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>> do you have ang office? is that handled in seen yort and if i understand you may be sworn in a few weeks ahead of oyour colleagues because of the special election. did it it bump you up the ladder? >> it did. last night i was fortunate enough because the state of pennsylvania certified my etlee election to the house of representatives shs i was able to pick up my keys, the office formerly used by charley dent. it's a rather grand office. it will not be my permanent office. as i understand in january i'll need relocate, which is a little sad buttialver senorty in terms of going through the l...

Down on this immigration from certain parts of the world? >> we absolutely need to clamp down on our method of immigration. it's baffling to me as the soon of immigrants that came here for political reasons, idea logically embracing the american contract, what it means to be an american. it's baffling that we have no mechanism for vetting for merits or ideology. if you look at the last two attacks in october, one came from uzbekistan as part of the lottery program. as if america is a lottery process coming here, which it's not. the last attack, december 11th was a chain migration benefactor th...

We're speaking up and we're doing everything we can to protect our kids. >> we've been following what to me feels like kind of a strange slightly incoherent process. at least it's hard to follow from the outside. in which it looks like the administration, the epa, the new epa in this administration, rather than holding individual public comment periods, like individual regulations or individual things they want to change, they appear to be starting as of tomorrow. a public process to consider scrapping or modifying all regulations, all environmental regulations, all at once. with the very limi...

With the very limited public comment period that most people can't get in on. do you have any insight into what they're doing there or what their aims are? >> i certainly know what they're intending to do is to take broad public comment in a lottery process with just a few people to see whether or not there are specific regulations that people would like to reconsider. but those are very different processes than are required under law to actually change rules. so while this is an attempt for them to say they're opening up to public comment, we all know that industries have already been to the ...

Tulane university shows that under the charter system, student achievement is up with 63% of students passing state assessment tests in 2013, a 30% increase since 2005. and graduation rates are up from 56% to 73%. >> can everybody do that? >> reporter: initially charter schools were able to recruit the most desirable students. now parents can rank their school choices and go through a centralized lottery process. >> we have no influence over who attends at all. >> reporter: parents say when a spot unexpectedly opens up at a good school, they run. >> when we got in, there were two spots left. a...