democrats. the fox news opinion dynamics poll finds 55% of independents are likely to vote for a republican this fall with a specific inattention intention of putting a check on democrats. joining me doug schoen. are you surprised by these numbers? how did the democrats backpedal from this one and get in a better situation? first, i m not surprised. independents have been trending away from the president and the democrats since last year. it is a reaction against big spending policies. against gridlock in washington. their health care bill and big government. the democrats have to return to core principles. creating jobs. stimulating the economy. free market principles. basically, reducing the size of government. things that they just haven t emphasized. greta: tkhoepb have a lot of time to do that november they don t have a lot of time to do that november is
the federal government political or not against your state? i think it is a combination of both. i think senator pierce and i disagree on whether it is pure politics. there s an interesting legal question. as you know, i m attorney, this is a real important legal question that has not been answered in our country. we have implemented a number of pieces of legislation to address immigration issue that not being challenged. russell and i have worked together and legislation successfully that i introduced over the past several years to crackdown on human smuggling rings and violent cartels that traffic people back and forth across the border. we believe those are legitimate and constitutional. we are not sure where the line is drawn and we need the corps to help us find that line. greta: one of the most painful aspects of this law has been people thought that it called for racial profiling. as a result there have been boycotts across your state. the president with a nod and a
greta: another state another battle. lt. governor peter kinder locking with the federal government this time it isn t illegal immigration, it is health care. he joins us live, good evening sir. good evening, thank you for having me back, greta. greta: happy to have you back. i ve read your complaint quite lengthy, very long. what is you essentially have a couple arguments that you are saying the health care bill is unconstitutional, what are they? i heard the very fine interview you did last night with arizona senator jon kyl in which he made the distinction between a facial challenge on a statute, which is what the attorney generals in the other states have filed and the distinction with our case that makes it different and unique, is we filed an as
she has several hearings set up for preliminary injunctions one next week, two, two weeks from now she is going to try to decide before the july 29th, effective date. greta: she already set that hearing date? she set that hearing this afternoon 1:00 on july 22nd. they gave the governor s office until july 20th, to respond. and told the department of justice, i don t want to hear from you again, given the timeline. the question becomes is that july 29th, deadline? she told them i will do everything i can. but i can t guarantee you an answer. it is possible that 12:01 a.m. on july 29th, police may be entitled to enforce the new law. and the judge could issue a ruling a week later, depending on what she rules, that law maybe put on hold. greta: clearly a lot of controversial cases on her
applied challenge on constitutional grounds. the attorney general generals are florida, virginia and other ag s in those cases are challenging the new federal health care reform law on its face. our challenge differs in that we are not suing as the state of missouri, we are suing with three plaintiffs who join me, three female citizens of missouri who join me as plaintiffs in our case today. we filed an as applied challenge that is, as the health care reform law passed by the federal government is applied to individual missouri citizens they are alleging each in their separate circumstance serious harm to their ability to get quality health care. i have three plaintiffs greta: let me three women who is a senior who says she wants the medicaid advantage she was enjoying before because she has medical problems.