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republicans blasting the president's health care law as a new tax. >> it's a penalty. it's a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1% perhaps of the population who may decide they are going to be free riders, but most people not affected. >> a new tax on the american people? >> no, not a tax on the american people. a penalty for free riders. >> also new today, house speaker john boehner saying hey, not so fast. >> even though the president tried to admit for over a year that it wasn't a tax, nobody believed it, and now we know it. but it's getting in the way of employers hiri...

severe weather around the country has left more than 2 million people without power. most of them in the washington, d.c. area. so check on your friends, family and neighbors and make sure they're okay. but now to our top political story. after months of anticipation and partisan predictions by democrats and republicans on how the supreme court would rule, we finally got the answer on health care. thursday yielded one of the biggest decisions by the supreme court since 2000. and chief justice john roberts not only saved the individual mandate but may have rescued the highest court in...

vote during her but interview because a leader's job is never done. i started by asking pelosi how she felt when the decision was announced. you literally through a party. how did it feel at a core level, how did that decision feel to you? >> when we first received the word, i wasn't surprised because i've always said 6-3. it was 5-4, but i accept that victory and that decision. and that ruling. we were needing or meeting in caucus when we knew that it was imminent and there were conflicting reports, as you said, for only a moment. and then the hoops went up, hooray. we had our cake ...

and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. i'm jenna wolfe. >> and i'm jeff rossen. lester has the morning off. and really, the weather is wreaking havoc across the country. >> it really has. 25 states are going to see 100-plus-degree temperatures today, and they are widespread power outages from indiana to new jersey, all across the country, potentially dangerous ones in this heat. >> yeah, a lot of people are tweeting who are actually in the line of these storms and it was pretty severe. we'll get to that in a moment. the scorching temperatures have already caused misery ac...

and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. i'm jenna wolfe. >> and i'm jeff rossen. lester has the morning off. and really, the weather is wreaking havoc across the country. >> it really has. 25 states are going to see 100-plus-degree temperatures today, and they are widespread power outages from indiana to new jersey, all across the country, potentially dangerous ones in this heat. >> yeah, a lot of people are tweeting who are actually in the line of these storms and it was pretty severe. we'll get to that in a moment. the scorching temperatures have already caused misery ac...