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Including yours truly thats been pushing him, now have to say, well, maybe his way that seems to be too slow and deliberate has picked up some allies because its been less confrontational than some of us like. >> he will with, thats right. hes asked the gang of eight, the coalition of senators, he made those principles cleared during the campaign but hes itt a much better chance of passage. heres the good news. its a political imperative for the republican party to pass comprehensive immigration...

Court case in which you argue the court should overturn proposition 8. that was a constitutional amendment approved by california voters which said that marriage only marriage between a man and woman is valid. you you want to overturn that. explain to us why your position is consistent with conservative values? >> well, look, first of all, the people who will stand for the united states supreme court are kettleson who was president bushs se solis tore general ad david boy who represented preside...

Moral imperative to do something there. im wondering, at the time weve all talked about how the isolationists were criticized and vilified. and we were vilified for maybe waiting too long to go in. and im wondering if you see vietnam and then later iraq as a resulting response of that fear that maybe weve waited too long to intervene in a necessary conflict. >> i think we tend to fight the last war. and i think that was true in vietnam. and it was true in iraq. how many times have we heard the t...

Filed a brief in the supreme court case in which you argue the court should overturn proposition 8. that was a constitutional amendment approved by california voters which said that marriage only marriage between a man and woman is valid. you you want to overturn that. explain to us why your position is consistent with conservative values? >> well, look, first of all, the people who will stand for the united states supreme court are kettleson who was president bushs se solis tore general ad davi...

Filed a brief in the supreme court case in which you argue the court should overturn proposition 8. that was a constitutional amendment approved by california voters which said that marriage only marriage between a man and woman is valid. you you want to overturn that. explain to us why your position is consistent with conservative values? >> well, look, first of all, the people who will stand for the united states supreme court are kettleson who was president bushs se solis tore general ad davi...

Justice. it was understood as a kind of consumer right. with marriage, the same danger is there. that the legal right to access to marriage as it now exists is kind of the end point. even though we wont get there now, well get there eventually. rather than understanding that a broader way of recognizing household and partnership rights beyond marriage only is a substantive goal of our social movement. >> that is exactly what i want to come back on. because the freedom to marry ought not to be an...

Hawks, and sadistic about it. cheney strikes me as a guy who wants to rub out his enemies politic politically. any enemy. >> david first. >> what you see in the clip you showed from the showtime film was a complete absence of self-reflection. no regrets. nothing like we could have done it better. if we had to do it all over again, i might have thought -- >> do you think he enjoys the stuff? >> i think he believes, and this may be psychotic on his part, that eventually he will be redeemed. he wil...

Win is in fact something different than what i thought it was. maybe an imperative toward a certain kind of you must be married, you must sort of follow this set of rules. >> im not so sure if thats true, melissa. its always dangerous to disagree with you. were really looking at an overlap. i think that the next generation is going to be whats tricky. marriage in some sense an easy get because its what my colleague at miu calls a responsibility right. its not just a bunch of rights. its also a b...

Value of kwooer politics, for folks not in the academy, thats not a slur. its a self-defining term of not normative. it made our politics different. to think about family constructed in new and different ways. once we had marriage, its critical and important. but it also feels like an imperative. >> the conservatives signing on to the marriage equality movement is not surprising. i think there was a moment where it became politically possible for them to do so. i dont think there was a lot of a ...

Cheney strikes me as a guy who wants to rub out his enemies politically. any enemy. >> what you -- >> david first. >> what you see in the clip that you just showed in the showtime film by l.j. cutler was a complete absence of self-reflection. no regrets. no we could have done it better. if we could do it all, i might have done this. >> do you think he enjoys this stuff? >> i think he believes and this may be psychotic on his part that eventually he will be redeemed and justified, but lawrence wi...