gloria allred is joining us and a former adviser to president clinton on lgbt issues. thank you both for being here. gloria, if this federal appeal's court finds it unconstitutional, what recourse do these plaintiffs have? >> well, it may well be that ultimately u.s. supreme court is going to have to grapple with this issue, ronan, because when they struck down the defense of marriage act, they did not go to the merits of whether or not it is unconstitutional for a state to ban marriage equality. i challenged the ban on marriage equality in california in 2004. we fought that for six years. twice to the california supreme court. we won the right in california for our clients, robin tyler and diane olson to be married and also thousands of couples to be married. however, the u.s. supreme court has not decided the merits. justice kennedy is going to be the swing vote. he thinks there's a liberty interest that we shouldn't have two-tiered marriages, one for heterosexuals. it is demeaning to same-sex couples not to be able to marry and they have the right to dignity under th

i want to see gloria allred being sicked on him. those who don't respect this congress would respect obama if he did it. they are claim blaming him. >> you no he, i like the way you talk. you throw in gloria allred, judge judy and my god, that's a lot in one welt. >> he earned it, chris. he earned it. >> thank you joy. thank you, john. >>> up next, bob mcdonnell throwing his wife under the bus to save both their skins. is she going along with this? it looks like she is. this is "hardball," a place for politics.  >>> republicans love to argue that voter id law would cut down on voter fraud. reality, is they won't. that by a professor and constitutional law expert an loyola law school in los angeles. he analyzed every election in this country since 2000. that's over a billion ballots cast. over a billion ballot, only 31 cases of alleged voter fraud that photo id could have stopped. 31 out of a billion. when he organized lectures in those states with strict photo id laws, he found more than 3,000 voters rejected, including some he as

gloria allred famous for defending women's rights is the lawyer for the young women she will denies the press conference to file a complaint against occidental college it's the first time the twenty year old women talk to the national media. early this morning a complaint was filed on behalf of a number of victims with the office of civil rights against occidental college for violating title knowing the complaint documents violations involving thirty seven occidental college students who were allegedly raped sexually assaulted battered harassed and or retaliated against for speaking out against sexual violence accidental needs to be investigated by the department of education they cannot conduct business as usual while women are being raped we are asking the department of education to take swift and immediate action to force the college to do what they are legally required to do or lose their federal funding. that this point was going to need to conclude however this is a copy of the not quite a logical place. we wanted to meet with authorities of occidental college. to our surprise the

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