that s the implication of what he is saying. that s why you heard the supporters of same-sex marriage saying, within five years it will be the law of all 50 states that gay people have the right to get married. but let s not get ahead of ourselves. that s not what the court said today. what the court said today simply was that the federal government cannot discriminate against the gay people in the states where it s already legal. i think ted olson and david boies have some work ahead of them still. they re not finished today. so, jeffrey toobin, thank you. you ve been doing excellent work out there, very accurate and well-assessed. other news we ve been following, the breaking story about the nfl s aaron hernandez, currently under arrest, cuffed, taken out of his house by plains clothes, our legal experts look at his case and what the young man could be facing other than being fired from his football team. [ stewart ] we ve never cooked anything like this before.
act overturned. and as you know, ashleigh, that s very interesting simply because justice scalia, of all the nine on the bench, is the one who has the way with words and the sharp language he uses in his opinions. so just a fascinating day here at the united states supreme court, ashleigh. and yet another dissent from the bench. we re getting that all week long. this is a big, big week, and a lot of heat and energy. a great job reporting from out there, joe johns. a lot of information coming down the pike. we re not finished our coverage on this. i m going to let joe go, and we ll check in with jeffrey toobin later on in the hour. more analysis to this decision, the reaction, and the future implications of the decision. that s coming up. we have other breaking news. a dramatic turn of events playing out in the boston area. new england patriots tight end aaron hernandez led out of his own home in handcuffs by plainclothes police officers, and not just a few. you see two in your scre
first arraignment is over, and that s what will happen next, when the arraignment first appearance is over, then the district attorney, who has been in charge of this investigation from bristol county, will have something to say to the news media. so until then, we don t know what the charge is. but what a scene it was this morning just before 9:00 a.m., when he was led out of his house, plainclothes officers going up to the front door, and just inside the front door, when the door opened, the handcuffs were placed on him. he was led out. his arms cuffed behind his back, beneath a white t-shirt. he was wearing shorts. and he spit as he was being walked to the squad car, and then he was driven away. of course, all of this is part of an ongoing murder investigation into the shooting death of odin lloyd. lloyd is a friend of aaron hernandez. according to their own family members, the sister of aaron hernandez and the sister of the victim in this case, or rather the girlfriends of both, we
they do not want to bring an end to the law being struck down, the ban being struck down. right. the only other option would be to pass a state law that gives an individual, a third party, the right to represent the state in this type of litigation. we ll have much more on this decision, and, of course, a lot of other breaking news going on this morning. i m going to go back to ashleigh banfield. ashleigh, throwing to you. hello, everyone. i m ashleigh banfield. we have a very busy show ahead. a lot of news breaking today in the george zimmerman case, aaron hn hernandez, and, of course, everything happening at the u.s. supreme court. we have all of those stories coming your way live. in the meantime, history making in the look at that. that is jubilation, folks. supporters and opponents and the media and the masses, all gathered here today at the
back with our expert take on this, the legal analyst paul callan and defense attorney danny cevalos. so, let me ask you, paul, you are called to be aaron hernandez s defense attorney, and you are in this situation right now. what do you know and what are you doing at this moment? well, first, it s likely that the defense attorney already knows what the charges are. he s got good relations with the police and the prosecutor, and he would have been told that. i mean, i just saw, believe it or not, the massachusetts state police announced that they were not going to announce the charges via twitter, just to show you how times have changed. only in open court will the charges be announced. you re starting to look at bail. you re starting to look at, you know, how am i going to get him out. can i get him out? if it s a murder charge, he won t get bail. if it s something less, he will. listen, danny, i always think that right away. it doesn t get more serious than murder, and, you know,