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scott is off tonight. it is the one idea that turned the supreme court decision on health care, this week it is the one idea that is front and center on the presidential campaign trail. whether the individual mandate-- the provision that requires every american to have health insurance-- amounts to a tax. on monday, mitt romney's senior advisors sided with president obama and against other republicans by calling it a penalty. today romney said not so. jan crawford sat down with the presumptive republican nominee in new hampshire where he's on vacation. >> reporter: romney has come un...

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. scott is off tonight. it's the one idea that turned the supreme court decision on health care, this week it is the one idea that is front and center on the presidential campaign trail. whether the individual mandate-- the provision that requires every american to have health insurance-- amounts to a tax. on monday, mitt romney's senior advisors sided with president obama and against other republicans by calling it a penalty. today romney said not so. jan crawford sat down with the presum...

tax at the federal level? that the supreme court has said it's a tax so it is a tax? >> i said i agreed with the dissent and the dissent made it very clear that they felt it was unconstitutional but the dissent lost, it's in the minority. so now the supreme court has spoken. there's no way around. that you can try and say you wish they had decided a different way, but they didn't. they concluded it was a tax, that's what it is and the american people know that president obama has broken the pledge he made. said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle income americans. not only did he raise...