Recently, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of Texas struck down the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a ObamaCare) on the grounds that since the law’s “tax” was currently at zero it was now unconstitutional. Fresh from whining about it on Sunday Today, moderator Chuck Todd grilled Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during Meet the Press because he and other Democrats confirmed the Judge after President George W. Bush nominated him back in 2007.

Todd became indignant when he pounced on Schumer with a quote from his former staffer Brian Fallon, who was having a conniption on Twitter because of the ruling:

Let me ask you this about the courts, by the way, Brian Fallon, somebody who used to work for you by the way. He tweeted the following, he said, “The judge who ruled in favor of gutting ObamaCare was confirmed by voice vote. Remember that the next time Democrats cut a deal with McConnell on judges and defend it by saying ‘they were all non-controversial nominees.’”

“This judge, by the way, confirmed in 2007 when Democrats were in control of the United States Senate. Do you regret the way you guys voice voted this judge,” Todd chided.

Even though he wanted the ruling “overturned”, Schumer defended himself and Senate Democrats by noting that “you never know how a judge is going to vote ten years later” and blamed the ruling on Republicans’ “forum shopping”. “The Republicans chose this court and this bench because they thought they might get this way out of the mainstream ruling from this judge, who’s done it before,” he claimed.

But, Todd wouldn’t let it go and demanded to know: “You brushed off this judge issue very quickly. Look, that was part of a deal. You were part of cutting back in '07. Was that a bad deal?”

Schumer denied that any deal was made to confirm Judge O’Connor and reiterated that “no one knew how he would rule in the future and, you know, it's an awful ruling. Let's make no mistake about it.”

Todd then started pushing Schumer from the left on whether or not he would support the left’s radical ‘Medicare for all’ push:

Some progressives, as you know -- and maybe even some Senators in your own caucus are going to say, “Okay, here we go again with the Affordable Care Act and it was a flawed enterprise anyway.” Here’s what Adam Green, founder of Progressive Change Campaign writes. He says, “Democrats need to put a bright north star in the sky for 2020 voters showing what Democrats would do with more power, and making clear that we're moving toward ‘Medicare for all’ as a big part of a 2020 electoral strategy. It seems pretty clear the presidential nominee, whoever it is, will support Medicare for all.” Do you think it's time for Democrats to push this?

The Senate Minority Leader tried to dodge the question by talking about how many people in the Democratic Party were for many different solutions for health care. “Where are you,” Todd insisted. “Do you think you should spend more time fixing the Affordable Care Act or launching a new health care proposal?”

After even more weaseling by Schumer, Todd cut to the chase and again demanded to know: “I know you're careful about putting your view here now that you're the leader of the Senate conference there, are you going to support ‘Medicare for all’, Senator Schumer?”

This display was Todd showing off just how far to the left he was.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: