pride in being from texas but you also say that the image of texas has a gender and a race and the texas is a white man. when what you mean by that pretty. >> i think when people think about texas they think about a cowboy printed they think about west texas and cowboys and candle and hurts so forth and it is not about a part of texas that was a slave society you had african-american people where you had plantation slavery in this notion of this rough and ready free individual would be a white man because women do not have the kind of freedom and blood people are not seen as having the kind of freedom. so texas and review, the white male sort of embodies the way the people see the image of texas is the embodiment of a guy. a white guy. so the book is trying to figure out what is the main are people who are texans. and who are not white guys and so that is what i asked for the book. >> how we did talk about the east texas i think because to your phone we think of texas we do think of the cowboy in the region and the oil of the west grade point that is the east were stephen austin came and

what is texas' reality? annette: stephen f austin, the father of texas, was given the right to bring settlers into texas by the governor of mexico. the idea was to have them be a bulwark against the comanche and other indigenous people fighting for this land. they wanted to bring the people whom they enslaved. people from georgia and bama and mississippi. as the war advanced, a lot of people escaped into texas with enslaved people. the expectation is that they were entering a space where slavery would be the basis of society. east texas is very much like the will to south. one of my classmates asked when i was in college, what was it like to live near the desert. texas is a huge state. the eastern part of it is green. it is fertile farmland. the people coming from these states wanted to extend the kotten empire into texas. cotton and sugarcane that could be shipped out of galveston. this was the most populous part of the state. the real history is plantation slavery. it is important and men and cattle ranche

from everything i've read, people in texas, black people in texas, white people in texas who want a better texas are committed to standing against these things so i'm hopeful attention has been paid to the that we are going to fight it and see what they can do and the racial front continues. >> i think that's a great note to end on and before we go from a i want to read a couple things from our audience. thank you for your words. deborah says thank you for your inspiring scholarship and free library philadelphia for hosting, so thanks to get a preview of your book your own words, looking forward to reading it and finally, nicole if you look in the question section, anybody interested, she has placed a link for further information about that if anyone would like to look into some think it for that. professor, it has been an honor and delight to spend time with you. thank you for taking time to be with us. >> thank you for having me. >> an absolute pleasure. thank you to our audience for your quick questions and participation. thank you to laura jason and the team at other events of the free

in texas. from that day on, people contender it -- considerate a continuous celebration of emancipation, other people dispute that. but this is a well-known one for texas that has become well known recent years, a continuous celebration from that time period. of this particular day. the end of legalized slavery. it did not end all problems but it didn't end legalized -- it did and legalized slavery. first it was called emancipation day and that it was shortened to juneteenth. >> the national archive holds the original order. it is brief. i wanted to put it on the graphics for our audience so they can see the simplicity but also the complexity. the people of texas are informed that in accordance with the proclamation from the executive of the united states, all slaves are free, this involves the absolute equality of personal rights. it went on to say that the freed man are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and to work for wages. they will not be allowed to collect military posts a

you're off the texas power grad. you're on the national eastern grade year experience rolling blackouts. if that pack there during the winter storm, they lost power and water for day 2 decades ago. the texas legislature deregulated the energy market here and went from a state control system to a lightly regulated open market. so before that, it used to be just a few entities that you would sale, fell the power and that was your regulated utilities. but after that, in majority of the market, there were hundreds at some point up retailer. so those are the retail electron providers, the change the energy market here was supposed to provide lower price to consumers . but as did prices for residents have gone up over time, while industry from power companies to their fuel suppliers have profited with little regulation, texas. we're left with a less reliable grid. by the way, the texas market is set up means that power plants don't have to maintain a pack of supply of energy. it is what is known as an energy only market. r

this wasn't the 1st time texas grid. they severe weather challenges though in 2011, a severe winter storm led to rolling outages and prompted state inquiries in federal investigation into what could prevent this from happening again, you have to build in resiliency into us, into your system if you don't want them to be repeated houston's mayor, sylvester turner was a state representative at the time after that storm he proposed to bill requiring texas to maintain enough reserve power to prevent future blackouts. but the bill didn't even make it out of committee. that bill, unfortunately, was never given a hearing because the powers that be felt that there was no need to impose these type of mandates that they, they, they chose a market driven approach. and that means, but they did what the, what the, the policy makers made the decision that instead of mandating adequate supply to prevent blackouts, that they would allow the power generators to earn more, to charge more when the demand exceeded supply turner was also part

and as a result, all of texas suffered because the texas legislature only meets once every 2 years. it was added pressure to address the grid failure before this session ended, we're told to leave it to market participants to solve and they keep failing us. right? so just so i could, if i could, oh, they did favors. so i'd like for you to go and answer to those families who's who lost loved ones in the day that they didn't during this year session, the legislature seem to be making steps to require power plants to winter rise. but still that the question of, if they would make the same requirement for their energy supplier, namely, natural gas officials have tried to blame renewable energy like wind and solar, including the governor, john. this shows how the great new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america, who went on in the middle of the crisis to blame renewable energy, central gas and oil. but the primary source of energy during the winter, and the one that filled the most was natural gas. gas failed more from a total perspective, right? the, the total amou

and then there's texas. the only state the us to have its own power, great. 90 percent of the state, as part of it with the restaurant, the boarders still part of the 2 national grants traveling east from houston, just one county over at liberty county, texas. you're off the texas power grad, you're on the national eastern grade year. they experience rolling blackouts if that but back there during the winter storm was power in water for day 2 decades ago. the texas legislature deregulated the energy market here and went from a state controlled system to a lightly regulated open market. so before that, it used to be just a few entities that you would sale, fell the power and that was your regulated utilities. but after that, in majority of the market, there were hundreds at some point a 3 day or so. those are the retail electric providers, the change, the energy market here was supposed to provide lower prices to consumers. but as did prices for residents have gone up over time, while industry from power comp

you couldn't do that in texas. in west virginia, you could vote by mail if you worked a certain shift and you weren't able to vote during the day. you couldn't do that in texas. in west virginia, you could vote if you were incarcerated by mail. you can't do that in texas, so as we went line by line and talked about several subject matters of s-1, it was very clear that texas and the rest of the country is not like west virginia, and that we do need a national standard that actually empowers people to vote, and that's what s1 is trying to accomplish, and i think that it was very instructive for the staff to understand in other parts of the country, there is a lot of voter suppression taking place and clearly that's killing democracy, and we need a fix for that. >> what is going to happen next in the texas legislature? >> well, at any moment, the governor can call a special session, so, you know, we broke quorum, we walked out. that is the equivalent to texas democrats crawling on our knees, begging our federal broth

>> well, i'm in crocket, texas, right now in houston county having left marshal and east texas earlier today. it doesn't matter where i go, people are concerned that in a state that is already the toughest in which to vote, you're going to try to make it even harder with a voter suppression bill that would end sunday morning voting or souls to the polls. would allow partisan poll watchers free rein in polling places and make it harder for those with a disability to cast a ballot and most alarmingly, alicia, texas would reserve the right to overturn future elections simply based on the allegation of fraud. when you have that, you no longer have a democracy. and i was listening to state representative gonzalez in her interview earlier, she and her colleagues have done as much as possible in texas and we need federal hope. that has to come in the vote for the people act. and the first votes taken this tuesday in the senate. that's part of why we're gathering in austin tomorrow at the capitol at 5:30. we want to rally to the senators and the president hear us loud and clear. we need their

to rebuild part of the wall in texas. he's also been speaking a lot of anti immigrant rhetoric. americans have been celebrating a new federal holiday tomorrow at the end of slavery. more than a 150 years ago. the june teams of the day of celebration and education, especially in galveston, texas. that's where the last group of slave people learn to their emancipation on june the 19th 1865 from the end of the civil war. ah, i tough a quick check of the headlines here. this allen voting is on the way in armenia is not parliamentary election. the prime minister nicole passionately was forced to call an early vote falling protest over the country's defeat. and it was with as a by john last year analyst predicting a tight race where we challenged more now from europe on the hope amongst many people is that this is going to confer on the victor some degree of electoral legitimacy and a 5 year period of stability, at least on paper, you know, median politics in which the winning candidates can sit down and really start to tackle

. ♪♪ >> welcome back to c-span, former republican ferguson, after vice president of the texas policy foundation, an organization that does what? >> the foundation is the largest database take foundation, if you will. a couple of years ago the foundation decided to bring the idea of state having more control over the destiny to washington d.c. and bring the common sense state oriented policy to washington d.c. so they stood up organization vice president federal affairs and state trust and we are dealing with a wide variety of issues including healthcare policy, election integrity policy and immigration energy and environment and the like but the moment front and center for us is the border, especially texas and mexico border. >> you are recently down there on the bar, what is the common sense solution to this search we've been seeing over 180,000 interactions between border agents and migrants just last month? >> common sense approach is simply to return to the policy that was in place before january 20 this year. january 20 of this year, the biden administration department of homela

meeks: i want to thank the gentleman from texas. as he's indicated it's a pleasure working with him on this committee. working cleggetively and having open and honest dialogue where we agree and where we disagree. and in the manner in which we do that serves this body in a very good way. and i look forward to continuing to work with him in that regard. even though we see this a little differently. i will say right now i'm ready to work with the gentleman in repealing and replacing the 2001 aumf. i think that is what we utilized as primary for the 2014 isis issue in dealing with all of the terrorists and terrorism that's going on. but the 2002 aumf was specific to iraq. our duty, our responsibility, and what took place is over. there comes a time when certain aumf's simply become outdated and need to be repealed. we are going to do two others. we have an aumf still in the books from 1957. we have another one that's on the books from 1991. there's no need to repeal and replace, they are outdated. and once they become outdated, let's j

better work on why the fight in texas is bigger than texas. plus, how that desantis anti-vax culture war could sink florida's cruise industry and with the federal government is now saying and doing 100 years after tulsa. >> my fellow americans, this was not a riot. this is a massacre. >> when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. the specter that haunts american politics on this june 1st, 2021, is the one that we saw on june 1st 2021 year ago today. amidst widespread peaceful protests against police brutality, the nation's capital washington d. c.. president donald trump ordered the forces of the state to attack protesters in thailand provoking, physical violence including assaulting these australian journalists to clear them from the park across from the white house so that donald trump could have a photo up featuring a bible. trump's orders, the police chief chased away american citizens with what appeared to be tear gas. trump's white house denied they used tear gas on protesters and it was not until last wee

it would be texas as texas, but as a part of the country as a whole. this is a union of states, and this is a very important union, of the largest physical union and contiguous united states. huge growing population. and a bellwether in some ways, and good ways and bad ways for the country. you could look at this place and see the trends and see maybe where we are going, or alert us to things and places we don't want to go all in this one place. >> how are you hoping that all americans will commemorate? as a historian, i wonder how you hope all americans will be commemorating juneteenth. >> i hope they will look at some history. this holiday is tailor-made for history. because there's a story behind, inevitably. you have to begin to tell that story. human beings love story, and history is about different types of stories, whether you are talking about people or ideas, whatever the story is of things. and i hope that people will keep that in mind, amid the celebrations, amid the red drink and barbecue and all of that, there's a very important story behi

from texas stat freedom of all americans in texas celebrate juneteenth should be celebrated all across the nation. this bill is a next step in our nation's journey, end quote. at this time in in -- of increasingly bipartisanship, the senator speaks to the urgency of this bill and i also want to thank, again, my good friend, congresswoman sheila jackson lee, who has been advocating for juneteenth to be a federal holiday for over 12 years. this bill would not be possible without her steadfast support and hard work. it's now our responsibility to swiftly pass this bill and finally enshrine this important celebration in national law. as we strive toward a more perfect union, it is critical that we acknowledge the national significance of juneteenth. this day not only honors the past and celebrates the present, but it offers us an opportunity to reflect upon ways to create an even more just society. i encourage all of my colleagues to join me in supporting this vitally important bill. and i reserve the balance of my time. ill. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: t

you can't do that in texas. and so as we went line by line and talked about several subject matters of as one, it was very clear that texas in the rest of the country is not like west virginia and that we do need a national standard that actually empowers people to vote, and that's one as one is trying to accomplish. and i think that was very instructive for the staff to understand and other parts of the country. there is a lot of voter suppression taking place in clearly that's killing democracy. and we need a fix for that. >> what is going to happen next in the texas legislature? >> at any moment, the governor can call a special session so we broke quorum, we walked out. that's the equivalent to texas democrats crawling on our knees begging our federal brothers and sisters to please bring us a federal standard. a federal relief. as a matter of fact, i think that sort of reinvigorated this country about voting rights. we've had a productive day on the hill. you can probably hear it in my voice, i'm a little bit

mccaul: we get new york and texas mixed up sometimes. i want to thank my good friend, chairman meeks. we work well together. when we disagree we do it civilly. i think that's the way this body should operate. but i do disagree on this one, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you, madam speaker. i said many times before that war should not be on autopilot. i do think this is an outdated aumf, and i do believe that congress needs to reclaim its war powers under article 1 of the constitution. i also share the desire to repeal the 2002 aumf as well as the 2001 aumf, but that must be part of a serious process to provide clear, updated authorities against the terrorists who still plot to kill americans at home and abroad. i still hope to work toward that end with my respective friend, chairman meeks, but a repeal and replacement should be simultaneous. so it is confusing to me that we are jamming through a stand-alone repeal without basic due diligence, without

in marshall, texas. far east texas. but after being born in marshall, texas, in the 20s, when she was 12, in june, 1939, she and her family moved 200 miles west all the way to ft. worth. it was her and her two siblings and her mom and dad, from sleeve port louisiana, to ft. worth, and paid $165 for their house on east any street and new york avenue in ft. worth in the fifth ward in ft. worth. a neighborhood today that is hemmed in on three sides bay zillion lanes of interstate and major highways that sort of have the effect of cutting it off from a lot of the rest of ft. worth, but back in the late 1930s, that of course was before all of the interstates and all of that, and the most important thing to know about that neighborhood when it came to young 12-year-old opal and her family, was that they were a black family that was moving in, from way out east by the louisiana line, and that neighborhood they were moving into was a mostly white neighborhood at east annie street in ft. worth, they moved there in june of 1939 a

. >>> we start tonight in marshall, texas in east texas. really, really east texas. it is close to the louisiana state line, not far from shreveport, louisiana. and she was born there in 1926 in marshall, texas, four east texas. after being born in marshall, texas in the 20s, when she was 12 in june 1939, she and her family moved 200 miles west all the way to ft. worth. it was her and her two siblings and her mom and dad. they moved all the way from near shreveport, louisiana, all the way to ft. worth to pay $165 for their house in new york avenue in ft. worth in the fifth ward in ft. worth. the neighborhood today, that is interstate and major highways that sort of have the effect of cutting it off from a lot of the rest of ft. worth, but back in the late 1930s, of course before all the interstate and all that, and the most important thing to know about the neighborhood when it came to young 12-year- old "and her family, was that they were a black family that was moving in for a way out east by the louisiana line, and that neighborhood they were moving into was a mos

host: the texas policy foundation, i wonder if you can explain the texas news. this from dallas morning news, the governor says texas will begin building a barrier along the border, offering few details, but saying that texas will arrest those that try to breach the barrier. construction starting immediately, according to the article. guest: continuing the building of the wall in texas has been something that the public policy foundation, our ceo, has been putting in place or has been talking about for quite a long time. and so, this is something that we think needs to take place. so, we have admonished the governor to do this admonished the governor to do this. -- the federal government has stopped construction, unfortunately, leaving holes in the construction. in del rio, for example, they have been able to get under temporary fencing and get over the temporary fencing, as a result of the holes in the wall or fencing. so texas is doing what texas does, they will fix their own problems and we think that is a good place to go. and the governor also said he's goi

we will go to texas to speak with a state lawmaker. then we look at the severe under-unting of deaths of people of color by law enforcement. >>eople of color are being killed greater numbers and high rates than has been reported. we found000 casethat are unknown. we expect to find many more cases. amy: and we go to canada, where the bodies of 215 childrenave been found on the grounds of a former residential school where indigenous children were sent after being forcibly separated from their families by the canadian government. >> these poor children died ale and they died sred. they' not the only ones hidden in gras all ov canada. due to the canadian govement and the church plus redential school. it is still going on now. canada is still discriminated against first nation children. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. in texas, democratic lawmakers staged a dramatic walkout on sunday night to prevent the republican-controlled legislature from passing a s

congressman gonzales of texas. i'm elizabeth macdonald, you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. we hope you have a good evening, and join us again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ ♪ larry: hello, everyone. welcome back to "kudlow." i'm larry kudlow. well, folks, we'll begin with this, the markets were absolutely roaring today. good for them. dow up nearly 600 points. coming back from a big drop last week and a big drop on friday. we've got the great art laffer coming on later on in the show. he's going to tell us about stocks and inflation. which wins in the investment foot race, and who's going to come out ahead? we'll throw in some interest rates and the fed too. you know me, i

and joining us now is texas state representative, gina hinojosa, she was part of the texas democrat delegation that met with vice president kamala harris at the white house today. representative, what would you say you learned that the white house today and what would you say the white house learned about the situation in texas? >> let me start by saying how humbling it is to know that while our president is a broad defending democracy, our vice president is working with us to protect our voting rights and secure democracy here, at home, because that is what is at stake, nothing less than our democracy. >> go ahead, sorry. >> and i was grateful and really honored to have an opportunity to share with her the voter suppression efforts that with our republican majority is trying to push through in texas, and our experience fighting back in texas. and to learn from her, to get inside and to learn from her which we can get at texas legislators in the trenches, in the fight with. >> the white house is still trying to get the s1 through, joe manchin has some amendments that he would like to offer, di

engrained in texas culture, migrate texas, this special day has been recognized, the chairmanwoman has recognized in 47 of the 50 states in the united states and long overdue to be recognized as a federal holiday. i have been working with sheila jackson lee and senator cornyn. this should be rooted in the work we need to do and will continue to do as a country that has endured periods of racial tensions which have tried to divide our people. let it not be so. as abraham quoted the bible, he said a house divided against itself cannot stand. our country can, should and will unite beyond the divisions that we have faced and this is a long way towards that. the forces try to divide our nation will not prevail as we stand firm in our identity as americans. we are going through the fires and made stronger than ever. juneteenth reminds us of the freedom so bravely defended by many americans and encourageses us to remain steadfast against division and we have a ways to go. a house divided cannot stand. that is absolutely true. but a house that is united is unshakeable. mr. speaker, this is a s

, the don't mess with texas, the voter suppression is bigger in texas, you know that texas. but lately, and under their trumper governor greg abbott, texas is way more like a contestant on the bachelorette. sensitive, putting itself out there, being all vulnerable. first, there was the winter storm, new investigation by buzzfeed showed the death toll from that storm revised up at around 700 souls. the entire texas power grid failed. ted cruz flew the coop for cancun until he was reminded that he represented texas in the senate. well, there's trouble in texas once again. texans are being warned right there in big oil country, the energy cradle of america that they must cut back on electricity this week or the lights are gonna go out again. by the way, the utility provider there is called ercot. and to prove that texans have a sense of humor, ercot stands for the electric reliability council of texas. but because the electricity is not reliable in texas, people there are being told to set thermostats to 78, turn off lights and pool pumps god forbid because of the power plants

two words later the people reached the people of texas when major general granger announced in texas the end of slavery. juneteenth commemorates that day. in 1980, juneteenth became a texas state holiday when signed into law. it will become the country's 11th federal holiday. that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> good evening once again. day 148 of the biden administration. air force one has touched down. the president is back on u.s. soil after eight days overseas. his first foreign trip since taking office. today he held that much anticipated summit with russia's vladimir putin. >> as i said outside i think it's always better to meet face to

we could do that once in texas but texas change the laws so you can no longer do this. you cannot use your current address or proof that you live at the current address, and i support having people sign an affidavit if you have to. such a thing would be prosecuted under the law if they are giving you false information. there are many ways for us to accomplish this without becoming draconian with it. the state of texas has a horrible history. it was the state of texas that had, in 1944, a dentist in texas challenged the white primary system that went all the way to this up important said they cannot have primaries that exclude persons of color, so right after that, they went to a right -- white cream -- pre-primary system. i love my country, i respect the people in the state, but i dislike the way people are being treated when it comes to voting. everyone should have easy access and it should be a free and fair election. host: we have comments and questions. we go to oklahoma city on our democrat line with barbara. good morning. caller: good morning. it is so frustrating

. >> all right we start tonight in marshall texas, in east texas really really east texas, it is close to the louisiana state line not far from shreveport louisiana. she was born there in 1926, far east texas. but after being born in marshall, texas in the twenties, when she was 12 in june 1939 she and her family moved 200 miles was all the way to fourth worth. it was her and her two siblings and her mom and dad. they move all the way from the -- they paid $165 for their house on east any street and new york avenue. it's a neighborhood today that is hemmed in on three sides by a zillion lanes of interstate and major highways it has the effect of cutting it off from the rest of forth worth. back in the late 1930s, that was before all the interstates and all of that. the most important thing to know about that neighborhood when it comes to young 12 year old opal and her family was that they were a black family, that was moving in from way out east by louisiana lake. that neighborhood the removing into was a mostly white neighborhood at least a street. and they move there in june of 1939,

the latest assault on voting rights is happening in texas. is the white house taking it seriously enough? plus mai'a wily is skyrocketing in the new york city mayor race. what's behind the surge? i'll ask her. >> also ahead of president biden's meeting with vladimir putin mike pompeo says the trump administration was the toughest on russia. seriously, he said that. >>> and islamaphobia is the last form of acceptable bigotry in media and politics these days and leads to real world violence and murder. i'll talk about it an author. >>> good evening. i'm mehdi hassan. since this show launched in october i've been warning about the crisis of democracy that has been engulfing this nation. and i'm sorry to have to report this to you. but the past week has brought even more confirmation that the crisis continues to get worse. in texas despite the slight reprieve republicans remain determined to pass a bill that would enact new and horrific restricts on voting. governor greg abbot says the bill will be back in november. it's one of nine bills to rest

specific to texas and senate bill seven. we heard you speak about this, miss longoria, restricting early voting hours, including sunday mornings. prohibiting drive-thru voting and reallocating polling places using racially discriminating formulas, amongst other restrictions. if drive-thru or curbside voting was restricted, how would it impact communities of color? i am the only litigator, i am the only person on our side not a litigator. can you talk to me about litigation? why litigation alone will be inadequate to challenge a bill like s.b. 7? >> we know that over 170 thousand people used drive-thru voting. another 15,000 or so used those late-night and expanded hours. you are looking at hundreds of thousands of people who would not have voted in november and would not have voted in our may, december, or july elections either. when we are looking at these impacts, if you cut this type of voting, you will affect the kind of voting that we see compared to early voting in person, more communities of color, more people of colo

elizabeth: there is a fight between texas and the biden administration, it is escalating in the texas governor will arrest criminal illegals so they no longer get the biden red carpet treatment, he is doing with the biden administration refuses to do is secure the border. this feels like a federal versus state right issue, is this going to head to the supreme court. >> it very well couldn't has in that passage did under obama administration is the federal government's job to enforce immigration laws and this administration as the obama administration refuses to do so, the states need to step in when they are impacted and no state is more impacted than texas thank goodness for governor abbott for protecting his constituents by arresting criminal aliens for trespassing and other state f crimes. americans want to be safe and texas wants their property respected and to keep the family safe. it is good to see a state governor fight for their constituents, the biden administration isenen not. elizabeth: the supreme court with a new major ruling today that undercuts the administration catch

in texas we have over 28 restrictions. >> texas' new abortion law is unlikely to be overturned at this point. but it may also be difficult to enforce. if we do see this law go into effect, we could well i think see the courts in texas clogged up with these kinds of lawsuits. and equally importantly, we could see abortion providers in texas deterred from even performing abortions. >> this bill is enforced by any person that feels like someone has aided and abetted abortion care. and that means just any person off the street. >> regardless of what happens in texas, a bigger battle looms on the horizon. next year, the u.s. supreme court set to take up a mississippi law that would ban virtually all abortions after 15 weeks. the case out of mississippi is not as extreme a ban as the texas ban. so if the supreme court upholds that mississippi law, i think it's going to be the end of the roe era in many respects. >> i think that it's really scary because we don't know what a 6-3 anti-abortion majority will do, despite the fact that there are 50 years of precedent protecting abortion rights. >

texas in national spotlight on this issue. but she did recognize the fact that the broad coalition we brought together to make this happen, and a lot of it is bringing us together. it's other states that are experiencing the same issues that texas is experiencing right now, and to call on other states, other legislators who are experiencing the same thing we are, and we need to come together to show the country what's going on here. and so that really gives me hope that we're going to be okay. and we just got to continue galvanizing and continue talking about these issues because our country's at stake if we don't. >> well, if the two of you who are steeped in this fight have hope and think we're going to be okay, i'll take that. that'll be my cue to end the conversation and leave us with that faint idea of hope. texas state representative jessica gonzalez and iesha, thank you both. >>> as some democrats keep advocating for a bipartisan infrastructure bill or say a few more republican senators to vote for an independent commis

i previously lived in el paso, texas, for a number of years. my father served as the chief judge of the western district of texas and had to deal with not just the crime, but some of the circumstances that happened along the border that came home to roost, so to speak, within the united states of america. and as a federal district judge, he tried his best to deal favorably, fairly, with people who violated the law. but where there were people who were criminals, who were not here to serve in the best interest of the united states of america, those who would become enemies of the state because what they did is, they would import drugs. drugs which would kill americans. we've just been through a terrible epidemic in this country. of opioid abuse. opioid abuse that we all recognize, much of it was inherently begun and started here in the united states. but that has taken hold with other drugs now. fentanyl. methamphetamines. heroin. cocaine. in that process, we look to where this comes from. this comes from other countries, by and large. other cou

it's so important to him, he called this texas bill, that democrats walked out on in the texas legislature, and assault on democracy. he obviously feels very strongly about this. there is only so much the white house can do on that front. that's really at the congress. and that is not an area where there is any sort of bipartisan coalesce -- coalescence around that topic. there does not appear to be -- unlike reconciliation budget bill, you can't get that on 50 votes, you need to get ten democrats to come over in the senate. they don't have that right now. >> shannon -- thank you very much for joining, us we really appreciate. it >> thank you. >> thank you. anna joining us for our discussion now our president -- msnbc contributor, also jonathan alter, columnist for the daily beast on msnbc political analyst. he is the author of his very best, jimmy carter, a life. that is jonathan hunters hey latest book. latest of many. mary tracey kumar, shannon paty piece said -- the biden legislative agenda beginning juiced seventh, when congress returns from this current weeks recess, it seems like in

pedro: el gobernador de texas se mostrÓ una carta para que retorne a texas su tierra para que el gobierno federal tomÓ para el muro . asÍ facilitar la construcciÓn del muro con fondos tejano. tambiÉn dijo que su gobierno contratarÁ a un coordinador estatal del proyecto de construcciÓn del muro. >> [habla en inglÉs] pedro: revelÓ que la comisiÓn de cÁrceles de texas ya tiene ubicada mÁs de 1000 camas adicionales para rezar inmigrantes, y estÁn en la bÚsqueda de personal adicional. jorge: pedro rojas estÁ desde austin. , texasentonces texas quiere construir su muro, y ¿estos agentes de otros estados quÉ pueden hacer? pedro: bÁsicamente lo que van a tratar de hacer es acusar a todos los inmigrantes detenidos de algÚn tipo de cargo estatal. violaciÓn a propiedad privada, daÑos a propiedades privadas, o daÑos al muro fronterizo. van a instalar anuncios. de esa manera greg abbott asegura que los va mantener precios, iba a poder entregarlos en el guyana federal y podrÁn quedarse en la cÁrcel. tambiÉn importante recalcar que el dÍa 30 de junio texas estarÁ visitada por e

you live in california and moved to texas. i am curious if this is something folks in texas will get behind. >> a lot of property owners will. i was on the border for three days just about 10 days ago and people were concerned, scared, many have been driven out of their homes because there are so many illegal immigrants crossing the border and the further you get from more populated areas the more likely these individuals are to be cruel, sex offenders, murderers, members of ms 13 so the challenges for texas, you build a wall, it will serve the same function is a gated community, to deter people from going through that area but the important thing is you need law enforcement to back it up and if the biden/harris administration is preventing border patrol from doing its job then all a wall is going to do is steer people to a different part of the border. neil: you were at the border, kamala harris was not. after months of texans calling to see if the micro crisis is embedded, by going there firsthand, she finally is meeting wit

raymond lawyer was in mcallen, texas, he is at the border, embedded with texas law enforcement. >> last night we showed you how migrants are being used by the cartels not only to make millions but to mask their criminal activity. we reveal how that activity is spreading into the united states into your community and what the texas state officials are doing about it. we start with a wider and higher view of the border. flying with the texas department of public safety, it is easy to see how fast the rio grande sector really is. it is a wide-open territory both to migrants and the cartels who control the mexican side of the border. from the air, the brakes in the border wall and the completed portions are obvious. on the ground, border patrol is forced to process and care for an unending flood of migrants trafficked by the cartels. meanwhile more than 200,000 immigrants have escaped detection by border patrol so far this year and they are not all families, border patrol reports they have arrested more border crossings with criminal records in fiscal year 2021 then 2019 and 2020 combined a

>> i want to invite them to see it for themselves in texas. this is the toughest state in which to register to vote and it's not tough for everyone equally. it's disproportionately born by black voters, voters of color, those voters with disabilities, the very young, the very old, and those lo live in big cities. can you not have a democracy if everyone who is eligible cannot participate in t i believe those three senators you just mentioned. once they've exhausted every effort to bring in bipartisan cooperation, they'll put this country before party, before their political career and before themselves, and they'll do the right thing. the alternative is unthinkable. but all of us have the opportunity help them reach that conclusion. so, let's push them as hard as we can. >> and in terms of pushing, i do wonder, do you regret in hindsight not running against jon cornyn for the senate last year? if you had and won, you wouldn't have to be criticizing manchin or sinema right now. you would be the 51st vote in the senate. >> there's nothing i can