administration could put out a compromise for catholics today. dan lothian is at the white house. dan, what exactly are you hearing? reporter: that s right, i m hearing that a compromise or an accommodation as they like to call it here, i m hearing this from a senior administration official, will likely be announced today. we re trying to get more details but it will likely be some kind of a balance whereby women do have access to contraceptive coverage but on the other hand you will have these organizations, religious affiliated organizations will not have to directly provide that coverage. it s unclear whether this will be enough to ease the concerns of these religious organizations and others who really were looking for a reversal of this policy. what s clear though is there s been a lot of pressure on this white house over the last couple of weeks, not only from the catholics and other religious groups, but also from lawmakers up on capitol hill. republicans. the republ
newt gingrich wasn t even on the ballot there. santorum cruised in his home state of minnesota. ron paul finishing second. santorum clearly seizing the momentum he desperately needs. ladies and gentlemen, i don t stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to mitt romney, i stand here to be the conservative alternative to barack obama. well, cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington. paul, what do you think, a game changer? reporter: wow. if you don t like the way the race for the republican nomination is going, wait. it keeps changing. mitt romney is still the front-runner but this is a big deal for rick santorum. what is he doing? he s going to be capitalizing and monopolizing, this hat trick of victories. he s down in texas today. that s where he heads. he s got some events. the real reason, he s going to want to raise some money, fundraising immediately off of this. take a listen to what he told soledad o brien on cnn. we re doing very
international journalists. russian s foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? reporter: that s a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a hero s welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and friends of president bashar al-assad right now. the russian line has been that the western governments have not been putting enough pressure on the opposition groups to stop violence as well. if you want to know how wide the differentiation is between the two sides in syria, just about 100 miles away the artillery shells continue to rain on the opposition held city of homs where hundreds of civilians are believed to have died in just the past couple of days, kyra. now you re also seeing a growi
newly elected president obama faced the american people and i said, look, if i can t turn this economy around in three years, i ll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we are hae here to collect. romney s big win in florida definitely cat at that pults it into a hefty lead in the count. he now has an estimated 84 delegates, more than three times the number collected by gingrich. santorum and paul, once again, left in the dust. gingrich says it s a two-man race now. we are going to contest everyplace and we are going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. well, the candidates are now taking their campaigns west. but before boreding his plane romney took a few minutes to talk to us. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is in tampa. what did he say, paul? reporter: well, kyra, he said he realizes this still could be a long road ahead to winning the republican nomination on cnn s starting point. soledad o brien asked him about newt gingrich and w
yes, a moon base. just listen as things got pretty fire ri over immigration. is he still the moet anti-immigrant candidate? i think of the four of us, yes. go ahead, governor. that is simply inexcusable. actually, senator marco rubio came to my defense and said that ad was inexcusable, inappropriate. i m not anti-immigrant. my father was born in mexico. my wife s father was born in whales. they came to this country. the idea that i m anti-immigrant is repulsive. to say that enforcing the u.s. law to protect our borders, to welcome people here legally, to expand legal immigration as i approve, that that s somehow anti-immigrant is simply the kind of over the top rhetoric that has characterized american politics too long and i m glad that marco rubio called you out on it. i m glad you withdrew it. i think you should apologize for it and i think you should recognize that having differences of opinions on issues does not allow you to slam people. whole new mitt romney t