last year, idaho passed hb 710.orbids minors, anyone under the age of 18, from accessing books with content that the state has deemed, quote, harmful to minors, end quote. notably, the law doesn't distinguish between a 17 year old and a toddler, forcing libraries to hold high school seniors and babies to the same standard of maturity. the ban applies to many sellers, many bestsellers, classics and previous. velshi banned book club features like kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five, toni morrison's the bluest eye, margaret atwood's the handmaid's tale, maya angelou's i know why the caged bird sings, george r.r. martin's game of thrones, judy blume's forever. the ban has an impact on nonfiction books, restricting kids and teens from books about puberty and body changes, which every young person is going to go through. penguin random house, one of the plaintiffs in the suit, says the ban affects some history books as well and could restrict minors access to books about the holocaust and other major historical events. in

, idaho. let me remind the witnesses that under committee rules they must limit their oral statements to five minutes but their entire statement will appear in the hearing record. to begin your testimony please press the button on the microphone and we use timing lights. when you begin the light will turn green. when you have one minute remaining, the light will turn yellow. at the end of the five minutes the light will turn red and i will ask you to please complete your statement. i will also allow all witnesses to testify before member questioning. i know recognize mr. thane for five minutes. mr.thayn: thank you, chair and ranking members and other members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to present to you today. my name is nathan. i'm a fort generation farmer from green river utah. , i great-grandfather started farming in 1880s. we lived along the price river and lived in the late 70s to the green river in central south utah because there was a lot more water there. my father

idaho is a headwater state.ith significant water resources but also includes fast regions where water supply is very significant from year-to-year. as with other western states, water supply shortages and water use conflicts occur across the state. most notably is the eastern lane in the southern portion of the state home of one third of idaho's population. this plane is underlain by the eastern snake lane aquaphor. this aquifer covers an area roughly the size of lake erie. and supports about 1 million acres of irrigated farmland, municipal water supplies and thousands of domestic wells for drinking water. they discharge spring flows into the snake river supplying water to the additional 600,000 of irrigated acres. many municipalities, hydropower generation and a multitude of other uses. the values of goods and services exceeds 10 billion annually. with a strong support of governor brad little in the idaho legislature, making significant investments in water management drought resiliency expanding water supplies

it is congressman russ fulcher of idaho, a republican, energy and commerce and natural resources committee joining us from the rotunda. guest: good morning. thanks for having host: me on today. i wanted to lead with the latest when it comes to the budget reconciliation process. the lead story in punch full news today, house republicans racing to show budget progress amid senate pressure. can you bring us up to speed? guest: what is going on is, people are trying to figure out ways to change the trajectory for spending over the long-term. that is a problem we have had for a long time, as you know. we are $36 trillion in debt. and that is difficult to do. the president and doge group are doing their jobs. they are identifying areas that need to be reduced or eliminated, but congress now has to act. just long-term, to put these policies in place and situations where permanently-speaking we change the trajectory of this spending in washington, d.c. that is where most of the debate is. how do we do that, still maintain the priorities that are important for us to maintain, yet cut the spending s

we just had idaho congressman russ fulcher on. did you listen in? caller: top of the morning to you, john. this is a remark for russ fulcher and the subject [indiscernible] i used to pick up his milk. 10,000 gallons every 24 hours. 27 degree milk. this is a subject about 10 capacity size. gas stations have three 20,000 gallon tanks in the ground. 87 octane is in demand. if you look at plus we have anywhere between 150 a day, and your premium you are only averaging between 50 and 100 gallons a day. president trump says he needs 12 months to cut carbon fuel? have them do an inventory nationwide. all we have to do is cut plus out of the program because we don't need it and president trump would cut the cost of fuel in 48 hours. host: i'm trying to keep up with you there, rick. why don't we need it? caller: we don't need it, because you have three grades of octane. we are at a higher altitude, you go down to texas they are at 87 for premium and 83 for regular unleaded. if you understand the air mass density of an engine basically we are at a higher alti

we just had idaho congressman russ fulcher on. did you listen in? of the morning to you, john. this is a remark for russ fulcher and the subject [indiscernible] i used to pick up his milk. 10,000 gallons every 24 hours. 27 degree milk. this is a subject about 10 capacity size. gas stations have three 20,000 gallon tanks in the ground. 87 octane is in demand. if you look at plus we have anywhere between 150 a day, and your premium you are only averaging between 50 and 100 gallons a day. president trump says he needs 12 months to cut carbon fuel? have them do an inventory nationwide. all we have to do is cut plus out of the program because we don't need it and president trump would cut the cost of fuel in 48 hours. host: i'm trying to keep up with you there, rick. why don't we need it? caller: we don't need it, because you have three grades of octane. we are at a higher altitude, you go down to texas they are at 87 for premium and 83 for regular unleaded. if you understand the air mass density of an engine basically we are at a higher altitude, which

the, in the, in to on agreement with the so my, the line so that they can have access to the gulf of idaho. and also use the port size of the port of barbara. and what i then happened, of course, is, is that they will, that issue government has said that cannot be, you do not have the right to enter into negotiations with somebody land because somebody not is not a silver in state recognized by international community. and if you want to do in a city, you must negotiate with the government in mogadishu. of course, for a long time when there was no stable administration in mogadishu, those issues did not that rise. but now there is on time to reclaim last $33.00, and that is what brings into play the current concept on the attempt at negotiation . there was an attempt initially to have a gun negotiate you got into a governmental authority of the development, which is in the onregional political shade, the issue. but that did not go very fast. another thing that happened in order to ensure that the temperatures were lowered, the booty. government said we are prepared to give you a seal fans

then republican idaho congressman russ fulcher a member of the energy and commerce committee and the freedom caucus talks about house republicans approach to implement the president trump's legislative agenda. washington journal, join in the conversation, live at 7:00 eastern friday morning on c-span, c-span now on free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more. including charter communications. >> charter is proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers. we're just getting started. building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, givi you a front row seat to democracy. >> kratz on the senate judiciary committee delayed a vote. chuck grassley intense the hold of old until next week. the session is just under 20 minutes. [gavel] chair grassley: good morning. today's markup will be brief. so i'll get right down to business. on our agenda we've got thr

so we brought him some of the biggest potatoes from idaho. they are.s impressive. >> and who can forget russian president vladimir putin giving president trump a soccer ball in helsinki? the soccer ball might have had a transmitter chip in it it will go to my son, barron. >> we have no question. in fact, melania, here you go. >> all right. our panel is back. brad. todd, there's a lot of symbolism in this major gift. i find it slightly head scratching. >> i wouldn't press both buttons if i. if he gave me a pager that said that. i don't think so, but i think donald trump will appreciate it. >> kate. >> i mean, these moments are usually intended to just be a convey a message. this obviously sends a very strong one. i guess that i guess netanyahu is trying to underscore strength and thinks trump will respond to that kind of strength. and but the. >> implication, not that it's going. >> to blow up, but i. >> mean, that's what. >> killed the pagers, killed people. and he just gave one to trump. so i, i don't know, man. i don't know. >> you know, so so now th

[indiscernible chatter] president trump: give the schools back to indiana, idaho. so, if you look at the list, denmark, sweden, norway way, china, list of well educated you have a lot of countries not surprising. i think if you move their schools into some of the states that are well run states they would be as good as denmark, norway and sweden and you know who they are. if you go to new york and suffolk and long island and nassau, you have maybe six or seven locations and new york city which would include the five burroughs and that would run much better. same thing with los angeles or california. you would have riverside -- break it up to six or seven. most of them would be states and you would have one in iowa. give it to the state of indiana. these are really well states, they don't have debt or problems or any crimes relatively to speak of. and you would have education that would be the equivalent of norway and denmark and various other places at the top of the list. we are at the bottom of the list. top of the list when it comes to costs per pupil. we spend

c, dine towards washington, idaho, wyoming, and then into northern california. snow on the 9th is rain for the size of san francisco's. go to digital 3 days, to be honest, it gets when the ball is and you get to choose to soften the wind. but it's wendy. all the same significance that it seems likely more or less great lakes and east would look at the temp just the shaft, chicago's, about freezing, and if anything is propagated to warm up a little bit, the next few days throughout central america, the breeze is blowing. steadly now, davy, cheryl seemed like the and all the islands concentration of rain and it's a solvent, mexico, billy, ease and possibly costa rica. nothing much changed except for little detail between sunday and monday and sorry for america. it really has turned west in the last few days, the still the risk of more flooding, not so much in the capital, but anywhere around the southeast of present and taking that line up towards the equitable, and southern columbia. south of all that the where it's been quite called recently in propaganda. those tempted to come down. s

and the same is true basically down towards washington, idaho, wyoming, and then into northern california. snow on the mountains. rain for the size of san francisco is go to digital 3 days. to be honest, it gets windy, but i was having to get to choose to. it's a southerly wind, but it's when the oversight, significant start seems likely more or less great lakes and east with the temperature of the shaft, chicago's, about freezing, and if anything, it's probably going to warm up a little bit. the next few days, sarah central america, the breeze is blowing steadily now. davy shall seem likely in all the islands concentration of writing bits of southern mexico, billy, ease and possibly costa rica. nothing much changed except for little detail between sunday and monday, and sorry for america, it really has turned west in the last few days. the still risk of more flooding, not so much in the capital, but anywhere around the southeast of present and taking that line up towards the equitable and southern columbia. south of all that the where it's been quite hope recently in propaganda. those te

okay, so i can pull them in there and they cut my joy duncan from idaho penny, i replaced my knee and he didn't care and i feel sandburg at last, that's a full 71 glass and i also needed to talk somebody will send me it was a seat repeated more than once. villages film does the opposite wrecking cruise back done. the moved on to another house owned by this women lang to well, you know, to decide the only a somewhat 9 the number 2 was absolutely wrong. second, to demolish her has to saying she built an extension without permission to admit that will be listed in lam hyundai. may that got me on the side with the the, the, i'm just letting you know, i'm just going from the moment we had done that good thing. i saw you. it is the that the villages didn't leave it at that. and on the 16th of january 2024, they marched on the provincial hall with a petition that calls on the prime minister and unesco, to free their community from the control of app setup and declared. and we live in fear csra as far as a living without right. so all right, land for me to tell you which will no longer recogn

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and if we move it back to the states, i will guarantee you that if you take idaho, you take iowa, youe almost any of the states that i'm looking at right now, they'll be as good as norway, you have norway, sweden, denmark. i must say you have china that's very high in the pack which is no longer we can say it has to be a small area. china is very big but they do a very good job. we'll have at least 35 of our states that will be as good or better than any of those countries and we have to get it done. attorney general steve marshall. steve, thank you very much. steve, wherever you may be. general tim griffin, thank you. thank you. a person who was so wonderful, brenna burr. thank you. she supported me before people wanted to support me, right? thank you very much. i appreciate it. andrew bailey, great job. where is andrew? stand up, andrew. one of the great attorney generals. thank you very much. one of the greats, really. and jason miaras. thanks, jason. and now we get back to our members of congress, and we'll go quickly, but it's a great group of people. steve scalise is right in fr

will not have a full-scale scrum with respect to potatoes in oregon and idaho because we love them both and we know or a gun' is our superior, and we need to sell these products in foreign markets. that is not about going back and forth over whose products are better. it is my hope the committee will spend more time and making it easier to sell made in the usa products in less time figuring out why this administration is putting, as we saw last weekend, americans' livelihoods at risk. mr. greer, i don't envy your position. we have talked about trade and i don't envy your challenge because based on last week, it is unclear how these decisions are going to be made and what the influence is going to be a mr. greer and what senator hagerty, who has a long time interest in this, will be doing as well. this is an opportunity for you all to make a case for how you are going to pass trade measures that are really going to make sense to the american people at a crucial time. mr. greer: -- chair crapo: we are honored to have senator hagerty here to introduce jamison greer. you may proceed. sen. h

i for progress in still be there in idaho, across into central profit. i've kind of was the stairs going away from east and come to the quick inspection. you don't feel caught in toronto, it mind is full. i'm probably new york at 1st sight with a bit of wind. you start central america. the rain so particularly heavy just piling up in costa rica and belizean pots of southern mexico, which is highly unusual for this time of year and the sheriffs, the science event, and especially in brazil have been particularly big and in full costs, they will continue to be particularly big, giving a continued risk of funding site in the southeast of a 0. and then before you reach the pleasant feeling of summer in washington, you go to the fit between public why didn't and old an option to defend has been in excess of 40. that's an official key twice from her, of the wants of the capital of the combat empire. the serene, ancient city of uncle and present day cambodia is a protected unesco world heritage site. but as its temples of lakes and irrigation canals are being pr

let me know where your major types of people confused as to why to be assigned as idaho unemployment. by the same time decide the amount for comparisons, scratches the main tab you is that they're looking for a skilled graduates. and a lot of people that graduate these computer science, i've seen decreased enough skills enough to, you know, compete for these kinds of roles. katie, you mentioned one thing to focus on climate change and research on, on your work. can you tell us a little bit more about your plan? you also said that there's no money there, so that's not what is driving you. tell us a little bit about what you intend to do the actual say over stay at the moment. i'm finishing up my ph. d to be finish this. yeah. and then after that i have to go into consulting and working kind of continuing in climate change. i focus now in mathematica, obviously i'm part mean equitable and say to me, when following that is spinning from school really a different undergraduate degree in biology and the whole kind of could be science thing. i don't think i picked it possibly, but it wasn't

i for the progress and still be there in idaho across into central products. i've kind of once just as gone away from using kind of the co expected, it would feel cold in toronto at minus full. i'm probably in new york plus site with a bit of windshield. so at central america, the rates are particularly heavy, just piling up in costa rica and believes in pots of southern mexico, which is highly unusual for this time of year and the shafts, the science event. and especially in brazil have been particularly big and in full costs. they will continue to be particularly big, giving a continued risk of funding site in the southeast to brazil. and then before you reach the pleasant feeling of summer notion, team, you go through this whole bit between public why need to know an option to defense has been in excess of 40. that's an official key twice from her. the limits to have a dream container sta in your own adventure now counter and we in newark the hello can you watching? i'll just hear a quick reminder. lots of stories here. this allies ready for something up at

but at some height, you will see the snow running through the mountains through washington through idaho, montana in for a bit of adapt. veterans middle sniffles on the eastern end of it. so your son, francisco, for example, has got 3 days of pretty wet weather about last time you get to the wednesday that it will be cold compared with the average. it will have crosby, sunny, one small. but the bigger picture is this represents a line of differing temperatures. by cos, a degree, this is still naturally frosty by day. certainly off the mountains, you can ignore that for the time being on the plains. and they said softly, breeze up into, for example, the or higher valley were from the twenty's, big contrast. that was all phrase, not long ago starting somewhere like elkins, you said west virginia, you've not got a problem. what looks like an early spring note where the ice floes start to break out and run down and calls something in the town itself. while the cost is a little bit early for a spring. so, but that's certainly what it looks like, and it's getting a bit colder, but not cold eno

kennedy advanced out of committee vote was 14, 13 idaho republican senator mike crapo says kennedy will bring needed change to americans health care. he has spent his career fighting to end america's chronic illness epidemic. democrats like oregon's ron wyden say his views on vaccines are dangerous peddling these conspiracy theories the nation's chief health officer. it's going to be deadly director of national intelligence pick tulsi gabbard also got the green light in committee. both she and kennedy next face full senate votes. other nominees expected to face scrutiny include education secretary pick and former wwe ceo linda mcmahon, maryland democratic senator chris van hollen said he doesn't think she's qualified. i'm trying to figure out what her background has in education and you need to search far and wide. and i can tell you after you do that, you're not going to find anything. the senate has not yet scheduled a hearing for mcmahon in washington. i'm maggie beer, temple. >> back here in the bay talking about all that rain that has been causing headaches across local airports. t

if i can give the schools back to iowa and idaho in indiana and all these places to be run properly.here's many of them. if you look at the list, denmark, sweden, norway, believe it or not china is doing very well on that list. the list of well-educated. they run their school system well. you had a lot of countries. not surprising names. if you moved our schools into some of the states that are really well-run states, they would be as good as denmark and norway and sweden and some of the other states. then you would have the laggards. you know who they are? you have the laggards. the same laggards that are laggards with everything else including rhyme. even then, you break it into systems. if you went to new york, when chester county, dutchess county, suffolk and long island and nassau and long island. you have maybe six or seven locations. then you have new york city which would include the five boroughs. i think even that would run much better than it does right now. same thing with los angeles or california. you would have riverside. he would bring it up into six or seven. but mos

. >> todd: frozen french fries, get moving idaho.ing in new york congresswoman claudia tenney. your governor, kathy hochul, makes it sound like tariffs will mark end of new york state, like the state will cease to exist. what is your response and hy hyperventilating from the left? >> president trump is projecting strength, it is critically important, he is using tariff as a leverage point and he is forcing canada and mexico that was never enforced against china. one concern i have with upstate new york, one of my cities, copper city, we produce a lot of copper and i'm concerned about mom modities and the ability of our country and state and long-time merchandising ki companies to react to this. they would love to produce today, pause of policies in place from governor kathy hochul and democrats under biden make it impossible to forget production and unearth great resources we have, like natural gas. president trump is doing that, it can't be done immediately. i worry about carnage with small businesses in upstate new york. all of the

when you do, you may be that possibly stupid to them, but the basic principle inseparable idaho jab, secure itself, wouldn't be much the west had signed it as well. so that's alone. the fundamental contradiction of this course, just what i see to russia's core and national interest, what you've got and you've got good of us, 3 of them. and they said yes, no, we see that and you know what was. so today we need to identify some of the international community to shop, to accounts for america's uh, for me that that is, that's the custom destructive class. because another country was destructive plans to weaponized and militarize the outer space. and i showed up on you and the fresh example of this dangerous pores pursuant firestone. i want to add as v t. c is the washington recent stipends leading to development. smart city, we shoot for the r and go american square defense system. just city of be come up that provides for the deployment of space based inside of use and then you got can you go to the do i can isms magellio that i'm working with the level of know what you did. it's very r

and ranches produce 185 commodities and idaho leads the nation in potato ÃÃbarley and hay productionrgest producer of milk and cheese. we have not opened up any new markets for farmers in the last four years. farmers are also concerned that they may become the target of retaliation if we use tariffs to pressure other countries to change their ways. how will you support the interest of america's farmers and ranchers once confirmed and our nation's chief trade negotiator. >> thank you chairman for those questions. agriculture is near and dear to my heart i was raised in northern california, rice country, home and country, and very familiar with the northwest and mount west and the important agricultural crops that you have. they need to have markets commensurate with the competitiveness and to me that means we need to go day market access where things have been closed until now. for many decades we had a trading system where the united states open the market over and over again and others do not and india for example the average bound tariff is 39%. in turkey it's 39.8%. these are mark

project at the naval facility at the height of national laboratory continues to progress -- at the idaho national laboratory continues to progress. -- started construction on spent fuel storage pools. finally, nnsa has established a system of contracts with our management and operating contractors that strengthens our partnerships. this concept was previewed last year at this summit. i think i remember that. it was the big reveal. you'll hear more about it tomorrow. i'm proud to say that nnsa has achieved each of the previewed milestones from the last summit. proceeding forward, it is essential that we sustain and strengthen the partnership we have with our management and operating contractors to continue to successfully achieve strategic deterrence. looking forward, these accomplishments across nnsa's mission demonstrate our ability to adapt and deliver amidst rapidly changing circumstances. with that i would like to take a few minutes to discuss some of our efforts for the year ahead. our primary focus remains delivering the current program on time and at pace. the b-6 112 program is d

one big fighter has been setor mike crapo of idaho, he keeps arguing if you are just extending current law you are not raising taxes you are not lowers taxes. if tax bill is not extended, you have a 4 trillion dollar tax hike that overtime make the budget gap eveworse. mr. k crapo calls it current policy -- in 2012, they extendied george w. bush tax cuts with same policy argument, aume bush tax cutting would continue, not expire, there s no deficit impact, mr. cre crapoo, therefore they should not score tax otheise, whole federal system will be l like a pin ball machine on permanent tilt. anyway, republicans should work hard, treduce unnecessary counter productive federal spending, shrink the size and scope of government, if they let the tax cuts expire, they will find themselves with a bad economy and higher deficits at same time. it is lose-lose. mr. trump said we should never get tired of winning. let's start winning by extending trump tax cuts maybe growing the economy by 3% or 4% calm it blue collar boom. that is the riff. i went on too long. anyway, to my friend. joining us for h

chris from idaho, i want to see hulk hogan do a cannonball into the gulf of america. that would be icing on the cake. he's watching, be careful of that splash. >> sean: welcome to hannity. tonight we are kicking off the week with a jam-packed show. the border czar tom home end, senator john kennedy, senator ted cruz. levesque ramaswamy and white house press secretary karoline leavitt will join a straight ahead. it was a big day at the white house. every day is a big day at the trump white house. a flurry of activity from the trump administration is unlike anything we've ever seen. nothing but shock and all in the media melting down. democrats melting down which makes it fun. we were witnessing what is a transformational presidency in the making according to donald trump. border crossings now down 93% and he's only getting started. in just the past 24 hours, mexico caved in the face-off of trump's tariff threats. agreeing to send it 10,000 members of mexico's national guard to secure their side of the border. crackdown on fentanyl and smuggling. canada also caving, lit

and one of the big fighters so far has been senator mike crapo of idaho and arguing in you're extending current law, you're not raising taxes and not lowering taxes and there's no $4 trillion deficit. if the tax bill is not extended, you'll have a $4 trillion tax hike. that overtime will make the budget gap even worse. mr. crapo calls it current policy and hopes the republicans fight to officially change budget rules and there's precedent. in 2012, congress and president obama extended george w. bush tax cuts and using the same current policy argument. assume the bush tax cuts would continue and not expire and there was no deficit impact. cbo doesn't increase spending and hiking deficit and scoring tax increases and it would be like a pinball on tilt and higher taxes and higher spending and even higher deficits. they should work hard to reduce unnecessary counter productive federal spending and shrink the size and scope of government but letting tax cuts expire and finding themselves with a bad economy and higher deficits. it's a lose lose. mr. trump said we should never get tired of wi

chris from idaho, i want to see hulk hogan do a cannonball into the gulf of america.

i don't care if you're in idaho or texas or maryland or maine, you deserve opportunities for your kids and your grandkids. that's why we're out here today. follow the money, as so many of my colleagues have said. follow the money. who are they taking from and who are they giving to? it is absolutely outrageous that they're trying to take money away from our kids to give it to billionaires. knowledge is power and we need to make sure we use our power to protect public education. [applause] >> thank you very much, colleagues, for being here. i want to just reiterate that we are here on an oversight mission, a congressional oversight mission. that is the constitutional role of congress. we are disturbed that donald trump has said that he will issue an executive order to dismantle and abolish the department of education. i repeat, he cannot do that. that is illegal. that is usurpation of power that is a congressional power. and i also am disturbed that my staff has told me that acting secretary carter has locked the doors to the people's department of education. so what i invite the media

this is chairman crepeau of idaho. >> the u.s. department of health and human services, we're still waiting to get all our members here. while we wait for that to occur, we'll proceed with statements. and i will proceed first, then senator wyden and then we'll rotate from one side to the other until we are at a point where we're prepared for the vote. is that okay with you? >> yes, sir. >> mr. kennedy, if confirmed, will have the opportunity to deliver much-needed change to our nation's healthcare system. he has spent his career fighting to end america's chronic illness epidemic and has been a leading advocate for healthcare transparency both for patients and taxpayers. mr. kennedy has also clearly responded to our questions during the rigorous due diligence process in his hearing also and in the course of answering over 900 questions for the record that were asked by members of this committee. in response to members of the committee, mr. kennedy has even amended his ethics agreement going beyond what is required by the government

that said, are you saying that nvidia is is a solid ai company versus ai adjacent and a little idaho eventually become commodetitized and they're subjt to competition and deepseek, i agree with the prior ken polcari at a timer and that's a lot of hype right now but in the long run, again companies like palantir and fort net and even companies like verizon that are going to be part of upgrading the networks and the connectivity between data centers, that's where the most sustainable returns are going to be for investors and that's how we have placed our clients. liz: tim, great to have you on. google -- alphabet, parent of google reports after the bell and looks like green on the screen after a big day of headlines with all of those dow up 135, s&p up 143 and nasdaq umm 260 and meta a ninth record close. lauren: larry: hello, folks, welcome to kudlow. i'm larry kudlow. president trump has slapped a 10% tariff on china and steven miller, white house senior policy adviser steven miller weighing in in just a little while on the show. president trump mee meeting with president -- prime mi

if i give schools back to idaho, indiana, those that run properly, there are many of them.list, denmark, suite in, norway, believe it or not china is doing very well in that place. the list of well-educated, the way they run their school system. you have a lot of countries. not surprising names. i think that if you moved our schools into some of these states that are really well-run states they would be as good as denmark and norway and sweden and some of the other states and then you would have the others. the laggards, those who are laggards with everything else including crime but even then you are breaking into systems. an example if you want to new york you go to westchester county and dutchess county and long island, you have maybe six or seven locations and you have new york city which would include the five boroughs. and i think even that would run much better than it does right now. same thing with los angeles or california, you would have riverside, you would break it up into six or seven but most of them would be states and you would have one like in iowa, you gi

chris from boise, idaho. i want to see hulk hogan do a cannonball into the gulf of america. that would be icing on the cake, folks. watching. be careful of that splash. i'm watters. this is my war. >>

>> that includes community health centers in virginia which were forced to closers, a nonprofit in idahoecond separate order on the hiring freeze could impact the next fire season. jacob soboroff joins us with that part of the story. jacob, what is happening with firefighters and what's at stake in the short and long term? >> reporter: yeah, essentially the hiring of federal firefighters is paused at this moment. a lot of people might say i didn't know there were federal firefighters. turns out they were critical to the response here in the los angeles area in the wake of what governor newsom said was the most devastating wildfire, biggest one by cost in the history of the united states. you have firefighters from the bureau of land management, the national forest service. 15 to 20,000 in any given year. many are career officials, but more are temporary workers, seasonal workers. it requires a lengthy on boarding process because of the federal background check system. any delay in the hiring of federal firefighters who literally in some cases save neighborhoods in the eaton fire zone can

and i ask that because in idaho, there's an effort against same sex marriage heading to the state senatearriages like ours illegal. >> look. >> these are scary times, right? and i don't think that we can take any of our rights for granted, especially when, you know, he overturned an executive order with nondiscrimination protections that have been in place for the last 60 years. but we also have to be clear that is not happening right now. and the actions that we take today to protect the trans community, to show up and be loud and fight back, will help to make sure that we're protecting rights for all of our communities. so this is one of those moments where i think we all have to be vigilant, but not be afraid at what's coming at us. >> and i think it's dan savage who has a social media post that's gone viral, taking people back to the aids crisis and talking about how folks protested in the streets all day, and then they went dancing all night, and that it was that dancing that gave them the fuel, the fuel to fight. i want to end on a moment of joy because you're having a baby. >> i a

look, if i could give the schools back to iowa and idaho and indiana and all these places that run properly, there's many of them, i think. so if you look at the list. uh, denmark, sweden, norway, believe it or not, china's doing very well on that list. a list of well-educated, you know, where they run their school system. well, you have a lot of countries. not surprising names. i think that if you moved our schools into some of these states that are really well run states, they would be as good as denmark and norway and sweden and some of the other states. and then you'd have the, the laggards and you know who they are. i don't have to go to it, but you'd have the laggards, the same laggards that are laggards with everything else, including crime. but even them, you'll break it into systems. as an example, if you went to new york, you go to westchester county, you go to dutchess county, you go to suffolk and long island and nassau and long island. you have maybe 6 or 7 locations, and you have new york city, which would include the five boroughs. and i think even that would run much better