Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140329:15:01:00
Optics aside, the two men discussed substantive and thorny topics. the pope's secretary of state made sure to bring up the contraception mandate in president obama's law, something the vatican and the american bishops have vocally opposed. the vatican highlighted that aspect of the discussion but president obama was quick to downplay just how much he talked about birth control with the pope. >> he actually did not touch in detail on the affordable care act. we did not talk a whole lot about social schisms in my conversations with his holiness. in fact, that really was not a topic of conversati...
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