health plans, not so much. that is until catholic leaders and some commentators began sounding off. catholics and christians all across america are fired up over president obama s approval of new regulations that require insurance plans of religious organizations to provide contraseptive coverage. why did it take news outlets a couple of weeks to catch up with the catholic protests? a former white house intern for president kennedy says she was his mistress 50 years ago. did he realize that you were a virgin? i think he did because he kept asking me if i was all right and i was all right. but she confirmed the affair nine years ago. was her book really worth an nbc primetime interview? plus are we ll look at the coverage of the sad and unexpected death of whitney houston. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we re going to begin with the tragic death at the age of 48 of singer whitney houston, and joining us on the line from los angeles is cnn s larry
exactly the type of leadership that needed to be provided by doing exactly what i would have been doing if i was here. 95% of all the state roads were cleared, absolutely cleared by tuesday morning. and we did, i think, a very, very good job. i would not have been on the back of a snowplow, jim, plowing any of the roads in the state. meanwhile another new jersey politician has pretty much dodged any criticism, newark mayor cory booker. here he is shoveling snow a few years ago. according to this twitter feed during the recent storm he delivered diapers to someone who couldn t get out to do shopping and dug out another person s car. all valiant and thoughtful and considerate things to do but you don t need a mayor to do those things. all mayors and governors can really do during a blizzard is pretend to be helpful. they know nothing more about snow removal than you or i do.
buck up and take responsibility for, quote, dropping the ball if local streets weren t clear. he also said the notion that he wasn t involved in directing the cleanup efforts is false thanks to modern technology. anybody can get me any minute of any day given the way we communicate now whether by cell phone or text message or twitter for god sake. the snowmageddon continued over the weekend but governor chris christie refused to back down. this morning he hit the talk shows including this interview with jim gar heart on wkxw purchase my number one priority is to be a husband and father. everybody has a priority. jim, first of all, the plan was already in place. so what? and i was still providing