unaffected. chick-fil-a sauces are back. that s a good thing. greg: chris, it s a tough thing to go through. do you have a strong family situation that can comfort you through this shortage? chris: you shouldn t eat taco bell. i don t know who needs to hear this. i don t care how drunk or how high you are, you should meet taco bell. they said they ran out of lettuce. i don t know if you know but you can go anywhere in fine lettuce. or they passing off as lettuce? if you had a shortage of literacy would go to the store and get lettuce. dagen: taco bell kept me from getting pregnant during college because i was 30 pounds heavier. greg: i had no idea it had birth control benefits. i salute taco bell. let s say there s four ingredients. meat, cheese, shells and let s stay loosely, vegetables.
also we know that thousands of employees of hobby lobby and thousands of other women are now in the position of losing part of their birth control benefits. part of their health care benefits. their right to certain forms of birth control, and in a larger sense we now know that corporations can assert the right that they don t want to pay for certain kinds of medical procedures, and the courts are going to have to sort out which procedures employers can take away from their employees. this is going to be a complex and lengthy undertaking. it s just begun. we know there will be a lot more questions and a lot more cases going forward. what we also know is, this is not a decision that the white house wanted. this is something that rules against them and against their interests. however, whenever you have something like this, there are people who say, democrats will fund-raise off of this, this could galvanize women voters in the midterm. what do you make of that? both are true.
now we know we can. also we know that thousands of employees of hobby lobby and thousands of other women are now in the position of losing part of their birth control benefits. part of their health care benefits. their right to certain forms of birth control, and in a larger sense we now know that corporations can assert the right that they don t want to pay for certain kinds of medical procedures, and the courts are going to have to sort out which procedures employers can take away from their employees. this is going to be a complex and lengthy undertaking. it s just begun. we know there will be a lot more questions and a lot more cases going-forward. what we also know is, this is not a decision that the white house wanted. this is something that rules against them and against their interests. however, whenever you have something like this, there are people who say, democrats will
gloria, i ll start off with you. planned parenthood has issued a statement saying we believe the compliance mechanism does not compromise a woman s abilities to access these critical birth control benefits. they say we will be vigilant in holding the administration and institutions accountable for rigorous fair and implementation. i think the political calculation of the president was probably one of the smartest ones he made. he ripped the band aid off at once instead of letting it go on and on toward a year s opportunity for the institutions to try to work it out. i think that was a very smart thing to do. i will say that the issue still seems to be frank as religion as in morality versus perhaps an implication of wanton women who
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