Happening this morning, the Supreme Court will take up the latest challenge to the Affordable Care act. Much more on that throughout todays washington journal. Democratslenny gainthis is the houston chronicle. This is a failure. To fund the department through september. No strings attached. Here is the front page of the boston globe. The house oks homeland funding. Divisions widen between john boehner and hardline conservative republicans. Also this morning their headline on this story. Homeland security receives funding. They say the gop capitulates but the war is not over. This is immigration is the reaction from capitol hill. I voted against this because it does not deny funding for the president unconstitutional action. He voted against what the speaker wanted to do. Since it democrats refuse Senate Democrats refuse to compromise. Another chairman who oversees reform panel voted no on the funding bill. I will not power amnesty. Harry reid tweeted out open or i hope we all i hope we all learn the right lessons from this unnecessary showdown. Common ground to be something we seek. You can weigh in on what the republican did. This morning. Lets go to dean. You are up first. Go ahead. Caller thank you so much. If our country ever needed a leader Like Netanyahu it is today. Maybe we could run for president sent obama lied about his birth. When that the a great day . Host republican. Caller good morning. It is great to speak with you. Im all the way back from january of last year. I also wanted to talk about Benjamin Netanyahus speech. I was taken aback by what he had to say. I was very pleased. I think the last caller is correct on the fact that we need a leader Like Netanyahu. A quick thing i want to bring up. A Supreme Court case that will be heard today concerning the subsidies is pretty clear. It is written in the language that only the states that the federal government cannot hand out subsidies. The federal government has to do that. If the Supreme Court was to look at the law itself it should not down what has in going on. I hope you stay tuned in. Were going to be talking about the case from both sides, how both sides see this. What did congress intend when they wrote those four words established by the state . Good morning. Caller i am almost 70 years old. Ive never seen the disrespect for a sitting president. Asking someone from another country to come in and speak it republicans are happy. Ive never seen the disrespect to any president. This is the same guy that [indiscernible] i do not understand. You want to know why we cannot get together in this country . Republicans are saying were not going to do whatever you say as long as you do what we are a everything is ok what we say, everything is ok. Host mavis in fort lauderdale. We are on open owns. What are your thoughts . Caller i am calling in reference to Benjamin Netanyahus picking. It is amazing to me that republicans can be so happy with what happened yesterday. When you look at netanyahu, he was the same guy who came to congress in 2002. Where did that lead us . The iraq war. He wants American Kids to fight the war. There is nobody from israel right now fighting against isis. If anybody needs to go it is the americans. The republicans a show to such industries and divided this country. I feel so inclined to think about the israeli will, it is beginning to bring separation. It does not matter about the government. The government is the people. Host kathryn in baltimore. Democratic caller. What are your thoughts . Caller i would hope america would understand that we only the president because he is supposed to represent all the. All the people. It is better for us to Work Together than be separated. We must take into consideration all of the will. No one loves israel more than america does. I am not quite sure such a political speech was allowed in the u. S. Congress. We applaud the efforts of the congress to move the Homeland Security bill forward. Host that speech was a joint meeting. It took was in the house chamber. If you missed that you can go to our website. Another headline this morning. This is the Washington Times. The New York Times is reporting yesterday that Hillary Clinton used a personal email. It was highly unusual according to regulators for her to have done this. If you want to weigh in on that story as well. On the israeli Prime Minister speech, this is the first page. Netanyahu bashes a very bad deal. They also note that the leader of the senate laid the groundwork tuesday for lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring congressional approval of any iran nuclear agreement. They plan tos the that the measure. He said he would vote against any effort to take up that though. They will try to advance that legislation as early as monday when the senate is in session. Also on this speech by the israeli Prime Minister, he put this online yesterday. He noted that sitting here was the holocaust survivor. And newt gingrich. Democratic caller. Good morning. Caller listen. My comment is on the speech yesterday. It was a great speech. He is proposing this to take place. Cannot undermine what the president is trying to do. You really do not even know what the whole deal is. I cannot believe that we have such open opposition to undermine what our president is trying to do. There is no alternative to doing nothing would be better than trying. I cannot believe what you would undermine our president. He is trying to come up with a solution to prevent maybe a disaster from a country that is trying to undermine everybody for their own interest area that is my comment. Host republican. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. How are you . Another issue that clearly falls along partisan lines, i cant at least reach as well. I loved it. I thought it was and has to. I am not sure is a lot of the critics this morning that actually watched or listened to it Prime Minister netanyahu did nothing but think the United States congress, america, and president for all of the support. Everything else that the United States has provided. It was a lot of lavish praise. It was a good speech. Before he turned to what he thinks was a bad deal. We have to take this in perspective. We have six countries that are negotiating with iran. The p5 1. Israels not allowed to sit at the table to talk about whether iran will be able to proceed Going Forward with developing nuclear power. Israel is the nation that is most threatened by it. By a nuclear iran, phenomenal. That is really what he was talking about. This is an x essential threat. The democrats and obama have taken it as an insult or a di ss or whatever, this shows how liberals and conservatives view the world and. Host i do want to share with the viewers what countries are have permanent status with them. We want to talk a little bit more about the case that looks at whether or not congress intended for subsidies for those people enrolled in federally run exchanges. Michael is joining us on the phone. The legal argument against subsidies. Explain your thinking here. Guest host thank you for having me. This is about tens of millions of americans like kevin pays he was a professor of music and virginia. His hours were cut by his employer, leaving him with a k cut of 8,000 because the irs illegally imposed the Obamacare Mandate on his employer. The clearly denied the irs that authority. He and tens of millions of other americans are being subjected to the mandates. It is in violation of the clear language of the law. The other americans are suffering. Some of them have lost jobs. This is not what Health Care Reform is about. Those things are bad enough if they are imposed illegally. Here they are being imposed illegally. We expect the Supreme Court to disagree with the two lower courts. Host you are referring to section 1311. An exchange shall be a nonprofit entity that is established by the state. The supporter of the subsidies say that those four words are a term of art. It is either established by ace eight or by the federal go on behalf of this. Host the way that these taxes work is that they are triggered when people are available. This is a different session that has the operative language. They are only available through an exchange established by the state. There is no question what this means. However, it is when they are available in the states that employers are penalized for the mandate. Many are penalized because of the way they are just with one another. 38 states have failed to establish help insurance exchanges. The subsidies are not available in those states. The subsidies are subjected to the mandate. It has subjected them to that mandate. The subsidies were also there. Host if the court rules that the subsidies are illegal report showed that as many as a nine people a Million People from work and lose the subsidies and possibly not be able to afford healthcare insurance. Host a lot of people do not like that out, night and one of them. When people say that premiums will skyrocket for it is a bad thing of the cost of this law that will be me transparent made transparent, they are complaining about the Affordable Care act and how it actually works. Transparency is a good thing. If the cost of obamacare is more than the people are willing to bear, that creates an opportunity for congress to enact better Health Care Reforms that reduce the cost of care incidents increasing the cost. 202 7370001host republicans say they have a plan b. What do you make of the plan b . Caller the administration is not telling us what it is. They have been very careful in the way they have used their words. It is irresponsible not to talk about what it will do. The president made them a all promised. They should be given the opportunity to plan for the subsidies disappearing. The president is not notifying them of a very important risk of their obamaCare Coverage. Republicans are coalescing around a general approach truce wanting to this. It is hard for them to do so when the administration will not say what it is when to do. Caller host would justice will you be watching . Who are you listening for . Caller if this meeting were about anything but obamacare and the court would rule to the plate because the issues are that clear. Host that is what you think. Ok. Thank you for your time. He will be joining us to talk more about what he heard from the court today. Also on the own, we have the other side. Elizabeth is the chief counsel for the accountability center. She standing to the way to be let into the court today. She wrote the brief to the Supreme Court are doing a favor for federally run exchanges for half of lawmakers on capitol hill. Lets begin with whitey you believe congress intended the subsidies for all the exchanges . Host tax credits are available to all americans who need them. If you read the law and actually read it and not read it out of context, the losses tax credit shall be allowed for americans that have the income level. If you meet that income level requirement, then you shall get these regardless of the state you live. The text is clear. When you read this in context with the rest of the law it is clear that is the way the law is written. When you look at the intent of the members of congress who wrote it, it is 100 clear that congress thought it would be available across the country to all americans who need of financial assistance. Host while the congress include established by the state. Caller the solicitor general has done a really great job showing that this is a term of art. It is used all the time and reflects the fact that they will be run at the state level rather than a single marketplace. It says that if the State Government does not established its own exchange, the federal government will step into the shoes of the state and establish such exchange. When you read the whole statute which is what the Supreme Court tells us to do incident isolation, it is clear that the tax credits would be available to all americans. Host when you wrote your brief you referenced one section of the law, 1401. The term why did you reference this part of the Affordable Care act . Caller that is what part of the long talks about. The challengers gloss over the fact that the part of the law they put their entire argument on is the entire amount of the tax subsidies here is that saying who they go to. The part of the law we reference is those who say who gets the tax credit. It is based solely on income and not the state you live in. It is not just supporters of the law. If you go back to the law, you see folks opposed to the Affordable Care act saying it depends on your income and folks who meet the encumbered armand will be getting income requirement will be getting what he said was a bad thing. The possible republican president ial candidate in 2016, scott walker, designed his entire state health on the assumption that even if the federal Government Read the exchange in his estate that americans who met the income requirement would get tax credit. Both members of congress and supporters of the law understood tax credits to be available in all states across the country for americans who need them. Even in accordance with the law understood that to be the case. State understood the tax credit to apply. Host you are about to be let into the court. You will get a seat there in the courtroom today. Who will you be watching . What are you listening for . Caller i do agree with my friend on the other side. I will be watching all of the justices. All nine justices have signed on to the idea that courts when they interpret statutes are to read statute in their context and entirety and not take provisions in context. We do that in this case and it will be a clear win for the government. I think they are concerned about federalism like Justice Kennedy in familiar. He will be looking at the idea that the state never got the message that the challenger said it was to send it. They said they should set them up. That is a big argument. Host thank you for your time. She will also be part of our sundays washington journal roundtable discussion. We will be talking about it throughout todays washington journal. I want to get back to more of your phone calls this morning. Kevin in maryland, democratic caller. Go ahead. Caller how are you doing . Host i am doing well, sir. Caller im going to take a few seconds to share this with you. I would like to go back to the beginning on the Prime Ministers visit. If it is true that the president of the United States was not informed of the visit i think that was very disrespectful. I spent 30 years in the United States marine corps and i know the importance of keeping the chain of command informed. If eestnet not him in there more or less, that was very if they snuck him and there more or less, that was very tacky. All they had to do was tell him that he would come anyway. I do not see why it was such a secret type of thing. Host i am going to try to get in another phone call before i do that. I want to thank in a few headlines. Racially biased policing in ferguson. Also this headline from the st. Louis dispatch this morning. All eyes made by president obamas task force. Policies manning profiling waste on race, Sexual Orientation and other factors. Jim and georgia, republican. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I enjoy your show. A couple of comments. It kills me to hear about how disrespect the republicans have been about netanyahus visit. They seem to forget, the liberals do, that george bush was in commented, stupid, dumb, couldnt give a speech. That was ok. Main street media never reported that. Every time you turned around with clinton there was a scandal. Host many of you calling in about the israeli Prime Ministers. You will have a chance to do so again if we missed you. The last hour we will go back to open phones in todays top stories. Next he will talk about the Supreme Court reporter for the wall street journal of more about this case. Later people delve into this Health Care Law and talk about subsidies with a longterm reporter now with Kaiser Health news. Heres a little bit of the Prime Ministers speech yesterday for a joint meeting of congress. [video clip] i know my speech has been the subject of much controversy. I deeply regret that some perceived by being here as political. That was never my intention. I want to thank you, democrats and republicans, for your common support to israel year after year, decade after decade. [applause] i know that no matter what side and the ill use it, you stand with israel. What side of the aisle you sent, you stand with israel. [applause] [cheers and applause] the remarkable alliance between israel and the United States has always been above politics. It must always remain above politics. America and israel shares a common destiny. The destiny of promise lands and freedom all for hope. Israel is grateful for the support of americas people and of americas president s from harry truman to barack obama. [applause] we appreciate all that president obama has done for israel. Some of that is widely known. [applause] like strengthening Security Cooperation and intelligence sharing, opposing antiisrael resolutions at the u. N. Some of what the president has done for israel is less wellknown. I called