on the law, you name an ise, i catell you how she demreektedhe questioning. - deflected e questioning. sort oin cooperation with the nators as she dflected it. gwen: it seemed ike the democrats an republicans were ther in more interted in criticizing er for her personal belefs or speeche she gave or tgging her wh em and democrats were intested in talking about her personal gooqualities. but very few tked about her jurirudence. >> i thinkthe democrats felt it wasn't in their interes to have president obama first appointeput on the hot seat by anyoner taken down a pat that might ut her in a bo as she rsponded then to republins who would asksome followup questions. you did play the cl about the wise latina comment that she did say tt in many ofher speechesthat she thought a wise latina wan would come to a better dision than a white male bcause of theexperiences of the wan had. d she said, ook, tht was a comment that iade to my audiencesto try to inspire them to become ke me, to become a jdge and- gwen: she didt say that just once. she sa that 20 times. >>he said it many ties and said iwa

what you catell us? >> we wer toldepeatedly by obama advisors that this visit with the pope today, michellobama was going as well,was much morethan quote just a ste visit to him. that he has been proundly affected by catholi teachings. you know, he was a stude in a cathoc school in innesia. parently the community organizer progm that he worked in in the south side of chicago was partly funded by a catholic organition. and more broadly the teaching of social justice, catholics teacngs on socialustice have profoundly afcted him. he was looking forward to this visit because as well on a pctical se, unli hiselationship maybe with th catholic hiarchy and the state swiss focused very much on abortion and stem cell rearch and very critical of the preside on that, they see, and he sees in the pope a natural al, again on themes of social justic on his stressing interfaith dialogue inhe muslim world t in the middle east and elsewhere. and that they can rely make common cause on number of these broader themespartic