of the decisions from new york attorney general eric schneiderman and republican congresswoman vicky hartzlermissouri. welcome to both of you. eric schneiderman, i want to start with you. you've been a strong proponent of same-sex marriage. pick up first on the discussion we were just having about this patchwork of laws. how big a problem is it, do you think? what issues does it raise? >> well, we had a patchwork before. i mean, some states, like new york in our state, our legislature passes -- our governor signed a law allowing same-sex marriage. up until yesterday, including edie wibdzor, were not treated with the respect of other marriages. we still have a patchwork but we have the federal government taking their thumb off the scale, if you will, under the fifth amendment, its federal government cannot, as justice kennedy wrote, write inequality into the u.s. code. and we expwect the government to take action as the president has indicated to clean up some of the remaining problems administratively with that. now, new york marriages and marriages from massachusetts and everywhere else, peo

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