frfer the senator from north dakota. a senator: mr. president, i rise today to talk about what's really once in a generation opportunity and that's the opportunity we have right now to reform our outmoded and complex tax code. mr. hoeven: and also most importantly provide tax relief for our nation's families, farmers, and small businesses. the tax code has not been updated since 1986. you think about all that has changed over the last 30 years, you know that modern advances in technology have drastically revolutionized the way businesses -- businesses -- business is conducted today. the creation of the internet, substantially increased automation, instant communications has, you know, created dramatic changes and in many ways brought us closer in terms of communication and really interconnected our global economy in ways we could never have foreseen back in the 1980's when we last reformed our tax code. so it is past time -- it's not time, it's past time, to modernize our outdated tax code into the 21st century. we must do so in order

biomass kaiser this is the kaiser report we are in north dakota we are in this standing rock reservation just about one hundred yards from the scene here and we are experiencing full front. loaded the impact of. the standing rock phenomena i want to get into this slowly and describe it in a deliberate way because i see something here rolling over the plains significant a revisitation the karmic wills about to roll and people who think they've been so smart for so long are in the crosshairs stacy well first let's tell the global audience out there who might not know where north dakota is is in the middle of the united states away up north and it is freezing cold up here and there is miles and miles and miles and tens of miles of nothingness and there's no trees hardly even here so you'll hear a lot of wind is blowing everywhere we're in the middle of the stenographic reservations to sue indian tribe reservation from here in north dakota all the way down to south dakota for hours you drive through it there's a lot of buffalo and a lot of things like that and at each end of the reservation

crosshairs stacy well first let's tell the global audience out there who might not know where north dakota is is in the middle of the united states away up north and it is freezing cold up here and there is miles and miles and miles and tens of miles of nothingness and there's no trees hardly even here so you'll hear a lot of wind is blowing everywhere we're in the middle of the standing rock reservations to sue indian tribe reservation from here in north dakota all the way down to south dakota for hours you drive through it there's a lot of buffalo and a lot of things like that and at each end of the reservation there are cops waiting to basically shake you down as we've experience we'll tell you about that in the second half but the first half just about a ten minute drive this way is where sitting bull is buried and in a pizza joint which is probably the only place for a couple hundred miles around to eat there it on the reservation there is a few signs interesting signs first of all standing rock resisting since fourteen ninety two which is interesting in light of the fact that not onl

by that point, the capital was in his mark and that became the capital of north dakota. option was not a tenable for south dakota. there were probably 8-10 cities that contended to be capital. that vote on the strength of its position come almost perfectly in the center of south dakota. the western part of the state was almost completely unsettled by european settlers. there were native americans and that part of the state. e's claim to be centrally located was kind of hollow. but it won the initial vote. there was a second vote in 1890. won that vote also. a final vote was held in 1904 mitchell forfeated the final time. the construction of this capital building, planning for it began shortly after that. that is why our capital building was not built until 1908-1910. there was -- i think every state sensel is built to give a of importance and permanence and especially to have an imposing structure like this built in a town like pierre. it would have stood out and made a statement about our confidence in our state and our future. construction was set back by about a year b

attorney office for seven mississippi, north dakota, oregon. andave support from quebec we did receive valuable assistance from the ministry for public security in china. our dedicated investigators and prosecutors working in product partners are committed to shutting down deadly traffic and opioid drugs and particularly elicits fentanyl. saving the lives of our citizens. we're going to hear from mr. pattison, mr. edge, and then we will be happy to answer your questions. >> thank you and good morning. representinge here the men and women of the drug enforcement administration. i'm incredibly clouded -- proud .f the same group of employees the contributions to the cases discussed today are the result of efforts initiated over miami and new orleans. expanded across this country and overseas in construction with our partners. the indictment of chinese nationals. they've been exposed for who they are, the arrest efforts against several significant facilitators have been successfully coordinate. at a time when overdose deaths are at a catastrophic l

attorney's for southern mississippi, north dakota and oregon. of the queue back office in canada and we did assistance in china. we want to thank them for their help. our dedicated investigators and prosecutors working in partnership with our international partners are committed to shutting down the deadly traffic and opioid drugs and particularly in illicit fentanyl. and saving the lives of our citizens. we are going to hear from mr. patterson, mr. edge, and assistant crafton. and good morning. i am honored to be here representing the men and women of the drug enforcement administration. i am incredibly proud of the same group of employees for their work every day on both addressing the diversion of illicit opioids and the pursuit of those involved with the illicit manufacture and distribution of opioids. the reason why we are here today. the dea's contributions to the cases discussed are resulted out of miami and new orleans divisions. these cases expanded worked by dea investigators across this country and overseas in conjunction with our fed

i would like to recognize selected special agents, as well as the north dakota u.s. attorney for their tireless efforts and commitment to seeking justice and their dedication, the safety and security of the american people. i would like to recognize the incredible teamwork and deaaboration enjoyed by the hsices, as well as the and dea attaches covering canada, panama, colombia, and china. this investigation exemplifies the steadfast commitment to combat the flow of dangerous and illegal drugs in the nation. hsi seized 6000 pounds pounds of 46,000 methamphetamines, and 270,000 pounds of cocaine, along the seizure of nearly half $1 billion in u.s. currency and other assets. collaboration has resulted in great results. thank you for your time. >> morning. i'm honored to be representing the royal canadian mounted police. rcmp strives to work with international law enforcement transnationalmbat organized crime and groups engaged in illicit activities. rcmp works in collaboration with the daa to target drug networks distributing synthetic drugs internationally. the results

vice president mike pence speaking in north dakota. an interview with supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. sexuala discussion about harassment laws from today washington journal. defense secretary james mattis visited the demilitarized zone between north and south korea as part of the trip that included civilians and military leaders. president trump will visit south korea next week. secretary mattis and self korea -- south korea's defense minister spoke about the alliance.

attorney's office for southern mississippi, north dakota and oregon. we had support from the quebec receiveand we did assistance from the ministry for public security in china and we want to thank them for their help. our prosecutors working in partnership with international partners are committed to shutting down this deadly and in in opioid drugs illicit fentanyl and saving the lives of our citizens. we are going to hear from mr. patterson, mr. and and they will be happy to answer your questions. >> thank you. be here represent the men and women of the drug enforcement administration. i am proud of the same group of employees for their work every day on both addressing and the diversion of illicit opioid and the pursuit of those involved with the illicit manufacture and distribution. the contributions to the two cases discussed today are the results of efforts initiated in miami and new orleans division. the indictment of chinese nationals, they have been exposed for who they are. , therrest efforts canada-based facilitators have been successfully co

visit ncicap.org] announcer: while speaking at an air force base in north dakota this week but vice president pence told service members to be ready when describing potential threats against the u.s. one of the areas of focus was north korea and its nuclear capabilities. this is just under 20 minutes. [applause] v.p. pence: well thank you, and please be at ease. it's an honor to be here with the men and women of minot air force base in magic city, north dakota where every day the war birds, the rough riders, and everyone from team minot embodies the motto of global strike command. deter, assure, and strike. you are the pride of the nation. give yourselves another round of applause, would you please? [applause]

another challenge for sunday retailers is north dakota's blue law. it prevents businesses from opening until noon on sundays, but it's actually less restrictive now than it's been in years past. >> for a time, it was actually not legal for businesses to be open in north dakota on sundays. >> knowing that old habits die hard, the retailers who do open on sundays say it's better than nothing. they also realize they have to commit to their hours for at least two years to get people used to the idea of shopping on sundays. >> about 80% of the businesses understand the need to be open sundays, and we all agree that the more of us that are open, the better it will be. we do want to be open on sundays when we're ready to take that step. >>> it's now time for the brain trust. we don't spend a lot of time on the show talking about issues that are particular to women, but this week i feel like we should. i have two great guests to do this. bobby brown, author of the new book "bu ifeauty from the insid out." and sal ly, you're doing so muc within this world of

visit ncicap.org] announcer: announcer: while speaking at an air force base in north dakota this week, vice president mike pence told troops to be ready. this is just under 20 minutes. [applause] v.p. pence: well thank you, and please be at ease. it's an honor to be here with the men and women of minot air force base in magic city, north dakota where every day the war birds, the rough riders, and everyone from team minot embodies the motto of global strike command. deter, assure, and strike. you are the pride of the nation. give yourselves another round of applause, would you please? [applause] v.p. pence: i want to thank secretary wilson for that kind introduction and for those inspiring words. would you all mind giving the 24th united states secretary of the air force, an 11 year veteran of the air force, another round of applause? secretary, we are grateful for your leadership. [applause] v.p. pence: let me also thank the commanders of the fifth bomb wing and the 91st missile wing for the hospitality they have shown us today. their service to our nation, colonel matthew brooks and

it is an honor to be here with minotn and women of air force base in north dakota where every day the words, the rough riders, and everyone from team minot embodies the motto of global strike command. assure, and strike. you are the pride of the nation. give yourselves another round of ould you, which yo please? [applause] to thank secretary wilson for that kind introduction and those inspiring words. would you all my giving the 24th united states secretary of the air force, an 11 year veteran of the air force, another round of applause? we are grateful for your leadership. [applause] let me also think the commanders and theifth on wing 91st missile wing for the hospitality of a have shown us today. nation,rvice to our colonel matthew brooks and twonel call anolin connor, incredible leaders. [applause] also, it is a great privilege for me to be joined by three north dakota who are outst fororth dakotans outstanding leaders and have strength in this state. give them a round of applause, would you please? thank you. [applause] i bring greetings today from your commander-in-chief, the 40

by that point, the capital was in bismarck and that became the capital of north dakota. yankton was not a viable option for south dakota. there were probably 8-10 cities that contended to be capital. pierre won that vote on the strength of its position almost perfectly in the center of south dakota. the western part of the state was almost completely unsettled by european settlers. there were native americans in that part of the state. pierre's claim to be centrally located was kind of hollow. but it won the initial vote. there was a second vote in 1890. pierre won that vote also. a final vote was held in 1904 and pierre defeated mitchell for the final time. the construction of this capital building -- planning for it began shortly after that. that is why our capital building was not built until 1908-1910. there was -- i think every state capital is built to give a sense of importance and permanence and especially to have an imposing structure like this built in a town like pierre. it would have stood out and made a statement about our confidence in our state and our futu

he's focused on it, determined he's going to get me. >> in north dakota, david shannon's family tried to keep up with the shocking information. the murder, the revelations about swinging, and now joan was telling them that she had become a suspect, to which they replied -- joan? not a chance. >> we tried to play the scenario. did joan have a part in it? none of us could see that she could possibly have done that. it is just not in her nature to do that. she can't. >> but brenda did have somebody else in mind. >> now, elizabeth? i could see it. >> elizabeth? the shannons' 15-year-old daughter? is it possible she was a cold-blooded killer who executed her very own stepfather? the man who adopted her, raised her, provided for her? maybe, said david's sister brenda. daisy and elizabeth were always troubled, said brenda. and when elizabeth hit her teens, watch out. >> david and joan did not have the tools needed to deal with what those two girls dished out. it was boys, drugs, violence. if she got angry, she would destroy something of theirs. >> that was hardly elizabeth's view of things.

amy: in north dakota, a judge has sentenced two water protectors to jail time after they were convictedon misdemeanor charges over an october 2016 protest as standing rock sioux against the dakota access pipeline. alexander simon were sentenced to serve 18 days and joe for obstruction of a government function, while 64-year-old mary redway was sentenced to six days and joe for disorderly conduct. they were imposed by judge thomas merrick will stop despite the fact the prosecution had not recommended the two serve jail time. sara lafleur-vetteras acquitted on misdemeanor charges stemming from her reporting on the protest on october 22. she was filming for the guardian at the time of her arrest. there are still hundreds of unresolved criminal cases related to the month-long resistance at standing rock. three water protectors are currently imprisoned while awaiting trial. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the community media center of marin in san rafael, california. today is co

innovative idea and one that caught on and other states that became states around at the same time, north dakotaontana, wyoming, washington copied south dakota's provision. general beadle when the u.s. capitol invited each state to contribute 2 statues, general beadle was the first selected from south dakota. this is the twin of the statue at a u.s. capitol. i have been comic to the capital my whole life, my grandpa served in the state senate and i used to visit him as a little kid. we have a mini school groups who go through the capital every year. one of the things that kids most remember and what they know is the story of these blue tiles on the floor. the capital was being built, the floor was presented by stonemasons from italy and traditionally the stonemasons are allowed to sign of their work somewhere. there were so many they do not want them to do that. the story is each stone mason given a blue tile to place on the floor, supposedly there are 66 of them through the building. only 55 have ever been found. if you take a tour on the state capital and with the school group, that's a lot of

agriculture's number one in north dakota. we're a huge energy state as well, but agriculture is and always will be number one in our state. and so when we talk about tax relief, we need to talk about tax relief for our farmers and our ranchers. the right tax reform will help our farmers continue to provide the highest quality, lowest cost food supply in the world, which benefits every single american every single day. so that includes reducing the tax burden on these hardworking farmers and across the board small businesses. like i say, the job creators in our economy, in our country. and the biggest way we do that is we drop that rate for small business to 25%. that is a huge step forward, a huge step. not only making our farms, ranches, small businesses across the country more competitive, but generating that economic growth that is so important for job creation and higher wages. another important issue is in this framework, we eliminate the death tax or the estate tax. the death tax can result in double and sometimes tripl

not to leave off north dakota. there around between four and $596,800. okay folks? the achilles' heel of this bill, there are many estate local deductibility. kills the middle class and the upper middle income people. it doesn't affect the rich. they don't pay a lot of property taxes, they make their money in high-income places. a lot of stocks and bonds. the standard deduction does not undo it because you lose the standard exemption. even if you just husband-and-wife without kids i'm can ask unanimous consent the debate be delayed for a few minutes. i just need to finish my remarks, most on. okay. so, the benefit of state local deductibility affects every state, every city, every town, every municipality and goes deep into the middle class and working class. one other point i have to make, never realizing that some of our republican colleagues or say will modify. folks, there's no real way to modify the provision to eliminate state local deductibility. you want to give a choice, that won't work because for middle-class taxpayers is the only the combination of their

crosshairs stacy well first let's tell the global audience out there who might not know where north dakota is in the middle of the united states away up north and it is freezing cold up here and there is miles and miles and miles and tens of miles of nothingness and there's no trees hardly even here so you'll hear a lot of wind is blowing everywhere we're in the middle of the standing rock reservations to sue indian tribe reservation from here in north dakota all the way down to south dakota for hours you drive through it there's a lot of buffalo and a lot of things like that and at each end of the reservation there are cops waiting to basically shake you down as we've experience we'll tell you about that in the second half but the first half just about a ten minute drive this way is where sitting bull is buried and in a pizza joint which is.

i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report we are in north dakota we are in standing rock reservation just about one hundred yards from casino here and we are experiencing full front. loaded the impact of. the standing rock phenomena i want to get into this slowly and describe it in a deliberate way because i see something here rolling over the plains significant a revisitation the karmic wills about to roll and people who think they've been so smart for so long are in the crosshairs stacy well first let's tell the global audience out there who might not know where north dakota is is in the middle of the united states away up north and it is freezing cold up here and there is miles and miles and miles and tens of miles of nothingness and there's no trees hardly even here so you'll hear a lot of wind is blowing everywhere we're in the middle of the standing rock reservations to sioux indian tribe reservation from here north dakota all the way down to south dakota for hours you drive through it there's a lot of buffalo and a lot of things like that and at each end of the reservation there ar

you were participating and those protests at standing rock, north dakota, where indigenous people andr non-native allies are continuing to go to court for their protests. >> it is absurd that we're facing this time of extreme climate they also. you are fires. yet hurricanes. you flooding all across this world. yet mainstream society and news is not makaking the connection between these extreme events and climate change. i think for those of us that are on the frontlines of these five, we realize the extreme dangers of climate change because it is literally t threatening the l ls of a lot of indigenous people, ocean dependent peoples. it is time for r us to o wake ud make some significant changes that some of the otherer organizations here have e talked about anand the work thee ian d. and you just people have often been at the front of the struggles not only to protect the environment and land, but our rightsts to have a sacred relationship with mother earth itself and protect our right to self-determination. whether you're talking brother hurricanes in the gulf coast or or level rise

the great plains states like north dakota and south dakota explain their relevance to the rest of the country and that is because of a lot of things that indicate that. the most egregious example to me is a few years back, rand mcnally did a series of maps, they left a hole where the dakotas and alaska and north dakota were. things like that make you think we don't matter, you look at the electoral college mode and national news during an election, a minor miracle, a slow news day is what it is and things like that make you think the big plan, the story of the us originates here, the question is to understand that really isn't our job as a press to create bestsellers. we did that with pioneer girl and that was an amazing experience in more ways than one. our job is to tell the history, accurate stories to preserve the history of the region. >> there are an estimated 5 head of cattle per resident in south dakota. in controlled recklessness nathan sanderson explores the life of the cowboy businessman who was a key player in developing the south dakota cattle industry. >> we are here in

that was have a public bank they want to create there is a public bank of north dakota north dakota we have one on the wednesday don't bank by california has a bank but it's an infrastructure bank it's not a depository bank it doesn't take deposits and so this create money on their books which is what we're talking about so this public bank in los angeles would take deposits there is two. lines of thought and that the bank of north dakota model takes like two percent. individual deposits mostly it's the state's own deposits so it's really a bank it's really a banker they partner with the local banks and then the local banks go out and find the customers and do all that they give low cost loans but they largely. operate through the local banks and that's the model that we've talked about but if you're going to take cannabis cash that's you've got to change your model but there are a lot of downside to that too so they're kind of two factions still working that out so that state treasurer had a big piano. and setting up a state owned banks specifically for taking the cannabis cash becaus

state lines earlier today i spoke with north dakota congressman kevin kramer about the impact of the president's executive order here's what i think it does for it's going to be it's going to be interesting to see our insurance companies respond to it what i think is that there's an opportunity for states. to be that place that provides the best product. for the country so it will be competitive again but the real winner here are the small businesses the groups that don't get big employer coverage to be able to group themselves together we passed a bill in the house that does exactly what the president's executive order does not allows is to allow so ca sions so it might be small market broadcasters it might be restaurant owners who can't come up with the type of a benefit for their employees that a big company can have but now they can go out of state get well what they can associate across state lines so what i think remains an open question is if you associate across state lines are can you then buy the insurance and in one state that applies to your whole association across state

and the man dan eventually ended up in north dakota. in both north and south dakota. the area in the 1700s it was still trying to be controlled by the french, english and spanish. it was a will the of that kind of turmoil going on. it was largely populated still by the american indian. and dominated by their ways of life. as soon as the french explorers came in and tried to maintain control, it became the louisiana territory. pierre veredrye was the father. he and his four sons were explorers of the major note in canada and u.s. history. largely investigating and explores what's now minnesota, and north dakota. they were considered failuring in their time. because everybody knew there was a northwest passage to the pacific ocean. there was a water way to get across this country. and because they failed to find that, they were considered failure. later on in 1742, two of his sons. louis and francois traveled further south and further west than they had previously. and on the return trip, they stopped at the con fluns of in missouri river. in this vicinity. and on a blu

we are in north dakota we are in a standing rock reservation just about a hundred yards from here and we are experiencing full front. loaded the impact of. the standing rock phenomenon. today is the stones of a new stage in took us a couple of days to get here in two jeeps each one traveling separately only one vehicle arrived so as not to rows the suspicions of the neighboring fama who keeps insisting we're producing cocaine. the believe in dari by a nest of che guevara entry one three hundred thirty six days before chez death. but hey. i'm not it hi ya. hit. and. run. in one nine hundred sixty six and that's the ticket already famous worldwide covertly comes to bolivia to incite. war two freddy has revolutionary experience under his belt and habits he keeps a diary in which she describes the rebels every day life in detail. there's a real young. seven killed fourteen taken captive alive and intact on the phone. unfortunately we didn't manage to get hold of any provisions that we took a manger in the camps and prison being that. it's. getting. better so. there you. have better. then.

north dakota started as dakota territory in 1851 and in 1889 south dakota and north dakota became states but eastern south dakota had been settled for a number of years, farmers came from minnesota, iowa, other places in the midwest. western half was an indian reservation so the development of western south dakota lagged behind each and every respect and so the ranching culture that grow up in western south dakota happened far later than the farming culture of eastern south dakota and it was central to the way in which south dakota developed as a state. the book is called controlled recklessness, a story about an lemon and the development of western south dakota, he's a figure that was a cowboy, a cattle man, he had 865,000 acre ranch in western south dakota in the early 1900s. he was involved in the expansion of the railroad and also at the same time in the early 1900s and was one of the figures was essential to the growthand development of western south dakota. a lot of people think of south dakota as a farming state . certainly south dakota is more than that. 800,000 people that we go

, nothing against north dakota, but the point is they have the power to do it if they have the fight if they have the willingness to make the moves that this president ran on of getting the swamp out of washington. >> okay. so i got a guy, let's talk about andrew mccain. last week we talked about andrew mccain. he gets i think it was $675,000 for terry mcauliffe, the governor of virginia who gives it to his wife who is running with hillary; right? and andrew mccabe is in charge with the hillary e-mail scandal, right, for the fbi. >> right. >> what the heck is this guy doing in the fbi? >> well, and he's going to the swearing-in of the new fbi director along with james comey and mueller and trump can't even go. look, the swamp is still running the show. >> so move him out under the ses law, this law that -- send him to north dakota to study. >> right. and that's what it takes is guts, is to move people out like mccabe whose wife is connected to mcauliffe financially, money went into her pocket which is his pocket and those are the kind of people who elected trump don't trust. >> you k

amy: that was president trump speaking on september 6 in north dakota. as just about a year after the dakota access pipeline onrds unleashed dogs protesters, native american protesters, water protectors who were trying to protect the planet and not have that dapl pipeline built. it was after -- just after hurricane harvey had inundated the greater houston area and hurricane irma was just making landfall. he chose this moment to come to this controversial spot where hundreds of native americans just down the road from the oil refinery had been jailed for their fight for water protection to announce, once again, look at what i've done, pull out of the paris accord and greenlight these pipelines. >> that story continues. it has proven very difficult for trump to pull out of the paris accord. as soon as it was announced, there was a heartening response on the part of governors and mayors all over the country saying that their states or their cities would follow the paris accord. and there was an even more intense international response, a joint statement by g

it is 37 in the twin cities right now, you're below freez ing in bismarck, north dakota.t is bismarck north dakota, but still a heck of a lot cold their than it is here this is when uncle really start see those very stark contrasts, in temperature, and we're even talking about the kind of alerts that you would see in the wintertime, frost advisories, freeze warnings, hard freeze warnings, back towards the northern planes, central planes, on the heals of the system that drew the cold air in, far from the north. now looking forward here at home, no cold air coming our way at all. say for behind this cool front that comes along, showers as early as tomorrow, p.m. m time frame. thursday still showers around. but that tends to be the coolest day of our forecast here, meisha. and the most seasonable. >> katie, 37 in minneapolis, st. paul. aren't you glad you're here? you know what? i'll call on rip on all of them, all of my friends, good morning, everyone, looking outside right now. i got to say our morning commute so far, so good. we do have an accident out there. one of them

i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from north dakota, mr. cramer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north dakota is recognized for two minutes. mr. cramer: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, it's no secret that a relyable supply of electricity is important to us on many levels, from human health and, of course, to commercial productivity. as a former public service commissioner, i can tell you one of the main reasons for large outages is trees growing in powerlines. one of the reasons for forest fires is powerlines falling in the forests. powerlines create fires and this bill i think helps alleviates some of that. with consumers and regulators of course demanding relyable services, utility companies to keep electrons flowing, vegetation has improved tremendously over the years. however, deep in the lands managed by our federal agencies, the potential for problems persists. my bill creates a pilot program, as the chairman described, for utility companies to partner with the forest service to voluntarily

the president taking his notice, jean joins us via skype from north dakota to tell us more about thegetting. you are a hero to a lot of people because of what you did. >> to some, maybe not, a lot of fun. heather: you have done this before with other messages. how do you do it? >> i have done several over the years. gop get your act together, thank you veterans, a lot of things like that. heather: you take your tractor, is that how you take your tractor through the field, don't use gps or anything? >> no, just a 135 massey open seat with no, no gps, a disk on the back, in the beanfield, count the number of roles for the length and width of the letter, just estimate. >> you count the number of rows manually. >> each letter is approximately 50 x 125' so it gets pretty big. heather: you go up in your plane and take a picture. >> i have a home built plane, i take a picture. if it works out i put it on facebook and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. heather: the people love it. are you a fan of the nfl? >> not a great football fan but i watch it once in a while. heather: you don

every season in north dakota is stunningly beautiful we'll get you an ice pick, and you can bury your>> senator heitkam is staying with us for the hour we think andrew ross sorkin is live from saudi arabia we have the highlights of his interview with prince alawaleed. former ambassador to saudi arabia, robert jordan, will join us with his reaction to the prince's comments. stay tuned ren bce up awaying "squawk box" he ocn ♪ ♪ my ambition? helping people get what they want, understanding we're not in this alone, and teaching my kids that no ambition's out of reach. ambitions live everywhere. synchrony financial helps make them happen with data, insights, financing and technologies. ♪ ♪ synchrony financial. what are you working forward to? >>> welcome back to "squawk box. let's head over to riyadh, and back to andrew andrew, good morning again, or even evening >> hey, becky. >> great to see you. >> it is the afternoon here in riyadh we just visited with king alawaleed. an amazing hour of conversation about just so many different things that made headlines across the board one of which -

including nevada, arizona, north dakota, louisiana, alabama, new jersey, michigan, connecticut, idahow hampshire and tennessee. application pending in the state of maine. this news sent pharmacy business manager express grips down yesterday. lea: do you think this merger will actually happen? tracee: it's tough to say because health insurance, these types of mergers they always hit road block. aetna and humana tried to merge as well. anthem agreed to acquire cigna, those deals fell apart because there were concerns and antitrust rulations that they were working through and couldn't make it happen. so this one, i'm not sure. cheryl: this may be good for the businesses but not good for consumers, could lead to higher prices for consumers. tracee: exactly. cheryl: a different deal fell apart overnight. the company have called off their 20 billion-dollar merger, deal opposed by activists u.s. investors claimed that it would destroy shareholder value. another company will have to pay a break-up fee. lea: house republicans with major victory. kevin brady speaking to lou dobbs thanking presi