i was talking to a judge on the special court for sierra leone which is the court that tried charles taylor for his crimes and has tried other human rights crimes and is one of these new international criminal courts that have sprung up in the past decade or so. he asked what i was researching, and i said, well, i'm looking at courts in the 19th century. and be he said, well, of course you know about the slave trade tribunal which sat in sierra leone. and i said, no, i've never heard of that, you know? and i study this. and he knew about it because of the special court for sierra leone sat in freetown which was where one of these courts sat. and be it was part of the local lore that this court had been there and had heard these cases. and it was sort of local common knowledge but not something that people were aware of elsewhere. and i discovered that the british were excellent record keepers, and so the complete archives of the courts are in the british archives in london. and so it was pretty easy the reconstruct from the archives what the courts had done. >> host: and from that spark cam

liberia, they stormed the central legislature and forced charles taylor to kind of reconsider the wholecivil war. it's acts like that that can matter. i think people feel for too long their individual acts don't matter. this individual act mattered. >> mark halperin, expert on politics and all things texas, when does wendy davis run for governor? >> she's going to be a big figure not just in the state but in national politics. the question is, what can she and her side do in their round two of this fight which is coming. the lieutenant governor and governor perry i think bothing will support another special session to deal with this again. and democrats still don't have the votes. but what they do have is a lot of people power on twitter, on the internet, national focus on this issue. >> this erupted overnight. people just, the row tests, it went on twitter. even the president of the united states tweeted. and people stormed the capitol. >> this is about politics and dramaen an the real lives of people in texas. abortion rights supporters recognized if this law passed, it would be devas