And lockheed loves him. Intel building a 7 billion plant in arizona that they took off the shelf during the obama years. So, yeah, lots to talk about. Thanks to hugh and our guests. That was the scene from a town hall earlier tonight with arkansas senator tom cotton. The mood is indicative of what were seeing at town halls across the country. We have news tonight from this new administrations continued Whiplash Pattern of radical changes in course. Tonight the Justice Department, which is now led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that they are reversing the Obama Administration policy on the rights of transgender students in american schools. We have known that the white house intended to roll back lgbt rights. We thought they might first take aim at kids. Weve been waiting all day for the official notice. Here it is. Very high turnout election. It was an unusually long ballot in montana this year, because they had a bunch of stuff to vote on in the state, but all in all, usu
died, led to a lot of kind tributes to him in montana from people across the state, people across the ideological spectrum. but one of the practical nuts and bolts and indeed financial consequences of mike fellows dying right before that election, after he had qualified for the libertarian line on the ballot in that congressional election is that it cost counties across montana a lot of money for that election. there s a law in montana that s very strict about ballots for every election having to be absolutely correct so when mike fellows died just a few weeks before the election every single county in the state had to shred all of their ballots that they had printed already and they had to reprint all new ballots for the november election, and that, among other things, made the 2016 november election in montana the most expensive election that state has ever had. added to that factor about that guy passing away, it was also a very high turnout election. it was an unusually long ballot
gets confirmed to the cabinet, it s likely that the race to replace him in congress will be, i don t know, may? june? early june? i don t know. here s the thing though. across that state, the county clerks and elections administrators, the people who actually run elections county by county across that state, those clerks have started squawking. they have started raising the alarm about the cost of that election, because remember, montana just had the most expensive statewide election they have ever had this past november. counties hadn t budgeted extra money for it. it was 50% me expensive than they thought it would be, 50% more than any election.
time when the trump administration is saying they want to put rocket boosters on 287g, the top law enforcement agent in one of the most populous counties in america, a county responsible for more deportations than any other county in the country they say no, we re out, we re not going to do it. joining us is harris county sheriff ed gonzalez. sheriff, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i appreciate your time, sir. hi, rachel, honor to be with you. i was expressing a moment ago there that some of the concerns about this program making local law enforcement into federal immigration enforcement authorities, effectively it is a problem for local law enforcement. it made people in immigrant communities reluctant understandably to call 911, to call when they needed help. was that, in fact, happening in harris count why i? was that part of your decision-making process? it was part of the decision-making process. over the course of last year, through the election and here in my
i don t know, may? june? early june? i don t know. here s the thing though. across that state, the county clerks and elections administrators, the people who actually run elections county by county across that state, those clerks have started squawking. they have started raising the alarm about the cost of that election, because remember, montana just had the most expensive statewide election they have ever had this past november. counties hadn t budgeted extra money for it. it was 50% more expensive than they thought it would be, 50% more than any election. there wasn t extra money to pay for that, they are way in the hole in terms of what they spent on elections and unexpectedly they have to run another statewide special election to fill this congressional seat. where is the money coming from to do that? the counties have to cough up that money. they don t have that money. the county clerks have an idea, they ve been lobbying for it statewide and writing op-eds and testifying is at t