issue is gone and therefore the individual mandates falls. ed: as you said, republicans now have to say okay, what comes next? they have been against obamacare from the beginning. they have got to come up with some plans. we know where the democrats are they want medicare for all as you say. here s the big problem with that is the cost. how do you pay for that? you are talking about a massive expansion of an entitlement. you can ask alexandria ocasio-cortez. i m sure she will not be able to answer you. pete: no, she won t. this will be appealed and appealed again. go to the supreme court it will be very interesting to see what john roberts does. ed: you have a different court than did you under president obama. still john roberts was the deciding vote in upholding obamacare. jedediah: it s an opportunity to show a contrast. have you democrats always running with government, government, government. it doesn t work. people know it doesn t work. this is the opportunity for republicans
neil: with that said, two or three republicans that might not. i doubt that. but it s going to look that way for a while. don t forget, neil gorsuch was confirmed with three democrats. i predict they will be on the table here possibly voting for whomever he selects. given that everybody know whose is on the list of 25 and now who is on this narrowed down rumored top three, you re going to see a big battle. the focus will be on the democratic side to try to pressure the most moderate republicans on the roe v. wade issue and upholding obamacare if it s challenged in court. you ll see susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska, shelly moore capito under pressure to be very careful on how they decide whether to vote for the nominee or not. i think ultimately they will. but it will require whoever is nominated to be very careful
taking five or six questions. but to pick up on one of the points that you were discussing earlier, what happens next? how do all of these protesters translate this in to action? in to policy. in to, for example, upholding obamacare. that s one of the things that they have spent a lot of time talking about today. and that s the real challenge. how do they keep this momentum going? and part of it i think and part of the challenge rests with the fact that you have two parties which are not only divided from each other and divided within themselves and spent so much time focused on the republican party fractured and in reality the democratic party is equally fractured. there s so many different interests and factions of it at this point, particularly when you think about the bernie sanders branch versus the hillary clinton branch and who becomes the leader of the democratic party moving forward and those are all of the questions i think the democrats are wrestling with as they
ours is a country built by men and women fleeing religious oppression. they are basically saying go defy the supreme court, and it s forcing candidates like jeb bush into a very tough spot. after the ruling bush called on people to quote love our neighbor and respect others but what will he say on a debate stage in iowa? maybe he ll highlight the need to quote protect religious freedom. that was also in the statement he put out. remember religious freedom bills in indiana and arkansas triggered massive protest and a big republican retreat. then there is that other ruling, the court upholding obamacare subsidies, the gop is unified on this one. i disagree with their decision. i believe obamacare is bad for americans, bad for the country.
supreme court. the white house growing in a rainbow of pride. earlier in the day in south carolina, the president helping to heal a community and a nation. to the families of the fallen, the nation shares in your grief. this could be remembered as the week that really set president obama s legacy into stone. a stunning turn of events for a president who has been locked in a bitter battle with republicans. this week it was republicans who secured a victory for him. justice john roberts upholding obamacare for a second time. the affordable care act is here to stay. the supreme court legalizing same-sex marriage. a land mark moment. today we can say in no uncertain terms that we ve made our union a little more perfect. all that was tempered by a hate crime that claimed nine lives in a church including its