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Thank you to my good friends for shipping this up here. we've got the staff here. they've got their beads on. they're ready for some king cake here. huge event. >> you lived there for quite a while. so that's why you're such an expert. >> absolutely. >> drop some knowledge on us about mardi gras. >> mardi gras's always 47 days before easter. tomorrow starts ash wednesday, the season of lent when people are supposed to give up something, catholics. it is not official holiday in louisiana. so government's closed, schools are closed today for mardi gras. it's a very big deal. if you get hit in th...

Could it really happen? after a polish pope and a german pope, there's going to be a lot of pressure to put an italian back in the vatican. and there is strong resistance to a pope from the world's only superpower. but for a church mired in scandal and said to be out of touch with its followers a pope with the common touch has to have a certain appeal. >> he can present the gospel message, the message of catholicism to people with a smile. it's not with a frown. >> reporter: but he is not all smiles. just before coming to rome he took on president obama over the issue of legislating access to ...

Latino vote. i think, look, latinos -- immigration is not the number one issue. >> but the dream act a ton of coverage in the hispanic media. how impactful is that? >> it is important. i have to say to give credit to governor romney, starting to clarify his position on immigration. on the dream act, he said he now supports a modality of the dream act, giving legal status to those who came here illegally as minor it is they are following serve in the armed forces, that is a step forward. i think if romney continues to clarify his position, how he wants to reform the legal immigration process th...

Catholic health association. once again proving the soft power of sensible compromise. joining us is steve king of iowa. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> i know there's a lot of noise in the background so i hope we'll be able to hear each other. i guess the problem is solved following the president's compromise. would you agree with that? >> well, i wouldn't agree with it. i don't know what others have said. i've been a little busy in the last few hours. i read the memo that came out right before the president's statement on this and he said he was shifting the responsibility over to...

People who need extended unemployment insurance, isn't that also a personal a front by forcing them to undergo some kind of drug test? >> i guess it was a little hard for me to make this connection because the objection that the catholic church and i have to the morning after pill because it ends the life of an unborn waeb. a drug test is you give up a little something for urinalysis and the most invasive it is the be, it's a lot different. >> the contraceptive pill doesn't abort a pregnanty, it prevents a pregnancy from happening. >> i don't concede that. >> i'm sorry so go back on this. it ...