in weeks the supreme court will hear three days worth of arguments on the constitutionality of the president's haste law. if they strike down the mandate, the part requiring every american have individual insurance or pay a penalty, can the rest of the law stand on its own? we're going to debate that today. welcome. >> thank you. >> great to be here. >> i mean there are some who say if congress wanted to be so secure on the issue of severability that the law could stand without the individual mandate they should have written more language in the law. how do you respond? >> what is interesting about the arguments that the reg of the law will fall if the mandate is held to be unconstitutional require basically an admission that the mandate is constitutional.