i was working as an assistant secretary of state under secretary of state condoleezza rice. notably, since 2017, john thesuccessfully served as united states deputy secretary of state with integrity. respected not just across federal national security agency's and our own government, but internationally and, most importantly, by the department of state which he has helped to lead. he has worked with them, led them stood by them and for in his tenure as deputy secretary. take to quoting the national media but you may have noticed that there is a wide cross-section of journalists and media in our country that have noted john's qualifications and reaffirm the positive impact he has already had on the state department. an article from politico recently stated that, "john sullivan is winning over state department employees. so far, sullivan has shown a fluency with -- a fluency with diplomacy. " crucial ingredients to leading the mission to russia. in a wall street journal op-ed by ambassador thomas pickering, he said of secretary sullivan, i have come to respect john sullivan's

all states are purple states. in states that have a majority of republicans, how do you convince them it is a good thing? part of it gets back to your question, a sense of, we are going to lose the popular vote. that is what everyone cares about in the end. they want what will help their candidate win. >> if you can convince people it is up for grabs, i think you can start to win over the republican-controlled states. those last 74 electoral votes will be a heavier left than the first 190 six. 196. how you convince republican lawmakers to adopt the compacted on the surface looks like something that would hurt them. >> some of my conversations with folks, one of the things folks are congress of aware of is the things that are occurring. states that were for example comfortably red, or certainly comfortably i guess republican-controlled. texas is demographically changing.

we are installing a national verifier prostate by state -- process state by state to make sure we can root out waste, fraud and abuse. the program has had a number of problems in the past trying to address those in multiple different layers and working hard to make that, make it as most efficient as we possibly can. the process is sometimes messy, but the program does exist today. there are some changes that people have looked to make and some changes in policy, and i'll be open to considering those at the right time. >> host: you've been looking at some of those cases of fraud and abuse, haven't you? >> guest: absolutely. we have enforcement action, i can't speak to the specifics, but people have taken advantage of the program in the past, and that's not acceptable. it's a waste of rate payer dollars that particular my fall on the floorest americans. -- poorest americans. >> host: commissioner o'rielly, i want to ask you one more question about the net neutrality decision at the d.c. court of appeals. read from the decision, it i says that the agency did not adequately address petiti

it's not donald trump's state department. it is our state department. today pompeo pushed back on house democrats demand to interview key state department officials as early as this week calling it an act of intimidation. but his efforts to stone wall the impeachment inquiry are already crumbling. just a few hours ago we learned the former special envoy to ukraine will testify in the impeachment inquiry on thursday two days from now. he resigned his post. he's nout alone. the former ambassador to ukraine, the woman who trump seemed to threaten menacingly in his conversation with the ukrainian president will also testify before the house committees next week. mike pompeo coming out today and telling house democrats the state department will not show up for impeachment hearings because we now know mike pompeo was reportedly on that same ukraine call with president zelensky. but remember this is how he reacted when asked about it exactly a week ago. >> "the wall street journal" is reporting that president trump pressed the president of ukraine eight times

there are moments when the united states is more welcoming and moments when the united states is not welcoming at all. we watch this with great interest and try to identify the moments when these things are happening. susan: is the current period of turmoil and debate over immigration different in any important way from past times this country has gone through? dr. kraut: i would argue the current ways of nativism, of anti-immigrant sentiment, of xenophobia is not different in what we have seen in the past. while it seems to us to be peppered with acts of violence and ferocity, there have been other acts of violence, anti-immigrant riots before the civil war, anti-immigrant riots in the 1880's. there have been lots of moments in american history when the anti-immigrant sentiment has been translated into true ugliness. it has brought great harm to the foreign-born. i would argue the current wave, as unpleasant and offputting as it is, is not all that unusual in the history of our country. susan: what causes congress to ultimately act during these periods? dr. kraut: congress acts most

state group was formed by merging with other groupslj the islamic state group was formed by merging with other groups. i want to pause there. for anyonejust joining us, we have a picture of the white house. plenty of flags, including one of the marine corps. we expect president trump very shortly to come out and talk about the tweet that he sent last night when he said something big was happening. reports are that us special forces have carried out an attack on abu bakr al—baghdadi. we will continue talking while we keep an eye on those pictures and wait for an eye on those pictures and wait foertrump to an eye on those pictures and wait for mr trump to enter. if it is confirmed that al—baghdadi has been killed, how does the islamic state movement regroup? the islamic state group itself has not really disintegrated. it had lost its power base and has been kicked out of iraq. the iraqi government two years ago declared victory over islamic state. was that too early to declare victory? if you are cynical, yes, but the facts on the ground say that, yes, the iraqi government declare

states will lose turkey. for good. we know that it's fair to say it's a fact that serious sovereignty has been trampled all over the united states put troops in there without any kind of permission it's reported turkey has large numbers of troops on the border if they move into syria how do you interpret that at what point does that become an invasion or an annexation how do you describe it . actually this is not invasion in turkey has a lot of acts. it is in history in iraq in syria before now it started aircrafts will make and then i think 2 or 3 days of it out to libya softening area that. army with the syrian side and to especially. in the beginning maybe later. we cannot say that this is an invasion this is just you know to try to make some. sort of safety area not for the security of turkey. also to make some settlement for the syrians downhaul fun. more than 3 and a half 1000000 syrians inside in turkish in turkey and this is. a problem socialistic and economical problem for turkey and also we have to

state department of state mike pompeo sent a letter to the state department saying he will not make voluntarily available five witnesses for depositions. one of them has already agreed to appear. vol volker resigned last week. the pompeo letter says, quote, the invitations the committee sent to the five department officials include requests that each of them personally produced a vast amount of documents. these requests appeared to duplicate the subpoena that was previously served on the secretary of state. the requested records constitute the property of the department of state and are subject to restrictions on the unauthorized disclosure of classified information and various executive branch privileges. the pompeo letter went on to say that the committee is asking witnesses to, quote, produce materials that are not theirs to produce. the inspector general of the state department is steve linnick who was appointed to that position in 2015 by barack obama. the inspector general would like to meet with the staff of the house intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee, the house f

and the united states imposed sanctions earlier this week. and the president made it clear yesterday, we made it clear again today, that there would be additional sanctions coming to bring an end to the violence, to the loss of innocent lives, in this border conflict. that being said, let me say, i really believe today, today's ceasefire is a credit to president trump and to president erdogan. it's a credit to the strong relationship between the united states and turkey. it's also a credit to the strong relationship between our two leaders. where there are differences between friends, it's important that friends let their feelings be known. president trump did that in this case. but it facilitated us being able to reach an agreement that's now resulted in a ceasefire and we believe will set the stage for creating a peaceful and stable safe zone and the united states is committed to achieving that for all the people of this region. reporter: mr. vice president, can i finish my question that i started please? [inaudible] >> c-span's washington

and from becoming citizens of the united states. that was a great injustice. it speaks to another theme, which is important for us to explore, and that is the theme of racism within american immigration policy. there are plenty of reasons why americans reject particular immigrant groups. sometimes, it is on the basis of religion. anti-semitism, anti-catholicism. always on the basis of color. on the basis of prevailing racism in the american consciousness that governs the way we approach these things. the first dramatic example of that is of course the 1882 chinese exclusion law. the fact that it took from 1882 all the way until 1943, until the chinese were our allies in the second world war, for that to finally abate. susan: you made reference to the 1882 chinese exclusion act, the same year immigration, the first major immigration act. in 1890, president harrison establishes ellis island. what is happening that necessitated these changes? dr. kraut: immigration is a matter of pushes and pulls. those who are going to be on the move

united states, mike pence. one week ago turkish forces crossing into syria. president trump took a decisive action to call on turkish forces to stand down and the violence, agreed to negotiations. today i am proud to report, thanks to the strong leadership of president trump and the strong relationship between president erdogan and turkey and the united states of america. today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease-fire in syria. turkish's side will pause operation peace spring in order to allow for the withdrawal of wide pg forces from the safe zone for 120 hours. all military operation will be paused. an operation peace spring will be halted entirely on completion of withdraw. our administration had been in contact with syria defense forces and we have begun to facilitate of their safe withdrawal nearly 20 miles safe zone area, south of the turkish border in syria. also includes in an agreement by turkey to engage in no military action against the community of cabani and in addition the united s

for many secretaries of state. thank you. from the bureau of educational cultural affairs at the state department. with that critical element of the people to people exchanges as the secretary was saying in the increasingly digital world with real-world interaction and people to people interaction and trying to split people apart and then to bring people back together to establishto relationships and to build human networks in the united states and overseas president trumps national security strategy is very clear to create the networks of current political civil society of educational leaders i would like to highlight three elements first they are effective with those alumni around the world and in fact the assistant secretary is in thailand today for a meeting of the young southeast asia initiative program bringing leaders from all over southeast asia to work together and to talk about the future. second, and then adaptable with the new threats and priorities and we are optimizing our resources looking at cost efficient vir

a robust school choice state. we are celebrating 25 years of charter schools in arizona. for this federal proposal, is not only good education policy, it is good tax policy. for us to continue to enhance that in arizona with this opportunity, we would be able to do more with what we have to put forward as a foundation. one of the things -- expanses i had an state legislature before becoming state treasurer was always designing what works for the money available and the opportunities there. we would not have as many boundaries with this, because we would have that much more to use and be able to have more kids in those schools that they want to be in. right now, there are some prohibitions for the types of kids that can have what we call empowerment scholarships. one of those, if you are a preschooler you have to be a preschooler with a disability. a kindergartner, with a disability. let's let all of those preschoolers at all those kindergartners be able to choose the school of their choice. this would allow us to

make that be the copper state, the aztec state, and the grand canyon state. the definition of the great seal, with title 5, united states code, section 5721. i do have the applicability of the agency on the federal level. i also have certificates with the definition of california and the united states code of emergency management institute from fema, with evidence as well-being the following exhibits. one would be effective communication. the second one would be surveillance awareness. the third would be national incident management system. i also e-mailed ms. edith, if i got that correctly, from supervi supervisor fewer's office that i would be stating if i were given the opportunity to be hear, what would be the publicability of my linked in profile, connecting the national laws to agricult e agriculture. as article xvi deems cannabis as agriculture, and with that expansion, agriculture, if led on to the cannabis oversight committee would be my standpoint. it would not be solely cannabis, but what the bill on the state level and the state level of laws with

as well as other states. how do you assure that whatever you begin to detect three weeks out is something that you follow up on and is coordinated? mr. masterson again, working through our information sharing analysis certainty a. we get reporting, if there is additional facts, jurisdictions we are able to coordinate that across the whole of government and look for those trends. look for that information that would connect incidents -- mr. correa: final question. i have been to unanimous of elections. i detected irregularities. i tried to call my local d.a. in 2020 i'm out there walking door-to-door i see something weird happening. who do i call? or do i google your telephone number? mr. masterson depending on the activity -- mr. correa: private-public sector. individuals out there. mr. masterson from our perspective one is you should report any activity to the local election official. the local election administrator who can understand the activity you are seeing, remediate it. in addition we worked with vot

the state rights of states like new jersey. likewise i've heard republicans talk about state rights and the virtues of federalism. well guess what? the state and local tax deduction is a bedrock of federalism. today's c.r.a. vote is an opportunity for my colleagues across the aisle to actually stand up for those principles of self-reliance, of state rights, and federalism, to walk the walk instead of just talking the talk. and to preserve the programs of these 32 states with charity tax credit programs that are now all threatened of being extinguished by the i.r.s.' determination. i want to close by sharing a constituent letter i received earlier this year about what the property tax deduction meant to one new jersey family. this past april leah from bud lake wrote, quote, my husband and i just did our taxes today and for the first time ever we owe money. and it's not just a little but hundreds. we own a home and for the first time we were not able to itemize our deductions. our deductions, in fact, were cut in half. there is n

which the greatest asset in a constitutional state is citizens' trust in the state's monopoly on the use of force. but that also means the state must protect its citizens and for a while it was unable to do that the way to a promise to. a constitutional state does not abide by the rule of the strongest but by the rule of democratically established laws. we can't always agree on everything and it doesn't matter if a small percentage swims against the tide or isn't fully integrated. but the majority must stick to the rules of living together and recognize how important they are. they need to realize how badly they could be affected if these rules should one day be suspended after. the end of the 2nd world war 1945 left germany completely devastated 12 years of tyranny had left their mark every one had been forced to submit to a dictatorship that ultimately driven the country interviewing. in the 1949 foundations were laid for a new beginning. a year earlier the west german constituent assembly backed by the western allies had made in the alexander clinic a natural research museum in bo

state, certainly a high-tech state. and it will solidify the united states as the global energy leader. we are now the -- as you know, exporting energy in a bigger way than we ever have before. and this just builds on that momentum. these are all significant wins for our states individually and for this country as a whole. in the ag which of course, as i say, certainly a big issue for us in north dakota. the usmca really makes it an important difference and a helpful difference for us in agriculture. the last 50 years our country has had an ag trade surplus and we are -- and our farmers and ranchers can now compete with anyone in the world. they produce the highest quality, lowest-cost food supply in the world and we have a positive balance of trade in ag. and we need these type of trade agreements in place to continue that positive balance in our ag trade. my state, for example, we ship $4.5 billion worth of ag products around the globe. in 2017, making us the ninth largest exporter of ag goods among the 50 states. and

why state the obvious? the exclusive role of congress in creating offices is reinforced by the appointments clause, which governs how certain kinds of government employees those known as officers of the united states more on them later have to be appointed. the president shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the spring court, and all other officers of the united dates whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. if they are not established by law, they do not exist. if we are talking about a position to be filled by an officer of the united states, it must be established by law, meaning statute. we need congress. so what has congress done with respect to the department of justice? well, it has passed a lot of statutes creating a lot of offices. i will run through them quickly. department structure. you have one attorney general, one deputy attorney gener

states warfare is one but space warfare is a real vulnerability for the united states because it is so dependent on the multitude of satellites communications, finance, intelly , navigation and china has understood that and developed an array of weapons. this is a nonfiction book but i included a fictional scenario how china could launch a worldwide pearl harbor in the first phase would be knocking out key missile warning satellites because the us operates with very good eyes in the sky to pick up heat signatures anywhere on earth through attacking those to destroy as many to dozens satellites the us military could be crippled and the ability to function. we are the sole superpower right now that china is working to diminish that capability. >> what about graham allison? >> i don't mention it in the book because i don't think it is a valid assessment. i don't think war with china is inevitable. the notion that in the past going back to ancient times of a decline of rising power will automatically go to war, first of all this is a major chinese propaganda theme that china is the rising

district attorney and state attorney but why is that any different when the state grand jury subpoena. >> because the exercises control at the end of the day over all of them and to have a centralized -- >> that may not always be true. >> again to some of the practical realities cuts both ways. that may be true but also i think the court cannot ignore the reality of the political sick consideration that would necessarily infiltrate state to engage in a broad rangingng investigation of a sitting president. >> why can we think about this case in a narrow sense, that is to say we are not confronted, we don't have to confront the question of whether the president is immune from indictment and prosecution while in office and we don't have to consider whether the president may lawfully produce documents in a state criminal proceeding. the only question arguably and as before is whether state may lawfully demand production by a third party of the president's personal financial records for use in a grand jury investigation while the president is in office. >> your honor, on the third party is

we will visit the state of ohio. up next, state department officials talk about the trump administration's approach to public diplomacy, including a reorganization of the public affairs arm of the state department. the heritage foundation is the host of this event. >> good morning, and welcome to the heritage foundation. it is a true pleasure to welcome you to our distinguished panel today. we are going to be talking about public diplomacy in the trump administration. significant changes have been taking place within the state department in this field, yet -- at least i think, as someone who studies this extensively, not enough has really been coming forth about the extent of those changes and the effects they are having on the effectiveness of your communication with other publics in other countries. we have with us today, our main speaker will be the assistant secretary of state and a senior official in the bureau of public affairs. we're thrilled you could join us today. we look forward to this event. she joined t

rather than focusing on going state-by-state. but i would make two other points. .1 is while i'm again getting back to the chevron deference, that agencies have. it is a double-edged sword. because of the fcc changes in they would have a roadmap to go back to title ii if they wanted to. i say to people, with experience being a former let her get her, you live by chevron and you die by chevron. -- being a former litigator. has nothing toe do italic medications. it has to do with the bimetal regulations -- with environmental regulations. it says that if you look at the way an agency interprets its organic statute, in this case the communications act. if the plane lang which of the laws clear, that answers the question -- if the plain language of the law is clear that answers the question. however, as some would argue is the case here and the court said is the case here, the lang which of the communications act is an big u.s. -- if the language of the committee case and zach is a big u.s. than the court looks to see if the what the

you talk about state-by-state than they would be potentially litigated on a state-by-state basis. what do you mean by case-by-case and what do you see is the top issues you would confront? commissioner o'rielly: some states have gone after the procurement side, some have an entire regime based on rules we struck down down replaced with our recent action, so i don't know what the particular state activity would be, but if it runs counter to our policy we would likely challenge that activity under our authority. so it would be under a state-by-state basis rather than, here is the governance for traffic on the internet and internet access and broadband access, and we are going to have to deal with it at the federal side. now we will get more litigants, more lawyers, probably more legal challenges. you already mentioned states are looking at differently. can you lay out how they have already been shaping up? commissioner o'rielly: it depends on the state. they all have a different nuance to them. that is exactly why our founders had the establishment of the state commerce clause. it i

the greatest asset in the constitutional state is citizens trust in the state's monopoly on the use of force. but that also means the state must protect its citizens and for a while it was unable to do that the way to promise to protect a constitutional state does not abide by the rule of the strongest but by the rule of democratically established laws. we can't always agree on everything and it doesn't matter if a small percentage swims against the tide or isn't fully integrated. but the majority must stick to the rules of living together and recognize how important they are. convinced that. they need to realize how badly they could be affected if these rules should one day be suspended because at. the end of the 2nd world war 1945 left germany completely devastated 12 years of tyranny had left their mark every one had been forced to submit to a dictatorship that ultimately driven the country into ruin. in the 1949 foundations were laid for a new beginning. a year earlier the west german constituent assembly backed by the western allies had made in the alexander clinic a natural resea

but there are some number of states, a great number, 46 states, 48 states, whatever it is, that go further than you do in terms of saying something more is required than the mere capacity to formulate criminal intent. and that something more in large measure is some ability to make moral judgments and to distinguish between right and wrong. and again, let's assume that that's what the historical record said. i know you don't agree with that, but let's assume that is what the historical record said and could you win? >> this court has -- petitioner has to satisfy a high burden to identify a particular rule that the absence of which kansas law would constitute a violation of a deeply rooted rule and that simply doesn't exist based on the very generalialities we talked about today. >> by its nature, that the principle is historically established that you cannot punish people who don't know the difference between right and wrong, that sounds like something that is rooted in the conditions and would be ranked as fundamental. >> i think what -- and i don't mean to fight the hypothetical here, bu

my second question is the wto ruled today in favor of the united states saying that the united states can now impose tariffs on european goods because of legal subsidies against airbus. >> president trump: it was a big won for the united states. were having a lot of winds of the wto. the windsor now because they don't like -- all of those countries were ripping off the united states for many years and they know i'm wise to it. we've had a lot of winds. a $7 billion win. not bad. >> reporter: the question, sir, are you concerned the president will impose those tariffs and the effect it may have on the economy. >> first of all, to return to your democracy. i want to tell that i'm impressed. with the american people have gained during these decades. a very impressive democracy. keep it going on. to wto, i have a lot of respect to multilateralism and to international institutions. wto has given the decision which is quite tough with europe. the wto has said its opinion and that's that. >> president trump: i just want to finish by saying it's an honor to be with the president of finland. h

it was the largest restructuring at the state department in 20 years, since the merger of usia with state. the mission behind that was to elevate and enhance and accelerate how we are communicating with audiences all around the world, in real time, to advance our policy and values. i was very pleased to lead this, alongside nicole, the head of the international information programs bureau, merging public affairs and ifp together to create global public affairs. an emphasis on data and analytics. we increased in multiple ways investments and resources in data analytics, to measure and improve how we are communicating with audiences across the world. a lot of emphasis on content, and different types of ways, creative ways we can communicate with audiences across multiple traditional,ether digital or emerging platforms, and a future focus on platforms that will be emerging, whether it is augmented reality, virtual areity, a.i., but how we thinking of communicating in those platforms to make sure we are advancing american diplomacy as technology continues to drive change. so, seeing a lot of

state officials purged voters for not voting from 2018, georgia's secretary of state brian kemp purged 1.4 million voters. some states are more committed to purchase than ensuring inaccurate listening in this process. in 2018 georgia's exact match law questioning the registration status and 50,000 voters over minor inconsistencies in their registration records. recently ohio secretary of state admitted the purge system was rife with errors just shy of half 1 million ohioans, many african-american and low income voters would be purged under this law system. in 2018 voters placed polling place changes. alicia conference education fund democracy diverted report found section 5 states, there were 1173 fewer polling places in 2018 than in 2014. despite the record turnout, 31% latino closed 171 polling locations after 2012 the most of any county studied in the report. widespread polling place changes lead to the overuse of provisional ballots which are campaign analysis was 717 former section 5 counties found voters with more polling place closures are more likely to be asked to cast a provi

and 90 from the united states. and then to have massive coverage president obama was constantly siting these claims during his administration that the united states was unique. i would ask where the data even drug control on - - gunter and control they refuse to give it out for years so finally a couple years ago i decided to bite the bullet the crime prevention research center you can find the list around the website we bit the bullet and paid $70000 i don't know how to find cases were four people are shot in africa or south america in the 19 sixties or seventies. he never explained how he could get a complete list of all these cases from the 19 sixties and seventies. we just looked at the last 15 years of the. of those 47 years he looked at and rather the 202 shooters outside the united states we found over 3000 in just the last 15 years. so rather than using the exact same definition in his paper for the united states making up 31 percent we found it was 1 percent and actually lasts 1 percent so about four.6 per

states then there's article 5 would apply the baltic states or whatever flank states then this article 5 would apply so here europe is fully on board there is no question about it and this is a different though here europe is fully on board there is no question about it and this is a different this is a difference to the situation in the middle east where you always had a situation that was all this a difference to the situation in the middle east where you always had a situation that was outside really outside the nato area and outside nato commitments but. really outside the nato area and outside nato commitments but coalitions over. rilling reform some states participated others did not so coming back to their homes over the billing reform some states participate it others did not so coming back to the. security it into europe europe. and did it deteriorated it was due to. an ocean of. his cousin documents friends since treaties the taz and i would say commence since the time i would say. before 2005 when new issue of 20042005 when new issue. of contention came up between nato and n

state university. should we get going? >> let's go. >> on the left, you will see a tall tower. oldsmobile building, right? >> right. he came to lansing with his family and founded oldsmobile. you will find his name on a lot of things you talk about in lansing. >> a lot of people associate the car industry with detroit, but it made its way here. >> it actually begin here. olds was a friend of henry ford, but he built the first assembly line and henry ford perfected it. olds had a lot of great inventions. he founded reo card company. both of those -- car company. th both of those are in lansing. we have two state-of-the-art facilities in lansing. you can see straight ahead is the beautiful state capitol of michigan. this building has been here since the mid 1800s. the state capitol welcomes thousands of school groups and visitors each year. lansing is notk only the state capitol, but also a great tourist destination. we will pass by a lot of government buildings here. i want to say we have tens of thousa

all 50 states have led to us. but you are now saying it is okay to stigmatize with a criminal conviction even though in fact you may be insane? >> i'm saying what the state of kansas has done has defined mental illness defense consistently with the historical teachings dating back to blackstone to the 1910 and they indicated up until the 19th century that being one in criminal intent -- >> can you assume for a moment that i disagree with you on the reading of the historical record and let's say that the historical record that there is much more evidence than you are suggesting and the defendant had to have the guilty mind meaning and understanding of what he was doing was immoral as well as the inability to form specific criminal intent. if that is the case, if you look at all the cases and say case after case after case what they're talking about is something more than criminal intent, what they are talking about is moral understanding, if that is the case what is your best argument? >> i have three, the first on

if this was a common practice in the state department where sometimes the secretary of state listens in on these calls, then why this answer? listen to this moment. >> what do you know about those conversations? >> so you just gave me a report about a whistle-blower complaint, none of which i've seen. >> it gets weirder each time you listen to it, actually, admiral. >> her question was what do you know about these conversations? not hey, what do you know about the whistle-blower complaint. he just deflected and spun which is a tactic certainly in my former profession i'm familiar with. if you don't like the question, you provide a different kind of answer. he clearly didn't want to go there. >> but again, why isn't the answer, yes, i was on that phone call. i'm routinely on those phone calls. >> i suspect it's because he knows how serious this call is and he knows the voracity. which was there was pressure put by trump on president zelensky. that's why he was trying to spin himself out of that. >> the answer is self evident. he was trying. it's not like the secretary of state wasn't

the states votes. rural voters in california are disempowered. world voters all over the country are disempowered because they don't matter because they aren't in swim stakes swing states. i want to emphasize that those beliefs are not correct. this is again something the people perhaps have not bought up. foreign interference and elections is very much on people's minds of these days. you can't avoid it. having a few swing states, having the election decided in florida and pennsylvania and ohio, maybe this year and next year in arizona, michigan, wherever it might be that opens up a villa vulnerability to hacking. a natural national popular vote can have a margin in the millions. if we have a close election, the number of votes that need to be flipped in order to alter the outcome is smaller. on the right side, the big bars are the popular vote for trump versus clinton and others. we're going back in time here. these are elections where tens of thousands or millions of votes would need to be flipped i

home state of california. the states that that have election date registries and tend to have five or ten percentage points higher than the states that don't and it's the single reform that there is has the oddest consensus among medical scientists that facilitate participation particularly among our people mobile who moved recently in average americans historically disadvantaged groups. we've heard about purges erroneous removals from the roles and election day vegetation can be a valuable safety net and making sure that any voters who are get to participate on election day. >> thank you for that. i know my time is up but it also helps if the russians hijack the registration rules it's actually protection against that kind of cyber mischief that was same-day registration we would prevent them from ruining our election. final comment. >> thank you. in addition to the other provisions of h.r. 1 lds supports early voting in federal elections are busy it offers the opportunity to cut down on the election and admi

state-by-state at the state loophole. so the compliance issue, i think is being fairly overstated. i do think the certainly there will be boats of fights that will be happening at the state loophole and the fact that we will create a lot of work to be done over the next few years as states consider how they might take up the issue of net neutrality in the absence of fcc regulation. i'm not convinced that we will see sort of totally on workable patchwork. >> take me back to the step from where we ended up right now. basic idea in terms of the decision is this concept that federal agency cannot regulate an air where it does not have authority. cannot take away from the appeal and arguments that they try to push forward the concept of the fcc's does not believe it has authority to regulate the specific field. so there you be here is that because it has the ability to regulate, they don't have the ability to preempt. we have that kind of talk a little bit about what that means. matt explained this right. the court found the a

department of state. but showing up only matters if you're there for a purpose and that you're willing to tell the truth when it's tough and that you'll continue to speak to them about things that are hard. it's a lot of fun to go into a meeting and tell them what they want to hear and talk about what great allies you want to hear and toast and cheer and compliment each other on important work you do together. it's much more important to speak about the things that are difficult, where there are disagreements and truths that need to be told. we've apparently taken over the truth telling world from the nba. [applaus [applause]. if you go back to look i knew when i was seven years old i knew i was going to be, that's just too bad. you know, take iran as a good example. i referenced in the beginning, ever since i gave that silly speech, the conversation's turned. hundreds of private companies are on board with our sanctions. there's a threat that the european companies would stay in europe. and i was told am

same page with the united states but. china is a kind of economic war with the united states russia is experiencing one of its worst periods of relations with the united states so everything is different that's political supports with at least currencies some kinds of. realty the for the current situation so that you don't can build up on debts and continue to. translate it into more countries measures in terms of economic benefits mr is that we have to take a short break now we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. to make this manufactured you send us an instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final. lives only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. i mean real in the. brain does know it's. in the way muscle in the skin that you see when you when you win every time you. come liberate you damage it in a way becomes a concession to the brain is incredibly sent delegates. you can damage some of the brain you can kill the patient does by damaging it one of 2 milli

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. announcer: from the beginning, dewey faced a hopeless job, clearing out gangsters and racketeers. there hold upon the city had been tightening three years of tammy rule. -- tammany rule. >> now for the last time, are you going to keep out of our territory or not? >> i'm not. ♪ >> but i don't need any protection. announcer: dewey's handpicked staff began its attack on the underworld by singling out people and getting them to talk. after long months of hard, patient, dangerous work, dewey had collected enough evidence to move in on the cities tour leading -- city's leading racketeers. out of the 73 indictments he secured, dewey convicted all but one. rackets begin breaking up and the gang overlords went off to jail. on the strength of this record, tom dewey was nominated for district attorney. defeating the tammany candidate by an unprecedented majority, he continued his crime smashing record and it was on the road to the governor'

you talk about state-by-state than they would be potentially litigated on a state-by-state basis. what do you see than? what do you mean by case-by-case and what do you see is the top issues you would confront? commissioner o'rielly: well, look, it depends. some states have gone after the determine side. some have an entire regime based on rules we struck down, replaced with our recent action, so i don't know what the particular state activity would be, but if it runs counter to our policy we would likely challenge that activity under our authority. so it would be under a state-by-state basis rather than, here is the governance for traffic on the internet and internet access and broadband access, and we are going to have to deal with it at the federal side. now we're going to have to get more litigants, more lawyers, probably more legal challenges. gopal: you already mentioned states are looking at differently. can you lay out how they have already been shaping up? commissioner o'rielly: it depends on the state. they all have a different nuance to them. that's exactly why our foun

state department as that's been reported to us. they said that the state department wouldn't be able to be present. has your committee contacted the state department employees directly and told them not to contact legal counsel. >> they absolutely have legal counsel and secretary com ppomp had a legal counsel and he was on the ukraine phone call and now he says he was on the call. he's in hot water. >> i don't know that he was denying it. he just gave a sort of strange answer to martha raddatz where he pivoted and talked about something else. i hadn't heard him deny that he was on that phone call. >> well, that's fair. he wasn't forthcoming. he was asked a clear question. he wasn't forthcoming. now he is saying that he was on the phone call. he hasn't given the american people an explanation about why he hasn't taken any action after that phone call, why he didn't try to alert congress and say something was wrong. we have to get back to the basic facts which is that the president tried to get dirt from a political opponent from a f

states that whenever the first finds an entry of an inhaling, in the united states would be detrimental to the interest of the united states, he made by proclamation of her such. you should deem necessary to suspend the all aliens or any class or nonimmigrants or post- entry of an answer any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. presence of both political parties have used 212f in the meantime. specified eight countries subject to contemporary travel restrictions due to inadequacy in the companies with united states identity management and policies. as well as the terrace presence within those countries. one of those countries chat, had their travel restrictions lifted just seven months later. actually improves their identity management and information sharing practices with the united states. proof that the restrictions are temporary in nature. travel restrictions for each country range from only restrictions on immigrate or certain non- immigrant or make sure both. the state of hawaii is sued to have the travel ban struck down. but in june 2018 the united states supreme court re

my home state of new mexico is one of those 23 states. we're home to two military bases that will be hit by the president's raid on military construction projects to fund his wall. scuttled is an $85 million project at who will -- hol oman air force base that will improve pilot training facilities that are aging, have sinkholes, and bat infestation. training our military to pilot drones is mission critical in this day and age. the air force is battling a shortage of these pilots. at white sands missile range, a $40 million project designed to replace an aging and fire-damaged information systems facility has been cut. this project was to prepare the range to take on the next generation of missile and weapons testing, including future hypersonic testing. 22 other states are losing military construction projects from alabama to arizona, north carolina to texas, and maine to florida. in utah, the air force has sought a new control center at hill air force base to replace, quote, structurally deficient, dilapidated world war ii-era warehouses

, within the acknowledged boundaries of this state. who acknowledged it? well, he did. again, if the vision of the paxton boys was the exclusion of native people from pennsylvania, that is achieved in 1783, when all of the land, at least in theory, is expropriated from native vastcans, and in fact the majority of native people are excluded from that territory. and not just excluded from that territory, but done in particular ways. pennsylvania government divided that plot of land into two separate plots they called the donation lands and the depreciation lands. it all sounds very bureaucratic. this was a way to pay off revolutionary war soldiers. the dark blue area was going to be set aside as lands to be donated to settlers, yes, but to soldiers in lieu of their backpay. they came up with a system in which veterans were given certificates to say, it is worth so much land in that donation land area. as often happens, speculators biopsy depreciation certificates and the soldiers never really settle on it, but again, we talk about states

we worked in over 20 states and they have red states and blue states and it's not just concentrated in one region of the country. we have worked over the years collaborative way with states and litigating against them to raise the level of compliance with those very important voter registration opportunities. one of the things that really concerns us is under the current department of justice there has been no enforcement actions to import section five or section seven of the national voter registration act and that is a big problem we can't cover the entire country on our own. if disproportionately targets people of color and communities of color are represented among the franchised americans beyond the representation. at the end person meant is almost six times that so to achieve the goal that is sent her to democracy, we must reform the current law for the disenfranchised persons with the convictions. all people who are incarcerated can vote, there's nothing inevitable about this. the issue of disenfranchisement is compounded by the prison-based gerrymandering. incarcerated persons

state department, then yes, it would be reviewed by state department personnel. there will be an inner agency process, even potentially. none of those enormonorms and w government usually behaves applies in this case. she is in a very unusual position. she's been in the government over 33 years. i assume that she's potentially eligible to retire, and probably will have to make decisions about whether he's going to stay in government or whether she's going to leave government. this is a statement, this is somebody on the inside who is telling members of congress in their oversight capacity and then also the public by being able to release her statement that she is sounding a warning that u.s. national security and diplomatic activities may not be being conducted in the united states' interest. that is her point. there may be some sort of shadow diplomacy going on where you have the state department supposing to be doing official things for the government and on the other hand you have this close cadre of political officials in the white house acting in interests o

so of course the state department, the secretary of state, should have stepped in and stopped rudy giuliani. >> so when you hear defenders of the president say on television repeatedly the president has every right to be concerned about corruption in ukraine and he was talking about corruption in ukraine and there's nothing wrong with him pushing the president of ukraine on that, is there any explanation that supports that? because from my understanding, there's probably a lot of like current acts of corruption that could be focused on. i'm sure the president has access to intelligence about ongoing corruption in a country like ukraine or anywhere else, but he's talking very specifically about his political opponent. >> it just doesn't hold water. this president has not been concerned with corruption in saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman or in turkey, pred erdogan, or in russia, president putin. he doesn't speak out against corruption. it's very clear and if you look at the lead "new york times" story in the sunday edition, it's just chapter and verse for the last nine months president trump

trump in the united states senate if the house impeaches the president. senator murphy also might be a witness because senator murphy had his own conversation with the president of ukraine and other ukrainian officials about the pressure that donald trump put on ukraine. and as donald trump fights for his life, he doesn't seem to have the energy or the focus or possibly even the awareness to fight the republicans. yes, the republicans in congress who are doing and saying things that donald trump does not like. donald trump appeared not to know today that republican senator chuck grassley came out yesterday in defense of the whistle-blower, a strong defense, and specifically criticized what president trump has said about the whistle-blower without mentioning the president's name. that is the kind of thing that we haven't seen republicans doing in congress for the last three years because they all live in fear of the wrath of donald trump. a republican house member came out in favor of an investigation into donald trump's phone call with ukraine, and that r