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Off of the poll with president obama's approval ratings. one is that people are not really walking around saying, hey, the economy has recovered. they're apprehensive about the economy. but you do get a distinct sense that the parade of republicans in all the debates, the compilation of all that evidence. finger pointing, yelling back and forth has had a weight on the voters' minds saying who are these guys? the other thing is the hhs ruling last week. now the president came to it too late, compromised, i think most people feel that way. but i think many women looked at the republican response...

Chief washington correspondent james rosen has more. >> reporter: jenna, good afternoon. a leading catholic clergy man calling today on catholics to make their voices heard in protest of the latest attempt by the obama administration to insure free contraception for women while respecting religious liberty. at the same time on this network about an hour ago the archbishop of washington hinted there could be a truce albeit a limited truce with the white house if catholic institutions that are self-insured are exempted from the newest hhs ruling. >> we would have to see what that would look like...

Make, they're going to tie that together. don't you think the white house is going to figure that out sooner or later. >> their chairs will go down just as david gregory's chair went down because god will make their chairs go down unless they figure it out because here is where they don't want it to go, joe. here's where they don't want it to go. it's gone partially there as you've just explained. the republicans are now going to make it a political argument about big government and obama care. but on the side of the catholics in this country who have had huge problems with the hierarchy of th...

Issue? but the back story of the hhs ruling is becoming increasingly interesting. and chris alluded to the cultural/political interest in it, joe. and it is this. that american catholics by and large, birth control, contraception, we haven't talked about those issues in 30 years. but you've got the left of the catholic church and you've got the hierarchy of the catholic church. and now they are being joined together. you can feel it being joined together by the sense of, hey, to the government, don't push us around. don't push us around. and that's what it's coming down to. and the white house...

Decisions they have had in the last two years where they banned any kind of ethics courses that have biblical references. they banned commanders from telling men and women who serve under them there are programs that could help them in the chap plain as office. as you remember a short few months ago they ban ad cadet sending out e-mail that requesting people help with a charity to get toys for children for christmas because it had a faith component with that. this is troubling. bill: where do you believe it is coming from, sir? >> we know where it is coming from. there is small group of people...