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Rewrote obamacare in order to force that law on millions of americans. use john roberts' famous analogy they stopped calling balls and strike and they put on a jersey and joined a team forcing that failed law on americans. on friday the marriage decision was directly contrary to the constitution. it was as justice scalia observed five unelected judging saying their liberal policy views trump the considered judgment of 320 million americans. it was judicial activism. >> how many times have you argued in front of the supreme court? >> nine times. >> i'm looking at these cases. in the 2012 case t...

Or state exchanges. plaintiffs had argued that because the law says exchanges must be established by the state that 6.4 million people who bought insurance on federal exchanges should not receive subsidies. the court's ruling was the second time in three years the justices had upheld the president's signature legislation but this time the ruling was more robust. chief justice john roberts wrote in the court's majority opinion congress passed the affordable care act to improve health insurance markets not to destroy them. after the ruling was announced the president celebrated the historic win....

Vote in the primaries. let's get rid of the supreme court essentially which is what bobby jindal said they have to say things like this because they have to make headway. they need to get two or two percentage points. the problem is it paints the party as being against what independents and what democrats think is the right way to go. that's not going to be helpful. >> with respect to obamacare you wrote that republican voters won even if the gop lost. >> what this obamacare ruling focused on was the federal exchange and people who weren't in state exchanges. state changes exist in new york an...

>> david axelrod and neera tanden, thank you both for joining us. joining me now, 2016 democratic presidential candidate, bernie sanders. i know you were on the health committee as it was crafting the senate version of the -- of what became the affordable care act. your reaction to today's decision? >> well, it was a very common sense decision. i was on the committee pip went to 8 zillion meetings to discuss the issue. and to write the legislation. nobody but nobody distinguished between federal exchanges and state exchanges. that was a nonissue, which some white-wing guys picked up on, hoping...

Some states chose to do it. 16 states chose to do it. 34 states didn't. what this lawsuit was about was the people in those 34 states would the subsidies be available to them? there's 6.5 million people on these state exchanges and the question is would these 6.5 million people lose their health -- lose their subsidies and all likelihood lose their health insurance. the supreme court today said no. they will not lose the subsidy subsidies. so they will continue to get health insurance. it really assures the future of health insurance under obama obamacare for really the foreseeable future in t...