vulnerable system. not just that, address it and then try to move on from it. jee biden complained to reporters afterward that he wasn t getting any questions about what he would do in the future. well, ultimately as a candidate you make those opportunities. he had every opportunity to take senator harris s line from there and push it into something forward thinking. i think biden thought senator harris was running for vice president for him. i think that came out and i think that the harris camp thought tonight was the time to say, nope, not running for vp, sorry. and, boy, if nothing else, that message was delivered really well and not in a snarky, you know, small way. in a big way. i m here to run for president in the same way that you are. yeah. exactly. just because they want her for vice president doesn t mean
approve, 60% disapprove. again, this is before this recent controversy. chris, we re learning more today about how the decision came down. according to reports, there was a divide in the white house. women like valerie jarrett, kathleen sebelius, the health and human services secretary, were really pushing the president to do this for women s health. vice president jee biden was saying, don t do it, the backlash from the religious community is going to be huge. were they right? well, yeah, they were right. but also, the split inside the white house, megyn, reflects the split in the national electorate because if president handles this wrong or continues to handle it wrong i guess i should say, he will find himself in a situation where he must choose to either offend a very important part of his base which are women who believe that free access to birth control and things like that are a human right and that it would be a sexist decision to do that, or he can choose to offend catholic
forcing people of faith to violate their beliefs. and catholics happen to be a crucial voting bloc. one in every five americans is catholic. nearly 35 and a half million of them voted in 2008, and the majority of them, over 19 million, voted for president obama. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com. chris, this is turning into quite a firestorm for the white house. we covered this last week a couple of times, it wasn t big in the national conversation. a week later very different story by the way, chris is at cpac. anyway, covering the news for us down there. now the din has gotten too loud for the white house to ignore, and there is a real question today about whether the president can dig in his heels on this issue. what say you? well, look, here s the deal, megyn. here at see pack this become a rallying cry from conservatives. we ve heard from marco rubio, we re going to hear from john boehner, they re hammerin
crucial voting bloc. one in every five americans is catholic. nearly 35 and a half million of them voted in 2008, and the majority of them, over 19 million, voted for president obama. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com. chris, this is turning into quite a firestorm for the white house. we covered this last week a couple of times, it wasn t big in the national conversation. a week later very different story by the way, chris is at cpac. anyway, covering the news for us down there. now the din has gotten too loud for the white house to ignore, and there is a real question today about whether the president can dig in his heels on this issue. what say you? well, look, here s the deal, megyn. here at see pack this become a rallying cry from conservatives. we ve heard from marco rubio, we re going to hear from john boehner, they re hammering the president with it because they know it works. they know that it upsets no