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Conservative circuits though. and what do you see going forward in the next year? >> well, the cases on the fastest track are the 4th and the 10th circuit and both pretty conservati conservative. you have a virginia case filed by ted olsen and ted boyes who filed the prop 8 case and cases in oklahoma and utah, and, you know, we will see. we will see how the circuits decide it, but as you said, not a single judge since the windsor decision striking down doma has read that decision to in any kind of a way to say that these kinds of bans on same-sex marriage are constitutional and even though the...

Chris perry. >> and sandy, we thank you so much for your support. >> we are real proud of you guys and we're so glad that in california and a growing number of states around your leadership so you guys should be very proud of today and your courage, you are helping out a whole lot of people everywhere. >> the man holding the phone in that clip is chad griffin. his efforts are part of a new book called "forcing the spring" by jo becker here with me in studio. also with us are the two women you saw on the phone with the president, chris perry and sandy steer. they were two of the four plaintiffs...

Constitutional -- or constitutional protection for equal right to marriage. sandy and i had sat together many years and watched chuck cooper argue the other side of this case and wondered if his heart was really in it and didn't know what might be causing some of those, you know, i guess, a little bit of ambivalence in some way. what was really interesting at the end of the argument was he and i walked right into each other on the way out of the supreme court and he came over to me and grabbed my hand and shook it and said i really appreciate everything you're doing. and he seemed very genuine...

And, therefore, against allowing same-sex marriage in the state of california, ashley leineger. thank you all for being here. i'm very happy that you guys were all able to get here. jo, i need to start with you. the elephant in the room, the criticism that you've received about your book. let me read this quote from andrew sullivan, which i will just say right up front because i've written about it, i do not agree. is becker even aware of the history of the struggle at all? throughout the 1990s, marriage equality had royaled the political landscape, dominated the national debate at times, refr...

76 northwestern university football players were eligible to cast a secret ballot in one of the more publicized union votes in recent history. and that vote was held early friday morning. we don't know the results yet and we won't be getting any exit polling. not only were reporters not allowed anywhere near the vote, literally kept a certain distance away from the campus building where the players voted, but as the "chicago tribune" reported, we may not know for months what the players decided. why not? northwestern, the university, not the football team, filed an appeal with the na...