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this despite their dierences over issues like stem cell research and ortion. and re on the present's meeting wi moment today we are join by the reverend drew christiann. editor in ief of the national catholic weekly magazine published by t jesuits. father, good tbe with us. >> good to be with you, martin. >> le's talk about the significancof this meetig. washere real importance to it or was a courtes call on the part of the president? >> i thinkt's an importt meetingor two world leaders in ich tually esteem one anotr. the pope has reached outo president oba from the day afr his electio in the president's ove, he called him prior tohe -- or just after the election. i think it was a really remarkable thing. and theresident i thnk has very special teem for the pe and fothe catholic church ad the good does aound the rld and would like to see in this meeting wheth they can collabate more closely on ost of world issues. >> throughout a few occasionsin his papacy the pope has bn caughtp in controver. and since y met with members of the adminiration before today's mei

organization advocated taxper fundedrtion and said in brief tt t deny a poor black woman micate funng fo ortion was equivalento the scott case. that is a pretty extreme thing to say but i believet was heartfelt. i wod would look at the other way to take my taxpayer dollars d pay r an abortion i sagree with is pet treme. two diffent ways to look at that. you are a prosecutor but your organization argued fo t repel othe death penalty because it was unfairly applied and to discriminate against minorities. your organition argued for i want my colleagueto iring. understand that tre can be no moreiberal group in my opinion than puerto rican defse legal fund when it cameo advocacy. what i hope is if we er get a nservative president and they minate someone who has an equal passion on te other side thate will not forget is moment that you could be the nra genel counsel and still be a good lawyer. my point is i'm not ging to hold it against yoor the organizati for advocating a cause from which i disagree. that mes america a special place. i would have loved to ha been in those cases on the other sid and

she is arrested todadaybut she came here tomake a stand and washout being ortion rights before this whwhole grgrup. of course, setor leahyhy sternly id no interruptionons. >> msnbcbc chief washiton correspondent norahah oonnell. ththanks for the updatete. tomorrowowhould interesting,g, interesting ieed. norah, thank you.. tamron? thee cntdownontinues for tonit's scheduled launch of f "endeavour." wee got some liveve picres up for you righ now off the insisi of t shuttttle. after two da of weaeaer lays, prett bad lightning storm over the wewekend, lightntning stkes over the weekend, scheduled too bst off at 6: eastern time a missioion to the iernational space statioion. wever, forecasters sayay thers 60% chance that the wather uld force a another delay th evening. we'll ep you up to date on it.t. >>> just ahead on n msnbc, wl thee obama ministration inveigate the cia because ofof enhanced interrogatition techniquques or tortur >>>lus jon and kate are lolooking r love, butou won't believe where. you don't want to mi this. no way, straight a aad on nbc. my doctor told me something i i ver knew

she's ruled on th government's policy funding to government programs in her countries that support ortion. but never on the core question. so i'm sure there will be questions for herbo it, but it doesn't seemike it's going toominate this hearing, as i has some in the past. >> pete williams,e look forward to hearing fm you all day and of course tonighton "nigly news." thanks smuch for your expertise. now back to the cort, to the cournfirmation aring room. norah o'donnell you've been there to watch allf the action. what aut some of the atmospheri, the emotions in that room. >> reporter: reallinteresting, andrea. we're lening a little bit mre about at judge sonia sotoyor is going toay in h openg statement en she appears for the first time since, of course, the president introduce her to th public. and she's largely goingto, we're to, focus on her amazing personal sty. as you know, she grew u in a public housi project in the brx. she losthe father at age 9. her moth worked six days a week as a nurse to she could send her daught to private cathic schools. cardinal spellman, which is a great sc

there ything in the constitution that says that a state legislator or the congress cannot regulate ortion or the definitn of life in the first trmester? >> t holdingf the court as -- >> i'm aing the cotitution. does the constitution, as wrten, prohibit a legislative at bo at the state or feder level from defining life or relating therights of the unborn -- or protecting the rights of the uorn in the first trimester? >> the constitution inhe 14th amendnt has a -- is there anythi in the document, written, aut abortion? >> the word "abortn" isot used in t constitutionbut the costitution does hav a broad provision concerning a liberty provisi under the due process -- >> and that gets us to the speeches. th bro provision of the constitution has taken us fom no written prohibition protecting t unborn, no wtten statementthat you can't voluntarily pray in school,nd on, and on and on,and n, and that's what drives u here, ite frankly, th's my concern, and wen we tk about balls and strikes, maybe that's not the rht way to talk abut it, but a lot o us feel tt the bst way to changesociety is to to the

there is more significant rainfall out to the with is across ortions of indiana, illinois and kentucky chance of precipitation tomorrow than today. so here is how things are shaping up. forecast for today, partly cloudy skies. a humid day once again. scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. about a 0% hance. most of you will remain dry again today. 87degrees if your high. five-day forecast, toe, warm one again. 86. although these temperatures are below normal. our average high is 89 degrees. 88 on friday with a chance of sunshine. saturday and sunday, highs will be in the upper 80s. chance of showers and thunderstorms i think particularly on sunday. that is the weather. i was not here yesterday. sorry about that. so we had to forgo ask the weather guy. we have agot it back today. it is the most popular segment in local television i can't without a doubt. >> tucker barnes and i put our f big, huge, geeky weather heads together to answer your most pressing questions, weather- related or otherwise. this one is from julie m in temple hills. she wants to know is there any way you

it might be a deal-baker tinclude abortion when the president says 's gointo reduce the number of ortions in this country, through noncoercion, obviously. how can heo thatnd say i'm subsidizing at the same time? >> i tnk it's a difficult problem and this is where a lo of women's groups are going to look ahim critically to see if he's maintained his campaign promise push forward their issues. think he's going to have a fight. i think one of the reasonse came on monday, in t middle of the confirmation hearings is that he knew america was watching and that he wants to demotrate that he's a multitasker. i think it demonsttethat he belies sotomayor is going to get confirmed rather easily -- >> back to my question. is he going to kl his health re bill by including abortion financinby taxpayers for all amicans under this plan? in other wor, says he wants to reduce the number of aborons in this country, now he says, by the y, i'moing to subsidizehem. does that work political? it's going to betough. i ink what he is ing to do is go behind close doors and try to figure out the pulse --. >>oward? >>

do you support it, t refusal to spend federal mney on ortions, period? >>yes. it is basically theettled law and i'm ready to stand by it. think -- >> so despiteheac that the puerto rican legal defense fund took a different position doesn't bother you about her nomination,he ft that she supp that group. n at all. her job the puerto rican legal defense fund as a volunteeto the board was not to pk and choose cases. you know, that rlly gets into the attorney/client relatiship. it really wato try to guide th organization. whetr you're talking about the naacp or the puerto rican lgal fense fund, as mayor bloombe said, it's only in washington th you can volunteer for a great nonprofit group sving a group, trying tod itsay into the mastream of america and be critized for it. >> so you don't believe jst to finish the point, you don't ink the national alth ram we're going to get i october in tis year, manyf us hope we're going to get, should include federal funding for abortion you think shoulnot. >> it definily should have a nscience clause involved in it so those who c

aspiration, she reaffirmed sreme court precedent on the robts court has been walking away from on ortion restrictns having to haven exception for the health of the mothe on the other hand as a former prosecutor and someone w decided to star her reer as a osecutor, and then was a trial judge and heard a lot o crimal cases, on those kind of issues it's ssible that she willt the very least be in the same position, maybe a little bit to the right. that's my take away from tod. >> charl: and there is nothing either thatas happened o possibly to happen thatould suggest at she will trip. >> nhing remotely to the conary, i would say s picked up --it's hard tosay, somewhere 5-10 vot today. the other thing i woulday that was go about today is th it helped us wi the future of confirmation, wi roberts and alito and then the beginnings of th attacks on her abo her being a raci. we wer kind of in a death spiraletween democrats special republans where we were going to have democrats and repubcan nominees and the other pty wod just line up ainst them, and i thght we took a step back fro that today. i th