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What happens next. on both of these issues, this is now a fight in the states, especially in the red states, over whether or not being gay should make you a second-class citizen and over whether or not our election laws ought to be blatantly racist. it's going to be both of those fights in parallel in a lot of the same states, all starting right now. these two decisions from the supreme court this week pulled us in different directions, but the fight from here on both of these issues is the same. it happens on the ground locally, pulling in the same direction in a lot of the same places toward...

>> and your decision to be part of it, your decision to help fight this out. why did you know, why did you believe, that your relationship was the right one to be on the masthead here? why did you guys decide to be plaintiffs, knowing the pressure and the time commitment it would mean from you as individuals and as a couple to fight this fight on so many other people's behalf? >> it was just too important not to. in 2008 when we elected the first african-american president, it was a glorious day. but later that night, it was a horrible night when the return for prop 8 came in, saying we were g...

Washington. you are talking about the large crowd in detroit. it was the largest at his time and it was eclipsed by what happened in washington. why did dr. king go to detroit? >> detroit was an industrial city and african-american were second class citizens, we didn't have public accommodation. those who came north to work to the fact rows and could not stop in a holiday inn or buy icecream in howard johnson and didn't have the right to voice. they didn't have the rights as privileges. and we had a sting of second class citizen help and had to pay tax and military service but didn't have the ...

Making sure we provide them with a pathway to citizenship so they come out of the shadows and actually are recognized, not as second-class citizens, but as contributors that they are, that's when we're going to be able to -- that's when we're going to actually be able to have an honest conversation and move the conversation forward. >> vick totoria, new polling sha divide among republican voters. 64% support immigration reform. 43% view immigrants as strengthening the country. 55% say they're a burden. that's got to complicate efforts to sell reform, doesn't it? >> it absolutely does. what we'...

End assault on roe that is coming that we should see arkansas as a sort of sign of? is there a new approach coming, a second prong of the movement? >> oh, yeah. i mean, this isn't chipping away. this is taking a sledgehammer to roe. and the only way it could stand is if they get to the supreme court and they convince the court that they ought to throw roe out the window, 40 years of precedent out the window, and establish some kind of new incredible regime in which women can't make these choices with their doctors. and in which women in a state like arkansas have completely different rights fr...