0 caring a, all insurance plans are required to cover contraception, except for churches and religious groups. they are catholic universities and hospitals have the option of letting ploy yes, sir go wage to their insurers to get contraceptive coverage instead. all the group has to do is fill out a waiver for. the question before the court is whether that paper is, by itself, a burden on those group s religious freedom. theed a pen strax argued to the court yesterday that this is not an intrusive burden on religious groups, while lawyers for the catholic non-profit arc you it amounts to a quote permission slip as to what their clients believe is sinful behavior. just cities sotomayor can decide whether to continue the injunction or refer the case to the entire court. either way the court has agreed to hear another more comprehensive challenge to the birth control mandate coming this march. there is a lot to talk about regarding the full implementation of the affordable care act this we
mayor of a canadian city, toronto s rob ford. we will head north of the border to find out. we will be joined by a real live full blooded canadian to make sense of it. we will also look at the turning points for the race for the white house. the things that move polls and change voters and decide a presidency. they are not all what you might imagine them to be. but first, it was never supposed to happen, especially not the way it happened, but 50 years ago this morning as americans woke up in shock, in mourning, wondering if what they had experienced the day before had all been some terrible dream, linden johnson woke up as president of the united states before all of the awfulness in dallas, lbj s official vice presidential schedule had him slated to be in austin, texas on november 23rd, 1963. he would be attending the dedication of a synagogue, instead, tow, he was back in walk. suddenly the most powerful man in the world a. week of remembrances of john f. kennedy, a week o
0 thing was not terribly well-planned for. you can think about those numbers continue to go in this direction. do you think that if some of these companies that have made these decisions before or during the presidential campaign do you think that mitt romney and paul ryan would have had better luck communicating and making people understand the dire consequences. absolutely. we had an abstract discussion about obama care during the campaign. now we re watching what s the mess of obama care. why does the obama administration putting in these delays and changes? they recognize that there s huge problems. you defend it morrow bustly than they do. it s funny you mention mitt romney or raise the point why didn t they plan for this. part of the planning is what mitt romney did in massachusetts. in massachusetts mitt romney created the blueprint that became obama care nationally. employer coverage increased in massachusetts. what we have right now in terms of employers dumping employ
owned by the same corporation but not the same thing. i sim pa these with chuck todd and aaron burnett erin burnett said cnn was a division of the media. this business about a firewall is an utter kinard unless things have changed since i left nbc and msnbc. and very skilled, an answer core at nbc said this. take a listen. here you have the republican chairman, i would say, understandably miffed ab these hillary clinton films, one a documentary, the other an entertainment film, which is, you know, all about bad idea? a bad idea? a lot of news people would say including nbc news people including chuck todd and the rest of us, a really bad idea given the timing. it s one thing to do a movie about somebody after they leave the oval office, another one to do beforehand that could propel that person into office,
makers wasting time and attention on phony scandal instead of the people s work. to often over the past two years, washington took its eye off of the ball. they have allowed political postural and phony scandal to distract from our economy and growing middle-class. fox news poll find that people do not agree with the president. the interest in the benghazi terrorist attack is anything but phony and not phony to voters, nsa snooping on americans. and the justice department seizing telephone records and irs targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny. host of power play on fox news live. chris, you have written your insightful and provocative column today. it is entitled phony? balonnie. reporters are going to ask him about that phrase, right? oh, sure. this is where the rubber meets the rod. it is 100 since the president did a full press conference, in the end of april and it has been a hundred days and all of those scandals have grown, in case matacicized and in th