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Cost for other people. that's unlike every other part of the market and i think that's the limiting principle the courts will find persuasive. >> you challenged the government's lawyer about this law and the precedent that it would set. scalia made what he called the broccoli argument. here he is making it. let's listen. >> why do you define the market that broadly? health care. it may well be that everybody needs health care sooner or later, but not everybody needs a heart transplant, not everybody needs a liver transplant. >> that's correct, justice scalia, but you never know whether you're ...

Courts will find persuasive. >> you challenged the government's lawyer about this law and the precedent that it would set. scalia made what he called the broccoli argument. let's listen. >> why do you define the market that broadly? health care. it may well be that everybody needs health care sooner or later, but not everybody needs a heart transplant, not everybody needs a liver transplant. >> that's correct, justice scalia, but you never know whether you're going to be that person. >> could you define the market -- everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food, ...

Talk of tyranny and freedom and broccoli everywhere. i think tomorrow's the big day but by every measure. >> what is the broccoli argument? >> i'm obsessed with broccoli. the argument at its very core if the government can force you to purchase something that you don't want to purchase and that's the argument here that's been made by the challengers is what is unprecedented here is not that the government is regulating activity but for the first time they are regulating inactivity. you just want to be in your house, you want to be left alone. fp your kidney fail t you want to pop it back in, l...

annan is in china rallying support for the peace plan today. both china and russia opposed previous attempts to take tough actions against the syrian regime. we are now in the second hour of the second day of historic supreme court arguments on the affordable care act, health insurance for all. four separate issues are taking up six hours of court time over three days. today, the biggie, whether americans can be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. critics say it's unconstitutional. supporters say getting everybody in the pool is the only way to spread out the risk an...

Making at the supreme court, and they're going to make it especially tomorrow. megyn: yeah. they say that it's unprecedented to regulate somebody who's just sitting on their couch -- >> reporter: right. megyn: but the argument on the other side is, you know, the odds of you staying on your couch and never entering the medical system are slim and none. >> reporter: by the way, it's the broccoli argument, that was a huge oral argument in a lower court of appeals, you know, at some point in time are they going to tell us you've got to eat broccoli and cauliflower, are you going to have to join a ...