bret: house republicans took another shot today at the president s healthcare law. minority leader nancy pelosi calls it legislation to nowhere. republicans who campaigned on the issue say they are sticking to their presence approximatelys. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the update. the bill is taxed. as expected, house republicans in a few of their democratic colleagues voted to repeal president obama healthcare law. ahead of the vote, speaker boehner extented this invitation to democrats. for those who still support repealing the harmful healthcare law, we are giving your colleagues in the senate another chance to heed the will of the american people. for those who did not support repeal the last time, it s a chance for our colleagues to reconsider. more than 30 times the house voted to repeal, defund or dismantle obama s signature legislative accomplishment. democrats who support healthcare express their frustration. repealing the affordable care act
they would have taken the whole law down. if there is any chance this is repealed, i realize there s a vote coming up that is largely ceremonial because it will never be taken up in the senate, but the house of representatives will make a statement. but if it is repealed come january if there s a new president, what is the plan and is there a plan by the republicans? well, i think there area number of different view points about that. i have been aware of a plan for some time that i don t believe the republican leadership has been willing to embrace yet or governor romney has been willing to but i hope that he will. it s been drawn up, it s comprehensive and would turn most of this back over to the states to regulate insurance and do other things but it would cover pre-existing conditions, it would cover a lot of things people are interested in through a refundable tax credit. and that itself hasn t been fully vetted out there but i think it s a good, conservative position to take.
guest. but a big day in the supreme court. janet, thank you. the legal challenges to president obama healthcare law started the day it was signed. on march 23, 2010, then attorney general of a state filed the first lawsuit. and now the highest court has rule. what does attorney general mccollum say? he joins us. good to be with you, greta i know you are a former member of congress and as well as the attorney general that filed the firstase. i m curious, during the postmortem, would you have done anything differently? no. i think it was well-briefed and well-argued and well-presented but i was shocked and disappointed that chief justice roberts in the end concluded the individual mandate was a tax and not only it it it it was a tax s not prohibited by the direct taxes by the constitution. and he went into an elaborate
saying that this was gun under bush when they know that the programs gun under president bush were stopped under president bush and admitted and said they were wrong and this was a program that was completely gun under president obama and ultimately the attorney general s justice department does own this failed operation. well, the attorney general has made a statement, and he has said others, and i assume he s pointing at you, have devoted their time and attention to making reckless charges, unsupported by facts. he said you don t have facts, and to advancing truly absurd conspiracy theories. that was said right after the vote. well, the attorney general was a little bit like, if you remember the brothers who killed their parents and then if they claimed they were orphans it would have been equally genuine. ultimately he is saying we don t have facts. well, the facts we have points to the coverup in people in justice and we aren t being given the documents. it s rather self-servin
about this one today and a lot of the e-mails and texts used the treacherousry in the messages. i tend to agree with that term butch we have to be optimistic about it. basically what chief justice roberts did for us, for the american people, was put this shall uh-oh obama care and the individual mandate back in the hands of the people via our representatives. so now back in congress hands, congress has an opportunity to act on this tax as this has been deemed a tax as opposed to obama s insistence it wasn t a tax and after the july recess i expect congress to come in and rescind this tax. they have the power to adopt and enact the tax and they also have the power to rescind it. i want to see that done in july. president obama has said this is not a tax. it was the chief justice roberts and the majority that has decided, has deem it a tax, which is, of course, their