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Here today. thats the basis of the sanctions that the united states and our partners impose on russia. it is not a desire to return to a cold war. now within russia, state-controlled media may describe these events as an example of a resurgent russia. a view shared, by the way, by a number of u.s. politicians and commentators who have always been deeply skeptical of russia. and seem to be convinced a new cold war is in fact upon us. and yet look at the results. the ukrainian people are more inte...

Some way than the rest of us. but in the kingdom of heaven, the bible warns, the last shall be first and the first last. in other words, be thankful for your success, but dont think it makes you superior in any deep sense. commentators have taken francis speeches and sayings and attacked him or claimed him as a maxist, unionist. i dont think the pope is proposing an alternate system of global politics or economics, hes simply reminding each of us that we have a moral obligation to be kind and ge...

A lot of priests and bishops in the catholic church still look to pope benedict as their kind of intellectual reference for a lot of things. >> he just didnt have the personality that pope francis did. >> well, also the moment we saw when we were broadcasting live last night and many of you probably saw what he did when he spoke to the, you know, all of the families here about family, he went completely off script, and for many of the commentators and the guests we had oen, father rosica you wer...

Speaking to a crowd of 40,000, many of them hispanic immigrants, but really representative of the 30 million hispanic catholics, or some of them at least, in this country. jake? >> lets be honest. theres a very strong debate going on in politics in this country right now about illegal immigration and some of the language being used by commentators and others when talking about illegal immigrants has offended some members of the latino community. >> and those outside of it. >> and for an 11-year-...

Individuals that we work with every day. our individuals tend to be pushed to the side and ignored and people tend to not acknowledge their presence so today they were the vips in the room when the pope came through and seeing our ladies and gentlemen so excited to be in his presence made my heart melt. it was a wonderful, wonderful day. >> and it was so clear that many commentators said this, you know, though he just talked to congress, he could have stayed on capitol hill but clearly, this was...

Epa regulations around carbon emissions. did you have conversations about how do we handle if he comes out very specifically on certain policies? >> well, we were uncertain. i know there are a lot of commentators in the media and otherwise, political commentators, that would like to grab one quote and try to twist those for political purposes. i think hes been misinterpret considerably. i think the pope even said that on his first day, that hes been made out to be something hes not. but i think ...

You need to change. but he said you need to have this approach of one of compassion and charity. i know as a republican some of my colleagues were worried about very specific policy prescriptions the pope might offer. but he came as a pastor, not a politician or policy maker. so he surprised quite a few folks i think on both sides of the aisle. >> did you have conversations when you said colleagues of yours had concern about the specificity -- yesterday he was quite specific on one particular po...

Actually, most americans, most catholics love this pope. the people who dont like him are the conservative commentators on radio and television and the blogosphere. these are the people who are taking him on and attacking h him. these are people that only want the churnl to talk ant abortion, gay marriage and birth control. and this pope has got a much bigger agenda than that. he wants to talk about the poor, about immigrants and refugees. about globalization. and he wants to criticize capitalis...

Approving of him now than they were earlier this year. >> well, its interesting. actually, most catholics, most americans love this pope. the people who dont like him are the conservative commentators on radio, television and the blog sphere. these are the people that are taking him on and attacking him. these are people who only want the church to talk about abortion, gay marriage and birth control. and this pope has got a much bigger agenda than that. he wants to talk about the poor, about imm...

Put into place that stimulated the economy and brought it back from the brink were enormous while this stuff was like this. but the seals that are in the colbert audience -- right. >> they dont know anything. >> you had a comedian there cherry picking things. >> he is not a comedian though. wait, do you really think stephen colbert is a comedian first and foremost? >> yeah. how do you think builds himself as an activist? late night show? >> he stuart both are social commentators first and they u...