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While until the economic issues are resolved. do we need to stop paying -- not paying attention, but concentrating on abortion, you know, school prayer, any number of things that have been hot button issues for republicans? >> well, first let me say i havent spoken to governor daniels about what he meant. i think mitch daniels is the best governor in the united states of america. hes done a fantastic job for the people of indiana. >> do you think abortion needs to be put on the back burner? >> b...

School prayer and miranda? a real politician. a moderate republican who became a great liberal leader. sandra day oconnor, decisive vote on issues like choice and roe wade, why not pick somebody off the bench? >> i agree with you. i like practical experience. i thought one of the reasons sonia sotomayor was a very good pick, even though she was a judge she had lots of real life experiences before that. in fact, as you know, i had suggested her name to the president. after he met her he called me...

The experience earl warren had? gideon and brown and school prayer and miranda. a real politician. a moderate republican who became a great liberal leader. sandra day oconnor, decisive vote on issues like choice and r roe wade, why not pick somebody off the bench? >> i agree with you. i like practical experience. i thought one of the reasons sonia sotomayor was a very good pick, even though she was a judge she had lots of real life experiences before that. in fact, as you know, i had suggested h...

18% cant name one. >> thats unbelievable. lets do house cleaning first, critics say the study is flawed so the institute tested 14,000 people. any flaws in this study? >> well, i mean, there may be. i dont have the data right in front of me or the methodology, but seems straight forward. you take a large pool of college graduates and a basic civics test, do you know for instance does the united states constitution allow the establishment of a national religion or not. thats pretty simple questio...

Congress. >> correct. >> reporter: you said you felt you were in the minority here. >> yes. theres not a lot of democrats here but there is a lot of independents here. >> reporter: what brought you here? what do you hope to accomplish? >> im here to listen to everybody else and see what they have got to say and try to get a feel for how people are feeling. >> reporter: the biggest issue for you? >> money. we dont have any money. weve got to get out of debt. i mean its nice to have social program...

Years. he described him as quiet, but fun, polite. hes absolutely stunned this kid they played on the field with day in and day out, he said they were going to get into practice in the fall over summer that he could do something like this. they cleared out the pipe bombs from there. now, they learned from the police here, he was the one behind all of these explosive devices. maybe well learn more of that. and investigators spent hours at his house yesterday. all of the things theyll be looking f...

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To kind of moral issues and things are often linked to children in politics we see more conservative. so, for example, women become more supportive of school prayer when they become mothers and mothers less supportive of legalizing marijuana when they become mothers. >> are women aware of this change or are you just sort of tracking it in their public opinion responses? >> thats a great question. the results that i just shared with you come from public opinion responses. so, people are just tell...

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