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law has been ddivisive. i respect the very real concerns americans have shared. i know a lot of coverage through this health care debate has focused on what it means politically. it should be clear by now i didn t do this because it was good politics. president obama today. here s mitt romney. i disagree with the supreme court s decision. i agree with the dissent. what the court did not do on its last day in session i will do on my first day if elected president of the united states. i will act to repeal obama care. governor romney called it bad law and bad policy. but keeping them honest it is also nearly identical to his own plan as governor of massachusetts. as for the mandate, well, keeping them honest, justice roberts today contradicted a key claim the president made. the president said that mandate was not a tax. for us to say that you ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. what it s saying is we re not go ....
i know the debate over this law has been divisive. i respect the very real concerns americans have shared. i know a lot of coverage through this health care debate has focused on what it means politically. well, it should be pretty clear by now that i didn t do this because it was good politics. i did it because i believed it was good for the country. president obama today. here s mitt romney. as you might imagine, i disagree with the supreme court s decision. and it agree with the dissent. what the court did not do on its last day in session, i will do on my first day if elected president of the united states. and that is, i will act to repeal obama care. governor romney called it bad law and bad policy. but keeping them honest, it is also nearly identical to his own plan as governor of massachusetts. as for the mandate, well, keeping them honest, justice roberts today contradicted a key claim the president made. the president said that mandate was not a tax. ....
craft bobbing in the water there. not going anywhere today. most of the entire central and north part of the state is right now under a tornado watch, not a warning but a watch. a good indication of just the breadth of this storm, tropical storm debby and how far its reach. from tornadoes to water spouts to flooding in the tampa area, to the one death in venus, florida, reported so far. heavy rainfall. maybe up to 20 or 25 inches before all is said and done. we re going to continue to get pounded for at least the next couple of days. soledad? you ll be in the middle of it. john, thanks for the update. we ll keep checking in. tornado and flood warnings are still in effect today. let s get right to meteorologist alexandra steele, in for rob this morning. he made really great points, john, did, because what we re looking at is this is the tropical storm and it is stationary. that s been the biggest problem with this thing. there s no momentum. there s no movement bec ....
in afghanistan. for three days unprecedented for a single case, justices argued about president obama s massive health care law. we ve been getting lots of questions, which i ll try to answer in just a minute. first, let s get a quick recap. remember, the most controversial part of the law is the so-called individual mandate. that s the requirement that you carry insurance. is it constitutional? it s balancing the other part of the law that the insurance company must cover people who get sick. without healthy people in the system, companies say they would have to make rates, premium rates, sky-high for everyone, but critics say you can t force individuals to buy a private product like health insurance. the government says that s not it. everyone gets medical care sooner or later. requiring insurance is just a way to make sure that other people don t foot the bill. justice scalia didn t seem to buy this. how do you define the market that broadly? health care. it ma ....
down, can the rest of the law remain in effect? can it vooifr? it sounds like at least one justice believes it can. there s so many things in this act that unquestionably okay. we concede that reauthorizing the indian health care improvement act changes to the black long benefits. why make congress redo those? it s a question of whether we say everything you did is no good, now start from scratch. and once again, we have jeff toobin outside the supreme court. i know court observers, they re not surprised by the support from justice ginsburg, you know, a liberal. what did you read when you were listening so closely to those questions from the other justices. what did you hear today? well, to me, the most important thing that i heard in this morning was anthony kennedy, the all important swing vote asking question after question about what happens when we declare the individual mandate unconstitutional. now, it could be that he was just speculating about the possibi ....