allen west retired from the u.s. army as lieutenant colonel now he s challenging greg abbott in the republican primary for governor of texas, he y joins us now. i appreciate your coming on - - because this is happening in a number of different states but primarily in texas, texas has 19,000 members of the national guard under the command of the governor, the governor has refused to use them to seal the border. tell us if you think that as someone who is running against him. well, actually texas has close to 26,000 members of the texas military department. we have 1,254 miles of border we share with a volatile unstable country. just on sunday i sat down with some retired military planners and we started a little mission analysis. one of the simple things you do immediately is deploy 7,000 in those critical areas. i think another thing that has to happen is you establish a border patrol
that. we can see why. thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you, tucker. allen west retired from the u.s. army as lieutenant colonel now he s challenging greg abbott in the republican primary for governor of texas, he y joins us now. i appreciate your coming on - - so we have t expressed frustratn because this is happening in a number of different states but primarily in texas, texas hassy 19,000 members of the national guard under the command of the governor, the governor has refused to use them to seal the border. tellse us if you think that as someone who is running against him. well, actually texas has close to 26,000 members of the texas military department. we have 1,254 miles of border we share with a volatile unstable country. just on sunday i sat down with some retired military planners and we started a little mission analysis. one of the simple things you do immediately is deploy 7,000 in those critical areas. i think another thing that has to happen is you