none of them had been granted licenses by the brownback administration. none of them expected to be granted licenses by the time the license rules go into effect tomorrow. so kansas was hours away from becoming the first state in america since roe versus wade to ban abortion altogether. then, less than an hour before the close of the business day today, the state apparently changed its mind. the state reversing its earlier statement to planned parenthood in overland park that they would not be licensed to operate as of tomorrow. now telling them that that clinic will be licensed to operate. so abortion is only almost banned in kansas. and if the new law is allowed to stand, there will be one abortion provider left in the state. and that provider will have to abide by a set of rules that frankly were designed to shut it down. rules that even full-blown hospitals do not have to follow. and they will also have to contend with this. this has not been reported elsewhere, but these new regulations from the brownback administration, the ones that only apply to a

governor brownback's statement is irrelevant to the issue, because there are no public dollars state or federal coming to us to provide abortion care in kansas. >> well, thank you very much. peter brownlie for your part of the story and the president of the planned parenthood in kansas and mid-missouri and we will keep the audience updated of what happens in a few hours. >>> and a judge has put on hold a new abortion law in south dakota to force women to have a three-day waiting period, and the judge says that the law is unconstitutional and it is ruled invalid while it is challenged in the state court, and the attorney general must decide whether to appeal the injunction or do nothing at all. >>> and still, the casey anthony trial comes to a grinding halt. >>> we will be in recess indefinitely. >> and the proceedings are underway, but why did the judge make that an announcement earlier? >>> plus -- >> for a long, long time i wait for this day. >> the greatest day of my life. >> that is a clip from the new hbo documentary called "citizen usa" and i will talk to the filmmaker alexande

also, today in topeka, kansas, a federal judge blocked sam brownback from instituting new regulationst nearly shut down every abortion provider in the state of kansas as of today. there are only three facilities providing abortion left in kansas since dr. george tiller was murdered there by an anti-abortion extremists two years ago. as we have reported on this show, the few remaining doctors providing abortions in the state of kansas say that sam brownback's new law was designed to put them all out of business as well. like the republican mitch daniels indiana law going after planned parenthood clinics, sam brownback's law to close the clinics, too, has now been stopped by a federal court, and for good measure, also in the last 24 hours a control court has stopped the law in south dakota. a law that would force women seeking an abortion in that state to wait three days and to sit through lecture by an anti-abortion activist at a so-called pregnancy health center before the state would allow them to have an abortion. the last came in with withering scorn from the judge. forcing a woman

in kansas, sam brownback just signed into law a type of photo i.d. in order to vote bill.hat was championed by secretary of state in kansas. chris coback is the man who wrote sp-1070. he's not from arizona, doesn't serve in government there, but mr. coback likes to write conservative legislation he shops to other states and has been trying in a very big way of spreading the gospel of making it harder to vote all across the country. not just in kansas, but everywhere. earlier this week chris coback wrote urging politicians in other states to do what he and sam brownback have done in kansas, the case republicans broadly make for the urgent need for these new make it harder to vote laws is that voter fraud is wide spread across the country and a real threat. as evidence, there were 221 incidents of voter fraud reported in kansas between 1997 and 2010. seven of which yielded convictions. that's the evidence. 13 years, 7 convictions. convictions? detailed in a report from mr. coback's office in kansas. they consist of the following. one instance of electioneering, so campaignin

the brownback king of the tiger night i got always steers clear of the approach is known as the three brothers tourists never pitch camping climbers never attempt to ascend the rocks those traveling on their own don't spend the nights here the three brothers the three all still rock standing in the midst of an age old forest mystery and rumors surround them it is a mecca for mystics and u.f.o. enthusiasts people staying here for a long time suffer from strangely summations legend has it that the rocks were named after three giants stole precious stones from their father's money box after confessing their guilt they turned into rocks to bear the eternal burden of repentance even geologists say the origin composition of the rock significantly differ from the other areas of the taiga ny ridge at the bottom of the rock didn't result from magma gushing from the earth was smart enough for it was indeed on the ground when the rock and merged on the surface as a result of erosion it developed vertical cracks thirty erosion by cold weather split it into three parts. unlike the three brothers a

meanwhile brownback a national coordinator of the antiwar ounce of coalition says there is little chance of a peaceful resolution as long as the u.s. continues to fashion its policies around israeli interests there are different different desires different agendas within the quartet from the u.s. government point of view the purpose of these renewed talks is to put pressure on the palestinian authority which having received nothing from the israelis and nothing from the americans during the past years seen israeli settlements growing and expanding in spite of president obama's promise that this that there would be a halt freeze and settlement construction in the west bank and spite of the fact that the siege of gaza has taken so much in spite of the fact that the israelis are claiming all of jerusalem for themselves so the american government in particular which is the primary sponsor of israel which gives israel three billion dollars a year the largest recipient of u.s. foreign aid they realize that israel could become increasingly isolated so they're trying to come up with some solutio

, and sam brownback didn't finish the campaign.ritical of romney, being clear, saying he would have a hard time against obama, having supported health care. but on the debt business, it's really quite interesting. i mean, willing, it seems like, to go with the most conservative line, which is, you know, default be damned, we're going to keep opposing. >> don't think this presidential campaign that's going on right now didn't have an impact. >> sure. >> on this, because john boehner and the take party flank inside his own caucus, but whatever deal he cut, if he looked like he was doing a grand bargain, and somehow, basically elevating president obama, he was going to get maligned on the presidential campaign by everybody. >> i don't think there's a single republican candidate who was cutting him any slack, actually, any slack at all on this deal. >> well, i want to come back to that in a second. one other political note, because sarah palin is being heard from again. cover story in "newsweek," and i want to pull out the portion wher

last time, a lot of people thought that then senator brownback, who is now the governor of kansas, would do well, actually, what happened is governor huckabee beat him, gave a surprisingly strong second, and ended up defeating romney in the caucasus. i think romney is trying to keep expectations low. he is not participating, but he is the national leader and intends to participate in the caucasus. i think we have a wide open situation. ireland's -- ireland -- iowans like to meet the candidates and get their vision for where they want to lead the nation, but i do not think you should just assume whoever does well in the straw poll necessarily will win the iowa caucus or the nomination. >> could the opposite be true? >> it is whoever exceeds expectations. if you have somebody not expected to do well that does well, that could give them some real momentum, and you have several months between the straw poll and win the caucuses are held. >> governor, you know that state better than almost anyone else in the country -- >> i 112 elections in iowa -- i iowa -- i won 12 elections. >> who would y

karzai is half brother and one of his top advisers were also assassinated last week antiwar activist brownback thinks the surge in violence highlights the failings of the u.s. led campaign. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the telegram but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because of paid leave there will be a perception that the u.s. and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai is brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of the karzai regime necessary at least to give an afghan face to the nato occupation that itself is now crumbling these armed attacks these assassination attempts are designed to create panic and i think in all likelihood they are creating panic within a very hard to foundation of the karzai government the u.s. is losing grown steadily its spending one hundred twenty billion dollars a year that's an increasing amount from a treasury that's

. >> we get to the bottom line and in your experience, sam brownback finished third in the straw pollnd felt after all of the campaigning, he had to drop out. don't you have to finish that well in iowa. >> i believe we will finish in the top three. >> and if you don't, would you drop out? >> no, here's why. the nomination process doesn't stop with the early ones only. there is a lot of other states on the back end of the process that could swing it. no, that is not a determining factor. the biggest determinate factor as to whether i stay in or drop out is not if i finish third or 40. but the support we are get people out there in the states. >> i want to plug the fact that you have a new album. >> it is out since 1996. >> it is reissued called come to sunday -- this is sunday morning and we'll not have time to play it. but we have listened to it and it is wonderful . there is a song called sunday morning. it is always a pleasure to talk to you. safe travels on the campaign trail . you in the iowa debait . cut, cap and balance or a fall back plan. back with the panel in a moment. ack p

four years ago, sam brownback, the senator from kansas finished third in the ames straw poll.e felt in his campaigning he had to drop out finishing third. don't you have to finish that well in iowa? >> i believe we will finish in the top three. >> if you don't, would you drop out? >> no, not going to drop out. here is why. the nomination process doesn't stop with the early caucuses only. there are other states on the back end of the process to swing it. so, no, that is not necessarily a determining factor. the biggest determining factor whether i stay in or drop out won't be whether i finish first, second, third, fourth, but the number of supporters that we're getting. what we are hearing from the people who are actually out there in the states. >> chris: we have run out of time. i want to plug the fact that you have a new album -- >> it's been out since 1996. >> chris: but it's been reissued and it's called "sunday morning." we're not going to have time to play it. but i tell you, we have been listening to it on the "fox news sunday" set. it's wonderful. what more appropriate

senator brownback came in third in iowa and he had to drop out.nty comes in third, more than likely he doesn't move on to new hampshire. >> that's right. meanwhile, speaking of people who want to move on to new hampshire, congressman thadeus thad mccotter is going to be joining us in about half-hour from now and we'll talk to him about all things presidential. >> meantime, here's an interesting story taking place down in texas. we're talking about -- now, is it bully, texas. >> so there was a county clerk there who was just elected from the first time. her name is nichols. what's her first name? >> natalie. >> thanks for filling in all the blanks, steve. apparently, she is very much in favor of keeping the pledge of allegiance alive and well in the courtroom but when she was away at one point in time, it was taken away because apparently a judge said hey, he didn't want the aclu coming out against the county and suing them so it would just be easier if we took it out now. >> yeah, and so then she came back and she said hey, where did it go? in the

but it was a sam brownback, tom harkin obligation in our appropriations bill. we are obligated to do what congress tells us to do. it's voluntary. there's no we're taking comments from stakeholders. and you recognize as we all do there's an obesity crisis. and there are twice as many generation ago. only for myself, i try to take a sort of pragmatic approach here. if my kids eat special k with yogurt in the morning which wouldn't quite meet the nutrition guidelines, i'm pretty happy. because you know what? i think that's better than what else they might eat or better than them not eating anything at all. understanding is that within the next week -- first of all, we'll be getting comments, reviewing those comments seriously from stakeholders. understanding is that the food will come up with some proposed standardized or uniformed guidelines. guidelines that are good, and i think they then we ought to take that into account going forward, members of the working group. and we will. >> let me shift gears with you. i want to go to the privacy issues that are out in