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responds to that. it s good to see you today, jeff. i appreciate your time of you can read hear about the growing church scandal as well as the vat vatican s reaction on msnbc.com. next, the white house works to breach the growing tide of foreclosures. how one state is changing the way it gives the green light for medical marijuana. [ male announcer ] you can get a lot of water where you least expect it. like in here. this detergent has this much cleaning ingredients. the rest is water. but with tide, you get more cleaning ingredients more than twice as much. so that you get an outstanding tide clean. tide. you pay for detergent. you get more detergent. - sure, cake or pie? - pie. - apple or cherry? - cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream.
pope benedict acted aggressively enough against priests suspected of abuse. i m joined by jeff field, a communications director for the catholic league. at this point, what you re hearing from the vatican, is it enough to convince catholics in america and europe where it s really hitting the headlines, that the vatican does care about abusive priests? he definitely does care about the abusive priests. just in the past year alone, from 2008 to 2009, in the united states, sex abuse cases have gone down 36%. so there is there are things being done to combat this problem. do you see this as an old problem? in the case of father murphy, the new york times spent amt of time on this. he admitted that yes, he had abused boys. he said he repented. when they were getting ready to defrock him, the archbishop in