and today, i'm driving in the badlands of eastern montana.t's rugged, big-sky, cattle-ranching country. i'm on my way to meet a lifelong resident whose father left him a chunk of this land. >> nice to have you here. >> thanks for having us. >> my name's clayton phipps. and in 1997, my father passed away, and i inherited from him a small portion of the family ranch. and along with that came a few pretty exciting surprises. >> 41-year-old clayton phipps is like a character out of "red river" or "lonesome dove." [ horse neighs ] >> most of the time, i'm on my own. i'm happy that way. this ranch had been in our family since my great-grandfather homesteaded here. and it's a part of me that i just didn't feel like i wanted to ever part with. >> clayton grew up and learned to cowboy here on the ranch his father shared with three brothers. he describes the operation as cash-poor but reasonably successful. >> my dad worked us hard, but that was a good thing, too. >> after clayton's father dies in 1997, the ranch is split up. at age 24, clayton inherit

and today, i'm driving in the badlands of eastern montana.gged, big-sky, cattle-ranching country. i'm on my way to meet a lifelong resident whose father left him a chunk of this land. >> nice to have you here. >> thanks for having us. >> my name's clayton phipps. and in 1997, my father passed away, and i inherited from him a small portion of the family ranch. and along with that came a few pretty exciting surprises. >> 41-year-old clayton phipps is like a character out of "red river" or "lonesome dove." [ horse neighs ] >> most of the time, i'm on my own. i'm happy that way. this ranch had been in our family since my great-grandfather homesteaded here. and it's a part of me that i just didn't feel like i wanted to ever part with. >> clayton grew up and learned to cowboy here on the ranch his father shared with three brothers. he describes the operation as cash-poor but reasonably successful. >> my dad worked us hard, but that was a good thing, too. >> after clayton's father dies in 1997, the ranch is split up. at age 24, clayton inherits 1,10

and today, i'm driving in the badlands of eastern montana.g-sky, cattle-ranching country. i'm on my way to meet a lifelong resident whose father left him a chunk of this land. >> nice to have you here. >> thanks for having us. >> my name's clayton phipps. and in 1997, my father passed away, and i inherited from him a small portion of the family ranch. and along with that came a few pretty exciting surprises. >> 41-year-old clayton phipps is like a character out of "red river" or "lonesome dove." [ horse neighs ] >> most of the time, i'm on my own. i'm happy that way. this ranch had been in our family since my great-grandfather homesteaded here. and it's a part of me that i just didn't feel like i wanted to ever part with. >> clayton grew up and learned to cowboy here on the ranch his father shared with three brothers. he describes the operation as cash-poor but reasonably successful. >> my dad worked us hard, but that was a good thing, too. >> after clayton's father dies in 1997, the ranch is split up. at age 24, clayton inherits 1,100 acres

those divisions would be alaska, idaho, montana, oregon and eastern and western washington. second one the middle division would be the northern, eastern california, guam, hawaii, nevada, and northern mariannas. and the southern division which would be arizona, the central and southern districts of california where reside. basically his recommendation was to break your circuit into typically circuits so there would be regional adjudication. do you support that today? >> i do not.

those divisions would be alaska, idaho, montana, oregon and eastern and western washington. second one the middle division would be the northern, eastern california, guam, hawaii, nevada, and northern mariannas. and the southern division which would be arizona, the central and southern districts of california where reside. basically his recommendation was to break your circuit into typically circuits so there would be regional adjudication. do you support that today? >> i do not. >> so when people refer to white commission, he did support breaking up your circuit. he simply had a different way of doing it such that you could have one set of law no matter where it was decided but it would achieve what professor fitzpatrick was talking about, and i'm going to come back to you because time is limited and i want to make sure i get at least the organizational. if we were to have these large ones or go back, go to the other smaller one, the 12, or with the existing ones, the only way to get the equivalent of the 9th circuit being broken up to meet the rirkts that you mentioned, th

court of appeals be organized into three regional adjudication divisions, alaska, idaho, montana, oregon, and eastern and western washington. the second one, the middle division would be the northern/eastern california, gaum, hawaii and nevada, and northern marianas. and the southern is arizona and the central and the southern districts of california where i reside and basically the recommendation is to break your circuit into three circuits so that there is regional adjudication, and do you support that today? >> i do not. >> and okay, so when people are refer ing to the white commission, he did want to break up the circuit, but in a way that you could have one set of law regardless of where it is decided, but it would achieve what professor fitzpatrick is talking about and i want to come back to you, and the time is limited so i want to get at least the organizational, and if we were to have the large ones or the smaller one, the 12 or with the existing ones, the only way to get the equivalent of the ninth circuit to be broken up to meet the requirement s ths that mentioned, the smaller, and the mo

eastern today on c-span 2. c-span.org and you can listen on app.-span radio frank from billings, montana. caller: good morning, c-span. i would like to ask the to run a taml tally on what we spent in afghanistan war.eorge w. bush's i'm ashamed to be a republican. but at the same time we keep up and the defense budget nothing ever gets done. forcaller previously worked a defense contractor. they have done very well for themselv themselves. why don't you give us the lowdown. how much is our investment and ow much is our return on investment other than the women who have given their lives for an ignoble cause. you.k guest: well, thank you. good morning from montana. got to be recall there. you are up pretty early. i appreciate the question and i would in general because i don't facts in front of me ut i would say in general i'm not for nation building. i'm not for occupation. i think that historically when at it doesn't doesn't you have to have stabilizing forces if you are going to hold any territory even if it is temporary. but i'm not for doing it we have thingsen to build here in this co

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