.
On the chaotic Mexican border,
Texas troops accused of blocking
the rescue of drowning
immigrants. It turns out that
just wasn't true. Here at home,
his policy on the homeless,
saying they have no right to
camp on city streets and a
thousand miles to the north,
former President Donald Trump
scores a crushing victory in the
Iowa caucuses, leaving little
doubt who rank and file
Republicans want at the top of
the GOP ticket.
I'm Greg Groogan, and welcome to
watch your point, where our
panelists call it like they see
it. Let's greet them, starting
Editor of Breitbart Texas Next
up, former Houston City Council
member Sue Lovell in the three
spot education and public safety
advocate Paul Castro, batting
cleanup. Holly Hansen, political
writer for The Texan and Closing
restaurateur and host of Fish,
meant to better attack Houston
crime. I'm Mayor John Whitmire
intention to cancel, validate
and better coordinate the
resources on hand by merging
Metro's police force into HPD
under the command of Chief Troy
Finner. We're working out the
details as I talk, and no one
has to worry about losing their
job. It's a force multiplier. We
got to use other departments in
Metro has a large, uh,
population, a large police
force, about 280. I've lived
here when we had a park police
and an airport police, and we
rolled them under HPD so we can
divide up the city and make sure
no community goes unprotected.
And the new mayor didn't stop
there. Confirming to Fox 26 a
labor agreement with the city's
long suffering firefighters is
within two months, and by
necessity. City could involve
taxpayers taking on new debt to
pay the seven years of back
wages and benefits. Denied. This
large group of first responders
by former mayor Sylvester Turner
. We will have some tough
negotiations, but we're all in
this together and they
bonds be involved? I would not
rule out anything at this point.
Big number. We've got to pay for
it. And we've actually used
bonds in previous settlements.
The settlement bonds actually
what it's called. So we'll see
how that turns out. But we're
we're going to have a contract
with the firefighters. It's
going to be fair to firefighters
and fair to the public panel two
major moves underway. So I'm
going to ask what is your point?
he's hard at work. He's keeping
his campaign promises. I think
the idea about Metro is a good
idea. There's a lot of details
to work out. Um, but, you know,
it's thinking outside the box
how we can move forward on these
issues with the firefighters.
It's great news for the
firefighters and their families
that they're negotiating, and
they will come to a settlement
and more than likely, it
probably the payment is in some
form of a bond where you can
spread out the payments over a
long period of time. And it's
not what mayor Turner used to
say, which is going to come out
of the general fund. It was
going to bust a general fund
that was never true. So I'm glad
to hear Mayor Whitmire now
telling the truth. Bob Price,
you follow law enforcement
pretty closely. What do you
think of this merging the
separate police force from Metro
into a unified command? Well, I
think it makes a lot of sense.
There's been a lot of
duplication and overhead in
having two different
departments. You got to manage
both of those departments. You
can merge that together and have
a little bit more efficiency.
But there's also been an exodus
from police forces, not just in
Houston but across the nation.
And so to bring more resources
into the Hpd's probably a good
situation. I think the mayor hit
the ground running, although
it's kind of easy to look like
you're doing a lot when the
previous mayor was doing nothing
but kicking the can down the
road. All right, Paul Castro,
you're a public safety advocate.
What do you think of this idea
of merging, you know, several
hundred officers into HPD. And
pushing their mission out into
the neighborhoods? I think it's
a great first start. If you look
back 25 years, HPD has fewer
officers today with more people
to watch over than they did 25
years ago. The ratio, though,
between one officer to number of
citizens has increased, so we
used to be about 350. We're now
at about 480 per officer. So
what I understand from talking
with people in law enforcement
is that means that they are now
essentially just responding to
events versus proactively
patrolling the streets, getting
to know the citizens. Um, adding
these 280 won't even get us back
up to where we were. And it's
still a great first step, very
much supported all right, Holly,
we've been talking about the
pending balloon. Note that
taxpayers are going to have for
many years on this show. It
looks like it's showing up. Uh
your reaction to the mayor's,
uh, initiative here? Well, it's
nice to see him moving forward
very quickly on this issue,
because it should have been
solved years ago instead of
languishing for so long in the
courts and so forth.
Unfortunately, it is going to
have a high price tag. It's nice
to see Mayor Whitmire looking at
creative ways to finance that,
and it does prompt discussions
about the Long Terme economic
feasibility of some of these
programs. I think there's a case
to be made for, uh, government
workers who are in dangerous
jobs, like firefighters and
police officers to be in these
kind of defined benefit pension
programs. Um, but there needs to
be a discussion about maybe
other workers who are not in
such dangerous positions. And
can work to the full age of
retirement, and whether or not
those kinds of programs are
to discuss when it comes to
finances in the city of Houston.
All right, Marcus Davis, you
have plenty of skin in this
game. You run a business here.
Your family's here. You've got
legions of friends and people
you care about here. Uh, your
impression of these two
initiatives and I'm a taxpayer
and citizen. That's right.
That's right. Uh, look, uh, both
Bob and Holly brought up great
points, right? This can has been
kicked down the road by by
several mayors and it should
have been solved years ago over
several administrations. And one
thing that it does prove, and
I've mentioned this on this
program time after time, the
money has not been there.
There's been a lot of discussion
but but the reality of it, what
what what Mayor Whitmire is
saying is we've got to go and
create something for this money
because the money has never been
there. And that's the truth of
the matter. And it's unfortunate
that the previous mayor and the
firefighters got into this, uh,
this tiff where now we're coming
to this head. But that money
that we're going to have to pay
has always been the money we're
going to have to pay. And that's
the point that Houstonians have
to come to a reality of Houston
has to invest in Houston in
order for Houston to be the best
Houston it can be. And we're not
going to get around it without
coming out of our pocket. Books
So and you keep a close eye on
City Hall. Did the previous
mayor spend the money on other
stuff? Was there because there
was lots of money flowing in
through the federal government,
through pandemic aid? Uh, every
year, uh, the amount of revenue
the city gets has grown. Uh did
he just choose not to spend this
money? Well, he chose to do is
not sit down and negotiate for
seven years, which is, in
essence, kicking it down the
road and not getting it done.
And when that happens, things
accumulate. I mean, it's like a
bill if you just kick it down
the road and they'll pay it over
seven years. There's a lot of
accumulative things that happen
that you still have to pay for
at the end of it. And that's
what happened. Paul uh, the
mayor dealt with his first
weather emergency this week. We
had zero people die, zero people
die. And 2.3 million. So I guess
you could rack that up as a win.
Yeah, absolutely. I think I
heard people say, well, nothing
happened. Well, the reason
nothing happened is because we
took precautions, right? And so
minor things happened. But in a
city that doesn't have, you
know, trucks that roll and drop
sand and salt, uh, I think it
was great that there were so
few, you know, injuries to
citizens and injuries to
infrastructure or property. So
it was a it was a big win. I
think one of the precautions was
closing the school. Absolutely.
We're going to talk more about
that later. Still to come.
Deadly chaos continues on the
border as Texas troops fend off
false allegations they denied
rescue to immigrants drowning in
the Rio Grande. And in our
Sunday survey, we're asking
viewers a tough question. Do you
believe it's the responsibility
of Texas troopers and state
Guardsmen to risk their own
lives to save immigrants who've
been warned not to cross the
river? Tell us what you think on
our web page. Fox26houston.com.
Just click on poll at the top of
the page or tell 26 using our
They need a place, a shelter to
go to, and when we have a
shelter for them, they need to
use it and we don't need to let
activists or other interfere
with sound, safe, healthy plans
for the homeless. Mayor John
telling business leaders that
Houston's homeless simply do not
have the right to camp out on
city streets and sidewalks. As
you heard, the mayor also
appears fully committed to
providing a workable alternative
for the unhoused panel. This is
clearly one of those chronic
for significant progress, if not
perfection. I'm going to start
with you, Holly, because this is
a national issue. Yes it is. And
it has to. It parallels an issue
Supreme Court this year out of
Washington state grants pass
versus Washington. And whether
or not there's a constitutional
right to be able to camp in
tapping into is the concern that
by allowing this public camping,
you can't really help these
people who are homeless and
you're placing the general
public in jeopardy when you have
these anti-vagrancy laws, then
you can push these people into
treatment facilities and
services that will allow them to
get off the streets in a more
permanent way. Okay. Marcus
Davis, the homeless, uh, are in
and around one of your primary
businesses. All the time. I know
what do you make of what the
mayor said? You know, it's a
fine line, right? It's a fine
line between humanity and
humanity. Right? You have to
have the humanity for the person
that's on the street. And you
have to have the humanity for
the person that that's visiting
the businesses and the business
not an easy fix. And and I hope
that the best practices will be
studied. And I hope that the
mayor will implement those
practices in order to benefit
involved. Folks on the streets
need, need help and they we have
to help them. And they have to
want to have want to get help.
So it's not an easy pill to
problem. And it's not going to
be completely fixed. It's just
not in the human condition.
Right? No it's very complicated.
And what I took that the mayor
was saying was about the
activists is that it wasn't an
insult. It was, look, this is
our responsibility as a city and
a government to do this, not
your responsibility. We
this because we should be taking
responsibility and coming up
with a solution. Yeah. The
mayor's talked about Paul. That
the homeless have kind of taken
over the downtown library as as
a as a shelter place. Thoughts
about what you've heard from the
mayor. Yeah. So I, I know that
we get impacted our schools
right down from Pierce elevated
and encampments there and we've
had homeless people who we
appear to see, you know, as
having mental health issues who
wander around campus, defecate,
you know, in our backyard, um,
walk into our fenced in area and
we have to push them out. And
when we call, you know, HPD
being understaffed doesn't
respond necessarily really
quickly to that. I'm really
excited about possibly moving
forward and helping those people
. We're going to leave it there.
Up next, a huge win for the
Republican front runner after
Most importantly, we want to
thank the great people of Iowa.
Thank you. We love you all. What
a turnout. What a crowd for
President Donald Trump racking
up a massive victory in the Iowa
caucuses, although clearly the
brutal winter weather impacted
the state's registered
Republican showing up last
Monday to cast ballots. That
said, it's hard to deny the
more votes in the Hawkeye State
than his three rivals combined.
And in the meantime, third place
finisher Nikki Haley has been
where she is hopeful of at least
slowing down the Trump train and
the question before Americans is
now very clear. Do you want more
of the same? No Or do you want a
leadership panel? Let's just
assume and it's a big assumption
that Haley prevails in the less
Trump friendly Granite State.
Would that be a game changing
for the race or just a speed
bump in the former president's
Bob Price has his thumb clearly
on the. Pulse of the Republican
base. What's your assessment?
Well, I think your analogy of
the speed bump is probably the
most accurate thing. It's
interesting that that Nikki
new generation of conservative
leadership when she's going to
New Hampshire and trying to
bring in the moderate and
Democrat vote to come in and
propel her to some sense of
outperforming expectations, it's
not going to bode well for her
when she goes to the next
primary in South Carolina, her
governor. And, you know, Tim
Scott, who she appointed to the
Senate, has endorsed Donald
Trump. It's not looking well for
her at all. As the campaign
moves forward and, uh, speed
bumps probably the most natural
thing, I think I said very early
on in this that it was Donald
Trump's race to lose. And
despite all all of these
prosecutors who are trying to do
election interference to stop
him, his momentum, all they've
done is firmly implant him as
the nominee for the Republican
Party. Holly, you agree with
that? Yeah. I couldn't agree
more with Bob on this one. You
know, Haley is popular, but she
does have a ceiling of support
within the Republican Party in
New Hampshire. She's obviously
going to draw on those
independent voters who are
fatigued with both parties
apparent nominees and but and
that you know, doesn't bode well
for the general election. But I
don't think she gets much out of
a New Hampshire showing, um,
what some of these candidates
may be vying for is a second
place position that would put
them in a position in case Trump
is indicted on some sort of
criminal offense. But that's
that also is a long shot, I
think. I guess you mean
convicted, right? Yes because
he's got plenty of indictments.
Yes. Indictments. I'm not. I'm
not dealing with this topic
without letting Marcus Davis
have a word. Yeah well, I had
several words, but Bob took took
most of it because I thought it
was hilarious to watch Tim Scott
endorse, uh, Donald, Donald
Trump being that that Nikki
Haley was the one that appointed
him. And I also thought it was
interesting, the words she used
about new conservative
leadership, I think it should be
new con woman leadership. Nikki
Haley is a con. If you watch her
placate to the audiences that
she's in front of, she's made
statements like, there is no
racism in America. America is
not a racist country. She made
other statements depending on
the about the Civil War. It just
depends on the audience that
she's talking to, where she's
vacillating. And it's obvious
that she's just doing it for
she's going along to, to get
along. And I think some people
are seeing through that. Paul,
we've seen that polls show Nikki
against Biden. Uh, Nikki. Plus
12 uh, much, much tighter
margin. If it's Biden versus
Trump. Yeah Uh, that didn't seem
to factor in with a lot of these
Republican voters. Yeah, I think
people I've talked to here in
Texas who were moderate
Republicans are hoping that
someone stays in the race and
they all seem to like Haley up
until the March primary here. If
they do that, I think you would
at least have people who could
cast a vote from what I've read
and understood, the primary vote
will drop off about half if
there's not a contested race.
And so I'm hoping that they step
in. I think that would also
affect a lot of down ballot
measures. All right. We're
leaving it there. When we come
back. Casting blame for the
death toll in Uvalde, a long
Had. The law enforcement
agencies followed general
accepted practices in an active
shooter situation and gone right
after the shooter to stop him,
lives would have been saved and
attorney General Merrick
Garland, telling us all what we
already knew that the law
enforcement response to a
Robb Elementary, was confused,
incompetent and cowardly.
Garland's assessment sums up a
600 page Justice Department
report and triggered from US
Senate candidate Roland
Gutierrez a call for extreme
restrictions on the sale of AR
15 semi automatic rifles.
Gutierrez represents Uvalde in
the state Senate and felt
compelled to describe body cam
video of the mass murder scene.
Her whole face just gone. I
promise you. I know Dan Patrick
hasn't seen those videos and
this governor hasn't seen those
videos, or the speaker of the
House or Ted Cruz or anybody
else. They refuse to see what
the devastation and the
destruction that this gun does.
acknowledge that refrain in that
the cops were afraid of the gun
panel. We've been here before.
Where does the proliferation of
us collectively safer or more
endangered? You can answer that,
Paul. Or you can talk about this
report it from the perspective
of a school administered
horrifying. Um there are 21 dead
people, 17 injured. Of the 21
dead, 19 were students, two were
that there were six different
episodes of gunfire. Okay, six
different episodes of gunfire,
each of which should have
prompted law enforcement, who at
the time were in the building to
have done something and we don't
know, and we may never know.
Were there lives that were lost
in each one of those episodes
moving, the gunman saw a child,
uh, fidgeting a little bit and
may have been able to survive.
So that's part one. And that's
horrific and terrible and should
have been fixed. The second part
was the utter lack of
responsibility by those who were
there in responding cause,
injured people to be loaded onto
busses, dead bodies to be put in
ambulances, and for people who
just no one seemed to ever take
responsibility for the scene.
Okay, so there was not a single
person among the hundreds of
people there who was able to
say, you know what? We're going
to use some common sense here,
and here's how we're going to
triage the event. That utter
breakdown is not being addressed
right now. There are a ton of
responses that have been, you
know, put into this justice
Department, uh, report, but no
one's talked to us about it yet.
And again, what we get told is
it's your responsibility to make
sure your building is secure.
That's wonderful. That's great.
And where's the money to make
that happen? We can't afford a
security guard at our campus.
And so we're we're doing the
best we can, as are many
districts across the state. Bob
I want you to respond to
Gutierrez. Well, first off, he
doesn't know what the governor
or the attorney general or
Senator Cruz or the speaker of
the House. He doesn't know what
they've seen or what they
haven't seen. I think that was a
pretty political statement that
had no basis in fact that said,
this report is very. It clearly
lays out a complete lack of
command and control of the
situation. Uh, cowardice is a
very strong word that, you know,
people, the first officers that
got there were injured by by the
gunfire, and they pulled back
into what they were determined
to be a barricaded shooter
shooter situation. That that
turned out to be a very flawed
decision, a very bad decision.
But nobody there were hundreds
of law enforcement's there from
from the city, state, federal
level. Nobody took command and
control of that situation and
secured the perimeter. They
didn't take care of dealing with
the parents that were there.
They didn't take care of dealing
with the injured. They didn't
take they spent way too much
time evacuating and they didn't
do what their primary directive
is, which is to stop the shooter
for 20s. Yeah Welcome to the
party. Uh, I have stated for
years the amount of incompetence
and the amount of coward that
exists amongst police
departments. I've said it when
Philando Castile was shot, I've
said it when Tamir Rice was
shot. So welcome to the party of
knowing that police officers
will have the capacity to be
incompetent and cowards. With
that being said, the cowardly
act of not acting on the federal
level, state level in order to
do something about this. Yes, it
was a political statement to say
that they haven't seen it. The
video. But if they've seen that
video and they still haven't
acted on this coming from a gun
owner, then shame on us and
them. We're going to talk more
about it in overtime. Still
ahead, as America's so-called
leaders fiddle the Texas border
Why are you. Let me. Are you let
me. Let's go. Let's abandon you.
Anguished voices on the Rio
Grande filled with fear and
undeniable desperation. Real
human beings risking and
sometimes losing their lives in
a bid to cross into these United
States. The crisis reached yet
another crescendo with claims
that Texas troops blocked
federal Border Patrol agents
from going to the rescue of
drowning immigrants near Eagle
Pass. We have learned since that
those incendiary allegations
just weren't true, that the
immigrant mother and two
children who ultimately perished
in the water did so well before
Border Patrol sought access to a
state controlled Riverside Park
where Texas Guard troops
restrict access. Panel Governor
Greg Abbott is not backing down
and sadly, I think it's safe to
say this tragedy will be
repeated over and over unless
somehow summon the will to take
decisive, permanent action.
Holly, uh, you've read the
reports here. Yeah, absolutely.
And that was a false narrative
that was put out ahead of that.
Uh, that story and the truth
coming out that they had drowned
on the Mexico side of the border
of the river there. Um, what's
took office, there have been at
least 546 drownings known in
that particular area. They don't
make the news because they
problem. The problem is that
these people are incentivized to
come to the United States
through illegal entry points of
entry. They're willing to risk
their lives because they know
that once they get across the
river and reach American soil,
they'll be given funds, they'll
be given phones, they'll be
transported across the country.
the administration is not
securing the border. It is a
chaotic and dangerous situation
for those who wish to come here
you have, uh, family, uh, in
border enforcement. Take 30s.
Uh, what are you hearing? What's
your perspective? Uh, I think
two things can be true at the
same time. Uh, but what I would
ask is everyone start with a
position of dignity. Uh, the
same care and concern we give
towards the people who, um, you
know, uh, serve our food, uh,
clean our homes, take care of
our children. Those are the
people who are coming across the
border. Just you know, years
later, I do think the border
needs to be shut down. I do
think that Biden is failing. I
do think that at the same time,
I think that there should be at
least a measure of dignity paid
to the people once we do bring
them together. Yeah. Apparently
our viewers, anyway, have have
reached a saturation point 95%
in our poll, said they don't
have the responsibility to go
save those people because
I think that's just a measure of
frustration. Uh, Bob, don't you?
Well, the reason they've been
told not to do it is because we
had a Texas National Guardsman
drown trying to save somebody
who turned out to be a drug
trafficker coming across the
river. That what you heard in
that video was, was a crime
being committed. The crime was
child endangerment. You heard
that baby crying in there. If
you or I, any of us, took our
child through that frigid water
to cross the river, it dragged
them through razor wire to get
into this country. You'd be
charged with child endangerment.
We don't charge these migrants
with child endangerment. We
bring them in. The Biden
administration busses them up
and releases them into these
little tiny border communities
like Eagle Pass, Texas. And then
you get these whiny baby mares
up in sanctuary cities like
Denver and Chicago and New York
City who cry about getting a few
thousand migrants from Governor
Abbott when he's getting
millions, when they're getting
millions of migrants from Joe
Biden's border policies. Three
years ago today, Joe Biden
created this problem when he
walked into the Oval Office and
signed the executive orders,
reversing the highly successful
programs put in place by
President Donald Trump. They
were told this was going to
happen. They made a deliberate
decision to do it. And this is
the consequence, Henry Cuellar
didn't say anything about the
hundreds of migrants that you
talked about that drowned in the
river. Right? 30s Marcus, we're
at another impasse here. Now.
There's hope that they can
leverage aid to Ukraine and
Israel. But to get something
going on, do you think Congress
or this administration has the
will to do what's right on the
border? Um, I don't I don't
simply because I Bob, I agree in
part with what you said. Uh,
what I heard was a cry for
freedom. What I heard was a was
a cry of desperation. What the
question of being asked about
whether or not police officers
have the responsibility to risk
their lives. No, but human
beings have a responsibility of
being humane, right? And it's a
terrible situation. And
unfortunately, this cry of
desperation, a lack of humanity,
we're watching politicians play
football with this subject, with
this topic, with this issue,
we're going to talk more about
it still ahead to avoid telling
the truth under oath. Our
state's top cop is now conceding
in court that he illegally
retaliated against his
whistleblowing staffers. But up
next, Harris County District
It is my belief that there is no
race more critical to the future
of our community than the March
5th primary election for Harris
County District Attorney, having
substantially reduced the
massive backlog of criminal
cases accumulated during the
crime wave, our city's top
prosecutor, Kim Ogg, believes
she's deserving of the public's
trust. You want to keep this job
? Tell us why? Because I'm a
Houstonian, Greg, and I want to
make my county safer than it has
been. We can be the safest
Whitmire now in the driver's
seat as mayor, with the judges,
I think having a fuller
understanding of the impact of
part because of your shows. I
think we've got a reason to be
hopeful and I've got unfinished
business. So I want to be your
time, because we've got
important cases pending. We've
got a jailhouse full of violent
offenders, including 800
murderers, and I've got work to
do. Let's talk about reduce the
caseload. You made significant
progress. We have since I
reported our decrease by 21%
last April. We've come down from
a high of about 145 to 50,000.
If you include the juvenile
cases, down to 105,000 cases,
we're now at Post-harvey pre
pandemic levels. It reflects
about. 130% work each year, not
just our lawyers doing 100%
work, clearing 100% of the
cases, but they've actually
chopped away at almost 30.
Explain why in your role as the
chief law enforcement officer of
Harris County, uh, you have to
be party blind, especially when
it comes to issues of public
integrity. The notion that some
would have me turn a blind eye
to a crime simply because it was
committed by a Democrat is not
just offensive, it's dangerous.
It's really dangerous thinking.
Look our viewers are intimately
aware of the details surrounding
the bid rigging case connected
to the elevate strategies
contract and the subsequent
indictment of three high ranking
officials within Judge Lina
Hidalgo administration. Your
opponent, Sean Tir, is currently
employed by by a law firm
representing her former chief of
staff, Alex Triantafilou. Do you
see any conflict of interest
there? Yes, I have grave concern
about my opponent's ethics, he
solicited the county judge's
endorsement, knowing full well
that her staff is under
indictment and charged with six
felonies, three of them are an
that the investigation is
ongoing because of missing
documents and still solicited
her endorsement while never
disclosing to the public that he
was a member of the defense
team. It's prosecution 101. It's
called a conflict of interest.
fact that he would run for the
top law enforcement official in
such a compromised position is
frightening. It's obvious to me
that he's not ethical and that
there very well could be a deal.
But the real qualifications are
about the candidate's character
for. And I think that's what
what our Houstonians have have
to realize and need to know is
that sometimes when you make
hard decisions, like prosecuting
people in your own party or even
prosecuting police officers,
it's not popular. The DA's job
is not homecoming queen. The
accusations against me were
basically that I prosecute
Democrats as guilty as charged.
I also prosecute Republicans,
libertarians, Green party
members. If there's evidence to
show they committed a crime. I'm
.
Welcome back. We've just heard
incumbent Harris County District
Attorney Kim Ogg throw a few
very heavy punches at her
Democratic challenger and former
employee Sean Teer, who has
aligned himself with county
Judge Lina Hidalgo panel. We
look forward to welcoming
candidate Teer on this program
in the very near future. But in
the meantime, what did you make
of the incumbent spirit case for
reelection? I'm going to start
Democratic politics. You've
known Kim a very long time. I
have, um, I thought it s, um,
what she said is exactly true
and right that she was elected
to be law and order. And it
didn't matter if you're
Republican, if you're Democrat,
whoever you are, if you've
broken the law, then she's going
to come after you. And that's
what she did. And that's why
you're seeing in the party some
dissension, especially from the
Judge Hidalgo's camp, because
she dared to go and indict some
of Judge Hidalgo's, um,
employees for, for, um, bid
rigging and now Sean Tir went to
Hidalgo. Who gave him the
endorsement because she's mad
that her employees were indicted
by the current UT, um, district
very good message. Exactly why
she's a good district attorney
and should be reelected. All
right. Paul Castro, uh, every
body knows your history. And you
had, uh, interplay with this
district attorney. You're uh,
thoughts? Assessments? Yeah So I
think that what Kim August done
so important to moving cases
forward, clearing cases was, you
know, Herculean, almost. Um, Kim
and I think that is critically
important. Most people don't
want to imagine the day where
something really terrible,
something violent, occurs to
them or someone in their family.
herself, and therefore I think
her thoughts and her behaviors
are aligned with protecting our
community, protecting citizens.
From what I've seen from
Chantiers campaign, his loyalty
and interests lie with
defendants and that's great. But
fly that flag and then allow our
citizens to make the decision as
to which which direction to go.
Holly you've reported on this.
Yes. So you know, Kim August
drawn the ire of some of the
very far left, uh, criminal
justice reformers who don't
believe in any pretrial
incarceration whatsoever. And
what Aug recognize is that while
she can support that misdemeanor
bail reform that we've talked
about, she's very much drawn the
line when it comes to these
violent offenders. Repeat felony
offenders and releasing them on
bond, creating a very dangerous
situation in the community. And
out that there is likely a
conflict of interest. Lina
Hidalgo and her staff are still
under investigation. We had new
Texas Rangers search warrants
issued just a few months ago.
They're still looking into Lina
Hidalgo herself for Sean Teer to
keep Lina Hidalgo endorsement
front and center, which is also
the subject of a criminal
complaint at this point, because
it was done on county property
with county resources, that is
very problematic. We're going to
hear from both Marcus and Bob in
overtime on this issue. Up next,
what should we make of an
attorney general who claims he
Welcome back. 124 days after his
controversial acquittal by the
Ken Paxton raised the white flag
of surrender and the
multi-million dollar civil
lawsuit brought against him by
his whistleblowing former
lieutenants. The decision by
Paxton to no longer contest the
facts of the case came soon
after multiple court rulings
compelling the state's top cop
regarding allegations which form
the basis of several articles of
impeachment, including
retaliation, abuse of power and
Act panel. While the AG claims
he's just moving to end wasteful
litigation, House prosecutor
Andrew Murr says Paxton has,
innocence by dodging sworn
testimony, regardless of the
cost. Marcus, take 30s. Yeah,
this is this is sad. It's a sad
day in the state of Texas, a sad
day in Texas politics and in US
politics. We had the show that
was put on in the Texas
Legislature, and now he's
basically saying, yeah, I got
away with it. So I'm going to do
my OJ dance right now. Bob Price
30s OJ dance, I like that. So
Chairman Muir came out and
basically said, I told you so.
Um, five of I think it was five
of the counts of the impeachment
were for abuse of power and
items related to the
whistleblower Act. And now that
the attorney general has come
out and said that he's not going
to contest those allegations as
So, um, the House may have had
it right. Uh, the, the, the
documents weren't written. Well,
the articles of impeachment
weren't written well. So the
Senate had a way to get out
under that. And now we have this
Republican civil war going on
where they're going after
legislators based upon their
votes in the in the impeachment
hearing. Um, turns out he's
probably going to have to do the
depositions anyway. So I'm not
sure what he gained here. All
this hard. Yeah. I usually make
everybody mad when I talk about
this because I like to point out
that excuse me. The impeachment
was launched because of the
settlement to be paid by Texas
taxpayers. And that prompted the
House to look into the matter
and see what was happening. I
have pointed out also, though,
took place, s these other issues
had not been fully adjudicated.
So we still have a court case
here in Harris County over
securities fraud, and we have
lawsuit, the legal actions that
have taken place since the
whistleblower lawsuit was really
elevated have all been designed
to delay any deposition or
further discovery in the case.
This latest filing was pretty
astounding. It did, uh,
basically, it say we're not
going to fight the charges
anymore. We'll let the
legislature try to settle this,
but it's an attempt on the part
of the attorney to, uh, avoid
these depositions and avoid
putting Paxton and his key
staffers on the stand. Um, this
is a very clever move, but the
judge wasn't having it, and the
judges rejected that. And is set
dates for these depositions. And
so I'd suggest that the attorney
try as he might with that very
hyperbolic filing, um, this
attorney did not succeed here.
All right. Talk more about it
later still to come. That head
shaking comment from Houston
On tonight's edition of Texas.
The issue is airing right here
the brutal civil war raging
among our state's Republicans as
far right conservatives try to
excommunicate House Speaker Dade
Phelan and Phelan supporters
respond back by punching in his
defense. Speaker Phelan has
proven himself passing
constitutional carry, ending
abortion in, uh, you know,
ending these woke drag shows and
saying women's sports, making
sure that men don't compete
against our women in female
sports from from seventh grade
conservative issue on
conservative issue. No state in
the country has had the massive
conservative wins that we've had
in the Texas House since he took
over this week, the nation's
fourth largest city. Amazingly
survived frigid, life
threatening temperatures and
treacherous icy roadways without
a single weather related
fatality, which made this
statement by Houston ISD
superintendent Mike Miles about
explicable, at least to me, you
know, and it was mine to make.
And I and I made it and I'm not
sure it was the best decision.
opportunity to develop a culture
of essentialness. This panel,
what he actually missed by
choosing caution was the need to
explain why a loaded school bus
crashed on icy roads, or why
parents and teachers were
needlessly injured on on roads
that were covered with ice on
their way to campus. Panel agree
or disagree with Sue? I think
the whole thing is void of
common sense. I mean, I already
made my decision at my house. We
weren't getting on the roads, we
lot of parents had to. But in
this instance, really, he's not
the person in charge. This is
about public safety. You know,
our mayor, mayor Whitmire and
the other leaders made the
correct decision that for
safety, we should stay at home,
conserve energy, don't put
anybody in dangers way. Our
responders orders. They are not
required to go to work in an
emergency situation at all. And
I just thought it was a, a
really silly and, um, unwise,
uh, remark he made. He should
have gone along with everybody
else and said it was the right
thing to do. 15 seconds hard.
You know, I've held out on, on
the sky just based on trying to
see what the outcomes regarding
education would be. But this was
a bonehead move, you know, just,
you know, just you tape
precaution for cautious sake.
All right. Caution sake, people
in Chicago are laughing their
tails off at us because they
they're professionals. And I
thank you for joining us. The
conversation continues on a
national level. Next on Fox News
Sunday with Shannon Bream and
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