I am right here. You can be right here, congresswoman. Mayor. Hi. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Okay. There we go. Sixhour technical difficulties. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here afternoon. I am a National Political reporter forrt politico. I am thrilled to be here in austin with you. At the Texas Tribune festival. We will have a great discussion this afternoon on border politics immigration and the 2020 president ial election. Love to welcome our panelists. Right here next to me is congresswoman sylvia garcia. A freshman democrat from texas. Mustve her district is eastern houston. Next we have the mayor of san antonio. On a maria coexecutive director of the center for popular democracy based in new york city. For those of you joining fee of the live stream, you can also follow the conversation on twitter using the. Immigrants about lawmakers of color and have frequently use the term invasion. When describing them what is going on at the border. How has the ta
The federal judiciary. Probably the longest legacy that donald trump will have will be his Lasting Imprint that he left in terms of the judges he has nominated. He has confirmed 150 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices quite famously. It is not just the number of the judges at the historic nature of how ideology clean extreme how ideologically extreme they seem. Point is we can win at the ballot box at 2020 and defeat donald trump and win back the senate and yet all of the priorities may well be facing certain power because we have a judiciary that is hostile to the progressive ideas because trump will have any so many trump style judges that will be with us. Host how you activate the grassroots and how are you funded . Lobby andtry to oppose some of trumps most extreme judicial nominees. We were highly involved in the cavanaugh fight last year. We are active right now in trying to defeat some of his more extreme lower Court Judicial appointees like stephen manatt she w
Freshman democrat from texas. Her district is eastern houston. We have mayor ron of san ntonio, and our coexecutive director of the center for new ar democracy based in york city. For those of you joining us via live stream you can also follow twitter rsation on tribunestats19. Some of the stuffer well be well discuss the impact on the aftermath of the in this ass shooting state. President trump rhetoric, his rhetoric, his use of border politics and racial identity in his reelection were also going to cover the immigration plans eing proposed by the democrats running for the white house, and whether or not ruby red texas actually turn blue in 2020. And near the end, were going to take a few questions from the audience. So please have those ready to go. I would like to start with el paso. As many of you know, a lone gunman killed 22 people that border in community and he posted a racist shooting. Prior to the it declared that the attack was in response to the hispanic of texas. Presiden
Virtually all subpoena 500 sectors are down. S p 500 sectors. Thisjackie deangelis is here wat breakdown. Reporter good afternoon, neil. October has gotten off to a rocky start i would say. The fundamentals of the u. S. Economy had been holding up but the data is signaling that there are some cracks there. Today es nonism manufacturing number is important, showing slowing growth in the Services Sector. Reading of 52. 6 is down from 53. 4 in august. Fed cutting Interest Rates, reacting sharply, forecasting another quarterpoint move lower at the fomc meeting at the end of the month. The number is essentially neutral but it indicates sloyer growth here. We earlier saw a slip in manufacturing as well. You combine two of those things there is definitely a red flag. Meantime bed, bath beyond, increasing number of stores it is planning to close. In april it said it would close 40 stores. Now that number bumped up to 60. Retailing in general, 4600 store closures for the year announced by u. S.
Impact on the 2020 election. They also talk about how local communities address immigration and the immigration policies of the trump administration. And, what 2020 president ial candidates have the best plan to address immigration. This is about one hour. Here. Congresswoman, hi. Okay. There we go. Technical difficulties. Everyone. Rnoon, thank you so much for being here this afternoon. My name is laura lopez. Im a National Political and im for politico, thrilled to be here at the texas festival. Were going to have a great discussion this afternoon on politics, immigration, and the 2020 president ial election. Would love to welcome our panelists. Right here next to me is garcia, a an sylvia freshman democrat from texas. Her district is eastern houston. We have mayor ron of san ntonio, and our coexecutive director of the center for new ar democracy based in york city. For those of you joining us via live stream you can also follow twitter rsation on tribunestats19. Some of the stuffer