neera tanden is president of the center for american progress. she helped write the health care law. and michael cannon of the cato institute was a leading force behind its challenge. michael cannon you say the supreme court was intimidated by this. >> well, yeah. i think there are a couple of things that are important to keep in mind here. one of them it's not just subsidies that we're talking about. there are taxes that are tied to those subsidies that are being imposed on 70 million americans in those states. and had the challengers won those taxes would have disappeared, too. so they're challenging both the tubs dees and taxes as illegal. another important thing to keep in mind is nine supreme court justices said all nine said you know what, the challengers have the case. the plain meaning of the statute here does do what they say event plain meaning of the operative part of the statute does do what it says. it does mean establish by the state. but they thought the purpose of the statute would not be served by the way congress wrote it, they

. >> david axelrod and neera tanden, thank you both for joining us. joining me now, 2016 democratic presidential candidate, bernie sanders. i know you were on the health committee as it was crafting the senate version of the -- of what became the affordable care act. your reaction to today's decision? >> well, it was a very common sense decision. i was on the committee pip went to 8 zillion meetings to discuss the issue. and to write the legislation. nobody but nobody distinguished between federal exchanges and state exchanges. that was a nonissue, which some white-wing guys picked up on, hoping to overturn the affordable care act. i think clearly the president is right. the affordable care act is now here to stay. it has provided insurance for some 16 million americans. that is a good thing. it's a heck of a lot better than throwing another 6 million people off of health insurance, if their decision had been different. but i think, chris, what we also have to understand, despite the gains of the affordable care act, and i played an important role in

pace, who covers the white house for the associated press syndicated columnist, george will and neera tanden, center of the think tank for american progress. we got a bunch of questions like these on facebook. pablo writes about hillary clinton, how long can she go without doing an interview? gale sent this, she's pulling a mohammed ali, rope-a-dope, good credit for getting that sports analogy. neera, someone close to the clinton campaign how can she go more than a month and a half since she announced her candidacy without doing a real interview and answering people's questions. >> she has talked with reporters over past couple of weeks, >> she will do more one-on-one interviews, 500 days until election. this will be a long campaign. she'll announce in a few weeks and then we'll have a process -- >> i thought she announced when she -- when she did her video. >> there's formal announcements and there's the prelaunch. she's spending this time talking to people and hearing their concerns and that will shape what she does on the campaign trail. >> brit, without serious competition, it seems, in