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malveaux. i want to get you up to speed. president obama stirs up the national debate over same-sex marriage after announcing that he thinks gays should be allowed to marry. >> ive just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> political pundits are weighing in on what this means for the november election and were also listening to you, what youre saying about president obamas announcem...

Thank you for being here. dana, let me start with you. what was lugars defeat say about where the gop is headed? >> it says the republican party is headed for the toilet. the problem is it will bring everyone tlels with them. what you hear, its not just what he said, its what he said during the campaign. basically he was beating up on dick lugar for compromising with the democrats on keeping weapons out of hands. theyre at a point where the only way to get things done in washington is to have a ...

Europes fate. it need not be our fate either. i think the results should scare people about when you drive the average living standards of working people down. its not only that they jekted the two moderate parties, they gave a lot of votes for the first time to neofacist party called golden down. we dont want those movements arising. if you grinds down peoples standard of living you get all kinds of reactions and thats one of them. >> i think this is a push back and a statement against greed. y...

It need not be our fate either. i think the results should scare people about when you drive the average living standards of working people down. its not only that they rejected the two moderate parties, they gave a lot of votes for the first time to neofacist party called golden down. we dont want those movements arising. if you grinds down peoples standard of living you get all kinds of reactions and thats one of them. >> i think this is a push back and a statement against greed. youve got a b...

Thousands, decided that they would get out of control and very decent, innocent people were very badly hurt, just moments ago. >> back in march, when the presidential election was held, 63% voted for putin. if you believe that this was a legitimate and fair loo done election, if thats the case, why is there so much push-back against him? do you think the election was flawed or those who did not vote for putin are especially active and responsive? >> reporter: no. anybody who was here would say i...

Its going to be hard for romney to say that hes week, this is the presidents push back. romney has been writing very hard in his language, hes been surrounded by neo conservatives, the republicans are saying hes going to re-enact the bush policy. this is the prom that mitt romney has had throughout the primary is very few specifics. he is not going to be able to do that, he is going to have start rolling out specifics. >> you got the neocons who want to go to war everywhere, you have the liberta...

Know, in the areas where the rubber really meets the roads, like iran right now and afghanistan, romney isnt willing to say what he would do differently because there isnt anything he would do differently. >> he tries to make it sound differently like hes somehow tougher on iran. he has some tough ideas. >> this is an area where obama is for a variety try of reasons generally seen not by republicans, but is general lly seen objectively as very strong. its going to be hard for romney to say that ...

Like it? >> i think eye think we are hearing the same... grumbles that we heard two years ago. even two years ago, there was a lot of people in congress and in the white house saying, maybe we should do this slow. you know, maybe -- maybe we shouldnt be going all out. maybe we should be handling mortgages mortgages and putting the capital there. because that was the burning issue that people cared about and were upset about it. we did spend a lot of time on health care reform. the vision was a l...

Like it? >> i think eye think we are hearing the same... grumbles that we heard two years ago. even two years ago, there was a lot of people in congress and in the white house saying, maybe we should do this slow. you know, maybe -- maybe we shouldnt be going all out. maybe we should be handling mortgages mortgages and putting the capital there. because that was the burning issue that people cared about and were upset about it. we did spend a lot of time on health care reform. the vision was a l...

Not a flow. which is what income is. >> people overstate i idyllic the 50s were in terms of equality. barriers in the labor market. the period in u.s. history, the tightist import policies. i dont think that -- nobodys proposing we should go back to that structure, but the sortç unusual confluence of policies that were benefiting this one group and thats gn gone away creating lots of advantages otherwise in society. >> i would push back on that a little bit. >> push back. >> after break, well ...