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President who has high national aimprooufl standards and beloved by their party, whether ronald reagan, bill clinton, now barack obama, it's always senses ive maneuver. i'm a hillary clinton supporter but they have to define themselves and the public understands every election is about the future. that's what they want to hear about. the candidates this year can't campaign on the economy like it was 2009. we're a different stage. >> that is true. but hillary clinton was part of president obama's cabinet so she can't escape her association with him, right? >> i think the only person on stage wh...

Focused on lbgt issues in sports. you talked with chris after the article came out. what desay id he say to you? >> the most important piece was to shed light on something happening behind closed doors in the nfl. the nfl has gotten better on these issues as have many teams. many players talk about the end of homophobia in sports, but we still don't know what's going on behind some of these closed doors. though chris said this was a couple of isolated incidents, he wants to make sure that this coach and other coaches like him never use language like that ever again. >> so he feels that he is n...

And between women and active to health care. lbgt issues. terry was believing in this and champ whereoning and virginians responded. >> what should democrats take arwa away? what should democrats look at and say this is the take away. this is what you should learn from the campaign. >> let me divert from the discussion of health care. >> i will do that again. what should they learn from terry mcauliffe? >> his campaign was about putting jobs first. there is a notion that a clout over washington, are we talking about jobs and how do you create them. he's goinging to do that and sell jobs and cr...

Assume that he is somehow a criminal. from birth, african-american people, children, male and female, particularly males, they carry that burden every single day. we have got to do something about that in this country. >> you know, your point here is so key. and i'm thinking about the president in that moment thinking, we've got to wring bias out of ourselves. and also that point about color blindness. and we've just -- we're just in the midst of this amazing moment around lbgt issues, right? this amazing moment where we are seeing, for the first time, our friends and our loved ones, who are g...

Massachusetts and we hope it will condition the discussion for civil rights across the country. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. have a good night. >> joining me is tobias wolf, law professor at the university of pennsylvania. he was chief adviser to the obama presidential campaign on lbgt issues. let's talk about the obama administration. the president finds himself in an interesting sort of bind here. he has officially stated on the record he's against doma. his representatives in federal government argued for doma in this case. what do you see as being the decision procedu...