. -- of odessa, texas. that was the fbi special agent in charge of the local field office nearby talking about how almost every two weeks the fbi is involved in a major active shooter investigation. we did not learn a lot new in this news conference, although there were some pretty stunning moments including the texas governor reading a a text from one of the victims' mothers, that is the youngest victim at 17 months, a baby who was airlifted for pediatric care who we understand will recover. we saw the police chief there get fairly emotional when discussing what happened in his city less than 24 hours ago. there was a man who police tried to pull over in a traffic stop. he wouldn't stop and began firing not only at police, but driving down the highways and byways of midland, texas, and o december saw -- odessa, texas, shooting and killing at least seven people. we believe we have that signal back up from the fbi and the golf's press conference in odessa. >> action between fbi and dps, odessa police is buil

back at home, is texas now considered a swing state, well nancy pelosi seems to think so. >> texas is -- is our hope for the future. when texas goes blue and people have to pay attention to everything that happens here, the views of people here, that's going to be very, very hopeful for our nation. heather: but will the lone star state actually turn blue in 2020, here with some insight former political director republican in texas ash wright, ash, thank you so much for joining us this morning, we appreciate it. >> good morning, thanks for having me. heather: what do you think of what nancy pelosi has to say there? >> well, look, the demographics are definitely changing in the state of texas but she's premature that 2020 is going to be the change over so they often point to some facts of beto o'rourke's race or 2016 cycle where democrats won roughly 55% -- let me back up, 58% of all texas votes came from 8 counties in 2018 and democrats won those, one 5 of those 8 counties, if you look at the state as a whole and top looking at just metropolitan areas, beto o'rourke underperformed ever

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the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, is recognized. mr. mccaul: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccaul: i rise in strong support of congresswoman wagner's southeast asia strategy act. this bill will promote u.s. cooperation with the association of southeast asian nations and establish a comprehensive strategy for engagement in southeast asia. asean is the center of asia's strategic and economic future and critical to the administration's indo pacific strategy. southeast asia has been a critical global crossroads for hundreds of years and it's growing even more important in the 21st century. trillions in trade pass through regional sea lanes including vie vital energy supplies for u.s. allies and adversaries. china's territorial aggressive in the south china sea are central to the region's geopolitics. southeast asia's rise commissions are becoming important drivers of regional growth as its developed economies begin to slow. industry, this act is a industry, this act is a

the big hurricane from a year ago in texas. the biggest dump of water we have ever had in this country, probably so. i was asking the difference between harvey and what happened in the last week. harvey it really is in a class by itself. this one stuck out and came up pretty quick. they have done a fantastic job. they have saved close to 70 lives. >> 131. president trump: what was the number with harvey? >> just over 11,000. president trump: 11,000 lives saved. the coast guard is so important to this country. we have ordered new cutters. you have already gotten some and a lot of equipment. helicopters coming out of the budget. we spent $1.5 trillion, you should at least get some helicopters. it will be completely rebuilt with brand-new ships, boats, helicopters. big difference between now and what it was three or four years ago. then totally rebuilt. reporter: [indiscernible] nothingt trump: specific. we are doing our own thing with iran and a lot of other places. i think we are doing very well. a lot of progress is being a. ch

i know texas. i relief texas and love the people of texas. to get meaningful gun laws changed it's l really tough. >> 30 seconds to you, frank as we heard it appears from dr. bowes there at the local hospital asking for solutions. and he was saying we are not waiting for the national government. we need to do something locally. and everybody needs to do something locally. maybe he was intimating legislation. i'm not sure. what was your reflection. >> jim hit the pinpoint that you have to vote for change. that's the way it's going to happen. but let's talk about the likelihood of state change. texas governor greg abbott, october 2015 tweets the following tweet. i'm embarrassed. texas has fallen to number 2 to california in gun purchases. let's step it up. something to that effect. that's the governor of texas. that's the mindset we're up against. do you think there is significant change there? likely not. >> all right. thank you so much for our breaking coverage all this evening. i really appreciate you sticking with us et retired atf special

and we start in the state of texas. the cities of midland and odessa, the latest mass shooting that took place in that state, the shooting leaving at least five people dead, 21 others injured after a gunman started firing from inside his car. this happened on saturday. you see one of the scenes here, and it is a large scene there between those two towns. the attack started after the texas department of public safety troopers initiated a traffic stop. the gunman pulled a rifle, wounding a state trooper. and after that he drove off and continued firing, eventually hijacking a mail truck. the rampage ended when the shooter was cornered and killed by police. a man who knows one of the people shot spoke with cnn affiliate kosa. he said that his friend actually had saved his life, performing cpr on him months earlier. >> all i know is that they were on their way home, him and his wife, and he got shot. i guess it went through the door of the car and shot him right in the, his side. and my shop foreman is in there right now, a

. >>> messing with texas. how democrats are betting big on a sleeping giant and the group of voters they're hoping to tap into for 2020. >>> a lot to get to. let's start with democratic race for president and a major inflection point. with half the number of candidates of the previous debates on stage and the likelihood the field could soon narrow even more, right now the candidates are taking their momentum or lack thereof and heading back onto the campaign trail, making their case to the voters. last evening was at times passionate, combative, even raucous, but it also allowed the debaters to get personal over issues including health care, immigration and gun laws. this third debate also marked a major shift for many of the candidates, offering up a full-on embrace of the very popular former president, barack obama. maybe it was the setting, on the stage of an historically black college or maybe efforts to distance themselves from obama policies in the first few debates simply fell flat, but this time they s

this is texas again. this is not a state that's for want of gun ownership. >> shimon, to juliette's point, when you look at the factor -- we don't know specific age right now. we don't know the person's identity or name. but we know that the federal authorities are involved. when you compare this to other incidents like this, other mass shootings, are you surprised at the lack of information? how does this compare? >> no, i'm not surprised at the lack of information. i think this -- they started fairly early. putting out information. but it has suddenly gone very quiet. they came out early. i think the odessa police department did a fantastic job in putting out the information. they tried to get it out there as quickly as possible. but it is interesting, to juliette's point that we are now several hours into, this we haven't had a press conference from police in several hours. the texas department of public security did put out some new information about the rifle and how that traffic stop unfolded. but o

host: i want to get to texas it texas itself, because democrats have long fantasized about changing texas to be democratic state wide, and it has not happened. a handful of house seats flipped the last cycle from red to blue, and beto o'rourke came close to ousting senator ted cruz. they are targeting even more house seats this cycle, five. a sizable number in texas are trying to do what they did in california this time. is it realistic, congresswoman? senator gardner -- congresswoman garcia: it is certainly possible. we are doing a lot of work here in texas in terms of getting more members to congress. good chance,eally including one here in the area. and the texas house has targeted 10 to 12 to help flip, so there is a lot of effort and we have finally gotten the attention of the national fundraising dollars, and i think it is going to be doable, not this time, but next time. so it won't go blue in 2020? garcia: it is a possibility, because trump is really, really doing a lot of damage to the republican party here in texas. and if people get out there, and if you want to get even, organ

they met when the bush's moved from midland, texas to houston, texas. he and secretary baker became tennis partners. they belonged to the same country club and that on the tennis court. the couples became very close friend. reverend baker's wife died of cancer. he would tell you that he would not have survived his first wife's death without george and barbara bush. president bush was getting ready to run for the u.s. senate. he talked secretary baker into running his campaign. he used to call him bake. he said, you need to move on and need to have something new in your life, come run my senate campaign. they lost. that was what their friendship was like. in the end he became president bush's secretary of state. secretary baker is probably one of the smartest people i have ever met. he and his wife susan were there the night he died. i will tell you a story about the night president bush died. that adorable dog, sully. president bush's son neil was there and his family. i was there, evan was there, the baker's were there. his minister was there. we are a

that's west texas in oil country. we are getting from the department of public safety there, this began with a traffic stop. the trooper unit there had two troopers tonight. and during the traffic stop prior to the vehicle coming to a complete stop the male driver and only occupant pointed a rifle toward the rear window of his car and fired several round towards the patrol unit. we'll break that down in sequential order. what do you take from that? >> first off, looking at the two-person unit, the interesting part is you have a contact officer and cover officer. immediately upon that attack you would expect the cover officer is broadcasting a call for help. nobody on the law enforcement side, the fire department or emergency medical services can understand that call of shots fired officer down send a shiver down your spine. the immediacy of the reaction to that to bring in the troops, if you will, to make that assistance is of paramount importance. from all the information i have been receiving, this suspect fled. he

texas is a big one. twenty meanwhile, welcome back. his texas turning blue? >> yes but, well, it is a more competitive state, were competitive because of native texans. the reality for ted groups, he has a story he wants to talk. if it wasn't for the out of status or the yankees, if it wasn't for those coming into texas, he would have been beto o'rourke by much more. but that is just wrong. the governor of texas did way better than cruz. he lost among native texans. he won among people who had moved to texas. >> let's talk about the people who are leaving. texas has done an outstanding job of outreach. especially to californians, particularly small business owners there who find it impossible to manufacture and work in the golden state. texas is still very warm, it's just a few states over and they have a much better environment. they are doing to save same thing, beating new york and illinois, going to states like florida and texas. if you have a lot of people leading democrat states, they will continue to vote for democrats in their new home. >> not necessa

midland, texas, and odessa, texas, leaving seven people dead and 21 injured. police were able to track down the gunman near a movie theater, seth off an intense gun fooitd there. the gunman was killed in an exchange. at any moment, the police will be holding a news conference about the details. of course, you're seeing this happen in broad daylight. there are people who were bystanders. many took out their phones and started videotaping exactly what you see right now in complete astonishment. it turned out to be a deadly afternoon in midland and odessa. several people were killed, many injured. ed lavandera is live on the phone. ed, tell us about the investigation the day ofafter? what's happening? >> reporter: hopefully we're set up to take in a press briefing that's expected in the next few moments from law enforcement in the west area of odessa and midland, dps and the governor of texas, greg abbott, who has arrived here in the city of odessa as well. right now we're in the process of settinging up f inin inup up hopefully we can bring that to you live in t

we will go to texas for the lalatest. then to hurricane dorian. >> we're in the midst of a historic tragedy and parts of the northehern bahamas. amy: h hurricane dorian is continuing to wreak havoc in the bahamas, where massive storms and flooding killed at least five people and left many more stranded. the death toll is expected to rise. and we will go to hong kong as mass protests against china enter their 13th week. we will speak toto the man considered the father of democracy in hong kong, martin lee. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a gunman killed seven people and injured 22 others on saturday in the city of odessa in western texas. the injured included a 17-month-old girl. police have identified the gunman as 36-year-old seth ator and say he went on the rampage just hours after he was fired from his trucking job. police say the massacre began after it an officer pulled him over for failing to use a turn signal. he then reportedly o

he said there's no way i lose texas and that's obviously been now a discussion point as texas has begun to change demographically in terms of how solid the president's support is there and we've seen him go back to texas a number of times, not only to support ted cruz in one rally, he's here now for this event and as we head into 2020, the blend between the events held as president and his presidential official duties and political events, they tend to have sort of a coincidental perhaps you could say location aspect to them, we have the president this morning in houston talking to this group and highlighting the indian american community in houston, the economic ties between indian american in houston and in texas and back to india as we will listen now to indian president. >> good morning. [cheers and applause] >> good morning, texas. [cheers and applause] >> good morning, america. [cheers and applause] >> greetings to my fellow indians in india and around the world. [cheers and applause] >> friends, this morning we have a very special person with us. [cheers and applause] >> he needs

the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, i came to the floor and heard the democratic leader talking democratic leader talking >> i heard that democratic leader speaking about the terrible incidents that occurred in el paso and dayton and odessa we have had to set shooting since we've been in session in odessa and el paso and i confess these are terrible tragedies that cause us to first ask the question why and then cause us to ask the question what. what can and what should we do to try to stop incidents like these in the future i will remind the democratic leader we actually have a great template for bipartisan support for gun safety legislation which is a bill be sent to the president last year being the criminal background check the fbi operates and if you are convicted of a felony or dishonorably discharged from the military or subject to a protective order or as a result of a mental health crisis, all of these under existing law prohibit you from purchasing or possessing a firearm. but the back

garrett haake, nbc news, odessa, texas. >>> overseas news now. some of the most chaotic demonstrations yet in hong kong pro-democracy groups blocked access to the international airport today, leaving traveler stranded at the terminals. that follows saturday's violent clashes with police, which included throwing explosives and setting barricades on fire. >>> pope francis was late to sunday prayers in st. peter's square today. he's known for being prompt, so the crowd was naturally concerned. when he finally showed up, the 82-year-old pontiff told them he got stuck in an elevator for nearly half an hour he apologized for the delay, then thanked god for the firefighters who helped him get out. >>> still ahead tonight, comedian kevin hart hospitalized overnight after his car veered off an l.a. road. we'll have those details. >>> plus, close calls. a warning for any parent putting their kids on a school bus >>> superstar comedian and actor kevin hart has been in a serious car crash. according to the california highway patrol, his vehicle veered off a

shannon: in the wake of the odessa texas mass shooting a young african-american woman in texas says she is safe and unharmed after using her own gun to save a life. trace gallagher has more on that story. >> reporter: it was 2:30 in southwest houston when police say michelle hudgins parked her car outside of home in two men reached into the driver-side window to grab her purse but before they could grab the bag she reached in, pulled out her gun and fired two shots. >> it was all i had in my bag. i didn't shoot anymore. i saved my life. >> reporter: police on the juvenile male with a gunshot wound. he will survive but is facing aggravated robbery charges in texas gop congressman dan crenshaw is using the story to argue for gun rights saying with the universal background check he would not be will to let his friends borrow his handgun for safety. his democratic counterpart alexandria ocasio cortez responded with an unusual conclusion, you are a member of congress, why are you bending guns to people and supervised who can't pass a basic background check? the people you are giving your gun

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host: i want to get to texas it texas itself, because democrats have long fantasized about changing texas to be democratic state wide, and it has not happened. a handful of house seats flipped the last cycle from red to blue, and beto o'rourke came close to ousting senator ted cruz. they are targeting even more house seats this cycle, five. a sizable number in texas are trying to do what they did in california this time. is it realistic, congresswoman? senator gardner -- congresswoman garcia: it is certainly possible. we are doing a lot of work here in texas in terms of getting more members to congress. good chance,eally including one here in the area. and the texas house has targeted 10 to 12 to help flip, so there is a lot of effort and we have finally gotten the attention of the national fundraising dollars, and i think it is going to be doable, not this time, but next time. so it won't go blue in 2020? garcia: it is a possibility, because trump is really, really doing a lot of damage to the republican party here in texas. and if people get out there, and if you want to get even, organ

mike: texas attorney general ken paxton, our best to you and the great people of texas. >> thanks, mike. thanks for your prayers. appreciate it. mike: dorian strengthening into a catastrophic category 5 hurricane right now closing in on the northern bahamas as it takes a slow march towards our atlantic coast. senior meteorologist janice dean is in the fox extreme weather center. good morning, janice. >> hi, mike. already breaking records with this hurricane. the strongest hurricane now in the northern part of the atlantic ocean. 175 miles-per-hour sustained winds, gusts up to 200 miles-per-hour, and the outer core of winds now moving into the northwestern bahamas. they need our prayers. this storm could completely cause catastrophic damage. we're talking about 30 feet of storm surge. perhaps -- rather 20 feet of storm surge. 30 inches of rainfall and relentless major hurricane days because this storm is going to slow down, and that's where i'm concerned, not only for the bahamas, but the east coast of florida, and the latest track has this storm moving a little bit more to the west, so

used to herd texas cattle north. it stretched from southern texas to the city of abilene, kansas. next, kansas state university history professor james sherow talks about his book "the chisholm trail." mr. sherow chronicles joseph mccoy's success in national and international cattle trading, which sparked the growth of the u.s. beef industry. the watkins museum of history in lawrence, kansas, hosted this event. >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to our latest raven book chat at the watkins. i'm the public engagement coordinator here. i thank you for joining us tonight. i'm starting to sound like a broken record before every event, but these days when there are so many options for things to do with our free time and you don't even -- i mean, you can just sit on your couch every evening, it's very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. we really appreciate it. and i know that the staff of the raven bookstore appreciates it as well. so now i'll introduce tonight's guest speaker. james e. sherow is a professor in the department of his

but we begin in texas. it has happened again and it's happened again in west texas. a gunman opened fire, killing at least five people, sending another 21 to the hospital. according to police, it began way routine traffic stop. the driver opened fire and sped

the texas legislature and the governor had an opportunity after santa fe to examine gun laws in texas which has some of the weakest laws on the books and determine actions to be taken. right now in texas, background checks do not apply to all gun sales. having extreme risk laws in place. removing asasault weapons from this streets. they didn't do any of those things. they talked to the gun industry and put together a wish list package that substantially weakened state law and puts texans at risk. we see the results of this every day. we have 51 mass shoot thaings t happened in august alone. texas is among the worst of the states in terms of its laws. we really need to move forward to strengthen state laws and our federal laws. brady has the solutions. we need to enact them. >> there are a couple of things as i look at the gun laws that have been amended as of today. license gun owners can store guns and ammunition in locked places inside their vehicles even if it's on a school campus as long as it's out of sight. they are literally right there many the parking lot should someone want

but we begin in texas. it has happened again and it's happened again in west texas. a gunman opened fire, killing at least five people, sending another 21 to the hospital. according to police, it began way routine traffic stop. the driver opened fire and sped away. on an interstate he took aim and randomly fired at other vehicles, at one point abanged his car and stealing a postal truck. police finally cornered him in a parking lot of a movie theater. >> this subject was contacted by law enforcement and he -- an exchange of gunfire happened, and that subject is deceased. >> witnesses joey and julia mcnair caught it all on camera outside the theater. and a warning their video may be disturbing for some viewers. >> he's going to shoot. [ gunfire ] >> [ bleep ]. >> get down. >> oh, my god. goldie, are you down? >> are they shooting at that man? >> i don't know. i can't see. oh, my god. i think they -- >> investigators believe they have identified the shooter, but the only description they're giving publicly is a white male in his 30s. also no word on a motive at this po

there in odessa, texas. and the despondency and the sadness clearly part of not only the family members but for those who are from texas, and americans across the country and around the world, as they see another day with an another mass shooting. i want to go to tiffany peratta, who says she witnessed the shootings in odessa, texas earlier. tiffany, thank you for calling in. where were you during the time of this shooting? >> we were traveling on i-20. we were just leaving out of midland when all this happened. we were driving. we had seen the state trooper chasing that car, and we saw that he kind of just got into the median. and i was like, well, maybe -- i told my husband, it's a chase or something. he said, i don't think so because there's not so much cops around here or whatever. we continue to drive and see the car pull over to the side. my husband gets on the left side. and he gets out and starts shooting at us. my husband saw him start shooting at us and we got onto the median. my husband was trying

actually pioneered down in san markos, texas, at texas state university where they trained law enforcement not to sit on the perimeter while the shooting goes on inside the building, but to attack the shooter where they are, would he went one step further to make sure not only that we can stop the shooter, we can save lives and keep people from bleeding to death by training emergency medical personnel to follow the police into an active shooting scene to save lives. now, part of the problem with discussing this topic, there's a lot of mythology out there. i heard my friend, the democratic leader saying if we passed another background check system maybe dayton or el paso would not have happened. well, both of those shooters passed a background check. are you saying we should pass a law to pretend we're doing something, but actually would not have a positive impact on saving lives? that's not what we did in the fix n iechic belill. the shooter was disqualified fr, but the domestic violence into the background system. when he went to buy a firearm, it didn't catch him. he was able to lie and

rob: how does taking away your guns play in texas did you >> i grew up in texas since i was 7 years old. talking about taking away ar -- have the conversation the right way. nobody wants to take your shotgun, your 223, 237, all those things, i own those guns and use them to deer hunt, but the ak-47 is used to kill children. jillian: let's talk the losers and you have joe biden at the top of the list. >> i do because joe biden took it from every angle. joe biden supporters will say he was strong and took everybody but it is hard when you are the front runner because everybody is coming at you and you have to have a perfect night to have a great night. he had a good night but if you watched him all night long he stumbled with his words, didn't have the right reactions to certain things. the thing that stuck to him the most we will talk about later was owning some of the things barack obama did with the deportations. it was hard to take that from every side and have a successful night. heather: do you still consider biden the front runner? regardless what the polls say? >> i think it is ha

a big thanks again to the texas fizerne festival, and p sponsoring the politico tent, the texas farm bureau sponsoring that. i hope you enjoy more festival offerings, and thank you so much for joining us. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> and that concludes our live coverage of this year's texas tribune festival. if you missed any of the festival, we will air today's discussions at 8:00 p.m. eastern, where you can watch online at c-span.org. type "texas tribune festival" into the search bar. the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has provided america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public-policy events from washington and around the country, so you can make up your mind. c-span by cable in 1979, is brought to you by your local cable or satellite providers. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> joining us this week on "the communicators" is senator mars

texas. law enforcement officials telling cnn the now dead gunman has been identified at 36-year-old seth ator. we're also learning new details about some of the victims, including 17-month-old anderson davis, wounded in the gunfire. one of the 22 hurt. her family says she's recovering and will have surgery tomorrow to remove shrapnel from her chest and to fix her mouth and tongue and lip. and there are new warnings about the other big story we're following. the threat of hurricane dorian. hurricane dorian is becoming more dangerous by the minute, growing to a category 5 storm. the largest on the planet so far this year. it made landfall earlier today in the bahamas. this amazing video just in to cnn showing one woman desperately pleading for help in the storm. >> please, pray for us. please pray for us, everyone. please pray for us. me and my baby. everyone that's staying in the apartment building. we're stuck right here. please pray for us. please, pray for us. pray for abaco. my baby is on

at least 5 people are dead and more than 20 injured after a shooting in the west texas city of odessa. will have the latest in very in a very short while i'm fully back here this is al jazeera live from doha coming up protesters held petrol bombs at police who hit back with blue dyed water and baton searing the latest chaotic scenes in hong kong. u.s. attacks what it says was an al qaeda links training camp in syria as it lay province killing at least 14 people and bracing for hurricane dorian the united states prepares for the powerful storm to make landfall. we begin with breaking news out of the united states where 5 people are dead and at least 21 injured after a mass shooting in the state of texas at least one shooter drove around the city of a desk firing at police say that suspect has been killed let's hear what police have to say. for civilian casualties we have at least 21 victims 21 shooting victims and at least 5 deceased at this point our situation started about 317 this afternoon when i d.p.s. trooper attempted to stop a gold honda. when the devious troopers get the car s

i don't think rockefeller can beat me in texas. >> texas must feel popular. it is fast turning into the biggest battleground state in the nation and the lone star prize this election cycle is latino voters. if they do turn out, democrats are hoping they will turn out for them and then help them do something that they have not done since jimmy carter in 1976, win. joining me msnbc senior national correspondent chris jansing who went to texas this week. what did you find? >> it was fascinating. i tell you, even ted cruz said just yesterday that john cornyn and donald trump better watch out because they will have a very serious contest come 2020, and it is for exactly the reason that katie just pointed out, demographic changes. >> in houston, texas, trump supporters were so excited. >> four more years! four more years! >> that the president in north carolina on monday might have heard them cheering his speech 1200 miles away. >> we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. >> reporter: but the historic republican advantage in texas is coming up against a y

i love the people of texas. but to get any meaningful gun laws changed, it's really tough. >> 30 seconds to you, frank. it appears they're at that local hospital waiting for solutions. he said we need to do something locally and everybody needs to. maybe he was intumating legislation. what was your reflection? >> you got to vote for change. but let's talk about the likelihood of state change. texas governor greg abbott, october 2015 tweets the following tweet. i'm embauersed. texas has fallen to number two in gun purchases. let's step it up. something to that effect. that's the mindset we're up against. do you think there's going to be significant change there? i think not. >> i really appreciate you sticking with us. jim cavanaugh, former assistant directorer for counterintelligence. two of the best and thank you for being with us as we covered an unfofrp nrtunate and another horrific shooting in texas. tune in starting tomorrow. 6:00 a.m. for the latest. i'm richard luiy. goodnight from new york. >>> rachel ha

west texas. there is still nothing out there. it is the most godforsaken land you have ever seen. west texas. that is where he became a hard-core country music fan. >> will you talk about president bush's relationship with james baker? jean: yes. they are best friends. they met when the bush's moved from midland, texas to houston, texas in 1959. he and secretary baker became tennis partners. they belonged to the same country club and met on the tennis court. the couples became very close friends. baker's wife died of cancer. he would tell you that he would not have survived his first wife's death without george and barbara bush. president bush was getting ready to run for the u.s. senate. he talked secretary baker into running his campaign. these to call him -- he used to call him bake. he said you need to have something new in your life. come run my senate campaign. they lost. wellthey lost. , that campaign. that was what their friendship was like. in the end he became president bush's secretary

les tendremos los pormenores >>mÁs adelante, desde houston, texas. se acerca la hora del debate demÓcrata entre 10 precandidatos que clasificaron para este evento. les tendremos los detalles. ♪ ♪ ♪ ramÓn: esta noche, la ciudad de houston en texas era el centro de la tensiÓn polÍtica con miras a las elecciones presidenciales del aÑo 2020 . un debate esperado que es auspiciado por univisiÓn. participarÁ elizabeth warren, joe biden, juliÁn castro, bernie sanders, kamala harris y beto o'rourke entre otros. nuestro colega se encuentra precisamente en houston desde en donde nos habla de los preparativos y los da los pormenores de este debate esperado. adelante, fernando. fernando: aquÍ estÁ todo listo en la sala de prensas de la universidad de texas en houston, donde tendremos la oportunidad de analizar el desempeÑo de los 10 precandidatos demÓcratas en el debate. los partidarios de juliÁn castro y de beto o'rourke ya han alineado las calles cercanas al sitio el debate en houston, temprano. adentro, la realizaciÓn hispana mÁs antigua d

i love the people of texas. but to get any meaningful gun laws changed, it's really tough. >> 30 seconds to you, frank. it appears they're at that local hospital waiting for solutions. he said we need to do something locally and everybody needs to. maybe he was intumating legislation. what was your reflection? >> you got to vote for change. but let's talk about the likelihood of state change. texas governor greg abbott, october 2015 tweets the following tweet. i'm embauersed. texas has fallen to number two in gun purchases. let's step it up. something to that effect. that's the mindset we're up against.

texas that saved republicans. i was the second highest vote getter behind the governor and he did a better job among hispanics, millenials, and among suburban women. if you look at williamson county, we have a better grouped nd game reaching out. that's the battle ground. and we haven't spent time really engaged. clearly go. -- here we go. we have several questions back that way. i understandings one of you is a partisan politician, i get that. how do you maintain your objectivity when you are writing stories, writing biographies? i'm sure you have a political leaning but how do you make sure you are objective as possible when you are writing about history? >> about a year and a half ago i became a columnist for the opinion section of the "washington post." after decades of being paid for being objective, i'm being paid for my opinions, which is a bit of an adjustment for me. in both cases, i try to base on in what i'miting seeing. talking to as many people as possible. susan is in a different situation. >> i'm a

jorge ramos: bienvenidos a este debate demÓcrata desde houston texas. todo estÁ absolutamente listo. la lista de candidatos demÓcratas se ha reducido a sÓlo 10 y este es el momento de preguntarles quÉ piensan hacer con el futuro de los estados unidos? el debate demÓcrata comienza ahora mismo. locutor: noticias univisiÓn presenta en la contienda para la casa blanca se intensifica. por primera vez se enfrentan los 10 aspirantes demÓcratas con mÁs rango en las encuestas nacionales. . joe bidenelizabeth werther, bernie sanders. cory booker, kamala harris, amy klobuchar, pete buttigieg, juliÁn castro, beto o'rourke andrew andrew >> estamos en la universidad de texas, los 10 candidatos estÁn listos para empezar y en el escenario todos han cumplido con requisitos del comitÉ por primera vez en esta primaria - con los principales candidatos enfrentÁndose. es un momento crÍtico para nuestro paÍs van a desplegar su plan para nuestro paÍs y como se van a enfrentar a donald trump el uno al otro. serÁ un debate civil pero tenemos aquÍ a debby david m

a gunman kills seven in west texas. we'll go live to total of 22 pe wounded. >> good morning, everybody. on this labor day, monday, september 2, i'm yasmin vossoughian with geoff bennett and susan del percio with us as well. we

actually pioneered down in san marcus, texas, at texas state university, where they train law enforcement not to sit on the perimeter while the shooting goes on inside a building but to attack the shooter where they are, but also we went one step further to make sure not only can we stop the shooter, we can actually save lives and keep people from bleeding to death. by training emergency medical personnel to follow the police into an active shooting scene to save lives. now, part of the problem with discussing this topic is there's just a lot of mythology out there. i heard my friend, the democratic leader saying, if we just pass another background check system, maybe dayton or el paso would not have happened. well, boat th of those shooters passed a background check. are you suggesting we ought to pass a law just to pretend we're doing something but we're actually not have a positive impact on saving lives? that's not what we did in the fix nics bill. as you may recall, the particular shooter there was disqualified from purchasing firearms but the air force had not uploaded that -- his f

abrogated stomach aggravated robbery charges and texas g.o.p. congressman dan crenshaw is using the story to argue for gun rights saying that with universal background checks he wouldn't be able to let his friends borrow his handgun for safety. this democratic counterpart, alexandria ocasio-cortez responded with an unusual conclusion, quoting, "you are a member of congress, why are you lending guns to people unsupervised who can't pass a basic background check? the people you're giving a gun to have likely abused their spouse or have a violent criminal record and you may not know what. why on earth would you do that? "in return, he wrote, quoting, "just one click from you think my friends are domestic abusers, criminals? seriously? better argument? that they can't pass background checks? wrong. people lend guns to friends, especially if they don't own a gun, for self-defense and hunting purposes. this is america outside new york city." meantime, the separatist go board of supervisors approved a resolution naming mra as a domestic terror group th

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the status quo in texas is unacceptable. and action is needed. >> reporter: you know, when the shooting was happening, news of a gunman on the loose spread through social media on saturday. and that caused a lot of chaos and fear. maria villareal is joining us now. the social media was spreading faster than the police put out a warning. >> the fear that the videos created and the shoot-out created yesterday, spread so quickly. and it really had terrifying results. >> get down. get down. >> reporter: this video was posted on social media with a message in spanish that says, god, please, protect us. you can hear a father consoling his son, as gunshots are going off in the background. >> it's okay. >> reporter: innocent bystanders are laying in an open field. one woman shielding a small child with her body. a question no father wants to hear, as this young boy's hands can't stop shaking. he's on the verge of tears, as everyone clings to the dirt. >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: tan continuing to check on his family. confirm it's fi

we're hoping at noon texas time. with state and local officials including the governor about what we've learned specifically about this case, and frankly, what we're learning in texas if anything that the state government here is going to do about these shootings. remember, after el paso the governor put a commission together to study the acts of mass shootings. he's waiting on recommendations from them about steps that the state of texas could take in lieu of the federal government doing anything. it's not something that's going to happen any time in the near future. >>> garrett haake, thank you. really appreciate it. thank you. with con dwregressional democrat to return to d.c., we have an opportunity to do something about gun violence. the president is taking phone calls and orders from the nra. joining me now is political strategist, dnc communications director. tiffany cross of the beat d.c. jonathan capehart and shannon watts. and i'm going to start with shannon. what would you like to see done? we've seen kids