the country, specifically, gender roles. today in tennessee the republican governor billy see signed two controversial new laws. one bans gender affirming care for minors and the other restricts drag shows in the state. let s bring in former democratic congressman ron derrick jones and patrick is here and doug high. guys, let s start with the decision to ban any sort of doctors medical care for anyone under 18 who is looking who believes they are trans and is looking for any sort of medical treatment be it pharmaceutical, consultation or anything like that. doug, i believe you are comfortable with this new law in tennessee. yeah, i think one we have to treat people with dignity and respect and certainly what we ve learned over not just the past three or four years but 20 years, people that feel this way, are this way and have gone through this process quite often go through a very painful life and process. we don t want that. but there are differences between people who a
differentiate between equity and equ equality? well, quality we talk about i don t know what the answer to that is. come to think of it, you know, equality is equality of opportunity. all right? we live in a society we want all people right. to have whatever color your skin is. equity is more guarantee of outcome, is it now? i think so. i think so. okay. so which side do you come down on? equality. equality. yeah. okay. boys? any comment on that one? i don t know if that s the definition difference. the equality outcome over equality of opportunity is a question that analyzes affirmative action and everything else and a very strong even people that want equality of outcome say they only want equality of opportunity and vice versa. that s a that issue, that core of that, what do you actually want and i think bernie
tonight. there s been so much political reaction here at home. donald trump proposing that the u.s. institute a database for muslims, living in this country. you did stir up a controversy with the comments over the database. let s clear that up. are you ruling out a database on all muslims? no, not at all. i want a database for the refugees that if they come into the country, we have no idea who these people are. when the syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don t know if they re isis. we don t know if it s a trojan horse and i want a database and other checks and balances. we want to go with watch lists, with databases, and we have no choice. we have no idea who s being sent in here. this could be the great it s probably not, but it could be the great trojan horse of all time. joining me now, the executive director of the women s islamic initiative in spirituality and equ equality. when you hear donald trump say
i have to take i want equ equality you don t get equality let me say something. you do not get equality by defending a chauvinist pig. let me finish. you do not get equality by defending chauvinist pigs. i have been shocked by how many women let me finish. including you and other tea party women who have come out and defended donald trump for saying look at her face, look at that face. how do you how in the world could you want that woman to be president? it doesn t get more chauvinist than that. the fact that women are defe defending him because i don t know a trump support are on tv talking about donald trump as a supporter, it s sad to see you are willing to throw it away just to defend donald trump. let me stop you on that. i am a successful woman.
wherever i can. the truth of the matter is that america works better when we are working together. congress controls this first talk about congress and the president working together. that s a good thing. the chief political analyst gloria borger. after these remarks, the president will sign the agriculture of 2014 bill, aka the farm bill. i thought it was interesting listening to the bit we did, again mentioning income and equ equality. this is all part of the push to own helping the middle class and even the farm bill is part of an initiative talking about called made in rural america. what the president is also going to talk about, this farm bill took four years to do. but it was completely bipartisan. there were cuts in food stamps that the democrats didn t like,