i live in this community. my granddaughter was three doors down from where this occurred in that school. anybody wants to hear the heart stop and see how long they cannot breathe wait until that phone call comes in. until you know they re safe. melissa: the sheriff says the 17-year-old suspect confessed to the shootings. he is now on suicide watch at the galveston county jail. jon: first he testified before congress, now facebook s mark zuckerberg faces european officials on his company s involvement in the massive data scandal. plus republican lawmakers demand a second special counsel to investigate alleged abuses in the top ranks of the f.b.i. and justice department. congressman louie gomer joins us live next. we need people to be held accountable how the hillary clinton email investigation was conducted. we will get information on that when the i.g. report lands but
for washington this week for the very first time since president obama look office republican also control both houses of congress when the new congress is sworn in this week, gop law makers say they will hit the ground running mitch mcconnell who is expected to be the next senate majority leader says that washington has heard the message sent by voters in the midterms. listen. i think jobs and the economy are clearly what the voters are concerned about. they re tired of inaction and they want us to act and what does acting mean? just to give you some action that won t surprise you, just like improving the keystone pipeline that would put a lot of people to work almost immediately. but republicans must pick who will lead them. it could get interesting, on the house side you have texas congressman louie gomer.
peter, how much danger is speaker boehner really? so far he s got two roans challenging him for the speaker ship. they are ted and louie. by announcing their opposition to boehner these two say they re just trying to give other members of the gop conference an aal terinive. it really is time for a change, you deceived us when you went to obama and pelosi to get your votes for the cromnibus. it was a terrible strategy and it follows a number of years of broken promises. so far it does not seemlike boehner is sweating the challenge as spokesman for the speaker says he still expects to be electedably the full house this week.
pushing increased immigration, saying we should be making it easier for people to come into the country, not harder. our next guest is a congressman from a border state, texas, and he warns that if we don t enforce immigration laws, the u.s. will become, as he put it, a third world nation. here to explain, texas congressman louie gomer. congressman, thanks for joining us. always good to be with you. what do you mean by that? well, if you go down to the border, as i just was, and you see what s happening, you see, basically, we have and i m not calling them refugees, but they re like refugee camps. and this was totally predictable, and the more we find out, the more we know this administration knew what they were doing in throwing the doors open, getting word to central and south america now they re doing it on their own. they get here and they say, hey, they re not sending anybody back, come on. and all this stuff about they re coming to escape violence and murder and mayhem.
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