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Individual mandate, there was no tax. twhrfer there was no way for this to continue to go. i think it will go to the court, the supreme court, and they will uphold the judge. and obamacare will be over. it will collapse. judge jeanine: it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few months. merry christmas, good to have you on the show. the war over the wall. trump, pelosi, schumer and the battle over immigration. how is it all going to play out? next the panel is primed for a spirite...

Journal poll on the russia investigation and on the presidents honesty. plus, obamacare struck down. a texas judge rules for republicans that the individual mandate without a tax is unconstitutional and the law must go. >> there was a big ruling, its a great ruling for our country. well be able to get great health care. >> democrats vow to appeal and the case appears headed to the supreme court. my guest this morning, senate minority leader chuck schumer of new york, republican senator roy blu...

Republican senator roy blunt of missouri who sits on the intelligence committee. welcome back to "meet the press". >> hi, chuck, good to be with you. >> lets start with what senator schumer said he would ask the senate, ask for a sense of the senate and the house on this lawsuit that says it needs to be -- congress needs to intervene with this lawsuit and stop it. would you support that? >> i think what he was saying is what the congress should do is tell the circuit court what to do. i cant rec...

For preexisting conditions. what legislative moves is senator schumer talking about? what seems to be the strategy for the democrats trying to protect obamacare? >> look, there are a number of things they can do, whether or not the house passes clean bills that would protect preexisting conditions and schumer and others try to force symbolic votes, whether by trying to attach these bills to must-pass spending bills, you can also call up symbolic resolutions on the senate floor. those are ways to...

There are big impacts. ed: shut downs where ted cruz got the blame for republicans over obamacare or perceived to have gotten the blame. there is debate about that. more recent ones some months ago known as the schumer shut down as the republicans branded it and the democrats took some blame. look at this. 75% of the government is already funded for fiscal year 2019. that started on october 1st. so lets start with that basic concept. this idea that we are going to hear in coming days from democr...

The problem. >> we think that wall is a bad strategy. in fact many sections of the border are already lined by more than 100 miles steal bothered style fencing what trump calls wall. >> our administration is moved aggressively to secure our borders more. since the 1990s lawmakers from both parties improved and built some 615 miles of border fence of various designs. congress approved 700 miles of double fencing in 2006. with a majority of senate democrats including if schumer, clinton, biden and...

Parents of this young 7-year-old from trying to come here illegally in the first place. >> i think everything is interwoven. you are sending the message to those people that want to come in illegally that they will not be able to. and then the wall needs to have a very big gate. because the economy needs people like the father of that child or somebody else that is trying to come in. the economy needs people to do the job that other americans are not doing. they are going to be demanding that la...

Senate republicans among democrats. >> they have no border security plan. this is a massive cut in border security funding that the democrats are proposing. >> president trump sounds like he might be looking for a way out. tweeting lets not do a shutdown, democrats. do what is right for the american people. the president was very tough with the top congressional democrats in the oval office this week demanding funding for his border wall. schumer and pelosi sounded delighted that the president w...

Into february. we really are cobbling over homeland security and a few other things that at the end of the day congress is going to push the funding. you will get another resolution. remember, when you talk about bipartisanship, there are two different schools, here. youve got the politicians on capitol hill and then you have got the rest of us out there saying "wait a minute, congress, get something done." and if schumer and pelosi continue down this path, the democrats become the party of "no....

Dont do this i am not going to sign this, you know, the person, like schumer the last time, the president saying you do this or i will not go along, he owns the shutdown. i think it was smart politics, if you own it really own it and set the narrative in your favor. i am not saying he should not or should shut down the government, but if you are going to draw a line then probably stepping out there and taking it and trying to influence the direction of the debate is the way to go. >> thank you. ...