feuds don t help. i want the president to succeed and wants republicans to succeed and these feuds aren t getting us there. so, but who bears the lions share of the blame, in your o pin job? the president for going after corker, corker for doing this or some combination thereof? i think there s combination, blame, in all of these kinds of feuds. look, these people are supposed to be one big happy family. granted, some of theme people are like cousins that never met but have to sit next to each other at thanksgiving dinner. some juncture, we have to sit here, eat together and be civil until it s over for the purpose of satisfying the voters who september the republicans to run washington, d.c. it s trump s fault. donald trump, this is a pattern. i don t know of bob corker having a vendetta or feud with anybody else. maybe it s happened. what we do know, donald trump, he goes from person to person. he s always fighting one person. usually not all at the same time. he sort of goes f
the only person whose o pin ypi who really mattered is president trump s. on the whole, with very notable exceptions, the president liked it. thought bannon gave a forceful defense of him, not just of him and praise of him as well, but also of his policies and his agenda. so on the whole, he has a complicated relationship with steve bannon but watched this entire interview, watched it very closely and he was quite pleased. we re reminded of that phrase. an audience of one. our great thanks to our leadoff panel tonight. ashley parker, jonathan swan, jill wine-banks. thank you all for stayi ining u with us. we ll take our first break. and coming up, to be a fly on the wall tonight at the white house as the president dined with rs and ds. senators from both parties. when the 11th hour continues. nick was born to move.
dignity. so while scalia s words were certainly very helpful, the words of justice kennedy who authored the majority opinion have been the most soaring rhetoric and most wonderful undergirding of a lot of the decisions we ve seen. well, just to be clear here, right, there s two rationales that kennedy gives in the majority o pin whereon for striking down doma, right? let s remember defense of marriage act which prohibits prohibited states from doing certain things or prohibited the federal government from recognizing state-based same-sex marriage. right? kennedy basically says, look, this is not the thing for the federal government to do. this offends or federalist principles and goes on to say, this is an insult to human dignity and equality. when you read opinion on that day, were you like game over, we ve got this? we were. extremely optimistic about future successes. and we all knew it was going to be a game changer. that windsor was going to propel us forward in a way that was
stunning in terms of activism and said she made a mistake on signing on to a 2009 o pin whereon that ultimately laid the groundwork for the court s eventual gutting of the voting rights about this year. despite her opposition, that decision did happen this year. since then, a number of states covered by the voting rights act wholly or in part have sprung into action to do things that that law would most likely have prevented them from doing were it still in effect. states have changed their voting laws in ways that would have been too racially discriminatory to have been allowed before under the voting rights act, but now they can get away with it and so they re going for it. last week the justice department announced they were going to sue the state of texas over the voter i.d. law texas republicans put into place after the supreme court decision. a federal court in texas is reviewing the justice department s complaint. while that review goes on, the voter i.d. law in texas is going i