about this issue, and he is going to be one of the people arguing the case, there is a deeply conservative position to be taken here that two people who love each other, who want to spend their life together ought to have, no matter what their sexuality, ought to have the same rights as two heterosexual people that want to live together. and that's just a basic fairness. and, you know, conservative republicans should be for two people who love each other. it's family values that two people who love each other want to be together. >> indeed. it is family values indeed. steve elmendorf and chris geithner, thank you. >> thank you. from now on jim demint won't just be pushing the fringe of the senate to the right, he is going to be pushing his whole party. and chris christie goes to washington to ask for government help while vetoing his own state's moves to support health care reform.