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impacts us. he even voted, no one asked this woman to make a website. stewart wouldn t say, this but i ll say this. this woman s website don t really lead me to believe, her pass websites, that a web designer would hire her. you know? there was a certain level of a suspension of disbelief you d have to believe in that it what designer in san francisco would hire what decided from colorado that s never make this product. stewart pointed this out to me as well. it doesn t stand up. why on earth would he even make this inquiry? if he were to make this, why would he include his own personal information? we spent a lot of time just puzzling this out on the phone. i m grateful for him having such a, you know, good-natured response to the whole thing, to be honest. that s the key thing here for me in this case. no one asked her to design a website for a gay couple.
and on friday, the supreme court sided with smith. here s where the story takes a nod turn. this past week, as the supreme court was deciding the case, reporter, melissa jared grant with the new republic, gave seward a call to confirm his side of the story. it turns out militias call was the very first time stewart had heard of the case or lori smith. in fact, stewart is already married to a woman. stuart told melissa, quote, i wouldn t want anyone to make a wedding website, i m married, i have a child, i am not really sure where that came from. somebody is using false information in the supreme court filing document. so, this case was based purely on the imagination of a would-be christian web designer. there was no injured party involved. the supreme court still ruled in favor of the web designer. now, colorado s
antidiscrimination law is toast, making it easier for religious conservatives to outwardly discriminate against gay people. joining me now is the reporter who broke the story for the new republic, melissa jared grant, also joining us is neil, the man of the week, former actor u.s. solicitor general, msnbc legal analyst, and this term, he argued and won the landmark before the supreme court. welcome to you both. melissa, i m gonna start with you, i just want you to tell us more about what unfolded after you discovered that stewart, who is listed in the case, was not actually a gay man in this is search of a wedding website. a wild case. thank you for having me on to talk about it. i was actually anxious that after friday people would have moved on entirely. stuart hasn t moved on, we ve been texting throughout the weekend. you know what i called him last week, i fully expected him to say, oh god, here s another
defenses that he s put out there regarding that classified documents, it keeps changing. to me, it kind of gives the feeling that he s trying to throw something to see what will stick. you know, when you look at what he said in that recording at bedminster, it s like, dude, it s your own take, right? he said, oh, it is just bravado, i wasn t really serious. this shifting of his defenses here, what do you make of that? and what does it mean potentially for the prosecutors, or the prosecution in this case? well, in some ways he seems to be crowd sourcing his defenses, michael. as you said throwing out some different ideas he wants ditched. but what is so damaging about it at the end of the day all of those defenses and all of the statements can be used against him in trial. it s the reasons that lawyers usually tell their clients to keep quiet while a case is spending so they can figure out what the best strategy is at the time of trial. so, all of these different defenses and evolving