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States. >> the question is even when those marriages are legal can the federal government deny to those legally married couples benefits that would be available to heterosexual couples? >> virginia senator mark warner becomes the latest lawmaker to announce his support for gay marriage. the democrat announced his decision on facebook, saying it is the fair and right thing to do. >> now as we said today's arguments before the court deal specifically with california's ban on gay and lesbian marriages. >> mark matthews of our san francisco station kgo spoke with the couples whose legal action is ...

>> the question is even when those marriages are legal can the federal government deny to those legally married couples benefits that would be available to heterosexual couples? >> virginia senator mark warner becomes the latest lawmaker to announce his support for gay marriage. the democrat announced his decision on facebook, saying it is the fair and right thing to do. >> now as we said today's arguments before the court deal specifically with california's ban on gay and lesbian marriages. >> mark matthews of our san francisco station, kgo spoke with the couples whose legal action is ending ...

Nation's solicitor general making part of that side's oral argument. the other part of the pro gay rights oral argument will be made by this man, the former solicitor general from the last presidency, ted olson, theodore olson and probably the most recognizable conservative legal figure in the country who is not himself a supreme court justice. ted olson was george w. bush's solicitor general. me played the role of joe biden to prep paul ryan for the vice presidential debate this past presidential election. ted olson the bush versus gore debate. it's ted olson and boyce who he beat are both on...

0 keystone and they will fight it. outside voorenvironmental groupe also saying they have 50,000 people lined up, who have signed up and said they are willing to be arrested, protesting against keystone. also today, the secretary of state, john kerry, is on a surprise trip to afghanistan. he landed just hours after the u.s. handed over its prison, its main prison in that country, to the afghan government. that may not sound like the biggest deal in the world, but that prison was one of the most important sticking points to how and when we would finally end our war there and extricate ourselves...

0 outsider president. >> let's talk about the dogs. to me, painting 50 dog portraits says something about one's personality. does that say to you that he's just perfecting a certain style? does it speak to an obsession? is barney his muse? >> well, i think it might be all of the above or maybe a discomfort with people. the idea of being alone. the idea of being private. the idea of these dogs being surrogates for himself or karl rove or whoever they're supposed to be. but he's obviously really good at painting them. i wish he would paint more self-portraits. i think his landscapes are better. ...