since august, that that baby be removed by tuesday. the utah court says it does not comment on pending cases. joining me now is troy williams, the executive director of equality utah. troy, good to have you with us. thank you. so let s talk just a bit about the state of utah utah, a traditionally conservative state that even overturned the ban on gay marriage and passed an anti-discrimination law there. but things are moving in one direction, now this. talk to us about what s happening in that state. yeah. in a lot of way, utah is the epicenter of lgbt rights in america. and we ve made tremendous progress. as you said, 2013, we were the first red state to overturn a gay marriage ban. we began the dominos where the bans would fall state after state after state. and then this past march, we passed historic nondiscrimination legislation.
overturn a gay marriage ban and the only republican-controlled legislature to ever pass a pro lgbt bill in the nation. when you make such great strides, we do anticipate that there will be a a backlash. we re seeing if across the country. we re seeing it in houston, texas and we re seeing it in utah in carbon county. we re confident this ruling is egregious and also unconstitutional. and this is just a small setback. we are on the path to progress. we re going to keep moving forward. troy williams, thank you very much. we ll stay in contact. ashleigh banfield talked to one of the moms earlier today. thank you, sir. thank you. coming up next, an army of veteran awarded the purple heart and followed his dream to play football in college is being honored tonight in new york. he will join me here onset on this day after veterans day.
and having some united message that people will actually listen to to help build parties from the local level up again. hillary clinton in our interview today talking about one of the lesser acknowledged parts of what it means to be a presidential candidate. she s saying she will do as leader of the democratic party is fix this, fix the failure of democrats to win in the states. 25 states now in complete republican control. only seven states in total democratic control. secretary clinton also they re talking about her involvement in and her views on some controversial policies from her husband s time in office including the federal gay marriage ban and don t ask don t tell and the crime bill. i think secretary clinton is probably right about some of those policies functioning as blocks at the time against even more draconian approaches from the republicans, but still those policies themselves did do a lot of harm for a very long time. and of course neither hillary clinton nor barack