fight with lyndon johnson over medicare and the words he used was that it would compel all americans to spend their sunset years telling their children and their children s children how it was when men were free, and that is what it is like. and however, medicare has been sustained and approved, but the public sentiment lay ahead. one thing we have not gotten and what the president has been trying to do today which as you say is to make a clear understanding of what this bill is about. because lincoln said with public sentiment nothing can fail and without it nothing can succeed. so without it, he who encourages it, will continue. and so that is the battle of the louise ads with president clinton, and so that is the side that americans have to come down on. thank you, doris kearns goodwin. just a little past the hour, and the supreme court has upheld the sweeping health care reform law proposed by president obama. i m candy crowley. in a 5-4 decision, the court upheld the i
gunned down. the supreme court begins hearing arguments this morning as 26 states challenge president obama s health care overhaul. at the heart of the debate? whether the individual insurance mandate is constitutional. and president obama is joining lead errs of more than 50 nations in seoul, south korea this morning for the 2012 nuclear security summit. the president kicking things off with a stinging warning to north korea. a developing story from afghanistan. nato officials say a gunman wearing an army uniform, an afghan army uniform, killed two coalition members in southern afghanistan before he himself was shot dead. this follows the shooting rampage by a u.s. army soldier that killed up to 17 afghan villagers just earlier on this month. in chile, rocked by a major earthquake, the 7.1 magnitude quake shoot buildings in santiago and triggered a coastal evacuation. three injuries are reported, no major damage however. one minute past 5:00. it s become emotional, i
chancellor that things will be changing as well. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. all that coming up, but first, a campaign triple header right here in the situation room. i ll interview three republican presidential hopefuls today, mitt romney is on deck, rick santorum follows the next hour, right now the republican presidential can da aial candid. the former speaker of the house newt gingrich. spiker, thank you for coming in. eeveryone seems to agree that getting to the magic 344 for you right now before the convention isn t possible, do you agree with that. sure. look, i think the front-runner s clearly mitt romney. he s the weakest front runner in modern times, if he can get to 1144, he s the nominee. but if he can t get to 1144, on 26th of june. it will be a wide open primary at that point if romney can t clinch it, i think it becomes pretty wide open. so you have absolutely no intention of dropping out of this race any time between now and the end