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Restoration act. if the court chooses, it can go to the first amendment questions. basically the threshold question is going to be can a corporation be religious? and after that does the contraceptive coverage regulation and the fact violate with that religious freedom? >> the justices heard arguments in the case in march. at that point, any indication which way they might be leaning? which way the court might be leaning? >> it was a dramatic oral argument. i was there. the first half mostly the female justice came out swings against paul clement. at that point justice kennedy seemed to be sym...

Media blitz. it follows his sit-down dinner president obama and vice president joe biden had last night with key gop senators. that's them on the way. in the meantime syria's president assad is trying to use the american public's lack of support to protect his own country. this morning, we have new insight into why many of you are so skeptical about military action and why gaining support is such an uphill battle for the president. our chief national correspondent john king is here to break down a new cnn/orc poll. good morning, john. >> good morning. this poll shows the steepness for the pres...

Forget if the president drew the red line or not. >> by the way, the red line has been there for some time. >> right. >> president obama wasn't the first to draw it. >> by the way, it's not like congressional republicans were opposed to it. no congressional republican said don't draw the red line. they never criticized obama for too much. it was too little. now he wants to do something. >> what does it do? assad's moved his assets into neighborhoods now. the president said, the attack is coming. >> soon. >> what does it do? >> here is the threshold question. do they believe the military operat...

We want it to be a one and done. the president's made that very clear. limited strikes, very limited objectives. deterring, degrading the potential use of chemical weapons. he's doing, our president, to show resolve. guess what? assad, and his iranian and hezbollah allies will want to show resolve too. they don't want to give the united states a free ride for this kind of action. >> with us from capitol hill, democratic senator from virginia senator tim kaine and washington pulitzer-prize winning columnist associate editor for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. ...

Relations committee meetings today, armed services committee meetings tomorrow, i'm on both, the threshold question is getting all the intel to make sure that chemical weapons were used, in fact, by the syrian government. but it seems very clear to me based on what i've seen that was the case. once that case has been made, this isn't iraq, are there weapons of mass destruction. no, they have they have and they've used them and used them against civilians -- >> you're supporting the president's efforts, right? >> i think we have to take steps to show that the use of chemical weapons against civ...