common commitment to the second amendment and the right of people to bear arms. but i m sure from time to time, there ll be issues where they and i might part. i don t have one for you right now. but their agenda s not entirely identical with my own. i don t know that i line up 100% with almost anybody. jonathan capehart, classic romney. he s sure he disagrees with the nra about something, but i don t have one for you right now. right, i was going to say, you know, he just threw some croutons on that word salad that joy was talking about. again, that clip that you just showed, you know, just reiterates or sort of verifies what joy just said a moment ago. which is, mitt romney is still enthralled to the conservative base of this party, that he can t say what the old mitt romney would have said in response to that question. you know, i haven t seen the entire interview, but it would be great to know if brian asked a follow-up.
identical with my own. i don t know that i line up 100% with almost anybody. jonathan capehart, classic romney. he s sure he disagrees with the nra about something, but i don t have one for you right now. right, i was going to say, you know, he just threw some croutons on that word salad that joy was talking about. again, that clip that you just showed, you know, just reiterates or sort of verifies what joy just said a moment ago. which is, mitt romney is still enthralled to the conservative base of this party, that he can t say what the old mitt romney would have said in response to that question. you know, i haven t seen the entire interview, but it would be great to know if brian asked a follow-up. you know, hey, just name one thing. one thing that you, where you and the nra differ. i doubt he would have gotten the answer. and in fact, i doubt brian asked that question, knowing fully well that mitt romney just would not answer it. well, brian s working with a
free agency and he used the poll data to close the sale. if he didn t frame his position as pro-choice, he d lose. many of the church leaders were unhappy with romney s formulation, but if they wanted him in the senate, this was the best they were going to get. will, that is as strange a political religious meeting as i ve ever read of. and that s classic romney. you know, romney it was the beginning of a pattern that has characterized his whole career. here s a guy who comes from a background that is pro-life. he s a mormon. he s a believing mormon about abortion. and he s got a mom who s pro-choice. and he s got this personal experience of a woman in his family who died from an illegal abortion. and he essentially can play the issue either way. depending on which side of his heart he emphasizes. he s kind of like a running back, who just sees the defender coming and sort of steps this way, then the other way, and it s back and forth and back and forth. navigating his way through
will, i want to go to a point in your story about that, where you talk about a trip to salt lake that mitt had to make when he was going to become a pro-choice candidate. you say he went to speak to the leaders of the lds church there. you said, he told them that he would say that he opposed abortion personally, but that such private beliefs shouldn t be imposed on others. romney argued that this view was acceptable under the doctrine of free agency and he used the poll data to close the sale. if he didn t frame his position as pro-choice, he d lose. many of the church leaders were unhappy with romney s formulation, but if they wanted him in the senate, this was the best they were going to get. will, that is as strange a political religious meeting as i ve ever read of. and that s classic romney. you know, romney it was the beginning of a pattern that has characterized his whole career. here s a guy who comes from a background that is pro-life. he s a mormon. he s a believing mormo
citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation s capital, and the most outages five days after the storms hit, west virginia. 5,000 homes are without air conditioning in the middle of a brutal heat wave. cnn s brian todd is there. fredricka, temperatures are spiking here in west virginia where it is to get up to 95, and well on the way to that right now. power is out for roughly one quarter to a third of the customers in west virginia, but some people in the more rural areas won t get it until the weekend and a key reason for that is right behind me, and this scene played out all throughout west virginia and downed trees are a huge problem f