good morning and welcome to this friday edition of early start nice to have you with us. we re bringing you the news, 5:00 a.m. in the east. so let s get started. up first, renewing the war with just about four months until election day, republicans with a rallying point. they are promise to go do what the supreme court did not do, toss in the trash the health care reform law. sarah palin with a bit of sar kachl even thanked the supreme court in a facebook post. here it is. thank you, scotus. this obama care ruling fires up the troops as america s eyes are opened. thank god. joe johns will join us so that we can chat about this a little bit. joe, are you there? we ll get him a little later and talk about what this this means politically moving forward. and in the meantime, let s do this, shall we, because what a day it was. if you had your tv news set on, it was a whiplash because another war has been renewed with just four months until election day. republicans are reall
in 25th place. let s raise academic standards across the nation. let s get back to the head of the class. let s solve this. welcome back to the ed show. well, the national rifle association is hell bent on selling a botched gun running program as a left-wing plot intended to take away your firearms.
if you made a list of countries from around the world. .with the best math scores. .the united states would be on that list. in 25th place. let s raise academic standards across the nation. let s get back to the head of the class. let s solve this.
whether to hold attorney general of the united states, eric holder, in contempt of congress. that vote expected this hour. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s the most anticipated supreme court decision in more than a decade. and one that impacts the lives of almost every american as well as the presidential campaign. in a 5 to 4 split, the supreme court upheld the affordable care act, a law so tightly bound to president obama that both critics and supporters call it and i m calling it now what they are calling it, obama care. behind the historic ruling and meticulous legal reasoning that caught many observers offguard as well as the surprise split that saw the chief justice of the united states, john roberts, siding with the courts four liberal justices. kate bolduan begins outside. reporter: absolutely, wolf. a bombshell ruling. the individual mandate, the centerpiece, but getting to that conclusion was a surprising revelation. the chief justice wr