and rescue operation, which is significant, not a recovery operation. hasn t given up hope yet, but have you seen signs of survivors within this rubble? no, sir. we have not. not this afternoon. we still are holding out some hope, but right now we re just trying to get a hand around it and see. we ve got dogs here and texas one and two search teams, so we ve got the best of the best looking, and that s what we want to do, i want to count up all my citizens and all my firefighters. mayor mouska, we have a number of correspondents there covering the story, our own george howell and his crew found a staggering line of people lined up to donate blood. we have also read about these volunteers rushing to the scene last night.
years, you know, dozens of attempts by jihaddists, lone wolves or connect, two of those were bloody, the texas one, and the arkansas one. what the administration is trying to do is to say that war and terror is over, al-qaida is on decline. if they recognize that these are terrorist activities and connected somehow to al-qaida this would be politically, you know, costly for them and that is precisely the reason for why they are not admitting it. martha: from a military perspective, peter, what about the claim from these families that they want the survivors to be eligible for purple hearts, that they believe that day they did find themselves in combat? i don t know the legal side of it, martha, i m not a lawyer, but as a veteran myself, i certainly sympathize and empathize with them and at a a basic human hr efl i agree with them. level i agree with them. this was a terrorist attack and
women. rick perry says not so fast. i sat down for his explanation and talk about his role in the romney campaign. talk about the event you are working on there and importance in the g.o.p.? republican party, the message time after time. what one of great things you get choices. this issue of choosing to protect innocent life, texas one of the most pro-life in the nation, we passed the bill this last year and stated legislature decided they didn t want our stated tax dollars going to fund abortions. so th the defunding of planned parenthood. a clear message in my home state. from the republican party i might add, we re all about protecting innocent life. at the same time making sure
laws were perfectly constitutional. if it s allowed in other states it should be allowed in the state of texas also. gregg: joining us is a senior fellow at the heritage foundation. thanks for being with us. when he talks about supreme court precedent, he s talking about the indiana case. that case went all the way to the supreme court and they validated that. my question to you is, is this texas law almost identical to the indiana law? because the ag in texas says it is, but as i read the ruling by this federal panel they say, no, it s the most stringent in the nation, the texas one. well, it s not identical but it is very similar. look, the court made a major mistake. the major mistake they made is they are using poverty as epoxy for race, and they are saying, well this will affect poor voters, therefore it s discriminatory under the voting rights act. sorry, the voting rights acts prohibits racial discrimination,
behind me, you run into media people, but also delegates and, you know, members of the house and the senate. so you want to see everyone, stephen baldwin s over here to my left talking to lawrence o donnell. gang s all here. last night at dinner, at the table next to me, matt lauer and andrea mitchell so we re keeping it in the family. critical question. which delegation throwth the business party? i only went to the texas one this year. i can t imagine it gets much better. nothing beats a good texan, right? there you go. don t do anything we wouldn t do. okay. that s a long week. yeah. good times for sure. but i think maybe having too much fun at the rnc. [ dad ] i m usually checking up on my kids.