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Of of california system or like the roads. >> in the arguing over this, the other thing that is happening is sort of federal versus state. youve got people like mitch daniels and others, out there saying listen, the states are to blame for their budget problems. and any states that are doing okay are effectively being called on to subsidize sfats are irresponsible. mike pence is dericively calling this a state bailout bill. how do you feel about that? >> it is really baffling. before the crisis ...

Unemployed rolls. they can spend money in the towns and communicate. the grocery store doesnt to have lay people off. and on and on and on and on. this is not some sort of weird economic theory. if you fire a teacher, they dont have a job. theyre unemployed. there is no disagreement about that among anyone. we dont talk about this enough. i was happy to hear it in your intro. there are actual services we will lose here. we will lose teachers which means kids will have larger classes. we will los...

Childrens, then why do you have to change it in the first place? >> annie hall, arguing, marshall mclewen, i happen to have him right here. putting a face and a name to an undocumented worker. he has been in the u.s. more than two decades. his story is ahead. immigration limbo. cautionary tale teachers want everyone to hear.

Children were citizens. >> when people argue this was only was based on african-americans, thats not true? >> thats completely false. they were trying to set up after the civil war a new standard of citizenship for the united states. not just as it was before the war, where each state kind of declared who was going to be a citizen. the civil war created this sense of a nation, unified nation. >> were some arguing, look, youre demogogging against chinese immigrants because of politics? >> absolut...

Shall, thats not true? >> thats completely false. they were trying to set up after the civil war a new standard of citizenship for the united states. not just as it was before the war, where each state kind of declared who was going to be a citizen. the civil war created this sense of a nation, unified nation. >> were some arguing, look, youre demogogging against democrats? >> absolutely. the republican majority wanted to get race out of the definition of citizenship. they felt this was a legacy...

They can grow up to become good american citizens. theres no reason they cant. in fact, the people in congress who are trying to change the 14th amendment, in effect, are refuting what this senator from arizona says. if the 14th amendment doesnt apply to illegal aliens childrens, then why do you have to change it in the first place? >> annie hall, arguing, marshall mclewen, i happen to have him right here. putting a face and a name to an undocumented worker. he has been in the u.s. more than t...

Citizen. the civil war created this sense of a nation, unified nation. >> were some arguing, look, youre demogogging against democrats? >> absolutely. the republican majority wanted to get race out of the definition of citizenship. they felt this was a legacy of slavery to limit citizenship to one race or another race. they wanted to go to this universalistic notion of who could be an american. to be an american -- this is true today, i believe. to be an american is not to be a member of a parti...

That we see from places like massachusetts, vermont, iowa, canada, south africa, that ending marriage discrimination helps families and hurts no one. the more people have a reality on which to judge this instead of scary right-wing rhetoric and fear mongering, the more people move in support of this. >> to miss gallaghers point, she was saying the court said theres a right to gay marriage. the court wasnt saying theres a right to gay marriage. they were saying that everybody has a right to marry...

>> thats the judges point of view. i wanted to get the clarification -- >> my organization is called freedom to marry. not called gay marriage, mandatory marriage, not you have to do what somebody else wants marriage. its the rights we all share as an american to make a personal choice for a partner in life and make that commitment in life respected under the law. >> its interesting because the court case in support of proposition 8 against same-sex marriage was arguing is marriage is about proc...

Proceeding. jon: an unfortunate case in so many aspects. she has gone through an awful lot. it was discovered during all of this that she was suffering from a fairly rare form of uterine cancer, i understand, had surgery for that and now was supposed to undergo chemotherapy. she has said that she is healed after four or five sessions she was supposed to have maybe 45 of them, so doesnt that -- doesnt her health status enter into some of the arguing in court here? >> it definitely is a tragedy, t...