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Opportunity to work on both the proposition 8 trial and again in virginia. i think the decision is brilliantly worded and will help advance the rights of gays and lesbians beyond just marriage equality by confirming both their place in society and the need for them to be treated equally. >> josh, we're going to work on some of your mike issues and we're going to come back to you in a second. white house communications director jen socki join mess now. jen, it is great to see you. >> great to see you. >> as always. and we heard from the president during the 11:00 hour right before he had to lea...

Scrutiny test, but even if it doesn't and it could apply some sort of intermediate level of scrutiny or a rational basis test, which means the state can support this law, which affects a group of people if it has a logical basis for doing so but what we showed in the proposition 8 case was, there is no evidence supporting any argument that is logical as to why these individual citizens should not be able to marry, should not be able to travel with their family from one state to another and have the benefits that we all enjoy as americans. >> sarah, thank you for joining us, josh thank you, as ...

Tomorrow. now he has a look back at how it got this point. >> two years ago the supreme court handed down two highly anticipated decisions back to back the same day. >> the court has said that it is unconstitutional as a matter of equal protection. >> first striking down the defense of marriage act. the woman responsible now 86-year-old edi wenzer. her suit over a bill. her long time love left her. >> the woman i loved and cared for and shared my life with was not my legal spouse. >> doma defined marriage as only between a man and woman. the court's ruling invalidated the 1996 federal law. the...

Now, there may have been a policy reason to reenforce that, which was to let the progress develop a little bit further. we had less than half the country with marriage equality. overwhelmingly, it's taken over the country. just in the last couple of years you've seen a tremendous movement that i think makes it easier now for the supreme court to make that total decision. >> is it possible the supreme court could basically, i hate to use this phrase but split the baby and say that states have to recognize, all 50 states have to recognize same-sex marriages but individual states cannot issue lic...

Policy reason to reenforce that, which was to let the progress develop a little bit further. we had less than half the country with marriage equality. overwhelmingly, it's taken over the country. just in the last couple of years you've seen a tremendous movement that i think makes it easier now for the supreme court to make that total decision. >> is it possible the supreme court could basically, i hate to use this phrase but split the baby and say that states have to recognize, all 50 states have to recognize same-sex marriages but individual states cannot issue licensees? >> i don't believe ...