for february. the president has a number of things he s going to get to. quickly, david, wanted to ask you about liz cheney abandoning her senate bid. a surprise when she announced she was going to run. now she s announcing she s dropping out. what happened? we can only speculate. she was having trouble getting traction but also with her own family. obvious lit the gay rights issue which she has not supported and her sister is guy. it would be the pressures from internally and the uphill battle she faced in the senate race forced her to decide to resign and not keep running. david nakimura with the washington post. happy new year. yeah, you too. coming up, bill karins and betty nguyen will join us with first buzz. coming up, a case of being
address. it will get a lot of attention. we ll also being very legal cases regarding drones. we may see the and that may get litigated around the world. we ll see our issues around iran, the presidential powers and powers of congress. i think it will be more of a national and international security year than a year focusing on international issues. though we ll see cleaning up of the gay rights issue. i think that s an issue that will be over within a few years, but this year we ll sew more an more courts striking down prohibitions. we ll see focus on insider
clear solution. i have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgendered persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them. it makes for some uncomfortable press conferences sometimes. but one of the things that i think is very important for me to speak out on is making sure that people are treated fairly and justly. yesterday the white house announced that an upcoming summit between president obama and russian president vladimir putin was canceled because of disagreement on a number of areas. but i want to talk now about the olympics and the gay rights issue. richard was an adviser to president clinton on a number of important issues including gay rights. he s here to talk about the olympics. so great to have you. i want to talk about what russian officials are now saying. some are seeming to walk back some of their comments on what this ban means. let me read you a quote here.
needs to happen out front for the oppressed helping each other? that s a great question. the civil rights movement created the framework as a temperature place when it was in south africa ar the gay rights movement. what you haven t really seen is a sense of coordination. on the gay rights issue, it s been somewhat of a black eye for the civil rights with the exemption of the the al sharptons. you haven t seen the coordination. early on, there was a lot of resentment of the borrowing of those symbols. they closely guarded the ideas of the civil rights movement. it created distance that hasn t been bridged. because african-americans are conservative, you didn t have the two movements coming together. you are seeing that now. younger african-americans like younger americans in general do
federal government, he said, deeply intertwined. that s a theme over time kennedy has returned to the effect of government, and it was clearly very much in the forefront of his mind today. and jonathan, on the political fallout, one thing we ve all taken note of, the republicans that have brought this forward to the supreme court, specifically john boehner, eric cantor and mccarthy have not wanted to touch it publicly. quote slush a law s constitutionality is determined courts, not by the department of justice. as long as the obama administration refuses to exercise its responsibility, we will. that s from mr. steele right there. this idea that we re not going after this on a gay rights issue, this is only a constitutionality issue, which is we don t like the fact that the doj is not enforcing this and the president is trying to circumstance come vent the