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Welcome back to "morning joe." live look at washington, d.c., we're here at the nbc news washington bureau. andrea, mitchell, al hunt and sam stein with us. who's in new york, barnicle? >> barnicle in new york. >> and willie. >> getting grumpy about the nba, fighting willie. >> time for the must-read opinion pages. we'll start with ruth marcus in "the washington post" stirring the constitutional pot. in the age of eight figure checks to super pacs it's time for a constitutional amendment that could end this dangerous farce. the notion of fiddling with the first amendment should make anyone ner...

Taliban. the spring fighting season has begun. good morning from washington. last night, mitt romney had his own hot mike moment, if you will. now that romney is the presumptive nominee, he's focused on raising money for his campaign. romney laid out plans to consolidate federal agencies in specific terms that he has not yet offered in public on the campaign trail. garrett hague is our inbed with the prom any campaign. >> reporter: a lot of people were here -- already written six and seven figure checks, to restore our future. the romney campaign is not really excited to have press here, the...

What persuaded the republicans who changed their minds, how the pro-game marriage side came together. the rich guy republican donors, conservative donors who met secretly with the staft fers and said they would help him out even though he is a democrat. "within days the wealthy republicans sent back word they were on board each of them cut six figure checks to the lobbying campaign for gay marriage rights." those wealthy republicans who bankrolled the pro-gay marriage fight in new york were three hedge fund zillionaires, three conservative hedge fund zillionaires supporting gay marriage last y...

Post morten came together, what motivated the governor to do it and push hard, what persuaded the republicans who changed their minds, how the pro-game marriage side came together. the rich guy republican donors, conservative donors who met secretly with the stastaffers a would help him out even though he is a democrat. "within days the wealthy republicans sent back word they were on board each of them cut six figure checks to the lobbying campaign for gay marriage rights." those wealthy republicans who bankrolled the pro-gay marriage fight in new york were three hedge fund zillionaires, three...

A post mortem, what persuaded the republicans who changed their minds, how the side came together, the rich guy republican donors, conservative donors who met with staffers and said they would help the governor out on gay marriage even though he's a democrat. the wealthy republicans sent back word they were on board, echl of them cut six figure checks to the hlobbying campaig. they were three hedge fund zillionaire seven, three conservative hedge fund zillionaries, supporting gay marriage last year in new york state. all three of them now supporting