sleeping real well at the white house tonight. i have no problem with folks saying obama cares. i do care. i so admire the supreme court s ability to keep everything quiet. those who talk don t know. we have breaking news topping this hour. supreme court has upheld the health care lay. this is a big victory for the president. whatever the politics, today s decision was a victory for people all over this count y country. i disagree with the supreme court s decision. obamacare. whether it s romney or obama politicsç be damned, this i about what we came here to do. obamacare and i say it very firmly. we will never be is the the same again with this denial of libber the i. you don t think this fast and furious and things like it are the the beginning of an attack in the second term?
thursday that will dpo down nth history books. with continuing developments this afternoon as we watch a criminal contempt vote against eric holder. republican lawmakers seeking to make mr. holder the first attorney general to be held in contempt capping a month long political spectacle over the fast and furious operation. and with what could be seen as curious timing, it comes within hours of the supreme court s decision on the president s health care reform, a decision that marks a pivotal moment in the 2012 campaign, vindicating the çpresident s major achievement and an issue that has royaled this turbulent legs year. it should be clear i didn t do this because it was good politics. i did it because i believed it was good for the country. the highest court in the land has now spoken. we ll work together to improve on it where we can. what we don t do, what the country can t afford to do is
we ll have bridges. better public safety and yet and better infrastructure for our country. this is what we should be doing. not going after eric holder. he had this great statement by the supreme court up holding the affordable care act. this is going to be great for jobs cht it gives certainty to business. large and small. certainty to families so they ll know they have theç insurance they can count on. america wants us to stop skaubling and start working. next, more on why today s ruling means so much for november. stay with us. i m going to make sure on day one, we put a stop to obamacare. we re going to stop it on day one. if i m president, i m going to get rid of obamacare on day one. i will repeal obamacare.
what is your reaction to what is going on today compared with what the supreme court decided earlier? i think this is just a perfect capstone to what happened this morning and i ll pivot off or play off what you just talked to ron about. not only did romney not talk about what he would do with he got rid of obamacare, all these provisions that that have gone into effect. kids getting on their parents plan, provisionses for children 33 million people. he s very clear he would throw it aside and won t tell us what he would do to replace it with and then this afternoon, you have republicans who have promised, they have promised to vote on that sort of repeal. repeal without any replacement, just repeal in a week or two and yet, today, this contempt
professor, james peterson. and with us from washington, msnbc political analyst, former dnc communications director, karen finney, a columnist for the hill and julian epstein, former chief council for the house judiciary committee. i have to congratulate you because you have consistently said the mandate would be upheld and you ve been proven absolutely right. how did this happen given that the solicitor general in those three days of oral arguments was criticized. people said he choked. couldn t even drink his water properly, then today, you have this decision by the supreme court. what happened? i think the media did a woefully bad job covering this. the justice department and many of the lower cases argued it was not just the commerce clause. it was the taxing authority. if somebody doesn t get married