people more than another, if you get rid of the mandate. the mandate would even by the obama administration admission get rid of a lot of it. >> shannon: it would. the government arguing the position. there were key portions that would fall if the mandate goes. the court took unusual step of putting in a third attorney, outside force to argue that the law could survive. she has water. she is doing okay. but charles, you think that they take -- assuming they take down the mandate, which they for the devil's advocate purposes they said it would happen. for purposes of this argument. do you think there is any way that the justices come together to keep the law intact? i think not. mandate is so central to the act, if you take it out what is left is distorted. without the mandate, you don't have a funding source for the entire healthcare system. that is the new way. reorganizes the financial mechanism of healthcare in