for three weeks for those who knew pope francis going 50 or even 60 years. it was a gratifying experience for someone like me who also covers politics, to interview people about an individual who has not changed, not a creature of ambition. he s sincere, a man of his word. these are qualities i don t often find in washington. pope francis is known as the people s pope and lamented he hasn t been able to walk among the people or poor easily in the past before he became the pope. what is the most striking for you as you cover pope francis? well, i think that s it. that molly, he still tries to close the distance between what has long been thought of the catholic church and almost imperius kind of title between him and the public at large.
fiorina, 24. sanders, trump in the 20s. what do you think about this? as far as being able to trust someone, being extremely or very proud of them. it shows how americans have a distrust of washington, d.c. still the anti-politician. carson, he s soft spoken, but you believe him. fiorina, she s forceful, you believe her. so i think that is what is glon straig demonstrated now. but still i believe it will be a politician who will win the nomination. do you think that s where the outsider surge is coming from, the distrust of washington? yes, because they have seen gridlock and their personal lives haven t been affected that much and the same old politicians talk and talk. so they re looking for somebody with a new way to engage. but mrs. clinton still for example enjoys 61% of the democratic party, support from them. so, yes, you do see people playing around and seeing but biden is doing very well.
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tweets @lelandvittert. remember, the speaker of the house does not necessarily have to be a member of the house. an interesting bit of american trivia. there you go. tweet us some of your responses coming up later in the show. some of the candidates are hoping to win over social conservatives in washington this weekend. senator graham is the latest to address the values voter summit. during this two-day event. other speaks included front-runner trump and ben carson. in a couple of hours, the organizers are expected to announce the winner of their presidential straw poll. senator cruz was at the summit yesterday but today he is on to iowa where he was on hand for the grand opening of his campaign office there. senator rubio will be returning to iowa as well, but he is in miami holding a fund-raiser
boehner s resignation comes at a pretty turbulent time for the house. joining me now, susan fer ruch i don t. we got wofrd that washington wa stunned. were you surprised? aof lorters knew in a he was going to leave at some point and the question was timing. i think this was a long time hope for speaker boehner to bring the pope and once they had their meeting and he left and we saw his emotional expression with the pope on the balcony, a lot of us were thinking maybe now he s accomplished this big item on his bucket list, he might decide it s time to go soon. and sure enough the next day he made the announcement. so the timing was maybe a little sooner than some expected, but certainly not a shock that he was leaving. certainly a big moment for speaker boehner. we can see in the pictures he was emotional throughout. but actually leaving, was he pushed out by a small vocal