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They don't leave their people without this federal subsidy. so let's remember what's at stake here health insurance for probably some 8 million people because the government argues without the federal subsidy, those people low and moderate income people would not be able to afford insurance. the stakes are very high. after an hour and a half of argument the outcome of this case is impossible to predict. >> so interesting. pete, thank you very much. appreciate that live update. straight ahead, follow up to a story we brought you a few months ago, a man brutally attacked, suffered a concussion...

Williams was inside the court. pete what can you tell us? >> reporter: tamron, i can't tell you what the outcome of this case is going to be for two reasons. the likely deciding votes in this case will be the chief justice, john roberts and anthony kennedy who often is the deciding votes. chief justice roberts said almost nothing today during the hour and a half arguments here. he did not pepper the government's lawyers with questions as he did three years ago when the obamacare case was here in its infancy, so we can't really read anything into that. i don't know whether it means he has made ...

Strongest supporters of the creative way in which he crafted the majority opinion in the obamacare case. i'm not to suggest that motivates people for lifetime appointment but he is a human being and aware of where all this is going. martha: it strikes me this court has an opportunity in this hobby lobby case to make some larger potential comments on how all of this affects whether or not a corporation is a person so to speak. we will touch on that in just a moment. a quick break as a way for the decision to come in, and we will be right back with more. >> he woman who brought that case, pamela...

Says, but says all powers listed in the constitution are begin to the congress. if it's not in the constitution, congress does not have the power to do that. john: but they do it all the time. >> that's true, they do. unfortunately, the elected officials have a huge incentive to do what they think is popular. john: and the supreme court, for the most part, has not symptommed them. >> the supreme court goes with joust overreaching, especially in the obamacare case. what happened was the supreme court said, well, the government can't force people to buy things. now, that was, itself, actually a ...

Says. it says all of the powers listed in the constitution are given to congress. if it is not in the constitution congress does not have the power to do that. >> they do it all the time. >> that's true. they do. unfortunately, the -- elected officials have a huge incentive to do whatever they think is popular. >> the supreme court for the most part hasn't stopped them. >> a lot of time the supreme court has gone along with the government overreaching. most obviously in the obamacare case. for example, in obamacare what happened was the supreme court said that, well the government can't force ...