costa, a washington editor. susan paige, the reigning up against the clock champion and she is back with us. form a republican who served 26 years in the state legislateture there and ran for lt. gov. if 2010. richard, i m start with you, your experience, it s interesting to me because you are in a blblue state. you are openly gay. are you a politician who supports gay marriage, is gay in a stitd likes massachusetts, you ran for congress and nearly won a seat in 2012. then you look at the republican party outside of massachusetts. you look at the attitudes on gay marriage, what goes through your mind? things are moving really fast right now historically, few lock at it. and when the court came out in
have you heard from the governor? we re not going to leave until our demand is met. our demand isn t just for meeting with the governor. our demand is not just for an audience with the governor. our demand is for him to call a special session of the legislateture and con convenience that to discuss this bill. and so we won t leave knoll we get that demand met. so i think it s important that we realize the urgency of this situation. we know the weight of such a decision to call people from around the state here to tallahassee, but we feel like we are in a state of emergency as young people in this state and i think young people around the country feel the same. we re ready to act on it. phillip agnew from the dream defenders. really a pleasure speaking to you tonight. thank you very much. ing thank you for having any. did protesters really try to smuggle jars of poop into the texas capitol building as officials there claim? why we think something stinks, next. we raise black and
court and how the fight to preserve voting rights in the country moves forward from here on out. well, the thing that i m doing to preserve voting rights moving this point forward is i filed a suit in texas, in corpus christi, to make sure this law is never implemented. as you stated earlier, this law was found to be discriminatory. the fact just because section 4 was struck down that you would move to make a law that a court has found to be discriminatory is absolutely nonsense. and it sends the wrong message about texas. we are a great state and and don t want to send a message to businesses and companies and people twhat ahat are moving to state of texas in records, mostly latino and african-american, that discrimination is okay. we need to stop. i believe this law, this voter i.d. law passed by republicans, when i was still in the legislateture in 2011, that it s discriminatory and violates section 2. do you think texas still
such interesting very far right backgrounds. one of the things that s been interesting covering it, i m curious to your perspective is that particularly governor mcdonald always talks about how his priority is jobs, jobs, jobs. he only wants to talk about jobs and the economy. that s all he answers. it seems like inside the legislature there s a ton of social issues legislation that s being moved. he moved 35 anti-abortion bills himself as a legislateture. what do you see as the distance between the articulation that jobs, jobs, jobs is the ageneral dap and what your real agenda is living as a delegate? exactly. they articulate jobs, jobs, jobs and don t want to articulate on things they will take issue on. they still don t have their polls on middle america. when they file those extreme
could be smuggled in undetected. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s one of the more mundane documents americans have to deal with, but for president obama, the tax return is politically charged in this, an election year. the white house released his 2011 files today along with that of the vice president, joe biden and there are some surprises in both documents. as lisa sylvester has been carefully going after these tax returns, what do you see? first off, the obamas, like the romneys, gave generously to charities. the president s income, which was $1.7 million in 2010 was down significantly as sales of his book dropped off, but the focus was on taxes and more specifically, rates. there are some surprises there. who was taxed at a higher rate? the president, mitt romney or the president s secretary? it might surprise you, but it s actually the president s secretary. she makes $95,000 a year. the obama administration confirms her rate is is higher than t