oh or the other. well i'm going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture european stocks are tumbling all investors are keeping a close eye on greece as the euro crisis enters a new phase well congress do to avoid further economic disaster and what should americans be learning from this giant mess also trayvon martin's mother released a public service announcement this weekend asking governors to rethink so-called stand your ground laws so where does the fight to overturn these deadly laws stand in the states across the nation and reactions to president obama's support of marriage equality continue to pour in with

a variety of religious leaders expressing their disagreement with the decision was president obama himself politically and how will this decision affect the november election. you need to know this european stocks are tumbling and investors around the world are keeping a close eye on greece as the euro crisis enters a new phase on the heels of elections that ousted the pro austerity government in greece the anti austerity parties have so far been unable to form a coalition government greek president carlos a powell. leah's is desperately trying to bring together party leaders for a meeting today in hopes of finding a coalition government but far left sarees a party leader alexis spira us is refusing to attend any meeting that includes other parties who support austerity either austerity nor anti austerity parties won

enough seats in the last election to form a coalition government meaning the president will likely have to call for a new round of elections in the coming weeks. so the far left zero party will likely pick up even more seats in parliament probably the far right party will to make an anti austerity coalition government a very real possibility just before greece runs out of money as early as next month when greece goes broke if the new government refuses to sign on to the i.m.f. an e.q. back to a sturdy in bailout plan in greece will default and likely be forced out of the euro zone thanks to the wide worldwide economic meltdown and trickle down austerity responds the greek economy has been in a depression for the last five years at least now an end might be in sight although it could give very very painful meanwhile in germany chancellor angela merkel saw her conservative party get crushed in state elections in north rhine-westphalia the biggest state in when germany americal has been leading the charge for austerity

around europe but now finds herself fall as support for her party plunged to twenty six per cent the worst since world war two everywhere you look the supporters of trickle down austerity are getting amort by voters the simple fact of the matter is that austerity has never worked anywhere the international monetary fund the i.m.f. pushed it for decades in south america until governments like argentina told them to take a leap declared bankruptcy disconnected themselves from the u.s. dollar and wanted a loan result for argentina was both a recovery of national sovereignty and a robust economic rebound. now it's time for greece and spain portugal italy and ireland to just say no to the international bankers of the european central bank pull out of the euro and go back to their own currencies the result will be a shock for a very wealthy people and banks in europe and america will give the working people of greece their country back largely they've already figured this out which is why the greek elections are freaking out the bank's toure's who like most libertarians

think that capitalism and money are more important than the mock receive or the lives of working people meanwhile here in the united states the same battle is playing out democrats are pushing for stimulus and growth through things like rebuild the infrastructure extending unemployment benefits or republicans are pushing for punishing e.u. like austerity by stopping most government spending and cutting unemployment benefits medicare and other social safety net programs let's hope that soon the american people figure out what the greeks already figured out that when conservatives like paul ryan and his banks their buddies are happy it's generally because the average working person is group. yesterday was mother's day and for sabrina fulton the grieving mother of seventeen year old trayvon martin who was killed in florida earlier this year it was

a day to make sure other mothers don't ever have to go through what she's gone through release this public service announcement calling on governors to rethink their state's so-called stand your ground laws take a look. i'm supreme fulton this will be my first mother's day without my son trayvon i know it will be hard but my faith family and friends will pull me through on sunday i'm going to say a prayer for other mothers across america share this on bearable pay just like me thirty thousand mothers who lost their children the issue here to since last on balance nobody can bring our children. but it would bring us comfort if we can help mother mother was the pain that we will feel on mother's day and every day for the rest of our lives i'm asking you to join florida by calling upon the governor of your state to reexamine similar stand your ground laws throughout the nation to

keep our families safe i thank you from the bottom of my heart happy mother's day. this campaign known as second chance to shoot first was launched by new york city mayor michael bloomberg last month following the national controversy around the trayvon martin shooting it aims at repealing stand your ground laws in the twenty five states that currently have them on the books joining me now to talk more about this campaign is john fine blood the chief policy advisor for new york city mayor mike bloomberg john welcome thanks a million thanks for joining us mayor michael bloomberg kicked off this campaign to have should first was repealed where these laws are dangerous. just look at the stats to know how dangerous they are since florida enacted its law so-called justifiable homicides have tripled in georgia so-called justifiable homicides have

doubled in texas they've almost doubled i mean this is taken the concept of self defense and really turned it into shoot first and ask questions later that that's not what a civil society how a civil society conducts itself we learned last week the gun range targets depicting trayvon martin were in a hoodie holding skittles and iced tea sold out two days of virginia will say to you about the good culture in america. well look the that incident is absolutely despicable and the person who has put that together owes an apology to trayvon martin's family but the most important thing is to follow sabrina fulton see example she's turned trying to turn tragedy into action and the action she's asking for is for governors and state legislators who have passed these laws to reconsider them or modify them we've talked to many state legislators including ones in florida who unfortunately listen to the n.r.a.

and voted first and ask questions later they need to be rethinking their vote in this debate going advocates are constantly talking about the rights of gun owners why is no one talking about the rights of gun owners like the rights of innocent civilians to not be shot. it's amazing i mean when you look at the military rules of engagement in this country. soldiers have a responsibility under military law all to defuse a situation but we've now in twenty six states in this country given. individuals the right to shoot first ask questions later and really perverted what the common law sense of self-defense is i mean we've always had so the right to self-defense self-defense in your home self-defense even in public but we've always that's always been accompanied by a responsibility to retreat defuse the situation if possible that's the law

of military engagement it ought to be the law on the streets of our cities how do new york city's gun laws work and do you think that they're a good model for other cities or states around the nation. i think that new york city's law is like a couple of other states are models for the country because before a permit is given to somebody we asked some very basic questions about who they are what their character is what their reasons for carrying a gun are look mayor bloomberg believes that people have the right under the sec second amendment to possess a gun but he does not believe that people who. are criminals or people who are mentally ill or people who are drug addicts or people who are under age have the right to carry a gun and he thinks that this country's background checks unfortunately have loopholes you could drive a mack truck through when he wants to close those loopholes and he also wants like

trayvon martin's mother wants to reform stand your ground laws they have no place in a civil society there we have no place in a civil society for people who just because they feel threatened have the right to chase somebody down the street and shoot them and ask questions later tell me about this second chance on a shoot first initiative a program this is this is a coalition started by mike bloomberg reverend sharpton the c p the national urban league to really ask state legislators and governors to rethink or modify their stand your ground laws look the n.r.a. make no mistake push these laws they want from state to state to state because the n.r.a. actually believes that you should you be able to use a gun any time anywhere for any reason and unfortunately too many state legislators felt pressure from the n.r.a.

passed these laws and it took tragedies like trayvon martin's tragedy for them to really ask themselves what had they voted for and some of them are expressing regret and this coalition is asking state legislature. it has to rethink these laws in the twenty six states that they've been pay asked and to warn legislators in the seven or so states are still considering these laws to think and ask questions before they cast their vote you know it's all just common sense by the way i understand you recently married your partner and the mare officiated at the wedding i'm curious your take on the president's historical endorsement of marriage equality last week and how you think about play out over the election well look i think that perhaps this could be a tipping point most of the polls are showing that the americans favor marriage equality and certainly if you look at young people the polls are overwhelming i think it's just a matter of time before marriage equality is accepted across this country and i

think that the fact that you have a president of united states coming out for it certainly signals a change in my case almost a year ago mike bloomberg married my partner and i who have two young children on the steps of gracie mansion because he doesn't believe that government has any business in telling people who they love and who they can live with and who they should have children with it's absolute morals john fund blood bank so much for being with us and. thank you for the website is second chance to shoot first or check it out and get involved. after the break last week president obama made history by becoming the first president to openly support marriage equality but that he won't himself politically despite taking the moral high ground.

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the best of the rest of the news the president's big endorsement of same sex marriage is still resonating this week there was republican senator rand paul

commenting on the president's announcement with this anti-gay joke. yes if you can rescind a beer. you know the piece is triple. that. cinches users get. so much for libertarians believe in people should be free to do what they want meanwhile the new edition of newsweek declared obama the first gay president and a recent pew study finds that americans are also warming up to the idea of marriage equality today only forty three percent of americans oppose same sex marriage way down from sixty percent back in two thousand and four even within about the black community opposition to marriage equality has plummeted since two thousand and four dropping from sixty seven percent down to forty nine percent and while it's been reported the blacks are more uneasy with marriage equality than whites the data here shows only a two percent difference between the two races when it comes to strong opposition

to same sex marriage but not all african-american religious leaders support the president's decision there was the reverend dr emmett burns on c.n.n. talking about his plans to stay home on election day now. people i know people come up to be. say that they don't support this they don't like this that this supported with the pressure that and they played stay home i don't plan to vote for we're may vote you up right now a pledge the whole. so in pushing for marriage equality in my opinion the morally right thing to do and president obama won't himself politically bishop harry jackson joins me now he's a senior pastor of hope christian church and founder and president of high impact leadership coalition is objects and welcome thank you for having me e.u. are i understand opposed to the president's position i am i think not only does it cut against the grain of what many of his constituents believe but i believe that once you say this is my personal opinion he's actually entered into the political

fray so i think it was politically motivated in response to north carolina victory and i think that. the way they did it today as i was talking yesterday to many many people some of them read saying well they forced him to do it he doesn't really mean that and a lot of african-americans just try and rationalize in their own world how could someone identify with believe this way it's really interesting conundrum that you take in place do you not think that there are gay african-americans oh there are definitely gay african-americans are they not worthy of the same same protections the same civil rights protections as a straight african-americans i think those protections could be granted in a number of different ways i also think that if you're really looking for justice within marriage and everyone's marriage could be to same why not also polygamy bigamy. i think the idea now argument that was made by whites in the south

against knocking down the message a nation was in the sixty's but i don't think so i think you're changing the very reality and i can literally play strom thurman to you well i don't i don't agree with you but i'm saying that a man and a man marrying a woman and a woman is essentially different in essence it redefines the institution very very much versus the institution used to be defined as a white marrying a white and a black berry and black that there it was illegal in virtually every state for those two to cross but it but it doesn't so you know it didn't blow up marriage when nobody also didn't violate historic issues meaning racial prejudice in america before and yours is still probably going to have a very explicit you're not allowed to marry people from other tribes or other races yes that's exactly right but if you come to the new testament we are all those of us who claim jesus we're part of a new racial somewhere in the new testament is jesus trash gays he does not trash

gays i mean i remember john putting his head on jesus' chest and referring to himself as the disciple jesus loved it sounds a little gate it was not really the. were single and they're hanging out all the time no but i do think that you bring up a great point and that is that love is. girding truth all of scripture also human dignity and the freedom of people do choose so why would you deny that why would you deny that african-americans who are gay you know i don't want to institutionalize or create this as a teaching around gay marriage because it's already. there when i'm sure chamber has been marrying gay people for a decade that the unitarians well and understanding of jeremiah wright and that's why president obama's statements were a little disingenuous in that he had been involved in a place where there were same sex unions being performed not legally but really

church spiritually what i'm concerned about is changing ultimately education and how kids are raised in this culture and again i'm saying if you want real justice you need to why so you're going back as opposed to just you're going back to the notion that if kids are exposed to gay couples or gay sex education or gay anything they might turn out gay as are you operating on the assumption that people learn to be gay you know i don't think people are born that way i don't think people born that way i think they may feel like i'm curious given their upbringing how old were you when you first noticed that girls were interesting to or boys i'm not sure you know but i'm not sure girls. probably ten or twelve years old somewhere in that category pew same thing for me maybe even a little earlier so how can that be anything other than biology well i think that what happens to us in life can affect those. desires in our

lives if you look for is there and why is it that when gay couples raise kids those kids don't turn out good. i don't know that we had as announced as in on that history on that well i think it's a beginning story is a huge social experiment that's being waged and i guess i don't buy that we're going to just suddenly change this institution talking about it for a generation but i hear what you're saying but i personally and many like me feel as though we're in a dangerous territory and the ramifications of what families would look like would kids have come out like. will be challenge i think america in general family structures are in freefall and understand there's an economic problem so i mean you've got you've got republicans in congress saying well we've got to cut unemployment benefits for ninety nine weeks down to sort of three weeks you just had two hundred thousand people thrown off the unemployment rolls you know well i

don't think a second at a time that breaks up marriages that'll break of marriage is a hell of a lot faster than the guy next door well they are the masters and absent fathers create environments where kids don't do well in school they want up in prison they have all kinds of problems i think that breakdown already of the nuclear family is a major problem but if you look at absent fathers even within racial subsets you find that that problem is exacerbated in the presence of poverty you have pretty much goes away when people hit the middle class whether they're black white latino asian doesn't matter so really what you're concerned about is a problem of poverty not a problem of of gays. i'm not i don't have a problem with gays i'm simply saying i want to replicate if you will the institution of marriage i want to have kids see pure cleaner models that are even in the heterosexual community i see that we have gotten worse should we all lot of or no but i think. it was and it should be hard to do i mean i think that no

fault divorce is one. one of the things as tribute to the family instability in our generation it's so easy to get divorced that people do and they leave kids often hanging about i don't totally disagree with you on that i but that well in any case the bottom line do you think that this is going to hurt president obama with the african-american constituency i think it could just like in two thousand and four bush won some people say he was selected in the first election and he won because ohio and florida african-americans and hispanics crossed barriers and voted for him . but there has to be a message by the republicans i love the clip that you have from mr burns your doug burns of maryland he was clearly making a statement that was saying i'm not hearing anything from the republicans and i think that's really not to their credit i think if they had

a message for african-americans and a way of drawing people not just on this issue but a more complete panel panel. of options i think it could be really important bishop jackson thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you for your time sir. bishop harry jackson we'll see how the politics always works out but in the end the president believes in expanding civil rights to all americans and it's hard to argue against that. and now on to the latest in political news in america the latest gallup tracking poll shows a dead heat in the presidential race with president obama narrowly ahead of mitt romney forty six to forty five percent the election is still half a year away and anything can happen in just in the last week there's news that could swing these poll numbers between the defeat of austerity in europe president obama's latest attack ad against mitt romney's being capital and the latest round of americans losing their unemployment benefits because republicans in congress how might all this influence the upcoming election and the direction our nation takes

on a turn over now to our monday politics and joining me are neil munro white house correspondent for the daily caller and sam sex progressive writer and strategist welcome to both of you let's get started the latest. well yeah austerity would do we talked about this in the beginning the show do you think that republicans. c m do you think republicans should be concerned about what's going on in europe and that this might happen here everybody should be concerned about europe the europeans are going through in effect morning after hangover politics they've had been on a spending spree for a very long time it's now really hurting them even though they've barely cut spending across the entire continent which. once was irish and now american it's a beautiful accent i mean they're the victims of what everybody in the world was the victim of and that was the two thousand and eight financial collapse and ever since then to to make sure that investors and bankers you know get their money back they've had to undergo under these austerity measures which clearly have not been

working if you look at their debt to g.d.p. ratios in nations like spain. italy greece the u.k. they've all risen since since they've passed these austerity measures and now the people and people are suffering suicide rates are up unemployment is up and now people are hitting the polls and saying we don't want that anymore and republicans are pushing the exact same thing here but only more nefarious i mean in a lot of these austerity. agendas in europe they call for tax hikes on even wealthy people i mean this is something of shared sacrifice of course it's working people are getting it the hardest here in the united states it's it's disguised austerity it's wealth transfer it's tax cuts for the rich austerity for everybody else not even remotely so ryan's budget representative paul ryan doesn't balance the budget for decades and the european problem is not the bankers the european spent themselves while they have severe hangovers spain has more houses than i can use more workers than i can use after importing several million in the last decade they're just pain for this while years of parking and we too may face this problem

on the us we manage to reduce our overspending and we strip in future with the exception the last couple years of the clinton ministration we've been a deficit spending roll over. since reagan came into office yeah absolutely both parties agree to spend more and neither party will refuse to both parties are willing to do you support each other spending it's got a moral interest the taxes to pay for it yes and thus they're also willing to go down economic growth but it's gotten worse under president obama more words and it's president politics panel after the break.

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