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They dont get there. >> i have dow 18,000. people are rushing to sign up for obamacare despite the vow to repeal it. 4 million people have signed up on the federal exchange and hundreds and thousands more on state exchanges. that counts for more than 1 million new enrollees and 2.9 million with renewing coverage. today is the deadline to sign up. if you have coverage through the exchange last year, the advice is shop around if you are able. some premiums are going up and coverage options are c...

In 2013 that samuel just spoke of. wall street will see what this means for verizons purchase of yahoo!. yahoo! stock is up 23% this year because of the anticipation of the deal actually going through. the dow is still in spitting distance of the 20,000 mark. the average fell yesterday after the feds decision to hike interest rates. the dow will need to gain 208 points to get to the 20,000 milestone. that is 1% rise. regardless, it is a great year for the dow. jumping 13.5% so far this year. ...

Well, @real donaldtrump. at least i will go down as a president. [ cheers and applause ] >> and former president bill clinton kicking off a bus tour in north carolina as he defends obamacare. >> hillary says, fix the problem, dont repeal the solution. thats a terrible idea. more than 20 million people would lose their health insurance. >> his plea coming as the government says premiums for those purchasing insurance on state exchanges will increase an average of 22% next year. now, clintons comm...

Happen, this is part of the evolution, we set the premiums low to get -- draw people in, growing pains, its not perfect. do you buy that? >> well, i think you should let bill keep talking, im happy to give him my time. >> all right, i will. >> bill, youre an honest man and what bernie sanders -- >> he is an honest man. >> what bernie sanders said and its one of the reasons why bernie sanders has cross appeal even with some folks that dont like the government so much is obamacare was never going ...

Well call it scotus care because the clear language in the law talked about state exchanges. so what does that mean for the american people when you have nine unelected lifetime appointees that can impact america in this -- such a profound way? >> it is dangerous to our constitution. they are making it up. these are political decisions. this is lawless. its unconstitutional. >> what is the recourse? >> there are a couple of consequences. obamacare, that makes 2016 a referendum on repealing obama...

Rewrote obamacare in order to force that law on millions of americans. use john roberts famous analogy they stopped calling balls and strike and they put on a jersey and joined a team forcing that failed law on americans. on friday the marriage decision was directly contrary to the constitution. it was as justice scalia observed five unelected judging saying their liberal policy views trump the considered judgment of 320 million americans. it was judicial activism. >> how many times have you arg...

Or state exchanges. plaintiffs had argued that because the law says exchanges must be established by the state that 6.4 million people who bought insurance on federal exchanges should not receive subsidies. the courts ruling was the second time in three years the justices had upheld the presidents signature legislation but this time the ruling was more robust. chief justice john roberts wrote in the courts majority opinion congress passed the affordable care act to improve health insurance marke...

Vote in the primaries. lets get rid of the supreme court essentially which is what bobby jindal said they have to say things like this because they have to make headway. they need to get two or two percentage points. the problem is it paints the party as being against what independents and what democrats think is the right way to go. thats not going to be helpful. >> with respect to obamacare you wrote that republican voters won even if the gop lost. >> what this obamacare ruling focused on was ...

>> david axelrod and neera tanden, thank you both for joining us. joining me now, 2016 democratic presidential candidate, bernie sanders. i know you were on the health committee as it was crafting the senate version of the -- of what became the affordable care act. your reaction to todays decision? >> well, it was a very common sense decision. i was on the committee pip went to 8 zillion meetings to discuss the issue. and to write the legislation. nobody but nobody distinguished between federal ...

Some states chose to do it. 16 states chose to do it. 34 states didnt. what this lawsuit was about was the people in those 34 states would the subsidies be available to them? theres 6.5 million people on these state exchanges and the question is would these 6.5 million people lose their health -- lose their subsidies and all likelihood lose their health insurance. the supreme court today said no. they will not lose the subsidy subsidies. so they will continue to get health insurance. it really a...