joe pierce, from san antonio and i've met them several times in austin, mrs. pierce e-mailed me separately to say that the texas state history museum has abruptly canceled the speech by the authors of the new book on the alamo. i don'ten if you're familiar with that book. and texas is trying to keep the truth from competing with myths. this is crazy and related to censorship. now, we touched on forget alamo and i wanted to read the e-mail. >> i've heard that, it's what they call the streisand effect. when you draw attention to things like that, this will probably make people go out and read the book even more. people don't like to have ideas and things kept from them, but that's an unfortunate situation if that's -- from what, the things that i've actually read about it. i haven't read the book yet. that should be on my night stand next. >> will you be on the book festival circuit this fall? >> i think so, yes. i'm supposed to be on the book circuit this festival. i'm hoping to be able to be there in person. virtual things are nice, but it's nice to be out and

jo pierce aree prominent couple in san antonio i've mentioned several times ates the texas book festival in austin. mrs. pierce e-mailed me separately to say texas history museum has abruptly canceled the speech by the author's new c book a on alamo. at above you are familiar with that book. in texas is to keep the truth from competing with myth, this is crazy andel related to censorship. i know we touched on the alamo a minute ago. i wanted to acknowledge that e-mail. speech have heard about that situation. the streisand effect. i think when you draw attention to things like this this will probably make people go outve and read the book even more. people don't like to have ideas kept from them. that is an unfortunate situation i have not read the book yet. that should be on my nightstand next too. >> host: will be on the book festival circuit this fall? >> i think so. i'm supposed to be in the book circuit this fall. i'm hoping we will be able to be there in person. the virtual things are nice but it's also nice to be out and meet people. you know what those are like. stuart yes texas i

they recruited the people from oklahoma to come to san antonio. in texas. do you know how much a train engineer was making? he was making $14,000 a month. you are telling me that they do not have any money? forget it. i was in san jose, i had not been there in a while. they had built a whole new eight lane freeway. where did they get the money from that? they were always saying we do not have any money. when -- when out of office, there were millions of dollars in the coffers for the roads. it was just never used. host: let us start with the mass transit. that seems to be a sticking point up to the release. the money being set aside for amtrak. can you elaborate? guest: for transit, there was a dispute by the negotiators of the legislation. some of them argue that transit had already been dedicated several billion dollars from sue covid aid -- from covid aid. individual senators from the urban settings rely on transit, they argue there is an additional need of about $40 billion to bring most of the transit systems around the country to a better state of rep

host: doctor pierce is a retired couple at san antonio i have met them several times at the san antonio book festival that she e-mailed me to sayal the history museum has abruptly canceled the speech by the authors of the new book on the alamo. i don't know if you are familiar with that book texas is trying to keep the truth from competing this is crazy and related to censorship but i wanted to acknowledge her e-mail. >> i heard about that situation. it's like the streisand effect this will probably make people go out and read the book even more. but thatn, is an unfortunate situation from the things that i read about it. >> i haven't read the book yet. that should be on my nightstand next. host: will you be on the book festival circuit this fall? >> i'm supposed to be. ii am hoping i can be there in person. it's virtual but i liked a lot and meet people you know that atmosphere it is a lot of fun. host: and texas is in person this year. cleveland ohio go ahead. >>caller. professor gordon reed related to sally hemmings? we know the name sally hemmings and we know her story. what i miss

antonio. they didid not come to new york. they did not go to l.a. most of my family is still there. >> host: go back to your book on juneteenth page t 101, quote 1967 there was a real release that 1960 film the alamo. it was an exciting thing. it's a big deal to go to the movies in those days. it was a little town outside of houston now of course they've reached out and encroached upon all of us in that area. it was an exciting thing a treat to go see this movie about people we already knew about. jim bowie, travis, davy crockett. these were names that were known to us. my best friend who was a boy really was into both characters but i knew whont they were and it was almost eight mythic semite godlike person who had thisis special power, in real life he got into knife fights and that bowie knife became famous because of that. we go to see the film it's very, very heroic betrayal of the alamo as you would have expected. there is nothing in there that surprised me there is a character betrayed i

most of my familiess in texas ad when they left the town to go somewhere they went to dallas or san antonio and they didn't come to new york or go to l.a.. most of my family still there. >> host: back to your book "on juneteenth" on page 101 quote in 19 sick -- 1967 the movie the alamo, i was taken to save by my best friend. >> guest: was an exciting thing. conroe is little town outside of houston and now of course ahouston has reached out but it was an exciting time to go see this movie about people that we knew about, travis and davy crockett. these were names that were knowd to us and my friend really was into those characters. i thought of him as a godlike gerson and the booing knife became famous because of that. it's a very heroic portrayal of the alamo as you would expect it and there was nothing in there to surprise me. there were things that made me comfortable. they had a character who is a slave and was portrayed not in t the way that made me uncomfortablee that was in it bt for the most part it was this presentation of this battle making a last stand against the mexicans. when i

i had a conversation with city administrators in areas outside austin and san antonio, the fastest growing communities in america who will tell me they cannot build sewers fast enough, they cannot build schools fast enough to handle the influx of people because there are so many people moving in. there is a fun game to play. go to a shipping website like u-haul or a truck shipping website and check out what the one-way prices from san francisco to dallas and check out the other way. san francisco to dallas would be $1400 and it would be half of that going the other way. host: one more question from houston, texas, independent line, nancy. caller: how do you count all these aliens coming into our country that we had to take care of? how do you account for that on your census? guest: the constitution requires that everybody be counted. this is the founding fathers rules, not me. the founding fathers wanted to know how many people were in the united states at any given time and that they meant everybody. they didn't mean just citizens, not just residents, they said everybody. that's what the

when they left those little towns to go somewhere they went to houston, they went to dallas or san antonio. they did not come to new york. they did not go to l.a. the roots go deep and most of my family was still there. >> back to your book on juneteenth, page 101 quote in 1967 there is a rerelease of the 1960 film the alamo. i was taken to see it with my best friend, he tells about that? >> it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days and to go to houston connor was a little town 40 miles north of houston. hisce potentially applying force between the two places. course now houston has breached out and encroached upon all of us in that area. this was an exciting thing to treat to go see this movie about people we already knew about, jim buie, travis, davy crockett, these were names known to us. my best friend he was a boy was really into both characters but i knew who they were thought jim buie was almostmo this semi- godlike person the had this special powers or whatever. he got into knife fights the bowie knife became famous because >> so we go to see thi

antonio rated they do not to new york and they didn't go to la. so the roots go deep and most of my family is still there. peter: go back to your book on page 101, quote, in 1967, there was a the release the 1960s film, the alamo and it was to see it with my best friend can you tell us a story. annette: yeah, it was an exciting to think. is a big deal to go to the movies in thoseay days and to go to houston, is a little town outside of houston, 40000 confused and potentially enough course houston has reached out and approached upon all of that area. this was an exciting thing to go see this movie about people we already knew about. travis, and davy crockett, these were names that were known to us. and my friend who was a boy, really was into those characters. i legibly was almost a sort of semi- godlike person that was nice that had the special power, just nice and that in real life, and it became famous because of that, we were there to see the film and it is very heroic tutorial of the alamo. what you would've expected and there was nothing in t

when they left those little towns to go somewhere they went to houston, they went to dallas or san antonio. they did not come to new york. they did not go to l.a. the roots go deep and most of my family was still there. >> back to your book on juneteenth, page 101 quote in 1967 there is a rerelease of the 1960 film the alamo. i was taken to see it with my best friend, he tells about that? >> it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days and to go to houston connor was a little town 40 miles north of houston. hisce potentially applying force between the two places. course now houston has breached out and encroached upon all of us in that area. this was an exciting thing to treat to go see this movie about people we already knew about, jim buie, travis, davy crockett, these were names known to us. my best friend he was a boy was really into both characters but i knew who they were thought jim buie was almostmo this semi- godlike person the had this special powers or whatever. he got into knife fights the bowie knife became famous because of that so we go to se

when othey left the little town to go somewhere they went to dallas or san antonio. they didn't come to new york. theydidn't go to la . so the roots go deep and most of my family is still there. >> back to your book, onto page 101 quote, in 1967 there was a rerelease of the 1960 film the alamo. i was taken to see it with my best friend. can you tell us that story? >> there was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to see a movie in those days. and very confusing to see movies because conroy was a little town outside of houston, 40 miles north of houston and it was between the two places but now course houston has reached out and encroached upon all of us in that area but it was an exciting thing. a treat to go see this movie about people that we already knew about. jim bowie, travis and dede crockett. these were names that were known to us and my friend who was a boy, my best friend really was into both those characters. i heknew who they were and i knew who jim bowie was almost this sort of mythic semi godlike person with this knife that had this special powers or wh

texas is a good example of this were part of the houston, san antonio, and austin, dallas-fort worth, midland, and odessa areas had population growths. many of the state's other counties had population declines. rapid growth also occurred in parts of western north dakota. mckenzie county, north dakota, was the country's fastest growing county, increasing 131% between 2010 and 2020. williams county north dakota grew by 83%. i will replay the three decades again so you can see the changes over time. when we look more closely at the patterns of population increase and decrease this past decade, we see a strong relationship to population size with small counties tending to lose population and more populous counties tending to gain people. this bar chart shows it in detail. the graphic shows percent change in population this past decade by county population size in 2010. the four smallest size categories experienced population decline. counties with population under 1000 in 2010 lost 4.4% of their population over the decade. 10,000 to 50,000 people also lost people this decade on average.

and i visited philadelphia and new york and atlanta and new orleans and san antonio and los angeles, and never once has the head of the union asked me a question. never once have i received an inquiry in writing or orally on the head of the union. if you should ask a question, i i shall answer it. because i have been answering the questions of the individuals he is responsible to represent. >> i i be happy to give you thee case issues for the record and i look forward to your response for the record and i would just say, mr. mayorkas, however much an inconvenience and maybe for you to answer questions from the or for other senators from this committee or from the union, the people who you are in charge of and you're supposed to be supervising, it is your job. frankly i don't care if it's an inconvenience and i don't care if you don't like it. it is your job to do so. the fact you're not able and not willing to respond to the specific queries is troubling but i will give into you for e record and a look for to your response thank you, mr. chairman. >> that is, if i may say, also false

host: annette gordan-reed, retired couple in san antonio. and then texas tries to keep the truth with competing with met this is crazy and related to censorship. we touched on the alamo but i want to acknowledge her e-mail. >> i have heard about e that. and those that actually read about it. host: will you be on the book festival circuit this fall quick. >> i think so. i am supposed to be. i'm hoping i can be there in person to actually meet people. go ahead neville. >>caller: my question is related to sally hemmings. so as a visual and an image is the some time to time descriptions. that she wasd. white and long straight hair down her back. i don't see many sketches or images or pictures which depict sally hemmings. >> weve don't have any depictions of her. people have imagined ideas of what she looks like. they do know reproductions of her we don't have any images of jefferson's wife maybe a couple of silhouettes so strangely enough and her father's home was destroyed by fire but it's interesting and completely different and we don't have

when they left those little towns to go somewhere they went to houston, they went to dallas or san antonio. they did not come to new york. they did not go to l.a. the roots go deep and most of my family was still there. >> back to your book on juneteenth, page 101 quote in 1967 there is a rerelease of the 1960 film the alamo. i was taken to see it with my best friend, he tells about that? >> it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days and to go to houston connor was a little town 40 miles north of houston. hisce potentially applying force between the two places. course now houston has breached out and encroached upon all of us in that area. this was an exciting thing to treat to go see this movie about people we already knew about, jim buie, travis, davy crockett, these were names known to us. my best friend he was a boy was really into both characters but i knew who they were thought jim buie was almostmo this semi- godlike person the had this special powers or whatever. he got into knife fights the bowie knife became famous because of that so we go to se

antonio and what happened there were 22 army reserve demands and general max barrettes, close friend of mine in the federal reserve thought we didn't need command and control so reduced it to ten. the flag moved to little rock and it became the 90th regional support command and i was the second command and had been the -- i think 123rd army reserve command and so those folks didn't know and didn't care about the 90th. the 90th has history from world war i and world war ii. particularly world war ii. they spent more days in ground combat than any army unit in world war ii. it was honor to command them but i had to give arkansas people. >> you still live in the atlanta area while doing this? >> yeah. arkansas, louisiana, texas, new mexico and they had been under a lot of different and had to pretty much educate them in the history of the 90th reserve command, regional support command. i connected after i had been there a few months i went to come and ask to speak in the infantry division and it was being held in indianapolis, indiana. didn't know anything about them. that was where i d

host: that is san antonio, texas. we will go to our republican line. this is steve in south carolina. caller: that color from texas stole little bit of my thunder. -- that caller from texas stole little bit of my thunder. they give this was your daughter. i was a supervisor that a federal government building. the federal government took this very seriously. i have to be briefed every year over what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace. all across the south and southwest we grew up calling girls sweetheart, sugar, honey. you cannot do that anymore. i worked with a fellow supervisor at the shipyard and he got time off for allowing hostile varmint -- a hostile environment to exist. a lady complaint men were telling dirty jokes and he did not put a stop to it. host: how does it apply to governor cuomo? caller: he is a person of authority. he holds the careers of people under him in his hands. people are generally scared to come on board with the supervisor who determines their future and commits that kind of crime. for somebody who knows the rule

antonio. and what happened was there were 32 army reserve -- 22 army reserve commands, and general max barrett, very close friend of mine, decided we didn't need all that command and control, so he reduced it to ten. and the 90th ar-com went away. the flag moved to little rock and became the 90th regional support command. and i was the second in command and first to command it. had been the 123rd army reserve command, and so those folks didn't know and didn't care about the 90th. well, the 90th has a storied history from world war i and world war ii, particularly world war ii. they were under patton, in patton's 3rd army. they spent more days in ground combat than any army unit in world war ii. it was an honor to command them. but i had to get all those arkansas people -- >> you still live in the atlanta area when you were doing this? >> yeah. >> okay. >> the 90th covered arkansas, louisiana, texas, oklahoma and new mexico. and they had been under a lot of different ar-coms and so i had to pre

annette gordon-reed truck entered doctor joe pearson is why the problem prominent retired couple in san antonio i met them several times at the book festival in austin but misses peers, m e-mailed me separately to say that the texas state history museum has abruptly canceled the speech by the authors of the new book, on the alamo. i don't know if you're familiar with that book and texas is trying to keep the truth from competing with math this is crazy and related to censorship. i know we touch on the alamo and ten alamo minute ago. but i wanted to acknowledge missus pearson's it e-mail predict speech of, yes, i heard about the situation, it is kind of like what is called the effects when you draw attention to things like this, this will probably make people go out and readro the book even more. people don't like to have ideas being kept from them. that's important situation. from the things that are actually part about it. i'm not the book yet. that should be on my nightstand next. peter: will you be in the s book festival services fall. annette: i think so yes i'm supposed to be in th

host: greg, and afghan war veteran in san antonio. when and where did you serve in afghanistan? caller: i served in a province in 2013. i was in kandahar doing medical operations. host: what are your thoughts as you have watched over the past couple weeks the invents unfold -- events unfold? caller: it is horrifying to watch. i am not a warmonger. i want everybody to know that. i also believe in -- being a guy who has worked for several generals in the united states air force, we do not let the state department run the operation. that is how this fiasco developed. the strategic commanders of the united states military should be running the operation. when i watch all this develop, it is mind blowing. i do not understand why. host: go ahead and finish your thought. caller: i do not understand why any commander would give the authority to the state department to let them run this operation. host: in chicago, ralph, independent. caller: good morning. president eisenhower when he left office warned the american public about the military-industrial complex. as a vietnam veteran -- th

and just using my hometown of san antonio as an for example, there are over 300 polling places. the largest shift at any given time of sapd is about 150 officers who have arguably better things to do. what happens to us? do we finish her caster her ballot -- casting her ballot? if we do does she come back? what's the word of mouth as that experience spreads like wildfire, bad chisme? that can't be who we are and the idea this bill makes voting easier in this instance, i don't see how. there are no cases of voter fraud relating to voter assistance. in county if a, just to give you numbers -- in fact, just to give you numbers and i'll wrap up - mr. raskin: please. mr. bernal: the likelihood of voter fraud in texas is less than anyone of us being struck by lightning. mr. raskin: thank you, representative bernal, for your excellent testimony. and members are very patient. i'll hold off on my questioning and allow mr. mfume to go. then we'll go directly to the ranking member. mr. mfume: thank you very much, mr. chair. and members of the committee. mr. chair, i want to thank you as i

host: john in san antonio says covid vaccines have created six new billionaires. that is all i need to know about the motive behind mandates. just say no, i say. greg says your employer has a right to approve a mandate. jim in north carolina. this is now settled. jeff talking about the fda's decision to give full approval for the pfizer vaccine and what it means for mandates. [video clip] >> yesterday after a rigorous scientific review process, the fda gave full and final approval to the pfizer vaccine reaffirming its findings that the vaccine is safe and effective. this is a key milestone that will help get more shots in arms. we know that there are americans who have been waiting for the fda process to be completed before getting a shot. for those americans, the wait is over. now is the time to join the more than 200 million americans who have already rolled up their sleeve and got vaccinated. it's free, easy and it has never been more important to protect yourself, your loved ones in your community. it is not just individuals. institutions must step up and many

i was at the san antonio riverwalk, and there were people everywhere. it was packed. people were having a good time. they were mingling together, they were not wearing masks. there were some people wearing masks. people are sick of it. host: tom in lake geneva, wisconsin, republican line. your trust in covid policy. caller: i don't have any trust in the government, in cnn. you guys are democrats, democrats, democrats. host: we are asking people your level of trust in government covid policy? caller: the same i would for government as i do for c-span. you are a democrat. host: ok. we will leave it there. we are asking on your level of trust when it comes to the federal government -- you can focus on the federal government. you can call us on the lines, 202-748-8001 four republicans. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents 202-748-8002. as we talk about this issue today, one of the things playing along in the senate is the expected or potential passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. here to join us and tell us the latest about what is going on on that effort, the

host: greg, and afghan war veteran in san antonio. when and where did you serve in afghanistan? caller: i served in a province in 2013. i was in kandahar doing medical operations. host: what are your thoughts as you have watched over the past couple weeks the invents unfold -- events unfold? caller: it is horrifying to watch. i am not a warmonger. i want everybody to know that. i also believe in -- being a guy who has worked for several generals in the united states air force, we do not let the state department run the operation. that is how this fiasco developed. the strategic commanders of the united states military should be running the operation. when i watch all this develop, it is mind blowing. i do not understand why. host: go ahead and finish your thought. caller: i do not understand why any commander would give the authority to the state department to let them run this operation. host: in chicago, ralph, independent. caller: good morning. president eisenhower when he left office warned the american public about the military-industrial complex. as a vietnam veteran -- th

i was at the san antonio riverwalk, and there were people everywhere. it was packed. people were having a good time. they were mingling together, they were not wearing masks. there were some people wearing masks. people are sick of it. host: tom in lake geneva, wisconsin, republican line. your trust in covid policy. caller: i don't have any trust in the government, in cnn. you guys are democrats, democrats, democrats. host: we are asking people your level of trust in government covid policy? caller: the same i would for government as i do for c-span. you are a democrat. host: ok. we will leave it there. we are asking on your level of trust when it comes to the federal government -- you can focus on the federal government. you can call us on the lines, 202-748-8001 four republicans. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents 202-748-8002. as we talk about this issue today, one of the things playing along in the senate is the expected or potential passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. here to join us and tell us the latest about what is going on on that effort, the

host: tom in san antonio on that line for veterans of the war in afghanistan. go ahead. caller: i wanted to clarify that a lot of callers do not really understand how the afghan people see their country. it is a bunch of split tribes. they do not really see their nation as a nation. if you have a bunch of people that have no national recognition -- they do not realize afghanistan is their country. they just see their tribe and their land. they are not going to defendant. i'm not think it is their fault, but i'm try to say if you cannot get the people on your side -- you cannot get the people on your side if you're trying to get a democratic nation set up. there is just a lot of veterans have talked to and they are upset and feel we have lost battle buddies. we have lost the taxpayer money. it sucks. host: when were you there? what was your capacity? caller: i was there in 2008 and 2009. i lost buddies. i feel like -- i am sure i'm not the only one, but i feel like it was for nothing. there is a wave of people that are mad at this, not just the americans stuck over there.

david in san antonio, republican. hi, welcome to the conversation. caller: hi. how you doing. host: good morning. what's your opinion? caller: all i want to say. we are all worried about infrastructure and all this. if we don't nip this afghanistan deal in the bud, we are not going to have a infrastructure to worry about. we'll end up back with towers being blown up and everything else. our government needs to do the job they were hired to do. and they are not doing that. and the infrastructure is the least of our concerns right now. host: all right. david. as well as infrastructure, what democrats are calling human infrastructure in this $3.5 trillion budget package, they have also tied it together, the voting rights bill. so there are voting rights groups that have targeted those 10 centrist democrats in a new ad to pressure them to not hold up the budget package. take a look at the ad. >> joe biden promised he would build back better. and his infrastructure plan does exactly that. fixing our roads and bridges. making historic investments in clean energy, education, and broa

antonio, i think it was. in texas. to come and work there. do you know how much a train engineer was making? he was making $14,000 a month. now, then, you're telling me that they don't have any money? forget it. i was just in san jose a wild back. had not been there in a while because i'm from california. they had built a whole new eight-lane freeway. where did they get the money from that? they were always saying we don't have any money. because we had all kinds of potholes on our freeways. come to find out, when matron went out of office, there were millions and millions of dollars in the coffers for the road. it was never used. host: that was barbara in oklahoma. let me start with mass transit. that seems to be a sticking point leading up to this text, particularly the money set aside for amtrak. can you elaborate more on that? guest: for transit there was a dispute by the negotiators of the legislation. some of them argued that transit had already been dedicated, several billion dollars from covid aid to

i had a conversation with city administrators in areas outside austin and san antonio, the fastest growing communities in america who will tell me they cannot build sewers fast enough, they cannot build schools fast enough to handle the influx of people because there are so many people moving in. there is a fun game to play. go to a shipping website like u-haul or a truck shipping website and check out what the one-way prices from san francisco to dallas and check out the other way. san francisco to dallas would be $1400 and it would be half of that going the other way. host: one more question from houston, texas, independent line, nancy. caller: how do you count all these aliens coming into our country that we had to take care of? how do you account for that on your census? guest: the constitution requires that everybody be counted. this is the founding fathers rules, not me. the founding fathers wanted to know how many people were in the united states at any given time and that they meant everybody. they didn't mean just citizens, not just residents, they said everybody. that's what the