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Yesterday talking about the question, well, can the president really do it. and he flippantly, oh, yeah, the president can do that. can he order the insurance companies to do this and provide this type of coverage? yeah, he can do that. so that's what the objection a lot of americans have to obamacare is this kind of incredibly overbroad mandate for every part of american -- megyn: so your response to that is, he's right, he can technically under the letter of the health care law, he can do it. >> that'll be challenged too. >> right. >> but the issue here is should there be a conscious exempti...

and sharp and sudden turnaround by the obama administration. the white house now says it's tweaking the health care reform provision that sparked a sudden confrontation between church and state as well as republicans and democrats. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here in "the situation room" watching all of this unfold. it was pretty dramatic what happened. >> it was, and all of this caught the white house off-guard. there's no sign that the uproar is dying down. the president plays cleanup. >> they will not have to pay foror provide contraceptive services, but ...

Coming back to me, i have the gist although i did not hear every word. as john allen and kim wrote this morning, john boehner has had a very, very difficult time under the best of circumstances. his job is hurting. there's clearly disarray among republicans over how to handle the confrontation with president obama over the payroll tax and that disarray difference between republicans in the senate or republicans in the house and clearly differences of strategy within the house has really put them in a compromise position where it's not clear that he is a leader who can get his team to follow up...

>> this what is we're clear on, $14.3 trillion debt in this country, record deficits of 1.4 to 1.2 -- >> i just -- i've got that information. you have it and the country has it. you're sticking to what you guys first said? >> this is the line i'm telling you, it's about time you have principle leaders in the united states of america that will stand and say, it's about time that we turn around the fiscal situation in this country and that's what i'm doing. if you don't agree with it, that's fine. this is where i stand. >> it doesn't -- >> i'm just asking what your compromise position would be. ...

So i think there is a note of the delicacy here amid all these protests while in washington it's nothing but delicacy going forward. >> richard, as we sit here watching these things unfold, we don't see anyway from this perspective of how mubarak can stay in place. what might people be saying to him about what his options are now? arp mubarak still has many supporters within the military. he has been good to senior officers and it would be not far -- not a far assumption to assume that some senior officers could say why not retire. you don't have to leave in disgrace. you can sit back in a mor...