hello, everyone, i'm george thomas. >> wendy: and i'm wendy griffith. a christian convert from islam is breathing easier today. the swedish government has decided it will not deport him back to his home country of iran. >> george: big news. migration officials reversed their decision after media reports, including a story by our very own story by dale hurd. today swedish christians are crediting cbn news as a factor in raza's freedom. >> reporter: in march, cbn news brought you this story of raza jabari, who along with many other iranian christians in sweden faced deportation back to iran and grave danger. the swedish government's attitude towards iranian christians facing deportation would seem to be as cold as the swedish winter. the iranians say sweden's immigration board simply does not care if they face prison or torture if they return to iran. ♪ >> reporter: jabari, a famous singer in iran, who refused to be a government informant, was hiding in sweden after his asylum request was rejected. >> in islam, it is shari'a and it is every muslim man who

hello, everyone, i'm george thomas. >> wendy: and i'm wendy griffith. after eight turbulant years of makmud ahmadinejad, iran has a new president. his name is haseed ruwan assa assani. >> reporter: iran noos new leader is western educated, with a long resume in iran's revolution. he presents a softer image. his election led some western elections to brand him a moderate, who can change iran. hebrew university professor moshi says he differs from macmoud in a few ways. >> this nice-looking man, has a fatherly face, and speaks the right language -- speaks the language he knows the west wants to hear, with exactly continuing the plan of iran. >> he is a clergy, as i said. he is a high degree of clergy. not ayatollah, but pretty high in the ranks. >> reporter: iranian expert hamar says a cartoon posted on facebook shows the essence of his election. where he is shown painting a beautiful iranian missile. >> it looks much better, but it is still a missile. he said they're not going to stop the centrifuges. >> reporter: while the president is the face of iran,

wendy davis, folk hero.ucus in the united states house of representatives today put out a statement thanking senator davis who is, after all, a state senator, thanking her for her all day, all night filibuster. and on this show last night, cecile richards, national president of planned parenthood and completely and totally of texas politics, cecile richards here last night marveled about what happened with wendy davis this week in texas. >> there were folks obviously there on the senate floor, but thousands of people outside in the rotunda filling the capitol. and it was amazing. it was absolutely amazing. i have never seen anything like it in all my history of organizing or as a texan. >> now the big question in democratic politics is, what's next here? last night our own beloved chris hayes put the question of wendy davis' political future to wendy davis, herself. unlike most politicians, she actually answered the question. >> your state has not elected a statewide democrat for quite some time. are you goi

. >> wendy: plus preaching the gospel in the world's largest muslim country. this egyptian american evangelist went and hundreds came forward to except christ. >> george: and a lost boy finds his home. he spent his youth fighting for south sudan independence, and now he is helping build new leaders for his country. ♪ >> wendy: as sectarian violence rips iraq apart, the country's christians fear for their future. hello, everyone, i'm wendy griffith. >> george: and i'm george thomas. iraq is awash in violence. more than 1,000 people were killed in april and may. while the war pits sunni verses shi'a muslims, it pits the christians. greg is just back from iraq. earlier in the week, i spoke with him about this situation there. greg, it is truly spiralling out of control. 500 iraqis dead just in this month alone. is iraq falling apart? >> yes, i would say so, george. i mean civil war can happen at any time, and it really appears it is descending into that. and because of what is going on now with the bombings of markets and roadside bombs, there is a lot of fear th

hello, everyone, i'm george thomas. >> wendy: and i'm wendy griffith. thanks for being with .aractersd solomon really exist? many historians today are divided over those questions. today we'll meet two archeologists who are digging up parts of david's life. >> george: and what they have found supports the biblical accounts, down to the smallest details. gordon robertson takes us to the site of one of david's greatest victories, the valley of el a. ela. >> gordon: here in jerusalem, his name is everywhere. david is the most famous king in israel's history. but some say he wasn't the great rural described in the bible. one israeli archeologist said that david and solomon did not rule over a big territory. he was a small chiefton, very poor. >> this is a great chief, if you want to call king david a chief or king solomon a chief. this is a great chief and this is a huge tribe. >> gordon: others say he never existed at all. even a professor of biblical studies, who insisted, i am not the only scholar who suspects that the figure of king david is about as hi

the word of god coming to life. >> wendy: it is amazing. truly amazing.hat is going to do it for this week. >> george: until next week, good-bye

i stand with wendy. can you read that. >> john: that is horrible.s also upsidedown. >> it reads right to me. john: wendy really got to you. >> man, i've never felt so alive. women are in the news. no one can stop this [bleep] wagon. [bleep]. >> john: sit down, kristin. not until wendy does. john: she's probably sleeping right now. >> for eternity. john: i don't think you just said what you meant. >> the point is this has been an exciting week not just for the great wendy davis but for the even greater texas lady jody lovenberg. >> john: who is she? a state representative with a fantastic idea for preventing pregnancies for rape and incest. >> we have hospital emergency rooms. we have funded what's called (inaudible) that will help a woman. >> i thought they were supposed to be locked away and forgotten about. you go, cow girl. if you had told me the gender revolution was going to start in texas, i would have said y'all best be joking. now get out of here with your salsa. >> john: that is how they talk. i mean, you're equating that woman and wendy da

wendy davis alone, sort of.ere were thousands of supporters streaming into the capitol all day long. there were wrong lines to get in -- long lines to see her. starting at 11:00 a.m., things went smoothly about halfway through her planned filibuster, she was challenged by one of her republican colleagues, he accused her of going off topic. the lieutenant governor presiding over the chamber at that time agreed with the republican senator and wendy davis had strike one against her. an hour later they did it again. when a fellow democrat asked for some of her testimony to be repeated. a fellow senator helped her put on a back brace. republicans objected to that. that was strike two, she can only have three of these things go against her before it kills her filibuster. she already had two strikes of the three she's allotted with five more hours still to go. it's basically zero margin for error under a micro scope of a room full of adversaries. even the president of the united states was watching according to twitter

wendy davis, today, responded to the governor. she said his statement is without dignity and tarnishes the high office he holds. they are small words that reflect a dark and negative point of view." rick perry seems to be doing everything in his power to elevate wendy davis, to transform the spark that has arisen in texas into a strong and committed movement. in fact, he seems to be relishing exactly that. >> and just remember this. the louder they scream, the more we know we are getting something done. >> rick perry is getting something done. something that no one has been able to do in texas for the last two decades. and that is bring a texas democratic party that has been comatose for years back to life. and if that happens, if we see an insurgent democratic party reorganize, galvanize, mobilize and grasp its incredible demographic potential in the lone star state, well, then, simply put, the republican party, as we know it, is dead. joining me now is texas state senator laticia van de putte who represents district 26 which inc

texas state representative wendy davis spoke for 11 hours before being ruled out of

#stand with wendy.was referring to the absolutely epic 11 hour filibuster by texas state senator wendy davis. senator davis joins me next. >>> last night into early this morning, i was one of 160,000 people watching this on the internet. >> if we can have order in the chamber, so the members can properly cast their vote. >> those were the final dramatic moments of one of the most remarkable acts of political leadership i have ever seen. wendy davis took to the floor on the final day of the senate's special session for a planned 13-hour filibuster to stop senate bill five, an anti-abortion bill that would be one of the most restrictive in the country if passed. this filibuster is a genuine test of will and physical stamina. she was not allowed to sit down, she was not allowed to lean on anything. she could not eat or drink or use the bathroom. she needed to only speak about topics germane to the bill, and she needed to do this from 11:18 in the morning until 12:00 midnight. she was more than up to the ch

up first, wendy davis's fight continues.texas governor, rick perry, is calling the state legislature back into session for another go at anti-abortion legislation killed this week by a marathon filibuster. that filibuster shined a national spotlight on texas state senator, wendy davis. she stood for 11 hours in pink running shoes reading testimony from women and doctors who would have been impacted by the law. unable to lean on anything, take a break or a sip of water, she was buoyed on by hashtag, stand with wendy, celebrity tweets, and cheering supporters. the 50-year-old democrat has overcome other obstacles. she supported her single mother, became a teen mom, yet graduated from harvard law school. last year, her offices were firebombed. now, her popularity is skyrocketing. stephanie shrioff president of the pro choice pack, emily's list, expects davis to continue to rise in prominence. >> i think so many folks watched it in awe. i sure did, as she stood up against an extremist republican governor to hold off what was an

#stand with wendy.ferring to the absolutely epic 11 hour filibuster by texas state senator wendy davis. senator davis joins me next. i want to make things more secure. [ whirring ] [ dog barks ] i want to treat more dogs. ♪ our business needs more cases. [ male announcer ] where do you want to take your business? i need help selling art. [ male announcer ] from broadband to web hosting to mobile apps, small business solutions from at&t have the security you need to get you there. call us. we can show you how at&t solutions can help you do what you do... even better. ♪ can help you do what you do... even better. want to save on electricity? don't use it. live like they did long ago. or just turn off the lights when you leave a room. you can conserve energy wisely. the more you know. >>> last night into early this morning, i was one of 160,000 people watching this on the internet. >> if we can have order in the chamber, so the members can properly cast their vote. >> those were the final dramatic moments

stand with wendy." davis continued speaking for nearly 11 hours and had intended to go until midnight. >> laws are to create justice for all. we also received this written testimony. there's a medical necessity. women need timely access. >> ifill: but around 10:00 p.m., republicans forced an end to the filibuster, ruling davis had strayed off topic. that sparked nearly two hours of heated debate, as democrats raised procedural questions to delay a vote. then, the protesters crowded into the gallery took over. when it was finally official that the bill had been blocked, davis thanked her supporters. >> today was an example of government for the people, by the people, and of the people. >> ifill: it's unclear what will >> ifill: late today texas governor rick perry called a special session to address the abortion bill. fo for more on the high noon texas political drama, as it unfolded, we turn to evan smith, editor- in-chief of the "texas tribune." so give me a sense about how this went from being a local

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wendy davis is a rock star politically. not just in texas but nationally.nd i think this is something that has happened. it is a big deal in america. we have so much frustration with washington. so many time things don't seem to happen in washington. people more and more are looking to the states and they are seeing these battles play out. and i think that wendy davis is the face of this state-based resistance to the right. >> jill moore is rick perry running in 2016? what's the call? >> i don't think anybody knows yet. but i'll tell you what. he likes his entourage. he like his security staff. he likes traveling and living like a king. and i don't see him walk away from it. >> ohio state senator nina turn he, john nickols of the nation magazine, washington correspondent there and jim moore. political analyst from texas. great to have all of you with us. thanks so much. >> tonight in our survey i you asked, are conservatives ignoring racism in america? 94% of you say yes. 6% say no. up next. paul ryan is fighting the war on poverty but he is on the wrong si

the 82-year-old married wendi deng in 1989. they have two young daughters and it is murdoch's third marriage. in the papers, we talk about it a lot in this part of the country, but "the new york post" famous for its witty and crude headlines. nothing special today. maybe we need to jazz it up a little bit. we have an opportunity to have fun here. tweet out your best headline based on the rupert divorce from "the new york post." you have to be creative, guys. you can go to the border of tastefulness if you want to. we'll mention the best options later in the show. the #is waytooprenup. here's what we got, foxy ladies with the subhead rupert fires wendi, rehires palin. news that sarah palin has been rehired by fox news. but you guys can do better than that. i bet people on the floor, meacham can do better than that and he's not from new york. still ahead on "way too early," a wet and wild day for tiger woods at the u.s. open. how he fared in round one and why some are wondering if he's actually injured. also, why are nancy pelosi

wendy davis was allowed to proceed. this is what it has looked like today in the senate gallery.hink we've got the gallery shot, don't we? every spectator seat has been filled in the gallery. there's been people there wearing orange shirts in solidarity with filibuster. there's been a long line of people waiting to get in all day to watch the state senator talk without stopping, stand without stopping for 13 hours. just like they did on thursday night, and, again, on sunday night, hundreds and hundreds of texans, again, showed up today at the state capitol to protest this republican effort to ram through the country's most sweeping abortion restrictions and to support the democrats who are trying to stop it. also there today, in the senate fwalry, cecile richards of planned parenthood and daughter of former texas governor ann richards. what's going on in texas right now, this is a big deal. there are about 3 1/2 hours maybe, 3 hours left in wendy davis' filibuster and apparently is still going strong. now theoretically governor rick perry could call another special session for th

over 100,000 people wound up tuning into wendy davis's filibuster. and all 100,000 people saw a legislature dominated by white men, trying to put down the women among them, literally not calling on the female senator that tried to get attention when wendy davis was being shut down. it was really an amazing display of what the conservative republicans in texas, and i think we can say a lot of the rest of the country, the way that they behave, and how terrible that behavior can be, when we see it, when it is not done in the dark of night as the female politician from ohio put it. i think this is a really amazing moment in american politics. i think rick perry exposed himself yet again as being rather ignorant. i think the legislation in ohio, again with the attention we're putting on it. one thing it shows is that people seem to think that women don't understand what is going on with their bodies when they get abortions. i think it should be important to point out here most women who get abortions have had a child. 60% of women that get abortions have

party in the hong kong where the yale-educated wendy worked at "star tv." two years later the couple married on his yacht in new york harbor. these two young daughters and all the benefits that come with being super-rich. no word on what wendy could walk away with, but murdoch worth $11.2 billion paid his last wife a reported 1.7 billion in what was billed as the most expensive divorce settlement in history. >> alina cho reporting for us. going by history, it seems like he may not be good at the business of love. he's got three wives, six children, all ranging in age from their 50s to their 40 u.s. all the way down to the youngest one, age 10. a bit weird, i know. it cost his $1.7 billion when he left his second wife. what do you suppose it might mean for wife number 3? i want to bring back our legal panel. okay. so before we even ask the question, i want to show you a couple things when it comes to international law. rupert murdoch has houses everywhere and wives everywhere, so it might matter where they got married and where they live. let's start with th

stand with wendy.pokeswoman for planned parent hood estimated there were 1500 reproductive rights activists and a smattering of anti supporters. she received her third strike for discussing a sonogram law. it made sense that senator davis would bring it up. texas recently required women to get a sonogram before obtaining an abortion. it was ruled a third strike and the texas chamber rereputed. >> let her speak! let her speak! let her speak! >> let her speak! that's what they're saying. less an an hour and a half remaining, state democrats launched a series of parliamentary increase to launch the proceedings. senator earlier that day at her father's funeral took to the floor. >> a parliamentary inquiry. at what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over the male colleagues in the room? [ cheers and applause ] >> after that, the gallery erupted and no one could restore order. midnight came with the crowd screaming and the roll was called. the associated press and severa

he got it exactly backwards because senator wendy davis chose life. you would think he would be happy. >> michael: that's a great point. she did choose life. and she did choose exactly what rick perry would mandate that she do any way. >> right, the third part that we have to remember is that what we're talking about here and why so many women and so many men around the country were fascinated by what went which davis did and stood up for her while she was standing up for all of us saying, wait a second, you can't ram these decisions through without people seeing in the light of day what choices you want to make on behalf of other people. this bill was so restricted and demanding, for example that doctors who perform surgeries need to have surgical rights at other medical facilities, also even if you used a bill, the morning after bill, a plan b for example you still had to have surgical visitation rights even though it's not a surgical procedure. this really went too far. and in a state of texas where frankly our veterans are crying out for more rule

this is from wendy davis. we love you, too, wendy. lieutenant governor has agreed that sb5 is dead. [applause] >> but the victory was short- lived barry later that day, yesterday, texas governor rick perry announced he was calling the legislature into another special session july 1 to revive the anti-abortion bill. he said -- >> the move could overrule the actions of wendy davis who launched what she intended to be a 13-hour filibuster. during that time, she would not be allowed to eat or drink or stray from the topic. >> i rise on the floor today to hundley to voice to thousands of ignored.o have been >> her filibuster lasted for 11 hours before republicans cut her off. that is when her colleagues and protesters in the gallery took over. democrats spoke. >> parliamentary inquiry. at what point must a been a senator raise her hand or voice to be recognized over the male colleagues in the room? [applause] protesters sustain their cheering for roughly 15 minutes drowning of the proceedings until the midnight deadline had passed and the

stand with wendy was trending on twitter.point davis told her colleagues to get out of the vagina business or go to medical school. even davis' pink running shoes became a sensation. "the occupation section "on her wikipedia page was changed to see she was the lebron james of filibustering. however, after 11 hours, at 10:00 p.m., davis was forced to stop speak after republicans claimed her mentioning sonograms violated the rules against going off topic on an abortion bill. with that the republican senators tried to push the bill through. with the help of her democratic colleagues and the increasingly vocal crowds in the gallery, wendy davis successfully ran down the clock on the vote and the bill died. last night on "all in" with chris hayes wendy davis reflected on her epic fill bust zblerp ultimately in that last 15 minutes of the evening, it became the people's filibuster and they were loud and they were heard and that's what democracy is about. yesterday that filibuster was about handing that microphone essentially to the

and we'll hear from wendy davis, the democratic state representative from texas. the "cbs morning news" for this thursday, thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ma >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good morning, it's thursday, june 27. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. time now is about 4:30. did you just say you tried to listen? >> i try to listen. i'm with three ladies. i miss lawrence. >> you have to listen. >> outnumbered. it's all-girl stuff for 30 seconds before the newscast. >> how about some weather? >> we can talk about weather. we have some areas of patchy, dense fog along the coast, a little around the bay and once again we're waking up to mild temperatures maybe a little cooler today than yesterday. we have seen a few upper 50s to low 60s and today is the day we're really going to heat things up especially inland so stay tuned. your seven-day forecast is coming up. >> and we are looking at a bump avenue start to the morning commute an -- a bumpy start to the mor

now, here's wendy! [ cheers and applause ]

what are we not getting, wendy? >> you know, because it hurts. because these are very sensitive, sensitive things and there are lots of people in america who have experienced racism firsthand or were told about historical acts of racism and that's a very painful, awful thing. listen, i have children of color. we talked about that and i, like, a mother bear protecting them from ever being treated a different way because of the color of their skin -- >> is that the first place we go to, wendy, is that the first place most americans go to when it involves two people who are not of the same race? >> you said the key word, america. because it's, you know, so much of the history of america has been with racial. >> there you go. >> has been about racial tensions, i'm canadian and i come from a different kind of culture, if anybody ever said the slight bit of racist language, they would be so put down by people because it's so politically incorrect. but i think with this case the gender is an even bigger issue in terms of this jury because if you think a

wendy! wendy!endy! >> reporter: order was restored and the bill approved, but too late to beat the midnight deadline. >> members, it's now past midnight. >> reporter: depending on your point of view, the political theater has helped make the state senator from fort worth a heroine or villain. she became a single mom at 19 and put herself through harvard law school. >> i have a deep, abiding understanding of what it means to come from a place of doing without. >> reporter: your critics would argue that the bill you stopped would have actually helped women by making sure that abortions happened in hospital-type surgical facilities. >> you know, what's so interesting about that is that throughout the debate, not once could the members who were advancing the bill demonstrate that that would create a safer climate for women, or that there was an existing safety problem within the existing clinical climate today. when a light is shined, there is victory, because what comes behind that is empowerment of p

instead of wendy murdoch.ttention, this is not a shock. >> her two children have nonvoting shares in trust so they are not part of that 39.4% voting block that the rest of the family or rest of the children and rupert himself have control over. this is -- was done, my understanding from insiders as sort of a transparency move and clearing the decks before the company split. though we don't know the whole story. one person i talked to said that something bigger happened which was -- which spurred this move so i think we have more of the story to come now. what do you think, robert? >> yeah. yeah. i think sarah nailed it. i think the impact on the company won't be that great. i think we don't know quite the whole story. there are a lot of rumors floating around. what we can say is that i learned there is a pre-nuptual agreement. it is ironclad. after the divorce that rupert had from anna, a $1.7 million divorce. he is now worth 12 billion. pretty unlikely she can break that. the financial impact it him and the c

wendy, i know it struck a chord with you as well, a third of these siblings getting bullied at home. and what i found interesting the second part the mental impact from that sort of bullying in the house could have a much more long-term impact as compared to in the classroom. what did you think of this? >> exactly. what i like to say is we save the most sadistic parts of our personality, dr. gupta, for those we love the most, right? >> sad but true. >> that's what happens with these siblings. t the closer you are, we are talking about young developing minds and not adults who have the ability to have some ruptures followed by healthy repair. so i like to use the model of the family as the one of the hospital. think of it this way, the parents are really like the doctors doing rounds. but the siblings are like the nurses. they are in there chronically giving care to their other siblings. >> that's a good analogy, you know. you have kids. i have kids. and i was a brother, an older brother, and i admit that i used to tease my little brother when we were growing up. how do parents know w

wendy davis joins me now live and she is sitting.thon filibuster, no food, water, breaks for all those hours. how are you even awake today? >> i'm running on adrenaline today. it was an amazing moment for democracy in texas yesterday, it truly was. >> what was it like? standing for that long, speaking for that long, not going to the bathroom, just -- i mean, what is it like to filibuster for 11 hours? >> i under estimated how difficult it would be both physically and mentally. about two hours in i realized i was in for a long day. my back started hurting pretty early on, and began to really hurt as the hours ticked by, but there were so many people in the capital yesterday, anderson, a record number of people. they literally had to lock the doors because they had filled our enormous texas capital to capacity, and their energy kept me going throughout the day. they were amazing. >> it was a remarkable scene. thousands flocking to the state capital and tens of thousands joined online including the president who tweeted about it, the pr

and wendy has the latest in the paula deen controversy. here's wendy! [ cheers and applause ]