good morning. a lot to talk about and what happened yesterday. i want to get your big takeaway from day three especially rachel gentel. i thought she was certainly credible. i thought she was believable. there was no question she was be emotional. she was raw. i don t know she appeared she was coached. i thought bottom line is she did help the prosecution. she is not the only witness, those to contradict george zimmerman s version of events, but when you look at it she s the fourth witness. so even if the jury doesn t believe one or two pieces of what she has to say, everything she is saying has been corroborated by other witnesses, and so when you look at it one context, i think that she really did pretty well for the prosecution. i did want to get your take there because it s been described her people describing she was a tough witness. she is young.
anthony kennedy s opinion he wasn t lot farther than he had to especially in his rhetoric and he really did almost invite challenges in those 38 states that don t have same sex marriage. he went up to the edge. he didn t do it but went up to the edge of saying there is a constitutional right in the united states to marry the person you love of whatever sex and that are the lawsuits that s on the horizon now. challenges in those states that forbid it saying that the united states constitution allows it. that is going to be challenge. those are challenges that will start working their way through the courts and be back in the supreme court before too long. also begs the question the defense of marriage act the majority opinion that struck down doma it sparked three different, i believe, dissenting opinions from three conservative justices. why three? the four conservative justice had a lot of objections to
you re a fan of who you re a fan of. people can tell a lot about people who change their loyalties to sport teams. if they won t be loyal to a sport team why would they be loyal to you. ouch! i know it s a tough topic for a die-hard red sox fan like you but what s the deal with the sports loyalty jab? if christi runs for president we ll be doing this every morning. he says what you thinks. remember the new york yankees general manager response to a-rod that s what hilary wishes she could say to chris christie this morning but she can t. look, this is part of who this guy is. look, christi/hilary match-up would be fabulous. but he s just trying to get at the fact you can t believe, your can t trust who she is but he s being himself as a fan and this the christi being christi. he s an entertaining guy. let s go from inside politics to the outside, things going on that affect people that have to
heterosexual couples. there s got to be road blocks. there are. there are a lot of complexities. think about, for example, couples, same sex couples in relationships that in states that don t have, that don t have same sex marriage. so, you have couples that move, married couples in massachusetts let s say who get married in massachusetts with who move to alabama. do they get federal benefits? do they get to file joint tax returns? these are the kinds of things that are going to be very complicated in the obama administration. they have to sort out all those rules and it s not going to be it s not a simple task. the justices in their majority opinion went further than many expected in striking down doma but still they did not go as far to say there s a constitutional right to same sex marriage. does that mean, does that tell you there s more legal challenges ahead? i think what was so extraordinary from justice
national security, just late yesterday for the first time defense secretary chuck hagel said yes there was a serious security breach. officials say that terrorists are changing their tactics already. but there are a lot of skeptics who still say terrorists know not to use their cell phones, not to logon, that mainly this is embarrassment to the u.s. government. the debate goes on. kate. absolutely right. barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you. after a week of intense scrutiny police have charged ex-nfl player aaron hernandez with first degree murder. new england patriots fired the former tight end almost immediately. prosecutors now say hernandez executed the victim and then tried to destroy evidence. cnn s alina cho is in the massachusetts with the latest. what do we know, alina? reporter: chris, good morning. this is certainly not the kind of environment that aaron hernandez is used to. he s waking up in a single person jail cell this morning. a little more than a week ago he