Next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on Health Insurance reform. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. Thank you for joining us. Katie thank you for having me. Host here to talk about the latest Supreme Court and the most significant Supreme Court on the Affordable Care act. Give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. Katie to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. If folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act. Chief Justice John Roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. It walks, talks, cracked like attacks. Quacks like a tax. Fastforward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. Timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the Affordable Care act as possible. It led to multiple h
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You have borrowed this phrase for your buck, why connect. Because its telling what people tend to forget about with witchhunts there are no real witches but this overwhelming irrational desire to believe that witches exist is what propels the witchhunt and that is what happened here in an astonishing array of theoretically smart people convince themselves and millions of others that the president had committed the most noxious crime there is in the criminal code treason. Treason is conspiracy with flat amir putin hatched in the bowels of the kremlin to steal the 2016 election and it was based on not a shred of credible evidence and the book explains how now we know through testimony of those involved they never had any possible evidence to launch the original fbi investigation in 2016 and nine months later when the special counsel was appointed they still had no evidence and implement itself violated the regulations authorizing the opponent and i explained how, in the book, one of the
It is my great honor to be here with t 14 my friend and someone who is a big part. Your most recent bestseller the witchhunt which is a fascinating read that tells us that we have been going through since 2015 misses a follow on to your bestseller , the russia hoax that was a number one bestseller. You are off to the races youre already number three. Its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. When i first heard the president use the term witchhunt in that tweet. And fake news that the election was rigged those that spent my professional life to recoil because they are bold phrases. But you borrowed this phrase for your book. White quick. Its very telling. What people forget about a witchhunt is there is no real which. But this overwhelming irrational desire to believe witches exist is what happened with an astonishing aware of smart people convince themselves that the president create committed the most noxious crime there is in the criminal codes. Treason. Treason is a conspiracy