birth in the prison where she now resides with her newborn and a 20 month old and while her husband is reportedly a u.s. citizen, the state department today still would not confirm how if at all they are trying to help. president of the family research counsel, trying to change that. the husband is reportedly an american, which would make the two children american and so what exactly is the american government doing to help this family? megyn, so far nothing that we can tell. they are refusing to answer any questions other than to condemn this but right now words are not enough. for four months, she has been shackled to the floor, apparently reports say that she remains shackled while she was giving birth earlier this week. she s in there with a 20 month old and as you mentioned, now, about a three or four-day-old little girl, maya. this is a prison that was built
birth in the prison where she now resides with her newborn and a 20 month old and while her husband is reportedly a u.s. citizen, the state department today still would not confirm how if at all they are trying to help. president of the family research counsel, trying to change that. the husband is reportedly an american, which would make the two children american and so what exactly is the american government doing to help this family? megyn, so far nothing that we can tell. they are refusing to answer any questions other than to condemn this but right now words are not enough. for four months, she has been shackled to the floor, apparently reports say that she remains shackled while she was giving birth earlier this week. she s in there with a 20 month old and as you mentioned, now, about a three or four-day-old little girl, maya. this is a prison that was built to contain about 100 people and
he had a bag with 15 chick-fil-a sandwiches that he planned to stuff in the faces of the people that he killed. joining me now is the president of family research counsel, tony perkins. i appreciate your joining me today. good to have you with me. thank you, governor. when you heard this week that the ceo of chick-fil-a decided to poll jieds for the stand he had taken, tell me how you felt having some of your own employees, many of whom stood up for his right to say what he did, how did you react to that? well, i mean the first thing that came to mind was that people eat chicken, but they don t respect it, and i think as you well put it, i think we re seeing those in the business community becoming cowards, and i m grateful and i try to look at these things with a half-glassful approach but i m
as the voter summit in the spotlight right now is tony perkins who was not only there but also in the audience and the of the family research counsel and also, mr. perkins, i heard you saying right actually to cnn that you think ted cruz, the senator from texas, is the de facto leader of the republican party. i have to ask you to qualify that, whether it was a good idea given the fact this he s at the center, it seems, of so many people, the shutdown of the government, and perhaps even a favorability of the republican party that sits at about 24% right now. your response? belwell, ashleigh, this week we ve seen clearly the wheels are coming off the obama care gurney and conservatives around the country are wanting somebody to do something.
expect him to talk about the grassroots and how washington shouldn t have all the answers and does not have all the power to do things and that there will be a message sent out today if the grassroots and if conservatives want to take back their government they need to have their voices heard, expect to hear that today. they re not taking a stand the family research counsel and value voter summit, no ate stand against this possible deal that s being discussed right now the temporary raising of the debt ceiling, is there? reporter: certainly not yet but that could happen again. this conference just started off last night. we know there was somewhat decent discussions between the white house and congressional republicans so a lot of people are still trying to find out what this deal is going to be. i would expect to hear within the howl way hallways people a going to be supportive of it. they don t like president obama s health care law. many think the government spending is way out