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If you felt the super bowl was a bust, well ads werent much better. there were a couple of exception. if you met the budweiser puppy. ♪ >> okay. that one got me. the hyundai ad where the dad kept saving his son. that was almost pretty good. ♪ >> i gotcha. ooh. augh. >> after that one you kind of fell off a cliff but lets bring in the experts. president and publisher of "usa today" larry cramer is here and deputy managing editor michael learmont is also here. thanks fork here. michael, advert...

0 need his help but were not going to give him a summons. thats so nice. how about you get out and fill the potholes so bobby doesnt have to and if you dont do that reward him for taking it into his own hands. hes the good stuff. >> he can come in to the city. >> he would be very busy. bobby thank you for showing what a citizen can do on their own time. appreciate it. a lot of news. lets get to you the "newsroom" and miss carol costello. >> thanks guys. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. ...

>> we must continue to speak out and most importantly, most importantly, every gay person must come out. >> what do you say to the young man or woman who wants to pursue the kind of ambitions you held? and a lot of us have held? should they come out? should they come out or not if theyre gay? >> if i can back up for a second, i think harry milk was very much right. when you look at people like evan wohlson and andrew sullivan talking about gay marriage, you look at a generation ago, people like ...

0 politics in south carolina is a funky thing. well have to see what happens. >> our senior south carolina correspondent, nia malika-henderson has the last word. equality. lets play "hardball." good evening. im chris matthews. in washington, let me start tonight with this. justice. rights. fairness. equality. bias. these are the matters argued today in the supreme court. can people of the same sex be denied the opportunity to marry? is it just? is it constitutional? is it equal protection of...

Closet. listen to him. audio of the great harvey milk in 1977, the same year he was killed, assassinated. >> we must continue to speak out and most importantly, most importantly, every gay person must come out. >> what do you say to the young man or woman who wants to pursue the kind of ambitions you held? and a lot of us have held? should they come out? should they come out or not if theyre gay? >> if i can back up for a second, i think harry milk was very much right. when you look at people li...

Killed, assassinated. >> we must continue to speak out and most importantly, most importantly, every gay person must come out. >> what do you say to the young man or woman who wants to pursue the kind of ambitions you held? and a lot of us have held? should they come out? should they come out or not if theyre gay? >> if i can back up for a second, i think harry milk was very much right. when you look at people like evan wohlson and andrew sullivan talking about gay marriage, you look at a genera...

0 they have rich cream marriages whereas people who are same-sex couples in other states dont get any of those benefits. >> yeah. pete -- >> i think that opens up an attack in favor of trying to declare a nationwide constitutional right to marriage. what do you think about that, pete? >> reporter: i think thats an excellent point. and i think thats exactly why justice kennedy doesnt want to go there. because if they do go, as some justices today indicated that they were willing to say that the f...

these are the matters argued today in the supreme court. can people of the same sex be denied the opportunity to marry? is it just? is it constitutional? is it equal protection of the laws? or is it unjustified, unconstitutional, unfair and unequal? well, the court must now rule on where the defense of marriage act fits by these standards. can it be defended as just, fair and equal when it so clearly be deaf significance is not? can it be declared consistent with our american constitut...

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