segregated south and in the story begins with the handsome 35-year-old political consultant named chad griffin in his suite at the st. francis hotel on election night in 2008. before i ask you about chad i just have to ask you it's not a secret that rosa parks didn't start a revolution and even rosa parks herself as her covered in "the new york times" book review a year ago. >> guest: it was a deliberate act. >> guest: it was also part of the organized social movement and it was deliberately timed. i know sometimes in speeches people talk about rosa parks starting a revolution but i was surprised to see that in a serious book and i wondered is that because you thought rosa parks started a revolution and if not what were you trying to do? >> what i was trying to say is there are moments in history where somebody does something and it changes the direction. i think we can all agree when rosa parks sat down in her seat on that us it meant something. it was a hugely important moment in the civil rights history. >> host: i don't question that but what i guess what comes across here is the idea that

you tell us that at the numberf points in the book chad griffin wanted to do today or case fast and they were frustrated. you said chad wanted to scream and there was another nice example and you say judge reinhardt states the case for that even though they were upset by the delay. >> host: you said they wanted to beat the cases to the supreme court. and i wondered why you think that is the case because i don't think anybody thought that it would be bad for the supreme court to hear and strike down at the same time that he is addressing the issue of marriage equality for same-sex couples around the country. so, do you think that it was more it doesn't sound like this thinking to me. >> guest: with the layout for the thinking was on either side. a lot of people have processed about like it was fortunate and lucky for them. it's to speed it up, not to slow it down. that is exactly what i'm saying, it is fortunate for them that they didn't get their way and that this case didn't move as slowly as they did it because it allowed the country to move in the direction of marriage equality and cr

there has been a lot of commentary about the book that said you glorified chad griffin and ted olsonisionaries while disregarding as a result to be embedded to gain the perspective or if you had it to you lost it? >> but it comes from a certain quarter and the reviews has been amazing i set out to write a book about what it feels like to want something that other people have the you cannot have and those stories were so moving that chuck cooper when he saw them getting married on tv he said i could not help but rejoice for their happiness. that is an amazing statement i think anybody that cares about this issue once people they even have the power to move chuck cooper. >> host: and aided is a beautiful picture and compelling. i guess it doesn't just purported to be about the stories of what about the risk because you got so close you could night game >> guest: i did not set out to write the entire+ history but the five years between the passage of proposition viii and the time the supreme court heard the statements with the amazing transformation and i want to do that in a very inti

you had rob reiner, the movie direct, chad griffin, a young political op pra active and the pairing up of these super lawyers ted olson and david boies who was his adder have usairy in bush v gore. i wanted to know what does it feel like to be the face of -- in a major civil rights case. >> brown: and the strategy which is part of -- much of what you write, the strategy they pursued of controversial even within the gay rights movement, right? tell us how they decided to good for the federal lawsuit? >> at the time there was a real feeling that the supreme court wasn't ready, the country wasn't ready and what the activities were pursuing was this ten, ten, ten strategy to have 30 states with some form of marriage recognition before you went the federal route. this group thought it was time to do something different brownch the danger was its could be become fire. >> it was a gamable. a lot of visitities working for years on this issue were extremely upset by it. there was a scene i describe in the book where they were called to reiner's home in brentwood, several of the lawyers on this

recently interviewed joe becker about her book, which has come under a lot of fire, because hrc had chad griffinoriginator of the gay rights movement. many cut out a huge swath of people who got there first maybe. do you think criticism of that book has been fair? >> i think this is more important than a book or any one person or any one organization. this movement has been working the freedom to marry with many organizations, many battles, many states, but with one strategy. the strategy is the strategy i outlined earlier. it's called the road map to victory. it's how history tells us we're going to win. it is how we're going to win if we all keep doing the work. >> so, you say it's bigger than a pobook. what did you think of that book? >> i will leave that to people like you who discuss it on air. and richard who have written about it. we're focused op the work. we're not done. we have a lot of work to do. we are winning, but winning is not yet won. let's keep doing the work. >> i would say that was a very diplomatic answer, showing a lot of leadership. >> appreciate you both joining us. >>> t

griffin has our report. >> three weeks after being kidnapped from their boardings schools, many of the 276 also party been sold into slavery. some in chad for as little as $12 each. president obama has confirmed a small u.s. team is on the way to help the nigerians find those and still be rest here. >> we already sent in a team and they have accepted our help. we hope to provide these girls are help. reporter: nigeria slot government has done little to combat the growing conflict, but it has intensified attacks on christians, killing today many people, burning their homes and those who attempted to escape the fires. western influence is important. >> young people are grabbed at an early stage and proffered a little bit of money. there might have been been good. reporter: although u.s. team is headed to nigeria, the pentagon made clear this is a small unarmed team only to advise and assist with logistics and communications and that the u.s. is not considering any military operations to rescue the girls. but at an emotional press conference in washington dc, female members of the congressional black caucus called for military action. two

griffin is live with the latest. what can you tell us? >> pentagon sources tell me that the president authorized up to 80 air force personnel to go to chad. dozens of u.s. military personnel are on the ground in chad and they assembled the predator drone. and fbi and intelligence officials briefed congress yesterday in a closed door session. senior officials worry that the leader of boko haran would love the opportunity to strike at u.s. interest. and to draw u.s. ground troops in a fight. >> i think that everybody realizes that to just willy-nilly to go in and try to rescue the girls if we locate them is a dangerous thing because the terrorist that perpetuated the crime don't care about human life and would be easy for them to kill the hostages. >> i look at boko haram as a separate issue. >> and u.s. drones in nearby chad unmanned surveillance can stay airborne over the area for a longer period of time. they have not located the girls and that area where the u.s. is flying u.s. surveillance is forest and jungle. this week the u.s. and nigeria government established protocol and those were not in place until now. >> and jennifergriffin,

chad to help look for 300 kidnapped girls in neighboring nigeria. it's a reaction to more pressure here at home on president obama to help find those girls. national security correspondent jennifer griffin tells us members of both parties are pushing hard. >> reporter: the leader of the nigerian terror group that kidnapped more than 300 school girls last month is now the target of international sanctions. the u.n. security council added boko haram to a list of al qaeda-linked organizations today, subjecting it to an arms embargo and freezing assets. until now, neither republicans nor democrats have been satisfied with u.s.e esfforts t find the girls and punish the terrorists. >> i don't see why once we get these girls free i'm going to tell you for me i want drones, i want something because they don't belong on this earth. >> reporter: the president informed congress that he thorsed a droep and up to 80 u.s. air force personnel to leave yesterday for neighboring chad. most of the u.s. team is now on the ground preparing to operate the unmanned, unarmed predator. half of the team will be needed to protect the operators. the bases closer to the area where the girl was taken in northern ni

griffin has the latest from the pentagon tonight. >> reporter: three weeks after being kidnapped by nigeria's terror group, many of the 276 teenage girls have already been sold into slavery. some in chad for as little as $12 each. president obama has confirmed a small u.s. team is on the way to help the nigerians find those who can still be rescued. >> we have already sent in a team to nigeria. they have accepted our help, a combination of military, law enforcement and other agencies who are going in, trying to identify where, in fact, these girls might be and to provide them help. >> reporter: while their flawed government has done little to combat the growing combat, hobo haram has intensified attacks, burning people's homes and shooting those who attempted to escape the fires. leaders of the group, they want to impose an islamist state. the group is known to employ child soldiers. >> young people are grabbed at an early stage, propered a little money. their minds are bended. >> reporter: although a u.s. team is headed to nigeria, the pentagon and state department made clear this is a small, unarmed team of roughly 20 advisers tasked only to advise and assist with logistics and the