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Consequence tao constitutional logic. i do not lose any sleep with the fact he made this ruling. >> and it protected people with pre-existing conditions, and people who live with their parents can have insurance until they are 26 years, and the list goes on. when you wrote the law, when you guys crafted obamacare, you did believe the individual mandate to be extremely important, correct? >> thats correct. we thought the individual mandate was going to be very important to convincing people that ...

Of our presidents, and we live in a great country where comedians are allowed to make fun of our presidents, and thats one of the things that makes america great. >> yeah, and i mean, they have been giving it to both sides for decades, as you know. i think theres an expression that they probably use over at "snl" that are two words if they cant get the joke, and the president doesnt seem to get the joke anymore when it comes to "snl." >> we wont say those words, if they are what i am imagining. ...

Ruling. the main logic is the mandate is so essential to the law that nothing in the law can stand without the mandate. the reason you know its a silly ruling is we have not had a mandate with any enforceability since we passed the tax law because theres no penalty anymore and much of the law is going forward, laws like changing how doctors are being paid and improving the quality in hospitals, and investing in better workforce for the health care system. i like to say to my students the afforda...

And individual mandate should fall. >> bill: what do you do with 130 million americans with pre-existing conditions? and how do you manage that from a practical standpoint and a political standpoint, too? >> well look, the first issue here is what congress did constitutional and the answer is no. once we resolve that question and realize that obamacare is unconstitutional we have to have a solution. what i would suggest, which i think has worked over and over, is let the states resolve this. let...

Administration. the problem right now for barack obama is that i think a lot of this is so personal. he still is -- you can see he is irritated by the birther conspiracy. by the fact that president trump continued to endorse it directly, indirectly for so long. what you see is not only a party position but i think the personal reaction. >> bill: the big news is that the battle has been joined and youll see the two heavy weights go at it for 50 some odd days now. thank you all. you mentioned obam...

Absolutely we were confident that we were right on the constitution, right on the law. we still are. >> sandra: weve chatted about this with you along the way. youve been leading this charge. 20 states involved. what do we need to know, our viewers need to know about what you are hearing from the states at this point on this? >> well, one is its a pretty large coalition. there are lots of states interested in having the opportunity to set their own policies on healthcare. i think it is largely b...

And if we have exceptions to that, then we start changing the way our government is operating, then it limits the ability of people to have impact on their government. >> sandra: want to give an idea of what democrats are saying on this. chuck schumer leading democrat on the lawsuit said the republican-backed lawsuits that takes away protections with pre-existing conditions makes the stakes as high as could be. to him you say what? >> look, i understand that he wants the federal government to di...

>> sandra: obamacare facing one of its biggest challenges to date in a 20-state lawsuit against the affordable care act. a group of republican state attorneys general are trying to do in a federal courtroom what congress has not been able to do. get rid of obamacare. leading the group is texas attorney general ken paxton. he joins us now. so can you succeed, ken, where congress has failed? >> i think were very likely to succeed. if youll remember the u.s. supreme court said obamacare was tethere...

How much is riding on the mid-terms and he wants to lend his voice and his support to those democratic candidates and to fire up. fire up the base to get them out there. >> sandra: wouldnt be so bad if it benefited his party, right, bill? >> he is trying to get the obama coalition to come out. one of the problems is that they didnt come out during the two mid-terms when he was president. so it is a question. it also kind of points to the lack of a democratic message other than maybe impeachment ...

Everything he did his major achievements. paris accord didnt go through congress. he did it executive power overreach. >> bill: the point that kellyanne conway is making on that. obamas policies were built on sand and they were very easily able. >> thats the problem when you build it. he said i have a pen and phone. when you build it on that rather than legislative achievement. the two big achievements were the stimulus and obamacare, right? a lot of the other stuff was executive order. he who l...