securing that border. we sent our texas ranger recon teams. we sent our parks and wildlife wardens. i deployed the national guard after i stood on the ramp in dallas, texas and looked the president of the united states in the eye and said, mr. president, if you won t secure the border, texas will. and that s exactly what we did. we need a president that doesn t just talk a game, but a president that s got real results. all right. i want to ask that same question, because it s true really of all of you on this stage, that like it or not donald trump is there s a huge disparity between the poll numbers that you have and the poll numbers that he has. given also the fact that rudy giuliani said he thought that there may be some reagan qualities to donald trump. so carly fiorina, is he getting the better of you? well, i don t know. i didn t get a phone call from bill clinton before i jumped in the race. did any of you get a phone call from bill clinton? i didn t. maybe it s because i
we sent our texas ranger recon, parks and wildlife wardens, i deployed the national guard after i stood on the ramp in dallas texas, looked the president of the united states in the eye and said mr. president, if you won t secure the border texas will. that s exactly what we did. we need a president that doesn t just talk a game. but a president that s got real results. one after another. governor perry, and others gramled with the trump femme nonnon. one way or another. the rest will likely do the same tonight. we will all get to see how donald trump handles the spotlight. a big night all around. we are joined by dana bash from cleveland. everyone is looking to the top tier debate. the so-called happy hour debate earlier this evening. did it live of to its nickname? reporter: it was an hour. that s about all i will say about that. it wasn t happy. and it certainly didn t have
border security not a state. now donald trump may not know that. the fact is, when the president of the united states made it clear to me last summer he was not going to put into place the personnel, the effort that needed to be made to secure that border that s when texas acted. we not only had our texas ranger recon, parks and wild life wardens, we had 1,000 national guard troops on the border. we saw a 74% decrease in number of apprehensions. i don t consider that to be a failure. governor across the board, one thing the republican field agrees on is southern boarder not secure. you had the role of texas governor. you had a republican administration in place. now democratic administration. why didn t you do more as governor? we put almost 800 to $900
we put upwards of a billion dollars of texas taxpayer money. it s not a state responsibility it s a federal responsibility and this administration totally absolutely not doing their duty. last summer we reacted to the president clearly not going to be able to assist us in this state and the country for that matter and we deployed our national guard we also had our texas ranger recon teams literally in the river in their boats. having personnel, having strategic fencing and one thing that s missing is the aviation assets we need to put in the air looking down from the air that 1800 plus mile border, and identify when suspicious or clearly illegal activities are going on with quick response teams at that particular points in time when you intervene in that way, you can secure the border. we can do thain relatively short period of time and i would
trained group of men and women that can address that particular function, one that they should. they re not there in a vacuum. we have massive amounts of texas law enforcement now, whether it s our texas ranger recon teams there. you saw some of that on fox this last week with the boats that we have in the river, the texas parks and wildlife. those are all law enforcement individuals who can in fact arrest those that have illegally come in and appropriately deal with them. but more importantly, this is allowing the border patrol to get back to what they are supposed to do. right now, reports of up to 70% of them are taking care of these young people who have come in rather than doing their job of securing the border. governor, let me turn, if i can, to the president s comments the other day after his meeting with you, in which he said that he hoped that you would put the heat on the texas delegation,