as attorney general, though, greg abbott has chosen a different path. ld instead wage a to the death struggle against fake problems, like voter fraud. abbott has been undeterred by his inability to find instances of intentional voter fraud, despite sending investigators to harass senior citizens, one of whom was in the shower, really, i didn't make that up. as soon as the supreme court decided they would no longer check to make sure texas voter laws were nondiscriminatory, abbott pushed forward with a voter i.d. law will disenfranchise minorities, young people and the poor but in the texas twilight zone will protect integrity and voter fraud that happens in abbott's mind. it's not the only problem he has worked hard to combat. he has also taken a star trek approach, bold he standing against an imagined u.n. conspiracy to take away our guns and use taxpayer money to investigate a school curriculum, because conspiracy theory wackos worried it was being used toin doctrine ate children with muslim propaganda, marxism and nazi mind control oh. in the we'll re

the greg abbott guy is actually pretty hard core right wing radical i mean planned parenthood filed a lawsuit in federal court against him. easton's most of his time spending taxpayer money. lawsuits to try to elevate himself as an opponent barack obama but his main opponent is its own the far right wing extremism on not only abortion but the anti worker positions that comes from the anti-consumer position as attorney general in its policies against the workaday people of this state. he may have it back yet but i think when you're going to allocate a lot more of them than there are facts it's a great line the texas is one of only five states in the union where a majority of the people are minorities how is that going to affect the dynamics of this race in a pinch on a turnout and that's that's up to the windows campaign we've we've had decent candidates in our past a very popular texas lobbyist in fact this is a populist state but what's happened is that the democratic party. over the last few decades quit being democrats they became. money seeking candidates seeking corporate funds t

right now and ready to fight back and take power into people's hands you know i understand the greg abbott although the mainstream media and even my own intro sort of set him up as a regular republican who's fairly popular in the state that sort of like in some ways i suppose ken cuccinelli in virginia you know who is the who's following governor ultrasound the greg abbott guy is actually pretty hard core right wing radical i mean planned parenthood filed a lawsuit in federal court against him. easton's most of his time spending taxpayer money laying frivolous lawsuits to try to elevate himself as an opponent barack obama but his main opponent is its own the far right wing extremism on not only abortion but the anti worker positions that it comes to. consumer position as attorney general in its policies against the workaday people of this state. he may have it back yet but i think when you're going to allocate a lot more then and there are facts it's a great line the texas is one of only five states in the union where a majority of the people are minorities how is that going to affect the

republican attorney general greg abbott is expected to be his party's nominee. an unbelievable story out of michigan, where a home in a detroit suburb has been firebombed for the twelfth time in two months. it all started back in july - when gang members who'd been staying here were evicted from the home. they came back and took their revenge by tossing molotov cocktails into the dwelling. since then , the house has been a perpetual target--sometime s multiple times in one night. the house has been slated for demolition, but no firm date has been set. 28 activists aboard a greenpeace ship are facing piracy charges tonight in russia. it began two weeks ago, when crewmembers of the "arctic sunrise" rode out to a russian oil platform in the artic, to hang a protest banner. but by climbing aboard the rig, the russian coast guard accused the protestors of piracy, arrested the activists, and seized the boat. two americans are among the contingent, who could get up to 15 years in prison, if convicted. ad lib toss to vytas still ahead, it's a commercial that plenty of p

wayne abbott, but that doesn't match the name on the state's voter registration list where he is greg abbottely democratic opponent ran into the same problem earlier this week. >> like many women who are vetting in texas today, i was required to sign an affidavit because the name on my voter registration card is slightly different than the name on my driver's license. my driver's license includes my maiden name. my voter registration card does not. >> co-director of the advancement project. judith, it's good to have you here. as we talked about the original bill, it was drafted by republicans and it would require voters bringing a document bringing their name change with them to the polls. it's a bit of irony that thanks to this amendment that wendy davis introduced in 2011 that allows greg abbott to have an affidavit and still vote. is this the collateral damage that is going to happen because of something so restrictive not being thought out ahead of time? >> some of it's not collateral, you know. when they passed these laws this was about manipulating the voting rules for partisan gain an

a new poll find in a hypothetical match up between wendy davis and texas's attorney general, greg abbotts davis. 50% of respondents are undecided. joining me is the president of planned parenthood and daughter of ann richard. cecelia, a thrill to see you. no person i would rather talk to about this than you. as daughter of ann richard. daughter of the lone star state and some one fighting for wom women's freedoms. earlier today you tweeted. 24 years ago, ann richards announced, for governor of texas with my daughter lily today. we cheer wendy davis. hash tag, team wendy. you know the state. what is it going to take for wenty dave s wen wendy davis? >> great to be with you. as a texan, i am proud today, of wendy, the state. and the thought that she can repeat history. she can and will. what we are seeing, ace race that looks incredibly close. what wendy haufrd today, obviously her personal biography is amazing, what she has done in elected office. wendy is offering up to open up government to all the people of texas much like mom did 24 years age i think there is going to be an outpouring

one defender of the law is texas republican attorney general greg abbott who will likely run againstavis for governor. attorney general abbott says in texas evidence of voter fraud abounds. but the "dallas morning news" proved that to be untrue. by reporting that abbott has pursued 66 people on charges of voting irregularities since 2004. only four cases involved someone illegally casting a ballot at a polling place where a picture id would have prevented it. judge watts doubts that she would be able to vote if election officials in her own courthouse didn't know who she is. >> my name is mathisen. my legal name is sandra lee. sandra mathisen. is that substantially the same? an election official in a different county may decide it is not. then i will be given the opportunity to go to provisional ballot which in effect says i must show up six days later with this appropriate i.d. even if i follow procedures on the ballot, section d, that section, bottom line is it may not count. >> joining me now, texas state senator, latisha van der pute and sarah slayman, a democratic activist in te

greg abbott is the attorney general there and joins us live. all right, sir, how did you feel getting the news this week. there were epa lawsuits from across the country. the supreme court has essentially decided to boil it down to one question. you are still in this foit. they will hear that at the beginning of the year. what is your take? >> shannon, first of all this is great news. it provides an opening where we can do more to protect jobs in this country and protect against the overreaching regulations from agencies like the epa that seem intent on crushing the economic opportunities. shannon really this is about something far bigger. this is a potential game changer about the way business is done in washington, d.c. we need to remember that what the epa has done here first of all they are now a repeat offender. we have three federal court decisions recently slapping down the epa for issuing these overreaching regulations. but if the united states supreme court sides with us in this argument it could mean the epa and other federal agencies

and one reason is greg abbott who will be her opponent on the republican side, greg abbott is a verye candidate. i can hear people booing the television set. texas democrats -- >> he's a pretty hardcore conservative. >> oh, listen. he is so far to the right, such a hardcore conservative, if you want to put it that way, he makes rick perry look like a liberal and ted cruz look like a moderate. he has his own story of overcoming adversity. so that's the reason that the so-called smart money says wendy davis basically has no chance. now, if wendy davis has a chance, if she has a chance, it will be that she persuades the moderate republican women and moderate independent women that enough is enough, and she's going to hammer home, listen, we can't afford to get into the kinds of political stalemate that we've been in one party. for example, her opening slogan has been "every kid deserves a fair shot." the state legislature and led by her opponent, among others, just whacked the hell out of the public school budget. $5 billion or something. while giving a multimillion-dollar test contract

and for the state of texas to say, you know, greg abbott has a huge jernt gap -- gender gap.we're going to stop women from voting? men and women in texas are absolutely not going to accept this. now, it may take some time for us to reclaim the country because the redistricting that was started in 2010 has really made it hard for us. but i predict that by 2020 all of these guys are either going to be really behaving as if they believe in democracy or they're going to be gone and they will have been replaced by elected officials who understand that democracy is for all of us. >> terry o'kneneeill with the national organization for women. nice to have you on today. >>> today's producer's pick comes from meeghan o'connor. sailors are turning to a new weapon to keep them safe from somali pirates. britney spears. can you imagine if they shot the britney version? you can learn more by heading over for my facebook page. [ susan ] ...as though he had never left. the end. lovely read susan. but isn't it time to turn the page on your cup of joe? gevalia, or a cup of johan, is like losin

sum per the bill ultimately passed and davis is now running for governor against attorney general greg abbott who has already promised to appeal the judge's ruling. >>> the virginia governor's race increasingly appears to be in the hands of a democratic candidate terry mcauliffe who has opened up a double digit lead in the latest polling. "the washington post" poll shows him leading ken cuccinelli 51-39 with libertarian candidate behind. president obama will help mcauliffe campaign this weekend as the race heads into the final stretch. >>> penn state will be paying millions of dollars in a settlement with more than two dozen sex abuse victims of jerry sandusky. the university will may $60 million to 26 of sandusky's victims. the settlements will not be funded student tuition, taxpayer funds or donations. sandusky is currently serving between 30 and 60 years behind bars after being convicted last year on 45 different counts of sex abuse. he's appealing the verdict. penn state president said quote, we hope this is another step forward in the healing process for those hurt by mr. sandusky and an

. >> a recent poll shows davis trailing the republican nominee, texas attorney general greg abbott by eightpoints. we continue to follow the road rage caught on camera in new york city. sources confirmed that police located the man that pulled him out of his suv after the high speed chase and viciously assaulted him. police were negotiating his sur ronder late last night. leon's family broke their silence saying they are sorry a biker was seriously injured but there was simply no other choice. his wife said in a statement, our sympathies go out to the injured motorcycle and his family. we were faced with a life threatening situation and my husband was forced to take the actions he did to protect the lives of our entire family. we know in hur hearts we could not have done anything differently. anyone faced with that danger would have taken the same course of action to protect their family, end quote. some other news outside the u.s. to talk about. tragedy off the coast of italy. a small ship packed with 500 african migrants capsized killing at least 114 people. rescuers managed to save

attorney general greg abbott will win because she does seem like one issue, she will try to broaden but do not think she can make it. >> no filibuster here. thanks. see you next week. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

notebly missing was greg abbott lead defendant in this case. we're told he will not be present during this hearing, and it's expected to be a long-drawn out process the judge expects either side to appeal this all the way up to the supreme court. >> how long do we expect this hearing to last? >> reporter: well, today we have at least five witnesses all on the abortion clinic side ready to take the stand. in witnesses on the list for this state, but again the judge is acting on a limited timeline. the restrictions will take force on the 29th and they will be heard before then. >> they're calling it a major victory for same-sex couples in new jersey. same-sex couples are free to wed, and they did so last night. >> i declare joseph and orville to be lawful spouses in the state of spous new jersey. >> the first same-sex couple to tie the knot at new ward city hall. >> as the couple and spouse gather in the city hall. just after midnight new jersey became the 14th state to allow same sex unions. >> the great state of new jersey becomes far, far grea

the underdog, so far she's raised $1 million in campaign funds ora point texas attorney general greg abbottsed $20 million. conservationist say a surge in elephant poaching is putting the biggest land mammal on the brink of extensions, marches are planned in 12 cities around the world hoping they can put an end to poachers stealing elephant tusks for their valuable ivory. craig is in hong kong with more. >> reporter: sadly this is checking an all too common sight here at the hong kong customs department. this is the fourth seizure of tusks in year, in this seizure 189 tusks, 1700 pounds worth about $1.5 million. this shipment of tusks came from the ivory coast headed to the lucrative markets in asaia. primarily china and thailand where they are turned in to ornaments and trinkets. representing know bill at this, health and more increasel increy investment as these tusks more rare, some 34,000 elephants lied last year, the results are right here in this room and this is something that hong kong cut. ups are seeing with more frequency coming through this port which is being used as a transit

greg abbott has a number of cases pending against the epa, including on the supreme court will hear in early 2014. >> this is part and parcel to a president barack obama has said, and that is he is going to use the epa in ways that the congress has not gotten along with him on tour they said that they have received a letter from congressman smith and will review it. as for the new regulations, they should be issued within the next few months and the public will be able to weigh in afforded is final. lou: shannon bream. much more on the heavy-handed tactics coming up with the "a-team". we will be right back. there is no sugar coating it as the president says. the obamacare website has a few problems. he is mad and upset, but he's not apologizing. tim carney and charlie hurt join tim carney and charlie hurt join us with their theories coming up at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep prom

. >> and his campaign to become governor of the great state of texas, gubernatorial candidate greg abbott mr. attorney general, it is good to have you with us. let's start with the justice department. because the success rate against the justice department is six to four, four losses, for victories for them. what a mess of your? >> that is a good question and actually we had 10 confirmed victories this and there was another voter integrity lawsuit that came out last week. this continues for us. what we are seeing is they are trying to impose by legal fiat on texas, what they're trying to impose on the rest of the country and that is more regulation and government and the kind of policies that threaten the job creation that we've had in the state of texas. >> i apologize for understating your success rate, but i did give you an opportunity to brag about this a little bit. the justice department filing a civil lawsuit against the state of north carolina with a similar law of your own, no you're not going intoto great detail about that lawsuit, but they stand in much of the same position aga

and greg abbott is at the center. >> rick perry said they will keep fighting it through the appeals process. what is your sense of the prospects of this as it goes through appeals? >> we would hope that the appellate court would look through 40 years of the supreme court decisions protecting women's access to abortion and ruling out any medically unnecessary burden. >> it seems to be a very careful selection of what they think they can get knocked out here. >> the circuit court they are the ones who upheld texas's approach to defund planned parenthood. it seems in this piece that planned paraphernal planned parenthood and others were smart. >> they don't trust the current supreme court to uphold row. they don't want to give the chance to rule on something that may change the viability. >> going through that circuit on the way to the supreme court. >> they don't want to create a split on the circuit that will force the court. >> is that all part of the lingering that you have heard as the case has been moving? >> you know. >> the lawsuit was meant to challenge. the provisions that would have

and current favorite in the race, texas attorney general and republican candidate for governor, greg abbottt's me, melissa. how you taking the news of wendy davis' bid? now, i remember how you responded to this assessment of her potential candidacy from one of your subpoepporters when he this tweet in august. "greg abbott would absolutely demolish idiot wendy davis. run, wendy, run." your response? ignore it. maybe express a little outrage at such incivility and sexist name-calling, you know, take the highroad. mope. you tweeted back, "jeff, thanks for your support." but who wants to be judged by their lowest social media moment? i'm going to let that one slide and talk about your record. you like to describe your job as attorney general by saying i go into the office, i sue barack obama, and then guy home. well, in texas, they say go big ore go home, and you have certainly been going big on that suing barack obama self-mandate. 27 lawsuits since president obama took office at a cost of more than millions to the office. aimed at the environmental protection agency. what is your beef with th

texas attorney general greg abbott has a number of cases against the epa including one the supreme court in 2014. >> this is part and parcel to what president obama has said. he's going to use the epa in ways that congress has not gone along with him on. >> the agency has received that letter from congressman smith and will review it. as for the new regulations, they should be issued within the next few months. >> thank you. >>> americans bought fewer existing homes in september than the previous month, down almost 2%. experts are blaming higher mortgage rates and rising prices. stocks were mixed. the s&p gained a fraction. the nasdaq was up 6. the justice department has reached a tentative settlement with jpmorgan chase over civil investigations into mortgage bonds sold to investors. the bank will pay $13 billion. the deal does not close the parallel criminal investigation. >>> still ahead, the all-star panel including you on fixing or delaying obama care. first, hillary clinton brings some star power to a nasty virginia governor's race. [ male announcer ] introducing new fast acting ad

on tuesday, texas attorney general greg abbott asked a federal appeals court judge to immediately reinstate a key part of the states new anti-choice law a day after it was ruled unconstitutional by lower court judge. on monday, district judge lee yeakel struck down a provision requiring onerous hospital admitting privileges for abortion doctors. the judge ruled the admitting privileges requirement -- texas governor rick perry has vowed to appeal the decision. monday's ruling came in response to a legal challenge for groups including the aclu and planned parenthood of greater texas. there look -- lawsuit did not challenge other controversial provisions of the law, a ban on abortion at 20 weeks was fertilization, which went into effect tuesday, and requirement that all abortion clinics be costly, hospital-style building standards by september 2014. the initial bill inspired a people's filibuster and a marathon stand from texas state senator wendy davis that thwarted state lawmakers first attempt to pass it over the summer. >> it is important in order for me to describe the impact of this part

texas attorney general greg abbott has appealed already to the fifth circuit court in new orleans.ratic texas lawmaker wendy davis gained attention by filibustering the law and is applauding the judge. davis and abbott will likely face off in the next texas governor race with this being a major issue. >> it already is. thank you. for more we are joined by alexis mcgill johnson from planned parenthood federation of america. the business about whether the doctors need ed admitting privileges at the clinics where the women would have abortions, this is the argument the other side brought. why shouldn't they have admitting privileges? what if something went wrong. wouldn't you want the doctor performing the abortion to have privileges at that time clinic? >> regardless of what happens during the abortion process, and we hope those instances are rare, any hospital will accept a patient. any hospital will accept someone who is in need. it would be against their oath. what the judge did in this case is say it is up constitutional to put these medically unnecessary burdens in front of wome

that attorney general is greg abbott, and he is the republican running against wendy davis for the governorship texas. the woman who stood for 13 hours to stop this thing versus the guy who says he will storm all the way to the supreme court of the united states to make sure texas rams it through. and who says elections don't give people a real choice >>> behold, the source of the rand paul maybe isn't ready to run for president plagiarism scandal of 2013. >> what is this? >> new policy. >> flight got you nervous? >> well, there's a problem. i never did tell you about my son, did i? he's a big fan of yours. >> just remember that i was as good as any and better than most. >> he wants to apply here. >> i could have gone up and back and nobody would have been the wiser. >> unfortunately, my son's not all that they promised. but then, who knows what he could do? right? >> it was the urine sample movie to end all urine sample movies. the 1997 sci-fi flop, "gattaca" did not work out well for this clean-cut iteration of ethan hawke, nor did it work out well for anyone else in the movie. the movie just

. >>> not to rain on a victory but it is worth noting a few moments ago texas attorney general greg abbotted for an appeals court to issue an order to reinstate the restriction, which they struck down on monday. the litigation on this continues. i think as judge yaekel made mention of in his decision, the ultimate end for this is the supreme court. if it is the supreme court, how optimistic are you that this may be upheld or struck down? >> well, you know, we knew that the state would appeal. we are in this fight for the long run, because women are families are depending on us. we would hope that both the appellate court and if it gets to the supreme court, that all of those judges and justices would look at more than 40 years of supreme court rulings that uphold a woman's right to access safe, legal abortion. >> katrina, melanie makes a very important point, which is the judicial precedent here. i think it's amazing a conservative judge appointed by george w. bush strikes this law down saying the acts admitting privileges are without a rational basis. >> lets not forget president nixon un

expected to jump into the governor's race this afternoon taking on republican attorney general greg abbottsays new republic, democratic changes might break republican siege of those poor liberals in austin but now there isn't a path to victory for progressive democrats. gives a shot, albeit a long one saying davis needs a perfect campaign and abbott needs to make mistakes. she won't get great odds in vegas but neither can ann richards. she left in 1995. red states are too daunting for gifted legislature. they note republicans have won 100 statewide elections in a row, half of white voters are evangelical christians and obama carried just 26 of the state's 254 counties in 2012. still, davis, a single mother at 19, who went from living in a trailer park to college and then to harvard law before rising up the ranks of texas politics has beaten the odds before. >> obviously when you think about doing something this big and that may seem improbable, you want to make sure you're not doing something foolhardy. i've been through a lot of tough fights in my life. i've learned to weather them. i've

now, you know since attorney general greg abbott, the same one who couldn't wait to enact that voterone running against wendy davis. but the rest of us are not going to sit by idly and let your attorney general become the governor of the great state of suppression. that's why the nation's attorney general is coming for that law. he filed suit under section two of the voting rights act, arguing that your voter i.d. law is discriminatory. so here's your homework, governor perry. i'm not going to even sign letters. it's time to hone your study of the constitution. my suggestion, start with the 19th amendment, and oh, yeah, the 15th ain't bad either. call if you need a tutor. we in "nerdland" are happy to help. sin ceasely, melissa. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. [ inhale♪ deeply ] (announcer) answer the call of the