states. you have more of the grants that come from the federal government. so it's time, we believe, that every vote in every state should count the same. >> thank you. trent? >> yeah, so thank you so much for putting this on. i completely agree with ted, one of the reasons we were talking about this is that i spent so much time working on the electoral college and studying this, going back into the 1990's, but really over the last 10 years. it's probably because it's an issue where good people can disagree and there are democrats who agree with me. there are republicans who agree with ted. i think it makes it a more edifying issue to work on. but i do think it's important to go back to the getting of the electoral college in the beginning of the national popular vote movement to understand what the institution is about. and if you go back to the founding debate at the constitutional convention, you actually find a debate like this althoughbit, which is, it's james madison debating himself. b

individual state launching a lawsuit for example and in that instance of the states are free to join or add support if they think it impacts their consumers. this is an investigation. the investigation i am sure with the talent that these offices represent will be thorough and comprehensive. >> we are meeting it out of our office. we are open with our leadership teams to participating talents from literally every office in this country. thank you all for being here. obviously very important investigation and you will be hearing more about this as the days come. thank you. >> thank you. >> as they leave i will stay around and all our officers and departments in the states and states participating will take questions and press releases will be forthcoming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> moving on here if you missed any of the attorney general had to say about the investigation of large tech firms the remarks will be available to view online shortly at our website, c-span .org. just type attorneys general in the search box. congress retu

solution is over so if there is no 2 state solution then there is a one state solution can israel's political right deal with a one state solution or are you going to be just like jared cushion and just pretend they're not there go ahead and tell the world they're a year from now probably would not be around. secondly israeli still as solid of vital democracy. obviously the result you patient alongside the israelis democracy i don't think he needs story where our ear rivera's should be. moved and i i would say that that's not the end of the 2 state solution but you need to go into court all the label in israel for the occupation and for their wars it's wrong you need 2 $44.00 x. 4 an agreement and the palestinians for many many years blow it time and after. time so if we are very new beginning maybe dairies it all change and i think it's a good it's a good sign did you always going out ok philip we were talking about the 2 state solution i mean and all of this goes back to which i think at the end of the day my personal opinion it was just a con job that's how it's been worked out a

you mentioned the fact you can work with the state legislature but. >> most states it is more we are the downturn fall in terms to make the cuts with those tax increases and depending on where you are relative to the economic downturn. >> some of the states already passed a budget for the year did not include administrative cost so he didn't have the ability to speak who became the irs commissioner afterwards but with the aid of one.2 when we could create a category of indirect cost so people could use that for administrative purposes. it with those challenges that can exist if you spend money quickly you run into those obstacles that you don't think about when you are writing the budget policy and that is havin having. >> that national organization of street one - - state controllers and auditors what is very helpful because they could see and let folks know what the budget office it was okay to do these things. >> going back on the maintenance of effort, we had a huge fight and but i would say i remember getting that that governors association along with others there were five obje

reporter: is one state missing the 49 states of the district of columbia? >> forty-eight states, district of colombia puerto rico and a , few states missing. >> you might be surprised that it's in california where google is located and in alabama. [inaudible questions] >> and by the way, we can still change our minds. reporter: even if it is too soon to say what the remedy will look like, what should the marketplace look like? again, we will go with both of us. you shouldn'tet, punish somebody for having a unique technology. but when you have companies that may be preventing other entrants into the market with unfair practices and dominating a market, it hopefully hurts consumers because even though there is maybe not a direct cost to searching on the internet, if advertising costs are higher, who ends up paying it? it is passed on to the consumers, so ultimately, our consumers are harmed. so that is our focus. >> the only thing i would touch on an fsis again is the ubiquitous mess and -- emphasize again is the ubiquitousness of the search engine itself. in

you are not the head of the state and in fact the united states will defend its flood. it is an accurate position that was put by the secretary of the war in a conversation with winston churchill. it seems you are aware thinking particularly of the philippines and the secretary of defense and said that was also an accurate prediction. as others might put it, we conquer the colonies. guam first in the united states fortified since they were able to take it through the day going another way with a bookmark difficult. in preparing to take guam, the united states bombarded them for two weeks taking on japanese military targets but laying waste to the capital cities overall with four fifths of the buildings in guam were destroyed and there was a japanese assault on fighting a fight and they begin beheading and executing hundreds of them and had started rolling through the streets. that was a preview of what might have been in the philippines. shortly after the united states under douglas macarthur went to take the philippines and particularly focused its attention on the cit

united states ambassador to the united nations kelly craft, united states secretary of state mike pompeo. [applause] >> good morning everyone. across the countries and cultures we come together as one --ted by our belief this understanding is not universal. today all over the world people of faith face a rising tide of persecution. we have witnessed horrific acts of violence committed against worshipers in mosques, churches and synagogues. we have watched the arbitrary detention and mistreatment of religious minorities in countries around the globe. and we have felt the chill of a world that seems increasingly disinterested in defending the rights of all people to exercise a sincerely held religious belief. as leaders, at times such as this calls us to demonstrate our commitment to religious liberty not only in word but in deed which is why i'm so extraordinarily pleased and honored we are joined by president donald trump and vice president mike pence. [applause] >> under the leadership of these is note united states only -- just two months ago president trump posted victims of religious

iran has lived without the united states for 40 years iran has lived in spite of the united states for 40 years in order to remove security council resolutions the presence of the 5 permanent members of the security council required so we were not eager to negotiate with the united states is was a necessity once. that. objective was achieved for us the presence of the united states was not a major plus as you said from the very beginning even during the obama administration the united states was more interested in keeping the sanctions that it had not lifted than observing its obligations to lift the sanctions so this has been the case and we will never be heard never. naive about the united states i lived in the u.s. for 30 years of follow the united states for the past 40 years so i know what i'm probably missing many of your interviews you stressed that economic benefits is one of the tenets of this deal economic benefits economic benefits are one of the tenets of the deed and the deed actually rests on 2 pillars not nonproliferation and normalization of economic relations but that

state government. michigan,mber that in 43% of the state budget is federal dollars. every single day, we should be working together. she can state university takes in a ton of federal grant -- michigan state university takes in a ton of federal grants. we have block grants. we have an incredible amount of federal dollars. we have a lot of interaction between the state government and the federal government and it is wonderful to have the state government here in the district. it means you do not have to work hard to find the right people in state government who can tag with you on important issues. with youn tagteam on important issues. it makes it really effective. the most important thing i carry ofh me from 15 years national security is the focus on the mission. when you are at the cia or doing a tour in iraq, none of the policy matters. the mission matters. what are you trying to get done? i bring that same spirit to congress. on homeland security, there is no way to get around the fact we have a gr

specialist united states army. petty officer rose barnes, united states navy. dr. betrue. >> second class chris rome yea yoe united states navy. >> mary jane booth. donna m. bo went. allen p. boyle. bernard c. brown ii. christopher l.burford, united states navy. captain charles f.burlingame iii. petty officer third class daniel m.caballero, united states navy. is sergeant first class jose o. calderon-olmedo, united states navy. suzanne m. calley. sharon a. carver. willi william e.caswell. sergeant first class john j j. chada, retired. rosa maria chap ara. david m.charlebois. sara m. clark. julian t. cooper. asia s.cottom. a da m. davis. james d.debeuneure. capta captain gerald f.deconto, united states navy. rodney dickens. lieutenant colonel eddie a. dillard. petty officer first class johnny doctor jr., united states navy. captain robert e. dolan, jr., united states navy. commander william h. donovan, united states navy. lieutenant commander charles a.droz iii, united states navy, retired. commander patrick dunn, united states navy. petty officer first class edward

the state of israel. we have defended and developed our homeland and today the state of israel is the wrong -- is strong on defense, a nation that leads in many fields. israel is a real democracy for all of its citizens, jewish and non-jewish alike. theel is the nationstate of jewish people, based on thousands of years of jewish history and the right of the jewish people to its own u.n.and, just as the decided 72 years ago. the president of the united states, donald trump, for his historic and brave decision to recognize jerusalem, the internal capital of the jewish people for 3000 years, as the capital of israel. [applause] and to relocate the american embassy to jerusalem. [applause] countries to follow the united states and to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. no one can separate the jewish people from our historic homeland, and no one can separate us from jerusalem, our eternal capital. [applause] israel wants peace with all its neighbors. withgned peace agreements egypt, jordan, and are w

spoke to the states in particular, on, similarities, particularly in preclearance states? >> no, sir. but one of the things that is important about the preclearance provision is that it accounts for changing practices, so, state could change the practice to encapsulate more people in the purge process. >> it you said, did you not say, shall be first is holder, the purges have increased in the clearance states while they have not increased -- but it is correct, that is correct. the state however that, use a policy like for example, i'm assuming you're pointing to ohio and the like that use a failure to vote as a trigger for sending a notice. another in more places, not just 70s. speculatively with australia? it is required by law you have to vote? but that is correct and how do they get along, and have to purge anybody, do they? but i'm not familiar with how they enact the law. i think it is important in this country is there is evidence of discrimination. congress has vast majority to rectify that pursuant to the ability under the fifth amendment. >> it >> does the effecti

a lot of the states in this new band of former warsaw pact states were left untethered. new security problems arose that we had to deal with. instability in the balkans, old historical grievances, separatism and the question became, how do we handle these things? and in part by default and in part by design, nato became the primary institution that was addressing these problems. a lot of the states that were facing this new situation looked at nato and said, that looks attractive. why? the folks in that club are all pretty rich, pretty secure, pretty prosperous and we remember some of the old problems we had with the folks running things in moscow and that security blanket over there looks pretty appealing. so what happened, that vacuum in the immediate post-cold war period got filled by nato and as it did, russia's insecurities became exacerbated. we gradually in part by design in part by the logic of events that nobody really planned wound up in a situation where we have a new security arrangement in europe and one of europe's largest powers is not a part of it. russia

as a state employee, are you involved in recommending, encouraging our state politicians to create state climate action plans? because we have to go beyond the city ones to the state level, and i just wondered that your influence of their with mitigation and adaptation with climate action plans at the state level. >> good question. >> this has to be multiagency, public-private partnership. one agency can't do it. iowa did have a plan in 2011 from the legislature, mandated in the legislature, then it expired. there was a starting point in iowa, and we have noticed smaller cities, des moines, iowa city, iowa flood center, our universities. they have the pieces there. getting those pieces together is why we need a larger collaboration. >> alright, another question over here. >> i teach at drake. i can see indeed the younger generation is getting slowly but surely, it is not that fast, to it. my question is how bad do you think things have to get before those who actually make decisions wake up? and then the question is that beyond the tipping point that point we can still do it? >> so the t

the economy was hot a beautiful state it was a state that everybody wanted to go to now it's a state everybody wants to leave. that is the difference. between them and us. everybody lives in florida right now with no income tax and the democrats try to put an income tax on it. for five states have no income tax they are bustling people are moving to those states. what gets me is you have people that spend their whole life in new york or new york city and they vote democrat, democrat, democrat, ty get a big pension then they fly - - then they moved to florida and they vote democrat. i called the locust. [laughter] [applause] then the former crazy governor brown has vetoed some i am crazy but you're crazier than i am. [laughter] and that enormous amount of money on the railway. people should go to prison for stuff like that. they really should. it is like obama care. they said it would solve everything. and nobody says a word about obama care. it is medicare for all. like locusts they destroy one thing they move on to the next if you read the first chapter of my book you always have to

in all of my intercessions with the secretary of state and with the state department, no one has ever told me that rudy guiliani plays any role at any level in any way with the state department. >> members of the house intelligence committee, senator, want to hear testimony from rudy guiliani and from the attorney general, bill barr. what happens if these key witnesses refuse to cooperate? >> well, this is where the house can play a much different role than we can in the minority in the senate. the house has the power to subpoena these individuals. if they fail to comply with the subpoena not just for documents, which i understand the house committees did today, can subpoena the secretary of state to come before their committee, if in fact he refuses to do so voluntarily. i would hope he does so voluntarily, i hope he would do so before the senate foreign relations committee. i hope chairman risch will take participation in doing the oversight, reviews, request for documents, and engagement with the secretary of state because this goes to the very essence of how we're conducting forei

trump, you are surrounded by the deep state and treasury and in-state. they are, their overarching objective is to prevent this administration from dismantling the iran deal completely because they believe one of the 2020 democratic residential candidates is going to win. we've all seen the debate stages, tweedledum and tweedledum are. and every one of them would eagerly reinstate the obama iran deal. if we finish the job and in the waivers there will be no deal to reinstate. and indeed what we should do is exercise the sanctions that the us has a unilateral right to do to impose united nations sanctions, that is what we should be doing. but mr. pres., the deep state doesn't want you to do it. and they are arguing to you with everything they can and you've just got to issue a waiver, these are the same people that told you you couldn't pull out of the deal to begin with. these are the same people that told you we couldn't move the embassy to jerusalem. they are urging weakness and appeasement and if the trump administration takes their advice they will h

mayor, who i think is one of the best detectives in the united states. i would like to have him head my squad of detectives. the beginning, do we face, hopeless job, clearing out gangsters and racketeers. for the last time, are you going to keep out of our territory or not? >> i'm not. ♪ i don't need any protection. handpickeddewey's staff began singling out single records and getting them to talk. after long months of hard , patient, dangerous work, do we had collected enough evidence to move in on the racketeers. out of the 73 indictments he secured, duly convicted all but up, brackets begin breaking and the gang overlords went off to jail. on the strength of this. record, he was nominated for district attorney. candidatee tammany and continued his crime smashing record and was on the roles of the governor's in albany. though it was in new york that dewey rose to fame, he is the product of a small town in the midwest, having born in a general store in michigan in 1902. he was the only child of george martin dewey, leader and the publisher of the loca

our state employees were all over the place, so we put a freeze on out-of-state travel. we didn't tell them they couldn't go, we just said they had to tell us where they were going and why. and that reduced the budget for out-of-state travel 78%. [applause] for eight years, the number of state employees had been increasing at a rate of 4% to 5.5% each year. we didn't think it was necessary, but we had to prove it so we put a freeze on hiring replacements for those who quit or retired. and now, a year later, i can tell you that we did bring that annual increase to a halt at we have 2.5% fewer employees in the state of california than one year ago. not all our savings were in the area of millions of dollars. in my office, i discovered a onery with another fellow's name on it. i got some with my name on it for formal correspondence. now the girls just x out that other name and type mind in. -- and type mine in. and you know i get a certain , amount of pleasure out of that. [applause] but we turn to the most inspiring thing. returned to the people as we said we would. we tur

because there was some unsettled business between the state of michigan and the state of ohio, as in who would own toledo. both states saw it as a very valuable port on lake eire -- er ie and the river that would help with transportation. it took about two years. they called it the toledo war. michigan finally agreed that if the country would let it become a state, they would let toledo become part of ohio. as a consolation prize, michigan. the western half of the upper peninsula. ohioans and michiganans agree that michigan got the better deal, because that is where they found the iron ore in the rich deposits that helped her she can become the rich manufacturing state it did. the northern half of the lower peninsula was rich with native forests, largely pines. surveyor douglas houghton went up and found natural iron ore and copper deposits. so in the last half of the 19th century, most of the lumber in the lower part of the lower peninsula was cut down and harvested. full-scale mining efforts began in the upper peninsula for copper and iron ore. when you are extracting the copper an

and that is guaranteed here in the united states and if you can't practice at the united states you're well placed to bring in a lawsuit that you would choose and to declare and to put forward that you have a 1st amendment right in the united states to do this and by the way we are not a perfect country and we don't claim to be but we are one the do it we do believe in these rights is fundamental rights like religious freedom we do practice them and we have problems and they end up in the court system but we're going to continue to push these rights every chance and every place we can but the policy was condemned widely by religious groups including the jewish community the policy of barring people from muslim majority countries was the american jewish world service coded and nothing less than a xenophobia muslim in the intent of which has been made clear by president chum through multiple anti muslim statements over several is it that it doesn't help your cause to be promoting international religious freedom when you get responses like that does it. i don't i don't care for those resp

and i'll soon be the father-in-law of a united states navy pilot. so i want to say thank you for standing with this president in rebuilding the military of the united states of america. we've increased military spending in this country already by the largest amount since the days of ronald reagan. we've restored the arsenal of democracy. and with that renewed american strength, america is respected in the world again. it's our allies are doing more than ever before in our common defense. and we've seen even rogue states like north korea coming to the table to begin discussions about achieving peace. and that's because we all know, as republicans, what this president knows, that peace can only be achieved through strength. but it wasn't just about security and the common defense, but it was also about reviving this economy. it's amazing to think, the last eight years, the most powerful economy in the history of the world had only grown by less than 2 percent. but because of house republicans and that majority in the last two years, we were able to cu

the united states lost 60,000 entereds after china the wto. this is happening to other countries all over the globe. the wto needs drastic change. the second largest economy in the world should not be permitted to declare itself a developing country in order to game the system that others' -- at others' expense. for years, these abuses were tolerated. ignored or even encouraged. globalism exerted a religious pull over past leaders, causing them to ignore their own national interest. but as far as america is concerned, those days are over. to confront these unfair practices, i placed massive tariffs on more than $500 billion worth of chinese-made goods. already, as a result of these tariffs, supply chains are relocating back to america and to other nations and billions of dollars are being paid to our treasury. the american people are absolutely committed to restoring balance to our relationship with china. hopefully we can reach an agreement that would be beneficial for both countries. but as i have made very clear, i will not accept a bad dea

that industry is one of the backbones of lansing with michigan state university and state capitol and we have automobile manufacturing. those three components have kept lansing a very successful town. it started with r.e. and building

clobbered by the red states and you can see that in terms of the four biggest states in the country, texas and florida with no income tax and right to work laws and less regulations, literally stealing the assets of the red states like california and new york, which are losing their people. i would stop by saying the evidence is pretty crystal-clear that free enterprise is the solution to our problems and we need to really think about how we can persuade voters that this is the right solution. jillian: you clocked in at five minutes and 30 seconds. stephen: you can use my extra time, then. all, thank youof to our host for the invitation and the willingness to engage a democratic-socialist in debate. best of classical liberalism and the best of democratic socialism share common routes and the enlightenment tradition and in an era of growing authoritarianism and narrowmindedness, i am glad to embrace the spirit of free inquiry. i will try to briefly outline a definition of what capitalism definition of -- what democratic socialism is and what democratic-socialist have accomplished as a

from the northern states. the differences that arose in the constitutional convention and later in the 1790s were differences, i think, essentially of ideology, not sectional differences. the delegates' difference essentially over the strength of the national government vis-a-vis the states. the split in the convention was the large states that wanted proportional representation in both houses of congress and the small states that feared being overwhelmed by the more populous states. james madison of virginia and james wilson of pennsylvania eventually had to surrender to the wishes of the small states and accept the so-called connecticut compromise that gave equal representation of two senators from each state. the issue did not divide along sectional lines. although at one point, madison tried to suggest the real division was between slave holding and non-slave holding states. everyone knew this was a tactical faint to get the division off the large and small state division in proportion to representation in

the point is if the president of the united states called up every sitting united states attorney in the country, right, and said -- i never hear anybody answer the question when they're supportive of the president. is it an abuse of power or potentially a crime for the sitting president to call up the united states attorney and say, i hear there's a lot of corruption in vermont. there's a lot of corruption on. and bernie sanders people say, bernie sanders and his kids are full of corruption. you should look at that. now change the example and say he's done that to every u.s. attorney in the country, and all of them have enough integrity not to do anything about it. would you really sit here and say, what was the effect of that error in judgment? no. you would call it an abuse of power, and i think it would be impeachable on those facts alone. >> the president has the absolute right to suggest an investigation. he's the executive branch. that's an -- >> he's not given rights. he's given responsibilities. >> no. he's given the power to faithfully execute the law. if he wants -- if he

produces state controlled or parra states or part of states corporations it's not my state mission it's just a nation of invention the mines are a far more away and so on. there's too much state in social fabric and economic for big there's too much state and there were going back to my question about strategic initiatives. i think for what putin sees as he searches you can issue. a couple of national projects that he put forth as sort of the ad. gins of growth and i know that you. view them with i guess quite a lot of contempt is that i'm sure most of them some of them pretty important. tell me they qualify as strategic initiatives. some of them. are supposed to change the. state work. for. the state works how people leave i think that that was what doesn't work. why is that not working because we have this sluggish growth over income for us. we know and then know pretty well that when you pour one group book money from state budget into record i mean how much do we get in g.d.p. lessons. from my own life i don't know if you're aware of that but if you days ago older vaccination record

the united states does not seek conflict with any other nation. we desire peace, cooperation and mutual gain with all. but i will never fail to defend america's interests. one of the greatest security threats facing peace-loving nations today is the repressive regime in iran. the regime's record of death and destruction is well-known to us all. not only is iran the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, but iran's leaders are fueling the tragic wars in both syria and yemen. at the same time, the regime is squandering the nation's wealth and future in a fanatical quest for nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. we must never allow this to happen. to stop iran's path to nuclear weapons and missiles, i withdrew the united states from the terrible iran nuclear deal. which has very little time remaining, did not allow inspection of important sites, and did not cover ballistic missiles. following our withdrawal, we have implemented severe economic sanctions on the country. hoping to free itself from sanctions, the regime has escalated it

is no longer in the united states senate, that lindsey graham is no longer in the united states senate, and that people, trump sycophants -- [cheers and applause] rep. ryan: we need policies in the united states that are not left or right. we need policies as democrats that are about new and better. the old culture wars going on since vietnam have got to be put in the past. i want us to adopt an industrial policy in the united states where we start building things again in this country, we start making things again in this country. one of my first acts will be to appoint a chief manufacturing officer. if we want to address climate, we need to dominate the industries of the future, and my chief manufacturing officer will make sure we are out building the chinese when it comes to electric vehicles, that the american workers are building the batteries and charging stations and solar panels in the wind turbines that will make up the new economy. [applause] rep. ryan: and i want to lead a party that is proud to stand at podiums like this all across the united states and say, we want to make

secretary of state nicole. thank you both very much. >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be here today. thank you for the acpd for hosting us. we were joking, i'm a ucla bruin but love be -- yeah, go, bruins, but love being involved with the program as well. very excited to talk to you today. as you know, there's never been a more -- can you hear me? there we go. better? not better. can you hear me now? all right. never been a more exciting or important time for public diplomacy and communications and how the united states is communicating both policy and values in every corner of the world. and so in this type of media environment and this type of foreign policy environment, the thinking we put behind this merger and the intent behind it was to make sure that we can accelerate and really deliver on what we're charged with doing previously both from p & a and effectively communicate around the world. we know the communications landscape is fast accelerating. there's a new platform popping up. tech is driving a lot

the state department had no immediate comment. that raises the question what did secretary of state know about rudy giuliani's ukrainian negotiations and when did he know it. joining us is ambassador wendy sherman, former undersecretary of state during the obama administration. also an msnbc global affairs contributor. ambassador sherman, what should the secretary of state have known and done about what rudy giuliani was up to? >> if rudy giuliani was going to ukraine and meeting in other countries with aides to the head of ukraine, the state department -- as the president's political lawyer, the state department really should have had nothing to do with it. to put senior foreign service officers, to put ambassadors, to put working people, civil servants in the cross hairs of a political controversy is completely inappropriate. what we're seeing here is giuliani acting as the president's setup guy. his interview last night on a another network was really to get the story out there that this was all about going after investigating

state department has to say. you know, we are trying to keep on living our daily life and trying to deal with two kids under 3 in a house -- >> that's no small feat. >> it's challenging and it's just like another layer of anxiety which is really unnecessary. i mean it's very upsetting, it's very nerve-racking to be in a scenario where we need to fight for our family, we need to fight for our marriage, for this. i mean we are parents, we've been married for six years, and the last thing that would have imagined to do is being here on tv and not like, you know, taking those kids to the playground and like enjoying being parents. >> i want to say, you know, we were there the moment she was born. we were the first people who held her. she first cried in our arms. we gave her her first feeding, bath, she first slept on our chest, skin to skin. we are the only parents she's ever know. we know what a family is. the law is clear on what a family is. we filed this suit on my parents' 52nd wedding anniversary. they raised

when i showed you the blue states are the red states. the states with forced unionism are crying about is half as many jobs as states without forced unionism . >> in the context of united states , the right to work laws serve to undermine and enfeeble a labor movement that has been assaulted . >> how? >> in most countries of the world that have a larger more powerful labor movement, in fact certain things that exist in the u.s. labor don't exist in other countries. like automatic do dues deduction . another continue can be covered by the agreement and choose to opt out. there user more engaged they feel part of it . >> in the united states you would be engaged in forcing workers to join even if they don't want to ? >> i think the act of unionizing should be a one time thing either. the union mandate should be continually renewed. in other words i think that as individuals you might not want people to opt out because of certain problems. but that workers should have the chance to advocate with other workers for decertification. to make it

we work very closely with the president of the united states. i think we have a pretty good understanding of how he's thinking about things. i think you would agree, steven, at nearly all times. so, you know, our mission says not to talk about these inner workings and the palace intrigue i know you're so curious about but to talk about things that matter with foreign policy. >> i would just add that people who know should know and we won't get into the administrative details. >> secretary pompeo, you reported on syria and the refugee camps last night. our david muir was there. he talked about how these refugee camps were blending in. there are people dancing around the isis ground. are you concerned about these becoming a breeding ground for terrorists? >> there is a long history of what you're describing, camps in iraq, camps where other prisoners were detained and elements breeding in those places. we are working diligently on this. we have conduct enormous operations on isis during the last handful of days. we are very focused on this. the su

new york state is unbeknownst to many a very large agricultural state, one of the largest in the country, and we do have quite a bit of manufacturing. currently, in our trade relationships with mexico and canada, we export over $18 billion worth of goods. 15.5 billion of that is with canada. canada is our most important trading partner. this agreement, if it is ratified, and i certainly hope it will be shortly, will improve our trading relationship with canada and actually result in updating and huge improvements, particularly with agricultural trade for new york's farmers. we believe this is critically important. this relationship provides and supports over 100,000 in new york state. we think that number will grow once usmca is ratified. so we have urged our congressional delegation, along with many other businesses across the state to show their support for usmca so it can actually take effect. thank you. mr. donohue: thank you, all, for your remarks this morning. we'll open up the floor to questions. i would just ask that you identify yourself and your news organization. reporter: hi.

do you have a view as how new york states or other states might approach to reconcile clean power sources, doing it in a way that works in a marketplace? do you have views on that? guest: again, i don't want to speculate on something that could come before the commission. so i can't speak to that. host: ok. so, related to this, talk a little bit about climate change. so you're on the record as expressing serious concern about climate change. give us a sense of value view ferc's role in that. guest: i think at the commission, we are not an environmental regulator. we're a market regulator. in my view, as somebody concerned about climate change and believes we need to mitigate admissions, -- emissions, i believe market-based solutions are the key to achieving those carbon reductions. and i think that is borne out by the evidence we seen, where in our power markets -- we just look to the state of our power markets. federal cap entry was never passed -- antitrade was never passed -- cap and trade was never passed through congress. the clean power act was state through the courts. administrati

be allowed to come to the united states. right? whether you have travel documents or not. we've already allowed u.s. citizens and non-u.s. citizens. we have already processed people that have travel documents and those who don't. we are trying to do that in the most expeditious way we can to support the humanitarian mission. but like i said before, we are still going to go through the process. and if you looked at the time, the process, i think the first ship that came in had over 1,400 individuals. we did that ship in a couple of hours. right? it was amazing work that the folks at c.b.p. did. but we're still going to do our job. we still need to process and vet them to make sure that we're not letting dangerous people in. taking advantage of this. i'll give you another example. we've had some individuals that brought children with them from the bahamas who lost their mom and dad. so we need to make sure that, was there nefarious activity involved, or were they doing it out of humanitarian reasons? so far, that's what we've

apparently, the state department began contacting former officials in the state department 18 months ago, after trump's election, and then seemed to drop the effort to try and investigate her again, though she was cleared by the justice department under fbi director jim comey, picking it up again in august. that's significant, because it does appear that this push to go back to investigating senator clinton coincides with these attempts to get dirt on joe biden. you know, it would look to the outside, looking in, as if donald trump is now trying to use this state department investigation to try and create sort of legal liability for the former secretary of state and first lady. what do you make of that, as a member of congress? you said on judiciary, what might congress do about that? >> well, we'll investigate it, but this is no different than what this president has been doing, whether it was while he was campaigning or since he's been sworn in to uphold an oath of office that he clearly is in violation of, multiple times. it's a deflection. you see both the president and rudy giul

bases in the united states almost a bases spread across every continent. the archipelago of empire the bases that we have around the world hidden in plain sight . the real territory of our empire but at the same time we maintain independent governments in japan or south korea or germany. they don't have autonomy when it comes to foreign policy so it's a very sophisticated and effective system. where whereby we pat ourselves on the back for helping to midwife democracy in japan and germany and south korea and various other places while keeping the lid on in that we don't know what these countries would do if they were fully independent and the beauty of this system is that most people pay no attention to it at all they think it's just a natural occurrence to have $50000.00 american troops and japan there's no country that has better anti-imperialist credited credit and the united states and we are not trying to recreate the glories of. the british empire we're arguing that the world is round we have a global policy and. all nations have global rights no oce

a couple states were left off the list of states under the old preclearance regime. it's not all dixie. it's south dakota, alaska, newhampshire, michigan , parts of new york, they were covered. new york city but that translates into new york state when it comes to rules that are passed in albany related to the elections in new york so it's not just mississippi and south carolina. >> thanks for that clarification. it's not often in this era that a federal appeals court hasfound purposeful dissemination based on race and voting the ninth circuit court of appeals did just that in the case you describe . and you elaborate a little bit more on the significance of that ninth circuit decision and how it compares to any other recent federal courts, federal appeals court rulings of intentional race dissemination and voting? >> the case in guam that i talked testified about, you can literally have on the voter registration form a love ancestry test, it's on the folder. you have to save your parents are. and it says you have to have the right line before you can vote. and the c

today we may have ten big states, 11 big states. they only represent, let's take 11 biggest dates represent like what, 112 -- i'm trying to remember the number. the other 3838 states can basically the 11 and the 30th represent the same number of people. with big cities if you take the top ten cities is 15% -- top 10%, 8% of the population in the country and the top 50 cities is only 12% of the population. this idea that big cities or big stick to go to control the election, the arithmetic just doesn't support it. the other thing get to think about is that assumes that big cities are always going to vote all democratic and that big states are going to vote, which is not the case. historically when to take a look at the large estates, the highest percentage of democrats receive overall when you average about is 63%. that is the same for the remainder 38 states for republicans. what that says to us is that this country really is hurting much 50-50. when you take a look at -- another example. one-sixth people live in urban centers in th

state tax system, a lot of states do it . i don't see that in the future for illinois. i think if they repeal this constitution they will have less tax forces and the one thing that kind of keeps things going in illinois, that is this low income tax, people willing to put up with the rest of it because there's countervailing positives including that, then that will be gone. one of the things i mentioned was wanting to tackle the quality. i've yet to see evidence that tax policy can meaningfully address that. these states with the highest inequality are also the state with the most progressive tax systems.there the states with the millionaires taxes and the income tax. what i do agree with is this is an opportunity that has not really been used forstate to tackle structural changes. one we focus on quite a lot at the tax foundation is real tax reform. most date tax systems , i would say there dying badly but that concedesthey were designed at all . that's the process of historical evolution and accident that i can go into a st

no state has the ability to opt out of national fuel economy standards, and no state has the authority to set its own fuel economy standards that impact human safety, the environment and commerce for the rest of the country. one national standard will provide much needed certainty to the automotive industry and sets the stage for president trump's ultimate objective, a final safe rule that will save lives and strengthen the economy by reducing the price of new vehicles and helping more americans purchase newer, cleaner and safer cars and trucks. this is good for public safety, good for the economy and good for the environment. here's how today's action works. under the energy, policy or conservation act d.o.t. sets cafe standards. expressly provides that the federal government regulate fuel economy, not the states. since there's a direct scientific link between a car's greenhouse gas emissions and its fuel economy, d.o.t. is determining epica permit -- and withdraw the 2013 waiver for california's states ghg and programs. separate and apart from that epa is withdrawing the waiver based

there are two states in the nation that do not have a state climatologist. tennessee and massachusetts. massachusetts. boston boston is almost underwater now for god's sake. get these guys on the stick here. we have three all-star state climatologist here and we will ask them about what they do and what they hear and what the evidence they are seen from the front lines -- a lot of people think about climate change as this giant monolithic single, but it's a million little problems and fought the local specific way. sure, there are big things we can go after but a lot of little things we can do in these guys are in the trenches dealing with the little things and addressing the concerns of their neighbors. ultimately the people that i listen to the most of the people closest to potential denials and skeptics. or the people who just don't know what to do about it. down in the end is martha, she drove three hours from nebraska to be here and we don't know what her carbon footprint was and will do the math later but it was worth it. i flew so i'm screwed. then in

taking the lives of some adversary of the united states. this is about the only time i got to point out a tremendously large scandal that affects the american people and it's your job to do it, not just mine. i'm doing it to defend my client. >> john: we are out of time. >> rudy: if you're telling me that he had no system with his son to check on conflicts -- so we know of two. we know there's a big conflict with ukraine. we have is a big conflict with china. since joe says and is apparently selling the swamp media on the fact that he didn't know, joe, how many more conflicts are there? venezuela, cuba -- spew what we've got to leave it buried him >> rudy: 1.5 billion is enough -- >> john: we are out of time for this one we clearly we are going to keep looking into this. >> rudy: and this is going to get bigger and bigger and everything i say i can prove. >> john: thanks so coming up, we will get reaction to the president's iran policy with the top democrat on the foreign relations committee, senator ben cardin joins us here next. ♪ it's

at that time, the state health director in the state health department knew about the outbreak. the county health department knew aboutut the outbreak. the residents of flint were very much in the dark about it. as far as we know, the medical community was also in the dark about it for most of the time. >> government officials knew about the outbreak. what were they talking about doing at the time? >> they were talking about where the outbreaks may be stemming from. talks about whether or not the outbreak could be coming from the flint municipal water supply or if the outbreak was confined to one local hospital. what we found in our reporting is an outbreak of legionnaires disease is not confined often to one hospital. the legionella has to come from someplace. in an email, government officials were both speculating whether or not it was coming from the municipal water supply and also we see this narrative starting to form that maybe it is confined to one hospital and it n is not on the municipal war r supply which is very interestg >> where were they getting their water? >> fro

and also the opportunity to serve the senior center and party leader from kentuckian in the united states senate and sent mcconnell in terms of how that and firms my work at the commission, i can't quantify how much i learned from senator mcconnell just about in his work ethic and his discipline and his leadership style, his approach to governance, his approach to bipartisanship. and my working for him, most of the if not all of the legislative initiatives that i worked on, they didn't pass the senate with 16 post, they passed with 85 plus votes, oftentimes and, we are talking substantial legislation on the energy front, on the infrastructure side, multiple pharma bills and highway bills, these are consequential pieces of legislation and i saw how senator mcconnell worked to bridge the interests of kentuckians with a diverse array of folks in his own conference in the senate as well as across the senate. ultimately, a number of these deals were cut while president obama was in the white house so we had to ensure legislation could clear both chambers and be signed by the president, i think

the executive agreement with germany specifically negates that argument and states the united states does not suggest that his policy interest concerning the foundation in themselves provide an independent basis for dismissal of claims and number three the clinton administration senator feinstein i would like to make sure you hear what i'm going to say because the clinton administration negotiated that. when they went to the court they said expressly the agreement does not preclude individuals from filing suit on their insurance policies in court does not mandate individual beneficiaries bring their claim and the clinton administration said that the united states has not undertaken the duty to achieve legal peace for german insurance companies against statement engagement and regulations. the second major argument opponents make is that the legislation would undermine negotiations with germany and others for assistance to survivors. no one has explained specifically while ally once should be able to obtain billions of dollars that go to jewish customers in contrast to rip these germa