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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 exchanges and state exchange...

>> well, weve seen a 6-3 decision, which frankly im kind of stunned by it. i didnt expect that kind of overwhelming decision in this case. you know, the literal interpretation of the law seemed to have created separation between the federal exchanges and state exchanges. and as i harken back to the debate in 09 and 2010, i know there were democratic senators who really did not want to make an easy pathway for a default to federal exchanges. so im, frankly, kind of stunned by the decision. but th...

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 exchanges and state exchanges. that was a nonissue, which some white-wing guys picked up on, hoping to overturn the affordable ca...

The site called the hawaii health connector. the operators have a contingency plan. scrap it altogether. >> in the case of hawaii they have an exchange that they were not operating very well and the lack of political support in the state legislature to provide that financing so they are coming up empty. >> reporter: hawaii would join states like oregon with federal grants running out, the state exchanges have to be financially self-sufficient. many are looking to insurance companies to fund shor...

Thanks for staying with us, im bill oreilly in the kelly file seeing many tonight. last week the supreme court heard oral arguments challenging the affordable healthcare act. at issue at least 34 states that dont have state-run insurance exchange mechanisms. here now to explain further former fnc supreme court reporter the anchor of the kelly file ms. megyn. this bores me to tear. >> my segment. >> its important but its so complicated and no one cares about the inner mechanismizations of this th...

Will go ahead and create state exchanges, or we could just push the pause buttton until they do. nobody seemed to dispute this was going to have unbelievable consequences on the ground. the only real question was, sort of getting out of the reading the statute, which is what were supposed to be doing, is how easy it is to fix it. >> in terms of the obama administration and political strategy around this, a lot of people are talking about the obama administration not coming up with a plan b, if t...

Reasoning to the justices, that if they rule against obamacare, it would have a huge material effect in the country. just the scope of the effect of what they might do, seemed to be weighing on their decision and the way they were talking about the rule of law in this case. >> what was so interesting is on the one hand you had the four liberal justices just coming out pummeling michael carvin who represented the petitioners here. no surprise there were four people who really do think there are d...

Represented the petitioners here. no surprise there were four people who really do think there are dire and i think the word they used is catastrophic consequences. but this is important. both justices antonin scalia and anthony scalia both conceded that there would be huge consequences, both used the word disastrous consequences catastrophic consequences. they just really had these ideas about fixes. so as you said justice scalia was like congress will fix it. justice alito said the states will...

Arguments released tomorrow but those who were inside the court say it could go either way. the board is deciding whether people who buy health insurance on the federal exchange healthcare.gov, are eligible for a subsidy or whether thats only for people who buy on state exchanges. our justice correspondent pete williams is watching the story. a ruling against the administration could, what? pretty much gut the affordable care act, right? >> thats what opponents say. if you can only get the subsi...

Law. it is the third time aspects of the affordable care act have gone before the justices. todays case is complicated, with potential for a big impact. ari melber is here to break it down for us. >> good morning, jose. you put your finger on it. this could be the biggest case of the year for the supreme court. lets get to it. you have challenges to obamacare here. the argument is this is not health care for all. the way the law was written, it is health care for some. they say it should only pr...