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clearly the nra and others in stateslike arkansas, or in states like alaska where you have mark becketts heidi heitkamp in north dakota, you have a strong culture, and i'm here in texas, and clearly the gun culture is very strong, and even here in texas some polls indicate that texans support the idea of reasonable background checks at gun shows and such but the politicians who hear from zealots and very strong sources in the nra, appear to be frightened of reelection. >> michael: that's why republicans are starting to get excited about your state and others, because you see the progress. wayne slater thank you as always for coming on the show. coming up we revisit the freedom rides with bob filner. we'll get his unique perspective on today's hottest political issues. ♪ >> michael: the latest edition of our series the march goes on takes us from the deep south to the hallowed halls of congress to the san diego mayor's office. a group of young civil rights activist decided to get on a bus. the group became known as freedom riders. they ventured deep into the still heavily segregated south

this is how the king went after thomas of beckett. he didn't send a memo.beckett. he just complained an awful lot and his troops got the joke. the president brought with him not only people from chicago, but the ethos of the morals of the chicago political machine under daly and to this day. and they used the tax office, the assess sore's office, against their political enemies and to then their political friends. they used the government as an extension of the democratic party machine in chicago. why would they which they would operate any differently? we're certainly seeing that they didn't operate any differently. ashley: grover, from, a conservative's point of view, is it more important to damage the obama administration, depending how this investigation pans out or is it more important to bring tax reform front and center as a result of this momentum? >> well we need to get the truth and, when obama's people take the fifth amendment, that's not getting to the truth. we're getting obama's political people like axelrod complaining about the investigation

this man, matthew ryan beckett. 38 years old has been charged by a grand jury indictment for mailing threatening communications. he has been arrested in the past and convicted of a sex crime in the late '90s. they are actively searched for the letter addressed to the c.i.a. and these two investigations follow the arrest of a mississippi man in april charged with mailing ricin laced letters a senator and a mississippi judge. >> heather: molly, thank you. >> gregg: attorney general eric holder wrapping up a week of damage control. he reached out to the news media expressing regret over the seizure of phone records and emails from journalists including fox news correspondent james rosen, but the bigger problem may come from congress itself. it's demanding answers about what appears to be his contradictory explanation about the leak investigations. molly henneberg is live in washington with more. >> molly: the house judiciary committee wants to know if eric holder was telling the truth when he assured that committee earlier this month that he would not favor going after reporters in leak

he looked at the man and beckett this a case. the man was his father's friend, a farmer, wide ten face. the suitcase looked very fancy. the there were tests a suitcase before and inspected a closely. some chinese lettering was on it that he could not read. the main compartment was only about two by 3 feet, the size of a child's coffin. he was small, but not as small. thought that the farmer must be joking. the black suitcase seemed to be one of many banks stacked in the backseat of a beat-up toyota was supposed to deliver into the border. the first leg of the jury that would end in india. in the tea colored light he could make out of you tired faces, older tibetans who had paid to drive out before the capitol city stretched out of a slumber. he was about to join the others when the farmer motioned toward the suitcase. kid and, he said, unzipping the top. he stared blankly. harry, the farmer said, before the police come and take us to jail. how long? nineteen and one day. that was so long it would take to travel from the capitol t

telling them that the supreme court ruling on doma, and i'm so proud of my daughter bailey, my son beckett, johnny rose, miller, i love you all. i love everybody out there. it's great day. thank you so much. >> best wishes to you and your fiancee and your children, as you move through -- >> yes, thank you. >> -- today's decision. thanks, melissa. this decision will have a big, big impact on not only melissa, but a lot of people. especially the benefits that same-sex couples have not been receiving so far, like income tax benefits, health benefits, estate tax benefits. literally millions and millions of dollars that have been denied to gay people up until now, had they been married. our justice correspondent joe johns is live with us outside the courthouse right now with all of the energy in action behind you. just take me there and give me the feel for what it's like where you are right now. >> reporter: pretty extraordinary moment here, quite frankly, ashleigh. if you look around, these people have been here, many of them, since quite early in the morn g morning. there were cheers when i

first, we vetted the language, sent that to tim to dispersed it to the beckett fund and others so that we could craft language which is effective, very defensible and very concise. and i think it's model language that could be used in other states because we had their input before we drafted it up. using that language we then got an attorney general's opinion from our state as to where that fit in the constitutional bounds of the decisions including the 2010 case that was mentioned earlier. we find in idaho those opinions from our state attorney general can be used as a sword to try and defeat things, and so we wanted to get that early and invited him to have discussions with kim colby and others in order to draft their opinion letter. so we got that early on. we used the caucus, we got bipartisan support including members of the democrat party who had been a member of the organization at issue here, was a strong supporter of it. and with that we got it through committee fairly easily. it went through my committee in the senate. on the floor the vote was 30-5 in favor, and then on the