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Forced ultrasound law in the last few years. they have them in texas, in louisiana, in indiana, in kansas and arizona and wisconsin. this is a relatively recent invention, this idea that state government should force you to have an ultrasound, essentially, as the price of having an abortion, even if you and your doctor do not want you to have an ultrasound. it's a relatively recent idea. but since the idea took hold, republicans have been pushing it all over the country. and the push for these laws happened all at once, all over the country, not because republican governors and legislatures al...

With this, as all. this is a full-blown occasionally profane fight, solely among republicans. about how hard they want to wage a fight, that they all acknowledge will be futile anyway, against something that democrats feel very comfortable about, and are unified around. this is the kind of day in politics where democrats just shut up, pop popcorn, and watch the other side self-destruct. but how does this end and who is likely to be left standing in this very, very ugly fight? joining us now is ryan grimm. he's the washington bureau chief for the "huffington post" and he is the guy who got the ...

Doesn't -- the part of it that seems like just desserts is how angry how many republicans have been at him since he's been in the senate for frequently embarrassing them, for running ads to try to push them on positions that will be unpopular with their constituents and things like that. but the part of that doesn't necessarily make sense to me is why they're so aggrieved at him. why do they think he's the one that put the whole party in this very bad decision? >> that part is very tactical. and as of yesterday morning, house republican leaders were thinking, you know, the only way that we can...

From americans united for life, the guy who was there actually running the operations of that group during the time that they published their model legislation on forced ultrasound, the guy who saw it taken up by republican legislatures across the country, saw it moved as legislation in more than a dozen states and signed into law all over the place, even in places where it was blocked by the courts because it simply seemed really, blatantly illegal. the guy who was in charge of that success for americans united for life, the guy who was in charge of actually running the day-to-day operations ...

And arizona and wisconsin. this is a relatively recent invention, this idea that state government should force you to have an ultrasound, essentially, as the price of having an abortion, even if you and your doctor do not want you to have an ultrasound. it's a relatively recent idea. but since the idea took hold, republicans have been pushing it all over the country. and the push for these laws happened all at once, all over the country, not because republican governors and legislatures all got the same idea all at once, but because of model legislation, a group called americans united for lif...