trivia time. how many of the current supreme court justices served as a supreme court law clerk? the answer is three. chief justice roberts and associate justices breier and kagen. they their entire careers were designed about getting to this court and they succeeded. today s winner, roger moore. well i drove grandpa to his speed dating this week, so i should probably get the last roll. yeah but i practiced my bassoon. [ mom ] and i listened. [ brother ] i can do this. [ imitates robot ] everyone deserves ooey, gooey, pillsbury cinnamon rolls. make the weekend pop.
just these rogue chemists can alter molecules to create entirely new chemicals with similar effects. now, they technically my still be considered illegal but it s hard to prosecute and new chemicals are being created i would say almost every day to try to get around these laws. so there s a lot of gray area there. what s behind the popularity? is it the effect they have? is it the price, the availability? what did you find out? it s all of it. when you talk about synthetic marijuana, you have a drug that this guy jay, who you saw in the clip, he can literally go into a convenience store and buy this stuff over the counter. it s cheaper than marijuana and he says more powerful. we spoke with kids. these students at a university, physics majors, biology majors, who are dealing this stuff. where do they get it? they get it on the internet. you can buy this stuff with the click of a mouse and it can arrive at your doorstep the next day. what s the bottom line? what do you want peop
we re going to start see more of, more people being brought out by the democrats to talk about how they didn t have health care, how they had pre-existing conditions, how their child is sick. i think dafna is absolutely right about that. this is a way to showcase and make the explanations that the president had not really made up until now. his appearance with president clinton the other day, they have started to roll this out. that was one of the best explanations i ve seen him give. but they needed to do that a lot more before and now they have another opportunity. this is like another chance. and i think they will take vo g advantage of this. we ll talk more about this with robert gibbs coming up. there s another casualty of the shutdown. president obama s visits to malaysia and the philippines next week. those were on the back end of his planned trip to asia and the shutdown prevented personnel from getting in place. the white house staff is still evaluating the front leg o
have ever been on medicare.gov which gives you a sense of the enthusiasm. the technological i think can be fixed. enthusiasm would have been hard to fix so it s good news that there are people that are searching for their options not just on healthcare.gov but state exchanges as well. but does the frustration part of it hurt? well, i think it will if it continues. if people go on today and tomorrow and the next day and continue to get error messages, there is that possibility that they will stop. the good news is, this is a six-month enrollment period. this does not end until the last day in march, so there s six months to enroll on the front end of this during open season. and again, i have no doubt that the technological problems can get fixed in all this. you know, we had anticipated and i think a lot of people talked about this. there is always going to be glitches when something starts but a number of republican senators have talked about what their reaction is to the first
something. laura ling joins me now. good to see you. good morning. hi, chris, how are you. they continue to make headlines, these designer drugs, but i m not sure a lot of people understand what they are or how prevalent they are. fill us in. well, these are chemicals that a lot of them you may have heard their names, molly, bath salts or synthetic marijuana also known as spice. but there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of these chemicals. some just known as numbers and letters. 2 cb, 2 cp, 25 i, and they are very popular. we spoke with students at a college campus who said that they can get these research chemicals easier than they can get alcohol. and what are some of the challenges then in regulating them, controlling them, especially when it comes to use by high school kids, college kids? well, it s a huge challenge because while there are laws against certain chemicals, the tricky part is that chemists can