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Influenced by outside pressure? cbs said quote, over the next six weeks as roberts began to craft the decision striking down the mandate, the external pressure began to grow. roberts almost certainly was aware of it. roberts pays pays attention to cover. he's keenly aware of his role in the court and he's sensitive to how his court is perceived in the public. does it make sense to you that perhaps he took one for the team? you have charles on the left saying this is why roberts may have taken this path. >> it's plausible, but i don't see this as some kind of capitulation to pressure because if...

There is a case in which the court finds and scalia writes in the majority it is an exercise of commerce claus powers to regulate marijuana grown inside your own house. how do you square that ruling where he says that's within the commerce clause's powers but this is not. >> it's easy to do. you're smiling but the audience doesn't know. i brought that case, argued in the court and lost 6-3. in the commerce clause i got five votes this time. it's simply that the case didn't involve the idea of compelling anyone to grow marijuana. the justice said if it was necessary to enforce an interstate ban...

ruled it constitutional, including the individual mandate, that roirs every american to have health insurance. i want to go now to our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. and i'm hearing, jessica, that you're just now learning sort of the match natichinations, what n as president obama learned the ruling himself. >> reporter: that's right, brooke. i've told by senior administration officials that the president was standing in the admiral oval office, it's called, the sort of area where his assistants sit right outside the oval office proper, watching a television screen ...

Line of cases stretches back to the new deal, that the supreme court is going to look at this law initially and say probably it's constitutional under the commerce claus. however, there's no question that this health care reform law goes further and that any other economic law in the past in that it requires people to purchase insurance as its opponents say merely just for breathing. in other words, in most states you're required to buy car insurance right? here in california i'm required as a motorist to buy car insurance but i can opt out of that by refusing to drive. under the health care r...

Exciting new plan to keep the affordable care act from stealing your freedom. they will fight it in the states. states can't actually overturn federal law, but they can maybe, possibly be convinced to refuse to go along with it. that's what the republicans are trying to do. michele bachmann has joined 12 republican senators and 60 republican house members to send a letter to all of the house members, asking them, begging them not to cooperate with the affordable care act. it says the supreme court has ruled significant parts of the medicaid expansion of the president's health care law unconsti...