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>> i'm shelley luther. this is what i think about chinese communist drones flying over my property. >> you ran for texas state senate. >> yes. >> in 2020. >> i did. >> you lost that election. >> i did. >> when we look through the campaign finance report back in 2020, more than 90% of your financing came from two west texas billionaires. >> yes. >> ferris wilkes and tim dunn. >> yes. >> in this election, it's over 80%. what do those men mean to your campaign? >> without them i couldn't have even run. they're great men. they're great people. >> you've been a columnist in fort worth for how long?...

Protect the right to travel. >> so as you noted, your bill was voted on in the house yesterday. it passed. it's not going to get the 60 votes it needs to pass in the senate. so what comes next? >> well, i'm not sure that it won't get the 60 votes it needs in the senate yet. certainly we're not going to stop trying, because these are fundamental rights. we did see in the house of representatives, we passed two bills yesterday, one, the women's health protection act that codifies statutory right to abortion in all 50 states. in texas, people have been leaving the state since last september when ...

Threatening people who seek to leave. here in a crisis in texas. i think it's worth remembering that since september, more than 1400 texans have left the state every month to seek abortion care in other states. and now they're having to go farther as those states roll back the right to access to abortion. so, what we're seeing here is that people who are helping them, people, employers who are reimbursing them for their travel expenses or covering their abortion care and their health insurance plans are getting threatening letters from state legislators, threatening them with criminal prosecut...

On connecting customers with local businesses. it was one of the first in the us to offer to pay the cost if its staff travelled out of their own state for an abortion and it has been vocal on plenty of other social issues as well. to find out why, i have been speaking to its chief diversity officer. miriam warren, a real pleasure having you on my show, thanks for your time. miriam, can we start with this, why have you as a company felt the need to be so vocal and ahead of the curve on the abortion debate in the us? certainly when we started to see where this was headed, ie looking at the stat...

Private cause of action that would allow anybody sued under a texas style bounty law related to care here in connecticut to sue their persecutor right back in connecticut state court for damages, attorney fees and costs. >> so you mentioned that texas sb-8, that law that allows for private citizens to sue anyone that is either seeking or assisting someone seeking an abortion. your law allows those people who may get sued to counter sue, is that right? >> that is exactly right. and the idea of that provision is more than anything to deter anyone in texas or one of the other states from utilizin...