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behind closed doors. >> and one more thing -- happy birthday. >> thank you. thank you very much, lawrence. >> okay. well, another day, another republican governor backs down on so-called religious freedom laws. and robert menendez has become the first united states senator to be indicted for bribery in over 30 years. the last senator indicted of course occupied the same new jersey senate seat that bob menendez occupies now. there's just something about new jersey. >> the firestorm of controversy over indiana's religious freedom law. sthz is not the indiana i remember. >> spreads to a...

thank you very much, lawrence. >> okay. well, another day, another republican governor backs down on so-called religious freedom laws. and robert menendez has become the first united states senator to be indicted for bribery in over 30 years. the last senator indicted, of course, occupied the same new jersey senate seat that bob menendez occupies now. there's just something about new jersey. >> the firestorm of controversy over indiana's religious freedom law. >> it is not the indiana i remember. >> spreads to arkansas. >> arkansas passed its own version of the law, which the governo...

The legislation has to be fixed, he claims he doesn't regret signing that flawed legislation. >> do you regret having signed this? >> absolutely not. >> joining me now is matthew telly, political columnist for "the indianapolis star." garrett epps, a law professor at the university of baltimore. joy reid and beth. joy reid, there's a great moment i wish we had had in the opening tonight, in cool hand luke paul newman movie where his jailer says to me, what we have here is a failure to communicate. governor pence says we've got a perception problem. that's all it is. >> it was a really extraord...

it's been a tough week. >> indiana governor mike pence tried to again clarify his state's controversial religious freedom restoration act. >> this law does not give anyone a license to deny services to gay and lesbian couples. >> yes or no, should it will legal to discriminate against gays and lesbians? >> i abhor discrimination. >> he wants legislation on his desk this week -- >> that makes it clear that this law does not give a right to deny business to anyone. >> to nail down a frame work for a nuclear deal with iran. >> making enough progress to keep at it until tomorrow. >> if w...

that went down from someone who wrote a lot of the jokes you heard last night. it's been a tough week. >> indiana governor mike pence tried to again clarify his state's controversial religious freedom restoration act. >> this law does not give anyone a license to deny services to gay and lesbian couples. >> yes or no should it will legal to discriminate against gays and lesbians? >> i abhor discrimination. >> he wants legislation on his desk this week -- >> that makes it clear that this law does not give a right to deny business to anyone. >> to nail down a frame work for a nuclear...