Have the legal right to challenge the law. Moments ago former president obama tweeted out a statement that reads, today the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act again. This ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true, the Affordable Care act is here to say. The principle of universal coverage has been established and 31 Million People now have access to care through the law we passed with millions more who can no longer be denied coverage or charge more because of a preexisting condition. Also decided today, a local religious freedom case. Justices ruled in favorite of Catholic Foster Care Agency in philadelphia that refused to consider samesex couples as foster parents. Joining us to talk about this, cnn justice correspondent Jessica Schneider and White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Jessica, on the obama care decision, what more do we know about how the decision was made . These seven justices essentially ruled on procedural grounds without getting to the heart o
Have the legal right to challenge the law. Moments ago former president obama tweeted out a statement that reads, today the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act again. This ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true, the Affordable Care act is here to say. The principle of universal coverage has been established and 31 Million People now have access to care through the law we passed with millions more who can no longer be denied coverage or charge more because of a preexisting condition. Also decided today, a local religious freedom case. Justices ruled in favorite of Catholic Foster Care Agency in philadelphia that refused to consider samesex couples as foster parents. Joining us to talk about this, cnn justice correspondent Jessica Schneider and White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Jessica, on the obama care decision, what more do we know about how the decision was made . These seven justices essentially ruled on procedural grounds without getting to the heart o
Dana we wish her the best. Thank you. Now fox news alert. White hot spotlight highlighting one of the biggest liabilities for President Bidens reelection campaign, his age. As we await todays Testimony By Robert Hur concerning the president s mishandling of classified documents. The Committee Hearing is live. Jim jordan already there. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom. Im dana perino. Bill good morning. Here we go. Bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Todays testimony coming as fox news obtains the written transcript of President Bidens recorded interview with Special Counsel robert hur. It went for five hours. There is a lot there. Opening statements will get underway in moments as the House Judiciary Committee takes a deep dive into hurs testimony. In a moment well hear from jordan. Word there are protestors inside that room from code pink. They might be Cleaning Everything out and resetting as we speak. Anyway, hur will explain why he declined to recommend charging President
And it is sock eastern. Thanks for joining us. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with the breaking news from capitol hill, where we are waiting the highly anticipated testimony of former Special Counsel robert hur. He is set to appear in just moments, before the house judiciary committee. And you can see him arriving there at the capitol, moments ago. Hes being held, were told in a holding area before this Committee Hearing gets going. Now, hur is the Special Counsel who investigated President Bidens handling of classified documents. Ultimately he chose not to bring charges, but he also questioned the president s Mental Acuity and fitness in his report. He is expected to defend that today in his opening statement, saying, quote, my task was to determine whether the president retained or disclosed National Defense information willfully, meaning knowingly, and with the intent to do something the law forbids. I could not make that determination without assessing the preside
process to limit how american tax dollars are spent at the department of justice. i yield back. general lady from texas is recognized. good morning. you have value the independence of a special counsel. i do. you asked garland to allow you to continue the investigation saying we want to thank you and your office for permitting our inquiry to proceed with will without interfere answer as you assured the members of the judiciary committee would be the case during the confirmation hearings to become attorney general of the united states. you value your special counsel status. it a being a rat that garland let you proceed on your case as you wish. that s true. it was important you have to as special counsel your investigation was supposed to be independent because special counsels and attorneys are supposed to be independent, right? special counsel is. yes. they are supposed to be independent, is that correct? special counsel is independent of the attorney gener