joining me now is margaret carlson of bloomberg news. margaret, thank you very much for joining us.w, listen, i want you and other reporters to go out there and dig into the state laws. i just did a quick read of them and the ones that say there are no exemption, can you find the very easy exemptions. the obama administration, i think, was led to believe or believed that they were doing something that actually been done in 28 other states. my reading of the law says at this point the obama administration with its definition of the exemption is on its own with the narrowest exemption out there in law. >> well, i'm not as good on the areas you are, lawrence. i called a couple hospitals to day where i knew someone and could get some information because i called the huge hospitals, catholic hospital association, the long island catholic hospital group, and i kept being referred to the diocese. so the two hospitals where i called which are catholic hospitals, they do provide prescription drug coverage. i was told that they have to provide contraceptive coverage because it would be discri

margaret carlson, columnist for bloomberg news and washington editor of the week, and in new york an on-line column for the new york daily news. are the media being unfair -- >> the honest answer, howie, is yes and no. let's face it. okay. rick santorum spoke a long time for many years about these social issues, and so they have a right, they being the media, have a right to bring it all back up if he is running for president of the united states. i don't think there is -- there is a but to that, and that is that in the heartland of this country, when, for example, that whole big satan story we heard about, rick santorum's remarks on satan, what's the big deal? people know about good and evil and all of that, and within that media culture, that new york, washington corridor, they don't get it, and, therefore, it seems a little bit out of balance the way santorum sees it. >> you are saying we just heard santorum saying on fox news that the media wants to destroy conservatives. do you think mainstream journalists get up every morning thinking about that? >> well, i don't think it's tha

margaret hoover and gretchen carlson. this story is under reported on the national level because it makes the occupy wall street people look terrible. two dozen show up in providence, rhode island and they sing patriotic songs and they have prayers and have a vigil. then what happened when the occupiers show up? >> they've been doing this 39 years right to life. occupy wall street and possibly another group rhode island sexism league may have been responsible for this. they chanted allowing the priests not to say the prayers they have normally done. they physically assaulted, maybe that is too strong of a word, they bumped a state representative. they called the xom police. third thing they did, according to the quote, they threw condoms from the balcony some came down on the catholic girls. me they were announced being from religious school. >> you know they were from the pro-life crowd. look.... >> bill: let's stay with the facts. anybody arrested that we know of? >> no one arrested but representative was hit in the hea

here now the warriors, gretchen carlson and margaret hoover. why are they angry? >> what's going on here in georgia 40% of the kids obese. 75% of the kids who are obese as parents don't even recognize they are obese. >> bill: who did that survey? where did they come if there? >> the children's health center of atlanta did the survey. what they found is that it costs $2.4 billion of state money a year to treat what happens these kids get type 2 diabetes. >> sure, that's across the country. >> nonprofit organization created these ads to educate the populist in atlanta. >> bill: about the child obesity thing. all right. let's roll the tape on one of the ads. go. >> mom, why am i fat? >> bill: that's pretty strong, carlson, is it not. >> some of these mom bloggers say look we should feel sorry for kids who are fat. >> bill: i agree with that. >> this is l. further stigma advertise them. >> i was a chubby kid. thank god they are doing an ad like that. >> bill: how chubby were you. >> i was a chubby kid. i struggled with my weight every single day. how i keep myself som