Me. This just into cnn just minutes ago. The u. S. Supreme court decided it will stay out of the samesex marriage debate. Five states had asked the high court to review its bans. Senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins us by phone. So, jeffrey, why doesnt the u. S. Supreme court want to rule on any of these cases . Well, the Supreme Court doesnt explain when it declines to review so we have to infer the reason. But apparently they feel like the issue was s developing at a in an appropriate way in the lower court at the moment. There is no conflict among the lower courts, all the circuit courts that have addressed this issue have found that there is a constitutional right to samesex marriage so they dont feel the the justices dont feel like they need to solve a dispute among the circuit courts at this point. But i think in real life samesex marriage is now going to become even more available, although not yet in all 50 states. Well the five states that asked the u. S. Supreme court to
0 amid all this, the president took moments to address the tragedy in oklahoma. of course, as we gather tonight to present this award, our thoughts and prayers remain with the wonderful people of oklahoma. they have suffered mightily this week. and while the road ahead will be long, their country will be with them every single step of the way. eventually, life will go on and new memories will be made and new laughter will come, new songs will be sung. nice event. great for carole. good morning, joe. fantastic. good morning. yeah, fantastic for carole and, boy, she certainly does deserve it. one of the great song writers of our time. any time you have an event in the white house, the president is obliged be a republican or democrat to talk about what is going on in oklahoma and the suffering there. this was scheduled, though, and they went ahead with it and congratulations to carole. mika, an awful lot to talk about. of course, the cleanup in oklahoma still continues. we have got