the judge giving the homework assign meant, three i think is he will spaced, to the department of justice answering a question that frankly i thought he had no business asking. exactly right. three pages, single spaced, that was the assign meant. you call it homework. have you this judge, and to quote you, this guy has a hissee fit, down in texas, hearing the whole other case and orders the justice department to explain what the president meant on monday and from what i am hearing the justice department followed through, yes? they did, and they did answer the letter today signed by eric holder, the attorney general, and they basically said what was completely obvious from what i thought the president was saying, which is the position of the department of justice is that the health care law is constitutional. it is the right of the supreme court of the united states to declare that law unconstitutional and that s been true since 1803 and the famous case of maher berry ve
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
learn what exactly wanted to the pioneering female aviator a mellia earhart? i m wolf blirts. i m wolf blirts. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. lettay get right to breaking news from mexico. a powerful earthquake from acapulco to mexico city. let s go to our meteorologist chad myers. what are you seeing? what s going on? it has been reduced to a 7.4 earthquake, wolf, but that is still a very major shake. about 200 miles to mexico city, but there are cities or towns at least, much closer to the epicenter. let me take you to a few because there are 4,000 to up to 17,000 people in some of these cities and we know that they were right on top of the epicenter. there you see the towns with the roof, the tile roofs here. a beautiful part of mexico here. other towns not that far right over the other side of the hill. this is only about eight miles from the epicenter at a 7.4 shake and now about 12 miles deep. those t
still. he s still out there in the primaries and were he to leave would that conservative vote better coalesce against rick san tour up. i love that he s the wing man. newt gingrich seems to be living in an alternate reality where i think he s become more of a saboteur to romney than a real contender in this race. i do think that by staying in the race and getting some delegates he does make it harder for romney to hit that mathematical threshold so staying in may be helping rick santorum. if you look at the polls of who newt s supporters would go to if he weren t in the race. it is not clear that they would all go to rick santorum and they would split in two directions and romney would have an easier time if he weren t in the race. here s what he said on friday. i m a it s not as trendy
years ago. geez, i think we see a pattern here, do we not? we definitely do. it s a pattern that we ve observed all through the year that we commented time. for whatever reason, at this stage in the caucus process, he has not been able to grow his support in any significant way and so many people say, it is a curious situation that somebody who so many people believe ultimately may be the survivor of this can t seem to generate that enthusiasm and at some point he s going to have to do something more than he s done so far. are you shocked that all of the conservative candidates will basically have new hampshire to himself with romney? he being end up getting 30% new hampshire. he s got to go. joe won t be happy. i think that is probably a sensible thing for everybody else. we ll get you here in four hours? be here later today and we ll have an interview with rick san