Good monday morning from downtown pennsylvania. Its february, the 25th, 2013. And this is the daily rundown. Now heres chuck todd. Thank you to Stacy Mitchell and that giant cup of coffee. I want a mug that big. Thats how much coffee i need to drink in the morning. Keep those videos coming. Lets get to my first readers of the morning. There are fewer than 100 hours until the budget act falls on friday. And just two hours from now the president will meet with the nations governors kicking off what will be a very busy week in american politics. Actually in world politics. Tomorrow president obama takes his sequester pr campaign to virginia. Chuck hagel gets a vote on the senate floor. Hell be confirmed. The question is do any more republicans come on board. Treasury nominee jack lu will be voted out of committee and we have a new abc news wall street journal poll coming out later this week. If that doesnt make you dizzy, if it is tuesday someones voting somewhere. There will be an april
Ignition switches . We are watching the u. S. Supreme court at this hour and a block buster ruling that can be handed down at any moment with the current term about to end, justices have only today to release their decision, the most highly watch involves obamacare and hobby lobby, specifically whether under obamacare could force the retailer to provide emergency contraception under its health care coverage. Were awaiting that decision. Good morning to all of you. Good morning. Jim, i want to start with you, is the white house worried about this case . Well, i think judging by the way donna virli was batted around during the arguments back in this march, i think they have an indication this may not go their way. The Obama Administrations argument is reverse of mitt romneys corporations are people too lines. They are arguing koopgses are not people, they dont have the same religious freedoms, hobby lobby and other forprofit companies would have to provide coverage under that mandate in
Premiums would be cut 30 compared to obamacare. This as Republican Leaders make a push to pass the health care bill. They will be the reason we havent been able to stop it. On the other hand, do they have some good points . Yes. Senate finance chairman turned up the pressure on his colleagues ted cruz, mike lee, ron johnson, rand paul, dean heller. They oppose the g. O. P. Health care package. Leadership unveiled adjustments to the bill, including a lockout provision to make sure people buy insurance before they get sick. It says there will be a six month waiting period for people who let their coverage labs for more than two months. President trump waited on twitter. The democrats have become nothing but obstructionists, they have no policies or ideas. All they do is delay and complain. They own obamacare the president suggested the senate doesnt have to act now. Republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats, not easy. Anthem came out with the
Would hear the travel ban case. That wont happen until october, but in the meantime the justices lifted certain parts of the revised travel ban. That means dismiss his controversial executive order will go into effect. Roughly according to a white house memo obtained by cnn, 72 hours, thats thursday. There were three justices who did issue dissets gorsuch, alito and thomas, all feeling the Supreme Court didnt go far enough. The president called todays ruling a clear victory for national security, and he released a statement that said, in part my number one responsibility as commander in chief is to keep the American People safe. Todays ruling allows me to use an important tool for protecting our nations homeland. Laura jaret is joining us with more on todays ruling. Laura, who is and who is not affected by this decision . Give us a sense of how many people are affected . The bottom line of todays decision all comes down to an individual travelers connection to the u. S. The court has n
But the top story is health care. Congress beginning its recess without acting on trump care, which was Mitch Mcconnells promise. That is bad news for the white house. When you think about it, it may be why the president is trying to change the news itself, picking fights with morning joe and now this morning posting a bizarre, crudely edited clip of a time he acted out in a wrestling video, pretending that he was attacking and punching another person, only now as you see, cnn is photo shopped onto the pretend victims face. Cnn responded by focusing on what they call violent imagery saying trump tweeted this weekend, my use of social media is not president ial. Its modern day president ial. Make America Great again. You see it there in caps. One once came from lisa lucas who said, im not embarrassed. Im modern day embarrassed. Now consider yourself updated on the twitter drama. Were going to move on to the real news on health care. Heres health care secretary tom price today, insisting