joining us n to discuss s the business headlines, politico senior white house correspondent carrie budoff brown. welcome. kudoto you on getting into work. let't's talk about janet yellen. i do not want to get too deep here i it the audience getets bd by fed speak. she did a really good job reassuring congress and the market that she was not the first pick -- that the obama administration must he pleased with her cornering the market. >> the big take away was that there was very littl between bernanke and her. continuity in policy, even the way they spoke. a lot ofhe same language that they used. the first wedos -- could understand. that was a a good line. she got good reviews. signal that there will not be any changes at this point, despite thbad unemploymenent report. the markrket is in flux when she spoke. the stock maet responded well. >> e said yes, ben bebernanke that, wence we hit will start policy. she said forget about it. the long-term unempled are stilill a problem. they will not use that as a brbrahman or. >> yes. >> no complaints from the white house. >> absolutely not. anyone calli

let's bring in "washington post" blogger reid wilson and carrie budoff brown. reid, the point in indiana overlaps what's happening in virginia, and here's why. the folks in indiana think that if they keep this issue off the ballot for a couple more years, it is less likely that people will reject this attempt to get marriage equality. in virginia and other places, we're seeing judges come around and also reject these kind of bans. is that march a matter of time at this point? >> well, it is, especially through the federal courts. this is a concerted strategy by supporters of same-sex marriage, who really went through legislatures as much as they could in states like washington state and california and oregon. rather oregon is going to be coming up on the ballot in 2014. once they hit all the democratic states that they could, the only available avenue they had to legalize same-sex marriage was through the courts, so there's something like 37 cases in about 15 states that are taking a look at these same-sex marriage bans. new ones every day in states like missou