north carolina voting today on whether gays and lesbians should be able to get married. on amendment one. my feelings on this are evolving. stop saying your views are evolving. just come out and say it already. it s not popular in swing states. you re against banning gay marriage, but not for it. i struggle with this. what should the president do? he should man up. the numbers are shifting. support for gay marriage is just about down the middle. 50% favor, 41% oppose. men marrying men, women marrying women. i am absolutely comfortable. obama, i know that you re listening. no one s ever doubted i mean what i say. joe biden being joe biden. the problem is i sometimes s say what i mean. are you listening?! mitt romney has a new campaign tactic. taking president obama s successes and saying that he would have done the same thing, even though mitt romney is already on record saying that he wouldn t. here was romney trying out the new tactic
you d want to hang out with if you were a guy. but, and this is a big but, the biggest gripe i have with dan rather is that he was unable or incapable of taking serious criticism about journalism seriously. that s it. that s my one complaint, that he couldn t take serious criticism seriously. megyn: all journalists make mistakes at some point in their career, the question is whether you own up to them, you admit it, you apologize for it, you make good on it. right. megyn: that has not happened here. bernie, thank you, sir. okay. thanks, megyn. megyn: well, coming up, a sudden death, a huge bag of cash and traces of drugs. new details in the mystery behind this man s death and what it has to do with the teamsters union? and joel aarons is a decorated soldier who did a big tour on the mean streets of baghdad and won the bronze star in the process. he s also the man behind this ad, an online message that accuses president obama of taking credit for the seal team six raid that kille
world it was chen s desire to remain in china, but the 40-year-old blind dissident is now receiving medical treatment after sustaining a foot injury escaping house arrest with the help of supporters last week. chen told the associated press that u.s. officials informed him of a threat that his wife would be beaten to death if he did not leave the american embassy. state department officials have insisted that is not the case. in a phone be interview with sky news, chen explained why he s worried. translator: when i was inside the u.s. embassy, i couldn t get information. now i have it, and i can sense certain things, and i ve changed my mind. reporter: the timing is awkward for secretary of state hillary clinton who is in china with treasury secretary tim geithner to discuss economic and global security issues. today clinton didn t mention chen by name but did mention the broader issue. the united states raises the importance of human rights and fundamental freedoms bec
his family to safety today. the state department made a deal with china that has now blown up, and it is not clear if we can now save this guy even if we wanted to. mike emanuel starts our coverage live in washington. reporter: it s not clear if something got lost in translation or if blind chinese dissident realized after leaving the safety of the u.s. embassy that his family was in serious danger. american officials had told the world it was chen s desire to remain in china, but the 40-year-old blind dissident is now receiving medical treatment after sustaining a foot injury escaping house arrest with the help of supporters last week. chen told the associated press that u.s. officials informed him of a threat that his wife would be beaten to death if he did not leave the american embassy. state department officials have insisted that is not the case. in a phone be interview with sky news, chen explained why he s worried. translator: when i was inside the u.s. embassy, i
favor of this guy. we go to a little turkish town and we ll crucify them. whoa, as my grandma would say. nonetheless i m on his side. the obama administration isn t. go time. richard bernel is a hateful republican conservative. he served on the bush administration for many ambassador and he s a spokesperson there, including john bolton, and reporters say he lied consistently and was the biggest liar they had seen in two decades. but that wasn t his problem. he sent out hateful tweets about women, including calista gingrich, but that was not his problem. turns out richard bernel was gay. can you be a foreign policy adviser to mitt romney if you re gay? first let s establish his credentials. this is him being utterly conservative on fox news. joining me now, rick bernel spokesman for the ambassadors to the united nations. i m not sure that the commander in chief should be holding our u.s. military out for saying that they ve done something wrong or they ve made a mi