i took bonnie frank at his word.hink bonnie frank meant to is did rapt the family but he -- barney frank. there are activists pressing the envelope. what is it your now in a position to say in principle when people come in and say, why isn't it we can't marry the other people we love? why is this confined to a "coupling"? i think we are really past the barriers and just a matter of unfolding i'm afraid the implications. woodly allen, i'm sorry i can't leave you with something positive, can you accept two negatives? [laughter] >> let me make two comments. on polygamy. oh that is lipperry slope argument. i say, no, polygamy is upslope of same-sex marriage. >> absolutely. >> polygamy has been throughout history a very common, variation of, on monogamous, one male, one female marriage. surely the distinction between two and three is more arbitrary than distinction between male and female. >> absolutely right. >> now, justices obviously are not moved by logic and principled reasoning so maybe that won't happen tomorrow bu

frank lautenberg was dying. i called bonnie and said we have to have him here.lly, on the death bed, came down here unohio clock aread the stuff keeping him alive, came down here from t.j., and walked in to make a caucus. everybody was there for the democrats and epa committee. we shouldn't be doing stuff like that. that isn't what it's all about. you can't reward bad behavior over and over and over again. the first time in the history of the country, they filibustered the secretary of defense. this wild eyed liberal, in nebraska a war hero, literally a war hero who was commended for his heroism, who among other things on the battle field saved his brother's life. i went to his office, when he was here as a senator, he has a picture there of he and his brother on a armored personal carrier in vietnam, and not only that, one of the senators questioned his loyalty to our country in a public hearing they did that. john brennan, filibustered director of the cia. so my efforts are directed to save the senate from becoming obsolete rendered relevant and effective as a

frank lautenberg, said, i'm going to run, announced his run. that sort of cemented this feud that now the families are carrying on. a remarkable scene yesterday, senator lautenberg's wife bonny a press conference with one of his opponents congressman frank pallone and a sob of frank lautenberg, josh, endorsing frank pallone. it's very personal and now we see the behind-the-sceneses cory booker had a chance to smooth it over. >> jeremy peters, listen, i mean, cory booker is going to win. all the polls suggest he's going to win. this may be a blip on the radar. it was so unnecessary and face it, it was just bad for him to aggravate a man who is a legend in new jersey politics so long. >> i don't want to try to get inside cory booker's head but if i had to guess why he did it so quickly, it would probably be money. i think that there's so much pressure on candidates these days to get out early and raise as much money as they possibly can as quickly as they can, that it could have motivated him to do something that a lot of people considered a bit unseemly. >> maybe, mike allen, and mika, he just can't -- maybe he can't do a lot of things at once. you got burning buildings, you