an arena no, i m not talking about the hunger games. that has nothing on what s about to go on in the nation s capitol. challengers to the nation s health care law will be brought before the highest court in the land. justices of the supreme court will hear arguments in three cases that will determine the fate of the patient protection and affordable care act, dubbed by critics and now by the president s advisers, as obama care. the law expands health care coverage to 30 million americans who are uninsured and increases protections for those who already have insurance. opponents of the affordable care act say it oversteps the bounds of the constitution. if the court agrees, it would mean the repeal of the signature legislation of president obama s first term. the hearings follow on the heels of the two-year anniversary of the act, which the president signed into law february 23, 2010. the document he added his signature to that day was very different than the one he thought
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can build a middle class after got out of government jobs paid for by borrowed dollars. pat, it works the other way. a government is big in policy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class. and those who hope to join it. host: on this day after the state of the union address and the republican response, some of the headlines. upholstery journal, usa today the wall street journal, usa today, and roll call. it is wednesday, january 25, your reaction to what you heard last night from the president as well as the republican response from mitch daniels. later, allen west will join us and senator mark pryor. you can join in with your phone calls. we are dividing up on walls the phone calls between political parties. our twitter redress, @cspanwj. some of the headlines from outside of washington, d.c. i intend to fight the obstruction with action is the headline. from the boston globe, the president wants to higher taxes on rich. the detroit free press, and
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. captioning sponsored by cbs pelley: good evening, mississippi s attorney general said today he will go to court to reverse the majority of pardons made by former governor haley barbour this week on barbour s last day in office. barbour pardoned more than 200 convicts, including four killers and ever since he did the question man what was he thinking? today barbour finally answered and anna werner was there. i am fully confident the pardons and other clemency i have that given were all valid. reporter: in his last days in office, former mississippi governor haley barbour granted pardons for 203 criminals, including four convicted murderers. one of them, anthony mccray, was originally sentenced to life in prison. i believe in second chances and i try hard to be forgiving. reporter: barbour s pardon of mccray said he proved to be a diligent and dedicated workman and granted him a full, complete and unconditional pardon
last summer but came in dead last in the caucuses last night among the candidates competing there. she said on this program she was going to south carolina. she had the media advisory, a couple of events wednesday and thursday but now the news this morning she is going to suspend her campaign, at least for now. jon: you see the podium waiting for the minnesota congresswoman to make this announcement. let s go to the winners in iowa first. mitt romney, rick santorum, ron paul in the top tier. the race very, very tight. just eight votes separating romney and a surging santorum. rick did i think a heroic job going across the entire state. devoted his energies to the state of iowa. during the same time period i ve been building a national campaign team going to the a bunch of states and of course pulledding a fund-raising organization that will help me down the road and if i m the nominee. jenna: santorum says it is game on now. romney set to pick up an endorsement today from j