welcome back. i m fredricka whitfield. right now the catholic church is struggling with a shortage of priests and the pope might have a solution, accepting married men into the clergy. it is still just an idea but one that is generating a loot t of debate. here to talk about this is sister simone campbell who is director of a lobby group for catholic justice. she s also the leader of nuns on the bus, a group that s toured the u.s.ed a v edu.s. advocatin immigration reform. in an interview with a german newspaper pope francis said that he hoped to open up an idea of allowing married men become a priest. you just returned from the vatican where you said there s a need for more female voices in rome. so what are your thoughts on the pope turning to married men to address the clergy shortage? well, i think it s a great step forward. one of the things that needs to be acknowledged is that women
administration that are reminiscent of what you read about at least i had to read about, i didn t live through it, in the kennedy administration, where formal lines of communication were kind of cast aside and the president would reach out to whoever in government he felt he needed to talk to. you know, with barely 50 days in this administration, we certainly know the style of donald trump is to do exactly that. it is possibly, i agree with david, not necessarily a conspiracy theory but sort of a breach of protocol. i frankly had never heard the protocol that u.s. attorneys who are, after all, presidential appointees, are not suppose ed communicate with the president. i was not aware of that. david, are you? i was not. one thing about the potential caller was made, it could be there was something nefarious about it. it was also possible he was calling him to say, hey, look, i ve changed my mind, we re doing a real sweep and i have to
once served four years in prison for stalking and other crimes. witnesses say the gunman walked rights up to the podium and spray painted in red a v with a circle around it on the wall and then pulled out a gun. today on studio b i talked to a school official who was at that meeting. i saw him sitting there and he had a can of spray paint in his hand. at some point during the meeting he walked up and said he had something to say. shepard: and what did he say? something about firing his wife. shepard: witnesses say he started shooting after a woman hit him with her purse, a school board member. a security guard had shot and killed the gunman. but now police in bay county and in panama city say after reviewing the video footage it appears the man shot and killed himself. thankfully no one else was hurt today. who is fueling the drug violence in mexico?