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off their starting point, even though obama just won an an an electoral landslide victory, it's unremarkablerecedented standard. >> john: let's be fair. the president is not blameless. you could say he's guilty of thinking that lucy was not going to pull the football out this time and filling the americans with hearts full of fear over the disastrous cuts that will happen. they're going to come take way your home, we'll be poor, and then some would say clunkly trying to walk that back when it became clear these cuts would not have an immediate affect on the country. we see the g.o.p. bludgeon him with this. is it fair to say that both sides are to blame but the notion that it's equal is ridiculous. >> john: your blame is strategy. how are we going to play this, how are we going to explain it to the public, did they go overboard in terms of the explanation. but in terms of the en pass and why this deadline was not reached, you cannot argue that both sides are to blame. it began the first week of his inauguration, it has run throughout thinks administration. if you're a republican obstructioni

i think this is completely constitutionally unremarkable. there is a technical argument -- i knew that fulled strike down -- that you would strike down a legislative action of this magnitude because of a very technical argument. i think technically the chief justice did not have the better of the argument in the sense that subsection a says you have to maintain minimum coverage. subsection b says if you don't comply with subsection a, you have to pay $2.5% -- 2.5%. roberts thought that was valid as a tack power. but in the technical sense, there'snology to tax if provision ash -- >> you really got into this. >> i did. so i think stepping back from it, nobody is descending in black helicopters and forcing people at gunpoint to the aetna insurance agency and forcing them to sign up for anything. it's an interesting theoretical question whether the government could force you to do it. the court answered that in the negative. but can it provide a modest tax incentive? it leaves you with a real choice. you don't have to buy health insurance if yo

one thing that has gone unremarked on is it would make it a little more difficult for the church to support they would need bigger salaries. that's an unforeseen problem that it may have. >> is that an issue? could adding married priests to the church in a sense make things worse? then you are bringing in issues of potential divorce, relationships that don't work out. children. the church is already struggling with financial settlements because of the sex abuse scandals. could it actually make things worse? >> well, i think the only thing it can make things worse is if you look at the the present behavior of priests and if you're satisfied with that, what's happening. and i'm talking about the women who write me every day who have fathered children of priests. priests that are pnot faithful. for a good number of priests, celibacy is not working out. to try to ignore that as a reality, i mean, we can't ignore it. i think financially people have to be taught to be responsible with their church. the church congregations are smaller. some congregations struggle financially. they support and sus

only the color of smoke from an otherwise unremarkable chimney pipe will tell us when the work of the cardinals is done. then, only from this papal balcony will we learn his name. >> reporter: the american cardinals got a rousing sendoff, an ovation as they left the north american college in route to this morning's mass. they were all smiles and appeared relaxed as they got down to business voting for a new pope. and we should note, if there was a vote today we would expect to see smoke if it's going to happen roughly around 3:00 eastern time. >> lester holt at the vatican for us this morning, thank you very much. father robert baron is an nbc news analyst. both joining us this morning from vatican city. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, matt. >> good morning, matt. >> claudio, let me start with you, articles have talked about the fact there may be a split in factions among these cardinals as they head into the sistine chapel. one describing it as the romans versus the reformers. why don't i begin with you and why don't you break down the romans for me. >> well, the romans