good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the press. thank you for coming today. we apologize for the delay in starting this press conference. my name is bill brown. i am the sheriff coroner of santa barbara county. i am joined here today by a number of people from the santa barbara county sheriff s office, executive and command staff as well as a number of our members of our allied agencies and community leaders. i m joined by acting undersheriff don patterson, acting chief deputy sam gross who s in charge of our law enfonsment operations commander darryn factoringham acting commander steve robel who s the commander of our criminal investigations division, lieutenant kelly moore who is overseeing this criminal investigation, and lieutenant steve johnson who is assisting him in that regard. i m also going to be joined by
housemates and any good looking man. we have to interrupt you. we are taking the new s kfrps live. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the press, thank you for coming and we apologize for the delay in starting the press conference. my name is bill brown and i am the insure coronnor of santa barbara county and joined by people from the sheriff s office and executive and command staff and a number of the allied agencies and community leaders. i am joined by acting under sheriff don patter areson and sam gross who is in charge of the law enforcement operations and commander dar own foodingham. and acting commander steverobell who is commander of the criminal division. and lieutenant kelly moore who is overseeing the criminal
the court s decision on president obama s health care law is not expected until mid summer, but most americans feel the lines have already been drawn. a bloomberg poll shows about 75% of americans believes the final decision will be influenced by politics. that is not supposed to be the case. now, to make sense of the passion driving this debate, let s bring in our monday megapanel, sam gross, tim kearney and sam steeder. we spoke to a very prominent litigator who is against this thing. dan, what do you make of what we re going to see the next three days and is the public paying attention? i was shocked the attorney general in texas thought the health care idea was a bad one and conflicted with the constitution. 17% didn t think politics would influence this. if we should have learned anything from bush v. gore and watching traditional politics in the last decade and this court in particular, i don t want to see it s a charade, but i think