to theunited states . but it never happened. when groom returned to the united states in august 1942, he showed the report to secretary of state cordell hull . hull glanced at the report and hull immediately saw report criticized decisions he had made in the months before pearl harbor . he immediately demanded that grew destroy that report. as a subordinate official in the state department, grew felt he had no choice but to agree to hold demands. and so he destroyed that report. i should add that there is no evidence that president roosevelt knew about the report or itsdestruction . for his part, he never publicly acknowledged the destructionof the report . even when he was asked in a postwar congressional hearing whether he had prepared any reports to give to hold upon his return to the united states. >> thank you for that indulgence. so how did i come to write this book? about joseph grew andpearl harbor ? about six years ago, i was going to write a book about america in 1941. it was a pivotal year for t

ce state and local states like new jersey actually their state and local taxes while new york, illinois, and massachusetts are debating higher salt taxes. so if governors, legislators, keep raising local raises with a salt cap, imagine how without 'll raise them one. there is to be -- price to be state and local taxes. in truth, these are terrific dynamic economies and really good people, but to moneywise.com, the four states americans are are new rom the most jersey, new york, connecticut, and illinois. millennials, young people are the same, but you can add california to that list. hese young people love their states with good reason, but they just can't see a future high taxes and impossiblily high costs. in the end, though, why should -- impossiblily high costs. why should though, low tax states pay for high tax states? a farmer subsidize a banker in manhattan? should a person that doesn't itemize their taxes subsidize the billionaire in the penthouse who does? why should lebron james, an athlete, legendary, really, of the lakers, he'll an estimated $2.4 million tax break next year

the people of the united states. but of course what exists today is that we have created a highly centralized federal government with states relinquishing much of their reserved powers into the federal government and also to federal funding. this is has allowed the federal government to become more involved in issues traditionally left to the states and local communities and is highly centralized government is a poor fit or a country as large and as diverse as america . federalism should allow for 50 different models of governance suited to the particular needs of the nations individual states. and within the confines of the constitution, states should be free to enact policies that best serve the needs of their citizens and in this respect federalism fosters competition among the states and competition betweenstates encourages innovation and helps create a more efficient government . as a general principle the government closest to a problem should be the one addressing it in our humble opinion and for that reason w

the united states is now the most powerful economic state in the world. it has global interest. it is not weak and underdeveloped. it is a continental nation with global interests. and technology has made the world smaller. the old tradition made sense when the united states had the two greatest natural defenses in the world, the atlantic and pacific ocean. that was our protection. that protection is not what it used to be. military technology has changed. air power in particular allows countries to project their military power in a way that had never been true before. the world is smaller than it used to be. we are in greater danger from a foreign power than we ever were in the past. the world has changed. the anti-interventionists argue in that case, we need better hemispheric defenses. that's what we need. that only reinforces the idea that what we need is fortress america. we need to build up our hemispheric defenses. become so strong that no one will dare attack us. and that means every bit of military hardware we produce needs to stay with us in this hemisphere. we are a h

to state and then we have to sue the states to get the information. >> thank you. you mentioned evidence-based i agree with you treatment and recovery programs enforcement actions and as vice chairman of the senate appropriations committee the bill filed late last night in the budget package one.$3,000,000,000.110 for rural communities, 500 million for research of paid management and pregnant and postpartum women 89 for a medication assisted treatment for prescription drugs in opioid addiction if you disagree with that money in there please say so i think the senators of both parties we have a lot of progress for my state of vermont we still have problems the university of vermont that is also in the burlington area and in the rural areas two hours each week for a treatment if the healthcare professionals prescribed for addiction just like they do medication. >> certainly has the treating opioid use disorder we would support any further expansion for all treatments and for vermont one of the first to implement where individuals would initially get treatment at a sp

-- throughout the state uniformly like that support for the state can do better. that intersects with ok, you have african-american population, latino population, asian american population that tend to live in the city and a few other places in the state, not as much in the rural areas of the state. so caucuses are done carefully. also caucuses tend to be like this one where there is not long early voting periods. you should up on one night. or in nevada they do it whether it is kind of a a form of early voting but it's not that expensive. it is a better system i think that iowa, but because that allows for opportunity to vote but it's not as extensive as a primary would be. laura: an example i like to to give from 2016 is that iowa and connecticut have roughly the like 2ze of electorate million voters, and iowa caucus dozens of visits by the campus and dozens of field offices and hundreds of campaign staff scan thursday. we had about 107,000 democrats participate in our caucus in 2016. in the connecticut primary which was after 36 states had already voted, after

our state in new hampshire is an aging state.f course, not in this room, however, but second in the nation only to maine. so, we have some concerns that affect our aging populations, which is the ability to live independently in communities as we age. you know, there are transportation issues, there are affordable housing issues, there are limited income issues that all restrict and con strain people's ability to do that. what would you do if elected to help that population stay in their communities? >> see, that's a series of questions so i'm going to go down -- will you remind me of your name, ma'am? nice to see you. let me start with one that is an obvious one that you didn't specifically refer to, but you indirectly referred to which is social security. look, social security is for 75% of seniors, is their main source of income. for something like 40% of seniors, it's their sole source of income. so, the idea that the social security trust fund is going to go bankrupt and we're going to cut benefits has to be completely off t

because there was some unsettled business between the state of michigan and the state of ohio, as in who would own toledo. both states saw it as a very valuable port on lake erie and the river that would help with transportation. it took about two years. they called it the toledo war. michigan finally agreed that if the country would let it become a state, they would let toledo become part of ohio. as a consolation prize, michigan got the western half of the upper peninsula. ohioans and michiganans agree that michigan got the better deal, because that is where they found the iron ore in the rich deposits that helped michigan become the rich manufacturing state it did. the northern half of the lower peninsula was rich with native forests, largely pines. also explorer and surveyor douglas houghton went up and found natural iron ore and copper deposits. so in the last half of the 19th century, most of the lumber in the lower part of the lower peninsula was cut down and harvested. full-scale mining efforts began in the upper peninsula for copper and iron ore. when you are extracting the

we used to have four time zone we're the furthest western state first northern state and eastern state as a matter of fact so far west we're closer to australia than california is. a lot of people -- they have a hard time getting their arms around that over half alaska is called unorganizeed burrow resident live outside burrow form of government. bower a term for louisiana perish we have burrows rest of the countries has countries so this creates a delicate situation for our policymaker striving to balance priorities of our, quote, big city residence and acreage for those who live out in sometimes middle of nowhere. and then we have hundreds smaller communities and census designated areas consistenting of alaskan native and modern day immigrants and one member of our congressional was born in alaska. of course i didn't come here today to resite alaska facts although i can for some time i love this great state and i came here to talk about fiscal policy something i've been told interest all of you. i took office last december in the midst of a financial meltdown in alaska. after years o

from their point of view the greater danger between taliban and islamic state is the islamic state. so if that means they need to warm up the relations with the taliban in order to prepare for the expected panic departure of the u.s. and the collapse of afghanistan, that's what they're doing. you have a definite warmingg. of relations between the iranians of the taliban as you have between the russians and the taliban. in both cases it is premised on the two perceptions, and islamic islamic state is a bigger threat, and you can't trust the americans to hold up their end and afghanistan, , they walk out and leave chaos. i have to have friends. >> okay. >> thank you. turning to humanitarian issues. how concerned should we be about the human costs of sanctions on iran for ordinary iranian civilians? >> how much we should be or how much are we? >> should be, should be. >> if you're looking at it from a purely moral and ethical point of view, it's a little bit like our sanctions on iraq and the leader of to the 2003 war in which we frankly took a position that the humanitarian crisis tha

that really helps with the mission of the department of state, and the mission of the department of state has been since its inception to promote the values of the united states of america, so the better you can communicate, the better. >> diplomats can be deterred by a lack of electricity. they still have to go out and do their job. this is a fine example of going out and doing it despite your environment. >> absolutely. sometimes, they have to make calls on the ground. sometimes, they get instruction. >> absolutely. every good government job has a handbook, right? this is called a resident officer handbook. it was used by a unique class of newly minted foreign officers in 1950. normally, officers would go off to various parts of the world, but this class was unique. they all went to the same place. they all went to germany. why would they all go to germany in 1950? >> well, there was world war ii. what we are looking at here are real diplomatic efforts in germany. there is political instability in germany. there are forces for communism or for bringing democracy back to germany. so thes

, being her states intervenor states, are you necessarily regarding the plaintiff states. >> nope. >> so your hair telling us that the state of texas does not have standing to litigate here. explain that what is the distinct and that licenses you with standing here, but not the plaintiff states? >> the judgment below if it were to take effect would cost the states hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. the state plaintiffs rely on a theory of standing that they have not proved up. they argued that the individual mandate, even though it has been stripped of its alternative tax penalty, is going to cause people to enroll in their medicaid programs. but they have not produced any evidence to support that suggestion. that makes this case similar to this court's decision in crain v johnson. where it held that mississippi did not have standing to challenge the docket directly. in that had not shown that there were daca recipients. >> don't they also cite the cbo report that talks about the expenditures they can reasonably expect to incur? >> that report concludes only that there

states. he picked up the phone to find out what america could do doubt the president of that country, and that country, survive. [applause] but he did not stop with a phone call. he got on a plane right away. he flew overnight and sat on a hilltop in georgia without president, of our democratic ally. and he made it clear the united states stands with the forces of freedom, not the darkness of dictatorship. [applause] so, just think about it. stooges and fake uniforms rolled in eight years later, rolled into ukraine, candidate trump also had a test. and his first instinct was to say, it is not my problem. it is not our problem. basically, he said, vladimir putin can have crimea. so ask yourselves, when they do it again somewhere. who is donald trump going to call? what friends does he have in the world? besides kim jong-un and v are putin? jong-unpretty sure kim actually unfriended him this past week. [applause] so folks we need a president like joe biden who knows in his got the difference be

sometimes from state-to-state. constitutions will have provisions do not exist in the federal constitution. i have had success bringing anti-monopoly clauses. about a dozen states have these. we also have clauses forbidding special laws. we have to look at the respective constitution in your respective state. pretty much every state has something that will at least allow us to make an additional wouldn't be we in federal court. even if the state does not have anything different, state supreme courts are the courts of last resort for their state constitutions. even when the language is identical, it is a prerogative to say we interpret our constitutional language differently. they can never go below the federal floor set by the u.s. constitution for protection of individual liberty, but they can go above it. so that happens. it doesn't mean we are always going to win. here in alabama, we lost the case. alabama supreme court. a teeth whitening license. we argued the precedent was different than the federal president.

state of texas. what police there say saved many lives during that sunday service. >>> and a new fight for a u.s. lawmaker. why u.s. civil rights icon john lewis says it's a battle unlike any other he's faced before. >>> live from studio 7, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> and we begin with the attacks that have shaken two u.s. communities during the holiday season. in texas, a man opened fire killing two people during a church service before he was shot by armed parishioners. we will have details in just a moment. >>> and then also in monsey, new york, the suspect accused of stabbing five people during a hanukkah celebration inside a rabbi's home, that suspect has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and first degree burglary. the attorney for grafton thomas says that he has a long history of mental illness. >> and we must warn you the vi

wondering is this just more partisan bickering voters remain divided and one campolo the other sunshine state though has a history of deciding the nation's fate how people feel as if florida does one thing consistently it tends to reflect the mood of the entire country for decades florida voters of back but winning presidential candidates and that's mostly because the demographics here make this a mini version of the united states so a collective shrug here could be seen as a fairly accurate reflection of the current mood on the gallacher all this era miami florida. well if you're just joining us donald trump could be just hours away from being risen into history as only the 3rd u.s. president to be impeached it's now 17 g.m.t. that's 12 pm in washington d.c. where the house of representatives has begun a session to debate and then vote on whether to send him to a senate trial. well let's have a little bit of business then hearing the m.p.h. meant ossicles being read out let's take an injured the interests of the nation president trump and gauged in this scheme or course of conduct through th

nato member states in the line struggle to find common ground.and donald trump labels the new house intelligence committee report on his impeachment a joke as u.s. democrats hang their hopes on the document being enough to pin the president.

united states. no subsequent american president of course would ever look at it in those ways. on july 15, 1958, the marines coming ashore, ike gave the new explanation as to why they were there. essentially what he said was that a coup in iraq the previous day, the 14th of july, in which the most pro-western government in the middle east had been overthrown was a direct threat to american national interest. the pro-american hashemite government in iraq was deposed in in a very brutal and violent coup, one of the most violent even by middle eastern standards, this was an exceptionally violent coup. ike identified the crew as perhaps the starting point of the entire middle east falling into the hands of the soviet union and international communism. he said if the united states did not respond to the coup, the third world war could start in the middle east, and that the loss of iraq was as significant as the loss of china the communism in 1948. it's really a remarkable statement. it's also completely

kerry: i love this state. growing up, i have great memories of visiting here rattlesnake, getting up the highway there towards some of your blue ice you get to ski on sometimes. concord wherel in i would rarely look forward to season onthe hockey the black ice and how the ice doesn't even freeze. so it's hard to do today, but i love the primary tradition of this state. not just because you voted for me. it goes farther back than that. when i was 24 years old, stationed on the other of the earth, when radio broadcasts and weeks old newspapers in a mail pouch that finally got to us, shared with me my idealized introduction to the phenomenon of the new hampshire primary. just 40 days after one of my very closest friends in college was killed in combat, new hampshire was no longer just a place i went to high school. of 1968, new hampshire was something else entirely. some of you may or member that closely. ,egions of young people my age an army of kids for peace, carrying pamphlets while i was carrying a gun 1000

and for states out of our 50 states, for states accounted for one third of those excess deaths. ohio, pennsylvania, kentucky and indiana and manyother areas of the rust belt and central appalachia were deeply affected . that makes us have to answer the question why there? what is it about that part of the country that has been so deeply affected? we talk about some potential explanations. obviously we can blame a lot of this on the opioid wh epidemic. these are areas where opioids are quite present. gaps in our healthcare system, obesity are all potential factors but when you realize there are 35 causes of death where mortality rates have increased it makes you wonder about a systemic cause. >> it's interesting you mention ohio. the times is publishing an online interactive about the class of 2000 in men for ohio and their yearbook. a school yearbook is a staple of teenage life but for some it reflects the devastating toll of opioidcrisis . roman for ohio and they take the photos in this yearbook and go through some of the people, many of the people infected and first in their l

and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. he thus ignored and injured the interests of the nation. president trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means. one, president trump, acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government, corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into, a, a political opponent, former vice president joseph r. biden jr., and b, a discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 united states presidential election. two, with the same corrupt motives, president trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that he had requested, a, the release of $391 million of united states taxpayer funds that congress had proposed on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian

state. few states are purple, in contention. and candidates focus only on those states. one presidents get elected, they shower those states with attention and in many cases, money. you see this over and over. in 2016, there were 399 public campaign events. some 94% of them were in just 12 states. the other states have three or fewer events. the majority of states had zero events. there are several ways to reform the method of electing president, number of democratic candidates for president have said they prefer a constitutional amendment, maine has enacted ranked choice voting for the 2020 general election. under a recent tenth circuit court decision, electors can't decide without regard to the wishes of the voters who they want to be president, and 15 states plus the district of columbia half past the national popular vote interstate compact which goes into effect when it is law in states that account for 270 electoral votes. so far, the total is 196. this change in the way we vote backed

the united states. [applause] kuster: like many of you i haven't made my final decision but i'm excited to have him in the house and room today, give him a big applause, welcome him, he was the author of the violence against women act, he has been working tirelessly on environmental issues and saving our planet and security, but most importantly, in this time that we are all facing right now, he will bring dignity, he will bring honor, he will bring courage and he will bring respect back to the united states of america. welcome john kerry and vice president joe biden. [applause] mr. kerry: i'm looking out there, i see some very friendly faces. good morning nashua. [applause] mr. kerry: it's sunday morning, you slept yesterday. it is great to be back in the granite state, a second home for me. i have two second homes, iowa and new hampshire. [laughter] mr. kerry: i love this state. growing up, i have great memories of visiting here rattlesnake, getting up the highway there towards some of your blue ice y

states. in november of 1941, only a few weeks before pearl harbor, they sent 2 kilograms, the secretary of state warning him that japan was prepared to launch a war against the united states and that the armed conflict would come with dangerous and dramatic. how did he know that? november g 1941, tall, lean, buy eyebrows, mustache, he'd been an american diplomat for almost 40 years and he had been america's ambassador to japan. he had been an american diplomat for almost 40 years and to japan for almost ten years to the secretary of state in november of 1941. the first factor was the japanese economy. the united states had economic sanctions on japan in the effort to curb the military aggression in china and southeast asia. the sanctions had crippled the japanese economy. the streets had to be fitted with charcoal engines and imported coffee was also unavailable. it had been replaced by another group about which "the new york times" correspondent said it was better not to ask too many questio

>> if the injury is occurring in the united states or outside of the united states? >> yes, it's in the united states, but this is border patrol work.k. this is border thwork.>> y this is border security work. >> you can bring the bivins action if he was actually a cy i rogue officer acting outside of policy which does not present itself here. >> i mean, if we are assuming a that the officerre a used exces force you can bring the bivins action. is that correct? >> if it felloutside the policy, correct, of excessive te force. >> now we'reolved bringing it miles up to the border except the person involved, this is mrr vladeck is onde ther, u.s. side the border. still a bivins action? >> inside of the united states border, correct. >> okay. so a lot of foreign affairs irs concernsns are present there so too, a lot of national securityo security concerns if we're saying that border security is a facet of national security, we s right? >> correct. >> okay.d thre question is why when we just move three inches over there's a different answer. that i think is the question il

state department making clear that russia does not support terrorists the state department has not at this stage determined russia's a state sponsor of terrorism there's a fairly complex deliberative process for doing and i don't personally see the person as state sponsorship of terrorism terrorist attacks we also have to recognize russia is itself has been a victim of terrorism to make it safe to say that on the record as well now russia has long battled against jihad as an extremist that have carried out terrorist attacks against the russian people the russian government has also cooperated with the u.s. government in antiterrorism efforts the advancing of this bill comes in the immediate aftermath of the very important meeting between russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. president donald trump now at his press remarks following that meeting the russian foreign minister emphasized that there are certain forces in the united states working very hard to do rail relations between the 2 countries and groups congress seems to have been captured by a desire to destroy us russia

secretary of state who just a few weeks ago warned that the united states and china may be and if with heels all of a cold war and he actually said that the major conflict on the scale of world war one could not be excluded. do your share such an alarmist no says. i think major conflict cannot be excluded i also think major conflict can be avoided on the scale of world war one there are several points where we could have had that major conflict the taiwan straits crises of 95 to 6 the high on spy plane incident of 2001 those were places where if things had gone wrong and decisions had been made wrong you could have had a world war one type conflict except there were nuclear weapons on each side foothills of the cold war is an odd turn of phrase to my mind we hear a lot about a new cold war between the united states and china to my mind at least that's a statement most frequently made by people who know very little about the cold war well you can't accuse henry kissinger of that no you can't which is why foothills of the cold war was an interesting phrase but i think you can see. that h

here in the united states, the u.s. and taiwan relationship at times appears to perhaps be getting closer. do you have any concerns that beijing may rethink exactly where it needs to land on this intimidation strategy and to what degree will it try to work more actively to try to shape the domestic conversation in taipei right now? >> if it happens that the president is reelected, and paul suggest she will be, i think it will require and polls suggest she will be, i think it will require reassessment of how well strategy and tactics work. particularly the part about co-optation and trying to create allies within the taiwan "t táu)(p& system. or did that actually work to xang wan's advantage? i do not know where they will come out on that. my guess is they will double down on that and play for time. but some of the things, at least, that they are doing, can be deployed to ot$er places in the region. crating stronger business ties with local business elites, buying up newspapers to project a positive view of china, suppor

he was a united states senator and last year he sadly passed away. what most people forget is that johnny actually earlier in his career ran for governor against the same miller, who johnny calls him, the best friend he's ever had. when he passed away, johnny was asked to speak and he spoke on this floor. in that speech, and i quote, he called-- he said that he was an individual i met through politics, became one of my best friends through politics and probably had more influence on my life than anybody else i know in public service, that's a democrat that johnny isakson is talking about. now, get upset about that occasionally, but johnny, that's a big deal, thank you. it's almost hard to believe that johnny and zell used to be political opponents. despite their political differences, johnny and zell remained close friends until his death. in fact, zell even appointed johnny chairman of the georgia board of education seven years after he had beaten him in the same governor's race. we can have strong differences and rigorous debate, but we should alwa

revenue the american kennel club prides itself on being the only purebred registry in the united states with an ongoing routine kennel inspection program with a dedicated team of field inspectors. says the specs kennels but they don't make any of those inspection records available. they say that they've got rigorous standards but they really don't know what those standards are real terms they say that they kick people out we don't really have a comprehensive record of when they're doing that or what the consequences are of even if they're ticked they'll be can still keep breathing and they can still keep operating so what's the value of their inspections program they're in foresman efforts for all we know are completely meaningless we don't know what they even inspect when they go into these facilities because they don't make their inspection records public quite frankly if they were meaningful inspections there would be no reason not to make them public. while the a k c boasts of a rigorous inspection program in 2011 only $1500000.00 of their $59000000.00 in revenue was spent to employ

bill that would prohibit all dog owners from stacking crates a rhode island state bill that the a k c deemed dangerous that would make it unlawful for dog owners to keep a dog confined in a pen cage or other shelter for more than 14 hours a proposed ordinance in shelby county tennessee that would make it a violation to leave a companion animal unattended in a vehicle for more than one hour when the temperature is above 70 degrees or below 35 degrees why is the american kennel club the dog's best friend opposing this legislation that says that once a year you've got to have a vet examine these dogs or you can't bring them every single cycle or you can't have more than 50 breeding females at an operation while the group knows that well they were there because they're making money from those large scale operations. while the public does not have access to a k c inspection report many pet stores across the united states emphasize to their potential customers that their facilities are a casey approved and inspected one such company is pet land the largest chain of pet stores selling pupp

we are the furthest western state in the united states, we are a pacific rim state and we are on theocean, our closest neighbor is russia, a few miles away. when we get this trade issue settles with china, it will help. we deal with a lot of fish and timber. david: how much of that is going to china? gov. dunleavy: about 1.3 billion dollars, more than japan, it's our biggest trading partner. david: do you have issues with access to markets? gov. dunleavy: things are pretty carefult we have to be that in this agreement, the trade agreement, that we protect our fisheries from high seed fisheries that intercept our fish. so we are working with representative lighthizer and others that are doing the negotiations, but we are keeping an eye on this. david: where the biggest challenges for you when it comes to fisheries? japan has been a big fishing nation, russia as well. what are the challenges for you in alaska? gov. dunleavy: the russians are across from us, and we want to make sure that everyone is being held to the same standard when we are trading. so one does not get an unfair advan

in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day as nato turns 70 in many ways the world's most powerful military alliance after 7 decades of existence exhibits characteristics that you could expect from a person turning 7 you could call it the natives senior citizen syndrome those natives still matter at 70 how a tune does a cold war alliance to the 21st century us president obama draw a month so long ago cold nato obsolete but he was not the 1st or last to suggest that nato has identity issues or even existential and sed similar questions were posed immediately after the berlin wall fell and the soviet union fell apart most recently french president mccrone complained of a brain death at nato a result of america's disengagement in the us tonight nato at 70 how old or how young is the alliance really nato performs on an impressive scale exercises like this united and with clear leadership but the political reality often looks different better quotables occur frequently the latest on tyga nest french president emanuel macron he criticized me to his brain day it

region by region in every state the report shows our state universities tracking climate change's consequences in fine detail. quoting from the report, in the midwest agriculture is a major focal area for climate-related research, with more occurrences of the word agriculture and climate-related papers from the midwest between 2014-2018 than in any other region. in the southwest, a key focus of scientific research in the southwest region is on the impacts to people and ecosystems from heat, drought, wildfires and flooding. end quote. in the southeast, the impacts of climate change in the southeast are becoming most visible through the increase in flooding, temporal and geographic shifts that affect human health and growing risks of wildfires. end quote. in the southern great plain states, scientists in the southern great plains are studying climate impacts on food systems, sea level rise as well as impacts to unique ecosystems in this region such as the tall grass prairie in oklahoma. across all these regions red and purple state universities are churning out climate research. in fact, conserv

, but states with a lot less density than other states, right? for instance, i imagine we have people in the room who have been part of campaigning. one of the easy things to do in a urbn urban environment is bl walking, canvassing. and there are easy places in iowa to go block walking, con vasting than other parts of the countries. as we look at other states to consider to go first, we should look at the urban to rural sort of mix, right? and pick a state that has had a good rural to urban mix. i think in iowa that it actually tends to tilt toward a more rural state and the same thing in new hampshire. you have one city, manchester, that is basically close to boston. the biggest city in the state. i actually think that we can find places that represent that balance of urban and rural better than these two states. >> i have been writing about -- i've been seeing the iowa cause cuss on bleeding heartland and sometimes say being an iowan and criticizing the caucus is how to not have friends and influencing people. and you took it a step further for

"state." the supreme court majority said in virginia, only the attorney general can litigate for the state. right? that is not true for the federal government. we know, for the federal government actually, congress has provided, and this up in court has recognized, all sorts of people can litigate for the united states. for example, the false claims act. the house of representatives is one of those bodies. mr. letter: absolutely, your honor. justice ginsburg mentions chada. decision. -- mentions chada. you combine shada with 530 d, the executive must notify both houses of congress. i am one of the peoples it is supposed to notify when it is going to quit. when it is going to basically let down the american people and not defend the statute like this, even though their obvious -- there are obviously valid arguments to be made in support of it. judge elrod: if a coequal branch of government says something is unconstitutional, haven't they actually taken an oath that they will not be trying to up

now, the discussion on the prime discussion state -- on the administrative state. gears.re switching we have a compelling discussion on the fourth branch of government, the administrative state, that has such an impact on all our lives and businesses. the rise of the administrative state, will the u.s. be a democracy or a nation rolled by the administrative state? our panel will be here in a minute. you will get a preview of the fellowship award presentation, because the moderator of the panel is one of our two new recipients of the blakely fellowship. jeddy is the deep washington correspondent for "the hill," and hill tv. he is a media fellow at the hudson institute, where he cohosts the realignment podcast. he served for the daily caller, and as a foreign affairs correspondent. he received his masters degree in u.s. national security policy from georgetown university, and his bachelors in economics from george washington university. he has studied extensively across the globe, spanning three continents, and has visited over 40 countries. i am so proud to introduc

only blocks away, a new state capitol was under construction. the gravesite of the wartime president had since offered towns people a painful reminder of the sacrifice the war had exacted from their community and the nation. only the night before, a public dedication of a new burial tomb and monument marked, as we'll find out, not so permanent resting place of lincoln, and three of his sons. this evening, the newest reminder of the bloody struggle was a reunion of union veterans. many of them officers of the society of the army of tennessee. the most decorated of union's western armies and who met at the leland house. springfield's toniest hotel near its bustling capital square to commemorate the murdered president by celebrating his, or more rightly, some of his military forces' victory. the coincidence of the meeting and the dedication demanded that distinguished illinoisans, especially republicans, be prominent among the speakers. besides the vice president and the secretary of war, there were the state's current governor and former governor,

the biggest challenge i do see is with them ambition of member states all of the e.u. member states are subsidizing fossil fuel projects in various different ways we have a long history of giving exemptions for diesel kerosene for aviation these should be the low hanging fruits that if we really are serious about sticks transmission we remove harmful subsidies but that costs money in order to pay for the so-called green deal the e.u. wants to redistribute funds less for farming and infrastructure more for environmental protection this is already controversial poland hungary and the czech republic economically underdeveloped states have been blocking this plan. we discussed about the e.u. budget monies not being put into modernizing the budget at least there were as the current proposal stands this is not a budget for the future who we have a goal that 25 percent of the e.u. budget would be spent on climate action what is done with the rest 75 percent if that is being spent on harmful practices for climate we don't achieve our goal the e.u. is a climate leader who is on

two states, iowa and new hampshire.t is not as if one day is i went the next day new hampshire, then you have 24 hours to run in those states. it is now expended. it is like two years. we interview the head of the democratic party of texas who said that he has been trying to get these candidates to a forum in texas, one of the large estates in the country, and they all say we can't, we're doing iowa. he said, could you imagine if we took the same number people, the rio grande valley, and for the two years the candidates went up and down this largely latino area and they just -- every single town, village, hamlet and water fountain, they stood by, he said the whole country would be in an uproar. he can't get people to texas, these presidential candidates. what do you say about the president -- about the primary order and whether in fact is leading to what we have now, now you have the presidential debate , one person of color is left -- andrew yang -- in the last presidential debate? >> i think people of color know the d

it's a beautiful state. i can tell you how nice it is to spend time with like-minded friend here in the nation's capital. anytime i consider the difficulties of balancing the budget immi and that it could be a lot worse. i could be tasked with balancing the federal budget. that is the mother of all challenges. thank you all for the work you do try to accomplish the important goal, fiscal policy in our federal issues. for those of you i haven't met yet, i was elected as the 12 governor and was the first governor to be sworn in. we of course ar of course were e second-biggest statare thesecone nation just for reference, a wagering union in 1959 and 600,000 square miles of land mass alaska isn't just the largest state with one of the largest subcontinent of the western hemisphere to put it in perspective. over half call the unorganized borough and i joke around with texas because alaska is two and a half times the size of texas, four time zones where the furthest western state, furthest northern and eastern. we

in state. but the palestinian government has welcomed the i.c.c. as announcement the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization side erekat said it is a positive and encouraging step towards putting an end to the impunity of the perpetrators and contributing to the achievements of justice this represents a message of hope to our people he said the victims of those crimes that justice is indeed possible that the united states has condemned the decision saying it targeted israel unfairly secretary of state might bump ala said we do not believe the palestinians qualify as a sovereign state and they therefore are not qualified to obtain full membership or participate as a state in international organizations entities or conferences including the i.c.c. he added the united states remains deeply firmly and consistently committed to achieving a comprehensive and lasting peace between israel and the palestinians. let's bring in our guest now in sarajevo toby cadman an international huma

the united states is still in. i'm honored that we are joined by senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. johnson.ie bernice she is from texas. the chair of the natural resources committee. the chair of the select committee on the climate crisis. a very distinguished delegation that also includes the chair of the appropriations subcommittee on natural resources. and also members of the select committee on climate, which kathy hast her chairs, and you will hear more about. we have members of that committee, including not only the senior chairperson, but also members of our freshman class. among those members that are with us, representative from , jared california huffman of california, representative scott peters of california. did i tell you i was from california? [laughter] speaker pelosi: representative debbie dingell from michigan. mike of california. representative sean casten of illinois. and the representative from colorado. members of our very distinguished freshman class. our delegation is here to send

of state, mike pompeo. mike graduated top of his class from west point and served an accomplishment in any year, but wait until you hear about a few of mike's classmates. one is an elected member of congress and two serve as high ranking members of the state department. and one we had here, secretary of state mike esper all in the class of 1986 at west point. so this is not exactly a group of slackers. but mike rose to the very top. as a young cavalry officer mike was stationed in the divided german capital in the tenuous months before the fall of the berlin wall. he served with the forces of freedom. after military service he went on to harvard law school and an impressive career in the private sector. entering a call to public service he was called to represent kansas in the u.s. house of representatives. there he became a well-respected member of the intelligence committee. so when president-elect donald trump announced mike's heading this department. leading the house with the clandestined services must

respective boys states. shortly after we convened as boys nation senators, david barlow was elected as the president pro tem. as a result, when we visited the white house a few days later, it was david barlow who got to stand right next to ronald reagan as he greeted us in the rose garden and addressed boys nation. david barlow was someone who seemed to have been born for public service. and he was born for public service for all of the right reasons in all of the right ways. he had a certain enthusiasm about the workings of government, not in a partisan way, not in a self-interested way, but in a way that was infectious and made all around him want to build a better country, want to find common ground and want to come to know more about our country's rich histories and tradition. mr. barlow and i became reacquainted about a year after we first met when we both enrolled as students, as freshman, in brigham young university. he was there on a full academic scholarship and did not disappoint with his academic

i know in our state the state .rug task force uses that if these are important, why did the white house not consider these grants critical for these epidemic? combat this why is this zeroed out? >> i'm not the mayor with those figures, but i can tell you that we have some tremendous initiatives that have come out over the past couple of years and are actually working to help stem the tide on this epidemic. i am not the mayor with that tellfic number, but i can you that we are trained to put resources where we are seeing results. >> i will submit further questions on that because many of us publicans and democrats want to keep that money in the appropriations bill. we can talk about here, but somewhere the money has to come, and when it is not in the budget, oftentimes we can add it, but it is more difficult. thank you. >> senator kennedy. >> mr. mick dermot, i would like you to -- mr. mcdermott, i would like you to write a letter to explain to me why every man, woman and child in america needs year.es of opioids every gandotra, i know you work hard at what you do. i have two brothers wh

one example how did i state propaganda is solid factors of nurseries for even infants.in this particular example, three young children, the youngest only 13 months old was put on labor and her kids are being taken care of in the caretaking system which starts at infancy. conclusion, the next steps for us and the west i believe is to move into the divestment from china's business of oppression in xinjiang. i will give one particular example, h&m, while the garment maker, looked into their operation and decided to procure -- a well-known chinese large textile maker who supplies h&m and several other western companies, but then they said okay, we don't want your jan because we know there might be some kind of problem. i would like to just very briefly, this is a very complex topic that would require an in-depth presentation on it so but due to shortage of time i did want to highlight to the mutual system, government reports say one county in xinjiang alone sit over 100 minority labors to factories in eastern china. 2017 -- [inaudible] minority region to receive training in

the state forces. it's a bleak outlook for an avocado industry that should be enjoying the current boot. john home and how does it a screw city. customs agents in europe have seized a $1000000000.00 worth of cocaine their record haul was found in soil flour containers at the port of motive a day on the 4 and a half tones because distance to togo in west africa the navy and organized describing the seizure as the greatest blow to drug trafficking in the history of our country relations between china and taiwan have deteriorated this year but worst may be yet to come in 2020 the result of taiwan's presidential election in january could determine whether it continues to resist pressure from china to unify with the bilateral slowly given freely you has this report from beijing. taiwan born carefully picks his battles ph d. student by day martial arts instructor by night the 36 year old cherishes taiwan's democracy but. in mainland china where he's lived for 4 years. economically and in other ways i think t

some states chose to give women equal voting rights with men in their state, and other states just chose to extend partial or limited suffrage to women. we have some great records that help tell the story of partial suffrage in particular. one of my -- one of my favorite records in the entire exhibit is this voting machine patent drawing that is from 1910. it actually has two separate entrances to get into the -- into the voting area. on the left there's an entrance. at the top, it says "ladies," on the right there's an entrance for "gents." and then you can also see there's this very complicated system of pulleys and levers. i don't know exactly how all those gears are intended to work, but the intention would be that women, who couldn't vote for everything that men could vote for on election day would go into the left side entrance, and all those gears, pulleys, and levers would close off whatever ballot measures they were not allowed to vote for. of course, if you are a man, you could go in through the "gents" entrance on the right and all options would be opened up and available to y