carolina vote last night key battleground state, voters there shooting down same-sex marriage going forward with a been on same-sex marriage, all of this really heated up started sunday on meet the press when vice president biden appeared to box the president in by all but endorsing same-sex marriage, very big issue in this election and a big issue in some of the key battleground like north carolina. the president said in 2010 he was evolving on that issue. we ll see within the next half hour whether he has completed the evolution. megyn: he said he s going to go farther than he ever has before? yesterday easy sroflg and now today if he stops short of saying he actually favors gay marriage, you know, where are we? reporter: look, that s why in fairness to the president we ll have to wait and see what he says. my initial source adviser to the president said flatly, quote, he s not just going to talk about old ground. he ll definitely make choose and will not be rehashing his old pos
when it came to that issue of iran. and mark thiessen. dose have his stats right? we were the problem under president obama bush. as usual joe biden has it completely wrong. we were not isolated during the bush administration. it was during the bush administration in 2008 that the u.n. security council passed its third round of sanctions on iran. the european union froze the assets of the central bank. it many not like they came in and started this international coalition where we had been in neutral as joe biden says. but let s look at what has happened under the obama-biden administration. iran has made more progress toward getting a nuclear weapon under obama-bind than they have
conduct things in this country. megyn: the man who said, it s the economy stupid is now issuing a new wake up call in a way that only he can. we ll show you james carville s new warning for fellow democrats what it comes to the upcoming presidential election. the controversial stand your ground law, under serious skraout me in the wake of the trayvon martin, george zimmerman shooting case. a couple of washington lawmakers have a new idea for trying to get rid of this law, not just in florida, but in every state in which it exists. and vice president joe biden says the bush team had it all wrong when it came to dealing with iran and its nukes, and actually he says that we, what does that mean, america? we are to blame when it comes to this issue. is he right? general jack keen spent years dealing with iran. we will get his thoughts on that and the vice president s comments coming up. when we took office, let me remind you there was virtually no international pressure on
this is consistent with obama s position. obama a s position is as it was years ago. it seems like the white house is trying to distance themselves from joe biden s position, now you re telling me they will come out and endorse it? i think they were trying to clarify, not distance themselves. i think the vice president quite frankly went out and went further than the white house expected and further than the president. its not so much distancing, it was the fact that jay carney said a couple of days ago after facing tough questions that he was insisting there was no distance between the vice president and president. he said i ve got no problem with a man mayoring a man, with a woman marching march marrying a woman. there was a difference in the position, it did sound like new policy. the white house was scrambling to clarify. i spoke to another democratic adviser outside the white house who said this was a gaffe by the
that s a second quote in addition to the one i read earlier. the suggestion to me is that he is not going to new answer this further and he ll come out with a direct position that would be endorsing same-sex marriage. but we ve got to hear from him. megyn: you mentioned something in your report. joe biden our vice president goes on meet the press over the weekend and sounds very much like he s endorsing gay marriage. then he calls nbc right back according to chuck todd, and in his office says he was speaking for himself personally, he was not making new policy, and even before he said what he said on meet the press he said, look, you know, i don t speak for the president i m the vice president. there seemed to be a distancing by the vice president from his remarks there. you have david axelrod coming out shortly after that saying, well that is precisely the president s position, that, you know, gays should have equal rights even they are married or civil unions. you ve have carney