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11:00 a.m. at the nixon library in yorba linda. looking forward to coming to california. i went to college there but never been to either of those libraries. so come out and get to know me. here's greg in for shep. >> the u.s. supreme court's decision to uphold obamacare a defining victory for the administration. >> this law is working. and it's going to keep doing just that. >> but republicans say today's decision is not the end of the fight. that and how today's decision could actually turn into a win for the g.o.p. scandal at the irs. word that staffers erased thousands of e-mails related to the tea party scandal and they did it after the government ordered them to save e-mails. >> they destroyed evidence. that's what they did. >> but investigators say this was all just a terrible accident, not a coverup. all of that ahead. this hour, on "shepard smith
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reporting." >> hellozvi'm greg jarrett in for shep. a huge win for the white house and the millions of americans who rely on tax credits to pay for health insurance. the u.s. supreme court today upholding the nationwide subsidies in probe reb's health care law. the justices ruling the government can hand out tax credits to people in all states, not just those that run their own exchanges. so, bottom line, if you get health insurance through healthcare.gov, you get to keep the subsidies. president obama calling the ruling a quote victory for hard working americans. the president says, had the court decided otherwise millions of americans would not have been able to afford insurance. the president also says today's rule is just the latest proof that his landmark law is not going anywhere. >> today after more than 50 votes in congress to repeal or
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weaken this law after a presidential election based in part on preserving or repealing the law after multiple challenges to this law before the supreme court the affordable care act is here to stay. >> today marks the second time that our nation's highest court sided with the white house on the health care law in 2012 it upheld the requirements for all americans to have coverage or pay a penalty. call the mandate. basically it's the heart of the affordable care act. here's a look at how the justices voted in today's ruling. you he can see it was 6-3 and just like three years ago chief justice john roberts whom president george w. bush nominated, came down in support of that law. the republicans say the supreme court got it all wrong and they're going to keep working to repeal that law. >> obamacare is fundamentally broken. it's raising costs for people, pushing people out the ability
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to afford health insurance and needs to be dealt with, but as we know, it's been -- it's very difficult to deal with it when you have a president that is fundamentally disagrees with us. so the struggle will continue. >> well, republicans have also been pointing to comments justice anton nonscalia made in his scathing dissent that the u.s. supreme court now owns the healthcare law and people should start calling it scotuscare instead of obamacare. mike emanuel-on-capitol hill. first shannon breen live outside the supreme court. explain how the court came to a decision. >> in a 6-3 opinion despite what critics said about the four words they had a plain meaning the court said what congress intended was the subsidize that help people to afford, now mandatory health insurance they should be steppedded to all 50 states. the chief was writing for the
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majority and said the phrasing question was ambiguous and gutting the subsidies would have calamitous results. >> they're just interpreting the law as congress intented it to be interpreted and not injecting themselves as they did -- as hey have the in certain cases in the past. both on the left and on the right. >> today the left saying that these justices did not engage in judicial activism. there are few on the right who disagree. >> justice antonen in scalia has quite a firey tongue, and it was a scathing dissent that we heard that was actually read from the bench today. what did he say? >> he didn't hold back. very passionate dissent by a justice schoolarch he said basically this court has done everthing it could to uphold barack obama cars, performing so many are -- sommer assaults assaults and said it's in -- the court has
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don this before, there's nothing ambiguous about the law's wording. >> you have to have a real ambiguity before you look to those external signs of intent or purpose or you're just what is called purposism and you're rewriting a statute without regard to what it actually says. >> scalia went on to say he thought the court was hurting itself hurting its legacy. it would appear now there was a -- that essentially the court plays favorites and the supreme court will do whatever it has to uphold the law it favors and it's not good for the court or justices or the long-term legacy. >> really went after the chief justice. but in some ways, roberts kind of sounded like he was pointing the finger of blame at voters? >> this is similar language we heard in the original obamacare ruling, upholding the flaw 2012. he said, listen, the people
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elect these people and they goo what they do. we're not writing the law. we have to interpret it. i in his closing he said in a democracy the power to make the law rests with those chosen by the people. he says our role is to interpret the law and the people, essentially the suggestion that if the people don't lie the law it's about the people they elected to represent them who wrote it. >> shannon breen live at the supreme court, thank you very much. >> you got it. >> we're gating reaction from many of the 2016 residential candidates on both sides of the aisle, actually. hillary clinton said today and this is a quote anyone seeking to lead our country should stand up up and support this decision and tweeted the supreme court affirms what we know is true in our hearts and under the law health insurance should be foodable and available to all. well republicans were also very quick to respond to the ruling today, saying the supreme court got the call wrong and it
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appears the fight against the affordable care act is not over. mike emanuel is live in washington with more on that angle. mike what's the political impact on 2016? >> some suggest the president's healthcare law now becomes the top issue in 2016. texas senator ted cruz saying, quote, every g.o.p. candidate for the republican nomination should know that this decision makes the 2016 election a referendum on the full repeal of obamacare. and louisiana governor bobby jindal sounded sarcastic about the ruling a short time ago. >> i see that the president is declaring victory today you. may heave sewn the newells the supreme court ruled that one part of the law is not unconstitutional. yipee. this is now success? >> kentucky senator rand paul saying today quote, as a physician i know americans need a healthcare system that reconnects patients, families and doctors rather than growing
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government bureaucracy. >> the republican candidates don't sound terribly convinced by the ruling. >> not at all. jeb bush saying this fatally flawed law imposes job-killing mandates causing spending in washington to skyrocket by $1.7 trillion, raises tacks by $1.7 trillions and drives up healthcare costs. it made the problems worse and former arkansas governor mike huckabee second-guess it the high court. >> i believe the justice scalia had it right when he said we're going to now know this as scotuscare. the supreme court clearly ignored not only the text of the law but ignored even the intent of the law as indicated by the architects and authors of the law. >> wisconsin governor scott walker is calling on republicans in the house and senate to repeal and replace what he calls this destructive and costly law.
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the u.s. supreme court upholding the nationwide tax subsidies under appropriate president obama's heavily health
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-- health care law. analyst says the justices have given republicans their platform in the 2016 races. let's bring in john busse. did not take long for republican candidates and others to come out of the woodwork with some pretty scathing comments about the high court and it's clear this is going to be a 2016 election issue? >> yes. ted cruz was right behind the supreme court in issuing his opinion, saying that every candidate now has to come out and state where they are on the issue. he's using it as political fodder. a different way this might help the republicans. 6.5 million americans get the tax subsidies. if this had been struck down those 6.5 million that would have been affected by this would have been without their tax subsidies. what would the republicans have done? there was already a civil war brewing within the g.o.p. over, should they pass some kind of
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extension to cover these people and tell broader decision was made on the law or not? and now that's not an issue. >> they could have been blamed for a bad fix but what about the flipside of this? president obama and democrats and hillary clinton own obamacare now. she cannot then use it as a blunt instrument to attack republicans if the ruling had gone the other way. >> so, now the sides are drawn. and the affordable care act is still a political issue. it's been a political issue for many years now. so will the republicans actually gin up enough momentum for a substantive vote to repeal it? it's hard to say and hard to expect. in the meantime, business can be work with the white house on trying to refine the law make it less complex, less costly, more effective. that's the other trend that could be working now as far as the aca. >> president obama is
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watching -- i was watching him. he said it has changed or saved lives and he meant that in a very positive way. many americans think just the opposite. million have lost their policies, lost their doctors senators bill cassidy was on the air and said some policies have gone up 150% and we know deductibles have sometimes doubled and tripled. so this. >> this is the political fodder, what will be discussed in the upcoming presidential campaign, once you fact check the numbers what are accurate, what are not who is getting coverage, who is not, who is losing their coverage or just having to pay more for it? these are all issues out on the table and that politicians are going to seek to capitalize on, but today this is unquestionably a win for the white house and you're seeing also a win for certain segment of business. stocks are up for health care providers, for insurers and hops
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because they're expecting now ever more people to be using their service and paying for it. >> president obama was taking a victory lap today and the rose garden and among the things he said was that obamacare is working really well. i wonder if that's the truth? 10.2 million americans have signed up, but 30 million americans are still uninsured and he says he was going to cover everybody. and at what cost? about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money. >> the affordable care act seeks to cover everybody. that is now what is going to be happening as this refinement process continues. you can argue against it. youening argue for it. the spree court said it's law. that's what happened on the very technical aspect of is it law? the supreme court says yes. how to make it better, cheaper more effective? that's what happens now over the next several months.
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>> john busse putting it in political perspective. thank you very much. >> chief justice john roberts joined with the liberal wing of the court writing that congress meant to improve health insurance markets, not destroy them. but justice an thon anyone scalia called that part of the ruling pure applesauce. got to love that phrase. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the ones with the guts to stand apart - join a league all their own. ♪ [dad]i wear a dozen different hats doing small gigs,side gigs...gig gigs. quickbooks self-employed helps me get ready for tax time.
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continuing coverage now. the u.s. supreme court's ruling on obamacare and for the second time chief justice johns roberts sided with the more liberal branch of the court in 201 he wrote that obamacare can force americans to pay a penalty if they don't buy health insurance. he added the penalty could be considered a legal tax under the
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constitution. well justice antonin scalia went ballistic in this obamacare dissent today and called the decision quote interpretive jiggery pokery. and in defense of the indefensible. let's bring in criminal defense attorney heather hanson. some asked me whats to that mean? i said, plumber waddle and poppycock, and pure applesauce he used the term. he is wonderful to read. >> he is. >> let me put up on the screen one thing he said at the heart of his argument that roberts and everybody else got it wrong. words no longer have meaning if an exchange that's is not established by a state is established by the state. it's hard to come up with a clearer way to limit tax credits to state changes than to use the words established by the state. he went on to say that roberts
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was dison in his juris prudence. that was surprising. >> there was a lot of back and forth in the majority opinion justice roberts cited the dissent from the last even obamacare care-so there's trolling going back and forth this is a big disappointment we don't get to watch them read the decisions. we should have cram razz in the courtrooms. judge scalia read his dissent from the bench, and when he talked about scotuscare, justice robert laughed. >> probably nervous laughter. roberts claimed that these four words were just an anomaly a typo and scalia said, wait a minute, that's impossible because it appears elsewhere. what are the odds, do you think. that the same slip of the pen occurred in seven separate places? hardly a typo. >> roberts has to cop seed it's
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an instant artfully written law and the talk beside the law was passed was unusual, wind closed doors, avoided filibuster. so really what i think roberts is saying while it's an inartful law, unusually passed we don't want to have what we think will be death spiral of the law if we find it unconstitutional. so instead he decided to do it. but the problem here is now you're setting precedent for the supreme court to sort of figure out what congress wanted and change law. >> the courts are always trying to interpret legislative intent. what is interesting here is the architects and authors had on the record said their legislative intent and that was to create an incentive for states create these exchanges 34 of which said, no way. >> that's right. and they white the is such an unusual thing and dangerous thing. shannon pointed out that justice
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scalia was concerned about what is going to happen in the future with regard to the supreme court we have four justices getting in toward retirement age, and the next president will be appoint agent least a few supreme court justices. if their new role is to suddenly make law as opposed to interpret it that could be very important. >> scalia also brought up the last roberts opinion on obamacare, where the chief declared the penalty a tax even though both sides had come before the high court and said, oh this is a penalty. this is not a tax. so, one wonders how much damage roberts has done to his credibility. >> i think that for those who support obamacare they feel as though he has saved obamacare. for others who supported less, feel like he has rewritten president obama car. this will be part of his legacy. both decisions. >> i thought that judges decide what end result they want and then just conjure up a way to
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get there. which is not a compliment. >> it shouldn't be that way. lawyers do that. but judges are supposed to be more objective. unfortunately that's not always the case. >> as john busse mentioned today's ruling made waves on wall street. shares of hospital operators have jumped by as much as 12% today. major health insurance firms seeing smaller gains shares of humana up 70%. well, the supreme court is not done yet. another big ruling could be as early as tomorrow. the justices dealing with two questions, whether states can ban same-sex marriage and whether states have to recognize same-sex marriages that officials performed legally in other states. expert says the high court could legalize gay marriage nationwide or force states to recognize marriages but not license them, or it could uphold the businesses on same-sex marriage and leave everything up to the
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states. maybe tomorrow we'll see. >> outrage on capitol hill after a government watchdog says the irs apparently lost thousands of e-mails connected to the targeting of consecutive political groups -- conserve group -- conservative group. >> there was a subpoena in place and the evidence was destroyed. >> the watchdog says, just kind of an accident really. we'll get reaction from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle coming up on fox news deck. before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... ...served my country... ...carried the weight of a family... ...and walked a daughter down the aisle. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is fda-approved to treat this pain. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new, or worsening depression
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one bill would preserve aid for americans who lose work because of increased trade. the other gives the president the authority to speed up trade deals, including a proposed partnership with japan and other pacific nations. many democrats say that could hurt jobs right here in the u.s. they blocked both bills earlier this month but most republicans sided with the president. today he said the legislation would help the u.s., quote write the rules of our global economy. nancy pelosi said the fight will continue. it defy citizen sense of logic. that is the reaction from the head of the house oversight committee today after learning that the irs mistakenly -- that's the key word -- erased tens of thousands of e-mails during the investigation of the tea party scandal. this was months after the irs was told, preserve those documents. the government watchdog for the irs testified on capitol hill today, he said there is no evidence of a conspiracy to
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destroy the e-mails. he says irs workers debted not know about the presidency -- preservation order when they erailsed the tapes. that contained 24,000 e-mails to and from lois lerner, the former irs official who resigned after being accused of infairly targeting conservative groups applying for tax exempt status. rich edson is live in washington. whatted happened at the hearing today? >> questions of how the irs botched preserve thing e-mails and how diligently officials tried to recover them. after revealing his agency erased two years worth of lerner e-mails the irs commissioner said he would work to of them. the treasury inspect juror general says the irs failed to search several sources like backup tapes hard drives and loaner laptops. >> the irs officials testified to the senate finance committee
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the house ways and means committee and the oversight in government reform committee here that it, quote confirmed the e-mails were unrecoverable. end quote. given then that these tapes -- the degauzeing or whatever had been stopped given that recoverable data still existed was that statement true? >> it would not appear to be true. >> the inspect you're general says they recovered 1,000 e-mails the irs fail to give to congress or the department of justice. >> what's the next step in this investigation? >> next week the inspector general will release a preliminary report on its investigation. he says he may issue further updates. the republicans say they plan to continue investigating the conservative target scandal and why the irs investigation into learner's e-mails fell short.
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josh earnest says the president believes there is no evidence of corruption. >> rich edson, thank you very much. >> let's bring in jillian a reporter for the national review who has covered various oversight committee issues. the evidence existed there was an order to preserve it. they didn't do it that destroyed it instead which seems to leave a couple of possibilities. one, people at the irs deliberately obstructed justice or number two they're incredibly incompetent. which seems likely? >> i find both explanations credible but look at the timing. this happened a month after we learned about lois learner's missing e-mails and all of a sudden 422 backup disks are magnet include elaced. a jesse pinkman move. >> really is. frock breaking -- from "breaking
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bad." whoa would the irs destroy this evidence unless they're hiding something that is increme nateing? >> -- incriminating. >> that's the question. the oversight economyee is asking. we're spending this money week putting these man hours in to get to the bottom of what was in these e-mails and explanations this was a coincidence i think they stretch credibility. >> the whole point of having backup tapes is to back something up and yet they destroyed these tapes. unimaginable. the inspector general is saying that irs workers didn't know another the presir vacation -- preservation order the order to keep this stuff and don't destroy it. well they didn't know about it. the only ones in washington, dc who didn't know about it. i it was all over television and the internet. there's actually federal law against willfully destroying public records. these are records that belong in
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willfully destroying records you can no longer hold public office. so i expect to see congress pushing for these irs employees to at lose their jobs. >> then "associated press" came out with a report saying this is the leasted transparent administration ever. bottom line is we're supposed to believe that tens of thousands of lois lerner e-mails were lost and then after that, the backup tapes to those lost e-mails were destroyed. i mean, it just doesn't make sense. >> it would be an extraordinary coincidence. >> all right. jillian, thank you very much for dropping by. russian president vladimir putin doesn't care his country is in a recession and is planning to spend more than 400 billion for the military of the next five years though it is worth noting that less than -- that's less than the pentagon spends in one year.
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right from wrong. legal an lest said the insanity defense works in 25% of felony trials adding the odds are even slimmer in high profile criminal cases. he could face the death penalty if found guilty. prosecutors charging a second prison worker in the case of the two escaped killers in upstate new york. police say gene palmer told them he gave one of the fugitives access to the catwalk they later used to escape. he said richt matt made him elaborate paint examination both criminals would give him information on other inmates' illegal activities. palmer burned and buried the paintings after the escape. his attorney says he did not know the killers were planning 0 breakout. he faces several felon charges. he is out on bail. rig leventhal is live in ol''s head, new york. what more do we know.this corrections officer? >> palmer is a 27 year veteran officer at clinton correctional.
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he worked on the honor block where matt and sweat were housed and dealt with them daily. he admitted he gave the men tools, including needle nosed players and a flathead screwdriver and access to the catwalk behind their cells to alter electrical boxes to allow the men to come in their cells. they later used the catwalk as part of the escape plan. and he gave them paint and accepted paintings where he tried to burn, and then admits to missing matt the ham burger meet stuffed he hacksaw blaheds he says it was given to him the bag, by george mitchell, who is charged as an access rhythm mitchell put the blades inside the burger meat and palmer didn't know they were in there. >> did me make some mistakes? jess. he acknowledges that and takes responsibility because he is a mon of integrity. but he did not plan or aid in
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plan though escape. >> palmer is out on $25,000 bail ask there's another hearing next hour on his case. >> rick, there have been hundreds and hundreds of tips to police some people said they saw the two. any confirmed sightings recently of the pair? >> zero confirmed sightings. police have found evidence, they've say is 100% confirmation these two men were inside a hunting cabin a couple miles from where we are standing as recently as 10:30 a.m. on saturday. but after 2400 leads and tips 1100 law. involved in the search, along with k-9s and aviation uns there has not been a confirm sighting. the police say they're probably still within the 75 square mile search area because the terrain is so unforgiving and police are
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focused on the raillines the atv tails and roads but these two guys were convicted of violent homicides one of them, sweats shot and killed a police officer and then ran over his body a vehicle, and the other one matt, killed his boss, cut him into pieces, dumped them into the niagra river and then went to mexico and killed someone there before coming back here. police say anyone who might see them should continue to call it in and stay as far away as possible. >> how close might they be to the canadian border and getting their is another thing because this is pretty rough terrain? >> incredibly rugged. very thick woods very thick underbrush. you can only see four or five feet in front of you. we're about 20 miles from canadian bored sore not that far, and there are places where you can slide across without fences or walls or customs or border agents to stop you
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according to locals and law enforcement who admit they can't control the entire border but they're keeping eyeballs on the border and keeping eye balls on any easy access to the north. so they're looking for these guys and if they come out in the open they'll likely be seen. >> so think that -- 20 miles might seem like 200 miles if they're trying to get to canada. all right rick, thank you. investigators trying to figure out if a serial killer is lose in a small town in ohio, six young men have vanished from the town in a little more than a year. they're all from a rust belt town 50 miles south of chrome chrome-columbus. one body was found just outside
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town. to investigator said a serial killer is a possible and a task force, including the fbi, now investigating the cases of all six women. investigators say some of the women have histories of prostitution and drug abuse. >> we know drugs are involved. we know that. i think it's just someone -- i think there's a serial killer. >> the whose communal community is suffererring. the families are -- every night they worried about their loved ones and i understand that. but the whole community suffers weapon got missing people. we never want that to happen on our watch. >> media reports indicate the investigation may expand to three other women who disappeared from efficient ports mouth and columbus. some lawmakers on capitol held call for the removal of confederate flags from state buildings, but there's a whole bunch of symbol's the confederacy on their doorstep. the latest on what might happen to them coming up.
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>> more and more companies are cutting ties with the confederate flag. apple has begun pulling games that include the flag from its app store and google plans to remove the flag from its ads and its shopping listings. well it comes as ebay begins the process of taking down confederate flag auctions on its web site, but a company spokeswoman says there are thousands of list examination removing them is going to take a while. earlier today the house sidestepped a vote that would mean removing the mississippi state flag from capitol grounds. the flag includes the confederates stars and bars and it's not just about the confederate flag. lawmakers are pointing out there are nearly a dozen statues of confederate leaders at the u.s.
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capitol building. adam shapiro is here. who knew. >> statuary hall. each stat has the right to put two statues in the capital, and georgia has a statue of alexander stevens a governor of georgia and also the vice-president of the confederacy. so one says the statute has to go the states decide which statue goes. and then robert eastern lee jefferson davis the president of the confederacy. >> who was sent to prison for a very long type. >> but was also the architect or at least jordan saw the build offing the u.s. capitol. so i have the a confederate leaking and also a u.s. history legacy. the pentagon weighing in on this saying there are -- this is a quote -- no plans right now to remove the names of con federal generals from fort bases i. there's no discussion of adjusting our current naming policies. bayses like fort lee fort hood, fort benning.
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just in. the attorney for the second prison worker busted after the jail break-in in upstate new york has tee signed. he joins us now. why did he quit? >> greg, in an interview that just took place the attorney for gene palmer is stepping down. he is citing not a conflict but that he simply is a single office attorney, and the magnitude of this case has grown certainly on the arrest, gene palmer arrested and charged with four counts last night which he says was a surprise to him and his client. he said he simply doesn't have the resources to give mr. palmer
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the defense he needs in this case. of course, andrew blackwell was the first and only attorney when gene palmer sat through more than 14 hours of questioning and he says he'll go to his grave believing that gene palmer did not know about the prison escape. however, when it comes to contrabands and the paintings these other issues of access to catwalk, he is guilty of that, 0 or at least being charged. so he says he has to step aside as counsel to mr. palmer but right now he is stepping down as the attorney. the union that represents correctional officers has to appoint a new one. >> the two men convict killers rightless murders are still at
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large. there they are. authorities they had been closing in on them but they're still on the run. i'm greg jarrett in for shepard smith. "your world" with neil cavuto is next. >> the affordable care act is here to stay. >> the law is a disaster. not what the president just said. it's a total disaster. >> please, relieved and not particularly surprised. >> i disagree with their decision. believe obamacare is bad for americans. >> so jubilant. a victory for common sense. >> the court may have spoken but the people of america still need to speak. >> news flash. don't stick a fork it in because the way things are looking now my friends obamacare is here to stay. welcome everybody. i'm neil cavuto on an historic day. fox on top of a supremely good day for one barack obama and the signature legislation that has defined his presidency. so drop the