When Biden met the press

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51% : Send tips | Subscribe here| Email Alex | Email Eli Few debates, politicians and media moments are as historically intertwined as JOE BIDEN and the interview he gave to NBC's "Meet The Press" on May 6, 2012, during which he publicly expressed comfort with same-sex marriage.
46% : Some 2,200 words were uttered before the topic of same-sex marriage came up (though Gregory and his team had prepared to ask about it).
44% : This piece by NBC News' JULIA AINSLEY and JACOB SOBOROFF about how the White House is "solidifying plans to slash the number of migrants who would qualify for asylum at the southern border while opening up new, narrow pathways for some would-be migrants to apply while still in their home countries."
43% : They'd been looking at having Obama make his own evolution-of-views announcement on the daytime talk show, "The View," in mid-May. Biden, moreover, had been the one warning Obama that embracing same-sex marriage could cost the ticket politically with Catholic voters.
42% : Within days, White House officials had arranged Obama's own interview so that he could publicly endorse same-sex marriage.
40% : Obama aides were not pleased, to put it mildly, as documented in SASHA ISSENBERG's seminal work, "The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage."
36% : Looking back, the moment resembles a tree ring of sorts, not just for progress on the same-sex marriage fight, or the evolution of political media, but for Biden's own transformation from an a Irish Catholic throwback to a leader of the modern Democratic Party.
29% : And, next to names like TIM GILL, ROBERTA KAPLAN, KEN MELHMAN, ANTHONY KENNEDY, TAMMY BALDWIN, GAVIN NEWSOM (who famously issued same-sex marriage licenses in San Francisco in 2004 while he was mayor) and others, stands Biden, largely for meeting the press that Sunday in May. MESSAGE US -- Are you ANTHONY KENNEDY?

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