the courts are supposed to interpret it. they found the individual mandate was unconstitutional. that part of the law falls. the question is one to the congress. they sent it back to district court to look at the question in light of what the 2017 congress did. i think that s really important because it shows the direct balance between congress and the courts. the courts are supposed to implement what it is that congress has done so they directed it to the district court. americans get to keep their insurance as the president said. this will work its way through the courts and congress has time to fix problems with the affordable care act. molly: thank you so much. i know there are a lot of people that would like stability and have some idea what will happen in healthcare in the years ahead across america. thank you for your insight. leland: retailers are seeing a lot of green this holiday season raking in the cash thanks to record high sales in
it made me wonder. i wanted to bring in the director general of the russian international affair council. a top think tank based in moscow. andre, what is your sense of how russians are reacting to what they are watching or witnessing or hearing about in washington? i think if you take the ukrainian dimension, some might be happy finally the u.s. attention has turned away from russia. it does mean it has turned away forever, but for the time being, it might be a break. on the other hand, i don t think that many in moscow are happy about the impeachment procedure in washington, because they understand perfectly well only a strong u.s. president can fix problems with moscow.
can fix problems with moscow. a weakp is n president is not i position to mobilize political support inside his own country to deal with moscow successfully. but to what extent is the feeling that ukraine now properly being, you know, accused by some republicans of disliking the president? the president says it himself. the relations are very emotional and there s a lot of animosity. the predominant perception in moscow is that these people are not honest, they use schemes and i think in this story, they see a confirmation of how they saw
them the best shots. dumb. democrats and i think that that is how they avoided trying to fix they might draw that distinction there. problems. they just hey, send em to it bothers not just the president, but he sets the tone the rural part for everybody else. so the democrats did spend a so the fact that the president is so needled by what he lot of money. there are a huge number of rural perceives as negative coverage african-american trickles down to the staff here. look, i m mindful of district. they spent a lot of money trying to turn the voters out. ridiculous it seems. and it s like, we re all they didn t show up at the level mindful, mr. president, how i think democrats wanted them to. ridiculous this all seems. not at the level right? it s what i think we re all they didn t send in a major african-american democrat. why not? it might scare other voters. screaming under our breaths. i wonder if that s a mistake. if barack obama had gone to that hallie jackson, p
waters. fair? i think that s a bit strong. let s put this in perspective. we expected job growth to slow. you can t create 200,000 jobs forever. that number was going to come down. it s inevitable. manufacturing, yes it s in trubl but it s really not the economy. we re seeing the economy slow. that was inevitable. that s not the same as actually going negative and having a recession. i do think it s important to keep those distinct. for the president slowing can be political danger. there s no doubt about it, he doesn t need a recession to get him in trouble. a very slow growth could get him in trouble. this is an economy really at an inflection point. it s got a weak business secker. they can t stay that way forever. that s what we have to watch. thank you both. good to have your brains on all of this this morning. have a good weekend. mechanics are hired to fix problems, right?