caucus request the help of i want to read you part of a statement from senator ted poe from texas. saying no is easy, leading the hard, but that is what we were elected to do. leaving this caucus will allow me to be a better member of congress and advocate for the people of texas. what does this mean for house speaker paul ryan? athena, we know that the president and speaker ryan talked at least twice this weekend. what are you hearing? reporter: that s right, they have been talking quite a bit in the last couple of days, we know that they spoke for an hour yesterday, a gop source telling my colleague dana bash that their relationship is stronger than ever, they also spoke again this morning and there is some interesting background to that conversation this morning, yesterday, the president tweeted out a promo for a fox show that was airing that night saying, watch judge jeanine tonight.
can kill rape pillage and burn. congressman poe joins me from capitol hair chairman of the house subcommittee on terrorism. welcome, sir. good morning, carol. good morning. congressman, i know you re passionate about this issue. recently you wrote an op ed for cnn called it s time to silence terrorists on social media. it sounds great. facebook and twitter might say that s not to easy. do you agree? i m not saying it s easy or not easy. it s just an obligation that twitter has. we re dooling with a specific group of terrorists. designated foreign terrorist organizations like isis they have no constitutional protections. they are at war with the united states. federal law says that no one can give them any type of aid or services or benefits. so that includes organizations like twitter, they should be more proactive in taking down these social media sites which not only recruit, but raise
not. i don t know on that specific one. i didn t see it so i can t answer that question. but you would object to that being put on twitter or on facebook right? i would object to any type of twitter or any type of tweet that would promote a foreign terrorist organization no matter who it is or what agency would do that. including links to those videos right? yes, ma am. congressman ted poe, thanks so much. still to come in the newsroom, republicans battling it out over the homeland security budget while the men and women who protect our country are left stuck in the middle. we ll talk about that next.
we want you to see. why are they acting this way? because they have something to hide. and that is very unfortunate. congressman bridenstein is right. i think everyone can understand wanting to protect the children in this situation which i think is what the administration would say is reason for that. why you can t talk to staff, people heading up operations down there? that is completely undemocrattic on any definition that you can think of. these are pictures that we have so far. we re working to get more. congressman poe, thank you very much for being with us today. thank you, martha. bill: 20 minutes past now. operation fast & furious back in the spotlight today. there is a group talking to a judge asking for critical information. will they get it? we ll talk to a leading plaintiff behind that lawsuit in a moment on this. plus? martha: no more mr. nice guy from george clooney. he is pushing back what he said about a new report which has something to do about his soon to be b
gasoline to try to take long detours to get to work. martha: so president obama is asking congress to sign off on $3.7 billion in emergency funding that would go to help the influx of immigrants at our southern border right now. but the critics not so quick to jump on board. they say the aid request doesn t actually do anything to secure the border. congressman ted poe of texas a member of the house judiciary committee and vice chairman of the subcommittee on immigration and border security. welcome, good to have you here today. thank you, martha. martha: what do you make of this $3.7 billion request? it is misguided in the sense, assume we re in a sinking ship, there s a hole this ship. we need to plug the hole. we need to fix the border. rather than do that, we re just bailing out the ship full of water. that is what this bill does. it offers more pails to bail out the water. so it is misguided what the real problem is and what we should do about it. martha: 3.7. we just listened