attorney has just come out with the statement, matt staver, founder and chair of the liberty council said this, we are pleased that kim davis has been ordered released. she can never recover the past six days of her life spent in an isolated jail cell where she was incarcerated like a common criminal because of her conscience and religious convictions. she is free to return to her family, her co-workers and the office where she has faithfully served for 27 years. we'll continue to assist kim and pursue the multiple appeals she has filed. the interesting thing, senator, will be whether or not she is going to actually comply with the judge's order. it appears now that the deputies that serve underneath her will be the ones potentially to be signing the same-sex marriage licenses. i'm not sure exactly how it will be stamped. >> well, that's true. it is a situation where, as rand said, i believe he is correct in this, that the judge, i think, really went a little too far in putting her in jail. obviously to -- because she did -- she didn't sign the marriage licenses. but this will be tri

? >> i don't believe in your job? >> matt staver represents davis. >> and now she's being asked to do something that no clerk in kentucky until recently has been asked to do. it is not something she signed up for. >> i pay your salary. i pay your salary. >> we pay your salary. >> i pay you to discriminate against me right now. that's what i'm paying for. >> ermold and moore say upholding the law is what davis was elected to do. >> what i will not tolerate is people who want to use their beliefs to discriminate against other people and make people's lives hell. >> reporter: davis has refused to resign but has now been ordered to appear in federal court on thursday to explain herself. further defiance, scott, could result in a contempt citation and fines or even jail. >> pelley: we've been showing you the crush of humanity flooding into europe to escape war and poverty on two continents, but this picture that we got today captures the desperation. look at the top of the frame, a man wedged himself behind the engine of a car trying to sneak into spain from north africa. the chaos has

happen. >> yeah, matt staver was squirrely about that. if they don't force them to issue these licenses, but people are willing to go to a different county and get married. fine, we've lost that battle. there were people, this element that i think has been silenced in the rest of the republican party who were talking about how the supreme court is bringing the nation down. older people, i should say. i talked to a lot of people in their 60s and 70s who literally thought that the supreme court's decision was one of the things that was going to bring about a biblical event. god's judgment on america. one couple i was talking to who thought a famine could arise because god was so angry from this decision. and they're not going to accommodate. i think more likely is going to come from a lot of the younger people i saw. who thought it was abhorrent that kim davis would be forced to do this, but hoped maybe the gay people that want to get married take it easy. you saw in realtime, gay couples that showed up to talk to the crowd. and there was a discrepancy happening in realtime where some peo

matt staver says pictures were taken. they will be released at some point. d'elia gallagher is live for us in rome. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine, i can tell you this morning the vatican is saying they will neither confirm or deny a meeting took place between the pope and kim davis. as you mentioned, kim davis' lawyer confirms that a meeting did take place and said it lasted ten minutes and present were kim and her husband. he says that kim davis said i was humbled to meet pope francis. he even asked many eto'o pray for him. he thanked me for my courage and told me to stay strong. christine, we know pope francis on the way back from his u.s. trip on the papal plane was asked about his support for conscientious objection in general. he said it is a human right and a right allowed for by law. he was asked if that included government officials. he said government officials are human people and, therefore, they are also included in these rights. we know the pope met with the little sisters of the poor. this is a religious group of nuns that run health care in the un

giving to kim. i first want to also say thanks to matt staver and for liberty council and for those organizations who make it possible for christians like kim tostand. and we're grateful for matt staver and his leadership. let me read the citation. integrity is the alignment of conviction and action in the pursuit of truth and justice. in the course of history, men and women have integrity, few in number but deep in character, have pursued justice at great personal cost, whether it was abraham lincoln asserting the unconstitutionally unsettled nature of the dred scott decision, or martin luther king risking the fang and claw of police dogs to end legal segregation. our nation has been ennobled and enriched by citizens who declare their unwillingness to accept rules and statutes that conflict with the laws of nature and the laws of god. tens of thousands have borne mortal wounds, attacked their neighbors, hereto, people of profound integrity are standing against a tide of power that would attempt to make manmade law the source of all goodness and truth. today's conflict over the mean

matt staver of liberty counsel compared the judge's ruling to the actions of officials in nazi germany. saudi arabian king salman has arrived in washington, d.c., today to meet with president obama today to discuss the iran nuclear deal and other issues. this is the king salman's first visit to the united states since he assumed the throne in january following the death of his father king abdullah. the group codepink has planned a protest in front of the white house to coincide with the meeting to denounce the ongoing saudi-led bombing of yemen, which has sparked a humanitarian crisis. king salman's visit comes as the pentagon and saudi arabia are finalizing a $1 billion arms agreement to provide weapons for saudi arabia's campaign in yemen, as well as its fight against the self-proclaimed islamic state. to see our interview with the head of human rights watch ken roth on the saudi led bombing of yemen, go to democracynow.org. in news from europe leaders are , planning another round of emergency talks about how to respond to the hundreds of thousands of people seeking refugee s

key team members joins me live from the formerly quiet kentucky town of grayson, matt staver is the chairman of liberty council. i appreciate your time. for starters, i don't understand the series of appeals. i know the first one had to do with your contention that the judge might have been too pre-prepared going into the hearing to jail your client. what are the basis of the other appeals? what do you think went wrong at trial -- at the hearing? >> there's two primary areas of the appeals, the first and foremost is the contempt order that was issued thursday. this is now day six of kim davis' incarceration. today we still don't have a written order. we just have the verbal opinion from the judge announced on the bench. we think that particular process, where someone is incarcerated without notice, without the proper process violates her constitutional rights. so that's first and foremost. >> what's the other one? >> if we are successful on that the other is the injunction request against the governor which we filed which the court refused to hear. that's before the court of appeals

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, she says for standing up for her faith. matt staver is her lawyer. they spoke with her last night and said she's doing fine. listen to matt. >> all is well. kim davis slept well last night. she she never envisioned herself to be here, but here she is. she also loves god, and one thing she can't do is issue a license for marriage under her name. she has no intention to resign. she will continue to serve the peel of the county. she will never betray her conscience or her god. she is prepared for the consequences of those two divisions. >> it's a beautiful thing to believe something so deeply, down to the core that you're willing to be locked up. however, this woman was not doing her job. aren't there plenty of other jobs she could have out there that wouldn't interfere with her moral compass? >> fired perhaps, but instead she's behind bars. >> she could have been suspended, if she was in a position -- >> we talked about this on the show for many years. has anyone been jailed in the irs scandal? >> it's disproportionate. i think officials ought to carry out the law they've sworn to u

from jail. and matt staver looked at him and said, what? and i heard their conversation. and, of course, we here at the show, we went into full stalking mode. >> what was this event, exactly? the music was played by who? because it might have sound like music we -- that was actually there. "eye of the tiger." >> like a pep rally, right? >> and all of a sudden mike huckabee there. can you explain, was this a campaign rally? an event? what happened? >> it was billed in essence, his campaign organized this. some other folks on stage were part of the event. but mike huckabee's campaign organized it. let's step back for a few, for a moment here. this was arranged about three, four days before this. and there was a whole big inner workings of this as to who was going to speak and all of that. it's interesting. here's a backstory for you. i'm on my way to charleston, west virginia, to get to kentucky, and i see a campaign aide for ted cruz on the flight. and i'm like, oh, this is interesting. and, indeed, ted cruz, as we know, came down to the event. there was no expectation he would sp

without violating my conscience. >> joining us from florida matt staffer lead attorney for ms. davis. so do you expect any more trouble in this case, mr. staver? >> i don't expect any more trouble. today went with fairly well. i'm not sure that there is any more expected trouble. one of the problems that we have had since the very beginning is the intensity of the rhetoric and frankly even the death threats. kim davis had to change her home phone because her husband got a call saying people were coming over to beat him, tie him up, rape kim in his presence and then burn down the house with both of them in it. and she has gotten death threats that people are going to come to the office kill her and kill all of her staff. we have gotten death threats for the same thing that we are going to be carried out in body bags. we have gotten death threats that we are going to have bullets in our head that kind of rhetoric i just don't think is going away quickly, the intensity surprised all of us because it got so personal. >> i know you guys aren't, you know, where i am but this kind of hatefu

neighbors quietly without violating my conscience. >> joining us from florida matt staffer lead attorney for ms. davis. so do you expect any more trouble in this case, mr. staver? >> i don't expect any more trouble. today went with fairly well. i'm not sure that there is any more expected trouble. one of the problems that we have had since the very beginning is the intensity of the rhetoric and frankly even the death threats. kim davis had to change her home phone because her husband got a call saying people were coming over to beat him, tie him up, rape kim in his presence and then burn down the house with both of them in it. and she has gotten death threats that people are going to come to the office kill her and kill all of her staff. we have gotten death threats for the same thing that we are going to be carried out in body bags. we have gotten death threats that we are going to have bullets in our head that kind of rhetoric i just don't think is going away quickly, the intensity surprised all of us because it got so personal. >> i know you guys aren't, you know, where i am