persons with equality zoosh i cannot legally come up with an argument against same-sex marriage. who am i to say that someone does not have the same rights that i have with my wife who i love or to have the 1,300 plus that i share with her? the big hang-up all week here was religion. specifically protections for religious institutions who refuse to marry same-sex couples, protections that would make it so that they would not face discrimination lawsuits. once that language was agreed upon, this legislation moved really quickly. alex. it did, indeed. okay. thank you very much from albany. well, president obama is stepping in to restart negotiations on the budget deficit. the president has called senate leaders from both parties to meet with him on monday. that after republicans walked out of bipartisan debt talks on thursday. joininging me now mike.
help stop deposits before they start with castrol gtx. it s more than just oil. it s liquid engineering. at 30 past the hour. we re keeping a close eye on things going on in the casey anthony murder trial down there in orlando. now, casey had left the room earlier as we look right now. it looks like you see george anthony. that could be her father and cindy anthony in the screen. we have brian diamond here from the daily beast. she s been covering this. i want to ask you, first of all, diane, we hear that there s some sort of an argument going on right now. prosecution is saying we don t agree with some sort of discovery that they tried to allow in court. it s an ongoing problem. the judge perry said in effect thbt again. the defense keeps bringing up witnesses to testify about things that nobody knew they were going to testify about. yet again this morning they ve done that. the jury is not in yet. the judge is nott in yet.
defense, saying he helped her maybe cover up the fact that her daughter had drowned accidentally in the pool and all that. this woman overheard an argument. lots of bad language being used by george anthony. coming after his daughter begging her to say where is she, what have you done to her? this is the first time casey anthony was out of jail for first time. the only thing tracy stayed there for nine days is because she was re-arrested. she would have stayed there longer. the first night casey is home, george anthony there s a big loud argument in the hallway, and this is a former police officer. right. he is screaming at his daughter what did you do with her? lots of f-bombs being dropped. you have to know where she is. where is that child? casey is screaming backstop acting like a cop. act like a dad. the crux of it was cindy and casey turn on george and say leave the house. leave your own house. which he did.
far. casey s brother, lee, took the stand friday and broke down in tears. he testified he did not visit the hospital after his niece caylee was born because his family didn t include him. i was just angry at everyone in general that they didn t they didn t want to include me or find is important enough to tell me especially after i already asked. i was very hurt. let s go live to orlando and nbc s lila luciano. very emotional testimony from lee anthony. what about what we expect in court today? well, court started earlier this morning, alex. we just heard a very heated argument between the defense and the prosecution. prosecution once again accusing the definite of discovery by elations.