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Irrelevant as soon as the supreme court of the united states makes a constitutional determination, right? that's basic constitutional law. >> no. that's not true. look, you would have hated lincoln because he disregarded dred scott 1857 decision that said black people weren't fully human. he disregarded it because he knew it was not operative. it was not logical. jefferson warned against judicial tyranny which he said would be the case if we ended up allowing a court ruling to become law without the other two branches coming in to agree. when i was governor and the state supreme court had a ru...

Care, jeffrey toobin is with me. first thing i wondered, i wondered why is it that the president can just stand up and say i've got the answer, i've got the fix. this is what we'll do, we'll give you a year pass on the cancellations? this is a law. how can you declare different aspect of the law? >> the president can't change the law. that's basic constitutional law. that's sort of how the system is set up. what the president is claiming, what he's doing is, he's changing deadlines. and that is something within his power traditionally. remember, obama care, one aspect of it, it says all insura...

Live from capitol hill. the president has promised to veto whatever comes his way if it even gets any farther than that. what exactly is in this bill that could be so damaging to obama care? >> reporter: democrats argue that what is in it is, as you said, it would gut the bill, or the law, i should say, and the reason is because unlike what the president proposed, which is just a one-year ability for people who already have cancelation policies in hands, this would allow everybody to keep their plans. not just people with the can keld plans. those plans are not up to par. so that would disrupt...