richard so richard, gay liasoi for bill :ton. bill clinton s re-election year, 1986, signed it in september of that year, two months before the election. he signed it, the legend has it, in the dead of night when no one was looking but then he ran ads on christian radio stations say bill clinton signed this as they were pulled, very quickly. ads that ran, nevertheless. so it s a complicated legacy because in one way, there s this big victory this week the conservative supreme court has handed to gay rights movement. doma is gone now. caused so much havoc for so many people. the federal component is gone. it s only there in the first place because a democratic president, because bill clinton signed it. congressman, i ll start with you. you were there when it happened. can you tell us what you thought when bill clinton signed it? i was very disappointed when he signed it but not surprised
states to make that the law of the land. at the same time it was a political bonus. this was at the time when he was doing welfare reform, which some in his cabinet did not want him to do. moving to the center and trying to protect his i think you were just telling me that while saying he had a signing statement saying he didn t agree with the discrimination as penkts of it, but they used it in certain parts of the country in the south on christian radio stations in advertisements. right. they ran radio ads on christian radio after sign it in the middle of the night and wanting to draw no attention to it and doing the signing statement saying we don t condone discrimination. running these radio ads on christian radio in the south saying, hey, this is what we did on gay marriage, but also on abortion, but also part of those ads, and i think when people here read president clinton
saying i want doma to be declared unconstitutional, a lot of the anger that i m getting back on my facebook page to what i have written about this is that but he still signed it. he still ran radio ads radio ads touting that he had done this, so this is something that a lot of people in the gay community aren t exactly going to get over very quickly. tloo this is what he wrote today. you just mentioned in the washington post, among other things, he said we are still a young country, and many of our landmark civil rights decisions are fresh enough that the voices of their champions still echo, even as the world that preceded them becomes less and less familiar. we have yet to celebrate the centennial of the 19th amendment, but as a society that denied women the vote, would seem to us now not unusual or old-fashioned, but alien. i believe that 2013 doma and opposition to marriage equality are vest edges of such an unfamiliar society. alan simpson, republican from wyoming, just told me
anything as dramatic as this. you know, we ve become real attached to the fact that military personnel love their animals, and we want to do everything we can to keep them together. sounds great. it s a noble thing to do, right? if, in fact, that is what terry crisp is doing. instead, keeping them honest tonight, cnn s drew griffin has discovered only a slim fraction of the $26 million that woman raised could even possibly have gone towards rescuing dogs. and as you ll see, the charity watchdog group has doubts how that slim fraction was spent. as they put it, the numbers don t seem to add up. the appeal though, reuniting dogs and troops, is powerful. just as it was 6 1/2 years ago after hurricane katrina when crisp was running an organization called noah s wish. the appeal then was to reunite pets and survivors. terry crisp joins me. she is in sacramento, california. good to see you. good to see you, anderson, too. and you brought an animal with you? this is tabasc
anything as dramatic as this. you know, we ve become real attached to the fact that military personnel love their animals and we want to do everything we can to keep them together. sounds great. it s a noble thing to do, right? if, in fact, that is what terry crisp is doing. instead, keeping them honest tonight, cnn s drew griffin has discovered only a slim fraction of the $26 million that woman raised could even possibly have gone towards rescuing dogs. the charity watchdog group has slim doubts how that slim fraction was spent. as they put it, the numbers don t seem to add up. the appear, reuniting dogs and troops, powerful. just as it was 6 1/2 years ago during hurricane katrina when crisp was running an organization and the appeal was reuniting pets and survivors. terry crisp joins me. good to see you. good to see you, be an dande too. this is tobasco. he was found on the washing machine of a house that was flooded. turns out, i didn t know it at the time, there w