back new year's eve with emergency supreme court ruling delaying a mandate on birth control coverage. let's bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta. is it a setback or politically something that they're happy to fight? >> i am not sure it is a fight they want to have, but a fight they have now, dana. one thing we can say, the white house is standing firm behind the contraception coverage mandate, in response to legal action taken by one of president obama's own supreme court picks. >> reporter: hours before sonia sotomayor watched the ball drop, she threw a curve ball to the white house. his first pick to the supreme court, she halted a mandate in obamacare that requires nonprofits to provide contraception coverage for employees. >> they're saying the affordable care act infringes on their religious liberty, forcing them to buy birth control that conflicts with their religion. and that's where it begins and