come out with a war on religion and now, the white house is ready to walk back its decision to make catholic institutions pay for employee s birth control and a source according to a white house source, the administration is going to talk about it at least later on. the white house held a news conference. a conference call with religious activists today promising to make religious universities and hospitals exception. an announcement is expected from the president next hour. 12:15, the president will talk about that. we will carry that for you live on cnn. and we are going now to syria. that s what it looks like, tens of thousands of syrians are holding demonstrations across the country today. this one is in hama. the crowd is chanting support for the people of homs who have been under heavy bombardment all week long. today s nationwide demonstrations were also called to show opposition to russia for its veto of a u.n. resolution condemning the violence. women and children
killing its people, and that 52 individuals died today, including 16 in the besieged city of homs. cnn s ivan watson has more on the crisis in syria from neighboring turkey. let s first hear ivan talk about aleppo and why this is significant. so many analysts over the last few months, ivan, said once bloodshed hits the city of damascus, that means things have changed. have they? reporter: we have not seen violence this that town which is not the stronghold of the opposition. most of the violence has been focused on those towns and cities where people have dared to say no to the regime of assad. believe it or not, aleppo has not been one of those centers. aleppo had this violence while homs is still facing siege-like conditions where hundreds of people were killed last week. in hundreds of cities across the state, we saw waves of protest. the theme of these protests, holla, were the russians are killing our children. why are syrian opposition activists saying that? well, the
of these issues in turn, but one more process question about just the campaign. you said in your press conference last night that you want to make this a definitional campaign to disqualify romney in the minds of conservatives. what specifically do you mean and how do you do that? well, i think if you look at his record as governor, it s very clear. he was proabortion and progun control and protax increase, and ended up third from the bottom in job creation, and 48,000 manufacturing jobs left because the combination of romneycare and tax increases made him a very weak governor in terms of job creation. the challenge is to say do you really want to go into a fall election with a moderate candidate. the last two teams we had a moderate, we lost badly. a conservative candidate can offer a greater contrast with president obama, and offer a much bigger difference, and i am
more process question about just the campaign. you said in your press conference last night that you want to make this a definitional campaign to disqualify romney in the minds of conservatives. what specifically do you mean and how do you do that? well, i think if you look at his record as governor, it s very clear. he was proabortion and progun control and protax increase, and ended up third from the bottom in job creation, and 48,000 manufacturing jobs left because the combination of romneycare and tax increases made him a very weak governor in terms of job creation. the challenge is to say do you really want to go into a fall election with a moderate candidate. the last two teams we had a moderate, we lost badly. a conservative candidate can offer a greater contrast with president obama, and offer a much bigger difference, and i am prepared, for example, to talk about young people having the
romney joins president obama. welcome back to the republican caucuses in nevada. let s get back to las vegas. kelly ann conway is a senior strategist. kelly, they are all food stamp presidents. we have a food stamp president now and we will get another one. romney, right? he s spreading the glory. no, what newt is saying is that you can t put a piece of tissue paper. the crowned jewel of obama s administration is the obamacare without romneycare there would be no obamacare. president obama said himself that romney carries the basis for obamacare. that s all fine and while he s at it, it s the only elected position that he s ever held. they were third from the bottom. third from the bottom. 37 out of 47 for job kree i guess a.