but this is been a week of white supremacists terrorizing the nation and trump has basically said i will protect you from it and in pittsburgh among the victims at the tree of life synagogue was a veteran each id and its doctor  the president is also told the u s supreme court that discrimination against transgender americans is legal new york city council speaker cory johnson joins the fight to get the billionaire  off the board of the american museum of natural history progress so that matthew shepard was laid to rest finally twenty years later at the washington national cathedral and that was about two thousand people there for that and we also national treasure she is with alzheimer's in the show all right so this horrendous week during the week it was the pipe bomber story only folks getting packages to blow them up and then actually if you don't mind pulling the picture of that van up if you can do that i know it's out of order but maybe you know this was some guy drives around the country with a van with people's pictures  liberals people he wants to kill them doesn't seem to attract the attention of homeland security yeah he he had made it apparently a hit list of coincidentally i don't think so targets of  autism the president didn't seem too upset about it didn't bother calling any of his predecessors who lives were threatened whose families could have been destroyed there was that and then on top of that at least that didn't lead to any deaths that terrorism but then was the well the course that was also the black customers of the kentucky grocery who were shot when this guy failed to go into a black church to shoot it up and then there was sunday  saturday and that the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh and that's where robert bowers forty six years old shot and killed eleven people in a synagogue they man this doctor was a pioneering aids doctor he was it he was a resident in the seventy's and became known in the pittsburgh area as someone gay people could go to it wasn't game self to someone who was in the sevent was somebody sensitive so he started to see early aids patients virtually could do for them but he kept many of them alive during that period and they testified to that and then you know my and of course during this incident th e terror attack on the set of god as a doctor he went towards the people who were being shot so that he could see if he could do anything for them and then that up losing his own life and my friend kate barnhart who's a veteran aids activist director new alternatives for homeless use you posted when i heard he had died running toward the gunfire because he heard the shots and thought someone might need medical help i thought this was so much the way he and other doctors who treated our people during the aids crisis approached their work running right into the heart of the epidemic because they knew people needed help and that's the kind of person who died and this and this catastrophe and this and this thing but but again you know they describe it as a tragedy on the on the air the  the the what is what is the president's solution would be the death penalty for this guy well you know you're sentencing all of us to death if you're not going to take guns away what about a weapons away from everybody yeah i mean it's a gun it's a gun issue if certainly he was in when he went into the senate guy he was carrying an a r fifteen assault rifle and three o'clock handguns obviously heavily armed and it's come out that all of those were legally purchased and license so i mean there's nothing stopping him  under our laws from arming himself the way he was but it's all so an issue of of public discourse and trump and fox news and all of the conservative commentators jumped immediately to deny that trump's rhetoric had anything to do hatred and it's important i think to know too the response to the tree of life synagogue shooting versus what the response to the shooting in move though you know immediately hours after the shooting in the synagogue  jones sixty seven years old were killed one in a kroger supermarket and the other in the parking lot both grandparents this person was explicitly in the same way that robert bowers went into the synagogue saying that you know death to all jews he was saying death toll jews  the you know the ambulance that conveyed him to a hospital where he was treated by jews in the same way gregory allen bush who first tried to enter a black church but i'm a black church whose doors he found locked and went to a supermarket was explicitly seeking black people to shoot and kill right again these people are very open about their prejudices that there are extreme they say they want to kill people and yet we pay literally hundreds of billions of dollars for homeland security why are we monitoring these people because they're because the domestic christian supremacist tarus and of course how did my parents mark the occasion he goes to a michigan outburst of of race that racist hatred fueled by and the pipe bombs where someone's going on a wave of terror against the same people that trump is targeted from a week before the midterms has this fantastic distraction this is what he does with troops instead of like you know if it had been a middle eastern terrorists a tree of life they would have rounded up his whole network and his family and they would have walked him up by now for better or worse that's what they would have done everybody who would be in custody right now where not doing that in the case of this guy they want to act like it's an isolated nut case but i mean this is trump's base and i worry about all of them in terms of what they may do and the kind of weapons that they have you know you want to argue  if there had been someone armed at the synagogue who knows what would have happened it would have ended up this way the suggestion that you know increasing the number of people who are armed to prevent violence that that you know synagogues should be bristling with assault rifles in order to defend themselves is a bit out there and saying insane and the citizen the birth right citizenship announcement two is another right it's another i mean he's he's doing the same thing we saw before the election well we'll find out on tuesday folks when we had better be voting yeah that's the point of the i think that's going to rub people the wrong way and i think if he's struggling for a response i think he's he's pushing more people away will need to say this guy is out of control and needs  check even though republicans would know republican leaders were democratic leaders would go with him to pittsburgh and there were and i'll tell you you know i'm sure people thought oh maybe it's not appropriate there were hundreds of demonstrators in pittsburgh saying you don't belong here eighteen year old who tweeted a bomb threat specifically targeting students was arrested at his high school i was a school under south carolina law if someone making a bomb threat or conveying false information regarding a bomb threat  then you know over and this is international news but it's all part of this piece over in tel aviv they have a cue memorial to the victims of the holocaust and it was hit with the message there it is country where it has been slammed with unemployment issues and skyrocketing homicide rates they have the highest homicide rate in the world and those those fears have allowed  beat out of them if he found out they were gay yeah and very besides that as dick doesn't believe women deserve equal pay and says so so he was treated good joke a year ago one year ago he was treated as a joke and now he's president of the country now there was all this pent up racism that found its tribune and donald trump yeah he's exploiting social issues he's exploiting the you know economic frustration of the white i mean interestingly brazil is not majority white  it's the fact that he's able to sort of stoke a few fears in this way speaks also to just the crazy political situation there the beloved the lion of the left the movement is in jail on corruption charges so i mean he's coming happening there was the rumor that the government was sending out gay kids gay conversion kits into schools and billson r o that fear and lots of people believe that the government sending out tickets to convert kids we should talk about course that's that's always been the way they've gone after us on the transgender issue your kids are not going to be safe and restrooms if we allow this and that's what people are going to be voting on it in massachusetts question three  a yes vote to retain the transgender rights law and what one of the things our side has learned is we've lost some of these referee is that you've got to put transgender people out there front and center and in this case they use a lot of young people to show people who transgender people are we have a little video from the yes campaign there in massachusetts legal we don't believe it's covered under title seven on the other hand there and this is a little complicated there were two other sexual orientation as sex discrimination cases that are coming to the court maybe and they're saying if you take those  c the federal agency that that had been representing this woman amy stevens was a funeral director for six years of this mission in michigan and to say now she wanted to transition and in the workplace and start presenting as a woman in accordance with her gender and he was fired and has been representing her through district court where they were ruled against now and then the six circuit where they were ruled in favor and the a c l u stepped in because they know the see who knows how it's going to the whole government employee is right here but but the but the d o j has said look we don't agree with what the sixth circuit decided we don't think trance people should be covered under title seven we're standing by this memo but but let's decide the sexual orientation cases first art and bostic because they're a little more complicated and then you can use the guidance because they're sort of related you can use the decision making process there to apply to this case yes and if you don't decide identity they're waiting for government to get on the court that's why i'm encouraged to see i've talked repeatedly here but when we get power back democratic congress both houses a democratic president that we need to expand the court because nine is not of the constitution people saw me as a bit of a crank on this but because it's been picked up by our in belt get our belt and ran the palm center for ten years he worked on gays in the military and trying to bring people around her on this issue and now he's got a project called one twenty one twenty which is the date when democrats can do this and he says i just want to get a quote from him because he's going to continue to work on this as all we should all says where's the quote there he says if you just tell the truth about what's going on and you do so repeatedly and aggressively eventually public policy can catch up with the truth and i've called it is that's how they kept eight members of the court which is outrageous yeah we need more members on the court they need to get behind it and what do i hear from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi or maybe we should go back to the filibuster for supreme court justices so what you can get republica the top power over your choices no we have to rebalance this court it's an outrage yeah it's the same the same issue we saw in the two thousand and sixteen election of the liberals want to take the high road and we can't afford to take the high right in front of the lincoln memorial they are going for and huge transgender flags i remember almost getting arrested they are just trying to do a stand up after a game in washington all these police cars move did because we were standing on the steps so they're going to go away with know i'm impressed and i hope that there is some kind congratulations to ed northrup on the victory of the boston red sox because they can't win without her support and she very much a boston red sox fan lifeline hotline in the wake of what trump is doing in that memo in terms of trying to take away transgender rights entirely transgender identity entirely have quadrupled since then yeah it's a big moment and the reason i think we  so so long on the d o j and employment discrimination issue too is that so it's a clear immediate reaction from the federal government to this memo where people of people were protesting they went to washington where park last week and it was an without federal rights forever in this country and we still live our lives as much as we can and we try to get things adopted locally director of the c d c we told you this last week robert redfield said that this plan to redefine sex based on is not in the best interests of public health ok yes and on that note too it was just intersex awareness day on october twenty sixth and that is intersex people are also incredibly threatened they panic oh do something make them one of the other i don't care but i don't want to be between him but but now all the public health establishment three u s surgeon generals the u n the world health organization physicians for human rights they all say don't do this and fifty six do also on the subject of trans rights and also in pittsburgh there was a protest outside allegheny county jail about fifty protesters affiliated with sisters p g eight a transgender and staggering and distressing rates for a particular trans women particular trans women of color in prison is a national issue and it's one of the priorities if there is and there's a lot to say about it because really the  as an entire group especially without their consent can stigmatize them can cut them off from services can put them at a greater risk for violence because of greater exposure so this group wants people they want to they do want to you  unit they said the that there is one for veterans of the present so why not why not i mean and related live in new york and new york city de blasio in april said that they would begin having trans be assigned based on their gender identity be assigned to housing in accordance with their gender identity which is which is what obama did in twenty sixteen i believe that was rolled back immediately by the trump administration and they gave the new york city human rights council gave them six months to do that and with six months so there hasn't happened well i've been calling around trying to get an update and and i think there's there's some progress there's at least one trans woman who's in a woman's prison they pass a lot of policies and they often don't follow through history they have on the board rebecca mercer who was the funder of bright park big trucks supporter and spends tens of millions of dollars funding climate change tomorrow she's on the board of a science museum so finally there are revolting lesbians group there they are and there's the rip rebecca mercer impersonator the front of the museum she was but so they demonstrated once again and they're calling on the politicians who sit on the board of the museum includes the mayor de blasio and others but the only person to really speak out on it was court judges and the speaker of the council who was finally given a statement saying that she does not share the values san diego there has been there's an interesting story of a out gay i mean someone same sex marriage in point of a catholic parish now what usually happens here is they get fired for getting married what happened in san diego so they drummed up all this hatred against him and then people started taking action against him including death threats tire slashing breaking into the rectory offices right where i think they spray painted no facts was that they sent around a picture of we know where you live which is a typical mafia tactic and he just said it's too dangerous when it's also an all right how do you think they essentially docks him they give his home ok should they posted a picture of his mother and he said that was the last straw and and this and the sexual abuse crisis so this bishop's been under censure robert roy he's been under some scrutiny and he has said that this issue of this employee has come up and has listening sessions and he said that if they only  people who live in accordance with all the church teachings it would be in play on the angels well which i was on i was on the board of my university catholic parish and when i came out as president of the gay student  to vote but one of the saddest stories i read this week was from minnesota you know keith ellison is the great liberal leader there ears on the blast and he's running for attorney general and a former woman friend  partner of his has accused him of being abusive i think he's denying it he's also saying she was abusive but we whatever has happened it hasn't been resolved it's driven his poll numbers down group and what's a merged about here is that when he was in high school and a kid has testified to this was a it was a gay kid it was bully by you know who tried to commit suicide and the said i didn't succeed when i came back like i said you can't even do that right wardlow said to him you can't even get that right so this is the kind of horrible person that mr wardlow is and i hope that that gets a lot of publicity and you don't about a good story on immigration because immigration seems to be the central issue of all this there was a gay immigrant named noon yes martinez thirty seven in mexico and he fled after what mexico after the murder of a gay friend back in twenty one and that he came here any exit of the country briefly when he came back they said you know you wait a minute you were not supposed to be able to come in here so they sent him back according to the ice that's a deportation so when he got into the country again then you illegal really illegal and but the thing is when he got back into the country get the money to get married another man who was named paul frame and when they went in for one of their regular visits with with the naturalization service they said you've got th south standing deportation they just locked him up he's been in prison detention for ten months and he finally got out with a lot of lobbying on ten thousand dollars bond so we don't know what's going to happen to him in the long run but that's what happened to him s from the ruling in two thousand and seven that that house that they couldn't refuse a gay couples occupancy as a side no it looks like a big red barn and there are three eaves that also look like many internet giants said story yeah it's been going on forever and they're just belligerent about not paying their fines and so they're having to be sued by the attorney general of the state in order to try to get justice here they're doing their you know you don't want to comply with the law you know the right way used to be the law and order crowd you know it was not it was nice to see a few republicans say well mr president i mean the constitution is constitution you can't just do an executive order that you know doesn't let people become citizens  hope they pursued that in texas in houston a trend student tumble high school was a train student was arrested after brutally attacking students in the hallway but tribe as perry said it was charged with a there is the service we will include the link to it in our e mail if you want to watch the service they were expecting maybe you know a couple hundred people there were two thousand people who showed up for this and here is what bishop robinson had to say and i don't want any of you to leave here without being reminded that you are loved by the god of all that is you are loved beyond your wildest imagin and nothing absolutely nothing can separate you from that so the picture i have of matthew shepard right now is of matt sitting in god's great big laugh surrounded by god's great big loving arms and that's all i need to know so for you remember and vote and get to work to judy and dennis and logan and marlo thank you for your generosity  sharing that with us will be the part where i cry gently rest in this place you are safe now the church quite controversial at the time he's retired now and it also is very very moving speech and it also bears mentioning three months after matthew shepard was killed there was another murder of a young gay man billy jack gaither in alabama it was raised on twitter by the comedian dave brown a guy brown and but you remember from the time that he was not covered anywhere and he wasn't on the cover of advocate magazine he was brutally murdered in a similar fashion taken to a rural abandoned places nepos ash with an axe you know i mean he wasn't he simply it's sort of reflects the the optics of it's hard to say where one gets picked up one wasn't as soon as matthew was attacked this picture of a cute young guy vulnerable kid came up and got on the national news and seemed to capture people's imaginations of course the federal hate crimes law is named after him and james byrd an african american who was dragged behind a truck in a hate crime murder so it's hard to say why one one incident why does and frank capture people's imaginations and not the six  desk fought for the union you know by the way but he's also but the news this week is that land the lakes the dairy company gave him a twenty five hundred dollars contribution this is calls for a boycott of land o'lakes over this i mean he and steve king endorse the austrian the old nazi party and said they if they came here they'd be in the republican party which cause some of his republican colleagues to want to move away from him and they're having to separate from but he also endors a candidate for mayor of toronto by the name of faith goldie she recently quoted white supremacist david lane who murdered a jewish radio host in one thousand nine hundred four and wrote this from prison we must secure the existence of our o of a fortune five hundred company beth ford well get your act together right and and keep in mind the next time you're in the grocery store there are a lot of other lesbian had a dairy product company has that you spend your money on lesbian headed i bisexual democrat is up in the poll over martha mix out the latest poll fifty to forty four that's very encouraging that would be a flip new york there were more arrests of proud boys and facebook is banning them over their violent anti gay attack that they engage only on our side says same sex marriage so that's what's going to be voted on in order for either of these proposals to prevail with the parliament twenty five percent of the electorate has to vote for it out of the so people have to go to the polls and they have to vote for it if it's going to pass and even if the other side wins and we only get civil unions or the or the parliament is advised to do civil unions then we could go back to the court and say this is not equal and we can fight it all over again did in the u k there's also some very complicated very complicated legislative action taking place on the issue of same sex marriages in northern ireland in northern ireland told you that no that i won't do it they vote for it  exercise of government function in the absence of of this wedges and as a part of the overall and then there's an amendment to it that says that they should the secretary of state of northern ireland should update their civil servants in light of the june supreme court ruling on abortion and the supreme court on abortion and also on same sex marriage with the idea of bringing didn't bring in northern ireland into conformity with the rest of the u k on the issues of same sex marriage northern northern ireland or on abortion and marriage and gay marriage so and that was defeated it's too strong and they they say they say that these are devolved issues that northern ireland should have  know that they should have oversight over abortion and same sex marriage so they're not going to directly intervene but they can sort of it looks like in this emergency bill they're going to tell the secretary of state do what's right and what's right is there they're being governed by supreme court cases and voting on it today i haven't seen anything about it be the first one of the eastern europe and central america it's very hard for to win asylum in the united states but in el salvador a man has was asked what was fighting for this and he was asked about to prove that he was gay he was asked about the kinds of sexual positions that he had gauges in but he managed to pass the test but those things are pretty obnoxious and indonesia there's a new wave of anti gay rhetoric and violence same sex marriage but the court is ordering them to do it they are now appealing to their appealing to the court of appeals let's go be heard on november seventh the ninth but what they do for this level of appeal is foreign judges are flown in to the i p l and they get a visit to thailand and this man is ninety three years old with stunning he says that we do not accept this is on the heels of something that we reported on in august they two women were cain for having look we haven't done so well by our presidents even democratic presidents because we still don't have equal rights in this country and costa rica where the court struck down the ban on same sex marriage it doesn't go into effect until eighteen months after they published the decision they they decided in august and they were issued their decision as the clock hasn't even started on that in the united kingdom by the way a woman named justin greening she's the former education all right as well in the novel and oh mexico the senate a senate committee there you know obviously passed a bill extending pension and health care benefits to married same sex couples there's a lot of married same sex couples in mexico but it's only completely legal in thirteen of thirty one states in kenya drumroll please the high court will announce its decision on a gay sex ban on february twenty second i don't know but these things take so long well chris that happens here too with our supreme court they take time to issue the decisions that have only for gay sex there is fourteen years in prison we only got rid of it here twenty zero three but it could be reinstated here by a by the supreme court thirteen states don't have the balls on the books the supreme court to say no no no those laws are constitutional to air a forum with and or through on the thirtieth anniversary of seize control of the f d a which was this huge demonstration that we were i was around for get cable network covering that back and thirty years ago anyway it's going to be on c span three saturday november third at nine thirty in the morning eastern time it's on c span as american history t v the video is available on you tube and is available online and i will give you the links  husband this place been kicking around it's ostensibly a stunt simply about a gay couple the guys on either end of the scene there who are there couple for seven years but the guy on the right doesn't believe in marriage for gays he just doesn't believe in believe in it as an institution and they have big fight about it and that's all but that's but it gets much much more serious well that's a serious issue but it gets much much more serious so you know ted ted said on this show i want to go to things that i feel about you will feel something after you see this show i did object to the first fifteen minutes were which were kind of a woman gray sitcom where they were sort of making fun of the older guy for going out with a younger guy they were just making cheap jokes about an older guy going out with a younger guy and it kind of undermined the the rather serious proceedings it's ok to be funny but don't insult people over who they go out with and i said sort of about that i used to drive younger guys when i was much younger all right the best play on broadway brother in law and sister in law so it's kind of a it takes place and i want to say around nineteen eighty eighty isn't like the eighty's ira he's a former ira guy and it's about the menace of having left the ira is basically what the play is stage and i'd never sit and think of woman before i was twenty years old and i'm sitting there watching it and people walking out of the audience not so sensitive people were about these things and now she's now she's an old lady and she's back on broadway and she gives a wonderful performance  fully clothed you know i have a couple of the place because i had you know i'm asking it was she she was this time she was fully clothed this time that was the that was the director's choice yes much i'll tell you there is a lot of salty language in this play especially from like the ten year olds and it's very funny in that respect but it's a very serious play the lady made a member nichols and may the you know mike nichols and elaine may well she's eighty five now she's back in the waverly gallery this is an early hundred nine and she is deteriorating the whole time if you haven't dealt with someone who is deteriorating from alzheimer's you will after you see this play i mean i've certainly got with a number of times in my life with family members and friends it's painful but that's all this play is about and joan allen is in it and david cromer plays john allen's husband joan allen plays the daughter of lane may and this and michael michael cera right  the young actor he plays a struggling artist who displays in the gallery and it's a terrific all star cast but it's a painful play among the last one is the lifespan of a fact you're a fact checker i'm not but i'm you're not a fact great cherry jones plays the editor in this thing it's the three of them and load this play i did hated as much as she did i just thought it wasn't about they want to be about truth versus you know alter the facts and tru