. >> texas lieutenant governor. >> texas lieutenant governor david dewhurst. >> texas lieutenant governor david dewhurst. ♪ david dewhurst ♪ lieutenant gov ♪ you've got to love ♪ saving babies ♪ protecting ladies ♪ you're the most pro life candidate ♪ ♪ religious nation ♪ obama nation ♪ won't come to the good state of texas ♪ >> they actually say "break it down." this ad actually ran on television in texas. disco david dewhurst. the casio keyboard anthem about how anti-abortion he is. ♪ david dewhurst ♪ saving babies wow. the david dewhurst campaign in texas actually dropped that ad. ran it on broadcast television the day before the texas elections this week. it's almost like the campaign knew how badly david dewhurst was going to do in the elections this week. they knew he was going to lose his seat. and they just said you know, we spent this money to make the anti-abortion disco song about him. ♪ saving ladies we paid for the song, we might as well run the freaking ad. they just decided the last day before the election, let's burn the campaign down, let's do

we do not, in texas. >> oh, yes you do, texas. you did so over and over again. but that veto happened in 2001. i have to say from a personal perspective that's one of the more amazing headlines any of us will see in our lives. ban on execution of the retarded is vetoed in texas. if any of us talk to st. peter one of the questions will be are you american? okay. are were you alive on june 18, 2001? can you explain your own behavior with regard to this headline, please? personal aside. in any case, that was 2001. the following year, june 20, 2002. that was when the united states supreme court ruled that, no, it actually in america is not constitutional to people who are that disabled. adopting the conventional definition of an iq score lower than roughly 70 the court said the 8th amendment of the constitution prohibits the legal execution of anybody with that level of intellectual disability. if the law considers you mentally retarded they cannot legally kill you in any state in the nation. there's been national attention to the execution texas planned to carry ou

>> 30.2%. >> and in texas? >> 0%. >> that would get anyone's attention. >> that's why you have seen texas really be the job creation star in the united states over the last decade, and also creating the middle class jobs, but the national economy in california has not been creative. >> that's a good point, this middle class point, a lot of people look at california and they say, look, this is silicon valley's booming, the tech mecca and so on and so forth, but a report that you've looked at, talks about california having a barbell economy. explain that. >> particularly outlay which is really kind of a microchasm of california's economy. you have the really rich on the one side, and then you have a growing group of poor people and really a shrinking middle class, whom blue collar people who used to work in manufacturing, industrial output, that has since disappeared from l.a. entirely almost. >> so the boom in high-tech, which affects the rich, that hasn't spread out to the rest of the state? >> if you look at t

. >> of texas. >> of texas. let's dig into the costs. what are the relative cost burdens, what are the advantages from a business point of view of it texas versus california? >> first of all, it's right to work. so lower unionization. >> that allows -- you don't have to join a union. >> that's right. >> so it reducelabor. >> that's right. >> okay. >> lower energy prices. >> why? >> why? because they don't have the renewable -- all the green policies, renewable mandates. >> renewable mandates are for solar and wind and other things, which are higher cost, and because california has imposed that on their energy industries, costs are higher in california than in texas? >> that's right. about 50% higher in california. >> 50% higher. >> yeah. and they're going up. that's the scary thing. they could go up even more. >> what else? >> gas prices are about 70 to 80 cents cheaper in texas. than the rest of the south. >> wow. and then, of course, the tax burden, where the top marginal tax rate in california is

what we do in texas. he thinks he'ses the one through all his executive orders that congress isn't even up to his level. so i'm not surprised he thinktion he can also change the weather. >> oh, yeah. wear the plaid shirt and go after the president. folks, those are the words of a man one step closer to the second highest office in the state of texas. proof that the tea party is still very much alive and well in the lone star state. joining me fora pid response panel on this. sarah slayman. a field director for the democratic party in texas and also, professor mark jones, chair of the department of political zriens political science at rice university. can you give us a description of the political climate in texas if tea party is not showing very much strength nationally but in texas, it seems to be very strong. what gives? >> well, the tea party in texas is stronger than ever. we've seen the tea party not only win elections but pull the entire center of gravity within the texas republican party further t

abortionist in texas. and to find updated news throughout the day go to www.aljazeera.com where the news continues 24 hours a day 7 days a week nonstop. we'll see you then. >>> it's friday afternoon ain te rio grande valley in texas. >> abortion is one of the most common medical procedures for women around the world. >> two friends are meeti reading a manual about how to give yourself an abortion? are. >> yeah. >> you said you are -- >> for sure right now, i am seven weeks. >> okay. yeah. that's good because once you get to 12 weeks, it gets riskier >> they wouldn't let us film their faces because here, like in most states, what they are illegal. >> ultimately, the number 1 thing has to be your choice and you need to be sure that you want it. >> i am sure. >> to end her pregnancy, 23-year-old melissa is going to take a drug called misoprostal, normally used to treat you willers? >> put them under your tongue because they are more effective that way. >> it will cause a miscarriage? >> it does say on the box

if you don't live in texas, you can't register voters in texas. the laws require county training for anyone registering voters. and these trained volunteers must then personally deliver all registration applications as opposed to mailing the applications to the state registration offices, which you can do in other states. these laws create obstacles for groups like ballottleground to register voters. so i have a question, is that the point? joining me now, jelani cobb, ari berman, contributing writer at the nation magazine, zack roth who's been in texas reporting on battleground and dale ho, director of the aclu's voting rights project. s so, dale, talk to me about a set of laws, sophisticated and elegant rules about registration. i mean is this a kind of new way of suppressing the vote by actually suppressing registration? >> it seems like we're playing a game of whack-a-mole right now. every time we whack down something like a voter i.d. law, some new tactic pops up and that's why the voting rights act was passed in the first place in 1965. so b

the state of texas lies and says there is. according to a lawsuit filed this past fall, texas sent a purchase order to a company called pharmacy innovations to try to buy a number of drugs that the state of texas wanted to use to inject into prisoners to kill them. on the purchase order to this pharmacy, they said the entity that was requesting the drugs was "the huntsville unit hospital." which sounds nice, right? except what they mean is, the texas state penitentiary at huntsville, also sometimes known as the huntsville unit, which is not a hospital. the prison had a hospital long ago apparently but that hospital has not existed since something like 1983. when the pharmacy found out where they had really sent their drugs in response to this purchase order, when they found out it wasn't to a hospital and what it meant about how these drugs were going to be used, the company reportedly was shocked. they were caught unaware that the drugs were purchased to use them for lethal injections. but texas apparently fooled that company

we're proud of all of our schools in texas. university of texas is just north. both of them are wonderful. >> to what degree, and i was going somewhere, to what degree is the presence of these universit s helpful to your sustained growth. >> a lot of students graduating whether it be from direction texas state or university of texas want to remain in our community. our hope is to ensure that they have the type of jobs, employers, housing stock and educational resources for their children and great quality of life. we're working with a region with all the different municipalities to make that happen. >> it's not a vacuum in san marcos. i'm going to talk to somebody else about this in a minute, but texas is benefitin benefiting fe particular trends. people who are migrating from rural areas into cities, and people who are migrating to texas because it's a state that's growing. and third one, texas seems to have more advanced immigration outlooks and laws than some neighboring states. so you're getting people in from mexico. the people who are coming into san marco

texas is huge. you know, three or four or five collinics here is going to be many hours' drive for a lot of people. and i either have texas at my disposal or mexico because i am on the border. there is nothing really -- there is nothing closer or in between. >> it's just a half hour's drive for melissa to get to mexico where she bought the mysoprostel. we wanted to see what her journey looked like. so we headed there with the local activist. >> how far is the border? >> 15 or 20 minutes away. >> it? >> yeah. >> really close? >> are there several groups you work with down here? >> no. there are no groups. people do things like individually, but there is no, like, organized movement hard. >> yeah. it is since you want to do stuff and like last year, there was a lot of momentum, and then it kind of just, you know, died off. the horrible thing happened. >> within 20 minutes, we crossed into nuevo progresso, a small border town pharmacies? >> this is a big business here. here? >> yeah. >> to buy cheap dr

texas will not say where it's from. we're pretty sure it's not from the pharmacy that the state lied to when they called the prison a hospital and tried to order the drug that way. the drug is also not from this compounding pharmacy in tulsa, oklahoma which used to make the drug for states to kill prisoners but stopped after a lawsuit. that execution in oklahoma where the guy said i feel my whole body burning, one pharmacologist testified saying, it is my opinion the statement is consistent with the drug's injecti injection. even though they h-- we know a where is texas has tried to get drugs but probably aren't its supplier for whatever they're going to do tomorrow. but we have no idea where this stuff came from. texas says they're quite sure it's safe. but we won't tell you where we got it. and the question, in the middle of all this sketchy pharmaceutical ad libbing the states are doing, the question is are these experiments just going to continue? are we just going to bumble our way through, developing new combinati

we've got a heavy front that is sitting from south texas to north texas and east. so we're going to get a lot of rain over the next couple days. >> very quickly, are you going to be -- will you be able to endorse the republican nominee, no matter who it is, if it's not you? >> i have always supported -- i mean when ted cruz won in 2012, i immediately called him. i wekt out and campaigned for him and hosted fund-raisers for him. >> so if you don't win today -- >> this is a very for voters. who has the most ability and who has the most integrity. i ran 21 positive spots and two spots where we define my opponent strictly with quotes from newspapers. i've run a positive campaign. i want to win for texas, not for myself. and so that's what we're working hard to do. >> lieutenant governor david dewhurst on the ballot today. as you mentioned, it's very rainy there. you will be driving a lot, i imagine, so stay safe on the campaign trail. >> thank you, sir. appreciate it. >>> let me turn to texas congressman ralph hall. he joins me now on the phone. congressman hall, good

the wind has picked up in east texas. west texas, new mexico, even the southwest it is dry. here is this weather pattern. that cooler air is coming in from the north. now you have high-pressure building in. right over the southwest. and when you get high-pressure building in there, that's where you have this problem. that wind really picks up east of the rockies, and especially southern california here. the santa ana winds really starting to pick up. wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour. the wind will die down in texas and new mexico and pick up across the southwest. thissel waits this risk for the rapid fire growth. and the risk goes throughout the day today and tomorrow. and temperatures are expected to climb 100 degrees. >> dave warren thank you very much. >>> there has been a string of car bombings in iraq today. the blasts targeting mostly shiite areas. imran khan has our story. >> reporter: after a period of relative calm, once again, bagdad burns. the iraqi government had ordered a massive security operation for the april 30th election, but as that wound down, the attack

in texas you can lose? >> we have a smaller and smaller middle, potentially is a tipping point. we'll have to see if this happens. the question is not whether the voters say i like the idea of ted cruz saying i am going to go to washington and punch them in the face. that's appealing to some conservatives. the problem for the tea party, it is not social issues like abortion, religious expression, and gay marriage are out of the mainstream among many texas voters. the problem will be if the tea party economic argument about small government, cut spending, starts effecting public schools and starts effecting highways and water projects that the government is going to be drowned in the bathtub. in the event that happens, then the tea party is over and moderate independent and conservative republican business minded voters who voted with them in the past will abandon them in the future. >> great reporting by you both. we will be right back after this. true business-grade internet comes with secure wifi for your

and the texas equivalent of the e.p.a. was this a similarity that they were investigating the group or was it collusion? we really don't know. unfortunately our justice department has lost credibility with the american public on investigating the i.r.s. we need to have things be right and things need to look right and we need to have a special counsel. and i would like to conclude with a statement that was made abrahamoff investigation in 2006. the highly political context of the charges may lead some to surmise that political influence may compromise the investigation, because this investigation is vital to restoring the public's faith in government. any appearance of bias, special favor or political consideration would be a further blow to democracy. appointment of a special counsel would ensure that the investigation and the prosecution will proceed without fear or favor and provide the public with full confidence that no one is above the law. signed, barack obama, 2006. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the

in texas city, texas. 19-year-old stevie green was waiting for a friend to drive her home from work. but the friend never showed up. >> i'm in a ticked-off mood because he left me hanging. christmas was coming around the corner. i thought about taking a taxi. but i'm like no, i want to save the money to have a better christmas. >> stevie decided to walk home, which was about a mile away. suddenly she heard someone running up behind her. >> the footsteps just stop. the knife was in my back. i didn't want to die. i was willing to do anything this man was going to ask me to do. >> he said he'd stab her if she didn't take off her clothes. >> as he raped me i just kept thinking in my head the lord's prayer. the more i said it, the more angry he got. >> afterwards still holding the knife he told her to get up. >> he told me to turn around and have my back to him. and when i stood up something told me to run and i grabbed my shoe and booked into the middle of the street screaming at the top of my lungs. >> stevie was traumatized, in shock, but lucky to be alive. >> it was difficult to get a

if texas goes through with this tonight. robert campbell would be the eighth inmate executed in texas this year and he would be the state's 516th execution from lethal injection, from lethal injection alone, since 1982. the most to take place in any state in the country. it is about 20 minutes after 4:00 p.m. on the east coast right now. unless the supreme court, the fifth circuit court or governor rick perry decide to stay the execution within the next 2:40, robert campable, a man with an i.q. of 69 will be put to death. joining me is joy reed. thank you for joining me. >> anytime. >> so, i feel like we have been talking about death row inmates in a way we haven't for years, possibly, forever. i don't tend to hold out a lot of hope about rick perry doing the right thing, i tend to think as the writers at mother jones thinks, the tide is changing about, not just whether or not capital punishment is something we want to do, but the circumstances are flawed. this man, robert campbell has had a series of mishaps of justice that

flooding rain across east texas, but west texas is dry and cooler. no rain in the southwest. now with the winds increasing and the temperatures climbing up to a hundred degrees or higher. the red flag warning is in place and heat advisory around san francisco, in los angeles 96. 99 and 99 and 90 wednesday thursday and friday. the winds are gusting 30, 40 miles per hour and higher in the mountains and there is a fire danger, with the temperatures so high and creating a rapid fire growth and the risk is through friday here and the winds are continuing to increase. the rain and the flooding across the mississippi valley and cooler air is push to the east. the temperatures ahead of the front in the 70s and 80s. closer to 90 degrees. not everywhere though, the cooler temperatures across the northeast. this is the cooler air coming in from the cool ocean, so much of the northeast staying in the 60s, but a warm up in philadelphia and washington close to 80 degrees already. >> one extreme to the area. >> thank you so much. >> growing number of people are adding to their families, in

he said, i'm one of the 9/11 victims in texas. they said, there is no 9/11 victims in texas. >> as for mark stroman, he contemplated a counter 9/11 but he was apprehended by police. he did not express remorse. >> it was like i had no control over my body. i acted on instinct. i did what every other american wanted to do but didn't have the nerve. >> in april 2002 he was sentenced to death. >> we think of texas as doing this in a fast food way, but it's actually a complicated legal process to sentence someone to death. his trial are has two phases. the first is innocence or guilt. the second half of a capital murder trial is sentencing. in a death sentence case they actually end up having a trial about your life and character. >> are you worthy of existence? >> can you be changed and is there anything in your past that mitigates what you did. that's a trial about your nature. your parents, how you were raised. he came from a world in which -- not to excuse anything he did -- it was hard to argue that he had a chance to be much diff

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what makes democrats feel right now that texas is winnable after decades of republican rule. >> texas winnable because of decades of republican rule. in south texas, since there's no money for maintenance, they are talking about turning good roads into gravel. when we fail to secure water projects for the future, water is jobs. that's why. and when you have a governor that says no, no to health care for more than 6 million people, it affected them. >> wayne, where do you put the likelihood of texas turning blue any time soon? >> well, it depends on what you mean by any time soon. this year it would be very, very difficult. but this whole effort and zach is really on to something here, these training academies and this canvassing effort. there's a lot going on behind the scenes that will play out in 2014, 2016 to see if texas is competitive in the primary and beyond in which the democrats are trying to remake the ele electora electorate, have more of your guys show up than would normally show up and persuade voters. the effort especially in the wendy davis campaign with la tis ya as a

i admire his service to the state of texas. i think he has -- tremendous record as governor of the state of texas. >> do you think he will run for president? >> i think she leaning towards running for president. he has a strong track record to run on. what i do agree with him especially sly bringing more businesses and pointing out the strong public policies we have in texas that are bringing companies like toyota to plano, texas. to move 4,000 workers. we need to continue doing that but we immediate to elect the right sxlip make it happen. >> they always call the bush family a dynasty. one of the more younger recruits. your grandma, barbara bush said more or less that even when your pear might have been entertaining the presidency, still might be, we don't need another bush. i eye assume she loves your dad dearly. what does she think about what you are doing? >> she has been very supportive. she lent me her advice as she typically does. she is very direct but that's what i admire about her. >> did she say it is a mistake, kid,

in south texas and west texas covered these are water served areas. eva birdwell takes for 5 million gallons of water, fresh water. want to use briny water? when i eat salty water? is a simple answer when you ask the industry. the answer is we never did so he worked at the chemistry for fresh water. there's absolutely no reason you can't do with briny water. the good news is the industry is starting to move in that direction. slowly, but they are starting. one of the things i would say is yes, there's a huge amount of love, a lot of jobs, and lot of good news about this. not just that, but when you talk about the people first, we import so much less oil than we ever used to. lots of security benefits accruing to the united states. at the same time, but states have been asked the question one of hand-me-downs to make sure the wells are safe in the boom does not leave the legacy we don't want it to. the speed that we will talk about the global energy economy in a few minutes. i want to stay on some of these environmental issues because we live in a low

>> texas is winnable. exactly because of decades of republican rule. >> reporter: the state senator from san antonio could help democrats pull off something they haven't been able to do in 20 years. win state wide office. it was 1994 when george w. bush defeated the last democratic governor here, feisty political firebrand ann richards. >> ginger rogers did everything that fred astaire did. she just did it backwards and in high heels. >> this year, wendy davis wants to take back that seat. a ticket that has texas democrats more hopeful than they have been in years. texas has been a republican stronghold for decades but democrats in this upcoming election cycle are hoping that the steady stream of traffic over border crossings like this one could be a game changer. latinos comprise 38% of all texas, a voting bloc that at least one republican candidate for lieutenant governor isn't focused on romancing. >> i have a tough stance on securing the border. stop the invasion. >> reporter: for this candidate, this

, south texas, these are really dry areas where the drought is very severe. it's become a real issue. >> the issue now is finding enough water to satisfy farming, population needs, and a growing energy sector. in neighboring texas a rent studrecentstudy shows that the d for fracking doubled between 2008 and 2011. while agriculture consumes a lyon share of the water, a third filters back in the land and fills the aquifer. by contrast, after fracking water is largely unusable. >> the question we need to be asking ourselves. what makes more sense, oil and gas extraction or agriculture. >> reporter: one possible solution is brackish water. oceans of the briany ground water extend across large parts of the southwest. and energy companies like pal halliburton are looking to use it. >> why should they use fresh water when they can use the brackish water when you can't use it to feed people and cattle. >> but it's expensive and hard for implement. >> the chemistry is easier to do hydraulic fluid with fresh water. that's why the technology was developed there, but the

>> i'm also from texas and i can tell you there are plenty of jobs in texas and you need two or three of them to make a living. i was in a plant and they shut down my factory where i had $20 an hour and they moved my job to china but you can get two jobs making $8 an hour. that is the job they're handing out down there. in california, things haven't always been as rosy, but in 2012 their gdp grew 3.5% and we take that in the united states every single day. the other thing in texas, you have business friendly court system because it is run by the conservatives for a long time. if you're a business and afraid of getting sued, you want a judicial system that is favorable towards you. >> what is wrong with all that, gary b.? >> well, it gets back to basic mathemat mathematics. the whole point of this segment is do taxes affect business? they have to. look, you make a profit and you make a product and you deduct your expenses and from that you have a profit, hopefully. from that profit you pay taxes. there's some even on this panel that argue, well, that doesn't matter. you're going to go

again, you have got 273 people on death row in texas. after what happened in oklahoma, do you expect more challenges? >> state by state those decisions are made about how you're going to punish those who commit the most heinous crimes against your citizens, and in texas for substantially long period of time, our citizens have decided that if you kill our children, if you kill our police officers, for those very heinous crimes, that the appropriate punishment is the death penalty. i think we have an appropriate process in place from the standpoint of the appeals process to make sure that due process is addressed and the process of the actual execution i will suggest to you is very different from oklahoma. we only use one drug, but i'm confident that the way that the excuses are taken care of in the state of texas are appropriate -- >> and humane. >> and humane. >> was this inhumane? >> i don't know whether it was inhumane or not but it was botched. i hope that not only the governor, the legislators will look at the process in oklahoma --

mind you, this is just one segment along the texas/mexico border. and in this one segment, there are 1,000 arrests made every single day, a daily average of 1,000 arrests of people coming across the border illegally and those are only the ones that are arrested. of course there are many more that are coming in every single day. so that shows the magnitude of the problem that we are dealing with and it shows why we must have reform in our system to ensure that we secure the border. >> attorney general greg abbott, as always, good to have you with us. >> thank you, lou. >>> republican strategist karl rove called upon to clarify a new york "post" report that said he suggested hillary clinton may have brain damage from a blood clot that she suffered in 2012. here is karl rove this morning. >> i didn't say she had brain damage. she had a serious health episode. my point was that hillary clinton wants to run for president but she would not be human if this didn't enter in as a consideration. and my other point is this will be an issue in the 2016 race and

i have a message for california buses, come check out texas. >> reporter: texas governor rick perry has had much bigger successes in his campaign to poach jobs. texas has no corporate or individual income tax. welcoming business climate. and neighbors with less sensitive noses. david tran said he's staying put in california for now. >> i need to keep this her. >> reporter: he may expand in texas, a pungent reminder in california competition for every single job is hot, hot, hot. scott cohen, "nightly business report". >> have you ever had that? >> it's very good. >> wherever they end up or wherever they stay it's really good sauce. give it a try. that does it for "nightly business report". >> i'm tyler mathisen happen have a greet evening, everybody. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. [seagulls] >> see those three houses there, left? there used to be a lovely old fellow who lived there. and he had this pretty little green finch. it used to sit on his finger and sing to him. it was the most beautiful thing i ever saw. [rumbling] [glasses clink]

. >>> clear lake, texas, is a mecca for aerospace professionals from all over the world. it includes many affluent, upscale neighborhoods. >> there's probably nobody in america that wouldn't mind living in these neighborhoods that are out there. >> but on a july afternoon, in 2003, that suburban calm was shattered when a teenager went to her girlfriend's house and found a bloodbath. >> emergency. >> got a call of four people dead, four victims have been shot. >> in the living room, police and paramedics found four young adults dead from gunshot wounds. they'd been dead for several hours. >> first walked in, to your immediate left was a female victim laying on her stomach. you had a male victim and a female victim on a sofa. behind them between the sofa and the far wall was a fourth male victim. >> it literally looks like a slaughterhouse. you have blood on the walls, bullet strikes, shell casings on the ground. all the furniture is soaked in blood. >> the victims were 18-year-old tiffany raul, who lived in the home. her boyfriend, marcus priscilla. 21-year-old adele burt

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