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Non-violent offenders get back into society, and americans across the country celebrated the right for everyone to marry. so in a first for the revvies the justice award goes to five people, the supreme court justices who made gay marriage the law of the land, and ive said many times you cant support civil rights for some but not for others. so jimmy, was it two steps forward and one step backward kind of year when it comes to social justice? >> well, i mean look, social progress is always a slo...

We also went after the real enemy that afflicts our cities, the smugglers, the drug cartels, and the violent criminals that profit from the undoing of so many lives. we passed tough sentencing laws for gun crimes and ensured that dangerous people were kept off our streets. as a result of all of this, we brought violent crime in florida down to a 27-year low and drug abuse way down as well. social progress is always the story of widening the circle of opportunity. for that reason i gave the chall...

Sea woman. if a man chastises her. misogynistic. all of that. thats absolutely going to happen. >> this sometimes happens with these movements. which are, in some respects, responsible for great social progress. this happened to some extent with the civil rights movement. it was a tremendous success. so that today in america one of the worse things that could ever be said about you. politically fatal if it sticks that you are a racist. also the case if you are accused of being a sexist and that ...

Run for about president shoe. sea woman. if a man chastises her. misogynistic. all of that. thats absolutely going to happen. >> this sometimes happens with these movements. which are, in some respects, responsible for great social progress. this happened to some extent with the civil rights movement. it was a tremendous success. so that today in america one of the worse things that could ever be said about you. politically fatal if it sticks that you are a racist. also the case if you are accus...

>> where did you get those facts? >> hes being generous to say you could get a plan for a family of four for $500. i dont want you to shut up. >> i do. can we take a vote? >> the president had a summit for youth today at the white house. >> i hope you havent been diskoumpbled by how hard its been. because stuff thats worth it is always hard. civil rights movement was hard. getting women the right to vote, that was hard. making sure that workers have the right to organize, that was hard. its neve...

Generous to say you can get a plan for $500 for a family of four. we have one other topic to get to, and i dont want you to shut up. we love your participation. >> can we get a vote? >> this is what he said. then were going to tell you about a poll. >> but i hope you havent been discouraged by how hard its been. because stuff thats worth its always hard. civil rights movement was hard. getting women the right to vote, that was hard. making sure that workers had had the right to organize, that wa...

But the truth is on cultural issues, on sort of moral views of society, liberals have made tremendous gains in recent years. you could say flipping it the other side, conservatives are making gains in the sort of economic picture of society is changing. >> but thats firmly sort of basing the conservative project against social progress, which is to say integration, civil rights, marriage equality -- >> that is -- that is the concern of -- thats exactly right. so this is what people have to kind ...

The federal judiciary is looking for a few good judges and apparently not finding them. another potential replacement was rejected today by the u.s. senate. correspondent shannon bream is here to tell us why. good evening. >> reporter: hi, bret. a seat on the federal bench that has been open since now supreme court chief justice john roberts vacated it sex years ago. it appears that hallegan will not fill it. today, they were calling her judicial advocate prong for the job. >> she herself once p...

Time next year. the federal judiciary is looking for a few good judges and apparently not finding them. another potential replacement was rejected today by the u.s. senate. correspondent shannon bream is here to tell us why. good evening. >> reporter: hi, bret. a seat on the federal bench that has been open since now supreme court chief justice john roberts vacated it sex years ago. it appears that hallegan will not fill it. today, they were calling her judicial advocate prong for the job. >> ...

There are only four things certain, since social progress began. that the dog returns to his vomit and the sow returns to her mire. and the burned fools bandage finger tgoes wobbling back to the fire. and after this is accomplished and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man pays for his sins, as surely as water will wet us, as surely as fire will burn... the gods of the copybook headings, with terror and slaughter, return. thats richard kipling. richard kipling...