analyst and washington bureau chief at mother jones, david corn. and daily beast senior contributing writer michelle goldberg. also joining us, texas democratic state senator la tee shah vandepue. thank you all for joining me. >> thank you. >> i want to go first to the state senators. if senator thompson could start off, explain to us the bill that started all of this. what was actually in the bill? i sort of gave a quick description of it but why were women in the state senate in such great objection to it? >> i'm in the texas house of representatives across the hall from the state senate. it was restricting the right of women to be able to have an abortion and limiting the abilities for that. for instance, they would not have the opportunity to get an