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Spoke to just before the court proceeding, he thought that it was going to come down tomorrow. but i have to say that the chief justice actually articulated the opinion exactly the way john verrilli wrote in the brief. you have to look at the entire statute. not just at a few words. what was really interesting is when justice scolia started reading his dissent, and he was sitting immediately next to the chief justice, you know, and it was a pretty scolding dissent, the chief justice was looking ...

hearing the ruling. and a few moments later, he spoke in the rose garden. >> today after more than 50 votes in congress to repeal or weaken this law, after a presidential election based in part on preserving or repealing this law, after multiple challenges to this law before the supreme court, the affordable care act is here to stay. >> the court rejected the argument brought by opponents of the law that the language in the bill dealing with subsidies to low income americans was meant ...

Excuse me. because the excuse me. >> thats hardly the kind of forceful argument. there were times during the argument yesterday where justice ginsburg seemed to be trying to help him out. this is a u.s. solicitor general. theyve certainly practiced this argument. could they have done a better job of defending the presidents health care law? >> well, you know, i think thats a low blow from the rnc. and it should come as no surprise. theyve been trying to undermine the presidents health care law b...

And youre watching live pictures here of vice president joe biden kicking off his third of four swing state campaign speeches framing the general election in davenport iowa today with a blistering attack on mitt romney. stephanie cutter is deputy campaign manager for the presidents re-election bid. good to see you. >> hi. >> this is a critical point for the administration. your signature health reform law is on the block in the supreme court in these three days of arguments. the republican natio...

todays argument after a lot of impressions yesterday that there were a number of justices very critically questioning the health care mandate? what was the take away today? >> andrea todays question is, if the supreme court were to find that the insurance requirement is unconstitutional, can the rest of the law stand? i think its fair to say that perhaps a bare majority of the court thinks the answer is either completely no or mostly no. a majority of the court seemed to think that may...

>> andrea todays question is, if the supreme court were to find that the insurance requirement is unconstitutional, can the rest of the law stand? i think its fair to say that perhaps a bare majority of the court thinks the answer is either completely no or mostly no. a majority of the court seemed to think that maybe there are sort of things on the very periphery of the law, things that were sort of tacked on to it as the train was leaving the station that maybe are so completely unre...