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m michael milano, and finally way down at the far end of the table is chad griffin. he is the managing partner of a strategic communications and strategy firm, but also the board president of the american foundation of equal rights, which has been the sponsor of the legal challenge to overturn proposition 8. as we do every week, we will ask the panel was questions first, and then at about 2:30 we will open it up to your discussion. with that, the first question is yours. >> this is more for chad. as someone relatively well informed on the issue, now that proposition 8 has reached the courts, could you give us a quick update on where everything stands? >> next month is the two-year mark from when we filed the case. we had a trial a few months after that that lasted about three weeks. this past august, august 4, we got a historic, sweeping victory in federal court that proposition 8 is in fact unconstitutional. that led to an appeal by the opponents in our case, and a few months ago we had a hearing before the ninth circuit court of appeals, and before the ninth circui

michael maulano representing college democrats and finally down at the far end of the table is chad griffin, managing partner of griffin shot the, a strategy firm and also board president of the american -- for equal rights which has been the sponsor of the legal challenge to overturn proposition 8. as we do every week, we will ask the analysts questions for the first half of the discussion and at 12:30 we open up to your questions. with that the first question is yours. >> as someone relatively well informed and media communications on the issue now that proposition 8 has reached the courts give us an update where everything stands. >> next month is the two year mark from when we filed the case of kerri versus 14 a year. we had a trial a few months after that that lasted three weeks and this past august on august 4th we got a historic sweeping victory -- a few months ago we had a hearing before the ninth circuit court of appeals and before the ninth circuit two issues had to be addressed. the first issue that was addressed was standing in our case, intervening defendants attempting to feel

finally, way down at the far end of the table, chad griffin, the managing partner of a strategic communications and strategy firm, also the board president of the american foundation for equal rights, which, as many of you know, has been a sponsor of the legal challenge to overturn prop. 8. as we do every week, we will ask panelists questions for roughly the first half of the discussion, and then we will open it up to your questions. >> chad, as someone relatively well informed on media and communications on the issue, now that prop. 8 has reached the courts, can you give us an update on where everything stands? >> next month is the two-year mark of the case we filed. we had a trial that lasted about three weeks. this past august, august 4th, we got an historic, a sweeping victory in federal court that proposition 8 is in fact unconstitutional. that then led to an appeal by the opponents in our case and a few months ago, we had a hearing before the ninth circuit court of appeals, alive hearing. before the new hearing, two issues had to be addressed. it could be intervening defendants who were a

you'll hear from chad griffin, the political consultant who helped lead the federal lawsuit to overturn proposition 8 in california. also, republican consultant matt klink at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> this week on "q&a" performer mike daisey. his one-man show has featured the economy, steve jobs, and the american theater. >> mike daisey, can you explain what you do for a living? >> i think i can. i am a story teller. i tell stories for a living on stage in front of people. i tell them extemporaneously. you probably have prepared a little. i know who i am, so i am able to answer. we are making it up as we go along. that's what i do. i tell stories in rooms of people live. >> how long have you been doing it? >> in one sense, all of my life. i have been doing it as a career for 15 years. >> i saw you at the woolly mammoth theater. i want to know more. you are talking about apple, steve jobs, and china. what is the show? >> it is "the agony and the ecstasy of steve jobs." they are two stories intertwined. it is the rise and fall of apple and steve jobs and his rise and fall and r