decisions that have to be made about what to do with the children, how to get more resources down there to make sure they are getting the right health care and being processed and the president says most are going home. we ll find a relative and send them home. the politics like that get in the way of rational policy here? there s a very strong chance of that. the white house seems very uncertain about exactly what to do about this. it s a massive, massive problem. rick per, as you know, is running for president so this is a very easy thing for him to get in front of. i think a lot of what you hear is going to have very little bearing on what actually ends up happening. if the president, molly, if he s largely in agreement with his republican critics on so many other parts of the immigration debate, the president, thinks, know, you can t get to the border. he ll send them back. why can t they agree on this, appropriate more money and set new rules and a lot of communities where the
response. rick per did not mince words in the last 24 hours calling on the president to come visit the border. do you think the white house has done enough? well, my personal opinion for what i ve seen and i ve been working on this for a while, we asked them to respond on this some time ago and again, thir moving in the right direction, but i think they re one step behind with all due respect to the white house, number one. number two, this thing, this particular crisis just didn t appear from one day to the other. it s been building up and my question has been in talking to the men and women i just met with the border patrol union last night, they had a lot of things to say and i have to say that this has this has just been building up. my question is why did we not respond to this a lot faster and the other thing is why are we trying to invent the wheel and i understand every surge is different, but this is not the first time that this has happened and we have to look at that, an
the west apartments, the structure was there but apartments were just blown out. people were coming out bloody and injured. officials say dozens of homes have been flattened along with businesses in that part of town. the school caught on fire. a nursing home was damaged, and an apartment complex was flattened. they are still searching door by door and lot by lot trying to find survivors, and we re told that 160 people have been injured. the fatality count is now somewhere between 5 and 15, and among dead are 3 to 4 fire fighters, and a law enforcement officer slashed a fire fighter who was reported missing has been found alive but in serious condition at an area hospital. governor rick per is expecteded to give a news conference at 12:45 eastern time from the texas department of public safety headquarters in austin. chris, back to you. is there a sense, and i understand that this is a very
from this morning. politico leads with gay marriage takes next steps. activists in the seven new states where they hope same-sex marriage will be legalized. thursday new black friday. the arizona republic s headlines. retailers opening their doors on thanksgiving to capitalize on holiday shopping. the chicago trib, hostess, union s agree to mediation. the twinkie maker agreed to meet with lenders and union leaders. the judge pushing for this to save more than 18,000 jobs. alan west concedes. time for the poly side bar. the tea party favorite from florida admitted he could not can overcome the 1900 vote deficit. not enough to trigger a recount of all votes. he waged a two week battle over votes in st. lucie county. the washington post makes its pick for the worst candidate of 2012 and chose texas governor rick per. their reason, he entered the race the frontrunner, but then this happened.
look at conservatives, romney and santorum on economic issues, i don t see that much of a difference. where santorum can make his park is the social issues, a risky strategy for him should he make it to the general. where he is now, he is talking to a part of that electorate that wants to hear it not hear it from santorum. interesting, anne, clear the romney campaign would like tonight s debate and the next week to be a minireferendum on santorum. here is romney himself yesterday about this idea. senator santorum hasn t been as carefully viewed by the american public as others. we had donald trump for a while and herman cain and rick per rained newt gingrich, all vetted carefully. rick santorum is being seen for the first time. do you think he meant a to mention donald trump in that since donald trump is his number one surrogate? to be talking about that in the car in michigan driving