seiu, they said they would give us a comment but they have not yet given us a comment. so we did some background check and it turns out seiu, 95% of their contributions and donations go to democratic candidates and democratic causes, so if you have a disabled child in michigan, you re a republican, you still have to pay seiu that donates to the democrats. now in mitch tkpwapbt house has passed a bill to stop this. that same bill is bogged down in the senate, megyn. megyn: wow, trace, thank you. taking your thoughts on that one at kelly & fox news.com. pollster scott rasmussen now says of today president obama looks like the underdog in the 2012 presidential race. he s here in five minutes with the poll behind that headline. plus a top republican senator saying supreme court justice elena kagan held something back in her confirmation hearing and believes it could have a big impact on the debate over the president s healthcare law in a case the supreme court just agreed to take. a custod
needs to behave responsibly as a world power. the reference to its attempt to claim territory in asia that the u.s. considers international waters. it is important for them to play by the rules of the road and in fact, help underwrite the rules that have allowed so much remarkable economic progress to be made over the last several decades. reporter: the president s national security team says this asia presence will be immune from any budget cuts on capitol hill. the pentagon press secretary george little saying just moments ago saying we will remain a pacific power. megyn? megyn: jennifer, thank you. high-stakes in the high court. could the u.s. supreme court decision on president obama s health care law determine who our next president is? the case will be argued in march. a ruling is expected by june 2012. right dab in the middle of what is sure to be a very
compulsion. megyn: unbelievable. i believe that clearly does involve forcible compulsion. when you say to a 14-year-old girl if you don t have sex with me i m going to send you to a detention home, that is forcible compulsion if there ever was it. but our supreme court held that it was not. and that is my concern. megyn: i m against a hard break. i want to get this question to you. having spoke between some of the victims in this case, or at least one, do you feel like there will be civil lawsuits and do you feel like the victims are mentally in a place where they can see those lawsuits through? well, i can t discuss any contacts our firm may have had with any potential victims or their families. yes, there will be civil lawsuits, yes i believe they are going to be filed soon. these cases are going to be, in my view, seen through, because you ve had young men here who have come forward to the authorities, some of whom probably have testified in front of the grand jury. their names
either. inappropate touching short of rape might not be forcible compulsion? are there cases that are on point there? well, i believe that inappropriate touching short of rape, to use your example, does involve forcible compulsion, because it involves at a minimum psychological coercion which has been held by some courts to be sufficient to satisfy the forcible compulsion prong of the test that allows you to get the extra ten years before you file suit. but there are some cases that hold on the other side of that coin. so, my concern is that these victims are going to need experienced and effective advocates to make the argument that they do have the benefit of these extra ten years. and if they don t get that benefit, then the claims for the young men who are over the age of 20 will not be able to go forward. megyn: i don t understand how any court could conclude that a child, a child who had been abused in any way, whether it was, you know an explicit rape
very kitchen table issue. that is what americans are looking at. megyn: hear is the truth though. if the u.s. supreme court upholds the law, that doesn t mean the law stays in place. if you get republican president, he could do what these republicans are promising to do. also sought to do. bottom line this issue isn t going away. the obama administration decided it is going to help them in the election. opinion is pretty firm against the bill and they figured that they could help themselves whatever the result. megyn: it is fascinating. they have set the schedule. we will have a decision by end of the june of the just in time for the summer. voters know they re voting on a president two years before this law even goes into effect. part of it will be how the candidates set up a law that hasn t even gone into effect yet. megyn: my head is spinning. should see a doctor. megyn: thank you for that. i m still reeling about the poll, the margin error. 40 and 50, and you have a 5% ma