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
Prairie County sheriff Rick Hickman sparked controversy after he was caught asking a dispatcher where a shooting had happened, and responding: Oh, really. Black people then
if the police are going to deport you for calling up and reporting that you got mugged, that s a problem for your local community. it s great for muggers, but it s bad for everybody else. and so a thousand people came out from across the county to show support at that march in houston to be part of that call for reform to tell sheriff hickman in harris county that they didn t want him to renew that program that had local cops deputized to be immigration agents. in part because of that 287g company harris county is responsible for more deportations than any other county in the entire country. now about a week after those protests last june, sheriff hickman made his decision. he decided he was going to renew that agreement with the federal government, his local officers would keep doing that federal immigration enforcement work. but then you know, as it happens, sheriff hickman came up for re-election in november, and in addition to organizing those street protests, those same
but then you know, as it happens, sheriff hickman came up for re-election in november, and in addition to organizing those street protests, those same activists behind those protests had been very busy working on, among other things, registering latino voters in harris county. conveniently for those efforts there was a nice stark dividing line between the incumbent sheriff hickman and his opponent, a man named ed gonzalez. sheriff hickman was for that federal agreement that turned local cops into immigration enforcers. ed gonzalez said if he was elected he would end it. there are 254 counties in the great state of texas, out of those 254 only 27 went blue on election night, but harris county, the big one, harris county was one of those blue counties and harris county didn t just vote top of the
county was one of those blue counties and harris county didn t just vote top of the ticket for hillary clinton they elected a new sheriff, ousted the incumbent. our decision 2016 coverage with some surprising results in the race for harris county sheriff, as we showed you right before the break the latest numbers have democratic challenger ed gonzalez ahead of ron hickman with 52%, with 53% of the vote now. bill spencer joins us live in the heights. bill? reporter: yes, bill, and the candidate just took the stage a few minutes ago along with his lovely wife melissa and he did accept winning the sheriff s race, he acknowledged himself as the new sheriff. the new sheriff in town. in fact a new sheriff in town, in fact. that thing we always say applies literally here. elections do have consequences. sheriff hickman lost and harris county ed gonzalez became the new sheriff in town.