this press conference to announce these mealy mouth, penny anti-solutions that will do nothing to get this economy going, because he s trying to act like it s congress fault, it is the white house that hasn t led on this issue. as you can tell i d like to solve this. i think there are numbers of people in congress on both sides of the aisle that would. thank you. martha: thank you. we have to leave it there. we are going to try to get back to this news conference. the president has also been criticized for not spending enough time to talking to folks in congress and trying to put tog together. bob corker thank you very much, the senator from tennessee this morning. we re waiting for the president. gregg: demonstrations planned across more than 150 american cities today, rallies against the healthcare mandate for contraception coverage. we ll talk to the director of a religious freedom coalition about this. martha: could be major tuts coming for tsa after the
that only churches are exempt from providing contraception drugs. hospitals would have to provide contraception coverage in violation of their religious beliefs which. i applaud you not only being here today. i applaud the 43 groups to have guts to file lawsuits against this mandate. the mandate affects every single american, no matter what their religious belief or their view i abortion may be. what will they do next? what religious or demographic group will they target next? reporter: now the exemption only goes to institutions that hire and service those of the same faith. catholic charities say that means instead of asking someone if they re hungry, they would have to ask them are you catholic or forced provide contraceptives. they say it violates the
we will be watching the storm. thanks. we will be following beryl throughout the hour here and for the latest on the storm s path, you can always track it live, just head to foxnews.com/weather to see where she is going. jamie: eric was talking with chris wallace about how catholic leaders are speaking out and speaking out strong, taking the obama administration to court. they are suing the white house over the controversial plan and mandate for contraception. steve centanni following this for us in washington. hi, steve. good morning. reporter: good morning. a political, religious and legal firestorm continuing to swirl around the obama administration s mandate that employers provide contraception coverage. last week, 43 catholic institutions filed suit against the u.s. government over the mandate. the groups believe that even
the fairness act would create incentives for employers to follow the law, ban employers from retaliating employees who ask about the wages of their colleagues. past attempts to pass the bill have failed repeatedly due to a lack of republican support. today senator majority leader harry reid called upon republicans to make the act a bipartisan effort. republicans deny they re waging war on women, yet they have launched a series of attacks on women s access to health care this year. now they have an opportunity to back up their excuses with action and we re going to give them that opportunity. joining me now the sondra fluke who was prevented from testifying at congressional hearing on contraception coverage earlier this year and joanne reid, an msnbc contributor. joanne, how could anyone in 2012 disagree with fair pay for equal work?
possibilities. thank you mark, good to see you. mark mukasey in the studio. martha, what s next? martha: dozens of catholic institutions have filed suit against the obama administration. the catholic church has served everybody, the exemptions say we ll define as church as only serving your own people, only hiring your own people and only doing what you do to get people into your own faith. that s against our faith. martha: colonel cardinal dolan has not held out and he is peg again on the legal maneuver to block mandatory contraception coverage and why some say there s a lack of coverage of this story. bill: also martha, making history, 250 miles above sea level, the hottest new spacecraft in the galaxy, pulling into the garage at the international space station. it is breaking news, and that s next on america s newsroom . wer surge, let it blow your mind.