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Federal holiday in nearly 40 years. >> by making juneteenth apparel holiday all americans can feel the power this day and learn from our history. >> the congresswoman behind juneteenth holiday, sheila jackson lee joins me live won all in starts right now. s right now. >> good evening from washington d.c., im zerlina maxwell in for chris hayes. from the very beginning, from when democrats first started talking about universal health care, up until president obama signed the affordable care act in...

Embarrassing. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the daily show to play us off the air tonight. for us, for now, thats our broadcast on a thursday with our thanks for being here with us on behalf of all our colleagues at the networks of nbc news. good night. ws good night >> tonight on a limb -- >> nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. >> the supreme court makes it clear. tonight, how obamacare survived the latest republican attempt to deny health care to america. then, the compromised by joe manchi...

Supreme court to toss out obamacare even as he claimed, he wanted to protect people with pre-existing conditions. >> on the pre-existing conditions this is a big issue -- >> it is a big issue for me to. >> in point of fact your administration is about to go to the supreme court to argue to throw out the rest of obamacare, which includes the protections for pre-existing conditions. your administration is in quartz right now to try to get rid of that protection. >> in order to replace it with a mu...

And overtime, that could take away the benefits so that it is useless by the end of it. again we have an existential crisis when it comes to abortion rights right now we can see the same thing over time with the aca as well. >> i brought up with al franken the fact that republicans have put so many conservative jurors on the federal bench, and in terms of not just reproductive health care, but also the obamacare cases, there are other things that president biden wants to do that could lead to le...

Nominated amy coney barrett to the supreme court. and it is also why republicans rushed to confirm her only weeks before the 2020 presidential election, something democrats were very, very clear about during her nomination hearings. >> this well could mean that if judge barrett is confirmed, american stand to lose the benefits that the aca provides. >> it seems every time you weigh in on the legality of the statute, you come to one conclusion, the affordable care act unconstitutional. >> republi...

There. but it is something to keep in mind when senators go to bed at night and wonder if there should be reforms to the filibuster. senator al franken, thank you so much for being here and starting us off tonight. for more on todays decision i am joined by melissa murray professor at new york university school of law, and former supreme justice. when she was on the court of appeals for the second circuit. melissa, can you break down for us the quartz reasoning in todays ruling on obamacare? >> ...

Kavanaugh and amy barrett agreeing with the majority to preserve the law in a 7 to 2 decision. now this decision does not permanently guarantee the affordable care act or protected going forward. republicans, theyre not sure how to get it again. but the decision is a victory, nonetheless. ill franken was one of the key votes in the passing of the aca he is now the host of the al franken podcast and he joins me now. thank you so much for being with me, your senate win made obamacare possible. >> ...

Injury that could be addressed by federal court adjudication, it was a very technical jurisdictional opinion. it doesnt address the merits of the case at all. >> how surprising though is it to see so many justices joining the majority on this case? >> that actually was quite a surprise, and i think it speaks to the chief justices skills in continuing to keep the conservative wing of the court, which has now grown to supermajority even as it has the numbers to do what it likes. this was a surpris...

Highly, highly respected in texas. on the assumption that the supreme court upholds, we will get great great health care for our people. well have to sit down with the democrats to do it, im sure they want to do it also. thank you very much. >> thats president trump making his first public comments after a federal judge in texas, ruled the affordable care act unconstitutional. the judge said that last years republican tax bill, made obamacare illegal by eliminating the penalty for not having cov...

10nant facing uphill battle against retiring senator jay rockefeller. in colorado, caputo is up in some polls. democrats still say they have a chance to keep control of at least one house of the congress. what will happen? joining sus nina easton, senior editor and washington columnist for "fortune" magazine. fox news contributor and jamie wine steen, senior editor at "the daily caller." welcome, jamie and nina. out in west oregon, they have trouble with obamacare. that has become a number one i...