Jennifer Granholm

Brett Erlich is on location in Maine. (Well, virtually, at least.) As the state’s weeklong GOP caucuses wrap up this weekend, Erlich shares some Maine highlights. Namely — lobster, elk and, um, more lobster. Why are we so focused on Maine? Because they’re the only results we’ve got this weekend.

Jennifer Granholm is fired up about about the controversy around the Obama administration’s birth control policy. A Catholic for 27 years, she thinks church elders are putting their energy into the wrong issues. “In nearly three decades of Sunday worship, I’ve never heard priests talk to us about the importance of Catholics being contraception-free,” Jennifer says, “Not once.”

Constitutional law professor and outspoken Roman Catholic Douglas Kmiec of Pepperdine University joins Jennifer Granholm in “The War Room” to discuss Obama’s recent compromise on birth control policy after a rope-a-dope style rumble with religious leaders. Kmiec says he questions whether the administration’s initial proposal was constitutional, but says the recent compromise should be well-regarded by the Catholic church.

“The New York Times reports a $457 million surplus in Michigan’s coffers this year — a far cry the state of the state a decade ago when it suffered huge blows to the manufacturing and automotive sectors. Tonight, Jennifer Granholm is fired up about the state’s drastic economic improvement — and lauds President Obama’s active government intervention. She says his decision to get involved and breathe life into the state’s failing auto industry made all the difference.