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Detroit economic club on friday. he knows that hes never going to beat rick santorum on the issues of social conservatism. he can hope to establish the fact that he is one, but he is all in as an economic conservative and as a person who can turn around the economy. jon: well he also took on the president on that issue that the president was so criticized for, the contraception issue involving the battle against the roman catholic church, in particular. giving no ground to rick santorum he broug...

Competitive on super tuesday. go back to the question of the social issues. barack obama is trying to make this election about the social issues not about the economy. his slogan might as well be its anything but the economy, stupid. and that is why he did the contraception issue. that is why stephanopoulos was trying to pin romney down on contraception. he would love this to be about the social issues. now if romney is the opponent, he really cant do that. if santorum is his opponent, he can. t...

People have the right to get them. its a country, tha this is a freedom people have. there is nothing in my record that would impose my values on this. that is not the question. the question is the religious liberty. obama managers was telling a group of catholics or people of faith that they had to do, to violate their own faith to do -- >> sean: on the contraception issue. >> government told them they had to do. thats right. >> sean: good. i wasnt questioning your position on that. i think tha...

People have the right to get them. its a country, tha this is a freedom people have. there is nothing in my record that would impose my values on this. that is not the question. the question is the religious liberty. obama managers was telling a group of catholics or people of faith that they had to do, to violate their own faith to do -- >> sean: on the contraception issue. >> government told them they had to do. thats right. >> sean: good. i wasnt questioning your position on that. i think tha...

Couldnt figure out why he made such -- why romney made such a show of proclaiming his disagreement with the automobile bailout over the last week or so. why? why just? >> why, mark? why would he do such a thing? >> i think hes trying to show consistency, like what he did on health care. on any issue where hes planted his position, he doesnt want more accusations of flip-flops and that was pretty clear in terms of what he believed. and there are people in michigan who agree with what hes saying, ...

In this campaign. were not talking someone with fundamental issues of war, peace, jobs, you know, unemployment, energy policy. were talking about social issues that i thought were decided 30, 40 years ago. >> and how is this playing inside the republican party? >> you know, its so interesting. it was on the ground at cpac, a couple weeks ago and i was asking right after ricks big -- and i can say rick, i know him. this big tuesday night three-for with minnesota and colorado and missouri. and i g...

Dealing with the contraception issue, the fact that hes pro-life. so what liberals are going to do is, theyre going to run, use scare tactics saying in essence, its a war on women and the fact that inequality and he-- >> a war on women will definitely be the democratic line. steve, let me ask you about something developing out of michigan where rick santorums leading the polls in mitt romneys home state and some are saying, if santorum wins, republicans are going to call for a new nominee. do yo...

Embraced by my own children, by my immigrant parents who came here. it is -- it is an incredible experience and it is just an amazing thing to see a young man ofsian descent being embraced and loved by so many people. it is inspiring and it is transformative. you know, we will see where it takes us. >> it is very exciting to watch. it is fun to be in the bandwagon of fans. helen and gym and phil, thank you so much. i appreciate it. in this weeks office politics, we are continuing our conversat...

of whitney houston. today. [ applause ] . >> opening the service, joe carter pastor of the new hope baptist church in newark, new jersey, the church that houston grew up. the four horse that fold were mournful, reverent and ultimately joyous. >> there was a grace that carried. a grace that carried her from heaven down through mr. houston, a grace that brought her up from speaking. from what i understand she wasnt supposed to speak let alone sing. there was a grace that carried her thro...

Youre out there on your own now. >> do you think that this is not so much a contraception issue as it is an effort to undermine the health insurance system or at least to undermine national health reform? >> just look at the words. they start off with religious and then they add any moral objection by the employer or by the insurance company, which, you know, is pretty broad and then it is for any kind of coverage for any kind of person. so in effect this is a kind of -- the employer designs the...