Committee votes unanimously to stand with the french. It was not always that way. Freedom fries. All in starts right now. Good evening. Im chris hayes. 2014 was the hottest year on record. That is a backdrop to all of the news this evening and Everything Else on the planet. There was also huge news from the Supreme Court today. What will likely be one of the most iconic cases in history has now been taken up by the Supreme Court of the United States. The court announcing today it will hear argumenting on the constitutionality of same sex marriage. If the United States constitution requires states for anyone waiting for the Supreme Court to finally address this head on this is it. Court specified the issues would be limited to these, too. Does the 14th amendment requirement a state to have a license of two people of the same section. Are they required to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex. Many people thought the court might take up this very same issue last october. It fails to do so. At that point, every single federal Appeals Court that addressed the issue ruled in favor of same sex marriage. To repeat by last october, every single federal Appeals Court that rules on the matter agrees and allowed same sex marriage. All of those Appeals Courts sited the Supreme Courts on ruling. And that ruling overturned the defensive marriage act. The federal law that barred federal bents for same sex couples. In that case a judge attempted to limit the matter at hand. But, just as in that same case in a bitter decent predicted that lower courts would use kennedys language to rule in favor of samesex marriage as a fuel constitutional right. In kentucky, a federal judge worked in an omage. Just as Justice Scalia predicted, the lower courts are applying it. In utah judge shelby wrote the court agrees with Justice Scalias interpretation. By november of last year there was 40 state and Court Decisions ruling in same sex marriage says you states cant stop people from getting marriage if theyre the same sex. This is the first time when another court came in the sixth Circuit Court of appeals. And ruled for the first time against same sex marriage allowing statewide voter approved bans to stand. For the First Time Since the Supreme Court decision there was a circuit split, a classic instance where division among powerful lower courts must resolve it. In states across the nation we have seen one of the most remarkable fast moving statements. 19 months ago, only nine states and the District Of Columbia allowed samesex couples to marry. Those 36 states represent 70 of the u. S. Population. Joining me now a law professor, officer of speak now. He argued and won taxes. If was a case that laid the ground work for same sex marriage cases were seeing across the country today. What was your reaction to todays news . Does it seem promising to advocates of Marriage Equality. It is a very exciting day. We now know the time line at least when we will finally get to a resolution of this once and for all across the country. They will have the same protections and the same respect as as everyone. If the court had just waited a couple weeks to grant these cases. It will be the end of june. And i think the prevailing assumption is the same five votes are still there. First of all, you have the five votes in windsor, you have almost uns precedented unity. A ruling that did not specifically reach an issue at hand is used to reach that issue unanimously or near unanimously in lower courts. It seems like this has to go a certain way when it gets to the court. I think so chris. One of the things that is interesting is there is a bit of a self fulfilling profphesy about that, right . It is not just other courts that site him, it creating a big overhang rhetorically. Justice roberts is playing defense and trying to limit this. It is just about the federal government. Just saying lets be clear, were not saying the constitution requires Marriage Equality as a feature of the 14th amendment. It is just about this law, which you cant have it is discriminatory, and scalia says lets not kid ourselves about what were doing here. He did that once before. Paul is too modest to say it but he argued and to his decent samesection marriage is just around the corner. I had the privilege of listening to paul argue in 2014. When you see seize two titans going at it scalia says to olson, when it samesex marriage become unconstitutional. Yeah, it is hard to believe that anyone was thinking about this has a real possibility. I just wanted to jump in the gallery and say you, Justice Scalia told us in 2003 that samesex marriage was inevitable inevitable. So i think when he asks that again, i hope the counsel has that in his pocket. Are you thankful he wrote that decenting opinion in windsor windsor. I dont know if i agree with that. It seems like Justice Scalia has been helpful, it has been given reinforcement to the judges. The last couple years who have been following windsor are predicting there are still five votes. They think they know where it is going and the scalia decent helped. We have this wonderful social experiment going on. Lots of places in the country people are getting married. Same sex couples are getting moor married by court order for the first time. There is essentially no reaction. Even in very conservative parts of the country like oklahoma and utah. Its a great point. It is both running a social experiment at this point, right . And here it is and it is humming along, and society is still fine. Straight marriage is fine, kids are still fine and there are facts on the ground. You end up in a what would happen if they found improbably right . That all of the lower courts got it wrong except for the sixth circuit. I think that is not whats going to happen and thats why were so bullish on the side of the plaintiffs here. It seems that everyone says the court keeps saying were going to rule. But the courts always have one year or two to gain popular opinion in is a flip of that the courts very rarely wash out a majority of states. Were down to 14 which is the number of states that had to be watched away. Only 14 statutes on the books. Thats a great point. That is fewer than the number of cases that had banned interracial marriage. So let me ask you this, you referred to lawrence of a brownlike case. This case will have social significance in the history books, and you wonder if they read the writing on the wall. Brown was famously unanimous, they held for two terms, and may make is unanimous against the hods. You wonder if it is impossible. You wonder if you get more than five votes. It would be nice. I think that since windsor was only what 19 months ago, and the four justices are still there that wrote very strong decents decents, saying it is a social experiment and it is too soon to talk about constitutionalizing things. It would be surprising to me i think it would be great if the court decided like they did in brown to do a message of Greater Unity on an issue of such fund men tale performance. I think it would be surprising. Thank you, an opportunity to ask the question again. Is the 14th amendment the greatest thing we have done . It is not off that fox news issues a an apoz gi. Based on 6 different criteria. Why did a panel of 11 automotive experts. Name the Volkswagen Golf motor trends 2015 car of the year . Well give you four good reasons the allnew Volkswagen Golf starting at 17,995. Theres an Award Winning golf for everyone. [ narrator ] mama sherman and the legion of super fans. Wow [ narrator ] on a mission to get richard to his campbells chunky soup. 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He will be delivering the speech, of course, on board an aircraft carrier. They are not just listening to speeches this week. They have details of one rnc revolution for anyone whose memory goes back as far as 2003. With real aged cheddar now in a convenient cup. New Stouffers Mac cups. Made for you to love. With the incredible fuel efficiency of 38 mpg highway. You can feel like royalty in the nissan altima. Now get great offers on the 38 mpg highway nissan altima. Nissan, innovation that excites. I have a cold with terrible chest congestion. I better take something. Theraflu severe cold doesnt treat chest congestion. Really . New alkaseltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. [breath of relief] oh, what a relief it is. The past 24 hours have seen a wave of raids in new york. Belgium Police Arrested 13 people in bull jum and two more in france today in connection with what are called active terror cells. This comes after a raid yesterday in belgium where two suspected militants were killed in a shoot out. They were armed with four ak47s, false documents and police uniforms. In germany, prosecutors say 250 officers raided 11 apartments and took into custody a pair of expected isis supporters. In paris, 12 people were detained overnight for possibly helping the man who killed a Police Officer and four people in a coacher erkosher market. President obama and David Cameron discussed the threat posed by violent extremists. Wee know what were up against and we know how we will win. We face an ideology that wants to create conflict terror, and death. We will confront it where ever it appears. On monday cameron gave an interview where he said a fox news pundit was an idiot. There are places like birmingham. Emerson apologized profusely. In a rare move fox is planning to run an onair correction. They said it is heightly unlikely he will be booked on again. Nonmuslims cannot travel. He now says he should have pointed out that nogo gones are nonstatic. Emerson is far from the only person raising the spector of nogo zones. They have a nogo zone and police are not allowed. We have no go zones in most of the big french cities. Is there any way to get no go zones back . Did you know that some folks are Walking Around wearing bin laden tshirts. There is 71 nogo zones. Was it scarey i have been to afghanistan, iraq, and kashmir, india. You see young men wearing Osama Bin Laden tshirts. Fox news placed a map of the nogo zones to show where they supposedly are and got a mockery from a bit of french tv. [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ]. What fox news cubed the nogo zones, it is more neighborhoods designated as renewal. Theyre trendy. The name that claims to have invented the nogo zones, he even now add mines he was mistaken. The truth does not seen to matter much to many on the right. Bobby jindal whose office today circulated a speech that he will give in london on monday against the scourge of the nogo zone. In the west nonassimilationist muslims establish enclaves to carry out as much of the law. He t is startling to think that any country would allow, even unofficially, for a o socalled nogo zone. This is a i mean i guess i should not be surprised. Is it a completely invented concept . It has a totally invented provocation. It doesnt i should not have said it, did not exist, and it kbiss over there. People repeat it you generate a fury. We have congressmen and governors talking about it. Its not surprising fox cant get american history, politics, and geography right. I think they will apologize because all of europe was laughing at them. I dont think he likes to have everyone laughing at fox news. They have run further away from this than i have seen them run away from something for a long time. The Prime Minister of the uk calls the guy an idiot says the second largest city its like saying los angeles is x, y, or z and its not anything. So murdoch interacts with all of the people he doesnt like his talking heads called an idiot. They have a whole green room of other extremists that come in and say the same antimuslim anti here is the thing, they are targeting more and more not the extremists, isis or the terrorists, they dump it on the lap of american muslims. This is a fox alleged muslim enclaves in the United States including new york and california georgia, and South Carolina all right there. So this were seeing the inevitable slide, isis are monsters that must be fought. It is not a crazy view to muslims in europe and here in the u. S. Constitutes a fifth column, an assimilation a population that has to be dealt with as a problem. And nogo zones will come to the United States. They will talk about places that have a muslim community, and they will become nogo zones and training caps. In all of this coverage they blew up the story about duke. They were going to have a friday once a week on friday they were going to have a prayer. It would last about 60 seconds. The right seized hold, they went crazy. This is the first this is islam going to duke then said theyre not going to do it. They will be a fostering and inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all. The effect is they got security threats, not Death Threats threats, but serious threats of violence. People were contacting Duke University saying we dont like this, and according to the university, threats of violence. And dukes response was this didnt really work out. Someone might get hurt, thats not how you respond to threats of violence. Also the fact that there is a real shared feeling in the wake of Charlie Hebdo that it cannot be the case. To create the boundaries of our discourse. 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As they would say in china commerce education, and the the are we missing a candidate on the stage . We are. When you take the 999 plan and you turn it upside down i think the devil is in the details. The third agency of government i would do away with education, the commerce and lets see i cant, the third one i cant, sorry. Oops. Joining me now is casey hunt, is that the thinking . This seeps to me a pretty strong, heavy handed way of making sure that they do not have this kind of carnival atmosphere. Rnc chairman essentially said as much today. Part of why they view this as so important is that 2016 is put up or shut up time for the republican party. Those are his words. He said if the republicans dont win the white house in 2016 the party itself will really struggle to define itself going forward. And you know a lot of those candidates that got up on stage in the last round of debates in 2012 put mitt romney on the spot. There was a lot of feeling that it hurt him going into the general election. What i will say is the dynamics of this potential race are shaping up to be dramatically different from 2012. It was sort of mitt romney against everyone else. Michelle bachmann it will not be the same this way if Chris Christie and scott walker and rick perry and mitt romney. This is the First Time Since those reports of late last week saying he is really looking at it that he is out there, meeting and greeting talking about it acting like a candidate, whats the reception been like out there . So far, chris, i would say there has been a lot of skepticism. There was initially a core group of romney sporters. They supporters. A lot of the rank and File Committee members were surprised to find out that romney was considering this. People dont like to be surprised. The result has been a lot of confusion. A lot of people who feel torn between jeb bush and midtt romney and people that feel it didnt go so well. 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And i looked at it and i said i need to look it over consult with my wife who was out of town, and she said if you dont sign right now well take the kids and she called the police. So i signed. Alexander and his wife had to agree to it. Theyre being investigated for neglect for letting their kids walk home alone. The spokesperson said she could not comment on cases but the neglect investigations are when there seems to be inappropriate care. Well talk to danielle when we come back. Double wings, extra ranch. We need to do something different. Callahans . Ehh, i mean get away. Like away away. Road trip . Double wings, extra ranch. It feels good to mix it up. The allnew, fuelefficient Volkswagen Golf tdi clean diesel. Up to 594 miles of adventure in every tank. Introducing the allnew Volkswagen Golf family. 2015 motor trend car of the year. In my world, wall isnt a street. Return on investment isnt the only return im looking forward to. 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As i read the story and listened to interviews you have a theoretical approach to parenting that is about letting your kids walk free had you imagined this kind of thing would happen. We didnt really think this would happen. We knew we thought it was a very distant possibility because to us this is completely normal. There is nothing odd about letting your kids roam free and play in the neighborhood like every other generation had. We thought there was a small possibility, but we thought no one could be so illogical to call our kids in. Let me play devils advocate. They dont have an age read on them. It can be hard to ascertain their age. The place around where they were is relatively busy area. Is it that unreasonable to think yikes, maybe they lost their parents or theyre distressed in some way. That is a possibility and the best way to find out is to say are you lost do you need help . Or the person that called they could say are you lost do you need help . And they could say no thanks i know exactly where we are. I want to bring in the author of free range kids. She has been called the worlds worst mother. You wrote about letting your 9yearold ride the subway in new york. You wrote a book about this. How unsurprised or surprised are you to hear this. I have heard other stories. In the summer a mother let her 9yearold play in the park and she was in jail overnight, and she lost her child for 16 days. Another woman, that mother took the child to the house, and said that everything was fine but felt the mother deserved a lesson and called police and that woman was investigating by cps. Like nancy grace hears about all of the kidnappings, i hear all of these stories. The government told a wonderful loving mom how to raise her own children but it doesnt happen that often, thank god. What is at the heart of this when you heard this, people are like thats crazy, i used today do that all of the time. My own childhood, in the bronx, late 1980s and 1990s, it was a relatively dangerous place. It didnt feel that way, we played out, at 10 years old, we played if youre talking about the late 80s and early 90 rszs thats when crime peaked. A generation ago, crime was higher, the threat such as it was was higher but the social norms around parenting i think there was more things going on. We feel its more safe. 24 7 we have television and Everything Else coming at us and everyone has a cell phone. If youre told that all children unsuper unsupervised the ease of being able to call. The ease and the hysteria. The idea that any time a child is not watched theyre in danger. The number of missing persons is down 36 from 1993 to 2013. In 199, 797,500 reported missing. Of those, 115 were victims of traditional kidnapping. Danielle, do you feel like youre seen as a outliar. Do people give you a hard time about it. I think a lot of people are sympathetic. Were probably more bold part of is t is because before my kids were old enough to go out, i read books like lanores and i realized i can give them the freedom that was so important to me growing up. Will we see a backlash to this atmosphere here . I think about this a lot. I have a 3yearold and a 9monthold. Lets just say clearly for the record. But i think about at what age will they walk around the neighborhood, when will they take the bus, i think it will be relatively low. I think thats great, the main point were making is that it is up to you, not the cops and the cps. Not a kid who is perfectly competent at 10 years old and say i wouldnt do that okay you wouldnt at some point, there is outside judgment right . The statement will make judgments about the level of care. I really want cps someone has to define it right . Ill define it. When a person is in clear and present danger. A child is beaten starved, pimped out, around drugs, being given drugs. You know there is a difference between that and a kid Walking Around the neighborhood and playing at a park for a few minutes. Also, this good samaritan, i thought danielle made a great point. If she is so worried, talk to the kids. Danielle, you have to do this for a month and presumably they will close the case on you. We have no idea. We have a meeting on tuesday, but it has been escalating. First we were threatened that they would take our kids. When they showed up at our house with the cops. We dont know where it is going to go. Thank you very much. That is all for this evening. Thank you. A sense of inevitabledentability can be dangerous. The momentum has really felt momentous. Just over the past couple of years. On the morning of june 26th 2013, there was 12 states in the country where it was legal for samesex couples to get married. That day, they issued their land mark