white house says they have no contingency plans. no contingency plans for health care if, in fact, this is ruled unconstitutional but at the same time, be prepared for this. if the president loses this battle, his signature domestic achievement, will he then go if he s re-elected go for something that s more stringent than a mandate, a singer payer system which many argue would be more part of the health care system than is in place. jeffrey toobin, the political and court analyst said it was a train wreck as for the debate on tuesday. and then for the debate yesterday, he said it was a plane wreck. so how soon are they going to take an internal poll? tomorrow, if the past is prologue, the justices will meet probably in a conference room and take a preliminary vote so somebody is going to know tomorrow how it s going to
us from the springs of colorado. good morning to you, ma am. good morning, sir. we re sure you were watching what was going on at the supreme court. after day two, jeffrey toobin said the government s performance was a train wreck and yesterday he said it was a plane wreck and nonetheless, you ve got the white house saying that the solicitor general gave a solid performance. did he? yeah. well, i think the white house is in deep denial about how deep the doo-doo is when it comes to obamacare and when you ve got these liberal legal observers panning the white house attorneys, there is a problem. now, of course, we can t i m not going to prognosticate about what the supreme court is going to do or not do. but i think the fact that it s the high court that is forcing the white house to confront these basic fundamental constitutional issues that it was shrugging off a couple of years ago when they were ramming this down our throats is really
it s looking more and more as if the supreme court will cut the heart out of health care reform law. that s the part which would require americans to buy insurance if that mandate is found unconstitutional and we won t know it until june. it s an open question whether the rest of the law could survive. the court wrapped up three days of historic arguments today. cnn s congressional correspondent kate bolduan and our legal analyst jeffrey toobin, they were both inside during the oral arguments. let s start with kate. what s your take, kate? how did it go today? wolf, after three days of oral arguments and four issues being debated and more than six hours of debate, this historic case is a bit exhausting and i m sure even for the justices and for the attorneys arguing before them. this all wraps up with still the same question at the center of this case. is the individual mandate constitutional and with that very question in mind, the justices today took a look at the quest
a high court is nearing the end of a remarkable six hours of arguments on four separate issues arising from the affordable care act of 2010. the session that began last hour is due to wrap up 45 minutes from now. soon after that the final health care arguments will center on the power of the feds to compel states to broaden medicaid coverage. we don t expect any decisions until june at the earliest, but our jeff toobin and kate baldwin will step out of the courthouse to bring us up to speed when the what if arguments are over today at the u.s. supreme court. the facts surrounding trayvon martin s death are getting more complicated by the day. so far there have been conflicting reports as to what exactly happened and whether george zimmerman was really acting in self-defense when he shot trayvon martin in the chest. now shocking new evidence that sanford police were taking steps to arrest zimmerman early in the investigation. the miami herald reports the police incident re
that. the oklahoma women s basketball team made an emotional victorious return to the court saturday. the cowgirls won in their first game since the tragic plane wreck killed their coaches. loyal fans who showed up wanted to see them win. i can t imagine how tough it is to lose a coach and i m sure he s more than a coach to them and for the girls to have the support of not only their families and coaches they have now but the cowboy family. i think it s important for everybody to get out to show their support today. coaches kurt budke and miles an hour an aserna died. the cause of the plane crash still under investigation. hours from now, occupy los angeles protesters are facing eviction. hundreds of demonstrators have been camping out for almost two months now. the city says they have to leave by monday at 12:01 a.m. protesters have turned down offers for alternative locations to camp out. strategy talk for 2012.