yesterday republican chair of the house homeland security committee mike mccall refused an invitationthe united states to discuss the path ahead on immigration reform. here is what he told the radio host. >> i am not going down the road of conferencing with the senate bill. i told boehner he needs to stand up very clear that we're not going to conference with the senate on this. we're not going to conference with the senate period. laura, i was invited to the white house yesterday, and i refused to meet with the president because i saw it as a political trap. >>> joining us from austin, texas, professor at the lbj school of public policy at the university of texas, victoria desoto. thank you so much for joining us. i'm rather shocked about mike mccall's statement that meeting with the president of the united states is a political trap. seems like we've made 180 on the subject of immigration reform. where are you on this? are you optimistic anything can get done? >> alex, i'm actually pessimistic. i knew early on if we get into october, november, we weren't going to see immigration ref

>> republican congressman mike mccall sent this letter to secretary of state kerry, why hs not offering a reward for tips leading to the arrests of the benghazi suspect. more than 3/4 of the republican conference have signed on as cosponsors for the select committee using, an regular, re. lou: thank you very much. all of this follows a report from a former british soldier advising u.s., on security at the time, warning that the guar would not be up to the task were there to be a attack in benghazi, we know that u.s. deputy chief in libya at the time of the not permitted to make a third request for additional security, joining us now, general jack king retired four-star army general, fox news military analyst. this is a sorted politics, but it masks a real issue. that is the ability of congress to participate in governance of the country. what is your reaction to administration position a criminal investigation by the fbi about what is an an tax on an attack on country, which falls in pervue of intelligence agencies and military would be reason to block effort understand better what tran

short time ago we spoke with the republican chairman of the house homeland security committee, mike mccall, who is getting regular updates on the investigation, and he confirmed that a search of miriamaire's con know connecticut led to a bizarre fining this morning. unknown if there is a real threat at this time. >> they did encounter an envelope with some white powder, so they brought in a bomb squad to look at this. we don't think it's anything like anthrax but we have to be cautious and careful since the white house was one of the potential threats yesterday. >> several dozen agents from fbi to secret service were on the scene at that condo, removing bags of evidence, and at least one computer as part of what is described to fox news as a, quote, deep dive into carey's background. >> the briefings i have had, she suffered a fall and a head injury which resulted in a mental condition. they believe it's schizophrenia, and she was taking medication for that. she may have been off the medication, obviously, when this happened. that could have snapped this event. >> and based on these briefi

. >> mike mccall is the chairman of the house homeland security committee. mr.e. >>> much more coming up. we'll hear from an eyewitness. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the new twin turbo xts from cadillac. 410 available horses. ♪ room for four. twice the fun. ♪ ♪ >>> i isle speak to an eyewitness right after this. >>> joining me now, patty bill. she was an eyewitness to the incident. patty, what happened? >> pretty frightening. i work right there at faith in action, which is on 2nd street, can comes to the corner of maryland. first i heard a lot of sirens, a lot of commotion. you could hear from the police cars, which took me to the second floor, which is a very good view -- wide open windows, i looked out. that's where i saw the vehicle speeding down, the black car that hit it appeared to be the police officer's crash can that was standing there, and a police car which turned it sideways. there's a window booth where the policemen stand and the security guards that guard us every day. at the time the car was surrounded by police and a lot of armed men.