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Greenwich village fought back. a new era of activism was born. >> a lifestyle that is perverse and dangerous. >> reporter: social conservatives who sought to ban gays and lesbians from working in schools found themselves doing battle with grass roots activists like harvey milk. >> there are millions waiting to hear your voice. >> reporter: in 1973 the american psychiatric association announced being gay was not a mental disorder. another battle was beginning. in 1981 a disease was killing gay men. >> this disease has been turned into a propaganda ploy in our opinion by homosexual sympathizers....

The ayatollah. the foreign minister said this was a propaganda ploy and europeans have criticized and that is in front of the camera. behind the scene, the negotiators in the room, are they concerned about this fight in washington? >> well, behind the scenes, what it's done is pushed the iranian negotiators to push for a vote at the u.n. security council on the deal. what that could do just to get into the international complicated law of this, by having the u.n. security council sign off on a deal to lift sanctions against iran, that could lock the u.s. into such a long-term agreement. right ...

Not have lasting effect. future congresses and future presidents can kang them. >> vice president joe biden former chairman of the foreign relations committee firing back, saying it's all beneath the dignity of the senate adding the republican letter is expressly designed to undercut a sitting president. biden goes on to say, i cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country, much less a longtime foreign sad ver sear. the state department wouldn't give a legal opinion on whether the letter violates the 1799 logan act which prevents contact with foreign...

American people and i'm confident we'll be able to implement it. >> in our view this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy was the response. david axelrod tweeted today a simple question, is this letter this kind of letter unprecedented? and when i read that tweet, sense i didn't know the since i didn't know the answer, i just retweeted it. >> some people have had some analogies that don't quite fit, you know reagan and iran contra and others but nothing really stands up to this level of major, you know, many major mainstream members of the united states senate deciding tha...

Has said thatiran could have nuclear developments. it makes it unacceptable for the u.s. and the world because it behaves the way for iran to get a nuclear weapon. >> i think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in iran. it's an unusual coalition. i think what we're going to focus on right now is actually seeing whether we can get a deal or not. >> iran's foreign minister has called the letter a propaganda ploy. still to come here on cnn, dramatic video of the moment of impact. a train slams into a tractor-trailer stuck on the ra...