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Read life begins with a new governor. joining me today, salon.com editor at large and msnbc political analyst, joan walsh. business and economics correspondent for slate, matt u ig glasous. joining us from austin, the texas state senator leticia vandeputte. if the bill passes, what's the next step for opponents of the legislation? >> i am so afraid that this bill will succeed. . the republicans have learned from their errors of the past they're starting early on their timeline. i think that we will see passage maybe in the next two or three weeks and it will really harm the women of texas. i d...

Abortion and blocking obama care, he's a big impediment to liberal agendas. >> michael? >> i learned that some past lopsided votes of congress are very important to scalia and others not so much. >> fair point. >> going with the supreme court theme, i think we learned that the gay marriage train is not going to be stopped anytime soon. not only did california get gay marriage this week. in fact, just yesterday, gay couples started being married, but the language in the doma decision leaves a door open and advocates are now saying they believe they can get gay marriage nationwide within five ye...

Children women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. what does this say about society? >> i think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to figure out how to create jobs right now. that is the biggest problem. and i think especially the men are seen as the leaders of this, and so we need to try to figure out how to create education better so that we can solve this problem. thank you. >> joining me now is erin carmone, staff writer at salon.com. erin, thanks for joining me. so marissa powell did not win the competition last ni...

40% of american families with children women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. what does this say about society? >> i think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to figure out how to create jobs right now. that is the biggest problem. and i think especially the men are seen as the leaders of this, and so we need to try to figure out how to create education better so that we can solve this problem. thank you. >> joining me now is erin carmone, staff writer at salon.com. erin, thanks for joining me. so marissa powell did n...

He is the aurnl of the new book," the center holds obama and his enemies." also with us political writer to salon.com and host of "up" steve corn a corn a i want to get to the campaign strategy stuff you have in there that is very different. >> this is the first book about the 2012 campaign for starters so your audience which feasts on this stuff. >> we do. >> might be independence in the little nuggets that i have pretty much on every page i try to tell people at least something from behind closed doors about what happened in this campaign. so i'm willing to bet readers that they can find at ...