joining me now is aisha moodie mills of the center for american progress progress. come us to from washington, d.c., where this is all happening. thank for being here aisha. >> glad to be here. thanks 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. b

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