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Her. he puts a republican in there. what happens then? did they have an election in another year because it's a democratic county? or there is a chance this main toe hold that democrats have left in texas government can be handed over for a long time? >> first of all, she has steadfastly said she's not resigning. she continues to say she's not resigning. she survived a civil trial, a full-scale civil trial to remove her from office. so she's back at work doing her job. she has a couple years left on her term. had she resigned, the governor would have appointed her successor to serve out the re...

Workers. this isn't critical to the existence of the uaw. ever since i've been around the unions have been trying to get a toe hold in the south and this is just one more time that the workers have rejected the unions. >> is that sort of a foreshadowing of what's to come down south regarding the auto plants? >> you look at tennessee tp and only 6% of the workers in tennessee are yuan niezed. i don't know why they choose that to be their battleground. i think there was a low probability of any success in getting that particular plant to convert to being a union plant. work councils are standa...

Politicians who are fighting against unionization. republican politicians are more opposed to the plant actually unionizing than the vw, volkswagen. republicans are fearing the influence republicans are feari influence of the democratic leanilean ing yun on their home turf in tennessee. some of the world's biggest automakers have built plants in the south, toyota, kentucky, honda in alabama, bmw in south carolina, mercedes in alabama. as i said, vw in tennessetennes. the biggest automakers are centered in michigan and the midwest, the foreign automakers built plants in this country in recent y...

Be good, it's not going to be good for people in the region, it's not going to be good for -- largely for worse, to have real repercussions beyond the geographical confines. >> do you think iraq could unravel? because it feels as though what's happening now, as richard was saying, it only feels like it has a downward trajectory. >> we're seeing the potential reemergence of two very familiar and ominous patterns, and we see them playing out in an mar, even over the last week, one is the exclusion of the sunnis from the political process, you can't have a multiethnic, a multisectarian society go...

Brute political power, that is how democrats pass the affordable care act. but obamacare also fueled a tea party backlash that gave republicans control of the house of representatives. did that toe hold also give conservatives the leverage to kill the law? two new senators elected with strong tea party support thought so. ted cruz of texas, and utah's mike lee. [ chanting ] >> september 10th, washington, d.c. >> only you can win this fight. >> the tea party is tired of