deportation. that's paul balbu. the phoenix new times is claiming that he threatened to deport his ex-boyfriend, a mexican immigrant, identified only as jose, if he revealed their relationship. these are the photos that jose gave the paper and he denies any wrongdoing here. he's leaving his role as mitt romney's state campaign co--chair but he's staying in the race in arizona's fourth congressional district. later in the show, we'll talk with the reporter who broke the story. and tomorrow night, we've got the sheriff himself, an exclusive interview with ac 360, monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn you won't want to miss that. and now to the violence in syria. residents say that they are growing akus can stop where the war is hopelessly outgunned. nick paton walsh has the latest. >> reporter: awakening to the offensive and you are seeing troops move in the direction of that neighborhood, concerns growing over the past few days heightened this morning that this may be preparation for some syrian army onslaught into that neighborhood quite separately, in a different part of the country, they are still trying to digest the ramifications of yesterday's protest shot upon by syrian security forces. allegedly a protest turned into violence and the presidential palace is nearby and many ministries as well. this may have caused some in the capitol to cause greater disquiet. the violence is playing out and perhaps the protests may finally have an impact among the psych key of residents living in that vital area in damascus. nick paton walsh, beirut. >> well, there's the situation in greece. greeks are getting tired of having budgets cut, shoved down their throat. thousands of protests in athens. the greek prime minister hopes to seal the deal for tomorrow for $171 billion in new funding. the new austerity measures would slash the rate and timothy geithner says he supports the bailout plan. at least 38 people have died in a prison riot in northern mexico. state media reports that clashes broke out today and a prison guard was taken hostage. new clashes break out a week before the presidential election. police today fired rubber bullets and protests near a mosque. the surge in violence there this weekend has marred early voting. demonstrators are frustrated about the term. iraq is striking a new oil war with tehran. iran claims that it can sell the excess oil to other customers. china, india, for instance already import more than a third of iranian oil. europe is brushing off the move. the eu has already approved a ban on crude from iran set to take effect this year. whitney houston now in her final resting place. the music legend was buried during a private ceremony in westfield, new jersey. yesterday she was remembered in a star-studded funeral service at her hometown church. there are still many questions about how houston died buttocks kolg results are still weeks away. cnn producer raelyn johnson was invited to the service. she says it was an emotional service. >> for three hours you literally felt like this was a girl from new jersey who had a few famous friends and it is the same church service that will go on and it was sell brag, it was singing. it was praise for three hours and it wasn't until the very end until you remembered that this was a funeral and it was a very sad day for a lot of people. there were about 1500 of us and it was a very close view. i have to say there wasn't a lot of sitting because there was a lot of reveling and clapping. i knew every song and so did everyone else. this was a group of church-going folks, i should say, and even where i was sitting, the kas skut comes by you. you see cissy houston so broken down, oprah winfrey, and it was so hard to really believe what had happened and to know that you go there to support people or to cover a story and to realize that, you know, i don't have to go and bury my mother today or my child and i think it was such a beautiful service for three hours it wasn't until the last moment that you pinched yourself and said, there's oprah winfrey with a face full of tears and tyler perry with a face full of tears. it all really sunk in and got really, really heavy. because the entire time we were on our feet clapping and singing. >> cnn producer raelyn johnson. rick santorum raising questions about prenatal testing. ♪ dave, i've downloaded a virus. yeah. ♪ dave, where are we on the new laptop? it's so slow! i'm calling dave. 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[ applause ] and if you think this was just a one off, if you think this was just, well, the president may have miss calculated on this one, now about a case that was just decided two weeks before that on the united states supreme court? it's not like you didn't see this coming. there was a case before the united states supreme court called hosana tabor where the government of the united states, the obama administration saw to impose em employment discrimination statutes against churches with respect to the hiring of their ministers. they made the case that they could enforce employment discrimination with the hiring of their ministers who didn't agree with the face of the church. there was a question by justice kagan where they asked the question, are you suggesting that you can force the catholic church to hire women priests? the answer was yes. so if you think this is just a miscalculation or just pan doctoring to a particular interest group, when i got into this race because i saw obamacare as a threat to the very foundational principles of our country, as a threat -- >> all right. that is rick santorum incoming, georgia, about 20 minutes outside of at lan tark talking about all of the issues that he's been speaking about. contraception, women in combat, santorum called it a phony theology. goldie taylor, we're talking about the hosana tabor case. >> sure. >> i am -- i don't know much about the hosana tabor case. i know peripherally but you know in depth. you know what? >> what he's saying tonight is an out and out lie. what they are asking is, does labor law apply to all employees, including lawyers of faith and the answer is that is yes. now, does that mean that they are going to force people to hire women into ministry when women aren't allowed in some denominations? no, it doesn't mean that at all. but it does mean that the church secretary may be of a different faith of the church for which she is working. >> this is red meat for -- he's speaking to a group of -- a captive audience and he knows it. >> he absolutely knows who he is talking to and about what. >> it's interesting, because rick santorum talked about the economy. he spoke about the economy and he spoke about social issues somewhat in the beginning. >> sure. >> but then when newt gingrich questioned him on social issues, he said, let's talk about something else. let's not really talk about these things. i thought it was about the economy. now it's about social issues. what's going on here? >> the difficulty was the republicans played politics with this economy. the economy is having its revenge. it's now playing with politics. the economy is rebounding. people are going back to work. people are shopping again. there is a renewed sense of consumer confidence about us. you just don't bet against americans. and so that's what is happening now and so you can no longer say, obama has really destroyed this economy because this economy is healing. and so they've turned to things, turned to something else and that something sells social issues, those things that divide us. >> there are those who believe that this is sort of a -- you know, a mandate by the obama administration and there are people who believe that he is saying you have to have contraception, you are making us think out of the boundaries of what we believe is faith and not act according to our faith. >> i think the obama administration answered it appropriately when they said, no, we don't want churches to have to go against their moral code, against their theology, you know, to invest in contraceptive. we would put that on the insurance carrier but we want that to be accessible to any woman who wants it and so i think that compromise, that allotment was a good thing to do but now to play politics with it, stay away from my girly parts is what i've said. if i want a new contraceptive, if i want to have something during a pregnancy, i ought to be -- i ought to have access to every reasonable standard of health care for women and to attack women's health care in a year like this will be most unfortunate for republicans. >> you think that's going to pay you've? >> i think it's going to pay off just the opposite fashion. i think that this was the year that they had a golden ticket to win this white house. i think they've flushed that ticket by attacking women this year. >> so is the president going to get credit for a recovering economy and is it going to pay off at the -- at election time? on election day? >> i think he absolutely will. they've said that the president can't be elected with a certain level of unemployment. that's not necessarily true. unemployment is falling. the economy is recovering. many fewer people are signing up for unemployment benefits and so, you know, i think the recovery is going to help this president come. >> listen, i know we have to run but on another note, we just talked about the whole whitney houston thing in church. i thought it was interesting about the whole faith part. >> sure. >> and quite honestly, i was telling all of the people that i had worked with yesterday, piers morgan and soledad o'brien and everyone that it was really a validation that i got from african-americans about the way that they worship in thurge r church on sunday by seeing whitney houston services play out and thanks to cissy houston. >> it was absolutely that. i'm glad that the family decided to take her home to new york. i heard people calling it a funeral yesterday and this is not a funeral. this is a home-going. this is a celebration of life and i think this church really showed up and showed out yesterday. >> can you clear something up for me? everyone would say to me and text me and send me e-mails saying aretha franklin is not her god mother. what's the whole thing about that? what's the truth in that? >> well, the truth is this. darlene love is whitney houston's god mother. cissy introduced whitney to aretha franklin when she was 10 years old. she became a second godmother to her. but not the traditional that you see with the christianing and baptism. but the god mothers that we collect over the years. >> good stuff. good stuff. and my thoughts and prayers to cissy houston and to the family, of course. finally at peace. regardless of if you liked her as an artist or whatever you thought about her, she is at peace. >> she is at rest and her legacy in in tact. coming up a virginia bill that could threaten women's rights over reproduction. that report is next. you can come and volunteer and tell us what we need to know about the markets. at the end of the day, we're educators and we're not professionals in the markets. so we could use your help. either as a parent or as a member of that profession, you can come in and help our school out. homicide of young people in america has an impact on all of us. how can we save these young people's lives? 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