The Huffington Post’s Laura Bassett shares details on a recently introduced New Mexico bill that would criminalize women getting abortions after rape. Then UCLA professor and author Adam Winkler has the latest news about the gun control debate in America, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban proposal. Plus, Jamie DeWolf, great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, talks about whether a new book featuring interviews with current and former Scientologists threatens the religion.
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New Mexico bill criminalizing abortion is meant to ‘protect women’ but would really have them thrown in jail
Cenk Uygur talks with Huffington Post reporter Laura Bassett about the new bill in New Mexico seeking to criminalize abortions performed after a woman has been raped, defining the procedure as “tampering with evidence.” watch video
Scientology founder’s great-grandson: ‘It’s one of the most brilliant and devious, systematic brainwashing systems that’s ever been invented’
Cenk Uygur talks with Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard about his grievances with the religion and how it has affected his own family. watch video
‘The KKK was founded, in part, as a gun control organization’
Cenk Uygur talks with UCLA law professor and author Adam Winkler and Ray Hinton, a gun owner on TYT’s own production staff, about the kind of weaponry that existed when the Second Amendment was conceived. watch video
From the show: SEC chair nominee Mary Jo White may be tough on crime, but she has spent the last decade defending the banksters
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