we almost just had the entire federal government shut down over republicans crusade to defund planned parenthood. are you willing to hold up this entire budget over defunding planned parenthood? well, of course i am. this weekend, would-be republican presidential candidate newt gingrich spoke at an event at liberty university where he was co-billed alongside a panel discussion called abortion: ending the holocaust. this is the way you construct a national mainstream republican candidacy now. you stand beside abortion as the holocaust events, you advocate shutting down the federal government rather than allowing funding for pap smears at planned parenthood. that s the republican mainstream and you want to be hard-core in your anti-abortion views, where does the mainstream stop and the fringe begin anymore? where is the line? joining us now for the interview tonight is steven singulair. he is author of the new book the witchta divide: the murder
fringe begin anymore? where is the line? joining us now for the interview tonight is steven singulair. he is author of the new book the witchta divide: the murder of dr. george tiller and the battle over abortion. mr. singulair, i have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time. thanks for coming in. thanks for having me. you write about the fight over abortion in this country as not just a fight, not just a debate, but you describe it as a civil war. why do you choose that term? well, i think that it s just entered so many lives and so many families. in this particular book, i took two families and wanted to show how that war had played out in the lives of the tiller family and the lives of the scott roeder family. and i didn t want to just write a diatribe about abortion, but i wanted to tell a story about it and how this kind of hateful rhetoric or this kind of demonization filters down into individual lives. neither one of these men intended to be involved in this
holocaust events, you advocate shutting down the federal government rather than allowing funding for pap smears at planned parenthood. that s the republican mainstream and you want to be hard-core in your anti-abortion views, where does the mainstream stop and the fringe begin anymore? where is the line? joining us now for the interview tonight is steven singulair. he is author of the new book the witchta divide: the murder of dr. george tiller and the battle over abortion. mr. singulair, i have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time. thanks for coming in. thanks for having me. you write about the fight over abortion in this country as not just a fight, not just a debate, but you describe it as a civil war. why do you choose that term? well, i think that it s just entered so many lives and so many families. in this particular book, i took two families and wanted to show how that war had played out in the lives of the tiller family and the lives of the scott roeder
ongoing. and it is not ongoing well. the reactor owner reporting a new fire today at the number four reactor at fukushima. that fire was before the announcement about raising the severity assessment for the overall disaster. that fire, we are now told, has been put out. but, again, we are awaiting a formal announcement from the japanese government that the fukushima disaster is now an international level seven disaster. on the international zero to seven scale, where zero is zero and seven is chernobyl, japan now says fukushima is a seven. we will keep you posted tonight as we learn more. here at home in the united states, all eyes on politics, where no one quite knows how the balance of power will settle out after washington very nearly avoided a government shutdown late on friday night. and in the midst of that uncertainty, behold the living definition of political opportunity. republicans have proposed for next year s budget, reducing the tax rate paid by the richest peo
that fire was before the announcement about raising the severity assessment for the overall disaster. that fire, we are now told, has been put out. but, again, we are awaiting a formal announcement from the japanese government that the fukushima disaster is now an international level seven disaster. on the international zero to seven scale, where zero is zero and seven is chernobyl, japan now says fukushima is a seven. we will keep you posted tonight as we learn more. here at home in the united states, all eyes on politics, where no one quite knows how the balance of power will settle out after washington very nearly avoided a government shutdown late on friday night. and in the midst of that ç uncertainty, behold the living definition of political opportunity. republicans have proposed for next year s budget, reducing the tax rate paid by the richest people in this country to its lowest level since 1931. whoo-hoo! good news for the big guy. if you think the economic ineq