having me on. >> i should note our guest, marc veasey, congressman from texas, recruited wendy davis to be in the texas state senate. did you hear what governor rick perry said today about state senator wendy davis? it's on in texas. we've got that story coming up. [ larry ] you know throughout history, folks have suffered from frequent heartburn but now, thanks to treating with prilosec otc, we don't have to suffer like they used to. [ bell dings ] ♪ [ horse whinnies ] getting heartburn and then treating day after day is a thing of the past. block the acid with prilosec otc, and don't get heartburn in the first place. we've sure come a long way. ♪ [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. >>> the fight this week in texas has been riveting. senator wendy davis' 11 hour, 1-woman stand against the texas republican abortion ban that would close more than 80% of the women's health clinics that provide abortions in the state. thousands of people streaming through the texas state capitol to cheer senator davis on. a big portion of the country inside and outsid

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tribune helped to show the world with that camera and their reporting. wendy davis announced she was going to filibuster the abortion ban about that meant she would have to talk about the abortion bill without stopping, without sitting, without a bathroom break, eating or drinking, without violating any of the arcane rules of the texas state senate and she set out to do it for 13 hours. she did it for hours and hours and hours. wendy davis alone, sort of. there were thousands of supporters streaming into the capitol all day long. there were wrong lines to get in -- long lines to see her. starting at 11:00 a.m., things went smoothly about halfway through her planned filibuster, she was challenged by one of her republican colleagues, he accused her of going off topic. the lieutenant governor presiding over the chamber at that time agreed with the republican senator and wendy davis had strike one against her. an hour later they did it again. when a fellow democrat asked for some of her testimony to be repeated. a fellow senator helped her put on a back brace. republicans objected to that. tha

senator wendy davis brought the state of texas to a standstill with a one-woman filibuster. that was 2011 when she single handedly saved billions of dollars for education in texas by filibustering republican efforts to cut that funding. filibustering in texas is hard. the rules say only one person can filibuster, so you can't trade off with a colleague to get any relief. you cannot sit down. you cannot eat. you cannot touch the podium or the desk where you are standing. you cannot lean on anything. you cannot leave even for a second for any reason including having to go to the bathroom. you cannot just read the telephone book. you have to stay on the topic of the bill you are filibustering. filibustering in texas is hard, so, yeah, do not wear high heels if you are going to do it. having learned that lesson the last time, today in the texas legislature, that same state senator, wendy davis, she wore sneakers. and she wasn't shy about them. look. nice. wendy davis has spent all day, all day today, all day alone on her own not stopping, not eating, not drinking, not leaving, not peeing

prepares to take up the big immigration bill. he has also got texas state senator wendy davis. we, the wendy davis of wendy davis fame on "meet the press" on sunday morning. also i will be. i will be on "meet the press" as well this weekend hopefully with hair looking better than that. i'll be there along with nbc's pete williams and michael eric dyson and ralph reed from the christian coalition and my estranged but beloved uncle, jim demint, former republican senator and now the head of the heritage noun dagfoundation. i wonder what we'll talk about. sunday morning "meet the press." tonight on msnbc at 10:00 p.m. eastern, check out our live special we're doing on the george zimmerman trial. if you missed the trial coverage today or the rest of this week on msnbc, tonight this special is your chance to catch up on it. it has been an absolutely riveting trial. we'll be right back. with the spark miles card from capital one, bjorn earns unlimited rewards for his small business. take these bags to room 12 please. [ garth ] bjorn's small business earns double miles on every purchase every

. and now state senator wendy davis of texas says she personally will filibuster the antiabortion bill and just stand on the floor and personally keep talking until the midnight deadline to stop it from being voted on in the senate. that, of course, would stop everything in the special session from passing. stop a huge transportation spending bill, stop a big juvenile justice bill. but also this ban that would shut down 37 clinics in the state, it would ban abortion everywhere in texas at 20 weeks, it would effectively ban all legal abortion in all of west texas. wendy davis and the democrats say they will hold the floor all night, again, and as long as it takes to stop it. republicans, meanwhile, say they will do anything it takes to get it passed. and the protesters, the citizens' filibuster, has raised a real question as to who is actually going to win this fight. texas, who knew. we'll keep you posted. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support r

clinics in the states from 42 to 5. this is the same bill that texas democratic senator wendy davis filibustered it, whether the texas republicans wanted it or not. that all starts on monday, the pro choice rally in texas on monday starts at noon, texas governor rick perry's special session is starts at 2:00, this battle is raging right now, raging in the states. and it does not take weekends off. >>> right now president obama and south africa president jacob zuma taking reporter questions in south africa. also word obama will meet with nelson mandela's family. >>> california couples are now getting married weeks before expected. >>> also, a life-threatening heat wave is scorching the west. temperatures nearing the 130 mark in some places. a lot on the record for the airline industry. this time it's airline reservation fees. good morning, everyone. hope you're having a

. bye! >>> it's time for the "wendy williams show". today, elementary star, lucy liu, revealing in the hot seat.

. >> that's right. thank you park ranger. >> see you tomorrow.  >> announcer: it's time for "the wendy williams show." today,