captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: good to have you with us. thank you so much. please, sit down, nation. we've got too much show to do. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: thank you so much, everybody. thank you. good to have you with us. nations, as you know, every so often my shows have special sponsors and tonight i am proud to say that this report is brought to you by kegols crunchy nut, the unofficial cereal of celebration because tonight we have something big to celebrate-- obamacare is dead.

it was killed by nine people in black robes. i told you there would be death panels. ( laughter ) you lose, mr. president. take obamacare and stick it where the sun don't shine. then have it removed by eye doctor you have to pay yourself because he's not in network. and, folks, i am not the only one who knows this. >> i believe the supreme court will strike downtown obamacare individual mandate by a 5 of 4 vote. >> it's going to be 5 of 4. if i am wrong i will come on and play your clip and apologize for being an idiot. >> stephen: no need, papa bear. ( laughter ). of course, the linchpin of the this legislative obama-nation, is the health care mandate. and it's not the good kind of mandate where two buddies play racquetball together and recharge over burgers, booze, and a long steam with zero sexual tension. see you next wednesday, kevin. he's a good guy. i don't

understand why he can't find a nice girl. you ladies are missing out. he shaves everywhere. ( laughter ). no, this mandate requires all americans to buy health insurance, and, folks, this supreme court battle over health insurance is the biggest case since scopes defeated that monkey. i can't remember what the case is about. i think the monkey bit someone. the point is, the monkey in this case was the solicitor general arguing in favor of obamacare, and, boy, did he bruise his banana. >> a bad day for obamacare at the supreme court. >>y don'tald virally, representing the obama administration, did not, did not make a strong argument. >> the conservatives in the court just destroyed the solicitor general who was trying to defend obamacare. >> there were moments where the arguments were so poor and so contradictory that the solicitor general was laughed at. >> this was a train wreck for the obama administration. >> stephen: train wreck is

too kind. it was a train wreck that slammed into the hidde hinden b, and landed on the deck of the "titanic." folks, that's no surprise because this health care mandate is tyranny. if the government can force you to buy health insurance, well, we all know what that leads to. >> if the government can force you buy health insurance, why can't it force you to eat broccoli? >> could congress pass a law to require everybody to eat broccoli? >> everybody has to buy food. sooner sore later. therefore, you can make people buy broccoli. >> ( laughter ). >> stephen: this case is really about broccoli. why is the government trying to make us eat it? i'd understand if it was kellogg's crunchy nut cereal, but, folks, if we don't fight this, next they're gog make us eat the rest of our vegetables, including the lima beans and take a nap when we're not tired and give our grandma a kiss even

though she smells like old tupperware and i am not going to do it. i am not going to have nigh here, decisions made by barack obama, oh, should i say barack-oli obama. and even if, even if, even if health care isn't like broccoli, justice alito knows what it is like. >> you can get burial insurance. you can get health insurance. most people are going to need health care, almost everybody. everybody is going to be buried or creamated at some point. >> stephen: well said, justice alito. and since it is the same thing, why shouldn't we have mandated burial insurance? because let's just say somebody dies without burial insurance? and i'm talking about really bad, chronic, incurable burbial. if he doesn't have burial insurance, we're all on the hook for his continued long-term cemetery stay with round-the-clock, 24-hour dirt. ( laughter ) well, once again, this decision

comes down to justice anthony kennedy. he was the swing vote on some big cases -- "citizens united," "bush v. gore," "alien v. predator." ( laughter ). , a landmark case that found you could not burst out of someone's chest without a warrant. and this time, it looks like kennedy is swinging to the right. >> here the government is saying that the federal government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act, and that changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way. >> stephen: yes. i mean, if they can tell to us buy health insurance, that completely destroys the idea of limited government because right now, all the government can do is tax me, draft me, put me in jail, or declare me an enemy combatant and then execute me without trial using a flying deathbot. but making me eat broccoli?

( laughter ) i think we'd all rather die from a preventable disease. and here to tell me if i still have the right to do that, please welcome "slate" legal editor and podcast super star,s can basis. star, emily bazelon. emily, thank you so much for joining me. emily, am i right? is the mandate d.o.a.? >> no, are you wrong. >> stephen: what do you mean? >> that was oral argument. they play around with ideas. they talk. we got to the end of it. >> stephen: but come on! everyone on tv is saying i that the mandate is dead. >> and happy flee lee we don't decide supreme court cases just base on the sound bites they play on tv. >> stephen: oh, really? that's the world you want to live in? >> it's the world i do live in. >> stephen: really, really? you wouldn't live there if you had your own tv show. ( laughter ). okay? true? we would miss that-- will you admit that, counselor? >> i admit that -- >> stephen: i accept your

apology. let's just say i'm right because that's what we're going to edit out. let's just say i'm right. if the mandate's gone, what-- what-- what does that do to the rest of law? is it all gone if the mandate gone? >> the challengers today said ootdz all gone, good-bye law, all 2700 pages. but the government said you get to keep the law except for the good parts that cover preexisting conditions -- insurers have to cover them and say that insurers can't reject anyone anymore. >> stephen: what's the vibe from today? how are the justices coming down on being able to sever the mandate away from the rest of the law or kicking the whole thing out the door? what's the field? >> you know, it was so convoluted and unclear what to do. it was like, maybe we want to keep the mandate after all so we don't have to go down the road of the other 2700 pages. >> stephen: what did you think of viriley's arguments? >> i did not think he did well. >> stephen: you're liberal,

right, "slate," you're liberal. you and your liberal commie pals, did you listen to that and just think, "let me in there! i've got an argument for broccoli." >> i'm not that good a lawyer but i did feel like justice ginsberg and -- >> stephen: you're not that goodave lawyer? why are you my guest? i want the good people. >> well, you'll have to talk to your producers about that. >> stephen: what would you have said? i have a few arguments for the broccoli thing. >> i'll give you mine. mine is we don't have a national dysfunctional market for brokely. people aren't coming from connecticut to massachusetts, not eating their broccoli, showing up and demands the people in the new state spend millions of dollars to deal with the fact they haven't had their broccoli. >> stephen: right, and fidon't buy broccoli, it doesn't raise the price of your broccoli. >> right. >> stephen: and if we don't buy into the broccoli pool it doesn't get rid of all broccoli eventually. and we aren't the only industrial country that does not

provide universal broccoli care. >> right, right, exactly. >> stephen: another but i'm glad you and i weren't there to make that argument or else he might have won. >> he might have. it would have been good if someone could have just killed the broccoli argument right there. >> stephen: is it nice to think that we're smarter than solicitor general? >> it is nice. i don't even i feel that way, but i bet you might. ( laughter ). ( applause ) >> stephen: you-- you've watched this show. if obamacare goes out, if it's dead, have we finally killed the socialist pipe dreams of keeping poor people alive? ( laughter ) well, we're still going to have social security. we're still going to have medicaid. we're still going to have medicare. in those cases the government takes in taxes and gives a benefit and no one is arguing they can't do that anymore. this is just about the method of receiving and conveying the benefits, the idea of making people buy private insurance, which was, of course, supposed to be a free-market solution to a big problem. >> stephen: uh-huh, uh-huh.

who won? did the obama people win or did the states who are trying to get rid of obamacare win? >> the states are on second, and the obama people are, like, trying to steal a base to catch up, i would say. >> stephen: the state is on second, under the shirt, over the bra? ( laughter ) ( applause ) that's pretty good. thank you so much, emily. >> thank you ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: "slate'ses" can "y e two car insurances that we're going to have you taste.

the first one we're going to call x. go ahead and take a sip, and then let me know what the baby thinks of it. four million drivers switched to this car insurance last year. oh, she likes it babies' palates are very sensitive

so she's probably tasting the low rates. this is car insurance y, they've been losing customers pretty quickly. oh my gosh, that's horrible!, which would you choose? geico. over their competitor. do you want to finish it? no. does the baby want to finish it? no.

( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: thank you very much. welcome back, everybody. nation, this is going to be a big year for the republicans, but some claim they've got a

problem with one demographic. >> young people are not, you know, being attracted to this current field of republican candidates. >> there's really a gap in terms of the republican voting and millennial voting. >> the republican party needs to figure out how do we excite youth again. >> stephen: well, as the kids would say, poppycock. ( laughter ) the republican youth are enthused. at the rallies, i've seen some very young a.a.r.p. members. i'm talking 51-year-olds. ( laughter ) but now, republicans have found a way to lure the youth voter of tomorrow with a brand new magazine "the conservative teen." ( laughter ) finally, a publication for kids who are sick of doing their own thing and just want to conform to conservative ideals. it's everything young folks love, starting with the fact that it's available only as a 52-page printable p.d.y., " why o. ( laughter ). that's the same document format my accountant uses to send me my

w-to-the-2s. the conservative teen, or t.c.t., as someone might conceivably call it, is full of rad articles that no teen can resist, from government create poverty to why absinnence works and how it can work for you. i can't wait for the next issue featuring a list of 50 ways to make your man say, "not yet." ( laughter ) and, kids, this ain't your father's magazine. it was just written by him. ( laughter ) t.c.t. is loded with shout-outs from youth icons like john stossel, the original hipster with a nonironic mustache. according to his byline, john stossel is the very well-known host of stossel on the fox business network. so, teens, that's why you know him so well. plus t.c.t. reveals president

obama is a total poser because they know the first real black president was ronald reagan. ( laughter ) ( applause ) yup. and by the way, for the record, it's only okay for other conservatives to say, "what up, my gippa?" ( laughter ) so, i want to give the men and women behind this magazine my heartfelt congratulations. thanks to "the conservative teen," the future of the republican party is as bright as the future of the magazine industry. ( laughter ) we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ah, welc. i get it...guys weekend.

yeah! if you're looking for a place to get together, you came to the right place. because here at hotels.com, we're only about hotels. yeah! yeah! noooo. yeah! finding you the perfect place is all we do. welcome to hotels.com

( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody.

my guest tonight is an accomplished actor who is here to discuss hydraulic fracking which is perfect because he's about to get drilled. please welcome mark ruffalo ( cheers and applause ) thank you. mark, thanks so much for coming on, big fan. >> thanks for having me, stephen. >> stephen: i'm about to tear you a new one, buddy. >> i think i'm ready. >> stephen: all right, movie star man, let's talk about your beaveyourbeef with our energy p. we know you're an actor, producer, writer, oscar nom neerk looks like everybody's old boyfriend. now, you have this thing called water defense. >> that's right. >> stephen: what is that? >> well, long gone are the days where we just stick a straw in the ground and get beautiful, concentrated carbon-based fuel out of the ground. now we have hydrofracking, tar sands, mountaintop removal, deep

sea drilling. and all of these things destroy water, and in particular, hydrofracking. so we've seen this kind of-- this publicity push to get hydrofracking, but we haven't heard the opposition. >> stephen: explain to people what hydrofracking is. you have all this gas, natural gas, right? >> yes. >> stephen: it's trapped underground. >> that's right. >> stephen: where it is very dangerous because it is highly flammable and it could explode at any moment. >> at request moment. >> stephen: and the energy company goes in and free that natural gas by shattering the bedrock with water under extreme pressure, right? >> that's right. >> stephen: and this then that gas-- >> they put chemical chemicals t water, a lot of chemicals, 150,000 gallons per well. >> stephen: okay, but what are the chemicals? >> they won't tell glus they won't tell us what's in "5-hour energy," either. why is that necessarily dangerous?

why is that a problem for you? we have enough gas in this country to make us the saudi arabia of natural gas. >> that has been debunged. the united states geological service came out and said-- they debunked it by 80%. they dropped those numbers by 80%. it was 100 years worth of gas. now it's 20 years worth of gas at the rate we're using it right now. >> stephen: i have two words for you, sir-- north dakota. >> ouch. >> stephen: this whole country could be north dakota, okay, the endless man camps shattering bedrock. why-- we don't know how-- >> that's not good. that's not good! >> stephen: but it's a job creator. have you seen those ads with the nonthreatening attractive blond lady saying one million jobs. >> i have. you have to remember, it's an ad. these people aren't scientists. they're selling gas. they're selling fracking to the american people, as if they're-- the they're the scientists, as

if they're going to teach us something. we can't forged get. we're watching ads. these are the same people who have been destroying our environment for the last 70 years. and you know what? thank you, thank you for bringing us to this point where we can actually have this discussion, where we have technology right now, are renewable technology -- >> stephen: like what. we burn things. we burn things better than anybody has ever burned things. america was built on burning things. ( laughter ). okay? >> how do i argue with that? >> stephen: you don't. ( applause ) so what are these-- what are these-- what are these renewable, supposedly renewable things? >> wind, water, solar we can do it. >> stephen: oh, come on. in your backyard, mr.-- >> yes. >> stephen: mr. hyannis port. >> i have a 14 kilowatt solar array in my backyard that powers my home ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: really? >> what do you have?

>> stephen: what do i center? in my backyard i have a giant pool of oil that i set on fire at night and i read by it. ( laughter ). another so there's part of it. solar is part of it, but that's not going tyke up the whole thing. therthere is not enough sun to o around. here's the problem with sun, here's the problem with sun, you can-- >> wait. >> i want to get one word -- >> stephen: you cannot. no, no-- ( applause ) >> please i want to say one -- >> stephen: you cannot run-- >> how am i supposed to-- don't look at her. >> stephen: i'm over here, baby. you can't run your car. you can't run your car on the sun. it is huge and super hot. you'll usule the energy running your air conditioner. ( laughter ). so go on, go on. >> germany, germany today, right now-- we're not inventing this technology. germany, that mecca of sunlight

that was so well known for getting us a place to get a great tan, right? 30% of their energy is coming from sun. america's being left behind. ( applause ) we're being left behind all over the world. >> stephen: more delicious oil for me, sir. >> but i want to talk about-- you know how i got is into this? >> stephen: because you dring water. let me guess. >> from a well. that's drilled under my home. >> stephen: real americans consist on the moisture from corn dogs. why did you get into it? >> i live where they want to do this. and i thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. i saw the commercial-- hey, hydrofracking, that's a great name. let's frac the daylights out of this place. i thought it was going to be great. it was going to save us. it was going to give us our own energy. we were going to be energy independent. then i went to dimock, p.a., and i saw what it does to families. i saw-- these people can't drink

the water that's coming out of their tap here in america. that's a third world thing. >> stephen: what happens to the water? >> the water is full of poison, and it's full of gas. their houses can blow up. >> stephen: what? >> yes, this is happening in america pup should be outraged. this is-- it's destroying people's lives, their properties. there are people in this audience tonight that are the victims of that. and i saw that. and i-- and i said to myself, if i am who i say i am, then i have to get out in front of this and i have to start talking about it. and there's a-- ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: listen, i don't want to see anybody's lives destroyed, and you seem very passionate about this. and you say-- if you are who you say you are-- >> thank you. >> stephen: can i suggest something? you're also-- you're also the "hulk." the new "avengers" movie. you're also the hulk, aren't you? >> don't make me angry. ( applause ) >> stephen: that i will agree

with. >> thank you. >> stephen: thank you, mark ruffalo. >> i accept your apology. >> stephen: mark ruffalo. learn more at waterdefense.or waterdefense.org. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause )

( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: well that's it for the report, everybody. g captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org