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Get these things wrong. i dont think civil rights question shoes go to voters partly because you get into the thing of the whim of the voters and where the political whims are. we dont vote in this country on fundamental rights. freedom of speech will always be there for us. and these sort of questions like marriage and family fall within that. i mean, how would we like it if this four years people say, well, you can be married to jonathan, i can be married to rita and then the next four year, w...

Administration, they vote for amendments and they do things that actually kills any hopes of immigration reform. i think its time that we actually took a positive step. i realize this is not everything we have to do on immigration, but its a really positive first step for us to fix this broken system. i was an immigration lawyer for 15 years. i realize theres a lot of things we have to fix in the immigration system. but this is one of the easiest things to fix and i think we should do it thousan...

Change to the senate rules. basically for all intents and purposes, it will say the senate has to go old school, has to go like it used to be, where senators like strong thurman got up on the senate floor and read cookbooks and phone books to protest civil rights legislation back in the 1960s. and back then, you actually had to do that. you had to stand up on the floor and talk. and you couldnt sit down. the rules of state, once you sit down, you lose the floor. so thats one of the things hell m...

Big development expected from the high court. the justices are in private conference deciding whether or not to review any of the ten separate gay marriage appeals before them. pete williams joins us on the phone from inside the court. pete, what can you tell us? >> reporter: were getting the order right now. ill ask the court official if she can hand me an extra copy. but here it is. just this second here. and, well, weve been waiting all afternoon to see if the supreme court would take any of ...

Of the challenge comes in. and so i think thats partly where the women arent funny things comes from. and i think it also comes from a la lack of awareness from female audiences. so if youre a female comic and youre getting up on stage and talking about something thats important to you or about the female experience, its not considered universal. even though 50% of the population clearly experiences, you know, a lot of those things that some female comics talk about. >> so is there a fundamental...

Beauty, what about women comediennes and culture. i think of someone like wanda sykes who brings a whole lot of herself to her comedy. >> its harder being gay than it is being black. it is. theres some things -- theres some things that i had to do as gay that i didnt have to do as black. i didnt have to come out black. >> so talk briefly -- shes black, shes lesbian, shes a woman. how much does culture play in womens comedy? >> culture in terms of your cultural break ground or your racial backgro...

Argument. as for the other, i think its a little unfair to tell people for whom theyre religious points of view might inform that decision that theyre intolerant, that theyre terrible people. they can have those points of view, but as a party, i think the gop needs to get a little bit more tolerant about those issues as a big tent party. not personally. you can personally disagree with gay marriage if you want. and by the way there are plenty of democrats who for religious reasons dont personall...

Gilda radner was doing a lot of disgust being stuff and talking about sweat coming off her nose and like whatever in her meat. she did that. i think whats changed is, you know, the people in power, the network executives, studio executives, letting women express that side of them in a public way. so its not that women didnt do it, its not letting women ex were he is that side of themselves into a public way. its just whether -- its just getting it into the mainstream and showing that it does app...