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And a sunday sitdown with the star and executive producer of the most talked about show on tv. Former mad men favorite Elizabeth Moss nominated tonight for a best actress emmy, takes us inside the dark world of the handmaids tale. You try to make it an entertaining television show. You know, and sometimes thats all it is. But when you can do something that you also feel passionately about and also hits upon things that feel very personal to you its that much more gratifying. A sunday sitdown with Elizabeth Moss plus harry smith a bit later in the show. Lets begin with the second night of protests in st. Louis nbcs blake mccoy is there for us. Good morning. You can see windows boarded up after being smashed in overnight. Protesters never announced they were coming to this neighborhood about 20 minutes outside of downtown st. Louis keeping their prochlts unpredictable and leavi ....
In the Fatal Shooting of an africanamerican. A sunday sitdown with the star and producer of the most talked about show. Elizabeth moss nominated tonight for a best actress emmy takes us inside the dark world of the handmades tale. You try to make an entertaining telling vision show, and sometimes thats all it is, but when you can do something that you also feel passionately about and also hits upon things that feel very personal to you, its that much more gratifying. A sunday sitdown with Elizabeth Moss plus harry smith a bit later in the show. Lets begin with the second night of protests in st. Louis turning ugly. Nbcs blake mccoy is there for us. Blake, good morning. Reporter willie, good morning to you. You can see windows boarded up here after being smashed in overnight. Protesters never announced they were coming to this neighborhood about 20 minutes outside of downtown ....
The real question is, how much . And, like so many landmark cases, as you point out, this one begins with the story of one american. This case is going to go down in history as edie windsor versus the united states. Edie windsor, 83 years old, is a widow now. But she had 42 happy years with the love of her life thea spyer. She was beautiful. She was smart as hell. And she was wonderful altogether. Reporter edie and thea were married but when thea died in 2009, edie got socked by the irs with 363,000 in estate taxes, which no widow in a straight marriage would have to pay. Today, the Supreme Court decided to hear edies case challenging the law she says discriminates against couples like her and thea. The defense of marriage act, which defines marriage under federal law as the union of one man and one woman. The justices will also decide whether states have the power to ban gay marriage. And 30 states have laws that do just that. Its ....
Any sense of inferiority, you know, i felt very respected and i think its going to be good. She was right. Shes an acute observer. It was good. The court ruled in her case. What do you think shes thinking right now . You did it, hon neil. Now when we were waiting for the ruling . Know. No. I prepared three speeches. I did not allow myself to assume wed win. Thats the truth. I thought we had every right to win. I thought our arguments were sound and everyone elses were insane, okay. That was june 26th last year, the day the Supreme Court ruled. One of the cases they considered was about one state having a statewide ban on gay marriage. Supreme court took that case and heard arguments on that case. But ultimately, they decided they wouldment rule on the merits of that california case. The issue was not properly before the court. And the second case they looked at for the same time was the case of phea and edie. They were a couple for ....
I think its going to be good. She was right. Shes an acute observer. It was good. The court ruled in her case. What do you think shes thinking right now . You did it, hon neil. Now when we were waiting for the ruling . Know. No. I prepared three speeches. I did not allow myself to assume wed win. Thats the truth. I thought we had every right to win. I thought our arguments were sound and everyone elses were insane, okay. That was june 26th last year, the day the Supreme Court ruled. One of the cases they considered was about one state having a statewide ban on gay marriage. Supreme court took that case and heard arguments on that case. But ultimately, they decided they wouldment rule on the merits of that california case. The issue was not properly before the court. And the second case they looked at for the same time was the case of phea and edie. They were a couple for 44 years. They were aged 75 and 77 when they finally got marr ....