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Law's intent but says there was a perception problem that set off days of protest. he directed state lawmakers to offer their fix to the law by the end of this week. but some in the state applaud pence for signing the bill like a pizzeria owner crystal o'connor who says it's her right to follow her beliefs. >> if a gay couple was to come in like say they wanted us to provide them pizzas for a wedding, we would have to say no. >> reporter: the question is will they come up with a deal. they are just doing a little impromptu press update here the republicans here will go back into caucus after s...

Meetings surrounding the final four because he's afraid of what a law like this would do to his son, who is gay. thomas. >> a major perception problem continuing for indiana. thank you, sir. there's a lot of uncertainty about the history of religious freedom laws in this country. francis rivera is here. >> when you look at history, especially where this came from how it all started back in the 1980s and it all came from a cam tuesday, specifically peyote. they argued their use of peyote was part of a tribal religious ritual. they lost in the u.s. supreme court in 1990 by a narrow 5-4 vote. j...

The legislation has to be fixed, he claims he doesn't regret signing that flawed legislation. >> do you regret having signed this? >> absolutely not. >> joining me now is matthew telly, political columnist for "the indianapolis star." garrett epps, a law professor at the university of baltimore. joy reid and beth. joy reid, there's a great moment i wish we had had in the opening tonight, in cool hand luke paul newman movie where his jailer says to me, what we have here is a failure to communicate. governor pence says we've got a perception problem. that's all it is. >> it was a really extraord...

New fallout this morning from the religious freedom law in indiana and also a similar law has just advanced in arkansas. protesters gathered in little rock on tuesday calling on the governor to veto the bill just passed by the arkansas house. there is growing opposition from businesses in that state including the biggest of them all, walmart, headquartered there. indiana governor mike pence has promised to fix the religious freedom law in his state. he claims it is not a license to discriminate but he does admit there is what he calls a perception problem. lease get more from cnn's miguel marq...

If governor pence or the people in arkansas are -- want to fix their statute, it's a paragraph. you could adopt it in ten minutes. i don't anticipate that will happen. >> matthew tully, your newspaper had an extraordinary cover today, front page editorial about this law in indiana demanding action from the governor. tell us how that came about. it must have been an extraordinary decision for the newspaper to make, to do this editorial this way. >> it was. it was also very easy. our state has been -- has taken it on the chin for over a week now, and it's doing significant damage to the state, a...