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To us for leadership. i don't want to overstate it, but i think the answer to your question is yes. it diminishes our ability to influence events in the rest of the world, and particularly when it's something unforeseen or something down the road. let's remember, iran is still out there. trying to build a nuclear weapon. north korea is still belligerent. all these problems exist. so something could explode at any moment. i do think it makes us a little less powerful, a little less with an ability to influence others because they look at us and say listen, you can't even get your own house in o...

>> here on "the rachschel maddo show," one of our weaknesses is that we enjoy our props too much. the trick for us is coming up with ways to explain something better with props that we can just scrounge up and that cost just about nothing so we don't blow our props budget. we start off with an enormous props budget, but we blow it anyway because we get too excited. so we end up trying to injury rig things for cheap. for example, when i wanted to explain is that one-time presidential candidate herman cain was secretly an art project, we ended up cobbling together that thesis with canvas and bla...

Attentive in areas of the country that have had the worse abuses and that are seen as being the most vulnerable. if the court's decision is going to be that close, if it's just going to come down to one guy, does outside pressure matter? a lot of people think a lot is hanging on this decision. in terms of the way people express themselves about that, does it sway the court in one direction or the other? because there is outside pressure on this issue. i mean, this was the scene outside the supreme court on wednesday as the voting rights act was being heard inside. demonstrations by groups, inc...

The supreme court prop 8 case. here it is. >> the supreme court asks me or my attorney general or a solicitor general do we think that meets constitutional muster, i felt it was important for us to answer that question honestly. and the answer is no. >> george, is it something the president clearly got correct today? >> i think so. again, bringing in my "star trek" colleague mr. spock, he would say that gays and lesbians are the children of heterosexuals. we are literally brothers and sisters of -- blood brothers and blood sisters of heterosexuals. we are literally members of the family. and w...

It diminishes our ability to influence events in the rest of the world, and particularly when it's something unforeseen or something down the road. let's remember, iran is still out there trying to build a nuclear weapon. north korea is still belligerent. all these problems exist. so something could explode at any moment. i do think it makes us a little less powerful, a little less with an ability to influence others because they look at us and say listen, you can't even get your own house in order. don't be telling what's to do. >> dan rather, anchor and editor of "dan rather reports" on axs ...