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Today. go ahead. >> my name is anna and my son is openly gay. he is grassroots and he speaks for a lot of lgbt community. we'd like to know since you're for the lgbt, what are your next steps and what are you going to do for us? >> let me say this, first of all, i think the american people have seen and made such progress on is recognizing the idea of equal rights, equal dignity, equal respect for everybody. that applies to everybody. that is a bedrock principle of america. when i came into office, everything from making sure that same-sex couples could have visitation at hospitals, just like ...

start." nice to have you with us. i'm ashleigh banfield >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. it's 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let's get started. attorney eric holder to be held in contempt in congress. yesterday the members of the government oversight and reform committee voted along party lines to recommend citing him for contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents from the botched fast and furious gun operation, documents that are now off limits to republicans, and everyone else, because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep all of those documents now under wra...

In these areas of race in general we have too much inequality in terms of women's wages. we have a lot we have to make progress on. >> i want to turn to other affairs in politics, particularly the fight over who do you blame for high gas prices? i raise the question in our open whether this will become even bigger than the jobs debate. here are some of the facts. if you look at gas prices in the course of the obama presidency, they have gone up from 2009. now an average of $3.89. obviously higher in some places. it takes a political toll. all you have to do is look at the polls, disapproval at...

the pentagon says it's because there isn't a proper long-term detention facility in afghanistan. about 200 people are taking part in the peaceful protest against the killings in a neighboring province. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is on his second day of his visit to afghanistan. around the time he was scheduled to arrive, an afghan national stole a vehicle and drove it on to the runway. the car crashed into a ditch. the driver later died. nato says panetta was never in danger. myanmar state television broadcast a campaign speech by pro democracy lead yee yeer ann sue chi. s...

Progress on, we can press on with this lawsuit. >> greta: there is a clause written into a law so it can happen. a part can be carved out and declared unconstitutional, that is not in this. but one of the most fascinating, congress deliberately didn't put that clause. we'll see. i'm taking the last word on that one. coming up, not good news, gas prices are going to go higher as we march toward the summer. but you can feel the pain at the pump. republicans and democrats using gas prices as a weapon to get your vote? that is next. and ambassador john bolton, how serious does he think is the se...