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Of congress, we have had a lot of members of congress who were mormon. we have had a lot of prominent people in this country and we had a governor of massachusetts who was mormon. is there any real evidence that their mormonism has affected their conduct of their life in public policy in any pick way? i would say no. so, where is the evidence that mormonism is some kind of men november lent force that will drive these politicians to do the exotic things that critics of that faith accuse them. >> laura: things said last week on msnbc by this particular host were incredibly vicious and interesti...

How do you push this case if the young man is not willing to be a witness? >> yeah, what victim? in fact, the victims are in court in support of the defendant, which is really unheard of, especially in sex abuse cases. so here is how that is going to break down. the prosecution is going to have a tough time proving all the elements of the offense if they can't get this kid on the stand to testify as to what happened. offenses because of that and he might get some stuff into trouble. they can't force the words out of his mouth. what's a jury going to think if this kid says i don't want anything...

Now, i know the president would like to take credit for all of this, but the fact is these gains began long before his inauguration. and, we do not need to waste the taxpayers' money on transparently political events designed to reinforce the bogus notion that democrats care more about women and republicans don't. and that's the memo. now, on to the top story. democrats continue to beat the war on women drum. democratic national committee chair woman debbie wasserman schultz said this over the weekend. >> the focus of the republic party on turning back the clock for women really is something t...

Primary season. so much is the back and forth between the republic candidates that we haven't had the opportunity president obama has had to get out there and really talk and generate what i hope that the republic nominee does and what all of us will do is focus on going out to those groups that we're weak at. that's what a good candidate does. you don't go to the people that are just like you. you go to the people that you have to earn their credit. i think who governor romney is going to have to go out there. he has got the best golden bullet in the world which is ann romney. go out there an...

>> wait a second. mary katharine. >> there are things that are distractions, juan. and the amount of coverage that certain things are getting, like we wouldn't be talking about having a national conversation about augusta national's policies or some of these other issues. >> can i make a point to you? look, i think both sides have some culpability here. when you hear republics in the midst of their primary talking about the food stamp president, talking about black kids don't have a good work ethic. when you have such high unemployment among black kids. i think a lot of that white racial anger...