who the alliance believes is a potential enemy placing its warhead so close to russian border bill garrett as other european countries feel safe on the nature protection and supports the shield if you strongly believes the proliferation of ballistic technology makes such protection vitally necessary. it was the dentist welcome to the show very good to be here thank you very much for being with us thank you it's a pleasure and an order well first of all i wanted to ask you about your meeting of the recent meeting with mr lavrov russian foreign minister away you said i quote it's of paramount importance that our balcony become part of the european security system well obviously you meant membership in nato. so i also membership in the european union ok right after you sure that that that that nato is the main factor that will guarantee security in europe is that is that the belief i'm absolutely positive because if you look at. things historically you will see the last twenty years in the balkans we have seen so many walls and so many divisions among ethnic groups and religion's that we have

bill. >> dana garrett, we appreciate you reporting for us from the halls of the capital there in albany,nock. thank you so much. if anything changes, 23 if you do hear anything about a vote, hop back on and let us know. i want to bring in jeff toobin, senior cnn legal analyst. we heard dana mention all the attempts in the past. the senate rejected the bill in 2009. in addition to the last three attempts, jeffrey toobin, what would be different this time around? >>. >> the state is different, the country is different. the polls have changed on this issue. in the early and mid-90s, the polls said two to one americans were against same sex marriage. nationally, same sex marriage now ekes out a slight majority, but in new york state, there is a substantial majority in favor of same sex marriage. politicians ultimately respond to the will of the voters and the voters have changed. now, that doesn't mean same sex marriage is going to change. as someone who's followed the new york legislature for many years, it's a mysterious place, and strange things happen. clearly, public opinion is what's d

couple here in new york that are hopefully planning their weddings in the hopes this bill will be passed. >> dana garrettou very much. >> the president is in manhattan for a gay community event on this day, where this historic vote may indeed happened in the state capitol. >>> next i want to go to chad myers. we're talking minon, north carolina. it's the river -- what did i say? >> you said north carolina. >> excuse me. i'm a tar heel. what is the status on 9 river, as i keep watching the water rise and rise? >> we have been watching the river flood level. and there are maps you can watch. they're live. the river stopped going up. you know what? because it's stills over the levees. so it's going to fill in all of that area that was protected by the levees, all that water, all those homes going straight up. the water will on top of the buildings. even though it looks like this thing's not going up anymore, as soon as all that water gets filled back in, it would go straight uppite 6 to 8 feet. those peer been in real trouble. here's minot, here's the souris river. the water will be all the way through here

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garrett: i thank the speaker. mr. speaker, as founder and chairman of the constitution caucus, i applaud the opportunity to debate the constitutionality of this bill. this is a first of what i hope will be many more instances to discuss the constitutionality of legislation considered on this floor. what this bill does is change the u.s. patent system from one which allows a moment of invention to determine who is entitled to a patent to one which confers this power to a government agency. such a change would violate the intellectual property clause of the constitution. why is that? because the founders rejected the idea that rights are bestowed to the people by the government. in favor of the revolutionary principle that men are born with natural rights. our constitution instituted government that secures only these natural and pre-existing rights. so inventions created by the fruits of intellectual labor are the property of the inventor. these and only these first and true inventors then are entitled to public protection of their rightful property. are to remain true to the principles of liberty, we must preserve a system that protects the true a