control the laws of nevada, those guns are coming in illegally. more people in california will be murdered, and that is why we have to have a federal response to a federal issue. and talking but a federal response, we ve talked, melanie, about title 42 a lot on this program today. i know you have been covering it, california will be affected, texas, the entire united states, frankly. so they insisted the administration has been preparing for this. but do you think that reflects your reporting about feelings of local mayors and, frankly, constituents. we heard from the mayor of laredo just a few minutes ago. i think there does seem to be a disconnect between border state officials, whether it s the local mayors, governors, senators. we ve seen senator sinema in arizona say they don t think they re getting sufficient administration
we appreciate that on the ground reporting. sit close if there is anything no that percolates in the hour. we ll come back to you. thank you. joining me now is democratic texas state representative, redub hours. she represents garland, texas, which is next door to allen. state representative, first i want to say that our hearts go out to the victims of this deadly shooting and their families. this is just an experience no family should have to have. have you spoken to any of the people who were impacted by this tragedy? thank you, simone. this is state representative reddit andrews bowers. and i represent house district 1:13. and i would have to say, i have spoken to supporters and constituents in my district. it is a neighboring district of one of my colleagues, representative jeff leech. who represents that area. but i will tell, leo it is close enough to where my
conversation and debate, and that deal was filed by my colleague, tracey king, it does represent uvalde. i ve met with the families of the uvalde victims and those of santa fe. this session, we have to work to not only have that conversation on the floor, but pass good gun sense and gun violence prevention legislation. so that people will know that we are doing more than just talking or lifting thoughts and prayers. so then what is your message to those texans right now, the people you just talked about, folks who want to know that you are doing more. that the representatives are doing more than just talking thoughts and prayers. because i think representative, a lot of people may have lost hope that not just elected leaders in texas, but leaders all across the country are going to take action to protect them from gun violence.
people. we just can t handle them. as we speak, we can only man about 66% of the capacity of our local hospitals. so if we have this big influx, it will cause devastation. we have to look at this as as a doctor, we will treat anybody. we can t turn anybody back. but that poses an issue. where are our resources? and are we able to handle it? laredo texas mayor, doctor victor trevino. thank you very much. we will hopefully be chatting in the coming days and weeks. we appreciate your time. thank you for having me. up next, folks, live my all-star political panel. they re going to weigh in on what is happening at the border. the crisis, and frankly the inaction that we can expect from republicans. after that deadly mass shooting in texas. in in texas or more - can be overwhelming.
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