secretary, kathleen sebelius, something she said with congressman murphy. who paid for it. the reduction in a number of pregnancies is compensates for the cost of contraception. by not having babies important, we re saving money. i want this on the record. you re saying by not having babies born, we re going to save money in health care. providing contraception for women and for their children, reduces health congressman tim murphy joins us now with his reaction, good morning, congressman. good morning. alisyn: you seemed taken aback by something in at that change. what struck you the most? what struck me is the idea that women shouldn t be having babies and that s the way to save money. and that s not it at all. certainly, when the pregnancy, good prenatal care, good neo natal care and perinatal care,
in march or excuse me in april, may and june when it s warmer, but you do this right now this time of year and we ve got very cold air here and snowing and by tomorrow morning, our forecast is to go a storm come through and probably two inches of snow on top of this, which is going to be something i ve never seen where you ve got the destruction and then a pristine coat of white snow on top of this for a little bit and warm up in a couple days back in the 60 s, but it makes the process for people so difficult. as they re, you know, trying to figure out what to do. and it s dangerous with all of the nails, the debris, the shattered glass around. alisyn: of course, rick, we re sitting here stunned watching as you pick through the rubble. are you seeing people come back and see for the first time that s their house? yeah, we saw that yesterday. i think, a lot of people for the first time and i think today we ll see a little bit more of that. the morning, keep in mind,
looking at budget and saying we re having fewer babies is not a way to do this. and that s part of the concern of the churches oppose today this mandate. saying we re going to do some sort of population freeze or population, to save health care dollars, it doesn t make sense on a faith base or an economic base. alisyn: it sound luke secretary sebelius is talking about unwanted pregnancies and can have medical complications and health care costs. certainly any pregnancy can have a complication, wanted or unwanted. the issue goes down to the point of somehow saying that by having fewer of these, it s somehow seen as a disease or a prevention in health problems. pregnancy is not a health problem. it s something that s very natural part of our life
position right now in our country with the economy and so forth. yes, americans should engage in something so important. i don t know what george will is doing. i think many cocktail parties and this elitist and defeatist attitude is wrong so republicans and make sure that vote and concentrate on the white house. david, it looks like you might have been at the cocktail parties and may agree with george will on this, don t focus on the presidency, that will come and go every four years, we ve got to get control of the committees and gavels in congress and drive legislation. do you agree with george will? well, it s a boxing analogy, it s a split decision, s right we need to focus on down ballot and congress and the committees and try to take the senate and especially now that olympia snowe is announcing she s retiring. and fdr wanted to alter the supreme court. obama could appoint three
how the situation was handled by the president and by our military commanders in. well, i would i don t like the fact that there was, there would seem to be political pressure to apologize. the listen, the circumstances of the incident are such that these soldiers didn t know they were burning a koran and they were writing in the koran desecrating it in that action and when they thought it was burning tried to pull it out as soon as it can. it s not something that s going to warrant an apology. and it should never be about political pressure from the top. dave: overall, you just returned from afghanistan in january. tell us in terms of the mission, is the mission correct, because public sentiment is now turned against this war, especially in the wake of six americans being killed as a result of the koran burnings. are we after the right goal? do we need to get out quicker? you know, it s a difficult situation there, the koran burnings really crystallize a larger problem, which i