day i want to start with the wyoming legislature. i thank you, the wyoming legislature. for working with me in a cooperative spirit. for the betterment of our state. since, tear toir yal days the people of wyoming have counted on leaders to move this state forward. and the legislature delivers. as citizen legislators you generously give your time, your skim, your sweat, not just during the session, but year round for wyoming. you leave your families, leave your place of work. leave the comforts of home. not for personal gain out of a sense of duty. concern for and love of this state. and our people. to members of the house and senate who have served. i say thank you. i applaud you for your service. and ask the audience to join me. chief justice burke to. you and our judges. an honor, working alongside the judicial branch. and honor to present great judges in our process. over the past seven years. i apin theed half the state judiciary. supreme court, district court. circuit court judges. the merit selection process is important. because it is based upon qualifications an

the legislature cannot get their act together. and the other years, when the democrats were in control, they did the redistricting and i was part of the last one in 2001. we were told you cannot go to independent, you lose seats. i said this place is about having people that have to be representative of the district and listen to the people in the district. and tried to make it as competitive as we can. and compact and follow the law. we almost followed the law every time before we had the independent commission. as i mentioned when i first started, in the middle of the night everything got turned around. everybody stop following the law and started protecting themselves. so we did that. the people voted in california. actually in our state democrats picked up. we went from 39 -- 34 to 39. the democrats thought it would give up power. i said if we represent the people, don't be frightened. we will do just fine. when i came here my first bill -- what was interesting is it was the first time that the lines, we were not sued by some

but today i want to start with the wyoming legislature. i thank you wyoming legislature working with me in a cooperative spirit for the better meant of our state. since territorial days the people of wyoming have counted on leaders to move this state forward and the legislature delivers. as citizen legislatures you generously give your time, your skill, your sweat, not just during the session but year round for wyoming. you leave your families, you leave the place of work, comfort of home, not for personal gain but out of a sense of duty, concern for, and love of this state, and our people. to members of the wyoming house and senate who are currently serving or who have served during my tenure as governor, i say thank you. i applaud you for your service and ask the audience to join me. [ applause ] chief justice burke, to you and all our judges, i want to say it's been an honor working alongside the judicial branch in on torah point great judges in our merit process of the over the past seven years i've an inter poed about half the state j

great words in 1873 to the legislature. great words today. let us join together during this session to hasten the day. let's embrace opportunities, right-size the budget of the executive branch, fund endow recommendations including work force training, and continue to build on the vision and action of past and present leaders. by spending neither too much, nor too little, by continuing to invest in the future of our state and economic diversification efforts and by responsibly taking on education funding, we will serve the citizens of our state well this session. i want to close with a few additional things. first, to my staff, i cannot express strongly enough the gratitude and pride i have in my staff. no governor could ask for more. thank you, staff, for the endless hours, days and years of serving this state and providing me amazing service. second, personal thanks to my family. my family -- i'm sorry. they have been with me every step of the way. having them at my side has meant everything to me. carol, you have done wonderful things as f

great words in 1873 to the legislature and great words today. let us join together during this session and embrace opportunities for the executive branch including workforce training continuing to build on the vision and action of past and present leaders. not by spending too much or too little but continuing to invest in the state and economic diversification efforts by responsibly taking on education funding we will serve the citizens of our state well. i will close with a few additional things. my staff i cannot express the gratitude and pride i have in my staff. governor could ask for more thank you for your hours and days and years to serve the state and provide amazing service. [applause] second a personal thanks to my family. my family, i'm sorry, been with me every step of the way. having them at my side has meant everything to me. carol you have done wonderful things as first lady. for example focusing on healthy lifestyles and with your initiative in support of the arts and education to books, wyoming first and blazing bonnets talking

in our legislature can vote it down or up an amendment. amended.t there is no politics that come into it. the computer will make another map and voted up or voted down. it takes politics out of it the way it's supposed to be. districts infour the state of iowa are very competitive. my district is more democrat than the one south of may. david young is a very competitive district as well. it makes us better representatives. this.involved in i'm a career businessman i always want to clean up the way things are done here. i've always stood against gerrymandering. governor schwarzenegger called me up a few months ago and asked you to sign onto the biggest brief and we read through in our office. absolutely i want to get involved in this. whether my party wants me to or not. it's the right thing to do. gerrymandering is bad government and makes for bad representation. districts, the party is out of power, their participation tends to be low. beir voter turnout tends to low. because they know it doesn't matter. that's not representative governme

the people of wyoming counted on leaders to move the state forward and legislature delivers. as citizens, you generously give your time and sweat and your round for wyoming. you leave our families and place of work. you leave the comforts of home and not for personal gains but out of a sense of duty concerns for and love for the state and our people. to members of the wyoming house and senate who are currently serving or who have served my tenure governor, i say thank you, i applaud you for your service and i ask the audience to join me. [ applause ] chief justice burke, to you and all of our judges, i want to say it is an honor working alongside the judicial branch and an honor to appoint great judges o f our selection process. over the past serven years, i appointed half of the state's judiciary. it is based on qualifications and experience. it is a political and it results in great judges. our justice -- yes, it does. [ applause ] our justice at the supreme court and our judges on federal court around the state are committed to our people and communities. access to justice

you need the legislature and others to draw those districts. well, we got that out by a two-thirds vote out of the state senate, it was amazing. everybody in california was just shocked that we had 27 votes out of the 40 centers to pass an independent redistricting commission. the bill never came up in the assembly. the bill got, you know, lost in the sacramento river someplace, it got buried never to be found again and that's when common cause and others began to take this model and work with governor schwarzenegger and say that the legislature won't put it out, we'll use this as kind of a model, modify it again and try to put it on the ballot as an independent. and that's what happened. we did it, we got it on the ballot. and it passed and you know, up inle until then from the 1960's to the 1970's, whenever in the legislature couldn't come to grips, couldn't deal with redistricting after each census so it ended up having the courts decide, i think twice in 1971 or 2, and 1991 or 2 got punted to the courts because the legislature couldn't get

and then our legislature can vote it down or up, cannot amend it. which means politics can't enter into it. and if they don't like it, guess what, the computer system goes back, makes up another map, vote it up or vote it down. so it takes politics out of it, it's the way it's supposed to be. and three of our four districts in state of iowa are very competitive. dave lobesack, my district's more democrat than his. he's a democrat. i'm a republican. and david young, in the third district, which includes des moines is very competitive as well. i got involved in this because i've always -- i always wanted to clean up washington. i want to reform this place. i told the president i was going to drain the swamp before he was in to drain the swamp. i'm a career businessman, and i've always wanted to clean up the way things are done here. i've always stood against gerrymandering. and governor schwarzenegger called me up a few months back and asked me to sign on to the amicus brief and we read through it. absolutely i want to get involved in this, whether my

sometimes that meant challenging the legislature to step out of the comfort zone. taking on the status quo and doing that, we have already begun to write a new story. it's not a story about we will never get back it's a story about a brighter future. today i challenge you to join me in writing the next chapter of that proud pennsylvania story. where else could that story begin in our schools. long before i was a governor, i was apparent. the know nothing is more important than sending your child to a great school and get them a great education. i was also a business owner who knew nothing is more important than being able to find qualified employees. i knew we couldn't bring back our economy until we brought back our public education system. i knew businesses would not invest in pennsylvania until pennsylvania invested in its schools. the first thing i did when i got to harrisburg was draw line in the sand on education. over the past three years, we have invested in our schools and reverse the billion dollars in cuts made under the previous administration. cuts to

sometimes it has meant challenging the legislature to step out of its comfort zone. sometimes i've been forced to move forward on my own. we still have work to do. taking on the status quo in harrisburg, we have already begun to write a new story for our commonwealth. it is not a story about a past we will never get back, it is a story about a brighter future we can all build together if we can get the political will to do it. today, i'm here to challenge you to join me in writing the next chapter of that pennsylvania story. where else could that story of pennsylvania's future begin than in our schools? long before i was a governor, i was a parent and i knew that nothing was more important than being able to send your child to a great school, to get that child a great education. as a business owner, i knew there was nothing more important than being able to find qualified employees. i knew we could not bring back our economy until we brought back our public education system. i knew that businesses would not invest in pennsylvania until pennsylvania invested in school

in apposing the slate legislatures condemnation of abolitionist literature. >> his condemnation of -- >> early in his career i thought that the state of illinois took the position that they were opposed to the dissemination of abolitionist literature and they oppose that had position. not because they supported because they supported abolition nichl but opposed to the position of the state legislature. >> apposed to -- freedom of speech. i think that was a point. >> as a congressman, lincoln was in a boardinghouse known as the abolitionist house. do you have a theory in the way the relationships there -- >> he had a close relationship with joshua giddings, was an abolitionist and later became a radical republican. that was the closest relationship that he had with the other boards. >> lincoln frame add bill to abolish slavery. not the slave trade but slavery itself in the district of columbia in 1849. he was ahead and what was being discussed. and he draft as bill with the help of giddings. the diary talks about this and he lines up 15 people from members of the political e lit in wa

you, the legislature, must pick that age. you know, i don't care if the age is 18 and i don't care if it's 21. but it can't be both. >> they have no problem letting 18-year-olds vote for them in elections or die in wars. legislators think they're not adult enough to decide whether they can buy a pack of cigarettes but they think 18-year-olds are adult enough to vote on complex referendums like the legalization of marijuana, the elimination of credit and 3% tax surcharge that almost devastated our economy. thank god that cooler heads prevailed because economical ly folks, that was an absolute financial disaster. just the period between november and the time in which they shut down government, 500 prominent affluent people said i'm done in the state of maine. it would have continued. young adults want to be treated like young adults. if an 18-year-old can fight for our country, pay taxes, get married, divorce, make personal medical life and death decisions and even younger teens can use birth control, smoke medical marijuana, t

and oklahoma is one of those places where it was kind of like the republicans kind of make that legislature and said we're going to do smaller smaller smaller and smaller government and then i just basically go to the you know god i wouldn't for them to run yet they had the past six years oklahoma has had their funding has dropped by twenty three point six percent this is education for our children public education for our children. and you're going to tell me we're going to go out and we don't need all that you know and i'm going to talk about the republicans issues in oklahoma but that doesn't let the other side of the two party dictatorship in the united states i want to be there and not just that one credit card he because when you go to west virginia which is a long time democrat spot the jolie recently went donald trump and went you know like bernie sanders in two thousand and sixteen a hardcore bernie sanders hard core donald trump the democratic party was regina after only occupies a third of the seats in the in their legislature but this is after they like ran the place for about e

we don't move as fast as florida legislatures do. this congress with 500-something members represents a vast and diverse country. and as a result there of the country that have different views on these issues. some very strong in one direction. some very strong in the other. that actually plays out within our own conferences oftentimes. so everyone in the florida legislature represents florida. or a part of florida. there's only two of us that represent florida in the u.s. senate. and so -- and in the house, obviously the numbers are a little different. that's why. the other is just the process is different. the senate process, because of our rules, everything takes longer. you'll see the house move on stop school violence act, which has a lot of same components, the federal equivalent of what the states are doing, but not all parts of it. but the federal process is designed differently. that's the best answer i can give you. it moves a lot slower than a 60-day session in the florida legislature. we both served there. we can tell you

and in 1837, state legislatures in the south appealed to state legislatures in the north, some northern states too, appealed to other states saying please condemn the abolitionist movement. the state of illinois, the illinois house of representatives in which lincoln sat voted 77-6 to condemn the abolitionist movement. six guys had the nerve to go against the mainstream, one of those was lincoln. lincoln came from central illinois where the sentiment was particularly strong. of those sick, two went a step further and issued a statement that was published in the house journal saying slavery is based on injustice and bad policy. of those two, one of lincoln. of those two, one was running for re-election was lincoln so he really stuck his neck out. he was a young man. runs for office in central illinois, the most racist state in the union of the free state. so, i think his anti-slavery hatred of slavery gets manifested in 1837 and again in 1849. >> and as you pointed out he never did introduce that bill. i think what you're getting here is that lincoln is ambivalent, that he can be portray

the legislature will be done soon.heir proposals right now are much more -- watered down, quite frankly. they include arming teachers. what we need in florida are solutions that will reduce gun violence and not just small proposals raising the age to 21, good, but still includes the selling of assault rifles in florida. amy: in tallahassee, a bill was advanced to require sheriffs to permits to offer teachers training and caring guns in the classroom. the program would spend $67 million to establish teachers and school staff with concealed weapons. your response to this? it isi said before, insane. frankly, think about this, amy, they have done this at the same time as they advanced a bill to strip teachers of their voice in schools. so that when we talk about what works and does not work in schools, they don't want to hear that, but they want to arm teachers with weaponry. we want to be armed with social workers. we want to be armed with the things that we need to do to help kids. witht want to chime in your other two

i don't see how any legislature will ever be able to redistrict. so let's say that a legislature is drawing a particular map or particular district. let's say at a map, and they say they have two possible plans they are considering. they both have very low population deviations, exactly the same. the territory is contiguous. but they say, look. out party, minimalist advantage, and plan b is the other party with more advantage. let's pick from one that favors our party. in your view that is unconstitutional i gather. mr. kimberly: if what the map is doing is looking at the way individuals have voted in the past and on that basis attempting to make it more difficult for them to achieve electoral success moving forward, that is the specific intent, there is burden imposed as a consequence. jus. alito: the answer is yes. mr. kimberly: that could be a violation. jus. alito: you can't take all consideration of partisan advantage out of districting. mr. kimberly: our theory does not require taking all of this. jus. alito: i don't see how your theory is di

there was a bipartisan vote in the legislature.lso, 139 of us voted for it 39 , democrats and 100 republicans. your elected representatives passed them by the supreme court vetoed them. shannon: thank you. mr. lamb. mr. lamb: when i started this campaign i made a promise that we did not have a voice in washington and i would give us that voice. i have only campaigned for the voters of the 18th district, that is who i would like to serve. i do not care where they draw the lines. we will shake that out in court. the current lines we have are strangely shaped and were drawn by a computer program called redmap in harrisburg. i am happy that the court has stepped in and taken a look at it. i think they should keep looking at it and redraw the lines. shannon: kathleen has a question. kathleen: the first amendment says congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion. what is your personal interpretation of this and have ow do you intend to apply that in congress? mr. lamb: my personal interpretation is that when we dec

the legislature raised the gas tax and increased legislature fees. now is the time for the federal government to partner with us and pass an infrastructure package that provides cities if michigan and those across america with the reliable transportation that work for the 21st century. we know bridging the 2 trillion dollar shortfall won't be easy and we make a significant -- take a significant commitment from every level of government, federal, state, and local. we cannot watch our major infrastructure systems break down in slow motion. we must address the significant workplace pipeline gaps across all sectors that build our roads, main tan our bridges, and operate our wastewater systems. america's intrañ structure system is being pushed to its limits and the time to act is now. we ask you to cash with us and take the necessary steps to rebuild and credit build america's in center structure as a modern -- infrastructure as a modern, safe, and efficient model for the world. i thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you very much. we'll begin our firs

during the 1820's and 1830's, the state legislature passed laws restricting black settlement, barring black men from voting, no women could vote, and illinois passed laws not allowing black people to testify in court against white people. when the country's leading abolitionist william lloyd garrison learned of these laws he exclaimed, oh, most accessible and bloody state. thy offense is right and smells to heaven. lincoln did not object to these laws. gained, as lincoln election as a whig to the state legislature he supported the american colonization society's program of gradual abolition of slavery combined with sending former slaves to africa. supposedly for their own good, as well as that of white workers. 1840's, major national issues related to slavery included annexation of texas and war against mexico. opposed annexation of slaveholding taxes. went -- texas. lincoln declared he had never much interested in the issue. in a similar manner, lincoln in congress in march, 1847 to may, 1849 express these regarding the mexican war that were far more moderate than abolitionists. linc

by letting congress veto whatever the legislatures will do. in philadelphia at the convention, he raised it again and again and again and he was defeated every time. he tried to water it down by saying okay maybe they'll only be able to veto unconstitutional actions taken by the state. nope, nobody in. that is because the other people in the room were not on board with the exception of maybe hamilton and one or two others. james wilson, were not on board with the idea of a national government that could dictate to the state and even ultimately control their actions. that is to say madison was an extreme nationalist wing of the convention. and he never really fully gave up on this idea. windows bill of rights is being drafted, he threw it. most of the right they put into it became the bill of rights. most of them were built on ideas that the states had submitted to congress in the way of ratification. a lot of the states for ratification said we would not ratify this without rights another site if you don't ratify now it'll never get ratified.

i thank you, wyoming legislature, for working with me in a cooperative spirit for the better. of our state. sinister to recall days the people of wyoming have counted on leaders to move this state forward and the legislature delivers. as citizen legislators you give your time, skill, sweat not just during the session but your year round for wyoming. you leave your families, leave your place of work, leave the comforts of home, not for personal gain but out of a sense of duty, concern for and love of this state and our people. to members of the wyoming house and senate who are currently serving or who have served during my tenure as governor i say thank you. i applaud you for your service and ask the audience to join me. [ applause ] chief justice burke, to you and all of our judges, i want to say it's been an honor working alongside the judicial branch and an honor to appoint great judges. over the past seven years, i've appointed about half the state judiciary, that is supreme court, district court and circuit court judges. the merit selection process is important because it'

the bill's a game changer for new hampshire and i call on the legislature to pass it. [ applause ] >> now you didn't think i was going to get through the speech without quoting ronald reagan, did you? you have to quote the gipper. ronald reagan once said, there are those who say we're in a time when there are no hero, but they just don't know where to look. our veterans are our heroes. [ applause ] >>> we can never truly repay them for their selfless service, but we can and will do all we should to ensure that they have the support that they've earned especially when it comes to access and choice in health care. last sumner response to the crisis at the manchester va i was proud to sign an executive order making new hampshire the first state in the country that finally allowed the ability to lift licensing restrictions and allowed va doctors to practice in private hospitals. this allowed the va -- [ applause ] this allowed the va to partner with private hospitals around the state to simply deliver top-quality care for our veterans. a new model that's being replicated around the countr

we have past 12 bills in the state legislature dealing with opioid addiction. we are trying to do our part in the legislature. we cannot arrest our way out of this problem. we have to have the industry become involved, and they are becoming involved. we have to have the churches involved come the schools involved, our parents involved. everyone has to be on deck to solve this problem. it is a societal problem. bob: the question was, is there a place where publicly supported programs for these families or are they on their own? if you are a lawmaker, do you support taxpayer-funded programs to deal with the impact on families of the opioid crisis? mr. saccone: yes, but it is not just government. the entire society has to be involved to solve this problem. mr. lamb: there is a huge role for the government to play against saving our people. the first case i worked on as a prosecutor was a young man who finally got into a 30 day rehab program after years of struggling with addiction. he came out after 30 days and died on the 31st day. the experts tell us it does not

and massachusetts legislature has made this a priority. so it will be interesting to see what happens. the second thing, and this goes more on stefanie's point, i think there is an opportunity just beyond state level policy which i do think is important and you've seen in illinois and florida specifically and engage in some interesting work, largely around funding an assessment. so i think these are two of the latter points. but we always talk about schools as having a historical mission and having a historical purpose, but we don't really talk what that means. and so i'm curious if there is a way to almost incorporate democracy in educating young people to be citizens as more of a framework for schools. so rather than just a civics class. i think civics classes are important. i also think it's relatively insufficient. if all we are talking about is one class and that's what policy will do is get one class in 8th grade, i don't think that's enough. so the way we started thinking about it a bit, and this goes to what juanita was talking abo

it's clear the california legislature as they said, they want to silence these centers with pro-life use and that i have come up with a targeting scheme of making tease speakers be silenced and pressure to stop speaking their pro-life message. so beyond sort of the general first amendment principle that the government cannot force americans to speak, a message they disagree with. we have an additional layer that the government has sought out the particular viewpoint to this favor and the dpofrt is trying to put its thumb on the scale of an important issue of public debate. this is a deeply moral philosophical political issue that has been a hot topic in america for decades. and the california government can't compel speech in order to silence one side of that debate. so, i think that in addition to pointing some of the specific arguments that california's made, for example, the explanations they've given is that they want women in california to be aware of the full range of medical services available for them. and that argument falls apart quickly with you see that the only speakers

we don't move as fast as florida legislatures do. this congress with 500-something members represents a -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> the house returning now. we'll leave this. house returning for a series of votes on bills debated earlier. 1917, and passage of h.r. 1917, if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the motion to recommit on h.r. 1917 offered by the gentlewoman from florida, ms.

working together with the legislature and the departments of health and human services,s we have taken strides in addressing the mental health system. throughout this, there's one individual that would like to publicly thank and to who i would like to express my deep gratitude on behalf of the state of new hampshire, kenmo morton. where is ken? there he is. [ applause ] >> for those who don't know, ken is the head of the national alliance of mental illness here in new hampshire. he met with the administration when taking office. to identify the crisis and dig into the details to understand it not just in terms of the lawsuit that hit the state but the practical implementation of what had to be done next to moveous forward. not to meet the bare level minimum of the lawsuit. but to push the system forward and make it the best it can be. one year ago, it might have looked like an omption, i disagree. we tasked health and human services to develop a ten year plan for the mental health system. we provided funding to establish 60 new bets in community based transitional housing and to revert

they've lost faith in their legislature to deal with the issues that are important to them.as much about telling the legislature that we expect you to fix this problem, and this problem is education funding, this is about doing what's right for students. so this is an oklahoma issue, it's not a national issue. it's about the people of oklahoma want our legislature to do what's in the best interest, the best public interest, and not some special interest. it's about students. >> we'll be watching on monday. david duvall, thank you. >>> hi there, i'm brianna keiler. "inside politics" with john king will return next week. we begin this hour with president trump. he shocks some members of his own administration after revealing his plans for american involvement in war-torn syria in front of a massive crowd in ohio. last night the president told supporters about his plans for the isis battleground. >> we're knocking the hell out of isis. we'll be coming out of syria very soon. let the other people take care of it now. very soon. very soon, we're coming out. we're going to have 10

our work you know we demand rights without higher wages we get together we organize we push our legislature to make a difference and that's the essence of what this country in the united states and other countries. you know that's the essence of what it's all about sure do you think it's because we you know we grew up with things like teacher strikes and we just driver strikes and those are major things and they move things along and it was about workers' rights it was about treating people with respect. and now it seems obviously there's been a huge push of the koch brothers. to get rid of of many many many many many aspects of you know say oh you know i think of the when you it's not the union unions were these like bright shiny places of gum drops a lollipop so you know learned a lot of them were there lot of bad union leaders and that kind of thing but there are very some some core of unions is what you need it's work ever i believe every job with the amount of people working that job in every sector should have some kind of union representation absolutely or at least have collective ba

we might even expect state legislatures to be more moderate than non- state legislatures who enter. it could be a conservative estimate of how little moderates are running. whether they are less likely to end there as well. i have compared so the state legislatures is just that ideology that they are incoming legislators. for the most part they are the same. that was a concern that i have because you would imagine that they are coming from different pathways that that might matter for the ideology but it really doesn't. thank you very much i just wanted to thank you for coming to our class today. i thought it was a great discussion. other than that. it was great. i'm so glad you touched on the gender thing. i'm glad i don't have to ask about that specifically although it's very concerning and it seems to me you care a lot about we should ask more republican women to run and then they will run and when. i guess the other thing i thought was really interesting was at the beginning when you're talking about the interview data and hostility for moderates within their party use here abou

our part in the legislature. it's not just the law enforcement problem. we can't arrest our way out of it. we have to have everybody. we have to have the industry become involved and they are becoming involved in looking at how we can prevent overprescribing of opioids. we have to have churches involved, we have to have schools involved, everybody has to be on deck to the solve this problem. it's a societal problem. >> okay. >> my question was is there a place for publicly supported programs for these families or are they own? understanding that law enforcement as their part, you said that and talking about others having their part but if you're a lawmaker, do you support taxpayer-funded programs to deal with the impact on families of the opioid crisis. >> yes, and i have supported that. there's a part to play for government but it's not just government. the whole society has to be involved to solve this problem. the government won't solve this problem for the people of pennsylvania. >> mr. lamb? >> there's a hug

so in 2015, the california legislature openly decided that it was going to target pro-life pregnancy centers. and it designed a law that did just that. so the law compels these pro-life pregnancy centers and no one else to speak the government's message. and just to recap what kelly said -- for the license medical centers that are offering the material resources and information and emotional support that women need to welcome babies into the world, and they also offer some limited medical services, pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, these centers have to post signs in their facilities advertising abortion and telling women where they can get free and low cost abortion in california. for the other pregnancy care centers, which are nonmedical, they offer the same practical resources, free baby blankets, bottles, maternity clothes, they offer parenting and childbirth classes, bible studies, these centers are being forced to put in all their advertisements, print and digital as well as in multiple places in their facilities large disclaimers stating they are not licensed by the state of calif

here at the distribution the state legislatures ran for congressional office. we can see that their squarely in the center of the distribution and also that there are no runners resemble john tanner or olympia snowe. that is all but disappeared. put differently here's the proportion of moderates, those who resemble an ideologue and those who resemble john boehner and nancy pelosi in a state legislative office who ran for congress. to be sure are the anyone runs for office at all. nearly 3% of legislators compared to .6% of democratic legislators who resemble tanner and .2% of republicans who resemble snow. moderate state legislators are less likely to run for congress than liberal democrats. the difference is striking. the next couple of slides a series of results for open seats due to the fact that most way for an open seat and more members open through open seat. the particularly important for understanding recent changes in polarization. open seats, not -- the fact overthrew force of all incoming funds with open seats have a greater ability discover the shif

what would you like to say to the state legislatures in washington? >> the fact that we need to make a chang at some point, to wake up and realize that people are dying in schools one they're not supposed to be. we're going to get an education instead we're dying. >> reporter: you're in the 8th grade. how much power do you have to move legislatures? >> i think in pig numbers we have a change. all of us together we have the voice to make a change. >> reporter: when this day is over, when you are not the headline story of the day, how do you keep up this momentum? >> we keep going, we don't give up for anything. just keep going until something changes. >> reporter: do you mind to tell me after the cameras leave you will keep going? >> yes, i will. >> the cameras don't make a difference. >> reporter: is that something that you hear from other 8th dpraders? >> not all of them want to make. >> reporter: not all of them. some of them think that you shouldn't do this. >> they say away able to op guns but that doesn't mean that an 18-year-old can purchase a g

option b, the state legislature route, a constitutional convention and 3 fourths of state legislaturesany proposed amendment. those are very aggressive. the idea of getting that done would be tough. >>'s eighth grade civics shows this isn't possible. assume for a moment every single democrat in the house and senate lined up behind the proposed constitutional amendment to undo the second amendment you would still need 97 house, 19 senate republicans to switch sides. that is not going to happen and you would need 2 thirds of state legislatures to sign off on that. assuming all 20 of the blue states that went for hillary clinton line up behind a proposed amendment, still need 18 red states. no matter how you cut this dumbass doesn't work. jillian: a hypothetical, i see this conversation being different 5 or 10 years down the road, kids want their voices heard, they are marching, experiencing a lot of things in schools nowadays that we haven't. what do you think this conversation will be like? >> you hit the nail on the head because that is what john paul stevens was saying in this op-ed.

in 2015 the california legislature openly decided it was going to target pro life pregnancy centers. it designed a law that did just that. so the law compels pro life pregnancy centers and no one else to speak the government's message. for centers offering material resources information and emotional support that women need to welcome babies into the world, and they also offer limited services, freg nancy tests, ultra sounds, these centers have to post signs in their facility advertising abortion and telling women where they can get free and low-cost abortion in california. for the other pregnancy care centers, nonmedical, they offer the same resources. diapers, maternity clothes, child birth classes. by studies, these centers are forced to put in all their advertisements, print and digital as well as multiple places in their facilities, large disclaimers stating they are not licensed by the state of california for medical services. even though they are providing any services at all that require licensing. california does not even offer licensing to for chairits to give out free baby

. >> in recent years, the california legislature has enacted a number of laws designed to intentionally obstruct the work of our swornfo immigration officers. the laws are harmful to california and there especially harmful to our law enforcement, your law enforcement. that's why the department filed a suit against the state of california to invalidate these unjust laws and to immediately freeze their effect, federal agents must be able to do their job that congress directed them to do. california absolutely appears to me, is using every power it has power it doesn't have, to frustrate federal law enforcement. so you can be sure i'm going to use every power i have to stop that. >> tucker: the attorney general singled out the

in passing this law, the california legislature concluded that thousands of women were simply unaware programs and services available to them under california law. services for family planning services, for prenatal care, for abortion. and compounding that problem, they recognized that some of these centers do engage in intentionally deceptive counseling or advertising practices that can confuse women and make it more difficult for them to make these kinds of important, critically important decisions fully informed and in a timely manner. so that's why these notices are so important. and the first amendment simply does not stand in the way of disclosure requirements that insure that individuals are fully informed of their rights and services available to them under the law. in fact, in a number of contexts the supreme court has upheld, guest -- against first amendment challenge, tailoredded requirements. the fact that a speaker may be opposed to the particular statutory right issue simply doesn't change these basic first amendment principles. a doctor who thinks that the notice inform