legislature as a legislature.ere, the story about bradley's world making gets more complicated. there is a turn in the story, and that is because bradley's reconceptualization of liberty and governance, his reorganization of the logic of onlic law is premised dubious legal moves and factual distortion, and in that series of moves, all of them problematic, and i want to turn to them now, bradley frames the exclusive franchise as an obviously a legal monopoly, and he portrays the reconstruction legislature as utterly incompetent and oppressive. so here's what happening in his dissent overall. 's world making, the introduction of the modern rights bearing individual whose liberty exists in opposition to governance, that world making is premised on a series of dubious legal and factual moves and portrait of the reconstruction legislature of louisiana and reconstruction legislatures generally as oppressive. and want to walk through these moves and show how the basis for his new vision, is reconceptualized vision of lib

means only the legislature.re rude lussier a 5 Ã format conservative majority rules essentially that the voters have no ability to challenge extreme partisan gerrymander's in court. but at the same time, the opinions and this time majority of opinion written by chief justice seemed to suggest that other remedies like independent redistricting commissions provide alternative ways to address the problem of partisanship and redistricting. could you please explain what's going on here? have conservative change their minds about redistricting? is it just windowdressing or what. >> as one lives, one learns so i think the chief learned he was wrong. [laughter] [laughter] [applause] >> i want you to look at this crowd and tell me, this is 4000 people, i'm not quite sure, next week you and i are going to another interview in little rock arkansas in a venue that holds 18,000 people and not only are all the pickets gone, there is a waiting list of 16,000 people. [applause] so, my dear, notorious rbg, how does it feel to be

we had all of wyoming's women able to be in the legislature, this is mary bellamy. esther hobart morris was the first woman justice of the peace. nellie taylor roth, first woman governor in the world. all of these were the cavalcade fallout from the beautiful 10,rage active december 1869. here we have a few more mentions of women who were important. have thyra thor colson, her friends were worried she was out west caught in this suffrage act idiocy, and she writes about it and says, some of my friends are eastern girls who judge women's suffrage by english suffragette reports and think any woman who votes must be dreadful, while a women who hold office must be beyond help. i told about a friend of mine who had recently been elected to a county office and assured them she was as nice and modest as any of them, and probably much shyer. they had to take my word for it, but assured me you would undoubtedly become bold and mannish and a short time. we are going to go into the , whichnd into the salon has been set up as a defense of suffrage. we are going into the drawing

it says redistricting will be done by the legislature.it seems quite clear the state had made the legislature for this purpose. after that case, other states were encouraged. >> said the decision was written by chief justice roberts. fast forward to this year and they have no ability to challenge the partisan gerrymandering in court they seem to suggest other remedies like independent redistricting provide alternative ways to address the problem of partisanship in the redistricting, so could they change their mind about the redistricting it is this just window dressing or was? >> i think that they learned they were wrong. [laughter] [applause] the crowd they tell me this is 4,000 people. i am not quite sure. next we you and i are going to another interview in little rock arkansas in a venue that holds 18,000 people and not only are all the tickets on, there is a waiting list of 60,000 people. [applause] so, how does it feel to be a cultural pop icon in your '80s '80s? [applause] everyone wants to take a picture with me. [laughter] the not

but the legislature said that's our job. we want to go in there and change this plan. >> let us handle democracy, people. >> yeah. the republican party is not shy about saying this. they don't believe the government should be involved in providing health care to anyone. >> they ignored the ballot proposition and instead passed their own limited version of medicaid expansion. under the republican law, about 60,000 fewer people would qualify for medicaid. and there is a catch. utah still wants the federal government to pay for 90% of its expansion, even though that's only provided to states that expand fully. so utah needs to ask the trump administration for special permission to get full funding. >> it is incredible to see this is what happens when citizens take action, that they're struck down and then bludgeoned with bureaucracy that ultimately is going to hurt their cause. i'm meeting up with matt's colleagues, courtney and stacy to understand the politics at play when lawmakers deny the will of the voters who elected them

he lost in the legislature. the antislavery democrat in order to boxes candidate and it was that that was one of the probe mary actions that helped create we came back republican party. so when lincoln lost in 1855, to a distinguished figure in the state, a judge, mary's best friend was his wife. she would never speak to her again because he had become the senator and not her husband. so she was fiercely jealous of lincoln's position. even more. [inaudible] is there dialogue? >> there is. [inaudible] >> the novel. >> there was another book about her great-grandfather, the editor and she wrote a biography. that became the dialogue. >> is a novelist. >> when you write, how do you handle those unknowns? do you create dialogue? do you reach conclusions? how do you handle this when you don't really know? >> i do not create dialogue. i don't make anything up. there's no fake news in these biographies. [laughter] i rely on as many sources as i can find. it's a matter when i can't get the exact what i need to know, it's

like most states, we have a part-time legislature. our legislators are here just the first few months of the year. they have gone home for the year now and they will be back in january. now we are in the indiana house of representatives, which has 100 seats and the members serve two-year terms with no term limits. this is a larger chamber, of course, and we have a huge chandelier above us, the largest chandelier in the statehouse. if you took time to count the bulbs,you would find 100 one for each member. above us is the gallery, the balcony for the public. the public is invited to sit in the gallery of the house and senate. there is a mural in back of us on the wall, and that is called the spirit of indiana. a mural painted back in 1963 by an indiana artist, eugene savage. we will start in the middle, we see a young lady there in a golden dress, that is miss indiana stepping into statehood. on the right side of the mural, the artist is depicting the business and industry of indiana. , the goddess of agriculture, and the big bucket of

he is the first indian-american to serve in the california legislature, but before that, he was a deputy public defender, san jose council member, and throughout it all a dedicated community activist. we'll talk to him about his life and get his insights on what is

he's been a champion like few legislature texas can. hether the issue was taxes, education, health care, whatever it efits, was, his was a voice to which because that d voice of always been a wisdom, and that voice will be greatly missed. in public office, at service, our time of have to answer the question, did better than we found them? and for my friend, bill zedler, yes,answer is a resounding because texas today is better

so they voted for that and it the legislature allowed the people to vote on that. one of went into the constitution and it was reaffirmed in 1986 tbring that spending down to about 4.4, 4.3 in the neighborhood of or $.3 billion area and an effort to contain. but you don't change formulas, what happens is you get a spending limit in place which is on advocating for, you have to sell sort of cannibalize your programs. in other words those that are not statutory protected, move money out of that to fund the items that are statutory protected so you have to do both. you have to have a realistic conversation. you have to lay out it is our debt, what are our obligations, what are the statutory obligations and show the people of alaska what that spending is read you also need to demonstrate to them the benefits of a functional pending so they can see that you can hand politicians in the two percent a year. but you've got to chillboth . you can do a spending, you can do spending revised spending limit in a difficult managed the overall budget when you're cannibalizing it .

he is the first indian-american to serve in the california legislature, but before that, he was a deputy public defender, san jose council member, and throughout it all a dedicated community activist. we'll talk to him about his life and get his insights on what is happening in our world today. and finally, we will highlight some other big events coming up, including the big indian festival diwali, all on our show today. well, i've had the pleasure of attending the silicon valley asian pacific film festival. i have hosted some q&a sessions with filmmakers. the event is a project of cats, contemporary asian theater scene, and is still growing and evolving. joining me now is an old friend, he is co-founder of cats and the co-chair of the silicon valley asian pacific film festival, steve yamaguma. and also with us, i have the privilege of welcoming filmmaker andrea yu-chieh chung. born in taipei, she is a trained classical musician who found she had a passion for documentary filmmaking and on a global scale. she is presenting her latest work, "finding nasseebi," a film where she turns the c

so i look at -- very much look forward to collaborating with a legislature and the public as a budget process moves forward. because at the end of the day there's nothing more important to governing than fiscal policy. you know as well as i do fiscal policy is future policy. the financial decisions we make today directly shape the world our children will live in tomorrow. it's my greatest aspiration that alaska i leave behind be safer and more prosperous than the alaska i discovered 4 years ago so i want to thank you for allowing me to speak today and entertain questions. [applause] couple of mics in the room any questions -- also where you're from and yep. open to the group. mccabe won american news. sir if you would talk about about your election but could you there's a back story to what actually happened. that was a crazy governor's race can you sort of talk about that chain of events that landed you in this office which was a, you know, a democratic wave year? >> yeah, thank you. so we -- governor was independent, and was still in the race the same time former u.s. senator mark j

montana has a citizen legislature.ime jobs outside of politics. >> hey, man. are you a member of the senate? >> yes. >> so are you in session right now? >> we just finished. >> what is your other job? >> i work on the university of montana campus doing a leadership development program. >> it's not just the fact montana's legislatures have day jobs that sets them apart. >> i'm a boilermaker by trade. >> i'm a chemist for the state of montana. >> they have also got the lowest individual political contribution limits in the nation. >> i just finished running for re-elections and i raised $47,000. $180 at a time. that's our limit. >> raised less than $7,000. knocking on doors of my neighbors. >> mine was the biggest spender. the two of us were the big spenders. >> what was yours? >> i raised about $45,000. >> how about you? >> $22,000. >> i mean, i think the people that hear us have this conversation say, but, yeah, corporate influence in politics is so big and so strong, it will never make a difference raising $180 at a t

we have had a contentious legislature and strong executive in this country for a while. i'm not sure why the court, whether it is more or less contentious, more or less strong, i don't think the court should define its own role. based on what happens in the -- based on the fluctuations and what happens in the executive or legislature. which is not to say that over long stretches of time, developments in the political process surrounding us do not affect what the court does. of course, it does. i would not think that on a more short-term basis that we should either curb ourselves or -- either become less aggressive or more aggressive. based on what happens to be happening at that moment in the political process. i think we should look after our own business. prof. malveux: thank you. chelsea. third-year law student pursuing a career in public defense. chelsea: it is really wonderful to have you. i know we are all honored. you touched on this question already but it is the question i submitted so hopefully it allows you to expand. how do you think the court will change or

they've been very forward leaning and moving into the state legislatures donating to candidates actuallyiterally writing the legislation through the site of exchange council. so, koch was way ahead of other people in realizing the power of this, and they definitely talk about that. they focus on the state level. thank you, sir. >> i'm going to ask you one more question. i'm going to ask you a follow-up question and then crisply available to chat, sign your books, talk about politics, economic theory, all the rest. you started this in 2011 with a massive undertaking. you certainly had an idea of who the brothers were when you started. what is the biggest revelation for you on the other side of the? >> that analytical rigor of these people. that i did not expect. it blew my mind. i talked to people that changed the way that i saw the world. small example, they are not focused on the shiny objects. their focuthey are focused on te undermining fundamentals and that changed how i thought about so much in life, so what surprised me most as i reported on this was the analytical rigor aninto the

he was the longest-serving legislature at a time in the state of south carolina. i would balk on doors and not say anything disparaging about him. i would say we appreciate what he's done all these years, but we think that there is, you know, i think i could do something different. and i always just talked about me. i didn't talk about him and was fortunate enough to get elected. then fast forward a little bit. i'm in the legislature a few years and in south carolina, whenever they were passing legislation, it was to write a voice vote. all in favor, i mac, all the post, they have it. one day there was a piece of legislation that went across the desk and gave legislators pay raises. all in favor, i mac, opposed, silent. toto this day you can't find one legislator tha but said they vod themselves a pay raise. i got really upset and went to the speaker of the house and i said this is why people don't trust us. and the next day i filed a bill that said anything important enough to be debated on the floor of the house or the senate is important enough to have a vote o

and then there can a try to get their other fellow legislatures to build a coalition to actually pass it. this is really hard challenging stuff. you have to really know yourself and your value and your beliefs. and you are discovering who you are along the way that's a later stage advanced project. they had spent years getting to that place. people who think that this generation doesn't care could not be more wrong. they have a lot of thoughts about the types of laws we should be passing. there is a whole part of our program with having them to explore in pursue interest. this is a lot of trial and error and failure. we carve out time for them to do deep dives. to explore different things. and really think and reflect. what did i not like. is that something now i know is not good foot --dash make fit. if you do that over and over a year after year. you really start to know who you are. i no longer teach high school. there are plenty of 18 to 22 -year-olds wandering the planet because they don't know where they are going because we didn't prepare them. i love what you said about having

and both houses of the united states legislature. an accomplishment that no one else has ever achieved. the one thing i know about senator isakson is the character of the man, that he didn't accomplish those things because it was a personal goal but because of a heart of service. and one thing that i have been able to consistently and honestly say about senator isakson is that he is a statesman. and that is something that seems to be lost in the line of politics today of those who are true statesmen. and things about him and statesmen that are common across the board. one is truthfulness. and i can tell you that senator isakson, johnny will tell you the truth, even if it is something you don't want to hear. he will tell you in a way that you will appreciate that, because he is doing it to uplift you and make you better and not to draw you down. faithfulness. he has been faithful to his faith, his god, his family, his political beliefs, his party, but more importantly, this country and the institutions he has represented. another is t

because the legislatures couldn't agree. so each state changed their process for how they elected senators over time and by the time, i believe, it was 1923 when it was finally passed, in the national basis something like three fourths of the states had already passed it. that would argue, honestly for not making sure that the perfect doesn't get in the way of the good. and we have, you know, 196 votes, electoral votes already and if you get that incrementally, you know, in maybe five, ten years after that process is, in fact, worked some of the other issues we're talking about today would be addressed at the same time. >> thank you. let me just get a couple here. andrew, can we get this person right here and then we'll take this gentleman in the back and then we'll have you all answer. >> i was curious to hear the panel's thinking around how mainly using ranchers voting and pv would interact with each other make it easier or harder. >> we'll take this last gentleman here and then close out. his mic is not work. >> just want

before joining the legislature i worked as a teacher. and later as a superintendent for nearly two decades in arctic alaska. "after words" i spent a couple more years to school board president. so i'm intimately familiar with the struggles alaskan educators face. both from the teaching and administrative perspective. we cannot move forward as a state while leaving her children behind. we can't just be about him lex. how much you put into the system it also has to be about outputs. how well our kids doing. how well is a system? and finally albedo my best to change laws that are crippling our budget. as i alluded to a few minutes ago, 55% of alaska operating budget is now on autopilot spending. in other words, statutes, laws are driving the spending. and ... laws laws are changed, that will continue. and i know you folks are fighting a similar battle at the federal level. if you want to fix the numbers, we must change the laws. the flat funding and they hear it's the budget will not be enough to balance the budget in the years ahead. that

one was done by a democratic legislature. it was a really extreme gerrymander. it deprived people in their respective states of the opportunity to have their votes mean anything. it was a kind of rigging elections. it was represented as picking their voters rather than voters picking the representatives. nobody really argued that this was constitutional, done in this extreme way. the majority thought that the court just couldn't get involved in it. that it presented no manageable standards for the court to decide when a gerrymander had gone too far. i thought that that was craig wong quite wrong. courts around the country had actually worked pretty hard in developing exactly the kinds of manageable standards that the court, that the majority claimed to be demanding. it wasn't so hard to figure out exactly how these cases should be litigated. and when it was that some gerrymander's should be declared off-limits, like these ones. it was perfectly obvious that these two should have been invalidated. so, i did. i think i wrote a strong dissent. it was dissent, i hop

when he was a young legislature. in a small way is going to improve the conditions of enslaved people. he doesn't has a young legislator wants to introduce this so he goes to one of the most respected legislators, where you present this. and this guy gets attacked by all the other legislators. we don't talk about that kind of stuff. we start talking about that and enslaved people get ideas we are setting up a dynamic that will lead to their freedom and wants to rise up in rebellion to accelerate that. shut it completely down and jefferson right about that and says what a searing experience it was to see how all these people pounced. jefferson never ever wants to take an unpopular stand. >> that leads to another question about jefferson and i will turn it over to others. my very shallow understanding of history, of the revolution and after the revolution is he was quite effective in getting what he wanted. i'm surprised not that he was prickly but that he was thin-skinned but my interpretation or understanding is he w

dunleavy: we think the legislature will be with us for a lot of this. to make sure the regulations in place protect people, but not impede people or business. david: where are you on the budget? it was pretty rough, there was a recall effort that did not go anywhere. where are you on this year? gov. dunleavy: last year we reduced the budget by $650 million, we closed the deficit by about 40%. this year we went in with a flat budget, this is another issue we are talking about, we have statutory formula programs that specifically increase the cost within the budget, in other words they pushed against the ceiling. we will talk with the legislature about rolling back some of the statutory programs so we can keep a flat line budget, and the administration in different departments have ways to efficiently reduce the budget surgically without having to cut large chunks off. gov. dunleavy: -- david: and the university system was something you had to cut. gov. dunleavy: we have a three year agreement so we have a step down process in terms of reducing the budget

state, the legislature just passed laws that allow undocumented immigrants access to driver's licenses. if you care about immigration, it is not just to is in congress that matters -- certainly that is where we will find the comprehensive reform that we need, but it matters who is in your state legislature. they are the ones who can provide things like drivers licenses. these things are connected. young people and young voters see this so it might be an up a ballot situation where people are coming out to vote for local races. is andur next caller from vincent in lancaster, pennsylvania. vincent is a middle-aged collar. middle-ageds a caller. just like told comment -- first of all, the younger generation came off of eight years of president obama, where it was free phones, free this, everyone is entitled to have this. i'm sorry about that. we have an old-fashioned president now who wants to give you everything you need to go to work, earn a living, and live a good life. stamps,o not need food you should not be getting them. , it goes on and goes on. we talk about free college for --ryb

utah's a really interesting case because utah had a mormon majority legislature. congress was really opposed to the practice of polygamy, made number of efforts in the latter part of the 19th century to try and outlaw the practice of plural marriage. this petition is from women who had already gotten the right to vote from utah, when congress was trying to pass legislation to outlaw polygamy, and they make lovely arguments about the fact that women managed to maintain their respectability as voters and really urged congress not to take the vote away from them when they passed that legislation. congress was not successful in doing so at this point in time, but just about a decade later women in utah did lose the vote when congress passed anti-polygamy legislation. but once utah got its statehood, they gave the vote back to women. one more really interesting thing about this story is that this is the only time that congress actually took the vote away from women as well. so the women's suffrage movement took more than 70 years. generations of women had to fight for

when we look at early voting turnout like in north carolina, their state legislature targeted the days african-americans turned out early in droves to vote early, and removed those that so there is an email goes around republican circles, where they are celebrating in 2016 the 8% decrease in early voting turnout for african-americans. so, this is what we are seeing across-the-board. the house controlled by democrats, as you know, has no voting rights advancement at that has been approved and is been sent over to the senate. i want you to respond to earlier this month, rodney davis, congressmen, talking about this voting right advancement. [video clip] >> the voting acts right is alive and well. this is not a reauthorization of this bipartisan legislation. discriminationd at the ballot box because it does not need reactors asian -- because it does not need the authorization. every eligible american, who wants to vote in our country's elections, should be able to cast their vote. this bill is only about preclearance and the democrat majority, the federal government control over all elect

can the legislature beecher ran a cold? >> absolutely and they have been to remember mccarthyism that was legislative tierney's before if they impeach the president and denied due process that will be acting terrifically. >> i believe if they impeach the president on this record they will be abusing their power and their oath of office. maybe they can get away with it, but that doesn't mean it's the right thing. levin: when we return i'm going to ask you this. doesn't the president have a right to confront, or his lawyers to confront vegas to the senate in the trial, the accuser who began all of this? the so-called whistleblower. are we going to actually impeach the president have a trial without him ever knowing officially who his accuser is? i'm gonna ask you about that when we return. ladies and gentlemen don't forget you can watch me most week nights on levintv can call 84 for levintv, 844 levintv. later in the program we can talk about this fascinating book as well. we'll be right back. man: sneezes skip to the good pa

when the legislature issues a subpoena, a president is entitled to say no, go to court. have to get authority from the court i'm claiming privilege. if it's too broad, as one of the judges recently held, then you lose, but you can't be impeached for invoking the separation of power in our system of checks and balances. that would punish, essentially, exercising your own constitutional authority under article one, two and three of the constitution. we have a three-part system of government, equal, coequal branches, separate branches in the courts and the umpires. mark: what i am hearing today from these committees and these professors is we don't have cold equal branches, we want trump out so we have one all-powerful branch, tomorrow maybe we will have equal branches of government, but the fact that ththe president asserts his rigs and he's not the first to do this, he's not defying a court order, he's defying a request, a demand by another branch that saying i'm in a do this out with you and they're saying in peach of offense, there's another count. has this ever been do

our legislature famously cable back to d.c. and said quote, , e are not coming in without our women. wyoming is very proud of our trailblazing heritage. i am tremendously proud and honored to represent wyoming in congress, and very grateful that you all to join us this money to help commemorate. so thank you very much for that and with a few other things we want to talk as well. i'd like to start by turning things over to republican leader of the ways and means committee, is to break to talk about usmca. >> good morning, everyone. the announcement of the agreement of the u.s.-mexico-canada agreement is a major win for america there president trump and ambassador lighthizer have fought hard and delivered on the promise for a pro-growth and modern trade pact with our north american neighbors after much delay by democrats. now it is time for congress to pass this agreement as soon as possible without further delay to lock the benefit of this agreement for u.s. workers comp for our farmers, for our tech community and our local smal

years efforts to improve the lives of dogs in pennsylvania puppy mills would ultimately die in the legislatureat the hands of powerful lawmakers who was not until a simple bill. board was put up in lancaster county that the general public began to learn of the problem our 1st billboard and we made it look like a postcard and we had a family in our car and they were all waving across the top and yellow script just like a postcard and said welcome to scenic lancaster county home to hundreds of puppy mills and we received over 3000 phone calls and e-mails in 2 days and the majority of those phone calls came from people who lived in lancaster county who were thanked us for finally doing something about what their neighbors were doing i think the issue gained a lot of traction through the media you know more reporting on the issue it became sort of something that was that was out front it was no longer confined to you know what happened behind the party doors after witnessing the overwhelming response to their billboards in pennsylvania main line animal rescue placed a new billboard this time near

our legislature cabled back to d.c. and said we are not coming in without our women. wyoming is proud of our trailblazing heritage, and i am proud and honored to represent wyoming and congress. we are grateful you will join us to commemorate. thank you for that, and we have other things we want to talk about. i want to turn things over to the republican leader of the ways and means community -- ways and means committee. >> good morning everyone. the announcement of the agreement on a u.s.-mexico-canada agreement is a major win for america. and ambassador lighthizer have fought hard and delivered on the promise for progrowth and a modern trade pact with our north american neighbors. now it is time for congress to pass this agreement as soon as possible without further delay. for our farmers, our tech community and our local small businesses. this agreement means more jobs, more customers for american goods and a stronger economy for the united states. i give president trump credit for creating a new bipartisan trade,or free and fair it levels the playing field for amer

abraham lincoln in a few miles north of the old state capitol where he had served four terms in the legislature. only blocks away, a new capitol under construction. he had offered towns people a painful reminder of the had exacted war from their community and the nation. public night before, a dedication of a new burial tomb and monument marked, as we'll so permanent resting place of lincoln, and three of his sons. evening, the newest reminder of the bloody struggle union veterans. many of them officers of the society of the army of tennessee. most decorated of unions western armies and who met at land house. neargfield's toniest hotel its bustling capital square to commemorate the murdered president by celebrating his, or rightly, some of his military forces victory. he coincidence of the meeting and the dead indication demanded that distinguished illinoisans, republicans, be prominent among the speakers. besides the vice president and there werery of war, the state's current governor and ormer governor richard oglesby and john palmer, as well as other noted illinois war generals. pope, stephe

within two months of his release, mcafee had joined missouri's legislature and presided over its secession ordinance. waldo johnson, a u.s. congressman, whose home was burned in osceola in missouri in september 1861, would lead the u.s. house for the confederacy. when a detachment of the second iowa volunteer shot to death an alleged northern missouri disloyalist for flying the secession flag in june 1861, the commander, lieutenant colonel james m. tuttle broke no criticism. perhaps i am responsible, he responded, when confronted publicly about the shooting, if so, i have nothing to take back. our business down there was to put down the rebel colors, and of course, we commenced as soon as we so where the work commenced. down, and so did he. in august 1863, in response to the mass murder of nearly 200 civilians in lawrence, kansas, by guerrillas under william quantrill, collective retaliation would find its fullest form. ohian thomas euwing jr, the adopted brother of william t. sherman, ordered the depopulation of four missouri counties bordering kansas. only those judged loyal could return

you have to ask, why isn't the legislature doing that especially given the fact that democrats in 2007 appropriated money for the same thing? now the democrats are saying no, and you have to ask, why? are they doing that because it appears that president trump is not following through on a campaign promise or doing it for the good of our nation? i would argue that they are doing it that president trump does not have the capacity to follow through without the cooperation of democrats. host: our guest is the host of the show "tipping point" and the author of the book "tipping points: how to topple the left's house of cards." at one time you served as commissioner of the board of zoning. guest: i did. i was the youngest person to serve in that position in my hometown which is a suburb , outside of cincinnati, ohio, so that was quite an experience. host: how did you end up in television? guest: around the time that i served as a commissioner on the board of zoning appeals, i collaborated on a book. we self published, me and 13 other young conservative activists around the country, and the

they also got the legislature to throw up various roadblocks to abortion. >> by the 1980s and '90s, this is what it was like to be an abortion provider in america. >> already many have bulletproof glass, and across the country, there are more than 30,000 escorts who have to use cloak and dagger measures to protect doctors, clients, and themselves. >> a wave of clinic bombings that peaked in the 1980s was followed by a series of assassinations in the 1990s. >> an abortion facility was hit by a bomb blast. >> bomb blasts at three abortion clinics. >> a propane gas bomb exploded last night in the washington office of the national abortion federation. so far this year, 28 abortion clinics and information centers have been bombed or set afire. >> dr. david gunn was shot getting out of his car. as he came to work as a pensacola portion clinic. >> the doctor, who performs third trimester abortions had been shot twice outside his clinic. >> the gunman shot four people before escaping here. one woman, a clinic worker, died at the scene. >> dr. john britton and james barrett were cut down with sho