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We may have not made the step, but one of our colleagues made it for us. >> i think that the republican leadership is in a very tough position here. last year they took a million votes on women's reproductive rights, whether it was abortion and contraception, came back to haunts them in the election. they're looking forward to 2014. on the one hand they have the faith and freedom coalition all weekend saying don't you dare dessert us on abortion and on the other hand, they have these comments alienating female voters. >> it probably won't be the end of it. thank you very much, erin, greatly ap...

obama regarding his assertion that blood is on both hands in the civil war in syria. >> well he's never been hesitant busing that kind of language before either in front of cameras or behind closed doors i would imagine. certainly you see president putin has talked about he actually mentioned the fact about the famous cannibal video that we discovered initially. making it seem as if there's simply nothing that can be done. this is a case where any attempted intervention will only increase bloodshed and russia of course having those historic ties to assad, he doesn't want to see that ...

the civil war in syria. >> well he's never been hesitant busing that kind of language before either in front of cameras or behind closed doors i would imagine. certainly you see president putin has talked about he actually mentioned the fact about the famous cannibal video that we discovered initially. making it seem as if there's simply nothing that can be done. this is a case where any attempted intervention will only increase bloodshed and russia of course having those historic ties to assad, he doesn't want to see that happen, either. >> and you have david cameron also expressing...

[applause] >> thank you for coming out here and coming inside on an especially rare beautiful day in chicago, so we appreciate you being here. my name is monia. i cover religion at the "chicago tribune." i've been here for eight years. and the different traumas and sagas that have surrounded his church, the roman catholic church, on the city's south side. but he is not just a chicago icon. he has really become a national catholic icon who really represents social justice and other -- but other things as well in the catholic church besides social justice, especially, how priests, how ...