huntsman, former utah governor, former u.s. ambassador to china ran unsuccessfully for the gop nomination. abbyof 60 huntsman family grandchildren and is the only one to marry outside her religion. she is no longer active in the faith. >> there are a lot of wonderful parts to the church, the family aspect is what i love the most about it. it is very black and white still. there is no gray area. you either are in or you are out. and you live by the mormon doctrine or you do not. >>en this modern world, some old school rules still govern the mormon church and that means no nonmormons allowed inside their temples. a. ann romney's parents, nonmormons were not allowed to see their daughter married in a sealing ceremony. the same when abby huntsman's parents were married, her grandparents as nonmormons had to wait outside on the couch. what about the fact that you and i could walk across fifth avenue into st. patrick's cathedral, no one would care or wonder what our religious affiliation is. i can't get into the mormon temple. will that ever change? >> i hope it does. >> what goes on in there? >> i d

during our hour we talked to abby huntsman, one of 60 huntsman grandchildren in that prominent mormon family. her father jon ran for president of course. but in our interview with her she recounted how she left the church after she was confronted by her church bishop for dating a non mormon, the man by the way she later married. >> the reason i really left was because of an experience i had with the bishop. >> something you've talked about before? >> yeah, no, it was when i first met my husband. at the time we had only dated three weeks, and he found out i was dating someone that wasn't a member of the church and called me in and said i'm very concerned about you and your life and do you love him? and i said, well, i've only known him three weeks and he's a great guy and at that point i was just, i said, whoever i fall in love with i fall in love with. i'm not going to live in this bubble anymore. i just need to live my life for me. and he basically said, you know, you're not going to have the blessings. your kids will not be blessed if you end up marrying this man. he is such a great

is abby huntsman.ton post live and daughter of utah governor and former presidential candidate jon huntsman. thank you for joining us. >> i wish i was interest in person in california. thanks for having me. >> jennifer: so do all my crew wish you were here in person. are you at all surprised that single women skew more heavily democratic? >> well, i don't. i'm not surprised. but in this particular election it's frustrating because i think we have an opportunity the republican party does--we have an opportunity to bring over a lot of those women. unfortunately women care a lot about the heart and soul of the candidate, as you know. we want to connect. we want to be able to trust our command center chief, and people talk about romney not being able to connect not relatable, and that strongly effects women more so than men i think. that's the biggest challenge. i don't know how he's going to convince the women that he is their guy. >> jennifer: what would you do to get more single women to vote for mitt r

abby is one of 60 huntsman family grandchildren and is the only one to marry outside her religion.s no longer active in the faith. >> there are a lot of wonderful parts to the church. the family aspect is what i loved most about it, but it's very black and white, still. there's no gray area. you're either in or you're out. you live by the mormon doctrine or you do not. >> in this modern world, some old school rules still govern the mormon church, and that means no non-mormons allowed inside their temples. and romneys were not allowed to see their own daughter married inside the temple he will in what's called a sealing ceremony. the same was true when abby's parents were married. her grandparents, non-mormons, had to wait outside on the couch. >> what about the fact that you and i could walk across fifth avenue into st. patrick's cathedral. no one would care or wonder what our religious affiliation is. i can't get into the mormon temple. will that ever change? >> i hope it does, but -- >> what goes on in there? >> i don't think that it will. nothing crazy. it's very much a sacred t

they've been very secretive and it causes people to think of it as a mystery. >> reporter: abby huntsmanrew up in a family considered mormon royalty. she's a descendant of one of the 12 original mormon apostles. her father, jon huntsman, former utah governor, former u.s. ambassador to china, ran unsuccessfully for the gop nomination. abby is 1 of 60 huntsman family grandchildren and is the only one to marry outside her religion. she is no longer active in the faith. >> there are a lot of wonderful parts to the church, the family aspect is what i loved most about it. but it's very black and white still. there's no gray area. you either live by the mormon doctrine, or you do not. >> reporter: in this modern world, some old-school rules still govern the mormon church and that means no non-mormons allowed inside their temples. ann romney's parents, as non-mormons, were not allowed to see their own daughter married inside the temple in what's called a sealing ceremony. the same was true and abby huntsman's parents were married. her grandparents as non-mormons had to wait outside on the couch.

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abby huntsman is back with us. she is the host of "huff post live."a is a washington correspondent for "the new yorker." nice to have you all with us. >> thanks for having us. >>> frightening close call in the skies. the story about these three planes that came within 12 seconds of a midair collision. it happened at reagan national airport. you can hear in the radio transmissions just how confused the air traffic controllers were. they were dealing with bad weather. launched two flights heading right at another plane as it was trying to land. so they were all in the air. here is a little bit of some of that confusion. >> 180. we were cleared back there. what happened? >> stand by. we're trying to investigate that. stand by. >> you said route three to go five? >> are we going to 1-9 or 1-9? >> 1-1. >> ok. we really don't have a -- >> all departs right now. >> we have to get on the ground here pretty quick. >> everybody stand by. we've got a couple of opposite direction arrivals. so it's going to be a little bit of a delay on your departures. >> you kno

but ahead in "the war room" with jennifer granholm, political commentator abby huntsman will discussey will pick as his running mate and why. and political satiristw.kamau bell will chime in. we'll have more next. >> eliot: again, for the second time in just over two weeks the horror of a crazed, gun wielding maniac wreaking havoc and death on a community. in the case of oak creek wisconsin, because of a right wing racist agenda that seeks to blame others for the severe problems of the sick individual who pulls the trigger. yes, people pull the trigger but guns are the instrument of death. gun control is necessary and delay means merely more death and horror. so what have we heard from the presidential contenders? pablum. romney hides behind the misunderstanding of the second amendment and the white house blames congress. here's the white house press secretary jay carney on monday. >> he does support renewing the assault weapons ban. i think what i've noted in the past and what i've noted here is the reluctance by congress to pass that renewal. >> if the white house really does want

we have abby huntsman here. richard socarides.e you guys together. >> thanks. he's all right. >> it's our second day together. >> our coupsecond date. >> couples therapy begins tomorrow. >> soledad does not usually refer to us as handsome. >> did you like that? >> yes. >> we are expecting good comment tarry for you today for that. >>> so our "starting point" this morning, is winning votes in the swing states. while mitt romney visits iowa today, president obama is making campaign stops in colorado. and we may have his work cut out for him there. a new poll this morning shows that romney is ahead in colorado. voters there would choose mitt romney 50% to the president's 45%. but in virginia, the president is ahead 49% to 45%. and wisconsin, he has the advantage 51% to 45%. this is all from the latest quinnipiac/"new york times"/cbs poll. i want to start with colorado first of all. this is the first that i've seen with you trailing in this key, key swing state. one that the president is visiting today. why do you think this margin? >