after that came out from greg abbott's campaign manager, a spokesman for greg abbott at the attorney general's office issued another clarifying statement saying, never mind about that fire departments thing saying actually under this new ruling from greg abbott, local fire departments are not going to tell you either. they might, but they might not and certainly don't have to. we have a lot of ideological debate in our politics about the proper size of government, what government is for. a lot of that debate is very esoteric, very theoretical. but rick perry is going to run for president again on the basis of the texas miracle. where he says things like not having any zoning laws and not having any fire codes, those are the things that make texas great. and we should elect him president because he will apply that texas miracle to the whole country. and greg abbott is the man who's running to replace rick perry in texas. he's the republican candidate for governor in texas this year. we reached out to koch industries today for a comment, but we have not heard back. their spokesman told

greg abbott steps in it on chemicals issue.epublican candidate for governor this year. he's currently the attorney general in the state. earlier this year it turns out, which was just about a year after this huge and fatal explosion at an ammonium nitrate fertilizer plant in texas which killed 15 people and injured more than 200 people, almost exactly a year after that explosion, texas attorney general greg abbott declared that the state of texas would to longer tell the public where large quantities of explosive chemicals are stored in that state. for decades, that information had been public information in texas, but not anymore. may, greg abbott's office issued a ruling saying state agencies must start with holding that information from the public. that's the only significant change in rules or policies or laws in texas, since unsafe storage of chemicals set off that apocalypse in that little town of west, texas, last year. the only thing the state government has changed since then is greg abbott saying the state will no lon

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attorney general greg abbott, the also running for governor in the lone star state, what do you hopeo achieve with the lawsuit and what can that do? >> we want to achieve several things. first of all, as you pointed out this is a federal government responsibility. we have a situation where barack obama has literally turned his back on the state of texas. he was here yesterday. he could have gone down to the border, observed first-hand what was going on, observed first-hand what the need are, and the resources he needs to deploy in the state of texas. because he has turned his back on the state, because he didn't want a photo-op, because he didn't want to address the problem, the state of texas is having to step up and address the problem ourselves. these are the things -- eric: mr. attorney general, he would say he is not turning his back. he has a multibillion-dollar plan he thinks the republicans won't approve. >> his plan, for one, is all talk and no action. if he really wanted to do anything he could have responded to my initial request that was sent to his office more an month a

let's bring in texas attorney general greg abbott, a republican who is also a candidate for governorng democrat wendy davis. so mr. abbott, what's your reaction to the speaker not bringing in any immigration issues, not mentioning the dreamers order of 2012 in his proposed lawsuit? i would imagine that would be a bit disappointing? >> well, what's disappointing is the fact that just yesterday, the president was here in texas, here in austin, just a few hundred miles away from the border and he turned his back on the border. he called this place a crisis. just a week or two ago. and he could not respond to a crisis by himself showing up and trying to address this issue. this is a huge challenge for the state of texas, jake. we expect the president to live up to his responsibility and the federal government's responsibility to secure our border and to address this is unprecedented influx of immigrants everybody central america. >> that's my point. wouldn't you want that to be in the lawsuit that speaker boehner is bringing up then? >> here's the deal, jake. yeah, and that is i have no

. >> greg abbott claims he is turning his back on the crisis.is critical of the president's problem. >> he is taking money for political purposes and could not trouble himself to go down to the border and see the catastrophe he was partly responsible for creating. >> president obama is addressing the matter with central american leaders this friday. >> thank you. kelly. >>> in other news moments ago the train carrying the bodies of malaysian airline flight victims arrives in eastern ukraine before heading to the netherlands for identification. this as pro russian rebels start cooperating with the investigation. doug luzader joins us live in tv. the rebels are allowing investigators on the scene. right? >> heather, that's right. we are seeing breakthroughs here. forensic teams are able to get access to the crash scene. you get an idea from the satellite photo how big it is. especially at this late stage the investigators are going to have their work cut out for them. the other thing developed in full view of the international media the black boxe

last year, greg abbott, attorney general of texas filed a brief and said we in texas, we definitely divided our lines so that we would politically benefit republicans, but we didn't do it for racial reasons. so we shouldn't be in trouble. so texas is kind of similar. there's more republicans but it is still not as imbalanced, the congressional delegation is 24 and 12 republican. this has gone on around the country, especially after the landslide of 2010. there's going to be some carving back, and it is great to see it. >> i feel like democrats are much more open to the idea of having independent commissions or taking redistricting out of politicians' hands, they've seen what happened to the republican party. these districts have been gerrymandered that the republican party on a national, state level is controlled by a far right ideology that made governance impossible. >> when you draw the minorities into a district that's a half minority representative, you make the republican districts whiter. you have in texas a state where you have a lot of hispanics but they're not in districts of the

republican response if there wasn't a lawsuit and we know this afternoon that the texas attorney general greg abbott potentially sue the federal government. i will will read the actual statement from his office which says the state of texas is exploring any and all options including litigation to address the the crisis our federal government has created by not living up to their constitutional responsibility. if the federal government is unwilling to secure the border the state of texas will be resort to recruit the costs incurred by this crisis. it's totally ironic that the president has requested $2 billion to deal with the border crisis and it is republicans in congress who may be holding that up. >> i think the entire situation surrounding immigration reform with obama acting on his own and with the situation at the border. we're going to get past this sort of 1 1/2-year truce where we've ignored the fact the xeen on phonetic impulses and we're behind the difficulty of getting this process going. >> yes. >> now that the immigration reform process has come apart and we have this border crisis and

the republican candidate to succeed perry as governor, texas attorney general, greg abbott bravely saidote, texans are willing to put boots on the ground. but we expect washington to foot the bill. texas politicians of both parties have never been shy about expecting the federal government to foot the bill for their bright ideas. since the national guard does not have the authority to arrest anyone, it is not clear how they will keep themselves busy on the border. democratic texas state representative terry said a soldier standing there with a gun who cannot detain or arrest somebody, they might as well be carrying broom sticks. >>> up next, israel versus hamas, and the hopes for a cease-fire. ♪ in the nation, the safest feature in your car is you. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. which for you, shouldn't be a problem. just another way we put members first, because we don't have shareholders. join the nation. nationwide is on your side. i think she tried to kill us. no, it's only 15 calories. with reddi wip, fruit never

everything they lamb bast for raising money in california, greg abbott, rick perry, they're doing thehis is all in a run up to a presidential run. as governor of texas he has seen the demographic destiny of texas. he can't get the rest of his national republicans on board about that. i think he does as much damage control as possible to like you said appear conciliatory. but on the other hand you have a man who believes in total states rights, doesn't recognize the president's authority in any other situation, constantly raises money and rhetoric over rejecting the president, questioning the president's legitimacy, so it's a really confusing argument for everyone on our side. you know, the president's not allowed to improve our health care system, but he has to be everything and all and nothing for the border. i think that, you know, everything is so polarized right now, that democrats are seeing it the way that we understand it which is that republicans still have no answer, don't have an answer for health care, for immigration, they don't have an answer for these issues. their base

texas attorney general greg abbott said in 2011 the super bowl is commonly known as the single largestdent in the united states. why is that? >> we know in many situations where there are major sports events or political events, that there is a desire and demand for sex with underage girls. that that is considered to be part of the experience of the event. and because we don't have a culture of crime and punishment for buying underage girls, those individuals who want to buy children can do so with absolute confidence. we have here a culture of imp n impunity around purchasing children for sex. >> let me push on you to elaborate on that. you say we don't have a culture of crime and punishment around purchasing young girls for sex. to a lot of people watching at home they'll say, wait a second. that seems like the most abhorrent crime i could imagine. how do we not have a culture of punishing that? >> so we just had the fbi raid that you referred to at the beginning of the segment. there were 281 traffickers who were arrested as they should be. the fbi did not make one arrest of a buyer

out of the way proves i mean rick perry has has maintained a great system in texas here now with greg abbott of the new do don't tell communities what's in the fertilizer plant down the street they don't need to know we can make all that only if we're going to get a government of up growth in the places that. more interested in trying to interfere in people's but you know you're absolutely right when west texas blew up and killed those fifteen people and injured a couple of hundred there were a lot of jobs are created by that they need to rebuild the town they need to rebuild those homes the people you know one hundred people who are people who are hospitalized there was probably a several million dollars for the economic activity as a consequence of west texas the glowin actually examine it doesn't disprove the point you can compare texas with almost any other state in america and what you see is phenomenal increase in growth every particular gate in austin and every decade they get more congressman added because of the population growth and you also see the number of people getting homes y

the first, i had this afternoon lunch with the attorney general of texas greg abbott who described the attorney general of texas and the u.s. attorney's office have recently arrested an alleged terrorist in texas with ties to isis, with ties to the radical islamic terrorists who are right now wreaking havoc across iraq and syria. so the first question i would ask the senior senator from arizona is how significant does he see the threat of terrorist crossing our porous border and targeting the homeland and the second question i would ask is related. of the $3.7 billion a present upon as requested in the supplemental bill, just 160 million is directed to border patrol agents and immigration judges both. so less than 5% of the total actually goes to boots on the ground. the second question i would ask the senior senator from arizona is in his judgment is devoting less than 5% of the resources from this bill to boots on the ground a serious effort at securing the border in solving the problem? >> i would say to my colleague in answer to the second question is obviously now and it's my unde

that's why you saw the texas attorney general greg abbott saying he's considering filing suit becausef this because they are not skilled workers or educated worn workers. they are going to be costing us more money than to help us. >> let's break down the number. we have been saying 51,000 or 52,000 kids and parents coming into the united states, but since april we know the number is upwards of 290,000. upwards of 300,000 individuals have come into this country since april. >> unbelievable. well, here's a story that defines hypocrisy. tom steyer is the single largest donor to the democratic party. he may be more responsible than any other person for killing the keystone pipeline through his donations to the democratic party. it turns out this warrior on behalf of climate change, this faux of carpet has made his billions through, you guessed it, investigating in carbon. in fact, a massive new coal mine that just opened in australia was financed by tom steyer. >> his firm has made millions of dollars off of coal. fighting coal plants in the united states, this could be a number of hypocr

the attorney general of texas, greg abbott, who is running for governor, we should point out, says it'sguard. >> it's necessary, because the state of texans is doing what the federal government has failed to do, secure our border. we've had about 3,000 murders. it is a responsibility of a government to keep their people safe. the federal government has a responsibility of securing our border. they're not doing it. so the state of texas will do it. >> i'm wondering -- >> i was going to say, remember, rick perry has been calling for a while for the president to call them up and one of our producers asked yesterday, is there some reason why it would make sense for the governor to ask the president and as it turns out, if the president did order up the national guard, it would be a title 32 activation, which means federal funds. however, the president is not calling it up. the governor is, which means the state of texas is going to have to pay for it. >> i didn't know you were taking questions yesterday. i would have shown up. how long were you taking questions? >> while i was home. >> this

greg abbott of texas says the states are paying.ave a statement from the texas attorney general. he says there are costs to all this, humanitarian, health care, law enforcement demands. i'm looking into taking legal action against the united states. so what he's saying is we can't afford this. we simply cannot afford the 60,000 illegal minors who have come in and we don't even know how many are potentially going to be here. one of the problems is because it's happening during the summer months when school is not in session. of course, they will end up going to our schools, we'll pay for their education, paying for their medical treatment. we'll be paying for potentially the crimes that end up being committed. >> one group i mentioned yesterday. and i think it bears repeating again, people said, i had no idea they were involved and thank you for their help. the catholic charities. where the federal government has failed to intervene and help out, the catholic charities coming in in texas now, sheltering these children, providing them

pivotal final push towards election day with substantially less money to spend than republican greg abbott. the poll showing davis trailing behind her opponent there. pam in california, women only this morning, pam you're up. go ahead. >> caller: thank you. i listen to the reporter, miss cox explain the hobby lobby decision and a lot of democrats and some republicans have left out, as many of your caller hads have stated, it is only four out of 20 contraception devices are methods that have been excluded under the decision by the supreme court. four out of 20. the other 16 will all be provided by hobby lobby to their employees. and these were provided before obamacare, and will be continued to be provided under the health care plan by hobby lobby after the supreme court decision. >> host: what do you make of the debate, and what democrats are trying to do? >> caller: i think that including c-span in allowing miss cox to perform the debate as dividing a method of either providing birth control or not providing birth control, that that's misleading the entire debate. the question really is w

i want to remind you rick perry and greg abbott are compassionate people.s compassion toward illegal immigrants that got him in trouble with his own party when he was running for president in 2011. so he has compassion, but he also recognizes that the most compassionate thing we can do is to secure our borders. if i could say this, because there are many christians who watch "fox & friends," and they're wondering what the right thing to do is. gentlemen, jesus loved concern, but he also respected law. he said render unto caesar what is caesars. so we need to do both. show compassion, but secure the borders. >> that's right. the kids are here now. we got to take care of them and figure out how to make sure that it doesn't being a bigger crisis. pastor, thank you for joining us today from dallas. >> 20 minutes after the hour. coming up, he was supposed to be up for reelection, then he got a notice he's about to be deployed. the law maker turned navy officer joins us next. >>> and do not tape your wife as she's giving birth, especially if you're driving the ca

the woman -- the lady was screaming about your taxes, you need to call rick perry and greg abbott to ask why they opted out of the $300 million. thet: one of the issues for states that opted out, some of the republicans in the those states have raised the concern wha -- how well they would be able to afford the expansion over time. i think that has been one of the concerns that they have had and they have raised. the democrats obviously have pushed those states to get the expansion. host: california. lynette on the republicans line. caller: yes, i have a question. i know president obama has delayed the employer mandate. if you delay that until after the midterms. now i am wondering if everybody who has employer-based insurance is going to lose it is they are not government-approved plans. thank you. guest: i don't believe everybody's going to lose it. i don't think that is in the several he would anyone expect to have -- that is necessarily what anyone expects to have happen. we did a delay it for a year and at that point i think it will take and so there is -- there are definitely s