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Welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., the cofounder of axios, mike allen. talk about the one big thing today. >> good morning. the one big thing, on the first day of july, is trumps plan for evangelicals. so as we think about what president trump needs to do in 2020, he needs to get out every last one of his voters from last time. there arent that many places trump can go to add to them. but were told the campaign is looking at evangelical christians as one way to m...

>> it very much sticks to the president and can a fascinating example of public radio. there was a story this morning talking about the schism between conservative catholics and the evangelicals. evangelical so-called christians are all-in with trump regardless of the morality. the catholics are not. and the bishops are very upset about the immigration policy, the policies towards poor people, and the morality of trump has infected his support. he was helped by a lot of working class people. hes...

Lindsay gram has been accused of all kinds of things in his private life, should he quit. if the president comes out to say to alabamians im going to take away your right to chose, if he does that evangelicals and conservative catholics will look up and say, boy, why is he weighing in on the wrong side of this. what he should have said is this, roy moore will stand up and say ill go to court, sue "the washington post" and the women and i will get our day, until then dont judge this guy and smear...

Worse and worse on the social issues, theyre legitimate issues. and choice of course became a big issue among the conservative catholics. all of a sudden the country is divided socially rather than economically. i think were better off when were divided by economics. that way if youre making 30 or 40 a year and you want to get a break, you would actually vote together. you may not hang out together, but youll vote together. i think thats broken now. youve got union guys voting for trump. hes not...

That conservatives, particularly evangelicals, conservative catholics, the folks who were at this conference, that they are allies of donald trump. that they are driving this. its a movement and that they need to stay with the president, that he needs them as their natural allies. and the second and maybe the bigger part of this was to attack his perceived or the presidents perceived enemies both old and new. >> hillary clinton just had a ni 900-page book and still cant tell anybody why she shou...

Religion-friendly and we hope to capitalize on that and we will not be scared away by something out of the vatican. >> 80% of white evangelicals voted for trump and join with conservative catholics on issues like abortion and marriage. catholic professor said that the rift is the product of the media and christianity is not a political system. >> its not political liberalism or conservativism. in a sense, its both, a liberal heart and conservative head. >> neither pope francis or the vatican hav...

We have a president thats religion-friendly and we hope to capitalize on that and we will not be scared away by something out of the vatican. >> 80% of white evangelicals voted for trump and join with conservative catholics on issues like abortion and marriage. catholic professor said that the rift is the product of the media and christianity is not a political system. >> its not political liberalism or conservativism. in a sense, its both, a liberal heart and conservative head. >> neither pope ...

Has been a legal battle, the supreme court has stated executions, others have moved forward, saying they can move forward. there is a battle. we are back with the panel. a mara, they seems to be a big battle in many states. 19 states have abolished executions and you have come out of 32, 26 have not carried out an execution in five years. >> theres a lot of issues here. it doesnt even divide neatly on partisan lines, theres a lot of conservative catholics, for instance, also a big concern that i...

Has been a legal battle, the supreme court has stated executions, others have moved forward, saying they can move forward. there is a battle. we are back with the panel. a mara, they seems to be a big battle in many states. 19 states have abolished executions and you have come out of 32, 26 have not carried out an execution in five years. >> theres a lot of issues here. it doesnt even divide neatly on partisan lines, theres a lot of conservative catholics, for instance, also a big concern that i...

Conservative catholics have known this for long time. at least thats the talk around the evangelical table about how democrats, especially liberal democrats, feel about them. so no surprise here. i think the question becomes how much does donald trump do with it. clearly, hes starting to trot it out. >> i wanted to ask you, david, donald trumps relationship with evangelicals, conservative catholics. other people of faith. its always seemed curious to a lot of people that evangelicals have been s...