Have the legal right to challenge the law. Moments ago former president obama tweeted out a statement that reads, today the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act again. This ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true, the Affordable Care act is here to say. The principle of universal coverage has been established and 31 Million People now have access to care through the law we passed with millions more who can no longer be denied coverage or charge more because of a preexisting condition. Also decided today, a local religious freedom case. Justices ruled in favorite of Catholic Foster Care Agency in philadelphia that refused to consider samesex couples as foster parents. Joining us to talk about this, cnn justice correspondent Jessica Schneider and White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Jessica, on the obama care decision, what more do we know about how the decision was made . These seven justices essentially ruled on procedural grounds without getting to the heart o
Hello and welcome. We start with an apology from americas top Infectious Diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci after he criticised uk regulators over their rapid approval of a new coronavirus vaccine. Britain on wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer Biontech vaccine for mass use. Speaking earlier to cbs, dr fauci said the uk was not as rigorous as the us in its vaccine approval process. But when he spoke to my colleagues earlier on this channel, dr fauci backtracked. The point i was really trying to make, i did not make it well, which is why i welcome to the opportunity to get on your show and say it came out wrong. In the United States, there is such a considerable amount of tension of pushing back on the credibility of the safety and efficacy that if we in the United States had done it as quickly as the uk did it, and thats no judgement on the way uk did it, and even though my statement did come across looking that way, if we had a, for example, approved it
Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h
This is now an escalation. Trump admitted he wanted pence to illegally steal the election and now hes doubling down. Pences Chief Of Staff testified and today another pence aid talking to the committee seen on camera going in ask out of the house office. All of this comes amid new explosive news revealing trumps level of involvement in the Voting Machine Plot. The New York Times reporting that trump had direct role in the Voting Machines including telling Rudy Giuliani to ask the dhs if they could looelly seize the machines. The times reporting this Rudy Giuliani made that call, but was told the department did not have the authority to do that. But trump didnt stop there. In fact, he also reportedly asked the Attorney General if the doj could seize the machines. Barr shot that proposal down. Trump then tried to persuade State Lawmakers in key states to use their local Law Enforcement agencies to take control of Voting Machines. But they, too, refused to go along with his plan. Trump di
This is now an escalation. Trump admitted he wanted pence to illegally steal the election and now hes doubling down. Pences Chief Of Staff testified and today another pence aid talking to the committee seen on camera going in ask out of the house office. All of this comes amid new explosive news revealing trumps level of involvement in the Voting Machine Plot. The New York Times reporting that trump had direct role in the Voting Machines including telling Rudy Giuliani to ask the dhs if they could looelly seize the machines. The times reporting this Rudy Giuliani made that call, but was told the department did not have the authority to do that. But trump didnt stop there. In fact, he also reportedly asked the Attorney General if the doj could seize the machines. Barr shot that proposal down. Trump then tried to persuade State Lawmakers in key states to use their local Law Enforcement agencies to take control of Voting Machines. But they, too, refused to go along with his plan. Trump di