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it's a no brainer, but i just have to say that -- i have to add something that lisa murkowski added inwas and out of our families. i think too often the discussion on gay rights, marriage equality boils down to, oh, being gay is only about sex. it's only about what happens in the bedroom when really this whole conversation, this fight is about legal protection for lgbt families so they have the stability and protection just like everybody else under the law. >> yeah, agreed. i'll add to murkowski's comments as a conservative who's advocated for gay marriage and gay rights. for me, marriage should be promoted. it's a stabilizing factor and gets people less dependent on government when they're in a marriage. two, we should want a smaller government. we should want the government out of our private lives, out of the bedroom and out of our family planning and all of that stuff. agreed. i will add a third one, i talked about it earlier this week, and that's the issue of adoption. if conservatives are pro life, many of us are, then we should also be pro adoption as an alternative to abortion

some senators have changed their position -- republican senators, lisa murkowski is the latest to come out for gay marriage. i don't know if this is going to go along party lines, but this is going to be one of the biggest decisions the court has done since obama-care. host: we'll see affirmative action, voting rights, and gay marriage. several decision days this week over at the court, and we will continue to track those stories as they are released. a few more calls. kelly from owensburrow, kentucky. kelly, how are you? caller: i just had a comment and a question. the ike to challenge congressman fest owe and the other is the learned protocols from the elders of zion. in them are step-by-step directions on how to take over a country. if you look at these pieces of paper, you will see how they are doing it. they are doing it real subtlely. two main ways to take over a country is by violence and by ebt. i would like to ask you, what is the total derivatives? i think that could be the downfall of america. what's the number of derivatives? guest: i don't know the number much derivatives

. >>> alaska senator lisa murkowski is the third republican senator to support same-sex marriage. she supports the right of all americans to marry the person that they love. >>> a bipartisan group of senators are working on a plan to eliminate the $1 bill in favor of the $1 coin. they estimate that move alone would save taxpayers $4.5 billion. a lot of people are not fans of the coin. >>> tea party members protested in washington, blasting the internal revenue service for targeting conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann rallied the crowd against the tax man. >>> it's time to abolish the irs. take up something for every single american has to pay something to support this magnificent country. >> and that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics. >>> the new wildfire is burning in colorado. this time in the foothills south of denver. the lime gulch fire is forcing dozens to leave town. officials say no homes are currently in danger. lightning is being blamed for starting the flames that have charred about 500 acres. it's one of at lea

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. >> lisa murkowski and den in nevada. needed to get these votes. these little goodies thrown into the bill. >> thee argue manies, laura, guts of this bill is is the most massive expansion of immigration enforcement in american history. a doubling of the border patrol. a doubling of border fencing. a mandatory everify system and entry exit system. should be something you should be celebrating as the government finally getting serious about something i believe they have been serious about for the last 20 years. but this is designed to get republican support on a bill that also modernizes our legalization system and path to citizenship. what's not to like? >> you like the bill because it increases border enforcement and that's why you are supporting it? >> no. i like the bill because it finally gets the policy right and fixes the problem once and for all. >> you know we passed a border fence bill back in 2006 which mandated exactly the type of fencing, exactly a little more stringent being mandated in this bill 700 miles of fencing. you know that wasn

i think there are three republicans, with lisa murkowski that has done it.ition, isn't it? are we a generation away? >> i mean, i think we are. and i think one of the questions that i have for bob is the idea that we didn't hear republicans defending doma when it was before the supreme court. that was their golden moment. i mean, that was the moment where we had, like, a dodz senators come out for marriage equality in that week. where were -- if the culture war is on this issue are still alive, where were those people that week? >> can i quickly respond? i think chris brings up a great point. the house republicans are the petitioner when it comes to doma. he's right. they're not taking a public role in battling for their own. there is a divide between conservative movement and republican party leaders. the interest groups will be activated on this issue even if the party is perhaps moving more towards same-sex marriage support. >> very strong libertarian strain right now in the republican party. i think that's what you saw with murkowski. she cited personal

. >>> republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska said she's coming out in support of marriage equalitye supports the right of all-americans to mayry the persn they love. it encourages people to have a commitment to each other. she is the third republican senator to back marriage equality. >>> back at home, you may not recognize the name allen chambers and you don't recognize his face. you probably recognize his ministry, exodus international. it's gay reparative therapy. >> i'm the poster boy for this, the proof, if you will, that change is possible. >> how did you overcome homosexuality? >> people say once you're gay, you're always gay, you can't break free from that. that's not true. >> so now chambers has a new message and it's an apology. joining me live is lisa ling. she has a special on god and gays. lisa, it's great to have you on here. alan chambers came to you and asked for your help in this to arrange for this interview to help him apologize to a group of reparative therapy survivors. i want to play a small clip of what he had to say. take a look. >> you acknowledge that exod

going out on social issues here in a statement posted on our web site today republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska came out in support of marriage equality murkowski had announced in march that her views on the issue were. now she joined senator rob portman of ohio and mark kirk of illinois is the only republican senators to support marriage equality so are we going to start seeing republican senators coming out as it were you know no pun intended i suppose well good for senator murkowski you know wisely good for her i'm glad she didn't wait until after getting elected to trick people into thinking that she shared their values she's actually going to be going before the alaska electorate with that record and give those people an opportunity to decide whether they agree with it or not after they voted on a statewide constitutional amendment and after their legislature said marriage is between man and a woman we'll give she's giving them the opportunity so good for her i wish more democrats would take that approach. well you know i i do think that. even though conservatives might not want

don't speak the same way joe miller speaks if i don't advocate for the issues, i'll be the next lisa murkowskies a situation, first of all, if i run to for office, i have to go far right. if i win the primary i'll be tarred as a member of the party. if i get elected i have to vote like joe miller because i have to worry about my next republican primary. that's where the dysfunction comes from. >> this is why the whole irs scandal, controversy is sort of a mixed blessing for the republican party. it's a real problem for the white house. at the same time it's fired up the tea party part of the republican party at the very moment when republicans are trying to move beyond the murdoch, aikens, christine o'donnells. here you have the scandal that comes along and completely fires up the tea party and they are being targeted by the irs. there's nothing you can imagine that would make them fired up. you have joe miller saying abolish the irs. you already see it getting overplay and all these other issues that pat talks about and things republicans want to talk about aren't on the agenda. now we're tal

senator lisa murkowski of alaska became the third republican in the u.s.ty, making it 54. that's a majority, folks, of senator who is favor it, according to the "washington post," after murkowski's coming out in favor of equality, josh bar rowe at insider noted the near-complete silence from conservative media on the announcement, writing that they are done engaging with the issue. but don't go popping bottles just yet. we know the struggle continues, because also on wednesday, a new study from the department of housing and urban development revealed that same-sex couples faced discrimination in the rental housing market. according to the study, heterosexual couples were favored other gay male couples in 15.9% of tests and over lesbian couples in 15.6% of tests. so amid signs of progress, a sign of just how far we still have to go. joining me again is aisha moodie-mills, the center for american progress, and joining her at the table is evan wilson, president of freedom to marry. jeff creely, the vice president and chief foundation officer at the human righ

we have the salmon sweetener in alaska for lisa murkowski.should be poison pills, john boehner, if i'm john boehner, i look at this and say, we do have border priorities. we're going to act on those. we're done with what just happened in the senate. it's an insult to the middle class of this country, african-american, latino americans, hard working americans across this country. >> peter: that should be dead on arrival? >> it should be doa and he should give a speech about how it was polluted and how the middle class could be served by the conservative agenda. he would be a winner across the board if he did that. he has to take their talking points and turn them on their head. >> steve: you talked about some of the sweeteners. one of them is -- you're going to drop your jaw. >> that's why we had to vote on the bill. we can't find out any of this stuff. >> steve: remember this lady right here with the obama phone. >> everybody in cleveland that's minority got obama phone! keep obama president, you know! he gave us a phone! going to give more.

think progress reporting that alaska senator lisa murkowski has come out in support of marriage equalityi laid the ground work for the declaration back in march when she said at the time that her stance on gay marriage was evolving. the timing on this likely not such an accident. the supreme court's going to rule on the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act and california's prop 8 before the end of this month. >>> meanwhile president obama gave a speech at the brandenburg gate in berlin this morning one week shy of the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's speech in which he famously said -- the famous address covered a range of topics including a call for reducing the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. >> obama: after a comprehensive review, i determine that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong incredible strategic deterrent while losing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to 1/3. i intend to seek negotiated cuts with russia to move beyond cold war nuclear postures. >> the new stark treaty ratified by the u.s. senate in dece

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, senator jeff flake, senator kelly ayotte, senator dean heller, senator orrin hatch, senator lisa murkowski, senator mark kirk, but also on a bipartisan basis, we have democrat senators as well. senator joe manchin, senator pryor, senator mark begich, senator donnelly. we want to thank all of these cosponsors that show this is a bipartisan effort to secure the border as a first step in comprehensive immigration reform. that is what this is all about. we provide five significant criteria. some have called them triggers, requirements, conditions that must be met to ensure the border is secure before there are any green cards, before illegal immigrants can get to a permanent legal status, a green card status, we have tough requirements that must be met to ensure the border is secure. first and foremost, it's a comprehensive southern border security plan. it's $3.2 billion worth of technology, planes, unmanned aircraft, sensors, all on the border, spelled out in this legislation that ensures that we have a secure border. that must be met before there are any green cards, and that's where we sta