attorney general greg abbott announced hiss candidacy to succeed perry who's not going to be running for a fourth term. mreg abbott joins me. let's talk about the legislation that was signed. i know thatg advocate for it. it now has passed, it's been signed and you're getting sued. it will be your job as attorney general to defend it before the supreme court but it's not something new to you. >> i have been involved as the attorney general in texas to defend life in court and that's what i will be doing with this new law. i took the lead among state attorneys general in defending the partial birth abortion ban and we won at the united states supreme court. i took the lead as the state attorney general in defending the parental notification law and we won both in the united states supreme court and in texas. i have taken the lead in defending a texas law, the sonogram law and we defended that and we won. now we have this new law passed out of the state of texas that's going to, the governor both better protect the health care of women who go through the abortion process, but also do a better job of protect

mr. holder and the attorney general greg abbott will be here to say it. >> a television news crew finds itself on the receiving end of a very ugly attack. >> small mark on your face. did you ever -- kelly: welcome back. we have new details of that hard landing of a southwest airlines jet in new york's laguardia airport on monday. investigators say the front landing gear touched down before the sturdier main landing gear under the wings. the planes typically land with the rear landing gear before letting the nose settle down. about 150 were aboard when that front landing gear collapsed upon landing. at least 10 passengers suffered minor injuries. martha: pushback against obamacare. an effort to defund the health care law is gaining some momentum on capitol hill right now as a growing number of republicans say to their colleagues, kill the funding or risk complete government shutdown. we'll explain to you what we're talking about here. karl rove, served as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush and also of course a fox news contributor. karl, made 35 or 40 efforts i

greg abbott announced his candidacy to succeed perry. he now joins me and mr.ve you and to be with you. it has passed getting signed and you're getting sued. it will be your job to defend it, but it's not something new. >> i've been involved in the attorney general of texas in defending life in courts and that's what i will be doing in regards to this new texas law. as a reminder, i took the lead among state attorneys general in defending the partial birth abortion ban and we won at the united states supreme court. i took the lead in defendinging the parental notification law and we won in the united states supreme court and in texas. i've taken the lead in defending a texas law the sonogram law, and we defended that and we won. now, we have this new law passed out of the state of texas that is going to, the governor both better protect the health care of women who go through an abortion process, but also do a better job of protecting innocent life. i believe when this case goes to the supreme court that we can win in this case also. >> one of the cases you've

in a tweet sent just a few hours ago, greg abbott wrote, quote, i'll fight obama's effort to control our elections and i'll fight against cheating at ballot box. mr made at the national urban league's annual conference in philadelphia. the obama administration will seek to reimpose so-called preclearance requirements in states with a history of discriminating against minority voters, starting with texas. >> today i am announcing that the justice department will ask a federal court in texas to subject the state of texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by section 5 of the voting rights act. this is the department's first action to protect voting rights following the shelby county decision, but it will not be our last. >> it is the first move from the justice department following the supreme court's ruling exactly one month ago. the court struck down the most powerful part of the voting rights act. msnbc's craig melvin joins us live from philadelphia. craig, i know you had a chance to speak with the attorney general after he made those remarks. part of what he said is based on the evidence of intentional racial discrimination in