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Get these things wrong. i don't think civil rights question shoes go to voters partly because you get into the thing of the whim of the voters and where the political whims are. we don't vote in this country on fundamental rights. freedom of speech will always be there for us. and these sort of questions like marriage and family fall within that. i mean, how would we like it if this four years people say, well, you can be married to jonathan, i can be married to rita and then the next four year, we don't like it. >> although i'm sure he would make a wonderful spouse, i don't want to -- >> hope...

Administration, they vote for amendments and they do things that actually kills any hopes of immigration reform. i think it's time that we actually took a positive step. i realize this is not everything we have to do on immigration, but it's a really positive first step for us to fix this broken system. i was an immigration lawyer for 15 years. i realize there's a lot of things we have to fix in the immigration system. but this is one of the easiest things to fix and i think we should do it thousand. >> i would push back a little bit defense your characterization of the democrats on this issue...

Change to the senate rules. basically for all intents and purposes, it will say the senate has to go old school, has to go like it used to be, where senators like strong thurman got up on the senate floor and read cookbooks and phone books to protest civil rights legislation back in the 1960s. and back then, you actually had to do that. you had to stand up on the floor and talk. and you couldn't sit down. the rules of state, once you sit down, you lose the floor. so that's one of the things he'll move and he probably should move it. one of the things that steve talked about, though, is this is...

Big development expected from the high court. the justices are in private conference deciding whether or not to review any of the ten separate gay marriage appeals before them. pete williams joins us on the phone from inside the court. pete, what can you tell us? >> reporter: we're getting the order right now. i'll ask the court official if she can hand me an extra copy. but here it is. just this second here. and, well, we've been waiting all afternoon to see if the supreme court would take any of the gay marriage cases and we've just gotten aporders list here. and none of tgay marriage cases ...

Of the challenge comes in. and so i think that's partly where the women aren't funny things comes from. and i think it also comes from a la lack of awareness from female audiences. so if you're a female comic and you're getting up on stage and talking about something that's important to you or about the female experience, it's not considered universal. even though 50% of the population clearly experiences, you know, a lot of those things that some female comics talk about. >> so is there a fundamentally different way that women tend to approach comedy, are there common amities we can say about...