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Prime minister in just minutes. a couple interesting things that you should know about this. first of all, the prime minister is pretty popular. he's on the cover of "vanity fair" in his own country, in italy, and we're also going to be watching about the competing statements. we told you we got the statement from the vatican. it talked about things like human trafficking and immigration, but what will the white house statement say? what will the president say? we assume he will be asked about this meeting, because it's very interesting what wasn't in the vatican statement. let me bring in "ne...

Items, i'll quote some of the language. the catholic church's objection to contraception. obama care specifically, it says about rights to religious freedom, life and consequence yes, sirrous objection. this is obviously a topic that creates tricky politics between these two men, the world's most powerful politician. obviously representing two very different communities. >> yeah, it was interesting, as i read this statement, and it's brief, just three paragraphs, there's no mention of what we know was high on the president's agenda, which was their area of agreement, which is income inequality...

The poor, contraception mandates. >> sometimes meetings between presidents and popes have big consequences. i think the most famous example of that is when ronald reagan met with pope john paul ii, and apparently we learned years later had a secret agreement that they would work together to try to overthrow or undercut the -- the soviet empire. on the other hand, most tend to be photo-ops, meetings that are suddenly forgotten. >> what do you think this was? >> i think it was a photo-op. the holy father gave the president a copy of his apostolic exhortation called the joy of the gospels, guess ...

Kids. another 9% are elderly. 10% are disabled adults. so when republicans are attacking people on food stamps, this is who they're attacking. but nationwide, there's a new push against this vilification of the poor. in fact, several governors, including a republican, are doing their best to soften the terrible impact of food stamp cuts. but the gop leaders, like speaker boehner, that's just another example of fraud. >> it's the passage of a farm bill states those to cheat once again on signing up people for food stamps. and so i would look at that to try to stop this cheating and this fraud f...

Stigmatized. >> that's right. >> how do you walk over, step over, ignore his feelings of he didn't want to be stigmatized to just redo the story to make your point without everyone knowing this real isn't about you having a different view of public policy. you have no regard for the feelings of a human being who happens to be a child. >> well, for so many, it's even worse than that. for jack kingston, our congressman from south georgia who is running for u.s. senate in a very conservative gop primary, he took $4200 in free reimbursed congressional lunches. but he wants children to scrub floors...