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Raped me repeatedly. several times. the only reason it stopped is because my father found us. my parents protected me and they made good decisions on my behalf. and i am a whole person because of the love and care of my parents and my faith community and the counseling that i was able to receive, individually, and with my family. and that should have been kept private. but because of this bill, i need to tell this story. >> because of this bill, which in wisconsin, there was a mandatory ultrasou...

I was the guy working the cones out there. you really are not serious with that question. >> oh, pugnacious, the tough guy who plays for laughs. that is the patented and trademarked chris christie recipe for getting good press, no matter what, despite everything else about you. but that last bit there, the one about the overalls and the hat and the traffic cones, that may not be a serious enough answer to the questions that he was being asked there. because although he has been joking about it i...

That was made a little squirrely today by "the wall street journal" in a small, significant way. "wall street journal" reports that while governor christie was maintaining publicly he has no involvement here, how dare anybody ask him about this. such an unserious matter. while he has been maintaining that publicly he has been on the horn to new york governor andrew cuomo, complaining about this. mr. christie would like this story to please go away. and reportedly he is unhappy about the role of ...

I was the guy working the cones out there. you really are not serious with that question. what happened? chris christie does not really care about this scandal as of a week ago. that was made a little squirrely today by "the wall street journal" in a small, significant way. "wall street journal" reports that while governor christie was maintaining publicly he has no involvement here, how dare anybody ask him about this. such an unserious matter. while he has been maintaining that publicly he has...

As republican legislators not just in washington, was around the country, as they have pursued a record number of rollbacks to abortion rights, as republicans have become superaggressive on anti-abortion and even anti-contraception legislation over these past three years, the other legislative phenomenon that has gone along with that is women legislators starting to tell very, very personal stories in legislatures, in a public context. trying to hold off these new restrictions by talking about w...

>> and theyve been conditioned. and i think you cant overstate the fact that everyone in washington, until the shutdown happened, knew the shutdown wasnt going to happen, because obviously thats a crazy idea. their world got flipped upsidedown when the shutdown happened. when literal a few dudes in the think tank in washington called the shots and made the government shutdown. all of a sudden its like, whoa, if they can make that happen, all bets are off. we dont know what the rules are. >> and ...

You really are not serious with that question. >> oh, pugnacious, the tough guy who plays for laughs. that is the patented and trademarked chris christie recipe for getting good press, no matter what, despite everything else about you. but that last bit there, the one about the overalls and the hat and the traffic cones, that may not be a serious enough answer to the questions that he was being asked there. because although he has been joking about it in public, governor christie is apparently d...

Remarkable speech yesterday in the michigan senate, senator gretchen whitmer says she called her father right away, because she had never told him that story before she said it last night on the senate floor and she wanted him to hear it from her. joining us now is gretchen whitmer, the leader of the minority democratic caucus in the state senate. senator whitmer, thank you so much for being with us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me, rachel. im a huge fan and im glad to...

Then we got rid of this ridiculous mechanism and then a budget deal was struck. in fact, that budget deal was precisely half way between the senate and half budget numbers, which as someone pointed out in twitter today, a child could divide chocolate cake in a faster amount of time than we could get to that number. >> if they were supposed to blow up washington, washington seems less blown up. >> it seems less blown up because, a, there was a deal and youre filling an executive branch and judici...

Republicans have become superaggressive on anti-abortion and even anti-contraception legislation over these past three years, the other legislative phenomenon that has gone along with that is women legislators starting to tell very, very personal stories in legislatures, in a public context. trying to hold off these new restrictions by talking about what they, themselves, have been through as women. lawmakers taking the kind of risk that congresswoman jackie speier took in congress. more often, ...