senator who filibustered 11 hours against another restrictive abortion law back in 2013. senator davis, the governor didn t acknowledge that many women as congresswoman ocasio-cortez pointed out don t even know that they are pregnant in the first six weeks. i m wondering what you made of his comments. well, i agree with the congresswoman that his comments were completely repulsive and absolutely unacceptable and not at all in keeping with the understanding of how menstruating people s bodies work. and i want to make sure that your viewers understand a couple of things about texas and its approach to protecting sexual assault survivors. when i was in the texas senate, we had the largest backlog of untested rape kits of any state in the country, over 20,000. and i had to fight like hell to begin the process to start testing the backlog and to prevent a future backlog.
any reason to think their minds are not already made up if and when they have to rule on the merits? you know, the only question to me is whether they give roe a decent burial and overturn it or they create some are fiction where they uphold the texas law, which they are clearly committed to doing, but somehow say that roe is still good law. i don t see how that s possible. i mean, a six-week law is a is a ban on abortion rights. you know, lawyers are lawyers. they can make up distinctions where none exist. but i think the die is cast here and we are now heading to a moment where abortion rights are going to be fought out state by state. and texas has been won by the anti-abortion forces. stay with it because i want to bring in former next text democratic state senator wendy davis who led a marathon filibuster against abortion legislation back in 2013. senator davis, i want to read part of something you tweeted earlier.
lose credibility. you can see why whether or not there is overwhelming evidence of ufos. a sound approach to finding facts to be opened to possibilities based on evidence. not to ignorantly dismissed things or worry about mockery. there are reasons to take this seriously. national security reasons, tonight s story is about ufos and arrogance which could be counter productive. take for example this top facility in nevada. the place you are looking at here does not exist but it does, that s area 51. that secrecy is more intrigued until the u.s. acknowledged it in 2013. senator harry reed who was pushing for more transparency. he wanted the u.s. and the government here to take these
complete border what ul are not the same thing. in fact, here s the kind of border security democrats have already supported in 2013. senator schumer and house minority leader nancy pelosi both were in favor of spending $40 billion on a border security plan that called for building 700 miles of new fencing and would have doubled the number of border security agents to roughly 40,000. it got bipartisan support. it passed in the senate but failed in the republican-controlled house, because they wouldn t even bring it forward for a vote. so in the past, democrats supported spending $40 billion on border security but they made it very clear today that they will not spend billions of dollars to pay for president trump s border wall. so, mr. president, president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. the current funding bill
service. what i like to look at for many of our leaders and a look at this present time, as well, how they are family first. the one thing about john mccain, he always stood up for his family and stood up for his country. that s what leadership is all about. john: he was a hero as well as a patriot. eric beach, thank you. thank you for having me. john: joining us now on the phone, former arizona senator john kyle, served in the senate alongside other mccain from 1995 until 2013. senator kyle, i m sure you will miss this man. i really am. we all knew it was coming but once the reality sets in, it s a different proposition. we will miss him very much. john: arizona was very much in his blood. he loved the state. he loved his ranch. you know, he came here as an