as ezra says, this was an accommodation.he reason we have private insurance, we left it in the hands of employers, is it was much easier to get something like that through congress. it was less disruptive to the health care system to change everybody over to a single payer system. and now we are seeing the consequences of that. i think it was the right decision to make. i'm glad we have the affordable care act. i'm glad we have all these people covered. but it gets messy. >> ezra kline, jonathan cohn, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up in "the rewrite." toronto mayor rob ford returns to his job today. he faced the press today. and it was a press conference like no other in rob ford's time as mayor. >> i was wrong. and i have no one, but no one, to blame but myself. due to menopausal changes. the problem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. so it's time we do something about it. and there's help. premarin vaginal cream. a prescription that does what no over-the-counter produc

joining me now is vox.com editor in chief, ezra klein, and former chief minority council to the house judiciary committee, julian epstein. good evening, gentleman. >> good evening. >> ezra, the john boehner lawsuit here in many ways looks like a political move to keep house republicans from clamoring for a bigger battle, the battle of impeachment. do you think it will work? >> well, i think it will work for that, actually. this is the machiavellian reading of john boehner's lawsuit. which is that john boehner knows that bad ideas in the republican party can become inevitable ideas very quickly. you saw it happen with ted cruz and shutting down the government in 2013, for instance. he's heard increasing calls among republicans to impeach obama. sarah palin made a call very recently. there was a book by a guy name andrew mccarthy out, making the argument. there is an incredible amount of, not just anger, but, i think, a kind of a terror, a hyped up terror among conservatives about obama's perceived executive branch overreach. so what boehner did here is, in a funny way, smart. what he d

but on this case, i think as ezra pointed out and i tried to say, there's no principle. if the principle is the government could do it, that's true for all of healthcare. we have medicare and va and the government can do all -- >> how does the white house read that then? it's very clear the white house is treading carefully in these 24 hours since this decision is handed. >> the president and white house not inclined to single payer and do things where the government takes over whole swaths of health care because it could be an open pandora's box based on the principle the court laid out, you can do it in a less burdensome way. we know the government can take over all of health care. that's a false principle to differentiate everything in health care. administration clearly doesn't want to go down that route. they will probably in the short term think of another workaround and wait for the supreme court. i think this is quite clear this is opening the box. that's what that lean from alito which looked like it was narrowing what's really doing -- bring us the case and we'

ezra klein, you've been digging into this.menting on this case? it sort of shows maybe some bigger predictions about her choices as to whether or not to run for president. >> this is a really, really tricky case. >> yeah. >> our reporter lopez has been trying to follow this and it's hard. what clinton is saying there is true in our system of justice, we need to have lawyers and the court appoints lawyers to represent people. i think what unsernerving about that clinton tape she knew or at least believed that her client was guilty. and i think it's hard for folks to understand why you would go to the mat for a client you know is guilty. what she is saying there that was her obligation as a lawyer and that the prosecution had done a horrible job. if you have a system in which a prosecution can convict people without actually having the evidence there, having cut out the relevant part of the physical evidence, you have a very bad system. on the other hand, you have this tape come out which some people listen to and feel she is to

we'll talk with ezra klein on who the nsa is really monitoring just ahead.nutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know words really can hurt you? what...? jesse don't go! jesse...no! i'm sorry daisy, but i'm a loner. and a loner gotta be alone. heee yawww! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. jesse? and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine -- what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine...loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. here's how. the kidneys allow sugar to be absorbed back into the body. invokana® reduces the amount of sugar allowed back in and sends some sugar out through the process of urination. and while it's not for weight loss, it may help you lose so

who's thirteen and i got sophia who say ezra was for twenty two months yesterday so that it. for now. always wanted a big family. so the first borns had done some dance and the juicy would have to leave others and you know what it was something that. was so special she had taught me so much in my life too and being around these kids to me that's my passion if you go to my website pools family foundation or you see all the events that we do with those kids. you know while been doing the last three year we spent our foundation now we're here and sold in california and nashville. kansas cd in our goal is to try to continue to do that you know helping we have a kid here who is working at this stage and now we set a program that every mega stadium is going to provide jobs for a kid with down syndrome i mean. push that through to magically base when they partner with us the sharing is amazing is the whole family foundation the foundation dot all of our family foundation that or the baseball things in the world segment with a lot of questions from viewers and so musial one said that

ezra klein, thanks forgetting up with us and explaining it.and it better. >> thank you for having me. >>> another controversial decision by the supreme court handed down on the last day of situation, hasn't gotten as much attention as hobby lobby. we'll try to fix that. that's next. [ video game beeping ] ♪ [ male announcer ] it takes two hands to eat a manwich. leaving zero hands to save the universe. hold on. it's manwich. this is mike. his long race day starts with back pain... ...and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve... ...for all day relief. "start your engines" [ female announcer ] we love our smartphones. and now telcos using hp big data solutions are feeling the love, too. by offering things like on-the-spot data upgrades -- an idea that reduced overcharge complaints by 98%. no matter how fast your business needs to adapt, if hp big data solutions can keep wireless customers smiling, imagine what they can do for yours. make it matter. >>> almost all of the at dimension the supreme court this week was on the hobby lobby d

ezra klein will be in for me tomorrow "the ed show" is up next. >>> good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show," i'm ready to go. let's get to work! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> america cannot wait forever for them to act. >> let's talk about what the president is doing when he's not golfing and that is executive orders. >> president obama may be secretly planning to take action? he said essentially i'm going to take matters into my own hands. >> you can't let your brothers and sisters in congress leave for vacation without fixing that problem down there when you're all so outraged, can you? >> this is a man-caused disaster. >> i think it's a mistake for the president to take on everything is a one-man band. >> the man that caused it is barack obama. >> he'll be sacrificing -- on the political opportunity. >> the congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours. >> rumor has it once congress goes away he'll do exactly that. >> you guys will register these 8-year-olds from guatemala to vote, right? pooh is he going bait the republicans to impeach him? >> good to have you with us toni

ezra klein will be in for me tomorrow "the ed show" is up next. >>> good evening, americans.," i'm ready to go. let's get to work! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> america cannot wait forever for them to act. >> let's talk about what the president is doing when he's not golfing and that is executive orders. >> president obama may be secretly planning to take action? he said essentially i'm going to take matters into my own hands. >> you can't let your brothers and sisters in congress leave for vacation without fixing that problem down there when you're all so outraged, can you? >> this is a ma

supposedly, this is in all the books, after the battle of as church,rch, -- ezra a horrible defeat for the veterans -- confederates, a yankee yelled out, "how many are there left of you?" the confederate said, "i guess there is enough for another killing." that is always presented as evidence the confederates were so fed up with hood, all these attacks were they were being killed, and it was a criticism of hood. i did not figure this out, but another historian did. he sent it to me. ks it turns out, he went bac and researched this. this story happened according to a diary, but happen that new hope church a month before john bell hood took command of the army of tennessee. so it happened when joseph johnston was commander, not hood . but somebody put it in a book, it was thought hood was in command, and gets repeated over and over. of fun.one that's kind so many different versions of it in the book. supposedly, the army of tennessee defeated after nashville, all ragged and traipsing through the mud, hungry and defeated. and somebody decided to take the lyrics to "the yellow rose of texa

after the battle of ezra church, which was a horrible the feed for the confederates, supposedly a yankee yelled out "say, johnny, how many of you are there over there?" said, "well,derate i guess there is about enough for another killing." and that is presented as the fact that the confederates were so fed up with hood, having all of these attacks and it was basically a criticism of hood. i did not figure this one out, but steve davis, another historian did and sent it to me. excuse me. as it turns out, and he went back and he researched this. and this story actually did , butn according to a diary it happened at new hope church, a month before john bell hood took command of the army of tennessee. it happened when joseph johnston not hood.mmander, but somebody put it in a book that he was in amman. it gets repeated over and over and over. this -- another one that is kind of fun. there are so many different versions of it in the books. supposedly, the army of tennessee, defeated after nashville, and they're all right did and traipsing home through the mud in their hungry -- they are all r

i offer my deepest gratitude to ezra freelander, the international raoul wallenberg foundation and thed organizations as well as my congressional colleagues -- especially nan hay worth, my cosponsor of this bill who supported the legislation -- for bestowing this congressional gold m.d.ial upon raoul wallenberg. i did not learn of the remarkable acts of raoul wallenberg in my elementary school or middle school or high school or college or each law -- even law school, for that matter. it was through entities like the international raoul wallenberg foundation, the american jewish joint distribution committee and other institutions and individuals that i became aware of the courage, resourcefulness and -- [inaudible] of this great man. the more i learned about raoul wallenberg, the more i was convinced that congress needed to acknowledge his legacy in an enduring way. in such a way that we could inspire future generations of americans by what wallenberg accomplished. the overwhelming bipartisan passage of the legislation reflects the undeny undeniable inintent of congress to keep his lega