election. so i m sorry the 2018 election coming up. so that would not have affected things. but, of course, many people have been watching and waiting, waiting for the supreme court to rule on this issue because it has become such annany states throughout the country. just this morning, we re dealing with wisconsin and maryland, issues there. you ll recall it was just a few months ago when this issue was percolating in pennsylvania, the president weighed in multiple times on twitter in that case. the pennsylvania supreme court was the one that actually redrew the maps because the two parties couldn t come to a agreement. we saw president trump weigh in on this, back in february. he talked about the fact that the this should go all the way to the supreme court, that was one thing the president said. well, it has gone all the way to the supreme court. now in two different cases. and today the supreme court deciding to really sidestep this issue, hold on to this issue and this big dec
vetting, whatever that means. so they call it extreme vetting. two things here, andrea. the first is the executive order the president signed and the revised one that came out in march that said a hold for 90 days on visa applicants and 120 days on refugees from the six designated countries. but beyond that, for all other countries that require a visa to come to the united states, the department has been doing what they call extreme vetting. which is to look much more closely at things like people s social media content. remember the two people who were involved in the san bernardino shooting, there was indication they were expressing pro isis views well before the shooting. so they want to look at social media, they want to look much more closely into their backgrounds. that s already going on, while in the meantime we wait for the supreme court to decide whether they re going to grant the government s request to put a hold on the ruling in hawaii the other day that federal judge ou
nothing wrong. he s a member of the agalarov family, with ties to putin. so it s just another layer of intrigue, and a meeting that don trump jr. told us he had disclosed everything about last week. and what he was also saying is in this is all about putin and his friends money. they want to park their money overseas, but they don t want their money to be at risk of being seized under u.s. sanctions. so, you know, when you talk about following the money, this has been job one for putin, is to get those magnitsky sanctions lifted. and any talk that this was about adoptions is just completely folly. pete, you re here also because you re going to be interviewing john kelly, director secretary of homeland security later, and there have been so many issues of visas and waiting for the supreme court s final rulings on what the muslim ban really means. and how it s being interrupted. but it s being interpreted in practice in terms of severe
today. at the same time, same-sex couples celebrated their progress toward equality. there were those protest groups. they got their way months later in the form of prop 8, an amendment to the california state constitution that limits marriage to a man and a woman. but then that was challenged. and today we are, of course, waiting for the supreme court s decision on prop 8 s constitutionality, which is expected by the end of the month, but could come as early as tomorrow. we are also waiting on another decision that relates to same-sex couples. the defensive marriage act that defines marriage between a man and a woman, and prevents same-sex marriages from receiving the same federal benefits as heterosexual marriages. those decisions could change our very definition of family in this country. some of this is very definitions are causing debate when it comes to race, sexual orientation, and even who s taking care of the kids. up next, the look at future
but getting something to move on that would be very difficult. harry reid said it will be patry murray in charge of the budget to deal with these other issues. so the president one of the president s top priorities is global warming. and you re saying that s probably not going to pass through a democratic senate. what about gay marriage? what about gay marriage bills? what s the likelihood? this is another top priority for the president. the president has a democratic senate. what s the likelihood of the democratic senate, under the leader some of of harry reid, passing sweeping i m just asking, you don t think so? there s a bill that promotes the constitutional right to gay marriage. that s not going anywhere, obviously. everybody s waiting for the supreme court. mark halperin, let me ask you the same thing, the president s top priorities that were laid out. we hear that republicans are going to be obstructionist. what is the likelihood of us getting sweeping global warmi