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you have insurance. what about congressman ryan? hes supposed to be a serious guy with serious solutions. whatd he have to say about this? >> to be specific, the provisions aeady in place covering under the age of 26, not placing lifetime limits, theyll go in the house vote. youre not going to vote to replace them? >> were going to repeal the entire law then advance patient center reforms which address these issues. >> again, no solution. in the states, republican governor may turn awa...

Night briefing of the majority opinion, which is a really signaling that justice roberts at the last minute decided to go over and write this really weak opinion whereas the rest of them, james was suggesting on the commerce clause, was very strong, thoughtful material. this was just made up at the last. >> paul: it looks to me, justice roberts was looking for a reason to uphold this bill. >> thats right. >> paul: and he found it. >> thats right, one of the most disturbing things about this asid...

law. the larger problem is that whatever concessions they had on the commerce clause, if you can say, you can do the exact same thing with a tax, its a huge loophole in terms of limiting congresss power. >> theyre saying that the commerce clause, under the commerce clause, the mandate is unconstitutional, unless congress decides to assess a penalty on that mandate and call it a tax or even not a tax, the judges can interpret it as a tax and therefore, it is constitutional, so, that wou...

spending today viewing the damage and cleaning up debris in very hot conditions. farther south, atlanta escaped storms, but lived up to its nickname, hotlanta, reaching an all-time high. with a look at todays temperatures, weather channel meteorologist ray stagich joins me now. >> thanks, richard. more heat the big weather story as we head through the south central part of the u.s. big dome of high pressure in place. large and in charge. take a look at numbers from yesterday, and in so...

the court, on the obamacare law, saying the individual mandate is constitutional, not under the commerce clause, but as a tax. our panel is here with complete coverage of the legal arguments behind the decision and the political implications for november and beyond. im joined by walt journal columnist and editor dan eninger, and joe raggo, dorothy rabinowicz, and while they were debating the law, john roberts slipped us a mickey on upheld on the tax revision what, do you make of the ar...

republicans blasting the presidents health care law as a new tax. >> its a penalty. its a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1% perhaps of the population who may decide they are going to be free riders, but most people not affected. >> a new tax on the american people? >> no, not a tax on the american people. a penalty for free riders. >> also new today, house speaker john boehner saying hey, not so fast. >> even though the president tried to admit for over a year that it wa...

severe weather around the country has left more than 2 million people without power. most of them in the washington, d.c. area. so check on your friends, family and neighbors and make sure theyre okay. but now to our top political story. after months of anticipation and partisan predictions by democrats and republicans on how the supreme court would rule, we finally got the answer on health care. thursday yielded one of the biggest decisions by the supreme court since 2000. and chief j...

vote during her but interview because a leaders job is never done. i started by asking pelosi how she felt when the decision was announced. you literally through a party. how did it feel at a core level, how did that decision feel to you? >> when we first received the word, i wasnt surprised because ive always said 6-3. it was 5-4, but i accept that victory and that decision. and that ruling. we were needing or meeting in caucus when we knew that it was imminent and there were conflict...

and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. im jenna wolfe. >> and im jeff rossen. lester has the morning off. and really, the weather is wreaking havoc across the country. >> it really has. 25 states are going to see 100-plus-degree temperatures today, and they are widespread power outages from indiana to new jersey, all across the country, potentially dangerous ones in this heat. >> yeah, a lot of people are tweeting who are actually in the line of these storms and it was pretty...

and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. im jenna wolfe. >> and im jeff rossen. lester has the morning off. and really, the weather is wreaking havoc across the country. >> it really has. 25 states are going to see 100-plus-degree temperatures today, and they are widespread power outages from indiana to new jersey, all across the country, potentially dangerous ones in this heat. >> yeah, a lot of people are tweeting who are actually in the line of these storms and it was pretty...