catholic school girls. refused to allow a priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a speaker. quote, what kind of individual throws condoms at catholic school girls? this is their idea of civil speech, but we believe it s an outrage. we reached out to occupy providence, but have not heard back. a massachusetts woman says f.b.i. agents used a chain saw blade to cut through her door and held her at gun point for at least 30 minutes before realizing they had the wrong house. the mother says while agents held her down, her three-year-old daughter cried in another room. the f.b.i. has apologized and is paying for the damage. it says agents were after a suspected drug dealer in the same multi unit building. finally, republican presidential candidate newt gingrich had no trouble choosing his ideal actor for a possible movie about him. if hollywood was going to do a movie about your life, who would you like to see play the lead role? brad pitt.
bill: that s from the reagan library, last night. bill: so as america prepares to remember the attacks of 9/11, ten years on now, some religious leaders are calling on the mayor in new york city, mike bloomberg, to rethink his plans to a ceremony at ground zero. lauren greene is on the story. what s this controversy all about? reporter: the mayor doesn t want to include closing prayer or pastors at the ceremony itself, so it sparked quite a controversy, so in just over an hour, a new york city council member will present mayor bloomberg with 60,000 signatures from an online petition, trying to show mayor bloomberg that excluding pastors and prayers from the 9/11 ceremony is offensive and overlooks the roles faith played in the healing.
earth. one other poignant moment is expected as the husband of gabrielle giffords speaks. mark kelly is expected to give the closing prayer on behalf of the wounded congresswoman. he s been at his wife s side as she continues to recover from the gunshot wound during the shooting at tucson to killed six people and the national prayer breakfast kicks off in about an hour. i ll be headed right back there to fill you in later today. all right, lauren, enjoy your breakfast with the president. mark kelly has a big decision to make. looks like he could be heading up in the space shuttle and going forward with the mission. he would be the commander of the space shuttle on its last mission. isn t it the last mission? unless they extend it again. so we ll figure out what he finally decides promptly. meanwhile, take a look at this picture. how the heck did that happen? a car standing straight up in the air. more incredible pictures after the biggest blizzard in decades is pretty much mo
and so in a sense, to create a new benefit we create even a bigger problem of trying to solve the existing problem, which is the bankruptcy of medicare. so it is a bad decision all the way around. martha: all right. this is not going anywhere fast, and i urge everybody to take a look at this bipartisan plan that alex rivlin and paul ryan have come up with, it deserves attention and deserves a reading on everybody s part. we ll get into this next time with you both. good to see you both. bill: in our nation s capitol, today is the national prayer breakfast in washington, d.c., an event every year that brings washington together, frankly. president obama, finishing up his address a moment ago, and he offered prayers for congresswoman gabrielle giffords and right now her husband, astronaut mark kelly is speaking, delivering the closing prayer. he has been by his wife s side since the shooting in tucson, using sights like twitter to report on her progress, kelly and giffords
35 past the hour. welcome back to morning joe. quick look at the news. astronaut mark kelly, gabrielle giffords husband will speak at the national prayer breakfast later this morning. that s great. that will be beautiful. he ll deliver the closing prayer. it s an uplifting event. as we mentioned earlier, president obama will also speak at the event which is being held for the 58th consecutive year in washington. have you ever been to the prayer breakfast? once. it really is amazing. you get people from middle america that come, because everybody invites their people from their hometowns. their senators, congressmen, president and vice president, all these ambassadors. you see people around the world.