university and a blogger for the "huffington post." it's nice to see you with me today. let's talk about arizona and michigan. these are a done deal in the win column for mitt romney. but it's on to super tuesday. the crucial state of ohio. we saw those polls. he's got some real fighting in front of him right now. how much çmitchmentum does he t out of last night? >> not that if you have. clearly santorum still has the momentum here. ohio demographically is a state he'll play to better. remember, mitt romney does well with older folk and wealthier folk and ohio will have more of those sort of the folk in western michigan, those kind of people will be there to support him, as well. part of the reason why romney is asking for money is because he's going to need more resewerses to put out the nav ads against santorum. >> rick santorum gave a lengthy speech talking about what they would say a dog whistle for the bible belt. take a listen. >> our founders had a fundamentally different understanding of that word. happiness was not going out and doing whatever you want to do to make yourself

life after declaring that universities are indoctrination mills that cause students to lose their faith. santorum described why john f. kennedy's 1960s speech calling for strict separation of church and state made him want to throw up. >> say that people of faith have no role in the public scare, you bet that makes you throw up. what kind of country do we live in that says only people of nonfaith can come in the public square and make their case. that makes me throw up. >> there you have it. today santorum brought up that issue again saying he favors separation of church and state but only in one direction. >> i'm for separation of kmurj and state. the state has no business telling the church what to do. the separation of church and state what our founders believe in has been turned on its head. now it's the church, people of faith, who have no right to come to the public square and express their points of view. >> he seems to be expressing his point of view clearly there. mitt romney is making his final pitch as the fiscal conservative in this race and taking on no less than big

and universities who receive public dollars to have intellectual diversity. the indoctrination at university level -- >> they are hiding behind tenure. >> santorum things university educated students are a harm to our economy and country. this may be the most radical conspiracy theory we have ever seen from a presidential candidate. rick santorum is staying the president wants your kid to go to school and lose his or her faith, the connection with god. he's basing his indoctrination argument on a bogus survey. he says 62% of college students lose their religion? he is quoting a survey from the cardinal newman society the catholic group that led the failed effort to stop president obama from speaking at notre dame university in 2009. of course the expert on bogus analysis is on the board of directors of that society. rick santorum relies on false information to push his obama bashing anti-university conspiracy theory. it isn't the first time he's mentioned it. he went on the attack as soon as president obama said this in the state of the union address. >> higher education can't be

to that, the university of miami has a great engineering program, which president obama did tour today. he seemed quite impressed although he admitted he understood only 10% of what the students were working on. that's why miami. in terms of gas price, president obama has been hammered recently by republicans who are saying that the high gas prices are a result of president obama's energy policy. today president obama was able to answer some of those critics and he said there's no magic solution to this immediate problem. what we have to do is look to the long term and invest in things like wind, solar, nuclear energy. he's made the point he's opened millions of acres for exploration. he's had a bit of reality check with the students. right after the president finished, we got a slew of e-mails from republicans who said that the president is trying to distract voters during an election year because the price of gas is so high. this is something that will stay with him in the coming months. i think the president trying to get out in front of the argument, and making the point that

made back in 2008 at a catholic university in florida speaking about then candidate barack obama's position on abortion. here's part of what santorum had to say. >> this is not a political war at all. this is not a cultural war at all. this is a spiritual war and the father of lies has his sights on what you would think the father of lies satan would have his sights on, a good, decent powerful, influential country. the united states of america. if you were satan, who would you attack in this day and age. there is no one else to go after. other than the united states. that has been the case for now almost 200 years. once americans pre em i sown. >> it's absurd. if a person -- i'm a person of faith. i believe in good and evil. because if you're person of faith is a disqualifier for president we'll have a small pool of candidates. >> i'm joined by bob shrum and professor at nyu and dr. james peterson, director of africana studies at lehigh university. we're talking contraception, faith, talking abortion, bob, what is going on, why are they going down this road and what about santorum?

georgetown university student who went there to of it about a friend, that she deserves an apology for not being allowed to speak? no, i don't >> look, they called me to speak on religious liberty and that's what i did. and as for how that all played out, i have no part in that. i will say this. i think our country is in danger because unfortunately everyone seems to completely dismiss the real implications regarding our religious liberty. and so i think it's just a lot of political misbehavior unfortunately to not realize what we were there for. >> well, you willingly took part in that congressional hearing. so, you know, it's all very well criticizing the political process. you took part in it. you say this debate is about religious liberty. but the president. >> that's right. >> but the president's opponents seem to think that it's also an opportunity for them to attack him about his own personal faith. may i ask you, sir, as a learned professor of theology yourself, what is your reaction to the endless attempts to imply that the president of the united states is somehow sub chr

university and author of the book "can you hear me now"? >> that is an appropriate title, can you hear me now, we have a learning curve that has to get straightened out. sort it out for us, professor. >> it's steep, brother ed. the reality is jeremy lin has taken the nba and world by storm. there is global awareness, international acceptance, there is profound asian pride, and yet it seems to be this stingy refusal among some people to acknowledge that this is a phenomenon all should embrace and some of these ugly stereostipes reassert themselves. they are more vicious because they are unconscious, i don't doubt the people crafting those phrases or who talk about that offensive phrase used by espn, meant anything harmful but that is the point it's so deeply steeped in our own traditions, that we're unconscious and not aware, which also points to the fact we need to have more people of color not only in front of the camera but behind it as well making decisions. >> the commentator is an employee of madison square garden and being evaluated? what do you make of that? >> i guess that is one

. associate professor of english at lehigh university. go to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> why is this happening? why is this ingrained racism still a problem in 2012? it's just like water off a duck's back and yet a lot of people get away with it. how do you feel about it? >> it's disheartening and disappointing. there's a couple reasons why. i think you're right that the president's election causes a backlash that's been ongoing since he was elected. it's sad but there are people that are frustrated and mad and hateful just because we have black president. there's that piece of it. and then as your show and other folk have been talking about for the last six months, sadly republican presidential politics has been embracing sort of racially insensitive discourses as well. when that's going on from the grassroots up from a small group of folk who hate the fact that we have a black president, put that in conjunction with politics and pandering and small minority of folk within the republican party hanging onto racial discourses and create an environment where shock jocks and dif

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been a dairy farmer, a worker as a nurse's aide, i taught at the university level. i have a background that is nothing like the world that scott walker lives in right now when he's down in florida. that is the kind of candidate we need, a candidate that will bring wisconsin together. we have to stop pitting business against workers. we have to stop pitting the private sector against the public sector. >> senator,ive to ask you --. >> it's about bringing us together. >> one of the big issues is collective bargain, would you veto any bill that has an attack on collective bargaining? >> i went toil noil over collective bargain, didn't i? you bet. >> that is an absolute 100% you won't change it? >> no, no, no. i stuck my neck out on this long ago. >> here is another one. how are you going to counter the money, the koch brother money coming in, super pac money dropping in almost to the tune of a million dollars and probably a heck of a lot more. how will the democrats or any candidate fight against that? >> well there is no way we're ever going to match his money. it's not going to happen.

the administration to work with catholic universities and hospitals to try to, and i'm going to quote from the atd mrgs, allay some of their concerns. when pressed about what that meant, we didn't get a direct answer. it's not clear what that means to allay some of their concerns. there does seem to be a willingness to compromise that's coming out both yesterday and today. as you pointed out, martin, pressure is mounting on this white house from members of the catholic community with clergy all over the country urging their condition agrgregates to . >> this seems like it was bound to occur. >> reporter: i think they knew it was going to be an issue no matter how they decided and ruled in this instance. a lot of political analysts say they were choosing between catholics and women. that point can be debated. a couple of statistics that are interesting to think about that may have informed the administration's decision. one is that statistics show the majority of women who are sexually active do use contraception including about 98% of catholic women are saided to have used contr

clear about the intention of the ad. he said the message is sufficiently universal and neutral. that it should be appealing to everybody in this country and i sincerely hope that it doesn't get utilized as a political fodder in a debate. you know what, it is, that is the way it is. conservatives believe the auto loan was the wrong thing to do. they are on the wrong side of history. and their only hope politicize like the talk last friday when the job numbers came out. but the message of this ad is just too strong. >> come from behind, how do we come together, and how do we win? detroit is showing us it can be done. and what is true about them is true about all of us. this country can't be knocked out in one punch, we get back up again and when we do the world will hear the roar of our engines. yeah, it's halftime, america. our second half's about to begin. >> yeah, the big question is how do we come together? this ad was about the the strength of the of american spirit. but it also a love letter to the people who stood behind american workers to make this rescue possible. the america

. you're saying there cannot be a catholic university or catholic hospital that it will have to be subordinated to the rules of a secular government. >> what's interesting is the way he sounds so theologically robust. one wonders what he was thinking when he was committing adultery. here's the problem. the vast majority of catholics and evangelicals actually use contraception. according to a report, among sexually-active women, 68% of catholics are using a highly-effective method of birth control. the figure is 73% for protestants and 74% for evangelicals. according to newt gingrich, the president is waging a war against religion. of course, newt knows exactly what he's doing. he's trying to gloss over his serial adultery and to sound like a man who is standing firm on scripture and tradition. but which version of the bible does newt gingrich actually follow? last year marked the 400th anniversary of the first publication in 16 11 of the king james version of the bible. it remains one of the preeminent books in the english language. in 1361 the royal printers were asked to produce