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Resources. we have to be very careful when we use the word invasion. >> laura: how many people here are aware of the percentage of drugs coming into the country that come through arizona? lets have some guesses. what percentage of drugs come through arizona? bingo. 40% of the drugs coming into the country come through the southern border. the poorest border. >> i dont feel they need a babysitter. >> and it is a question for the crowd. heres another question. do you prefer our military to enforce...

So, again, we have to be very careful when we use the word "invasion. i dont think this is an invasion. >> laura: how many people here are aware of the percentage of drugs coming into the country that come through arizona? lets have some guesses. what percentage of drugs come through arizona? >> 60%. >> 40%. >> laura: bingo. 40% of the drugs coming into the country come through the southern border. the poorest nature of our border. >> i dont feel they need a babysitter. >> laura: i have another ...

Welcome back to "hardball" live at the university of houston. this question is only serious to, well, ted cruz. ted cruz when he was at law school refused to study with anyone who didnt go to the following schools. if they hadnt gone to harvard, yale or princeton he wouldnt study with them at law school because they were below his i.q., i guess. you went to columbia. how do you like being treated as a safety school? what do you make of this guy? >> i was lucky to have gone there. grateful to my ...

>> no, we met on a blind date in el paso before tindr and took her over the bridge to her sister city. had a margarita at the kentucky club and we just really hit it off and i tell that story to folks to kind of remind them of the bi-national nature of the u.s./mexico border. cities like those in el paso were one community. its beautiful. nothing to be ashamed of, defensive about or wall off. its part of who we are. its part of our story. >> question from erica. >> how invested are you of protec...

Working with my republican colleagues across the aisle, never allowing the perfect to become the enemy of the good. ensuring that we find consensus, common ground to make that common cause to do the common good expanding mental health care access for veterans. improving security and the flow of trade at our ports of entry. protecting public plans in the chihuahuan government. we see each other as not republicans, as democrats, as americans, texans, human beings. im confident theres no stopping u...

And has access to the health care that allows her to do that. that means that texas leads on one of the defining health care issues of our day. we go from being one of the worst, one of the deadliest places to be a woman to one of the best in the country. it will take your leadership and mine coming together to get that done. thank you. supporting a womens right to choose. >> ryan has a question about reaching out to republicans. ryan. >> thank you, sir. im a proud democrat, republican co-worker...

Stand up for the institutions that make us so strong in the first place. so i think we need to vigorously defend the freedom of the press. we need to call out violations not just in this country, in countries like mexico, one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. the killing of khashoggi by the saudi arabian government, there has to be consequences. there has to be accountability. there has to be justice. this is our chance to lead on one of the most important issues to our democracy ...

Is universal background checks. in those states weve seen adopt them weve seen a near 50% reduction in gun violence. fewer police officers and sheriffs deputies being shot by them. fewer girlfriends and boyfriends being killed by a loved one. lets at least take that first step and make sure that we protect more lives within our lives. then there are other steps we can take going forward. when we listen to one another, thats what were doing in this campaign because we have not accepted a single d...

They even make it this far. i think hes trying to play upon the worst impulses of this country instead of speaking to our ambitions, hopes, dreams, those things that we can achieve if we all come together. i dont know what hes trying to do, i just know the task left to us which is to be the answer to that. our courage, our confidence, our strength. that has to define us going forward. its up to us. i love that we have the chance to do it and i love all of the excitement, the enthusiasm, the ener...

This state though it is not okay, it is perfectly legal for you to be fired based on your sexual orientation. in this state though we have 30,000 kids in the foster care system, in child protective services until recently was so under funded and under manned that you had kids at cps offices sleeping under and on top of the desks. in texas by law you can be too gay to adopt one of those kids into your loving household. we need a senator thats going to stand up for the full civil rights of every s...