wendy davis, folk hero.ro-choice caucus in the united states house of representatives today put out a statement thanking senator davis who is, after all, a state senator, thanking her for her all day, all night filibuster. and on this show last night, cecile richards, national president of planned parenthood and completely and totally of texas politics, cecile richards here last night marveled about what happened with wendy davis this week in texas. >> there were folks obviously there on the senate floor, but thousands of people outside in the rotunda filling the capitol. and it was amazing. it was absolutely amazing. i have never seen anything like it in all my history of organizing or as a texan. >> now the big question in democratic politics is, what's next here? last night our own beloved chris hayes put the question of wendy davis' political future to wendy davis, herself. unlike most politicians, she actually answered the question. >> your state has not elected a statewide democrat for quite some time.

strike 2 came when a colleague offered davis a back brace. the final strike came when davis mentioned the state's 2011 sonogram law. again off topic. >> john: what? this is a debate about abortion restrictions. how are planned prnthood and forced sonograms off topic? that's like saying talk to me about white castle but don't mention diarrhea. those are two different things. ultimately that joke landed hard with people here. ultimately davis and her allies pushed the debate past the midnight deadline and the abortion bill died. but then republicans tried one of the shadiest moves of all time. >> for a while this morning, it appeared as the state senators had indeed voted to pass the bill. but just a few hours allege the lieutenant governor of texas acknowledged computer records had been changed to make it look like republicans voted the bill through in time when, in fact, they had not. >> john: look, look, texas. you trieded everything you could. not even an illegal post mortgage em vote could revive this dead bill. but look, let's not condemn

davis-bacon is a fair concept. what it does is protect the government as well as the workers in carrying the policy of paying decent wages on government contracts. the act requires workers on federally-funded constructed projects be paid no less in the community for similar work. requires every contract that the federal government is a part contain a provision defining the minimum wages paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics. mr. chairman, the house has taken numerous votes on this issue and on every vote this body has voted to maintain these requirements. last year, we aborted language like this and it's my hope we stop attacking the working class and move on to more important matters. davis-bacon wages actually save construction costs. a study of more than 4,000 new schools, some built with prevailing wage and others not, found there were no significant differences in construction costs associated with the prevailing wage requirements. repealing davis-bacon wages has consistently been shown to increase

majornous overnight, the drama in texas that has many americans hearing the name wendy davis for the very first time. that's because davis, a democratic state senator there filibustered the sp-5 anti-abortion bill for over 11 hours going late into the night and drawing attention all across the country as thousands were watching live online. >> if we were truly talking about women's health care, if we were truly talking about making sure women were safe after an abortion, this is the kind of thing that goes right to the heart of that and that we could agree. >> according to texas filibuster rules, she had to stay on topic, can not lean on anything and could not take a bathroom break. and she would continue to speak until just under the 11th hour mark when republican lieutenant governor david dewhurst ruled davis violated the senate's three strike rule, a decision that was not well received by supporters outside of the senate chamber. >>. the shouts of let her speak. >> the place was absolutely packed. according to dewhurst strike one was davis' mention of planned parenthood which repu

i rocked an angela davis t- shirt in my day. and it occurred to me that was a sign and i needed to investigate more. when i looked into the story i had no idea the story was so good, that it was a political crime drama with a love story in the middle of it. >> where did you go first to try to find out? >> i went back and read her book, looked at the notes i'd written. her book gave me some sense. i started to talk to other people and when i started to read the history books around the events it became clear that there are so many question that have remained unanswered. >> where is she today? >> she is retired. she was at the time at the university of santa cruz in the history of consciousness department. i believe she was a professor emeritus. but just retired and now is speaking all over the world on justice issues. >> i'm going to run a clip that she did with us in 2004 just to establish for people who have never heard of angela davis what she looks like and the charges against her that we can get more from you about. >> great

after thet happened acquittal verdict to angela davis?ll over thetour world come a thank you tour to all the people who had been a part of the movement. she thought, i will do that for a year or two and talk about justice issues. it has become her life. she returned to academia. andstill travels and talks is a public intellectual. >> after this -- how long is this? >> 100 and one minutes. feature-length. it is essentially the story of how a 26-year-old floss graduate student becomes an international political icon. you are really seeing her make the choices and the repercussions of them and how it grows into something so much larger than her as an individual. >> from the time you graduated from the university of texas, up to your first documentary on surely, what did you do in that time? >> i got my masters in american history at the university of california riverside. i was also continued to run track eared i was running for foot locker, competing nationally and internationally. i ran until i was 27. i would not give up the olympic dream

the defense was angela davis is not stupid.f she were going to do this, at the bare minimum, she would not be using her own gun. so, you know, it plays out over details in the court room. >> here is, from your documentary, where the fbi began to search public enemy number one or three. [video clip] >> the fbi dissented over the black community all over the country and stopped any young black woman because they had this description. >> her fingerprints and photograph of the girl with a big afro. every office gets a box full of those things. >> there were unmarked cars parked across the street. this was the fbi. hundreds of african american women with big afro's were stopped. >> where did you find all that? >> from the collection of the court, the court collection. we also knew from talking to the fbi agent, and we had some of the stuff from the fbi files. some of that is archival footage. the fbi and law enforcement were not incredibly well practiced at identifying and distinguishing black women at that time. >> the split in the

y davis. facing jon lester. points davis. two-run home run. mlb leading home run are of the year that's 100 danger of his career. orioles march to 3-zip lead. base knock right back up middle. nick on his horse around score. and he heads up, he not stopping. and good thing because throw somebody was off the mark and he will come around to third he would later score on davis double. davis knocked half 0s runs today and they win. >> coming up it was quite hraeurpbing curve for alexander ovechkin. he still brought home hard. how credits for his mvp troef foe. next of. but will. becoming little re --able left wing so oats switch to rid woeupbg. he trusted his coach made move and last might scooped up his third heart trophy for league mvp. >> you know i am back on track. and you know especially with him. and lap night i call him right away to see almost, first person i call. and i am just happy. and how can i improve my game. i tell him you know i til adam you know, i can tell -- i tell him. i trust you. >> mother's day michigan intentional speedway

wendy davis alone, sort of.ere were thousands of supporters streaming into the capitol all day long. there were wrong lines to get in -- long lines to see her. starting at 11:00 a.m., things went smoothly about halfway through her planned filibuster, she was challenged by one of her republican colleagues, he accused her of going off topic. the lieutenant governor presiding over the chamber at that time agreed with the republican senator and wendy davis had strike one against her. an hour later they did it again. when a fellow democrat asked for some of her testimony to be repeated. a fellow senator helped her put on a back brace. republicans objected to that. that was strike two, she can only have three of these things go against her before it kills her filibuster. she already had two strikes of the three she's allotted with five more hours still to go. it's basically zero margin for error under a micro scope of a room full of adversaries. even the president of the united states was watching according to twitter

wendy davis, today, responded to the governor. she said his statement is without dignity and tarnishes the high office he holds. they are small words that reflect a dark and negative point of view." rick perry seems to be doing everything in his power to elevate wendy davis, to transform the spark that has arisen in texas into a strong and committed movement. in fact, he seems to be relishing exactly that. >> and just remember this. the louder they scream, the more we know we are getting something done. >> rick perry is getting something done. something that no one has been able to do in texas for the last two decades. and that is bring a texas democratic party that has been comatose for years back to life. and if that happens, if we see an insurgent democratic party reorganize, galvanize, mobilize and grasp its incredible demographic potential in the lone star state, well, then, simply put, the republican party, as we know it, is dead. joining me now is texas state senator laticia van de putte who represents district 26 which inc

texas state senator wendy davis.e on that coming up. [ snoring ] ♪ [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] zzzquil™ sleep-aid. [ both snoring ] [ male announcer ] it's not for colds. it's not for pain. it's just for sleep. [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] because sleep is a beautiful thing™. ♪ zzzquil™. the non-habit forming sleep-aid from the makers of nyquil®. ♪ >>> progressives everywhere are celebrating the supreme court's landmark decision today on marriage equality. yesterday's big ruling, the one that all but killed the very heart of the votes rights act has cast a shadow on the triumph of this day. it's already heralding in what promises to be a long, difficult bruising struggle for equal access to the polls. literally within hours of the supreme court's decision to strike down section 4 of the voting rights act yesterday, the state of texas moved to capitolize on what officials there see as a political victory. texas attorney general greg abbott announcing the state would be immediately implementing a voter i.d. law th

up first, wendy davis's fight continues.texas governor, rick perry, is calling the state legislature back into session for another go at anti-abortion legislation killed this week by a marathon filibuster. that filibuster shined a national spotlight on texas state senator, wendy davis. she stood for 11 hours in pink running shoes reading testimony from women and doctors who would have been impacted by the law. unable to lean on anything, take a break or a sip of water, she was buoyed on by hashtag, stand with wendy, celebrity tweets, and cheering supporters. the 50-year-old democrat has overcome other obstacles. she supported her single mother, became a teen mom, yet graduated from harvard law school. last year, her offices were firebombed. now, her popularity is skyrocketing. stephanie shrioff president of the pro choice pack, emily's list, expects davis to continue to rise in prominence. >> i think so many folks watched it in awe. i sure did, as she stood up against an extremist republican governor to hold off what was an

they can marshall the opposition to this bill, wendy davis and her colleagues can stand and talk and maneuver and do everything they can, the outcome of this is more or less decided. they're going to pass this bill. the victory was achieved in forcing them go into a second special session. and the reality is, whatever the outcome, wendy davis is the folk hero that everyone views her as and her celebrity is on the rise, her political prospects have risen and for the first time really, i go back to anne richards, gwen, for the first time since anne richards the democrats have somebody they can rally around as a candidate who may begin to turn the clock back. >> ifill: keep your texas history hat on for a moment. how atypical is this kind of challenge? when you say, you know, that they're going to lose the war, just the fact of this kind of challenge, how unusual was it? >> there haven't been many successful filibusters and certainly not of this length in the history of this state. it wasn't just successful for what she did, it was successful for the way she did it and for the times in

what perry said about state senator davis is unacceptable.he is a woman part of the fabric of the american dream. in my estimation, a cycle breaker just as i am. and how dare he try to judge her life experience with senator davis' standing up for and what women who are pro-choice and men who are pro-choice. we are just standing up for folks' right to have an opportunity to make a choice. so republicans can get all the women together that they would like. but it is all a charade and nothing more than an illusion. they don't really care about women. >> john nick dlols, will austin end up looking like madison, wisconsin? and this is really the platform to propel rick perry into the conservative movement to run again in 2016? your thoughts. >> austin already looks like madison, wisconsin. those crowds that came out spontaneously. you don't get crowds that big. you don't get that intensity, that all-night feeling unless the issue is very hot and intense. so i think you already have a wisconsin moment in texas. it is likely to get more intense as t

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he got it exactly backwards because senator wendy davis chose life. you would think he would be happy. >> michael: that's a great point. she did choose life. and she did choose exactly what rick perry would mandate that she do any way. >> right, the third part that we have to remember is that what we're talking about here and why so many women and so many men around the country were fascinated by what went which davis did and stood up for her while she was standing up for all of us saying, wait a second, you can't ram these decisions through without people seeing in the light of day what choices you want to make on behalf of other people. this bill was so restricted and demanding, for example that doctors who perform surgeries need to have surgical rights at other medical facilities, also even if you used a bill, the morning after bill, a plan b for example you still had to have surgical visitation rights even though it's not a surgical procedure. this really went too far. and in a state of texas where frankly our veterans are crying out for more rule

>> for the next 15 minutes, supporters of davis drowned out any further senate debate. republicans tried to pass the bill before midnight. midnight deadline, but failed. and in front of a packed capitol building of supporters, the announcement by the lieutenant governor that the bill was dead was read allowed. the bill would have banned abortions after 2 weeks of pregnancy and forced the closure of most abortion clinics in the state. >> so mark halperin, this is where the abortion debate goes now. the supreme court is giving states more latitude to make these sort of decisions. we're talking about here we're talking about 20 weeks. and i think we're going to be seeing this a lot more in the coming years. >> not just the 20 weeks but there's other restrictions that some say would deny access to abortion rights to a lot of women in texas. this is round one. rick perry though i think is probably likely to call another special session and try to bring this up again. as much as the eyes of the nation were on texas in this fight last night, they're really going to be on it if

every life matters. >> senator davis released this statement today. rick perry's statement is without dignity and tarnishes the office he holds. they are small words that reflect a dark and negative point of view. our governor should reflect our texas values, sadly, governor perry fails that test. and tonight in ohio, the state general assembly passed a budget bill that includes a provision requiring doctors who perform an abortion absent a medical emergency to first determine whether there is detectable fetal heartbeat, and then inform the woman of the statistical probability of detecting the fetal heartbeat to term. planned parenthood was put on line and thus effectively cut off from federal dollars. republican has time to look at the provisions. >> i have a few days to look at the provision. and everybody should understand that i am pro life, but we'll look at all the language, and we'll make a decision on all of this when we get closer for me to sign. >> joining me now from texas, democratic state representative mary gonzales from ohio. democratic

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even davis' pink running shoes became a sensation.cupation section "on her wikipedia page was changed to see she was the lebron james of filibustering. however, after 11 hours, at 10:00 p.m., davis was forced to stop speak after republicans claimed her mentioning sonograms violated the rules against going off topic on an abortion bill. with that the republican senators tried to push the bill through. with the help of her democratic colleagues and the increasingly vocal crowds in the gallery, wendy davis successfully ran down the clock on the vote and the bill died. last night on "all in" with chris hayes wendy davis reflected on her epic fill bust zblerp ultimately in that last 15 minutes of the evening, it became the people's filibuster and they were loud and they were heard and that's what democracy is about. yesterday that filibuster was about handing that microphone essentially to the people of the state of texas. >> however, this fight is not over. ours hours after the showdown, governor rick perry called for a special session to

so when you had to read davis episode cover raymond davis had worked for blackwater, so it was like the environment for the conspiracies you have a former military officer, former blackwater employee working for the cia caught having killed two on the streets of lahore, so blackwater raymond davis, i attended a rally last summer in islamabad led by the head of lashkar-e-taiba and he was trying to answer something that happened were a number of pakistani troops were killed. the suspicion was that it was his people who killed the pakistani troops and rally pictured by saying it wasn't me. this blackwater and raymond davis and the crowd went crazy. those are the terms that really focus people's mind and pakistan. >> host: first call were mark trained to come through jay louisville, kentucky. >> caller: yes, my belief is after sit number 11 come in here for a help and cooperation. so it's my belief that the only reason pakistanis have been any help as they fear the u.s. would get closer to india. that's all i have. >> host: it's a very interesting question. india jumps right in to help the

' abortion stance and didn't take long for davis to respond.of her responses in an exclusive appearance op "morning joe." when we come back here, martha. well, she's not as square as you may think. the revelation from the domestic diva and a little risque. lewis will have the details when we come right back. ...so you say men are superior drivers? yeah? then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. silence. are you in good hands? ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle. . >>> at the top of the show we talked about the immigration reform bill. if you want to sound smart today tell your friends the last time immigration reform was passed in 1986, it gave green cards to 2.7 million immigrants, yet left as many as 2 million immigrants unable to apply because they arrived in the u.s. after 1982. but were unaware

before midnight deadline davis was forced to stop speaking by lieutenant governor david duke hurst but that move prompted hundreds of demonstrators in the state house to erupt in outrage. thank you thank you thank you you thank. this protest effectively delayed the vote and though it was the texas bill the filibuster has brought the issue into the national spotlight to get a better grasp on how exactly it all went down i spoke earlier with one of the demonstrators who was on the floor at the texas state house katie neuron hope i first asked her what it was about this bill that had people so riled up. in texas we have a legislative session every two years for and one hundred forty days and we had special session called originally about redistricting in texas and and halfway through the session governor rick perry to say that he wanted to add abortion legislation to the bill. the call for special session s.p.v. by by senator hagar is a bill that would require all abortion facilities to meet certain requirements which i believe currently forty two facilities only six five or six would act

davis. to designate the new interstate 70 bridge over the mississippi river connecting the city of st. louis and southwestern illinois as the stan musial veterans memorial bridge. as a u.s. representative who has the honor of representing the st. louis cardinals, it is a special privilege for me to speak about stan musial from the perspective as a member of congress and also from the memory of a young boy at old sportsman farc with my dad, former congressman bill clay, as we watched watched stan play till the end of his remarkable career. stan musial was simply one of the greatest baseball players of all-time, and as was noted earlier, he was elected to baseball's hall of fame on the first ballot, and that much is known to the world. but, mr. speaker, what is less known is that as a good player as he was on the field, stan musial was even a better man off of the field. in his own quiet way, stan musial was also on the vanguard of fighting discrimination and changing america. stan was born in

it made sense that senator davis would bring it up.as recently required women to get a sonogram before obtaining an abortion. it was ruled a third strike and the texas chamber rereputed. >> let her speak! let her speak! let her speak! >> let her speak! that's what they're saying. less an an hour and a half remaining, state democrats launched a series of parliamentary increase to launch the proceedings. senator earlier that day at her father's funeral took to the floor. >> a parliamentary inquiry. at what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over the male colleagues in the room? [ cheers and applause ] >> after that, the gallery erupted and no one could restore order. midnight came with the crowd screaming and the roll was called. the associated press and several other media outfits took the lt. governor's words that the vote was taken just before midnight and the bill passed. the democratic state senators and tens of thousands glued to the live screen were skeptical. the record vote was called after

in davis, don ford, kpix 5. >> kabang was brought to u.c.- davis in october of last year but the school vets had to treat her for heartworm and infectious cancer before they could repair her face. >> that dog is lucky the girls are lucky. great story. >>> actor michael douglas talks candid will about his battle with throat cancer. why his publicist is doing a little backtracking. >> and here's another look at the new eastern span of the bay bridge. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, headlines in a story that'se viral. in a frank intervi >>> tonight, michael douglas is making headlines in a story that's gone viral. very honest interview with a london paper, he said that his throat cancer was caused by a sexually transmitted infection. while his publicist is backtracking, the science shows house this virus, hpv, is fueling new cases. >>> reporter: when michael douglas recently appeared on the red carpet he looked great but at a press conference he broke down. [ crying ] >> sorry. because it was right after my cancer. >> reporter: nearly three years ago, douglas was diagnosed with advanced throat cancer. a w

mary davis. cathy davis. karen tateum. bradley whitmire. >> excuse me. honorary mayor, and supervisor, my name is victor boston. and really i need someone with a paper and pen. i have been looking for housing over i say nine months now. and i am about ready to lose my section 8. okay. i have letters here saying congratulations. we have placed on our waiting list. but we check our waiting list once a year. this is the second time. i have another application here, these are housing, this is the second list and there is five sheets. this is the second sheet and i have been in all of these places looking for housing. as i said again, my name is victor boston, and if you can give me insight, my number is 410-5756, and i am in desperate need of housing. i am a veteran, vietnam veteran at that. okay, i served my country. unfortunately i can't walk. but i am looking for some housing. please, thank you, mayor, thank you housing authority. thank you. >> mary harris. cathy davis. >> mary harris, president of my neighbors in action. on february 2 we had a lunar new