morning. ets it s going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. thank you. lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the defense secretary. the british soldier was also injured in that incident. leon panetta is in the capital and he s going to be meeting with the afghan president, harmid karzai and that comes days after a u.s. army sergeant apparently went on a violent attack and went door to door in the middle of the night killing 16 afghan civilians and most women and children. this morning, that suspect, a father of t
him a full 20 pr% of eadvantagv would never vote for a mormon. that puts romney at a deficit right out of the starting gate. do you think they will not vote for anybody? they will just stay home? they re not going to vote for barack obama, right, the evangelical christians. right. some of these evangelical leaders meeting today are convinced that if romney is the nominee that every long elle cals have no yo choice but to vote for mitt romney. i disagree. i think 2008 showed they have another choice other than romney, and that s the choice to stay at home. i don t think mormonism is the only problem or even perhaps the major problem. one of these leaders said to me this week, my problem with romney is not that he s a mormon but that he s not good enough of a mormon. i mean, they don t believe that he s really consistent on the issues of life and the sanctity of marriage. you know, you had romney saying at one point in his career that he would run to the left if ted
you see him here with governor perry. in his introduction he did not use the word cult or specifically attack romney by name but there was no doubt he had the former massachusetts governor in mind when he drew there is contrast. do we want a candidate who is skilled in rhetoric or one skilled in leadership? do we want a candidate who is a conservative out of convenience or one who is a conservative out of deep conviction? do we want a candidate who is a good, moral person or do we want a candidate who is a born-again follower of the lord jesus christ? rick perry is a prompt leader. he is a true conservative. and he is a genuine follower of jesus christ. it was in a conversation with reporters after that dr. jeffers used the term cult. pastor of the first baptist church in dallas. he with us now. you re criticism of 0 the mormon church, you came today to a political event, an event very, very important to governor perry stumbling in the polls of late and you dropped this,