you might slow down a little bit. you might not jump as high as you used to. right. but, i know what i m doing and i m fearless. and when you get to that point freedom. then, you know. and, and also part of that fearlessness is because you ve screwed up enough times. sure. that you know that it s all happened. it s all happened. i ve been through this. right. i ve screwed up. right. i ve been in the barrel, tumbling down niagara falls. yeah. and, i emerged and i lived. and that s always a a that s such a liberating feeling. interesting to hear the president there. much more on the president s defining week in just a moment. first though the big court decisions and their meaning. and the pressure they put on republicans. ron fournier, obamacare now has cement hardening on it. same-sex marriage is now a national right. all 50 states have to allow it. the confederate flag, part of a playbook in which some republicans for years have run on the, they re
a caring man. a religious man. but he just didn t get it. and finally he said you know, change comes so slow. but then it comes so fast. and i think there s a lot of people dealing with this this week. this change did come remarkably fast on the marriage issue. if you look back at the civil rights movement, the women s right movement took many, many years. took many setbacks. this one did happen if you remember 2004 george w. bush wins a relatively close presidential election in part because republicans selectively in battleground states put constitutional amendments on the ballot to drive up conservative turnout outlawing gay marriage. what now? will any of these republicans have the courage i guess to look past their base, which is angry, losing on obamacare? losing on marriage? seeing these other things happening, to where the country s going or are they beholden to that base, in the short term? and molly as i ask you the question the reactions, two different schools if you will i
not being snarky but gushing about the loves of their life. tv personalities and guests wore red and pink to celebrate the most romantic day of the year. all over the world people smiled a little brighter. here we dismissed it as a hallmark holiday. a lot of guests said sorry, it s valentine s day. even cnn employees said, oh, can we not do this today? i want to leave because it s valentine s day. we thought come on. then john boehner sent a tweet saying you are not alone. and so we read on and the tweet said this. this valentine s day millions of americans have broken hearts from president obama s broken promises. wait, he was talking about obamacare? putting obamacare in the same sentence at valentine s day? that was just not romantic. then we found another debbie downer the dating website ashleigh madison which encourages people to have fairs. for the third consecutive year,
correspondent mike emanuel s live at the capitol. mike, as we wait to hear from speaker boehner, what s the focus of the republicans in the senate right now? reporter: well, martha, it s fascinating because a lot of senators say they re really focused on trying to pick off enough red state democrats to keep harry reid from putting obamacare money back into this critical government funding bill. on the house side, much of their focus has been on the debt ceiling package, in other words, what they hope to get out of agreeing to raise the nation s borrowing authority such as building the keystone xl pipeline, doing tax reform, things of that nature. they re also waiting to see what the senate sends them in terms of this government funding bill. in the senate the gop focus remains on obamacare. believe the only solution is to dismantle obamacare in its entirety. as some have said, well, after senator cruz got through speaking today after after his remarkable 21-hour performance,
against it. 95 democrats voted against it. all republican leadership in the house voted for it. doug, give you the last word. bottom line everything has to be on the table by democrats and republicans is we can t afford political orthodoxy anymore. i m for putting obamacare, taxes, revenue, entitlements on the table, bottom line, monica may be right. bill: wow! double-barrel. she may be right, but if we stick to our positions rigidly we all as americans lose where americans before were democrats and republicans, bill. bill: thank you. the book s name is? what the bleep just happened which applies to this segment and the defense sequester. bill: see you guys real soon. thank you. bill: patti ann. patti ann: a stunning development in the colorado movie massacre investigation. we ll tell you about warnings a psychiatrist gave a month before the tragedy. red flags that may have been missed. it could be a huge break in a murder mystery baffling police for more than a decade.