Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Studio: John King) The Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care plan that passed due to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion with the majority. [President OBAMA - comments on the debate over health care.] [Mitt ROMNEY - says he agrees with the dissent and promises to repeal Obamacare.] [September 20, 2009, OBAMA - denies it is a tax increase.] [In April 2006, Massachusetts Governor ROMNEY - talks fees for state health care.] In a August 2009 town hall meeting, people opposing changes to the health care system shown.

(Studio: John King) Live interview held with campaign adviser Barbara Comstock about Romney's views on the health care system. [COMSTOCK - says Romney will give the states a waver from a national health care bill: federalism; criticizes the bill as unlike Romney's in Massachusetts; comments on the Roberts opinion and the court's dissent to it.]

(Studio: John King) Live discussion held with CNN's former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, Paul Begala, Jeffrey Toobin, Gloria Borger, Sanjay Gupta and David Gergen about the Supreme Court ruling. [BEGALA, FLEISCHER, GERGEN - offer views on the decision, the plan, the politics.] [TOOBIN - describes what happened inside the court and Roberts' phrasing and the reaction to it.] [GUPTA - comments on what Romney might do to repeal the law.] Other material: [In 2006, ROMNEY - defends a health care mandate.]