care. mr. santorum laughs at her, and then tells her that drug companies ought to be able to charge whatever they want. that was his response on the faith, family and freedom tour. joining us now is washington post columnist, msnbc contributor and senior fellow at the brookings institute, mr. e.j. dien who writes about religion and politics with alarming a lackry ty. did you happen -- did you happen to see any of that santorum exchange? i wanted to leave the show with it tonight because i didn't feel like it was -- it was made widely available today, maybe because nothing rick santorum ask does is seen as being that newsworthy. i thought it was newsworthy. did you see it as something that would be important? >> yeah, i think that you put that together with obama's speech today and santorum's funny because there are times when he has used this christian scripture in the same way that obama did in a case to make for why we must do things for the poor.