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Admit a minimum wage number of patients to their hospital each year. because abortions have such a very, very rare follow-up in terms of the need for any woman to present at an emergency room, no doctor is going to be able to fill the quota of the patient demand. and they understood this. in fact, lieutenant at the time, lieutenant governor due hurst was very clear as to why these standards were being passed in the state of texas. it was with the stated purpose of closing these clinics, not with the purpose that they're hiding behind now, of protecting women's health. >> this has become a real...

Group of primarily men who were coming together to make decisions about women's health care, and women's access to health care in the state of texas. and literally intruding upon private decision making by women. and so i think maybe perhaps people viewed it more starkly in that regard. >> we just got news today, governor perry has called another special session for next week to push this bill among a few others. and he said this, i thought this was an interesting sentence in his statement, we will not allow the breakdown of de core um and decency to present us from doing what the people of th...

Private decision making by women. and so i think maybe perhaps people viewed it more starkly in that regard. >> we just got news today, governor perry has called another special session for next week to push this bill among a few others. and he said this, i thought this was an interesting sentence in his statement, we will not allow the breakdown of de core um and decency to present us from doing what the people of this state lettered us to do. how do you respond to that? >> i would respond to that by saying governor perry and lieutenant governor due hurst led the charge in terms of a breakdow...

You stood in that chamber? >> i did. but i wish i could tell you that was atypical here. on this particular issue, i think it became even more stark that we were talking about a group of primarily men who were coming together to make decisions about women's health care, and women's access to health care in the state of texas. and literally intruding upon private decision making by women. and so i think maybe perhaps people viewed it more starkly in that regard. >> we just got news today, governor perry has called another special session for next week to push this bill among a few others. and h...

Contest that we've seen really going on now for two years but we've seen it recently in the lugar versus murdoch contest, which is how strong are these kind of anti-establishment sentiments in the particularly the republican electorate? we see this in the democratic electorate, too. how much are people going to penalize incumbents not on ideological grounds about a general sense, you've been up there too long, time for a change. >> one of the issues is, and this is a big issue, of course, in texas, immigration. and the tea party candidate attacking due hurst for allegedly supporting amnesty. >...