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I am right here. You can be right here, congresswoman. Mayor. Hi. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Okay. There we go. Sixhour technical difficulties. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here afternoon. I am a National Political reporter forrt politico. I am thrilled to be here in austin with you. At the Texas Tribune festival. We will have a great discussion this afternoon on border politics immigration and the 2020 president ial election. Love to welcome our panelists. Right here next to me is congresswoman sylvia garcia. A freshman democrat from texas. Mustve her district is eastern houston. Next we have the mayor of san antonio. On a maria coexecutive director of the center for popular democracy based in new york city. For those of you joining fee of the live stream, you can also follow the conversation on twitter using the. Immigrants about lawmakers of color and have frequently use the term invasion. When describing them what is going on at the border. How has the ta
West virginia, new york, and california. As always, we will take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, october 12. Welcome to washington journal as Congress Continues its recess over this long holiday weekend, we continue to track house and Senate Members at town hall meetings. The number of town halls is up this year, due to the increase in freshman lawmakers. Lawmakers of course are spending lots of time on local issues as well. Thesion is when question is, when lawmakers return to washington next week, can they balance impeachment legislating . Can they do both at the same time . Participateyou will tak in this program, we will take your calls over whether lawmakers can balance impeachment and legislating. Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independence, 202 7488002 is your number. Several other ways to take part in the conversation, you can send us a te
Freshman democrat from texas. Her district is eastern houston. We have mayor ron of san ntonio, and our coexecutive director of the center for new ar democracy based in york city. For those of you joining us via live stream you can also follow twitter rsation on tribunestats19. Some of the stuffer well be well discuss the impact on the aftermath of the in this ass shooting state. President trump rhetoric, his rhetoric, his use of border politics and racial identity in his reelection were also going to cover the immigration plans eing proposed by the democrats running for the white house, and whether or not ruby red texas actually turn blue in 2020. And near the end, were going to take a few questions from the audience. So please have those ready to go. I would like to start with el paso. As many of you know, a lone gunman killed 22 people that border in community and he posted a racist shooting. Prior to the it declared that the attack was in response to the hispanic of texas. Presiden