companies in montana. sheehy and his wife are raising their four children on their cattle ranch near bozeman. the format for today will be a direct question to a candidate from one of our panelists. the candidate will have 90 seconds to answer following by a 60-second rebuttal. the original candidate will have 30 seconds to respond to the rebuttal. each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement. each candidate will have two minutes for a closing statement. a random drawing determine the order. senator tester will go first. our panelists for today all represent montana broadcast stations. the evening news anchor for nbc montana. senior political reporter for montana television network. the news director for the montana radio company. an evening news anchor for lawn stop -- nonstop local news. we start with senator tester and his two-minute opening statement. sen. tester: i want to think the montana broadcasters association for hosting thisproviding the f. this is a very important election com

how you focus on montana? candidate: i focus on montana by being a farmer. am one of i do thatse in montana bank's we ought to have it at the federal level. he keeps you aware of the economy and that is really important. ufthis race is important because anrural needs good representation and someone who can argue and fight, small main street businesses that do not have importance in washington dc. all of those have an on the interest in montana, but in the end to montanans and take their good ideas back to washington dc because that is what i do. i am one of the most effective senators in the u.s. senate, i work across the aisle and get things done. >> tim? candidate:c because the senate hangs in the balance and we what democratic control does. runaway spending, executive government out of control record high interest rates and inflation jon tester supported that 95 percent of the time. these are just facts. this agenda has been empowered by theemocra and votes that could have 95% of these bills. we disagree and right now democratic control has led our natio

it has been great because montana is the greatest, but montana is changing.h folks want to buy our it io something it is not. montana is a state where your word is your bond and the truth matters. unfortunately many folks are coming in and buying big branches. that is not what montana is about. nt truth, honesty, being able to raise your family in a way you can be proud. send them to college, have them come back and live in a state that happens to be the greatest state because of the people. i'm jon tester, i'm running for the u.s. senate keep the montana we know and love. >> thank you, senator. mr. sheehyt. mr. sheehy: thank you senator tester for your years of service and thank you for hosting this event. i met my9p■) wife in the militay and there was no qio war. we fought in ourations longest war. we lost o friends. my wife's brother served as well. it is a family business. we learned a lot in military service. you learn the greatness of this nation and the responsibility as a leader. when i was flying water a crossroads. i saw 13 marines killed, one looke

and to be able to have those montana values and know what montana needs and what makes montana ticking forward for the greatest state in the greatest country that's ever existed. >> as you have been speaking, nbc news has moved tim sheehy into the projected winner category. he has the checkmarked now, 75% of the vote as of right now. in reading about the race, i have read that some people say you are coming to the end of your third term. that's 18 years in the senate, and i have read from some montana voters who say they voted for you in the past, that they think you have drifted away into the washington world, and you are not to the guy they voted for in the past. what do you say to those orders? >> i say the forefathers had it right. they believed in the citizen legislature and that's why i have continued to farm while i have this job. i've actually had two jobs. one of them is trying to feed the world through production agriculture and the other is crafting good policy that helps montana remain in the position it is, which is the last best place and that is all i can tell folks i

folks are trying to change montana. they are trying to buy montana. greatest state in the greatest country that ever existed because an montana handshake mean something. we act accordingly. we get the facts and make decisions off of those. so you are right, there will be a lot of money put into this race, trying to make me something i am not, so they can run against that person because they know they can't beat the jon tester who is a third- generation farmer from montana. we will push back and tell the truth. we will talk about my record of accomplishment and we will talk about my vision for this country moving forward. whether it is making sure we live up to the promise of our veterans were making sure we do everything we can do to get everyone connected to broadband across this country, including rural and frontier areas of montana. it has been the same for every election i've been in. they try to make me something i'm not so they can run against that person. the bottom line is, i listen to montana. they are my boss. i take their good ideas back to

out to montana to spend time with our governor.uestion is why were the target decreased from 4.2 million to 4 million when we need more treatment? your target decreased year after year. mr. moore: when i look at the 2025 -- >> at least my numbers show f.y.2024 it was million acres. hazardous fuel reduction and f.y.2025 is four million. why would it go down? mr. moore: i thought you met timber production. >> hazardous fuel reduction. mr. moore: and so -- >> why would you take it down? >> we have a lost and increase in costs. >> you think about it, if you are reducing hazardous fuel, it's a way to preempt catastrophic wildfires which are expensive to fight once they begin. mr. moore: the question i was answering earlier that we have to talk about, what is the performance metric? is it protecting communities or watersheds that these communities depend on? if it is, those are more expensive to treat. and where we have been measured by the number of acres treed or treated, we have put ourselves doing random acts of restoration because o

the balance of power can come down to montana, trump won the state by 16-point to 2020 republican time seat read, mr. sheehy is next. (traffic noises) (♪) the road to opportunity. is often the road overlooked. (♪) at enterprise mobility, we guide companies to unique solutions, from our team of mobility experts. because we believe the more ways we all have to move forward. the further we'll all go. your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire ashley: republican tim sheehy facing a tough senate race in montana, she wants to see jon tester, tim sheehy joins me this morning, great to have you here, donald trump won montana by 16 points in 2020, the polls show you slightly behind tester, how do you turn that around what are the key points. >> the biggest thing issue leather and making sure i introduce myself to the state and the veteran combat of iraq and afghanistan and my wife she was a marine i was a navy seal

in one family. >> reporter: sunlight in the badlands of eastern montana is like nothing else. that wide blue arch of unsollied sky. the vast rolling prairie. dotted sparsely with tiny old hamlets in which business is personal and friends and families have worked the same sun baked places for generations. places like circle. population 600. susie's hometown. >> she livened thins up a lot. >> reporter: this was susie's sister carleen. she was the fifth of six kids. >> she loved them horses and she loved to go riding. her and i would go riding quite a bit. >> reporter: susie's love affair with horses grew as she did and shaped her work ethic. her sister-in-law val. >> she was not afraid to be out there shoveling manure or fixing a fence. she was a feisty thing. >> reporter: but if there was one word most used to describe susie, it wasn't so much feisty as. >> fun with capital f. >> she was very impulsive so she didn't think a lot ahead. she just kind of went with the moment. >> reporter: and so when susie went off to a technical school three hours away in billings and got herself

the are not going to help us in montana. not able to serve the folks in montana they are meant for. and i think it is incredibly important of folks at hud step up and fix these fm ours. this program is going to end up leaving rural america behind. so, what more needs to happen these rates reflect the actual rent that we have in montana communities that folks can access the housing resources? clicks thank you's editor for raising this issue. as you and your team is probably aware your fair market rents are established by hud and updated yearly. you can keep up with happening in the market. a couple of years ago we did introduce a private data into our calculations there because we have received lots of concern about the date it we are relying on the agency was reliant on was not keeping up with what the market was showing. so i am happy to sit down with you, your team and the housing agencies in montana to learn more about how our current methodology may not be working but for the voucher program and look forward to talking with you more about that. >> when is the next time rents wil

home to discuss the odds. >> montana sender always has his eye on the target. that passion is what he is in charge of winning back the senate for republicans. the first time ever the chairman exclusively invited us to his home. to talk strategy. >> do you think you'll win this year? >> we will get to 51. as a gop victory could run right through his backyard. montana is one of three toss up states in a highly favorable for republicans west virginia poised to turn red, he only needs to pick up one more state. >> and stone 22 was a bus to percent republicans. what makes 2024 different? rex number one we with gratifyig candidates that can win general elections have a broader appeal. number two we've got to change from election day two election month. weird putting it very much turn it on election day. >> is daines is talking a former president trump to turn out voters despite the conviction in the new york hush money trial. we talk frequently work very closely together. >> trumps legal trauma spilling down the ballot maryland senate candidate larry hogan told his f

one of t them being montana.is trying to turn former president trump's conviction into a liability for the democratic incumbent. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie reports tonight from big sky, montana. >> aishah: hours before montanans hit the polls -- >> they want to throw trump in jail. >> aishah: tim shae he was out with a first of its kinded a tying jon tester to former president trump's new york conviction. >> and jon tester is standing right by their side. >> the two men are expected to clinch their party's nominations for senate tonight tester has not commented on the conviction which say help republicans flip the senate. >> this will help candidates in like montana ohio and others. >> the left is hitting sheehy hard from out of state because he didn't grow up in montana moving there in 2014. >> shyy says a vote for tester is a vote for biden. 95% voting record with biden. >> i will work with anybody that work with me. donald trump signed 20 or of my bills actually more than 20. >> wild card here a

we'll break that down in the senate contests in montana and new jersey coming up in just a few minutest we start with what is for the white house the defining issue of a generation and potentially of a presidential campaign, the fight for democracy. it's the message joe biden has taken abroad today where some of the greatest threats to democracy including the war in ukraine, are posing a threat to his re-election. but while foreign policy has always been a strength of biden's serving for 12 years as chairman or ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, he begins his visit to france with his handling of the wars in ukraine and gaza as well as foreign policy in general, increasingly unpopular. i want to bring in nbc's kelly o'donnell who's in paris. jim messina is surrogate for the biden campaign, served in the obama white house and ran president obama's re-election campaign in 2012. peter baker is "the new york times" chief white house correspondent and an msnbc political analyst. he is also traveling with the president in france. okay, peter, you wrote that this trip is

i appreciate the offer to work with me on what is going on in montana. i can just tell you that great falls is the closest major city to where i live. it is not the fastest growing city in montana by any stretch of the imagination. it is not under the economic pressures that others are, they can't use vouchers, they simply don't work. so, i would love to have you address this before fall of this year. that is six months from now. but, if there's ways you can speed that up or amend or however you can do it, i would appreciate if you let us know. we are here two. >> if i can add, also happy to have our teammates in the office of public and indian housing sedan with housing agencies to talk about flex abilities that they may have in terms of using their vouchers. >> is good. just, this is a problem we have a program that was set up, it just doesn't work. >> i understand. >> on of the question here, our housing authorities in montana have another challenge related to the fmr issue. i'm concerned that two problems will worsen and montana communities are left

it to montana. >> never make it to montana. >> so we should worry about what people in montana and west virginia should think about it? we already do. >> this is what is motivating them. and i think there is a way to address this in a way that is more understanding and less in- your-face. >> more understanding of what white people in montana think? >> exactly. >> here's why, because they vote. i don't think steve is saying because they are white. hold on a second. i don't think it steve is saying that person in montana is right. i think what he is saying is they vote. at the very least you have to acknowledge who that person is, where they are, and speak to them. >> the issue has already coddled them immensely by wrapping them in this notion of the demonization, i mean, so many americans would think of immigration and think of somebody getting murdered by an immigrant. but that is not the core of our relationship with immigrants in this country. and the right has made it that. >> yes, but the most important word that you said right there is made. because they made it that. because they

she's from the metropolis in montana. cares for her husband who was injured serving in the montana national guard back in kelly's primary caregiver for nearly 20 years raising kids and working at the whitehall school district. hannah, i want to thank you for everything you do. you're an inspiration for folks on this side of the dias. our caregivers do their job providing critical care and support to veterans when they need it most. but for them to get the support and assistance they truly need, congress needs to do its job. i want to note, i'd like to note that the house is currently deliberating the path forward on a package of bills named the elizabeth dole comprehensive act. and it's community based programs for our veterans and bolster home health care staffing and strengthen the va caregivers and long-term care programs. i look forward to getting this piece of legislation done, and who has been a long time champion of these issues and this legislation. i look forward to working with the veteran service organizations

you cannot be anti-gun in a place like montana. this is a very uphill climb.s an increase in property taxes in montana. this approval ratings have gone down. forte is another millionaire who won his race. amy: you mentioned these states earlier but they have popular moderate gop income. spencer cox and in vermont, the governor there. are these likely going to stay republican? jessica: he is chairman of the national governors association. i would not call him a moderate. he is a conservative but a pragmatist. he talks a lot about working across the aisle. in 2020 he cut and add with his democratic opponent saying, don't hate us, we got along. he talks a lot about civility in politics. a little like mitt romney. he lost the nomination to a gadfly candidate. spencer cox has the clear advantage. the convention in many states is more conservative than the electorate is going to be. in utah, heavily mormon. this is where you had a third-party candidate get a lot of the vote in 2016. that gave donald trump one of his lowest percentages. at the convention you see the

hablemos del incendio que comenzó el domingo alrededor del mediodía y que sigue ardiendo en las montañas por aire y por tierra para contener estas llamas que hasta el momento se han extendido a más de mil acres. este incendio no solo afecta a la naturaleza, sino también a los miembros de la comunidad. hay trabajadores que están perdiendo horas y días de trabajo por el humo, por los incendios, porque lo los dueños están cancelando el trabajo. bueno, las autoridades han emitido varias órdenes de evacuación en gran parte de dry creek valley y están pidiendo a los residentes del área a que estén atentos a las alertas que están emitiendo. por su parte, el condado sonoma ha declarado la emergencia local. esto qué significa? bueno, esto le permite al condado solicitar ayuda estatal y federal para hacer los esfuerzos de respuesta y recuperación en la zona en donde está siendo destruida por los incendios. ya escuchamos 400 bomberos asignados solo al incendio en el condado sonoma, que no es el único. hablamos de varios incendios a lo largo de california que tiene que repartirse por todos esos sini

. >> the montana senator steve daines always has its eye on the target.passion is why he is in charge of going back and winning the senate and for the first time ever. >> he got it. >> exclusively they invited us to his home. >> there's a mound line up there. >> to talk strategy. >> do you thank you will win this year. >> we will get to 51. >> could run right through their backyard. with three tossup states in a highly favourable mount for republicans with those poised to turn red healing needs to pick up one more states. >> 2022 was a bus for the senate republicans so what makes 2024 different? >> we had the find candidates. i can just when primary elections but the elections we need to change moving from election day to election month we have too much voter turnout on election day. >> they also are counting on for president trump to turn out voters this by the conviction in the new york cash money trial. >> we talked frequently and we worked very closely together. >> reporter: but the legal dramas now spilling down the ballot. he said he told his follow

hannahafrbgs is joining us from montana. her husband sustained traumatic brain injury while serving in iraq and she serves as his caregiver full time. she's an elizabeth dole foundation ahrupl in a and is an advocate and spokesperson about mental health issues associated with brain injuries. and i just want to say it's not a short trip from montana to washington d.c., and thank you for being here. sen. casey: thank you. our next witness is andrea sauer. she's -- sawyer. after her husband sustained injuries in iraq, she became his caregiver and an advocate for those, other wounded warrior families. we want to thank you for being here today and sharing your experiences with us. i'll turn next to ranking member scott for the next introduction. sen. scott: i have the privilege of introducing fred sganga, veterans home at stoneybrook university. a 350-bed skilled nursing if a silt serving honorably discharged veterans and their families. he also serves as the first vice president for the national association of state and veterans

it's not a short trip from montana to washington dc. thank you for being here. >> the third witness is an advocacy navigator for the quality of life foundation wounded veteran family care program. after her husband sustained injuries in iraq she became his caregiver and an advocate for those for other wounded warrior families. thank you for being here today and sharing your experiences with us. next return to ranking member scott for the next introduction. >> of the privilege of introducing the executive director of the long islandng state from stony brook university 350 beds a skilled nursing facility was honorably discharged veterans with the surf first vice president national association of state veteran is that a board member of the national council certified dementia practitionersen practitioners. thank you for being here. >> the fourth and final witness is the national policy director for the elizabeth tool foundation o dedicating over 20 years to the veteran caregiver and military communities we appreciate you being with usus tod

we were married in montana.acking you for being a businessman, it occurs to me he is in a lot of trouble. i'm told the polls are actually moving in your favor but, his votes for biden, that's the cause of high inflation. that is the cause of stagnant growth. that is the cause of a lot of problems out there, if he is going to be another biden vote in the senate? >> hit the nail on the head. look what is really causing housing costs and gas costs and grocery costs to go up in this country has nothing to do with successful businesses and job growth. it has to do with the ridiculous money printing policies of this administration, the war on american energy, the war on the american workforce, we're paying people not to work. you know, we're paying people to sit on the couch. we're giving illegal immigrants more money than giving our veterans. we're creating perverse incentives for our country for success. that is the warped landscape we're seeing now. we have to return free market principle to this country. reward ha

it to montana. >> and west virginia? >> this is what is motivating them, and i think that there was a way to address this in a way that is more understanding and less in your face. >> more understanding of what white people in montana think? >> here's why, because they vote. i don't think steve is saying, because they are -- hold on a second. i don't think that steve is saying that person in montana is right, i think what he is saying, is they vote. so at the very least, you have to acknowledge who that person is, where they are. >> the issue is already coddled them immensely by wrapping them in this notion of the demonization of -- i mean, so many americans would think of immigration and think of somebody getting murdered by an immigrant. but that is not the core of our relationship with immigrants in this country. and the right has made at that. >> the most important word that you said there is need. because they made at that, because they solidified this falsehood, you have to at least address it and try to start solv

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they are not kept up with the rapid rise of housing prices in montana. they do not reflect the reality of housing costs. and communities across our state are not being revised in a timely manner. we take away vouchers from housing authorities with long waiting list because there simply are not any units available. how your agency is handling [ inaudible ] great falls is the closest major city to where i live. it's not the fastest growing city in montana by any stretch of the imagination reset the economic pressures they cannot use vouchers. just simply don't >> it is not the fastest growing city market by any stretch of the imagination. is not under the economic -- they cannot use vouchers. i would love to have you address this before fall of this year, that is six months from now. if there are ways you can speed that up, or however you can do it. i would appreciate if you could let us know. we are here to help. >> if i could answer, i am also happy to have our teammate sit down with the housing agency to talk about flexibilities that they may have in te

and i think both students, uh, student visas for montana and national was in addition to that, i think so if you're migrations, gains the boss given that as we said earlier, it's primarily not martini national. so we're trying to get from morrison you to your um, i'm not convinced as to how effective that particular measure will be because it's essentially promising a certain i'm very limited. it must be said degree of that mobility for martini national. so you're an exchange for a non montane and migrant smoking to be in montana being leased on caps where they are. so i think boss me increasing the scope for legal migration. and of course, the scope for um, applying for asylum for uh, internet protection across the you not just in spain, was reduce the number of people migrating uh through any old channels. that's been a long argued and migration studies. scholarship bought a restriction and visas and avenues to migrate legally. um increases others have the uh, cost, financial and human cost of, um, the journey to your um rather than stopping them. and then also for those who do make

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so you from clancy montana to almost the least likely place america from clancy montana, suburban maryland, and specifically this town called, columbia, which is a fascinating town because it was created by visionary real estate developer jim rouse, who believed that he, with the power real estate, could produce an american utopia. that was fully integrated by race by class. and so columbia had all these people said, we want to be part of that. we want to be part of the vision for a colorblind next level america. but it was also a suburb, meaning it was full of people who also had bought into a story of a i. i want to accomplish some things and i want my kids to accomplish things. and so what we discovered when we moved to columbia was this was a place was very diverse, but also a place that was very interested in sort and that had a story about whose diversity there are who should feel lucky to be there and who was doing the good work by being alongside them. and that place had learned a different set of lessons because. it was because where we had come from, it was where there was a clas

las montañas en hillsboro hoy continuaron quemándose por aire con agua y retardante y por tierra conhía, como los de fremont, tratan de incrementar el control sobre el incendio point fire, que ha provocado daños desde que comenzó el domingo. sí, se sienten mejor, mejor la clima para el incendio? no están los vientos tan fuertes como como estuvieron proteger un poco más la zona y reducir o aumentar el contenimiento del incendio al 20. las autoridades han emitido varias órdenes de evacuación en gran parte de la calle dry creek valley y en su mayoría están desoladas solo con personal de bomberos y emergencia. pero este residente nos dijo que no la acató porque lleva mucho tiempo acá y no cree que pase nada, solo que no tiene electricidad en los alrededores de la montaña, a pesar del fuerte olor a humo, la gente continuaba trabajando y tú vives por acá. donde yo vivo y todavía no te han dado orden de evacuación ni nada. todavía no tienes miedo que el incendio se se esparza y se incremente? se esparce o no? no crees que lo van a contener a tiempo?o piensoue sí. pues creo que una de mis pr

este fuego se desarrolla mientras en las montañas de fresno se alcanzan los 104 grados de temperaturadios y también para las festividades del 4 de julio. habrá peña habló con la policía de fresno y tiene información. estamos a un par de semanas de la gran celebración de la independencia de los estados unidos, una fecha que se presta para prender cohetes, por lo que las autoridades desean que lo hagan responsablemente, especialmente durante esta temporada de incendios que ya se empezaron a ver por todo california y a causar daños. por eso es la policía de fresno, al igual que otras entidades que hacen un llamado al público, cualquier fuego artificial que sube hacia el aire o explota caso una explosión es ilegal. así que si está comprando fuegos artificiales fuera de esos puestos que se colocan en nuestras calles, quizás son son este ilegales. segundo, queremos que recordarles de que estos fuegos artificiales, ilegales y hasta los legales, si no tienen la facilidad de hacerlos sano y salvo, pueden causar heridas graves, incluso pueden empezar incendios en nuestra ciudad o en nuestros pa

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hannahafrbgs is joining us from montana. her husband sustained traumatic brain injury while serving in iraq and she serves as his caregiver full time. she's an elizabeth dole foundation ahrupl in a and is an advocate and spokesperson about mental health issues associated with brain injuries. and i just want to say it's not a short trip from montana to washington, d.c., and thank you for being here. sen. casey: thank you. our next witness is andrea sauer. she's -- sawyer. after her husband sustained injuries in iraq, she became his caregiver and an advocate for those, other wounded warrior families. we want to thank you for being here today and sharing your experiences with us. i'll turn next to ranking member scott for the next introduction. sen. scott: i have the privilege of introducing fred sganga, veterans home at stoneybrook university. a 350-bed skilled nursing if a silt serving honorably discharged veterans and their families. he also serves as the first vice president for the national association of state and veteran

think we lost him for second make you will finish of the list sam brown in nevada and tim she and montanahom i know is little republican, but that would so count and horse jim justice will win virginia and when you make of that, this is wanting lineup. hugh: yes it hasn't don't unforgivable love the state of ohio larry because, they will take her brown out in will nine seats in play, i think the three likely governor justice when lockout the governor hogan is a letter that the both republican and the big three are a patrick in pennsylvania, she heat and montana this embryo in alaska there all veterans and for patrick west point back 82nd airborne and she is none montana naval academy guy sam brown was my guy in afghanistan these are all serious meta- the warriors and kind of open on hoping the president running circles with that idea but i would love for him to pick another warrior as a vice president while pompeo tom cotton jd vance because there are 16 million veterans in the united states and 60 million president trump at 61 percent about 2016, doctor down to 54 percent of the vote and