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Spouse is right here watching and listening and would be very proud and happy of where we've come to. >> well today's case came just a day after oral arguments on california's proposition 8, california's same-sex marriage ban. justices both liberal and conservative, seemed reluctant yesterday to use it as a basis for sweeping national change. this case, doma, could be just the opposite. senior analyst jeffrey toobin joins us, he was inside the court. i know everything comes from the caveat that the supreme court could surprise us, but you think that doma is in trouble, the majority of justices...

Proposition 8 case. they were certainly very many suggestions that they might do that there. >> right. >> we could -- this whole thing could end with a thud. i sort of doubt it. i think at least this case will be decided on the merits come the end of june. >> jeff tube in, thank you. and now a massive landslide in washington state. this is just incredible when you look at this and the dropoff from the homes. it has destroyed homes and threatening 17 others. look at that person standing there and there is a garden, like a park, and then just a drop. it is about 30 miles north of seattle. we d...

Would be pleased. >> today is like a spectacular event for me. it's a lifetime kind of event. and i know that the spirit of my late spouse, thea spire, okay, is right here watching and listening, and would be very proud and happy of where we've come to. >> today's case came just a day after oral arguments on california's proposition 8, same-sex marriage ban. justices, both liberal and conservative, seemed reluctant yesterday to use it as the basis for sweeping national change. this case, doma, on the other hand, could be just the opposite. jeffrey toobin was inside the court again today and jo...

Opinion seems to be shifting and unmistakable. why kick the can down the road? >> reporter: this is the thing i thought was so interesting. we talked so much about how public opinion has changed. but it was the conservatives on the court who kept raising the issue of public opinion. john roberts did it again today. he said, look, you are making all kinds of progress, state by state. why do you want us to get involved? why should the supreme court get involved when this is a live political issue, you're making all kinds of progress. and, of course, the challengers to the defense of marriage act...

I want to move into another issue that came up several times in the prop 8 case and conception of doma. the state of the science and whether raising children in a same-sex family with a married couple is a good or bad thing. or if there is not enough research yet. during yesterday's oral arguments and proposition 8, several justices and the attorney defending proposition 8 expressed doubts about the scientific consensus on the subject, justice scalia citing, and kennedy citing doubts because of how recently the body of knowledge is. and the lawyer defending prop 8, saying there is no doubt and...