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now, state health inspection fear the law extending local and state, it is only when the supreme court decided in the late 18th-century that their interpretation of the interstate commerce clause trump to this law extending state pride if. the supreme court decision. no armor. this is one of the key days after world war ii. this is one of the key industries. most supreme court decisions to an initial market for something as important as processed beef. we tested think. here is another. about the same time, very relevant today, corporations and people. the supreme court decision, again, like the 18th-century. it interprets the 14th amendment. passed after the civil war and intended to give freed slaves a full set of rights, intended. was that a minute former slaves jack the corporation. and it without even a splaying, they simply decided the corporation is the person giving them a full due process rights. allowing them to extend their power and create the national market, which i'm not criticizing. national market made america great. the question is how you get around historical states'

right now, states are regulating the issue. most states have a governing body around oil and gas, not as far as texas, they have been doing it a hundred years there, even north dakota is trying to evolve their issue. these state organizations are doing the best they can with fracking. we have the frack act in texas, and that requires disclosure of frack fluid. we are disclosing what goes in the chemicals. we are working hard as an industry to remove them, make them water based or food grade safe so you could drink them if you want to. that is probably happening as we speak, it is probably a year or two away before the additives are ready for trial use. >> here is what i don't get with the issues with fracking and people complaining about well water being screwed up by fracking nearby. when people go out and investigate, lot of times they find it is a well integrity issue, a well, fracking was being conducted through had a problem with it that allowed methane to migrate into the drinking water. that can happen with any kind of we

you know the policy of the united states that is to contain communist expansion. now all the sudden here at your back door you have a well-decorated united states general leading united nations forces, and they are getting closer and closer and closer. you're probably just as paranoid as stalin has been. if you're mao, you're probably thinking this is all a means to an end. the war in korea is a means to an end. that is to drive mao and the communists from power in china. we're using the conflict as an excuse to invade china. his response is to send flood after flood of chinese troops. across the border to support the north koreans to stop the americans. by 1950, we get bogged down. the united states is not only fighting north korean communists, but now we're fighting chinese communists. this war will go on until 1953. the most significant military action occurs in this first year. by the summer of '53, we agreed to end this conflict with a permanent division of the country. at the 38th parallel. south of the 38th parallel, south korea will be a free capitalistic stat

state of mississippi. he has been fired. and now on the state board of health in mississippi, which has the worst infant mortality rate in the country among its men other problems, which is a huge racial disparity specifically in its horrible infant mortality problem, now in the state of mississippi, thanks to this year's garden variety anti-abortion republican politics, there is now african-american medical doctor and there is no ob/gyn on the state board of health. and for the record, that one remaining clinic that provides abortion services in the state of mississippi is in danger of being shut down, thanks to a new law signed by the state's republican governor, targeting that clinic with new regulations that do not apply to any other clinic in the state and that are designed specifically to shut that clinic down. this is new. this is new. and nobody in the country has been able to explain why this brand-new thing is happening. it's not that the republican party or even the whole state of mississippi was not conservative on these

states. that's fine. now let's move on to part two of this plan if you will. that takes us to number two of that strategy and that is winning both florida and ohio. both states that flipped from red to blue in 2008. president obama won florida by 2.8 points and ohio by 4.6%. okay. let's give him those two. again, we'll talk about this later but that gets him to 266. and see how they think this helped. four short of winning the white house. he must win one more state and that brings us to the final part. the number one of the three-two-one strategy. romney can get to the white house through the northeast corridor, the midwest, the west, or the plains states. they argue. here's how. if romney goes north, then he must take new hampshire's four electoral votes. that obviously would get him to exactly 270. or romney can go back to his midwestern roots and try to take his former home state of michigan, pennsylvania, or probably a state that gets targeted more likely a wisconsin. romney could also go west and try to collect votes in colorado, nevada, or new mexico. f

the country's state-run media has claimed north korean is now a nuclear power. earlier i spoke with our reporter hiroki yajima who has been covering issues on the korean peninsula. hiroki, why they did put in the constitutional phrase stating now it is a nuclear power. >> kim jong-un wants to convince his people and the international committee that he will continue the military first policy. he also seems to hope the move will help tighten his grip on power. but what is also noteworthy is a phrase laid out for kim jong-il kim jong-un's father, for transforming the country into a nuclear power. the new leader also seems to be aiming to boost his prestige by making clear that he is following in the footsteps of his grandfather, kim il-sung, as well. in fact, kim jong-un referred to the country's nuclear weapons when he first made a speech in public at the military parade last month. the new leader looked confident about the country declaring itself a nuclear power. north korea began extracting plutonium from spent nuclear fuel in the 1980s. it then carried out nucl

state. republicans are calling it a do-over. democrats are saying they simply have to take back these seats. right now actually as a result of one of the republican state senators resigning, we have an even split in the state senate. so there is some possibility thatf any of th mocrats ck up any of t repubcan senate seats that majority could go to the democrats. >> suarez: freed reek ka freyburg of wisconsin public television, thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> brown: now, the state of al qaeda one year after the u.s. launched a military strike to eliminate its leader. judy woodruff has the story. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operati that killed osamainaden, the leader of al qaeda. >> reporter: the president's dramatic late night announcement one year ago heralded the end of a 10-year manhunt. on a dusty road in pakistan, navy seals stormed the high wall compound where american intelligence finally tracked the man who had eluded capture for so long. bin laden's deputy, egyptian physician a with ary, assumed al qaed

everything we do online and offline with close close cameras it's really weird it's like we're now in this state where and former n.s.a. officials have said this we're like this close to being in a totalitarian state we have the technology they're passing the legislation to make it possible and the thing that scares me most is that when you turn on most news networks you turn on c.n.n. or m s n b c they don't talk about this just the other day the co-founder of read it was on c.n.n. and he mentioned sist but he said he doesn't plan to invest in facebook because of their pro system policy and of the anchor was just like like a deer in headlights right she didn't want to address it none of the other people on the panel wanted to address it and so they just move on and it's the same thing with ron paul is talking in there covering one of his campaign speeches he talks about this but he talks about and he talks about warrantless wiretapping of american citizens and then they just cut away and they're like that was ron paul everyone and they don't actually put these things into context and these are

the bill now goes to the state assembly. >>> turning now to election 2012, mitt romney has now clenched the republican nomination for president by sweeping tonight's texas primary. the polls closed about an hour ago. and right now you can see the numbers, romney in the lead there with one earlier returns there according to this page with 1% of precincts reporting. ron paul has 10%, rick santorum and newt gingrich are in single digits but have both dropped out of the rate. 152 texas delegates are up for grabs tonight and they will be awarded by percentage of the vote. mitt romney needs 38% or more of the vote to win the delegates needed to put him over the top. but we have just learned mitt romney has clenched the republican nomination for president. >>> right now the city of pinol is holding a special meeting to consider severe budget cuts if voters fail to renew a city tax. an 8% tax is set to expire at the end of the year. the city is considering cutting 14 city positions. the city's swim center may also close. >>> the city passed a bill that would limit the pay for state university e

states that could get competitive. right now we're up in colorado. lorado, ohio, pennsylvania, florida and virginia, we think that those are very close states and other states that are close as well. iowa, new hampshire obviously are going to be a tough battleground. but i think, you know, it's early. people are just starting to engage. as people get more information about the race we're going to see where the swing voter goes in some of the states and see if those states really do stay competitive. >> bill, i appreciate you being on. ari fleischer as well. >> thank you. >>> well, new video in the trayvon martin case and new word tonight of a confrontation that zimmerman had last year with police. why he accused the police chief of a cover-up in the beating of an african-american homeless man. that's next. ♪ ♪ i can do anything ♪ i can do anything today ♪ i can go anywhere ♪ i can go anywhere today ♪ la la la la la la la [ male announcer ] dow solutions help millions of people by helping to make gluten free bread that doesn't taste gluten free. togeth

states. white males. 21 and older who had some property. now, in some states the property qualifications were very low. in pennsylvania, for example, it was quite radical. vermont too. but you have to keep that in perspective. we had the largest electorate of any state in the world and we did even in the colonial period. two out of three white males could vote in most colonies. now, compare that to england which itself was considered a democratic state by european standards. one out of six males could vote in england. so by any standards whatsoever in the 18th century we had the largest most democratic in the world. woman of course did not vote yet. that's a 20th century except in some states, that was a 20th century accomplishment. and certainly black slaves did not vote. but you have to get it into perspective. in the context of the time, we had the largest electorate in the world. in the 18th century. >> there was black people that owned property, but they were not allowed to vote? >> yes. in northern states, yes. they started -- they were v

joining me now is former state department spokesman p.j. crowley. welcome back. let me begin with this comparison i've been hearing more since this slaughter many homs. is this beginning to resemble a bosnian-type situation where you have ethnic group versus ethnic group fighting for themselves? >> first, the international community struggled for a couple of years in 1992, '93, '94. it wasn't until the tragedy of srebrenica that there was a c catalizig effect that have brought people to the negotiating table and international forces to implement the peace agreement. is hula that kind of cat liezing moment? it may or may not be. >> the numbers are fuzzy. that's 7,000, 8,000, possibly 10,000 bosnian muslims back in july 199 5. is that what we're waiting for in syria? >> and you're right. unfortunately this is a tragedy that's unfolding a bit more in slow motion. i think what's pivotal here is if you compare syria to libya, there you had a clear call from the arab league for intervention and you had nations that were willing to take on the burden of that intersengs.

and that makes president obama vulnerable if those two states. now, in virginia and colorado he is polling at 50 percent and he is leading in the mid-single digits, so, the entire race potentially boils down to those two states. we have it at 263-253 obama even if he loses ohio and florida with the remaining two states, colorado and virginia, hanging in the balance. and those are the two states as of today that could make the difference. >>neil: all right. either one of those could put the president over-the-top. >>guest: that's eight. >>neil: good stuff. thank you very much. one of the fine states, we will have the governor of that state with us shortly and what he makes of joe paiden taking credit for the grabbing economy in ohio, with republican governor kasich coming up after this but first my interview with governor romney is taking the world by storm. and i mean the late night talk show world. >> on fox news the other day neil cavuto accused romney of not being hip, saying obama is the hippest president singing and all that stuff and romney ove

the top elections official in any state is usually called the secretary of state. now, that can be a little bit confusing, because at the federal level, the person who has the title secretary of state is hillary clinton. and she's not at all in charge of elections. she's in charge of something totally different. but at the state level, the person who has that same title, secretary of state, is usually the person who in that state is in charge of voting. in that charge of elections. well, in the great state of indiana, the republican secretary of state this year, a man named charlie white, indiana's top elections official, was convicted of six felonies this year, including voter fraud. ow. prosecutors said that mr. white lied about his own address on his voter registration forms. he used his ex-wife's address instead of the address of a condo he shared with his new fiancee because he wanted to hold on to a thousand-dollar a month gig on the town council in the town where his ex-wife's house was with even after he had moved out of that district. the guy in charge of elec

the state is now three and half billion dollars by the state's goals governor brown is expected to be says updated budget plan on monday. >>> other lawmakers say they have a plan to save state parks more than 50 parts are set to close this summer as a way to save money. today democratic senators joseph midian and noreen evans announced a proposal they say would keep the gates open their plan is to shift millions of dollars from existing state accounts like road maintenance and septic system repairs to cover the part costs. senate budget subcommittee will hear the proposal tomorrow. another clean sweep for mayor brahmi cuba won primaries in indiana and north carolina and west virginia. it should push the governor between within 200 delegates officially clinching the gop nomination. and they're now 30 states that ban same-sex marriage. tonight n.c. voters approve the constitutional amendments defining marriage solely as a union between a man and woman. in the days before the votes former president bill clinton recorded phone messages urging voters to reject the amendment meanwhile suppo

what did he just say. >> president of the united states now in the 21st century. >> president of the at doesn't sound like war on marriage. fox news host shepard smith declaring the president to be in the 21st century. and he didn't stop there. >> in this time of rising debt and medical issues and all the rest if republicans would go out on a limb and try to make this a campaign issue while sitting very firmly without much question on the wrong side of history on it. >> shepherd smith has frequently been the lone voice of reason at fox news, and now he's saying the president is on the right side of history. if fox nation wants a war on marriage, then fox is going to give fox nation a war on marriage. they have to. unless, of course, shepherd smith said those things about president obama being on the right side of history. the war on marriage was removed from the headline on fox news on the fox nation section of the knox news website after shepard smith said that, now there is no war on marriage. just a flip-flop. >> after years of voicing strong opposition of same-sex marriage, presid

john kerry won the state by two points, for example. right now the state is way too close to call. we just put out a poll showing basically that 90% of democrats are with obama, 90% are with mitt romney and independents within the margin of error. currently right now, we have the mitt romney super pac, which is airing a fairly positive ad. we have crossroads, which i know politifact just put out a fact check on. and their ad about obama and debt. and then we're also having barack obama talking about his auto bailouts currently on the air. that ad is also running in the boston market, which is significantly more expensive but to remind geographically most of the state, about two-thirds of new hampshire, lives within 45 minutes or so of the border of massachusetts and a significant amount of the population, roughly half easily, could work in massachusetts. they don't. we're considered part of that market. when i first came to mur, i did not consider doing fact checking. management pushed it. they said from the get-go, look, we knew about citizens united and we figured this is going t

but nowed state is trying to find other ways to save money by cutting different programs or retooling their proposal from before and hoping to rack up even more savings than ever with this. our guest ro wrote in the "l.a. times" the proposed cuts -- >> sigh washingtee washington m morning. live now to capitol hill. fcc chair joining commissioners as they're about to testify before the commerce, science and transportation committee answering questions about fcc operations. >>> i support you, mr. chairman, 100%. >> obviously it's a pleasure to welcome all of you today. having five members is glorious. i was with the fourth circuit yesterday. and for the first time, they had nine members -- 15 members. they had all their members there. which has nothing to do with this. anyway, wonderful additions to the board. and this hearing follows on the heels of a hearing we had a few years ago that explored the fult of video and how it's migrating from one platform to another. such migration is occurring across the communication landscape. we all need to be giving serious thought to how our commun

states and battleground media markets. columbus, ohio, and richmond, virginia. joining me now two former governors of those states, virginia's doug wilder and ohio's ted strickland. good morning, gentleman. >> good morning. >> good morning. how are you. >> i'm good. governor strickland, i want to stick with you, because you were part of the warm you for the president before, and you might have had the toughest stuff against mitt romney of anybody i heard. i was at the rally. and here's one of the quotes i heard you say was, "mitt romney chose to take his wealth and invest it in the cayman islands in a swiss bank account. he did not choose to invest in america, he chose to enrich himself by putting his resources somewhere else." that's pretty harsh stuff. do you think that's the campaign rhetoric that the obama campaign should be using against romney? >> well, chuck, it's factual. that's what he did. he wanted to be president, he wants to be president, and yet he took his wealth and put it in foreign establishments. what if every american did that? what would that do to our eco

we used to see a lot more of it now, state cosmetics say few have it.y, those are the legal ones. there is the of illegal cosmetics out there sold at flea markets and garage sales. we're seeing a lot of mercury. there is a concern. this includes anything that appears to be from a foreign country putting on your skin, think twice about buying it. >> it's one event where amateurs steal the spotlight from elite athletes. coming up we'll meet the runners in sunday's beta breakers and what police are planning for the rest of the rowdy crowd. >> first, 49ers head coach focusing on saving lives opposed to struggling teams. >> also what you don't know about the imported shrimp you eat and how it can hurt you. that is ahead at 5:00. >> now, diane sawyer with a look at what she's working on for world news. >> tonight on world news a new see investigation. we're talking about shrimp from supermarkets. we decided to take some to a laboratory for tests and we think everyone will want to know what we found. also, our person of the week is michael j fox doing somethin

the state is now using a primary system where voters essentially see a single list of candidates for state office, regardless of party affiliation. those top vote getters move on to the general election in november. now, locally educational districts like the community college district are active ahead of the election, putting a partial tax on the june ballot. $48 a year for eight years to protect educational programs, funds specifically that cannot be taken away by the state. they say the state budget cuts cost them about $30 million in the past four years. they say they had to turn away around 4,000 students. classes are just unavailable. new haven, dublin and hayward school district also have ballot measures in place. deputy registrar of voters in alameda county says it gets people thinking and registering early. >> any type of issue in the community is important to that community, so you will have the proponents or opponents campaigning within those communities with signage, so it gets people away and may get them to come out and register to vote. >> reporter: governor brown relea

weapons sales to bahrain in the light of massive human rights violations by these sorties there but now the state department has issued a statement saying that american weapons will soon be heading to bahrain again. we made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues. which we expect the government of bahrain to address bahrain host the u.s. fifth fleet it's around forty ships two aircraft carriers sixteen thousand personnel a major force in the gulf clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded principles for military bases we have sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the of. the gulf. and so yeah i mean i think that we compromised officials in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the country's opposition to show restraint. we are concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence and we urge in this context bucket against pol

but the president on top in the state of virginia. now let's move south along the east coast down to the state of florida. again, always a huge battleground state in presidential politics. two polls in two days. they give us slightly different result. this one out today, shows the president up four points. that's margin of error, dead heat but the. the with a slight momentum perhaps in florida. that's today's poll. just yesterday we had a different poll from quinnipiac university that showed governor romney up close. you say a tight competitive race in the state of florida. the big question is, how does that impact the race to 270? here's my map, as we call it right now. i would say at the moment, you need 270 to win. president obama has about 217 electoral votes. those are the blue states. solid democratic or leaning democratic. governor romney starts with 206 electoral votes. red on the map right now, solid republican or leaning republican. look at the states i just mentioned. first one, footnote, i have pennsylvania a toss-up. many wou

state." >>shepard: thank you, and now former state department spokesman, and now a recovery at george washingtonniversity in washington, dc. this is a mess, isn't it? >>guest: it is turning out that way. obviously, this underscores how difficult and complex the relationship between the united states and china is. on a good day. and human rights have been an area where there just has been a fundamental agreement to disagree. the united states has stressed human rights and hillary clinton did today in the opening remarks in what is called the strategic and economic dialogue. for china they say this is none of your business, but this is an issue between our government and one of its citizens. >>shepard: and what is the next move for the united states? i look to some of the middle eastern companies and see how we have acted regarding matters one would consider similar but china's our big lender and we have to get along. what did you do? >>guest: you stand up for human rights which is what the united states is doing. before she arrived hillary clinton put down a public marker that the children case i

collect a treasure trove of information on drivers and they're being used in california and texas now other states are pushing for them now proponents of this say it can come in handy in catching criminals but privacy advocates say and they're saying wait a minute what is the government doing with this information and just how far can this go talk about this news managing editor for reason twenty four seven news j.d. to chile joins us now live from arizona a state where law enforcement is pushing to get ahold of the device is welcome to the show there. so this gadget doesn't make us safer or isn't it an invasion of privacy well lou promising to make this for they always do whatever they can you know put this tech on the road or introduced into our lives but of course it can invade our privacy anything that tracks with the promise of stopping crime trucks us it could be used for any purposes that they want to put that information to this particular device tracks or license plates and knows where we're going when we've been there they can simply can track are patterns of travel we can track who we t

the question is now the data all demonstrates that crime levels in the united states has dropped precipitously and are now at the same level they were in 1966. what many criminologists are asking, why is our incarceration so out of whack than what it was in 1966? we have a justice system overwhelmed by nonviolent criminal offenses, by low-level drug offenses. if, in fact, we no longer have this spike in crime, when are we going to recalibrate so that we're using our resources appropriately? we should be learning from the past rather than simply just kind of going on this roller coaster. >> one thing we're illustrating in this discussion is how it's impossible to segregate these issues. they all connect and overlap in w ways that are very complex. >> yeah. as a matter of fact -- >> go ahead. >> i agree absolutely with everything fitz said, i find from my perspective a frustra frustrating discussion. almost no impact on the public discussi discussions you've identified. we've made contributions. for example, there's a move toward evidence-based sentencing that's come out of the drug sort of prob