thank for being here aisha. >> glad to be here.nks for having me. >> michael: how has doma impacted gay couples since it went into effect? >> well, essentially when you get mare thinked are over 11 hundred benefits of marriage which is one of the reasons why folks get married in the united states, and with gay couples we are denied all of those. so being able to pass on our estate to be able to pass on our property when we pass away to our partner, to being able to adopt, co-adopt children together, file our taxes together, and benefit from the tax benefits that come along with being married we're treated completely unfairly and quite frankly given a burden because we're married. >> michael: how insulting is this argument on the other side about it hurting straight marriage. this isn't against gay people. we just want to protect straight marriage. >> i think i lost you. >> michael: i don't know if you can hear me now. but the argument they are making on the other side is that it is somehow being done to protect straight marriage. l

i mean, this issue has changed and republicans are changing with it. >> and yet, aisha, you still havet election, it is very difficult to get through the primary season as a moderate or more left of center republican. >> i mean, it certainly is. but you know, i keep going back to looking at the electorate, what do we need to win as candidates in general. i believe on the issue of marriage equality, this has become a moderate issue, this is an issue about civil rights. most people know that, get that. that's why you see rob portman and others say i may be a republican, but i am coming out in front. even claire mccaskill who had a tough time, thought she would have a tough time in her primary come out and say you know what, this is the right thing to do because this is not about just electoral politics, this is about justice and civil rights for all. when we decided in america, hundreds of years ago, we're going to treat everybody equally, that's what the constitution is premised in, then we have to do it for everybody. >> two huge cases tomorrow and wednesday argued in front of the u.s.

the time ross dated aisha tyler on "friends"? [laughter] or when keebler added a black elf? [laughter] oh, i know, it must have been when they made slavery illegal in mississippi all the way back in four weeks ago. [laughter] [ applause ] in fact, we're living in such a post-racial utopia that we couldn't suppress black votes even if we wanted to! which we definitely don't. [laughter] luckily conservative stalwart and justice-the-hutt antonin scalia knows that the courts have to decide this, because even though racism is over, america's elected representatives lack the bicameral ball sack to vote against this thing. >> i am fairly confident it will be reenacted in perpetuity unless-- unless a court can say it does not comport with the constitution. it's-- it's a concern that this is not the kind of a question you can leave to congress. even the name of it is wonderful: the voting rights act. who is going to vote against that in the future? >> stephen: yes, you'd have to be an a-hole to vote against that in the future! luckily, we've got an a-hole who will vote against it in

today, we have decided to crown aisha moody-mills first-ever biggest brain.line voting. but go ahead, tell us what's on your brain. you have 60 seconds. >> well, for weeks now, the coverage on the effects of sequestration have centered around countdown clocks and canceled white house tours. but the real story here are the countless american families that are having to cancel dinner and send their children to bed hungry because of these cuts. it's leaving hundreds of thousands of americans out in the cold, and they're not the ones who are standing outside the white house gates with cameras. low income women and children, students with disabilities, veterans, seniors and the poor pay the largest price for sequestration. we've got 600,000 women and children that will lose nutrition assistance and 125,000 families that will lose housing and more than 100,000 formally homeless people will be at risk to live back on the streets. so instead of focusing on their political chess game with the white house, our reglators need to recognize that sequestration is not stick

aisha tyler has gotten to hang out with michelle obama a lot.back to shopping at target on saturday morning. that's over for her. >> stephanie: exactly. patty in missouri hello. >> caller: hello, steph. i wanted to tell you michelle was in springfield, missouri yesterday, and i hope she was buying some vegetables anyway she did a little talk about the vegetables and kids eating healthy and all of that and people were griping about the traffic. and i was talking with your -- the man that does your radio show -- >> stephanie: the mans than the phone. yes. >> caller: yes, he says that people in california gripe too about the traffic, but i would think in missouri -- she is not back here this much and i would think that people would be stammering to go see her, and wouldn't be worried about traffic. >> stephanie: yeah, i know. >> caller: she is so helpful, and sweet and nice. >> stephanie: i know. i just love that she calls travis the man like i do. can the man bring the things in from the printer. >> yeah, travis is afraid -- >> stephanie: the man

. >> go ahead, aisha the. >> i can think of no better way to build up marriage than to make sure thatd that other person to love and be loved by, that you can build a family together. there is no better way to uphold and build marriage up than to allow everyone the same rights and responsibilities as their neighbors and friends. >> right. >> steve, what were the main distinctions that you saw in how the justices discussed prop 8 versus how they talked about doma, the defense of marriage act? >> i think the defense of marriage act is more of a manageable issue for them. the discrimination there is clearer to the justices. states have recognized same-sex marriages in nine states and the federal government is not willing to acknowledge the validity of those marriages. i think that's more tangible to them than the question of whether the constitution absolutely protects same-sex marriage in all circumstances. so the questions really went to that distinction, i think. >> aisha and danielle, race came into play between justice scalia and proposition 8 challenger ted olson on tuesday. take a

aisha. >> well, good morning, everyone.thank you, kellan, for providing that great interview -- overview for us. health reform includes the principle of universal design. so as we build the system does have some of the most marginalized among us can we're helping to build a system that works for all. i want to turn to the panel now to talk about what our committees need out of this effort and how we can achieve a single scholar and program director of the national hiv/aids initiative, at the onion institute for national and global health law. he is a widely recognized expert on hiv and aids, and disability policy who served as director of the white house office of national aids policy. and senior advisor on disability policy for president barack obama from february 2009 through the summer 2011. in this capacity he led the element of the first domestic national hiv/aids strategy for the u.s. is also an alumnus of the peace corps program in swaziland and he received his master of public health, johns hopkins university school

aisha. >> well, good morning, everyone. thank you kellan engine for providing the overview for how people living with hiv. this includes the universal design. we built a system that has the most specialized among us that works for all. i want to turn to the panel to talk about what community stated that the effort and how we can achieve it. first we have with us jeff crowley, a distinguished scholar program director for national hiv/aids initiative at the institute for national global health law. mr. crowley is about a recognized expert on hiv and aids and disability policy who serves as director of the white house office of national aids policy and senior adviser and disability policy for president barack obama for every 2009 through december 2011. in this capacity come here that the development of the first domestic national hiv/aids strategy for the u.s. he's also an alumnus of the peace corps program had received his master of public health from the johns hopkins university school of hygiene and public health in this ba

. >> stephanie: one of the funniest bits aisha tyler does on the sexy liberal tour.os angeles. >> let me say that -- newsbusters, that was jim ward. >> stephanie: raj in los angeles. hello. >> caller: hi, stephanie. the republicans for the elections number, a lot of fearmongering was going on for obama. one of them was the stock market will crash. but after three months of the election, stocks are at an all-time high. the economy cannot -- the democratic economy policies are the best. best democratic presidents, stock market as it is. more than the republicans are president. so you know, there is lots going on now in washington, d.c. republicans are scared that the policies obama was put in will work. why don't they have the guts to let these policies -- if it doesn't work, republicans will -- but if it works they'll lose everything. >> stephanie: that's what we keep saying. the deficit has fallen under obama. the level of government spending at the lowest since the eisenhower years. >> stock market is near record high. [ ♪ "jeopardy" theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: okay. ji

there's aisha a thing on youtube that shows how to pronounce his name but i don't recommend.launch the first season of tmz. is a coexecutive producer. and prior to tuesday he spent eight years at extra which is a pop-culture newsmagazine. produce nearly 2500 episodes of there. and before extra he worked at tv in phoenix which is the abc affiliate produce a nightly 10 p.m. newscast. he went to asu, majored in broadcast journalism. now, tmz can be a punching bag for a lot of people. you've been blamed for the decline of civilization i've seen in some of the clips. thought want to give the you the opportunity to turn the tables a little bit. >> on all of civilization? [laughter] >> on journalism. when you read, when you see networks, newspapers do political coverage, do coverage for back government, how do you look at those stores? are there things that you know from the work you've done at tmz that makes you think, this could be done better, that could be done better? >> okay, i'm going to take down civilization now. know, i listened. tmz just dabbles in politics to appoint. an