minutes, we will look ahead to the supreme court oral arguments regarding same-sex marriage with brian brownthe president of the national organization for marriage and evan wolfson founder and president of freedom to marry. our guest is david savage, the supreme court reporter for the l.a. times and chicago tribune. he will discuss what a ruling either way could mean. ♪ host: the supreme court will hear two and half hours of arguments centering on the topics of same-sex marriage. the justices will not only have to consider if the constitution requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same-sex but if the constitution also requires them to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. four states will be considered in the case today. you can see on your television the long line stretching around the supreme court, some of those pe

we will hear from brian brown and evan wolfson. after that, a reporter from the "l.a.times" will discuss the cases. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. on c-span, and you can join the calls with your comments on facebook and twitter. at the international consumer electronics show in las vegas, we spoke with a cardiologist about developments in medical technology and the future of medicine. >> you have to bring together these two very different organizations and cultures to get to that place where we need to be because as an academic health center, we will not build huge databases. that is what they will do, but they do not know about clinical processes or doing trials, discovering what works in biological systems. so we are working on these novel partitions, trying to attack this space. >> tonight :00 at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> you're watching c-span. just about 8:00 here in east. an unusual time for the house to be coming in. they are coming and we think to file the budget conference report. that budget fiscal 2016 budget blueprint that was pas

brian brown, the president of national organization for marriage.nd evan wolfson of freedom to marry. they hear these cases today. david savage will be along to explain those things for us. do not forget, you can hear the audio argument today just after 2:00 on c-span.org. then we will show you those later on on our network. go to our website for more information more on today's what is going on in the supreme court right after this. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> that is what marriage is about, to raise a family. >> ok, old people cannot get married anymore. >> adamant eve, eve came out of adam's rip. everybody knows that. -- rib. everybody knows that. steve did not come out. every body knows eve came out. it should be one man one woman marriage. i don't know. [indiscernible] host: justices will hear several cases today. audio will be released at 2:00. to talk about the details, david

nbc10's jim rosenfield introduces us to brian brown and his weight loss story. >> i managed to keep myin check. >> reporter: he first ran the blue cross broad street run in 2006. >> it's literally like you're walking around with two suitcases on your back. >> reporter: during that weight loss journey, brown, a husband, father and artist erased a quarter of his body. >> i lost about 60 pounds. >> reporter: nine years later, he's kept the weight off. what's his secret? >> maintaining some sort of exercise, some sort of activity whether it's chasing after my son. >> reporter: who's that right there? >> dada. >> yeah, it is dada. looks a little different. >> reporter: the award-winning illustrator says his creativity stems from birth when he suffered hearing loss. >> i spent the first couple years of my life unable to hear very well at all, so i didn't start talking until i was close to like 3 years old. i became very much a visual learner. i was in my own world there for a long time. and drawing and being creative and, you know, that's how i entertain myself. >> reporter: brown now has a

we will hear from brian brown and evan wolfson, founder and president of freedom to marry. after that, david savage who covers the supreme court and judicial issues for the los angeles times and chicago tribune will talk about the case and what a rolling either way will meet. that is tomorrow morning, every morning, at 70 and easter. -- 7 a.m. eastern. your participation is welcome. loretta lynch's nomination began on november 8 of last year and was sworn in today by vice president joe biden at the justice department. it is about 20 minutes. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome loretta lynch and a vice president of the united states joe biden. [applause] vice president biden: i first time i came into this room during the nixon administration. i remember walking into this building and thinking about the majesty of this place and how much we rely on it. for all of our basic rights and protections. your whole family is here today. i hope you will forgive as we used to say in the senate a point of personal privilege. i am so happy to meet your dad. dad, stand up. [applause] thi

brian brown says they have to jump through a lot of hurdles. >> i actually went to pabc and spoke with him through the entire process of the app before we seen started developing it because i wanted to make sure, hey that that is a viable option and way for texans to get liquor. >> reporter: you can pretty much order anything you want wine or vodka you don't have to step foot in a an actual liquor store. top shelf work as a middleman. they connect liquor store with customers. >> go ahead and get tequila. get some prisado. >> reporter: then the liquor store sends out an employee to make the delivery. david bartlett has gone out several times already. >> you know people are not used to it. it's a change in behavior to order. it's like you order a pizza you don't order a hamburger. once people get used it to i think it could be a very big thing. >> reporter: but some people wonder if this could cause problems. >> underageded kids you know it's easier to get past delivery drivers. >> your age is verified before using the app the delivery drivers check id on arrival. >> if you do want to tr

tomorrow on washington journal we will hear from brian brown and evan wolfson discuss tuesday's supreme oral arguments. after that, more of those cases with david savage who will examine what a ruling either way would mean for the status of same-sex marriage in the u.s. today. plus, your phone calls and tweets. right now on c-span, a sixth circuit court of appeals oral argument in a case from last august that upheld same-sex marriage bans in michigan, ohio, and tennessee. it involved a couple that initially challenged their state's ban against allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. it was responsible for setting up the case for the appellate court before the supreme court tomorrow. this is about an hour. >> may it please the court -- as justice kennedy explained a few months ago, it is a fundamental premise of our democratic system that the people can be trusted to decide even divisive issues on decent and rational grounds. that's what this case is about. it's about to who gets to decide what the definition of marriage is, not what that definition must be, and it's about who gets

first, we hear from brian brown president of the national organization for marriage, and evan wofllfson. then our guest is david savage. he will discuss the cases and what a ruling either way could mean. "washington journal" is live every morning at c-span, and you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >>'s weekend, the c-span city's tour has partnered with cox communications to learn about the history and literary life of topeka, kansas. >> and it was signed in 1854, is very act of signing it, signing that piece of paper was viewed by missourians as an act of war. when northerners decided that if popular sovereignty will decide the fate of kansas, we are going to send people to settle. that was viewed as an act of war by many missourians who had just assumed this would be there's. -- theirs. it was almost immediate. in may 1856, don brown and his sons and a couple followers, dragged five men from their cabins along the pottawatomie, and they were hacked to death. that effectively cleared that area of southern settlers. >> here and to be good, i

host: you just heard from brian brown, the president of the national organization for marriage. joined by evan wolfson as well the founder and president of the freedom to marry. james is up next on our support line. caller: sir, can you hear me? host: you are on, sir, go ahead. caller: i kind of think both parties got it wrong. it appears to me that if you're going to respect human beings and you're going to respect the government and respect the bible as well, you're going to have to learn to get along with one another regardless of what the law says. that is what human audi -- humanality is. no one understands that we are just human beings moving forward. we are not moving backward. if that were the case, we would still be riding a camel. you can understand what is going on in the middle east right now because of what the bible says. and i'm truly quite religious stop i try to be. -- i am truly quite religious. i try to be. but there seems to be something wrong when people do not understand that respect and love is the answer to it all. guest: i think the color makes a very go

we are joined by brian brown the president of the national organization for marriage, and also joined by evan wolfson founder of the group freedom to marry. he is the founder and president. gentlemen, if i read it correctly, at the center of the case is the 14th amendment. why does it center on that particular amendment? guest: the 14th amend it embodies to central guarantees that are at take here, what is the freedom to marry itself, and the other is the constitution command of equal protection under the laws for all americans, that the government cannot discriminate against any of us unless it has a sufficient and sometimes compelling reason to do so. the denial of gay people's reason to marry has been a refusal to allow gay americans like any other americans, to enter into this commitment based on love and security in being treated equally by the government. and there has also been a denial of equal protection because there is an -- there is no good reason for exclusion of gay marriage. 65 quarts and said that, and now we are before the supreme court hoping they will affirm, but --

tuesday on "washington journal," brian brown on the national organization for marriage and evan wolfson discuss the oral arguments on whether states can ban same-sex marriage. after that more about those cases with david savage of the l.a. times and chicago tribune. he'll examine what a ruling either way would mean and the status of

brian lamb: did he go to brown? andrew ferguson: he went to uva. ian lamb: when i was looking on the web, i thought i saw a picture of him with -- how often can people see your work in "the weekly standard," at all? andrew ferguson: if you ask my boss, i'm sure he would say not often enough. every couple of weeks. ryan lamb: is there a book? -- brian lamb: is there a book? andrew ferguson: yes, i am doing a sequel to "crazy you." my publisher asked the to do a sequel. they are supposed to be making a movie. it would be great if i could time the next books to release with the movie. then i might actually sell some. which would be a first. brian lamb: andrew ferguson, writer for "the weekly standard," and book writer. thank you very much. andrew ferguson: thank you for having me. >> for free transcripts, or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. they are also available at c-span podcast. >> as c-span at mark's tenure as of compelling conversations here are other programs you may like. se cupp talking about her political vi

brown has been fighting tooth and nail to stay in officers since friday. for more on this we turn to david henry. it's been another dramatic day, david. >> reporter: it certainly has briank but paula brown refuses to leave office so borough council will be meeting with the borough solicitor tonight to determine their next move, what they can do about her but she refuses to go without a fight and this morning she went nuclear demanding that the four council members who voted to have her fired be arrested immediately. >> removed me because i didn't pay you cash money. that's what happened. it's extortion. >> reporter: last thursday borough council voted to fire brown along with code enforcement officer dan rutland. both claim they were victims of extortion. they say council president fred leasher came to them demanding thousands of dollars in exchange for keeping their jobs. leasher denies it. brown has refused to leave her office claiming council illegally eliminated her job after its last meeting had been adjourned. brown says council wants her out because she's uncovered evidence of fraud and outright criminal activity. she showed us credit cards billable to the boroug

brian: what part did the scholar right? is it the gall -- glossary and appendix? who did you hire to do that? jessica: a doctoral student from brownho has become my doctoral student. i'm helping her with the terrorism part of her dissertation. brian: what is your full-time work now? jessica: i am a lecturer at harvard. i in teaching a freshman seminar on terrorism. brian: why do students want to come to your class? what is the motivation? jessica: students are interested in terrorism. some of them were in new york on 9/11. i have a tunisian computer science student who was serious about terrorism. he is totally secular, but he wanted to understand what is happening in his country of origin where quite a few young people have joined isis. brian: how large is your class? jessica: the freshman seminars at harvard, we accept 12 students. brian: what is your approach to teaching? what material do you use to get her the semester? jessica: we teach them about many different organizations. i have, i teach with someone who is a forensic psychiatrist and an attorney. we look at lone wolf terrorists who claim to be christian, we look at the

>> pamela brown, thanks very much. to brian todd on the ground in baltimore for us.protest arrived at city hall in downtown baltimore. our photojournalist is going to pan over here. the crowd is very vibrant. i with would say at least a couple hundred strong. addressing the crowd, calling for peace, peaceful protest. i'm here with ashley fonteroy a musician. i'm going to talk to you about your church in a second. what is your main draw? why did you want to come out today? >> honestly because the youth are being misrepresented. i'm 25 years old. we wanted to let you know that the city is not burning as a result of us. this city is on fire but the rage needs to be directed into a positive direction for justice and for peace. >> reporter: i want to ask you, you say your church was affiliate edd with that building that burned down monday night during the rioting, the building that was going to be a senior citizen living facility. what did that do to your community. >> that was meant for our community. it's meant to bring good and revenue and just love and peace and harmo

brian hackney. >>> with california now in its fourth year of drought, governor brown is trying to get business leaders conservation efforts. kpix 5's kiet do joins us from lexington reservoir in santa clara county with more. >> reporter: governor brown got an earful this week after issues an executive order to cut water use by 25%. this was the deadline this week to submit comments and they got hundreds of them. the most pushback came from the business community. here at the california chamber of commerce says beverage manufacturers, bottlers, coffee shots, industries like microchip processors and food processors, for example, would be put in jeopardy if 25% of their water usage were cut or if they had to pay significantly more for their water. yesterday in sacramento, governor brown met with state leaders to talk about how they will carry out the governor's order. the governor has ordered to cut water use at state campuses, golf courses, cemeteries and other large landscapes. californians tighten up their water use. the state wants to make sure the business community does the same. it would cut water

brown? >> well, i got very lucky. and my agency didn't submit me for it. it was a young agent named brianord who had just started there who said, you know, there is this script. he's now, of course, the most important agent in hollywood. and diane english who created murphy brown insisted that it was very important that i be cast. they wanted someone younger, more luscious and they didn't want murphy to be coming off the elevator and the pilot from a month of betty ford and they said, couldn't she have come back from a week at a spa? they were trying to defame the character and diane english went to bat for me. it was just a miracle to get that part at the ripe age of 41 because it was the best part of all time. >> you know, i think you created the character in that movie starting over because when you stood up and sang and wanted to make a fool out of yourself, this beauty decides to sing which you can't, i think you established that persona, didn't you? right then. >> that was great fun. i mean -- yes, i think so. and that sort of opened doors for me for comedy after that. but murphy wa

find out the hands up with the law michael brown never had his hands up and obama's the justice department quietly dismisses what happened in ferguson. brian wilson's built the justice department slides under the rug. and embrace the position of michael brown when the facts came out. it is response l.a. the exam extensions is another thing. stuart: does the college get a government money? can it be reined in from this kind of thing because they get government money? >> it should. when you have an administration that is complete and has in my opinion taken aside under this new civil rights issue. obama have a real chance to bring the two sides together i don't think you have a president who will hold these fools accountable but you are right. it is a problem with government funding. stuart: i bet you have a hard time as a harvard law school student but we are ready to support you and appreciate you being on the show regularly. a prominent economist blames income inequality for the riots in baltimore. david webb ready to respond to that? he is fired up. plus the washington post of all places blasting to boldly's stand on genetically modified

we learned in the michael brown case you can't always trust witness accounts at times. what do you think about that brianortant fact. even eyewitness testimony, when they believe they're telling the truth may not be the truth. video challenges the balance of power. not just the existence but when its comes out, coverage changes, considerations change and amount of coverage change. all those change as a result of this video like this one. >> nick when looking at the story you wrote -- i have to say before the video came out, your story reflects a lot of local reporting we saw -- this isn't something you pulled out of thin air. this is what local reporters suggested as they were working on information they had. do you think a lot of reader ship -- and maybe it's white reader ship -- that they will take for granted this is the truth? they're happy to buy into this narrative. >> it's very comforting for us to want to take law enforcement at their word and believe these people who have the incredible responsibility to protect us are simply telling the truth, honor driven to hold themselves accountable and to

brian? >> well earlier this month, california governor jerry brown ordered statewide water cutbacks.o cut their water usage by 25% if for californians like sylvia morales, it has impacted everything from washing clothes and dishes to even using the bathroom. >>> i'm doing larger loads of laundry. we're not washing the cars at home. we've cut back on the timers on the lawn. we have taken shorter showers. even washing dishes we've cut back on that -- the water that we use. now, morales lives in the l.a. suburb of covina and says she's hoping to rip out her front lawn as soon as possible and replace it with drought-resistant landscaping. she also notices many people on her street are simply letting their lawns die. drive around southern california suburbs and you'll see a lot of brown lawns as the city threatens fines for water wasters. speaking of that, here's something that is just so very california. some residents are trying to do the right thing and rip out their lawns in favor of natural landscaping or artificial turf but get this? now some homeowners are reporting they are being

brian hackney in for frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. time now is 6:30. a now in itdrought, governor browno get business leaders on board with conservation efforts. kiet do joins us to tell us about concerns over mandatory cuts. >> good morning. it's been a while since i have been out here and it's shocking to see how low the water level is now. a couple of years ago it was right where we're standing right now but if you look down there the water has receded to almost literally 50 yards down the embankment there so the water is low as we have ever seen it in quite some time here. governor brown got an earful after issuing his executive order to cut water use by 25%. this week was the deadline to submit written comments. they got hundreds. the most push back came from the business community. california chamber of commerce says: yesterday in sacramento governor brown met with state business leaders and a roundtable discussion to talk about how they will carry out the governor's orders. the governor has ordered to cut water use at state campuses, golf courses, cemeteries and other large lands

brown. i want all of you to stand by. i want to go back to brian todd.u're marching with those protesters. what's happening? brian, i don't know if you can hear me. hell us what's going on. >> reporter: wolf this is a group of marchers that started back in the gilmore area neighborhood of baltimore, walking along st. paul street here towards penn station, making a lot of noise. we are told this is a group of mostly students leading this rally. don't know exactly which student is the march leader. we'll find that out in a few minutes hopefully. but they've been walking a long way. and this is a common refrain from the people who have been marching in favor of justice for freddie gray justice for some of the other victims of police violence. very familiar refrain here. and if experience serves us well they're going to be marching a long way tonight, going to pennsylvania station right now. they're going to hold a gathering to gather more protesters and they plan on marching to city hall. usually they cover a lot of ground, wolf. so we're going to see where

brown was pulled over by police on the skies hundred block of frankford avenue. investigators released surveillance video showing his headlights were off and say he was shot after reaching for a gun. attorney brianildenberg disagrees with police accounts. >> if a police officer was going to use a plant gun and i'm sorry to go there but there's a trial going on in federal court right now where police officers are being prosecuteed for planting evidence. so it's not like these things don't happen. >> reporter: our legal analyst attorney fred tecce reviewed the case and said that's a stretch. >> what they say is the jury could disbelieve the police officer's testimony and instead find without any evidence that there was a gun dropped. okay first of all that's not the way it works in court. juries have to have evidence in which they can make a finding. >> it's like any other civil suit. our law department will handle it. they'll process it and proceed through the court proceedings as necessary. >> reporter: we did reach out to the district attorney's office. they declined to comment because this is an active case and litigation and the city has up to 30 days to reef respond. iain? >> all right dave,

brown. why and how to make it happen when we come back. i'm brian vickers, nascar® driver. have in common? we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. me, when i had a blood clot in my leg that could have traveled to my lungs. that's why i took xarelto®, too. xarelto® is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. i took xarelto® for afib... an irregular heartbeat that can lead to a stroke from a blood clot. xarelto® is proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. hey, well i'm glad we got together. for people with afib currently well managed on warfarin there is limited information on how xarelto® and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. i tried warfarin before, but the blood testing routine and dietary restrictions had me off my game. tell me about it. let's see, golf clinic, or blood clinic? ooh, that's a tough one. not this time. not with xarelto®. anything else? i'll have another arnold palmer. ok. make mine a kevin nealon. really, brian? hey, safety first. like all blood t

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brown expects people to figure out new ways to save water during the drought. >>> dry conditions due to the drought and warm weather is triggering warnings. ktvu fox 22 briant looks beautiful out there but certainly some things to keep an eye on if you're headed to the beach or so. >> you're right. just a couple of warnings to tell you about. we moved from our last location. it is warmer here. warmer temperatures this weekend. in fact, as rosemary has been talking byte we're above average when it comes to the temperatures and let's look at the sun here this morning. if you're planning to be in the east bay along the water here. there are a couple of warnings to tell you about. in fact, in oakland hills as we go to video. they put the warning to extreme. because of drought there is a lot of dry brush, grass that can quickly go up in flames winds can pick up this weekend but we'll be keeping an eye on. that firefighters plan to clear dangerous sites but people need to be pro active, for example we've been talking about creating a defensible space around your home and warning drivers not to throw out cigarettes. wins aren't the only concern. if you'll be out

we will hear from brian brown and evan wolfson, founder and president of freedom to marry. after that, david savage who covers the supreme court and judicial issues for the los angeles times and chicago tribune will talk about the case and what a rolling either way will meet. that is tomorrow morning, every morning, at 70 and easter. -- 7 a.m. eastern. your participation is welcome. loretta lynch's nomination began