Neck out. I want to commend Speaker Boehner for listening to the American People and for leading. For the house of representatives to stand up and vote to defund obama care is a tremendous victory. If and when we win this fight its going to be because House Republicans have stood up and showed the courage that they are showing right now that they dont stand up. The house is the one branch of government that the republicans have a majority. Okay. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, september 20. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have msnbc and Time Magazine. Are analyst mike halperin, Eugene Robinson on the set with us. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst ste Steve Rattner and john mecham. Well be talking about the pope in just a second. Also new information on the potential motive behind the Navy Yard Shooting and the effort to defund obama care, Mark Halperin well get to that in a second. How would you characterize where that stands . Not since Danny Bona
a former redskin. all pro kicker with the washington redskins. exactly. nfl lifetime achievement award. and he answered a question. the state of mississippi is paying curtis wilkin to do what he does. whatever curtis does. i have family members who are taxpayers who are still protesting. curtis is great prk r for ole miss. i grew up when archie was there. we are going to take us down to ole miss. that was fun. it s a special place, but boy, it has been through tough times. tell us about it in the book. we started in 1848 and from the beginning we had the elephant in the room that was race. when i was there having spent my life there, i decided we were going to confront it straight
0 we ll be talking about the pope in just a second. also new information on the potential motive behind the navy yard shooting and the effort to defund obama care, mark halperin we ll get to that in a second. how would you characterize where that stands? not since danny bonaducci had a man mishandle his career. pope francis is turning heads talking about the focus of the catholic church. he said the church has become obsessed with preaching about gay, abortion and contraception. and that people want pastors not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. nbc s ann thompson has the story. reporter: in his short papacy pope francis preached loudest seek out those who left and listen to their reasons why. this interview follows his impromptu press conference in july on the flight from rio when asked about a gay priest, who am i to judge. the pope now said when god looks at a gay persons does he endorse the existence of this person with love or reject and condemn this per