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Good morning, peter. >> reporter: good morning. today's ruling could change obamacare forever. it all depends on how broad or narrow the decision turns out to be. the question facing the nine justices of the supreme court today is simple: can the government force private business owners like the green family that owns hobby lobby and has religious okays to some forms of birth control, to give their employees free birth control? lawyers for hobby lobby don't think they can. >> we think we're going to win. it was very evident during oral arguments in march that the government's case was very wea...

Everything in the affordable care act including 16 out of the 28 f.d.a. approved con ra -- contraceptives. they cannot participate in the payment of these drugs. they don't have an issue with the employees iewtion the -- with the employees using these drugs, they just cannot pay for them. >> the hobby lobby corporation is providing 16 different kinds of contraceptions but there's the fourth kind that the family simply is against. why is the family against those four? >> these four drugs and devices, and the government itself admits this, can cause an early form of abortion and the grown family...

Next week to raise minimum wage. republicans voting today on a plan to roll back part of obamacare that they say will actually boost workers' hours. >> the american people deserve a fair shot. >> americans continue to ask the question, where are the jobs? >> it's time for people who are making the minimum wage to make more than a poverty wage. >> we want to restore the 40-hour work weweek. save americans workers act would do that by repealing the provision within obamacare that defines full time as 30 hours. >> 50 years later we are still fighting for equal pay for equal work. >> you know, the...

They accomplishing? >> they're laying the groundwork for the november elections. i mean, john maynard talked about not a lot of governing happening in the next seven months, people know that already. the minimum wage is popular. raising it popular. most democrats support it, most ibd dense and even mostrepublicans. we'll see on the campaign trail a lot of the key states, the minimum wage issue democrats are talking about in kentucky, in south dakota, their candidates focused on that, versus obamacare and opposing it. those enrollees mean nothing to republicans. they still think obamac.a.r.are ...

The tea party is in 2014 in terms of republican primaries or even moss into the generals? are they on the rise in power or on the wane? >> it's hard to say. there's no one monolithic group that's the tea party. what i have seen over the years is frustration build across my state and the country. where people thought government had grown too big, obamacare was kind of the last straw. people showed up tess congressional town hall meetings. then they took out the from you trace tick already ain the 2012 elections. to a degree i think it's healthy if it's focused. for people whont didn't like it, ...