rather young oberg gentlemen. thanks a lot for joining us on the program here. i know you're both on this ukrainian blacklist, so i want to get basically your reaction to after being put on this list. let's start with you young. yes. when i, i'm sorry that there are people in that relatively limited intellectual capacity was put me there though, at least looking quite bizarre to me out to people who you could not accuse of being pro, show or to to. so something like that. what i think we're living in a time in which most people cannot handle a full phone table, but think that everything is a 2 phone table. a good one is on the one side or bad ones. the other side, i happen as a researcher with some experience too. never having seen such a conflict. so i'm working with phone tables. there might be some good and bad sites on both sides and that makes a fall phone table. so i think it's in vain. it's part of the 2 wars that always fort, besides the land war, they would always be an information war. but i would wish to see it more intelligent than this. and bradley,

so it will need another push from these rebels and there are many rebels to actually make him go oberg. let's have a look at what some brits think about their p. m. he had a very difficult time with it to carry rate. i don't think any time in doubt. well, go. yeah, i'm just price is still there. so i really think he's his hours now the counting the hours. so let's say i think he should stay home because i think you've done an amazing job over friction cove doing very well. i with i think the loss of use of every support in the cabinets. how big is really important? we need very strong government right now. we're also living in ukraine. yeah. lisa, he's already done a good job on certain things, but he's his character i think has shown through restarting seems and all they're doing and this right. forced to go from supporters and critics. they're big it. how would you sum up public opinion i would say to support us on a clear minority. a recent poll just showed that the nets approve the rating is the 44 is minus 44. that means a vast majority over 60 percent of britain are unhappy with

the respect for marriage act would, in essence, repeal the defense of marriage act which, although oberghe law of the land, the defense of marriage act was never repealed. so definitely we need to get that done. the other thing we need to do is just make sure for people who are married across the country, that they can go anywhere in our country and that their marriage will be respected and all the legal rights and responsibilities that they have will be adhered to. >> how do you get this to the president's desk when it's not clear there are enough votes to get it through the senate? >> i think one of the things -- first of all, one of the things we have to do is make sure we get it through the house which we're going to do today. the other thing is, on the senate side, there is bipartisan support for this bill. my hope is that my senate colleagues will, in essence, catch up with the rest of the country and support the rights of people to be able to get married and recognize that nobody should be discriminated against when it comes to creating their families and keeping their families to

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s. journalist and political commentator and dr. yan oberg, the director of the trans national foundation for peace and future research. they also shared their opinions on the filtering of e basis for russians. another one of kids, suggestions tony. then i didn't even know i was on the list until somebody on twitter added me and said, hey, this guy's on the wednesday special lift. i had no idea. so i look at it. and i have to say that i'm actually quite honored to be on this list. i mean, most of these people on here by i admired quite a lot, i'm sorry that there are people in that relatively limited intellectual capacity was put me there. but though, at least looking quite bizarre to me, there lots of people who you could not accused of being pro russia or food tennis. so something like that. obviously we know that the ukranian authorities have been cracking down on political opposition. what do you think this says about key of attitude towards concepts like freedom of speech and democracy? i think that they're, they're kind of taking a walk out of the playbook of a lot of what american

. >> tony oberg is from new jersey. thank you mister chairman. both for your opening comments which i agree with totally and secondary comments i agree with. you opened the door for something i normally would not want to do. my state also preempted and what kind of a big state and a little state and to randy! we had that industrial base but like has been pointed out the cost of a state like new jersey is they used to say if you don't wash your own face nobody's going to wash it for you . i really believe that this is an opportunity for a state like new jersey. we didn't have prints and i want to talk tothe governor about that . we have bruce and we have bon jovi. i mean, after all. but can, all of the states really made a great presentation but i want to go back to where i started my e. conversation with this committee. diversity is a very important factor we have to deal with . and why not have more of it than less of it? we have four or five states, i don't know what the number is but why can't we have three of the states that represent the div

oberger felled vs. hodges, lawrence vs. texas, loving vs. virginia. senator coons: what's the common thread among those cases. some persons may not know as much as you do about the speufbgs about -- specifics about the -- professor bridges: the court framed these cases to link -- that links them is using the liberty term of the due process clause to recognize that people need the capacity to make decision abouts their personal lives. about whether they create a family. about how they raise their family. about decisions regarding love and sex and marriage and so to pull roe out of that thread of cases that have all recognized the right to privacy and liberty interest is to create chaos and create uncertainty with regard to those case that is came after and -- cases that came after. lawrence vs. texas protecting same section marriage as well as the case that is came before. senator coons: that's an insightful comment how much else is at risk here and why this impact fundamentally rights that many of us, millions of us come to rely on to make decision ab