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We are not allowed to ask questions, and they learned from vietnam and the previous wars, dont put these images on the screen. dont let them see the coffins coming back home, and lets -- lets get our media. bedded with them. >> these are the results of the cnn/orc poll recently about iraq. they were asked would you say the initial decision to send u.s. troops to iraq was a smart or dumb thing to do? americans replied 59% dumb, 38 the smart. race walk more a mistake, yes, 56%. no, 43% and so on a...

Cnn/orc poll of, of catholics only, overwhelmingly high approval numbers for, for the new pope. 88% of people polled said they approve. but then when you ask them about sort of the drill down into the issues of should the pope allow birth control, yes, 76%. et cetera, et cetera, it rathers on like that. i think that one has to imagine theres not -- hes not going to usher in a -- a big era of change within the catholic church. >> lets say that he could. theres nothing to say that he cant. remembe...

Yes, a great responsibility. a few years ago, bill and i celebrated as our own daughter married the love of her life. and i wish every parent that same joy. to deny the opportunity to any of our daughters and sons solely on the basis of who they are and who they love is to deny them the chance to live up to their own god-given potential. >> clinton avoided taking political positions as secretary of state, but says her time traveling the world, quote, inspired and challenged her to think about th...

Groups, of people inside, what do you think of this idea? and theyll go, okay. but when they put the tag "republican" on it, they dont like the idea. thats when you know that the party is really in trouble, and they have to figure out who their messengers are. >> mm-hmm. >> because theyre really lacking those -- >> well, i think what priebus was saying to you is the merit about the fact that we are starting to see a new generation. >> yeah. >> that, you cannot underestimate the importance of tha...

This poll, we also ask the question about budget and fiscal policy, do you approve or disapprove of the way the presidents handling it? 67% disapprove of the way the president is handling fiscal policy. and i think that has an awful lot to do with this, wolf. >> you know, yes. theres no question that that is a big part of it. i went back with our pollster, katie holland, curious about what the other second-term presidents, going back in history, their third month in, second month in of the secon...

Doing great either. take a look at this. the cnn/orc poll, opinion of the republican party. 38% have a favorable opinion. 54%, dana, unfavorable opinion. so how can the republicans change this? >> well, you interviewed the rnc chair. obviously, theyre making a push to do that. what theyre focusing on are all the groups that they didnt win, which are most of the groups. but what -- what actually stunned me was one thing in the poll, if you look inside it, and that is 51% of whites -- remember, th...

Enough. >> right. i mean, thats actually not that surprising. but i think if you talk to many republicans in congress, like i do, one of the main reasons they say that theyre not compromising is because theyre sticking to their principles, and thats what their conservative base wants them to do. except, again, in this poll, if you just sort of look at what -- what we call the cross tabs, 55% of conservatives -- 55% of conservatives said that they did not think that their own republicans are comp...

>> reporter: and it seems the republican party may need a makeover. in a recent cbs news poll, only 3 in 10 said they had a favorable view of the gop. 16 points lower than that of the democratic party. this week marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the iraq war. nbc news/"wall street journal" has the most recent sum bers on the conflict. nearly 6 out of 10 in that poll from january said the war wasnt worth it. president barack obama heads to the mideast this week. . >> the president will ...

Theres even an acronym, orc, organized retail crime. >> its just like a fortune 500 company. its all just organized. >> reporter: it cost the retail industry more than $30 billion a year. >> everything from meat to razors, to milk. >> reporter: milk? >> you name it. >> reporter: underwear, fragrance, clothing, highly sophisticated networks, boosters, fences, mr. bigs can make millions a year. and mike sweat is on the case. a riverside county sheriffs deputy injured in a car accident, sweat is no...

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