good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, ahmadinejad on the spot. an unexpected spectacle in tehran today. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called ahmadinejad out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who, of course, is the supreme leader of iran. ahmadinejad tried to make jokes, and he made no secret of his disdain for this event, saying, quote, the fact is that i tried not to attend this session, but i guess it was ordained that i should come, so there was nothing i could do about it. i met him once in person. that sort of seemed the way he might have delivered that, a little nonchalant. a growing power struggle between ahmadinejad and the supreme leader khomeini. president obama watched tehran s action and he used some of his strongest language yet while standing next to the pr
apparently kathleen sebelius, a politician as much as anybody here, knows politics. he comes out of kansas. he promulgated this. she had the support of valerie jarrett around the president and she had people around her. this broadened into a big discussion involving pelosi and boxer and all kinds of people and the feminist groups around the country, the women s rights groups. why did it become such a big issue is what i don t understand. it s only a small group of people compared to the larger group of women. why did this become a national discussion all these months? i missed it. i don t know. why is everybody involved in this? for a lot of people, there s a point of principle. on both sides. yes, on both sides, absolutely agreed. put it this way. if we had read two weeks ago there s going to be a religious exemption for churches and colleged like where i went, holy cross or notre dame, they are
this? for a lot of people, there s a point of principle. and i think on both sides. if we had read two weeks ago there s going to be a religious exemption for churches and colleges, they are going to be exempt from this requirement that you get it paid for without a copay. would anybody have raised hell? i think @ economy has gotten better, and things like susan g. komen controversy comes up would there have been an uproar like we re getting now if the decision had gone the other way in terms of the exemption? i don t know. i go back to the point i made before. it s amazing to me it took two or three days to point out this is the law of the land in 28 states already. it s not. those requirements are not the same as this. i have gone through this. that s what the white house is