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the president. His Energy Philosophy wrongly ruling by executive order. The president is not on the ballot this year. Its myself and senator mck mcconnell. Theres not a dimes worth of difference between a clinton democrat and an obama democrat. Theres no sacred right to not announce who we voted for. In 2012, 116 out of 120 kentucky counties agreed with my judgment that we might be in better shape now had mitt romney been elected. Good morning. Its tuesday, october 14th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle and mark halperin. She wont say she voted for barack obama. I dont get that. It makes her look really silly. Why wouldnt you say it . People have made thats ridiculous. You voted for obama. I did not vote for obama. Oh come on. Just say it, joe. Ill say it. I voted for john mccain and mitt romney and i have said who i voted for in the primary. Shes being too cute. I dont understand if she has a team of advisers why they wouldnt say maybe just answer it. That will make it go away. Just answer it. It makes her look silly. Everybody knows she voted for barack obama. She looks silly. Crazy. Especially considering what healthcare has meant in kentucky. Exactly. You could say it hasnt been all the way mr. Mcconnell presents it. Between mcconnell releasing
an ad, and the debate, she made coverage about this. We havent done the story in this block and were talking about it. Lets get to our lead story. Theres another signal of a new era under pope francis. A new document released by a group of catholic bishops calls for a far welcoming stance toward gay people and unmarried couples. According to the 12page document, people who are gay and lesbian have gifts and qualities to offer the Christian Community adding they provide precious support in the life of partners and the document urges the chur church to be open to those couples that live together. A far different tone than the traditional preaching that they are living in sin. The preliminary document, which does not change church doctrine, noted disagreement among the bishops but its so interesting because i think, Mike Barnicle,
one of the challenges of the Catholic Church has been to be inclusive and to bring in a new flock. Mika, i dont know about you like me raised in the Catholic Church and still part of the Catholic Church, you could literally feel the earth move yesterday with that statement. For all of our lives weve been told that if youre divorced or gay, youre living in sin. All of a sudden pope francis, one individual, comes in and opens the window and fresh air of the 21st century comes sweeping in. Small opening but a huge opening. A huge one. Ill tell you what, he did it using the basic tenants of the Catholic Church that are beautiful in order to say this. You shouldnt judge and certainly were all sinners. Thats why everyone is included. You dont have to single out certain members of society and call them sinners because we are all sinners, right . And thats the key. Were all living in sin. If you are a member of the Catholic Church, if youre a baptist, if youre an evangelical, you are taught at that everyone lives in sin. Falling short of the glory of god and even jesus says for the most part all sins are equal so dont have this hierarchy of, listen, im sinning in my own way but it changes everything. But your sin is worse than mine and therefore youre not allowed in my church. The pope is a brilliant politician. How to move this without offending everybody and keeping everyone moving in the same direction. Its brilliant. This is not the Catholic Church saying im okay, youre okay. This is not the Catholic Church saying and people need to listen and understand this, this is not the Catholic Church saying that people who are not married as a
man and a woman are not living in sin. Thats not what theyre saying. What theyre saying is we all live in sin. We love you. Who are we to judge you when were living in sin as well . Lets come together. Its going to be truly interesting to see how this goes over with some of the more conservative members of the college of cardinals including a couple of american cardinals. It will be. There is some dissension. Get over it. Maybe they dont live in sin. Maybe theyre perfect. They can cast the first stone. I love that. Jesus of course said to the men who were ready the religious leaders ready to stone the woman at the we will for committing adultery. Go ahead, you can do it. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. You just heard all of the rocks dropping. All right. Candidates are looking for frame
the debate in key matchups everywhe everywhere. They tried to tie the democratic senator to president obama a lot. Which key pieces of legislation have you helped lead that youre most proud of if you can take one and if you can make it one that you would like to take back. I havent been in washington long. Its just as important to stop bad laws as it is to pass good laws. They have let almost 400 bills in the house of representatives pile up on the desks of the senate. They are always going to protect Barack Obamas legacy and enforce his policies. Thats why a vote for mark pryor
is a vote for president obama. You heard president cotton admit he hasnt passed anything since hes been in the house even though he was there for one month and ran a poll on the senate race. Did he know where the bathrooms were . Now he think hes entitled to be in the senate. His approach is my way or the highway dead end politics that leads to fiscal cliffs and shutting down the government. Let me say this. Leadership in washington involves walking across the aisle. Congressman, you dont have the reputation, the ability, or the desire to walk across the aisle to get things done in washington. Meanwhile in kentucky, republican senator Mitch Mcconnells challenger once again refused to say who she voted for in 2008 and 2012. This is a matter of principle. Our constitution grants here in kentucky the constitutional right for privacy at the ballot box for a secret ballot. You have that right. Senator mcconnell has that
right. Every kentuckian has that right. As secretary of state, the chief election official, im tasked with overseeing and making sure that were enforcing all of our election laws. Its a matter of principle. Standing on principle rather than answering the question. Im not going to compromise a constitutional right provided here in kentucky in order to curry favor on one or other side or for members of the media in kentucky. You wont answer that question tonight . Again, you have that right. Senator mcconnell has that right. Every kentuckian has the right for privacy at the ballot box. Thats so ridiculous. So ridiculous but she told everybody she voted for hillary clinton. It must make for great breakfast talk at a diner in louisville, kentucky. Who did you vote for . I have a constitutional right not to tell you. Aside from that, she did handle herself well in the
debate. She could have had a great performance. Back to the arkansas debate, mark pryor got the best of that exchange. The fact that tom cotton couldnt describe one piece of legislation that he passed. How surprised are you that tom cotton is not ten points up in that race . Fairly surprised. I think whats happening to him is whats happening to the state senator from North Carolina. Two republican states, two red states but a lot of people in North Carolina think the republicans went too far in the state legislature because of it. There are a lot of moderate republicans and democrats that would usually vote republican in president ial races saying these guys are too far out there. I thought tom would be up by ten points by now. Its very close. Its very close because hes been part of a house thats been extraordinarily conservative even by arkansas standards. Hes going to be now microtargeted to voters. He voted against the farm fill. Voted against violence to women act and voted for budget bills on social security. Hes going to have to defend himself in arkansas. Its going to keep it close for at least a bit. I want to know what you think of this. The Washington Post has a piece out on mitt romney that says hes feeling the push from friends to jump back into president ial politics. We all know he is and weve heard friends that have pushed him. Hes huddled with donors and reconnected with supporters in key states and been out on the trail stomping for gop candidates. He took a shot at the former rival for the white house. The former republican nominee cracked a joke at president obamas expense last night at an event. A Family Member said president obama went to the bank
to cash a check and he didnt have his i. D. And the teller said you have to prove who you are. How should i do that . The other day phil mikellson came in and didnt have his i. D. You he set up a cup on the ground and putted it in and we knew it was him and we cashed his check and she said is there anything you can do to prove who you are . He said i dont have a clue. [ applause ] she said, mr. President , do you want your money in small bills or large bills . Was the punch line i dont have a clue . I dont have a clue. Such a complicated joke sort of. The woman says to the president what can you do, what can you do to prove youre yourself . He says i dont have a clue. She says that proves youre barack obama. Im the mitt romney joke translator. Its not a bad joke. I like andre agassi. That was too much work. Excuse me. Bless you. By him saying he didnt have a clue that proved who he was. Very good. Hes looking like hes going to run. Theres a huge vacuum. I think in the end if you have paul ryan in the race or jeb bush in the race or Chris Christie in the race, romney wont run. You may not have any of those guys. Theres only one person that would stop him from running. Jeb bush. If ryan ran, you dont think
hes going to run . Ryan wont run if romney will run. I dont think romney will go first. Hell have to be a draft. I think that people in romneyville are only thinking about jeb bush and whether jeb runs or not but theyre looking at the same polls that jebs looking at and i will say as somebody thats always been a supporter of jebs, very surprised by how bad one poll after another seems to be for jeb. Your iowa poll had him trailing behind. I will tell you that. Mitt romney, that guy right there, that guy is not worried about Chris Christie. That guy is not going to stay out of the race lets say christie gets in shortly after the election. Do you think mitt would come in . He doesnt care. He doesnt think that Chris Christie is going to win and we ought to do what we do around here and say on the air what
nobody else says on the air but what everybody says off the air in republican circles, if you want to know what mitt romney is thinking, nobody thinks Chris Christie can win. Nobody thinks he can get past everything thats happened before even if hes exonerated and nobody thinks hes got the temperament to run. Nobody thinks he can handle iowa. Nobody thinks hell win in South Carolina. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I only say that to say nobody around mitt romney is saying if Chris Christie gets in, we better not do it. Were all talking about who has the mantle for the establishment ring of the Republican Party. Its jeb or its mitt and if jeb doesnt run, then i think mitt may be on his way. We were talking to one of the most powerful ceos in america in the past week and his sort of sense on jeb was that there was
no joy there. Theres almost an edge or burden to it that wont work. Hes been playing the hamlet routine too much. Do you think hes going to run . Today i do. That will be quite a burden. Reporting based on people looking at how seriously hes taking a look at it and his shared belief as you described to governor romney folks that christie is not the right person. You use reporting. Mika and i use we use antidotal evidence from people we talk to at parties. We use the ouija board. Often good information. Today i think hes going to run. Do you recaally . Yes, maa. Walter isaacson introduces us to geeks behind the revolution and after missing a month, there may have been a kim jongun citing and what he was wearing that may provide a clue as to where hes been. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. When folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the United States, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. A single ember that escapes from a wildfire
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multiple photos hes seen using a cane. Now hes back on the scene. When did he take those pictures . Not verified when. More to come on that one. Hes back on the scene. We get this one from finland. Apple is to blame for the countrys economic downturn according to the prime minister. Apple is a major reason the largest export industries of paper, i. T. And mobile are struggling. Iphone killed paper and killed nokia so they downgraded finlands debt rating. The wall street journal saudi arabia is making an aggressive push to defend its market share of oil across europe and asia frustrating world markets. Opec was stunned when it slashed november prices igniting a price war. The company is also asking buyers in europe to commit to
maximum shipments in order to receive oil as it faces stiffer competition. You guys are going to love this one. The cincinnati inquirer, how often do you send the kids to school with cupcakes and birthday cakes . Cant do that. Birthdays send them with coke. Cocacola. All right. In kentucky, the Burlington Elementary School in efforts to combat Childhood Obesity say they dont want cake and ice cream and other products for childrens birthday celebration. The sugary treats instead they want to hand out nonfood items like bookmarks or pencil
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