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Gores lawyer and ted olsen was george w. bushs lawyer in that case. ted olsen went on to become solicitor general in the bush administration. a conservative icon and liberal icon fighting on the same team. they won their first round in federal court with a ruling that proposition 8 was unconstitutional. that was appealed up to the circuit court, which is one level below the u.s. supreme court. today we got the ruling from that circuit court. they found proposition 8 does violate the united state...

Very big deal american lawyers. two most famous litigators in the country, david boyes was al gores lawyer and ted olsen was george w. bushs lawyer in that case. a conservative icon and a liberal icon fighting on the same team. they won their first round in federal court with a ruling that proposition 8 was unconstitutional. that was appealed up to the circuit kout, one level below the u.s. supreme court. today we got the ruling fra that circuit court. they found proposition 8 does violate the u...

Have the results in prop 8 yet. prop 8 passed in california in 2008. that rescinded same-sex marriage rights. it was soon challenged in court by a famous odd couple of very, very big deal american lawyers. two most famous litigators in the country, david boyes was al gores lawyer and ted olsen was george w. bushs lawyer in that case. a conservative icon and a liberal icon fighting on the same team. they won their first round in federal court with a ruling that proposition 8 was unconstitutional....

Underlying message we should be pulling together represents "the death knell of a democratic culture" all this ink was spilled on the right over an ad. super bowl ad from a conservative icon that may have provided the answer team obama has been in search of. joining us now is the michael beschloss. what was your impression of the ad? >> i guess im in a minority, i thought it was helpful to obama but not anywhere near the sort of obama created commercial that other people saw. you look at that ...

The underlying message we should be pulling together represents the death kneel of a democratic culture. all this ink was spilled on the right over an ad. super bowl ad from a conservative icon that may have provided the answer team obama has been in search of. joining us now is the michael beschloss. what was your impression of the ad? >> i guess im in a minority, i thought it was helpful to obama but not anywhere near the sort of obama created commercial that other people saw. you look at th...

And then it looks back on her remarkable career and socritics, thought it was unfair. and that personally made me proosh her more because this remarkable figure, iconic historic figure is very real and very human. >> thats right. i think we tend to, especially with political figures reduce them to either villains or saints. you know? and people are people. were all many-fastsetted, and we have different sides to us and the truth is always much more interesting, nuanced and complicated. so thats ...

Conservative icon in many-- and to many people and together, with president reagan, credited with bringing down the berlin wall and all of that, and im also making an approach to the soviet union to just talk, to try to figure out how to talk to people. and so, one of the surprises that i had about her was that she never-- she was a scientist, she was a kemmist by training, thee went to oxford in chemistry and she was early proponent of the idea of global warming and early warning about it was v...

Conservative icon in many-- and to many people and together, with president reagan, credited with bringing down the berlin wall and all of that, and im also making an approach to the soviet union to just talk, to try to figure out how to talk to people. and so, one of the surprises that i had about her was that she never-- she was a scientist, she was a kemmist by training, thee went to oxford in chemistry and she was early proponent of the idea of global warming and early warning about it was v...

And there was a cut of the capital gains tax that helped stimulate economic growth there. the bush tax cuts, 2001, were not designed to be stimulus to the economy. a lot of tax credits in there. they werent real reductions in rates. the 2003 rate reductions you had on cap gains and others, that gave you four years of strong economic growth that lasted until the democrats won the house and senate, and you knew those tax cuts were going away. >> heres the reality in terms of how americans feel abo...

Taxes and, indeed, how republicans feel about it, which seems to be at odds to where you are. maris polling out earlier this month indicates 53% of republicans agreed, yes, taxes should be raised on higher-income americans as part of a debt deal. i mean this is also against the backdrop of history, of ronald reagan raising taxes, a conservative icon. >> yeah. and my point was that when reagan did it in 82 as part of the deal, the democrats never actually cut the spending. taxes went up, spending...