we have to get rid of doma but have to make progress in the states. we have to fight off more constitutional amendments that are headed our way. and we have to overturn those, that already exist. and at the same time, as fighting the federal doma, overturning things in the states, as i said before we have a lot of legal cases going. and i think sometimes people say well surely there will be a silver bullet, one of these cases will go through and wipe the whole thing out. that would be nice but i don't see it happening that way. the way i see it it's like an arcade game, have you ever been to arcade, the pony is running across, and you're throwing bean bags, all those ponies are running to the finish line of marriage equality and we will get there but we have to get every single horse across the finish line and we need your help to do it. [ applause ] >> as arlene spoke earlier during the luncheon, our fates are tied together particularly on ballot measures. we just heard two sets of ballot measures, we're not talking about anti-affirm a

have been given is that unless and until the law is overturned by the court, and i'm talking as to doma, which we have -- the department of justice has urged be done -- but until that happens, we cannot unilaterally give green cards based on that. what we have done, however, is when we have same sex couples, if they fall within the other criteria of our priority memo, our prosecutorial discretion memo, that allows us to intercede with removal and some of the other actions. >> i'm a strong supporter as are other members of this committee in repealing doma which would provide a comprehensive solution. i've been approached by other similar couples who have enormous contributions to make to this country. and whose families are every bit deserving of the kind of recognition that we accord to heterosexual couples. and so i hope that i can work with you on this area of trying to devise solutions in the meantime that will enable those couples to continue to be family is here as we need and they deserve. thank you. >> yes. absolutely. >> thank you, madame secretary. thank you, mr. chairman. >> t

. >> like doma-nills. it rhymes with dollar bills though. doma-domanills, y'all. >> jimmy: yes. applause ] >> jimmy: that did not count as a rhyme already. yeah, you got an advantage. rhyme wave, let's give domanills a person, place, and thing. [ robotic voice ] >> calculating. ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: all right. [ laughter ] [ robotic voice >> george clooney, retirement home, bee hive. >> jimmy: tough, right here. this is domanills, this is tough right here. okay, you have george clooney, retirement home, and beehive. you have to use these words in your rhyme. okay, rhyme wave, let's get started. [ robotic voice ] >> three, two, one, flow. ♪ yo, yo i be coming through with the goonies killing high on my petunie ♪ ♪ killing like -- with george clooney 12 send you right to hell fill it with the elves on christmas ♪ ♪ send santa to a retirement home go to hip-hop like i am home ♪ ♪ i am on the throne yeah, yeah, she nice she like killing in the beehive, getting honey ♪ ♪ dominill say yeah and mommy with the gummies and i don't really give a dang, dang ♪ ♪ yeah it's lovely yeah, they call me

syrian troops in this youtube video march through an alley in doma. activists say ten military dete detectfectors will killed there today. a second group of monitors was due to arrive this weekend to keep watch on what is supposed to be a cease-fire. >> the taliban is claiming responsibility for a raid on a building in kandahar. they walked into the compound with pistols hidden in their boots. >> the white house faces a diplomatic dilemma. a chinese civil rights activist is said to be taking refuge in beijing. he escaped from howse arrest last week. secretary of state hillary clinton is scheduled to be in beijing next week. >>> here in the yunls united states, students in henryville, indiana, never thought they would see their prom night after a tornado devastating their town in march. >> it makes up for everything, even though the tornado destroyed everything, it doesn't destroy our determination to still have prom and come toort a a community. >> with grit and gratitude, the students had their prom, and they put aside all of the stress and trauma le

have been given is that unless and until the law is overturned, by the court, and i'm talking as to doma, which we have, the department of justice have urged to be done, that until that happens, we cannot unilaterally give green cards based on that. what we have done however is, when we have same-sex couples, if they fall within the other criteria of our priority memo, our press to get tory memo, that allows us to intercede with some of the other actions. >> i am a strong supporter, as are other members of this committee, of repealing doma, the respect for marriage act which would provide a comprehensive solution. i have been approached by other similar couples who have enormous contributions to make in this country, and whose families are every bit deserving of the kind of reg ignition that we afford to heterosexual couples. so i hope that i can work with you in this area of trying to devise solutions in the meantime that will enable those couples to continue to be families here as they deserved. thank you. >> absolutely. >> thank you med secretary. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you

down his health insurance application for his husband on the basis of the defense of marriage act doma which is being contested in court. >>> this morning analysts speculating about the future of yahoo. yesterday yahoo passed out pink slips to 2,000 workers who found out their services won't be needed by the end of the year. about 14% of yahoo's workforce. timing is puzzling the new ceo scott thompson won't explain his vision of the future which means he could be preparing to sell the company. >> if you are going to do it properly, you do it deep and fast this looks shallow and long looks like he might be learning on-the-job if you are lay-offs for packaging for sale you want to go deep because you want the company to look as good as possible as quickly as possible. >> yahoo says lay-offs equal savings of 375 million dollars a year. in the past four years yahoo has laid off nearly 6,000 workers. >>> brisbane voters asked to approve a new tax to save the jobs of 1/3 of their teachers. the school district says it will have to lay-off that many teachers unless vote areas prove a $156 annu

world of business twenty three joins us from the task in the battle looms for moscow's largest airport doma dead of a new bitters on the horizon what's happening there well two of russia's richest men or some of the richest men are actually looking for the asset in one corner there's a video you'll friedman and he's the owner of a group he's got the backing of state run bank which could provide up to two billion dollars in financing in the other quarter. yeah that was the head of the group which specializes in infrastructure and transport investment and both of them are offering three billion dollars for the assets but the idea was management is asking for fifty percent more whoever is successful would still need government approval to be. well let's move now quickly to what's going on the stock markets in russia it's all looking even rosier before we are two yes up more than two percent the my six up one point eight percent despite the slight pessimism that we're seeing on other global markets moving the my sex lukoil course among blue chips is showing have the gains more than two percent

he supported doma publicly, he's also donated $10,000 for the national organization for marriage. so i think under a romney administration, we would be looking at a different world for lbgt people and certainly not one that's better. >> you make a brilliant point. you said britney spears marriage after 55 hours, kim kardashian 72, both uphold the sanctity of marriage. your mothers have been together 16 years of married commitment, and yet many people refuse to recognize them. >> that's right. >> as a married couple. it is an absurd disparity in the way many people view those two situations. >> yeah, definitely. you know in fact my moms had thafr first commitment ceremony in 1996, three months to the day after the defense of marriage act was signed into law. the defense of marriage act is what singled out same-sex couples in the eyes of the federal government and was supposed toe to protect the sanctity of marriage. it was propelled by speaker gingrich and president clinton and we found out later that newt gingrich is in the middle of his second affair with the woman who would beco

well i think the secret of the political success of doma unless not hard to find a majority of resilience think that the government has to where we're from them. in economic terms. the particularly coming out of a period where governments were considered to be tremendously unresponsive to the needs of the majority and economic questions in significant growth and in seeking a job creation there's also been aggressive government social spending through the also familiar to any access to education and basic services and maturity of their population the situation a little bit different in the sense that we in fact it's important differ in the sense that you know in much of the world. it is the public services that we take for granted in the united states people who are not yet able to keep for granted and part of the revolution that's in place and much of latin america over the last twenty years is the revolution that took place the natives making the resemble the new deal government becoming accountable to the door to the point we wish so we took it for granted that we have universities we'r

that the court shouldn't overturn a law passed by congress, he is trying to get the court to overturn domathe marriage act, so he is being hypocritica hypocritical. he is talking like a conservative. most important, it wasn't a smart thing to do. >> okay. >> he is signalling he thinks -- >> i didn't mean -- >> he is signalling he doesn't think it's going to happen. >> okay. i he is rolling his eyes. the camera didn't pick it up, but we had the same old partisan split where this is a very big story on fox news, and msnbc believes that -- or saying this was a phony -- it's not a phony controversy. words matter. >> words do matter, and this morning i rehad of read what the president said. he said the court ought to give deference to congress and realize that people are being affected by this law. that isn't the same thing as newt gingrich saying we're going to send the marshalls in, which he did in december, and eradicate any courts we disagree with. that's controversial. obama, if anything, showed a wee bit of backbone, and i agree that should be a story because if the president shows a litt

. >> doma pastry is a lot of a lot of ethiopians. it's a little cafe and restaurant.man has owned the restaurant for a long time. they make vegan cakes and great coffee. if you're watching your diet or don't eat dairy, it's a great place to go to get some vegan pastry, from a woman who used to work in the white house. >> a lot of wonderful exotic foods all over our city. this he is are places you can buy the groceries and make the things at home. lavonia of the "washington post," thank you. for more ideas for your weekend, log on to nbcwashington.com or the going out guide on "washington post".com. >>> and we're going to take a look at stories we're following this afternoon. we have a preview of things to come. >> coming up this afternoon on news4 at 4:00, the tsa is under fire because of a full pat down on a 4-year-old girl. we'll hear from the child's mother. what she has to say. supermarkets are scarce these days in inner cities. but a local organization is helping to bring some fresh produce to street corners in the district. liz crenshaw has details tonight. and

so we have to get rid of doma. but we have to make progress in the states.we have to fight off more constitutional amendments that are headed our way, and we have to overturn those that already exist. and at the same time as fighting the federal doma, overturning things in the states, as i said before, we've got a lot of legal cases going. and i think sometimes people say, well, surely there's going to be a silver bullet. one of these cases will go through and wipe the whole thing out. well, that would be nice, but i just don't see it happening that way. the way i see it, it's like an arcade game. have you ever seen that pony game where the ponies are running across, and you're throwing bean bags? all of those ponies are moving, all of those horses are running to the finish line of marriage equality, and we will get there, but we have to get every single horse across the finish line, and we need your help to do it. [applause] but as arlene spoke earlier during a luncheon, our faiths are tied together particularly on ballot measures. we've just heard just two

so we have to get rid of doma that we have to make progress in the states and fight of constitutional amendments headed our way and we have to overturn those that already exist. and at the same time as fighting the federal doma, as i said before we have a lot of legal cases going, and i think sometimes people say surely there's going to be a silver bullet. one of the cases will go through and what the whole thing out. there would be nice but i don't see it happening that way. the way i see it is like an arcade game. have you ever been to the cony game where they are running across and your throwing beanbags and yours gets first? all of those are moving all of those horses are running to the finish line of marriage equality coming and we will get there, but we have to get every single horse across the finish line, and we need your help to do it. [applause] as arlan spoke earlier during the luncheon, our faiths are tied together on the ballot measures. we have just heard the measures we are not even talking about the anti-affirmative faction or anti-immigration measures. if you did an o

his own administration is asking the courts to overturn the defense of marriage act, doma, so it is hardlyr overturning legislation. >> those of his his exact it would be unprecedented and extraordinary for an elected of men and women in black robes to overturn a majority decision in congress, like an overwhelming majority. i don't have to parse his words. he's questioning the legitimacy of the courts to overturn his favorite law. this is a rematch. we did this yesterday. >> but i wasn't here for it. >> he's questioning something at the same time he's asking the supreme court to do. >> that's not a question for me. that's a question for president obama. he seems to like to apply the law the way he sees fit. we don't have a red phone. >> it's theet per. you have the outrage machine everything obama says. >> will is very outrageous this morning. >> when bush was president there was a democratic outrage machine but this is not a real controversy. >> but a strategy for re-election, now it's been posited that a lot of this on the reaction from mcconnell on the right is a political strategy but

. >> strong supporter of other members of this committee repealing doma, which would provide a comprehensive solution. i have been approached by other similar couples who have the enormous contributions to make to this country and whose families are every bit deserving of the kind of recognition we afford to heterosexual couples so i hope i can work with you on this area to advise solutions in the meantime that will enable those couples to continue to the families here as we need and they deserve. >> absolutely. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> i have been trying to juggle schedules and you have been very patient. thank you for your service. i would like to ask a few questions about the dream act which we talked about from time to time. senator schumer and i held a hearing on the controversial arizona law and talked about seven arizona residents who qualify for the dream act but also would be the targets of arizona law. beyond reasonable suspicion that they are documented and stated publicly they are either attending college or graduate of arizona state university with degrees in engineering a

so we have to get rid of doma, but we have to make progress in the states. we have to fight off more constitutional amendments that are headed our way, and we have to overturn those that already exists. and at the same time, fighting the federal doma, overturning things in the states, as i said before, we've got a lot of legal cases going, and i think sometimes people say well, surely there'll be a silver bullet. one of these cases will go through and white golfing at. that would be nice but i just don't see it happening that way. the way i see it is like an arcade game. there's that pony game with the ponies are running across and you're throwing beanbags and your party gets first and then the next pony, all of those ponies are moving, all those horses are running to the finish line of marriage equality and we will get there, but we have to get every single horse across the finish line. and we need your help to do it. [applause] but as arlene spoke earlier during a luncheon, our fate are tied together, particularly on ballot measures. we just heard just two

and on the doma bill, the whole purpose of doma was to keep the congress from voting out a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in the u.s. constitution, which had eight gotten to the states, but almost certainly come back then, have secured the votes of three-quarters of the state legislature in the country. was a cold calculation based on that we may have been wrong but most of the leaders of the community, and most of my congressional advisers believe that if we didn't go along with that that the republican congress would put gay marriage ban amendment to the federal constitution and they would get the votes in the house and senate and they would send it to the states. so, i may have been wrong, but i think under the circumstances since we believe that what happened it's worth it to block it because since then, there's been steady progress towards recognizing gay marriage which support. [applause] >> president clinton, i am from california which you've visited. my city is about 140,000 people, and last year we were the sixth highest city per capita in homicide rates in the ent

on the doma bill, the whole purpose was to keep the congress from voting out a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in the u.s. constitution. if it got to the states it would almost certainly back then have secured the votes of three-quarters of the state legislatures and the country. it was a total calculation based on the odds -- we may have been wrong, but most of the leaders of the gay community believe that if we did not go along with that, the republican congress would put a gay marriage ban amendment to the federal constitution. they would get the votes in the house and the senate and they would send it to the states. i may have been wrong, but i think under the circumstances as we believed it would happen it was worth it. since then there has been steady, long the progress toward recognizing gay marriage. which i support. [applause] >> i am from california, which revisited when you were in office. my city is about 140,000 people, and we last year were the sixth highest city per capita in homicide rates in the entire country. we have the highest incarceration rate per co