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Married, it changed later on and since that's been a tradition. there's a big difference here, the distinction he's drawing between dogma and church teaching. dogma, jesus says do this in remembrance of me for come moka that's not going to change. but celibacy for priest, is it changing. here in the united states 2012, you had 40 anglican converts. they've been married. of the 40,000 catholic priests in the united states you've got 40 married and certainly have wives. if there's a test balloon for the celibacy case look to that as opposed to this article from the incoming secretary of state. >...

And i put it in a folder or i put it in a word document. at the end of the day i look at that word document and then i categorize it and then i take that material to stage and try it out and try to expand it. so the reason that i'm on twitter so much is that i'm actually using everyone as a test balloon on material that -- so i can see what parts of a story people want to hear about, what parts of a story are resonating with people so then in turn i know that maybe that's where i'll focus my material on. and so you may see me writing nine jokes about mark sanford, but i'll pick the best three,...

Unless a republican senator puts a hold on his nomination. >> let's talk about that. that fringe characterization. we had senator chris murphy speaking out earlier about the republicans and just how much they're itching for a fight. take a listen to this. >> republicans are spoiling for a fight. i think they recognize that this guy's coming into his second term with a head of steam. that he's very well regarded on issues of foreign policy. the republicans used to hold an advantage on that mantle. have lost it to an extent. so they just want to pick a fight. >> hogan, here's the thing. are they...

The program trying to allow students to have vouchers and move to different schools, better performing schools but i tell you what this does is very interesting on mitt romney's part. it brings up a real spaz -- issue, it gives him street cred, i'll fight against the unions, but allows him to float a test balloon and say look i can make this education system better let's see if this is something i can rally the base behind rally the country behind the idea of allowing more competition, among the education system taking the business model he used as someone at bain capital, someone as governor ...

Nice to see you this morning. a lot of people are trying to throw their two cents into the mix on this one. >> nice to see you. >> it's a fun game of speculation, especially if you pick the right winner. but mitt romney has made appearances on the campaign trail in recent weeks with people who have been named, of course, within that circle of speculation. is the campaign giving each of them this public audition? and what do you think the campaign is hoping to see in these test runs as they run up to figuring out which test balloon is will work? >> well, they're trying to gauge public reaction ...