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Smelling just the way you want it. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. congressman paul ryan cut his latest budget proposal. it would cut spending for medicaid, more than $5 trillion, would give the money to the rich in some $4 trillion in tax cuts. some religious leaders called it unconscionable and a moral disaster. ryan disagrees, a practicing catholic, he requires his staff to read ayn rand's novel, "atlas shrugged." she was famously a nonbeliever. some of the religious left have used rand to drive a wedge between economic conservatives and religious conservatives, such ...

we're following the breaking news this hour, a tornado outbreak that scraped parts of the midwest this morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. hardest hit, harrisburg, illinois, where at least six people died, including two children. within the last half hour, we learned the tornado was a category ef-4, with winds, get this, up to 170 miles an hour, and as wide as two football fields. in the last hour, the mayor spoke at a grief-stricken news conference. >> we have suffered the loss of lives. we've suffered many injures, and millions of dollars worth of is i...

Policy in the white house if he were to get. there you would call it a theocracy. joan walsh, your reaction to be that sound you heard? >> oh my god, ed, thanks for playing it all. those are the best sound bites. nothing that is inconsistent, but those clips get at what the president said. first of all can i just say it made me want to throw up, what grade is the guy in? how juvenile, he wants to be president. but second, as you point out, president kennedy absolutely never said he wanted to drive people of faith from the public square. he was trying to make the public square safe for people o...

Up he is confirming he would allow his faith to determine policy in the white house if he were to get. there you would call it a theocracy. joan walsh, your reaction to be that sound you heard? >> oh my god, ed, thanks for playing it all. those are the best sound bites. nothing that is inconsistent, but those clips get at what the president said. first of all can i just say it made me want to throw up, what grade is the guy in? how juvenile, he wants to be president. but second, as you point out, president kennedy absolutely never said he wanted to drive people of faith from the public square....

About that. he was a practicing catholic, he had close relationships with prooes a priest, ministers and rabbis. it was never about driving people of faith away. we only had one catholic president, and it comes from a history of real anti-catholic prejudice and nativism in this country. president kennedy was speaking about. that he made it safe for rick santorum to be free to run for president, as crazy as you and i think it is. it's awful. >> what would a santorum presidency look like, would this be the closest thing the united states would dom a theocracy or it would be one? >> i think it wo...