we realize all states are different, but in our state we have had some concerns from state regulators that's fish and wildlife has been inconsistent with protecting habitats in the state even compared to other states. particular, rather than going through the formal role-making they have been establishing bumper zones. these are critical habitat in all but name but have not been through the formal role-making. as a result, the footprints are unclear. there has been no consideration for the economic impact and it has impacted some of our ability to do reclamation activities. i am wondering, has all three of your states had that inconsistency and have you had these buffer zones created an set of critical habitat? >> i will start. no, we have not had bad expense. if i can harken back to the con cottontaile -- the example, there was actually a federal agency helping us work with private landowners and helping is due agreements rather quickly. i think because we started working collaboratively end equally with the fish and wildlife service on what the goals would be. a very collaborative e

are stately is the red outcome of the purple violet is the state flower, the honeybee is the state insect, and the eastern bulfinch is the state bird. we are standing in the public gallery of the general assembly. the chamber was built in 1891 by james moreland was an architect builder as well as a member of the assembly. the chamber features two examples of technology -- the edison chandelier hanging in the center. it was installed by the edison mining company. it consists of 66 lightbulbs and weighs over 1000 pounds. another example of technology is an event that occurred in the chamber, and that is the first transcontinental phone calls from new jersey. they were placed from this at the world's fair in san francisco. on the walls, we have portrait of our first and 16th president -- washington and lincoln. both president pays had trenton connection -- both presidents had trenton connections. first washington crossed the delaware river it .5 miles up the river and marched the army to trenton and attacked the british shoulders ever occupying the city --british soldiers that were occupying

authority and state experiments and states addressing the issues directly of their citizens; basic states' rights. but not so much in this case. h.j. resolution in fact will be particularly harmful in states like connecticut, which has already begun to bridge the retirement savings gap for nearly 600,000 people who lack access to employer-based savings retirement in our state. the connecticut retirement security authority has pioneered this effort. i'm very proud to say. and connecticut is among several states that have made real progress toward expanding secure pathways to retirement savings for their private-sector employees. by leveraging state facilityation with private employers, these plans allow accessibility to low-cost savings. which in turn allows more workers to adequately prepare for retirement, improving life for those workers and also reducing the burden on taxpayer-funded services. in fact, encouraging increased retirement saving yields important savings for federal and state budgets in the future, not just now. studies have shown that expanded retirement savings programs c

the states like my state will have an assessment on plans and agreement with providers. so we will have federal resources and state resources which taken together will improve the situation. we had a very successful risk pool in wisconsin. our deputy insurance commissioner came up and testified as much. it was very successful and didn't have a dime of federal spending. so worst thing is, let's do even more of that. let's have these states put together their own risk systems like they had successfully in the past and add federal financing so it's even better. reporter: just to be very clear about this, you are saying state will do it he so the c.o. rojection talking about high premiums. the speaker: look what these states did. you have to give the states ability to customize solutions. the health insurance system provider network insurance system in wisconsin is different than it is in new york let alone new mexico, tech as, california or maine. give these states to customize, support and now for the first time we are going to add federal dollars to this. we think it is a

we had the conservation, wide conservation plan, five states, oklahoma, my state was one of those states, and we worked hard. we worked for a long period of time. we had meetings in all five of the states and we came up with some conclusions as it relates to the lesser prairie chicken, and even though -- we went to all that work. we went through so much work that a texas court came in and said that -- that the fish and wildlife was violated because they didn't consider properly the conservation plan that was put forward. so right now we're in the process of looking at this and seeing what we did do, but there doesn't seem to be any incentives for people to really work with these conservation efforts. would i like to have you give us your opinion as to the seriousness of that particular conservation effort and why they are not incentivized in our system to participate. >> the -- senator inhofe, senator barrasso, the lesser prairie chicken i think is the classic example of what states can do when they integrate together and work with partners, both in the private sector as well as the publ

not to state any opposition, or say that we can't state an opposition because of the--the fact that we're involved in a struggle i think is an error. this is a difficult period of time, but the mere fact that we're shooting one another across the world doesn't make the united states automatically right. i think it should be examined. it doesn't make the course that we're following at the present time automatically right, automatically correct and i think that those who have a different point of view, no matter what their point of view might be and whether they are in favor of using increased force, or in favor of lessening the force, or even some--of pulling out unilaterally--i happen to disagree with that but i think they have a responsibility and a right to state those views, even though we're in a difficult period of time. mr. collingwood: would you draw the line at draft-dodging though. yes, mr. reagan? governor reagan: well, i just--again apparently i haven't made myself clear. senator, i want to make it plain, this. no, as i say, we reserve the right of dissent, but when that dissen

and the united states government.cyber security has got to be one of our highest priorities at the department of state, and as an entire government. my experience in government, when i was at the commerce department was, because of our lack of cyber security, now this was 12 years ago. all our systems were open to a number of different foreign governments. such that we had to create our own internal operating system to communicate among ourselves and prepare documents for the secretary to send to the swowhi house, because we had so little confidence that the system we were using wasn't penetrated. so cyber security is, for me, very high priority. >> thank you, mr. sullivan, thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you mr. chairman, and thank you mr. sullivan for your willingness to take on this responsibility. i just want to follow up a little bit on senator gardner's point about china, because we had a hearing before the armed services committee where experts testified that there really are only two things that the chinese

there were four slave states in the united states that remain within united states -- do not succeed with the confederacy -- maryland, missouri, kentucky, and delaware. and lincoln has to worry that if he takes too big of an action against slavery directly, one or more of these states might secede and the confederacy. and lincoln -- kentucky in maryland -- if they were to go for the confederacy, prove hugely logistically challenging for the union war effort. d.c. would fall overnight, maryland went into the confederacy in all likelihood. this is a very significant worry for lincoln. some of his critics said he was so worried about being president of kentucky that he did not have time to be president of the united states because he was so worried about how his policies would play in kentucky for the first several years of the war. the border states are a concern for lincoln as well. another, i think, another factor that precluded some americans from seeing how quickly the war -- the union was imris emancipation was the fact that the policy announced by simon cameron and his correspond

no one knows how many states or which states. -- host: $8 billion in addition to what? it can do a number of things to try to help offset some of the premiums. it is a valid with the affordable care act. people can get insurance, but then they can afford to use it. the question is whether what republicans are doing with solve it. if it. if they do not have to cover summoning benefits, it would be cheaper. care, it the maternity is things like hospital care, prescription drugs and doctors visits. host: let's hear from connecticut. you get insurance from the affordable care act? caller: yes i do. through the exchange. i'm 91 years old, but for years had medicare. under the formal carrots, i gave up medicare and that was a much better deal for me. i did not have the high deductibles under medicare and my insurance didn't pay for hospital care that i needed at the time, but when i went through the portal terra, i was able to get an operation that enabled me to get an operation and did not have to pay for a penny of it. if you go into the affordable care act and don't examin

the iowa state fair. and i also -- secretary perry, former governor of texas, they're also a big wind energy state. >> they had the renewable portfolio early when president bush was governor. >> they followed our lead. they're one of the i think 23 states that copied basically the law signed in '83. there's a company called hz, it's a chinese company, that has a couple wind turbines near nevada, iowa. they're a subsidiary of china. i've called on them, and frankly, we think there's -- as you pointed out -- opportunity for collaboration on this in a way that can benefit air quality and the whole world. >> excellent. i work forward to working with you, thank you mr. chair. >> senator rubio. >> thank you, governor, congratulations. as you know i spent time in iowa over the last year and a half. and we, too, went to the fair and my kids enjoyed it very much. they wanted to know why we didn't go this year. >> we miss you. >> yeah. >> you're always welcome. >> well, i asked them what did you learn at the fair.

to the state of iowa. leading that delegation was a young man who's business card read, xi jinping, feed association of says wang wong. during the trip, we took our new chinese visitors on tours of farms and factories and to receptions dinners. they attend a birthday party, a mississippi river cruise and we showed them true hospitality. i even hosted the delegation in the governor's formal office. a connection was made and a friendship was founded. so this day, president xi still speaks fondly of iowa and the hospitality he enjoyed there so many years ago. if confirmed, i hope to use my unique position as an old friend of president xi and a trusted confident of president trump to positively influence the u.s./china relationship. as the governor of iowa, i saw firsthand the importance of a positive and healthy trade relationship between our two countries. nearly one out of every two rows of iowa soy beans last year were sent to china as well as a lot of pork in 2016. the importance of trade extends beyond a

of education state in our great nation, why has the state of education been in a permanent state of decline ever since the creation of the federal department of education, which i believe was under reagan ? i believe it was the first commissioner or secretary of education, that is one. that is an established fact. no one disputes it. america used to be number one in public education and now we are down around 23 or something in there. also, why is it since pell grant's, the cost of college -- what is increased the word? -- geometrically? i would like your response on that, please. headed forink we are a debate over -- i think the education secretary was created under jimmy carter, but we are headed for a debate over the proper roles in the federal government in education that i think a lot of conservatives have been wanting to have for a long time. fore has long been enough from republicans conservatives, to reduce the roles of the federal government and education. there are some efforts in congress now to completely eliminate the department of education. this administration has made clear

please state your name. tell us who you write for, where you're from so we can give some good educated answers for you, and please ask a question. >> quick question for lindsay. [inaudible] >> thanks. great question. we did just see a new, as you mentioned, random assignment evaluation of the d.c. scholarship program, which is a voucher program in the district. i want to say roughly 1100 kids are so in the program. it has been around since 2003, and the program did find that after one year of being in the program, kids did worse -- i think it was on reading achievement and math achievement. math achievement was not significant. a couple of cautions about that -- not dismissing it, but it is after one year. we have much more evidence that kids who persist through the program have graduation rates 21 percentage points higher than the control group, so i think that says something, but i would also caution that if you look at the control group in that study, 52% of the kids in the control group ended up finding

because of the nature of the job there, that is to say there was very little likelihood of any kind of a state-on-state war, but it was all about as i looked at it, all about partnering with people to help them help us stem the flow of drugs, stem the flow of illegal migration movements, and everything in between. so i would just tell you that in this job, as hard as we worked in my last job to make a difference, and we did make a difference, i won't go into it right now, but the fact is that the alliance for prosperity we had to, frankly, in order to get that accepted by the united states government we had to out-maneuver the other agency because they weren't interested, even though the alliance for prosperity was those three countries getting together for regional approach, regional solutions, put their own money against it. there were many that were not interested in the washington inner agency because it was complicated, it was difficult. so we outmaneuvered them. and without lobbying, of course we could never do that but by informing and educating the united states congress and a number of members

if you take a look at the state department and terrorist groups the u.s. state department of terrorists, i believe it's two of them that are shia nature that have some connections to iran. the u.s. se the vast majority are with a has beenies with some degree of funding or yg logical support. if our objective is to fight terrorism we need to have a much, much firmer conversation with the saudis about this and stop the amount of funding coming out to these organizations instead of making the united states a party in this conflict. a rival between iran and saudi arabia. that is not to say that iran is a particularly positive acter or to argue that iranian isn't a right against them. but when it's comes to isis inspired individuals and groups killing people in the streets of paris, brussels, niece, manchester, sbern, et cetera, there is a very clear link. all of them are wo has beenies and all of them have a degree of radicalization or ideological financial support. >> president trump said the iranians have bolsters assawed. >> certainly would not agree with t

the united states is very good at imposing sanctions. lifting sanctions, however, is something we have far less experience with. so that process of lifting the sanctions turns out to be far more complex than any party had expected. and that's resultd in a situation in which people in iran are disappointed. nevertheless, even though that was seen as the biggest weakness that they had not done as well as you will had hoped for, they managed to reelect him with a bigger mandate than they did before, not because they were endorsing everything he did but , because they were terrified that iran would go back to the much moreof the hard-line policies. host: how long is the presidential term? guest: four years. host: let's hear from new york. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a couple of comments here. my first comment is let's not kid ourselves. we negotiated the iran deal with the conservative regime in power. he was not in power. second of all, i would like to point out that in order to negotiate this deal which you find to be a triu

state. the health status tends to be lower and risk is higher in areas that have not expanded medicaid. poverty turns out to be correlated with health problems and there is a lot of enrollment volatility at low-income levels, so eligibility for subsidy changes. there are also areas where other stuff is going on. tennessee has an interesting thing going on that works against stability in the marketplace. against stability in the marketplace. there is an organization called the farm bureau which is not a licensed health insurer, so it does not have to follow the rules, but they sell health coverage. they get to cherrypick the other insurers in the marketplace. and then iowa, which is mostly gray and blue, but may go orange or we will need a new color for zero, is a state that has a very high concentration of noncompliant plans. about half of the people in the individual market in iowa are in these grandfathered plans. elsewhere, you see a lot of insurer participation, and about 57% of people i

the united states has a comparable interest. because the balance much risks are greater for us, it really behooves china to do whatever they can, to push the north koreans, at least in the near term, to the negotiating table and then give diplomacy a chance to figure out what can be put in place to at least buy some time until we can get our hands around more permanent sorts of solutions. >> you know, senator, the only thing i would add to these very good comments is you mention said in your question the role that potentially greater economic interdependence could have in mollifying state's policies in the region, and i think while many of us teach those theories in the classroom, what's been very clear in asia is that china's growing economic interaction in the region has not had a mollifying impact, but it's actually made them leverage economic tools to their benefit in very draconian ways, whether it is economic sanctions against south korea over thaad, or tropical fruits from the philippines, or rare earth minerals to japan.

to the suburban and urban side of our state. but because of a peak of anger, a political posturing, the hearing is apparent ploly no longer -- apparently no longer able to take place. the hearings this morning which could only last for an hour and a half and for which i guess the minority members walked out seemed to me -- at least they sound like things that would be very important for us to pursue. the armed services committee, subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities was to have a closed briefing this morning. the homeland security was to examine cyber threats facing america. focusing on an overview of cyber threat landscape. the list is significant in the things that we ought to be paying attention to, and yet because of an objection, those hearings will not take place or were shortened or were disrupted by only one party participation. i'm not here trying to create further partisanship between republicans and democrats. i'm here trying to real estate mind ourselves -- i'm hearing trying to remind ourselves that the

about half of the states currently have a policy at the state level and half the states don't. a lot of students will tell you it's too little too late, it comes too late in their education if they get it at all. >> reporter: since the 1990s, teen pregnancy rates have decreased across the united states. but in the mid-2000s, west virginia's rate spiked in the opposite direction. today, it has the sixth highest teen birth rate of the 50 states. kierstin edwards is one of those teen mothers, raising her two- year-old daughter, aubrey, while staying in high school. edwards got pregnant at 14. >> i was still a freshman, and i was just like there's no possible way i could have done that. and it was a big surprise to me. >> reporter: a surprise even though she says she didn't use contraception properly. >> we were young. he was my first. we didn't use as much protection as we should have, and we didn't try to prevent it, but we also didn't think that it could happen. >> reporter: before her pregnancy, edwards had one sex ed class a year in her middle school. >> it was like one, basic

the united states and also outside the united states because the supreme court would rule that the constitution did not extend the island people because they're defined as unincorporated. so it's almost as if the u.s. is holding the island at arm's length, but yet we're not allowing the people on the island their own sovereignty. racial ideas are also an important part of understanding this moment in our history because both imperialists who supported the u.s. occupation and those who opposed it defined their and justified their positions often in racial terms. so, for example, those that supported the u.s. occupation in puerto rico often claimed that puerto ricans were inferior this intelligence to the chinese and the chinese at this moment were, of course, being exclude with the the exclusion acts from the 1880s. so one reason people were using that kind of argument in congress was because they wanted to be able to placate mainland citizens' fears that if we are to invade a foreign territory, this could open the gates to a stream of migrants to the u.s. mainland. and some congressional leader

it was a precursor if we are looking at from the united states one of you on how the united states itself went to war within six days and created the first and only ministry of information the united states has ever had, the committee on public information coul. rob: before we get to monique, i have to make a comment that there has been a lot of new scholarship around the zimmerman telegram. one of my young scholars, who recently published a book on that, found that everything that was going on down in the mexican border, the u.s. intelligence services were convinced long before the zimmerman telegram that the germans had a hand in it. it played into some of the racial stereotypes of the era. they felt that the mexicans couldn't pull off a massacre on u.s. territory. that had to be coordinated by germans. the germans were already advising poncho villa, which we all know they weren't. about how that propaganda played into the story that the intelligence services are pitching that nobody believed. it was kind of a collision of multiple elements where, at some point, they presented the germa

>> every state that acts as the prime agency for is. rf funds has their own set of chiropractor tear yeah they use to priortize projects. and therefore most of the moneys that the projects go to those with the highest priority to protect public health. >> and the several billion dollar question how do we pay for all of this. the local level, in the water bill i pay for it. at the federal level we throw a number on a piece of paper we borrow it or find it somewhere. are there any programs that you could tell us that they are not working and we should move money from them to this? any ideas how to pay for this at the federal level other than giving our kids and grandkids the due bill later in their life? >> the short answer is the newly created program is a great example where the burden on the federal treasury is demin must. it is a loan program and those who are in receipt of the loans really are paying back to the federal treasury and the effect is very, very minor. >> anybody else on the panel want to tackle the funding issue other th

or they could have caucuses or a state convention. but generally, the process kind of came to life. >> host: when were the first primaries ever held in the system? >> guest: in the early 19 hundreds, so the presidential primary was 1912 that conducted the disaster. they were getting the support from the traditional players in the party and roosevelt won most of the primaries but it wasn't enough to get him the nomination so he stopped out and created the party that resulted in the republicans losing the presidential race. it's kind oit kind of put a holr a while. the presidential primaries were not until after world war ii. they were around the state in the presidential primaries but they were always connected to the delegate selection. so they were not important until after it became important. >> host: when did the smoke-filled back rooms fadeaway? >> guest: the early 19 hundreds not so much because of the presidential primaries, but because of other outside influences. or, we started to get good public opinion polling in the 1930s

in addition to promoting and easing travel to the united states, they relieved the department of state from having to interview low-risk applicants from countries at our consulates overseas. the vwp has evolved since that time with congress having modified it five different times. today the program can be properly viewed not just as a means of easing travel to the united states but as a means to improve our security posture, modernizing screening and vetting processes, increasing information sharing within our government and with foreign partners. as the committee is aware, dhs secretary kelly has emphasized that blocking terrorists prevents criminals from entering the united states is a top priority of our department and we're committed to working closely with congress and our inner agent of foreign partners to protect our homeland. currently 38 countries are approved to participate dh allows their nationals to travel to the united states for up to 90 days. travelers are required to complete an online application in advance of travel that is known as the electronic system for travel a

she has authored federal and state legislation and advised members of congress, state attorneys, state legislatures and policy organizations on how to preserve first amendment of freedoms. first amendment freedoms. robert robert is professor of law and the founding director of the interdisciplinary program at the catholic university of america columbus school of law in washington. he has been a member of the faculty since 1982 and served as interim dean from 1999-2001. from 1983-1989 he served as a commissioner on the united states commission on civil rights and led the commissions discussion in areas of discrum nation on the bases of disability, national origin and religion. he served as special counscil t the catholic league for religious and civil rights and served as an adjunct professor of law at marquette university. he received his ba at miami university and his jd from the university of california at berkeley. university of california at berkeley? [crowd booing] >> each of you are armed with mics. let's see if they are live. and i think let's see if they're live. >> elliott, yo

they were likely to leave it up to the states and the states selected with the primaries. when >> when were the first primaries held in the political system? >> in the early 1900s. 1912 turned out to be a disaster because that was the year teddy roosevelt decided he wanted to be president again. the republican president howard taft was getting the traditional support. >> did they stop that behavior? stha >> it put a halt on it and the presidential primaries were not as important. they were not always connected to the delegate selection. they got somewhat important. >> when did the smoke filled back rooms fade away? they faded away in the 1800s not so much because of presidential primaries but other out siside influences. you started getting polling in the 1930s and since the aim of the convention is to nominate a poplar presidential candidate. it might not have been a formal following of it but it seemed to have influence. there are more outside pressures from interest groups, media providing more coverage with radio and television so that sort of that thinking. winning in

state of texas is not fully participating, state of florida is not participating. there was a bill in florida i think is not going to make it. last day of session is today to allow data sharing. but these are major states that are not participating in these programs, and when you look at the list, some that are not fully participating, so our responsibility is if a commission looks at this, you know, there needs to be an identification of this as a problem that needs to be resolved and the commission should make recommendations that all states participate. the issue of citizen verification has been both litigious and emotional. i'm not sure why. we have qualifications and verifications of all types of issues before a voter is fully qualified to vote to be a citizen. that is sort of one of those basic qualities in most state constitutions to vote in an election. we should have a process to verify citizenship, and as hans says, right now it's virtually an honor system. and that works some of the time, but there has to be processes in place that don't provide too much

between japan and united states we do have an alliance. within three countries that kind of similar i can is a may be the military and the higher up level we should increase the relationship between the three countries. the united states had a lot of important roles to say and we are able to provide support to the rest of the world and for the situation quickly impacts japan and japan is able to provide support to the united states. the arrangement was already made and therefore japan's credibility is impacted. from bilateral to multilateral australia is involved in the india. the relationship is critical with india. the japanese forces are active in djibouti. how to introduce counterterrorism but i think the multilateral approach is more perceptive and therefore security multilateral security. >> in the unclassified statements from the administration, it seems that there is a consensus that donald trump's first term north korea will develop some kind of icbm capability a missile in a warhead that could potentially hit the united states wh

air power to recapture of islamic state capitol raqqa, the final main goal for the islamic state campaign and would be the culmination of this long effort that the united tates launched against the islamic state. on the other hand issue the united states has close relationship with turkey and is dead set against this considers e turkey pkk, pg to be extension of oth labeled a terrorist group and exists -- it is rebel group that exists in turkey. calls with missy ryan. leo up next, an independent, good morning. hello, how you doing? rouse, trumpl as a trying to get the heat off of him as far as his involvement russia. i think that we need to learn see thisory, napoleon, fghanistan-iraq war will eventually bring this country i thought we had more intelligent american politicians and is country, but trump afghanistan, iraq, will bring the united states down to a sneeze. leo in florida, missy ryan, the caller bringing up russia, syria a place where is russian involvement, as well. today, s of your story how much coordination is there with russia when it comes to kurdish e arming the rebels th

state sovereignty. it is ratified by the people of the united states as a whole. the real sovereignty always belongs in movably in the hands of the united states generally. >> thank you, very much. i think that is the last question. we have a very distinguished panel and we have had a great program today. [applause] >> that has been my privilege for the last few years to be a member of the abraham lincoln institute's book award committee. it builds up a hell of a library. this year the committee had eight excellent volumes to consider and we faced a hard choice. ultimately, lincoln's white house, the people's house in wartime took the prize with its combination of scholarship, fine writing, and the humanization of its subjects. jim conroy is a lawyer in the cash and a litigator, nobody's perfect. [laughter] >> in the 1970's and 1980's while working on capitol hill as a speechwriter and press secretary, he earned a masters degree in international relations at george washington university and a law degree

rex tillerson, secretary of state, said this.during president trump's meeting with foreign minister lavrov, a lot of subjects were discussed, regarding counterterrorism. during exchange the nature of specific threats wfr discussed but they did not discuss sources, methods or military operations. jeffrey tu jeffrey toobin, your reaction it breaking news, how serious is this, jeff? >> it is certainly a potentially serious national and security problem. as you have said, it is not a legal problem for the president. he does have the right to declassify anything he wants including in the moment. vice president has that power too. so what might get someone else imprisoned, the president has freedom to do. it doesn't mean it is a good idea. doesn't mean if couldn't have problem national security implications if he discloses something that is potentially information that could cause risk to people or organizations. but legally it is an problem. if i could just sort of state the obvious about the political aspect, it is not just any count

in states across the country where the states have gone -- like 20 states have gone ahead and raised their user fees. amazingly, folks, the legislators who voted to do that got reelected. 90% of democrats got reelected. 95% of the republicans. people say you can't vote to do this stuff and get reelected. that's not really true. you can do the right thing and actually be rewarded by your voters. we do a lot of tolling in delaware, if you've been up 95, you know what i mean, we apologize for that. but if you combine tolling with ez pass and similar kinds of programs, you make it kind of easy, people go through the toll, highway speed, and the charge ends up on their credit cards. you mentioned to me when we talked earlier, and again today, about the availability of us to harness, if you're until thein the private sector, for public/private partnerships. new construction, tolling works in some places, densely populated areas along the coast, maybe it works better than in the middle part of our country, but the idea of tying in tolling on new construction and using that to harness and in

in 32 states, on that today, in 32 states, every bank had been closed by a state government hiatus. on the moment of the inauguration, the stock exchange closed his door, and the editor of nations business noted "beer or during on panic, loss of everything, our fellow man, our institutions, private and government, worst of all, no big and ourselves or the future." between 12 million and 15 million americans, about 25% of the workforce were unemployed. millions of people had lost their life savings and many had lost their homes and lived in uncertain conditions. many were even forced to stand in long lines for free super and bread and, 11,000 americans -- a blood of america's banks have failed. panic and fear roosevelt -- 's after hoover inability's to effectively manage the crisis or opera solution to the people, fdr and his approach was welcomed. roosevelt responded to the crisis in his mandate with confidence and revolution. he suggested the republican party's talk down -- top-down policies would not allow for economic recovery. the country needed new initiative that would "put th

by allowing people to buy insurance across state lines, the states would very -- with very heavy regulations in their health insurance markets, no one will buy insurance from the states because of costs are so high. you will get competition between the states in terms of health plans and that will drive down costs and force other states to reform the health insurance systems in ways that make health insurance more affordable. the high cost of health insurance is one of the biggest factors that is hurting middle-class families right now. there's no question about it. host: cindy is in norwalk, connecticut. caller: good morning. and think you having this discussion is what constitutes as a pre-existing condition? there are different levels of pre-existing conditions. i don't know too many people who don't have pre-existing conditions. i work in the pediatric field and there are children with adhd. that is highly costly. you have checkups every three months with the doctor. i have an overactive thyroid. they cost $10 a month. that is not expensive pre-existing condition. it's very cheap, but it

that's the state the state of affairs. then imagine if they say by the way were kicking out independent news outlet and the one that remains a get my friend tobias of a report my side of the story. then invite a foreign power like cuba to take over your passport operation and the like because you don't trust your own people to do it because you don't think they will oppress their own people. that's the situation we face. the demand of the opposition in venezuela, we say the oppositio opposition, they're the majority in the national assembly. under the constitution put in place, they are supposed to have elections this year. hold the election. under the constitution that you gather signatures there's has to be a presidential recall. they ignored it. they're supposed to be elections for the presidency a year from now. hold that election. follow your own laws. that is there ask red that's being ignored so, i've been very pleased to see nations in the region stand firmly. you talk about the humanitarian crisis, that already ex

my state of maryland is home to the first capital prisoner in the united states who was exonerated while in prison for a homicide with d.n.a. technology. codis and the national d.n.a. index system play a critical role across the country in criminal investigations by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. rapid d.n.a. involves a fully automated hands-free process designed to produce the d.n.a. profile within minutes at the booking stage outside of a crime lab. existing law does not provide for the inclusion of rapid d.n.a. analysis into codis, and h.r. 510 would bridge the gap between rapid d.n.a. technology and codis by authorizing law enforcement to conduct rapid d.n.a. analysis and upload the analysis to the national index as long as the rapid d.n.a. machines that are used are accredited. this adds a real-time layer to the codis system and saves us all significant time and resources, improving efficiency in the criminal justice process. h.r. 510 is significant, practical and has positive consequences for law enforcement and public safety. for example, detroit as of this apr

i know his state of west virginia much like my home state of rhode island has been particularly hard by this epidemic. it's not happening in some far off place or distant country. it's happening in rhode island, west virginia and indeed every state throughout the nation. over 338 rhode islanders lost their lives during an overdose. rhode island is a small state so let me talk about a national statistic that shows the extent of this crisis. last year drug overdoses killed 50,000 americans. that means more people died last year because of drug overdoses than due to car crashes or gun violence. these numbers are staggering. and it is happening in all of our communities. since 201, the number of -- 2011, the number of overdose deaths has increased by more than 90%. unfortunately year after year, rhode island continues to top the nation in terms of rates of overdose deaths. we must work to turn this around and get more people access to treatment for opioid addiction. almost a decade ago in 2008, congress enacted the landmark paul wellstone and pete domenici mental health parity and addict

states, japan is number two. we are making huge investments in the united states. and i have told president trump on this. and how we should expand and develop our relationship? we should create a framework. vice president pence and the deputy prime minister will have a dialogue. the other day, vice president pence visited japan. free and fair rules should be --ated together between together with the united states, and as the trade rules in the world, we have agreed on this. in the infrastructure for railways and other infrastructures, for individual projects, we have the will to move forward with collaboration and cooperation. we have agreed on this count as well. within this year, there will be a second-round of the deputy prime minister and vice president pence, a dialogue will take place. i believe without a doubt, meeting the national interest of both the united states and japan, we will have good discussion and a good conclusion. >> president trump prefers bilateral trade arrangements to multilateral arrang

refus republican states refused to set up state-based exchanges. republicans brought lawsuit after lawsuit to try to stop the affordable care act from going forward.h republicans jammed through legislation that reduced the risk insurance provided to insurance companies. cbo did not estimate that republicans would wage aampaig six-year-long campaign to undermine and undo the afford tobl care act. and so in stated that implemented the act like connecticut, numbers met or beat expectations. in states that didn't implement the affordable care act, sought to undermine it, numbers didn't meet the expectations. and then comes president trump, who openly telegraphs his desire to undermine the affordable care act. cuts off all of the advertising, tells the irs the stop enforcing the law, bleeds out payments to insurance companies one month at a time, teasing that this'll be the last month that you get your money. and finally on this question of a gun to the head of consumers, i guess that's a reference to the provision of the affordable care act that says i

navy and in the united states marine corps.oday, when the boards and bars are placed on your shoulders, you will become the next link in a chain that stretches back unbroken into the mists of american history. the links before you were forged by heroes from john paul jones, stephen decatur, bull halsey, tim stockdale, and michael murphy. because of them, and through the bravery of all who have called themselves marines and sailors in our nation's history, america's freedom endures to this very day. and we honor all who have gone before you. [applause] but now, it's your turn to assume the watch. and remember, it's not just america that your predecessors protected. think today of what the world owes the united states navy and marine corps. here at the navy marine corps stadium, these stands are emblazoned top to bottom with the names of lands and seas that were consecrated by the sacrifice of american marines. i see bella wood where troops defended western europe. i see the battle of the atlantic, and the many battles of the pac

in its approach for required habitat protections in the state compared to other states. in particular, rather than going to the formal rulemaking to designate habitat they have been establishing buffer zones. these buffer zones all critical habitat but have not been through the subject of public rulemaking. as a result it is unclear, the footprints are unclear. there has been no consideration for the economic impact on even has impacted our ability to do some reclamation activities. have all three of your states have bad inconsistency? have you had this issue with buffer zones being created instead of critical habitat? >> we have not had that experience, if i can go back to the new england cocktail example that was an example where a front there was an agreement on conservation on the ground and what we would strive to do and it's actually a federal agency to help us work with private landowners and doing those agreements rather quickly. that's because we set out in advance working collaboratively with that u.s. fish and wildlife services on what the goals would be. so t

to put north korea back on the state sponsor of terrorism list. and that we get that report within 90 days. it seems clear to me that north korea should be listed as the state sponsor of terror. we took them off the list not because they stopped engaging international terror, but as a quid pro quo for suspending their own nuclear program, which they didn't suspend. so why are they still off the list? there's no doubt that north korea has engaged in multiple acts of international terrorism, including the murder of the half-brother of kim jong un, the cyberattack against sony pictures, and, although the initial action was taken decades ago, they seized japanese civilians in order to learn japanese manners, in order to instruct their spies. they continue to hold those japanese civilians today, a continuing act of terrorism. finally, the bill requires a report from the president of cooperation between north korea and iran. we would suspect the -- that north korea, after it builds a certain cache of nuclear weapons, would be willing to sell to iran, no

charlie: where was the secretary of state in this trip?vo: he has accompanied the president throughout the trip. he was with him in brussels, sitting behind him at the nato meeting when they were showing the pictures. on article 5, just yesterday he said of course we support article 5. if that is the case, it should be easy for the president of the united states to say so. in some ways you have to have sympathy. this is a trip which in some ways reflects quite well in him. tillerson, mattis, mcmaster, the grown-ups in the trump organization have pulled off a relative success against a picture of utter carnage on the domestic policy side. and yet they are doing this with virtually no staff at all. the trump administration has been incredibly inefficient getting anybody through. they are working on a shoestring. i think tillerson has some grounds for thinking he could be more rewarded than he has been. charlie: great to see you. great to have you back from chicago. we will be right back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ charlie: we continue our discussion

the states did decide. again, the way we do this is through a constitutional amendment that the states approve that the supreme court can't have any control over. that's why we the people have to solve this problem. we're the ones that ought to be deciding because it's us that is being affected. >> from georgia, independent line, david, hi there. >> caller: hey, how are you doing this morning, pedro. this is nothing but the old state's right argument that they keep -- these conservatives keep trying to bring up all the time. the reason they want to go back to the state's rights which gives all the power to the state which is is pretty much governed by republicans from the dark catch on up it's basically just white rights. any way, there was a thing that happened back in the turn of the century. the farmers were given the money from the state to doll out to all the other farmers for whatever reason. well, they gave it to the white farmers. the white farmers gave all the money to their friends and other white