presidential he was looking. i could be looking at the next running mate here. some people say the guy sitting across from me, would be a pretty good number two on the ticket. you d be open to it? look, if somebody called and said you could help our country, our ticket, any of us would think about it. before he became the vaginal probe guy, bob mcdonnell got showered with flattering questions about his political promise prabltly everywhere he went. then the last week and a half happened. republicans in virginia were all set to make a new law requiring virginia women to undergo a vaginal probe ultrasound before the state would allow them to get an abortion. it passed both houses of the virginia legislature. governor mcdonnell already said he would sign it and then the national media noticed and everyone, including us, freaked out. made its way on to saturday night live last weekend. there was a big sideline the protest outside the capital in richmond on monday. there were bi
guy. you backed the bill, now you say no. why? i support the concept of an ultrasound requirement as part of the informal informed consent. i still support that. what i requested is simply an amendment that requires an abdominal ultrasound. i support the bill. i still support the bill. so in his first interviews in his new post-vaginal probe world, governor bob mcdonnell want tos make it clear that he still supports this measure, still supports the government mandating a medical procedure for political reasons, just not necessarily the one that goes inside your vagina. bob mcdonnell is resisting his new political identity as the vaginal probe guy. if you were educating yourself on this bill, did you originally not realize it would mandate an invasive procedure? normally a governor would review
cumulatively built toward to the point where this is not an avoidable discussion anymore. from the democratic perspective, do you think we re now at a part where resistance to the republicans abortion agenda is a national political issue for democrats? obviously it s this is an issue that people want to talk about. do democrats want to talk about the being the ones who are going to stand up and stop them on this? i think we should. i think democrats should we were talking about this earlier today at our board meeting. to me, i see this as we have an opportunity to have a conversation with americans that says, let s not it s not about the procedure at some point. i think that s part of what has reinvigorated and reawakened women in a lot of ways. at some point it s about fundamental liberty and personal freedom. that my government tells me i have to have some kind of probe inserted into my vagina? if that isn t government intervention, i don t know what is. even if these conve
a five-hundred dollar professional treatment for a transformation that s hard to believe. wow, that s you? [ female announcer ] new intensive professional effects whitestrips. and try 3d white toothpaste and rinse. from crest. life opens up when you do. virginia governor bob mcdonnell welcome to your post vaginal probe world, a world that you have created. i have to ask you about this red hot story that has gotten so much ink, so many women in particular fired up. virginia drew national attention for the proposal. did they? my understanding is that they did. an abortion bill that would have mandated women get a trans-vaginal ultrasound if they were getting an abortion. this was not always bob mcdonnell s world. the thing everybody was clamoring to ask him about until a couple weeks ago, is how
compromise is really not good for women. it s great that it s not going to be a transvaginal probe. disgusting. you see little bits of retreat but it s going to be very hard for them to retreat because they have gone way, way out on a limb here, ed, and they staked this. mitt romney who used to be kind of a moderate on these issues. his wife donated to planned parenthood and now he s against title 10 funding. they keep outdoing themselves on the right. when they try to come back to the center, whoever it is, presumably romney in the general election, i don t know. he just can t scramble that fast in the summer. today democrats heard testimony of sandra fluke. here she is describing a fellow student s experience at georgetown university. this is a message that not covering the cost of contraception sends. it isn t a necessity. it isn t a priority. one woman told us that she knew birth control wasn t covered on the insurance so when she was