nd phil hatchett with his book "advocating overlord." watch coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival in maryland saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> following the school shooting in santa fe, texas, governor abbott spoke to reporters about the investigation and response. he was joined by senator cruz, lieutenant governor dan patrick and state and county officials. >> is everybody ready? >> i'm the county judge and chief elected official in galveston county. we are all here today because of a tragic event that occurred today at santa fe high school. we did have rapid response from state and u.s. leaders who are out here now. we spent time briefing the governor and senator cruz and other elected officials on the events that happened this morning. i will pass it off to governor nd boat. - governor abbott. >> i thank you for your time to help your county respond to this. we appreciate you and your entire team stepping up and showing the way to respond to what has to be probably the worst disaster ever to st

nd phil hatchett with his book "advocating overlord." watch coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival in maryland saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> following the school shooting in santa fe, texas, governor abbott spoke to reporters about the investigation and response. he was joined by senator cruz, lieutenant governor dan patrick and state and county officials.