encyclopedia of arkansas asked me to write the article on him. encyclopedia of congress, congressional quarterly. herschel friday asked me to write an article when he nominated him to be inducted into the agricultural hall of fame here in arkansas. people over in tulsa asked me to write an article about him for the induction into the arkansas river historical hall of fame. so, you know, i finally decided, okay, if it's not going to be me who writes this book, who is it? [laughter] and so it was sort of an aha moment. and also i liked the story because, and i hope you all will enjoy it for the same reason, it shows that a small boy many a small town -- in a small town in a small state can have huge aspirations to be on the ways and means committee, chairman of the committee, the most powerful position in washington except for the presidency. and sometimes there was some discussion about that. [laughter] when mr. mills was the subject of a draft mills for president in 1971-'72, sam gibbons, who was a member of the ways and means committee, said, we

arkansas enjoy how much you're going to spend on the court

controlled legislature in arkansas, jason rapert's bill flat out bans abortion in the state after 12 weeks. and that is very, very obviously illegal in the united states of america. it is flatly illegal under the constitution. there's no ambiguity about it. nevertheless, his illegal bill passed the legislature. the democratic governor of arkansas vetoed it saying in his veto letter, this blatantly contradicts the united states constitution and is, therefore, likely to be very costly to the state once someone decides to sue over it. the legislature responded by overriding that veto. essentially saying, we do not care that it is blatantly unconstitutional. we do not care that it is illegal. we are doing it anyway. strike us down. joining us now for the interview is the woman who will, in all likelihood, strike them down. nancy is the center for reproductive rights which along with the aclu has promised to sue the state of arkansas over this blatantly unconstitutional new abortion ban. nancy, thank you for being here.

what arkansas has done has said we don't care about the constitutional standard. a whole new standard that would limit abortion quite nearly pregnancy. >> you are presumably going to get this blocked in court before it even goes into effect. >> absolutely. >> in terms of their strategy, in part, i give you credit for acknowledging they have a strategy. in part, this seems to me sort of like a tantrum. seems the people who think strategically about these have decided not to pursue it this way in the past because it's not a very good plan to have something sent up that will get smacked down so easily. do you think there is any reasonableness -- for give the phrasing -- to the idea that they might be able to bust open the constitutional constraints on this issue by putting forward something that is this radical? >> well, it's certainly not reasonable whatsoever. it harms women and that's the place we want to start. i don't think it's reasonable strategy. i think what it is is these folks in arkansas have shown the hand of what is the objective of the anti-choice move

and they're pushing it faster in arkansas, but that's what they want. and they've always been clear. they want the supreme court to change its standard. >> most of the new abortion restrictions, as you said, we see cropping up in the states as incremental. restrictions that chip away at access to abortion. is there a -- i guess a front end assault on roe that is coming that we should see arkansas as a sort of sign of? is there a new approach coming, a second prong of the movement? >> oh, yeah. i mean, this isn't chipping away. this is taking a sledgehammer to roe. and the only way it could stand is if they get to the supreme court and they convince the court that they ought to throw roe out the window, 40 years of precedent out the window, and establish some kind of new incredible regime in which women can't make these choices with their doctors. and in which women in a state like arkansas have completely different rights from women in new york. i mean, that's part of what is so horrific about what's going around in the nation now, is that whether you'r

of arkansas, the national a.c.l.u. and the center for reproductive rights plan to file a lawsuit, i'm told sooner rather than later, possibly within the next two to four weeks. >> sreenivasan: can you put this in context of legislation happening in other states? >> yesterday on the same day that the arkansas house voted to enact the 12 week law a federal court judge in idaho struck down a 2011 law that banned abortions at the 20-week stage and similar litigation is going on in arizona and in georgia. >> suarez: we've seen-- or at least reported-- that folks who are in the anti-abortion camp see that this isn't the best strategy. >> that's right, that's right. the council for the national right to life has said that the 12-week law probably would not but upheld in court but we continue to see these kind of bills filed. >> sreenivasan: what about these other maneuvers that are happening in other states. we've got waiting periods in some states. required ultrasounds in others. parental notification is this part of a large

of abortions do take place in arkansas, before 13 weeks. simply going to drive it underground, make it more dangerous, and risk women's health. and it's going to compromise their relationships with their doctors, it's going to compromise their relationship with their government. and, you know, goodness knows what it's going to do to doctors who decide they don't want to observe this ban. this is really -- this is about controlling women's decisions on a state level, and that is fully and wholly inappropriate. it is not the state's role to decide when or if a woman has a child. the end. >> martha plimpton and erin carmone, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the ramblings of rand paul and the political history of bill o'reilly's rantings. ♪ vo:wiplus wireless speaker,rhead bold is the proud sponsor of singing in the shower. how we get there is not. we're americans. we work. we plan. ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. to help you retire your way, wit

what arkansas has done with this ban on abortion within the first trimester is not just chipping away. it's taking a sledgehammer to the guaranteed rights of roe vs. wade. >> reporter: after failing to get much traction in the courts, opponents of abortion are now finding success in state legislatures, still hoping to find the right case and the right time to get roe v. wade overturned. pete williams, nbc news, at the supreme court. >>> tonight, u.s. officials say osama bin laden's son-in-law, an accused plotter in the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been captured in the middle east, is now in u.s. custody here in new york. officials tell nbc news he's been a prisoner in iran for most of the past decade. he is scheduled to appear in federal court tomorrow on charges of conspiracy to kill americans. not everyone is happy about that. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee says bringing him to stand trial in the u.s. is a mistake, because he's an enemy combatant and should instead be sent to guantanamo. >>> now to north korea. a nation that has nuclear weapons and is toni

seven states, including arkansas earlier passed laws banning most abortions after 20 weeks.aws also will face legal challenge. >> lawmakers at the state level are sensing an opportunity at the supreme court. >> reporter: donna crane is the national policy director for the abortion rights group naral. >> anti-choice lawmakers in the state think there's an opportunity to get the supreme court to reopen the "row v. wade" decision and make abortion illegal in some and maybe all cases. >> reporter: senator rapert called the law an opportunity for the courts to develop a more humane abortion policy. >> when there is a heartbeat there is life, and an innocent life is something that should be protected. >> reporter: opponents are preparing legal challenges to block this law from taking effect, but rapert insists it's constitutional. he points out, scott, that the law has exceptions for rape, incest, if the mother has a medical emergency, or if prenatal testing after 12 weeks reveals the fetus has a lethal disorder. >> pelley: but a long way to go to the supreme court. jan, thank you

let's move on to the arkansas abortion law because it is pretty surprising.amanda, do you think there's any way this law can survive the courts? >> it won't survive the lower courts. roe v. wade is clear you can't restrict abortion until viability. 12 weeks is well before viability. there is no way a fetus could survive if it was delivered at 12 weeks. so it is not going to pass -- every court is going to test it against roe and say no. it could go all the way up to the supreme court. they technically have the authority, if they want to, to overturn roe v. wade. >> john: terry does it seem like they try to have a scheme to protect abortion laws while still protecting abortion rights? >> honestly, that, as in many other states, extremist tea partiers have taken over the republican party in those states and they've taken over some legislation. arkansas is one of them. i do think that there's a real threat to roe vs. wade. what's really amazing to me about that threat is that the 2012 elections, the post-election polling showed something like 70% of people in th

that's about to happen in arkansas.islature can go on record as having tried to illegally ban abortion, even000 they all know that is not a thing they are allowed to do. apparently nothing is a waste of money when it comes to making the same point ever more emphatically in anti-abortion republican politics. >>> we're also waiting this week on action from south dakota's republican governor on an almost equally ridiculous anti-abortion bill that passed through that state's legislature. south dakota already has a law in the books that will force women into the longest in the nation delay for having an abortion. now, the legislature in its wisdom has passed a measure to augment the waiting period. so the clock doesn't start ticking on the forced delay if the day in question is a weekend or a holiday. the whole justification for forcing women to wait is that women are too dumb to understand what an abortion is on their own, and they need to be forced by the state to sit and wait and think about it for 72 hours. but apparentl

. >>> up next, hand it to arkansas. has the most restrictive abortion law in the country on the books at least. republicans, of course, passed a law setting a limit down there at 12 weeks, when a fetal heartbeat can be heard. well, this is because some on the right feel the country isn't moving fast enough to ban abortions. maybe that's because most people are pro-choice. >>> president obama followed up his dinner with a lunch today with the very important guy, paul ryan, who is chair of the budget committee. is it possible the republicans have decided that opposing the president at all costs is no longer worth the price? >>> let me finish with how republicans and democrats can actually compromise. it's doable. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the

in arkansas there are 100 house members, 16 are women.35 state senators, only six are women. i mean, you look at the -- you compare the guns piece. there is the -- in south dakota it has one of the longest mandatory waiting times in the country. if you want to have an abortion. there is no waiting period for a handgun. in the balancing act here, it seems wildly off, and perhaps one of the reasons there's not -- one of the reasons there's not more outcry, not more pushback is because the representation is overwhelmingly decidedly male. >> well, i think that's obviously part of the problem. when you have women in office, it makes a difference. it also really -- you don't -- your comparison with the guns is important to look at because what we're seeing is just not trusting women, and i think that's what we saw in the last election that got women and men who support them, you know, outraged, right? because they could see whether it was virginia's ultrasound case or others that women's decision making is not being trusted, and i think we're s

arkansas just passed the most restrictive law in the country. abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. a clear violation of roe v. wade. joining me to talk about the ever changing landscape for protection for women is political strategist l. joy williams. she comes to us from new york. welcomed "the war room"." >> thank you for having me back. >> michael: i'm glad to have you back. i want to talk about this. how big of a victory is the pass angle of vawa for women, but not just for women but for the president? >> well, i would expand that, and say not only for women as we saw in in the vice president you just played the clip. every time it's been reauthorized they've been making the bill stronger and the provision stronger to protect women, now we're protecting lgbt families immigrants and domestic partners in general. it's women, it's children, it's immigrants, native americans and other partners, male or female. i think the vice president is correct each time we reauthorize this we tweak it better and make it better to protect women and families

mills in arkansas at the time mr. mills was the chair of the house ways and means committee, probably one of the most powerful and influential people in washington. upon being introduced to the president, my friend was struck speechless. he just was stammering and stuttering. at which point the president put his hand on his shoulder and said, it's okay, dan, i always get nervous around him, too. [laughter] >> it's a special honor for me to be here today. i'd like to introduce our

>> arkansas! >> jimmy: can you draw arkansas? >> yes. >> jimmy: all right. give it a try.ent her away. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right, go ahead and give it a shot. and let's see. looking for arkansas here. >> all right. >> jimmy: you added a tab. there's no tab on arkansas. it's tabless. but i think that's good enough. >> put your hand in and grab a prize. >> jimmy: and what did you get? >> that's the best yet. >> some magnetic clips. >> jimmy: very nice. see, this is why we shouldn't cut art programs from public schools. guillermo, how are you feeling? i was worried about you last night. [ cheers and applause ] not too good? >> not too good. >> jimmy: guillermo last night tweeted "getting sick, i feel terrible, and can someone bring me a chicken soup, please." are you all right? you realize twitter is not an online food delivery service? >> i know, but i was just feeling terrible. >> jimmy: and your inclination was to eat? >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i think we need to get you a butler to handle the little things. what do you say? >> yeah, yeah, that would be good.

this is arkansas. shoot.ow with the share everything plan from verizon, connect your camera, along with your smartphone and tablet. all your devices connected by one simple plan on the powerful network. record video. connect more. so you can do more. the share everything plan from verizon. add additional devices like the samsung galaxy camera for $5 monthly access. male anner ] were you more interesting in your twenties, or now? when you we starting out? or after a few dedes working in some well-worn character? experience makes you wiser for the wear. and now come the richer possibilities. [ children laughing ] aarp. an ally for real possibilities. find tools and resources at aarp.org/possibilities. ...but he'd wait for her forever, for any reason, and would always be there with the biggest welcome home. for a love this strong, dawn only feeds him iams. compared to other leading brands, it has 50% more animal protein. ...to help keep rocky's body as strong as a love that never fades... if he ever lets her lea

with all do are the, when you talk about arkansas, the governor in arkansas wants to take federal money and give it to private health insurance companies. i don't understand that somebody who wants to be fiscally conservative with the peep's money taking taxpayer money and subsidizing private health care companies. cenk: interesting. >> first of all jacki let me say, i mostly agree with you on the numbers about medicaid. this has been some of the conversations that's come up as i've attended state and house committee meetings on the affordable care act. i'll be glad to get with you off line on where the state is coming from. first of all i'm not in favor of the expansion myself. i don't buy into the federal government for three years is going to pay for it. it's the federal government that had to rely on sequestration to make a single budget cut and you know, when governor scott, and i think this was part of the story, when he first got elected, he rejected high speed rail dollars. why? because he said well, the first $2 billion is the -- the feds are going to pay for it, but after that

. >>> staying in the south, arkansas is ground zero in abortion wars. bream looks at the toughest antiabortion law in the country. >> it has been deemed the most restrictive abortion law in the u.s. arkansas measure that will require women seeking an abortion who are 12 weeks or more pregnant to undergo an ultrasound. if a heart beat is detected, abortion is illegal with key exceptions. >> we have given up exceptions for all the areas of contention that are there. rape, insist, save the life of the mother. and to prevent irreparable harm to the mother's health. as well as giving an exception for fatal fetal anomalies. >> the law is set to go in to effect later this summer following a move by legislators that overrode governor bibbe's veto who cited concerns about the constitutionality of the legislation and the cost of defending it in court. something many other states with tough abortion laws are also doing. >> so many battles and states are similar. the bulk of the law without question make itself up to the court. >> most abortions near the end of the

in arkansas, we have a fetal homicide law.12 weeks, if a woman was in a crosswalk and somebody hit that woman and she didn't die but the baby in her rheum womb did die that, person would be charged in the state of arkansas and it has been. governor mike huckabee signed that law. thal, clu has never sued arkansas for that 12-week standard. so we believe in row v. wade, it says that the states have an interest in regulating abortion at the end of the first trimester and the beginning of the second trimester. we believe we have struck that balance. why can't we honor and respect the rights of the woman and also honor and respect the rights of the child? i think that's what we are able to do now. >> shannon: you mention the aclu, who are planning to sue t. doesn't take effect until the end of the summer. their plan, along with the center for reproductive rights, they have drafted a lawsuit, get it filed and get an injunction before the law goes into effect. they point to row v. wade from the supreme court saying abortion's legal u

what's in your walle gerri: a game changer for the state of arkansas.he governor has proposed using funding from obamacare to buy health insurance for the poor from the private market. a little complicated, but interesting. the state has received the go-ahead from the department of health and human services to pursue the plan. lower income amerans, whh receive higher-quality care for private inurers. i'll come to the show, it's great to have you here. >> it is great to be here, gerri. gerri: we have a democratic governor, republican state legislator. you guys have described this as moving the ball downfield. tell me about this plan, my is a od ierview? >> well, we have a lot of -- my colleagues have worked a lot on this issue over the last several weeks. we feel like we are heading towards free-market flexibility and this could allow arkansas to put more of our constituents in market-based plans and we think this is a good thing. we think over the long run that we will be able to do that and push the costco down. gerri: to that point, the cbo said they

just one day after releasing that report, republicans showed their sincerity this way in arkansas, by passing a new measure requiring all voters to show photo i.d. in order to vote. a measure that opponents of that law say would suppress the vote, particularly among minority, elderly and young voters. joining me now, msnbc's joy reid. joy, michael steele said, look, you can't say this on monday and pass these kinds of things. this is part of what's alienating those voters. >> absolutely. apparently, the governor's and legislatures out there in the world didn't get the memo from nice reince priebus. the problem with these laws, lawrence, they are far more likely to disenfranchise black and hispanic youth, something like 72% of african-americans who go to vote are asked for i.d. something like 760% of hispanics, but half of white younger people who go to vote. so you're disenfranchising people directly and black and hispanic youth are far more likely to report not voting because either they don't have the i.d. or are perceived or think they don't have the i.d. so on one hand, we're goin

. >> new this morning, the nation's most restrictive abortion law will now go in effect, the arkansasmost abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. arkansas' democratic governor vetoed the law this week saying it contradicts the united states constitution but the arkansas republican house of representatives overrode the veto following the lead by the republican senate. the aclu is promising to fight it. >> from capitol hill, a 13 hour filibuster led by kentucky senator rand paul is over. paul ended the filibuster just before 10:00 our time last night trying to delay the expected confirmation of john brennan to lead the c.i.a. he is opposed to the support of the unmanned drone policy during his filibuster, the kentucky senator received some support from republican colleagues. and 2 that hours is a last talking in the morning. >> and we get to divide up the talking. >> and now, the showers today. >> it is important. people want to know if they are going to get wet and how the commute. be, and you can see a wall of water coming at us from the west. so, most of us this morning are going to g

, it's hard to raise that kind of money in arkansas and smaller states.e to travel nationally to raise those dollars. and, again, still not knowing what you can anticipate in terms of both the party moneys and the super pacs that come into your state. i had no idea i'd have that kind of money against me in 2010 coming from outside of our state. it's a tough thing. and, again, getting things done on capitol hill means members have to be focused, they have to be there. you know, they have to be in committee and talking about these things. coming to the table with their different ideas. and when you're out raising money again, as myra says, to combat negative ads, you're not able to do the job that could help you defend yourself against those negative ads. so it's a vicious cycle. >> i know, myra, you advised some of these lawmakers running for re-election and it sort of gives you a perspective on how difficult it is if you're not independently wealthy in some cases to run for office. >> we have got to be back to focusing on outcomes and solutions that matte

but the arkansas legislature overrode the veto because they do not care that her definitely going toer it, and that they will lose that lawsuit and they will waste a bunch of money in the process. much as they would like to, republicans cannot just ban abortion, thanks to row versus wade. arkansas does not stand alone because now republicans in north dakota have passed an even more extreme and obviously unconstitutional ban on abortion. theirs doesn't start at 12 weeks. theirs starts at 6 weeks, which is before many women even know they're pregnant in the first place. north dakota's governor has three days to either sign or veto the bill. even if he does veto, the legislature can't just override him. and while he decides what to do about the obviously illegal abortion ban, republicans are poised to send him a couple more even more radical bills. there's two rand paul style personhood bills that would ban all abortion and in vitro fertilization. it is getting harder and harder for any one unprecedented totally unconstitutional abortion ban to hold the title of most extreme abortion re

the arkansas law rewrites the definition of viability all together.hile the court defined viability as the possibility of life independent from the mother, arkansas draws the line at the point in which a fetal heartbeat can be detected. at 12 weeks a heartbeat with be detected with an ultra sound. you have not escaped the transvaginal probe yet. no sooner did arkansas claim the title of most restrictive abortion law in the land, then north dakota came along and lowered the bar further. north dakota passed it own law to cut off abortions at six weeks into a pregnancy. now mind you the average american woman doesn't find out she's pregnant until the sixth week. so thu new law would in effect outlaw 75% of abortions in north dakota and the bill bans abortions once a heartbeat is detectable using standard medical procedure, and you know what that means, clearly north dakota has learned nothing, absolutely nothing from virginia's failed attempt to force the dreaded probe on women last yore. because at six weeks of pregnancy the only way to detect a heartbe

many gun owners in the state of arkansas. one of the things i keep hearing, less enforce the laws we have on the books. this is a way -- let's enforce the laws we have on the books. this is a way to do that. we are improving the integrity of the database, of the background checks that currently exists. people say the laws we have on the books can be improved, the system can be improved. there are holes and gaps. we have heard that an idea that from the states of arkansas and around the nation. that is what this is about today, to try to improve something we have on the books that we think will work and will be effective and will keep hands lee that -- keeping guns out of the hands of people who are mentally ill. one of the things i love about this effort is that it is by purchasing. if we are going to get things done in washington, we have to get things done in a bipartisan way. that is a very important piece of this legislation. thank you. >> any questions about this? [laughter] >> what are the agencies responsible for repor

abortions in arkansas are now outlawed after 12 weeks, making arkansas the toughest state on abortionterday the republican-led legislature over -- the law does make exceptions if the mother's life is at risk and disorders that would cause the baby to die shortly after birth. with me to talk about it more is joen reid first off, this statement from cecile richards, the parent of planned parenthood saying people in arkansas and across america know that it's a deeply personal and often complex decision. it would insert politics into medical decisions. did they not learn from what we just went through in november in the lead-up to that, especially with the todd akin comments and where the country feels about roe v. wade? >> this is where you're starting to the the difficulties in terms of this rebranding, that the political people believe they need to do. you still have a large part of the party that has they deeply held religious beliefs that they want legislative action on. this has been a long-standing complaint among the religious right that they're belief is close to election time, b

. >> i'm from arkansas. >> arkansas? >> arkansas? you on vacation or something? i'm down here working. >> his picture is taken. >> thank you. >> and when the police search his rental car, they start collecting evidence. >> he was supposed to bring condoms, booze, and lunch. >> he's coming around back. >> and remember that man kenneth forton who online asked a girl claiming to be 15 if he could tie her up? look what the police find in his car. >> rope. his rope. there's duct tape and extension cords. >> he did admit to me that he had rope in his car, but he denied bringing anything else. >> did you bring condoms with you? no. >> no? not in your car? >> no. >> did you bring marijuana? >> no. >> are you sure? >> uh-huh. >> turns out he wasn't telling me the truth. >> didn't think you had any narcotics on you, sir. >> the police find the marijuana. and a box of condoms. >> get on the ground. get on the ground? >> all of the 24 men who are arrested outside our house were charged with felonies, attempted lewd and lascivious behavior with a minor, and attempting to soli

arkansas ranks in the top ten for the number of cases of syphilis gonorrhea and chlamydia.dia. >> driving out west toward california, this den of inequity, keep the pedal to the metal. no place to slow down and get a piece. >> stephanie: get a souvenir for me, wouldn't you. arkansas enjoy how much you're going to spend on the court challenges and how much you'll spend on all of the unwanted kids. you're number five in unwanted pregnancies. most especially, enjoy the syphilis. as an addendum, your state ranked number four for incidents of domestic violence but look here, all four of your congressional representatives and one of your senators voted against the violence against women act. you get points for consistency of stephanie. >> i would love that to be a replacement for that word. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: the button is right next to the -- [ bleep ] >> yeah, you know, it is one of those things. the governor of course, has said flat out the abortion law is unconstitutional. and he -- he vetoed it. but in arkansas, they only do a simple majority -- need a simple majorit

he comes from an arkansas political family going back forever. >> yeah. he has been elected twice.oderate democrat in a usually red conservative state, so what he has going for him is understanding of his own voters and his own constituents. last week i heard senator say you can show me the national polls but that's not what is happening many any own state. >> michael: tell me about the mind -- tell me about the mind of a senator. where are the senator that come out and say i may not win. >> look, let's not assume that every democrat should be for gun control. many democrats believe the second amendment to bare rights is as sacred and important as the right to free speech. >> michael: that's a great point, donnie. but you hear this, and you talk about the second amendment, the vice president and everybody saying this is not going to touch the second amendment. >> but that's a question of interpretation, right? if i shareholder you that i want you to show me your speech every time you go to the public park before you two to a speech you might say that does affect your first amendmen

. >>> a teacher abuse scal arkansas scandal -- scandal has parents aasking how can we protect -- asking how can we protect our children. ktvu's john sasaki has been speaking to parents about the steps they are taking. >> reporter: we are across the street from the school where parents picked up the last of their children 20 minutes ago. in the days since this story broke it has been the talk all over town. talk that a teacher tied up a two-year-old girl with tape because she didn't want to take a nap. that woman was banned this week from working with children. we talked to parents, some who were concerned, others were not. >> it is really sad that somebody could do that to a baby. >> every day thing and it does happen somewhere all the time. it is a big world. >> we look for -- spent lot of time observing. many of the ones that i felt comfortable with invited the kids to join in right away. >> reporter: contact the state department to see if a school is properly license and if it had violations and you can ask the school if all staff had background checks. john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 ne

. >> michael: what kind of power do they wield in harrison arkansas?holding the town's reputation hostage. when people think of harrison they think of the national headquarters of the kkk. so there are a lot of people of color who are even too scared to stop in the town. nobody moves to the town. it's almost entirely white, and that population is not changing. so i would say it's more of their influence. >> michael: do they have influence beyond this town? >> yeah, in the sense where there's -- it's where the national headquarters is and they use it as their spot to send out all of their material around the world. they sell a lot of different merchandise. but the influence is not what it used to be. >> michael: you found the area has been magnet for white supremacists. there s there concern that these groups are now joining forces. >> there certainly in. billy roeper has been known to be a skin head for years, and now that he has moved there, it raises a lot of alarm bells. but the klan are no longer wearing the hoods. they do it once a year. so they a

earlier this month arkansas upped the anti-to 12 weeks, and last week, north dakota passed a limit ofs going on here? >> over 40 years we have seen abortion restrictions enacted in state laws but over the past couple of years, we have really seen this extreme nature just shoot around the country, and a lot of that has to do with the outcomes of the 2010 elections, where conservative candidates became lawmakers, and now we're seeing the types of proposals that they are putting forth which is really a race to the bottom. >> michael: and is this a sign of things to come? is this going to trigger a snowball effect? or are we in mid-snowball now? >> we're certainly in the midst of a huge tidal wave of abortion rights across the country. the fear around the bans certainly is that other states will look to north dakota and arkansas as models and then try to replicate this incredibly dangerous legislation. >> michael: well us about some of the other states that are out there now. >> well, sure we have other states that are looking at bans but just as effective in the sense of eliminating abor

but a man in arkansas really over did it when he staged an over-the-top plan that backfired!gel took his crush, brianne coots to a jonesboro nature center trail to talk. when suddenly they were attacked by an unknown assailant. listen to the 9-1-1 call brianne made. but brianne noticed that something about the way siegel had been acting.

you mentioned arkansas.e other states that are seeing more conservative abortion measures passed and going into law? guest: we have seen a ton of state activity in recent breeze -- recent years. record numbers of loss. -- laws. 20 weak bands are very popular. arizona passed a ban recently, which bans abortion at 20 weeks, which is a little bit earlier than the standard of the 20-24 week sat in roe v wade. like north dakota, we have other states passing laws that require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. depending on where you live, that can be hard to obtain. hospitals do not want to get into the middle of that, that sticky political fight, deciding whether abortion is obtainable in the state. mississippi had a law passed last year -- it is really getting challenged in court -- it is another state where there is just one abortion clinic left. thoset clinic cannot get admitting privileges, then they may have to shut down. another very popular law we have seen is to require abor

the governor vetoed the bill ahh the arkansas legislator overrode the veto.t to become law this summer. i talked to the author of the law. >> we have given up exceptions for all the areas of contention that are gnome alley there, rape, incest, to save the life of the mother, and to prevent irreparable harm to the mother's health, as well as giving an exception for fatal fetal anomalies. >> the arkansas bill would require women more than 12 weeks presenting and seeking abortion to have an ultrasound, if a heartbeat is detected it will be denied other than the few exceptions. pro-choice groups say they are mapping out their legal fight. here is what the aclu attorney said about the law. quote, you might as well right a check to the aclu and planned parenthood because we will feel the necessity to go to court to protect the rights of women. the law will be overturned and it will be expensive for the say the of arkansas. the governor cite eud that as an issue when he vetoed the bill about how much it would cost them to defend this new law. it requires penalties f

each chamber needs a simple majority to override a veto in arkansas.ble standard when it comes to the first family. that is later on the grapevine. up next, border security gets the sequester treatment. if youthen this willbrids arbe a nice surprise. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max come. c-max go. c-max give a ride to everyone it knows. c max has more passenger volume than competitor prius v and we haven't even mentioned... c-max also gets better mpg. say hi to the super fuel efficient ford c-max hybrid. abelieve it's time to allow marriage forme to gay and lesbian couples. here's why. our daughter, emma. a gay couple in my ministry. my sister-in-law. my brother, octavio. a business partner. our moms. my son. my sister irene, a police officer. my brother keyan. my neighbor. our godson. it's time to give gay and lesbian couples the freedom to marry. it's time for marriage. >> chris: the obama administration says the border is safer than ever. with the sequester cuts the u.s. borders won't get the hours on the front lines they used to. corr

still the threat of severe weather from parts of texas over into arkansas into mississippi, that threate weather. while temperatures are starting to come up into the upper 60s and 70s in the southeast it comes with cloud, showers and at times even a chance for some thunderstorms but that threat really pushes off on monday, moves out. milder air now in place, orlando, you're back into the mid-80s, 80 degrees in new orleans and look at washington, d.c., also much milder, back into the upper 60s. and remember weekdays on the weather channel wake up with al and stephanie. all right that's a fifth-floor problem... ok. not in my house! ha ha ha! ha ha ha! no no no! not today! ha ha ha! ha ha ha! jimmy how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? happier than dikembe mutumbo blocking a shot. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. i took something for my sinuses, but i still have this cough. [ male announcer ] a lot of sinus products don't treat cough. they don't? [ male announcer ] nope, but alka seltzer plus severe sinus does it t

but rainshowers will develop across arkansas and missouri. this is the place where warm air from the south is colliding with the cold air mass blanketing the northeastern part of the u.s. and eastern canada. so temperatures have been on the lower side across the east. only 12 degrees in new york city. actually new york has been experiencing the coldest march since 2001. the lower than average temperatures across the east will prolong into easter weekend. but across the west looking mild. 23 in la and 16 degrees in seattle. u.k. a spring officially started last week, but winter conditions prevail in many parts of germany, skiers in the mountains in central germany were not complaining. they're making full use of the snowy conditions. the brisk weather didn't seem to phase people on the beach. some locals were even surfing the rough waves. some people didn't mind the cold. now in terms of the precipitation, severe weather is likely to persist across the south. we are seeing a low system in the peninsula. snowshowers for the alpine region and th