the first republican to put it in legislative language was senator john chafee of rhode island, who ined a health care reform bill as an alternative to hillary clinton's health care reform bill. hillary clinton's bill had an employer mandate, mandating that employers must provide health insurance. senator chafee and the republicans countered with an individual mandate, and hillary clinton condemned the individual mandate every chance she got. and virtually all democrats and liberals agreed with hillary clinton then and were completely opposed to the individual mandate. the chafee bill never had more than 18 republican co-sponsors in the senate. that's 18 out of 43 republicans at the time, a minority of a minority of republicans supported the chafee bill. a minority of that minority actually understood that there was an individual mandate in it. and as soon as we started having hearings in the senate finance committee about health care reform in 1994. the republicans started running away from the individual mandate. bob dole was a supporter of john chafee's individual mandate in 1993 an

chafed in the groin for this. >> it was a real turn on for hispanic leaders who like vague answers. [ speaking spanish ] >> johnrongly. >> we'll see what citizens united has to say about that won't we? >> yeah. next week is going to be a big week, the supreme court ruling is coming down. >> a lot of them yeah. and it will be really, really interesting. the president is speaking at the conference today in the exfact spot where myth spoke yesterday. and it was interesting because the speech was not the most enthusiastic response. but if you looked on twitter afterwards, it was all white republicans saying how awesome the speech was. >> yeah. >> you'll see today the president will get a much warmer reception there. >> absolutely. plus i love this story, romney's campaign message has been garbled up by leaks of his vice president picks. marco -- >> rubio! >> yeah. the president did the immigration move. the bigger vp bomb shell -- [ explosion ] >> romney won't be considering any women for the vice president slot at all. >> really? all i'm hearing is condy rice and nicky haley. >> that was the latest leak this week,