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All right, welcome back. memorial services are being held today for border patrol agent ro rogelio martinez who died under mysterious circumstances. federal officials are investigating and authorities are offering up a $45,000 reward for information as to what may have happened. a u.s. attorney general, jeff sessions, and other law enforcement officials are attending the service in el paso today. krp correspondent scott mcclane is also in el paso outside the church. he's joining me now. are authorities any closer to finding out exactly what happened? >> well, fredricka, that's the part that mu...

Abbott, he's calling it a murder. the border patrol union, they're calling it an ambush. the fbi, again, leading this investigation, will only say that it is a possible assault. meanwhile, fredricka, agent martinez, his funeral will be held today. the program reads end of watch. he will be laid to rest by his family and also his law enforcement family just a couple of hours from now. this road will be lined for the funeral procession by more than 50 border patrol honor guard. who will be here. you mentioned jeff sessions will be here. the acting chief of the border patrol will be here as well....

Day for the martinez family, ana. the visitation for rogelio martinez will be held today, the funeral tomorrow at a nearby catholic church and i had a chance to speak with rogelio's mother elvira this week and she said her son was a good man who was proud of the work he was doing. she also told me he would call her every single day. this family is a close family and what makes things especially difficult, ana, they don't have very many answers as to how or why rogelio was actually killed. the governor of texas, greg abbott, said this was a murder. the border patrol union says it was an ambush....

As an attack. there have been reports that the agents might have fallen into a covert or it was an accident of some sort. but three days after the incident investigators insist they don't know what happened. >> we don't have a picture yet of what transpired. but once we get closer to that, we'll be able to present those facts so we can bring some closure to the family. >> ed, agent martinez's partner, is he sharing any information with investigators? >> reporter: it's interesting. the border patrol spokesperson we spoke with said that agent was rather in serious and critical condition because ...

President trump's 2016 hispanic advisory council. he's too a fox contributor and he's a professor professor of economics at the university of chicago. good to have you both here. steve, i want to start with you. you point out something very important in this story and that is the loss of this hispanic officer in what is such a complex issue for americans. >> i'm glad you brought it up because i often bring this point up on air. i think a lot of liberal politicians think that they are pandering to the hispanic community with their misbegotten policies things like open borders and sanctuary citi...