challenge. let s talk about that challenge interview. the state said to you, george zimmerman knew those video cameras were not working so aha, it wasn t a bluff. it was, again, super cop, knowing everything, and just deciding i can get away with this. really? really? so when chris sarino this used to be a problem for a second. chris sarino i lost my train of thought. eyen going to catch up in just a second. he had said the inconsistencies
a way to get on television. no one s going to book him on political talk shows to talk about god. and so franklin graham stops on the line between church and state and repeatedly gets attention on television by saying he doesn t know if the dually elected president of the united states is telling the truth when he says that he s a christian. franklin graham certainly could have said the same thing about president george w. bush and he certainly could have said the same thing about the first president bush who never claimed to be born again like his son. but franklin graham never questioned their self-professed christianity. and now we have arrived at the key of knowing everything franklin graham says about politics and why he says it. the key to that. we ve established that he uses politics to get on television to maintain his fame in order to maintain his very, very, very high income, but what guides him in what he says about politics?
employment, on unemployment, they re focused on some of the larger indicators. gdp has obviously been, you know, getting closer to a trend growth rate like we want to see. so it s you re going to see a lot of grasping at things like gas prices and as you said earlier, lawrence, it is tough for a president to be facing rising gas prices, even if part of what s going on is, as jay carney said, is the seasonal factor, just prices go up in the summer. msnbc contributor jared bernstein. thanks for the reality check tonight, jared. my pleasure. coming up, former senator russ feingold is next. we have a lot to talk to him about, and he has promised to share secrets that senators whisper to each other on the senate floor. and in the rewrite everything you need to know about franklin graham. well, okay, not exactly everything, but the single most important thing. the key to understanding franklin graham. that s in the rewrite.
personal faith. professor, what would you like to hear in a political campaign about religion? my own feeling has been if you want to hear about religion, go to church. i don t understand why it s ever discussed by politicians at any time. what so i m an extremist over here on i don t want to hear a word about it. then there s people who say, i need to know everything about you religiously in order to decide how i m going to vote, i don t care where you are on taxes, i just care about where you are on religion. where do you think the balance is here? i think the balance is you state upfront what you are and that s it. you don t use it as a wedge or a divider, to use president obama s words. i think what s happened is that all of these candidates have forgotten that there s a clause that says, there is no religious test to be the president or for public office. this is just ridiculous. and further, you know, what i really think is what franklin graham did this morning is the k