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Case that was decided yesterday at the supreme court. >> in 2008 when we elected the first african-american president, it was a glorious day, but later that night it was a horrible night when the returns for prop 8 came in saying that we were going to be treated as second-class citizens, and we just could not fathom being treated like that anymore. >> so it was that moment in 2008 when we simultaneously had this great civil rights advance of electing an african-american president, and also the c...

While at the same time, the country is still absorbing the decision by the same court just one day before to take a sledgehammer to the cornerstone of american civil rights law when they destroyed the voting rights act. and, yes, its under different rationales and for different structural reasons and responding to different specific circumstances and cases, but regardless, like that night in 2008, if you were in california, once again at the same moment the country is being pulled in two opposit...

Political enemies in ways that are absolutely unconstitutional. in my judgment its undermining our entire national security. i done think anybody has undermined this countrys national security more than the obama administration has in the long run by some of its policies in the last five years. >> reporter: one attorney who represents federal government whistle-blowers fears the effects of such a program. >> part of the problem that is going on with the insider threat analysis. you can see it ev...

>> reporter: to quote implement insider threat detention and prevention program, calls on all government workers to police their own as potential security threats. the executive order was signed by president obama october 7, 2011, applies to workers with no jurisdiction over security issues. education department warns stress, divorce, untreated mental illness, financial problems, frustration with co-workers are warning signs that must be reported. >> it is hitting a small problem, though a signi...

Of time dads get to spend with their kids. its an incredible transformation both for men and their kids. a huge net benefit in human happiness. and i think about walking around my neighborhood in new york seeing new dads with kids my age, pushing bikes, kids in strollers or hanging off them in a baby harness contraption. weve been blessed with a twist -- with a gift of a society whose confines were broken apart before we became dads. this is the great gift of feminism to men. it took the sledgeh...

Other side of it is the tripling of time dads get to spend with their kids. its an incredible transformation both for men and their kids. a huge net benefit in human happiness. and i think about walking around my neighborhood in new york seeing new dads with kids my age, pushing bikes, kids in strollers or hanging off them in a baby harness contraption. weve been blessed with a twist of a society whose structures were broken apart before we became dads. this is the great gift of feminism to men....

Drawn towards evil things. >> while robbing a store, fry stabbed his first two victims, then slit their throats. >> when you walk in that path of darkness, you cant help but walk hand in hand with evil. whether you believe it to be evil or not, i never considered myself a violent person. >> in 1998, fry savagely beat a man to death with a shovel. >> i came from a very good family, but i got involved with alcohol and drugs at a very early age. i was looking for something in my life to fill a hole...

Through a wall at the famed millennium dome in london, england, november 7, 2000. their target, a diamond exhibit estimated to be worth $500 million. it features the 203-carat de beers millennium star, one of the largest flawless diamonds in the world. the robbers are heavily armed and wear body armor. they get out of the bulldozer and throw smoke grenades. they move into the diamond exhibit and uses a nail gun to weaken the glass cases holding the diamonds. then one of the crooks uses a sledgeh...

>> in this room, is the area where the drugs are administered. in this room, if theres a stay of execution or change of order, it would be communicated through the red phone. once the execution is completed, the body of the inmate is brought through this door here out this door into the sally port where there would be an ambulance waiting to remove the body. >> ive been in prison since 2000. i was arrested in june for murder. i was convicted of one homicide in 2002, another one in 2003. a double...

>> this man beat this woman to death with a sledgehammer because he wanted to have sex with her and she didnt want to. and i didnt stop it. the same man that killed the woman im convicted of murdering was involved in the death of the other gentleman. he was either strangled or beaten to death, they are not sure which. it was bad enough they couldnt make a determination as to which killed him, the strangling or the beating. as far as the other two murders, both of these men were friends of mine, ...