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welcome, everybody. "starting point" this morning is the historic day for the supreme court this morning at 10:00 eastern time we'll find out the fate of president obama's health care law. it is a law that will affect every american in this country. we have coverage from all angles this morning. the team, the former senior advisor to bill clinton and worked for the administration when president clinton was proposing his health care reform plan in 1993. dr. sanjay gupta is with us, cnn's chief medical correspondent and also in his free time a practicing neurosurgeon at a public hospit...

Aapproval, what is going on here? are the republicans better at messaging? >> there's a vicious cycle that's gone on. i think that the bill was never properly explained to people, and it got tarnished by a very messy legislative process and sometimes the process takes over people's perception of the bill. that's not surprising. when you look at the individual components as you said, a lot of bill is very popular. the most controversial part the individual mandate was put in there as a concession to conservatives. it was a conservative idea. liberals preferred a mandate on business or a single ...

>> the affordable care act. where did it come from? it was a republican proposal. >> mitt romney. >> it was. it was a conservative idea. >> not just romney. it was the republican alternative to the clinton plan. it's markets. it's exchanges. >> well, we would disagree here. >> no, joe, it was a conservative idea. >> listen, i think the reason the system works is because bill clinton got elected in 1992. and i think he went too far left. voters two years later were able to knock him back. republicans took over in '94. and i have always said in many ways we went too far right. voters answered, k...

Endorsement of marriage equality so powerful? >> good morning. thanks for having me. i think what andrew says, and i think this is correct, when you actually have the president of the united states come out and support something like this, make that personal statement, as andrew wrote, it has the power to shift the conversation and i think it was -- clearly for andrew, particular very powerful moment since he has been working on this issue and writing about it and one of the chief intellectual authors of same-sex marriage equality as a conservative idea. very -- just a very powerful moment for...

ron paul ending active campaign in hissed by for the republican nomination. the thing is, he's still going after delegates. yes, mitt romney aside, he's working the state conventions. we've got more on that in a moment. but first, for the second time in a week, tongues are wagging over an edgy magazine cover. have you seen the latest? it's "newsweek" saying president obama is the first gay president. it his the response to presiden obama's interview last week with abc news. last week, the mom enough cover was really provocative. anyone who is living in a cave and just came out, b the...