberty is. i think liberty is never more threatened than right now. chris: is it true you memorized the u.s. constitution as a teen able, the whole thing? guest: i memorize add shortened version, to speak at rotary clubs and speak. chris: do you have a favorite speak? guest: article one, section 8, the powers of congress, the way we memorize it was tcecn, taxes, credit, commerce, naturalization, counterfeiting, and coins, and post office, and copyrights courts and piracy, militia, money for militia, washington, dc, rules are necessary and improper. chris: thank you for coming in. we will follow the race closely and i expect we will talk to you
dishes making 50 cents an hour to pay his way through college and start a small business you appreciate how precious and fragile liberty is. i think liberty is never more threatened than right now. chris: is it true you memorized the u.s. constitution as a able, the whole thing? guest: i memorize add shortened version, to speak at rotary clubs and speak. chris: do you have a favorite speak? guest: article one, section 8, the powers of congress, the way we memorize it was tcecn, taxes, credit, commerce, naturalization, counterfeiting, and coins, and post office, and copyrights courts and piracy, militia, money for militia, washington, dc, rules are necessary and improper. chris: thank you for coming in. we will follow the race closely d expect we will talk to you
knows. areas in louisiana prepare this morning for a state of emergency. we are going to see additional storm surge this week more than what is being projected right now. plus, it is the biggest case in more than a decade and tomorrow could be decision day. liberty, yes. socialism, no. will obama care still stand 24 hours from now? i i actually am confident that the supreme court will uphold the law. if i am elected president, i will repeal obama care. and just one hour from now, egypt declares a brand new president, but not everyone is president, but not everyone is in the mood to celebrate. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everyone, i m randi kaye. it is 8:00 on the east coast and 5:00 a.m. out west, and thank you for waking up with us. we begin in egypt where in an hour they expect to announce a new president. it is a weekf controversy where both sides have claimed victory and both sides claiming that the other have cheated while regular eg
it s simply there to say that congress can do what they need to to carry out the specific powers they are given. if they don t have the power this they don t have the power under the commerce clause that doesn t help them. megyn: here is the thing that is interesting to me, john. they use this now saying we had to pass the mandate, that is an important piece of the legislation, it s necessary and proper and they argue how it s indispensable to the healthcare law. now they are saying, it is necessary, the individual mandate is a necessary part of the healthcare law, but is it proper? you have to prove that it s both necessary and proper, meaning it s constitutionally authorized. i don t think it s very heavy lifting. i m glad to hear that hans and i agree on the structure. congress has certain powers, the power to tax and regulate interstate commerce and to provide for the general welfare, that is the tripod, if you will, the shamrock on st. paddy s day, that is the shamrock of powe
administration is shifting? before we were hearing the commerce clause, the administration could pass this individual mandate if it touches on commerce we are allowed to regulate it, therefore the mandate is constitutional. now, how are they shifting? it s not so much that they are shifting, they are emphasizing the necessary and proper clause more, but in fact they ve been making that argument since the very first briefs that they filed in this case. megyn: okay, hold on because the necessary and proper laws is part of our constitution that gives congress the power to, you explain it hans. it comes at the end of clause 8 which outlines all the specific and enumerated powers that congress has. then it says congress can basically do what is necessary and proper to carry out those enumerated powers. now the administration is trying to read this as some kind of extra clause that gives them many additional powers. it s not.