an alarm clock that makes it impossible for you to go back to sleep again. jenna: hi, everybody, i m general a lee. i hope you re all awake for us despite the alarm clocks. jon: i m jon scott in the newsroom happening now. jenna: seven states banning together on a controversial issue asking to join a federal lawsuit blocking a mandate that religious organizations must offer healthcare, including birth control. they are asking a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional. let s talk to senior judicial analyst gentleman nepal ta nap poll tan owe. reporter: the constitution requires that in order to bring a lawsuit in federal court you must have standing. standing means that you have been uniquely harmed by what the defendant has done. so who would be harmed here? a catholic employer would be harmed, who would be forced to purchase health coverage that violates the teaching of the catholic church. for example the archdiocese of new york which employs 10,000 people, th
let you meet the invent tore of an alarm clock that makes it impossible for you to go back to sleep again. jenna: hi, everybody, i m general a lee. i hope you re all awake for us despite the alarm clocks. jon: i m jon scott in the newsroom happening now. jenna: seven states banning together on a controversial issue asking to join a federal lawsuit blocking a mandate that religious organizations must offer healthcare, including birth control. they are asking a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional. let s talk to senior judicial analyst gentleman nepal ta nap poll tan owe. reporter: the constitution requires that in order to bring a lawsuit in federal court you must have standing. standing means that you have been uniquely harmed by what the defendant has done. so who would be harmed here? a catholic employer would be harmed, who would be forced to purchase health coverage that violates the teaching of the catholic church. for example the archdiocese of new york
we re in mesa, arizona, tonight s cnn arizona republican presidential debate. it s been about a among since they last faced off and since then even more upheaval. rick santorum is now the surging candidates and the one for mitt romney to beat tonight. both men we are campaigning down to the wire and may have given each other press ammunition. he s here with us, going through the details. what s the latest? for the top two candidates, the devil is in the debails. two potential flash points. tonight mitt romney s new tax plan and rick santorum s faith-based brand of politics. he made what could be a risky move, a plan that could come under fire. i m going to lower rates across the board for all americans by 20%. it will last setting the top bracket for the wealthier earners at 28%, and cut the corporate tax rate to 25%, lower than the 28% proposed by the president, but higher than his gop rivals. romney would offset some of those cuts by limiting popular deductions for th
the correct view and that they are acting in an ill-advised fashion. megyn: we have team cover an on this with leland vittert in jerusalem, but we begin with peter brooks, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under president george w. bush, now a foreign policy analyst and senior fellow with the heritage foundation. peter, what do you make of these remarks, we re talking about the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, of israel, the defense minister ehud barak saying these do not service reel s interests, serve iran s interests and are being very vocal of their dissatisfaction. it s a new level of disagreement between the two sides. the obama side is saying patience, calling for patience on dealing with iran. the israelis are saying we re worried iran s going to enter the zone of immunity where they ll have enough fissile material that a military strike will prove ineffective. this is very troubling that these allies are not getting along. we have issues with iran,
on a day america honors our first president, we begin with the men battling for the chance to become the 45th. the republican candidates for g.o.p. nomination. mitt romney is in a bit of trouble, trailing rick santorum in national polls and in polls in his home state of michigan. but don t count him out just yet. one reason, in a word, money. new figures just out from the federal election commission showed that a superpac supporting romney is raising and spending millions. we asked wyatt andrews to tell us how all that money is changing the race. florida, you re the best! rhe best! reporter: superpacss and the candidates campaigns are not supposed to coordinate, but last month, the superpac supporting mitt romney spent big when he needed it big. gingrich even teamed up with nancy pelosi and al gore on global warming! reporter: and what romney needed in january were attacks on newt gingrich. the superpac called restore our future spent $14 million on romney s beha