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want to work with in the senate on budget issues people like senator ron wyden people like senator joe manchin so i think that the portrayal of the senate as kind of a gridlocked house were nothing to get past is is a little i know that's not true i mean we see it all the time right when it comes to certain legislation i mean we always mention it defense appropriations bills whatever passing the patriot act or extending it there is managed to come together that but however and i think to look at the people it's still it is a place where it's easier to get something done just about anywhere because there are so many things attached even if you want to get something passed democrat republican you are serving a lot more people than just yourself or your constituents you have lobbyists you have people so i think that i agree sometimes that it's played out that nothing can get done but really it is a very difficult place to get and obviously i don't agree with the statement that you have to shake someone or shoot them or whatever but resort to but i was there john i love and did in fact send a publ

have come out and said there needs to be a compromise, you've got bob casey, dan larsen, senator joe manchin. we have been reading about today how the vice president had argued pretty strongly warning the white house about this and they say this is not about women's health, they say this is a first amendment issue, this is about forcing the catholic church or any organization to do something that's against the basic tennants of their faith. so are all these democrats wrong? >> i think it's important to point out that there is an exemption for churches. 335 champions. >> we're not talking about schools we are talking about hospitals. >> if you let me finish. that is an exemption, the states of california and new york have both upheld that kind of partial exemption and the question is are we going to allow an individual to practice their religious nate, we're going to allow all those women who work for universities and hospitals have to abide by whoever faith is supported by the people who have started may not even be running those hospitals and universities anymore. so i think this is about i

bill: that is a democrat, joe manchin talking that way.hat was a number of prominent democrats siding with their faith over the white house. this issue has not gone away. that was marco rubio in the pack ground. martha: i will eventually talk as well. good to see you this morning. morning, everybody. president's supporters say this is women's health care rights but not religious freedom. house speaker john boehner does not agree with that notion. he says this provision will not stand. >> if the president does not reverse the department's attack on reledge just freedom, the congress acting on behalf of the american people and the constitution that we're sworn to uphold and defend must. bill: more on that statement in a moment. there is new poll from rasmussen reports shows 50% of the americans oppose a requirement that runs against their strong religious belief. charlie hurt, a columnist for "the washington times." where are we on this issue now that the heat is coming significantly from the other side, charlie? >> i think president obama a

joining me now from dc, florida senator more co- rubio, republican, and joe manchin, democrat.anding next to each other in the samshoo good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: it's a new revelation in the world we've been living in in the last couple of years. let me start with you, senator manchin. why go on board with senator rubio and introduce this bill to try and get rid of this mandate? >> first of all, it shouldn't be political and next of all, i tried everything possible. i sent -- i was on the conference call december 3 talking to the white house, strongly opposing the direction i thought they were going and asked them to consider it before they did it. they went ahead and invoked the rule and february 3, i wrote a letter to the president asking him to repeal it. i thought it was wrong and encroachment on religious freedom and constitution and that's really what it should be. marco and i -- there are more of thaws are working together on common issues and what we think moves this country forward than just plain politics. this is political. >> gretchen

senator joe manchin who is hanging on by his fingernails. and daniel lipinski. kaine said, think they made a bad decision not allowing a broad enough religious exemption. >> i was on the conference call with the white house on december 3rd urging them not to do this. i thought it was wrong and an infringement of the religious rights that we have in the institution. they went ahead and did it anyway. >> in a letter to the hhs secretary sebelius, u.s. congressman john larson said, i believe that further flexibility needs to be granted to religiously affiliated organizations. john heilemann, this isn't about birth control coverage in your health care plans. which is now required by obama care, by the president's health care plan. for example, governor kaine made it a point of calling us and making sure we know that. it's about whether there should be a broad religious exemption for churches, hospitals and other religious groups that don't believe in birth control and are against it as a matter of sin if youio will. >> well, look. i watched it on our network last ni

you start putting people like senator joe manchin, another re-election coming in west virginia also hasn with the president on this. these are people who in the main, casey and kaine very close and loyal to the president. this decision which secretary sibelius was driving. it has divided my party, united the republicans. taken very difficult policy and made it very bad power. >> you disagree completely with this decision. but you could argue if the president knows a friend like bob casey or tim kaine is going to be mad if he made the decision it's right policy decision you could make the argument on principle good. >> the problem is that principle and politics and compromising gets to be a very muddy business. when you have catholics and evangelicals, the president has done what jesus christ cannot do. he has united jews, christians, southern baptists all against him. muslims, jews, catholics, southern baptists all together against a presidential decision. he didn't have to go as far as he did. that's the problem. >> you're the policy expert. these guys are good political guys. you're b

mock the defectors, former dnac, connecticut's john larsen, illinois's daniel lapinski and senator joe manchin. banding together with florida marco rubio to sponsor a bill in opposition of the president. >> i thought it was wrong, infringement of the religious rights that we had in the constitution, they went ahead and did it initial. my office and the white house would proactively follow vice president biden. >> luke, with more on the legislation side of things, senators manchin and rubio will introduce today, what does it mean and what kind of message is this supposed to send back to the white house and the administration? >> this bill with rubio and m manchin will produce is imposing that federal government mandating that religious organizations would have to pay for contraception. and this is similar to what john boehner the speaker of the house from ohio said yesterday said that the legislative body will get involved and try to stop what they see as a mandate getting into the white house with the white house overstepping their bounds. in terms of birth control and contraceptives, it's lon

. >> another moderate democrat joe manchin is worried about hurting social security. >> shepard: tell us what lawmakers are saying tonight. >> interesting nugget i picked up from the negotiators, sources say the senate republic negotiators did not sign the agreement today because they weren't consulted on the deal. this is strictly between the senate democrats and the house republicans. they may be a yes tomorrow. now, a key senate democratic negotiator explained the importance of this tax relief. >> so i think that's enormously helpful in terms of being able to keep the recovery moving in the right direction. so, and whenever we can get something done here that's bipartisan and has a positive impact on jobs, that's a good result. >> now both the house and senate are expected to take up this measure tomorrow. shep? >> shepard: mike emanuel on capitol hill. thank you. huge news out of detroit today. general motors is on a roll. we learned today that last year g.m. earned its highest profit in the history of the company. the car maker banked $7.6 billion in 2011. beating its old record

then senator tom casey from pennsylvania, joe manchin from west virginia, other sort of red state or swing state democrats stepped forward and said this is not going to work. what the president is trying to do today is straddle. he's trying to say, he still has the authority to require this. he's keeping the rule but saying that he's going to shift the onus off of the religious institutions themselves and onto their insurance companies, he's hoping it can make it stick. >> reporter: chris the white house was very clear before the president came out to make the statement to release information that this was an accommodation, not a compromise. you speak washington ese, what does that mean? >> reporter: what it means is that the president, if he is seen as caving in on this issue to the catholic church, to people concerned about religious liberty then he will offend a very important part of his base, women, and we heard divides inside his own administration, women on the left who say this is an issue of providing pre-contraception. this is a moral issue for them too. if he's seen as cav

you have senator joe manchin blasting the president, you have catholics angry about this.oming from republicans, this is coming from catholics, from rome, the catholic leadership, this is coming from even like i said democrats on the hill. and catholics could be disaffected by this. and it does deal with religious freedom of institutions. i think people are very upset about this and what i think the obama administration will do is to walk back from it. and i would imagine they're going to try to probably find some middle ground between the liberals and the catholic community in terms of some type of waiver process like they offered to businesses across the country. >> i want to ask you about rick santorum. he won three states, of course in one day, he's raised a bunch of money. he had so many visitors to his website that it crashed. so is he a viable candidate here? >> well, this process, this political season has been so topsy-turvy, and frankly rick santorum has been the one who hasn't surged, so it is his time. it would be a big mistake on behalf of romney or gingrich t

one of my colleagues, democrat senator joe manchin called this mandate un-american. another, democrat bob casey said this forces catholic institutions to violate their religious beliefs. then we have former representative kathy dahlkemper, democrat from pennsylvania, who voted for the hk law in the house of representatives, said she would never have voted for the final version of the health care law, she said, if i expected the obama administration to force catholic hospitals and catholic colleges and universities to pay for contraception. others have likewise criticized the administration for being unwilling to offer a broader conscience exemption to religious-affiliated institutions. now that the president's liberal allies are even opposed to this unprecedented power grab, the white house is trying to clean up the mess. it has signaled that it is willing to compromise on its decision. instead of a mild compromise, the regulation in the entire health care law needs to be fully repealed. as "the wall street journal" editorial board puts it, in any case, h.h.s. would