a lot of states have implemented this. the source of the information were the states. election administrators who were secretary of state, county rej stars and all the counties and states where you have military voters. california, texas, florida, washington state, they have a lot of experience with this universe of voters. i wanted to set the background and context for who we're talking about and what we're talking about. >> thank you. i can speak from the department of defense standpoint the participation rate issue is a sensitive one. we are like election officials we are not a get out the vote operation. we're about raising awareness and making sure resources are there but want to identify if there's something ongoing and systemically r systemical systemically wrong with the process. my next question in terms of in 2009 the military and overseas voter empowerment act was passed and when that was passed it came with some other requirements, one which was the requirement to dispatch ballots no later than 45 days prior to a federal election to offer electronic means o

and thet harry truman united states were the first state to recognize the state of israel.e later regretted that he waited so long. all of prayed for for these years -- we open the united states embassy in jerusalem, israel. leads the united states the way as the first nation to do so. so many have worked so hard for so long for this day to come and they all deserve our thanks, but make no mistakes -- make no mistake. today's historic event is attributed to the vision, the courage, and the moral clarity to one person to whom we owe an enormous and a terminal debt of gratitude, president donald j. trump. [applause] we have an extra in her gathering of american patriots and israeli leaders. from our host country, his wishing the- in best to his wife. israel,e minister of benjamin netanyahu. jerusalem and his wife. the speaker. the leader of the opposition, isaac herzog and his wife. the deputy chief justice of the israel supreme court. the chief rabbi of israel. and the former chief rabbi of israel. in all the ministers, numbers of the idf, mayors and religious leaders. branc

if you saw my book, the wealth of states, we have 50 states in this wonderful country, in each state there is 80 counties, in each, two or three municipalities, we have a data set that is unbelievable this this country, a repository which watches the testing of all of the economic models in the united states, if you talk to legislators and governors and people involved in state politics, they do not have any idea about the repository for the rest of the nation, in this book, we brought it all together. if something can be done, it probably has been done, it was done in idaho in 1964 or maine in 1963, we have a beautiful repository of informs, let me, if i can, in the first chapter of the book, i titled it, the fall from grace, there are 11 states in the united states that have introduced the income tax since 1960. these are not weird states. the first was west virginia in 1961, the last was connecticut, under lowell, a republican, a yalie, it includes maine and rhode island and neb -- nebraska, we took the day and the year in which they introduced income tax and we look at all of the

>> the secretary of state of the united states michael pompeo, nicholasn pompeo, mr. pompeo. accompanied by the president of the united states donald j. trump and the vice president of the united states mike pence. [applause] >> good morning your excellency's ladies and gentlemen and distinguished guests. welcome to the swearing-in of michael pompeo as the secretary of state. this our honor to have the president here to officiate the ceremony. i would like to introduce ambassador marianne glendon. lord god, creator of the universe and ruler of all we ask your blessing and guidance today for our brother michael as he begins to serve his beloved country in our relations with other lands and governments. give him, we pray, near open to our needs and the needs of others. sharp the find my do have given him to discern truth from falsehood, appearances from reality. give him compassion for the oppressed and wisdom to see the way ahead, even when all looks dark. give him the joy that comes to those who spend their lives in the service of others. we asked these blessings with thankfu

that consistency of a strong regulatory program rather than state to state approaches.states are close to the ground and we have to live in reality and prevent the problems associated with the climate change we deal with on daily basis and we have to take action we have to be beholden to our constituents. a significant factor is addressing the impacts and reduce carbon pollution through our new regulatory program, looking at advanced transportation, bringing in new businesses, extending the clean energy economy and addressing our community. >> let's go down another layer here. here at the world resources institute's we are very much in favor of a good solid conservative idea. one of the ways you practice problems is crisis solution. you are chernow of the greenhouse gas initiative. will this system in the united states, virginia is now poised to join. can you say more about the role of these regional trading systems? are they inherently limited? what is the future? do you see a way in which we could imagine reggie taking a step that california is taking? is linked to th

state department , do you think there is a criminal deep state at the state department? >> i haven't seen the comments from the president, i don't think there is a deep state at the state department. >> you have formally served as cia director, do you believe your colleagues are part of that deep state? >> this term has been thrown around, i will say this the employees that work for me, nearly uniformly were aimed at achieving the president subject. >> that is your experience that the fbi and department of justice -- >> yes. there are always exceptions to every rule, i never had an organization who didn't have that actors, no government organization is exempt from having malfeasance. >> in general you are confident that the members of those agencies are honoring their oath united states constitution. >> in general, yes. >> it was secretary pompeo testifying wednesday about the 2019 budget report. he appears before the senate foreign relations committee live at 10 am eastern on c-span three. >>> thursday morning, we are in madison wisconsin the next up on the c-span 50 ca

governor mead, how would you describe the state of the state of wyoming? >> we are in good shape and i thank you for the opportunity to talk about wyoming. one of the things that i'm really proud of in my time in office is we nearly doubled our rainy day fund. we have great savings in our permanent fund and our tech sector continues to grow. are proudly the number one energy state in terms of exporting that has been a challenge the last two or three years. we see that coming back as well and so wyoming remains very strong and i'm very proud of that. >> i think i read on ballot p budgetat wyoming cut its a little less than $8 billion. is that correct fact? >> that number wouldn't be right. cut their budget. the standard budget i presented to the legislature this past session was lower than it was 10 years ago and we have fewer employees and we did 10 years ago and that's responding to the pressure on oil and gas and coal in particular but not limited to that. uranium, ben knight. combinedose minerals make about 70% of our revenue year in and year out in the

state housing finance agencies in 18 states and district of thf columbia were selected to participate as these areas extended unemployment rates above the national average in the declines were greater than 20%. hhf was designed to give them maximum flexibilitmaximumflexibd administer their own program tailored to local conditions and restrictive communities. part of the flexibility to states have been able to adapt their programs in order to address the changing even the communities over time. as of december 312017 distinct assists approximately 350,000 homeowners and funded demolition of more than 24,000 properties in distressed communities over the flexibility afforded by the hardest hit fund needed made ovt a critical aspect of the program. it is a strong commitment to ensure the program achieves its goals and federal taxpayer dollars are used for their intended purpose. treasury requires each to set specific goals for the program to demonstrate steady progress toward meeting these goals and also maintains ongoing dialogue and works with each to identify and address barriers to kee

selective service that 32nd i was secretary of state and served as i was secretary of state from 1990 5 to 1999. he has worked to make voting easier prions by instituting on line voter registration the address home confidentiality program in initiative to help veterans and i was with disabilities to vote. serious left we have mr. mike queene the deputy chief of staff and director of communications for the office of secretary of state of west virginia. the former of the west virginia legislature and a professional with more than 30 years experience. mike is the proud father of ben. finally and certainly not least is left we have the director of elections policy and programming in state government to that role, to director state government he oversees voting initiatives and collaboration with the u.s. department of defense federal voting system program. i've been a pleasure working with him over the last four or 5 years. the council oversees voting initiative supports working advisory groups that promote best practices to facilitate data standardization solutions in an effort to improve

either they accept two states or they accept one state with equal rights. they should understand that we the palestinian people will never, ever accept to be slaves of a system of occupation or aparthe apartheid. that will never happen. we will struggle whatever it takes to achieve our freedom. >> the battle lines are still drawn. thanks for joining us tonight. just a note before we go. today was also a big political victory not just for president trump and prime minister netanyahu but for a select group of american evangelicals who believe jews in israel are key to their millennial doctrine. a pastor, a controversial peacher whose endorse emergency john mccain had to repeudiate delivered the benedict. i spoke with him over a decade ago. back then, he explained that he was a christian zionist. >> a christian zionist is someone that believes that the bible supports israel. god begins in the foreign policy statement of israel and genesis 12:3 saying i will bless those who bless you and i will curse those who curse you. >> you said god's foreign policy stateme

and to the to be united states and say publicly we told you so we can't rely on the united states in the end it's not a credible like that anymore and the only the only way we can go forward to secure a survival as a political regime is to increase in richmond of uranium and to because you don't know the path but again we are getting reaction now from israel i think we have a statement from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu let's take a listen to that. fully supports president rove's bold decision today to reject the disastrous nuclear deal with a terrorist regime in tehran israel is opposed the nuclear deal from the start because we said that rather than blocking iran's path to a bomb the deal actually paves the wrong path to an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs and this within a few years time the removal of sanctions under the deal has already produced disastrous results the deal didn't push war further away it actually brought it closer to the deal didn't reduce iran's aggression dramatically increased. ok benjamin netanyahu they're saying that the deal make it more likely

this is a team effort at the state department and the whole of the united states government. mr. president, when you offered me the job to be the director of cia, i was honored to lead the world's finest intelligence administration, and i'm incredibly honored to lead the world's finest diplomatic corps now. mr. president, you read a great quote from the greatest president ever from kansas. it was a historic quote, but frankly, things haven't changed much since then. i'm been an army officer, a director of the officer, a congressman, now here at state. we have much to do. but in every position i've had, i've witnessed the skills, expertise and patriotism of our foreign affairs officials. you all lay it on the line to make sure that america is safe and prosperous and free. thank you for that. i want the state department get our swagger back. we need to execute diplomacy with vigor. we should be proud. and i'm counting on you all to help communicate in every corner of the world. mr. president, i have full confidence that my team here in washington and around the world under your lea

benefiting now from such actions as a united states the united states is not only not a partner they cannot be a partner they are not a broker they have taken the seats of netanya they are dictating the solution this wrong in this region towards lawlessness extremists in this region have been strengthened and bravado demolition by these american israeli citizens and actions more than a time before moderates and the arab world people like me have been destroyed so that when the nations of the world if they can't get through security council if they can get through the international criminal court if they can do anything about their threat that means you're telling the arab people the only way for you is do is while and the only way we're for you is to support extremism and that's what we've been fighting against as arabs because we we want to live and let live we want we want to human rights we want to human rights women's rights democracy the rule of law we want peace but with such actions such fascism such up our side being exercised by israel and israel getting away with it i think

mike pompeo at the state department. secretary pompeo talked briefly about the administration's foreign-policy. this is about 15 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] president trump: i must say that is more spirit than i have heard from the state department in a long time, many years. [laughter] we can say many years, maybe many decades. it is going to be a fantastic start to a fantastic day. that spirit will only be magnified. with this man right here, i know that. thank you all for being here. it is great to be with you, the extraordinary men and women of the state department. we are profoundly grateful for everything you do for our country and you will be doing things you don't even know about. right now they are not even a glimmer in your. -- your eye. we have a couple going that a lot of people don't know about that are very encouraging. i want to thank

this is a team effort at the state department and the whole of the united states government. mr. president, when you offered me the job to be the director of cia i was honored to lead the world's finest intelligence corps. i am humbled by the opportunity to lead the world's finest diplomatic corps. [applause] mr. president, you read a great quote from the greatest president ever from kansas. [laughter] it was a historic quote but things have not changed much since then. i've been an army officer, congressman, director of cia, now here at state. we have much to do. in every position i have had i have witnessed the skills, expertise, and patriotism of our foreign affairs professional. but they are political appointees or local employed staff, you all lay on the line to make sure america is safe, prosperous, and re-. -- free. thank you for that. [applause] as i have said, i babble -- i will elaborate more, i want the state department to get its swagger back. i'm counting on you all to help communicate to every corner of the world. mr. president, i have confidence that my team in was

truman cause the united states to be the very first the rebornecognize state of israel and regretted waiting so long. 70 years since that memorable event, and the united states andlly takes the next step it is one that was litigated and theed for and we now open msc and israel. again, the united states leads and someonehe first and worked so hard for this day to come and they all deserve our thanks. this is attributed to encourage and we ohral clarity a debt of gratitude to donald trump. we have a gathering of patriots and leaders and i would like to and -- e a few of them prime minister benjamin , theyahu and his wife mayor of jerusalem and his wife. knesset,ker of the andleader of the opposition his wife, the deputy chief justice of the supreme court. they head of the defense forces. chief -- the chief rabbi of israel. chief rabbi of ministers,all the cabinet members, mayors, and the religious leaders. from the executive branch of the pleasure toit is my , the deputyleader secretary of state. and, the secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin, jared jasonanka trump, statesatt, the

and why it was taken by the united states were invaded in order for the united states to control pearl harbor because of hawaii's location its central central in the central pacific so there's a central location that ships. could enter point ports after disarming refurbish the following ports rearm and go back fighting. the middle middle world who are busy asian or in peace of mind might be greedy so it was by this very belief that they were present all the things it was how do you feel you should be d.c. nine eleven and nine third's to what we see rising up out of that because the people who are the least. bit monsters that are asked to read. documents of an existing. document he should basically say to write this book you are worthy to know the whole truth and you see so it's all still on the ground piracy from the newspapers that received the letter. the wave developed an unusual. view of the world because of our location we have huge oceans and a couple of weak neighbors in mexico and canada therefore we've never had to have a foreign policy of clear cooperation with others we've b

a longtime member of the faculty at mississippi state university, the project came to mississippi state through the work of john and others, so we can continue john mike simon's legacy. my colleagues just finished publishing the first scholarly edition of grant's memoirs, which he wrote in his last days as he was dying of cancer, published by harvard university page come and this is a 1000-page version of his memoirs, that contains footnotes that kind of explain and give you context of everything grant was talking about. steve: we should point out somebody turned up the light switch here at the american -- organization of american historians. what did he die of? prof. semmes: grant reportedly smoked over 30 cigars a day. steve: 30! prof. semmes: he used to smoke a pipe, but during the civil war, a newspaper reporter made a comment about grant holding a cigar in victory, and the next thing you know, people were sending boxes of cigars to him. he tried giving them away, but he switched from the pipe to cigar, and importantly, we know now that tobacco is addictive and tobacco can cause can

senator from the state of indiana, mike braun.applause] is the greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice president the president trump. he is a man of his word, he is a man of action. how about all the action this week? [applause] this president took action on iran, we saw progress on north korea and a new embassy will open and jerusalem, the capital of the state of israel, on monday. what the world saw this week is an american president who embraces his role as leader of the free world. president trump withdrew the united states from the disastrous iran nuclear deal. he slapped sanctions on states that sponsor terrorism. early this morning, i stood on the tarmac of andrews air force base as president trump welcome three brave americans, freed from captivity in north korea. i will never forget it. [applause] [crowd chanting: u-s-a] vice pres. pence: it was humbling for me to be there, and it never would have happened without the strong, clear, resolute leadership of president donald trump. [applause] not just this past week,

about the way that the government is operating under secretary of state pompeo at the state department. with rex tillerson there, there is a lot of tension and the state department seemed demoralized. just with the change in personnel, not saying anything bad about rex tillerson but there seems to be sort of a renewed spirit there at the state department, which is probably helping the president achieve some of his foreign policy goals, especially here in north korea. >> well, i think that is right. whenever there is a change in the leadership of a government department, if the workforce inside the department has been soured on the previous occupant of that office, then the new person regardless of what policies they necessarily pursue, if they take symbolic steps to look like they are open and new and different they have a honeymoon. we will see how long the honeymoon lasts but pompeo is a particularly effective operator in my opinion. not to say anything about rex tillerson. >> dana: right. >> but pompeo is really effective. he sensed he has an opportunity and he has taken symbolic st

and the united states. get rid of their nor stream to pro checked i hope for very much mr smirk all does not give into this so it's a dirty game it's a dead end game. you know watching our team to national your pleasure a pleasure always to have your company and i'll be back with more for you to round off announced on. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand islands. to join judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of work. a russian w.b. . and a russian stuff. show you how. the crimea bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transporter. that will help the cause of crimea. faster most of those you know while google more familiar with it a bit but. i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground in the shadow of washington threats to tomorrow's critical elections in the nation with the largest known on sustainable energy reserves in the world venezuela coming up in the show with amnesty international slamming israel for willful killing in a week with thousands were killed or wounded

of georgia and former united states senator representing the state of eorgia, mr. zell miller. zell miller passed away on march 23 at the age of 86. he was born on february 24, 1932, in young harris, georgia, in towns county. he was born to birdie and steven. when zell was 17 days old, his father died. his widowed mother raised her son and daughter, jane, alone. in young harris, located in the north georgia mountains, miller's mother built a home for herself and her children from cks she had hauled a spring. mr. speaker, i had the privilege of attending young harris college and i am familiar with this area. i was blessed to hear about these stories and i always heard about the story of how mrs. miller home. and it was that experience, that house that became symbolic of zell miller's rugged independence. after he graduated from young harris college, zell miller continued his education at emery university in -- emory university in atlanta. but shortly after he arrived there, he found he wasn't he really focusing on his studies. in fact, in one of the many books that

united states. they will see you fail on television. >> -- >> certainly it will. certainly it will. everything that i say will be translated and carried all over the soviet union. >> one of those diplomats ofolved in this event touring khrushchev and nixon through this exhibition was aided officer named hans. he actually worked for voice of america at the time. excellent russian language skills. he was part of the entourage and have the opportunity to provide some impromptu translation because his official translator got lost in the crush of people. they were going through this exhibition and so as he mentioned on the flight back, they inaugurated what they jokingly called the kitchen cabinet. picture of that nixon. they even had a password for this exclusive club. the language skills are so important. you never know when you might need to pull it out. exchange inome conversation going on in the midst of the cold war. eventually things start to thought. thatere is a recognition the status quo cannot

so far nine people have been executed in states across the united states. we are going to return to the alcatraz east museum and learn about some of the current controversies. >> the lethal injection machine that we have is part of a piece called the control module. it has 2 sets of all of the buttons, so two steps of executioners had the same buttons that they push to release the drugs. however, they do not know which one of them is releasing the lethal dose. scientists are looking for new ways to improve on the electric chair. the fact that the lethal injection machine renders the victim unconscious before death was considered a way that made it more humane. in 1982 using a combination known as the chapman protocol causes unconsciousness. drugs that are used for lethal injection, they stop sale of these drugs to the united states. we practice capital punishment. they have become less available and there has been states that have moved to a one drug method . there have been a number of court cases related to that because some businesses felt that they are

move that's a very state by state answer right now certain states such as delaware for example say a state similar to rhode island and how it's sort of commercial gaming. is constructed there one of the first i think that will move their state that has come out recently and said you know our prior laws on the books already allow for this good to go new jersey obviously is they were a party sure case they will have to move quickly i think other state. it's like connecticut potentially if there's a special session later this year which there could be could move quickly as well as new york and you know rhode island as well pennsylvania has already legalized they did so last year with a bill that said if the ruling you know if the federal law is struck down we talked about she were active right they ruled that you know if the laws struck down sports betting will become legal pending you know the government regulations in the probably geishas of those regs which they have not done yet west virginia did the same thing earlier this year mississippi did the same thing last year so we expect

and a research firm actually stated that within five years they expect thirty two states to legalize sports hogarthian well i mean the states have had so many budget problems in part because the federal government hasn't been giving as much back to the states we see it with the lotteries which aren't i guess quote unquote gambling but when you look at which states are sort of the states are poised to have the biggest economic and business impact from this over turning the bradley law which states are those well we had six states already that have it in acted legislature legislation for once this ban was lifted were well for what it will be lifted new jersey was the main one in new york connecticut west virginia pennsylvania and mississippi i think those states are going to benefit the most at first and then more to come obviously new jersey has spent millions of dollars and years fighting to legalize sports gambling so mainly from their atlantic city casinos you know they're hoping it will revive that they can add sports going to gambling to their already gambling casinos. and it als

we are a state that is broke. we're not really a state, we are a connolly.rything we have in the state has been sent out to make other people millionaires and billionaires. amy: tim murphy come your comment? >> at first glance, he looks like a unicorn in democratic does she got elected to a seat that donald trump carried with like 70% of the vote in 2016. riding a significant wave and was virginia and across the country. he was at the vanguard of the teacher strike last winter. he was sort of the paul revere of the teacher strike. he gave a speech that signaled this is something that was on the horizon. he has gotten a lot of momentum from teachers in west virginia. he has led the push for more teacher pay and led the push to build a marijuana industry in the state. he is running on a real kind of apulist wave -- sort of counter to what we've seen from president trump. amy: we are one to leave it there and continue to follow election politics. tim murphy is a senior reporter at mother jones. thank you so much. i want to thank our guest kevin robillard, who i

keep her on the nuclear program under control and under inspection but it would leave the united states very isolated and europe for the position to confront other problematic iranian policies alternatively those negotiations might fail which would lead to a resumption of industrial scale enrichment and a serious serious problem for the region in the world now trump is obviously in violation of the american implications but to some extent he's choosing his word because last winter he gave the europeans what looked like an ultimatum that he was going to do it on a last the transatlantic could it gree on sound ways of shoring up the deal and i gather from your article is that the talks which began in january were progressing fairly well what do you think may have happened to upset all about progress well i think it's a combination of a lack of sincerity on president terms part he wasn't really looking to come to an agreement with our allies he was looking to act on his animus toward his predecessor barack obama. and also the total chaos and dysfunction in this administration and so the pr

nigeria's trade with the united states is $6 billion united states dollars. 2016-2017to statistics. we urge a greater effort to increase this substantially. we thank the united states government very much for cooperation we have received in our efforts to recover stolen funds. our two governments have put machinery in place for their respective attorney generals to cooperate and ensure recovery over $500 million in united states funds that we have invested around the world. we congratulate united states government on launching the asset recovery initiative which was spearheaded by the united states department of justice. we hope we can continue to count on the united states in this area. the government of nigeria remains deeply committed to the principles of human rights as well as the protection of people's freedoms. we commit to ensure that all documented cases of human rights. i thank you very much. [applause] trump: thank you, mr. president, thank you very much, thank you, sir. steve miller of the washington times? thank you, steve. >> thank you, mr. president. i have a two-part

it is state, state, state. we don't deal with that. because i want them to see if they want to help their families and they want to help their friends and make a difference in their community. don't go running to washington. that message might be easier, now. it is an it is an important point. we only deal with the federal law. and, it is not necessarily made in congress. i said of course you read about members of congress more than the state legislatures. the members of congress have to be elected again. look to those states. i want them to see our job is already limited. what is the job? people have arguments, don't they? ever have any arguments? yes. you get over it? yes. they do. they get over it. sometimes you can't get over an argument. maybe it is about marriage, divorce, children, a lot of money or crime. person calledee a a lawyer. and if he cannot get over it he settles most of the things. if you can't, then you're going to court. millions go to court. there are millions and millions. most settle with some don't. , an a -- wh

state legislature. it is accountable and responsive to the people. i have seen that in the form of the bill where we expanded primary care network and provided additional access for people who do not have the means to have access to insurance. i stand with the state legislature in accomplishing that. >> do either of you want a rebuttal? romney: i think the comments representative made are spot on. >> i appreciate governor romney, he sounds almost like a doctor. [laughter] >> i would like you to address the issue of if the affordable care act is taken away, as has been frequently voted on in the house, what will be the substitute with respect to , thexisting conditions uninsured, coverage for those, and people who are not on their parents insurance but were covered on the affordable care act to have their parents insurance cover them? on those specifics, how would you respond? mr. romney: first of all, obamacare does need to be repealed. i do not want to see the federal government step in with a new prog

the united states is a key. it's a key actor in the negotiation of a peace process the other thing to you is that you know it's very interesting to see the very skillful adroit diplomacy that has been exercised by when jane but when jane and south korea is in a hard place because historically south korea has been semi sovereign that's because the united states to this day retains command authority over south korean military forces in times of war crisis the united states in violation of the terms of the armistice agreement still stations roughly thirty thousand u.s. military forces south of the d.m.z. operates about eighty military installations until it has basically conducted these joint military exercises with south korea that are the largest in the world that i'm simulate to the invasion and occupation of north korea that simulate the decapitation of north korea's leadership and that also as recently as just a couple of weeks ago in this operation max thunder simulate operations that in. a potential nuclear

we face real challenges in our state. some parts are growing like crazy, others are in real distress. i want to do everything in my power to help the people of utah , and i believe i am in the best position to do so. david: our first question will come from a student. it will go to governor romney. student: the world health organization ranks the french health care system a non-free-market, but universal health care system, as first in the world. america ranks 37th. how would you improve our current health care policy, handle the profit-making center for health care providers, and with that include making health care more accessible, especially for the uninsured? governor romney: i can tell you that i would not give a lot of credit to the people in france for deciding who's got the best health care system, because when people in france get real sick, they come here. this is the place in the world where you get the best talk your possible. the right place for health care policy to be crafted and implemented is that the sta

united states of. those they go out on a limb but if you put them in israel on one side they're opposed to russia china several e.u. members say we're quite happy with the existing deal why would the united states and israel pick themselves against those countries. who first of all there is the long term strategic retreat of the united states in the region that is caused by a somewhat you know not complete alliance between iran and russia but there is a lot of cooperation that is making progress russia is making a lot of progress in the middle east in terms of influence and it's siding with iran at least in terms of what is happening in syria id supporting that e.g. to make government. this is having an effect on long term american allies like turkey for example i think turkey is the most shining example whereby turkey says ok i'm going to deal with this new situation and that's cool great with russia and iran to preserve our interests our long term allies of the united states in the middle east are fe

their economy, frankly, with all of their oil is about the state of size of the state of maryland. it's not a global super power hour and they are coming up against much stronger countries. again, i think the president has a hard task ahead of him, and the u.s. just withdrew the sanctions that applied to other countries, secondary sanctions. it's still illegal for americans to do business with iran, whether other countries will go along with the repossession of american saint >> sanctions, under this context when the president just said we could have had a better deal, i think remains to be seen how the french decide to play this, the british and the germans, let alone the chinese and the russians. i think will be a very interesting several months ahead when it comes to iran policy. >> shepard: i'm out of time, but before we go, internally in iran, the hard leader of that islamic state, there has been extreme push and pull and friction within the country on who will have control of this government. what effect does this have on that relationship and the more hardliners. i wouldn't

could it be salvageable even without the united states?> the short answer is tha-- this is a seven-part deal, seven countries. the u.s. cannot kill the deal all by itself, but without question the president's actions have wounded the deal severely. it will be difficult to preserve the deal if the u.s. is the only one in violation, but it is crucial that an attempt be made to keep the deal going, and that's why i hope to see iran and europe as well as russia and china take a deep breath, not respond as impulsively as the white house does and see if there is something that can be done to salvage this deal. at the minimum i would hope that the european union would respond as strongly to an american violation of the deal as they would have responded to an iranian violation. >> well, what does that mean? what are you suggesting that europe does? >> i suggest that europe should take action to make clear first that it continues to support the deal, secondly to give iran whatever it can give in economic incentives, that is, continued trade and inv

secretary of state. north korea the first over the easter weekend and the second one resulting a thirteen hour visit we're told resulting in the release of these americans we're told there was a ninety minute meeting between the secretary of state and the north korean leader and it was then we understand that he accepted the u.s. proposal for the release of these americans certainly this is an important first step of course because all eyes are of course on the upcoming summit between the north korean leader and the u.s. president one that the president says the date and time has now been determined but that still has not been made public so certainly a lot of anticipation we know that there is going to be further. conducting of tasks on these americans as they arrive now what we were wondering is whether or not their families would be here to greet them we are told that is not the case as far as we understand what's going to happen with these three americans once they do get off the plane as they will h

of state -- does not stop to allow the united states government to change from one secretary of state to another. thanks to all of you for all you have done this last six weeks. [applause] now it is my great honor to introduce our new secretary. you all know his bio. he is a former three term member of congress, former, now director of the central intelligence agency. i offer my own perspective as somebody who comes from the private practice of law in looking at his bio. i looked at it through the lens of a former law firm partner and i imagined how i would assess his bio if i were looking at opposing counsel and had to advise my client who we would be dealing with. what stood out to me was we have a tank commander who then went to harvard law school and was elected to the harvard law review, which is a pretty unusual combination. if i were advising my client about who we were going to be dealing with on the other side of the table or in negotiations or if it were in a courtroom, i would say wow, we are dealing with a cross between george patton and oliver wendell holmes. [laughter] >

ar-15 and state law. they took the pistol grip off and you can legally selling rifle in this state. --y have a very weird griff weird grip. it's very ugly. the manufacturers and the retailers yet compliant. it's a very silly law. another favorite feature is a telescoping shoulder stock. how would you like to live in a society where all shoes were the same size? you can get a lot of shoes at but they fit the consumers. where all the rifles have a shoulder stock where they can make it a little bit longer. that's one of the list of astures that makes it listed a felony, if you have an adjustable shoulder stock. that makes it more concealable. beyou don't want a rifle to smaller than a certain link, you can just say that, you can say it's 26 inches, which is the federal standard. if the shoulder stock adjusts and is shorter than 26 inches, it is not considered concealable. the shoulder stock can adjust to or three inches. in thees all this mean context of the second amendment? what happening is politicians say they want to do something, it's the same story. one of they say -- they say w

system and about 25 states come the states that are not right to work states. centcom if you are a teacher or firefighters, you can pay full fees. if you don't like them, you can just a agency fees. this phase will only go to subsidize the cost of your union negotiating on your behalf. a great balance was struck. it was not controversial until replacedamuel alito justice sandra day o'connor on the supreme court. atimmediately took aim abood. his theory is everything i union political and when you are required to subsidize substitute on your behalf, your first amendment right has been violated. radicalan extremely theory. this takes the concept of free association touch farther than the supreme court has ever taken it. shortly after justice leah died, there was a case of the court addressing this issue and it divided four-four. it said was we are ready to strike down agency fees and turn every state into a right to work state. is now on the court. you've know he did not ask any questions starring the oral arguments in janus, it is clear he is going to provide th

united states. in a barrage of tweets, president trump repeated claims that the fbi spied on his campaign, once again offering no proof. he was asked moments ago where is the proof? >> all you have to do is look at the basics and you'll see. it looks like a very serious event. but we'll find out. when they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happen. i hope it's not so, because if it is, there's never been anything like it in the history of our country. i hope -- i mean, if you look at clapper, he sort of admitted they had spies in the campaign yesterday, ined a very temperatu -- inadvertently. >> here's what james clapper actually said. >> so i ask you, was the fbi spying on trump's campaign? >> well, no, they were not. they were spying on -- a term i don't particularly like -- but on what the russians were doing. trying to understand were the russians trying to gain access and leverage and influence. >> so why doesn't he like that? he should be happy. >> he sh

do you believe there is a criminal deep state at the state department? >> i haven't seen the comments from the president. i don't believe there is a deep state at the state department. >> thank you. you formerly served as cia director. do you believe your colleagues in the cia are part of the criminal deep state? >>, you know, this term deep state has been thrown around. i'll say this, the employees that work for me at the cia nearly uniformly were aimed at achieving the president's objectives and america's objectives. >> thank you. that's your experience also when you interact with colleagues at the department of justice as well? >> yes. there are always exceptions to every rule. iefr never led an organization that didn't have bad actors. i don't think any government organization is exempt from having malfeasance as well. >> but in general you are confident that the members of the various agencies are honoring their oaths to the united states constitution? >> yes, in general, yes, sir. >> thank you. i'd like to ask you about yemen. as you know, the war

we feel the state over stepped in a city, where a charter city in the state of california, as a charterity, we have the right to raise tacks and have our own -- raise taxes and have our own police departments and set priorities for the police locally. when sb-54 was passed, it said, look, as a matter of law, we will not have you guys do the something ordeal with the federal government when it comes to u.s. immigration issues. that's where we drew the line. it had to do with the oath of office, why would we choose between honoring a state or federal constitution. what we are trying to do is maintaining control of our own police department. >> in the meeting, the president suggested that oakland mayor, libby schaff, be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, due to when she issued a public warning of a pending immigration aid in our community. we asked the mayor about this, and here's what she said. >> i do not see how it can be illegal to inform people of the law. if the you were to receive the same type of information again today, would you do the exact same thing again? >> under the exa

>> the ceremonial swearing-in of mike pompeo as secretary of state. he was officially sworn in last week by supreme court justice samuel alito. hours later the new secretary of state headed to brussels for a meeting with nato foreign ministers and from there he traveled to saudi arabia, israel, and jordan. on his return to the u.s. he spoke to state department employees here in washington. he was introduced by deputy secretary of state john sullivan. we will show that to you momentarily. [applause] >> thank you everyone for being here. it is a great honor to be here to introduce our new secretary of state. before i do so, i wanted to thank all of you, each and every one of you, for your hard work over the last six weeks. the pace of world events does not pause to allow the united states government to change from one secretary of state to another, but it is because of your dedication and professionalism that this department has continued to meet its mission for the american people. so thank you to all of you for all you have done. [applause] now it is

state on the hour every hour who's the stating that it was a limb other than from bennett and you know who is doing the collective punishment and military means can you solve the political problem with military means you can't you can't so all these things our position is that we have to win as israel and the stance israel refuses the two state solution present never mention two states he mentioned in the context that if both parties agree the giver of it or tenet and you know they did the administration's of united states in sixty seven considered is jerusalem as a territory now they said will who knows jerusalem as defined by the government of israel that means they have abandoned their line that is there was a massacre but that it what do you do in such guess i think i think this region is being thrown to the hands of extremists i think moderates are being destroyed and i think this is their intention their strategy so they can say israel can say oh we're only democracy we had we don't we don't we want peace but we'll have a partner for peace and nobody will ask them but you had a p

the secretary of state. it's our honor to have the president of the united states to officiate the ceremony. i'd like to introduce mary ann glendon for the invocation. >> lord god, creator of the universe and ruler of all, we ask your blessing and guidance today for our brother, michael, as he begins to serve our country with other lands and other governments. give him an ear open to our needs and the needs of others. sharpen the fine mind you have given him to discern truth from falsehood, appearances from reality. give him compassion for the oppressed and wisdom to see the way ahead even when all looks dark. give him the joy that comes to those that spend their lives in the service of others. we ask these blessings, lord, with thankful hearts and gratitude for the countless blessings you bestow on our lands. we ask you to forgive us when we have fallen short. hold our brother, michael, close, lord as he embarks on this new service to our country and give him a share in your own unbounded compassion and goo

states make choices all the time. >> yes. the states make those choices. there is nothing here telling the state. >> there is an order from a federal court that the legislature having repeal the statute must not repeal it and put it back on the books and what you say the governor doesn't have to enforce that law but the governor and executive branch of new jersey officials have taken an oath to uphold the laws of the state of new jersey now the federal court to basically says we will order the statue to be on the books but forget about it. this is a strange situation. >> the difference between that and the law that is unconstitutional? this is preempted by a simple rule by the court it is preempted. period. end of story. if the court had simply said this is preempted. >> but this, in your question is a repl rohiof ption of sports betting which means the repeal that the legislature carefully did in response to the third circuit decision and the government and the sports to say you can repeal any way that you wish. >> i have three ways to look at this and on

helped to write the state constitution for the state of alabama.rom there, he was chosen as one of the two center -- as senators to represent the state, in washington dc. office before the secession of the civil war began. he was a firm unionist. rooted in the sense that we must stay together as a union. he was a close friend of james buchanan. they were co-senators. there was speculation that they had more than just a friendship relationship. never any kind of letter sounds or anything like that. he was chosen as the running mate to franklin pierce. he had developed tuberculosis and was ill. while he was in cuba, the senate passed a special bill that allowed him to go as vice president of the united states. he is the only executive branch official that has been sworn in as foreign territory -- on foreign territory. he realized in cuba that he was not going to recuperate and continue to decline. he came back to selma and died the following day. wasinally, william rich buried across the alabama river, but was buried here in accordance with the bound