arthel: very good. we look forward to finding out what you discover on your trip. thank you very much. will look forward to that. eric: tensions are spiking in spain. amid the country s worst political crisis there decades, hundreds of thousands of people rally protesting the catalans government push to secede from the country. this, one week after they held a referendum with spain s highest court ruled illegal. both sides appear to be on a collision course that could split the nation. john huddy is fine with the latest. spee-03 spain s high court is you just mentioned says that if catalonia is parliament holds a session today that would be illegal as well. there remains the big question, if that happens catalonia and officials last week said the special session would be held in the declaration of independence
meetings and was going to give them bribes he can t be convicted of that as a congressman? he can be convicted of that. he is paying for that, the court found that he still convicted on three counts stemming from $90000 a frozen money. it s the ten other counts that he was charged with the fell off because they didn t rise to the level of criminal misconduct. the judge that it constituted meetings and endorsements of products. but it didn t fall under official acts, that s what the supreme court narrowly tailored. how do they know the difference between what s official and what s not? we see this with bob menendez, the same thing to me saying i simply set up a meeting to help him. that s a story going in i didn t
handle our federal immigration laws. what it seems like these judges are saying is that being here illegally is not enough to trip the legal process. you actually have to do something additionally you have to break a state law. what that basically means is you have amnesty when it comes to breaking federal immigration laws. but matt, that s what the supreme court ruled. you re accurately describing the state of the law. the question is, why would a president go in and try to allow for that kind of let me read to you one thing from that so the folks have the benefit of it. they said if you believe or know a person is in the country unlawfully you cannot detained them based on that alone. you have to have state charges or release. again, to go to conservative principles, that s what conservatives used to cheer because you don t want a sprawling government power that has no check on it. i believe that it s perfectly appropriate, though, for the for sheriffs to work with the fede
now, that s what the supreme court will decide in about 3 1/2 months. the secretary of health and human service says the administration has no plan b. they have made no plans for if the supreme court rules against them but republicans are ready with an opportunity to provide temporary transition and help for people that have been hurt by the law. we want to protect the people but not protect the law if the supreme court rules against the administration. and of course, this case is one of the year s most important subjects with the potential to roll back that portion of obamacare. it seems to me that the states would like to run their own health care system the way they see fit and it is hard to really put a brush stroke one way on all of the states when you have different states with different strengths in terms of health care and not all should be the same. what is your take in terms of
federal government should enforce the current law. i think that s exactly what jan brewer has said, that s what the supreme court has said. and that s what all the republican and democratic governors have said, that s number one. number two, and that s where i was trying to go with this in terms of party history here is that republican presidential candidates have always run against sometimes republican platform. ronald reagan did that in 1980 when the republican platform specifically said that they were not for tax increases. ronald reagan obviously increased taxes all throughout his eight years in office. my point simply is that if the republican platform may say one thing, but when the actual candidate gets into office, it s something different. interesting. maria, the federal government has actually deported more illegal immigrants from the u.s. for the last fiscal year than ever before in history. there s something like a record 380,000 illegal immigrants removed from the u.s. i