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First, the trump administration losing yet another cabinet member. interior secretary, ryan zinke, has resigned and will leave the administration at the end of the year. he has growing scrutiny because of a number of investigations. right now we move on to our other breaking story, the future of health care for millions of americans is up in the air. a federal judge in texas striking down obamacare, a controversial ruling that is setting the scene for a major legal battle ahead. this could leave the fate of obama's health care landmark law in the hands of the courts. the mandate that requires ...

We need to bring down the cost and we need to make sure it's affordable for everybody, and we need to make sure small businesses can afford it. a lot of challenges for the affordable care act. you know, it's a great start. pre-existing conditions, very important to a lot of us, and a lot of good things in the aca, let's move forward. >> all right. i wanted to ask you about something that you had tweeted out a couple days ago. this, of course, in regards to the death of that 7-year-old girl at the border earlier this week, jacqueline is her name. the department of homeland security leadership m...

Supreme court would actually rule on this because of the new makeup of the court? >> right, there's the new makeup of the court. you have to, you know, the court has upheld this law two times, not only -- not once but twice, but the thing is is this time they might be concerned with something we called severability. that is if you strike down one provision of the law, can you really -- can one judge strike down the whole thing? a and they'll also look at the intent of congress. congress could have decided not to allow the whole thing to go into effect, and it didn't, so the justices, if it get...

The affordable care act, that is that a major staple of the law, the pre-existing conditions on both sides among democrats and republicans. joining me now is one of the architects of obamacare, jonathan gruber. thank you so much for joining us this morning. what is your reaction to the ruling out of texas? >> i think it's disappointing. it's a per version of representative democracy. republicans control the congress and had a chance to strike down obamacare and they said no, we are going to leave obamacare and strike down the tax penalty. they have said it's severable. republicans have spoken ...

In texas struck down obamacare. >> he says the mandate is unconstitutional and without it the entire affordable care act is invalid. >> attorney generals in several states have been preparing their appeals, and this is happening on the same day as the year's obamacare signup deadline is here, it basically ends at midnight tonight in most states, we should point out. >> the judge did not block the law so you can still sign up. joining us now to explain what happens next in this case, cnn supreme court reporter. in the short term and long term as people look ahead to the supreme court in getting...