the press here. a local station where he said he turned his cell phone over to police and that he had been tested for gunpowder residue. williams also told the reporter that he felt the investigators were doing a very thorough job and he also had this message for the victims and his former colleagues. my heart goes out to all the families that have been affected by this tragedy and especially to the people that work at the courthouse. reporter: now the suspect s attorney over the weekend relesing a statement to fox news that his client denies any and all allegations against him. a pretty interesting twist, gregg. gregg: casey stiegel live in texas. thanks very much. heather: well, chaos at gitmo. violence erupting between inmates and guards after rising tensions hit the boiling point. this more than four years after president obama pledged to close the facility. kt macfarland is a fox news
and eventually acquire the same capability that the north koreans have, that is the road we are. gregg: lest we forget north korea and iran have been sharing not only missile technology but nuclear technology. absolutely. indeed. iran s chief scientist was at the february nuclear testing that took place in north korea. this is their chief nuclear scientist, and that is not something to take lightly. some analysts believe that iran is entertaining the thought of outsourcing to north korea the further development of a nuclear werpbgs the miniature ryization of it so you can put it on a missile and actually the testing of it in north korea. we don t have evidence of that but certainly people are suggesting it. gregg: there seems to be just this sort of endless cycle, the provocative acts, belligerent rhetoric by north korea, and then they come to the table and we offer concessions. how do we get out of that
is to balance this un jet and bring certainty to the private sector in those infrastructure areas, to create jobs. it is not by just spending more money. spending our way out of this mess is not working. gregg: congresswoman jackie walorski, thanks for being with us. thanks, gregg. heather: coming up senator marco rubio going all-in. all the rising star of republican party, some say, is becoming the face of the new immigration bill but will it pass? gregg: plus, justin bieber facing a global backlash causing controversy at a sacred holocaust site. new honey bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain. here we go.
and my question was, why can t the federal government balance our budget like the households do in this country? his answer was, because america is not a family. if we balance too soon we get less revenues. gregg: my question why do they have to be tied together, entilement reform and taxes? dough end to do they. they absolutely do. we have a spending problem. it is not an issue of producing more revenue. we re at record amounts of revenue in this nation. we have got to cut the spending and debt in this nation or we will not get the economy going. the balanced budget is a foundation to turning this economy around and it is a spending issue. gregg: here is what the president s budget does. this is according to the republican side of the senate budget committee. we ll put it up on the screen. 1.1 trillion in new taxes. 8.2 trillion in new debt. almost a trillion in new spending. and $59 billion in actual deficit reduction. just a scant $59 billion. it never balances the
for political purposes or outright manipulating them into taking a stand on a vital constitutional right? well, constitution, first of all, i disagree with him entirely the constitution doesn t say that the government doesn t have a right to check and keep guns from being in the hands of certain individuals. it says you have a right to them but it doesn t say the criminals have a right to them, insane people have a right to them. so there are certain provisions in the law that they re talking about i think just make absolute sense. my colleagues who vote against those provisions i think are making a terrible tragic mistake and are end abouting to the pressure of the nra. i m a conservative. i believe a person should have a right to own a weapon but i also think there can and should be background checks. gregg: all right. the newtown killer was mentally ill. yes. gregg: so too in tucson, in aurora, colorado, the other mass killings and many, many others and yet most of the legislati