martin frost is a former texas congressman. and connie rice is a civil rights attorney. nice to have you joining us this morning. lots to get to including conversations about whitney houston and i really want to talk about whether it is religious liberty or are we really talking about contraception. first, though, the headlines. christine romans has that for us. good morning. good morning, soledad. workplace dispute between two i m immigration custom agents went into a shootout. left one dead and one wounded. authorities say one agent opened fire on the other. then a third agent then intervened and killed the shooter. investigators aren t saying what led to that confrontation. they call it an isolated incident. top u.s. intelligence officials say al qaeda is likely behind some of those recent bombings in syria. syrian security forces bombarding the city of homs now for a 14th straight day. activists say at least nine people have been killed in the latest assault. it comes