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Shannon breen picks up the story for us. >> with 11 cases outstanding, it will be a busy final full week at the u.s. supreme court. the nine justices have a number of key decisions to release between now and the term's end on june 30th. one of the most prominent cases involves craft store chain hobby lobby. the owners are a devoutly religious familiar i who object to the hhh mandate. it provides employers to provide coverage to employees including cost-free access to 20 forms of contraception. hobby lobby's owners object to those that include abortion. >> being forced to provide in is against ...

Serving there, it is my judgment. and he knows he's going to take on criticism as a result of this book, and he's willing to accept that, in my view. martha: do you have any hope personally that that can be achieved, that we will finish differently in afghanistan than we finished in iraq? >> you know, that's a great question, martha, and we're all hoping that that is the case. but i'm, i'm very skeptical about this administration's capacity to make the right decisions in terms of the size and scale of the force that we leave and also the funding for the afghan national security forces. those a...

Couple of big hospitals. so she knows something about running complicated organizations. susan, what are you expecting to see this morning? >> i think she's going to get a more respectful hearing than kathleen sebelius is likely to get tomorrow, but this is a warm-up for tomorrow's hearing with secretary sebelius. you know marilyn tavenner has earned a good reputation in washington as a straightforward person and competent manager. on the other hand, it's her agency that's been in charge of this exchange website that has had so many problems so she is sure to be grilled about that. >> it was o...

Political element. it's tried to keep the military element at arms length. it's now going to begin to resemble a proxy war like we've seen during the cold war. you have assad, russia, china, iran, hezbollah on one side. you have the opposition supported by countries in the region and supported by the west on the other side. obviously that's one of key decisions to be made going forward is how can you increase the capability and effectiveness of the syrian opposition without pushing escalating this to such an extent it spills over to a broader region. >> you mention russia. how much do you need...

The surge in iraq is so critical is because it speaks to his judgment. but when it comes to iran, let's remember, chuck, he voted against designating the iranian revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization at a time when the intelligence was clear that they were killing u.s. soldiers in iraq. this is somebody who wants to command u.s. troops. the revolutionary guard is killing our troops. and he voted against calling it a terrorist organization. >> i want you both to tackle something here. it's the confidence -- he may get confirmed, david. but will he have the ability to go back before th...