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Insure the people of texas and the united states are kept safe. there are about 1,000 arrests made on a daily basis on average of people coming here illegally. what i did last week was i made an appeal to jeh johnson, the secretary of homeland security for the resources needed to secure the border. then i spoke with the assistant secretary and got feeling it would be months before they were able to help out in securing the border. so texas is not going to wait any longer. yesterday we announced that we are providing the funding that is needed to the texas department of public safety to impleme...

Debate over the surge. now, senator hagel in the confirmation hearing said that 1,200 americans were killed during the 18-month surge operation. that's true. 1,200 americans died, but the actual number of combat deaths was 942. what's important to point out is that the 12 months before the surge began the total number of service members killed in iraq was 820. now, this is the most important figure i think if you are going to argue was the surge a success or not? that is the fact that the 12-month period following the surge operation there were 313 american deaths and the next year only 150. s...

Over, is essentially over. we're told that the remaining 200 to 300 troops that could be counted as part of that 33,000 surge operation, are literally packed up and waiting at the airport ready to leave. put the white house, the pentagon, the military, not ready to announce it officially. you know, by all stretch of the imagination, it was hard to believe in -- when president obama ordered the troops that the taliban actually controlled more territory in afghanistan in december of 2009, than they did before the invasion by u.s. forces in 2003. that's largely because, as you know, andrea, the b...

"endeavour" is making its final voyage atop a jumbo jet. nasa's youngest shuttle left kennedy space center and headed west to become a museum piece at the california science center in los angeles. hundreds of trees were chopped down to make way for the spacecraft's final 12 mile journey through l.a. for its new home. the center has agreed to replant four times as many trees to address an outcry from local residents. nasa retired its shuttle fleet last summer. and we've got developments about u.s. troops in afghanistan to report today. nbc's jim miklaszewski standing by at the pentagon and we...

Increasing some of their operations in an attempt to regain some of the territory that was lost. at the same time, you know, american forces are under a little bit of pressure because after all, defense secretary leon panetta has said he expects all combat forces to be out of afghanistan by sometime next year, as early as the middle of 2013, so they've got some ground to gain and some actual advances to be cemented. they have to make sure that whatever territory is gained in the meantime can be held. so there are some of these attacks being initiated very aggressively by u.s. forces. now, whil...