many seeing his comments as a warning to the justices that they will pay a political price if they strike down all or part of the signature healthcare law. liberals claim the legitimacy of the supreme court. let s ask wall street columnist, dan herng ing ton, james free man and editorial board member, dorothy rabinowitz. president obama is known as choosing his words carefully. was he trying to lobby the supreme court? i agree he doesn t say what he doesn t mean. i think what happened here is what we sometimes call a floydian slip. they say something they actually believe. yes, he understand iss marbury versus madison. but barack obama is a belief politician. he believes he is a great charismatic national leader leading large masses of people. he is that kind of leader. what he was saying here is that i have the democratically elected congress behind me. i have this large mass of people and you have to be aware of that. it was a catastrophe when he said it. i can t can t he
overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress. paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. those words set off a firestorm. many seeing his comments as a warning to the justices that they will pay a political price if they strike down all or part of the signature healthcare law. liberals claim the legitimacy of the supreme court. let s ask wall street columnist, dan herng ing ton, james free man and editorial board member, dorothy rabinowitz. president obama is known as choosing his words carefully. was he trying to lobby the supreme court? i agree he doesn t say what he doesn t mean. i think what happened here is what we sometimes call a floydian slip. they say something they actually believe. yes, he understand iss marbury versus madison. but barack obama is a belief politician. he believes he is a great charismatic national leader leading large masses of people. he is that kind of leader. what he was sayi
this is sunday, april 1st, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a sunday. i m lester holt. and i m jenna wolfe. and today s april fools day. is it? and we should tell you, we all came in here this morning with an idea of how to get the next one. well, we didn t realize we were all playing a practical joke on each other this morning. i thought i got you, you got our executive producer, dee dee, in the control room. then i got her and she got you, and we were all playing a joke of the morning. mind if i share the best moment of the morning? yeah, go ahead. roll the tape. oh, my gosh. this is disgusting. what? did you see what s on the other side of the door? i m not using that room. because that probably means it s bedbugs and i don t want to stay in it. i m not using this restroom. oh, you know what that actually says? are you joking? april fools ! okay, put aside that s awful! they s