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At court. we are looking for more information at this. we don't have a whole lot, it just crossed a few moments ago. we brought you into talk about a lot of other matters, but we will shift this for the moment. he argued in front of ruth bader ginsburg just really are what happened? >> she is mentally as sharp and quick as ever. i was sorry to hear the news this morning. we know that she has been battling health issues. she seems to have surmounted a lot of them, but actuarially, a lot of the justices are older, and things like this can happen. we will obviously stay tuned to this. as far as w...

To have health care for all, what can be done to make it more competitive so that insurance companies don't drop out? >> well, the first thing we have to do is the only way you can do it is force everybody to be in the individual market. you have to get healthy people in with sick people, younger people in with older people, to make it commercially viable. that's a real problem. again, unless you have mandatory insurance, which we tried. that didn't work very well. we could make it even more punitive, but i don't think the american people would like that. i think the main thing we could do rig...

Reinsurance system, and that is something that might work. i think ultimately, if you could find any way to get individuals into a large group where it makes sense for an insurance company to take them on, that's a possible solution. ultimately, i think the only way to do it is to allow any individual to buy into medicare on an actuarially established basis. >> if this goes down in the house or in the senate, do you think republicans take other pass at it? do they come up with a new plan? or do you think they leave it alone? where do you think it goes next if it doesn't pass? >> you know, stev...

20 in minneapolis. 20 in sioux falls which doesn't sound too bad, but when you factor in a steady wind over 20 miles per hour, it feels like it's minus 7 in bismarck, feels like it's only 2 degrees in minneapolis and sioux falls. and when those winds gust up to around 40 miles per hour, it feels like it's in the minus teens in this area. in the meantime, across the rest of the nation, we have a front that's bringing rain from michigan all the way down into eastern texas. and it's very warm right ahead of that, in fact, a big contrast in temperatures. you can see the rin rain back into western ...

These judges? >> that's absolutely true. i mean, because of harry reid, rather than a 60-vote majority, which would encourage a president to find consensus-building candidates, nominees, that could get both republicans and democrats behind them, that nuclear option just means 51% will confirm a judge except for on the u.s. supreme court. so that gives donald trump a big leeway with 52 republicans in -- in the senate right now, and what could happen is if the democrats try to filibuster one of his supreme court picks, the gop leadership can do their own nuclear option and change that rule as we...