protection act and also like to recognize the advocacy of my wisconsin's state representative chris taylor who is here today on the second panel to share her experience in wisconsin and i thank her for her testimony today. expecting to have access to high quality dependable health care when day and their families needed to with improved health care the entire health care system to expand the options so all patients have a health care that meets their needs but unfortunately for women this access comes under attack under the last 40 years politicians have been increasingly chipping of way that constitutional rights guaranteed under roe v wade that women have their own personal health care decisions to have access to the goal care and since that land mark decision since the highest court to ministates have tried to turn back the clock with quality care and in just the past three years enacting a total of 205 provisions that would restrict women's access to safe abortion services 13 states this year have been working to erode women's freedom and have already adopted 21 new restrictions design

my name is chris taylor, and i am the state representative from the great state of.o appreciate the opportunity, chairman blumenthal, to testify in strong support of the women's health protection act, and i thank ranking member grassley and committee members for this opportunity today. i also want to thank my senator, tammy baldwin, whom we are very proud of in wisconsin, for leading the way in cosponsoring this important bill. i am also the former public policy director for planned parenthood of wisconsin. i have over a decade of monitoring, advocating for and attempting to get passed good public policy on reproductive health care. there is a consensus in wisconsin about what we want the state legislature to focus on, and it is not abortion restrictions. it is on the critical economic issues that face our state. we have a stagnant economy in wisconsin. we have stagnant wages. working families are struggling. those are the issues that wisconsinites want the state legislature to focus on. but unfortunately, that has not been the focus over the last three years, and wi

friendly koch brothers backed foundations and millions more from big oil giants like exxon mobil chris taylormocratic lawmaker from wisconsin who snuck into alex annual meeting in chicago last year said a part of alex battle is to preserve an old economy where coal oil and gas remains supreme their defense of these industries represents the will of corporate members and nick surgery research director for the center for media democracies p.r. watch told think progress that according to the media agenda legislators will be schooled on how industry wants them to talk about climate change which he went on to say that there will be a heavy focus on the e.p.a. to do regulations and the corporate lobbyists from exxon mobil b.p. and koch industries will be crafting model legislation that opposes limiting carbon emissions from coal plants alec conference goers will hear from climate change denying all stars like texas governor rick perry heritage foundation president jim de mint noted climate scientists trade and former g.o.p. presidential candidate herman cain a true authority on these things they'll

carl and chris taylor. they have been married for 75 years. what do you think of that?e cookies. and we wish them a happy 75th anniversa anniversary. this is juanita fleming from jamaica, new york. 100 years old today. james shimer from barberton, oregon. 100 years old today. he loves the outdoors also. this is florence peine from arden hills, minnesota. that's pretty country up there too. 100 years old today. and a final birthday wish for this day. take a look if you will, albert keeder. he hails from weirton, west virginia. he is 100 years old today. wish him a happy birthday and he loves to have a good time. enjoys life. that's it. that's all. now back to the great city of new york. >> willard, thank you very much. we appreciate that. look who's joined us here. jenna hager bush stopped here. before she heads off with natalie off to cooperstown. >> being inducted? >> we are not. we're going to try to hit some balls, i think. natalie's been working on it. >> i will strike out. >> but it will be fun. >> you're here because you're taking us behind an event we like on the

chris witherspoon just interviewed chad bozeman and tate taylor, the director of the film at the essence film festival. >> he had a voice because he was traveling from city to city. he knew his music was touching people. he was trying to make music about things that mattered to him, and when the time came, you know, which was basically for it to be a more formal statement for him which is basically after king's assassination, he just stepped up to the plate. >> what i saw in this film that i can relate to and i think others will relate to is not so much him trying to see how famous he can be or how much wealth he can amass. i saw somebody who just didn't want to go backwards. i think any of us know what that feels like. >> and let me bring in entertainment editor for the grio chris witherspoon. he kind of alluded to it there. the director of the movie. are we going to see more than we really expect from this movie? you know, we're expecting to see a lot of music and we know james brown and the classics and the hits, but it sounds like there might be a little more to this thing that more

chris gordon has more. >> redskins history came alive today as ryan clark wears 21 as his practice jersey number to honor sean taylor. here at training camp, many families bring their i had cans to continue the tradition. >> what do you think about the possibility of a name change? >> i necessarily don't agree with it, but if that's what they go with, that's what they go with. i'm going to be redskins for life. >> for me, if the indians don't like it, i've got to go with it. >> you're ready for a name change? >> not as much ready for it. if it offends people, what choice do you have? >> thomas tried to explain it to her son deven. >> i think he understands. he's old enough to understand. >> do you think the name should be changed? >> no. >> if it is changed, will you remain a fan? >> yes. >> what do you think of the possibility of a name change? >> i think entually it's going to happen. i really do. >> are you okay with that? >> i guess i don't have a choice. >> caroline has been a fan 44 years and brought her two granddaughters to training camp. >> i love the name. i don't want it to be offensive to people. whateve

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chris? >> all right, fill, thank you very much. let's get perfect frif william taylor who served as ambassador to ukraine from 2006 to 2009 and is now vice president of the u.s. institute of peace. thanks very much for joining us. the more the west seems to talk, the more russia seems to act. they don't condemn the downing of the flight. they don't condemn the indignity of the dead. they continue to move weapons to militants and now evidence that they are firing at ukraine positions from inside russia. how do you view this? >> with great alarm. mr. putin has two decisions. he has two options. one, he can do what he apparently is doing, that is double down, continuing to support these separatists, these terrorists in eastern ukraine led by russians, supplied by russians, equipped by russians. he can continue to support them, or he can back off. he can disavow them. he can try to come back to the international community. he can seal his border with ukraine so that all of that support does not if from russia to ukraine. he seems to be making the first choice. that is a te