Richard berke. For. I live. Their lives it is. Its the most wonderful time of the year but not everyone gets to relax as retailers around the world wrap up their final christmas preparations we take a look behind the scenes out of Berlin Department store. Also want to show the iconic fetal may no longer be rolling off the Assembly Line but that doesnt mean that beatlemania is over. Im twice some shoppers in the netherlands are being encouraged to slow down when they take a trip to the Grocery Store. This is d. W. Business im Kate Ferguson welcome along to the season to be jolly at least for the 2000000000 people around the world celebrating christmas but not everyone gets to relax from baltimore all the way to here in berlin people work behind the scenes to ensure the rest of us get to enjoy some festive cheer while repping presents 3 shifts a day thats all these employees do here at a Department Store in central berlin and the closer christmas looms the more frenetic the pace. City bo
Passage. We have a rare moment for the Senate Foreign Relation Committee and the senate as a whole to demonstrate this. And coming together to demonstrates our ability to give constructive input on one of the most Important National Security Issues of the day and strain our divisive influences in this body and demonstrate our ability to overcome them and show the relevance and Work Together to come together in the best interest of our nation. With that, madam president , i yield the floor. Next, the Supreme Court Court Hears Oral Argument in several samesex marriage cases. Then we open it up to you and later a debate on samesex marriage on todays washington journal. Throughout the day we have been seeing comments from a number viewers. This one from maxwell who says it has been legal in the uk for a while and their society is still entact and no one elses marriages have been ruined. Get the government out of marriage all together. Facebook. Com cspan. And on twitter jennifer who covere
Follows on individuals and families couldntntravenes the basic constitutional equivalent to dignity. Abiding purpose of the 14th amendment is to preclude relegating classes of persons to secondtier status. What do you do with the windsor case where the court stressed the federal government a stark deference to states when it comes to matter of domestic relations . States do have primecy over domestic relations except that their laws must respect the Constitutional Rights of persons. Windsor couldnt have been clearer about that. Here we have a whole class of people who are denied the equal right to be able to join in the very extensive Government Institution that provides protection for families. You say join in the institution. The argument on the other side is that theyre seeking to rere redefine the institution. Every definition i looked up prior to about a dozen years ago defined marriage as a unity between a man and a woman as husband and wife. Obviously if you succeed, that core d
It was about 30 seconds before we completely activated all of the resources we had to bear. Its been now less than 24 hours. You see we have a couple thousand more people on the streets in baltimore. To my knowledge theres been no incidents. This morning were still concerned what might happen this evening. Were continuing to bring more people in from around the state and around the country. Were going to put as much manpower and as many resources we can to make sure that we do not have that kind of situation. Reporter you did nothing until the you could do nothing until the mayor made a phone call . Governor hogan no. What i told you is we had been working all week and called up the National Guard. We already activated the Emergency Command Center and when the mayor requested we brought them in. Reporter between 3 00 and 6 00 yesterday, you could do nothing . Governor hogan we did quite a bit but we waited until the mayor asked for us to come in. We didnt think it was appropriate to co
Last week that recruiting is even a problem now because of this issue. Susan thanks to both of you for your time. Tonight on cspans q a, Washington Post reporter walter on the situation in the middle east and the 2003 invasion of iraq. I think one of the things the bush and administration Bush Administration and history has proved it. We look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. You can go back to vietnam which is a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly, but we have a history of trying to think other people are like us and what our standards. The world is different. Particularly in the middle east, it is totally different. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and s pacific on cspans q a. Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering this spring on cspan twos book tv. That is the spring on cspan two loss book tv. The Supreme Court heard to or arguments on tuesday on the constitutionality of samesex marriage. The first question that came before th