it wasn't until madison was long dead that englishman john stuart mill proposed and basically invented the idea of proportional representation is around eight hundred sixty or whichever party got for example nine percent of the vote that party would then get nine percent of the seats in parliament to put their people into or thirty percent or sixty percent whatever the voters wanted they go proportional representation is the reason why there are so many political parties in germany or israel or france or japan and a host of other developed nations under proportional representation the voices of all the people are heard because it not only allows for but actually promotes multiple political parties there are two ways we can accomplish this democratic ideal of more than just two political parties here in the united states two ways we can do it here in america right now the first is to have the states change the way they apportion votes to congress in the senate and arguably we could do it with a giant constitutional memo this can all be done at the state level. proportional representatio

that the back to my daughter, she is looking to get into journalism but she gets all news from john stuart and steven cole there. [laughter] but she has a fascination with the written word i hope she would have stood up to say something similar to what this lady said but what the consumers get when not only have read state budget -- tuesday and read news and blues and i don't think it is that constructive but of late to go back to what she said if better than anybody from the men in black. [applause] >> the men in black have come to their conclusion. each has a book out. i had a wonderful doody as a moderator to read their books i literally had the experience of enjoying the process. only through reading them i knew how i could connect the stories through fiction. [laughter] but breeding journalism is important. women said i speak the password primaeval i give this kind of democracy and he was talking about the written word and poetry, whenever we call this, it will matter to us and it's democracy you have to have a journalism. please give the panel a final round of applause. [applause] >>

. >> john, i want to ask your husband stuart gaffney a question about history. we were just listening to justice scalia asking ted olson, by the way, was solicitor general under george w. bush, when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage, i want ask breyer on interesting family history. your family history when it comes to issues of marriage and the law. >> i was moved by the rosen's response in talking about the rights of interracial couples because thinking of another married couple, my own mom and dad, who were an interracial couple facing barriers like john and i are today. there were only able to marry legally in california because our state supreme court led the way in overturning a law banning interracial marriages as unconstitutional. but after they married, they moved around the country and our family had different legal status in every state they lived in. they moved to missouri and were told they had an illegal marriage. that is something i never wanted have in common with them. but unfortunately, same-sex couples now f

scarpelli or john stuart? >> both. >> how about a round of applause for our speaker. [applause] >> thank you for coming today. we are adjourned. >> tomorrow we will continue our live coverage of the conservative political action conference. we will have special speakers, including sir palen and nra president david keene. author and commentator and coulter and ted cruz. join us on saturday after "washington journal" at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> we want to welcome you back to "the wall street journal." thank you for being with us. party lines have approved a budget by about 12 to 10. >> on the house side, the proposals are very much mission statements. we don't expect to get much support from the other side. the house republican plan would balance the budget by cutting spending across the board and a bunch of different programs. everything from military spending, overhaul medicare, medicaid, the food stamp program. things like that. it would cut spending by about $5 trillion over 10 years to balance the budget. that would eliminate the deficit. on the senate side

new tonight at 8.we spoke with john lewis and stuart gaffney, a couple from san francisco that married back in 2008 while it was briefly legal in california. they traveled to washington, d-c for the hearings. they have been outspoken advocates of marriage equality for years. and while they hope the supreme court will legalize same-sex marriage across the country, they say even a narrow ruling that allows marriages to take place here in california will be a huge victory. >> this case is ultimately about love, commitment which would be our freedom to marrying. >> what we believe strongly if this was a narrow ruling in our jurisdiction. then only if the historic marriage equality for california that would be a huge victory for california to attend a state in the union for the freedom to marry. the most populous state and our nation. one thought would be a tipping point. even a california specific ruling would be enormous. >> pam: kron will air the full audio recording from today's u.s. supreme court hearing on kron 4's 24-7 bay area news channel. it will be on a continuous loop through 4-

stuart: ambassador john bolton, thank you. $16.7 billion rising our national debt. debt.e problem. i asked that question to a top journalist at the "wall street journal." next. day is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. vonorfolk southern.ains go, one line, infinite possibilities. stuart: defrocking debate continues and others from new york state. 46% of new york voters oppose fracking. 34% in favor. upstate, far more in favor of fracking and those voters in new york city. wouldn't you know it. i will give you my take on this at the top of the hour. 68% of voters say it is an immediate problem. dan henniker from the "wall street journal" is here. why do people worry about the de

stuart: oh, all right. all right. well, we were waiting for it. . [laughter] that's john hoeven of north dakota. >> thanks, stuart. fund names considering leaving new york for puerto rico. john paulson reportedly looking to take advantage of a puerto rican law that lets new residents pay no local or federal taxes on capital gains w that loophole, he would lower his tax bill by about 9 1/2 is that billion? is that for real? 9 1/2 billion dollars? sounds like a lot of of money to me and we'll check that number for you. new york has one of the highest state income taxes in the country. our next guest let's bring in. you've seen him. managing director and portfolio manager at brandywine global. you've already said that you think this market rally is going to continue. your company manages 42 billion dollars. that's where you're putting your money where your mouth is. >> right. stuart: so tell me which-- give me stocks you think are going straight up. >> i don't know about straight up, but when we look over the next three years at the financial sector in particular and a lot of investors have been scared of takes a lon

last evening john stewart and stuart and this evening cnn piers morgan and where delighted to have our old friends here at this event that many people across the united states can benefit from a lot of what michelle has to say. just to get things started to get this evening how did you come up with that fascinating interesting book, "radical" and where did the name come from? >> so, i think the genesis of the name is an interesting one and that when i first got to d.c. it was the lowest-performing and most dysfunctidysfuncti onal school district in the entire nation and that was the pretty widely known truth. so i started doing things that i thought were obvious in that kind of state. i just started closing low-performing schools moving out and affected employees, cutting the central office bureaucracy in half and as i was taking all of these steps and measures people started saying well she is a firebrand. she is a radical. she is so controversial and i thought, really? after thinking about it for a while i just said you know what? it's bringing some common sense to a dysfunctional sy

stuart: we did just see john boehner arrive at the white house for these talks but i repeat nothing happened republican sources are saying this is just for show to make sure voters see both sides are doing their darndest to try to avert the sequester right down to the wire. we do not expect any announcement or any deal. stuart: glad to see is what away at the white house. what a guy. >> all over it. on my way to the airport. stuart: thank you. dr. mark siegel is with us. have we hit medical armageddon yet? >> no but as usual level give you a fair and balanced view of this, a more nuanced view than you are expecting. first of all the biggest problem we are having in the health-care sector which dog kahlo hanging fruit for president obama are these huge obamacare taxes we are faced with and the fact that innovation is clearly getting squashed because of the way obama care focuses on comprehensive care to the exclusion of new tech -- [talking over each other] >> i'm setting it up that way for a reason because i actually do think the sequestration issue is do affect health care. i do think this

stuart: a tad over the horizon, i'd say. secretary of state john kerry, he committed 250 million dollars of u.s. taxpayer money, aid, to the muslim brotherhood in egypt. and an outspoken critic joins us. and something else happened in egypt as secretary of state kerry was giving that 250 million. tell me about it. >> well, thanks for having me back, stuart and you know, before our very eyes we're seeing evolving through this supremacist ideology of islamism, the same thing that happened in saudi arabia, the committee for promotion of virtue and not vice. this is creating a committee for a year and a press conference in cairo. the brotherhood disavows themselves, but didn't criticize and the imam who came back from the u.s., when he came back from the u.s. he vowed his lifetime struggle to destroy israel and creates this committee that's sort of the morality police in egypt, the vigilante police to prevent sort of wrongdoing. stuart: i remember in iran, i think they're called the moral police guys the besiegy. i think that's correct, they operate in

stuart: the videogame maker, stepping down. he is taking responsibility for the companies bad numbers. he makes john madden football games.e have the chief double his salary. $30 million. the stock is up some more. hundreds of thousands of other people flock to st. petersburg square this morning. both francis stuart the square greeting people. coming up in a moment, financial america. ♪ thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything from the best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. stuart: all the greek things down there today. a feeling they may need to supply the euros to cyprus. there will be a lot of running four euros. charles will make some money for us now with the. charles: this is a group that was decimated. the fha call 1.1 trillion loan back. they are 13 billion in the hole. it is opening up the door for private insure

stuart: let me turn this around for a second. could you say that tip o'neil was more generous and more forthcoming towards your dad than john boehner>> well, it's a different world that we live in today. sometimes gridlock is really a good thing at that point. but remember, john boehner and the republicans are being attacked daily by the president of the united states who won't come off the campaign trail. what he gave 7 minutes to the republicans the other day. ronald reagan gave a lot more time than that. he didn't blame the democrats per se. he didn't blame tip o'neil per se. in fact he embraced him and said let's get together and let's talk and let's figure this thing out. barack obama is not doing those kinds of things. and the worst thing that john boehner can do right now is is give into the president -- give into the president. he already gave into tax increases. he's waiting in fact for the spending cuts. ronald reagan gave into tip o'neil at one point and said okay i will raise taxes. we will raise revenue but i want $3 in spending cuts promised by tip o'neil and to this day my father has still not gotten the $3 in spendi

stuart: the dow is now down 102. back to 14,400. you know, it sounds like house speaker johne debt crisis. listen to this. >> it could be a year, two years, three years, four years, it's not an immediate problem-- you agree with the president on that? >> yes, but his point as he went on to say in that interview is that we don't, we don't really need to do anything at this point and i would argue that we do need to do something. stuart: okay. joining us now is rich, the media watch dog. speaker boehner seems to be in line with the president, playing down the debt in the immediate future. i want to know how is the media responding to the latest salvo from speaker boehner? >> well, they're not really responding to speaker boehner and they didn't respond to the president he when he said something different on tuesday. on tuesday the president said it wasn't an immediate crisis, but he also said we had ten years, sustainable for ten years. stuart: hold on a second. are you saying that the establishment media is just ignoring the debt and what the president and speaker boehner have

my name is john lewis, and this is my loving, committed, legally-married husband, stuart gaffney.n 8. [cheers and applause] and when we heard those beautiful words, "and now by virtue of the authority vested in me by the state of california, i pronounce you spouses for life," we felt something transform within us. we felt for the first time in our lives that our government was treating us z -- us as equal human beings as gay people. and according to our family and our love and our relationship, the full respect under the law that it deserves. >> we're pausing for a moment because they're coming out of the courthouse right now. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we just pause for a moment as people come out of the courthouse. [cheers and applause] just pause while they come out. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so in california in 2008 the california supreme court said that all californians, regardless of your race, your religion, your gender, your national origin, your creed, whether you're lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex or anything else, you had a fundamental right to