we would turn now to mr. poe for his five minutes of questions. >> thank you, madam chair. for some reason i don't understand why some of the witnesses do not make the distinction between the people that are here legally from other countries and people that are here illegally from other countries. there is a difference between people that are here legally, came the right way, did the right thing. even waited and those people who just flaunted the laws and other reasons came into the united states now expect us to give them amnesty. i'll make it clear, i think amnesty is a bad idea. history has proven it hasn't worked. so what do we do? the proposal is let's do it again. maybe the results will be different. i don't think so. houston area, just a couple of statistics. 18% of the people in county hospitals in houston, texas, are illegally in the united states. 67% of the births in the lbj county hospital in the last four years, 67% are born to mothers who are illegally in the united states. now, somebody pays for that. and who pays for it? it's citizens and it's legal immigran

good morning to you, mr. poe>> good morning, maggie. >> clearly, these people are trying to send a message. what is your response? i mean, these are terrorists who are saying you mess with us, you investigate us, this is what you get. what is your response to them? >> well, that's exactly what they're doing. they are not only trying to send a message to mexico, they're trying to send a message to the united states to back off, that this is their turf, and they want to make sure that they control it and anybody that tries to interfere will pay the price. and, of course, we cannot be intimidated by the zeta cartels or anyone else. and, if anything, the united states ought to give more resources to this investigation. mexico needs to let the united states, also, help them in this investigation. so, we cannot be intimidated but that is their message to the united states and to mexico. >> it seems easy to say we can't be intimidated but you are going to be asking people to risk suffering this same fate. do you think t

we would turn now to mr. poe for his five minutes of questions. >> thank you, madam chair. for some reason i don't understand why some of the witnesses do not make the distinction between the people that are here legally from other countries and people that are here illegally from other countries. there is a difference beten people that are here legally, came the right way, did the right thing. even waited and those people who just flaunted the laws and other reasons came into the united states now expect us to give them amnesty. i'll make it clear, i think amnesty is a bad idea. history has proven it hasn't worked. so what do we do? the proposal is let's do it again. maybe the results will be different. i don't think so. houston area, just a couple of statistics. 18% of t people in county hospitals in houston, texas, are illegally in the united states. 67% of the births in the lbj county hospital in the last four years, 67% are born to mothers who are illegally in the united states. no somebody pays for that. and who pays for it? it's citizens and it's legal immigrants. i

poe's house. it was reality itself. "if someone were to ask what's going on, mr. gofield was shot down, nothing you can do. that's what's going on." looking for the american version of the irish boy, he found what he needed and more in the public library, a story of biblical proportions, a story that was not over, not by a long shot, the story of a death and trance figuration of a nation. that's where i'll end. [applause] let's get some feedback folks. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. really, thank you. [applause] thank you very much. anyway, i'm here to answer questions, and we'll be doing signing later on. there's a gentleman with the microphone, if you go to the microphone and ask your questions, we'll help you out. >> you mentioned a connection between bob dylan and -- did he ever -- they set witman's song to music a few months ago. did he ever write a song based on that poetry do you know? >> yes. >> he did? >> yes. >> do you know what song it is in >> the one i think is the one he wrote for a very, very bad movie called gods and generals. don't see the movie, but get the album. he wrote a s