Meet The Press - June 30, 2013

Guests:

Pete Williams

Jim DeMint

Ralph Reed

Rachel Maddow

Michael Eric Dyson

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS)

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

State Sen. Wendy Davis (D-TX)

Gregory: good morning – Obama is in

South Africa praising Nelson Mandela

for even with decades in prison to refuse

to give up on his faith in humanity

Audience: tough call

Gregory: DOMA was overturned!

Maddow: the court could have

decided the case on federalism grounds

but it went all the way with equal protection

Gregory: Kennedy says DOMA

demeans gay couples and that is wrong

Williams: he used the word “dignity”

ten times – but he also said DOMA

demeans the dignity of states which

we all care about so much

Reed: this court specifically rejected

the argument that there is a right

to be gay married

Gregory: they skipped over it

Reed: look Fluffy most people in 
America don't like gay people

Dyson: do you know

it was illegal for black people to

be married in America for many years

Gregory: you had to shack up?

Dyson: if you polled America in 1965 you 
would have found opposition to civil rights

Gregory: are you intolerant of gay people?

DeMint: Kennedy is denying dignity

to millions of Americans who don't

like gay people

Gregory: what a great argument

DeMint: look gay marriage is better for children

Maddow: Justice Kennedy wrote that

anti-gay marriage laws demeans

children of gay couples

Maddow: look gay people exist - 
you can't make them go away so 
you try to demean them by taking 
away their right to marry

Reed: by that argument you

could say that people like Barack Obama

were intolerant 14 months ago

Maddow: so?

Reed: gay people are icky!

Dyson: people used to oppose civil rights

for African-Americans too

Reed: we're not bigots!

Maddow: lighten up Ralphie

Williams: the court side-stepped

the core question of equal rights for gay people

Gregory: you have proposed a

Constitution ban on gay marriage

– how is that going?

Huelskamp: the Supreme Court

re-wrote the Constitution – it's outrageous!

Gregory: wow

Huelskamp: also we should outlaw abortion?

Gregory: what do you have against gay marriage

Huelskamp: look I like gay people

but God hates them – what are you going do?

Gregory: sound reasoning

Huelskamp: also children need a man and woman

Gregory: the research shows kids

need loving marriages regardless

Huelskamp: we have an epidemic of fatherlessness

Gregory: what does that have

to do with gay couples?

Huelskamp: think of the children!

Gregory: Mike Huckabee wrote

after the DOMA ruling 'Jesus Wept'

Huelskamp: he cries at weddings

Huelskamp: the real issue is who

gets to decide – people who hate

gay people or a bunch of justices?

Gregory: will this energize Republicans?

Reed: yes – we're going to amend the

Iowa Constitution to outlaw gay marriage

Maddow: you tried that and failed dipshit

Reed: true but we had a record

turnout of evangelicals

Maddow: and you still lost!

[break]

Gregory: what about gay marriage

in every state?

Pelosi: the goal should be no

discrimination – that's what

America is all about

Gregory: but people do oppose it in Arkansas

Pelosi: yes but things are changing fast Fluffy

Gregory: what do you say to

people who say God told them

to oppose gay equality

Pelosi: we are a nation that does not discriminate

Gregory: what about the Voting Rights Act?

Pelosi: we're going to try and fix it

Gregory: can immigration reform pass the House?

Pelosi: congrats to the Senate

Gregory: you called John Boehner

'weak' and a 'dumbass'

Pelosi: since 2012 election the

GOP has suddenly realized that

they need hispanic votes if they

ever want to win another Presidential election

Gregory: Texas wants to limits abortion rights

Pelosi: The GOP want to intrude

in women's health and take away

the decision and hand it to the government

Gregory: do you fear a new

age of erosion of abortion rights?

Pelosi: it's also contraception and

family planning

Gregory: you were booed for not

calling Edward Snowden a hero

Pelosi: he did break the law

Gregory: he's no hero in your mind

Pelosi: no

Gregory: but since Obama was

re-elected I care about the

so-called 'surveillance state'

Pelosi: we should respect the Constitution

Gregory: ok

Pelosi: Obama is not Bush –

Bush broke the law and under

Obama we legalized surveillance

Gregory: well there is a debate about

whether Obama is worse than Bush

Pelosi: should Obama scramble jets to get Snowden

Pelosi: I'm happy he's stuck in a Moscow airport

Gregory: they have a great duty-free shop though

Pelosi: he ran to China and Moscow

– that should tell people he's no hero

Gregory: are you endorsing Hillary in 2016?

Pelosi: I'd like to see a woman President 
but first we have to end GOP obstruction

Gregory: what about the VRA?

DeMint: black people are voting

like crazy – Congress cannot rely

on 50 year-old data!

Maddow: if you thought it was 50 year-old

data why did you vote for it Senator?

DeMint: um... it's a good law

Dyson: a bipartisan Congress thought

in 2006 the VRA was just fine

Reed: discrimination against anyone

but gay people is wrong

Gregory: is there a bipartisan basis

to fix the VRA?

Williams: in theory - yes but in reality no

Gregory: welcome Senator Davis

Davis: the fight continues!

Gregory: even women want to

ban abortion at 20 weeks

Davis: this bill would leave Texas

with only 5 abortion clinics in the entire state!

Gregory: well that's still better than nothing

Davis: the College of Obstetricians

and Gynecologists says this bill

will hurt women's health

Gregory: would you accept a 20 week ban?

Davis: what about giving women the choice 
rather than a government bureaucrat?

Gregory: some of my best friends are bureaucrats

Davis: I'm sure they are

Gregory: Governor Perry says because

you didn't have an abortion and went

to Harvard Law school we should ban abortion

Davis: I got to make my own choices

and I'm fighting to give all women those choices

Gregory: anything else?

Davis: he's a moron

Gregory: what about the Supreme Court

Williams: the court may overturn 

Roe v Wade next term

DeMint: women are being killed by

illegal abortions so we should have more of them

Gregory: right

DeMint: also we should give women

the opportunity to have ultrasound

Maddow: this is not an opportunity

to have an ultrasound – but Jim DeMint

insists that he force women to have a

vaginal ultrasound because he's from

the government and he's here to help

DeMint: it's a not required it's an opportunity

Maddow: it's mandated by the state you idiot

Reed: look if we have to have U.N.

troops in black helicopters with guns

drawn breaking down the doors of doctors'

offices that's just the way it has to be

Maddow: wow

Gregory: and that's another

episode of Meet The Press