the chair: the gentlelady from ohio reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. simpson: my honor to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. lance. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. lance: i rise today in strong support of this energy and water appropriations measure. measure finally provides the critical funding to cover the flood risk management feasibility study in new jersey that will create a solution to the ct several counties in surrounding areas from severe flooding. the municipalities have pursued this project on its great merits and i'm proud to have been the champion of these municipalities on the federal level. this is a critical role for federal representatives helping municipal and county officials to make sure there are efficient services. these municipalities have experienced severe flooding and deserve the study and implementation of the plan that will protect life and property. we continue to advocate on behalf of these communities. i thank chairman simpson and the appropriations committee for their th

i'm told this is also the case in cresston, ohio, newark, ohio. locally police departments are taking this issue up dealing with it effectively and i salute them for that. i also salute them for putting their lives on the line every day for all of us. and for their compassionate care of those they run across who need this treatment. i know the statistics about drug abuse are heartbreaking, mr. president. and they can certainly be discouraging. including the ree lapse rates. -- relapse rates. but thanks in part to our police officers, good treatment providers around the country as i visited on monday, there are a lot of stories of hope, too, that encourage and inspire us. many of those who are struggling have inspirational stories, too. near my hometown, police started what's called the quick response of police, paramedics and addiction counselors when they arrest someone or save them from an overdose, they get them into treatment. again, not just applying narcan but getting them into treatment. last summer they found day monday carol, who was just

deirdre: the governor of ohio, john kasich, speaking there in columbus, ohio. making the official announcement of what many people expected throughout the day, that is to say he is suspending his campaign. he said in some ways he realized part of his message, and i'm quoting here wasn't sexy, wasn't a sound bite, but that he clearly wanted to affect people's lives, change people's lives for the better. you heard him say at the very end here that he trusts in god to show him his greater purpose how to move forward. back with me now, former senator of massachusetts, scott brown, so senator, glad you stayed with me. sorry for cutting you off earlier. wanted to get the governor's comments from the beginning. >> all good. deirdre: so where does the party go from here? we were talking about his potentiality as a vp, maybe, maybe not. but does he have a role to play here, other than just delivering ohio to donald trump? >> first of all, john is a compassionate, thoughtful, wonderful man and leader. he's done great things for ohio and obviously believes in god and my m

florida, ohio and pennsylvania. 50s to the 40s. this crushes there was another one today. ppp came out today and had donald trump within five points of hillary clinton nationally. now, when you talk to the people who are the establishment type, the elites who said, you know what, donald trump can't line up against hillary clinton, look at the numbers. she was beating him by 15%, 18% 2 or 3 weeks ago. >> hypothetical matchup. >> right. he's tightened it up to five points. you know what they're saying now? it's too soon, too far out for a national matchup. i'm telling you, he's closed the gap and that number tonight, west virginia -- i know it's not commensurate with the rest of the country but virginia, there's an opportunity for donald trump to take bernie sanders' voters. >> yeah, he's right. >> mitt romney got 27% of the hispanic vote and lost -- he got trounced. if donald trump doesn't do 40% of the hispanic vote, he likely will lose big-time also. >> disagree. >> and his hope, i think, is black men. if donald tr

something big in terms of helping to flip ohio for donald trump. but he's a man who said that donald trump plays to people's fears. he said he ran a toxic campaign. we know trump belittled him recently about his eating habits, while he was doing an interview. the question is why is he getting out? you said he was never going to get out before the convention. now we've had cruz get out and now kasich get out and we now the rnc head, reince priebus has said, we've got to come together. >> cruz, and rubio got out early because they may want to run some time, maybe 20, 2024. john kasich probably wouldn't run in 2020, or 2024. do you think he got out because he's looking at the vp spot? >> i don't know. it's possible, i can't figure it out. i would say that if i were donald trump, i would seriously consider somebody with a military background. somebody who has strong, you know, expertise in foreign policy. i would look at a john mccain. because that would, that would solve some interesting issues. as somebody who has, he's the only republican i know tha

states the republicans won in 2004 the where they lost in 2012 so places like florida or virginia or ohio or north carolina and new hampshire colorado the republicans actually have it yet but because some of those changes they had a pretty good opportunity but to find out who they are because that key theory is the reason why republicans win more state elections win more state elections cannot presidential elections they have lost touch of the voters at the local level. >> host: hamilton county ohio cincinnati to are the voters that republicans have lost? >> that is an interesting case the only county that had a net population in lost so the challenge is more about population growth other people carrying those predilections hamilton county is where people have actually left it with a significant decrease of the last 30 or 40 years so those who are left did not have the economic mobility to leave so the blue-collar workers to work hard but not necessarily high priced could find work with their hands and put food on the table republicans have the opportunity to make the case for economic li

and held ohio high. i think i gave people and impression from one end of america to the other that ohio is a special place. i expect we're going to have more visits as a result. i marveled at my colleagues that held public office. they knocked on doors and made phone calls. people that came from the legislature. when you are an executive and have to deal with the legislature, it is not always peaches and cream. but yet these legislators, the leaders, the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, some of my statewide colleagues like the attorney general -- just incredible that they would have come out and honored me. frankly, i was so humbled by the fact that they came. and they loved me. they encouraged me. the people of our country changed me. they changed me with the stories of their lives. what we all remember that hug in south carolina from that young man who had found despair, and then found hope somehow. and he just wanted to give me a hug. the country marveled. but you know, that was one

the governor of ohio. let's listen in. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> well, thank you all for coming. well, of course, the first thing i have to do is to thank migr m great wife karen for the fact that she has has -- i mean, she has endured my political career and also of course accentuated it. there's nobody like karen. she's charismatic, she walks into a room and people fall in love with her. you know, when she appeared on anderson cooper, john weaver commented and beth hanson commented that if we had only run karen, we would have been a lot more successful. i happen to agree with that. and, you know, em and reese showed up, they're beautiful and they've been so supportive and they've traveled with me around the country as well and it was always such a delight to have the family on the road and as their principal had said, don't let education get in the way of learning and i think that they learned a great deal, and of course i want to thank the worth i think ton christian staff and particularly buzz and

so we are looking at bellwether counties in places like florida, virginia, ohio, north carolina, new hampshire, colorado and wisconsin. republicans haven't actually quite won wisconsin yet. but because of some of the changes that occurred over the last two years, they have a pretty good opportunity there. the idea is to find out who the voters are because they keep the uri in this book is the reason why republicans went to elections in those counties but can't win presidential elections is because they've got sent to the voters are on the local level. >> let's go to hamilton county, ohio. who are the voters interviewed that republicans have lost and how to make it about? >> it's an interesting case because it's the only county that has a net population loss over the last two decades. the challenges are more about population growth, people coming in from other parts of the country, carrying what you call their native political elections with them. hamilton county is the one where people have left and had a pretty significant population decreased over the last 30 to 40 years. the peopl

senator brown joins me now live from cleveland, ohio.for joining us. >> jake, good to be back. >> hillary clinton is making a big issue out of donald trump's failure to release his tax returns. take a listen. >> what about his tax plan? i hope you'll keep asking that. and what about his taxes? because when you run for president especially when you become the nominee that is kind of expected. so you got to ask yourself why doesn't he want to release them? >> now it is true that bill and hillary clinton have made their tax returns public dating back to 1977, but, but senator brown, given that hillary clinton has refused to release the transcripts of those paid speeches to goldman sachs and that she had to essentially be dragged into giving her e-mails to the state department, isn't hillary clinton a flawed messenger when it comes to transparency? >> no, i think they're very different issues. you see what donald trump refuses to do, and i listened to your prior interview and there's a lot of dancing there, and i don't know why trump doesn't

is shaping up there. >> i'm at the truck world stop in hubbard, ohio. roads are as important to the presidential election than this one because it runs through the swing states of ohio and pennsylvania and nobody knows this area better than these truckers. have you thought about who you'll vote for yet? >> i don't know. i don't trust either one right now. >> that's donald trump and hillary clinton? >> yes. >> is it possible for hillary clinton to win over your vote? >> yes. >> and trump? >> yes. he has a lot to prove between now and then. >> what are you doing here at truck world? >> well, i have to do something. everybody has to be somewhere. >> so what do you think is going to happen? have you figured out where you'll go in the general election? >> yeah, i think trump is the lesser of two evils. >> you come with me for one second. what does the next president need to do to win over the voters of the i-80 corridor here through ohio? >> i think he's got to convince the voters that he's going to bring back industry. that went overseas and then mexico. i

>> i think if you're not a unifier, you have a big problem. >> it doesn't work in ohio?t think it does. you cannot come into here with the glass half empty and polarize people and think you're going to win ohio. >> let's discuss now with larry sabato, director for the center of politics at the university of virginia. good evening to you. i want to start with what -- with what governor kasich said to anderson cooper. he said that he has real doubts that trump's message will win him in ohio. what do you think? too early to say that? >> well, it is too early to say. and actually, trump does better in ohio than he does in many of the other states we heard bandied about as potential trump states, like pennsylvania or michigan. to me, what governor kasich said is more a hint about whether he would be willing to accept the vice presidency. no. >> yeah. there was a recent pole, larry, from quinnipiac, that showed trump leaning in ohio by a small margin, within the margin of error. should hillary clinton be concerned about this, 43-39%? >> i'm not sure i buy that poll. i think th

quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. portman: mr. president, on march 10, this border, the united states senate, passed legislation to address what is a growing problem in all of our communities, and that's the heroin and prescription drug epidemic. on march 10, this body voted for a comprehensive bill called care remarks the comprehensive addiction and recovery act. it deals with prevention, treatment, recovery, helping our law enforcement getting prescription drugs off the shelves of our bathrooms so that i.t. not being used -- it's not being used to get people into this addiction, helping to stop the overprescribing with a drug monitoring program. this was a comprehensive approach that was intended to help our communities back home to be able to deal with this growing problem. the number-one cause in my home state of ohio is not car accidents anymore. it is overdoses. it's overdoses from prescription drug

that's a dead heat in florida and ohio and pennsylvania and you have to say wow for mr. trump because it's been so long since pennsylvania went republican in presidential politics. if you're donald trump and you're looking at this you think what you've been saying all along is correct, that you can come into the race and like ronald reagan did create say trump democrats in the state of michigan, create trump democrats in the state of pennsylvania, be a traditional republican successful at the presidential level and get ohio and then if he can win in florida, under that scenario, donald trump if nothing else changed is the next president of the united states. now, those are four very big states. that is a huge lift in presidential politics. so i'm not saying it's easy. of course it isn't. traditionally democratic state, classic swing state. the democrats have won all four of them in the last two elections. i'm not saying it's easy. i'm saying if you are the trump campaign, you're looking up here first. you need ohio and you want to get michigan, pennsylvania, and look at

he is the sitting governor of ohio. the convention will be in cleveland where donald trump puican nominee and so that's another thing he and his aides are going to have to grapple with is how to deal with donald trump in this convention. >> no more drama over the contested convention. chief political analyst gloria borger and cnn analyst and host of the david gregory show podcast, david gregory. gloria, you've been involved from the beginning. it was just last night you made this decision. >> well, no. this morning. 8:00. like he was on a private plane. they were heading into dc and he had the plane turn around, i'm told. and he called four of his closest, oldest buddies. and told them, my heart's not in it. and asked them what he should do and each of them i'm told said to him, if your heart is not in it, don't do it. and as sarah was saying, all of us were getting the signals last night that kasich was staying in it. you know, i heard from the top kasich advisor saying there was too much to fight for. the future of am

we had cameras ready to go there but kasich never left ohio so he's going to hold an event there later today and that's where we expect he's going to announce it as fox news does confirm that john kasich is suspending his campaign, leaving the field to donald trump as we do await that formal announcement this afternoon rich, you begin to wonder what else he will say in that announcement and in those remarks that he does make. what will he say about supporting or not supporting donald trump or bringing the party together? >> it is a question that john kasich and a number of republicans in washington dc and around the country are asking themselves . how will they support donald trump? will they support donald trump? how much will they support donald trump and there are already divisions some in the u.s. senate who have come out and said they oppose donald trump through this process. will they change their minds because again, if you're not supporting donald trump in the general election, you're supporting a democrat as a republican so what will the critique be? will it be a critique on p

if she wins pennsylvania but loses, florida, ohio and 269 to 269.n this scenario it gets thrown to the house, unlikely to happen but it's a reminder that team clinton also has to look at the map and say what can we change, what if donald trump is successful in these states, what if donald trump could get a state like new hampshire to flip over for him and this scenario he's president by changing just four states. so the clinton campaign says what do we need just in case trump is actually competitive here? where do they look, jake, two early targets, georgia and arizona, both looked at by the obama campaign in 2012, why does the clinton campaign think we will look again, the latino population in arizona is growing. the clinton campaign thinks changing demographics could possibly switch arizona. why georgia? let's assume never trump conservatives stay home, a lot in the south, a state like georgia, also a big african-american population. if she could turn that out maybe in the president's help the dream in the clinton campaign is you can turn georgia.

this impacts every county in the ninth district of ohio, stretching across all of northern ohio. we've been impacted more heavily due to the major highway turnpike, i-8090 and easy transport networks that link to international smuggling access points. the largest of our district five county, chi hoe ga county, declared a public health emergency because of record rates of overdoses. the county lost a staggering 181 citizens in this first four months of 2016, a rate of overdose deaths that if continued would more than double the 2015 numbers for that ounty. mayors across the district report to me the dramatic increase in emergency calls related to the ep democrat egg. in northern ohio, spikes in overdoses are outpacing the ability of local hospitals and rehabilitation facilities to respond effectively. this week's legislative activity is imperative to communities across america. i encourage our communities to -- our congress to send this to the president. people's lives and safety are waiting for our actions. i'd like to schafer the stories of three young adults two named matt, and

the seven key counties and swing states of 2004 so we are looking at places like florida, virginia, ohio north carolina in hampshire colorado and wisconsin because of the changes that have occurred there is a great opportunity to find of good they are the reason why republicans win the statewide elections they lost touch with the voters. >> go to hamilton county ohio who are some of the voters they have lost? and the camel to county is interesting because it has a net population and loss. the challenges are more about growth from other parts of the country the their native predilections. it is one where they have a significant population so those who have the economic mobility but they don't work than high-priced firms or to put food on the table and they have an opportunity to make a case or what their issues are but the problem that you have with the republican party at one point was one of the most republican parties and a republican state. hamilton county was a very read county over the last two presidential elections one of the reasons the republicans will message -- message the eco

first of all, ohio. i travel around the country and traffic jams are terrible in all day, just terrible long. in ohio, a gem and just said hadt a prevailing wage, we come at the beginning of weredent obama's term, we supposed to do a rail system here and everything was approved and created 30,000 jobs in ohio. governor kasich said he could not afford it and cancel that. we have done well with jobs in ohio, but with the infrastructure, the roads, and the rail systems, all things in ohio, our employment will be down to pretty much nothing and prevailing wage was not the issue at all. was a matter of the people who benefit the most from the roads and transportation seems to be the people who do not want to pay for it. people want to pay for it. i do not understand why. why hasn'tquestion, congress passed laws to allow us to take care of the infrastructure? it just don't make sense. host: thanks for the call, james. guest: i agree infrastructure should be a priority. it should be a bipartisan issue. i am loo

really important here what's going on in ohio.out it all morning and last night, rachel was talking about it. has released their first ad spending $1.76 million here in ohio. this state could decide the election. it went for barack obama the last two times but went for george bush before that. >> i've got to say you gave it a little toot toot there, i think i would have hung on to that thing a little longer. >> reporter: there were little kids around, i didn't want to scare anybody, steve. i was a little scared to pull it myself. >> jacob soboroff spending time with the 18-wheelers, not the 16-wheelers out there on i-80 in columbus there. thanks for that, jacob. >> reporter: my bad. >> i would have probably made the same mistake. msnbc's special live coverage of tonight's primary will kick off at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. i'll be there with the whole team breaking down the results as they roll in. for now i'm steve kornacki. jose diaz-balart is up next. w wt forever to see it. (jon bon jovi) with directv, you don't. ♪ you see, we've

if you look at ohio overall, hillary clinton ran very strongly in ohio.ou look in the urban areas of cincinnati, particularly -- i'm sorry, particularly in columbus and cleveland, hillary we believe will run strong there. but in the appalachian counties like west virginia in ohio and virginia and the rural counties of pennsylvania, trump will do well. you look at the republican primary in pennsylvania, trump won every county in the state. >> and in virginia he won 61% in one county in southwest virginia as well. rex, i appreciate your insight as we try to break down the data. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> you have to wonder, though, how much this outsider view of the world is going to change if at any point this race becomes about policy rather than style. >> and personality. and looking at changing the electoral votes the republicans looking at the rust belt states and democrats liking at the changing demographics in states like north carolina, georgia, and arizona, and donald trump's comments that have impacted him in those states. >>

the general election. >> jacob soboroff in ohio.ernie sanders just issuing a statement on the violence at saturday's nevada convention. in that statement, he condemns quote any and all forms of violence including the personal harassment of individuals and goes on to say quote at that convention, the democratic leadership used its power to prevent a fair and transparent process from taking place. >> as you can imagine, my colleague, kate snow, will have much more developing at this hour. that comes your way at the top of the hour. i'm erica hill. you're watching msnbc. our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. our amex helped us fill the orders. just like that. another step on the journey. will you be ready when growth presents itself? reali

we're using the resources we have in the ground in ohio.g worked there, liz, you know how important it is to us? liz: sure. >> also talking about the alternative and made an interesting comment that it will be even worse with hillary clinton. and he says that because of what she said about coal, about fracking, therefore about natural gas and oil. and i think he's right. i do think there's a danger there of us not just -- not progress forward and using these resources to be able to improve the economic situation of so many ohio families who right now seeing this middle class squeeze with lower wages and higher expenses. but also she could even make it worse where we would actually not be allowing the fracking to continue, not being able to get the permits. having more regulation. so i think he makes a good point. liz: sure. but isn't, senator, this perhaps in part of a case of be careful what you wish for? ohio is fracking quite a bit. so is north dakota, supply of natural gas coming up. it's cheaper. and hence people are turning away from

here in ohio, a few weeks ago during the ohio primary sounded like i said something differently about coal miner jobs. to put it plainly i misspoke. one reason why i took this trip, to say that directly to the people who are affected. reporter: now as a percentage of state gdp, the coal industry is 3%, coal mining rather, is 3% for kentucky and 10% for west virginia. melissa? melissa: thank you so much for that, peter. ashley webster right now with breaking news. earnings on 20th century fox. >> we sure do, parent company of fox business network. earnings, 47 cents per share. exactly in line with the estimate. meanwhile revenue coming in at 7.23 billion, which is slightly better than the estimate. by the way cable revenues they were looking for 3.88 billion. it came in at 3.94 billion, so some higher numbers coming in. the estimates being beaten just slightly by 21st century fox. as you can see the stock moving slightly higher in after-hours trade. melissa: ashley, thank you for that. we'll drill down more details coming up. david: we will. cbs earnings came out and they were a lot hi

ohio simply because mr. trump's message is the prevailing message, particularly on the republican side and as he continues to campaign moving forward on a concept of putting americans and their families first when making decisions when it comes to trade, when it comes to immigration and foreign policy, at the end of the day, that's the message that's going to win. >> a pro clinton super pac put out a new ad. i want to get your reaction. let me play a little clip from it. listen to this. >> girls come 5'1". >> if ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps i'd be daytonindaytoting her. >> a girl flat chested is hard to be a 10. >> you can go tell them to go [ bleep ] themselves. >> donald trump blasted it on twitter calling it unfair because the swearing at the end is about china and not about women. but doesn't this ad sort of highlight tone trump has taken with women? could his own words in a general election campaign come back to haunt him? >> no. i don't think so. but i do know this is the narrative that the left

he must win ohio.his is more important than paul ryan's endorsement. >> you hear kasich say being negative in ohio doesn't work, do you think that's true? >> he doesn't want to see the marco exchanges and things we saw in the primary, not necessarily not going negative, i think he would be fine going after the clinton foundation or some scandals, i think he wants to see the level of rhetoric change to something more suited for general election. >> tara, the governor said he is not interested in being a third party candidate. reince priebus had come forward and said whoever decides to do that, it would be a suicide mission. >> i know that the third party candidacy idea is something that a lot of folks are flirting with, and it is still out there, but it is still a fantasy until you have someone willing to do it. logistical problems with trying to put someone on the ballot is -- i think the hurdles may be too difficult to overcome, i think this effort is late at this point. i understand why. i am one of

florida and ohio, the key states for winning, very positive night.it is 7:30 in west virginia. the polls have closed. donald trump we are projecting has won tonight's primary. he is the only major candidate who remains on the democratic side. senator bernie sanders currently enjoying a solid lead over hillary clinton in the state's democratic presidential primary. it is too early to project a winner in the race based on fox news exit polling so the democratic race too close to call, and put another state in donald trump's primary victory column. let's go back to that polling and what we've just seen as a result here in west virginia. 34 delegates at stake. how significant? >> lot of stories about the internal battle going on in the republican party. but to the voters, very much in the trump camp and no opposition. my sense is he's getting stronger and stronger in the polls. dead heat in the national polls. i remind people george h.w. bush was 18 points after michael dukakis. he's not going to have to move a lot of numbers, right on her tail. lou: doe

stivers of ohio. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following, section, none of the funds made available by this act may be used for the cape wind energy project on the outer continental shelf off massachusetts nantucket sound. the chair: the gentleman from ohio and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio. mr. stivers: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of my amendment, which would prohibit the department of energy from funding -- for any funding being used for the cape wind offshore wind generation project in cape cod, massachusetts. . i offered this amendment in last year's appropriation, it was adopted by a voice vote. so i believe it should be fairly noncontroversial and i urge my colleagues to support the amendment. nearly two years ago the department of energy offered conditional commitments for the cape wind project of $150 million loan guarantee. but since that time, the project has been plagued by setbacks a

ohio and florida have just gone from tossup to likely democratic.ates in play that were never in place before for democrats, georgia will be in play. at the moment even utah is close. so we're not going to have to do much to unify our party. we're going to be unified with both democrats and independents and republicans who do not want donald trump to be delivering a state of the union address. >> you told "the new york times" to speak to some of other vulnerabilities, making the transcripts of the goldman speeches public would have been devastating to mrs. clinton. when the gop gets done telling the clinton fund-raising and expense story, bernie supporters will wonder why they didn't do the same. >> as a consequence of donald trump having far more damaging things that he's done, leading the birther movement, business practices, lots of things he's done. you think that most hispanics when they turn out to vote are going to consider voting for donald trump or women will consider or african-americans will consider, people who are disabled, let alone mi

presidency without winning the state of ohio.tate, talk about perfect for donald trump's message. if you are falling behind economically, that's the definition of people from ohio. >> the quinnipiac poll, it's neck and neck. >> these are states that pl mitt romney lost. if trump does well in ohio, he could conceivably do well throughout the rest of the midwest. these four states have 64 electoral votes. that's exactly how many trump needs. if he won all of romney's states plus wisconsin, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, he wins all of those states are listed by larry sabato as leaning democratic. anything could happen. >> then we go out to west. >> nevada and colorado are states you put in play. donald trump is going to have trouble with the minority vote here. east coast, you got virginia, a lot of government employees living in the northern part of that state. not sure how it works. if donald trump wins, nevada, colorado, or virginia, you can say he's having a good night at that point. >> you are saying earlier if he does struggle

couldn't do better than senator rob portman from ohio. cabinet level spots, widely respected, served in the house and senate. the issue, he is up for re-election, his heart is with ohio. he is smart, serious legislate or, understands the mechanics. he would be a wonderful complement to trump. whether he would do it, i don't know. he is also from the key state of ohio which john kasich also brings to the equation. >> couple things. somebody who he should pick who will not accept it is john kasich from ohio. there's no way the governor of ohio will do this. 18 electoral votes on the table. john kasich knows how to legislate, one of the smartest guys to work washington, and ceo, but to the congressman's point, would be a fantastic pick, for everybody that knows john kasich, you know him better than anybody, john kasich is a tough person to get along with. second person who is a possibility is rick perry, former governor of texas. doesn't give him texas. trump wins texas anyway. gets him bona fide with conservatives and conceptually. >> rick

could he have an edge in november in ohio? >> look, a couple ever things about ohio.ere's a place where white working class voters make a big difference. it's not a significantly diverse state, unlike, say, a florida. very high hispanic population and african-american. if he's able to continue that appeal that he's shown in west virginia, for example, some of that could blend over into that appalachian region, the allegheny region of western pennsylvania and ohio. so that is a state where he's got a fighting chance, if he were to pick a john kasich as vp. that could make a difference. it's not going to be enough to do the math entirely but cowl tip ohio. >> dead heat florida and pennsylvania. florida really a must-win in almost any scenario for donald trump. but this is also pretty stunning for hillary clinton. just saw that form eer clinton aide saying, hey, democrats, if you aren't taking this seriously, you better get with the program. >> his point is right on. you always run a better campaign when you feel like you're running from behind. if you take that for gran

>> i'm running my own race in ohio right now. we have a senate race in ohio.'m in the middle of that. i love representing my state. >> a bit of a tight race in ohio? >> it's a tight race. we're virtually tied. a pohl call came out yesterday, months before the election so time before people begin to focus. >> you're not worried your endorsement of trump plays either way in that race? does it help you in that race? >> i'm not sure anybody can predict what will happen going forward. i will say there was a poll yesterday that came out j quinnpy yack poll that showed donald trump beating hillary clinton in ohio, i think 33-49. a lot of evidence clinton voters are switching to the republican side. he brings new people to the party, our own republican party in ohio we had not just record turnout but 40% higher turnout in 50 years. in my primary i had an opponent and ended up getting over 82% of the vote, a record for any contested senate primary in ohio. those voters came and did support me. i appreciate that. i think it could be helpful to our election. >> tomorrow,

i don't know. >> do you think ohio is a hillary clinton state or a donald trump state? >> i think if you're not a unifier, you have a big problem. if you're going to double down on negative, it isn't going to work. >> doesn't work in ohio? >> i don't believe it does, no. you cannot be -- you cannot come into here with the glass half empty and polarize people and think you're going to win ohio. >> the conventional wisdom, which is both conventional, not sure how much wisdom it is -- >> yeah, nothing's been right. >> it's been proved wrong. >> i hate to even use that term. but a lot of people are looking at this race that's coming and thinking, this is going to be unlike anything we've seen, just scorched earth, it's going to be brutal. >> both will use negative tactics, no question about it, try to beat the other one down. and you know, that just adds to the cynicism about politicians. i just, i've always believed that in politics, your strength are your ideas. it's not like beating somebody else down. people say, why didn't you go negative? why didn't you get it into wi

i'm at the truck world truck stop on the i-80 corridor in hubbard, ohio.e as important to the 2016 presidential election than this one because it runs through the swing states of ohio and pennsylvan pennsylvania. nobody knows this area better than these truckers. >> have you thought about who you're going to vote for yet? >> i don't know. i don't trust either one of them right now. >> donald trump or hillary clinton? >> yes. >> is it possible for hillary clinton to win over your vote? >> yes, it is. >> donald trump, possible for him? >> yeah. he has a lot to prove between now and then. >> retired salesman. what are you doing here at truck world. >> well, i have to do something. everybody has got to be somewhere. >> what do you think is going to happen. have you figured out which way you're going to go in that general election? >> yeah, i think so. i think trump is the lesser of two evils. >> chuck, i want to look at this map right here. what does the next president need to do to win over the voters of the i-80 corridor through ohio? >> i think he's got to

so gus hauser and the folks at cube in columbus who were cablecasting ohio state football games every saturday would send me overnight a on otape of the game, and monday i would have a party for all the congressional folks om the ohio delegation saying, and all cared about the ohio state football game -- saying here's the game, let's all watch it. and by the way if we had choices in television rather than just the three networks, you could see a lot more of it. i think we have reached that point. we have seen the plethora of sports that has resulted and i think that's a great thing and i never miss an ohio state game because i'm either in the stands or i'm on cable. peter: final question. is there too much focus on the hairman of the f.c.c.? it's michael powell's f.c.c., tom wheeler's f.c.c.? tom: first be call -- all, this is a collegial body of five votes. it takes three votes to get anything done. and i think that what happens is it becomes easy to, you got to hang a name on it so rather than the 2013 to 20 whatever it is chairman was, they hang a name with it. but the other thing

ohio. because ohio, those 18 electoral votes is more than the 18. it's the fact that ohio has picked the winner 28 of the last 30 cycles, and i know you remember those 30 civiles cycleu remember the on exceptions are john f. kennedy in 1960. lost ohio but won the presidency, and franklin roosevelt in 1944 but no republican has been elected without ohio. so tart with florida and ohio. >> so, if you're looking at ohio, you're looking at florida, you could look to john kashich, marco rubio, to help improve the odds? >> yes. and i would throw in governor rick scott, who -- of florida because he has been for six years, he had two tough races. he is wealthy. he could be assigned to florida for virtually the entire general election campaign. that's not to argue for him over john kashich or over marco rubio. it's simply to say there oar -- other choices. >> interesting. i'll raise that with him on the next segment. everybody seems to say conventional wisdom -- you hear from dem contracts we're so g

it did strike me this fact, he still has to govern ohio for the next couple years.here's a point where if you stay in too long, you become the laughing stock. and you want still want to have credibility when you govern a significant state like ohio. >> you do. and kasich leads with his heart. he is the guy we've known 20 years. >> that whole storiy rings so true. of course he got to the plane and said, what am i doing? >> that's him. it's a tough job. trump is right when he's talking about this. the guy's put it all on the line. here's someone who did risk at this point making himself a little bit of an -- putting himself in an embarrassing situation. when you're a political leader and nobody's following you, you're just a guy out for a walk alone. and that's what he was beginning to look like. i think this preserves some options for him down the road. a lot of people are beginning to think, what's the world going to look like in four years? >> i have to say, though, i am surprised with the speed with which the party is uniting around trump. i think we all thought,

i want to thank the gentlelady from ohio, excuse my raspy voice. i also want to say how timely the congressional black caucus is. all that have been crying out, black lives matter, to the mothers of the movement, is that we need changes dealing with the whole vastness of criminal justice reform. police-community relations, police actions, actions dealing with guns, actions dealing with the loss of life of our young people. let's get a framework that can allow us to debate, to fix, to amend and to get a product that will ultimately be signed by the president of the united states. on behalf of the people of the united states who are crying out for relief. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mrs. beatty: thank you. let me just end by saying, the urgency is now. and in the words of nelson mandela, it always seems impossible until it's done. tonight the congressional black caucus says, let's get it done. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. pursua

couldn't do better than senator rob portman from ohio.pots, widely respected, served in the high school and senate. the issue, he is up for re-election, his heart is with ohio. he is smart, serious legislate or, understands the mechanics. he would be a wonderful complement to trump. whether he would do it, i don't know. he is also from the key state of ohio which john kasich also brings to the equation. >> couple things. somebody who he should pick who will not accept it is john kasich from ohio. there's no way the governor of ohio will do this. 18 electoral votes on the table. john kasich knows how to legislate, one of the smartest guys to work washington, and ceo, but to the congressman's point, would be a fantastic pick, for everybody that knows john kasich, you know him better than anybody, john kasich is a tough person to get along with. second person who is a possibility is rick perry, former governor of texas. doesn't give him texas. trump wins texas anyway. gets him bona fide with conservatives and conceptually. >> rick perry came

in ohio.ke a jim webb, a democrat to sort of reach out to working class whites and the rust belt. i do think donald trump could win states like michigan and ohio, that republicans really need to win. especially if you're going to lose -- >> win ning those states, it's over, right? >> i'm not concerned about him winning and not predicting but he has a good shot. >> i'm sure you agree. >> i do. we saw those polls come out and people shocked in the quinnipiac polls indicating he is doing extremely well in ohio, florida and california and a lot of us weren't surprised because like matt's pointing out he appeals in the crossover sort of way and voters never voted republican and perhaps never voted at all that i think we'll see come out. >> thanks very much for joining us. matt, as well to you. in the next hour, a response of senate democrats of what's going on in washington. donald trump's series of meetings here. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." for the viewers in north amer

tim is in baltic, ohio. republican line for our guest, casey dinges of the american society of civil engineers. go ahead. >> caller: yeah. i'm superintendent of the water system, and in 2010 we built a watt dwraermt pla water treatment plant. pretty much had to. the cost of that was $1.3 million. but on the idea of looking at the price of it i figured that without prevailing wage we could have got that in at 700,000. so i think the prevailing wage is the biggest knock on how we get infrastructure done. >> mr. dinges. >> you're hitting on a wage issue. i'm sure if you had a guest from labor sitting here they would talk pretty hard on this issue. that can be an issue in more of the northern states. that's not an issue in the southern states and other parts of the united states. i've heard other projects, though, in the midwest and northeast where that really wasn't an issue where the true wages that had to be paid on these projects would have been paid anyways, regardless of a prevailing wage law. that's not a

i think we're going to win pennsylvania and ohio is a great state for me. i did very well in ohio.had a great number in ohio. i did a very good job? if i would have been there for two more days you would have seen, but we got a great number in ohio. >> look at the -- i don't know if you've seen they came out with the war room, how the clintons fought back in 1992 against george bush. very insightful. it gives you insight into your friend. we know about the clinton machine. we know they play dirty. they'll say and do anything to get elected. between that and "the washington post" announcing they have put 20 people to dig into every single phase of your life, are you prepared for what's coming, not if it's comi, but what's coming. >> it's interesting you say that because every hour we're getting calls from reporters from "the washington post" asking ridiculous questions and i will tell you this is owned as a toy by jeff who controls am zon. he's using the washington post for power so the politicians don't tax amzon like they should be. he's worried where he thinks i would go after hi

the gentlelady from ohio? ms. kaptur: i rise in opposition to the amendment and claim type in opposition -- time in opposition. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. kaptur: it's interesting that a member from colorado, home to the national renewable energy lab, i'd sure like to have that in ohio, is headquartered, and i've visited that site and have been so impressed by the basic research that's been done in so many arenas that's brought new products to market, when i look at the solar industry, for example, were it not for the photo voltaic research of the u.s. department of energy back in the early days, it would not w be employing more people than work in many of the other energy sectors put together. it's amazing to me it's one of the fastest growing sectors of our markets. but the basic research that had to be done, the film research, he work on sill cats, on cadmium telluride. there was no company able to take that risk in the past and they certainly couldn't get the funding. i can guarantee you that

and the day before in west virginia. >> here in ohio a few weeks ago during the ohio primary it sounded like i said something differently about coal miner jobs. to put it plainly i misspoke. it's one reason i took this trip to say it directly to the people affected, to make sure you know where i stand because i would never disrespect the people here. among the 100,000 miners who died in the last century, we have lost miners in this century too. 29 brave men who perished at the upper big branch mine. the owner of that mine, don blankenship had neglected workers' safety for years. we need to strengthen those laws and hold executives who neglect workers' health and safety to account. by the way, i heard mr. blankenship was outside my event yesterday. protesting me. well, if donald trump wants the support of someone like that he can have it. >> we're going to get those miners back to work. i'll tell you what, we're going to get those miners back to work. we're not going to be hillary clinton and i watched her three or four weeks ago when she was talking about the miners as if they were just