>> Ted: NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON, OUR WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE UPDATE LOOKS AT THE LATEST ACTIVITY AT THE STATE CAPITOL.

WE HEAR FROM REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS AND A NEW DOCUMENTARY HOW WILDLIFE ABOUT PEOPLE AND NATURE.

THAT'S NEXT ON "ARIZONA HORIZON."

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON.

I'M TED SIMONS.

IT'S WEDNESDAY, TIME FOR OUR WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE UPDATE IN WHICH WE HEAR FROM STATE LAWMAKERS AT THE STATE CAPITOL.

THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN'S TURN AND WE WELCOME T.J. SHOPE AND HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE LEO BIASIUCCI AND GOOD TO HAVE YOU BOTH HERE.

>> THANKS FOR HAVING US.

>> Ted: WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT AND LET'S GET STARTED.

TJ, WE'LL START WITH YOU.

LAST WEEK'S JOINT, WHATEVER IT WAS, HEARING ON ELECTIONS, MOST FOLKS WATCHING KNOW THERE WERE ACCUSATIONS MADE, WILD ACCUSATIONS, NOT BACKED UP BY ANY EVIDENCE AND HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN?

>> I THINK THAT OUR MEMBERS ON THE COMMITTEE, SENATE MEMBERS WHO WERE THERE HAD BEEN REQUESTING FROM REPRESENTATIVE HARRIS OVER THE PREVIOUS SEVERAL DAYS FOR THE DOCUMENTS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED, I BELIEVE SENATOR BARELLI AND SENATOR ROGERS RECEIVED SOME OF THE DOCUMENTS, EXCEPT FOR THE LAST SPEAKER, WHICH WERE THE WILD ALLEGATIONS THAT WERE BROUGHT OUT ABOUT BRIBES AND SUCH.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, OFTENTIMES, WHAT HAPPENS DOWN THERE IS A PROFESSIONAL COURTESY OF ONE MEMBER TO ANOTHER OF, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT?

I TRUST THIS IS ALL GOOD.

OBVIOUSLY, THAT BACKFIRED HORRIBLY AND WE ENDED UP HAVING TO DO SEVERAL DAYS OF WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED HERE.

>> Ted: REPRESENTATIVE, WHAT THE HECK DID JUST HAPPEN THERE?

A, HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN AND B, HOW DO YOU KEEP FROM THIS HAPPENING AGAIN.

>> IT'S HARD.

A LOT OF TIMES SPEAKERS SIGN IN TO SPEAK ON A BILL AND YOU CAN'T VET THEM ALL.

YOU TAKE WHOEVER IS SIGNED UP AND SOMETIMES THEY'LL SAY THINGS THAT ARE CRAZY, OUTLANDISH AND IT IS THE JOB OF THE CHAIR TO CONTROL THAT ROOM AND COMMITTEE WHEN THIS HAPPENS.

SOMETIMES PEOPLE SLIP THROUGH LIKE THIS AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE WHEN WE REALIZE WHAT'S GOING ON, US MEMBERS REALIZE THIS IS NOT GOOD AND NOTHING IS FACTUAL.

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO COME UP WITH FACTUAL DOCUMENTATION AND PROOF.

THIS IS ALL AROUND -- IT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED AND UNFORTUNATE.

>> Ted: THE VETTING PROCESS, AGAIN, SHOULD THE VETTING PROCESS BE INCREASED.

WE KNEW WHAT THE TENOR WAS ALL ABOUT AND WHO CHAIRED THE HEARING AND WHO COCHAIRED THIS.

SHOULD THIS NOT HAVE BEEN A BETTER PROCESS?

>> IN GOVERNMENT, YOU WANT TO MAKE EVERYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO SPEAK IN A COMMITTEE.

WE NEVER SAY YOU CAN'T SPEAK BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU THINK OUR YOUR THOUGHTS ON A BILL.

WE GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE TO SPEAK.

THIS HAS TO DO WITH ELECTION INTEGRITY, YOU WOULD HOPE YOU CAN CATCH EVERYBODY AND THIS ONE SLIPPED THROUGH.

IT'S UNFORTUNATE AND I'M GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO SAY, LOOK, THESE ARE UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS AND THIS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SAID.

ANYTHING ILLEGAL, GO TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THIS IS SOMETHING TOLD TO THIS INDIVIDUAL IN JANUARY WHEN THEY BROUGHT IT UP.

>> Ted: SENATOR ROGERS WHO CALLED THIS A BRAVE WOMAN, IT TOOK THREE DAYS FOR A LOT OF FOLK TO WALK THIS BACK AND WHY SO LONG?

>> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

ANYBODY COULD HAVE THEIR NUMBER OF REASONS AND THE MOMENT I SAW WHAT WAS GOING ON, I WAS A COUPLE DOORS DOWN IN THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AT THE TIME, HEARING 15 BILLS THAT DAY.

EVEN WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON TWO DOORS DOWN FROM US.

BUT WHEN IT DID, I MEAN, WE FIGURED OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON, AND YOU START LOOKING AT THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT WERE BEING SAID, YOU KNOW, MANY OF US DID RIGHT AWAY GO INTO THAT MODE OF SAYING, WELL, HOLD ON, LET'S MAKE SURE THIS IS NOT BEING PORTRAYED AS A TRUTH WHEN IT REALLY ISN'T.

AND I THINK SENATOR ROGERS OBVIOUSLY SUNDAY PUT OUT A RESTATEMENT AND THEN HAS GONE ON SINCE.

>> Ted: ANY REPERCUSSIONS FOR HER AT ALL?

>> I DON'T SEE ANY.

LOOK, WHEN YOU'RE IN THAT SITUATION -- I'VE BEEN A CHAIR OF A COMMITTEE AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT COME IN AND GRANTED, THIS WAS A PRESENTATION STYLE AND WE HAVE PEOPLE COME IN AND SAY ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND I'VE HAD TO REMOVE PEOPLE FROM COMMITTEE ROOMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

HAPPENING IN THE MOMENT AND OFTENTIMES IT'S DIFFICULT.

YOU'RE ALMOST LOOKING AT SOMEBODY TO SAY, LOOK, WE'LL GET THIS BACK ON TRACK AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, OBVIOUSLY.

IT'S UNFORTUNATE.

IT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

>> Ted: YEAH, BUT THERE'S STILL NO APOLOGY TO THE PEOPLE ACCUSED OF A DRUG CARTEL.

THIS IS EITHER FOOLISHNESS OR SERIOUS BUSINESS.

>> RIGHT, AND IT IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

WHETHER THERE'S AN APOLOGY OR NOT, THERE'S BEEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM, I THINK, BOTH LEADERSHIP TEAMS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE THIS NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED THAT WAY AND WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.

>> Ted: REPERREPERCUSSIONS WITH SENATOR HARRIS?

>> SHE NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE AND SAID SHE DIDN'T AGREE WITH THE INDIVIDUAL SAYING AND THAT'S SOMETHING SHE NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE, I THINK, TO SPEAKER TOMA AND APOLOGIZE TO PEOPLE IN THE COMMITTEE TO PUT THEM IN THE POSITION.

SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS COMING OUT OF HER MOUTH AND WHAT THAT INDIVIDUAL WOULD SAY.

BUT BOTTOM LINE, LOOK, EVERYBODY WAS IN THAT COMMITTEE, IN HER DIRECTION AND WE TRUST WHAT WILL COME FORWARD IS LEGITIMATE.

>> Ted: HOW ABOUT APOLOGIES TO THE PEOPLE ACCUSED OF BEING PART OF A DRUG CARTEL?

>> 100% AND THAT IS ON REPRESENTATIVE HARRIS, MAINLY.

AND LOOK, IF THIS IS ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, THIS SHOULD GO TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

IF THERE'S NOTHING THERE, SHE NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE FOR PUTTING PEOPLE IN THAT POSITION.

>> Ted: LAST QUESTION.

THIS AND THE AG'S REPORT FOUND NOTHING AS FAR AS THE CLAIMS RANGING FROM, YOU KNOW, DEAD PEOPLE VOTING TO BAMBOO CHUTES FROM NORTH KOREA AND THE ITALIAN MILITARY MAKING SURE DONALD TRUMP WAS NOT ELECTED AND THEY LOOKED THROUGH IT ALL AND FOUND NOTHING.

THIS WAS A STAIN ON ARIZONA AND THE ATTORNEY REPORT, ARE WE DOWN WITH THE RIGGED ELECTION TALK?

>> YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING ASKED BEFORE ABOUT WHAT DID BRNOVICH DO AND THEY NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE PEOPLE ON WHAT HE DID.

I THINK THE REAL QUESTION NEEDS TO BE, DO OUR ELECTIONS HAVE ISSUES?

I THINK WE CAN AGREE, SOME THINGS WE CAN FIX AND THINGS THAT ARE BIPARTISAN.

THEY PASSED LAST WEEK THAT WERE BIPARTISAN, WHETHER SIGNATURE VERIFICATION AND MAKING SURE IF THAT BRING TRUST BACK AND WE NEED TO FIX THOSE.

THESE HAVE BEEN CONVERSATIONS SINCE 2016.

>> Ted: IT WAS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR THE LEFT OF LEVEL OF THE CONVERSATION.

>> HILLARY CLINTON MENTIONED IT.

>> Ted: SHE DIDN'T GO TO COURT OR ASK FOR ANYONE GO TO COURT.

ARE WE DONE WITH RIGGED ELECTIONS OR CONTINUE DOWN THIS AVENUE?

>> I'VE NEVER ENGAGED IN IT AND I'VE BEEN DONE BEFORE IT WAS DONE OR STARTED.

BUT THE REALITY IS IS THAT I THINK THE REPRESENTATIVE IS RIGHT.

95% OF THE ISSUE THAT PEOPLE HAVE WITH ELECTIONS, IT COULD PROBABLY BE TAKEN CARE OF WITH A QUICKER COUNT OF EARLY BALLOTS DROPPED ON ELECTION DAY, ESPECIALLY.

WE'VE BEEN HAVING THESE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, HOW DO WE MAKE THAT PROCESS BETTER?

IS THERE A DOLLAR AMOUNT THE COUNTIES CAN PROVIDE TO PURCHASE EQUIPMENT THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO GO AHEAD AND DO IT THERE ON SITE AND HAVE AN ELECTION RESULT QUICKER.

I THINK THAT WHILE I MAY NOT PARTAKE, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION THAT GOES TO SLEEP ONE NIGHT, WAKES UP THE NEXT MORNING WITH A WILDLY DIFFERENT RESULT AND WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED.

>> Ted: WELL, WE TRY OUR BEST.

>> "A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIG HBORHOOD," ANDUNDERSTOOD, BUT THERE ARETHINGS THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL OVERALL.

>> Ted: REPRESENTATIVE, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS IDEA IN THE HOUSE THAT DEMOCRATIC BILLS HAVE TO SHOW AT LEAST 16 REPUBLICANS SIGNING ONTO EVEN GET A VOTE AND WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT?

>> A RULE THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE THAT THEY NEED 16 AND SO WHAT WE DO AS REPUBLICANS, WE SAY, LOOK, IF YOU HAVE A BILL FOR IT TO MOVE FORWARD, THE PROCESS SHOULD BE DIFFICULT TO GET A BILL THROUGH AND SIGNED INTO LAW.

IT'S NOT AN EASY PROCESS AND REASON WHY THE FOUNDING FATHERS DID IT THIS WAY.

TO OUR OWN MEMBERS, IF A BILL GETS UP, THE MAJORITY IS BEHIND THIS BILL.

SO WE FEEL THAT THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD HAVE THAT SAME IDEA.

LOOK, IF YOU HAVE YOUR BILL HEARD, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE SUPPORT IS THERE.

WE DON'T WANT TO PUT BILLS WITH NO SUPPORT AND ARE DYING.

THEY TOOK THIS AS A DIFFERENT REASON FOR THEM TO TRY TO GET THEIR BILLS INTO LAW OR ON THE BOARD, WHICH WASN'T THE CASE.

THIS IS JUST SAYING, LOOK, PLAY BY THE SAME RULES.

WE'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR A LONG TIME.

SENATOR SHOPE, THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS SINCE HE'S BEEN AROUND.

THEY TOOK OFFENSE.

YOU'VE HAD DEMOCRATIC BILLS WHO HAVE GONE UP.

IT GOT SIGNED INTO LAW.

>> Ted: IT LOOKS AS THOUGH YOU'RE ASKING DEMOCRATS TO HAVE A SUPER MAJORITY JUST TO GET A VOTE.

I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT 29 DEMOCRATS AND NOW THE 29 DEMOCRATS, YOU HAVE TO ADD 16 REPUBLICANS TO THAT, AS WELL.

THAT DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT.

>> YOU HAVE 29 REPUBLICANS AND THERE'S NO RULE THAT IS IN A RULE BOOK -- >> Ted: OF COURSE, BUT DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING THAT REPUBLICANS ARE BEING TOLD TO SIGN ON OR THE LEGISLATION WON'T BE HEARD.

ARE THEY WRONG?

>> THAT'S NOT TRUE.

IF YOU HAVE SUPPORT ON YOUR BILL AND A LOT THAT HAVE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FROM BOTH PARTIES.

WE DID IT THE OTHER DAY WITH REPRESENTATIVE SHAW.

THERE ARE GREAT BILLS WE WILL SUPPORT BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THERE'S A BILL -- THERE'S A MAJORITY OF OUR BODY THAT SUPPORTS THE BILLS BEFORE THEY GO UP.

>> Ted: THAT'S NOT WHAT THE VOTING PROCESS IS FOR.

DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING THE MOMENT THEY'RE SIGNING A GREEN PAPER, NOT ME.

>> I'VE HAD BILLS AND THROUGH COMMITTEE.

ANOTHER EIGHT THROUGH COMMITTEE AND DIES ON THE FLOOR.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A BILL THROUGH COMMITTEE, IT GETS VETTED AND BETWEEN THAT TIME AND ON THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE, YOU HAVE EVERYBODY COMING IN AND TELLING YOU THEY DON'T LIKE IT, THEY WANT CHANGES AND THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT.

>> Ted: IT'S A DIFFICULT PROCESS AND IT'S A PROCESS AND THE PROCESS IS GONE AND IS THIS MAKING SENSE TO YOU?

>> I WAS AROUND WHEN WE STARTED INSTITUTING THESE THINGS AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE DID IS BECAUSE WE WERE NOTICING SEVERAL VOTES UP TO THE VOTE TO FAIL.

IN MY OPINION, A LACK OF EFFICIENCY AND THAT I WAS A SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT AND I NEVER PUT ANYTHING ON AN AGENDA THAT I KNEW DIDN'T HAVE THE SUPPORT.

WASTING EVERYBODY'S TIME AND LET'S MAKE SURE IT HAS A WELL-ROUNDED SUPPORT NETWORK THAT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO PASS AND MAKE IT TO THE NEXT CHAMBER.

JUST BECAUSE WE HEAR AT EVERY COMMITTEE HEARING, PEOPLE WILL SAY, I'M VOTING AYE ON THIS TODAY AND RESERVE TO CHANGE IT ON THE FLOOR AND THAT DOES HAPPEN.

>> Ted: RIGHT.

SO SHOULD REPUBLICANS, THEN NEED A CERTAINLY NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS TO HAVE THEIR LEGISLATION HEARD?

>> YOU KNOW WHAT?

WE'LL SEE THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE MAJORITY PARTY RIGHT NOW GETS TO GO AHEAD AND DICTATE WHAT GOES ON THE BOARD AND THE SPEAKER DOES THAT AND THE PRESIDENT DOES, AS WELL.

THAT'S THE FREEDOM THEY HAVE TO DO THAT AND THEY KNOW -- THEY WOULD ASSUME IF THERE'S A MAJORITY OF THE MAJORITY, THAT PROBABLY IT MEANS THERE WILL BE A BIPARTISAN PATHWAY THERE TO GET IT DONE.

>> Ted: THE LEADERSHIP HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS.

IS IT FUNDAMENTALLY FAIR AND AGAIN, SHOULD REPUBLICANS NEED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT TO HAVE THEIR LEGISLATION VOTE?

>> WE HAVE A LOT OF LEGISLATION WITH BIPARTISAN VOTE?

>> Ted: SHESHOULD YOU NEED IT?

>> TODAY YOU HAD A BILL THAT DEALT WITH, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR BORDER, THAT DEALT WITH PREGNANT WOMEN BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.

ALL THOSE WERE BIPARTISAN.

THE DRUG CARTEL BEING CLASSIFIED AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AND ALL DEMOCRATS VOTED NO.

>> Ted: YOU KNOW WHY BECAUSE THEY'RE PROTESTING THEY NEED A SUPER MAJORITY WHILE YOU DON'T.

>> THEY'RE PROTESTING AN IDEA THAT'S BEEN IN AN EXISTENCE FOR A DECADE.

>> Ted: I DON'T WANT TO ARGUE.

>> IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY.

>> Ted: IT'S NEVER BEEN TOLD EXPLICITLY.

>> IN HAS BEEN -- THERE IS NOTHING THAT HAS CHANGED FROM YESTERDAY TO THE LAST TEN YEARS ONLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO FUNDRAISE OF WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS THE TRUTH.

>> Ted: IS THAT FAIR.

>> I BELIEVE IT'S FAIR.

AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY IT'S FAIR.

YOU HAD -- BEFORE THEIR LEADERSHIP CAME IN TO STOP GETTING SUPPORT, THEY WERE ALL DOING IT AND AGREED.

YOU HAD MEMBERS SAYING CAN I GET YOUR SUPPORT ON THE BILL.

IT WAS WHEN THEY STOPPED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LIKE THAT.

WE PLAYED BY THOSE RULES AS REPUBLICANS.

TO ME, IT IS FAIR THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD PLAY BY THOSE RULES.

>> Ted: GOOD CONVERSATION AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

UP NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON, A NEW DOCUMENTARY BETWEEN WILDLIFE AND CULTURE.

EXPLICITLY >> THE WEIGHT OF A FILMER IS ANEW DOCUMENTARY FOCUSING ON LIBERTY WILDLIFE AND THE LEGACY OF PRESERVING NATURE AND CULTURES.

THE FILM AIRS TONIGHT ON ARIZONA PBS AND JOINING US IS LAURA HACKET AND ALSO WITH US IS KRISTIN ATWELL FORD AND WE HAVE TUCKER HERE AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT TUCKER IN JUST A SECOND.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS AND WHAT IS IT?

>> WE HAVE A NONPROFIT WILDLIFE RESCUE, CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION.

WE HAVE A LOT IN A SMALL LITTLE GROUP RIGHT THERE.

WE'RE BASICALLY RESCUING SICK, INJURED WILDLIFE WITH REHABILITATING THEM BACK TO THE WILD.

>> Ted: THIS DOCUMENTARY, BASICALLY, ON LIBERTY WILDLIFE AND CERTAIN RESPECTS HERE AND WHY DID YOU DECIDE THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?

>> LIBERTY WILDLIFE IS PART OF THE FASCIA OF OUR COMMUNITY.

THERE ARE SO MANY STORIES THAT RELATE TO NOT ONLY WILDLIFE REHABILITATION, BUT THESE INNER SECTIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS LIKE ARIZONA GAME AND FISH AND APS AND THE VERDE CANNON RAILROAD AND THE INITIAL STORY THAT REALLY DREW US TO LIBERTY WILDLIFE WAS THEIR EAGLE FEATHER REPOSITORY.

NOT ONLY DO THEY CARE FOR REHABILITATETIVE WILDLIFE BUT PROVIDE FEATHERS FOR USE IN THEIR CEREMONIES.

>> Ted: YOU HAVE A HOOP DANCER.

>> YES, TONY DUNCAN.

>> Ted: THIS PARTICULAR ASPECT, THIS IS MORE THAN JUST RESCUING WILDLIFE BUT GETTING INTO CULTURE.

>> EXACTLY.

THIS IS AN AMAZING CONNECTION WHERE WE EVEN HEADLINE AND GIVE LIFE TO FEATHERS THAT CAN NO LONGER FLY AND RECYCLING AND ALSO HELPING THE INDIGENOUS CULTURES AROUND THE COUNTRY.

>> Ted: HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN AROUND?

>> SINCE 1981, SO OVER 40 YEARS.

WE STARTED OFF SMALL WITH 80 ANIMALS AND LAST YEAR, WE TOOK IN 11,000 ANIMALS.

>> Ted: HOW HAS THAT CHANGED AND HOW MUCH HAVE YOU GROWN?

>> WE HAD TO MOVE FROM OUR SMALL LOCATION, OUR VET'S BACKYARD IN NORTH SCOTTSDALE AND IN 2016, WE MOVED TO A SIX-ACRE PROPERTY SOUTH OF THE AIRPORT AND WE COULD EXPAND AND HAVE AN ONSITE LOCATION AND HAVE FIELD TRIPS AND TOURISTS.

>> Ted: KRISTEN, HOW DID THIS IDEA GET STARTED HOW WAS THE PROJECT PRESENTED?

I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A STORY AND HOW DID IT ALL COME TOGETHER?

>> WELL, IT'S OUR EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MELANIE AND ROB WALTON WANTED THE STORY TOLD AND THAT THE NON-EAGLE REPOSITORY IS AVAILABLE AND ONCE WE GOT IN, WE REALIZE THERE'S NO MANY RICH STORIES AND ALL OF THIS WILDLIFE THAT LIVES IN THE CITY WITH US AND IT REALLY RETURNED MY SENSE OF WONDER TO WORK ON THIS.

>> Ted: IT'S TRUE.

A LOT OF THIS WAS AROUND TEMPE TOWN LAKE.

>> OUR CINEMAINGABSOLUTELY.

>> WHEN YOU'RE CAPTURING THIS, IS THAT THE TIME TO GET IT SUNSET, SUNRISE?

>> GET THEM WHEN THEY'RE HUNGRY.

THEY WOULD HUNT AND INTERACT AND IT'S AMAZING WHAT BILL CAPTURED.

>> Ted: I'VE SEEN A BALD EAGLE YEARS AGO AND ARE THEY STILL DOWN THERE?

>> WE'VE DOCUMENTED IT.

WE HAVE PROOF THEY ARE THERE.

>> Ted: LET'S TALK ABOUT TUCKER BECAUSE THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL BIRD.

>> HE'S FOR JUST, A GREAT HORNED OWL AND ONE THAT WAS LIVING OUT IN THE WILD AND HE WAS ON THE HUNT ONE NIGHT WHEN, UNFORTUNATELY, HE GOT HIT BY A CAR.

AND THE PEOPLE WHO HIT HIM KNEW THEY HAD HIT SOMETHING AND COULDN'T FIND THE OWL AND WENT TO BED.

WENT TO WORK OR TRIED TO GO TO WORK AND FIND HIM IN THE GRILL STILL ALIVE.

OUR RESCUE VOLUNTEERS HAD TO REMOVE THE GRILL OF THE CAR AND BRING HIM INTO OUR HOSPITAL WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO REHABILITATE SOME BROKEN BONES IN HIS WIPING WINGS AND HELP WITH HEAD TRAUMA.

HE'S ONE OF OUR EDUCATION AMBASSADORS TO TALK TO THE PUBLIC AND LET PEOPLE GET THIS CLOSE TO AN OWL.

>> HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT HANDLE CAPTIVITY?

>> HE DOES REALLY WELL.

WE HAVE SOME THAT DON'T WANT TO BE IN FRONT OF BRIGHT LIGHTS OR THE PUBLIC AND THEY CAN BE FOSTER PARENTS AND THEY'LL BE ON THE REHAB SIDE WHERE THEY ACT AS PARENTS TO THE BABY RAPTORS AND THE BABY RAPTORS LEARN TO BE AN ADULT GRAY-HORNED OWL.

>> Ted: WHOEVER IS WORKING WITH TUCKER HAS DONE A GREAT JOB.

>> THIS LADY HERE.

>> Ted: CONGRATULATIONS.

ARIZONA PBS TONIGHT AND WE HAVE ABOUT 20 SECONDS LEFT AND HOW IMPORTANT IS IT THAT YOU'RE ON PBS?

>> A DREAM COME TRUE TO TELL THIS LOCAL STORY ABOUT THE FABRIC OF THE COMMUNITY AND PREMIERING IT HERE IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS.

>> Ted: CONGRATULATIONS ON THE PROJECT AND CONGRATULATIONS ON TUCKER AND CONTINUED SUCCESS FOR YOU BOTH.

>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> Ted: THAT'S IT FOR NOW.

I'M TED SIMONS AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

♪♪ - Another powerful edition of Arizona Horizon.

That has been a part of the news POWERFUL EDITION OF "ARIZONA HORIZON" AND THAT HAS BEEN A PART OF THE NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAMMING IN THE GRAND CANYON STATE FOR AS LONG I CAN REMEMBER.

WHEN I CAME TO ARIZONA BACK IN 1988 AS A YOUNG JOURNALIST IN LAKE HAVASU CITY, I WAS WATCHING MICHAEL GRANT IN THAT CHAIR.

NOW IT'S BEEN TED SIMON AND TED HAS BEEN ASKING THE QUESTIONS ALL OF US WISH WE COULD ASK, GETTING THE ANSWERS THAT ALL OF US WISH WE COULD GET.

IT IS POWERFUL NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIR'S PROGRAMMING COVERING LIKE AT THE ARIZONA LEGISLATURE AND NOBODY DOES THAT BETTER.

HERE WE ARE GOING INTO ELECTION SEASON AGAIN AND ARIZONA HORIZON AND ARIZONA PBS, FLAT OUT THE BEST ELECTION COVERAGE YOU CAN POSSIBLY GET.

IT'S RIGHT HERE.

SO GIVES US A CALL, TEXT US OR GO ONLINE AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR