economy and not that perry is weak in that area, he, obviously has an enviable record in the state of texas in terms of job creation, which is issue number one but i think his opening is for social conservatives and that is the territory, someone like michelle bachmann might occupy as well and he wouldn t be without competition but would have a crack at it, he s an attractive guy, the longest serving governor in the history of the state, i guess, but we don t know yet how much money he can raise and you need a lot of money to run in this day and age and one would think, coming out of an affluent state like texas, he could raise a lot of money, we ll see, but it is good to talk about this morning. bill: the former governor of utah, jon huntsman is set to declare his candidacy and is fresh off of a tour of duty in beijing, china as the u.s. ambassador serving for president obama and, is jon huntsman in
fire investigators have not mentioned anything specifically about arrests or who they believe, in fact, started this fire and heather, as you know, senator mccain, for some perspective, has been pushing for a comprehensive immigration reform policy in this country for some time now. so we, of course, have called into senator mccain s office this morning and we hope to get a little more clarification in terms of what he meant or why he believed that comment. if that was the case that would be extremely explosive, and we will hear a lot more about this. casey stegall, covering this from los angeles thanks a lot. bill: mime this fire is phenomenal. the thing has just been burning for weeks now, the biggest arizona has ever seen. and so dry there and so hot on top of it. bill: so the governor, rick perry, out of texas, says the republicans need to stop apologizing for who they are and what they believe. but is it too late for rick perry? we ll have brit hume that in a moment. he s on d
drug cartels and the crime, the gangs it s like a war zone down there. i got to tell you it s something that absolutely has to be a drift. and this has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with the safety and security for the folks of texas. that s what it s about. domingo pretty good racial profiling the 800 pound gorilla in the room. the violence in mexico i was in juarez not so long ago they have multiple murders every day phoenix the kidnapping capitol of the world because of the problems with the mexican drug cartels. there is a security issue is there not? there s a problem with the border that needs to be addressed. i apologize for being rude but let me ask you to hold your answer to the other side of one of these pesky commercial breaks. ladies and gentlemen, we will
barely move where i was standing in this spot because 7,000 protestors converconverged. can you believe the issue in phoenix isn t what brought the largest crowds. take a look at what went down in los angeles. that is where the people really showed up about 15,000 folks taking to the streets many calling for californians to boycott arizona businesses over this. let s take you to dallas, texas saw 30,000 people marching through downtown yesterday. doesn t matter which great state you were in the ms message remaining the same. in an effort to calm some of the fear abouts this bill possibly racial profiling it would prevent law enforcement to use race as the seoul reason to ask for someone s papers.
huge one in dal at thats, a huge rally in dallas saturday protesting against the new arizona statute and texas will soon follow suit. my next guest announced she is introducing a bill in texas. she is from houston tonight. the organizer of the big pro immigration rally. state rep domingo garcia on the right. debbie if i may call you that why are you proposing a bill that governor rick perry opposes. he has not said he opposes it. there are issues in it that we might need to look at and question. i would like to clarify something. i am not opposed and most folks were not opposed to immigration. this is the illegal immigration that we have a problem with. because we have got so many problems on the border with the