i think there is a federal role. i would like to see a more limited federal oversight role, actually. you've seen a lot of the states increase their own gas taxes and look at it. the big issue's going to be -- and this is something that i just don't think house leadership and even the hill leadership's really going to want to get into this cycle, is the highway trust fund is not sustainable. right now we've talked about the guy that orders -- the last panel talked about the guy that orders the big steak. well, the hybrids and electric cars are freeriding to some extend on our highway and transportation -- >> they're not buying gasoline, so they're not paying the gas tax. >> they're not paying. and now we've gone from a user fee to just throwing general fund money at the issue. and that is not, again, a long-term sustainable. we have the diversions, almost 20% out of the highway trust fund for transit and other issues, and these are the big topics that we really need to be getting at. i, frankly, don't see the politic

milton friedman, the godfather of cato-like thinking also supported federal -- not federal, but government funding for education. one person who gets educated benefits everybody, and that is the whole logic behind why the government is involved to begin with. guest: can i just say that milton friedman changed over time. you talk about neighborhood affect, my neighbor gets educated, and is less likely to commit crimes. over time, he changed his views that he did not think the neighborhood argument was effective for funding. a did say look, it can be public role, but and that money to the students, the educators' autonomy, as opposed to federal money. host: we will go to m michael, grand rapids, michigan, democratic caller. caller: yes, i would like to point out that the federal 's role in government, i feel strongly, is to provide equal education for all students. but right now, with the school choice program, as was with the states' rights programs, schools were allowed to saturday, according to states rights. and look at the south. school choice is re-segregating schools in michigan. for

-- 24 local, 76 federal. obamacare provided some relief, an extra 7.3 billion in temporary medicaid funding, and a permanent change to match 45 federal, state and local. the obamacare money is a longer available after this year, and all the insular areas. using 2010 data for americans and going from 20 million in federal funding to 12 million. for guam come from 56,000,000 to 18,000,000. for the marianas come from 25 million the 7 million. for the u.s. virgin islands, 70 million, the 18 million. and for puerto rico from 2.3 billion just 360 billion. we cannot serve a conflict that i continue to deliver services. the path forward is unclear. certainly more money is needed and an acquittal matching rate but there's also the need for each of the insular areas to build capacity to deliver care. because ultimately the goal is not just to have the same funding as states. what we want is medical care for those who need it in the insular areas to be every bit as good as medical care in the states. so i look forward t

at the federal level, we have all federal spending since 2000. that is comprised of contracts, grants, loans, farm subsidies, direct limits and insurance subsidies. we have nearly all federal employment in terms of salaries and bonuses, when disclosed since 2007. at the state level, in 49 out of 50 states, we are only missing california and we have restyled that information at the request of the california state checkbook. in 49 states, we have the checkbook. had theng, we republican comptroller begin the process of opening the books and the books are opened in wyoming. we need to do this in california. at the local level, your question is important. that is where the hardware didn't -- heart work in data collection. there are 16,000 substantial bodies across the country. we need to grower budget to be able to have the capacity to refile requests for checkbook spending. once we do that, this is what we call the public spending genome project. you remember when scientists mapped the human genome and ushered in medical progress. taxed ating every d

that is federally insured and federally backed money. that is to say i win so the taxpayers lose. so loans are different they are long-term investments. they are not short term moving the market they should be regulated absolutely. that is what glass-steagall understood. that is not the long-term lending to people who can't get to the capital markets. >> but hasn't technology in many markets obliterated capital markets and banking? >> and that will bring us the next crisis unless we consider the virtues of that. under the current system i agree the brain - - the banks and financial markets are integrated and that is a dangerous move that many people disagree with me on that. >>. >> do any banks that failed because of the securities position? >> walkover yes. >> not true. look at how many banks during the depression. >> these are all securities. >> and i speak professor? they did not fail because of the security position but because of loans why did they fail in the last recession because of the lending possession not because of the securities position the banks that were in the st

that started to be deemed as a problem by the federal government for a couple reasons. because this was seen as something foreign and different. so, chinese men primarily coming into the u.s. in bringing with them a foreign practice that seems to be characterized as a problem really sets apart the public interest. initially it starts to create anti-chinese sentiment that results in 1882, the first real exclusionary immigration policy and that's to say after 1882 we will ban in the u.s., chinese immigrants from coming into the u.s. if they come in as laborers. if they come in as a non- laborer, then you could be exempt from the chinese exclusion act. at the same time in 1898, we have the spanish-american war, where the u.s. is able to, as a result of being victorious in the war, is able to acquire several protectorates in puerto rico, guam and especially for this case, the philippines, where the presence of smoking opium is deemed is a problem for not having just acquired this new area of the world to govern. so, as a result we start to see the intersections now of recen

second, my office has in many instances used federal criminal statutes that are not the federal hatecrime statutes to address conduct that involve the violence or risk of violence based on hate directed at a particular group. late last year, for example, we charge the defendant under federal firearms statute for being an illegal use of a controlled substance and possession of a firearm, but that particular defendant had come to the attention of authorities because of certain public statements he had made supporting white nationalism and indicate he fantasized about race and religious based violence. we had another case in which an individual called and bomb in bb threats to some jewish community centers here in the district and to the israeli embassy, and we prosecuted that person under the interstate threats and bomb hoaxes statute. same principle applies with respect to local statutes, i know there are in d.c. statutes that may apply to conduct of what can be used in addition to or instead of the federal hate crime statutes pixel if there's an instance, we take and all tools approa

federal judges for lists.they work in close proximity some of the most egregious defenders of our criminal justice system. the potential to put the judge at risk for the family by very real and very concerning. the public disclosure which the justices recusal explanation also intending consequences that can result of the parties leveraging their explanations benefit of current decline will show that's why we are here, that's why can't exist in after we have hearing. this is something for us to bring to the table and i'm glad you all were here and we will hear those statements. i look forward to the committee's work and what i think the chairman not only the subcommittee but the ranking committee of subcommittee as well but the full committee chairman as well. i look forward to a wonderful hearing. i yield the floor. >> thank you congressman collins. i will now introduce today's witnesses. amanda frost is a professor of law at the american university washington college of law. she writes and teaches in the fiel

government pays all of the state's debts from the revolutionary war if the federal capitol is placed on the potomac river. that deal is struck in 1790. you have sparlt the residents act. and it's agreed that the federal capitol will be somewhere between northern maryland and the confluence cht and i yooft and potomac rivers. and george washington is allowed to choose the sight and he chooses the present location. >> so, again, slavery, why do you feel that it o had an impact on the location of the -- >> the southern interests tahoe owe who are angling for a potomac capitol want to make sure the capitol is in the slave south and that slavery is protected in the national capitol. they are particularly interested in that because the capitol had been at philadelphia for a large period of time during the continental congress. and philadelphia was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because there was a large quaker population that was beginning to turn against the institution in the 1780s -- 1770s and 1780s in particular. >> it became in what's known now as washington, d.c. and how di

i will say this -- the federal government providing additional resources would be helpful, but the federal government also needs to communicate to the states that they have an absolute responsibility. i'm no different than my colleague here. we are constantly asking for additional resources to fend off cybersecurity issues, to update equipment, and to do what is necessary to secure our elections and offer our people the right to vote. in addition to that, we are taking on, in louisiana, we have a strong responsibility. we have all the i.t. operations for elections in my agency and we do that for the locals as well. we provide equipment to the locals. that takes a lot of money. all partners, parish or local, state and federal need to cooperate and work together on this funding issue for resources for securing our elections. let's face it, we are all in one large ship, and that is the ship of america. if we are not working together to secure our elections and fund them appropriately, then what are we here for? thank you. >> secretary merrill? >> i would concur with that, just recognizing the

in somalia is at the center of a growing power struggle in east africa the people of autonomy us federal state and will choose their president on thursday somebody as neighbor has. a job and main city is a target of attacks by the. 26 people died in a hotel sold last month borders kenya which has soldiers there as part of the african union's mission against. central government wants more control over the region and warns it would not recognize the election when. let's have a look jubilant there thomas region in southern somalia was announced in 2010 and formalized the following year the territory consists of the ghetto lower job and middle job or provinces the largest city is my own. controlled till it was driven out into a $1012.00 but the armed group is still active in many areas juba lands president maduro he was 1st elected in 2013 by clans elders and politicians mahdavi is a key ally of kenya while the federal government immigrant issue is getting closer to thier. let's bring in our guests here in the studio our theory alamy professor of international relations of the thai universit

so essentially the proposal is to make that federal law. so all gun transfers in the united states would have to go through the background check system. host: you listed all those venues someone can buy a gun. we have people who call into this program and say there are ways around that from every venue listed. what's the reality to that? can someone buy a gun without a background check? guest: certainly you can buy a gun legally without a background check if you're in a state where they don't have a universal background check law. and you're doing a private sale. and you're not a prohibited person. somebody who is a convicted felon, who has been adjudicated mentally ill. it's never legal for those people to buy guns. they may be able to do it illegally, certainly they can break the law. but as far as the law concerned, it's illegal to ever sell a gun or let someone hold a gun if they're a prohibited person and it's illegal for them to do it. so as far as the effectiveness of background checks, especially in regards to universal or especiall

and that he lied on federal forms to get the items.

federal system. so these circuit courts are really powerful. they're really important. they're important for individual humans, individual federal cases but also for big important policy matters that end up in the courts for one reason or another. the circuit courts are the highest that the vast majority of the cases will ever go. the circuit courts are also important because of the judges that sit on them. the circuit courts are the location from which presidents of both parties like to pluck young promising appeal court judges when they're lock for a supreme court nominee. so they have an important job. also when they're young and first nominated, they're really important decisions because they're often seen the sort of bench from which supreme court nominees are chosen. and one of the most consequential but also most boring political stories of the trump era, the trump everia and the mcconnell era, the top republican in the u.s. senate, mitch mcconnell, not only held a supreme court seat open duri

so a significant federal presence there.hey'll take action immediately and present themselves to a imaginati magistrate. there's great capabilities there. let's be careful as the facts develop here because the mere fact that saddress or residence mean perhaps he wasn't attending university in el paso or that he was, you know, he was currently residing in el paso but is originally from dallas. we don't know that story yet. but if, indeed, he made that trip, then we're looking at a specific deliberate targeting of that location in el paso. you don't drive ten hours by happenstance and decide to do something like this. then there's some direct connection that caused him to do this at that location. that's going to be teased out by investigative work. >> that be sure, the authorities are right now scouring some locations, at least one location we know of possibly there in the dallas area. frank? >> yeah. they're going to have to develop the residents, whether his parents, family, other relatives exist in dallas. just last weeken

federal wiretaps.tate republican party is urging the president to keep our blago behind bars where he presumably cannot fly. here's a brand-new twist, just in minutes ago. thursday, august 8, 2 core sources say that blago made it to processing for discharge but a member of the administration got concerned about public interest in the discharge was put on hold? for how long? one might our blago fly free? jonathan hunt is reporting outside the federal prison where our local station fox 31 got the video in littleton. what is the story, jonathan? >> shep, rod blagojevich and his family are essentially just waiting and hoping, hoping he might soon indeed fly the coop, the coop being the federal prison behind me here. that's the entrance that blagojevich went into seven years ago. the entrance out from which he may walk in the next hours and days if president trump does indeed commute his sentence. he's not housed in that main building. he is behind us and a smaller building you can't see it was outside the

the federal reserve can make it record-setting. the question is being asked why are we paying much more in interest in germany and certain other countries? the president also considered cutting payroll taxes. the payroll tax funds for social security and government projection shows the trust fund will run out in 2035, the overall federal fiscal situation is also troubling, the congressional budget office projects the u.s. will add nearly a trillion dollars to the national debt this year and more than a trillion each year for the next decade, remarkably high shortfalls for a growing economy. "the wall street journal" has another suggestion saying the president can eliminate import tariffs and cut his trade uncertainty tax, this is a pall over business investment is a major result of his trade policies. they point to slowing manufacturing, exports, and private investment. if the president contends he's addressing a long-term challenge. >> i am the chosen one, somebody had to do it so i'm taking on china. >> the white house said china

let's talk about the federal courts. most federal court cases don't get to the supreme court, right? the supreme court gets all the attention but they don't get that many cases. every year the supreme court gets asked to take 5,000 or 10,000 cases. they only take about 100 of them, maybe 150 of them in a particularly busy year. so if your case is in federal court, any kind of case, that will be before a federal district court judge. if you don't like the ruling that district court judge gives you and you want to peel that ruling, your appeal gets kicked upstairs to the federal appeals court, which is called the circuit court. there's about a dozen circuit courts around the country. they're regional courts. and if the circuit court decides that they're going to take up your appeal in your federal case, it will be circuit court judges that review your case. for the vast, vafst, vast, vast vast majority of federal court cases, that is as far as you are ever likely to go. even if you don't like the circuit court ruling that

he was chosen by the federal judges of the middle district of alabama to select a new federal magistrate judge, just some of this in his experience and proficiency in the courtroom show his ability and he comes from a long line of distinguished lawyers including his late father and his brother. his father was recently inducted in alabama lawyers hall of fame. i have my utmost respect for him. i have been watching them move over the years and recently he was reprimande recommended by tn bar association with highest recommendation can make. i am here today to recommend him to this committee without any reservation. i think you. >> thank you, mr. chairman and senator feinstein. i would first like to say what a pleasure it is to be in front of this committee. i started my career on the wall back there when senator kennedy was a chair and ranking member. i was the low person in the rank and they kept me back in the anteroom. i am pleased to be here with senator shelby to recommend to the committee the consideration of austin for the seat on the united states court for the middle district of a

make sure the federal government pays all of the debts through the revolutionary war if the federal capital is on the capital river. you have as a result the residence act. it's agreed that the capital will be somewhere between northern maryland and the river. george washington is allowed to choose the site and he chooses the present location.>> slavery, why do you feel like you had an impact on the location? >> thought to make sure the capital is in the play. slavery is protected in the capital. philadelphia was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because there's a large population that was trying to get the constitution. >> how did that work out for the slave owners? is it as a predicted or was there obstacles the got in their way? >> they're able to work out deals where they sold the land to the federal government. they were able to rent to the people that were building the national capital. they were rented out to build the capital and other public improvements. slavery in the area wasn't well altogether. >> tell me about the decision, and alexandria was one of the largest slave tr

the former new york federal reserve president says it's time for the federal reserve to start fighting back over president trump's attacks and start being political. the insurgent elizabeth warren is gaining on joe biden in the polls by sounding like trump. she is using trump's word like economic patriotism. critics warn about warren's big government push. to joe biden, he has a family problem. not just his son. it's biden's brother in trouble with health companies. now suing that biden's brother james promised him that his access to his brother joe biden would be pivotal for their success. joe walsh tried to blame the loss of his radio show on president trump and not his racist tweets. you won't believe what he's saying now. the border wall getting built and replaced under way in new mexico using reappropriated pentagon fund. jerry nadler fighting again, a new push of the courts to impeach president trump. siness network. is the season for another government shutdown looming? why does d.c. all operate in a permanent state of outrage and emergency? they want you to think they are doing

the boston federal reserve president and city reserve president both thought the federal reserve fund rate needs to stay exactly where it was. in the end federal reserve chairman jerome powell says it was nothing but in the u.s. economy domestically that called for a rate cut. do your point that you made this afternoon, the federal reserve said in light of implications of global developments, they making the rate cut. that would include other central banks around the world adding stimulus to their economies. the fed chairman also saying that weakness in manufacturing and business investment goes back to the perception that tariffs are bad for the economy. he adds that it will not be a long period of rate cuts as you said, but also not one and done he clarified. listen.>> you do that if you saw real economic weakness and you thought the federal funds rate needed to be cut a lot. it is not what we are saying and not what we are seeing. we are seeing that it is appropriate to adjust policy, to a somewhat more accommodated stance over time and it is how we are looking at it. >> one point

do you all see, would it be useful, federalism gets fed up and if there were consistent modest federal funding stream specifically, maintaining equipment, implementing programs like illinois cyber navigator programs where the experts, parishes, towns, with fewer resources, do you think that is helpful and needed? >> resources are always, what we are doing in louisiana is we set aside $5.8 million strictly for the new voting technology. to purchase new equipment. what we have been doing is absorbing in our regular budget all the cybersecurity needs we have which is growing exponentially each and every year. what we would hope for his of the federal government did additional resources necessary, that there be no strings attached, just the two of us sitting here we explained how different our states are, cultures are different and voters have different expectations but we all have the same expectations which is a secure environment for our elections and every vote is accurately counted and everybody gets to participate who wishes to participate. the federal government providing additional

critics say planned parenthood does have a choice, it can stop doing abortions of it once the federal money. pro-democracy protests continue in hong kong sadly pictures show china's military amassing on the border, pressure growing for donald trump to get tougher with china as trade negotiations continue as well. welcome to fox news at night. we start with hours long shootout in philadelphia leaving six police officers wounded. rick leventhal live on the scene which is very much active. >> the police commissioner said is a miracle that multiple officers weren't killed when the suspect opened fire with what we are told is an ar 15 inside the home where these police officers had gone to serve as part of our narcotics interdiction operation. a couple officers a gone upstairs as part of this operation and we had three people in custody and those officers were pinned down during the gunfire and were finally freed hours later by the swat team but the first thing we want to show you is video of one of the wounded officers leaving the hospital this evening. all six officers who were wounded i

at the federal level, we have all federal spending since 2000.t is comprised of contracts, grants, loans, farm subsidies, direct limits and insurance subsidies. we have nearly all federal employment in terms of salaries and bonuses, when disclosed since 2007. at the state level, in 49 out of 50 states, we are only missing california and we have restyled that information at the request of the california state checkbook. in 49 states, we have the checkbook. had theng, we republican comptroller begin the process of opening the books and the books are opened in wyoming. we need to do this in california. at the local level, your question is important. that is where the hardware didn't -- heart work in data collection. there are 16,000 substantial bodies across the country. we need to grower budget to be able to have the capacity to refile requests for checkbook spending. once we do that, this is what we call the public spending genome project. you remember when scientists mapped the human genome and ushered in medical progress. taxed ating every dime

states and the federal government itself in mogadishu and the last president set up something called the national leaders forum where he invited the state presidents to the table to start discussions about all of these pending issues that the constitution leaves on result but this president has. disbanded the national leadership forum and as he has said has not shown any real information to negotiation it seems just to be trying to impose its feet at by using 3rd parties like ethiopia or using donor countries who provide it with money to do its bidding it's a sort of weaponize ing of its juridical sovereignty to dominate the federal member states so i think the real issue of yours that either president from agilent his team become the conveners in chief and they bring the leaders together and say look let's talk and we might even talk about going to a federal system a centralized who had decentralized unitary system rather than a federal one and if that's what from niger's agenda really is or a farm manager will probably leave office in a year for him having accomplished virtually no

immediately, he starts working on the federal register notices. [inaudible] says what are you doing? he said, i'm reading federal register notices. youdeputy secretary says cannot do that. that is an operations issue. immediately, the chief of staff says ok, you can read them to. once that happens, the solicitor said wait, you cannot read anything unless i read it first. this is not an exaggeration. happens, they are like what is the deputy secretary reading? the federal secretary notes or , they bureau directors also start reading them. once a bureau director read people decide they are to read them to and suddenly you have 199 days. i look at that and said maybe we could have a briefing and just put everybody in the room and have a little bit of time to read it. that is what we did and that is what we are doing. i challenge the folks on the field and said i'm going to speed this up. he says you have to read the andment because i went asked them if they were reading it. they all raise our hands. they said i have read it, i have some questions. i

the weather federal death penalty has always worked, it is been up to the discretion of individual federalsecutors. whereve had side-by-side as in manhattan, new york, the federal prosecutors never went for the death penalty. in texas, , they were alwaways g for the death penalty. this would be no different. so i'm not at all surprised they're doing it. they seem to have no understanding about how the courts work. they can claim all they want that they are going to fast track this and speed of these executions, but there is the constitution and there are the appeals. i have been talking to federal offenders of these cases. they're going to do everything they can to save their clients life. juan: in your new book, it is more of a recounting of your life story in terms of how your own journey from a child in louisiana. can you talk about how you developed first in your ministry and when you decided to go into prison ministry? >> it is called "river of fire" and at the graph is "ask not for understanding, ask for the fire." the fire part was when the eruptedand my own soul that i can't just a

this is a ditch in federal fort number seven. you can see the things that look like corn stock, they are not corn stalks, their wooden stakes about six weeks long with sharp ends and they are planted inches apart to make a forest of sharpened sticks in the dirt. if you're an attacking rebel and you see this 2 feet away while you are charging, you were just going to see of bed of sharpened stakes that you will have to deal with, i've never seen anything like this in a civil war earth re- fortification. this would make this for impregnable to an infantry attack. >> this is one of the most interesting aspects of the research i did for this book and i want to jump to that. soldiers live and fought entrenches continuously in the atlanta campaign. it might be difficult to imagine that they were stuck forever like on the western front of world war i but nevertheless the trenches were their home, they were living in holes in the ground and its northwest georgia. so, the ground is red clay. no matter what the weather is, baking under the

the federal trial began for greg craig.only member of a democratic administration to be indicted in a case growing out of robert mueller's investigation. 74-year-old craig faces one count of lying to the justice department about the work he did for manafort on behalf of ukraine in 2012. he was initially indict on two counts but the judge dismissed one of those counts last week. so he's just up on one felony charge. politico's josh gerstein was in the courtroom for jury selection at greg craig's trial today. he says that the origins of the case in the mueller investigation came up a couple of times at the judge's insistence. "judge amy berman jackson advised the 70 washington residents of the jury pool that they may be hearing from or about former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and deputy chairman rick gates. jackson told the potential jurors twice of the mueller links. at one point she noted that part of the craig probe was conducted by mueller's office. the judge asked jurors notify her if anything about that connec

there were two decenters, boston federal reserve president, and kansas city federal reserve president, they thought that fed fed funds rate needs to stay where it was. in end federal reserve chairman powell said it was nothing within u.s. economy domestically that called for a rate cut. to your point this afternoon, federal reserve say the in light of implication of global development, they are making the rate cut, that would include other central banks in the world siding stimulus to their economy. fed to chairman saying that weakness in manufacturing and business investment goes to perception that tariffs are bad for the economy. he adds it will not be a be a lg period of rate cuts but also not one and done. >> do that if you saw real economic weakness and you thought that federal fund rate needs to be cut a lot. that is not what we're seeing, we're seeing it is appropriate to adjust policy to a somewhat more accommodative stance overtime. reporter: at one point powell seemed to take credit for the economic expansion, keeping that going, he said that the fed or as fed moves to more

it means the federal government, is the federal government's responsibility to make sure every state, tennessee, massachusetts or california, has a republican form of government, not oligarchy, not despotism, but a republican form of government. charles sumner, senator from massachusetts, said that clause , that section of the constitution, was a sleeping giant. never until this recent war awakened but now comes forward with a giant's power. there is no cause like it. there is no other clause which gives congress the supreme power over the states. he thinks it is something andrew johnson would hate, talking about using this clause of the constitution to give power to the federal government over the states. he does hate the way congress decides to use it. congress uses that clause to pass an 1867 military reconstruction act, divide the former confederacy into five different military districts, put generals in charge and said the government, civilian government put in place under andrew johnson after the war were not republican inform. -- in form. the way they were treating african-amer

no federal court has issued such a ruling before.o this essentially provides a road map that can now be used by other litigators across the country who want to fight back and find other ways to hold white supremacists accountable. >> part of what is obviously so compelling about this case is the story of your client, who is this remarkable and blameless young woman who had this brought down on her for absolutely nothing that anybody could ever have associated with her, nothing imaginable. part of it is that story and her getting this redress and the story as you describe it of her strength in deciding to pursue it in this way. it is also fascinating as a civil rights tactic and as an antiterrorism tactic. and we are seeing, i've been sort of following over the course of this week looking at different civil suits and other ways activists and attorneys and civil rights organizations and people trying to get justice for these victims have basically been trying to dismantle the groups that are the pillars of the white supremacist terrori

in federal custody and could face up to ten years in prison. the complaint also cited this interview from local abc affiliate ktmz three years ago >> my bush master rifle, my handy dandy knife. >> reporter: showing off his arsenal as a self-appointed neighborhood watchman. >> if there is a possibly very determined enemy, we have th means to deal with it. >> reporter: more than 2,000 miles away in florida, another plot thwarted. richard clayton appeared before a judge today, raefrted after a facebook pos echoing the terror of orlando and texas. three more days left then i get my ar-15 back, he wrote. don't to go walmart next week. around the country, all of is it leading to more fear and mounted frustration. [ chants ] in el paso, a passionate call for change a week after 22 people were killed now, families remembering those they lost. jordan died protecting her baby. maribelle leaves behind four children, and derek fudge, his life end in dayton, ohio, with eight others. the 57-year-old died in his son's arms >> all of this has reignited the bat

well there have been comments from james bullard's and he is the head of the federal reserve from san louis and he actually said that history has shown that it's not a good idea or if you get directed by politics out of washington that actually could to worsen the economic situation and could pump up inflation in the long run he also said that it's basically impossible and also not a good idea to react to those day to day comments so that we get about trade policies still and the statement from the federal reserve is pretty clear at this point i'm so far markets at least expect one more rate cut possibly in chembur but overall the federal reserve does not seem to really react to the trade tensions and to currency tensions at this point but we've also heard from some ghosts from the federal reserve's past. well fed chair seem to have a long and healthy life and there was an open letter in the wall street to join the phone from 4 former fed chairman paul volcker he actually was the fed chair under jimmy carter and reagan then old so alan greenspan burned bernanke and janet yellen they d

now, it's nearly impossible to fire a federal worker.them work for me and i've tried, and you can't do it. but by simply saying to people, you know what, we're going to take you outside the bubble, outside the beltway, outside this liberal haven of washington, d.c. and move you out into a real part of the country, and they quit. this is how we get then to quit. you got a big round of applause, the agriculture department said it only wanted to do this because it had the best interests of its staff in mind. they want to improve usda's ability to attract qualified staff. also they'd be saving money, an argument that has already been disproven. this is not saving money. but now the white house chief of staff has let the cat out of the bag. they did this not because they wanted to do everything by retaining their staff but they wanted everybody to quit. the question is now that mulvaney has made this admission, does this change anything? we've already seen the trump administration get slapped down for making up bogus pretextual reasons to jus

whether it's the decision to abolish a federal agency that serves in the federal workforce, a multibillion dollar construction decision affecting thousands of fbi staff and, frankly, the security and safety of the country, or the decision to allow our president to serve as both landlord and tenant of his own hotel which is on government-owned property, such decisionmaking documents are critical toward our examination and investigation. last week, as i said, the fbi deputy director david boudade called me personally to discuss the agency's compliance or lack, thereof, and as i said, while i thanked him for the outreach at 1.5 million documents he said that have been examined, i did give him specific directions in terms of what would satisfy the committee's inquiry and, unfortunately, those conditions have not met. it's my hope that today's hearing will provide some answers and prod our fellow federal employees to cooperate with the committee of jury dicti jur jurisdiction so we don't have to resort to methods of compulsion. with that, i turn to my distinguished ranking member, my friend, mr

new federal magistrate . and just some of his stuff, his experience and proficiency in the courtroom show his suitability here. he comes from a long line of distinguished lawyers including his late father and his brother, robert was recently inducted in alabama lawyers hall of fame. i have my utmost respect for him. i've been watching him move over the years and recently he was recommended by the american bar association for the highest recommendation they can make.i'm here today mister chairman to recommend him to this committee without any reservations andi thank you . >> senator jones senator feinstein, i'd first like to say what a pleasure it is to be in front of this committee. i started my career back on the wall backthere , working for senator hummel, i say on the wall, i was kind of the low person in the ranking, they kept me back in the anteroom so i am pleased to be here with senator shelby to recommend to the committee for consideration of austin huffaker for a seat on the united states district co

>> i hope so and there is a federal track involved, not just state-based track and federal immigrationofficials in this. and individual supported 5 times. 7 felonies. in the history of his time in this country, he should never have been in this country and kate would be alive had he not been allowed back in had he not been detained and released. i agree with secretary clinton who said this is a problem the city of san francisco released to the public. that should never have happened. we need to push for comprehensive immigration reform with more agents on the border, and something like this never happens again when this guy is released to the general public. >> you mentioned the federal track. he facing federal gun charges and charges of being in the country illegally. here is what his attorney said about that in january. he was acquitted on charges of killing her. anything related to homicide but the federal gun charges kicks in. here's what his attorney said. >> it is rarely done. for the federal government to come back two years we -- later and say you will try for federal gun posit

if you're in a job federally funded job or any job that's federally protected.an also this type of discrepancy if you are dealing with a child custody dispute or divorce dispute a lot of times they referred to this federal schedule of drugs and say this is schedule one. we have a problem with this activity is this something that can change was administrations said there are many democratic candidates for president right now who are pushing to have these of marijuana laws more uniform in the federal government to back off some of conflicts that they have california law that's right and they're responding to the electorate about 63 to 66% of americans support legalization. dozen bil congressegard to marijuana and some form or another all democratic presidential candidates have come out in favor of changing cannabis policy at the federal level and the trump administration has said they're open to looking at decriminalization or lettings fed letting states go their own way with regard to campus law. so what are your recommendations of someone is already working in t

the number of federal arrests of u.s. citizens by 10%. north carolina's governor and radical dem roy cooper vetoed a bill requiring state sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigrations and customs enforcement. cooper said this, in vetoing the bill, this legislation is simply about scoring partisan political points and using fear to divide north carolina. this bill in addition to being unconstitutional weakens law enforcement in north carolina by mandating sheriffs to do the job of federal agents. joining us tonight to take up all of these issues and more, acting customs and border protection cbp commissioner mark morgan. good to have you with us. and let's -- let's start with the dna match with violent crimes, records of the fbi. those whistle-blowers are basically indicting president obama and his administration for purposely violating u.s. law. >> so lou, what i can say, obviously i wasn't there at the time, but there was a waiver that was granted, but i agree, the waiver was never meant to be permanent, and now is the

the federal government says it cannot do at the federal level.that means, when we get to the decisions like where the court says while segregation is fine. we have to understand, that the court is not implementing the will of the people of the united states. because the states that contained the majority of the population in the country have in fact passed laws, to say that we are opposed to segregation, furthermore, if you take this analysis which is often given by some scholars as well or public opinion, obviously at not following the majority of the people of south carolina who are black, but the majority of people in mississippi who are black either that or not in favor of the segregation laws. so this theory that the court is simply doing what it must do to placate the majority of the country is in fact, nonsense. the court is doing what it is doing because the court is doing what it wants to do. and that is what we need to understand. just as iowa integrates its schools, in 1866, the michigan supreme court refuses to impose , the so-called

and it had been unhappy with the ban on federal buildings on the virginia side of the potomac, which had been written into the resident act for years. it complained people talking about retro seating back to virginia back in the early 19th century. but their efforts really caught steam in the mid-1840s. and the reason for that was because there was tremendous anti-slavery agitation in wash d.c. d.c. specifically to get rid of the slave trade in washington, d.c. in 1846 many of the slave trading interests in virginia supported alexandria's efforts to retrocede back to virginia. the district became roughly 60% of its original size when they go back to virginia. four years later they were -- four years later in the compromise of 1850 the slave trade is banned in the district, and so they saw it coming and they wanted to get out. >> so, tell me a little bit about "chocolate city: a history of race in the capital." >> we took the term as folks who used it as a nickname for the city in the late 1960s. it becomes famous when there's an ode to the city called "chocolate city." we knew as soo