support and make the case that a bruising cvention fight won t hand a victory to president obama? we ll ask him. plus, president obama s historic health care legislation in critical condition. a skeptical supreme court questions whether it s constitutional. what affect will the fate of health care have on the fall campaign? member of the judiciary committee, chuck schumer joins us live. finally, a special meet the press roundtable led by joe scarborough, insight and analysis on the politics of 2012. with tom friedman and david brooks from the new york times. contributor editor for time magazine, jon meacham, former democratic congressman harold ford and msnbc s mika brzezinski. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. the final 48 hours before the key wisconsin primary. this was an uphill battle foç me if you look back three or four weeks ago. now we re looking like we re going to win this thing. the next three days, shake this place up. we
historic health care legislation in critical condition. a skeptical supreme court questions whether it s constitutional. what affect will the fate of health care have on the fall campaign? member of the judiciary committee, chuck schumer joins us live. finally, a special meet the press roundtable led by joe scarborough, insight and analysis on the politics of 2012. with tom friedman and david brooks from the new york times. contributor editor for time magazine, jon meacham, former democratic congressman harold ford and msnbc s mika brzezinski. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. the final 48 hours before the key wisconsin primary. this was an uphill battle foç me if you look back three or four weeks ago. now we re looking like we re going to win this thing. the next three days, shake this place up. well, tuesday could be rick santorum s last chance to shake up the race and he joins us now from wisconsin. senator santorum, good morning
we re attracting. they were the key to the reagan coalition of winning indiana, ohio, wisconsin and places like that. they re lower income, folks who are blue collar workers that were the reagan democrats and the reagan moderates, if you will, that joined us. that s the kind of votes we re getting here. you look at the crowds and even the polls, we he feel very, very comfortable that we ll do very, very well in wisconsin. we re being outspent four or five to one. not as bad as we were in ohio and uhl ill but still, the fact that we re hanging in there despite the fact of the barrage of money and insiders and washington folks saying this race is over, this race is over, i think it s amazing, frankly. i m so excited and so thrilled that people of wisconsin are standing by us. reince priebus had this to say, whoever wins wisconsin is going to have serious bragging rights. i think the election on tuesday is going to be pivotal in making the determination on ending the nominatio
hand a victory to president obama? we ll ask him. plus, president obama s historic health care legislation in critical condition. a skeptical supreme court questions whether it s constitutional. what affect will the fate of health care have on the fall campaign? member of the judiciary committee, chuck schumer joins us live. finally, a special meet the press roundtable led by joe scarborough, insight and analysis on the politics of 2012. with tom friedman and david brooks from the new york times. contributor editor for time magazine, jon meacham, former democratic congressman harold ford and msnbc s mika brzezinski. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. the final 48 hours before the key wisconsin primary. this was an uphill battle foç me if you look back three or four weeks ago. now we re looking like we re going to win this thing. the next three days, shake this place up. well, tuesday could be rick santorum s last chance to shake up
constitutional scholar no less, was able to pass a law that at a minimum has serious constitutional questions about it, how would you answer that? well, i d say, first, that of course you take constitutional questions seriously. but at the time and still today, most constitutional scholars say it will be upheld, harvey wilkerson, he s the dean of the very conservative judges on the courts of appeal. he said it would be a heavy lift to overturn this law. and let s look at the context. the idea of a mandate came from republicans. it was proposed by the heritage foundation in 1993. people like newt gingrich and bob dole and that, you know, supported it in those days. in 2009, mitt romney, the republican in the middle of the health care debate, the likely republican nominee, said that the mandate was what should be used as opposed to democrats who were then arguing for expanding medicare. so it was true at the time of the legislation. it s true today. that it s really outlier to say th