i never met a going ohio, ohio, ohio, the way perry goes texas, texas, texas. they work on that themselves to some degree, too, you know, and i hope that i was pretty clear in the book there's no actual obvious person in texas every texan is different as is everyone else. they do think as themselves as texans first. let's move from texas to ohio. you grew up in cincinnati. in a catholic family, you went to catholic schools, basically your whole life. describe yourself gail gleason, that's who you were when you were growing up. who was that girl? you were born in a time where there weren't a lot of women in public life. where women with opinions at some point learned to keep them in the house. who were you then were you an opinionated little girl in were you fun. >> i was always so fun. [laughter] you should ask my siblings whether i was fun or not. i'm the oldest. but, you know, the interesting thing when i look back on, i can't imagine writing my memoirs. the times i recall now was growing up right after when the baby boom was beginning in a suburb that was co

i don't think there would be any -- any tipping of any election in texas. major election in texas.ne where the other if the law is implemented in this election cycle. it is the sort of issue that tends to rile up conservatives. so if the law is blocked it will make them angry. it has made them angry. it has been used as bludgeon against the obama administration. eric holder is a poster boy for much of the anger directed towards the administration over fast and furious. over this as well. the republicans have been bashing the justice department for stooiming something by many surveys is very popular and popular among demographic and ethnic groups in texas. >> anything else we should know as we continue to track the news here out of texas and the court case in washington? what else should we be looking for? >> i think it's going to be very interesting to see. we've had one day of trials so far. and the state of texas was trying to demonstrate or they started laying the ground work to demonstrate that there was no discriminatory intent that this law requiring a photo i.d. of one sort

america's top state for business in 2012, texas. >> our thanks to the university of texas cheerleaders for helping us ring in style. yesterday we were at the winely. the wine industry is up and coming and more than doubles since 2001. that was grape expectations. the second was legendary lights which has a couple different meanings, were were looking at the light houses that were on the gulf coast, only a few of them are left. you've got the power, texas is the only state with a power grid. the pechan thing is the and what the hey, governor rick perry, it's good to see you again, we have done this before. >> yes have, welcome back to texas. >> always good to be here. we talked about your formula, and if you let me paraphrase it, business friendly regulations and don't spend all the money. >> that's the economic side. i disagree with the quality of life attributes they talk about. there is an incredibility quality of life. the cultural arts are growing. i think dallas now has three performing arts facilities here in austin, texas. and a knew museum of modern art, and tonight in houston,

the justice department goes to blocks the texas' voter id law. >> according to the state of texas' own analysis, anywhere from 600,000 to nearly 800,000 registered voters did not have the required id and those were disproportionately hispanic. >> we will speak with nation reporter ari berman about the texas' voter id law and such laws around the country, and with the naacp attorney robert havingor the group as havinis its annual meeting in houston. a >> there should be no sympathy for goldman sachs. we should be doing everything to try to bring this matter forward. >> what is the matter? oakland city council votes to end its contract with goldman sachs that locked into a financial deal that cost the city millions. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a record-setting heat wave in the eastern u.s. is starting to ease after two weeks of scorching temperatures. the heat wave has been blamed for causing at least 74 deaths from the midwest to the east coast, including 18 people around chicago and 13 people in

opting out will not stop health care exchanges from being set up in texas. if the state doesn't do it, federal authorities will. now, texas leaders were betting that the supreme court would likely strike down the health care law so they've done little to prepare for the exchanges that must be set up by 2014. but, scott, a provision in the health care law does specify that even if federal authorities do set up the exchanges, texas could petition to take over those exchanges eventually at some point if they chose to. >> pelley: anna, thank you. wounded veterans are being forced to wait months and longer for their benefits. a report links man made climate change to extreme weather. and this is about as extreme as it gets. where this hurricane is headed, when the cbs evening news continues. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. thi

but texas is refusing to participate, joining wisconsin, florida and louisiana, texas would be eligibleion in federal aid to pay for the expansion through 2020. but lieutenant governor david dewhurst says texas' share would be a heavy burden. >> quite frankly, the medicaid system is broken and by simply adding a million and a half to two million more people to medicaid will not solve the problem. >> texas will also be the largest state to refuse to create the state-run health care exchanges that would allow people to shop for affordable coverage. in a letter to the obama administration, texas governor rick perry called the requirements brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state. >> it doesn't materially improve the health care of texans and americans, and in five short years it will start to bankrupt the state of texas and other states. >> opting out will not stop health care exchanges from being set up in texas. if the state doesn't do it, federal authorities will. texas leaders bet that the supreme court would strike down the health care law, so they've done little to prepare

you mentioned that texas is really a magnet state for so many reasons, and we've talked a lot about texasthis show because of the economy. because texas has really provided a place for a lot of businesses to come and families to set up shop. and one of the things that this health care law does is it says to small businesses that have more than 50 people, hey, listen, you have to provide health insurance to your employees. what do you say to a small business owner who brought his business to texas and has grown it and now wants to shop in the exchanges to provide health insurance to their employees, but they can't? what do you say to that person when you say, listen, we're not going to set up these exchanges? >> well, i say to them that they moved to the state of texas for freedom. they move today the state of texas because we have the best economy in the country. eight years in a row now according to chief executive officer magazine. and that's the reason they came here, is because we have that limited approach to government. we believe in freedom. and we believe that those small business

it would be the texas legislature. i don't know why that's the place for this case but it makes it more interesting, i think. >> you know, just a side note since this is a legal audience, texas had urged the court not to take the case. texas is generally a conservative state, a republican attorney general, urging the court not to take the case. they didn't want them to go further. after it was granted, texas hired an attorney. in our group, the higher you know him, upped the stakes in terms of what the representation would be. he won the name els case we were talking about. in some ways to have someone with the conservative credit of having been in the w. bush administration and coming in a very nonideological way will help texas' case as much as it could. >> he was on the winning side of the michigan case. he did a very good job in lawyering through a difficult case involving christian legal society at a law school and whether it could bar gay students from leadership positions. i agree with joan that having him in th

texas is requiring., 600,000 texans are without the type of photo i. nchts required and that includes 170,000 latinos in that state. >> we have to go. what's it look like? will this be favored for texas or it will be the justice department? >> you know, the united states has mounted a vigorous defense of section 5 and a vigorous campaign against texas' photo i.d. law, so numerous organizations like mine and we think we stand a very good chance of preprevailing showing texas' i.d. law is harmful to minority voters in texas. >> thank you so much for your time this morning. >> thank you. >>> hard to believe, but it's been a year since casey anthony captured the headlines after being acquitted of murdering her daughter caylee. since that verdict anthony has been in hiding with very little information known about her until now. her former defense attorney jose baez is telling all in a new book called "presumed guilty: casey anthony the inside story" and jose baez joins me right now. >> thank you for having me

it's not bigger than texas it is texas. downtown dallas what the locals call the heart from. this is strange twisted beauty it's more than just a complex multi-layered interconnected freeways it's a monument to america's energy power. and the nation ended up as. the high five groups and rolls out over some of the richest shale fields in the mines. that means the new night by moving into the suburbs around here might well be a drilling. i know people who tried everything they possibly can and they still have drilling right next to their houses and they're very unhappy if. you don't have to travel five to witness a collusion between community and comus family and industry we all take risks every day driving to work you know but there's risks that you have to take and recess you don't have to take and to me it just doesn't make sense to put a heavy industrial process right next to somebody else. this is south like a prosperous community on the outskirts of dallas. a few years ago forbes magazine named this the most affluent neighborhood in the united states. a place where usuall

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and we know its desert dry in texas, but our camels necessary? >> hello and welcome to us farm report. the last time the census was conducted, they found striking differences in within that world of farm. that's an increase of 19%, and why not text many of the market analyst to appear on this show tell me that women are better at making marketing decisions. it appears the trend of women as principal operators will continue in the next generation. flight details in a moment that the top story is the lingering drought. let's get started with headlines. >> delivering midwest drought is having an impact on main street in farm country. each month great university economist ernie got assembled the report based on surveys of bankers and attend state regions of the great plains and corn belt. he says the july index plunged to its lowest level in two years adhesive slowdown in prices and sales of farm equipment. he said just of the region benefited from very healthy farming over the past few years he's now detecting economic reversal for world areas. >>>

the chairman from texas is recognized. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, who is a distinguished jurist before he became a member of congress and then a distinguished member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i can verify that there are people who have already lost their insurance because of obamacare. . it is not true that if you like your insurance, you can keep it. people have lost doctors who were assured if you like your doctor you can keep them. that is not true. we were told there would be no tax. and that's not true. in fact, in the bill itself, one of the most devastating things, if you are a single individual and making 133% of the poverty level, you are making $14,000 and can't afford $12,000 insurance policy, you are going to be fined at 2 1/2%. it is a tax. it will devastate. you make $40,000, a family of four, five, six, $1,000 fine because you can't afford a $12,000

(laughter) there is one bright spot in education-- texas. the large hadron collider of denying science. (laughter) now, folks, i have long praised the texas board of education for their valiant work rewriting our nation's history textbooks. but now... (laughter) i believe they've got some stiff competition from the texas g.o.p. who recently put a plank in their 2012 party platform regarding children's education that says-- and i quote-- we oppose the teaching of critical thinking skills. (laughter) amen, brother. for too long we have blindly accepted the idea of not blindly accepting ideas you know who i blame? i blame galileo. what a jagoff. (laughter) i mean, for centuries we had a perfectly good explanation for the order of the universe. bible says the sun goes around the earth making us the center of the universe you know what? everyone was happy! for them numb nuts over here get the telescope for christmas, using his precious critical thinking skills and suddenly the earth goes around the sun, blah blah blah, now we have lesbians. (laug

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it's obviously bad news if texas gets away with it. but texas has a number of problems.in texas is very difficult because only 81 of 254 counties in texas even have a dmv. and counties in texas can be huge -- >> i was just going to say -- >> so if someone doesn't have id and there's no public transportation, how are they even supposed to get to a dmv to get the id. so there are a number of problems, not just with the law itself but texas's utter lack of preparation in preparing for this law. they have to get clearance from section 5 of the voting right's to put this in effect. >> we just a clip on mitt romney saying you can get an id everywhere -- and you break it down so clearly. you have to think about how big texas is number 1. and counties with a significant hispanic population are less likely to have a dmv license. as you break down some voters in one district there would have to travel up to 176-miles round trip to reach a driver's license office with no car presumably working and maybe raising kids, right? >> yes, and this is part of a broader trend from the state

junto a la elevadas temperaturas se presentaron tormentas que dejaroeo por lo menos dos muertos en texaszona, blanca dice cÓmo millones luchan contra inclemencias del tiempo. >>> por cuarta vez desde que se iniciÓ el verano, el clima hace noticia en gran parte del paÍs, afectando de manera contradictoria a 13 estados de la naciÓn, en washington tormentas repentinas del fin de semana ocasionaron contratiempos para choferes, lo mismo en arizona. en sacramento incendios forestales necesitaron a 2 mil bomberos para intentar sofocarlos en la costa este, en connecticut, se recibiÓ 4 pulgadas de lluvia que llevÓ al chofer a abandonar el carro. >>> el aumento de la temperatura provoca una evaporaciÓn mayor e implica mayor sequÍa, y el aumento provoca tormentas severas al venir un frente, un ingrediente que puede formar tormentas severas, tornados daÑos de viento, y caÍda de granizo. >>> en chicago y nueva york, edificios hicieron sentir el nivel de humedad mÁs alto que el indicado por termometros, llevaron a miles de padres de familia a tomar precauciones, antes de salir a la calle con niÑos. >>

to block texas from enacting state paased last year...wich equires registered voters to posssss as well a valid, state-issuee photo i-d. proponents say it'll eeforrement officer disagrees.- holder says: "[w]e objected to a photo id requirement in texas because it would have had a disproportiooate impact on hispanic voters." to prove that, the department of justice retained as an expert witness... harvard university professor of government stephen ansolabehere... who in turn relied on a data fiim called catalyst to supply statistical iiformation... such as the percentages of whhtes and minorities in texas who are registered to vote."i had [previously] conducted several studies using the catalist data [the rofessor testified] anda"aa&i found identified by catalist as black, white oo hispanic identified themselves in the race projected by catalist."e rosenberg says: "if there was a perception that catalist was cooking the books in any way, you know,,they would llse all their clients, right? i pean this is -- they're all about integrity."" pe

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now as we discussed on this show texas and the federal government are battling it out over the state's new voter id law the justice department wants to stop the law before the election and governor perry refuses to comply so he sued the feds and last week the two sides battled it out in court and it's not clear when the three judge panel is going to announce its ruling but we do know what both sides have been arguing texas says that the law is needed to prevent voter fraud while the obama administration says that it really stops poor minorities from being able to vote and they called it a violation of the voting rights act the nine hundred sixty five law designed to put a stop to jim crow in the south and last week at the end of the convention in houston the attorney general invoked segregation era oppression to describe this texas law . many of those without i.d.'s would have to travel great distances to get them and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them we call those poll taxes thank you. no i don't agree with eric holder about a lot but i think

, texas sits on grassy prairie land on the edge of town. to two border patrol agents. the office is hundreds of miles from the border, and might not be much to look at, but potter county sheriff brian thomas says his deputies patrol interstate 40, a major corridor for human smuggling and he counts on the border patrol agents for help. what do you think happens now when you come across a group of illegal immigrants that might be trafficked through your home? >> if we don't have any criminal charges on them, we have to let them go. there's not any other choice. >> sheriff thomas fired off a letter to texas lawmakers, saying the plan is ill thought out, and we might as well hang a sign on the texas panhandle that says welcome illegals. this is one of the holding cells in the randall county jail in amarillo, texas. illegal immigrants captured anywhere in the massive 26-county area of the text -- texas panhandle are usually brought here before they're transferred over to a federal holding facility. the sheriff here tells us on any given day he s

in texas, to emily ramshaw, editor of the "texas tribune," and here with an overview in washington, to margot sanger- katz, health care correspondent for "national journal." march go, i want to start with you. give us a sense in general about what this resistance is about, who is resisting and why. >> i think there are two main reasons why we're seeing resistance from governors, one i think is political. they don't like the health care reform law, they have made arguments against it all along and this is a way of rejecting it and saying we don't want to participate in obama care, we don't want to help implement this law. the second problem is that a lot of these governors are concerned about the long-term costs associated with expanding their medicaid perhaps. the governors that have chosen not to implement tend to be in poorer states, and what means is they don't cover a lot of people on medicaid out in, but they would have to cover a lot if they did this. and time the share that states will have to pay will increase. >> ifill: do we know what those dollar signs are like yet? >> you k

eisenhower took texas by 200,000 votes in 1956. the republicans were strong in texas. and eisenhower had also carried four other southern states. kennedy knew-- and he was right-- if he didn't carry texas and get back some of the southern states, he wouldn't win. >> rose: so johnson in effect helped elect kennedy. >> that's one of the forgotten, absolutely forgotten chapters. because johnson makes a campaign through the south. he does an old fashioned whistlestop campaign. he pulls into all these southern towns. the yellow rose of texas is blaring. and the volume is turned up by bobby baker, his secretary of the senate, so it would pull into town and johnson would start speaking, you know, anded he'd give a speech, "we have to have a southerner on the ticket. let's not let the south be forgotten." the train would pull away. johnson wouldn't be finished talking. he once said in a town named cullpepper, as the train is pulling out he said, "what did dick nixon ever do for cullpupper?" >> rose: so they're elected and that begins the period you also chronicle here of what?