his office said that for the time being as far as the governor is concerned this settles the matter. joining us is john archibald of the birmingham news. one of the first people to write about the closing of the dmvs in alabama. thank you for being here. thank you. appreciate being on. in terms of the governor s announcement on friday, is that right, that these offices that were closed will all reopen but all of them will only be open one day a month? right. baby steps i suppose. a lot of these offices, particularly in the black belt region were only opened one day a week anyway. it s not quite as bad as it sounds. it s a little best a step and i m sure he does hope it will go away. that remains to be seen. do you think that government bentley saw the backlash and national attention coming on this? he does seem like he was surprised by it. i don t think he saw it coming at all. and i don t think his intent i ve come to believe that his intent was not to deny voter
secretary clinton was ahead of bernie sanders in that new hampshire poll that was released on friday. but in a boston herald franklin pierce poll that came out today, bernie sanders is back in the lead in new hampshire. hillary clinton commands a lead nationwide but sanders has been ahead of her in almost every poll in new hampshire. this is likely to be a big week for hillary clinton. on thursday, she s going to be on tv all day long and probably into the night because thursday s the day she s going to give her sworn testimony to the super controversial benghazi committee led by the house republicans. that committee has felt like it has been imploding over the last couple of weeks. but they have her for an indefinite period of testimony on thursday. and that s not closed door testimony. that s going to be on tv. so that s going to be a very big deal on thursday. then on saturday, hillary clinton just announced she s going to be speaking at the
i just want to say, martin, that i was really disappointed in journalists. didn t you threaten to veto? didn t you say you would veto the dream act? i remember that distinctly, and as far as good journalism goes, it wasn t just the shouting out at the in the rose guardern, but how come journalists didn t ask him about that? you heard bob schieffer on sunday repeatedly ask mitt romney whether he would support or repeal the president s announcement on friday, and he simply couldn t answer the question. i think that was more of a function of not just the journalist s concern. that was more an absolute and abject failure by the republican nominee. no, i completely agree with that, but i would have liked to have heard the question not asked would you repeal it, and, of course, the whole thing was a blah, blah, blah, and i think
coercion. republicans are saying the compromise really doesn t change anything. the fact that the white house thinks this is about contraception is the whole problem. it is about freedom of religion. it is right there in the first amendment. you can t mckinley issues it. this is outrageous. the bottom line is that you have the federal government now saying we are going to give you a right and then saying by the way, we are going to tell you how to exercise that right. the president and the white house show no signs of backing down even as members of congress consider legislation that would outlaw the kind of birth control coverage mandate. shannon: thanks for keeping us updated. joining us is hannah smith, senior counsel to the beckett fund and laura mccrary. thank you for your time today. thank you for having me. hannah, why isn t the compromise good enough for you? the president s announcement on friday has absolutely no legal effect whatsoever. and in fact what the pre
hampshire poll that was released on friday. but in a boston herald /franklin pierce poll that came out today bernie sanders is back in the lead in new hampshire. hillary clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead nationwide in every poll. but bernie sanders has been ahead of her in almost every poll recently in new hampshire. that said, this is likely to be a very big week for former secretary of state hillary clinton. on thursday of this week she s going to be honestly, she s going to be on tv all day long and probably into the night because thursday s the day she s going to give her sworn testimony to the super controversial benghazi committee led by the house republicans. that committee has felt like it has been imploezing over the last couple of weeks, but they have got her for an indefinite period of testimony on thursday. and that s not closed-door testimony. that s going to be on tv. so that s going to be a very big deal on thursday. then on saturday hillary clinton just