candidate for governor has been campaigning with fiery ex-rocker ted nugent. after nugent called the president a subhuman mongrel. an insult to every texan. those are some of the reactions from political opponents and bloggers from some of those. ed lavandera tried asking about nugent and i wanted to play for you how that happened. why did you think it was a good idea to campaign with ted nugent? it s funny how the reactive, the davis campaign is to this. it shows that he s driven a wedge and exposed the fraud that they have displayed on second amendment-based issues. ted nugent was a way to expose winnie davis for her flipflopping on government related issues. but this is texas. finding someone who is proguns is not that hard. why does it have to be ted
attorney general greg abbott. at first abbott was more than happy to campaign with ted nugent. but now he doesn t really want to talk about it. mr. abbott, why did you think it was a good idea to campaign with ted nugent? you know, it s funny how reactive the davis campaign is to this. ted nugent was a way to expose winnie davis for her flip-flopping on gun-related issues. but this is texas. but this is texas. finding someone who is pro-guns is not that hard. why does it have to be ted nugent. what is your question? mr. abbott, would you give us a chance to clarify on ted nugent? you already asked it. why would you associate with somebody who describes the sitting president as a subuhuman mongrel, has described politicians in vile ways? will you use him again in a campaign? leaders are elected to lead. instead these politicians are embracing the worst kind of
but the headline, he is confident this battle is far from over. did michael dunn get away with murder? not yet. not yet. we heard from juror four yesterday who thinks dunn did get away with murder in the killing of 17-year-old jordan davis. but was there something the state could have done better? do you have run across your mind you wish you had done anything differently? always. there is always things you can do differently, different evidence, different argument, better performance. there is never a perfect trial. slow it be better the next time. so he is talking about different evidence and different arguments. what s the new strategy? and how could it affect the new trial? joining me now, former prosecutor faith jenkins, florida defense lawyer ken padowitz, and lisa bloom, legal analyst for avo.com. and she is also author of suspicion nation: the inside story of the trayvon martin injustice and why we continue to repeat it. thanks for being here. thank yo
complicated and could get complicated and they want to make sure that women are safe in texas. but, the critics of this bill say that it will effectively close these abortion clinics, because they can t afford to make the upgrades and that a lot of the hospitals in rural parts of the state would not allow doctors to perform abortions at their hospitals. so it s a quagmire that the legislature tried to work through. it passed last night, late into the night, senators debated this bill. all of the republicans have voted for it, except for one, who was absent. and all but one of the democrats voted against it. and governor rick perry, as we mentioned, said that he will sign the bill, and that could happen as early as next week. yeah, we ve been looking at some of this video here. this is such a hotly debated bill. i mean, fireworks on both sides of this. and you said, governor perry could sign it possibly as early as next week. but what about democrats like winnie davis and other people