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That would be the director of issues analysis for the american family association, brian fisher. turns out he has a long history of bashing the candidate's mormon faith. let's listen to his comments from earlier this week. >> mormonism is not an orthodox christian faith. it's just not. it was very clear that the founding fathers did not intend to preserve automatically religious liberty for non-christian faiths. so when mormonism came along, they practiced polygamy. they believed in polygamy, just like muslims do today. >> well, the only person who ought to be embarrassed by that statement or ...

>> well, the only person who ought to be embarrassed by that statement or any of this awkwardness statement, is the man who made that statement. religious liberty in this country is religious liberty. simple. up next, republicans love chris christie because he's a tough guy, but that's exactly why so many democrats in new jersey actually don't like him that much. senator frank lautenberg even calls him the king of liars, and he's coming here to talk about it. you're watching "hardball" on msnbc. hey, check it out. she's using the mr. clean magic eraser bath scrubber.