come. now that it s baked in, that will probably diminish, as some of our partners have been saying, the animus is still high around the base, but the energy to get some kind of repeal and replace, something that will work, i think interest has dissipated. there are other interests republican conservatives are focused on, and i think they feel ten years out they have lost this battle. melissa, before we let you go. there was another ruling in the supreme court. it was 9-0 between lgbtq couples and a capital adoption agency. what can you tell us about that? reporter: it was whether the liberal adoption laws trump and cannot discriminate on gay
take away, she says. that s the reaction from a freshman republican. but as gop lawmakers who have been around can tell you, they ve tried that also, and it s far easier said than done. no on-camera reaction yet from president biden after his late-night return to washington, but it might sound something like this. the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [ applause ] that memorable hot mic moment from when obamacare was signed into law. with that joining us now, nbc capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, benjamin solomon, peter baker, and former law clerk to justice sotomayor, melissa peters. melissa, we ll start with you. this is not a ruling of holding the affordable care act, this is
there is too much idealogical division within the caucus. there are people on the freedom caucus side, the more libertarian members who want minimal involvement of government in health care at all. you have to get them to the same place as someone like susan collins who wants a pretty significant government health care, even if she doesn t agree with democrats. but there are some more limited areas where you might see movement. a big one is drug prices where president trump, he never pursued it legislatively, but he did talk about areas of agreement with democrats, like giving the government more authority to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. there is also a bill from senator grassley that s had bipartisan support in the past to cap inflation on drug prices. so there might be limited areas of agreement, but the kind of big, grand, comprehensive health care plan that replaces the entire system or makes some major changes to it the way obamacare did when it first passed, that doe
constitutional. the question is whether that portion of the affordable care act is unconstitutional as well. garrett, first, it s great to see you in person, but building on melissa s great point, one of the implicit takeaways the explicit takeaway from the ruling is that the debate belongs in the legislative branch. this is a project for congress. and it s largely been completed in the legislative branch. republicans have given up repeal and replace. while repeal is relatively straightforward, replace is more difficult. they ve never come up with something to replace this law. republicans would have been on the hook to try to come up with that replacement and now they can move on to other things. they can continue to criticize, but geoff, there s not been a single substantive sort of broad policy that republicans have put forward in the intervening years. even today i heard from roy
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