dakota news now. this is the south dakota gubernatorial debate. >> good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us for the south dakota gubernatorial debate. >> we are coming to you live this evening from the studio in rapid city. tonight's debate includes the three gubernatorial candidates on the ballot this november. they are republican governor kristi noem, democratic state representative jamie smith, and libertarian candidate tracy quench. we would like to thank each of you for agreeing to participate in tonight's debate. >> we would like to give viewers a quick rundown of the rules for this evening. the debate will be 60 minutes long, no commercials, each candidate will be allowed a one minute opening and closing statement. each candidate will have up to two minutes to respond to a direct question, opponents and will have one minute for a response. >> the order for questioning and statements were drawn before the show, ms. clint will go first followed by representative smith, then governor n

. -- in south dakota.en are going to die if they have not already because of this. the governor believes a 10-year-old child that was raped should be forced to carry that baby to term. that is not compassion. that is not what we should have in south dakota. we need to make sure that there are exceptions for rape and incest in the state of south dakota. and we need to make sure that doctors are able to do the jobs -- their jobs. they are able to provide medicine in the state of south dakota. that's become clear with my friends are physician calling me and saying they don't know what they can do because the law is not clear. and they are very worried they will be in trouble for practicing medicine. >> governor noem, following up on that, 76 percent support abortion in cases of rape and incest. exceptions that are not currently allowed in south dakota. would you support those exceptions? >> the media has distorted what i said. it's wrong and ridiculous to keep repeating it over and over again like he just did

i bring common sense north dakota leadership to washington dc, and i worked for the people of north dakotavery day. >> thank you. our second speaker is rick becker. mr. becker: i have been a plastic surgeon in brisbane, -- bismarck north dakota for the past 25 years. i am also a state republican representative for the last 10 years, a very conservative republican representative. i will be on the ballot as an independent. i am an independent conservative republican, which is what is needed in the united states senate and america. we need a fighter who will resist biden's agenda, who will resist unelected bureaucrats like anthony fauci, the wokeism that we see running rampant, inflation, spending. we need a fighter who will represent north dakota. i could not tolerate the idea of voters be reduced to the decision between a big spending democrat and a big spending republican. that is why i am in the race. i will go to washington, d.c. and fight for you. >> the next speaker will be katrina christiansen. dr. christiansen: thank you for hosting this debate. it is important because this election

i was named south dakota outstanding young farmer within a few years after dad passed and it south dakota outstanding young leader, and at that time our yes, senator was tom daschle. he was the majority leader in the senate and with some south dakota and i was at a lot of his meetings. he ended up appointment to board that oversaw all the federal farm programs in the state sobs involved in policy, and showing up with different people and people started to ask me to consider running for the state legislature. it was interesting because asking my family they just thought well, that's strange, and nobody's done that before, but in our state legislature meets for 40 days a year, you go in in january, you balance the budget, pass bills and they go back home and back to your jobs. wasn't that big of a commitment outside of session, and we figured we would try it and if it worked then everything would be okay. i did that, got elected and ran for leadership right away and serve as the assistant majority leader in house but that's really when a lot of pressure started to come to run for congress,

i was named south dakota's outstanding young farmer within a few years after dad passed and south dakota's outstanding young leader and at that time, our u.s. senator was tom dashel.as he was the majority leader in the senate and was from south dakota and i was at a lot of his meetings. he ended up appointing me to a board that oversaw all the federal farm programs in the states and i was involved in policy and showing different people and people started asking me to consider running for the state legislature. it was interesting because asking my family, they thought that's strange. nobody's done that before but, you know, the state legislature meets for 40 days a career and go in in january and balance the budget, pass bills and go back home and back to your jobs. it wasn't that big of a commitment outside of session and wee figured we'd try it and if itf worked, then everything wouldth be okay. i did that, got elected and ran for leadershipp right away and served a at assistant majority leader in the house and that's whenom a lot pressure started to come and i was not concerned. a lot of

it's with south dakota is very populist.eople think it's very conservative and it's really not in fact, you know my last race when i ran for governor, just three and a half years ago. i only won by three points and it was against a guy who was a bernie sanders supporter. so, you know, it's it's very much a state that can go back and forth and and tom was being the, you know was the majority leader very influential. i cared about farm bills. i cared about tax reform and i was somebody who didn't complain about things. i tried to show up and be a part of the solution and i think he appreciated that he had a leadership camp every year that he would host new leaders in the state that he thought had potential to serve and he did invite me to that one year and i went i thought it was in the black hills for a weekend and he brought in speakers and we spent time together talking about policy and what it's like to run for office. i was it was interesting to me because i never once considered becoming a democrat i think maybe he proba

governor christy of south dakota. a lotf of children will grow up in a family business and just not want to go to the same line of work asnt their parents did. we were trying to get a sense of a matter of circumstance for you given your father's accident. >> my dad and i were a lot alike. in fact my brother says if you m want to know what my dad was like, spend the day with kristi. at times that was wonderful. my dream was farming and ranching and at other times both of us had a very strong personalities and. the fact that i do to today what i do was never on my radar so the plan is to be involved in the family business and the fact that i'm notot today is a very unique circumstance. >> you spent a lot of time and not my first rodeo talking about your parents. who are f they and where did thy come from and how did they meet? >> my dad grew up in the same area as my mom. my mom grew up in watertown about 20 miles away so both from south dakota and my dad was raised out in the country farming and raising cattle. my mom

the author is governor kristi noem of south dakota. a lot of children will grow up in a family business and either reject the family business or just not want to go into the same line of work as their parents did. this is something that you embraced and i was trying to get a sense of how much this is a matter of circumstance for you given your fathers accident or whether this is something you ultimately decided that you loved enough to want to do before you found your current vocation. >> guest: i would say my dad and i were a lot alike. in fact, my brother says if you want to know what my dad was like spend the day with kristi. at times that was wonderful. my dream was farming and ranching for the rest of my life. at other times both of us every strong personalities and we both kind wanted to be in charge. i don't know what that would've looked like into the future, but yeah, i did not think i could ever be happy not farming and ranching. my passion is animals. i love the land. i love being outdoors. the fact that i do what i do today

so that tells you how small south dakota is.i was so surprised by it that ii went and immediately after the meeting emailed people back home and setting it to call him a talk to him, and did that made it into the public news stories and i just realized immediately how bad i sounded, like a know it all. that it didn't even go to them and will discuss it with him. instead i decided to start e-mailing people back home who didn't have a context of what was said in that meeting or the strategy behind it, andnd it waa very teachable moment for me. you know, that it didn't want to be theer kind of person who ambushed others in policy and a recognized that trust is something where you create an environment where you build a team, and it's d not where you either trust somebody or don't. it's almost like a bank account. you do different actions how you treat people how you talk to them and how dependable you are is building trust day after day after day and on one of my colleagues and i was somebody who was reasonable, logical, smart and

that tells you how small south dakota is.i was just so surprised by it i went and immediately after that meeting e-mail people back home and said they needed to call him and talk to him. and that made into the public news stories. and i just realized immediately how bad i sounded, like a know it all i did not even go to him and discuss it with him but instead i decided too or e-mailing people back home who did not have a a context of what was said in that meeting or the strategy behind it. it was a very teachable moment for me. i did not want to be the kind of person who ambushed others in policy. and i recognize that trust is something you create an environment where you build a team. l it's not either you trust somebody or jolt it's almost like a bank accounts. you do different actions how you treat people, how you talk to them, how dependable you are is building trust day after day after day put a one of my colleagues to know i was someone who iss reasonable, logical, smart and could look at the consequences of everything

dakota dunlap: i'm dakota. people often ask if i'm a boy or a girl. i'm neither.spectrum. audrey mason-hyde: hi, i'm audrey. i'm gender non-binary and queer and i wanna change the world. riley: tonight on "four corners" we take you into the lives of people like me, people who don't conform to gender norms. and i ask, why does it matter to you if i don't identify as a boy or a girl? ♪♪♪ olivia: well, the world basically evolves around boxes and those two boxes are a male box and a female box. and if you are born with a female body you have to be a female. if you are born with a male body you have to be a male and you've been put into that box. and they try to, like--people may try to duct-tape you, duct-tape the box so then you'll stay like that. but i cut the duct-tape and i jumped into my own box. jane russo: two years ago, olivia was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has now been assessed as not being on the binary and does not identify as either boy or girl. jane: just watch your fingers. jane: it's hard to know when olivia started changing in the sense of--o

it's my pleasure to introduce our moderator, president of the dakota county chamber -- dakota county regional chamber of congress. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for waiting. quickly, those wristbands that you are wearing, i was hoping that the college would open their brewery down the hall afterward. if we can arrange that we will need a drink when it went and done. -- when it it is said and done. you are going to get to know me well during this conversation but, thank you michael. we are deeply appreciative of the colleges support for this event. the ctc and the community college are great partners of the chamber and we are deeply appreciative of your leadership and partnership especially in the workforce issues for all of our communities in dakota county. for all of you, again my name is maureen, and it's an honor to serve as the president of the dakota county regional chamber of congress. thank you for joining us for the only debate that we have for the congressional district two-seat. the dakota county regional chamber is the voice that promotes the business environment cu

of north dakota. he's also -- what are the odds that two of the most famous people in washington would come from north dakota. senator, thank you very much for being here. >> thanks, steve. [applause] >> neither dick nor i are the most famous person. however, peter davidson could attest that dave osbourne one of dick's classmates all pro runningback for the vikings is from north dakota. he and dick are classmates. this is such an honor. thanks for including me. in my 10 years in congress, this is the highlight. it is. it really is, dick. i mean it. for the handful of you who read the whole book, susan and i know did. i'm sure she proofread it many times. i might be the first person in america to read the whole book. i was testing dick as i was reading it on the airplane -- i was texting dick as i was reading it on the airplane, i'm laughing so hard that people are concerned. my dad and dick armey lived across the alley from one another. in the book dick tells a story about richard cramer, the elder ri

this is also true in dakota county. what do you believe was the cause and what was the solution to our inflation? we will start with tyler. mr. kistner: when you look at the cause of inflation you only need to look at the voting record of congresswoman craig and the nearly trillion dollars we spent to increase the cost of living. the stock market is about to drop again. it will only get worse. how do you make the cost of living affordable for people we start by reining in that government spending. we invest in american energy dollars and tap into our own resources in the united states. that's how you make it affordable, to make sure that if we go to the pump it not for 80 it is -- $4.80 it is $1.80. rep. craig: inflation is a global serious issue. if you look across the world right now, the supply chain from a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic have caused inflation. i think about mr. kistner's comments and the question i have, what about spending in this room would you not have done. 1.7 billion dollars went to save businesse

but he came from candor, north dakota. and he became the first republican majority first republican majority leader in 40 years. and he was an indispensable leader in changing america. and implementing the final stones on the reagan revolution and then he retired and went back to being just in plain citizen. to me that is a reassuring story about america. i once had a guy in china. asked me where did you come from? you know we try to look at leadership in america, and we just can't figure out where you came from. and i tried to explain to him that in america. the greatness of our country is that leaders just come from nowhere? and so people are always saying where are the reagans and where are the -- armies now that we need them? well, i never despair because i know they're out there. they're waiting to be discovered. they're waiting for the right moment. and the only thing that i well let me just say the contract will america. -- army wrote the contract with america. he gave it the name contract with america. i was the ch

s. state of north dakota is embracing renewables and how a gym and jeans factory is going by tech and green at the same time on robots. now if you want to gauge just how bad an economic crisis is being felt on the ground, you need to look no further than porn shops for those struggling selling cherished belongings is a quicker and easier way of getting cash than looking for a loan. the practice has been around for a long time to believe it or not, the world's 1st pawn shops date back to the 5th century when they were established by buddhist monks in china. the romans later introduced the practice in europe, and over the centuries or shops were established in amsterdam, kent and brussels with merchants and the italian region of lombardy, bringing them to england to one of the most prominent early practitioners was king edward the 3rd. he poured some of his royal possessions to finance his war with france. now, centuries late as the cost of living crisis leaves people struggling to pay their bills on shops. ah, once again, experiencing a renaissance as christian priscilla. his report wa

condemning 39 of the 303 dakota warriors to death in the end 38 were hanged and that still constitutes. the largest mass is execution in us history as should we sweet just pointed out in the previous round table. 1862 is also the year of the moral land grant act the pacific union railway railway acts the internal revenue act. the homestead act. all these apps were predicated on the dispossession of native american nations, and it heralded the development of the american state. it is also the year that president lincoln issued his preliminary proclamation giving advanced notice of his intention to issue the emancipation proclamation in 1863. now, of course the process of indian dispossession can be traced back to the settlement of north america by european colonists accelerated mightily by the indian removals and the mexican war in the 19th century. and while there has been much historical scholarship recently some done by our panelists on viewing the civil war reconstruction from the west. we still need to elaborate on how we made develop new historical narratives of the war that would

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busy with a better place to live, north dakota is known for its oil and gas production. but over the last several years, when does become another source of energy and our outside fargo, we meet energy consultant paul jensen with one of the largest wind farms in the state. she can probably feel today. we have a very high wind capacity factor here in the state that the wind blows her continuously. we call it the saudi arabia of wind. that biggest challenge is to get the population educated in understanding the benefits of having renewable energy and the freedom that it gives you. because it's actually patriotic to be focusing on renewable energy because it means independence from so power. but educating north dakota. ns is not the only challenge green energy advocates face in this oil rich state. here, where donald trump 165 percent of the vote in 2020 and where republicans dominate democrats in the state senate, 40 to 70. there was a lot of political influence that is pushing for more oil drilling. meryl pipe corn is one of those democrats who supports renewable energy in

dick was from north dakota. i don't have any idea where it is. i went to north dakota to campaign for him and i have to plug in the car to keep the tires from freezing. but he came from north dakota and he became the first republican majority the first matured the pub later and he was the indispensable leader in changing america and implement the final stones on the reagan revolution. then he retired and went back of the plane servicemen. to me that is a reassuring story. i once had a guy in china ask me where did you come from? we try to look at leadership in america and we can't figure out where we came from. i tried to explain to him and america the greatest of our country is leaders just come from all over. people are always saying where are the reagans and where are the dick armey's when we need them? i know they are out there. they are waiting to be discovered and waiting for the lightbulb. the only thing, well let me just say the contract with america, dick armey wrote the contract. he gave it the name contract with america. i was the chai

he was from north dakota. he came from camden north dakota and became the first republican majority leader that was an indispensable leader changing america and implementing the final stones on the reagan revolution and then he retired and went back to being a plain citizen. i once had a guy in china asked me where did you come from. people are always saying where are the reagan's and armies now that we need. them. i never despair because i know they are out there let me just say the contract, he wrote the contract for america. he gave it the name contract with america. i was the chairman of the republican senatorial committee. we tried to copy it by having more in 94. i am not taking anything away from newt gingrich. m he grabbed it and ran with it veand made it famous and deservs all the credit he gives but he was the army of the contract with america. [applause] to close government facilities especially military bases so it was a totally new idea of his own creation he came up with the idea of the commissio

craig: thank you to the dakota regional chamber. it is clear voters have an important place between now and november 8, a choice between david jodey and big pharma, a choice between a world where women make health care decisions and a world where politicians think they should decide. this race boils down to contrast, some -- someone who is clear about what she believes and is candidate, and someone who hides his positions from his website. someone who is going to stand up to central -- special interests versus someone who stands behind them. someone working every day to lower costs versus someone who says, this issue of inflation is helping republicans politically. i am proud of what we have accomplished over these last four years, and i have proven i will work with anybody with a good idea. president trump even signed four of my bills into law. that is why i've been named in the common ground committee of the top 3% of all bipartisan members of congress. our district is one of only 31 true swing seats left in the united states. my

and here in north dakota, there's nothing really to coach with it. so there was a good time for people putting up their own. net metering systems are just not friendly. we're not open to it. and again, i think it might be a little bit of lack of knowledge is lack of education like in the elected generating companies like distribution companies because of pretty much lobby against the to. so it's very the cody to bears believes that there is not much time left, and it's critical for the west to finally shift to cleaner renewable resources. what we say in our language to mca mother, her full and warren. because every single day we're affecting our, our mother, we're harming our mother article so ways of why sciences understand and realizes that being their original care caretakers of this lag. we know how to give back a lot of people had so many years. but nobody's ever learn how to get a native american and he brought to the table in this country to start to a point today to start giving back with the current energy crisis. the renewable energy indust

north dakota would be independent from the federal government. also, he could stay in power by force. serisl that situation eventually resolved, very interesting story there, too. but through that whole, you know, insurrection, he never lost the support of his political party. the republican party in north dakota still stood by him. still loved him. so right after his whole armed insurrection thing, armed insurrection at the state house, barricading himself in office to stay there by forceful declaring martial law. trying to break up the united states of america to save himself and stay in power. a few years after that, the republican party in his state decided that he was the best man in the whole state to be their nominee for the united states o senate. >> as long as i'm in the senate, i'll be there battling for north dakota and for the united states of america. >> i'll be battling for the united states of america. except when i'm battling to get rid of the united states of america so i can stay in power by force. just an amazing tale, right? m

and sentenced 303 dakota suit to die. lincoln ordered the commander, general john called, a radical republican favorite, who was eager to get executions going, to wait and to send the case files to washington, where he assigned to interior department attorneys to examine them. he said to limit the executions to those who committed rape or killed women and children. the army ended up hanging 37 tickets to the day after christmas, 1862, thus, as mentioned, the largest mass executions in american history. but lincoln also ordered the largest mass commutation of death sentences in american history in the same action. as for the public reaction, lincoln later mentioned to a congressman from minnesota that his 1864 majority in the state was smaller than it had been in 1860. imagine that, they're counting votes. the congressman replied and that if he had executed all of them, he would have gotten more votes. lincoln responded, i could not afford to hang men for votes. this is not the happiest part of the lincoln story by any mea

of north and south dakota is just the dakota territory. he purchased two ranches there and in the aftermath of this tragedy he decides he's going to go out west and he's going to start ranching. he did not think of himself as a cowboy cowboys worked for him. he was the boss. he owned the land. he was the rancher, but that didn't prevent him from purchasing this kind of outfit from being photographed. okay, and some of the stuff is like tiffany knives and so forth. i mean he gets the best of the best for this, okay. and he goes and becomes a rancher. he never lives in the dakota terry full territory full-time. he commutes back and forth as it were between new york and the the dakotas for several years. but during this time he becomes acquainted with a different type of american. collar type of american the people who were settling in the west and dispossessing native americans as we talked about the second week of the class, but it sheds some of his elitism for him. he comes to realize that there are a lot of people who didn't grow up in th

he was from north dakota. i don't have any idea where it is. he came from can do north dakota and became the first republican majority leader he was an indispensable leader implementing the final stones on the reagan revolution then retired. i once had a guy in china asked me where did you come from. i tried to explain the greatness of our country is people are always saying where are the reagan's and army now that we need them,es well i never despar because i know they are out there waiting to be discovered and waiting for the right moment. let me just say he wrote the contract for america and gave it the name contract. i was the chairman of the republican senatorial committee. we tried to copy it by having our more than seven seats. igi am not taking anything away. he grabbed it and ran with it and made it famous. he deserves all the credit he gets. but he was the father of the army of contract for america. [applause] i don't want to overstay my welcome but fromth the beginning of the w republic, we had wasted money because of an inability to

senate in 1940 from north dakota, his record was so insane, his recent exploits and ice dakota were so blatantly illegal that the u.s. senate actually had to decide after the election whether they were going to allow him to take his seat given that he had tried succeeding in declared martial law. he had an armed insurrection against the government. also the corruption charges that started all of it, hidden arrow down there was a lot to work with here. and when he won the senate race, as republican would-be colleagues would have to take a vote on whether he would have to be whether he could take a seat and whether or not his moral turpitude was too much to allow him to be seated as u.s. senator so he considered it and decided in the end that it was fine and they voted to see them and therefore they took it as a u.s. senator and then in his first term as u.s. senator the justice department brought the largest mass sedition indictment in u.s. history against 49 defendants charged with undermining the armed forces, seeking to overthrow the government by force and taken support from the law

. >> up next, debates from the governor races in south dakota and nevada followed by today's supreme court oral argument on alabama >> next, a debate between south dakota governor kristi noem and her two challengers. the debate focused on abortion, medicaid legislation and recreational marijuana legalization. >> this is the south dakota gubernatorial debate. >> good evening, thank you for joining us for the south dakota gubernatorial debate. >> in

family commune, just down from south colombo dakota. a young couple, trish and brian hughes, their baby girl and a young couple from north dakota. jennifer found them just right parcel. but even after turning over the keys, there was something about that lou castro guy, that emily's mom found irresistible. he'd become more than a client. >> at first he was just somebody that mom was doing business with. but they would go to lunch often. >> as you look back now, emily, what do you think went on with your mother? >> i don't know. >> something was going on? >> something was. >> and something was going on with lou, to. no sooner had he set it settled down in greater kansas city, that his family commune was on the move again. and guess who is going with them? jennifer the realtor and her two girls. what did your dad think? >> my dad was devastated. >> just like that, in the fall of 2001, emily, sara and their mom were packing up a u-haul and heading out for a fresh start to life. have you had to leave your neighborhood, your playmates, your