presidential candidates about their marathon battle. and your child or grandchild may be the target of identity theft. it turns out youngsters are at high risk for a crime that could scar their financial record for years to come. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s looking more and more as if the united states supreme court will cut the heart out of the health care reform law, that s the part which would require americans to buy insurance. if that mandate is found unconstitutional, it s an open question whether the rest of the law could survive. the court held three days of historic arguments this week. kate baldwin and jeff riff toobin were both inside for every minute of those oral arguments. let s start with kate. first of all, what was your take? you know it s impossible to predict. but after three days, as you mentioned, and more than six hours of oral arguments on the fate
pass legislation about it. i wouldn t vote for that. we are paying for this free care. we are praying for free riders by having a mandate supported by conservatives, this does away with that. bill: you know the supreme court is not looking at this as an economic issue. they are looking at it? sure they are. bill: no they are not. they are looking at it as a freedom issue it? is a freedom issue it s not free for doctors when you say you have got to take care of these free riders who walk. in not free to taxpayers who say you have to pay for shortage. that s taking our freedom away. judge raised two specific examples. the health care market is unique in that everybody accesses it at some point in their lives. one justice came forward and used the broccoli argument everybody has to eat, does that mean that the government is going to come in. bill: that was scalia. he also made the point about burial. everybody dies does that mean the government is going to regulate burial
for free care. pass legislation about it. i wouldn t vote for that. we are paying for this free care. we are praying for free riders by having a mandate supported by conservatives, this does away with that. bill: you know the supreme court is not looking at this as an economic issue. they are looking at it? sure they are. bill: no they are not. they are looking at it as a freedom issue it? is a freedom issue it s not free for doctors when you say you have got to take care of these free riders who walk. in not free to taxpayers who say you have to pay for shortage. that s taking our freedom away. judge raised two specific examples. the health care market is unique in that everybody accesses it at some point in their lives. one justice came forward and used the broccoli argument everybody has to eat, does that mean that the government is going to come in. bill: that was scalia. he also made the point about burial. everybody dies does that mean the government is going to r
you know what you re doing? you are financing your burial services right now because eventually you re going to die and somebody has to pay for it and if you haven t saved money for your buriel service you re going to shift the cost to somebody else. i think it s completely different. the reason is that the burial example is not the difference is here you are regulating the method by which you are paying for something else, healthcare. i don t see the difference. you can get burial insurance and health insurance. most people will need healthcare. everybody will be buried or cremated at some point. martha: very interesting exchange there. some, though are warning that neither side should jump to any conclusions about how all of this is going at this point. we are very glad to be joined bid neese a former u.s. attorney general welcome, good to have
of healthy young people and we stopped them and we said you know what you re doing? you re financing your burial services right now because eventually you re going to do and somebody is going to have to pay for it and if you don t have burial insurance and haven t saved money for it, you ll shift the costs to somebody else. brian? yeah, i ll tell you, there s a few things that stood out. number one, how direct and how well schooled everyone is as usual. a lot of the conservative judges sounding off but what kennedy said and what chief justice roberts said, i think, is the most interesting. they seem to be really struggling with the verdict but also seeming to side more with making this thing unconstitutional. and i talked to attorney generals alan wilson and pam bondi. alan wilson of south carolina and pam of florida. they say the one who argued for the justice department opened up extremely nervous and so far the