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That was a real thrill for me. >> that's really cool. i love it. okay, just ahead in this 8:00 a.m. hour, congresswoman pramila jayapal playing a role in reconciliation negotiations will be our guest. first, a look at the push for voting rights. which had been a bipartisan deal. >> since the voting rights act was passed we made progress toward equality, yet the work for a more perfect union is never ending. we'll continue to build on the legal equality run by the civil rights movement to help ensure every person enjoys the opportunity that this great land of liberty offers. >> in 2006 presiden...

>> candace: controversy brewing civil liberties union as -- report obtained by the "wall street journal" aclu staffers our may have greater or lesser harmful impact on the justice work to which why are also committed end went. free speech can cause marginalized group harm by undermining their civil rights, quote: speech that den greats such groups can inflict serious harm that sin tended to and often will impede progress toward equality, end quote. aclu is responding to the leak saying it will continue to defend the speech rights of the unpopular whether they agree with them or not. greg, is t...

Today. at the same time, same-sex couples celebrated their progress toward equality. there were those protest groups. they got their way months later in the form of prop 8, an amendment to the california state constitution that limits marriage to a man and a woman. but then that was challenged. and today we are, of course, waiting for the supreme court's decision on prop 8's constitutionality, which is expected by the end of the month, but could come as early as tomorrow. we are also waiting on another decision that relates to same-sex couples. the defensive marriage act that defines marriage ...