amy: democratic texas state senator roland gutierrez. and ryan devereaux, reporter for the intercept based in tucson, arizona. ryan, we will link to your new piece "border patrol is caging migrants outdoors during deadly arizona heatwave." coming up, an historic settlement, new york city has agreed to pay teen million dollars to protesters victimized by the police during the 2020 black lives matter protest. then we will look at the film "oppenheimer." stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: tony bennet singing "boulevard of broken dreams." he died on friday at the age of 96. he was funder of the civil rights movement and marsh with dr. martin luther king. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to an historic settlement for more than 1300 people who were attacked by new york city police while protesting the police murder of george floyd in 2020. the landmark $13 million settlement announced last week with the city of new york is years in the making and the largest total payout to prote

senate roland gutierrez joins us now. you have been in the texas state legislature since 2008.or senate now? >> well, i'll tell you. it's been a very hard year, obviously, since may 24th of last year, and a lot of ways it informed my decision to run, because as all of that tragedy unfolded and the investigation ensued, i had to sue the government to find out what went on, to see all of the failure that happened. and when you look at that failure, it's not just independent to what happened in that tragedy in uvalde. you saw what happened in texas when 800 people died in a winter storm. that doesn't happen in most states. our senator at that time, ted cruz, decided to run off to cancun while the rest of us had to suffer and grin and bear it. nobody expected him to go out on a utility pole. we just expected to have some empathy and be hear with us. so we have a lot of work to do in texas. there is a lot broken from our grid to women's reproductive right issues to basic infrastructure to just making ends meet. and certainly on gun control we need significant gun reforms which most

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joining our discussion now is texas democratic state senator roland gutierrez.nited states senate in texas. senator gutierrez, thank you for joining us on this very painful subject. we thought we knew how bad it could get in the way greg abbott tries to make and publicly expresses cruelty but one of the odd things of what he is doing now is that he is doing it at a point where border crossings are the lowest that they have been the last couple of years. >> that is right lawrence, first off, thank you for having me. i do not have words for names i can call the man. and i've called him a few. to explain what is going on in texas. what's in this man's heart. but what is happening along the border is not policy when it comes to dps or instex national guard. it is plain, one word, cruelty. this governor has suggested that we are there to deter immigrants from coming in. but the policies we have in place of nothing to do with immigration. it's very simple. if you want to play immigration got, called the border patrol, detaining folks coming in and have them processed.

host: from the newspaper this morning roland gutierrez democratic state senator has been outspoken gunontrol component since that massacre in uvalde, texas. representative: an congressman from the dallas area declared his candidacy in may. so that primary will have to play out who will take on cruise. -- ted cruz. guest: that is correct but they are casting with all red. it is a strong candidate -- in any other state he would be a good candidate for senate but ted cruz in texas it will be extraordinarily tough. he is well-liked individual, but the issue is that he has that ted cruz can message on him easily and say we voted for nancy pelosi x percent of the time the last couple years and that is a little tougher in 2018 . he was a moderate at the time not saying he will take your guns. he ran a strong race where he lost and ran for president. it will be interesting to watch but i think it is a high nomenclature. host: delay have nancy pelosi -- x number of times when she is not speaker anymore area guest: absolutely that is not going anywhere republicans still message against her. i do

joining me now is texas state senator, roland gutierrez.g to unseat senator ted cruz in the united states senate. senator gutierrez, it's always good to have you on our show. texas, no stranger to cruel and reckless immigration stance. in this instance, governor abbott is adding even more danger to an already dangerous journey for asylum seekers. it's not just the migrants that are being injured, law enforcement officers are also at risk. is greg abbott just shooting himself in the foot here with his latest immigration move? >> well, thank you, katie. first off, as you said, these are just stunts. we've seen failure after failure on operational -- over the last four years. failure that is costing taxpayers money. it's resulted in the death of soldiers. one soldier died last year trying to rescue migrants because greg abbott's resources didn't give them the necessary equipment that he needed, he did not have the life preserver. now, sadly, this cruelty is happening along the border. that same email discusses a woman who died with her two chi

. >> joining us now is texas state senator roland gutierrez, now a candidate for the united states senateally appreciate it. i have not seen that video of ted cruz on his way to cancun since those days when he got caught doing that. i have to ask you, what did you feel, what was your feeling when you saw that video of ted cruz literally fleeing to a vacation in cancun while his constituents and people in his neighborhood where suffering? >> thank you lawrence, first of. certainly i think we are all disgusted in taxes. no one expected ted cruz to get up on the electric city pole and fix things, but we certainly expected him to be like all of us and hunker down and tried to help your neighbor. when a nursing home called me in my office and said we're out of water, we found a walmart that was still open, we took a palette of water so that the seniors would have drinking water for the next several days. everybody in texas tried to help one another, except for ted cruz. he took off and abandoned us all. >> in your announcement video you mentioned bribery and corruption and the republican gover

>> senator roland gutierrez gets tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. ts right now >> tonight, what is in the target letter. with the doj apparently has on the former president in the january 6th investigation. and what happens next. then, jack smith's expanded focus on georgia. a state that was at the epicenter of it all. and republicans mostly shrugging off a potential third indictment while trump calls on his allies to strategize over spots. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. >> greetings, i am symone sanders-townsend in for stephanie ruhle. we begin tonight right here in washington where a grand jury has been hearing testimony regarding efforts to overturn the 2020 election. nbc news has confirmed that the target letters sent to former president donald trump from special counsel jack smith includes three federal statutes relating to deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the united states and tampering with a witness. the former lead investigator for the january 6th sele

host: from the newspaper this morning roland gutierrez democratic state senator has been outspoken guntrol component since that massacre in uvalde, texas. representative: an congressman from the dallas area declared his candidacy in may. so that primary will have to play out who will take on cruise. -- ted cruz. guest: that is correct but they are casting with all red. it is a strong candidate -- in any other state he would be a good candidate for senate but ted cruz in texas it will be extraordinarily tough. he is well-liked individual, but the issue is that he has that ted cruz can message on him easily and say we voted for nancy pelosi x percent of the time the last couple years and that is a little tougher in 2018 . he was a moderate at the time not saying he will take your guns. he ran a strong race where he lost and ran for president. it will be interesting to watch but i think it is a high nomenclature. host: delay have nancy pelosi -- x number of times when she is not speaker anymore area guest: absolutely that is not going anywhere republicans still message against her. i do n