president of venn strategies penny lee and former advisor to the mccain campaign ford o'connell, thankou all for being here, let me throw this to nia-malika first. am i the only one who is absolutely shocked that in this day and age there is not a federal law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation? >> i think most people actually don't know that this is actually the case. i think if you were to ask people, they would join in your shock that this actually isn't the law of the land that there aren't states that do include in in their anti-discrimination. i think there is some hope when you look at most companies, fortune 500 -- fortune 500 companies, most of them do have rules on the books that bar discrimination, along these lines, but i think you see a president that doesn't want to be seen as an activist when it comes to these issues of sexuality, and transgender issues as jay carney has said, he is taking this approach where he wants the legislature to act first and then he would follow. but i do think he does sort of underestimate the fact that i do think that some of th

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