andrea today s question is, if the supreme court were to find that the insurance requirement is unconstitutional, can the rest of the law stand? i think it s fair to say that perhaps a bare majority of the court thinks the answer is either completely no or mostly no. a majority of the court seemed to think that maybe there are sort of things on the very periphery of the law, things that were sort of tacked on to it as the train was leaving the station that maybe are so completely unrelated to the insurance mandate that they can survive. but frankly, that s not the heart of what the law does. i think the conservatives plus justice kennedy are worried about two things. one is the shore of the supreme court trying to figure out, well, if the mandate s gone then certainly the things right around it go and the things around that go, but where is the line? i think the supreme court thinks that s either a very hard thing for it to do or something it shouldn t do. that s congress s
andrea: it s official. president obama signed the debt deal into law. here is what it entails. the debt deal will increase the debt ceiling by as much as $2.4 trillion. cuts of more than $900 billion over ten years. and a 12-person committee that is already referred to as the dirty dozen. the committee is tasked to find $1.5 trillion more in savings. that is $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts if the committee fails to do its job. let s take a listen this morning to harry reid, after he had success on the senate floor by passing the bill. today we made sure that america will pay the bills. now it s time to make sure that all miles per hours can pay theirs. andrea: the president signed the bill in law and here is what he said afterwards, not wasting time to inject more politics. since you can t close the deficit with just spending cuts, it also means reforming the tax code so the wealthiest americans and the biggest corporations pay their fair share. everyone has to ch
saying it s bigoted. we ll explain. the five starts right now. andrea: it s official. president obama signed the debt deal into law. here is what it entails. the debt deal will increase the debt ceiling by as much as $2.4 trillion. cuts of more than $900 billion over ten years. and a 12-person committee that is already referred to as the dirty dozen. the committee is tasked to find $1.5 trillion more in savings. that is $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts if the committee fails to do its job. let s take a listen this morning to harry reid, after he had success on the senate floor by passing the bill. today we made sure that america will pay the bills. now it s time to make sure that all miles per hours can pay theirs. andrea: the president signed the bill in law and here is what he said afterwards, not wasting time to inject more politics. since you can t close the deficit with just spending cuts, it also means reforming the tax code so the wealthiest americans and