month. this is my niece chris holding the proclamation. the white house has hosted one of these events, but the first reception since the president uttered these words. for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. that endorsement arrived way too late for some, and it did arrive. the advancement has been about more than symbols and rhetoric, considering the unprecedented steps has taken to advance lgbt americans. six months after he took office, president obama made sure same-sex partners received benefits offered to heto couples. he offered the hate crimes prevent act. signeded the repeal of don t ask, don t tell, and signed a newnt housing. those are the highlights.
company, but there s a lot of complicated things here including rules spitzer put into place. a lot of rooms to go around. watching the stock. going to open slightly higher. the story of the morning, chuck. well, we re going to find out the real bottom of facebook, apparently. becky quick, thank you, as always. next, digging deeper. the brand new nbc/ wall street journal poll. our pollsters are here. we re giving more time. that s what we re doing, folks. and plus, president obama s highs and lows in the gop s perception problem. all right here. unleashing the attack dogs. congressman paul ryan signeded like a man auditions for the vice president bid. and watching the daily rundown only on msnbc. don t go over 2000. 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i m not listening. to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole.
one, the justice department bends to his will in some cases. we ve seen it before, for example, the attorney general, deputy attorney general, signeded off on the firing of jim comey under false pretensions. or when the attorney general started to look into whether there should be a special prosecutor to investigate this uranium one deal left over from the obama administration. there s a problem, a larger problem that the american public starts to lose faith in the credibility of our institutions that guarantee the rule of law. that s a corrosive effect that could have ramifications not just during the trump administration but for years to come. ned, a week earlier, the president told the times reporter this in regard to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. quote, i have absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department but for purposes of hopefully thinking i m going to be treated fairly, i ve stayed uninvolved with this particular matter. bluster or do you t