donald rumsfeld has been running from what he did for years now. in 2006 while the war was at its height, a 27 year veteran of the cia confronted him about the north, south, east, west claim at a public forum. >> it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there. >> you said you knew where they were. >> i did not. i said i knew where suspect sites were. >> you said you knew where they were, near tikrit, near baghdad, and north, south, east, west of there. those of your words. >> my words were that -- no, no, no, wait a minute, let him stay one second. >> this is america, huh? go ahead. >> you're getting plenty of play, sir. >> i'd just like an honest answer. >> i'm giving it to you. >> these guys have been trying to run away from what they did since they did it. it is a revisionist project to make us think they didn't screw up. we should look at them as the experts in foreign policy and military intervention. how long do you have to be and on how big a scale before we stop listening. i would like to hear about acid reflux, or home re

and donald rumsfeld and you go to war with the known unknowns you don't know. with the military you have, you want or whatever that quote was. that was so awful. hal: yeah. the unarmorred humvees that you have at the time. you wrote an article about glenn greenwold and others who seemed to take an attack on addressing anything who didn't -- well, further of all, they were for it before they were against it and anybody against it from the beginning but then doesn't necessarily play by their rules gets attacked. it's a very strange thingings the thing that bothers me about him and i'm gladly that i got an opportunity to come on today because i was furious yesterday not because he was calling people out and calling chris matthews repellant and msnbc's coverage gross and vulgar, because it was, i don't know if you've ever seen that movie wag the dog, it was very much like that. i remember watching it thinking this is all crap, you know, this is just insane. hal: right. caller: sort of this love the for war and this weird admiration of george bush. i found it really

hearing where donald rumsfeld met justification for attacking iraq. how many iraqi civilians will die from this adventure? i would like those questions answered now by somebody like donald rumsfeld. and benjamin,edea sunday night at 8:00 on c- span's q&a. >> monday night of first ladies, and that hammer sent -- anna hamerson. ler.cia ty becomes theler who president's second wife. >> she is the madonna of first lady street she loved publicity. she posed as a model at a time when that was frowned upon. she was known as the rows of long island. she bewitched john tyler. .ho married her she loved being first lady. she had the job for less than a year but it was julia tyler who ordered them marine band to play hail to the chief whenever the president appears. she greeted her guests sitting on a throne on the raised platform with purple coons -- purple plumes in her hair. >> your questions and comments about these three first lady iphone, facebook and twitter. monday night live on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span radio and at c- span.org. the roosevelt ho

. >> reading notes from the afternoon of 9/11 showed donald rumsfeld tasking a top aid it find the best info fast. good enough to hit saddam hussein. he asks the aid to get information from wolfowitz. >> we all looked at each other like, what the hell are they talking about. saddam hussein. bin laden hates him. there is no connection between saddam hussein and al qaeda. >> word goes out to all of the intelligent services. find the connection. >> first, though, the war on terror goes to afghanistan. to capture or kill osama bin laden and destroy the taliban regime that supports al qaeda. by november, the enemy is on the run, forced to flee into the mountains and across the boreder to pakistan. by while bin laden remains at large, washington's attention turns to iraq. to saddam. >> i think the united states, since desert storm, always had a various planning with respect to iraq. >> operation desert storm. also known as the first gulf war. in 1991, following iraq's invasion of kuwait, a u.s.-led coalition of 34 countries drives saddam's forces out of kuwait and december mates the iraqi arm

former defense secretary donald rumsfeld tweeted this week, ten years ago began the long, difficult work5 million iraqis, all who played a role in history deserve our respect and appreciation. liberating iraqis? that wasn't the mission. he's still trying to rewrite history. tonight, rachel maddow's documentary, "hubris: selling the iraq war" is on msnbc at 9:00. it details how the bush administration misled america into a costly, bitter, unnecessary war. >>> joining me now is chris hayes, host of "up with chris hayes." he'll be hosting a special program tonight at 10:00 p.m. they still change the rationale for the war. what is your reaction when you heard this talk this week? >> i found myself more outraged. i think i thought that i had gotten over how angry i was about what happened in iraq. but i think a lot of people are feeling how little the nation actually came to terms with what we did and how little the people who drove that have been punished or have been sanctioned, have been held to any kind of account. there was a midterm election which was a accountability moment on iraq and

donald rumsfeld has been running from what he did for years now. in 2006 while the war was at its height, a 27 year veteran of the cia confronted him about the north, south, east, west claim at a public forum. >> it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there. >> you said you knew where they were. >> i did not. i said i knew where suspect sites were. >> you said you knew where they were, near tikrit, near baghdad, and north, south, east, west of there. those of your words. >> my words were that -- no, no, no, wait a minute, let him stay one second. >> this is america, huh? go ahead. >> you're getting plenty of play, sir. >> i'd just like an honest answer. >> i'm giving it to you. >> these guys have been trying to run away from what they did since they did it. it is a revisionist project to make us think they didn't screw up. we should look at them as the experts in foern policy and military intervention. how long do you have to be and on how big a scale before we stop listening. i would like to hear about acid reflux, or home reme

april of two thousand and three scarborough so that for six months george bush dick cheney and donald rumsfeld have been telling the world the people of iraq need to be liberated from saddam hussein's bloody reign has three weeks of showing us just how right these three men have been in that same commentary scott discover all pondered whether journalists at the new york times and n.p.r. a.b.c. here at c.n.n. are going to ever admit just how long their negative pronouncements were over the past four weeks. well joe turns out the occasional anti-war activists who made it onto the mainstream media and they were few and far between or right and you were wrong so where is the apology ten years after going to war based on international lies and intentional. and after thousands of american lives have been lost the majority of the media has yet to offer any semblance of an apology for being so wrong and for not playing the real role of journalism and questioning the bush administration hard the media failed us leading up to the iraq war and it's cost hundreds of thousands of human beings their lives i

we were at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with mass murder or as donald rumsfeld today: >> liberated perhaps from this mortal coil. i'm pleads to still be joint by political analyst ms. maxwell and lauren windsor welcome to the show for the first time. >> thank you. >> i'm trying really hard to not use the word war. we haven't legally declared war since 1941 in this country. there was nothing constitutional about this. i'm trying to say the invasion and occupation. am i being too much of a stickler about it? >> you're going by what the documentation says. i think we need to be focusing on the fact that we were lied to and the consequences of that and all the money that was wasted and no, it's not a war. >> rick, you saw the donald rumsfeld quote. mitt romney said something similar a few days ago. let's talk about how the purpose of this war is being purposefully misremembered. we're being told now today all these reasons to feel good about the war. is it accurate to say that donald trump may have been the only republican to tell the truth what he said this was sup

walsh, we saw what donald rumsfeld said on twitter. we saw dick cheney say he would do it all over again and not acknowledge any mistakes. >> the main fault -- i don't spend a lot of time thinking about my faults i guess would be the answer. >> no kind of political introspection there. but will history let these men off the hook for what they did? >> no, they're going down in history for a horrible, terrible war. i was going to say a lapse of judgment, but it was not a lapse of judgment. it was a deliberate act. they cooked the evidence. they brow beat people. they would karl rove as their political hench men. the vote was scheduled on the eve of the elections deliberately. i don't want to let democrats off the hook. 29 senate democrats voted to authorize the use of force. some apologized later like john kerry. some brave people came out against it as you showed. barbara boxer, dick durbin, paul wellstone, but there is a tendency among democrats that really worries me. it's to act as though maybe their patriotism is possibly going to b

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> the show. >> only on current tv. (vo) current tv gets the converstion started next. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv. >> thirteen minutes before the top of the hour, friday, march 29th. this is "full-court press." we are coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours on current tv and on your local progressive talk radio station and on sirius xm radio. one of the sources we turn to most often, a great team of people at politico for good solid reporting on what's happening here at the nation's capitol and at the congress. for many of us, the facilitiese and the voice is mr. michaelen, who is also theke allen, who is also the. joining us on our news line this morning. hello, mike. >> blessed beautiful friday to you, bill >> bill: thank you. good to talk to you. it's been a long time. let me play a clip from the secretary. >> very provoctative actions and bell

. >> but the inspector says it was the pentagon and defense secretary donald rumsfeld who patrolled the the check of. $45 billion had been spent on security related projects in 2011 or by 2011. the supervision was not so much in place. eye-popping waste, fraud, and abuse were the results. convicted felons skimming the attachment to pay construction workers. $40 million prison never wanted and never finished. and a former army major now in prison for stealing millions from government accounts. >> some of those had access to these large duffel bags of cash and were unable to resist the temptation to steal. >> 220 avenal. 104 criminal indictments. 82 convictions. $191 million in fines and penalties. he says some of the money will never be found. but there is a next time, he hopes the u.s. will never learned the very costly lesson of iraq. >> it has been costly to iraq and to the united states and to coalition partners in ways that no one anticipated 10 years ago. >> al jazeera. >> john brennan is one step closer to becoming the head of the cia. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has ap

i mean, people like donald rumsfeld and wall wolfowitz and dougl douglas fife should not be able to showithout being confronted about what they did in iraq. having spent time in iraq throughout the '90s, many of the iraqis i knew are dead. many of the iraqis that survived the war are displaced along with the millions of others that are been displaced. but i think it's important, you know, we as americans don't often study history as much as we should, to remember that i don't see this as the tenth anniversary of the iraq war. this was a war that started in 1991 and was waged consistently by the united states and it was a bipartisan war. bill clinton presided over the longest sustained bombing campaign since vietnam. bombing iraq once every three days under the guise of these so-called no-fly zones. he imposed the most brutal regime of economic sanctions in history on the iraqi people. it was disproportionately aimed at the people, not the regime. if you went into hospitals in iraq in the '90s, they were death rows for infants. that was a democratic-led administration. then we had the non

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >>ch the show. >> only on current tv. you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? ♪ >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio, and on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: well a belated happy st. patrick's day. hope you celebrated and are ready to go with a whole new busy week here in our nation's capitol. president obama headed off to the middle east. good morning, everybody, what do you say, monday march 18th. so good to see you today, yep, hope you did have a good weekend and are ready to go today here

we learned the day after 9/11 secretary of defense donald rumsfeld is already looking to link saddamsein and osama bin laden. >> meeting notes from the afternoon of 9/11, show donald rum fells tasking a top aide to find the best information fast, good enough to hit saddam hussein. he asks the aide to get evidence from wolfowitz of a saddam connection with ubl. >> we all looked at each other like what are they talking about? who the hell? saddam hussein? bin laden hates him. there is no connection between saddam hussein and al qaeda. >> again, "hubris" airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. you don't want to miss that. >>> turning now to business, good news and bad news. investors head into the final trading day of the week. major indices posted their biggest losses in over three weeks thursday. but for the month, all three major u.s. markets are still up about 2%. on thursday, cyprus inspired selling picked up despite decent weekly jobless claims and another dose of good housing data. >>> meanwhile, bankers continue to protest and panic depositors flock to atms in cyprus as they face a monday dea

i've already mentioned those who were officially in charge of the war richard perle colin powell donald rumsfeld on top of all of them dick cheney and president bush but the policy advisors i'm referring to were a group within the defense department effectively assumed the role of intelligence national security community the state department and so on during the period in question strategic decision were made exclusively by a single institution the department of defense the department of state of jet did to their war plan and so did the cia the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what's your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.t. replied just let a save or throw him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three with war in the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold and iran would expand its area

former employee and colin powell is on the membership list back in two thousand and five as is donald rumsfeld and bush forty one most of the neo con orchestrators of the iraq war and so i do believe that this e-mail hack from google for is authentic and it looks like they're obviously trying to get tony blair former u.k. prime minister in the air because he's still active in the political arena aimed not just retire and run off into the sunset he found found he has a foundation and is still very active and so it looks like they're trying to get him to attend the grove this e-mail was from march of two thousand and twelve and apparently tony blair was too busy his schedule was to book but he did reply allegedly that he hopes that his schedule will be more open in two thousand and thirteen this year and as you know the bohemian grove is a fascinating secretive society of the elite where they rub shoulders and it's more than just a party as i'm sure that you know well let's let's go over a few of the things that you just brought up mark first of all you mentioned the membership list i just want

bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld colin powell everyone in the bush administration all of the media c.e.o.'s who propagated all of the lies all of the military commanders who lied and sent us to war knowing that the reasons were fabricated they need to be held responsible not just for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in the catastrophe created for u.s. soldiers but the complete catastrophe for millions of iraqis over a million who have died become refugees wounded and of course we can't talk about p.t.s.d. for u.s. soldiers without acknowledging that p.t.s.d. for an entire generation of iraqis is a real reality millions and millions of people whose lives have been destroyed and so people want justice for all of these war criminals and people are fighting to win justice and an organization we are forward is working to help get this justice and also help that's opt out thank you so much mike prize the iraq war veteran and co-founder of march forward. i so guys as you know this week marks the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of iraq but sadly you won't know if you're just watch

. >> that is the hearing where donald rumsfeld was making the justifications for attacking iraq, anddidn't hear in the clip were questions we got a chance to ask him, which is, how much money is halliburton going to make from the war? how many u.s. soldiers will be killed? how many iraqi civilians will die? and i'd like those questions answered now by somebody like donald rumsfeld. >> more with code pink cofounder sunday night at 8:00. >> 40 years after the start of the arab israeli war, newly declassified documents were released relating to intelligence covering the 1973 conflict. recently the richard nixon library and the cia hosed -- hosted an event. >> of our television audience, who may have just joined us, i want to tell you you're here with us at the richard nexton presidential library and museum in yorba linda, california, with a program presented jointly by the national archives, the richard nixon foundation, and the central intelligence agency. this is our second panel of the program, and before we get into it, i want to remind the members in our audience of the association

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. >> that was the hearing where donald rumsfeld was making the justifications for attacking iraq and what you didn't hear or questions and we got a chance to ask him which is how much money is halliburton going to make and how many u.s. soldiers will be killed in the war, how many iraqi civilians will die from this adventure and i would like the questions answered by somebody like donald rumsfeld. homeland security secretary janet napolitano says the notion that a pathway to citizenship for an illegal immigrant should be withheld until certain border security is not necessary. the so-called border security trigger has been part of the immigration debate on capitol hill. speaking with christian science monitor reporters, she also talked about a building a cybersecurity work force and counterterrorism operations. this is an hour. >> okay, folks. give you a little time to eat -- >> thanks for coming everyone. i am david cook from the monitor. our guest is secretary janet napolitano. this is her sixth visit and we welcome her back. our guest is a new york city native who grew up in albuq

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> show. >> only on current tv. current tv is the place for true stories. with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. real, gripping, current. documentaries... on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: hey,el eleven minutes before the top of the hour. it is the "full court press." there was a hearing on the issue of drones, particularly looking at the growing but just beginning use of domestic drones. meanwhile in an story exclusively reported by the"the daily beast", it appears the obama administration has made a decision that they are going to shift the authority for the use of drones overseas from the cia to the pentagon. that was reported by the "daily beast." richard good to have you with us. >> how are you? >> bill: why this shift? >> when we talk about the drone program we talk about it generally as one single entity but for years the u.s. government has been running two parallel drone programs one by the cia and one by the pen

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. [ music ] >> chatting with you live at current.com/bill current.com/billpress. this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: all right now, 33 minutes after the hour here on this monday morning, march 25th. so good to see you today and we are now, the team is complete. breaking news stevie lee web has made it out of the ditch on the george washington parkway and he had to take care of the phones. give steve acre call at 866-55-press. he will tell you about the drive this morning. and we will get back to a big, big announcement yesterday by mayor michael bloomberg, the latest big story here for us to talk about this morning, but first, here we go. you know, i keep looking for these articles about identity theft. this one out of florida, where authorities have arrested five id theft suspects accused of preparing to sell personal information on thousands of people they gathered victims, names, dates of birth and social s

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> the show. >> only on current tv. >> hal: hello, jacki schechner is here giving a era of legitimacy as tony and i are here making at it head bangers ball. >> it ups my cool points. >> hal: you got a quick lesson in metal this week but also there was a little bit of a twitter lesson. >> it's a misunderstanding. >> hal: okay. what is the problem. >> when you retweet something, it pops up with an rt in front of it for retweet. when i retweet something it just retweets it and has the little circle that says retweeted by so i thought you were adding an extra rt and you said that just happens. >> hal: yeah it's how your twitter software or whatever form reads it. because it will show the rt or skip those letters, but that's the programming of how twitter works. >> correct. >> hal: i just don't want anyone to be upset. >> i thought you were being redundant. >> hal: i would never be redundant i told you that several times already this morning. 1-800-steph-1-2 is our number. and we're going to

despite the obvious human tragedy the main instigators of the conflict george book bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld held remain unpunished and under how can we. ever expect to learn from the biggest foreign policy disaster in america's recent history if we don't hold our leaders accountable for the evil they've caused so what is the lasting legacy of the iraq war and how can we prosecute the war criminals who started it let's ask our architect blogger and political advocate for the american arab anti-discrimination committee read welcome back to the program thank you for having me again great to have you with us where were you on this day in two thousand and three i was in my parents' place in baghdad and actually went back to iraq from jordan because i knew that there would be and be just so i went to be with my family to be. collecting food like you know storing more food and preparing for the invasion and i remember waking up. on this day on the sounds of the first bombs that's been on baghdad what was your family's experience it was a jihad because you know my family went through so many wars i

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >>ch the show. >> only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right mayor michael bloomberg in new york, big setback for the nanny state of bloomberg. by the way, he leaves office at the end of the year. so he thought this was going to be part of his legacy. it looks like his legacy will be fighting this for the rest of the year. 60% of residents of new york city on record as opposed to his ban on drinks larger than -- soda drinks larger than 16 ounces. peter, what's the social media world saying about this? >> we're tweeting at bpshow. one person says i'm with mayor bloomberg. someone has to be the reasonable voice opposing millions of advertising dollars aimed at children. mzotti says why stop at sodas? how about limiting the size of portions served? what about those huge deli sandwiches in new york? >> bill: if you go to the carnegie deli, baby, right? >> gary killpack says cigarettes have a warning label. maybe you could just add one to sodas and gmo

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wherewas the hearing donald rumsfeld was making the justifications -- that was the hearing where donaldumsfeld was making the justifications for attacking iraq. how you did not hear is much money is halliburton going to make from this war, how many u.s. soldiers will be killed in this war, how many iraqi civilians will die from this adventure, and i would like those questions answered now by somebody like donald rumsfeld. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night on c-span's "q&a." last hour of "washington journal" on wednesdays, we take a look at a recent magazine article. this radical, written by terrance frank arruda -- garance franke-ruta. how are women performing in higher education and why? doing women are extraordinarily well in a higher education environment. since the 1980's, they have been the majority of college environments. in the last couple of years, the last decade, they passed men in terms of masters degrees and phd's acquired as well. the female population has done extremely well in higher education. host: how are they scoring? guest: on average, higher than men. host:

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >>ch the show. >> only on current tv. >> announcer: chatting with you live at current.com/billpress. >> bill: thursday morning march 7. 33 minutes after the hour. the "full court press" coming to you live from our nation's capital. good to have you with us today. in the next hour, at the top of the next hour, we're going to bounce over to rome to find out what's up with the cardinals getting ready for the big conclave to elect the successor to benedict xvi remember, who didn't die he just retired. said he had enough. now he's just kicking back at the papal summer palace. father thomas reese joins us at the top of the next hour. we'll get back to your calls about rand paul and the filibuster. rand paul and drones and eric holder saying that we can sometimes we could even use a drone to kill american citizens on american soil. that coming up. first just a quick word, you know, you've heard we've been talking about identity theft. there is another phrase you should get familiar with called

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >>ch the show. >> only on current tv. >> michael: as we mentioned earlier the president debuted his new environmental team today. he honored earnest moniz and gene. but before those two can even think about their policy agendas, they'll have to deal with the massive sequester cuts to their department. the energy department is being slashed by 5%. the renewable energy program and the office of science will see the biggest cuts. and over at the epa, their budget will be slashed by over $500 billion. americans for prosperity told members, quote . . . this fight to obliterate environmental regulations for the financial benefit of the koches thoem themselves -- themselves. and the koches are already pushing the keystone pipeline. they stan to benefit from the pipelines. and there are signs the koches might come out on top this time too. a state department report out friday gave the pipeline a positive review, and said the project would not make much of a difference to climate change because t

. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >>y on current tv. ♪ >> michael: you're back inside "the war room"," i'm michael shure. president obama went to capitol hill to sell his second-term plans to house republicans. it was his first meeting with the entire republican caucus in two years. republicans only seem to care about achieving an balanced budget, however. he got a standing ovation but various news reports show that john boehner ovation was louder. >> obama: it was beautiful. >> michael: speaker boehner said the meeting was productive but. >> republicans want to balance the budget. the presidents doesn't. republicans want to solve our long-term debt problem. the president doesn't. we want to unlock our energy resources to put more americans back to work. the president doesn't. >> michael: the president is entering hostile territory now. joining me now is charlie pierce he comes to us from boston, welcome back into "the war room." >> thank you. >> michael: most people are distracted by the new pope today. will the preside

and donald rumsfeld saying ten years ago began the long difficult work of liberating 25 million iraqiso played a roll in history deserve our respect and appreciation. the nervous thing is that he has the gall to use the word history and saying it was all about liberating the iraqi people. they're trying to do it. they're using the tenth year anniversary of the war to make you believe it didn't happen the way it happened. to try to make you believe it was all about liberating the iraqi people from the tyrant. they want you to believe what they proposed to the american people ten, eleven years ago, go liberate them from a tyrant. the american said we should, and we went and were greeted as lib ray tors, we knew it would take eight and a half years and cost millions and lose many people. they say it was hard but that difficult liberate work is what we signed up for and has to be remembered as the history of that war. that's not the history of that war. there's not a memory hole deep enough or wide enough to make us forget the real history of what happened. it is not that long ago you're n

. >> that was the hearing were donald rumsfeld was making the justifications for attacking iraq. what you did not hear in the clip were questions that we got a chance to ask him, which is how much money is halliburton going to make from the floor, how many u.s. soldiers will be killed in the war, how many iraq is will die? i would like his answers -- questions answered now by someone like donald rumsfeld. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night at 8:00. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi weighed in on the defensive marriage act and predicted it would be ruled unconstitutional. she spoke with reporters for about 20 minutes. >> good afternoon. that was pretty exciting this morning. it was really, i believe, a dignified proceeding. the questions that were asked by the justices i thought were very evoked information and responses that i think were very constructive. this is as big as our constitution, as big as our country at self, something as personal as marriage in our country between same-sex parties. i had the privilege of being there with karen and amy. karen is a federal