chad griffin is president of the human rights campaign, a great organization.ect for marriage coalition that paid for that ad. i would love to know your financing there. and joan walsh is editor at large of salon.com and a msnbc contributor. chad, that ad was very impressive. we all know why. if we put it back up again, we'll know why we were impressed. what was dick cheney, the man of the hard right, i would sometimes say malicious right, what is he doing on such a fine piece of news print? >> look, this is one of those issues. i know it's rare in washington, chris, but there is actually bipartisan immigrant on marriage equality. this ad features laura bush and dick cheney and colin powell and ends with president obama. what else do those three agree on? >> now, buddy, we're going to get into trade craft. you didn't go to them and ask them to sign on to this ad. you found what they said in print, right? >> these were public interviews. these are clips, tv clips. >> did they know they were going to be used in these ads? >>. no these were tv clips. these are obv

chad griffin is president of the human rights campaign, a glaet organization.ct for coalition that paid for that ad. i'd love to know you financing there. and joan walsh, an msnbc contributor. >>> chad, first, that ad was very impressive. if we put it back up again, we'll know why we're impressed. what was dick cheney, the man of the hard right, i would sometimes say malicious right, what's he doing on such a fine piece of newsprint? >> i know it's rare in washington, but there's actually bipartisan agreement on marriage. it ends with president obama. what else do those three agree on? >> buddy, now we're going to get into trade craft. you didn't go to them and ask if they'd sign on. >> these are tv clips. >> did they know they were going to be used in these ads? >> no, these are public officials who are open about their support for marriage equality. >> just to stay on that one bad penny, where is cheney on marriage equality? exactly? >> the last time he talked is the clip where freedom is freedom for everyone. but he has talked about the importance of states