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>> what does her moment last night, and i should be very clear, that bill was not passed in that session, the governor's called another one. that fight is going to start next week. what did that moment mean for texas democrats who had been on the map for so long in that state? >> yeah. chris, that literally was the moment that texas democrats came alive, i spent ten years in the legislature waiting for a night like that, and i never got it, we never got it when i was there. and so it was electrifying last night, i stayed up here in washington until 2:30, 3:00 in the morning following all the c...

Public opinion. we are undoubtedly moving forward, and i think this issue will be back at the supreme court. the doma decision, and i want to give a shout joud to edye and the aclu and the stanford law clinic who drove that case and did a phenomenal job. the decision was about doma. it's really clear about i the ringing declarations that equality means equality. including for gay people and in the context of gay people's family relationships, this is a building block going-forward. >> anthony kennedy cites the fifth amendment of the constitution, and the violation of equal protection, that con...

Texas. >> i would even go a little further than it doesn't help. let's look at the stark facts of the state of texas, it's growing in population, the population growth is coming disproportionately from hispanics, it's going to be the case in the near future that there will be a hispanic majority in that state, if you are a white republican in the state of texas, you have every incentive to limit the growing power of that majority. >> that's exactly right. as you mentioned greg abbott said that the voter i.d. law that was passed in 2011 would take effect immediately. but they also regulated thi...

And they were loud, and they were heard. and that's what democracy is about, and i was really proud of the way people conducted themselves. >> that was an amazing moment to watch. all right, there is a gubernatorial election in 2014, your state has not elected a statewide democrat for quite some time. are you going to run for governor? >> you know, i would be lying if i told you that i hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office. i love this state, and it's been an incredible opportunity to represent it in the texas senate, i think, though, the real story will be, will the sent imt of...

Strike down section 4 of the voting rights act yesterday, the state of texas moved to capitolize on what officials there see as a political victory. texas attorney general greg abbott announcing the state would be immediately implementing a voter i.d. law that was blocked last year under the now defunct authority of the voting rights act. with today's decision, the state's voter i.d. law will take effect immediately. and while he was at it, he also made a push to revive the redirecting maps texas republicans tried to implement back in 2011, by which a federal judicial panel said last year viol...