jeffrey toobin joining us about the oscar pistorius matter. good to have you, professor, as always. let s start with that idea. the judge overly ssympathetic? is this just a difference between south african law and u.s. law? what do you make of her giving all of these breaks to pistorius? i don t think it s terribly significant. in fact, it may it may not even be particularly helpful to him. you know, judges traditionally are much less influenced by h histrionics, by weeping, by emotion. this has been about pistorius reaction to the evidence, whether he was throwing up at the we defense table, you know, crying on the witness stand. you know, judges have heard all of this before. and i think, sure, she s going to let him collect himself, but at least the conventional wisdom is that judges are going to focus much more on the evidence
camera. which is why we are not seeing him. but we will have more of his testimony and how it could impact him with indepth analy s analysis. new drama over obamacare after the house passed a so-called fix and conservatives are calling foul. this is coming after the republicans used a voice video to ease the effect on businesses. our goal all the way through this is to protect the american people from the awful affects of this law and continue to try to work to repeal it. over the last three years there has been eight or nine changes to obamacare and the president has signed them into law. this says if you are a small employer and you have a high deductible and copay plan, there are caps under obamacare that
boehner. what is he saying about this adjustment to the health care law? republicans we re hearing from the business community concerns about those caps, if you will, on those small group policy, health care policies so they slipped into a fix of the way medicare is reimbursed. this fix of the policy caps and so our colleague asked house speaker john boehner about this repair. there s probably been eight or nine changes to obamacare. the president has actually signed into law. this being one of them. what this says is if you re a small employer and you have a heidi deductible and high co-pay plan, that there are caps under obamacare that would get rid of almost all of these plans. what this did was take the cap away. this comes as there s a debate internally about whether the ranks should be solely on replacement of the health care law or whether they should chip away at it. this is likely a recognition
me. jon: but clearly the shots would have rung out at that point. the other thing is, look. you re applied generic concept of self defense. reasonable fear that your life is in danger. how can that possibly be when you don t know excuse me, you don t know who is in the room? it doesn t fit. every time he said i thought, i thought it might be that failed the test of reasonably believing his life was in danger. jon: under south african law, you re supposed to know who it is you re dealing with. so that he failed that, excuse me. when he first got the firearms, saying i know i could do that. i think it s important to go back to the earlier testimony. he didn t know she was in the bed. he didn t know where she was. now he s saying she was there. that doesn t make sense to me. jon: even though this is i m sorry, this is defense testimony, you think it scores well for the prosecution.
that a lot of republicans feel like they re not going to be able to replace the law until perhaps a republican is in the white house in 2017. jenna: what is the reaction from some top democrats on this move? well, they seem to be encouraged by it. they seem open to the idea of trying to improve the health care law. they just don t want to get rid of it. i hope it s a sign that rather than try to destroy and dismantle the health security that millions of americans now have that maybe there s a kernel of a sign from a republican colleague that they re going to try to work to make things better. this is not likely the end of the fight. this is just the house republicans try to make this better for small businesses over probably the next three years or so. jon: thank you. jenna: staying with congress now, the president will play a big role in how democrats fair in the midterm elections this