andrea mitch, you are still with us in washington, d.c., i want to get your -- andrea had to go forgive want to get -- chris and melissa is with me. make sure i got -- know who is here. chris, let's go back to you in washington, d.c., as i asked melissa about everybody being caught flat footed, there was this "wall street journal" report this morning the president prepared three speeches, ready to go you know, proper preparation prevents poor performance. so, ready to fire at whatever the ruling would be. do you think this caught people offguard by thinking roberts would side with the conservative judges? >> the real surprise you 5-4 for the president, a thought, a long time now, 5-4 against or 6-3 in favor. the fact that anthony kennedy, the predictable swing vote, replaced basically sandra day o'connor as the swing vote went against the president but leapfrogging him to the left is the chief justice. nobody predicted this. nobody. chief justice john roberts would move over and add his voice and his vote to the liberal minority so you have a 5-4 decision no one expected. no one at all

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i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix, mitchtleground bus tour in michigan t state where he was born, which today, romney said he believes he can win. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. there has been a lot of discussion overnight about a conversation you and i had yesterday. we ran clips of mitt romney in cornwall, pennsylvania, talking about his trip to a wawa. the rnc and campaign both reached out to us, saying romney had more to say about that visit, about federal bureaucracy. >> i was at wawa's. i went in to order a sandwich. you press a touch-tone keypad. you just touch that and the sandwich comes at you, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there's your sandwich. it's amazing. people in the private sector have learned how to compete. it's time to bring competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and have it respond to the customers, which are you. >> now on to that other subject, immigration, because that was a big topic.

>> the republican leadership has been quiet about this, andrea, and in fact harry reid spoke about it yesterday. mitchnell decided not to respond to him on this issue. but he elected not to receive any gop support, the moderates that might try to push this across the finish line, scott brown, susan collins, olympia snowe, i spoke to an aid before i came to be program and they expect them to stay with the leadership on this one. the reason being there's been a big push by business-backed special interest groups and the u.s. chamber of commerce which said that this bill that would allow women to sue for punitive damages if they don't feel they're getting the same salary as men, as allow women to talk about salaries in the workplace and ask questions about what men make would really hamper small businesses. they expect to hold their caucus because of the strength of those groups. >> of course, the strength on the other side are the trial lawyers who would like to see this happen. >> indeed, right, andrea. >> but there's also -- >> but this is a great example of a vote that we'll hear about again in novem

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix, mitch romney is wrapping up his battleground bus tour in michigan t state where he was born, which today, romney said he believes he can win. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. there has been a lot of discussion overnight about a conversation you and i had yesterday. we ran clips of mitt romney in cornwall, pennsylvania, talking about his trip to a wawa. the rnc and campaign both reached out to us, saying romney had more to say about that visit, about federal bureaucracy. >> i was at wawa's. i went in to order a sandwich. you press a touch-tone keypad. you just touch that and the sandwich comes at you, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there's your sandwich. it's amazing. people in the private sector have learned how to compete. it's time to bring competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and have it respond to the customers, which are you. >> now on to that other subject, immigration, because that was a bi