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Compromise, archbishop dolan said that is the step in the right transaction. that is no longer the case. listen: >> there would be these towering questions that come about that made we say uh-oh, what was intended to be a concession, and what gave us a glimmer of hope at the beginning, is it really just amounting to a hill of beans. >> reporter: remember last week the president tried to knock down the outrage by changing the mandate, instead of forcing religious organizations to pay for birth control, insurance companies would step in and provide birth control, excerpt that many catholic hospi...

Sue. nothing has changed in this so-called compromise. >> mike: i think that's my next follow-up. the president sort of walked a little of this back yesterday. although i'm not sure that he did, but he appeared to be pushing it now off on insurance companies, you still think the legal issue remains, so, the basis of the lawsuit, how will you approach this. >> well, think about, for example, a catholic dioces that's self-insured, so he they put their money in a pool and whoever might be administered the pool and it's still their money and when you shift it from the employer to the insurance com...

Rights, our right to tell you what to do trumps your deeply held convictions about what your dollars should be spent for. and the idea that you can have the insurance company, and a large number of catholic social service providers are self insured, and so the self insured is the insurance company, and they are going to be forced to still provide. there's no compromise. there are forcing organizations to pay for something that they find is a deeply and morally wrong thing, and this is not what the government should be doing. this is not just rick santorum talking. you have a lot of democrats a...

Rights, our right to tell you what to do trumps your deeply held convictions about what your dollars should be spent for. and the idea that you can have the insurance company, and a large number of catholic social service providers are self insured, and so the self insured is the insurance company, and they are going to be forced to still provide. there's no compromise. there are forcing organizations to pay for something that they find is a deeply and morally wrong thing, and this is not what the government should be doing. this is not just rick santorum talking. you have a lot of democrats a...

Actually pay out the costs themselves. so they've got no insurance company to pay for this free abortion drug. >> the self-insured is something they're going to have to figure out. let me ask you though about the editorial in your own newspaper shall "the washington post" this morning, calling the accommodation a win-win situation. do you think that will be the narrative going forward on this? >> well, i mean, everybody-- obama has achieved a political jujitsu, which is remarkable. created the impression that he compromised without giving had a single inch. the moment he put the story, this ou...