underscores the urgency of repealing this harmful law in its entirety. shepard: the house majority leader eric cantor has scheduled for july the 11th a vote to repeal the healthcare law. even if it does pass in the house, and most believe it will, the repeal would have virtually no chance of getting through the democratic controlled senate. obama care, as conservatives first dubbed it and as the president now calls it is the law of the land. team fox coverage now. ed henry covering the president and carl cammeron on governor romney s reaction. first to shannon bream our supreme court correspondent who is live there tonight. shannon, details, please. all right. this is how it went down, shepard. supporters of this law often fought and often argued that it would be upheld under the commerce clause. the congress had the power to create this mandate under that vehicle. but today the chief justice john roberts joined the liberal wing of the supreme court and said you can do it but not u
for the american people. our mission is clear. if we want to get rid of obama care, we re going to have to replace president obama. shepard: and it appears the governor s supporters are listening. according to his spokeswoman, the romney campaign raised $300,000 in the first hour after the ruling came down. and since this morning, that number has reportedly ballooned to more than $2.5 million. team fox coverage continues now. carl cammeron in washington. so the governor is using this as a rally cry. evidently people are hearing it, too. they have had tens of thousands of donors. they have about 25,000 donors 2:00 this afternoon. the numbers are clearly higher than that basically romney as you said get rid of obama care help him get rid of the president. romney already outlined the fixes he planned. talked about it back in may. he regularly pledges to protect the most popular parts of the affordable care act he says that he will keep if he is elected and can repeal and replace it wa
morning to you. jamie: could be one of the biggest of our generation. i m jamie colby. welcome that owl of to all of you. all of this started more than two years ago when president obama signed the bill into law. that signing ceremony sparking this now-famous line from vice president joe biden. [applause] bill: but the backlash from republicans came swiftly, and at times it was strong. the american people have every right to oppose this government takeover of health care without being lumped in with bigots and vandals by liberals in congress and in the mainstream press. it will remain of this body because of the unilateral, secretive, rushed process that s been use today force this bill on the american people. bill: now we are two years later. the supreme court has its say this morning, and we have team
as long as this provision remains, innocent american citizens are in danger of being detained by police unless they carry immigration papers with them at all times. shepard: , arizona s immigration law will likely face more challenges in the weeks and months ahead. and five other states have also passed legislation similar to that in arizona. so today s ruling doesn t end the fight. far from it. it doesn t mark the end of one significant showdown. and now we have team fox coverage. ed henry on president obama s strategy and reaction. carl cammeron on the governor romney reaction. first, to shannon bream live at the supreme court with details on the ruling. shannon, explain more about why the justices ruled the way they did. well, the majority of the justices came together in an opinion authored by justice anthony kennedy. the bottom line on the three provisions they struck down were that those provisions were preempted by federal law. federal immigration law and enforcement is up
team fox coverage continued with carl cammeron who is live with the romney camp in scottsdale, arizona tonight. governor romney was very clear about this. he was for this arizona law when he was in the primary season, but now he is in the general election season, is he not taking a position. well, that s not exactly right. but, he was definitely criticized today for trying to sort of walk a very fine line initial utterances about. this he too put out a paper statement in which he said states have a rirkts indeed an obligation and duty he said to protect their borders and protect their security when the federal government isn t doing it and he spent much of his time criticizing president obama as he has in recent weeks saying that obama s immigration policies have essentially failed the nation. later this afternoon at a fundraiser not open to cameras, romney spoke a little bit longer and he he said, and i quote. given the failure of immigration policy in this country, i would have pre