state representative steve farley. this is kjll. thanks for watching all across the country and the world and thanks for listening here in to youston. here's steve -- tucson. here's steve. >> thank you. first of all i want to thank you all for calling for a toning down of the rhetoric. i don't care about pointing fingers but we certain lino that we just came through a very nasty campaign and i'm not blaming one thing or another, but if somebody's on the edge and they're within a hair's breadth of going over the edge, then listening to a campaign like that might happen to be the catalytic event that sends them over. thank you for calling for a toning down of the rhetoric. i absolutely agree with you on that. do i have a question for each of you, though. i don't want them to sound like [inaudible] questions but they are sper received. steve, you described the legislation that just went through, to deal with this nut case, this fred phelps guy. you can describe the language in it? could it have a first amendment vulnerability? then for

state representative steve farley. this is kjll. anks for watching all across the country and the world and thanks for listening here in to youston. here's steve -- tucson. here's steve. >> thank you. first of all i want to thank you all for calling for a toning down of the rhetoric. i don't care about pointing fingers but we certain lino that we just came through a very nasty campaign and i'm not blaming one thing or another, but if somebody's on the edge and they're within a hair's breadth of going over the edge, then listening to a campaign like that might happen to be the catalytic event that sends them over. thank you for calling for a toning down of the rhetoric. i absolutely agree with you on that. do i have a question for each of you, though. i don't want them to sound like [inaudible] questions but they are sper received. steve, you described the legislation that just went through, to deal with this nut case, this fred phelps guy. you can describe the language in it? could it have a first amendment vulnerability? then for je

i want to bring in steve farley as well, he's a democratic state representative from tucson, also a close personal friend of congresswoman giffords. steve, good morning to you. >> thanks for having me, matt. >> you know, you've known her for a long time. you've been by her side at a lot of political events, and people are asking a simple, yet incredibly difficult question this morning, steve, why? why would something like this happen? >> this is tough. and i don't think we're going to have all the answers for a while, but the way i'm thinking about this is i'm looking at this as a threshold in which we've just passed over on saturday from the past to a future which we can make so much better. the spirit of the people and the outpouring of people here in arizona. people are not calling for anger, hatred, revenge. they're reacting to this period of love and reconciliation everywhere, all over here. and i think we can take that spirit and heal our dialogue, heal our politics. not only in arizona, but in the entire country. >> let me just interprrupt for second. steve, when you talk politics