i love kansas and iowa kansas. they are thoughtful, decent. they prize liberty, celebrate achievement, and recognize shared responsibility. they want government to focus on its poor functions -- to provide quality services, good schools, good roads, low taxes. they understand the importance of living within our means and meeting our obligations. they know the importance of a promise, whether to friends family, or business, and recognizing that promise, they pay their debts on time and in full. the kansas constitution should reflect that as well. i am proposing legislature to pass a constitutional amendment put before the voters, stating that the debt of the state is a general obligation of the state and we will pay at first. those who make state policy in the people's name have to make the tough choices. those who refuse, don't lead. everyone will be able to find things in the budget i put forth that they disagree with or don't like. i hope as you review the budget, you put forth what you would do to make it better. but as we go about this wor

so i'm, i'm a kansas guy. i'm a kansas guy. now -- now that helped me in the caucus here in 2008. it didn't help me as much in the general election. i lost two straight here. >> the president laughs about it, the crowd laughs act it. and kansas is not just one of the reddest states in the country, if not the ready, it is the home of the shadow republican party, it is the home of the richest and most powerful presence in all of republican politics. it is the home of the koch's. the fifth and sixth richer men on earth. and in american politics, it sometimes seems as though charles and david koch are everywhere, but they have a geographic center and it is in kansas. president obama picked a fascinating week to turn up on the koch's home turf. every year they hold a big summit in palm springs. it used to be in as much secrecy as possible. possibly because the protestors show what happens when people find out where the kochs are holding secret meetings. they like their privatety. it was part of their strategy for raising money from other extremely wealthy people who did not want to bec

a moderate democrat from kansas, eastern kansas, the third district at the time. it has been changed. that was right out of law school and jim slattery gave me opportunities to learn and understand the workings of capitol hill. i worked for him for seven years. from there, he served on the energy and commerce committee. bill richardson was a fellow member of the committee. when president clinton was elected, i had not worked on his campaign, but they approached the lectures -- bill richardson and asked if he could recommend anybody. bill richardson, in his inimitable fashion, said that i will tell the white house to call you and you should talk to them. i did not know what they called and i interviewed and served in the clinton white house. i served in the office, becoming the only chief but deputy director for six years. it was in the last year that al gore asked me to serve as campaign manager for his campaign. in 1999. >> here is video of you with bill clinton, talking about girls nation. >> afterwards, the president answered questions about secret service agen

>> it was actually, does it was in the city, the kansas city kansas side of it, because there is kansas and missouri with the river separating it, we had i would say at the time, 10%, 8% were hispanic. probably 15% were african-american. mostly white. it was of the diverse schools in the area, in the kansas city kansas school district. in kansas, the rest of the schools were not as diverse. we grew up with a diverse population and played basketball alongside african americans african-american girls and other latinos. and also a significant white population. we had a good cross mix of folk. i think our teachers were also a mix, mostly white. but we were fortunate at the time. teachers care about students and work hard. i could lift every one of my grade school teachers and middle school teachers, they were that good and the invested -- that invested. >> backed away from where you are now. took the job in 2005. when did you work for al gore? >> when i first came to washington d.c., i worked for a member of congress named jim slattery. a moderate democrat from kansas, eastern kansas, the t

i love kansas and i love kansans. they're sensible they're decent, they're compassionate people, they're thoughtful. they prize liberty share achievement and recognize a shared responsibility. they want government to focus on its core functions, to perform them well to provide quality services, good schools, good roads, low taxes. kansans understand the importance of living within our means and meeting our obligations. kansans understand the importance of promises whether to friends, families or business. recognizing those promises they pay on time and in full. the kansas constitution should reflect that as well. i'm pressing legislation to pass a kansas amendment stating that the debt of the state is a general obligation of the state and we will pay it first. this is good policy for our state. state policy in people's name have to make tough choices. those who refuse don't leave. everyone will find something in this budget they don't agree with and they don't like. i hope when you review the budget, you put forth wha

for decades kansas has for decades kansas has struggled under a school finance formula designed not to be understood. to frustrate efforts of accountability. the formula designed to lock in increases in spending not related to student populations or improved student achievements. a formula which calculated that we have added more than 100,000 new students to public schools while the actual census has grown by a fraction of that number. an accounting scheme that claims cuts to appear pupil spending as much increases dramatically outpace increases in student funding. a lawsuit was filed under the previous administration. in the words of that court ruling "one cannot classify the school financing structure as reliably constitutionally sound." i agree. friends, it is time for a new school finance formula. [applause] now that formula should reflect real-world costs" dollars in the classroom -- and put dollars in the classroom met with bureaucracy or gimmicks. it should be about improving student achievement and school accountability and not bureaucratic games. [applause] now my suggestion t

kansas city royals and our kansas city chiefs. pat gray strategized a brilliant campaign to revitalize downtown kansas city through the building of a major sports arena which has now resulted in blocks and blocks of revitalization. in fact, real estate in kansas city residential real estate in downtown kansas city is now a hot ticket in large part because of pat gray. the very first area transportation tax which gave a lifeline to thousands of kansas citians in the urban area for allowing them to find a way to get to work. for property tax for indigent care at truman medical center. can you imagine anything that might be more difficult to pass, asking people to pay more property taxes to help care for the poor that were turning up ne emergency room at our major local hospital? pat gray did that. additional tax monies for both the police and fire, an issue very near and dear to my heart he helped me renew the community antidrug tax in kansas city, which has been so instrumental in doing research and development on antidrug strategi

this is why stubby is to kansas city. not surprisingly, he comes in 1921, which if you are up on your local history, you know that is the year that the ground is dedicated for the liberty memorial, and the american legion holds its convention in kansas city in conjunction with that to take part in the celebration, and participants are given badges. here is stubby's kansas city badge on his uniform, so you all are represented on that official article of clothing, and there are pages and articles about this visit. this one has some artifacts on it, including the guest pass that was written out for robert conroy and stubby, our famous war dog, while he was at the american legion convention in kansas city. over here, we have the menus from the train trip when conroy and stubby were traveling by train. aside from the shock of the prices, i am also interested in all of the hunks of meat that stubby could have chosen from. so i'm sure he was not unsaid -- unfed during those travels. these are just a couple of scenes, and you hav

and in many instances i take liberal, kansas. there's a

city, are also the trains that operate in kansas. and so if i and my staff can be of help to you in the terminal staff in kansas city, please help us to ask in ways that we can. kansas city is a major terminal for what transportation occurs in our state. it's growing. but what happens at your terminal is critical to us. i'd be glad if you had something that you want to tell me this morning that we ought to be focused or remind me of your importance that you do for kansas. >> thank you. i look forward to working with you. >> great. let me ask some questions about circumstances that we found in kansas. our utility companies have expressed some concern about access to coal. our grain elevators have expressed particularly a year or so ago a concern about access to rail cars for grain. the culprit at least and the explanations that are often provided is that rail cars are being used for the transportation of petroleum for oil and therefore less available for grain and coal. is that -- and i assume the suggestion is that there's more money

question did this in kansas city. -- >> you did this in kansas city. this is something that requires a lot of public funding upfront. i imagine there are some questions about that. what impact does it have on the economic vitality of what was a region that was really depressed? >> we opened our track, kansas speedway in 2001. low and behold, we learned we had a great partner with the state of kansas and also with the county. we got together and figure it out there was a blighted area and it was going backwards rapidly backwards, there was nothing there whatsoever. there are only 260 $5,000 a year that they were collecting in taxes from that property and the surrounding area. today, after we have built the racetrack and all the other developments that sprung up around it, we now have a casino, hotel, a whole village area that is right around the racetrack -- 12 mean visitors a year now come to a place where nobody visited before. we went from 206 $5,000 annually to testify million dollars in taxes today. we are proud of that. not just for nascar and for

frirs, from kansas city, kansas, please welcome eric stonestreet. eric!heers and applause ] welcome. good to see you. and hailing from toronto, canada, please say hello to stephen amell. stephen! [ cheers and applause ] welcome. gentlemen, welcome to "name that thing." the rules are very simple. we'll reveal a thing and it is your job to name that thing in writing. you'll have ten seconds per thing. okay? pretty easy. and if you get it exactly right, you get 50 points. if you get it kind of right, you get 10 points and then the winner will get something. are you ready? let's begin. stephen and eric, name that thing. and here they go. ten seconds to name this thing. not necessarily an easy thing to spell. our time is up. eric, we will start with you. name that thing. >> table centerpiece? >> jimmy: table centerpiece. i'm going to give you 10 points for that. stephen? stephen says -- >> fall decoration. >> jimmy: fall decoration. i'll also give you 10 points for that. we were actually looking for -- the answer we were looking for was cornucopia. >> yes. >>

one of the places he's been is kansas city. so i'll talk a little bit more about that as the evening goes on. but let's go to the pictures i brought. i have lots of historical images to share with you. i'll tell you a little bit about my own background, the story of stubby himself some of the stories behind the creation of the two books that i've written about him, one for adults and one for young readers and we'll save some time at the end for questions as well. first i want to make sure we're all on the same page in terms of terminology. especially for younger members of the audience when we're talking about dough boys, we don't mean this guy. the american soldiers hon went over to the fight in europe during world war i in nicknamed doughboys. stubby had a lot of -- spent a lot of time with them in the trenches and as i said i have two books about him. his story is one of a number that i have written about over the years and i've really come to see myself as a story teller, someone who takes the true stories from our nation's

it is good to be back in kansas. i have deep roots in kansas. as you know, my mom was born in wichita. her mom grew up in augusta. her father was from el dorado. i am a kansas guy. [applause] i am a kansas guy. now that helped me in the caucus here in 2008. it did not help me as much in the general election. coat self 110 straight. i lost two straight. but that is ok. i love you. i might have won sections of lawrence. [applause] that is a possibility. this is exactly why i've come back to kansas today. tuesday gave my state of the union address. and i just want you to know today i will be shorter. but i want to begin were finished on tuesday because i talked about the state of the union how over a decade ago at the democratic convention, i give a speech or said there is no liberal america or conservative america, there is a united states of america. we all supposed to be on the same team. i know it can seem sometimes like our politics is more divided than ever that in places like kansas, the only blue stands for ku. because of those divisions pu

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we shared with the kansas city police department.still go over to this day we'll be on the phone going back and forth what if, so what if this person did it. jersey joe there is so much compelling circumstantial and the fact patterns that lead to him, i believe he needs to be focused on and re-focused on. >> have they ever told you because we reached out to them even just now and said what's the evidence on jersey. why have you moved on from him? and they wouldn't answer. they wouldn't tell us anything about jersey. >> well, with certain police departments and i'm not saying it's the case here, but certain police departments there's a myopic vision and almost the fear to go out because they don't want to be wrong. i'm not saying that's the case here. so i'm hoping this so i'm hoping this special, what you're doing here, may reopen eyes of certain people and their prosecuting office to look at jersey and other avenues. >> i know this is a strange question, but if she wasn't killed by her parents, where could she possibly be? wouldn't

>> right now in my last campaign just over, we were at a parade in kansas, independence, kansas. we sat on the back of a white convertible. i had my arm around him sort of holding him up. he was incredible. he was talking to the folks. before us, we had four marines that were the color guard. if i heard it wants, i heard it a thousand times. bob, thank you for your service. simply, bob, thank you for your service. that encompassed so many different things. it did not say 1983 social security. it was just that people really thank him. every once in aware -- in a while, there was a hi, pat too. >> thank you for joining us. >> i appreciate that. bob dole at the world war ii memorial, he is like a mother hen. the word gets out that bob dole is here and they all flock to him wherever he is. then the stories start. sometimes for the first time, the veteran tells a story he has never told anybody before. and it becomes a very emotional thing. he's almost like the minister or the priest or something. people come up to him and want to tell him a story because they know he has been there a

he is scheduled to visit the university of kansas today. >> i'm guessing that is kansas city missouri actually. that would be my guess. then he'll drive about oh, 40 miles over to the university of kansas in laurence kansas. >> and president obama in fact joe biden will be here in philadelphia next week. >> yes, scheduled to speak at democratic policy retreat in society hill just few blocks away. president obama will speak at the event thursday. the vice president will follow up on friday. >> we should go then. >> suppose so. convenient. >> little ' let us in. >> they'll never let us in. >> not you. maybe me. >> serial robber getting more violent with every job. and now his step mom is just begging him, turn yourself in, her heart breaking plea you'll only see here on fox. >> this video is making a lot of people upset this morning. this is a national story. routine traffic stop turns into a deadly shooting. what the passenger did before he was shot that has the community right there outraged. but you also needs to hear >> tank wars, team with the worse record in the nba against the si

>> the president's trip to red states idaho and kansas only

. >> reporter: the president will take his message to idaho later today and then kansas on thursday. those are both red states. but a democratic source tells me

and then kansas on thursday. those are both red states.

. >> reporter: the president will take his message to idaho later today and then kansas on

huelscamp of kansas. congressman bill huizenga of michigan, pete olsen of texas, representative steve pierce of new mexico, representative robert pittenger of north carolina. representative thomas rooney of florida. representative dan benishek of michigan. representative bill flores of texas. congressman tom reed of new york. keith rosthfus of ohio. house majority whip, steve scalise of louisiana. representative marlin stutzman of indiana. representative daniel webster of florida. congressman brad wenstrup of ohio. congressman bruce westerman of arkansas.

andy harris of maryland, tim huelscamp of kansas. congressman bill huizenga of michigan, pete olsen of texas, representative steve pierce of new mexico, representative robert pittenger of north carolina. representative thomas rooney of florida. representative dan benishek of michigan. representative bill flores of texas.

>> the president's trip to red states idaho and kansas only underscored the irony for a skeptical republican-led congress, which has repeatedly

this tweet from pat roberts of kansas, a big congratulations. tracking your comments and those from members of congress, you can follow us. releasing information on their website on how big a night it was. more than 2.5 million tweets. the president when he said, i have no more campaigns to run. i know because i won them both. the most tweeted topics during the telecast included the comments on community college equal pay climate change, tax reform, and health care. we will leave the map sent out by twitter. first, onto your phone calls. mike, from indiana.

area of low pressure to the north of the panhandle of texas moving across kansas city kansas i should say and also into nebraska. so this area of low pressure will be working its way east ward and as it does so the initial thought was that the storm system will dip to our south, which will give us more of a threat of snowfall for most locations, and now this storm system looks like it wants to ride up to the north not because it is a weaker storm but it is a stronger storm system but colder air at the surface and warmer air pushing in aloft. so we will talk about expected snowfall, once it arrives. for philadelphia, and area to the south and east it is mainly rain. i think for philadelphia at the on set you might find a little bit of snowfall before you get that change over to rain. three to six for areas to the north and six plus in the poconos. we will go tighter and look at the snowfall again, it is sunday night into monday morning. so snowfall mainly one to three for wayne, areas in mount holly trenton. three to six for quakertown, doylestown pottstown allentown right on that 6-in

>> so here we are in kansas where a beautiful outdoor wedding is taking place. >> and all of a suddengle turns from the bride and groom to a giant tornado in the background. >> hey, reverend, let's get this thing going, right? like, yes, i do, yep, let's go, we're married. >> and they all are, oh, yay, look at that. yep, getting bigger. >> have they not seen "twister." they need a cow to smack the bride in the face, and then maybe they'll think it's an emergency. >> that lack of urgency leads people to wonder whether this is true romance or totally divorced from reality. >> it's fake because these people did nothing. they were just like, oh, well, let's go get cake! >> if i see a tornado, i am getting in my car and running to the nearest nuclear bunker and closing the hatch. >> no marriage should begin with lies and deceit, so we are coming clean. the nerve-racking nuptials are 100% real. >> i guess kansas has bigger balls than we do. >> this love story begins in june 2011 when caleb pence meets kandra frederick at a rodeo in colorado. >> just right away we were best friends. it felt

kansas where he will visit tomorrow 38%. but idaho tells the story that president wants to tell which is that the economy is resurging and he took a victory lap for that last night. the unemployment rate in idaho, 3.9%. if you look at college tuition, $6,000 dollars per year for the average resident for four-year college. and one of the president's big policies he would like to see enacted is for everyone to have to free years of community college. so i think there are a lot of reasons that he thinks idaho is a good place and he is speaking at boise state and will go to a lab that has been spurring. and you'll hear him talk about that. and then he heads to kansas where he will continue to campaign on the message he talked about last night and also talking about education in kansas. and it doesn't stop with these two trips. he is crisscrossing the country i'm told in the coming weeks to continue to promote increased taxes on the wealthy so that he can provide tax breaks for middle class americans. of course that is something

for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas rise? mr. pompeo: to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman iowa, mr. young is recognized for one minute. mr. young: i rise today to introduce and recognize my friend bishop richard baits of the des moines diocese. born in st. paul, minnesota and a viking van. he attended the seminary in his hometown. the bishop went on to graduate school at the north american college in rome from the prestigous gregorian university. he was ordained in 1968 at st. peter basilica in rome. his education laid the foundation for his impressive pastoral and administrative service to the church. and i'm proud to say led bishop pace to iowa in 2008 when he was appointed by pope benedict 16 to be the ninth bishop for the diocese of des moines. the bishop is also chair of the high with a catholic conference for which i thank him for his service. i want to thank bishop pace for opening the house today with the prayer. thank him for his fri

they're looking for robert kling, the man who rented the ryder truck in junction city, kansas. >> itd to believe that all this destruction was the work of only two men. >> the next day armed with sketches of kling and a suspected companion, law enforcement officers canvass the entire area. >> one agent was assigned the dreamland motel and when he walked in, he talked to the owner of that particular place and he asked her, has anyone been in here that had a ryder truck with them? actually, there was recently. the agent decided to show her the artist conception and she looked at and it said that really looks like the fellow who rented room 25. >> he had rented the room in the name of tim mcveigh. the ryder rental truck had been rented in the name of robert kling so there was some question which is the true name, if either were the true name. >> so we do a record search to see if any timothy mcveighs have been arrested anywhere in the united states recently, and to our surprise, we learned that a timothy mcveigh has been arrested in noble county which is about 75 miles north of oklahoma

we shared with the kansas city police department.id this person do it? jersey joe there is so much compelling circumstantial and fact patents that lead to him i believe he needs to be focused on and refocused on. >> we reached out to them even just now and said what's the evidence on jersey? why have you moved on to him? they wouldn't tell us anything about jersey. >> with certain police departments and i am not saying it's the case here but certain police departments there is almost a fear to go out because they don't want to be wrong? i am not saying that's the case here. i am hoping this special what you are doing here may reopen eyes of certain people and prosecuting office to look at jersey and other avenues. >> i know this is a strange question but if she wasn't killed by her parents where could she possibly be wouldn't there have been some sign of her? >> you know what? i think of this when i was down there and you were down there and that weather was cold this little baby this little lost soul is out there in the hands of a s

he will give a speech at the university of kansas. he will return to the white house where he will be interviewed by several youtube stars. >> something you could not say ten years ago. two years ago. youtube stars. >>> time for an early start on money. asian shares ended higher. european shares are not moving much. a big story developing. the european central bank to announce a bond buying program. u.s. stocks were up. climbed for the third day in a row. the longest winning streak so far this year. layoffs coming to two big american companies. e-bay announced 7% of the work force cut and american express is cutting 4,000 jobs or 6% of the staff. both companies reported a rise in profits. >>> federal investigators not expected to file charges, no charges coming in michael brown's deadly shooting. we will tell you why officer darren wilson will not face a federal jury next. gives you security. technology gives you control and now technology gives you home security and control in a new and revolutionary way. introducing plug & protect f

a store in kansas is one we are watching for tomorrow and more details on that coming up 306789 degrees feels like 24. sunrise time 7:18. the plan for today is early sunshine, clouding up in the afternoon but with the normal high of 43 we are above average with a normal high of 40 we are above average with that high of 43. that is your planner for tuesday from the weather authority. lets look at traffic right now, bob kelly is on vacation this week. i-95 at cottman avenue increased volume, starting to look like a regular old workday but everybody is moving along okay. on the wilmington newark regional rail line they are running a delay and that is because of wires down amtrak wires to be exact, mike. >> 6:03. more than a dozen people in south philadelphia are awakened this morning i mean early because of the gas main break. fire department a says 4-inch gas main at 13th and snyder cracked. it has been repaired. scene is under control. pgw is continuing to work on the scene. many residents have been allowed to return to their homes. about six homes were affected but in the middle of the

and then kansas on thursday. those are both red states.ut a democratic source tells me the president will be visiting more red states in coming months. he wants to engage americans who don't agree with him to sell his agenda. and also the budget which includes that tax plan which republicans have deemed dead on arrival. >> of course the democrats took a much dimmer view on their rebuttal. joni ernst talked on the hurt caused by plans. and seized the change that republicans believe they won in elections. >> americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions too often, washington responded with the same stale mind-set that led to failed policies like obama care. it's a mind-set that gave us political talking points not serious solutions. that's why the new republican majority you elected, started by reforming congress to make it function again. and now, we're working hard to pass the kind of serious, job creation ideas you deserve. >> away from capitol hill the president's speech got mixed reviews. the cnn instant poll found a gener

the bruins taking on kansas state in the alamo bowl.irst half for brett hundley and the uclas bruins. first quarter hundley keeps it on the option.you could fit a freight train through that hole.there he goes 28 yards for the touchdown. ucla up 17 to nothing. we go to the fourth.kansas state rallied.they need a stop.not gonna happen.ucla's paul perkins goes 67 yards for the touchdown.ucla goes on to win this 40 to 35. and finally we end sports tonight with a video that has gone viral overnight. after the ohio state-alabama game. this ohio state fan is rubbing the guy next to her then realizes she's on tv and takes that hand away very quickly. the title online was "when you're at the game with your side dude and realize you're on tv." now there is an update to this story.some bloggers in ohio say 'that' is the girl's boyfriend but she has yet to clarify the situation. that's it for the kron 4 news at 11. stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news at kron 4 dot com. or download one of our mobile apps. we'll see you tomorrow morning! l

the voters of kansas granted me the privilege of serving in the capitol for over 35 years -- 27-plus in the senate. and my republican colleagues granted me the privilege of occupying the leader's office across the hall for over 11 years. i was a little nervous at one point when senator byrd came in to look it over after they retook the majority, but he was kind enough not to take the office. hubert humphrey once said about his own speeches that "i didn't think they were too long. i enjoyed every minute of them." [laughter] well, in that spirit, i enjoyed every minute of my time in the united states senate. in fact, the question most often asked of me since leaving the senate is whether or not i miss it, to which there can only be one honest answer. the answer is yes. i miss the history and i miss the tradition of this place, particularly this majestic room, where one can almost hear the passionate eloquence of such giants as clay, calhoun, webster -- and thurmond. [laughter] 1859, is that right? yes. i miss the chance to debate on a daily basis the issues of our times. there are time

to come our way, the one that is, is all the way back here just east of the rocky mountains into kansas with some rain and that is going to gather a little bit of strength, not a whole lot and it won't have a whole lot of moisture buzz it could give us a couple of inches of accumulating snow starting tomorrow. for today we are starting off at freezing, we have a wind chill of 25, 8 miles an her breezes but not as windy as yesterday in the afternoon. 7:18 is our sunrise time, so weather headlines as we are drying out from the the past couple of days we have a few icy spots this morning. the it is not quite as cold. then during the day-to-day we're talking about sunshine early and then clouding up in the afternoon with temperatures in the lower 40's. our average high is 40, so we will be a little bit above average. then it is tomorrow that we have snow moving in probably by the the afternoon as early a asthma maybe 1:00 o'clock in the after afternoon. we could see a flurry or two in the morning and accumulations maybe an inch or two. we have call that light accumulation. remember when we

. >>> president obama is on the move, with a stop in kansas. yesterday, he visited boise state in idaho. he talked his proposals, such as free community college initiatives. # tracy, it seems like both republicans and democrats are really trying to win support with competing visions on the future. >> reporter: congress is here dealing with terror to abortion. the president is hitting another red state, kansas, to push his agenda. as president pitches what he calls "middle class economics" those in congress are moving toward a vote on the keystone pipeline. there's a vote today to prohibit federal funding on the anniversary of roe versus wade. lifting the trade embargo with cuba is on the back burner as high-level talks begin in havana today. >> we need to move on and the united states needs to move on. >> reporter: the tone in washington that could threaten progress. >> they got to be specific. they just can't be no. >> he owes it to the american people to work with the representatives they elected. >> reporter: now a new controversy. house spe

kansas, 37% of the vote. the white house is sending out the message, look these are issues that transcend parties. these are things that matter to everyone. but if you had any question about whether or not they were also part of the 2016 agenda some of the toughest criticism came from two republicans who are thinking about running for president, ted cruz and rand paul. rand paul actually sent out a tweet today, essentially fundraising off the state of the union, saying if you didn't like what you heard last night, send me money. and of course we got a tweet from hillary clinton as well. obviously supporting the president's economic proposals. so this is about a larger issue that we're going to be hearing a lot about in the coming not just days weeks, and months but years. >> we've got tim polenti, a major republican voice, to weigh in on some of the alternatives the republican side is offering. chris jansing that, coat does not look heavy enough. stay warm in the snow. >> thanks. >> house minority leader nanc

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