the guys in hood texas brigade, most of them were not born in texas. again, if you think about the timing in the 19th century that makes sense. most of them came from southern families who had made their way west in the antebellum period, particularly in the 1850's, some had made their way very early in the 1830s, part of the texas revolution but the vast majority of them were not born in texas. they were not native born but they very much identified as texans and they had fun kind of warking the image. he was raised in the city but everybody thought they should do it and so they did it and the -- raised in the city and everybody let out war cries. everybody thought they should do it and so they did it and the ladies seemed to like it. 2/3 of the men came from what we would consider middle class families. they tended to be fairly well-educated. most of them came from rural areas not surprising for the , 19th century but you'll also see blacksmiths, teachers, a host of lawyers were in the texas brigade. most of them came from rural areas. again, not too

on the good side, texas is a great job creator. in the last quarter of last year, texas grew 5.2%. there wasn't a single other state except for idaho that got into 4%. so, you know, people come to texas for the jobs. they don't come for the scenery, but there is a tremendous amount of growth, economic growth in the state. where we're falling down is we're not educating our children and we're not building the infrastructure we need for the massive amount of growth. >> you've written in the south, it went very republican in some cases, very sort of back to the future so to speak, quite right wing, quite conservative. and, you know, dragging the rest of the country with it when it comes too big elections. but you say it should actually be a blue state. in other words, democrat. how do you say that? why? what are the demographics? >> well, texas is a majority minority state. it has that in common with california. and, of course, california is the largest state and also the largest blue state, largest democratic state. and texas is the largest republican state. they're very similar demo

but texas has the same demographics and population of california and texas is texas. it's not becoming california. in fact, one of the unique things i want to talk to governor abbott about is that what we're seeing in texas that really sets it apart from a lot of other states in the union, to the chagrin of the "new york times" that wrote an article about it, is when people move to texas, they start behaving like texans. there's actually an article in "the new york times" last year about liberals from seattle and new hampshire and new york and california move to texas and you know what they do? they buy guns and go to gun ranges. something they've never done before. so what makes texas unique? but what makes conservatism unique? there's also something a little more difficult than i think we need -- that i think we need to have a conversation about over the next couple of days. and that is, you can support and vote for the president. but do you have to say yes to policies that aren't conservative? can you be a conservative and support the president? i think you can. i

it was battleground, texas. turn texas blue. when the final score was posted, i've been wendy davis by more than 20 percentage points. texas is going to stay ready. [applause] front, there is in the texas legislature the tension between being a conservative and being a republican. and outgoing speaker straus the lieutenant governor of the state senate, how do you balance the tensions between being a conservative and a republican when the ideology of one clashes with the party interest of the other? to me, it ist: easy. it is like most things in life. there is a foundation on which texas conservative policies are based. there are always things around the edges of that. the foundation is very simple. what is cool about this is the foundation is scalable and applicable. you can do it at the federal government, the state government and the government. we have five core principles. if we achieve them, everything else takes care of themselves. texas -- taxes low and cut them whenever possible. always cut regulations to reduce the burd

texas does best when texas governs texans. [applause] en georgians govern -- georgia governs georgians. when we all look to washington, d.c., for the solutions, we empower people who are far away from us. who don't know our concerns. it's kind of funny nowadays to see progressives in california start talking about federalism. that they want california to be -- i want california to be california as well. i tell people all the time. i'm a big believer in federalism. i'm pro-life. and i support traditional marriage. but if california wants abortion on-demand and gay marriage, that's fine. and eventually just procreation-wise we'll breed them out of existence, but they should be able to have it. let california be california. i'm totally fine with california having sanctuary cities. don't give them federal money if they're not going comply with federal law. but if they want it, let them have it. federalism works. washington has 17 things washington is supposed to do in the constitution. let washington do those 17 things. none of th

but texas has the same demographics as a california. in texas is texas. in fact we are the unique things. they wrote an article about it. is that when people moved to texas. they start behaving like a texans. they actually have an article about liberals from seattle. they buy guns and go to gun ranges. it's something they've never done before. what makes texas unique. there is something a little bit more difficult that we need to have a conversation with about the next couple of days. and that is even support and you can support and vote for the president but do you have to say yes to policies that are conservative. can you be a conservative and support the president. i think you can do that. even if you don't like tariffs for example. there is a lot of peer pressure out there. you have to hold the line on everything. i was critical of george w. bush when he was president. but there are good things that they do. there are good judges that they appoint. there is good at foreign policy they have. there are bad policies also. there was immigration reform. ca

we are constantly, texas right to life, texas homeschool, buddies in arms groups that show the delta between what is said and what is done. elected officials are shooting at us constantly but the voters and activists, it is very rewarding and reassuring to know that the citizenry is holding fast to the right things that republicans claim to want to do. >> nationally and internationally when people hear straussian, they think of any kind must. in texas you think straussian and it is one of those republicans who if you look real hard drew a little line down from the d to make it look like in our. you have been battling this for a while. >> for those folks who have the misfortune of not being from texas, we have benefited in the last 15 or 20 years of not being california, not being new york, not being illinois. we have got more right than wrong. don't confuse being the least drunk person at the bar with being a model of sobriety. [applause] >> in texas we have managed to know which pickup in the parking lot is hours. we got that settled. california is in the corner drooling on itself,

they are directly elected by the people in the citizens of texas -- and the citizens of texas. the idea you can pass the buck to a bureaucrat or state agency does not make sense. just theoretically, in terms of our constitutional make up. that is not what the founders ever talked about. they did not say we would create a state agency that will govern over the people. they were trying to figure out how we can create a government that was governed by the people. where does this go in the 89 alliance, building out organizations at the state level to stand up? how do you find states -- where do you build out. andrew: it is a tricky question. surveyed thee have nation to an extent. i haven't visited all 50 states yet but i'm getting close. one of the common themes you see is transparency. there are state agencies who want to shut people out of the process. the body itself is not built transparently. wyoming for example. nobody lives in the state capital. everyone is spread out. it takes four hours to get anywhere in wyoming. they don't broadcast the recording of what is happening on

damiÁn: sÍ, texas era líder. por eso el juez se estÁ basando en texas. una de las grandes cerdas republicanos que lidera causas en contra de daca, dapa y mÁs de esas medidas que tomÓ obama. son mÁs estadounidenses que otra cosa porque lleva mÁs de media vida aquÍ. borja: no podemos todavÍa decirme si van a poder presentar sus nuevas solicitudes ni tampoco si se van a aceptar solicitudes de renovaciÓn, verdad? damiÁn: lo que sÍ sabemos es que el juez no le da la razÓn al juez de estado que lo que querÍan era el fin de daca. >> vamos a conectamos rÁpidamente con jorge muy buenas tardes. interrumpimos nuestra programacion para dar informacion sobre el alivio migratorio daca.el juez de ejas "andrew hanen" determino mantener la vigencia de daca, el programa que vigencia de daca, el programa que benefica a jovenes indocumentados traidos al pais siendo niqos, conocidos como dreamers.el veredicto fue en contra de 10 estados que demandaron al gobierno federal para evitar que el programa siguiera vigente, el argumento --de que los beneficiados por daca

i love texas. texas forever, right? but, unfortunately, texas has not lived up to its own hype as far as freeing individuals from the kind of paternalism of the state. it's number 50 on personal freedom. a big part of that is driven by the above the crime rate adjusted incarceration and arrests. it does poorly in its criminal justice areas. there is a key caveat, special because my friends at the texas public policy foundation and at right on crime would remind us texas has been leading in reform efforts to try to get a handle on that problem. because they recognize that this is a real challenge. you've had too many people in prison in texas, especially relative to the crime rate. that's why you things like right on crime. you to be smart on this, not just tough and for a long time texas was just tough without thinking about being smart. that's when using conservative leadership there in the legislature with governor perry and others to try to get a handle on that because they know they have a problem. you want to add a

they left some of the cattle in new mexico, parts of texas. they lived in louisiana and texas. they become longhorn cattle. we still raise that type of cattle at the farm and ranch museum. our livestock manager say those cattle could live with almost everything. they are really tough. they are small. they have small calves. their calves weigh -- they are much smaller than the longhorn. they brought sheep. they are the ones the navajo raise now. the section of our heritage gallery is called generations. what it does is the first formal exhibit in the museum. it told the story of agriculture from 1860 to 1930. posts several war was a big period of change for new mexico. we were bringing in -- setting up army forts in the state -- all over the state. cattlemen were raising more english-style, european types of cattle. the first major breed was the brown cattle with the white faces. we have those on the south 20. those are big, meaty cows. they would butcher them and feed the native americans on reservations as well as soldiers living in forts in the area. they moved these cattle b

texas air national guard and texas state guard. received his bachelors in finance and aeronautical engineering at the u.s. air force academy and graduated from u.s. air force -- major general michael maguire is the the adjutant general in arizona and the department of military affairs. in this role he is responsible for managing arizona's army and air national guard. joint programs along with division of emergency management. he is in command of 8000 members ranging from federal military and civilian personnel to state employees. general maguire was commissioned in the u.s. air force academy. in 1987. the chair recognizes chief harris for five minutes. >> thank you. chairwoman, ranking member, distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today on behalf of the u.s. customs and border protection. i have served as border patrol agent for more than 30 years and i am honored to currently serve as chief patrol agent for tucson sector. it is one of the busiest in the nation. in my experien

and the weapons technology engineering aerospace and interested to staff these training grounds from texas to the desert into naval base or shipbuilding so all of the jobs that require college education especially the stem oriented technology is radically transforming the landscape of the south and the southwest exist to provide the american people also with research universities to relocate other parts of the country into the sunbelt and the american south in florida and georgia and north carolina through texas and new mexico and nevada especially you will see. >> so they are well. >> so billions and billions of dollars to create a development defense oriented to fight communism abroad to pursue those free-market dreams in the american southwest that reinforces a lot of these ideas of american ingenuity and hard work and commitment to fighting. >> so with the concept of the belt at all is the south and the west so look at the political history of the american south, certainly you cannot escape race or the legacy of slavery, secession, civil war and the solid conservative hostility to loca

do you think that's because god looks favorably upon texas? why does texas have so much of this shale oil? why isn't it in other places? >> that's an interesting observation you make. i don't want to get into -- fall into the trap like the fellow who gave the speech, the peak oil speech where we take a snapshot in time and say this is the world we live in, because innovation and -- we may find copious amounts of resources that we're able to extract in india, for instance. we were just talking about the technology that's working up in some other places in the country. we don't know where all these resources are. will we be able -- somebody told me the other day, and i don't want to get off too much on this, but they drilled 2600 feet horizontally in one day. i mean, these are stunning numbers that we're seeing out of the oil and gas business today. it's their ability to explore and deliver these resources cheaply. and with that said, what's happening on the nuclear energy side, the highly efficient low emission technology that's coming out of t

[cheers and applause] but i go to texas and i said boy are we popular in texas. get him out. get him out. get him out of here. [cheers and applause] [chanting] usa, usa, usa. so, getting back to texas. for two and a half months i hear it taxes is in play.

then he became the mayor of rford, texas. inwas elected to congress 1954 to represent texas's 12th district. he served for 30 years, and then in 1986 became the speaker of the house of congress. in 1989, he resigned the speakership and came back to fort worth and became a professor here at tcu, where he taught in the political science department. he also offered many book and that he authored many books and he was a fixture here around campus. he brought his papers here to tcu, and we have them. we usually have several researchers a year and do research on the papers on his time in congress, the politics of the cold war era, the 1960's and 1970's, and ultimately the partisanship surrounding his resignation from congress and the ethics scandal he was involved in. we do have a permanent exhibit here in the library that is set up in honor of mr. wright. it includes several artifact s from his political life and personal life. as a hobby, he was an avid boxer. he loved boxing. so we have a pair of his boxing gloves in the exhibit

this was a texas law. would you explain the texas law that was contested? mr. forsythe: the texas law was one of the 30 or 40 that had prohibited abortion. except to save the life of the mother. although there had been debate in the texas legislature, texas retained its traditional prohibition up until the time the case was filed. host: the case has the name roe v. wade, but roe is a pseudonym. tell us about jane roe. ms. murray: jane roe was norma jean mccorvey. she was a young woman married to a man who was some years older. she was 16, and he was 24 when they married. she was already a mother of two children when she found herself pregnant. the marriage was troubled, often abusive, and she sought to terminate her pregnancy. she wasn't able to in texas. she passed the point of viability, and texas of course prohibited abortions. she tried to say she had been the victim of a rape. there was no police report documenting that. she wasn't able to take advantage of the loophole in the texas law that permitted abortion in limited cases. she found herself going to h

david garcÍa de arizona irvin valdÉz de texas-- y lo que valdÉs de texas-- lupe valdÉs de texas ingresan, aspirantes. ilia: la empresa en la que se realizÓ una redada habÍa prometido papeles para sus empleados, pero no cumpliÓ. los empleados pagaron por trÁmites que no prosperaron. asÍ lo dijeron familiares de detenidos. pedro: para erika sandoval y su familia la vida ya no es la misma. en el masivo operativo de ice en el norte de texas recibiÓ un duro golpe, cuando su esposo quedÓ entre los 160 detenidos. a la familiasÓlo le quedan recuerdos con fotos y el impacto emocional es fuerte. >> ahora no tengo cabeza para pensar quÉ hacer. pedro: el pequeÑo moisÉs no fue a la escuela hoy, no sabe cÓmo acertar lo ocurrido. sentimiento que comparte su hermana brittany. >> estoy muy asustada por mi madre. pedro: erika sandoval anunciÓ que la empresa le cobraba su esposo $2500 y prometiÓ que le iba a arreglar los documentos migratorios. >> fueran abogados hablar con ellos al compaÑÍa y dijeron que le iban a arreglar. pedro: voceros de ice aseguran que las detenciones son como parte

texas is facing immigration crisis, we have a thousand people a day moving to the state of texas. you know, people talk about building a wall and this is what texas is going to do, texas will come out of own pocket, out of own budget and we are going to build the wall with this difference, instead of building the wall on the border between texas and mÉxico, we are going to build the wall border between texas and new mexico so we can keep all of the californians out from coming into the state of texas. [laughter] >> on saturday at 8:00 p.m., 28th anniversary from u.s. embassy boorvings in -- bombings in tanzania. watch on c-span and listen on free c-span radio app. >> next a look at the limits of free speech including where the first amendment protects so-called offensive or hate speech. the discussion was part of association in journalism and has communication conference held this week. >> good afternoon and welcome, those of you in the room and those of you joining us via c-span, i can't think of a more relevant and parent topic for us so talk about today, for those of you not i

texas, this little texas utility district in travis county are denied by the attorney general's office. they bring a lawsuit and they go to federal court. the supreme court says you know what you are right. you should have been allowed to bail out. you have met the standards. attorney general's office is not acting in good faith toward you. you need to be allowed to bail out. but in writing the opinion that chief justice also articulated his belief that congress created a flawed law and did not update the coverage formula. here's what happens. shelby county alabama, suburban county outside a birmingham seeks to get out from under coverage of the voting rights act section 5 and to be set free. they are denied by the federal courts in the attorney general. they appealed to the u.s. supreme court. 5-4 decision. the supreme court says you are right. the coverage formula is too old. 40 years old. they have 41-year-old data. congress would caution the circumstances of shelby county or not the circumstances of shelby county in 1964. congress needs to fix this coverage provision and if they fa

his next visit from lubbock texas includes author sean cunningham talking about post-world war ii politics in the american sunbelt. >> the american sunbelt is one of those labels that scholars historians and journalists have created over the years to try to understand this post-world war ii merger of the south and the west or maybe the south and the southwest. the short answer is that it's this merger of those two regions and into something that's more understandable in the modern sense. the less satisfying answers probably the sunbelt doesn't exist. it's an imagined creation. to try to understand what we have is his movement away of the american south pass the world war ii period moving into more of a modern industrial age with metropolises connecting in and similar ways in the american southwest and drawing some common knowledge these but didn't necessarily have a rural plantation heritage and a rugged frontier ranch land wild american west. after world war ii there were sections of the country that began to develop economic weight in some interesting ways along the way with tremendous f

office and the entire texas delegation continues. adding to these efforts is the corps' ongoing coastal texas study which congress has funded and which will provide a comprehensive strategy for flood mitigation which is the necessary sexting step toward coastal protection, because this is not the last hurricane that will hit the gulf coast of texas or the huge economic engine known as houston. i'm confident that having the smartest minds study our coast will ultimately result in recommendations that congress can then authorize. once that happens, in coordination with state legislative and local officials who, let's not forget, play a very large role we'll fight to ensure our coastal communities flourish and are probgted -- protected for generations to come. we have to face the facts, harvey was an unthinkable catastrophe, one of a kind. i can't believe it's already been a year. but for some down there, though, i'm sure it feels like a whole lot longer than that. it's my privilege to serve the people of the great state of texas, and a

, por dos semanas ha flotado elaÍ en texas. noticias telemundo ha insistido con el departamento de inmigraciÓn para que nos den mÁs detalles pero hasta el dÍa de ayer nos habÍan dicho que este caso no existe. finalmente, la oficina de bienestar infantil de texas abriÓ una investigacion de maltrato y negligencia en relaciÓn a este caso, lo que sabemos es que el niÑo cuya identidad no se ha dado a conocer, muriÓ al poco tiempo de salir del centro de detenciÓn familiar en texas. la familia del menor estÁ siendo representada por una firma de abogados en washington, y lo que han dicho hasta el momento es que el menor muriÓ luego de permanecer detenido en este centro de ice bajo condiciones incluyo abres, el director de la oficina de ice, dijo que el centro es una instalaciÓn limpia, que todo estÁ limpio y revisado, dijo tambiÉn que diariamente hay personas encargadas de la limpieza felicidad, el estado de texas ha completado 40 investigaciones en a 52 casos de denuncias de negligencia y maltrato en estos centros de det

border between texas and new mexico we can keep all californians from coming in to the stateof texas . >> watch on c-span, cspan.org and listen on the free c-span trend 11. tonight on c-span2, book tv and private time with recent books on social media. starting at 8 pm eastern, computer scientist and philosopher jaron lanier argues against the use of social media in his book 10 arguments for deleting your social media account right now and the grant of ancestor talks about her book everything you need to know about social media. later former fbi agent quit wants discusses social media in what modern warfare. his book is messing with the enemy: surviving in a social media world of russians and fakenews. book tv in prime time all this week on c-span2 . >> c-span: where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington dc and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or s

she didn't realize her past conviction barred her from voting in texas. thursday she could have even more time added to her sentence. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. puerto rico has officially raised the death toll from hurricane maria last year from 64 to nearly 3000 following the release of a study ordered by the governor of puertoto rico. this officicially makes maria oe of t the deadliest storms s in . history. puerto rican governor ricardo rosello acknowledged the higher death count on tuesday. even though itng is an estimate, we are officially changing -- we are actually putting an official .umber to the death toll [indiscernible] amy: presisident trump haso o fr not responded to t the new offificial dthth toll. it is 46 times higher than the initial count. but in october, during a visit to puerto rico, trump boboasted about the low official death count. pres. trump: a real catastrophe like katrina, and you look at the tremendous -- hundreds and hundreds and hundred

it's the third time the primary has been stricken down in texas in the 20 year perco. texas would go back in order to make sure the primary was a whites only club and every other southern state did this. democratic primaries were white only, republicans thought this was an electoral option and the goal was to put up a barrier of the black voter participation. those have been doing that ever since and 75. ever since the end of the reconstruction. and there were a whole bunch of tools we had available that were used to complete this franchise of black voters. a white primary was one example. the democratic primary is closed to anybody who isn't white because it is a whites only club, private association. you can vote in the general election but it won't matter because the only one nominated was the one in the primary. he had literacy tests, literacy and understanding tests implemented by local voting registrars who were white who wanted to keep blacks from voting ivotingvoting if they has discretion how they implemented the tests. and it gives the ability to look at some

he lived all over texas and oklahoma during his childhood. he went to bed there for -- he went to weatherford college. he ran for the texas legislature after his service in world war a year there. then he became the mayor of weatherford, texas, and from the mayorship, he went on to run for congress and he was elected to congress to represent texas's 12 19 -- 12 district in 1954. in 1986, he became the speaker of the house of congress. in 1989, he resigned the speakership and resign from congress and came back to fort a professor ine here at tcu, where he taught in the political science department. he also authored many books and was a fixture around campus. he brought his papers here to tcu. we usually have several researchers are year, and do research on his time in congress. the politics of the cold war era, the 1960's and early 1970's , the partisanship fromd his resignation congress and the ethics scandal he was involved in. permanent exhibit here in the library set up in itor of speaker wright, and from hisartifacts personal life. he was

agentes de ice entran a una empresa de trÁilers en texas, decenas de trabajadores son arrestados en una de las mayores redadas hechas en un lugar de trabajo. buenas tardes, la agencia dice que sus investigadores estaban tras la compaÑÍa por contratar presuntamente trabajadores indocumentad indocumentados, esta es la principal noticia, ademÁs este martes: ♪ (mÚsica) ♪ la culpa es de ice? una madre guatemalteca acusa a la agencia de ser responsable de la muerte de su pequeÑa hija, la menor de apenas 2 aÑos muriÓ semanas despuÉs de que ambas fueron liberadas de un centro de detenciÓn. >> el vaticano sabÍa, el escÁndalo por los abusos sexuales cometidos en pensilvania salpica cada vez mÁs al papa francisco, ahora el fiscal general de ese estado asegura que los lÍderes de la iglesia encubrÍan a los sacerdotes pederastas. >> ♪ (mÚsica) ♪ ♪ (mÚsica) ♪ >> dos aÑos sin juan gabriel. con flores y mucha mÚsica sus seguidores en mÉxico y el resto del mundo rinden hoy homenaje al divo de juÁrez en el segundo aniversario de su muerte. ♪ (mÚsica) ♪ >> noticias tele

then texas spent $7 billion on power lines connecting windy north and west texas with cities south and east. it happened under energy secretary rick perry. who was governor then. >> we can deliver power to san antonio, dallas, houston, you name it. >> where the people are. >> yep. >> reporter: including the city that uses almost entirely renewable power. it is 501 miles from adrian, texas where the wind turbines are down to georgetown, texas where the power is going. we've been driving all afternoon through the permian basin in the center of texas, and all along the way we've been passing oil pump jacks from an older economy and wind turbines from a new economy. when we arrived in georgetown, people told us coal plants kept the lights on for generations. >> i think it's kind of cool we have all this history, but also we're one of the leading cities when it comes to innovation in the country. >> reporter: then republican mayor dale ross concluded the market was changing. >> were you always a republican? >> always a republican. >> you grew up in a republican family? >> i did. >> who's yo

state of texas. you get a 45 day permit to flare whatever you need to. in cases where people did not anticipate they would be flaring, they cannot wait for months to get a flaring permit. we have an administrative process. the concern is that we only allow those for sequentially 180 days total, after which you have to come to the commission for a hearing. that is a longer process. this could last up to two years, more likely a year and a half. people say, that is longer than my 180-day window. what do i do then? alix: what are the excuses you are hearing that people need to flare? >> people are saying i will need as much as two years of flaring time on some wells. alix: wow. you are making a distinction between the gas processing and the gas producers. walk me through the differences. >> at a wellhead, you will have oil coming out and natural gas or dry gas, natural gas liquids. in liquid form, there are longer molecules but still not oil. everything that is not oil, which is the dry gas, natural gas

also the headlines to austin texas may need to go through some kind of rebranding with the poor raises the issue that it was named after a supporter of slavery well more closely into that coming up in the headlines to this morning south african comedian who travel made top of america's t.v. personalities chart but some say is the jokes go just way too far. oh wrong might be don't joke about something called the massacre or just say i mean i don't know if there's any rules but a stay away from. us germany's colonial past is reexamined as two tribes in southwest africa accused of genocide one hundred years ago. by their good morning from artie's kevin zero in here with you this wednesday the first of august now just turned eighteen am here first in the u.s. seems that no nine one one help for you if you work for the immigration and customs enforcement agency there police in portland oregon refused to respond as the report says emergency calls from i see agents who say they needed assistance to handle violent protests against their agency it's facing a huge backlash for the way it handles

texas has one in 10 kids in this , on in ten kids in this country goes to school in texas. we have an outside effects on the educational outcomes and basic health of our young people. texas is on the front line of this fight. i'm not just talking about humanity's collective fight against ted cruz. [applause] texas's 23rd district runs from san antonio to el paso. that is like manhattan to raleigh, north carolina or san francisco to san diego. imagine driving it. often. 40% of the u.s. border with mexico is in this district. between texas and california , that is 45% of this country's dreamers. one in six texans is uninsured. we think about the future potential of our country, a lot of that is playing out directly in the 23rd congressional district in texas. one of my earliest memories is quizzing my mom on her naturalization test. it is why, to this day, i know that patrick henry said give me liberty or give me death. i came to find out i would never have to take that test. but we are being tested as texans and as americans. what kind of country? who are we as a people? wha

in texas for 60 years. it's the topic of her memoir out a courageous woman's journey. >> i start off talking about my parents, because they had such an influence on the direction that my wife took. they were southern baptists. so, i was brought up in the baptist faith tradition. they were leaders in the church. my dad was a deacon and those others talk about sunday school classes and it seemed like we were at the church every time the doors opened. i learned to take my religion very seriously, so much so that when it was time to choose a college to attend, i chose baylor university and it was there that i had to face the fact that i was different because i fell in love with a girl at baylor. when i had been in high school, i had what i called a strange feeling towards a particular girl. having been brought up in a very, very conservative home, i had never heard the words gay, lesbian, homosexual. i didn't even know that it was possible for a girl to fall in love with another girl. so i have no vocabulary to

state of texas. people talk about building a wall and we are fed up with the federal government not doing its job to build a wall, so here is what texas is going to do. texas is going to come out of our own pocket, out of our own budget, and we are going to build a wall. instead of building the wall on the border between texas and mexico, we are going to build a wall on the border between texas and new mexico, so we can keep all the californians out from coming into the state of texas. c-span.org,c-span, and listen on the free c-span radio app. sunday night on q&a -- >> what must that sound like? [indiscernible] >> what you are hearing are the cries of children, immigrant children, who had just been separated from their parents in a border to troll -- border patrol detention facility. this is audio i obtained a month and a half ago or so through -- with the help of a lawyer, a civil rights attorney on the border. she had obtained this tape and thought it was in and shared it with me and asked what i

through this country in the state of texas. we are not as good as we should be in a lot of areas, especially with human trafficking and large truck traffic. there are some areas we are trying to improve in the state of texas even as we speak. there are things under way with state leadership here to try and do a better job to combat the human trafficking that's going on along our corridors and throughout our state, into other parts of this country. so this is a specific area. methamphetamine in the state of texas is a huge problem. it's pharmaceutical grade right out of mexico, right out of the laboratories of mexico. we are inundated with that. these are some, just some base threats that we face every day in texas law enforcement. john: sheriff, it's great to see you again. thank you for your service. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, sir. absolutely. john: president trump taking to twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating against prominent conservatives. find out what he's saying. >>> former cia directo

gina ortiz jones, filipina veteran from senator neo, texas, -- from san antonio, texas. i'm telling you, there are thousands of staceys across our nation, and this is what she the people is about, supporting the political wisdom and leadership of women of color. so i'm here to tell you, there's hope in 2018. and so much can and will be won in the midterms, realizing justice in our nation. so listen, progressives, and frankly you, too, democratic party. [laughter] get information behind women of color. [cheers and applause] she the people is here for all of us. so i ask you, will you be here for all of us? say yes, and together we'll win. [cheers and applause] >> that was amazing. amy is one of the smartest minds we have on our side. so glad she's on our side. she spoke one of the most clearest and powerful truths right now. i was sitting back like, yes, yes. i loved her comment about our opportunity, not just turning red to blue, but turning nonvoter to voter, right? i have something, a quick announcement for you before we get into our big final keynote. so, due to weath

of texas. >> i think so. i think the interesting thing is and i believe abby livingston wrote about this recently, about seeing lots of signs. yard signs for beto outside of texas. so there's something coalescing around him and he also would be the best example if he were to win of turning something blue because of donald trump. the only thing beto has done and we've covered him a lot in vice news, he has gone to a lot of little towns that democrats, and this is pre-primary, a lot of little towns democrats in texas usually ignore because the democratic party in texas hasn't really been a thing in a long time. >> by the way, you're describing the andrew gillum campaign in florida. he was showing up in places people hadn't gone before. >> and beto has been all across the state. if i can go to a bar and get 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 democrats who didn't used to tell people they were democrats to show up, if i can get enough of those people out plus the big cities in texas, maybe we've got something. >> howard, very qui

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guy: i see ted cruz ahead in texas by 1 or 2 points, and they had the governor up in texas by a massive margin. is this thing happening or is cruz safer than that poll? >> i think it depend on who comes out in the polls. young people typically have not gone to the polls in the mid-terms. in texas you have the older conservative base that always comes out in an election. the bad thing you don't want to happen is complacency. i think polls like this scare up support. guy: the average republican could say greg abbott is fine. it's not just a democrat. o'rourke is out there on the left, impeachment. these are out there for texas. do you think cruz can put his record on billboards? >> texas has been a big target for the left for a long time. if texas goes blue, they see that as a way to get into power across the country. so republicans can't be complacent whether it's new jersey, texas, alabama. there is a democrat now representing the state of alabama in the senate. no seat is safe. people are more and more moving away from the parties. they are not necessarily independents. but with the sp