to pull the court and the country away from the mainstream. gwen: but the president won the day. so it is now my great pleasure to introduce as our next supreme court justice elena kagan. gwen: and in california, a judge overturned a ban on same sex marriage. americans are going to understand that we are people. we lead exciting lives, boring lives, we love our family, our friends, our children. and so it is a great day. the voters say no, then they should decide, not a federal judge. gwen: a constitutional fight most likely headed to the supreme court. covering the week, eamon javers of cnbc. joan biskupic of usa today. and gloria borger of cnn. award winning reporting and analysis. covering history as it happens. live from our nation s capital, this is washington week with gwen ifill. produced in association with national journal. funding for washington week is provided by boeing. exxonmobil. the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation. the annenberg
to pull the court and the country away from the mainstream. gwen: but the president won the day. so it is now my great pleasure to introduce as our next supreme court justice elena kagan. gwen: and in california, a judge overturned a ban on same sex marriage. americans are going to understand that we are people. we lead exciting lives, boring lives, we love our family, our friends, our children. and so it is a great day. the voters say no, then they should decide, not a federal judge. gwen: a constitutional fight most likely headed to the supreme court. covering the week, eamon javers of cnbc. joan biskupic of usa today. and gloria borger of cnn. award winning reporting and analysis. covering history as it happens. live from our nation s capital, this is washington week with gwen ifill. produced in association with national journal. funding for washington week is provided by boeing. exxonmobil. the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation. the annenberg
mainstream. gwen: but the president won the day. so it is now my great pleasure to introduce as our next supreme court justice elena kagan. gwen: and in california, a judge overturned a ban on same sex marriage. americans are going to understand that we are people. we lead exciting lives, boring lives, we love our family, our friends, our children. and so it is a great day. the voters say no, then they should decide, not a federal judge. gwen: a constitutional fight most likely headed to the supreme court. covering the week, eamon javers of cnbc. joan biskupic of usa today. and gloria borger of cnn. award winning reporting and analysis. covering history as it happens. live from our nation s capital, this is washington week with gwen ifill. produced in association with national journal. funding for washington week is provided by boeing. exxonmobil. the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation. the annenberg foundation. the corporation for public broadcast
welcome back to the most news in the morning. minding your business now. social security hits the tipping point this year. the feds say for the first time in 30 years the system will pay out more than it takes in. this year and next. the government report goes on to say unless the system is reformed the social security trust fund will be exhausted by 2037. a point on that is the social security trust fund is just a promise of payment. there is no money. no money sitting in a bank or anything like that to draw from. just adds to the deficit to pay out social security. president obama s top economic mind is leaving the administration. christina roemer, head of the council of economic advisors, is stepping down. her resignation taking effect on september 3rd. the white house says romer will
top economic adviser now resigning. christina romer. this comes as the white house is struggling to show progress on the economy. how big a loss for this team? it is a loss. listen, treasury secretary geithner and larry summers, director of the council of economic adviser, both there very prominent in putting together economic policy. so i think that obviously, if the economy were sailing along and things were great, it would not get as much attention as it is currently getting. it is something that has been going on and apparently been in the planning stages for a couple of months. so the white house was aware of it. i think, obviously, there s lots of economists out there, as we go, who have you know, obviously she can be replaced but it is a member of the original team that helped put together the stimulus plan and something that now is being questioned at least by conservatives and whether it worked or not but it is a loss but not an insurmountable loss. about 25 minutes fr