and individual mandate should fall. bill: what do you do with 130 million americans with pre-existing conditions? and how do you manage that from a practical standpoint and a political standpoint, too? well look, the first issue here is what congress did constitutional and the answer is no. once we resolve that question and realize that obamacare is unconstitutional we have to have a solution. what i would suggest, which i think has worked over and over, is let the states resolve this. let each state decide what s best for their citizens. this experiment of democracy where the states get to decide what they want to do instead of having a one size fits all solution from washington has worked a lot better. sandra: will you ultimately will this officially be tossed? will it happen? what is your projection at this point? i m very confident. when congress got rid of the penalty, if you ll remember justice roberts said that penalty was the tax that
administration. the problem right now for barack obama is that i think a lot of this is so personal. he still is you can see he is irritated by the birther conspiracy. by the fact that president trump continued to endorse it directly, indirectly for so long. what you see is not only a party position but i think the personal reaction. bill: the big news is that the battle has been joined and you ll see the two heavy weights go at it for 50 some odd days now. thank you all. you mentioned obamacare. another big challenge in a courtroom that you ll see in a moment. 20 states trying to succeed where congress failed. the texas a.g. is ken paxton leading the charge. he is our guest next. will obamacare be tossed out by a court? he ll answer that coming up. sandra: senate democrats trying to derail the president s supreme court nominee. what they are doing now. this is an effort by the democrats to respond to a base that is just really gone crazy
sandra: obamacare facing one of its biggest challenges to date in a 20-state lawsuit against the affordable care act. a group of republican state attorneys general are trying to do in a federal courtroom what congress has not been able to do. get rid of obamacare. leading the group is texas attorney general ken paxton. he joins us now. so can you succeed, ken, where congress has failed? i think we re very likely to succeed. if you ll remember the u.s. supreme court said obamacare was tethered to the constitution by a very thin thread. in this case the thread was the penalty and if you remember earlier last year in december congress got rid of the penalty. therefore the tax that was associated with that is gone
ballots themselves democrats haven t done well. he didn t help hillary clinton all that much in 2016. what is the message exactly? back then he was saying president trump would need a magic wand in order to get to 4% growth. what will he say now that trump found it? it s ridiculous. what is the economic message when the economy is booming. he was in office for eight years. it s a message about the future of democracy and the fact that it s endanger, so he argues, by the trump presidency and by president trump himself. bill: is the message trump stinks and that s if we want to talk about a threat to democracy and executive overreach who better to talk about than president obama unilaterally rewriting immigration law, throwing out obamacare mandates with the swipe of a pen. he threw out the book. went around congress. that s why his legacy is being undone because iran deals didn t go through congress,
i think the person probably wasn t banking on the fact that he or she would be so ridiculed right, left and center at this point. you see democratic members of congress, left wing liberals out there saying hey, this is no way to express your opinion. come forward and put your authorship on it. bill: chief white house correspondent john roberts picks up the story on the north lawn. the beginning of a new week, john. the first of five monday s before next weekend. the white house might have an idea about who wrote it but they haven t zeroed in on anyone. top officials including the vice president continuing to bang the drum that if the author of that op-ed does not agree with what the president is doing instead of some clandestine attempt to save the country from president trump they should just pack up and leave. listen to what he said yesterday. do you think you know who anonymous is?