then to the state of arkrkansas. >> nobody y in the modnn history of the united states death penaltlty is attempted to o cary out two o sets of back-to-o-back executions within the same week, let alone four sets wiwithin the space of 11 days. amy: arkansas's's plan to cacary out t an unprecedented sereriesf executions has been thrown into chaos after a judge ruled friday to temporarily halt the state's plan to kill eight men over the next 11 days. the state have been rushing to carry out the killings before its s execution drugs expirired. we will get the latest. and we will look at rising in turkey where president tayyip erdogan has declared victory in a referendum to vastly expand his powers. but turkey's main opposition party says the results should be tossed out. they claim widespread fraud.d. all that and more, coming up.. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. vice president mike pence has made an unannounced visit to the demilitarized zone separating north and south korea following north korea's attempted missile launch and a mass

of the united states. all, this is another authority.e council werety acting on behalf of the united states. , the u.s. has betrayed the sovereign state. the recent missile attack on syria -- states is insisting thate gangster logic invasion of a sovereign state is just an proportionate -- and proportionate. then he to apply to the korean peninsula as well. this is the biggest hotspot of the nuclear strategic asset. they are threatening the peace of the peninsula and pushing the the brink ofre to war. war may break out at any moment on the peninsula. nothing of the bills in northeast asia. the situation in the korean peninsula is often in a state that goes out of control. the root cause lies in the united states. it is a hostile policy. it has an aggressive war exercise in and around the korean peninsula. this introduced various strategic assets and the murderous operation such as andear carrier charges bombers and stealth fighters. the focus on the precision strike including our -- the pretense of the exer

the state -- the state isn't hiding that money under a mattress. all of that money, even -- even fines paid into a state's general fund, the state is spending that money on something. and so it's -- it's no excuse when -- to -- when you -- when you owe a debt to say, oh, gees, i'm sorry, i already spent the money on something else. justice kennedy: well, you don't have to make that argument to prevail in this case, do you? i think there's -- mr. banner: correct. justice kennedy: -- some severe equitable problems with -- with the -- with the hypothetical of the state having paid the -- the victim and the victim having spent the money. mr. banner: no, no. you -- you misunderstand me. the state is saying -- i'm not talking about the victim spending the money. i'm -- i meant to be talking about the state saying, well, i'm sorry, we can't -- we can't -- upon the reversal of a conviction, the state saying we -- we can't refund the money, sorry, we already disbursed it as restitution to the victims. and what i'm saying is the state disburses all the money

but in a sense the islamic state is different. its appeal, propaganda, everybody about it is different. what makes it so different in a jihidi universe? >> i think a few things. the emphasis it has in the caliphate is shared by some islamic groups we can named but emphasized much more strongly. the emphasis on sectarian difference, especially hatred of the shitte is shared by other groups but emphasized more. the intolerance of the islamic state is something that has been cranked up to a notch that has not been seen before. there is something about the wide net the islamic state has cast that really differentiates is. it has been very intolerant of different types of islamic interpretation but at the same time has tried to say all muslims, even ones that disagree in some ways, are both welcome to joined and obligated to come to it. it is this strange combination of vicious, violence, intolerance toward muslims everywhere that has turned different from some groups that have come before. >> moderator: and yet we didn't take it seriou

since 1992, the united states denuclearizea north korea. we hope to achieve this objective through peaceful means but all options are on the table. just in the past two weeks, the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in syria and afghanistan. north korea would do well not to test his resolve. we will continue to deploy the defense system as a measure. we will continue to evolve a comprehensive set of capabilities to ensure the security of south korea. as our secretary of defense made clear here in south korea, we will defeat any attack and we will meet any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming and effective response. foreignor: [speaking language] v.p. pence: strategic patience has been the approach of the last american administration and beyond. for more than two decades, the united states and our allies have worked to peacefully dismantle north korea's nuclear program and alleviate the suffering of their people. every step of the way, north korea entered us with willful decept

it is by the state. >> mr. lleyton, you said you don't want to have a program that makes physical improvements to churches. and i just wanted to ask you about some federal laws that are highlighted in the amicus brief filed by the union of orthodox jewish kong congregations and get your reaction whether a program like that would be permissible under the missouri constitution. so one of them is a federal non-profit security grant program providing grants through the department of homeland security to harden -- harden non-profit organization facilities that are demand to be at high risk for terrorist attacks. so if you have a synagogue that is at high risk for an attack by an anti-semitic group or a mosque that is considered to be at high risk for attack by an anti-muslim group, would the missouri constitution permit the erection of dollars like we have around the court here? >>. >> the answer traditionally and i'm not sure that i can speak for the current governor, of course, i was brought back to argue this case

and i think one of the questions for us to ask is, if states wanted to do this, what is actually the nistrative lift? many of these states already have experience in tanf and s.n.a.p. following that compliance, so it's not that big of a lift. but really the issue is do we want folks to move off of medicaid. is that a goal? is that a success? and i think you're going to get different answers in different states on that. for those that say no, one of the outcomes we want to track -- you know what the best way to get somebody back in the labor force is? encourage them to work or volunteer or get an education. that's one of the lessons we have learned over the years. folks can work their way off -- that are able. i don't want everybody to think i'm saying kids should have a work requirement or something like that. [laughter] but in ohio, 60% report no income in the expansion population. shouldn't we look a little closer? to we want them to -- do we want them to remain on medicaid? i don't think so. i think we ultimately want them on a tax credit or employer-based insurance. how do we poin

if she -- if the state and she as the representative of the state are not willing to fight this case, are they case, are ty manufacturing adversity by appointing you? adversity. cortman: let me tell you what happens next if the governor -- ayton: let me to what happens if the governor issues a change. determination that she was violating the state constitution, then the question before the court today would have to be answered. you agree that this court's voluntary cessation policy applies to the section? >> it is not a perfect fit to some of the presidents, but certainly there is no -- precedents, but certainly there is no assurance that some point in the interim that there would not be a change back to the prior practice. toi am struggling still answer your answer -- struggling to understand your answer to justice kagan's question. how is it better in a selective government programs then in general permit programs? second, how do we tell the difference between the two if that is the line we are going to draw? , aren'tenefit programs they often selected if you meet criteria? copyrigh

that's the law in my imaginary state. and i'm saying, does the constitution, which guarantees free exercise of religion, permit such laws? mr. layton: i am not going to take the position that it permits those laws. justice breyer: all right. now you say no, it does not permit those laws. very well. if it does not permit a law that pays money out of the treasury for the health of the children in the church, school, or even going to church, how does it permit missouri to deny money to the same place for helping children not fall in the playground, cut their knees, get tetanus, break a leg, etc.? what's the difference? mr. layton: the difference is that the establishment concerns that motivate missouri's policy do not apply in the police and fire context, but they apply here. justice breyer: why in health context? so if there's an epidemic? mr. layton: no, i don't know that they apply in health context. because the kind of examples your honor is giving are examples where the benefits are universal. they are not selective, whi

then once the worlddepot out the united states -- word -- had already gone to war with mexico. the bare flag rebels gave up their own independent rebellion and joined up with fremont's group and became part of the california's battalion and then participated in the california phase of the mexican war participating in the american conquest of california. but in the course of that, he did some exploring in the sacramento valley, helped other settlers locate land including peter lasen. in the process of some of those journeys north of sacramento, he came to be familiar with chico creak and the chico area. he was very attracted to it and its potentials. during the gold rush, when the gold rush occurred in 1848-49, bidwell did quite well and made quite a bit of money mining gold in the feather river area in what became known as bidwell bar just north and east of orville on the southern river. it is now underneath the waters of the orville reservoir. with the money he earned in the two seasons of mining, bidwell had enough money to buy the rancho chico property from the original mexic

as early as the 1890's, states like colorado, where we are now, wyoming was the first, many states in the west start to grant women the right to vote. it is said that perhaps with some satire that the states are being settled and need to but manyomen to join, states start adopting suffrage at the municipal level, sometimes women are granted school suffrage to vote in school board elections, but the bulk of the country, behold the country gets suffrage in 1920 when the 19th amendment is ratified. in britain, women are granted the right -- women of 30 years and older who have property are granted the right to vote in 1918. 1928, allater, in women over 21 are granted the right to vote. >> does any of your research show either suffragette movement emulating each other? >> very much. there is a great correspondence and sharing of ideas across the pond. would say the americans were greatly influenced by the british. the british pioneered the pope -- the public spectacle and taking the fight to the streets. there were mass parades in hyde park and the shocking site of women standing on soapb

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recognized drive in the state of california but not by the united states. >> we have time i think for a final question if there is one in the room. let's wait for the microphone. >> i was unaware of the communities and where they are and several of us are going to be indian reservation in wyoming to be in the native land. they are relatively free so is it just a peculiarity that has occurred in areas where native americans are relatively. >> is it a dark case as opposed to other parts of the continental united states in the treatment of indigenous peoples. if you look at the history of the united states you will see that from the 15 hundreds and thelate 19th century there are very few regions that are not stained by at least one massacre by the u.s. army by state militiamen territorial forces, colonial forces of vigilantes. so there's an ongoing debate that's happening in academia over the question of genocide in the united states as a whole. my personal take is that it's difficult for the comprehensive judgment about the nation as a whole or the entire hemisphere about robust individ

of the state. remarks today are entitled "words, breath, text and landscape: virginia civil war monuments in the context of tennessee and mississippi monumentation." ladies and gentlemen, dr. timothy sedore. [applause] dr. sedore: good evening. -- good morning. i'm very pleased to be here to speak to you about monuments, specifically monuments in context with tennessee and mississippi. my work in this area has taken me to civil war monuments from the atlantic coast to the mississippi river, from norfolk, virginia, to memphis, tennessee, east to west, and from the potomac river to the gulf coast in the south. salt water. so, we have moved county to county to county to battlefield cemeteries to warehouses to wayside's two city parks and to state capitals. i wanted a text. i wanted to relive the monuments of virginia, mississippi, and tennessee, all of it, together. i researched and identified some 400 monuments, union and confederate monuments in virginia, some 400 new you -- union and confederate mon

states government handpicks each refugee that comes into the united states and individually interviews all of them. i believe it's important for people to understand how rigorous and long this process is. >> the fbi, the department of homeland security, and others are involved in the process. only half of the refugees make it through. many things have changed in the past century, many beliefs haven't. in a poll in 1939, only 30% of americans want to accept 10,000 jewish refugee children to live in the united states. in 2016, only a similar percentage supported letting syrian refugees into the u.s. >> we have to remember we are always on our weakest when we have shut our door on refugees, when we have been afraid of them. and that are greatest when we let them in. never has this country really suffered any kind of security consequences due to letting in refugees, yet we use that as an excuse many times to keep them out. we did it in the john adams administration with the alien and sedition act and we've been doing it time and time again. every time we do it, we look back on that in sham

the united states or personal of business interests? that makes it difficult to be able to stand up for good governance for the entire corruption or transparency. the president are releasing his tax returns. transparencies are one of the key elements of anti-corruption strategies or advancing of one of the first bills in congress, side tracking the provision that senator and i work so that poor countries can get the value of minerals, putting that on hold, all that compromises and lastly, when you present your priorities for the budget which is the priorities that you see for our country and you say we could reduce your international development programs by 36% and america needs to be there to help countries develop democratic institutions that can protect against corruptions. all that combined, weakens the united states leadership. there is only one united states of america and there is only one country that can do what we can do and that is severely damaged. >> let me follow up on that. our exec sutives are not going lead on this. is i

the united states would strike only one struck upon. it was yesterday the president first said in a joint news conference with the jordanian king of the dollar that he was deeply affected by the syrian military and the dictator bashar assad and his attitude toward syria changed. this afternoon just before 3:00 eastern time the secretary of state came to the cameras and informed us that the united states is working to build a coalition. a coalition to retaliate against bosch are al-assad and the syrian regime which has been carrying out this campaign which has left that more than half a million syrians dead in a civil war that stretched on for more than seven years. last night high-level white house officials came together. today members of the joint chiefs came together. the president was briefed on options and tonight is the president was meeting with the chinese leader xi jinping at his resort in the palm beaches, we got the word that the united states has launched a military attack. tomahawk missiles on syria. we are expected to hear

how do you see the future of this state. as falling, they're being defeated in this instance as their territory in the center of iraq and syria continues to strengthen? >> the territories shrinkage i think is a given, that will happen at one speed or another over the next year. we will see most all fall completely, rocco fall as well and there are a few stages you should watch with interest. all of mosul will be different from the fall rocco. mosul is more important but raqqa has been the de facto capital of the foreign fighters and that is where the family is in phase, that's where these tens of thousands of people have come to create a utopia so i think once that falls, we will see an explosion of information about what the islamic state has meant to these people. it will be a horrific experiment, naturalexperiment in social psychology to see what does it mean for people who havedevoted their lives , given up everything , their families to a prophetic utopian community? what does it mean to see those prophecies destroyed in

will it gain the recognition from the united states? i would say the fact the president in his inaugural address talks about promotion talks about future interest and that has been important looking at the next presidential election. but will the trump administration be emboldened over the post soviet space? that is not clear if you listen to the cabinet officials would indicate what the president has said over the past two weeks about russia it will lead one to question if they would be forthcoming. so what does america need from russia? led to think this administration gabelli to have meaningful cooperation to bring this serious civil war to an end but that is highly aspirational because we have very different views . u.s. would like to work toward a viable solution in the ukraine. the u.s. would like russian support of course china is much more important part russia does have a role to play as it is of party in the dispute and more generally will like to have russia as a constructive player this has been consistent over the last 35 ye

was at the state senate level? what were you focused on? >> again, i represent a diverse district. but also a conservative district. in a lot of ways. but my -- i tend to -- like the no label aspect that i'm potentially joining. but the point i'm making with i senate to try to find solutions to difficult problems. and i'm willing to work with anyone who may agree with me and knowing that everyone is here representing different districts, and has difference r difference experienced. so a big part of being successful in the legislature i found in the state senate is learning to listen and try to understand other viewpoints and find common ground. >> what injury focus here in washington? >> i'm very grateful to be part of the education enforcement committee i was chair in the education in the state senate with the we worked hard to ensure that every child in pennsylvania had the opportunity for a educationing that prepared them for their career, college, military, whatever it is. and here one of the focuses on the wor

that the united states shouldn't policeman. s but you can see that the world is on fire. wherever you look, there are problems, middle east, iraq, erbia, africa, even europe is sinking from the burden from refugees. n eastern europe, you have russian aggression. you have china flexing its muscles in the south china sea. ung, korea, kim jun threatening his neighbors and also the united states. you need someone to restore national order. but united do that states? power states is the only with the global reach. so that's why. said before, if the u.s. retreats from that role, you and leave behind a vacuum the bad guys in the situation. didn't sident obama sad crossed the red lines. putin has stepped in and has facts on the grounds that has made a solution much difficult now. guest: david is calling in from smiths grove kentucky on our democratic line. david. caller: hey, how you doing in i've always admired you. i've watched you for years on tv, and i think we need people pragmatic at have views of the world and russia europe. i ju

the state required that we pay a payment to the state park benefit's fund, which actually will go to san bruno state park to go into the various projects there and that is in lui, and in light of them waving their legal right to go for the back rent because we have been on the property until now without paying rent. and the state may place one antenna on the tower in the future, if you have any programming questions again, i have a representative here or if you have any lease term questions, i can answer them. >> i don't think that we have any questions. >> supervisor yee. >> do you, was there any analysis done to look at whether or not the daily city would have maybe a comparable area to put to the tower, and with it, and have been a cheaper, and to suggest just to move to the tower and rebuild the tower. and still have no rent? or the 25 years? >> yes, i believe that when the project and when this, and the larger project started and they looked at moving the various towers and this was one of the original six towers from the original project back in the 90s. and that is why the towe

whether it can reach the united states or not. en talking a great deal about a missile being able to range the united states. we have to remember that we have allies in the region who are much closer than that. and as a result china and the united states need to be on the same page here and it's going to take no little effort to make sure that china and we work together. if anything this -- i know our response is muted and very well so. but this should be a lesson about the united states and china that we really have to work together to diffuse the situation now because some months from now it is going to be much more difficult to solve. we got in this position because neither of us was willing to operate, to do something when it was easier to do. we have to work together now. >> colonel jack jacobs. thank you, sir, for being with us all night during our breaking news coverage here of the north korean missile launch that happened about a handful of hours ago. bringing in director of asia studies at georgetown university. these pict

covered incs were the united states press. thatage activists feared those tactics would alienate the voters they were trying to attract. they shunned the violence. "suffrageed the label ." many of these groups took up names like "equal franchise ecause they thought the term suffrage was weighted with violence. it was just a reading of public appetite. >> what were some of the challenges you faced researching this topic? went to 16-17 libraries or archives around the country looking for the footprints of american suffragists. letters and so forth. i also did a database of their interests. i looked at the clubs they andng to, the religions political parties they were affiliated with. when they were born, the source of their money. i'm talking about the elite women. and, i suppose my greatest sometimes it, would take me all day, a single day to unearth the identity of a woman by finding her first name because the newspapers of the day always routinely refer to mrs. somebody else." had learned the identity of a woman, i felt i had

so my state, i'm from the state of georgia. we have a very conservative state. and all of these measures have been passed with broad majorities. legislative in legislative majority was the general assembly for $1 billion in road use and the other items involving our m.a.r.t.a., our transit system, and infrastructure funds have been done within the city of atlanta. it's a nice mix of urban and rural showing that whether you are focused on rural folks or urban folks, people get that we need significant infrastructure investment. rep. norton: very instructive. conservative or republican, no one has found a way to build roads and bridges and transit systems without money. and i'm interested in the -- in what the states have done. because almost half the states have taken the initiative, seeing that the federal government is stuck and has been stuck for a generation, one more question. i'd like to -- i got into the f.a.s.t. act -- actually, it was the idea of a number of us funds for alternatives. we don't just criticize the fact that congress won't -- or your states

state law. under the all things considered -- >> are these lots actually separate under state law? >> there is no legal situation in which the lot line makes any difference right now. >> at not quite in entity id legally separate under state law? they are still shown on the plat as separate lots, correct? >> that's correct, your honor. >> to what extent is it wants me to understand that the only sense in which the merger doctrine that you're talking about applies is with respect to a takings claim? >> no, your honor. with regard to every possible use or sale of these lots. any development, any sale, anything else a person in the real world would want to do, it would be no different. there is not a single action someone could take that they couldn't take if the lot line was deleted. it makes no difference. >> and then so there's no reason, under state law, there is a procedure to eliminate the lot lines, and you are saying that that procedure is irrelevant in this case? >> even the specific text of this ca

president xi is coming to the united states. he will meet with our president in florida, and i hope that the recent comments that we're going to do it -- that we're going to handle this issue on our own are not what comes out of florida because instead, we must demand that china pressure north korea. according to the u.s.-china economic and security review commission, china counts for over 90% of north korea's foreign trade, and approximately 95% of its foreign direct investment. beijing needs to know there are serious challenges to our -- to its relationship with the united states if it does not assist us in this effort. officials in beijing cannot assume that their companies will always have access to the united states market. there are those who say it's unthinkable to link our trading relationship with china to its position on north korea. i believe it's unthinkable for us not to use all the tools at our disposal to try to prevent the least predictable leader in the world and perhaps the least stable from having the capacity

whatever the state requires. if your state says you must have a license you need a license. or the regulation is something less than a license that is all you need. the first thing is to check the premise. then after that if what we say is true there is a way to create a form of special recognition that doesn't restrict the free flow. if you want to be reimbursed through the cms, as an example, they will create a special recognition of speciality license just for those people. everyone else can enter the occupation. it is only those who want to be reimbursed. special recognition can be created for them without restricting free flow. all right. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, dick carpenter and institute of justice for the work you do. hopefully we can be successful in getting policy advances approved in the future. keep an eye on georgiapolicy.org for next month's announcements. we are adjourned. [inaudible conversations] here is our prime time lineup: >> a look at the history of dodge city kansas, o

the state law takes that voluntary action and the state law makes the consequence. that's the consequence we're talking about. >> well, your honor, i think the questions that justice kagan was asking clarify this point. that is to say, if you want to, in this case, talk about what this regulation did in 1976, is it put a conditional sale restriction on the parents who owned lot "e." >> that's a very fine argument except for the fact that it's completely contrary to the reasoning in palazor rrkpalazol. the debate dean justice o'connor in concurrence and justice s scalia in concurrence is about exactly that. you don't even cite palazo lorks in y brief, do you? >> that is not correct. we discuss why this is not a palazolo type claim. a palazolo type claim as justice kagan's questions indicated would be something happened in 1976 that was unreasonable. by unreasonable i mean that it took property without just compensation. so, there would have to be a lookback to 1976 to see if the relevant takings test fails and it wouldn't fail here because what happened in 1976? the

my very first stop in the asian-pacific as ice president of the united states. it is a great honor for me to be in south korea. i bring greetings from the president of the united states, president donald trump, on his behalf, i'm here to express the unwavering support of the united states for our long-standing alliance. president trump and i are grateful for your strong partnership with the united states, we commend you personally for your steady hand in this time of transition in south korea. our entirent and administration admire the south korean people's commitment to the lot and the democratic process and we look forward to the upcoming election with great anticipation. while changes coming on the people of south korea may be assured, whatever change happens in your elections, the commitment of the united states to south korea's safety and security will remain unchanged. my message to you guys is we are with you 100%. the united states of america stands shoulder to shoulder with the republic of korea. and the service and vigilance of some 37,500 u.s. soldiers

states congress. the congress can approve this and admit kansas as a slave state into the union. james buchanan puts his shoulder to the wheel. nobody wants the lecompton constitution adopted more than james buchanan. he gets his way at first. the senate of the united states adopts the lecompton constitution. but there, buchanan starts to lose traction. the lecompton constitution has to go the house of representatives and in the house of representatives, the lecompton constitution fails, 120-112. a compromise proposal is put forward by william h english of indiana. a bill known as the english bill. the compromise works something like this. the lecompton constitution was adopted by the proslavery-ites without a single vote from the anti-slavery kansans and the rest of the state. this is what stuck like a fishbone sideways in the throats of the house of representatives. the english bill proposes to send the lecompton constitution back to kansas for referendum. to the enormous embarrassment of james buchanan

new york state is the first in the four-year space. oregon and tennessee have existing programs that are relatively new. a lot of other states are starting to talk about proposals for free college. not necessarily universal. programs that are free within certain bounds are for people who go into certain field of study or certain occupations. have seen free college become part of the national dialogue around higher prompted by it being the core platform of the democratic party during the presidential race. dan in the nation's capital is paying off his student loans. good morning. caller: good morning. i hope the callers today are focusing on an important issue which is the fact that college tuition rates are going up at a skyrocketing rate. i am paying off my student loans from undergrad and graduate as many of the callers today. i hope we can have some comments and dialogue on the fact that 6%, 8%, 12 percent, paying off these types of tuition increases with current salaries is just unsustainable. thank you very much. host: a quick note

>> the secretary of state says that steps are underway for the united states to lead an internationalion to remove bashar al-assad from power. just a week ago, the secretary of state asked about this in turkey. his response to that was that it is up to the syrian people to decide the long-term future of bashar al-assad. so this chemical attack representing a dramatic shift in the position, much more detailed from the united states and secretary tillerson than he spoke about a week ago in turkey. this is as the secretary says there's no doubt the regime of bashar al-assad is responsible for the chemical attack this week on his own citizens. there's russia angle as you have discussed. the state department says that russia needs to think about its support for bashar al-assad and this is one week ahead of secretary of state rex tillerson's visit to moscow where he will meet with the state department there. officials say the chemical attack will color those discussions. state department officials say that the united states with secretary of state rex tillerson still explore a relationship

the state department is better to do that. they just don't have the capability. >> why can't you use the same $10 billion slush fund and bring over friends of ambassador cook from the state department and get the advice and accomplish the same thing or something similar, meaning we don't want to wait for three years and nine months or people on your side don't want to wait for three years and nine months to do something while we know who is going to be in the white house. isn't there something that you can do to work within the current power structure in washington to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish, t you're trying to accomplish which are admirable, understanding that it's highly unlikely that there's going to be significant funding increases at the state department, in fact, at this point, president's budget says there's going to be significant funding decreases. >> ted that's probably what you want to do, over the next 12 months you probably want to make sure that you have more professional diplomats sitting at t

of the states. and we've all kind of heard this. so i mean, we're dealing with a population health crisis, it seems to me. how is this linked to the medicaid program and what tools do states need to make that link between having a medicaid card and improving access and improving outcomes? >> so just a couple comments on ben somers' work in arkansas, kentucky and texas. he will look at a large number of access measures. cost-related problems getting health care, medical bill problems, and one striking outcome on affordability is 36% of out-of-pocket decline. so major changes that stem from the protections in the medicaid program that are actually very different from people who are buying coverage through the marketplaces in states that haven't expanded medicaid, particularly on out-of-pocket cost side, on the premium spending side. but the other areas that are really important to look at in the work that he's done is the access to care among people with chronic health conditions, the testing of -- glu

this on the heels of the visit of the secretary of state. d before that, the secretary of defense. all of them trying to offer ashurss that the u.s. stands shoulder to shoulder when it comes to confronting the north korean nuclear threat. the trump administration's recent rhetoric that came from sh shinzo abe. all options must be on the table. he did, of course, go on to reaffirm the fact that it's japan's direct hope that this will be solved in a peaceful way through diplomatic negotiations. however, he did go on to say that pressure will need to be applied to north korea for that kind of outcome. >> well, we see mike pence stepping to the podium with the deputy prime minister of japan. we're going to take some of this live and hear their comments and discuss them in just a few moments. >> translator: for the very first time. first of all, prime minister aso and vice president pence. making opening remarks. afterwards, we'll take up a q & a session. i'm delighted to welcome vice president pence to japan in april when some cherry blossoms are

i was defeated by the state of texas. texas, it turns out, has more than 3000 -- i mean, excuse me, more than 13,000 state historical markers. almost as many as the rest of the country put together. i pointed this out to the woman in charge of markers in austin, and her reply was, "well, yes." [laughter] "we've had more history. what do you expect? by the way, virginia comes in second, and i think you have had more history than texas. this is a piece of slate carved into the state of idaho, which is no easy task. if you read it, here is what it says -- dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in a most horrible indian massacre 1861. why do i use this slide to illustrate my point? because it turns out in 1861, 300 immigrants in their little wagon train were not killed in southern idaho. 30 were not. three were not. it never happened at all. and it's not easy to prove a negative. i only can say that with such confidence. a fine historian who died recently spent 10 years of his life proving that this could not po

new york state is the first in the four-year space. oregon and tennessee have existing programs that are relatively new. a lot of other states are starting to talk about proposals for free college. not necessarily universal. programs that are free within certain bounds are for people who go into certain field of study or certain occupations. have seen free college become part of the national dialogue around higher prompted by it being the core platform of the democratic party during the presidential race. dan in the nation's capital is paying off his student loans. good morning. caller: good morning. i hope the callers today are focusing on an important issue which is the fact that college tuition rates are going up at a skyrocketing rate. i am paying off my student loans from undergrad and graduate as many of the callers today. i hope we can have some comments and dialogue on the fact that 6%, 8%, 12 percent, paying off these types of tuition increases with current salaries is just unsustainable. thank you very much. host: a quick note

the state d.o.t.'s continue to seek opportunities and create solutions to solve the deteriorating transportation system. all of us have come to realize traditional funding is important that serves as a partial solution to the problem. the f.a.s.t. authorization of $305 billion for federal highway, highway safety, transit, passenger rail programs from 2016 to 2020 could not have have been timelier and supporting our transportation infrastructure. equally importantly involves major problematic policy reforms contained in both the f.a.s.t. act. it is our hope that congress will feel comfortable in seeking additional reforms that will provide further opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of transportation programs and project delivery while remaining responsible stewards of taxpayer resources and both human and natural environments. moving forward, we must develop a modern revenue model for serving our transportation investments. the days of tax consumption for a fleet of ever increasin

the soldiers might need. every state sent agents to new york, boston and connecticut was way ahead in preparing for this war because new england, so they wanted to take the lead. they wanted to be the movers and shakers of public policy early on in the war. and of course, he maintains a great record in conscription and volunteer and replenishing the ranks and keeping the state budget intact and actually he is one of the few governors who would not make it to be field as much as the other new england governors and that think part of that was some health reasons as other commitments in new england. yet? >> as a follow-on to this gentleman's question -- can you describe a comment on the disloyal governors in the border states? dr. engle: the disloyal governors of the border states -- some interesting term. i am careful to say that. i read a tremendous number of letters about whether he was or was not loyal. regardless of what kentuckians believed, regardless of what his colleagues believed in the south, most of his colleagu

and, in our signature segment, refugees fleeing the united states, for canada. next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the john and helen glessner family trust-- supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. north korea marked its most important holiday today with a show of military might and a blunt warning, but there were no new north korean missile or nuclear tests, as some analysts had thought might happen. the totalita

and the secretary of state of the united states somehow were not on the same page, because you saw just from elise labott's reporting there, hey, he's talking about direct talks with north korea. there was something else interesting in that interview as well that was president trump's assessment of kim jong-un. and when you listen very closely to it, it sounds like there's just a bit of empathy there about the position the north korean leader is in. listen. >> he's 27 years old. his father dies. took over a regime. so, say what you want, but that's not easy, especially at that age. i'm not giving him credit or not giving him credit. i'm just saying, that's a very hard thing to do. as to whether or not he's rational, i have no opinion on it. i hope he's rational. >> reporter: one of the more confusing policy points the president touched on there in that interview was the possibility of south korea paying for the thaad missile defense system, which is very controversial, owned by the united states and costs about $1 billion. so, that's raised a bit of a fury in south korea. back

one of the questions for us to ask is, if states want to do this what is the administrative left? many of these states have experience in tanf and s.n.a.p. do we want folks to move off of medicaid? is that a goal? is that success or is it how many people are on the program is the goal? and you'll get different answers in different states on that. for those that say one of the outcomes we want to track is how many people get back into the labor force. the best way to get people back in the labor force is, encourage them to work or volunteer or get education. that's one of the lessons we have learned from welfare reform over the years. is that folks can work their way off the program. that are able, i'm not saying it should apply to anybody. i don't want anybody to think i'm saying kids should have a work requirement. for the populations that aren't -- in the expansion population, 60% report no income. we ultimately want them on a tax credit or an employer based insurance. how do we orient our program to point in that direction for the populations that should? but your point is right

the doctrine of primogeniture and said that the air would inherit the state. lso the current holder cannot alienate. imagine yourself one of these princes. you on 300 square miles of virginia, you think well, i could do with the 280 square miles. i would like to have new paddles. you cannot sell us 20 square miles because the doctrine of intel meant that you cannot alienate that land, your son was entitled to it after you. what this meant was that generation after generation you would have the same if you families controlling the entire landscape, physical and metaphorical of virginia. so, first the monarchy, second these landholding that was concentrated and the third of the social and political status of peter jefferson was established church, the church of england which was the church of virginia and it had been since the first time of the house of burgesses in virginia. 6019, they said that the king's church would be our church. if you are peter jefferson you knew it, and thomas consumed that you are going to be a member of the burgesses. inc. there is neve

the state of human rights in putin's russia. don't quarrel with the title, i understand the point, but it's not putin's russia, it's russians russia. vladimir putin happens to have control of the government today but russian is not vladimir putin. russia is an ancient proud penl. vladimir putin happens to be a tie rant that be controlsz its government. but i thank you for inviting me to participate in this event and i'm incredibly proud to be here with vladimir kara-murza who you know and i'm going to have the honor to introduce him shortly. when we talk about people around the world who risked their lives in the name of freedom, vladimir is an example of just how true this is and his brave fight for democracy and freedom in his country is truly an inspiration. we have an award in america called the profiles in courage and it's largely given to someone who took political risk because you might have lost an election or took on some nasty criticism in the press for doing something. and i understand relatively speaking that is coura

under state law. under the all things considered approach -- chief justice roberts: are these lots actually separate under state law? mr. tseytlin: there is no legal situation in which the lot line between lot e and lot f makes any difference right now, none. chief justice roberts: so -- so that's not quite an answer. are they legally separate under state law? they're still shown on the plat as separate lots, correct? mr. tseytlin: that -- that's correct, your honor. chief justice roberts: so to what extent is it wrong for me to understand that the only -- the only sense in which the merger doctrine that you're talking about applies is with respect to a takings claim? mr. tseytlin: no, your honor. they -- it's with regard to every possible use or sale of these lots. any development, any sale, anything else a person in the real world would want to do, there would be no difference. there's not a single action that someone could take that they couldn't take if the lot line was deleted. it makes no difference. the