host: we are speaking to texas congressman henry cuellar.u have any questions, give us a call. republicans, 202-737-0001. democrats, 202-737-0002. independents, 202-628-0205. if you are outside the u.s., 202-628-0184 in previewing the hearing, one of the subcommittee chairman released a statement -- tell me about the u.s. response. you agree that it has been timid? guest: we work on a lot of things in congress. i assume what he is talking about -- we will see what he said this afternoon. i assume he wanted to take a harder position and just diplomatic or economic sanctions. we have had economic sanctions against iran for many years. i assume he is talking about taking other steps. one of the things we have to do, we have to inform other nations to see what the u.s. could take. it is one of those things -- i will say this carefully. i think mike might be correct on this part come in the sense that we have to take the economic steps, the diplomatic -- as you know, we do not have many diplomatic relations with iran, but what are we talking abou

henry cuellar (d-texas) para mi, 1 sector de la comunidad que va a tener 1 ventaja va a ser los pequenosspanos. sectores sindicales piensan muy diferente, y opinan que se perderan empleos aqui y en esos paises. este jueves el presidente obama recibio a su colega sur coreano y destaco los acuerdos... por su parte trabajadores de la industria automotriz estan preocupados por las consecuencias de este acuerdo. muy buenas noches, asi es hemos tenido un dia con temperaturas agradables con cierta humedad y lluvias dispersas... actualmente las temperaturas en nuestra ciudad capital es de 76 grados, 24 grados centigrados 77% de humedad y cielos nublados. a traves de nuestro mapa doppler podemos observar como sigue el sistema de baja presion en nuestra region ahora un poco mas disperso, sin embargo con la fuerza suficiente para seguir ocasionando lluvias durante la noche... mas tarde las temperaturas podrian bajar a 62 grados y existen 80% de probabilidades de lluvias, a razon de estas lluvias hay aviso de inundacines para las costas incluyendo la bahia de cheesapeke... manana las temperatura pro

henry cuellar (d-texas) para mi, 1 sector de la comunidad que va a tener 1 ventaja va a ser los pequenosocios hispanos. sectores sindicales piensan muy diferente, y opinan que se perderan empleos aqui y en esos paises. hector sanchez, consejo laboral avance latinoamericano debemos aprender de los errores historicos que se dieron. este es 1 ataque directo a la clase trabajadora aqui y la clase trabajadora en esos paises. el tlc con mexico y centro america fue 1 gran ejemplo de como esto devasto el campo mexicano e incremento la inmigracion drasticamente.es obama recibio a su colega sur coreano y destaco los acuerdos. presidente obama para nuestros agricultores y rancheros en este pais, aumentan las exportaciones de sus productos. desde la industria aeroespacial a la electronica, aumentaran las exportaciones de manufacturas, especialmente los pequenos negocios. este viernes juntos visitaran detroit, donde trabajadores de la industria automotriz estan preocupados por las consecuencias de este acuerdo. standup: fernando pizarro, washington d.c. la visita del presidente surcoreano a la casa b

joining me now is congressman henry cuellar of texas.ht. >> thank you so much. >> is this redistricting map as bad as it sounds? >> let's look at it this way. in the last ten years texas had a new growth of 4.3 million individuals. when you put that in numbers of new congressional seats, that gave us four new congressional seats. so when you look at the total growth that we had, 70% of that growth in the last ten years were hispanics. when you put african-americans and other minorities, it adds up to 90%. so when 90% of the whole growth were minorities, but only the 10% get the congressional districts, we know there's something wrong. i think that what the republican colleagues did, they overreached and were hoping that the courts will find what we call a section two violation and create more hispanic minority seats in the state of texas. >> so governor perry has signed on to this. how big a problem is that? >> the state legislature passed this. governor signed this. instead of going through the department of justice like we've been doin

a 830 eastern, henry cuellar, a member of the homeland security committee, will discuss today's hearingons in the u.s. megan mcardle joins us to talk about her article about whether

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