lieutenant governor dewhurst. the vast majority of texans are behind this legislation and want to see us get it done in this special session. >> i think he's really confused. what he is failing to recognize is that the majority of the people there today weren't our activist democrats. in fact, i wish they were. these were people who said, enough is enough, and particularly women and the men who support the women in their lives. i mean, what's happened with texas republicans is that they only pander to those that are going to vote in the republican primary, forgetting the majority of texans. >> so here's my question. today the senate was put into session and then recessed i believe until july 9th. there's going to be house hearings tomorrow if i'm not mistaken. everyone is saying, i want to read you lieutenant governor dewhurst's point on this. we're not going to get it back in the house within filibuster range. we're going to make sure we've got plenty of time and no human being can talk for two weeks. they seem t

majorities in both houses and all these rallies, in austin and sure, you can get lieutenant governor dewhurst said you can get this vocal minority but the vast silent majority of texans are behind this legislation and want to see us get it done in this special session. >> i think he's really confused. what he is failing to recognize is that the majority of the people there today weren't our activist democrats. in fact, i wish they were. these were people who said enough is enough, and particularly women and the men who support the women in their lives. i mean, what has happened with texas republicans is that they only pander to those who vote in the republican primary, forgetting the majority of texans. >> so here is my question, today the senate was put into recession and recessed i believe until july 9th. there will be house hearing, i believe, tomorrow if i'm not mistaken and i want to read you lieutenant governor dewhurst, we want get it back to the house within filibuster range. we're going to make sure we have time and no human being can talk for two weeks. there is nothing you or wendy

dewhurst says there will be extra police at the capitol today, and anyone who breaks the rules will be thrown in jail. >> apparently that crackdown involved the confiscation of tampons. yes, you heard me right. tampons. this photo of tampon confiscation was posted to twitter as people were filing into the senate chamber to watch today's proceedings. we reached out to the texas department of public safety and asked if they were confiscating feminine hygiene products and if so why. we received this press release in response indicating they had information that people planned to "use a variety of items or props to disrupt the senate proceedings. as they searched for the notorious props, they say they found, "one job suspected to contain urine and 18 jars suspected to contain feces." "all of these items as well as significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti were discarded otherwise they were denied entry into the gallery." it there you have it. check your suspected jars of feces and tampons at the door, ladies. the texas senate has some work to do. [ mom ] wit

texas lieutenant governor david dewhurst who has been extremely instrumental in this whole discussion joins me now. lieutenant governor, welcome. good to have you here today. >> a pleasure, martha. hi. martha: there have been a thousand people who have signed up to testify in this, we have watched an 11-hour filibuster by democratic wendy davis in this. what do we expect the happen today? >> well, we just finished our hearing, 17 hours straight over in the senate. to we had some 4,000 -- so we had some 4,000 people that signed up. we had 500 people that we heard between 10:00 yesterday morning and 6:00 this morning. so we're getting ready to take up the bill on the senate floor probably the end of this week, the first part of next, and we're going to pass it, martha. martha: you expect that vote to pass? >> absolutely. no doubt in my mind. absolutely. martha: what do you say to those, you know, in terms of the restrictions, we know that it would put a 20-week restriction, 20 weeks and under on abortion in texas. there's also some changes in the regulations in where these abortions cou

david dewhurst said today there of the extra police officers at the state capital and anyone who breaks the rules gets thrown in jail. the bill would ban most abortions after 20 weeks as well as other restrictions. >> used homicide rate has hit its lowest point in the last three decades according to health officials. in 2010 the homicide rate for victims ages 10-24 was down more than half compared to 1992 when there was an explosion of crime tied to crack cocaine. a >> report released yesterday echoes earlier findings about a national decline in murders and other crimes in the last two decades. use account for about a third of homicide victims. >> to a prominent russian human rights officials say their meeting right now with an as a whistle blower edwards snowden. this is a picture of snowden at a press conference in moscow. snowden is believed to be stuck in the transit zone at moscow's international airport as he negotiates for asylum with another country. and as we look, nicaragua and bolivia have said they would be willing to grant asylum to snowden. it is unclear snowden would fly

as lieutenant governor dewhurst, by linking it to a tweet of plan the parenthood. >> both the purpose and the effect. all three of the courts have said, look, this is is going to shut down the only clinic in the state, three of the five clinics in the state, half the clinics in the state making it so women have to travel hundreds of miles. >> fight is not over if the texas law passes for precisely the reason you said. it will be i'm sure the first day challenged in court. jordan goldberg from the center of reproductive rights. i learned a lot tonight. that's "all in" for this evening. the "rachel maddow show" starts now. the one and only rachel maddow, back, looking tan, dynamic, and well rested. >> you're raising incredible expectations. >> you're glowing, you're jumping off the screen. great to have you back. >>> thanks. cheers. i feel a little embarrassed but in a nice way. that's very flattering. thanks to you for joining us this hour. it's not really a tan. i'm blushing. chances are you maybe do not visit the site myspace that much anymore. this is what myspace looks like these d

. >> what about the lieutenant governor david dewhurst he has seemed a little chagrined at how that was all handled. what will he do to ensure that the gallery does not try to take over the floor? >> again, it never happened the best i can tell in texas history has that ever happened. my sources rely that nothing like that has ever happened in texas history and the lieutenant governor i'm sure was as shocked as anyone and i'm also very confident that he is making arrangements if people want to come and disrupt the democratic process that they will be escorted out of the chamber appropriately. >> after the tilley buster and death of 9 -- after filibuster you look what a lot of people saw as a personal swipe to senator davis at the national right to life conference. >> she was a teenaged mother herself. she manage managed to eventualy graduate from harvard law school and serve in the texas senate. it is just unfortunate that she hasn't learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential and that every life matters. >> john: your comments were

one of the law's chief supporters, dewhurst, admitted as much when he tweeted out a plan the parenthood tweet about the fact the law is designed to shut them down. this is why we're passing it and sure enough. here's the announcement today. plan the parenthood announced the planned closure of three texas clinics today. combined impact of budget cuts to women's health care services and the dismantling of the successful women's health program will take affordable, preventative health care options away from women in bryan -- >> it makes me very sad. this is my home state. it makes me very sad for the women. there are vast stretches in texas where there's not even basic access to health care, much less the kind of reproductive care that women seek. when they're desperate for help, and we're already seeing the results of restricted access. right? there was another study, 7% of women have such restrictive access, they're trying to get abortions, they're trying to self-aboard first. >> i want to hammer this home. this is a really jaw-dropping statistic. a study out saying 7% of women in the st

as lieutenant governor dewhurst, by linking it to a tweet of plan the parenthood. >> both the purpose and the effect. all three of the courts have said, look, this is is going to shut down the only clinic in the state, three of the five clinics in the state, half the clinics in the state making it so women have to travel hundreds of miles. >> fight is not over if the texas law passes for precisely the reason you said. it will be i'm sure the first day challenged in court. jordan goldberg from the center of reproductive rights. i learned a lot tonight. that's "all in" for this evening. the "rachel maddow show" starts now. the one and only rhel

as lieutenant governor dewhurst, by linking it to a tweet of plan the parenthood. >> both the purpose and the effect. all three of the courts have said, look, this is is going to shut down the only clinic in the state, three of the five clinics in the state, half the clinics in the state making it so women have to travel hundreds of miles. >> fight is not over if the texas law passes for precisely the reason you

as lieutenant governor dewhurst, by linking it to a tweet of plan the parenthood. >> both the purpose and the effect. all three of the courts have said, look, this is is going to shut down the only clinic in the state, three of the five clinics in the state, half the clinics in the state making it so women have to travel hundreds of miles. >> fight is not over if the texas law passes for precisely the reason you said. it will be sooi'm sure the firs day challenged in court. jordan goldberg from the center of reproductive rights. i learned a lot tonight. that's "all in" for this evening. the "rachel maddow show" starts now, the one and only rachel maddow, back, looking tan, dynam dynamic, and well rested. >> you're raising incredible expectations. >> you're glowing, you're jumping off the screen. great to have you back. >> thanks. cheers. i feel a little em embarrassed but in a nice way. that's very flattering. thanks to you for joining us this hour. no it's not really a tan. i'm blushing. chances are you maybe do not visit the site myspace that much anymore. this is what myspace looks

president of the united states since the very moment the texas primary was called when he defeated dave dewhurst and he's running for president. he sees this as his running lane. he's going to whip up all the people on the far right in the republican party on this. and what is so demagoguic about ted cruz is ted cruz certainly intellectually understands that this is the wrong thing to do. he understands that we have to pay the bill on money that we've already spent. he's smart enough guy to understand the consequences to u.s. financial markets, to global markets, to have a sense of the unease this is creating in the european union with our trading allies. it's terrible politics because republicans will pay a hev price for this. >> do you think that ted cruz who i've accused of being a political terrorist, do you think he fears default on the national debt and fears a government shutdown? do you think he fears those things in a reasonable way or he's playing with them because he doesn't care if they blow up? >> steve? >> i think his ambition supersedes his care about them. it's not conceivable th

governor dewhurst tweeted that out, that he was very pleased that that would be the outcome of that bill and the reason that it will occur is because the standards that are required to become an ambulatory surgical center, to require that doctors that perform these services have admitting privileges within 30 miles of a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic and also to severely restrict medicinal abortions that are occurring today through the use of ru 486 will severely con strain women's access. we are a huge state and the fact of the matter is that these clinics will not be able to afford to adhere to a surgical center standard requirement and even those that will ultimately raise the money to do it will likely take a very long time in order for the new facility standards to be met. a few years ago when texas imposed on a 16-week and longer gestational period, this standard, it took about 2 1/2 years for five clinics to come up to the standards that are required under that. we know that it's going to have a very devastating outcome, particularly on women in our rural communities who d

president of the united states since the very moment the texas primary was called when he defeated dave dewhurst and he's running for president. he sees this as his running lane. he's going to whip up all the people on the far right in the republican party on this. and what is so demagoguic about ted cruz is ted cruz certainly intellectually understands that this is the wrong thing to do. he understands that we have to pay the bill on money that we've already spent. he's smart enough guy to understand the consequences to u.s. financial markets, to global markets, to have a sense of the unease this is creating in the european union with our trading allies. it's terrible politics because republicans will pay a heavy price for this. >> do you think that ted cruz who i've accused of being a political terrorist, do you think he fears default on the national debt and fears a government shutdown? do you think he fears those things in a reasonable way or he's playing with them because he doesn't care if they blow up? >> steve? >> i think his ambition supersedes his care about them. it's not con sooefbab

texas lieutenant-governor david dewhurst yesterday. >> why would we regulate our clinics differently if we're taking our child to have their tonsils removed or someone wants cataract surgery versus having an abortion? we want safe facilities. >> stephanie: oh, please. this is not about making facilities safer. this is about preventing anybody's ability to get an abortion. >> oar to have their -- or to have their tonsils removed. >> just shut that. >> stephanie: they're going to pass a bill somewhere that will not let pilots abort a landing if they're not on the right runway. will it stop at nothing? texas state representative thompson, a democrat. >> for the poor, you just happen to be up a creek. without a paddle. and you can go to the back alleys where the coat hanger is used. >> stephanie: exactly. obviously this is going backwards. that's all it is doing. you're not going to stop abortion. you'll have more women dying. it is unbelievable. >> they're probably good with that. >> stephanie: this is just trying to make things safer for women. oh, my god. really? >> did you hear the t