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 interesting because harry reid, of course, senate minority leader, mormon. it would be nice to hear someone like harry reid speak out against that type of rhetoric. i would imagine if that kind of stuff was said about, let's say, islam, museum faith there would be a national outcry. you can do this to someone who is like mitt romney kind of an upper crust guy but probably going to be the g.o.p. nominee.