but i think what you see in high relief here is a part of the american experiment that explains a lot of the prosperity and success our nation has had for more than two centuries and that is to allow states to have the freedom and flexibility to craft policies, whether it be in the area of criminal justice or whether in the area of policy, health care, education, i would argue to allow the states to be the laboratories of those decisions. same for texas, i would assume. absolutely. i think jay articulated the death penalty position as well as anyone that i ve heard in a while. the fact is i think governor malloy agrees with this strongly, as i know mike does. when it gets back to i trust jay nixon. i trust governor malloy. i trust mike pence to make decisions in their states, along
nullification law. so the challenge in a red state like that for a gay marriage supporter leak jay mixon is to bring them along and, susan, again, we have been talking about the regional differences, missouri is emblem at ec of heavily influenced conservativism. at some point, that has to be compatible, the idea has to be compatible for this to be a reality in red state america. i think you have to look at different states, wyoming, montana where there is a strong leber taern tradition, accepting passing, enableing, liamizing gay marriage, much before you see those southern states and regionally border southern states, where there is a lot of religious conservatism accepting it and making it legal. so i think you are more likely to see it in some red estates than others. when you look at regional differences in support of gay marriage, you do find there is
0 care, about socialized medicine and death panels and watched president obama s popularity drop every step of the way. now this with the reality of obama care. they believe they had the perfect weapon to the township 2010 mid-term campaign and they were right. the sounding victory for the republicans on election night disappointing for democrats following a bruising campaign season. the gop need to peck up 13 seats to gain control of the howls. as of now, they gained 15. that number is expected to reyes. that number did rise. the thing is it didn t matter how individual democrats had voted on obama care. 17 of those lost their seats anyway in november, 2010. some didn t bother to try. when they looked up and you a the gop tidal wave coming. they stepped aside and decided to not run for re-election. all those other house democrats, staired down the republican attacks, the warning of political suicide, who voted to make the affordable care act a law and lost their jobs and polit
our national state database network. we continue to work 24 hours a day to get that done in a professional, effective, efficient manner. governor, the president is coming this afternoon. i know he ll be there from one of the memorials that you ll be having. i am certain he will ask you what you need. what s your top priority? we want to continue to feel the people of this country continuing to reach to us an give those contributions to our various charities. that s been tremendously helpful. we also are going to need their will to rebuild here. we re going to need the assistance from everybody to get this site cleaned off, rebuilt and rebirth. we ve been working with all of the folks. bottom line is the most important thing today is the refocus on our resolve, the calling on a higher power to make sure we all have the strength to go through what s going to be many months of rebuilding here in joplin, missouri. governor, there have been a number of articles out that are surprised,
today, serving those who serve with the vice chief of staff of the army peter kror relly. veterans advocates with tim tats and paul rykofp. chairman of the senate veterans commit patty murray. paying for veterans is a cost of war. and an iraq veteran i ve been told welcome home dozens of times. i met a vietnam vet who had never been told that once. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. this afternoon president obama visits joplin, missouri, the town devastated by tornadoes. joining us this morning from joplin, governor jay mixon. give us an update, the number of confirmed dead, what s the situation with the morgue and how many do you still have missing? we ve got that unaccounted for number overnight down to 44 now. and throughout the night once again troopers were making that most difficult visit to families in this region notifying them of a loss of their family members. we a we ve still got a significant level of work to do to make sure because