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>> from democrats on capitol hill as well, josh, with chuck schumer saying in a statement let me say definitively, the affordable care act is there. now we're going to make it bigger and better. we're going to talk about the politics of this significant rulinging in a moment, but i want to bring in former white house adviser andy slavitt and acting administrator for medicare and medicaid services. andy, your reaction to the new this morning? >> you know, when i sit back and think about it, it makes you kind of wonder, who would take away protections during the pandemic and they don't have stan...

We've been talking about how we might celebrate, but we're all pointing out it's not enough to celebrate the supreme court decision. we have to build back what we lost, including reputation. the affordable care act is a plan to build more affordable coverage, better coverage, and that couldn't be more important as we're coming out of covid-19 and they're working to pay bills and keep food on the table. >> let me reset. we are again activating and we have activated our breaking news team on this significant development on this thursday morning. the supreme court now for the third time upholding...

Say what the holding is today, it's as i mentioned. obamacare wins and you can have this kind of structure. if you want to talk with the kind of clash this was, this was somehow really taxing and troublesome for them as basically autonomous states, and the supreme court on a large coalition is saying, no, it wasn't that bad for you. you're not really hurt, which means you don't get to challenge the rest of this in court. so i would say, big, big picture, this is a very strong holding for obamacare because it certainly makes it hard if not impossible for certain states to get in the door next t...

To door number one. >> ari, just so i can let norfolks know what we're dealing with here, it has been printed out and handed to me. it's lengthy. i know you're reading through it. pete williams is as well. melissa murray is with us, former law clerk and now working for judge sotomayor. lay it out for us again. we know what the decision is. i'm going to ask my team to pull up which judge ruled which way. melissa, take us back to how this case originated in the first place and the path that it has gone on over the last, you know, months and months since it was argued. >> so, again, this case has...

You can't say as a state like texas, hey, i don't like it, let us in, let's relitigate the whole thing. >> ari, help us understand this for viewers who are non-lawyers. there are basically three pieces to this case. there was the standing question, whether texas was able to show injury here as you're talking about, there was the question of the individual mandate itself and the constitutionality, and the severability. it sound ts like it's the standing issue that has hung up this particular case? >> yeah. you have to get through that door number one before you even get to the other two things ...