david brooks, david remnick, peggy noonan, chrystia freeland. let's talk about the obama administration, hhs, did on this issue relating to contraception and post-abortion pills. you think this is going to be a big problem for the president. >> yeah. it's a complicated story. and it's also abstract. and so it hasn't captured people's attention in a big way. certain in the political class. but i feel like it is a bomb that went off in the past week that the political class in america has not noted. the catholic church has been told by the obama administration that it must understand the regulations of obama's health care initiative to mean that the churches affiliated institutions, catholic charities, the hospitals, the schools, must, in their new health care insurance, provide and pay for services that the church itself feels are morally abhorrent from contraseptembcepo sterilization procedures. the church finds it unacceptable. the church says it will not do this. the church is left either with the choice of closing down its great institutions

david recommend remnick is -- peggy noonan and christy freeman. welcome all. so if mitt romney gets the nomination, what happens to the conservative base? will it reluctantly accepted -- will it feel like a john stewart said, that's the chocolate in the chocolate box nobody ever wanted to eat but eventually they'll eat it and like it? >> they'll like it. you know, when obama ran against clinton, you could get polls saying 40% of democrats wouldn't support the other. that all vanishes. that's always going to vanish. i think what the tea party people should be asking ourselves, we had this -- >> you say ourselves. you mean -- >> they should be asking themselves. thank you. >> on the show you're not to out yourself as a tea partier. >> i have always been partial. it's been obvious. and they should say, lisp, we have all this energy, all these ideas, we have mowed by so many people, and we produce mitt romney. why couldn't they produce a leader? why couldn't they really change the party? if romney wins, the head of the republican party, the most -- three most impo