to try to make sense of it all, we are joined now by our own lisa desjardins; by yeganeh torbati, state department reporter for reuters; and, julie davis. she covers the white house for the "new york times." and we welcome all three of you to the program. let's talk first about the president's comments about the health care bill, this replacement bill. lisa, he was asked some pointed questions over the weekend. cbs' john dickerson in an interview for "face the nation," here is some of that interview. let's watch. >> they are worried, are they going to have the guarantee of coverage if they have a preexisting condition or if they live in a state where the governor decides that's not part health care or that the prices are going to go up? that's the worry the american medical association says-- >> we actually-- >> make coverage completely unaffordable for people. >> forget about unaffordable. what is unaffordable is obamacare, john. >> i'm not hearing you say there is a guarantee of preexisting conditions. >> we have a clause of guarantees. >> woodruff: lisa, today there are republicans s

i'm joined now by yeganeh torbati. she covers the state department for reuters.me back to the "newshour". >> thank you. >> reporter: very big expansion of this policy today. >> right. this version of the policy, under past republican administrations, like you mentioned, there was some version of this rule, but it applied only to family planning-related funding from u.s. a.d. and the state department. now under this version of the policy it will apply to all global health funding provided by the united states -- under the defense, state departments and usda as well. >> brangham: any u.s. department now falls under this rule? >> right, when it comes to global health assistance dollars, they have to abide by this mexico city policy. >> brangham: specifically, we touched on this a bit, but the rule says, if you're getting federal money, you can't perform or mention abortions. is that right? >> right. that's basically the general version of the rule. you can't perform or mention abortions as part of family planning. now, u.s. officials said today while rolling out thi