lady. >> that's the question. the question to me is -- >> not really. >> enforcing this in a certain way, we all go like this, and then it's like, okay, that's what racism looks like, it's southern white people. thank you. that's all for this evening. the "the rachel maddow show" starts now. we are having a moment right now in republican politics. the last 48 hours all across a broad swath of the country we have had a flury of really remarkable, like, ripbly's believe it or not kind of politics. 6 first of all, iowa, the republican governor of that state, the most important mustache in american politics. he signed a bill, the first of his kind anywhere in the country ever. we have seen a lot of anti-abortion bills from the republicans in the federal level and at the state in the last

couple years, but never before has an individual republican politicians reserved for himself the right to personally decide if you can have an abortion. it's not a vague stance that the state should have a say or the state government should weigh in, but in this case it's him. personally. in his capacity as governor, with the bill he just signed into law, he reserves for himself personally the right to decide whether or not you get an abortion. it's his personal role on a case by case basis to decide whether or not medicaid can cover an abortion if that's your health insurance in the state. he decide for each person, yes on no, ask terry. it's an exclamation point for me, and it's law in iowa. if you live in iowa and your income is below a certain threshold so medicaid is your

insurance company. if you live in iowa right now, this is your doctor. he will personally decide what happens to you. for the record, he is a lawyer by training and also he did time in the army in the 1970s. so that's republican governance in iowa right now. republic republican governance is here, and this guy makes woman to have an ultrasound, even if it's against your will and your doctor does not want you to have it. the bill forces you to have one by order of the legislature. it will also close more of the women's health clinics in wisconsin that the republicans have not already set down in that state by defunding planned parent hood. this is what it looked like in the senate, in the state senate when the republicans passed that

bill. all members voting in the firmtive -- layman, miller, schilling, and -- >> question before the body now is passage of the bill. a role call will be required. a clerk will call the roll. the clerk will call the roll. >> senator carpenter? >> you are interrupting a roll call, sit down, right now. call the roll? >> senator carpenter? collin?

>> you are interrupting a roll call and that will not be tolerated. sit down! >> is that how that bill passed in wisconsin. but it's not actually signed into law yet, and it's expected to be signed but not yet. yesterday for example, they tried to get into the state senate chamber when the state budget was getting debated. that led for the sit down shuttup guy that we just saw, that led him to call for help. >> mr. president, with the demonstration, it's impossible for my colleagues to hear. could we just wait a second and i think the police will clear the chambers. the situation will be managed by the capital police and the page staff, and we ask

the senator to proceed with his comments. the floor is yours. >> can we wait a couple minutes so we can hear the senator from the 17th? >> here, get me fitzgerald on the phone. >> he was bragging about how softly he gavels now. i think he is calling for the head of the wisconsin state police there. maybe steven fitzgerald, i am guessing. and then they tried to deliver coat hangers to the supporters of the anti-abortion bill, and

we are told they refused to accept the coat hangar. that is wisconsin and iowa in the past 48 hours. and then there is texas, and what is going on in texas is almost impossible to believe. even if you are not the biggest sports fan, it was game seven of the nba finals, and you would think everybody in the texas would be glued to a tv set watching the spurs. but a lot of texans spent the night of game seven buried inside a state capital building until 3:45 in the morning. now, what is going on here has been odd politics from the beginning. we should have known something weird was going on when we started to see headlines like this back in may. texas lawmakers put down their

swords. and then they decided they were going to stay away from all the hot button abortion issues they spent so much time on it, and this time around they are not going to leave it be and put down their swords. why would they change all of a sudden? oh, turns out they didn't change all of a sudden. it was a scam. they did not try to pass new anti-abortion legislation during the regular session this year. and that bought them months of coverage about how republicans were putting down their swords and giving up on the whole war on women thing, and trbgs women have nothing to fear from the giant republican house in texas, and then they had republican governor, rick perry, call a special session as soon as the normal legislative calendar was done, and in that special session they decided to do all the anti-abortion stuff now, and

they got months of coverage, and then afterwards they get to push their abortion stuff. because it's a special session, it can pass with smaller ma skwroer tease and it means it can happen really fast. they put together a bill quick that is likely to have the affect of shutting down 37 of the 42 clinics in the state of texas that provide abortions, and they boom, passed it through the senate and shifted it over to the house, go, go, special session, and let's get this through the house. an amazing thing happened in texas, which is even after months of press coverage telling everybody, don't worry, nothing to worry about from the republicans this time around, and then calling the special session when they are passing emergency legislation, in the middle of the nba finals when people are paying a tension to something else, they are trying to get it into law before anybody notices, texas notices. people across texas through

existing political networks and word of mouth and social media, people got in such really fast. they decided they were going to do a citizens filibuster. they decided as citizens they would slow this thing down, by showing up they would like to comment on the bill as it was being heard in committee, which is the first step in being passed by the assembly. the special session has to end on tuesday, and the idea was that if they could -- if everybody showed up, if they could get, i don't know, hundreds of people to show up on no notice, if everybody would show up and take their a lotted three minutes to speak as they witness about this bill, well, you know, with hundreds of people three minutes starts to add up. and people started to arrive from all over texas, and people started to arrive at 1:00 yesterday afternoon, and the bill was supposed to start being debated at 5:00. by 7:00 last night there were 200 people signed up to comment on it. they each get three minutes on it. right? 200 people signed up to testify

at that hearing. as the evening went on that climbed to over 700 people. all registered and there and present and all waiting to give their three-minute testimony, please. 700 people, three minutes each, and that's like hours of testimony. when word started to get out that this was going on in usaen and people from all over the state started calling in pizza orders for the witnesses, so east side pies in usaen shows up with a whole bunch of pizzas for everybody, and then a coffee shop, and cookies, and people from all across the street phoning in carbs orders to keep everybody fueled and caffeinated and able to stay there to stick it out to have a citizens filibuster to stop the bill from passing, and it rolled on into the night, with the house state affairs committee somewhat

bewildered by how much citizen interest turned out to be. with hundreds of people still on the list on talk, 300 people still there to testify, the republican chairman of the committee, a little bit after midnight announced that he was cutting off the testimony. he said he had heard enough, and he felt like it was repetitive. everybody was saying the same thing over and over again and he didn't want to hear it anymore. >> the next thing that happened is i went to visit with my doctor, and after she examined me she confirmed i was having a spontaneous miscarriage, and she said the sonogram was unnecessary, and in order to comply with the legislative session. i wondered when i first got pregnant -- >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> before we go to the next witness, we have had a lot of very compelling testimony.

we have had a lot of passion on both sides. also, over the last several hours, the testimony has become very repetitive. and when it gets to that point it's not adding a lot of value. >> the committee chairman announcing essentially that he was board with the testimony about the miscarriages and all this stuff. it's getting repetitive. and ultimately people still did not leave after the additional hour that he said he would allow for testimony. and that committee chairman himself got up and left. and the citizens filibuster in texas, the pizza and coffee and cookie fueled we are going to stay here all night, it went on until almost 4:00 in the morning before they finally kicked them out. that's when they finally rapped up. they rapped up without voting. so while it was all happening that night, at some point a group called the austin audio

co-op, and they were initially planning on projecting on to the federal building in usaen their free bradley manning projection, and they decided to freelance on scene seeing what they became part of and they removed their projection on to the state building, and then in usaen, that's where the action was, and that's what it looked like in the middle of the night. last night in austin, end the war on women, three stories tall. so there was kind of a bat signal, and it was a dramatic night in texas. and then this morning, while everybody was rubbing the sleep out of their eyes and trying to wake up out of their cookie comas, the same republican chairman who said he was bored, he want to go home, and he tried to call the hearing off in the middle of the testimony, very quietly announced the committee would reconvene. gave two hours notice and

reconveined in a room with no live camera and you could fit only 30 people, and evading the bat signal and the committee convened, voted, passed it and they are gone. overall the session does end on tuesday, and nobody knows when the full assembly is going to reconvene to take it back up. sunday, they may convene the state assembly on sunday to pass the anti-abortion bill that will close down 80% of the clinics in the state. we don't know for sure if the bat signal will go up again, and the citizens' filibuster will be rea rea re-activated. texas is awake, and they seem to be unsettled by what the legislature is trying to do. joining us now is jessica furrar.

she is the representative, and thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> the members of the committee, and yourself as a member of the committee, how did you react to this citizens' filibuster to hundreds of people showing up to testify? >> it was quite surprising. i don't think we have ever seen that many people show up for everything, and to stay. and to watch the list on my ipad as the night grew on, and people testified, the list continued to grow by the twos and the threes, every couple or three minutes, and it was astonishing. >> in terms of the procedure here, this passed through the senate. there were visible protests against the bill as it moved through the senate side of the legislature. i imagine you expected something, but from what i hear you saying here, it is like it's a more ferocious level of protest than you had been expecting on the senate side, is that fair? >> exactly fair.

>> what is going to happen in the house? are you going to convene on sunday to vote on it as a full assembly? >> yes, it's scheduled for sunday afternoon. we will reconvene at 2:00 p.m. and hear other bills, and including these bills, and so my understanding is there is a rally planned that afternoon, and the citizen filibuster will reconvene as well. i invite you and your viewers and thank your viewers and this country really for sending that pizza and such because it came from all over the country. >> let me ask you procedurally about how this works. what was interesting on looking at the footage last night, when you eventually shut things down at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, there had not yet been a vote and then you did reconvene and vote today. if there was a citizen filibuster again on sunday, is there time for witnesses to speak? would it essentially be a symbolic protest or could it

slow down the bill further? >> i think this -- i think these legislators need to look at these men and women in the face when they basically strip away a basic constitutional right. i think that my colleagues responded to the -- they need to respond to the rest of the state, and right now the republican majority responds to the right flank, and that's what they are doing right now is running for state-wide office and to flank each other. the lieutenant governor was defeated by ted cruz, so he has been one of the largest proponents of the legislation, and so i think that the republican majority needs to understand that they represent the rest of texas, not just -- they don't need to be just looking at aep republican primary, because they are doing the citizens of the state a disservice in doing so. >> thank you very much for your time tonight. good luck this weekend. sounds like it's going to be interesting if nothing else.

good luck and thank you. >> thank you. >> bye-bye. this legislation in texas, it's -- texas is always important because texas is part of the country, but texas has tens of millions of people in it. if they close down 80% of the abortion clinics in texas with the young female population in texas, it's going to affect millions and millions and millions of american women of child-baring ages. this is a big deal. power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh...no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24/7. sounds a little too good to be true sir. i'll believe that when pigs fly. ok, did she seriously just say that? geico. just a click away with our free mobile app.

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if there is a republican president, democrats tend to pick up seats in the house and senate in the mid-term elections. if there is a democratic president, republicans tend to pick up seats in the mid-term elections. it's a general rule of american politics. americans tend to like to swing the it back a little bit. they added seats to the house and the senate, but after the pendulum swung that far towards the republicans in '08, it swung back in 2010 hard. they lost six seats in the senate and the majority in the house, and the state's 2010 was a democratic disaster. they lost more legislative seats in the states than in the '20s. and then the republicans picked up the governorships in a dozen

states. in 2010, new york state was in a kind of weird position. it had his first democratic governor in tpweu years, and he had to resign in a hooker scandal, which is surprised everybody. he quit, and lieutenant governor took over, and then he decided he was not going to run for it in 2010. and the new yorkers had gotten used to the republican in the house for a long time. it's going to be a huge republican year nationwide, and new york democrats lost their first governor to a hooker scandal and their second governor to dropping out, and that election in 2010, that was going to be a tough election, or not. on paper, democrats should have had trouble there but they won

the governor's race by 30 points. and that huge margin, that huge election for the democrats is in part because cuomo was a good candidate. but let's not kid ourselves, that was the margin because this is the guy he was learning against. >> if we learned anything tonight, new yorkers are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore. >> that was his victory speech. despite winning, he was angry about something and he wants you to share in it and delight and swim in that anger until you are nice and pruny. he wants his anger on your lawn. this is a lawn sign. i am mad too, carl. very, very mad. before he was nominated by the new york republicans, the things that had a lot of people angry

at him was his super racist e-mail forwarding habit, and it's not just the one where they were pimped at a prostitute, and the chimps were doing the dance, and that was not the last trash that he would circulate after he was nominated. his campaign sent out a mailer, and we have it in our position that literally smells like trash sent to 200,000 new yorkers. he will clean things up, perhaps starting with your mail box. you still had the scent on garbage stinking up your "sports illustrated." that's who the republican party ran for governor in new york state in 2010, and that's why the democratic candidate won that race by 30 points. that was a really republican year. can you imagine it would have been like in paldino had won that race, with the calling president obama a pimp? can you imagine if a guy like

that ended up being governor of a u.s. state? oh, say hello to the governor of maine. not carl paldino, but if you squint you could be for given for mixing them up. the daily news keeps a running tally of what he says to embarrass himself and the state. telling the ncacp, they should kiss his butt. >> take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and if heated up it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. and, so you know, the worst case, some might have little beards, but we don't want to do that. >> and then there's a senator that is a logger by trade,

people like him out to go back in the woods and cut trees and let somebody with a brain come down and do some work. that ought to go over well with the blue-collar vote in rain. and then he had punctuation, and so much so that reporting on it last night on maine's local newscast had to come with a warning. >> we're about to put on screen what the governor said in response, and some of our viewers that may find it distasteful may want to hit the mute button and turn away. he said senator jackson claims to be for the people but he is the first one to give it to the people without providing vaseline. when he was asked if he realized some people might find that comment offensive, he was reported to have said good, it ought to, because i have been taking it for two years. >> the quote is he's the first one to give it to the people without providing vaseline. this is how the local nbc

affiliate had to report it. and one columnist noted today, little taoeubgz all over maine are asking right about now, mommy, how come the governor is talking about vaseline? this is a unique variety of republicans right now. and it's refusing to apologize for your lube references in main. he is a governor of one of the states in the united states. does the republican party deal with that's who they are now? they deal with it awkwardly, because after the beards things and telling them to kiss him on his butt, but the republican

presidential hopeful had already committed to do a fund-raiser for him. in that his case, he had a book detpoupbsing his own ideas about immigration reform which came out the exact same time when the party was embracing those ideas. he says he likes immigration reform because immigrants are so fertile. that's his new try. he is trying to bunch every other republican's dance card in the hope they will bunch his dance card back once the primaries start. he does have connections to maine. so he is doing this stuff, and he said he would do a thing for paul, and then the thing about bending people over and doing them without vaseline, and then he responded by trying to stop the biggest papers in the state from covering state government at all, and issuing a blanket no

comment on all matters to three of the largest papers in the state, and then in response to all the controversy he said today, oh, i think i will run for congress, why not, i would be perfect. his exact quote is it can't be any worse in washington than it is here. here, meaning maine, where he is governor. where he thinks it's terrible. how is jeb bush going to squirrel out of this? jeb busch has to squirrel out of this, doesn't he? how does he escape this?

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happy friday. map time. here is europe and the top of africa. on the map on the western side of it, you can see where portugal dips down toward africa. and the split between europe and africa is the straight of gibraltar, that narrow strip of water between spain on the top and ma rocco on the bottom. there is a part of spain is that on the wrong side. in northern marocco, and there is a piece of spain, it's a city that is part of spain even though it's basically in morocco. it's spelled ceuta, and i don't

know how to pronounce it. i am just going to punt and show you what it is, and you can work on it at home. today in this city that is part of spain, even though it's in morroco. they were gathering the recruits and provide them with money and means to travel under the orders of al qaeda. where were they sending the fighters? to syria. an al qaeda funnel funding and training dozens of young men to go blow themselves up in syria. this is al qaeda specific, and it follows recent reporting that

the new study this month, it says syria is the celeb for sunni fighters. the most famous previous mobilization like is that of course the warriors in afghanistan. and they fought the russians, who ultimately became the core of al qaeda, who are sending the new round of sunni recruits into syria via part of spain i thought was morocco. and that news pops along this news from the "los angeles times"s. president obama said last week we would start to provide military aid to the rebels, and the cia and the u.s. military have been training the rebels on heavy weapons, like anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. we have not announced we are supplying that weapons, but

training on the weapons has been happening under our watch for months. the white house not commenting on the allegations and not denying it either. >> we have stepped up our assistance, but i cannot inventory for you all of the elements of that assistance. and as the president said, you know, i cannot and will not get into some specifics of the assistance that we provide. >> who knows? but new reports today that we are way more into arming of the rebels than our government admitted publicly. we are wading into the war along with the fighters being sent there with al qaeda, and the side we are sighting with are not fighting against the al qaeda guys, but on the same side. and the whole justification on this is chemical weapons. the u.s. termed a high degree of confidence that the syrian government killed 100 or 150 people using sarin, chemical

weapons, which he said all along would be a red line for the united states and would change his calculous in deciding how intensively we would get ourself into that civil war. which brings us to the really big story of the day. it's this story from lynch from the "washington post." do we know for the sure the chemical weapons, do we know that allegation is true? independent experts interviewed by the washington posts saying the evidence is circumstantial evidence, and the claims are unverifiable, and there is a real chain of custody issue for the samples that were reportedly tested for chemicals. smuggles out of the country. precisely who acquired the evidence and what methods were

used to guard against tampering may be unknowable. if you are the opposition and you hear the white house has drawn a line on the nerve agents, you have the interest of giving the impression some chemicals have been used. there are so many people that would like to believe there was chemical weapons used. anybody else having dejavdejavu? mr. lynch, thank you for being with us. >> my understanding of the importance of your reporting here is that independent experts who are experienced in these kinds of issues looking for evidence of the use of weapons of mass destruction, and they think there are serious issues about what we don't know about this case. >> right. i mean it's exactly that question, it's what we don't know. the issue that we focused on, we

stepped back and looked at the administration that made this case that will arm the rebels on the basis that the syrians had crossed the red line and used chemical weapons. the majority of the information and the evidence is coming from the british, the french and the united states. evidence has been collected by the intelligence agencies. it's secret. and we have to take it on faith that it's -- that they are confident they have used chemical weapons. the problem is that we have talked to a number of weapons experts, including a number of them who served in the iraq operation, including the former head of the u.n. inspection mission commission in iraq, and their view is that there is no capacity, no ability to verify, to challenge, to look seriously at these issues and we are taking it on the faith of these governments, and they have a little bit of difficulty with the track record. i think a lot of the scientists

have had particular difficulties in dealing with american and british intelligence in the past, and so they are skeptable about the claims and not able to take it on faith. and this evidence is being passed on to the united nations, and they have chemical weapons, or a scientist who is supposed to verify the evidence, and they are hoping to feed this intelligence to him, and that he will use it to reach a conclusion. on the sort of ef evidence standards, they can't use in as basic evidence and they have to establish the chain of custody and take the samples themselves and look at the autopsies, and interview medical professionals, and go to hospitals. all of these things which they can't do because the syrian government is not letting them in the country. so there is all of this evidence, and it's not going to reach a point where this evidence will be able to help the u.n. establish firmly whether chemical weapons are

used and who has been using them. and so it's really this question of the lack, i think, of trust that a lot of the sort of experts are willing to intrust the united states and the british with. we are not challenging the evidence or questioning it because we don't know what it is, and so in my expectations, it's the administration, these questions keep arising and they will be put in a position where they will have to make more of a public case on what they have, and they will have to do it more in a public way and a more persuasive way than so far. >> i appreciate that the u.n. standards would be the gold standard here. it would be the closest you could get to a smoking gun if what you were looking for is a smoking gun and i don't expect they will let the u.n. inspectors in, and so what is the closest tier where we can inspect it? >> well, they have a veto and they can block any investigation

which might reach the conclusion that they don't want reached. so what i think some of the europeans -- what i know they are pushing for, they are saying to the chief weapons inspector, they say we have all this evidence and we will give it to you, and we understand the difficulties you have, and can you use this stuff and you should, you know, compare all the stuff that we have. you don't have to believe our case, but look at the samples and look at the evidence. we have -- there are dozens of soil samples and tissue samples and they are now going to be going to turkey and lebanon and jordon, and interview doctors who have fled the country and interview eyewitnesses and see if you can come up with a pictu picture. the u.n. secretary general after the u.s. made its announcement that it was convinced that they had used chemical weapons, they came out with a strong statement and said, look, we need to have -- we need to collect evidence ourself, and if we can establish the chain of custody,

we can't reach a conclusion. what i suspect is at the end of the process, the u.n. will come out with some information and it will be inconclusive, and the security council will continue to be divided. russia has already tried to seize on the ambiguity to raise doubts about the integrity of the intelligence, so i think it's going to be problematic. it's interesting that normally you would wait for the u.n. conclusion, but that's not going to come for a long time and may never come, and i think the americans and british and french have reached that conclusion, they have to go with what they have because they are not going to get the smoking gun. >> even while recognizing the peoples' inability to trust as asir -- it's because of our history. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll be right back. [ whirring ] [ dog barks ] i want to treat more dogs. ♪ our business needs more cases.

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the answer is snakes, snakes according to americans are the single scariest animal in the entire annal kingdom, snakes followed by alligators followed by sharks. then in order bears, cockroach, tigers, bats, spiders and finally wolves. in terms of animals that we as a country are afraid of that is our list. zero percent of americans named an animal that is not on that list. that is the entire list so snakes officially win the scaring the bleep out of us contest. if you are not afraid of snakes have you ever done a youtube search for snake opening door. see, now you're afraid of snakes. >> good job. >> here's your question. here's another question. based on their personalities do you think a dog or cat would make a better president of the united states? turns out we are a dog country. 37% of americans say a dog would make a better president. 19% say a cat.

nearly half of the country can't decide which would be better so this was the polling about animals and pets that was recently done by the polling firm, ppp. there are a lot of weird polls that go around all the time. weird and funny polls with all sorts of ridiculous questions but sometimes poll questions can be funny without necessarily intending to be funny. for example, do you agree or disagree with the following statement, democrats are closer to the leaders we had in latin america always giving handouts to get votes. if we threat lem have their way we will end up being like the countries our families came from not like the america of great opportunities we all came to." agree or disagree? that was a real polling question. a question put to latino-americans in a poll hyped by none other than dick morris, the former fox news analyst who was run out of fox after claiming right up until the election that mitt romney was definitely going to win by a landslide. his polling told him so. don't you agree that democrats are like latin-american

dictators? having pushed that out there, dick morris then wrote up the results of that poll under the headline, latinos could be gop allies. yeah, if only we kept asking them questions like that. that crazy push poll was not done by dick morris himself, though. the small print says it was organized and funded by a man named john jordan of jordan winery in california. well, hello. dick morris seems to have gotten his hand into this california winemaker's guy's pocket lately so he seems to be the main funding source behind lots of different republican polls that have been yielding lots of really strike results. it's not just the aren't democrats just like latin-american dictators polls that was laughed at by every real pollster out there but this poll right here. look at that. this was organized and funded by john jordan. this poll funded by this california winemaker guy was a poll done for the u.s. senate race that's going to happen on tuesday in the great state of

massachusetts and this poll found something amazing. it found that the republican candidate, the private equity guy gabriel gomez, ex-navy zl1 found he was trailing the congressman ed markey by only one point. no other poll showed the race anywhere near that close but this poll funded by the california winemaker guy found that to be true. amazing. also turns out that the wine guy who put together this too good to be true poll for gabriel gomez is the main donor for gomez's side."the wall street j this in it today with this shot from his winery reporting "in the last two weeks john jordan has single-handedly spent more than $1.2 million to help gabriel gomez in his uphill race against ed markey." $1.2 million spent by this one guy. do put that in perspective, the

republican party itself has spent $900,000 on gomez but this one guy in california with the wine glass is pumping more money into the gomez cause than the whole republican party is and even though the actual polls in this race so that it is really not very close anymore, even though the real polls show ed markey opened up a 20-point lead, gabriel gomez is all set according to the wine guy who is paying for his whole campaign because this is apparently the way our elections are run. get one super rich guy and he funds you all the way until election day including the polls that tell him that it's worth it. election is this upcoming tuesday, ed markey versus mr. merlot money. i cannot believe this is how we do things in this country but it's true. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again on monday. but right now i need you to close your eyes, take a deep breath and take a leap into prison. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised.