of same-sex marriage, contraceptive coverage, and also the issue of abortion, which of course has been highlighted a lot recently when it comes to planned parenthood and the fight to defund that organization. fred? athena jones, thank you so much. get some hot water and a little lemon and honey for that voice there. and some sleep nap eel do it too. thanks so much. earlier today, jeb bush went after donald trump over his comments that george w. bush was somehow responsible for the attacks on 9/11. here s his exclusive interview with jake tapper. what are you objecting to about mr. trump s remarks about 9/11 and your brother? look, my brother responded to a crisis and did it as you would hope a president would do, united the country, organized the country and kep us safe. there s no denying that. the great majority of americans believe that, and i don t know why he keeps bringing this up. it doesn t show he s a serious
greeted the mass of crowds of faithful who lined the streets there in our nation s capital. and he stopped to bless a baby or two along the way. we ll go to nbc senior white house correspondent chris jansing, i understand you had a front row seat to that ceremony, how did this compare to so many of the other white house ceremonies that you have covered? reporter: nothing like it. i think that s fair to say. in fact, people who have been here for decades have said that this is the kind of welcoming ceremony that they have never seen, certainly the kind of crowd that turned out, but i think we ve also heard in the weeks leading up to this from senior white house officials, how much the president was looking forward to this. how much he felt he took away last march when the two of them met at the vatican. and in spite of the fact that they obviously do have differences on issues ranging from abortion, gay marriage to an obamacare mandate for providing contraceptive coverage, something u
it makes it likely the supreme court will take you have this issue of. the supreme court ruled in favor of those trying to protect their ridge freedom. the obama administration is obsessed with forcing religious organizations to provide contraceptive coverage and birth control that also causes abortions as part of employer-man dated coverage under obamacare. obamacare says nothing about forcing people to provide contraception. but obama as the administration pushed it on to religious institutions. the obama administration thinks if you sign enough forms you have clean hands. bill: you just said something critical it am not in there? no, obamacare requires that
employers covered under the mandate provide some preventative healthcare. now, preventative healthcare and con dragception, that s an argument people are having. the idea that s religious institutions that morally object to providing contraceptive coverage, some of which cause abortions would never pass congress. congress would never use our tax dollars to provide contraception. bill: this is the mandate from health and human services. bill: they said the schools would have to provide 14 times of contraception and the schools offered 10 and that wasn t good enough. they said the schools could get fought of it by signing form to the provide the coverage and supposedly they wouldn t have to pay for it. but they are saying providing healthcare coverage triggers this morally to be iive
held religious belief and if the government want to provide contraceptive coverage they don t have to force these institutions to do it, they can provide it separate and independently. bill: the supreme court issued five orders already. the administration can t take no for an answer from the supreme court. bill: if this is true you stand a pretty good case of winning this case. it am not me, it s those who want to exercise their religion under the first amendment. bill: when will the court take it up? probably next year and we ll probably get a decision at end of next year. julie: half pint hoping to head to washington. how melissa gilbert has her