over 45% of the vote in november compared over 46% for shumlin.esterday morning that the legislature chose shumlin as the governor and yesterday afternoon that the state of the state happened, and these protests took place. we're joined by one of the leaders of the protest of the sit-in who has been leading the push for single-payer healthcare there since 2009. james haslam is the director of the vermont workers' center, which coordinates healthcare is a human right campaign. he joins us via video stream. welcome to democracy now! highly unusual day. people have not taken over the floor of the vermont legislature before in montville your and governor shumlin chosen by the legislature. talk about anything that happened yesterday 01/09/15 01/09/15 thank you. yesterday was an incredible day. we had hundreds of people come out on an incredibly cold day. windchill factors were -30 in vermont. we started off the day down the street from the state house in a church. we had a people state of the state address, a speak out or the health care is a human rig

shumlin about your small state. arkansas is a small state into our credit we pass a sales tax to overcome the problems that you have. i wish coming across the 14th street bridge everyday we could give you some of that traffic. it would make my life and other commuters a lot easier but comment on a two year and a five-year and also how do we ensure as we are trying to do the best we can do that is an improvement versus the state shrinking back. >> in terms of the two to five the more certainty you can give us the better. governor bentley and i served in an environment where we would love to have to because we have been working month-to-month since we have been governor. we have both been governors for four-year so the more certainty you can give us a longer period of time the happier all governors will be in particularly in a situation when you're dealing with garvey bonds. governor bentley said to wall street we have an ongoing funding source from the feds so i can turn to the folks of alabama and say we have got ce

shumlin, about your small state. arkansas's a small state. to our credit we passed a half-cent sales tax to try to overcome the problems that you have. i wish coming across the 14th street bridge every day that we could different you some of our traffic. that would make my life sxm other commuters' a lot easier. but comment on the two versus the five-year bill. and then also the problems how do we ensure that as we try to do the very best that we can do to get money into the states that that's actually an improvement versus the state shrinking back? >> in terms of the two to five the more certainty you can give us the better. five's better than two. governor bentley served in an environment where we'd love to have two. we've both been governors for four years. needless to say the more certainty you can give us the longer period of time, the happier all governors will be. and particularly in a situation you're dealing with garvey bonds, governor bentley said to wall street we've got an ongoing funding source from the feds so i can turn to the

shumlin, about your small state. arkansas's a small state. to our credit we passed a half-cent sales tax to try to overcome the problems that you have. i wish coming across the 14th street bridge every day that we could different you some of our traffic. that would make my life sxm other commuters' a lot easier. but comment on the two versus the five-year bill. and then also the problems how do we ensure that as we try to do the very best that we can do to get money into the states that that's actually an improvement versus the state shrinking back? >> in terms of the two to five the more certainty you can give us the better. five's better than two. governor bentley served in an environment where we'd love to have two. we've both been governors for four years. needless to say the more certainty you can give us the longer period of time, the happier all governors will be.

some years ago and governor shumlin played an active role we had hurricane irene with devastation to our infrastructure and we were and we work hard to rebuild that infrastructure so i appreciate your efforts mr. chairman you're working with senator boxer. there's a lot of division in the congress today but i would hope on this

governor shumlin was nodding vigorously throughout did you but didn't have a chance to say anything. i'd just offer him if he had any comments to make on this in addition. but otherwise, i think the record is clear that the governors before us were in accord on this subject. >> i think we are in your court. the only point that i'd make that hasn't been made in terms of this conversation generally is, when we talk about re-invigorating the trust fund which we all know was created in 1958, has served us well. that was a time when we were building infrastructure for the first time in america. it's what made this country great. it's what made us the most powerful economy in the wrorldorld. we couldn't have done it without that trust fund. >> the first covered bridges you're talking about. >> first covered bridges. you got it. and the challenge we face now from just -- big picture for a second because sometimes we get into the weeds on how we should allocate the money. and i suspect that all 50 governors would agree on this one is that we have two things facing us. the first is obviously

vermont lawmakers just voted to re-elect peter shumlin as the next governor.mber. potentially the loser can seize, but the republican refused. the governor will be sworn in this afternoon. >>> and we continue to cover the manhunt in france for those two terrorists still at large. right now france is observing a national day of mourning today as the world continues to try and make sense of such a horrific act of extremism. using the rallying cry "i am charlie." joining me to talk about the way forward is a professor at the university of california-davis school of law. and author of "your fatwa does not apply here." professor, thanks for being with me. >> thank you for having me. >> you grew up in algeria where your father faced death threats for speaking out against muslim extremism in the '90s. when we see what happened yesterday in 2015 where have we come since then? >> well unfortunately, we're still facing some of the same threats that my father and his colleagues faced back at that time. it was what was called the dark decade in algeria, some 200,000 peopl