he didn t say anybody that goes that route is going to get fired, he piled on. well, i just reread that story before we came on the air. and if you go on to read the rest of axlerod s quotes in that story, he goes on to say, look, but the real distinction, the real differentiation between these two guys, um, is a character issue, and it is romney s long record of flip-flopping on issues, of saying one thing and megyn: right, right, right. and that s where i think the real differentiation is. megyn: no, i agree, moe. no one s going to argue that point, right? because, obviously, they have substantive differences. but what is, what made news this week was the big headline that obama was going to go negative, he was going to go personal against romney because according to this senior democratic strategist, he would have no choice unless things change and he can run on his accomplishments. and axlerod s on the record with politico on this and a, quote, senior obama adviser is unnamed
deep-fried milky way. i m a chocaholic. butter, not so much. i m so excited to be here! megyn: thank you. the audience booed after this question last night: in 2006, when you were running for congress, you described a moment in your life when your husband said you washington examiner getting booed but michelle bachmann s answer is making headlines today and is that a fair question? our power panel debate. a very scary announcement
unconstitutional. the economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority. the ability to compel americans to purchase an expensive health insurance product they had elected not to buy and to make them repurchase that insurance product every month for the rest of their entire lives. so the court smacked down the individual mandate pretty hard, but it does go on to say that the other aspects of the health care law are fine and that the health care law can proceed under that basis. cleary, there will be clearly, there will be a lot of people who argue that that is not the case, this entire law rest on the assumption that everyone is required to do it megyn: let me ask you this, jim. reporter: yeah. megyn: it is one thing to have the court say, okay, just because one portion of the law fails, the entire law doesn t fail legally. but as a practical matter how do they implement the health care
nine minutes oh, ten minutes roughly. governor pawlenty, roughly ten minutes just a little shy of ten minutes, he got 13 questions. congressman paul got 12 questions. senator santorum, ten questions, but he got nine minutes, 21 seconds. now, that is, let s see, 40, 50 second less than governor romney who had the most time speaking. next came newt gingrich at eight minutes, roughly nine minutes. he had ten questions. herman cain, seven minutes, 55 seconds. he had 11 questions. and and governor huntsman, seven minutes, 15 seconds, he had nine questions. for mr. cain and governor huntsman, they answered many times not using their full minute, and they answered short and came up short on some of those answers. megyn: and i appreciated that. you always like when they give back time, but it was fascinating to watch. i want to ask you as a moderator
up, so it look like this project eat on hold for a while. megyn: all right, trace, thank you. coming up, new information on this breaking news out of the 11th circuit court of appeals. they have now dealt a blow to the obama administration in part on this health care overhaul, upholding a lower court ruling that the individual mandate portion of the health care law is unconstitutional. a court of appeals finding that that piece of the health care law is unconstitutional but, nonetheless, finding that the law can stand notwithstanding that decision. now, keep in mind the u.s. supreme court is going to decide this, ultimately. this won t be the end of the road. but nonetheless, it is a setback for those who favor the implementation of this law. we re going to try to get jim angle up on this right after the break. 300 pages, bear with us, please, trying to get more information on it for you. also coming up, they re called vampire bats for good reason. it is the first of its case fir