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, texas, there are more theaters tickets for sale rather than any other city but not new york city. >> it's not just things like that, it refers to health care, and you know, this is been in the news this week, that texas has a problem with uninsured people. people not getting health insurance. you have, as we know, have decided to not accept the medicaid expansion. anyone that followed you f

individual states are deciding to opt out on their own. as anna werner reports, texast state to fight the overhaul. >> more than half the patients at the health clinic in dallas are uninsured. nearly a third are on medicaid, the federally sponsored insurance program for the poor. dr. susan briner runs the clinic. >> who are these people that you're seeing? >> people with health insurance in texas are the people who work at low-paying jobs. the people you would expect to know that the people who work by the hour who work in restaurants, who work in yards, who work in daycares. >> two million more low-income texns would be covered by the medicaid expansion prescribed by the affordable care act. but texas is refusing to participate, joining wisconsin, florida and louisiana, texas would be eligible for $164 billion 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 medica

>> well, i say to them that they moved to the state of texas for freedom. 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 businesses should be able to make the best decisions. you know, if the private sector wants to set up, if the private insurance sector wants to set up these types of ability to trade across lines and what have you, i think they ought to have the ability to do that. but not this one-size-fits-all, federally-mandated, washington-centric concept that the obama administration through obamacare is trying to force upon us. you know, i'm still stunned that there weren't enough courageous men and women in the united states congress to stand up and say this is bad public policy, it is going to exacerbate the problem in the states, it's going to cost the states more money, and it is going to bankrupt

in texas when they pass a law like this voter id law, it is different than other states. restrict the number of ids available to be used. the impact on that is disproportionately on the minority community. >> explain more wide impacts the minority community. in texas, particularly we're talking about latinos, african- americans as well. >> i like to call them the pursuit of happiness indexes on the senses. the minority populations in texas in the past and currently are on the lower end of the economic scale. the effects of having to get voter id's, having have the documentation necessary to get those voter id's, having to get to the place where you need to get the id, having to take off work, get transportation, having to -- i guess, if you move often, the minority populations are going to have more trouble keeping a current voter id. also, the voter id -- >> robert notzon what are the requiring in this law? what photo id? passport,s license, there is a fishing and hunting license, there is a state id. some of these you need to have a birth certificate before you can get

so there's an enormous amount of resentment in states like texas. y do they get to do it and we don't get to do it. why is it okay in that state and not in our state. this case like most of these cases is destined to go to the supreme court eventually. but at the moment it is as you said before a three judge panel in federal district court in washington, d.c. where the state of texas is trying to compel the justice department to give it the okay to implement this law. >> as the governor rick perry in texas commented specifically on this, publicly? >> i haven't heard him commenting recently on it. he certainly supported this law. he signed it into law last may, i believe it was. may of 2011. >> what are the implications here for this presidential election cycle? >> that's an interesting question. i don't think there would be any -- any tipping of any election in texas. major election in texas. one 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 w

and in five short years, it will start to bankrupt the state of texas and other states. >> reporter: 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 fu

but now, texas state troopers are taking to the water with a fleet of six 34-foot armored gun boats withomatic whips. >> lieutenant charlie goble says this is needed. >> they are automatic machine guns. that will stop at nothing to move their product. they will stop at nothing to move their poison into the united states. >> he recognizes the center of the river as the international boundary. >> our goal is to make the arrest prior to them getting back to their base. >> some are calling it the texas navy. but for police who have seen countless drug runners swim away, it is a navy that is long overdue. nbc news, mccallen, texas >> up next here tonight making a difference finding strength on the field and in life. >>> finally tonight, for 12 seasons, he faced off against the nfl's toughest. now this former pro bowler has turned his talents to high schooler s helping them to reach their personal goals. jenna wolfe has the story from camden, new jersey. >> sean chandler has an exit strategy from camden, new jersey. >> i want to go to college and then try to make it to the league. >> far easie

but now, texas state troopers are taking to the water with a fleet of 34 foot arm mored gun boat was weapons. >> they are automatic machine guns. the show of force is desperately needed on this narrow stretch of water. >> they have to tall disregard for human life. they will stop at nothing to move their poison into the united states. >> he recognizes the center of the river as the boundary. >> our goal is to make the arrest prior to them getting back to their base. >> for place who have seen countless drug runners swim away, it is a navy that is long overdue. texas. >> up next here tonight making a difference finding strength on the field and in life. every day potentially harmful germs can collect on the surface of a denture. leading regular toothpastes are not designed to kill the bacteria that polident is designed to kill. polident's unique microclean formula has been proven to eliminate thousands of times more of the germs that can grow on dentures than leading regular toothpastes. that's why it's best to clean your denture by soaking in polident. not just once or twice a week,

. >>> at least is 11 people are dead and 12 others injured in a crash in southern texas. state police there reported heavy-duty truck blew a tire and slammed into a tree last night just north of corpus christi. all 23 people including several children were inside the truck at the time of the crash. many of the survivors have light threatening injuries. immigration and customs officials are also taking part in this investigation. >>> today penn state will find out its punishment for allegedly covering up abuse by assistant football cove jerry sandusky. the ncaa will announce sanctions this morning. those sanctions are expected to be severe and could include a hefty fine, a loss of scholarships and a ban on bowl games. they will not likely include the so-called death penalty, that one involves suspending the entire football program for at least one year. this morning's announcement will come a day after penn state removed the statue of former head coach joe paterno from the front of the school's stadium. they say the statue has become a division and an obstacle to healing. a ques

state like texas, states like texas have done the opposite and they have essentially reflected of whateople popularly call the red and blue states. but, what people don't actually often register is that only the minority of planned parenthood's services have to do with either abortion, which is a tiny percentage or even contraception, because planned parenthood serves poor people and they provide -- they provide mammograms and do cervical cancer is screening and prostate cancer screening and they teach safe sex as a going along with screeni screening for aids and so on. that is why i say it's part of this idea that we don't want big government spending money on these kinds of things. when of course, what we spend for every poor person that becomes pregnant and has a baby is of course, far greater than what we spend on prevention of it. >> we spent a good deal of time talking about birth control, mainly for women, you talked about the access of condoms. in your book, in your books, and particularly in the morale property book, what do you right about as the role of men in the political

meetings and he would say i have two rhodes scholars at the table and one graduate of southwest texas state teaches college and he said, johnson would always laugh loudly at that, too loudly, and i didn't really understand what lyndon johnson's education, the effect that it had on him until i went down to the college and found the textbooks that they used and they say, do you like textbooks that you would use in new york, and that was a college education and joe barry who later became a professor at brynnmar. he said when i got to brynn mar, i realized i couldn't talk to anybody about anything. i felt i had been cheated out of an education. so that's part of lyndon johnson's upbringing, but it also showed me, living there, just how remarkable were his unique abilities to use the powers of government to improve the lives of people. while i was interviewing in the hill country, i came to realize that i was hearing the same thing over and over. they would tell me these stories about johnson's ruthlessness and his cruelty or just cruelty for the sake of being cruel, but then i would hear over a

florida is not the only state battling over voter id laws. texas has a case going before a federal judge right now. we will talk to greg abbott coming up in our next hour. >>> who leaked what and when? house judiciary chairman lamar smith is demanding president obama provide access to current and former senior white house officials for an teargas on the national security -- for an teargas on the leagues. some say it was orchestrated by the white house to improve president obama's election chances. a claim the president calls, quote, offensive. congressman smith joins us now. you sent the letter to the white house. what specifically are you asking for? >> what we are doing is we want to question seven individuals starting with the national security advisor, and then other national security advisors as well about the extent of these numerous leaks that have jeopardized national security and endangered american lives. we can't get that information unless we talk to these individuals. we are hoping the president will allow us to do so. >> in a letter y

hi two roads skol arz at the table who all these guys from harvard and one graduate of southwest texas state teaches college. and he said johnson would always laugh loudly at that, too loudly. and i didn't really understand what lyndon johnson's education, the affect that it had on him until i went down to the college, found the textbooks that they used and i say, gee, do you like textbooks that you would use in high school and new york? that was his college education. he said, you know when, i got to college, i realized i couldn't talk to anybody about neglect. i found out i had been cheated out of an education. so that's part of lyndon johnson's upbringing. but it also showed me living there just how remarkable were his unique abilities to use the powers of government to improve the lives. while i was interviewing in the hill cult, i came to realize that i was hearing the same thing over and over. they would tell me these stories about johnson ruthlessness and his cruelty, often just cruelty for the sake of being cruel. i would hear over and over. i would say no matter what lyndon was like

that is what the governor of the state of texas has done and many others. finally, mr. speaker, these soldiers who are coming home, who lose tricare, are the very people in the state of texas -- do you have 15 seconds? 30 seconds? the speaker pro tempore: recognized for 15 seconds. ms. jackson lee: very people in the state of texas of who we want to absolute and honor, they will -- salute and honor, they will come home, their families will need the affordable care act. 13% in the 18th congressional district in houston. we will lose this. 1.74 trillion dollars in costs, in health disparities. health disparities. death and disease because we are losing the affordable care act. what is next? what is your answer? i yield back. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlewoman from florida, mrs. adams, a distinguished member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. damsdams thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, i -- mrs. adams: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of the ree repeal of the obamacare act. i wa

about what it mean -- what texas means to the rest of the country, and what the great cry from texas of states rights means to the rest of the country. >> talk about the negotiation of empty bases. us a all of the things that come out of texas you attribute too the philosophy of empty spaces that guides life in texas. >> yeah, i've always liked since i started looking at congress long ago to divide the country between the empty spaces because it makes everything seem more reasonable. crowded spaces people appreciate government. because they can see that government does stuff to help them every day. it protects them from burglars, it keeps dogs from pooping on the sidewalk, and stuff suers from exploding and runs the schools. everywhere you go, and most people in crowded places when they complain about government they complain there's not enough i don't know where they stopping dogs from peeing on the sidewalk. it expands and expands. people from empty places who perceive themselves z being in empty places don't see any point really to government outside of a war now and then. because if a burg

>> shep, good evening, after opening argument, the state of texas led off adam the hired gun out of chicagoepresenting the lone star state denied that the photo i.d. law was intended to discriminate against minorities and said it would not have that effect. he also took direct aim at the credibility of stephan, the harvard professor who was doj's expert witness. the professor had produced a report showing that 1.9 million people in texas are registered to vote there but don't have a photo i.d. the black majority of them black and hispanic. then brian keith ingraham who heads the texas secretary of state's elections divisions got on the stand and testified that he spotted himself and his wife on the professor's list of supposedly disenfranchised voters. and to hammer home the point, shep, ingraham produced his own driver's license. >> shepard: the burden here is on tax to prove that it is not discriminating against minorities with this law. right? >> under the law, that's correct. and doj's lead attorney, elizabeth west fall argued today that there was, in the texas legislature, when it pass

>> reporter: what if i told you that some of t best tacos you'll find not just in dams, texas, but the entire state hidden in this gas station? fuel city. you're not going to find this place in some fancy photo spread with the dallas chamber of commerce. it's off the beaten path. you got to drive past a bunch of bail bond stores, couple of liquor stores, even a couple of closed-up strip joints. but it is worth the drive. we're going to take you inside where the magic is made. [ speaking spanish ] >> check it out. you've got beef, you've got chicken, pork, check out the jalapenos and grled onions. delicious. fuel city is kind of like texas on steroids, if you will. there are not many car washes where you can actually look at real longhorns, donkeys, kind of like texas over the top really. one of my favorite things about this place -- it is open 24 hours! they got breakfast tacos. you can come here any time. it is just $1.40 for a taco. now it is time for us to order. ordering for everybody. feet ready for everybody to enjoy. >> mm. heaven. it's all good. beautiful. >> now after you've enjoyed your t

what does it mean to people who live in states like texas. richard louie. >> more than half of the country's states who wanted to stop the affordable care act. even though the land's highest court upheld the law, in addition to the six governor, the brock o brookings institutions said they are refusing to execute the law. governor perry's refusal means 1.4 million people will not for now. on average, a person in this group i was showing you makes from around $3,000 a year up to just under $15,000. these are the poorest living on 26 to 133% of the poverty line and in addition rejecting medicaid, some are rejecting creating their own insurance exchanging, another of the law's requirements. these are designed to be amazon.com, but they only sell insurance plans. perry is saying no these two, but for texans, that won't change too much. they can still access a federal exchange. the pricing though lower, will still be out of reach for many of the poor i just described. as for the other major groups, people with preexisting conditions, that coverage

texas. very, very tough sentencing state. u know, i don't know what percentage of people in texas have fully air conditioned homes. these individuals are incarcerated. there's a purpose for incarceration. deterrence, protect the public. should be a just punishment. i understand that. but whether it really rises to the level, this gentleman was 345 pounds. his body temperature was 109 degrees, gary. so the conditions are deplorable. >> i want to read to you what the state of texas is saying. the state of texas says steps are taken to address heat. outside activity restricted, frequent water breaks, allow additional showers, fans and blowers used. some people might argue there are millions in the united states that don't have air conditioning in their homes why should inmates have air conditioning. >> has nothing to do with it. gary, has nothing to do with it. the issue isn't whether or not we've made prisoners comfortable. that's not the issue. the issue is whether or not the extreme temperatures of 120, 130, 140 degrees consti

it won't matter in states like texas. clearly mitt romney will carry texas. in a number of states, think about ohio, virginia, there could be bubbling up move minutes of citizens that replicate what happened with the tea party two years ago that are out there and ready to pounce and better organized than any of the objective measurements you take on politics would suggest. >> if you had a crystal ball and you could look ahead not just to november in 99 days and the election, but to 2016, what a presidential race that's going to be at this point, right? >> oh, no question. i think, and i think even if mitt romney is able to win in 2012, he's got to be careful about these kind of forces. if you go through establishment, you will be challenged. and the tea party is out there ready to do it. and i think the senate will be a different place if there are more ted cruises in it. we will see a growing contingent, maybe younger, marco rubio, demint a loader, and people who don't have respect for the niceties of the traditional leadership. they feel they have derived th

. >> texas state investigator mike barnett has been inside the cantina before and seen firsthand the honeycomb nest of dirty rooms used for prostitution. >> behind the bar is a compound where there's a house they use for prostitution. and behind that house is another barn where there's even more prostitution rooms hidden in the back. the smell in the room is kind of disgusting, and sometimes your feet stick to the floor when you're walking across it. >> it's a little after 3:00 p.m. when the task force descends and quickly secures the perimeter. inside, investigators find more than a dozen women lined up against the wall like merchandise on display for a handful of male patrons. >> investigators take our cameras behind the scenes for an exclusive look inside the bowels of a modern day brothel. >> we're behind the bar now in the little passageway that goes back to the prostitution area. here's one of the rooms we catch them in all the time. it's pretty filthy. and there's the tools of the trade, napkins, paper towels and toilet paper. here's one of their little escape doors. last time

> brown: then, we examine the use of a one-drug lethal injection on a prisoner last night in texas-- the state that executes more convicts than any other. >> suarez: as delegates arrive in washington for an international aids conference, we have two progress reports: gwen ifill gets an update from the director of the united nations program on aids. >> brown: anwe assess e epidemic he in our nation's capital, where the infection rate is the highest in the country. >> we have people who will be tested repeatedly in hopes that one of those tests will be negative so that they can say i don't have h.i.v. we have people who think they can pray their h.i.v. away. >> suarez: plus, as part of his ongoing series, hari sreenivasan talks with native americans about the search for solutions to the effects of climate change on their tribal lands. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding fothpbs nehour has been providedy: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these

by the way, no some of your from north texas state are some university in texas. how many of your native texas? i am a native texan as well. enders, texas, way out west near odessa and midland. try as we might, you natives, the rest of them just don't get it, do they? it's impossible to explain. all right. i'm going to put it to work just a little bit. we will have a little fun uneducated the same time. lets plagal word association game. work with me on this. you say eagle forum. >> eagle forum. >> i'm going to say washington d.c. you say washington d.c. >> washington d.c. >> i'll say america. [inaudible] what would you say? what one word would you say best defines america? >> freedom. >> is it that easy? so easy. but what is freedom? all my life i wondered this question. if you go to the dictionary you will find what is not. you will find it is not being enslaved. it is not being restrained. it is not, it is not, it is not at least 17 different definitions of what is not. what is it? all of you know the last two sentences of the star spangled banner, the second t

if you are a republican, the idea of texas as a swing state is probably a very worrying idea. but look, texas has now officially become a majority minority state as of the last census with latinos leading the new majority group in texas. if you're a republican politician, the view from the top of the ticket on the subject of your appeal to latino voters is not a good view. in the latest latino decisions poll which was just released today, president obama's lead over mitt romney among latino voters is 48 points. not that he's got support of 48% of latinos. 48 points is the margin of president obama's lead. this is a big republican problem. so what does the republican party do about the horrible polling with the fastest growing minority grew in the country? >> there is this new ad airing in a handful of states featuring a handsome romney offspring speaking in spanish about the family's mexican roots. last week, we reported that the romney campaign was spending just $10,000 on that ad in order to get it on the air. today, the washington post reports that the romney campaign is upp

according to a texas state police officer who patrols the river.fficials are upping the ante against the ruthless cartels with a mini navy of high powered heavily armed gun boats. in the splach downs they ditch their stolen trucks that river. while u.s. law enforcement purchase is a sues to them land cartel members rush this in to save the drug. in the last few years, they reported at least 65 splash downs along the riogrande. according to one officer, the smugglers lives depend on getting the load where it's going or safely getting it back. casey stegall is live at our dallas newsroom. >> reporter: you name it and cops working along the border have seen it in recent years. aerial pictures of riogrande river really put things in perspective. you can see for yourself how narrow the water way is. in many spots hundred feet wide making it an easy swim to the u.s. side. in addition to those splash downs, smugglers load up rafts full of drugs and try to float them across. the texas department of public safety telling us this is clear evidence that the v

to block texas from enacting state paased last year...ich 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."" per