hi guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight goes to texas senator john cornyn now on capitol hill today a senate committee held a hearing on appealing the defense of marriage act doma as it's called it's a federal law that has a recognize gay marriage from the states and bans gay married couples from federal benefits so clearly a lot of conservatives support it because of their values but just look at what the republican senator from texas used today as a reason to legally discriminate against gay very couples the second reason i support doma is that repealing the defense of marriage act would actually result in an expansion of federal benefits and spending at a time when we know there are several spending is way out of control and our entitlement programs are unsustainable. so gay married couples shouldn't be entitled to benefits because the us is broke it's too expensive so the record of us has a big balls to actually use that excuse now for those of you that are unaware here in the us if your spouse dies you can dry some of that you can draw some of the dead spouse

cornyn it's you and the republican party that are out of touch period and that's why texas senator john cornyn is tonight's tools i'm leader. sorry guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening as our team prays for jenny churchill and lauren lyster host of capital account on r.t.e. hello ladies thanks for joining me thank you ok so you know we've been having a talk about last night's republican debate again the other day where i want to shoot myself in the head because so boring but you know there was ok i also don't like to obsess over the herman cain saga but this answer that he gave is too good to not let up for a minute so let's take a look. my parents and my children see more than anything else for every one person that comes forward with a false accusation there. are thousands who would say none of this sort of activity ever came from herman cain. if you're trying to convince the world that you are guilty of sexual harassment will. be like there are thousands of people i didn't do it to. and i love only with that there are probably oh no god but. i think someone in this morn

john cornyn is quoted as saying they will come back. they are coming back. >> senator reid wouldn't talk to us, none of the other big spendingers. maybe they are embarrassed about their spending but i doubt it because super spending happens every day. i live in one of richest neighborhoods in the world. jerry seinfeld and alec baldwin live around here. the last thing we should get is free stuff from taxpayers. a few blocks to my apartment they are giving away bike helmets. local politicians got a federal grant to help them do this. >> if it's a big success? >> it's a tremendous success. >> john: it's dumb to do this but if you offer free stuff. the line went around the block. >> people can afford their own helmet but why not take advantage. >> why not, it's money flying around. i'll grab all i can. it has to come from someone, the entrepreneurs that create wealth. >> the stores down the street, it's not nice to them that are. >> give me a break. bureaucrats proudly told us they gave away 45,000 helmets. >> why is to take tax money to gi

but a key exchange, randi, came between senator john cornyn and the man who was murdered in december,listen to this exchange between john cornyn and >>> now to street level, in philadelphia, too few students and too few money could mean that nine schools are history. the philadelphia school district has voted to close nine schools at a savings of half a million dollars to a million dollars per school per year. more changes are coming, says philly school superintendent leroy who joins me on the phone. doctor, i understand that money is not the primary driver of these these decisions? >> that's correct. and thank you for having me. they are looking at what the right educational program is given where we are in the 21st century and it's well over due here in philadelphia for this type of program. >> and how did roman shrink so fast and so much? >> birth rates not being as high as they once were, people moving outside of the core city to the suburbs, charter schools have come on. so we think that, again, the footprint of the school district was built out largely to reflect the time when m

but a key exchange, randi, came between senator john cornyn and the man who was murdered in december,listen to this exchange between john cornyn and eric holder. >> have you apoll jitzed to the family? >> i have not apologized to them. it pains me when there is a death of a law enforcement official. it is not fair, however, to assume that the mistakes that happened in fast and furious directly led to the death of agent terry. >> reporter: i caught up with senator cornyn in the hallway and said that it was not acceptable to him and he's not going so far as right now to press eric holder to resign but may be pressing in that direction. randi? >> brian todd, thank you very much. >>> aging desks and hardly any money. how one city plans to fix the declining school system. that is next in "street level." now no one will want to steal the deliciousness. with a variety of tastes and textures, only chex mix is a bag of interesting. did you hear sam... ...got promoted to director? so 12 seconds ago. we should get him a present. thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you

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>> i have not. >> steve: senator john cornyn joins us from our nation's capitol.ood morning. it's unfortunate that the attorney general continues to basically not cooperate with congress in doing our oversight responsibilities. this is a program that went terribly wrong, resulted in the death of at least one american, 119 weapons ended up in texas alone, and the attorney general has not cooperated with congress and indeed, has misled congress about what this program consisted of and seems unwilling to help us get to the bottom of it to make sure it never happens again. >> gretchen: when you ask him whether or not he has apologized to the terry family, what were you hoping or expecting him to say? >> i was trying to give him an opportunity to do the right thing, but even then he declined to do that. i think the united states government agency that is part of the department of justice that facilitated the shipment of these weapons into mexico to be used by the drug cartels and ended up being used on brian terry, u.s. law enforcement officer, is absolutely inexcusabl

. >> using charts, pictures about and home mows, republican senators john cornyn and grassley tried toactly when holder knew about operation fast and furious. >> memos were your name on it addressed to you referring to the operation fast and furious. are you saying you didn't receive them? >> i didn't receive them. they are reviewed by my staff and determination made on what should be brought to my attention. >> holder defended himself clarifying what he knew and when. >> i first knew about the tactics and the operation fast and furious in the beginning of this cheer when it became a matter of public controversy. in my testimony before the house committee, i did say a few weeks. i probably could have said a couple of months. >> asked why the justice department wrongly claimed the whistle blowers lied when they told congress about gun-running, holder said. >> the information shared with you on february 4 in that response, it was information that that letter that was inaccurate. the left could have been better crafted. >> things got heated when cornyn asked holder about two fast and furi

and senator john cornyn hammered him over the death of a border agent. his name was brian terry. and furious program are found at terry's murder scene. >> have you apologized to the family of brian terry? >> i have not apologized to them, but i certainly regret what happened. >> have you even talked to them? >> i have not. >> would you like to apologize today for this program that went so wrong that took the life of a united states law enforcement agent? >> i certainly regret what happened to agent brian terry. i can only imagine the pain that his family has had to deal with. >> holder will also face a house panel investigating the operation that will happen next month. >>> autistic kids have more brain cells than normal. that's the finding of a small study in "the journal of the american medical association." scientists studied brain tissue from 13 dead boys according to "usa today," the autistic kids had 67% more neurons than nonautistic children. scientists stressed it's early, and more research needs to be done. >>> to basketball now, nba players have until this afternoon to

that bed to this extraordinary exchange with john cornyn. >> you have apologized to the family of brian. >> i have not apologized to them but i certainly regret what has happened. >> have you even talked to them? >> i have not. >> now another lawmaker who grilled the attorney general is telling fox news it's time for heads to roll. william la jeunesse with breaking news on this story for a long time. live on our west coast news hub this afternoon. william? >> today's senate judiciary hearing was partisan and contentious. misleading and stonewalling. democrats praised holder who blamed the operation on congressional failure to strengthen gun laws. >> fast and furious was a flawed response to and not a cause of the flow of illegal begins from the united states into mexico. >> in his opening statement, holder said fast and furious was flawed in concept and execution. he also clarified previous testimony about when he first learned about the controversial operation. >> i first learned about the tactics and the phrase fast and furious the beginning of this year, i think, when it became a mat

eric holder spoke to the fact that -- john cornyn, a republican from texas questioned him.you know? you are the head guy. why didn't you know? wasn't it your responsibility to know? here is eric holder's response. >> there are 115,000 employees in the united states department of justice >> and the buck stops with you >> i have ultimate responsibility for that which happens in the department. but i cannot be expected to know the details of every operation ongoing the justice department on a day-to-day basis. i did not know about "operation fast & furious" as indicated in the chart you now have up there until i guess -- well, until it became public. megyn: is that a fair point? >> i tell what you the problem is. this is a mea culpa that the attorney general entered into. and the time line still doesn't make any sense. he's the attorney general of the united states. this was a big operation and he should have known what was going on. senator cornyn asked if he apologized to the border agent who was killed. he said he has had no contact with the family. regardless of when it st

bill that's john cornyn, he's on that committee. ranking republican member of the senate judiciary committee, charles grassley out of iowa, he react toss holder's day on the hot seat when he joins us live. martha: and the fight over alabama's immigration law is now reaching the public school system and pitting the feds against the attorney general there. he will join us on that next. bill: he is presidential hopeful, herman cain, strongly rejecting allegations that he sexually harassed anyone, but has he done enough to silence the critics? here's cain: >> as far as the accusations causing me to back off and maybe withdrawal from this presidential primary race, ain't gonna happen. looking good! you lost some weight. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios... five whole grains, 110 calories. [ female announcer ] who'd have thought that the person you'd gr

in fact senator john cornyn of texas says that the gangs are using his state as a safe haven from their own internal violence. in hidalgo county, by the way a sheriff's deputy was stopped three times after pulling over a car containing a person kidnapped by the cartel. a bulletproof vest saved that deputy's life. partly lucky he survived this over the past two weeks, three accused leaders of the gulf cartel have been arrested in texas. texas attorney general greg abbott says the arrests show that the obama administration is not doing enough to secure the border. attorney general abbott, react to what senator cornyn is saying though. that texas is a safe haven now for the bad guys in mexico? they're coming into texas to be safer? >> jenna, you're exactly right. and senator cornyn is exactly right. we've seen multiple occasions where leaders of the gulf cartel as well as some of the other cartels are actually moving into locations in texas. could be in brownsvillle. could be in corpus christi. could be the el paso area. they're moving here because they think they will be safer here by liv

john cornyn on the hill.tha: let's get you down to wall street are with the dow is getting hit pretty hard today, down more than 230 points at this hour. the big issue here what is happening in greece. they decided not to just input these austerity measures in greece they promised to the e.u. in order to get help over their debt issues. they will not put it to a vote to the people in january. that has the markets extremely nervous. they invoked rule 48. they did that number of points this year. opening stocks when they think things will get chaotic. that's what you're seeing here this morning. we'll keep a close eye on it. tough morning for the dow. bill: we were all so happy last week. smiles all around. martha: up and down, up and down. bill: jetblue apologizing to customers for keeping them stuck on a tarmac seven and a half hours. one of those flights was scheduled to go to fort lauderdale into newark, new jersey on saturday. it was diverted to hartford, connecticut because of the big snowstorm. more than

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i served in the offices of two texas senators, senator phil gramm and senator john cornyn, for nearly nine years. there is nothing i wouldn't do to protect my bosses. gabe was put in a position that no congressional staffer in american history has faced. asked to sacrifice his life for his boss and innocent people. when shots rang out, he was in the line of fire. he didn't run. he made the ultimate sacrifice and became the first congressional staffer to give his life in the line of duty. one final comment about gabe's courage. prior to my time as a senate staffer, i served for nearly 10 years as a pilot in the united states navy. our military heroes who lay down their lives for their comrades are celebrated and remembered an fitch our nation's highest military honors and are memorialized in history. while gabe zimmerman was not wearing a uniform when he died, he deserves to be memorialized today. we do so today by permanently affixing his name on a plaque in the capitol visitors center. we can never, ever forget gabe's sacrifice for the united states of america and by passing h.res. 3

my panel of colleagues, i love that word, david cornyn, cynthia tucker, and john heilemann are back tof mitt romney wins on the republican side, who will best serve him politically as vice presidential candidates? and we do hear the rumors about joe biden not being on the ticket and hillary clinton being on the ticket. would that make the president look like a leader or a refugee? and that's a tough one for what it says about the president. but we'll get to that and everybody, by the way, i know has an attitude about that one. david, i think marco rubio was on this program a week ago and struck me as a young guy who's bright, positive, and despite about the questions of when his family came from cuba, i'm impressed by his character. >> you know what's good about him? he hasn't been in the senate too long. he doesn't talk about a senator, talks like a real person who is thoughtful. and he's trying to reach out to the other side and come up with policies. and he hasn't been hard lined. >> is he too young? he looks very young. >> no, i don't think his relative youth would -- is disqualify