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captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. i m tom king in for alisyn camera at that. debt ceiling drama. we re closer to a debt ceiling deal, closer but not there yet. janet yellen gave them four more days, and we ve got a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning, can they get it done in time? plus, can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that s the question, as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not being shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a big spender, and lasting his covid policies. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than what he was running in 2015 and 2016. and i think the direction he s going with the campaign is the wrong direction. no other republican in the trump era has been able to walk that tight rope. can ron desantis? here s a sobering thought this memorial day weekend. whenev ....
speak louder than words can that on tuesday at rob elementary school in uvalde texas, this first priority for every single law enforcement officer in the state did not come first. the awful truth which was confirmed today is that police officers waited to storm a classroom while children were hiding inside and calling 911 for help that would not come. for as long as an hour. now we often here police officers talk about split second decisions. this time, the decision to go into a classroom and confront the shooter took 3,600 of those seconds. a full hour. a bit of hindsight from where i m sitting now, of course it s not a right decision. it was a wrong decision. very. no excuse for that. but again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry there as soon as you can. that s steven mcgraw, director of the texas department public safety with the bottom line, different from what we ve been hearing all week long, dif ....
Here s someone who basically, you know, epitomizes trump s attitude that if you make the law, you know, they can t touch you and you get to make the rules. but there is a higher authority than the attorney general of texas, and it looks like it may finally be time to pay the piper. looks like it at least we get the vote in the house. ron brownstein, what is the significance outside the borders of texas. paxton has been one of the attorneys general who have gone to court repeatedly to challenge everything the biden administration does and often ta texas takes the lead. would he just be replaced by another republican? is it just about him or does it have bigger meaning? let s break it out from outside texas and inside texas. outside texas, his cig nave cancel is exactly what you say. republican attorneys general have repeatedly sued the biden administration trying to preserve the policies, ....
Scheduled to vote tomorrow afternoon. if it impeaches paxton, it moves on to the senate for trial. ed lavandera has more. reporter: one of the most controversial politicians in texas is facing impeachment. this was curated from the start as an act of political retribution. reporter: ken paxton has been the state s attorney general since 2016, but a house committee led by fellow republicans is accusing paxton of a litany of criminal acts, including bribery, obstruction of justice, dereliction of duty, 20 articles of impeachment in all filed against him. the charges brought by the texas general house investigating committee detail alleged violations by the ag and the request of more than $3 million of public money to pay a legal settlement to whistleblowers. they revolted against paxton in 2020. there are also bribery charges ....