is still to come. >>> as if blowing a hole in the state's budget wasn't enough, kansas governor sam brownbackding protections for lgbts. brownback defended the new order saying, quote, it ensures that state employees enjoy the same civil rights as all kansas residents without creating additional protected classes as the previous order did. state employees can now be fired from their jobs for being gay. anybody still confused as to the question of what is the matter with kansas now has a definitive answer. sam brownback. >>> good evening americans, and welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. >> i will not allow these terrorists to have a safe haven. >> tonight authorizing against isis. >> the president's point is he wants to dismantle and destroy isis. >> i believe this resolution can grow stronger with the thoughtful and dignified debate that this moment demands. this resolution strikes the necessary balance by giving us the flexibility we need for unforeseen circumstances. >> later, interrupting your regularly scheduled programming.

let's talk about sam brownback. you don't support the increase, because you say it disproportionately impacts the poor. governor brownback cut spending on social programs, which wouldn't you say affect the poor and working class? >> kansas's challenge has 50 years of overspending. they had a gore or only in the last two years. the argue the problem is conservative republicans, they were conservative republicans recently getting into office. what did happen was that brownback attacked for cutting taxes and phasing out to zero. he won re-elections, republicans won re-election. kansas legementd the democrat that wanted to slow the move to zero. and they chose to continue. what they need to do is rein in hikes. >> the reality of tax cuts hitting budgets is true. let's talk about ronald reagan. his director david stockman changes that the 1981 tax cut apply a bigger hole in the federal budget. and ronald reagan agreed to raise taxes 11 times, undoing half of the 1981 tax cuts. it had before, happened under ronald reagan,

governor sam brownback thought, i need to rectify that. i can get in trouble for firing or harassing a lesbian? this cannot stand. and it being kansas, i guess brownback clicked his heels three times and said there is no place like homophobia. you know-- (applause) >> i got to have, we saw, we saw how the name santorum got redefined due to his position on gay rights. you are really telling me we can't do better with the almost already there name brownback? (cheers and applause) come on internet! of course it isn't all bad news for gay people living in states where you might not expect them to be. >> same sex couples began getting licences in alabama after a federal judge two weeks ago struck down a state ban on gay marriage there. >> jon: great job, alabama. you know what this means? yes i get to put a quarter in the great job alabama jar. (laughter) (cheers and applause) now the state of alabama did ask the united states supreme court to grant a stay on any gay marriages while the decision is being appealed. >> just within the last couple

into this once for been territory including somebody who you for a while were pretty close to, sam brownback of kansas. host:guest: that article is sort of plagiarized from the article that the establishment press runs every two years. they always write this article and call me about it and say these republicans want to raise taxes and i say, who? i would here, republicans want to. it turned out frank wolf was the only republican who is talking about raising taxes. everyone else had committed never. one guy is not much of a trend. if you look around the states at the more than 30 republican governors we have, across the board, they are cutting taxes. that was not in the article. the governor of ohio has significant income tax cuts. governor of wisconsin is cutting taxes. i just met with the governor of arizona, they will be bringing taxes down even though they were left with an overspending problem they will have to fix by reforming spending. round back is committed to abolishing the income tax. -- brownback is committed to abolishing the income tax. it is the model that other states are loo

sam brownback john kashich, rick snyder mitch daniels. -- not mitch -- mike pence. they get -- they're the same person. just -- i don't know how they do that. it's just -- then did you look at the tax inincreasing governors? three out of six of them lost their seats. we took massachusetts, the governorship of massachusetts. pretty amazing. if you look at what happened in maryland, we took the governorship there. did anyone -- notice illinois? we took that one. [applause] >> i mean, this is reading -- when you look at it, economics really does matter. the ones we didn't take we didn't take california, but jerry brown did lose super majorities in both the assembly and the senate. we did not take minnesota, mark dayton was re-elected. but he did take the house in minnesota in new hampshire we did not take -- we took back the house in new hampshire. it's amazing what is going on. if you look at the number of states represented senate and house, we picked up a huge number of that as well. it is just amazing itch thought i'd just go through some of the economics of states

sam brownback. >>> good evening americans, and welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. let's get to work. >> i will not allow these terrorists to have a safe haven. >> tonight authorizing against isis. >> the president's point is he wants to dismantle and destroy isis. >> i believe this resolution can grow stronger with the thoughtful and dignified debate that this moment demands. this resolution strikes the necessary balance by giving us the flexibility we need for unforeseen circumstances. >> later, interrupting your regularly scheduled programming. >> brian williams has been suspended without pay for six months. >> brian told us it's clear that he has become too much a part of the news. >> i am a terrible employee. >> stewart announced he will step down later this year. >> it is time for someone else to have that opportunity. >> plus fly me to the moon. >> we started thinking about living somewhere else. >> our next destination on this journey is the moon. >> you extend the commercial to the moon. >> a new era of space travel sets imaginations and big business soarin

. >> we were looking at what sam brownback has done in kansas. repealing protections for lgbt workers in that state. and maybe, i don't know what are your thoughts on this? is this the inevitable you know, one step forward, two steps back push and pull attention between change and status quo and whoever is in power using whatever levers they have to shape the landscape as they see fit. >> if you see the lgbt protection for state workers as pushback, then you can really see very clearly, he's talking to a very very concentrated very small, shrinking component of a base. it's a disgusting move. it's really a vile move. but you can see exactly who he thinks he might be talking to. you know this is the first time that the protections like this have been rolled back. kathleen sebelius instituted this when she was governor eight years ago. you can imagine all of the state employees who have since felt free to come out to their coworkers, p ut a family photo on their desk. and nose are the grounds by which they could be fired without any consequences. z

. >> kansas republican governor sam brownback has repealed a measure that protects state employees from workplace discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. brownback's executive order undoes a move by his predecessor that widened safeguards for lgbt public employees. the pentagon has approved hormone therapy treatment for the gender transition of u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning, previously known as bradley. manning announced she identified as a woman and planned to seek hormone replacement treatment after her 2013 conviction for passing cables to wikileaks. she sued the pentagon last year for denying gender-transition medical care and failing to follow other protocols for treating gender dysphoria. in a memo this month, a military official confirmed hormone therapy will be added to chelsea manning's treatment plan. the senate has confirmed ashton carter as the new secretary of defense. president obama tapped carter after forcing the ouster of chuck hagel late last year. carter has a long history at the pentagon, where he once served as the chief arms buyer.

and kansas sam brownback undid an executive order put in by kathleen sebelius.ascinating conflict in alabama. which both roy moore against the governor against the federal court. >> people say this smacks of 1963 and it harkens back to george wallace at the school house locked doors? is that going overboard? >> as president obama even said and as the first african-american president, he's the right person to say it's not a perfect parallel. you know, we don't have a legacy of slavery with the gay community in this country. it's not a perfect parallel. what's interesting about this is the justices need to see that the country is ready for this before they legislate sweeping change in marriage and if they're seeing judges holding out in the south. if they're seeing governors repealing gay rights in kansas they're going to they may -- fear the country is not ready. >> i don't know why you would shade it that way, there's nothing that the court has done to support that. this is not about where the american people are. this is about equal protection. >> i hope you're