good morning and welcome to this friday edition of early start nice to have you with us. we re bringing you the news, 5:00 a.m. in the east. so let s get started. up first, renewing the war with just about four months until election day, republicans with a rallying point. they are promise to go do what the supreme court did not do, toss in the trash the health care reform law. sarah palin with a bit of sar kachl even thanked the supreme court in a facebook post. here it is. thank you, scotus. this obama care ruling fires up the troops as america s eyes are opened. thank god. joe johns will join us so that we can chat about this a little bit. joe, are you there? we ll get him a little later and talk about what this this means politically moving forward. and in the meantime, let s do this, shall we, because what a day it was. if you had your tv news set on, it was a whiplash because another war has been renewed with just four months until election day. republicans are reall
politics. let me play devil s advocate. the refreshing nature of seeing people come face to face and sort of hash it out, as opposed to letting the spin machines go into effect after the fact or, you know, sending mass e-mail out, refuting the other guys, they were at least in there with their hands rolled up trying to sort of refute each other. was there anything that struck you as refreshing about that? i haven t seen it in a long time. i think it s great when the president and congress sit downs together at a table. it reminds people that, you know, there can be civility and accountability when people sit down at a table with the cameras present. there s an exchange of ideas. it s honest, it s invigorating. what it s a matter of also moving beyond that moment to real progress. on the one hand, i think they should do more of those. i wouldn t hold my breath, i don t think it s going to happen. i think it s a great moment for the president and the american people. but when they