the state of our state is charted a then on and dressed you a year ago. our job growth has outpaced the nation highlighted by a driving financial sector and technological innovation from companies large and small whether it is the parts manufactured at miller metal, the new pharmaceutical developed in insight, the software made in step one or the cutting edge fuel cells made by bloom energy. our schools are implementing higher standards while thanks to legislation passed by this general assembly we are better preparing her teachers. in the companies that will hire our students are dealing with fewer and clearer government regulations. so we have made progress, but to paraphrase will rogers, even if we are on the right track we will get run over if we just sit here. we have so much more to do. and if you have the right skills and live in the right communities good paying jobs are available. for too many people, that is not reality. everyone has something to contribute if given a chance. we need to make sure that they have that chance. as governor i paid re

we have a woman who is in the race for united states senate who is a state senator from our state. she is in a contested primary with several others. i think it is just a matter of time that you will see women winning the governor's office, senate seat, and congressional seats in iowa. a number of lieutenant governors, republican and democratic women. talentalways recognized and am really proud of the fact that cream -- kim reynolds is my lieutenant governor. i want her to be the next governor after me. good morning. guest: how are you? caller: you -- caller: fine. guest: you have that nook siemens plant being built north of time. -- north of town. caller: i understand that. thank you so much. we needed those jobs. will there be enough funding in iowa for resurfacing the roads? guest: we will be addressing that this year. we will have $700 million in the primary road fund this year, and as we look to the future we will have to come up with additional funding. i believe that the funding should come from the users of the roads to help improve the roads and bridges of the state. that

it's the state department.t's also treasury because they have a kind of symbiotic relationship with wall street. >> for one thing, they control the flow of money. >> absolutely. that's why there's such a flow not only of money, but of personnel between wall street and the treasury department. there's other aspects of government. there's a portion of the judiciary -- a small portion of the judiciary, the so-called foreign intelligence surveillance courts. most of congress doesn't even know how they operate. >> talk a little more about the nexus, the connection, between the national security state and wall street. because this is a theme that runs through your essay. >> do you know that about 30 blocks north of here there is a restaurant that will sell you a truffle for $95,000. also in new york, christie's sold at auction a painting by francis bacon for $142 million. now a parallel situation with the national security state. the nsa spent $1.7 billion to build a facility in utah that will collect one yottabyte o

the death penalty in her state.orney general let me start with you. are there many people on colorado's death row? >> there is very few -- i think three or four on death row, it hasn't been carried out in i think like 16 years, something along those lines, but i have been an advocate, advocate, we should not abolish the death penalty. i do not advocate wide-spread use of the death penalty, but i maintain there are certain few crimes for which the vast majority of americans and coloradoans would conclude that life in prison is not an adequate societal response. let me give you a couple of examples. we have a guy facing first degree murder charges. he orchestrated the murder of witnesses against him. if you don't have a death penalty, gets no greater consequence for murdering the witnesses in the case against him than had he not done so. you have a scenario where an immate premeditatedly kills on prison officer. i think the vast majority of people would say taking away tv privileges is enough. i think we have to keep

of california the state that i live in many of the states are are are following suit you know justifying that. legislating marriage or you know legislating love and that's all it is is you know is unconstitutional well mr le guen is just to put things into perspective all those legislative progress notwithstanding according to the f.b.i. in two thousand and twelve around thirteen hundred crimes motivated by homophobe ever registered in the united states thirteen hundred crimes in russia in the same period of time just twelve were unregistered so you may dispute the russian figures they were compiled by one of the leading watchdogs here in the country nongovernmental watchdogs but you know crimes motivated by homophobia in russia compared to. in the united states don't you think that you know the we may have a bit skewed picture here and the station in russia may not be ask ridiculous as it is usually described at least compared to the united states here. i feel that i take issue with that because in order to you know to register and a hate crime then you have to feel you know that you ha

we believe it should come from canada and the united states.if the environment is the issue a your concern, it is then put to rest. we spent over five years discussing this. there have been dozens of public hearings, over one million comments generated. at this point, every other pipeline has been approved in less than two years. >> how is the american petroleum institute gearing up for the mass protest that are being planned all over the country in response to the state department's report? >> our plan is going to continue as it has been for the past five or so years. we have been trying to promote andbenefits and the fax correct some of the misinformation out there that can be easier to believe. it is not heated or anything like that. it can be frustrating when you're debating a battle being fought with political organizing and soundbites. engage groups choose to in civil disobedience, that is their prerogative and right. we're certainly going to continue to stick with the facts and promote the reasons why this benefits the economy, consumers

, especially looking at the republican- controlled states versus the democratic-controlled states, and i wondered if the government -- if the governors would care to comment whether this seems to be a question of having different goals or are the goals the same, and if the goals are does nonpartisan analysis about what does work and what does not work fit into this policy? >> that is the beauty of the nga , it gets the governors an opportunity to come together. we have a governors only session where we talk about different issues, and my a lot of times we find our common issues going on in our states. we may have different allusions to the problems facing our states, but we learned from each other through best practices, through innovation, and in a lot of states, we will look at other governors and other programs and that may be of a different political party. in the end, all the governors have the same goal, and that is we want to create a very strong economy, we want to create jobs, we want to improve education, we want to be fiscally sound within our state budgets. we are all conce

the states signed off on the rooting through their states. who is objecting to this except a few small or large environmental avo case organizations. susan mentioned that the oil would be exported. americans may not know that we oiled four minutes a day right now. americans don't want any idea of that. we are talking about exports on the market and that's because we are dealing with a market where oil flows to where the demand is. >> you can argue that we'll not have additional exports. the refine rice are coming up with diesel as a by-product. they are operating from keystone xl or on oil coming from the middle east. they'll be exports. >> i wanted to pick up on a point made about the opposition to the pipeline. tonight, in a few minutes, when i leave the show, i'll join a vinyling ill in front of the white house of activists gathering to ask of the president to reject the keystone xl pipeline. this is one of hundreds that have been organised over the weekend. a huge outpouring of public sentiment against the pipeline project in almost every

so while we've had some rocky starts in some states, states have been looking at transitional patches to allow people to keep their coverage. and of course it's very important to make sure we're effectuating the enrollment in the coverage. we're seeing that's getting better day by day. today, there was some good reports out about how many people have -- were paying their premiums. but something that's been a real focus for state-based marketplaces is effectuating that coverage and making sure they're able to transfer that data back to the carriers about enrollment and about payment to make sure that coverage is effectuated. overall, very promising news from the state-based marketplaces. as we look forward. and promising enrollment data. which we know we're going to be hearing more today. so thank you. i'm going to turn it over to audrey. >> thank you, heather. and of course i'm very pleased to be here. thanks to the robert wood johnson foundation for hosting the event this morning. so i know folks have heard a lot about kentucky. which we're really pleased about. as you all know, our

what may work in one state may not work for all states. we need to examine the root causes of our current situation. over the last two decades the buying power of gas tax revenues has slowly declined. not only as a result of increasing maintenance and construction costs but also as a result of increased fuel efficiency. we need to ensure that all users shoulder and equitable burden for the wear and tear on her nations roads. finally madam chairwoman you to save her the integrity of the gas tax as a user fee. we have an obligation to the users, an obligation to ensure the revenues are going to their intended purpose in maintaining our nation's roads and highways. thank you. >> thank you so much sir and now we will turn to senator whitehouse. >> thank you chairman for calling this hearing and it has not been that long since we were able to pass map-21 in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion. we did that because we recognize the value of investing in our transportation infrastructure. projects that put americans to work and ensure that our go

you put together one for the chinese head of state and mexican head of state.e you, let's see what we can do. when you are invited to a state dinner you should do everything you can to attend. we can try to make accommodat n accommodations but it is hard to do. we can make a list of ongoing folks we would like to invite. >> if you get a last-minute cancelation, what do you do? >> there are folks that might drop everything to be on a plane if you want to invite them. we tend to do that. >> this is a mix of administration, members of congress, eric cantor, nancy pelosi and some famous people like steven coburt. >> and bradley cooper. >> of course. >> it is a really great group. i love we have democrats and republicans attending which i think is so wonderful. that is such a testament to how this is a non-partisan event and it is as a great american tradition and people come together and celebrate. >> mary jay blige and the performer tonight. how does that come about? >> the performers are people that the president and first lady enjoy. and we talk to the honored g

how is it that in a state the president won. so much radical right wing legislation has so sex so successfully passed what's going on though yes there is a really interesting moment so i think obama's election when north carolina swung for him that really reawakened the old guard in north carolina and it got these tea partiers stirred up because they really looked around and saw that their way of life and the way they wanted things to be in north carolina was slipping away and the future did not belong to them so the only way they could hold on was by gerrymandering the state working to suppress voter rights in the most vicious and vitriolic way north carolina used to have some of the best. and most generous voting rights laws in the country but that has gotten rolled back in the last couple of years so the old guard sort of woke up and they are furiously holding on to their turf and they have really turned against women and minorities and poor people and the elderly and students and and it's really nasty but north carolina's hi

states as those economies in those states in particular seem to be improving and the unemployment rate going down. you mentioned marijuana, two very prominent governors, democratic governors of colorado and washington represented here. that initiative also sort of the buzz, if you'll pardon the phrase here at the white house over the course of last several days and in washington. key stone pipeline, another thing, we heard bobby jindal yesterday on some of the sunday shows talking about if the president's going to use his pen and phone, if he's going to be signing executive orders and going around congress, he should start with key stone and focus on jobs instead of some of the other more marginal initiatives, so a whole host of issues to be discussed between the white house and these governors. >> there will be one governor who won't be in attendance today. >> chris christie of new jersey keeping a low pro feel. there's still an active investigation over bridge gate and the controversy and scandal. he was here, del, earlier for the national governor's association meetings, but has he

and rivers in different parts of the state. parts of california gets some of its water from the colorado river. in the past, not all of those resources have been in drought at the same time. and in fact, this year, as tom mentioned, the colorado river is relatively low, but it's not low enough to promote a shortage call on the colorado. so even in southern california, those areas dependent on colorado river water may see their whole allocations, whereas other areas that are dependent on snowfall in northern california have very very low reservoirs. it depends on where you are, and how didn't you are. and what your options are. but even in california, some farmers and cities are in better shape than others, and it's going to be a mixed story even here. >> but what if this continues. does this force really tough choices down the road? if we're not in a three or four year cycle, but a 12 year cycle as sometimes occurs in the world. >> yes, that's a great question. this is the third year of the drought. and if the drought ends this

attorney for the state of new jersey. their relationship spanned all seven years of chris christie's time as u.s. attorney. and then when he became governor, brought all the people over from the prosecutor's office into his new administration, phil kwon was one of them. he hired phil kwon right away into his administration when he started in 2010. so by 2012, when then-governor christie nominated phil kwon to a seat on the new jersey supreme court, by that time, the governor and phil kwon had worked together for a decade. and then chris christie was more than just disappointed when phil kwon's nomination to the supreme court was rejected by democrats in the new jersey state senate. >> good evening. first of all, phil kwon, first and foremost, is a man of integrity. had the utmost privilege to witness that integrity firsthand. where in his role as an assistant united states attorney, the first assistant attorney general of new jersey, as a husband, a father, and a son. to see what phil went through today is not only disapp

of state breckenrbreckenr idge long but some of it was other state department officials. and eventually the treasury department became convinced that the state department was going far beyond the proper and necessary in enforcing regulations, and the treasury department turned up evidence that the state department had suppressed some of the information about the holocaust, going out of switzerland. and a man whom i had the privilege of interviewing wrote up a scathing memorandum. and morgenthaler was persuaded, he talked it down a little bit but he took the memo to the president. >> what was the title of that memo? >> report on the acquiescence of the government and the mass murder of the jews. and the president decided to take jurisdiction of way from the state department and to establish the war refugee board. >> thank you. >> you talked before about the u.s. british negotiations on a joint statement. i was one if you give us a cliff notes version of a churchill and the jews book? and how you would describe his involvement. >> i don't think i'm going to do that one from

is a state dinner.outh lawn of the white house. morning.clear, cold clear morning in which the president talked about springtime in paris and winter in washington, d.c. they are hosting their seventh dinner for a special guest like this. the dinner is taking place in a tent on the south lawn. this is continuing coverage by the french president. a chance for you to join in on the conversation as the social secretary for obama and was responsible to organizing two state dinners for the president of china and mexico. our phone lines are open. those of you in the eastern and central time zone and there is the number for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones. state dinners have a relatively new phenomenon. we are continuing our series on first ladies. the final program is taking place next monday on president's day. we will be releasing a new poll on now americans view america's first ladies. heather foster is a presidential historian and has written a number of books on the first ladies. i ask

united states brazil.he canceled because it was revealed that the nsa had been conducting surveillance in brazil and among the brazilian leadership as well. so she was really left with no choice but to cancel because of the anger that that generated domestically there. so, yes, sure there is politics involved, and plenty of symbolism around a state visit, there's no question, del. >> mike, we're going to take about a minute break. on the back end if we have time we'll talk about the interesting seat chart ahead of tonight's state dinner, but we're going to take a break. we're awaiting the joint news conference. >>> this is a live scene coming from the east room of the white house. that is president obama and french president francois hollande. >> it's a great hop for to welcome my friend and partner, president hollande back to the white house for this state visit. it is always a pleasure to host president francois. two years ago, i was trying to make the visit casual. when i hosted him in chicago for the s

rights and state decisions. one of the things i wanted to talk with you about, governor malloy, post newtown, connecticut enacted stricter gun regulations and they were already pretty strict so you are up there in terms of how your gun laws are seen as some of the strictest in the nation. these three gentlemen, democrat, two republicans, have states that really have a gun culture in what's seen as a positive way in how it's handed down from generation to generation, hunting, skeet shooting, that kind of thing. does anything or any of the looser laws on guns in these states hurt connecticut? >> i think we have a federal problem in the sense that we are rejecting the idea that we should have tighter controls on who has a gun. universal background checks would make everyone safer in their states and in mine. it is a starting point. we should not be assigning or allowing folks who have mental health challenges currently to acquire guns. we should not have a system that allows people who have extensive criminal recor

and frankly the state should step in and really the hospital should be paying the bills the speech state required her to be kept alive the state should pay chris you've been very outspoken lea pro-life and i'm curious your take on this because they were they were trying to save the fuse so many basically pulled the plug on it became obvious that the fetus was probably not going to survive the term well you know it's interesting we sort of i wonder if i was really concerned about this case and i went back and did a little research that the language that in the texas law was borrowed from an a california law when they rewrote their end of life laws and they just put it in each other always that it was a one thousand year there in the seventy's ok that california had the law and then texas i think rewrote it in the ninety's and so they looked at what california had did they read it even the drafter said well this is not a case where that would apply because she was brain dead so even the drafters of the laws said this would not have been the case i personally think that the hospital was afr

the mandate under the law is to preserve history, we are the state of the archives, the state library. we document our history and biography of washingtonians who have been cheated to our history in some way. sam i think and how you but i know he was stopped on the street all the time from people that would come up to him and say, you need to write this down. and thinking about it as an office, we do have an obligation to document. and as i say, the big lessons are one of transparency. every vote does count. if anybody doubts that you can point to the 2007 governor's race in washington and say look, so we honored our mandate. we felt an obligation. these are circumstances that were so rare that, to be able to talk about the lessons learned and how we handled it, what we would be right, maybe what we would change would be invaluable to election administrators in the future. the voting systems and elections will have all changed but the timeless lessons will remain. >> for more information on booktv's recent trip to olympia, washington, and in many other cities visited by our local cont

so in theory it was a proxy war between the united states and the soviet union the united states supporting israel in the soviet union supporting the arab side at different points it pitted a pro-american israel nurses are pro-american jordan and a pro-american saudi arabia so the lights were never completely drawn. again it was the arab-israeli war of 1973 that enabled secretary of state henry kissinger with singular vision and drive to lay the foundations of a weekend today call in retrospect the pax americana. the keystone to kissinger's efforts was egypt. it was a move from the soviet to the american sphere. it signaled the rapid decline of the soviet union as a serious challenger to american hegemony in the middle east. the pax america, officially began with the 1979 peace treaty between egypt and israel. this treaty established the precedent for later peace treaty between israel and jordan as well as for the 1993 oslo accords between israel and the palestine liberation organization. it also set the precedent for later peace conferences whether it be in madrid or in annapolis. the peop

that the states say, we want the ability to make all the health care decisions in our state.his would free them of obamacare, s-chip, those federal dollars would come to the state, and the state can make the decision how best to take care of their people. the best thing, the states that want to do it can do it. other states that say they like their obamacare, they can keep their obamacare. >> i'm sure there are a whole lot of states that would love to follow that idea. like your doctor, you can keep them. like your obamacare, go ahead and keep it. so far, there are not many members of the american public believing that. let's talk about the operational details. how does this work? did the states enter the compact? do they have to get the permission of congress? do both houses of congress have to give them the go ahead for the compact? >> they do, actually. the constitution stuff is very specific on how a compact is done. that compact is an agreement with two or more states. then they pass that on to congress. congress approves that and is able to send it back and it's done. t

in other states. so kentucky's own ban on such marriages for now is untouched but that appeals court decision put pressure on the widespread practice of refusing to recognize a married couple from let's say massachusetts if that couple moves to take up new jobs in missouri. but federal circuit that includes virginia also colors north carolina, south carolina, and west virginia. if the court of appeals up holds the virginia division, that's hour focus of this edition of "inside story." >>> virginia is for lovers was the slogan of the day for same-sex marriage supporters in virginia. >> today we are more american than we were yesterday, and today we're a little more equal than we were the day before. >> reporter: thursday uphurled judge struck down the state's prohibition of same sex marriage ac mandarin knowinglying long history, tradition alone cannot deny same-sex couples from marrying. in her 41 page opinion the norfolk judge referenced the history of segregation. and it wasn't until 1967 that inter

wyoming exports more btu's than any other state. it is as big an issue for us as north dakota. >> that is good, we need competition. jack -- >> we are gaining on you. >> in and of itself, energy produces a lot of jobs. you look at states that can produce lots of energy. they have low unemployment. we have increased our manufacturing a full percentage point greater than the national average. manufacturers and businesses who want to come to wyoming look at the low cost of energy. if you have low cost of energy, if you can provide affordable energy. energy is related to the cost of everything we do. infrastructure is very important. it does not matter what your development plan is if you don't have roads. your going to be in a tough spot. collectively as i talk to governors, infrastructure is and should remain a top concern in terms of making sure we have the platform necessary for businesses to take off. >> what i'm hearing is the biggest opportunities for growth and jobs in america, you manufacturing, auto, energy, biotech and biosci

rushmore state. the senate landscape, by the way, changed again last night, folks, with a major coup for the republicans, a big-time challenger in colorado, the republican road to six seats, just got a bit easier for the gop. we'll have more on that later in the show. >>> let's get right to my first reads of the morning and we begin out west. jan brewer ended a week-long period of speculation, public waffling last night. she vetoed a bill that would have given business owners the right to refuse to serve gays and lesbians on religious grounds. >> i call them like i see them. despite the cheers or the boos from the crowd. i've not heard one example in arizona where a business owner's religious liberty has been violated. the bill is broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences. after weighing all of the arguments, i have vetoed senate bill 1062 moments ago. >> of course, the legislation would have amended the state's version of the so-called religious freedom restoration act,

imperial germany and the united states i think is much more apparent because i think that germany in one nine hundred fourteen did believe that it was now a power in decline and that russia was becoming increasingly powerful france was also much stronger than it had been when it easily defeated in one hundred seventy in the franco-prussian war and the germany had to do something in order to change the balance of forces and that's why a it came up with this idea that if austria-hungary can knock out serbia then austria hungary will be will be thriving power and then that would somehow. reinforce germany's role in the europe and i think what good having here now is i think the united states is increasingly anxious that this unilateral moment is the enjoyed since the end of the cold war is china is certainly are the a rising power. russia is also you know reemerging from its. weakness and feebleness in the post cold war era and i think there are that's where i think the danger lies and with the united states believing that it needs to do something to shift the balance of forces in its f

cities counties and states across the u.s. have told advocacy of homosexuality promoting a homosexual lifestyle laws state homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public in school students only receive instruction regarding homosexuality in the context of fictionally transmitted diseases. homosexuality happened to nature but showed a speciality that does not make it right or something we should be teaching in school on the bills just passed in states health of representatives thing thinks couples can be refused service in shops hotels theaters and restaurants state officials can legally refuse to deal with gay citizens anywhere from libraries to police stations and hospitals representatives voted to allow businesses to lawfully deny any services to gays officials and also turn down the state institutions such as police and hospital. if it's against their beliefs. it's not just republican states like kansas clumping down the l.g.b. t. couples reports they make as the polls say oregon will also pass the same r

blue states and purple states like social security expansion in kentucky raise the minimum wage raise the minimum wage in kentucky social security expansion fifty one percent of all voters approve it in red state of texas fifty six percent of all voters approve of the idea of expanding social security benefits you can actually run a populist progressive campaign in winning in some of these deep red states and that's how these you know folks running in louisiana and mark pryor running in arkansas if you really wanted to win in really wanted to push the envelope and show that he was a real progressive fighter that's the kind of position that is seems like the old this is the conservative republican area this is the progressive democratic period these are falling apart what is happening is you're finding tea partiers standing side by side with progressive activists to amend the constitution to say money is not speech and corporations are people tea party are standing side by side with progressive to say we shouldn't be doing draw drone strikes on people have not been adjudicated in a cou

attack on their states also. and that's why representatives from those states oppose this legislation last time it was presented and they oppose it again this time. so you have a bipartisan coalition in the states trying to work this out from every economic sector, from every environmental sector for the benefit of the state of california. this drought doesn't have to end in this rainy season. it can go on another year and another year. this legislation is destructive, destructive of our trying to of sure that every facet the california society survives and that's why this bill should be rejected. assault onnd it's an states' rights. they joined the governor of california in opposition of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from utah. mr. bishop: reserves. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: the senate has adopted flood insurance reform, but unfortunately it was denied and as incon grewous as it might be, we consider i

we got a few states remaining. let's get it done for everybody, because it's the right thing to do for those men and women who are working every day to make sure we stay free and secure. the point is, even when there's a little appetite in congress to move on some of these priorities, at the state level, you guys are governed by practical considerations. you want to do right by your people, and you see how good policy impacts your citizens and you see how bad policy impacts your citizens, and that means that there's less room for posturing and politics and more room for getting stuff done. we want to work with you. and i'm committed to making sure that every single member of my cabinet, every single person in the white house, every single member of my team, will be responsive to you. we won't agree on every single issue every single time, but i guarantee you we will work as hard as we can to make sure you succeed, because when you succeed, the people in your state succeed and america succeeds, and that's our goal.

i hope that the united states will now begin to respect afghan sovereignty. >> our state democratic correspondent joins us now from washington, d.c. the u.s. are not taking this too well, are they? >> there hasn't been an official reaction to this, but there's been a lot of what we call in washington prereaction, a lot of concern and a lot of condemnation both from the u.s. state democratic and pentagon saying the release of these 65 men would pose a security threat to coalition and to afghan security forces, as well as to afghan citizens. now, this is a situation where we just heard the president hamid karzai talking about the respect for afghan sovereignty. u.s. officials have been insisting in recent days that the memorandum of understanding between coalition forces and the afghan government said that people picked up on the battle field and accused of crimes needed to be tried in the afghan judiciary system. the u.s. is in particular insisting that it didn't pick up people just for the sake of picking them up. they say that there is evidence that should have put these men before

the fifty first state. for the. disillusionment with the two party system is more prominent than ever before and the more center right the democratic party becomes the less represented people feel all across the country but in seattle washington the first openly socialist candidate in decades was recently elected at city council her victory signal that there is room for radical change inside the political establishment which brings me to eugene puryear eugene's an organizer with the answer coalition and it's been featured on this show multiple times discussing everything from the failures of u.s. foreign policy to the prison industrial complex what eugena speaking through to action by running for d.c. city council on the d.c. statehood green party has a ten point program that could radically transform the district he joins me now to discuss why a voice like his is so needed in this city eugene amazing to have you on display very excited about this campaign let's talk about number two point of a campaign where you're

the state of texas executed susanne basso wednesday. she was only the 14th woman to be executed in the united states since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1976. witnesses say she made no final statement but smiled at two friends watching through the window, mouthed a brief word, then nodded. texas again use add relatively new protocol for the execution, involving just assiege drug the anesthetic. after the drug was administered she began to snore, rothers say it took 11 minutes to die. despite her apparently quiet death, there's a growing concern among opponents of the death penalty and the lawyers who advocate for the condemned that states are increasingly turning to questionable methods, and untried drug protocol some see as cruel and unusual punishment. take for example the execution last month of dennis maguire in ohio. maguire was sentenced the r the 1989 rape and killing of a pregnant woman. for the first time anywhere in the united states, a two drug protocol was used, involving the sedative and the painkiller. after the

i come from a very small business state.ew hampshire has some large employers, but we are a very small business state. one of the things we heard from businesses, especially the small ones, is they don't have the kind of resources that can help them leverage, whether it is human resources or getting up to speed on how they could become an exporter. new hampshire is the fastest-growing state in the country in export increases because we put a little bit of money back in our budget to help our small businesses develop that type of export. we doubled our research development tax credits. we capped the amount per business that they can take. we are looking at having a gold standard for businesses that follow the law. maybe we can ease some of the compliance paperwork for them to help them create jobs. we're working on encouraging private investment, whether through incubators, but trying to have matchmaking sessions for small businesses and entrepreneurs with investors and finance companies. the thing we have not talked about ye

it's essential cooperation between state departments and state agencies and quasipublics and the stateleadership. if you tonigdon't have it, it's difficult to make sure you accomplish your goals. third, there are really fundamental problems in the basic law of the aca that need to be cleaned up. if we don't clean them up in the next year or so, there are going to be ramifications for that. they relate to implementation of the law. they tie everybody's hands because we can't get agreement on moving forward. we need to move forward and fix the things that need to be fixed. the problems in the launch at the federal level scared away a lot of early adopters, particularly in the business community. that's not a good thing. the federal government has done a great job recovering and they're moving forward really well. but we have to acknowledge that there was some damage done in the context of the marketing and outreach. and that marketing and outreach piece has to be addressed. and we have to redouble efforts in that area. it is real private sector kind of customer service that we need to pr

for his state.ou'll remember what happened two weeks ago when snow and ice hit georgia. thousands of cars stranded on the highways. children stranded at school. so has georgia learned its lesson? chris shaw is live with the latest. have you got a state of emergency now. >> we do. we do have a state of emergency and because of that, and a few other things, greta, there are some good reasons to believe what happened two weeks ago will not happen again. this time. however, there is one very scary reason to believe it could be even worse this time around. let's start with the good news. last time before the last one two weeks ago there, really was no plan, no joint communication between the city of atlanta, the state of georgia and communities and counties can around this area. thats ha changed this time. they have learned their lesson. they have a plan, it seems to be a solid one and they are going with it another thing that went against this two weeks ago was the timing of that storm. snow started fal

do you want a jewish state, or do you think it shouldn't be a jewish state? i guess i'm just really confused about where you want to go with it besides defunding the netanyahu government, which of i don't have a problem with. >> you say you work on civil and human rights issues, do you want a white christian state? >> no. >> well, then why would you support an earth knock rah si anywhere else that privileges one ethnic group over another? that's the essence of the jewish state. [applause] and this is the progressive except for palestine mentality, but i don't understand how you can be a liberal and support a state with all your heart that practices demographic engineering and sets a threshold on the level of citizens it can have of a certain ethnic group. you referenced resolution 181 again. i think, you know, maybe there could be a solution if israel would go back to the borders afforded to it in 181, but the arab high committee rejected it for the same reason that the lakota sioux have challenged the black hills treaty. it threw their land over to a group t

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you are a great man of the united states of america and you represent the united states of america.a country devoted to freedom and equality. long live the united states. long live france, long live the american friendship. [cheering and applause] ♪ mr. president, this concludes the ceremony. ♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] ♪ [inaudible conversations] later the french president joined president obama for a news conference in the east room of the white house. they answered questions about syria, iran's nuclear program, and relations with the european union. this is an hour. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united and the president of the french republic. please have a seat. good afternoon. [speaking french] t a great honor to welcome my friend and partner back to the white house. it's always a pleasure to host you. at camp david two years ago, i was trying to make this summit casual, and he in true french style showed up in a necktie. we tried to get him take it off. when i hosted him in chicago i thought he would try some of the local cuisine, a chicago-style hot dog. i'm not

and in the states where the n.s.a. has data centers like maryland like utah that would include pulling the plug on public utilities like the water that they say uses to cool the servers amounting to two million gallons per day in the utah bluffdale utah data center as well as the electricity that they used to power the servers so even while congress decides what to do in the courts decide what to do with the president continues to step closer you know one hopes towards the positions he espouses as a campaign candidate back in two thousand and eight the states can take matters into their own hands and that's exactly what we're seeing in maryland you saw at a dozen other states around the country and. as you had mentioned maryland is a big hub for the n.s.a. they are based at the headquarters that already it that's right so what is the particular significance of this bill happening in maryland where the n.s.a. primarily operates i mean we've seen various states take adopt similar legislation are or think about enacting t

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it's all left up to states and individual states have different sorts of pragya lation different sorts of rules and essentially at least it's been my impression that it's all a matter of lottery once they keep crosses the u.s. border and he's essentially you know in the at the mercy of the circumstances and if he ends up with a good family that can properly take care of his needs that is not just well intended by these qualified to deal with you know the challenges of adoption done it's a struggle flood but if that adoption fails there is absolutely no way back and there's absolutely no. no system out there that would support these kids or support the family that adopted this is one of the issues that many adoptive families in the united states voice that at this point of time there is absolutely no support system for them and when they encounter those demands psychological cognitive adjustment difficulties they have absolutely nobody to turn to well none of what you just very very very long question is true so i'm not going to try to answer at all because i'm getting repetitive answer

are in states romney/kerry. in the other races, a lot of the key races are in states obama carried, so there's that kind of politics, but the other kind of politics is issue politics, and i think one of the things president obama's going to do is say, look, one of the things states have always wanted to do is build infrastructure, roads, bridges, and he has a substantial proposal to pump more money into states and localities to build infrastructure, and the republicans so far have been resisting it. now that's one area where congress even conservatives have said this is a good thing for government to do, so i think on this, on the minimum wage, he's going to be pushing governors, including republicans, not necessarily expecting they are going to do it, but hoping at least to make a point of these issues in the coming elections. >> right. it's kind of like when you have one of those trainers who knows you're not going to do all the reps, but he keeps yelling at you hoping you might do something at the gym. >> i l

>> we worked with the state. we were looking for something that would be socially acceptable so, because you know data centers are heavily energy use. obviously it's quite inexpensive. so in new york city it's about 22 cents. so versus new york city, 3 cents is as low as you could find in the united states. we have a status center in state of washington with that same type of costs that's on the columbia river. my point is if i open that data center in germany, and germany is, you know, really moving towards more green and less reliant on nuclear and they have not agreed on any forms of fracking, so electricity costs in germany are extremely costly. so 3 cents in the united states, 46 cents in germany. >> wow. >> rose: . >> and so when you think about natural gas, although natural gas has moved from 3.50 to approximately 5 dollars btu here in the united states, it's 12 to 12:50 in europe so we're 40% the cost of europe. so we have huge benefits. and we are seeing many companies moving jobs into the united states.