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First, the trump administration losing yet another cabinet member. interior secretary, ryan zinke, has resigned and will leave the administration at the end of the year. he has growing scrutiny because of a number of investigations. right now we move on to our other breaking story, the future of health care for millions of americans is up in the air. a federal judge in texas striking down obamacare, a controversial ruling that is setting the scene for a major legal battle ahead. this could leave...

We need to bring down the cost and we need to make sure its affordable for everybody, and we need to make sure small businesses can afford it. a lot of challenges for the affordable care act. you know, its a great start. pre-existing conditions, very important to a lot of us, and a lot of good things in the aca, lets move forward. >> all right. i wanted to ask you about something that you had tweeted out a couple days ago. this, of course, in regards to the death of that 7-year-old girl at the b...

Supreme court would actually rule on this because of the new makeup of the court? >> right, theres the new makeup of the court. you have to, you know, the court has upheld this law two times, not only -- not once but twice, but the thing is is this time they might be concerned with something we called severability. that is if you strike down one provision of the law, can you really -- can one judge strike down the whole thing? a and theyll also look at the intent of congress. congress could have...

The affordable care act, that is that a major staple of the law, the pre-existing conditions on both sides among democrats and republicans. joining me now is one of the architects of obamacare, jonathan gruber. thank you so much for joining us this morning. what is your reaction to the ruling out of texas? >> i think its disappointing. its a per version of representative democracy. republicans control the congress and had a chance to strike down obamacare and they said no, we are going to leave ...

In texas struck down obamacare. >> he says the mandate is unconstitutional and without it the entire affordable care act is invalid. >> attorney generals in several states have been preparing their appeals, and this is happening on the same day as the years obamacare signup deadline is here, it basically ends at midnight tonight in most states, we should point out. >> the judge did not block the law so you can still sign up. joining us now to explain what happens next in this case, cnn supreme c...

Something better. republicans have a fight ahead of them. they have been against obamacare, and in politics -- i am a political communicator, and its really easy to be against things but hard to be for things, and we need to be able to prevent a scaled down version of this that does protect people with pre-existing conditions without robbing generation z and the millennials. >> are you going to actually try to do something? in 2016, democrats said we know there are problems with obamacare and we...

So naturally, republican majorities and the state legislatures have moved quickly in the last days of unified governance to pass a slew of measures that would limit the authority of both, you guessed it, the governor and the attorney general right before democrats take those offices. that includes making it difficult for the new attorney general to withdraw wisconsin from that lawsuit seeking to strike down obamacare, even though health care and obamacare were central issues in the campaign that...

For the first time in eight years after trying and failing, democrats won the governorship along with lieutenant governors race and race for attorney general for the state. so naturally, republican majorities and the state legislatures have moved quickly in the last days of unified governance to pass a slew of measures that would limit the authority of both, you guessed it, the governor and the attorney general right before democrats take those offices. that includes making it difficult for the ...

Dead? >> i think its pretty obvious the democratic house is not going to be interested in that. there are serious problems with obamacare. serious problems that need to get fixed. they raised the phoney issue of whether or not we were for or against preexisting conditions. and it may have worked some places. even though they tried to define health care on that issue. including candidates like others. so the rhetoric doesnt solve the problem. there are serious problems with obamacare. i think wer...

Branch issue about how to deploy security forces to deal with that. im sure the president will handle it skillfully. >> do you believe it was a c crisis? >> its not a legislative issue. its a question of how do you want to deal with security at the border. the president had wide latitude to do that ask hes taking advantage of the opportunity. >> if democrats do engage in aggressive oversight of the trump administration, how about the ability to work on a bipartisan fashion? >> im having a heard ...