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Many insurance plans cover chantix for a low or $0 copay. we have breaking news from the u.s. supreme court coming to us just moments ago, the announcement it will hear an appeal from a colorado bakery that refused to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples. ari melber is with me along with former governor howard dean and nicole. what does this mean? >> this means the supreme court will weigh into a very big debate in the area of same-sex marriage and rights. this is a colorado baker who said ...

Artist, what i create are works of art, and if you force me to make a cake for a same sex marriage, that forces me to express a view i dont agree with. now, the lower court in this case, the colorado supreme court, said, you know what, when they look at the cake, nobody thinks it is your message -- >> it is about the people getting married. >> exactly. the baker in his defense said, a couple of years ago the supreme court ruled that you cant force a tattoo artist to make a tattoo with something ...

On the birth certificate. there wasnt a lot of complexity to that one. there was in the argument but that ruling seemed clear. the court agreed to hear the case of a baker in colorado who didnt want to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple on the basis of religious freedom. >> yeah, thats an interesting one because we have seen the courts and the supreme court before turn away similar appeals from, for example, a photographer in new mexico, and other courts have ruled against florists on these si...

Theres a ruling say that the states can give money to religious organizations. were seeing the rights idea, the republican ideals being fortified by the supreme court that they picked and they played the long game to get. >> and jonathan, this is actually the second anniversary of the landmark ruling justice kennedys key role in all of that in gay marriage and now you have kind of partial decisions today in that, theyre taking up the case of the baker who wants to discriminate or have the right ...

Basically a baker, can refuse to provide service in this case bakery services to a same sex couple there for their wedding, it was religious liberty versus human rights case, one they werent eager to take, now theyre going to hear that. thats going to be like hobby lobby as political folks remember, a big issue. >> ari quickly, pull back the curtain what will happen in the next 40 minutes. pete williams is in the court. we dont have cameras there, were getting reporting out of that. people run f...

Hallie, lets talk about if we may. number one, no word about retirements. we all wondered if justice kennedy may say at the end of hand down session in court whether he was retiring. no word. typically if a justice was going to leave, they would say so either before today or today. doesnt mean we couldnt hear from him later in a written statement or some other time. the more time goes by, less likely he is going to step down, despite the speculation. number two, the court agreed to hear a case f...

Phone call from a friend asking if he was okay. asked because baker lives in alexandria not far from where the shooting happened. baker also had recently met with many of the members of congress that are playing in tonights charity game. yesterday baker reacted to what happened. >> yeah, i was very aware. its a sad state, you know, of affairs. you know, theres -- everybody has to be, i told my family, always aware of your surroundings because you never know. we always see things happening afar. ...

Congress where compromise is no longer required. there was true bipartisanship in the senate and house during watergate. senators urban and baker who led initial hearings into the scandal. theres a big difference between what congresss role is. they are looking forward to when they can do to prevent future occurrences like this, what laws need to be changed. criminal investigation, has there been violation of existing law. what have people done against current standards. its important for congre...

That makes people think about telling the truth. so they were able -- the grand jury, special prosecutor, ultimately was able to get the information. yes, you also had a bipartisan senate. watergate select committee found the tapes. they found the tapes. that was crucial. we can have the -- the whole system has to work but it has t bipartisan and republicans cant be pointing fingers at other people. they have to start to say, what did the president do and when did he do it and what did he know? ...

Said as a white christian to be included in the special people that get attention. >> they certainly want to be included in the so-called special people. they view themselves as victims. i have to say ive spoken at the regent, the students there some spite of someone like me show up, the truth is i have never seen any big difference generationally. theres some generational difference. there are more people who are younger white evangelicals who are willing to say, well, i guess i could have a ga...