it s very confusing. i mean ultimately what this is about is there is discomfort on the part of the president, on the part of maybe a lot of women, a lot of moms, a lot of dads who have 12-year-old daughters, i think there is some discomfort with the spector of them going to cvs and getting plan b. and you know, emergency contraception, that seems to be what s going on in terms of the politics and sort of tapping into what i think is a legitimate discomfort. and just do play politics on this, play hardball, not to paraphrase chris matthews, but the idea of the contraception mandate, or the white house position on contraception mandate seem to be fairly controversial and this almost seemed to be a doffing of the hat to social conservative who is might take issue with the contraception mandate in the affordable care act and here is the president being more quote-unquote conservative. sometimes you see obama as father in chief and this seems to be one where you could imagine the malia
a voucher system, then somehow this is all going to lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody. i just like the way this guy does it. they all play politics. you re laughing. i m laughing. he s not going to let ryan be the outsider looking into washington saying what s wrong with it? he s going to put him right in bed with congress. he said congress five times there. this guy is one of that republican congress the public hates. the president now has a license to talk about paul ryan. ryan is in the news. we ll is if he can keep this up. as much as he can keep the focus off the economy and his economic record, talk about ryan and romney, washington to congress and republicans and congress, they are not popular for a variety of reasons and part of it is obstruction and part of it is their policies on things that are unpopular. the super pac the president put out a memo this afternoon saying part of our problem in convincing people of what the republicans in congress stand for is they
is one that i fundamentally disagree with. governor romney and his allies in congress, they think if we just get rid of more regulations on big corporations and give more tax breaks to the wealthiest americans, if we end medicare as we know it, make it a voucher system, then somehow this is all going to lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody. i just like the way this guy does it. they all play politics. you re laughing. i m laughing. he s not going to let ryan be the outsider looking into washington saying what s wrong with it? he s going to put him right in bed with congress. he said congress five times there. any part of that republican congress the public hates. the president now has a license to talk about paul ryan. ryan is in the news. as much as he can keep the focus off the economy and his economic record, talk about ryan and romney, washington to congress and republicans and congress, they are not popular for a variety of reasons and part of it is obstruction and part o
reelection campaign. tax the rich, make taxes more fair, make it look like the republicans are defending the rich, the indefensible rich, play politics, look for votes. that s what s at stake. bill: and put a target on mitt romney, too. yes. bill see you 9:15, fbn, all right? what s next martha? martha: those are a few of the stories we ve got cooking in america s newsroom . a new study is fanning the flames of the health care debate. coming up, an economist who says that the overhaul will jack up the decifit by hundreds of billions of dollars. some interesting math that has been done here. we will show you that. bill: watch closely here. you see that young man? a scary ride for him. he s in middle school. why he had to get up and take control of that school bus that was rolling right down the road. martha: and even more video surfacing from government employees who blew close to a million dollars of your money for a big convention in las vegas. unfortunately, it didn t stay there
there is some debate whether funding wise it could sustain itself without the individual mandate. right. i don t know that you have got a healthcare bill without the mandate. which is plenty, if you do to 2008. this wasn t something that president obama was in favor of to begin with. this was the hillary clinton idea. the individual mandate is the court. this is what the president needs. he needs it to be in some shape he can run off of. as of right now, i think they would think it would be good news. play politics here, juan. if you get a decision in june, you will likely have a g.o.p. nominee by then heading toward the convention in august. how does it play? it depends the nominee. today the likelihood is it s mitt romney. interesting. let s say the court says that the individual mandate is constitutional and allows it to go forward. romney would be in a position to say i supported the