republicans in the street. make no mistake. this is a pressing issue and it needs more coverage. luckily, campus reform has helped bring the story to life. and people are waking up. if you look at the petition signed by over a quarter million people calling on the federal government to recognize antifa for what it is, a domestic terrorist organization, you will see that, again, no one is fooled. we know exactly who was doing this. these antifascist organizations are conscripting violent criminals to basically make it impossible to be a conservative on a liberal campus. it is a sad day when students just to stand up what they believe in have to face the very real possibility of severe injury or death. i just want to call out the mayor of berkeley and the chancellor of the university, i want to tell them that you should stop telling the police to stand down and protect all americans regardless of their political ideology. martha: they arrested 13 people, so we are going to keep an eye
martha: tonight, texas residents desperately trying to escape the rising floodwaters there. fox s trace gallagher is in the middle of it 40 miles north with an update with us tonight from the ground. hi, trace. martha: hi, martha. i can tell you houston got a bit less rain today. they would say the outer areas when get less, but we ve seen no signs letting this up. you can see later this morning, this parking lot was dry. the cars were also dry. now, they ve got water halfway up. the interstate, they are about to shut this down for a major artery, interstate 45, the unique thing we ve seen here. half the freeway was flooded and half or not, so you had cars on one side and they were launching boats on the other side. 20 miles north of us, they are evacuating more people now because they are afraid that the san jacinto river might overflow
it will reflect on everyone, in the end. certainly, there is a sense of urgency right now. really, saving lives phase, but also there are other concerns. some with the dams, the reservoirs filling up, the u.s. geological services on the ground looking at flooding models. book martha: martha: are they confident the dams are going to hold? the army corps of engineers are monitoring that releasing water where necessary, and it s by communication. folks on the ground need to listen to the local authorities to make sure they communicate and listen and follow directions. but yes, the coordination as well as the cabinet members getting along, we had a meeting yesterday. clearly, the chief of staff, general kelly, for costar, giving very clear directions from the president. the president is engaged minute
houston, more than 200 miles southwest, harvey made landfall around rockport, texas, with wins topping out at 130 miles an hour. this was the early stages of this whole thing as we watch it slam into the coast. texas congressman breaks aaron hold her presents the living along the coastline and joins us tonight from corpus christi. we saw you over the weekend soaked to the bone in the middle of all of this. how are you doing there today and what can you tell us about your folks there? well, i tell you, some of the towns on the outskirts of corpus christi like rockport and porter porter ranch is our just devastated. you know, a lot of people look on the news and they go, oh, they worked out the worst possible scene to show on the news. i can tell you, pretty much all of rockport is the worst possible scene. i was just there with the governor, everywhere you turn there was just destroyed building after destroyed building. martha: what is your
them out late in the afternoon or early on friday. when you ve got a big news story that s dominating it, we are spending more time than we should talking about harvey and less time talking about sheriff arpaio or the transgender reversal at the military and so forth. whether it was intentional or not, it served the purpose of having us pay less attention to these negative items the president laid out. martha: the way new cycles go in this administration, i think pretty much everything that s one bite at the apple and if there are ten more things a couple of hours later. right. martha: i m not sure if it ever gets buried the way this is covered. bill bennett, got to have you with us is always. thank you for being here. i just want to start with you on your thoughts on the pardoning of joe arpaio, because i thought the president s response for that, ready for it today, was quite interesting. yeah. well, compared to the list that the president listed, you know, arpaio is virtuall