it may be the most critical supreme court case since the justices ruled on the 2000 presidential election, but out in obama administration s health care reform law is under close scrutiny. in a dramatic hearing today the court appeared deeply split. conservative justices are showing deep skepticism about the individual mandate which would require people to buy health insurance. cnn s congressional correspondent kate bolduan and jeffrey toobin were both inside the court today for the hearing. kate, let s start with you. is the health care law in serious jeopardy right now? reporter: i ll tell you, wolf, you never know how much the oral arguments in the courtroom will in the end reflect the final opinion of the court, but straight out of the gate today the lawyer for the obama administration was the one on the defensive and while the justices can and do surprise us, quite frankly, from being in the courtroom today, it does appear that the key provision of the health care law,
states. he says he s staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it s still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let s watch. santorum s going to puerto rico. then we have a big primary in illinois. back to the midwest where if you look at the demographics, should be a romney state. puerto rico is this coming sunday. huge. and then illinois is a week from now on tuesday. i think i need to go to cover it. in fairness to mitt romney, he s still away head in the delegate count. he s got more than all of the other candidates combined so far. and this isn t the way they wanted it to be right now. if they do go across the finish line, they re going to crawl across the finish lin
i have had grits before. and knock each other out. i would like everyone to drop out. will all four candidates still be standing after three new contests in alabama, mississippi, and hawaii? it s america s choice. mitt romney is the clear leader in the delegate race, but he s still a long way from claiming the nomination. we re counting up the delegates for the convention, it looks good. and we re counting down the days november, and that looks even better. rick santorum is giving romney a run for his money after cutting into his super tuesday win. we have won in the west, the midwest, and the south, and we re ready to win across this country. newt gingrich with proven appeal in the south, thinks this could be his night. if we win alabama and mississippi on tuesday, for about the ninth time, the news media will suddenly be reporting a new race. the republicans competing in two red states and on president obama s home turf. when will they be able to focus on
alabama and hopefully the folks in mississippi did we did? i guess. how happy is he? how happy is his family? back with us right now, our expert cnn team. john, this is a very significant night for rick santorum. just when so many of the so-called experts were saying romney had it all but done, not is fast. could romney lock it up or another revival for newt gingrich. he loses in the two south states. he says he s staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it s still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let s watch. santorum s going to puerto rico. then we have a big primary in illinois. back to the midwest where if you look at the demographics, should be a romney state. puer
well, in part, his fellow republican candidates and the second half going after barack obama. focusing on his own debate skills, as he has so many times in this contest, saying i am the only one who can debate barack obama decisively, after he spent time on his republican rival, describing his own candidacy, saying he is the tortoise. talking about the media trying to prove he is gone when he has want been. and talking about mitt romney as a quote, wall street candidate. going on to say that he is in this race and repeatedly thanking his grandchildren as he has many times before. his debate coaches as he refers to them and calling on barack obama to debate him in several lincoln/douglas-style debates for 3 hours. he wants to sit down with the sitting president and have it out, man-o-a mano.