there for anything but an advisory capacity. >> host: we have 15 minutes left with congressman blake farentholdrepublican of texas here to answer questions and take your comments. cann is in actually georgia on my line for republicans. cannot good morning. >> caller: good morning. thank you representative farenthold. you have really explained the situation very well but i believe that this is a manufactured crisis and it is an attempt to smear the republicans about the immigration issue in our country and to flex again it makes the news headlines from the irs candles and nsa scandals etc. etc.. shouldn't the border states be able to express their sovereignty? i know cost the state of texas to mexico and arizona a lot of money but mainly texas. they should be paying for the planes to take these children and send the back to the countries in which they came from and deport the fuhrer as well. i think that's a solution. >> guest: i do think we need to change the bush era law that treats mexicans differently than it treats the central american and include central america and the expedited repatriat

ok well here's some of these guys who are not we're not known as extremist texas congressman blake farentholdyou tie in to a question i get a lot of everyone so an unhappy with what the president why why don't you impeach him i'll give you a real frank answer that if we were to change the president's bar you could probably get the votes of the house of representatives to do it but it would go to the senate and he wouldn't be convicted there's pennsylvania congressman lou beretta in june is just absolute nor in the constitution nor in the laws ignoring checks and balances for those that say impeach him for breaking the laws or by passing laws could that pass the house it probably could yes ok fine you would say but here's the key is that it has been have there been articles of impeachment actually introduced in the uk you know were they against bush multiple times yes i mean this is a this is a this is a fiction that has been created by the white house over the spent like the republicans have not been speaking about and you can use pretty well without a headline or the equivalent to responding

oh, you, fellow lone star republican congressman blake farenthold? >> this is president obama's katrina. >> i believe in this case it's pronounced ekatarina. although, to be fair, when it comes to glaring gaps in what are supposed to be glare barriers, i think farenthold knows what he's talking about. in fact, oh, my god, hang on. the crisis is so bad they're everywhere. noooooo! donde esta? i wouldn't be so quick to blame obama for this land of immigrants. maybe they got the idea that america was a great place to come from some other people. >> we live in the greatest country in the world. >> the strongest, freest, greatest country. -greatest health care. >> the greatest universities. the greatest schools. >> the greatest rise of freedom and opportunity. >> the single greatest nation in the history of all mankind. -greatest country ever. >> jon: i don't know about you, but i really feel like [bleeped] an apple pie right now. [cheering and applause] why would you not... why would you not come to a place that great? in fact, it's why all of our ancest

blake farenthold kummer presented above the 27th district until the redistricting. part of your district was on the border. guest: they went down to brownsville, texas. now we go to the outskirts of austin and houston. host: we will take your questions and comments for the next half hour or so. 202-585-3s can call 881. -585-3880. 202 james is calling in from p aurea, illinois. good morning. caller: good morning. why youlike to know keep talking about the border not being secure. it is secure. you say that you need more border patrols. you have it. as far as these children coming in from other parts -- from other countries. you know that they've president needs the money. what a to give him the money and let him do it yesterday. guest: how can you sit of the border secure? we have all of these children were able to make it over. big, tough, burly guys with drugs. these are children escorted by one person. i do not think the border is secure. this crisis is evidence. theve no problems giving president the money he needs to address the crisis. we do not want to throw u

blake farenthold raised the prospect. we have seen kerry bentavolio oh from michigan call it a dream come true. >> that was the manifest from the clown car. steve king and barleta. >> the idea that the dccc and democrats are raising money over impeachment fever, it would be malpractice if they didn't do this. >> explain why the core democrats shell out money because there is an impeachment drive. why does it make you give money? >> it's about embarrassing the president, embarrassing their guy. as you have been saying putting an asterisk next to his name in the history books. >> besmirching him. >> they have long viewed president obama as under siege by republicans and certainly since republicans took over the house in the midterms then. they will do everything they can to protect their guy, have his back. if they will talk impeachment. >> we all know it. you can have the ability to write comments to columns in the post. your power is unlimited. you write a column. someone has a comment all over the wires. whas to stop the

. >> joined by republican congressman blake farenthold whose district is a stone's throw away from the border. let me start by getting your reaction. to stefanie's piece on the danger the kids face from gangs in central america. is there something more that the united states can be doing to help the particular countries combat gangs? it depends how you see the united states. obviously, we could be much more involved down there. but the issue is how much worse is the violence gotten over the past few years? is that is causing the flood of immigrants or the fact there's a belief as you come to the u.s. you're going say. i think it's the latter. >> so you don't think that the violence in these countries has anything to do with the surge? not at all? >> no, i think it's a factor. >> okay. >> that violence has been around for awhile. >> it sounds as if your contention is it's policies that have created this surge? >> and our failure to return people back to their countries of origin. you get to the united states, you get in the legal process and unless you're a mexican or canadian, it's yea

republican congressman blake farenthold had a surprising response to those protesters on our show yesterday think the protests are uninformed. there's a facility that houses several hundred of these children four blocks from my home in corpus christi, texas. it's not a problem for the community. this is a humanitarian crisis the whole country needs to step up and help out. >> speaking exclusively to msnbc's rachel maddow last night, homeland security secretary jay johnson said his department is moving in the right direction in handling the crisis. >> i've spent time with unaccompanied children as young as 8 years old, 5 years old, who have been on a 1,000-mile journey to come to this country. you can see in their eyes vulnerability and fear that i recognize as a father. and so there's a humanitarian aspect to this situation that we simply have to grapple with and come to terms with, and so our response to this needs to reflect our laws and our values. >> joining me now, former homeland security secretary tom ridge, the man who is charged with being the first one of that unwieldy department.

. >> republican congressman blake farenthold of texas joins me now.ongressman, good morning to you, sir. >> chuck, good morning. >> i want to talk to you about this issue, number one, of trying to ease the burden a bit on texas and arizona when it comes to this current crisis and try to transfer some of these migrants to california, oklahoma and virginia. it's being met with huge protests. what do you say to those communities in those other states? make your plea as to why they should be helping out. >> listen, we've got such a flood that all of the facilities in texas are busting at the seams. we're housing them at lackland air force base, we're housing them at all sorts of facilities. anything we can find, we're using. and it takes time to get these children processed and reunited with an adult that will eventually take care of them. >> it's funny you put it that way. do you understand -- obviously you've been getting some -- probably hearing from your own constituents. do you understand why there are protests or do you think that these protests are

i hereby appoint the honorable blake farenthold to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. we'll now recognize the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. this past friday was a monumental day in the house of representatives as we final leija debate on the merits of send -- finally had a debate on the merits of sending combat troops in iraq. i want to thank the leadership and foreign affairs leadership for working with representatives mcgovern, lee and myself for bringing h.con. resolution 105 to the

i hereby appoint the honorable blake farenthold to act as speaker pro tempore on this day.ed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate.

this bill, oversight committee chairman darrell issa, federal work force subcommittee chairman blake farenthold, and ranking member gerry connolly, and longtime whistleblower advocate and my fellow member from the state of maryland, representative chris van hollen. h.r. 4197 provides an extension in the whistleblower enhancement act that was signed into law on november 27, 2012. under that law whistleblowers were allowed to file appeals in any federal circuit of appeals with jurisdictions during the two years following enactment. the two-year period will expire on november 27 of this year. this bill would extend the all-circuit review provision for an additional three years. without this provision, whistleblowers could only appeal a decision by the merit systems protection board to the united states court of appeals for the federal circuit. the federal circuit has become increasingly restrictive of whistleblower rights in its decisions over the years, allowing other circuits to consider appeals in whistleblower cases provides a peer review process and the check on the federal circuit. the overs