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Tonight, breaking news. a crucial court ruling on don't ask don't tell just hours after the military, for the first time ever in this country, started allowing openly gay and lesbian americans to serve. we'll be joined by dan choi who was drummed out of the army for being gay and lined up to volunteer again today. jeffrey toobin will help make sense for a very convoluted set of actions. christine o'donnell is running for senate in delaware, claims to be a constitutional scholar. if that's true, why does she not know two major amendments to the constitution and how come her comments on the fi...

Separation of church and state. listen. >> where in the constitution is separation of church and state? >> oh, my god. >> a few beats later, o'donnell -- >> the first amendment. the first amendment establishes the separation, the fact that the federal government shall not establish religious and supreme court over many decades. clarifies and enshrines that there is a separation of church and state that our reports and our laws must respect. >> so you're saying the separation of church and state -- to clarify, you're selling me the separation of church and state is found in the first amendment....

Literal phrase separation of church and phrase is not in the first amendment. that's true. here's a relevant passage. congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. the very first sentence, the words separation of church and state are not in there. the sentence itself make it's plain, government can neither meddle with your faith noerp set up an official faith of its own. article six of the constitution prohibited religious tests for holding public office and as coons pointed out, numer ois supreme court decisions have fleshed out w...

>> oh, my god. >> a few beats later, o'donnell -- >> the first amendment. the first amendment establishes the separation, the fact that the federal government shall not establish religious and supreme court over many decades. clarifies and enshrines that there is a separation of church and state that our reports and our laws must respect. >> so you're saying the separation of church and state -- to clarify, you're selling me the separation of church and state is found in the first amendment. >> the government shall make no establishment of -- >> that's in the first amendment. >> now, perhaps m...

Sense for a very convoluted set of actions. christine o'donnell is running for senate in delaware, claims to be a constitutional scholar. if that's true, why does she not know two major amendments to the constitution and how come her comments on the first amendment were met with laughs? yoko ono, the pain of losing john lennon to an assassin and her life since then as an artist, mom, and keeper of the lennon legacy. we'll talk about all of it, but we begin as we do every night keeping them honest and we start with a politician who claims to be guided by the constitution. talks about it all...