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California couples including jeff and paul who say they have a right to marry just like heterosexual couples and the state's domestic partnership laws aren't good enough. >> the term "marriage" is important. it has global recognition. no one celebrates a domestic partnership-versary. they celebrate an an aversery of marriage. >> that was joe johns reporting. and we'll tell you a strange legal alliance will argue tomorrow that california's proposition 8, one of the cases before the court, will argue it's unconstitutional, former bush solicitor general ted olsen a conservative is teaming up with...

Actually was written in hollywood. it was november 2008. barack obama had just won the white house. >> there's nothing civil about a man marrying another man! >> but proposition 8 passed, taking away the right for gays and lesbians to marry in california. >> california has made it very clear. >> we're sitting there, you know, kind of licking the wounds and saying, what do we do now 0? and serendipitously, a friend of my wife's came by the table and she says, i think you'd be very interested to find out that you might find an ally in ted olsen on your issue. >> that's the ted olsen, the conserv...

Now engaged in a systematic campaign to deny black citizens access to the ballot through intimidation and violence. >> he should get out more and travel and do some reading and maybe learn a bit about what has happened in the covered counties and perhaps he would have a different idea. that's all i can tell you. >> i would reaffirm the fact that that finding a fact, this social logical determination of the nature of racism and the racial exclusion in america is the thing that congress did. there is a record, a 15,000-page record. congress are the finders of fact. it is not the supreme court's ...

I think what you will find come this thursday, say whatever you want about paul ryan about being a young gun, him being arch conservative. he's very specific and smart. what we will probably see is a conversation about the budget plan. and a conversation about the wars in iraq and afghanistan in the context of the economy and how we pay for them or didn't pay for them. >> it's funny that you point out that this should be substantive. the kind of debate that we saw last week is what i thought we'd see from the vps, low key. it feels like we have to be -- we using our boxing metaphor because it'...

Look, i know they're throwing up stuff. it's like air force one has this thing that they spit out in cases of heat seeking missile. >> water birthing there. >> talking about whether it's effective. >> a lot of metaphors. >> it's a hot panel. one other conservative idea from jennifer ruben, arch conservative writer for "the washington post", and she argues this is a winning issue. she says that while there were problems how romney spoke to his donors about the famous 47%, the terrain on which he now finds himself is exceptionally favorable and frames the question this way, are you better off wi...