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>> because thats not the issue were discussing right now. >> this is far from over. there are dozens of ripple tide laws for votes. next up could be georgia. we welcome joshua mcqume, the author of a bill much like ones under fire. senator, thank you for joining us. let me ask you, why dont you see arkansas and indiana as cautionary tales from the course youre about to take? >> well, i think arkansas proves the point of what were doing here in georgia. they actually, governor hutchison signed a ...

Them to partake in religious ceremonies when they dont want to would be an infringement. >> i think the bigger issue is that we have 28 states in this country that dont have any protections for lgbt people. so we are standing out there virtually naked with no protection in these 28 states. so, and i do, and i think we can agree that religious freedom is a fundamental right in this country and valued. and so i dont think thats the issue. i think that being, you know, left out in the cold with no ...

To run out of the clock. patti ann: the investigation supposedly continues. well have to see what happens. jay, thank you for joining us. bill: well see whether or not there is state action on this too. the deadliest form of skin cancer melanoma, one hospital now saying today it might be on the brink of a cure. dr. marc siegel will separate fact from fiction he said on that today. >> pizza shop owners getting death threats for speaking their minds about the indiana religious freedom law but di...

Bring in. while governor. and whats a shame is that i think a lot of these businesses now are kind of grandstanding on this opportunity, and withdrawing, saying theyre not going to expand. rightly or wrongly. and that really does hurt governor pence, if he had any national aspirations. it hurts indiana politics. it hurts indianas economy. the fact that theyre doing it i think is a huge bruise to both governor pence and the state of indiana. >> what do you think of his play of saying, were not go...

We have an answer. chris cuomo is here. >> good morning, my friends. i read the teleprompter and i know. we will take on the law in indiana you are hearing because of the confusion. is it about state action? does this involve people? does it do something potentially as bad as you are hearing? we will take you through it. the final flights of germanwings flight 9525. the search for why. we have new information. we will let you read into the transcript of what was going on in the cockpit. you wi...

Demonstrate that their action is serving a compelling government purpose and uses the least restrictive means. thats all this law says. it says nothing about discrimination or sexual orientation. >> thats plenty. lets unpack a couple things. the first you say its about state action. a state action would probably qualify as an ordinance for a state law or a municipal law that includes protection of guys as a protected class, which indiana has in many of its cities. so you could use this statute a...

>> that itself why we not only need to protect peoples private religious crews. private religious views are fine. you cant act on them. i have been married for 25 years. nobody with any sense would have supported that my wife was beautiful, gainfully employed i was 91 of the above. they werent free to discriminate against us gays and lesbians should have that right. >> you never made more sense than your analysis of the nuptials. you said you know hey, this is about not allowing state action to ...

Prosecution, and i dont think thats going to be the case i dont think that took place until later on at least from whats been publicly reported. theres no state action it probably will come in. >> you said you think "the jinx" the make it harder to prosecute the case. why is that? >> i think it definitely will make it harder to prosecute the case. i think youll have the specter hanging over this prosecution that for some reason it was made for tv. it was engineered. this was not something where ...

Udall-vitter-inhofe bill. i want to tell you something, rachel, the rating of vitter by environmental groups is 5%. he votes against the environment 95% of the time. the rating of jim inhofe is 5%. i guess they were good 5% of the time. so the bottom line here is, this is a bad bill, written by the chemistry council. it is a weak bill, and it pre-empts state action. its very, very dangerous. its very, very serious, and its no laughing matter. it is deadly serious. >> senator barbara boxer of cal...

Anybody. so i think when they see that the chemistry council wrote the bill, that 450 groups, including the asbestos group, the breast cancer group, and i could go on with, you know, so long. i have them at the hearing tomorrow. all the groups that oppose it. its unprecedented. i think maybe my colleagues will rethink it. look, the bill is a udall-vitter-inhofe bill. i want to tell you something, rachel, the rating of vitter by environmental groups is 5%. he votes against the environment 95% of ...