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Married, it changed later on and since thats been a tradition. theres a big difference here, the distinction hes drawing between dogma and church teaching. dogma, jesus says do this in remembrance of me for come moka thats not going to change. but celibacy for priest, is it changing. here in the united states 2012, you had 40 anglican converts. theyve been married. of the 40,000 catholic priests in the united states youve got 40 married and certainly have wives. if theres a test balloon for the ...

And i put it in a folder or i put it in a word document. at the end of the day i look at that word document and then i categorize it and then i take that material to stage and try it out and try to expand it. so the reason that im on twitter so much is that im actually using everyone as a test balloon on material that -- so i can see what parts of a story people want to hear about, what parts of a story are resonating with people so then in turn i know that maybe thats where ill focus my materia...

Unless a republican senator puts a hold on his nomination. >> lets talk about that. that fringe characterization. we had senator chris murphy speaking out earlier about the republicans and just how much theyre itching for a fight. take a listen to this. >> republicans are spoiling for a fight. i think they recognize that this guys coming into his second term with a head of steam. that hes very well regarded on issues of foreign policy. the republicans used to hold an advantage on that mantle. ha...

The program trying to allow students to have vouchers and move to different schools, better performing schools but i tell you what this does is very interesting on mitt romneys part. it brings up a real spaz -- issue, it gives him street cred, ill fight against the unions, but allows him to float a test balloon and say look i can make this education system better lets see if this is something i can rally the base behind rally the country behind the idea of allowing more competition, among the ed...

Nice to see you this morning. a lot of people are trying to throw their two cents into the mix on this one. >> nice to see you. >> its a fun game of speculation, especially if you pick the right winner. but mitt romney has made appearances on the campaign trail in recent weeks with people who have been named, of course, within that circle of speculation. is the campaign giving each of them this public audition? and what do you think the campaign is hoping to see in these test runs as they run up...

Talk about another time. but debbie, another veep tryout to talk about. kelly ayotte. what do you think is happening here is this just another test balloon and how many do you think are wiwill go snup. >> i have to go back to the auto stray where this president saved 1 hpt 4 billion jobs in the supplier industry when he accepted up and mitt romney said let it go bankrupt. when you talk about what he said, it was as late as february, i was sitting in the audience when mitt romney said the auto in...

Sit here as one of those people who is from the midwest and knows what would have happened if the auto industry had collapsed. started under president bush. thankfully we had a republican and a democrat who knew what the consequenceses would have been if they hadnt intervened and the economy would not be headed in the correction thdirection t headed and we got where we were because of republican policies that almost destroyed this industry. brought back on where we were in the post depression an...

Out. we want to step in line behind mitt romney. >> richard, a lot of people would look at this and maybe this this was a test balloon to see how he would do in 2012 to return in 2016. do you think theres enough homework to see if that would work? if he was thinking that this was a ramp up to getting his name out now, to see what it takes to be on the trail and coming back in 2016? >> i think that maybe where hell end up, but i dont think where these candidates start out. they do believe that th...

That theres only three banks that this is be done is this like the test balloon? >> i think youre totally right to call it a test balloon because chinese government is very into doing these odd experiments. the change here is not weather you can open a bank account in omaha. its how much convertibility is that currency going to have as a global currency thats going to be an alternative to or in addition toll the dollar. >> the oracle of omaha. >> thats right. warren buffett is opening an account...

Most done. >> what do you make of the missouri vote last night by a three to one dealing with health care? saying that you know, that the federal government cannot force to you buy health care the people dont want it. >> well, the people do want it. look behind you. the people do want it. >> so this is the wedge issue. i mean, i think this is a test balloon. what do you think? >> missouri is the ultimate swing state. this is a really tough one tore democrats politically because the pan date is t...