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Accident, why has it taken four days, 3 1/2 days for them to figure out or rule out its an accident? on top of that, theyre offering $25,000 reward to the f.b.i. if its an accident, who would possibly be able to collect that reward? that tells you that sheriff doesnt know -- i hate to be rude. he doesnt really know what hes talking about. >> laura: brandon, lets go to you on this. clearly, if this had been an attack by some type of cartel affiliated group of individuals, illegal immigrants or no...

Accident, why has it taken four days, 3 1/2 days for them to figure out or rule out its an accident? on top of that, theyre offering $25,000 reward to the f.b.i. if its an accident, who would possibly be able to collect that reward? that tells you that sheriff doesnt know -- i hate to be rude. he doesnt really know what hes talking about. >> laura: brandon, lets go to you on this. clearly, if this had been an attack by some type of cartel affiliated group of individuals, illegal immigrants or no...

Happened. but you know what it happened in texas and texas can handle thing. >> your response was to put out a picture of president obama with a caption which read, president obama with sandy, there are no democrats hurting its just americans. its about helping our fellow human beings. what made you chose to speak out in that way? >> ill say this, im now a private citizen and i think i have the right to post public domain photos and i think ive been very respectful and very subtle if the way i d...

And your grandson, hes in surgery now. >> yeah, hes a regular little 5-year-old boy, full of spit and vinegar. hes always active. always going. always curious. hes always smiling and happy. >> and how many -- >> he doesnt know a stranger. he loves everybody. >> how many grandkids do you have, sandy? >> i have eight grandkids all together. >> how many -- >> so i have -- i have ten. sorry. >> youre blessed. you have a lot of grandkids thats for sure. youre a blessed woman. >> then you have four in...

Were about 40 miles outside of san antonio. were a quiet little community. i mean -- >> tell me about your grand daughter, sandy. >> emily? >> yeah. >> she was -- she was born premature. her only grandmother and grandfather raised her most of her life. she had -- her birthday was the same day as my daughters. and she was just such a good little girl. she was so helpful. she would help. anything you asked her to do, she was always happy and cheerful. its terrible. my daughter in law and the grand...

Welcome back, everybody. were following the breaking news out of sutherland springs, texas, where a shooting has occur at a church there. at least 25 people are dead, over 20 injured as well, children amongst the victims. on the phone with us, sandy ward. her daughter in law and grandchildren were inside that church. sandy, thank you for joining me this afternoon. how are you doing? >> im doing all right. were just waiting to see what is going to happen with my grandson. we found out my grand --...

Say which ones, were putting my son out that he was the shooter. the one that his wife -- and now theyre putting his brother out as the shooter. michael ward and chris ward. theyre not the shooters. chris ward, his daughter just died. he wasnt at the church. >> yeah. we have identified the name of the shooter, so everybody knows. his name is devin patrick kelley, from comal county, so you can be rest assured thats being out by us. im so incredibly sorry for your loss, sandy. i cant imagine what ...

That means some are still waiting. far too many have not had coverage in the first place. >> one of the big issues from sandy was there were a lot of people who needed flood insurance who did not have it. even if you are seen as being in a low risk area, that doesnt mean no risk. >> thats a lesson that folks learned here the hard way, that low risk does not risk. while the improvements and new construction are impressive, there is still a surprising number of empty lots and boarded up homes serv...

Longer a member of my party. much faster. >> no. no. >> it cuts through. by the way, it has universal appeal. >> it does have universal appeal, but not to me, joe. ive always been an outlier. i want you back, joe. i want you to come back. come back to the mother land, joe, please. come back to home. >> by the way, i said were going to show poll numbers you arent going to like. in part -- >> thats okay. >> every time you come on the show, if we have any civil conversation with you, were bashed fo...

Puerto rico are americans. i was there the first day and now its about five weeks later and its amazing how little progress has been made. after one month, still have 75% or whatever figure you want to use without power. people who are drinking water that may be dangerous. so i believe that puerto rico has been treated as second-class citizens. we are better than this. we know how to do this. we do this all around the country, all around the world, and i think puerto rico deserved better respons...