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From the event gel call, african-american and latino communities. interestingly enough for mr. cruz, its been less than a year since he won the texas runoff against david duhurst. congressman king says he will run for president in 2016. saying those concerned with a national defense policy approached him to run. saying it is motivated by the shift in debate by some leading republicans. >> it bother, me when the leading republicans out there, someone like rand paul seems more concerned about an a...

Keep pushing senate bill 5, the draconian abortion restriction bill that state senator wendy davis, texas democrats and a raucus group of ordinary people managed to stop tuesday night. >> what we witnessed tuesday was nothing more than the hijacking of the democratic process. [ applause ] this is simply too important a cause to allow unruly actions of a few to stand in its way. and that is the reason that i have announced that i am bringing lawmakers back to austin, texas, to finish their busine...

Constitutional right. and ways hats so disturbing ist we dont seem to care. >> senator davis wore pink tennis shoes, you see them there, that have already become iconic. according to the rules of the state senate, only one person can filibuster. you cannot sit down. you cannot eat. you cannot even lean on anything or go to the bathroom. and you cant go off topic at all. moments before midnight, republican lieutenant governor david duhurst ruled that davis had violated the senates three strike ru...

The chair recognizes senator for a motion. >> retire senate bill -- house amendments to senate bill 5. >> just an amazie ining environ. republicans did not have enough time to pass the bill before the legislature special session ended at midnight. when he announced the vote occurred too late to be signed into law, a crowd supporters erupted outside. >> the lieutenant governor has agreed that sb-5 is dead. [ cheers ] >> our political editor joins me for more. this is an amazing story that overnig...

Patients and make sure about that. but talking about ammo clips and which guns are available that is second amendment issue and could get messy. >> when the nra talked about armed security guards, the white house dismissed that proposal as something they would not consider . now i mentioned earlier, senator barbara boxer is proposing legislation to bring up for the president to use federal funds to pay for the federal security guards. what do you think of this? >> i think there are democrats and...

Their right. theyre all subject in one way or another now to the perfection process, the ongoing purge that is still gripping republican party politics. so far it has killed or cut short the careers of senator dick luger of indiana and senator bob bennett of utah and congressman mike castle of delaware and governor charlie crist of florida and john bruining in nebraska and trey greyson in kentucky and, and, and, and, and tonight in texas again, the case of a genuinely conservative republican, ri...

Has a record because theres always some conciliation of that for cooperating the democrats as a lieutenant governor. its stunning. >> the way it looks like it was won is riding the national coat tails of the phantom tea party leaders of the republican party whereby calling somebody a moderate you essentially establish them as unelectable in the republican party. the other big thing is money. but ted cruz had all of this money coming in from outside texas. do you think thats sort of the new norma...

Or another now to the perfection process, the ongoing purge that is still gripping republican party politics. so far it has killed or cut short the careers of senator dick luger of indiana and senator bob bennett of utah and congressman mike castle of delaware and governor charlie crist of florida and john bruining in nebraska and trey greyson in kentucky and, and, and, and, and tonight in texas again, the case of a genuinely conservative republican, rick perrys lieutenant governor seen here ost...

You know, its a sign of the times. its, you know, what happened in indiana, as you said earlier in the segment. works best when your opponent has a record, because theres always some conciliation in that record, and thats what he beat him on, for cooperating with democrats as lieutenant governor. its stunning. the way that -- the way, at least, it looks like this was one is both sort of riding that national coat -- those national coattails of the phantom tea party leaders of the republican party...

>> moving right along, "the new york times," home grown ji hardists are taking a more prominent role in the uprising against bashar al assad. theyve been able to become more organized and to increase financing. >> for more parade of papers, "houston chronicle" story showing us all the big spending isnt just happening in washington, d.c. one of the most expensive end party political battles in texas history will be decided tomorrow night when republican ted cruz and lieutenant governor david duhu...