development corporation and a citizen of the oglala lakota nation on pine ridge reservation in south dakota. i asked standing rock sioux chair dave archambault about the tribe's lawsuit challenging the dakota access pipeline. dave archambault ii: from the very beginning, we asked the corps of engineers, "what impact will this pipeline have on our people?" and the corps of engineers never could answer that. their response is, "we're doing an environmental assessment, and we're going to see what impact it will have on the environment." and there's no impact. that's their -- that's what they state. so when we say, "well, we need to do a further look and see what really happens when infrastructure projects have an impact on our people" and we've experienced many infrastructure projects in the past, such as a railroad system. the railroad system facilitated the near-extinction of buffalo herds. when we were at 70 million buffalo in 1800, by 1889 we're down to less than a hundred. and it was the railroad track system that did that. there's interstates. there's telecommunications. there's dams. al

amy: we will speak with the chair in south dakota. plus, we speak with the grandson of former vice president henry wallace, who spoke against fascism in america more than 70 years ago. the wallace global fund recently sioux $1tanding rock million for wind and solar renewable energy projects. all of that and more coming up. this is democracynow, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i am amy goodman. today, in this holiday special, we begin with the words of frederick douglass. born into slavery around 1818, douglass would escape, head north and become a key leader of the abolition movement. on july 5th, 1852, in rochester, new york, 165 years ago, douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, "the meaning of july fourth for the negro." he was addressing the rochester ladies' anti-slavery society. this is actor james earl jones reading douglass's historic address during a performance of the late, great historian howard howard zinn's voices of a people's history of the united states. at the time, james earl jones was introduced b

president, senator from south dakota. as the leader has very ably pointed out the dem creaken obstruction when it comes to president trump's nominees is reaching an unprecedented level. you compared to any past administration he pointed out the number of nominees president obama was able to get in the way the senate cooperated with him, this state of affairs here inea the that really is taking the obstructionism when it comes to trying to block even getting people into the administration, into their positions, to an entirely new level. frankly, mr. president, about the only thing that probably exceeds the pileup of president trump's nominees to getting into his administration is the pileup of bad obamacare news stories. just take a look at a few of the recent headlines. from the cincinnati inquirer. another insurer leaves ohio healthcare exchange. from bloomberg, a headline, anthem exit creates obamacare crisis for rural evidence inns. from the washington free beacon. recent obamacare lead to two more counties with no cho

the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: mr. president, as the leader has very ablably pointed out, the democrat obstruction when it comes to president trump's nominees is reaching an unprecedented level if you compare it to any past administration. he pointed out the number of nominees president obama was able to get in the way that republicans had here -- republicans here in the senate cooperated with him on his nominees. this state of affairs here in the senate really is taking the obstructionism when it comes to it trying to block even getting people into the administration into their positions to an entirely new level. and, frankly, mr. president, about the only thing that probably exceeds the pileup of president obama's -- president trump's nominees to getting into his administration is the pile up of bad obamacare news stories. just take a look at a few of the recent headlines. from the "cincinnati inquirier." this is a headline, "another insurer leaves a ohio exchange." from bloomberg, anthem exit creates across for neva

. >> good afternoon, mike grimes out of south dakota. i had the opportunity to serve as governor of south dakota for eight years. the legislative body would meet for 40 days and sometimes 40 nights but at the end of that time. like most of the other states we would get our job done, get things completed in an appropriate fashion before the fiscal year started. people can make their plans, they could lay out basically what our budgets were, they needed to know what to expect of the agencies. individuals would ask for dollars, new what had been awarded, had not been awarded in a timely fashion. it's not the way things have worked in washington for probably 43 years now and as senator perdue has indicated, the process has worked four times in 23 years and until such time as we can fix this process and allow good people that work here to get their jobs done in a timely fashion, we're probably going to have to spend extra time in washington rather than back in the states during those state work periods. there's back home and don't mind if we

it happened here on south dakota avenue. she was walking. was she in the crosswalk here on 33rd street or was she on south dakota avenue at the point of impact. police are trying to figure that out. now, a portion of this incident caught on camera at this gas station. looking at this security camera video, you can see the woman walking down the sidewalk on south dakota avenue towards 33rd street. she goes out of view, so it's unclear to exactly where she was when she was struck by that dump truck. the truck makes a turn from 33rd street on to south dakota avenue. you can see someone waving their hands in front of the truck to get the driver to stop. people at the gas station then moved to give first aid to the woman. firefighters and paramedics arrive on the scene. they have a lot of life saving work to do, stopping the bleeding and preparing the victim for the trip to the hospital. the truck belongs to fort meyer construction, they do a lot of the road work in our city. police say the driver stayed on the scene and he's cooperating with the

he's seen a lot in his time with the f d quite like what he saw on south dakota avenue today. >> theority of the a young woman set to be in her 20s, struck by a big dump truck, the truck belongs to fort meyer construction company that does a lot of the road work for our city fort meyer has a work yard nearby. the woman was walking when it happened, but was she in the crosswalk at 33rd street or on south dakota avenue at the time of impact. police are trying to figure that out. now, this incident was captured in part by security cameras from the gas station nearby. you can see the woman walking down the sidewalk on south dakota avenue towards the 33rd street she goes out of view so it's unclear to exactly where she was when she was struckby dump truck. you can see someone waving their hands in front of the truck to get the driver to stop. people at the gas station then moved to give first aid to the woman. it was engine 26 that was called on the scene to help. >> look to panic at people's faces. we knew we were walking on the scene of something that you're not going to see every day.

nick bryant, bbc news, south dakota.has been working out his last day, as an air ambulance pilot, a role he's carried out for the last two years. he's now taking up his royal duties full—time. the duke of cambridge says he's been proud to serve. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. a team photograph at the start of his final shift. a picture from his working life which is likely to mean more than most for william wales since it will remind him of the role he's played as a member of the emergency services doing a job largely out of public sight in which he's been able to prove himself solely on the basis of ability. his colleagues say they'll miss him. he's a hard—working member of the team, always keen to get his hands dirty and help out, whether it's just cleaning the aircraft or actually at scene, helping out with patients that are critically ill. from the moment william took up his air ambulance duties more than two years ago, it's clear how much thejob has meant to him. it's kept him grounded, he said,

. >> good afternoon, mike rounds out of south dakota. i had the opportunity to serve as governor of south dakota for eight years. during the time our legislative body would meet for basically 40 days, sometimes 40 nights. at the end of that time period like most of the other states we get our job done. get things completed in an appropriate fashion before the fiscal year actually started. people could make their plans. they could lay out based upon what our budgets were, they knew what to expect in state agencies. individuals who had come in and asked for dollars knew what had been awarded and not been awarded. in a timely fashion. that's not the way things have worked in washington for probably 43 years now. i think as senator perdue has indicated, this process is actually worked four times in 43 years. until such time we can actually fix this process and allow really good people that work here to get their job done in a timely fashion, we're probably going to have to spend extra time here in washington rather than back in the states du

the monumental sculpture is in south dakota, that's solid trump territory.k bryant travelled to mount rushmore to find out. what better place to talk presidential stature than mount rushmore in south dakota? carved into the rock are sculptures of washington, jefferson, teddy roosevelt and abraham lincoln. four presidents who truly made america great. donald trump continues to boast he'll be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly abe lincoln. but even people who voted for him take a very different view. i'm a bit disappointed and the reason is because i think he was the right guy at the time to shake things up, to move things forward, but he's causing too much chaos and not bringing enough order to government. i think his ego is getting in the way so i'm hoping he's going to take a step back and take a look at himself. i think he can do the change, if he gets rid of his ego. i don't think he's been as presidential as i ideally want. but i think he's getting used to the job, as well, and i think you'll get there. donald trump has described his

police say alvarez stayed on the scene on the south dakota one. but today in court, the judge ordered alvarez not to drive any more commercial vehicles for at least a month, until they have another hearing in this case. >> i think the judge made proper decision. she did not allow him to continue to operate a commercial vehicle. he's obviously proven to be a danger to the innocence of this city. frankly, even those outside the city, so that was a very proper and grateful for it. >> reporter: fort myer said that alvarez is not currently driving their company. fort myer said they believe safety is first. fort myer said it's cooperating fully with police in that south dakota avenue accident investigation. wendy, back to you. >> a second person is now charged in the shooting of a baby. you may remember the one-year-old hit by a stray bullet two weeks ago outside a home on i street in northeast dc. 27-year-old is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. 39-year-old arrested last week faces the same charges and police are still looking for another p

nick bryant, bbc news, south dakota.king up his royal duties full—time. for the past two years, the duke of cambridge has been working for the east anglian air ambulance service, based in cambridge. a former british olympic athlete has revealed that she self—harmed while struggling to cope with the demands of elite competition. rebekah wilson — a member of team gb‘s two—woman bobsleigh crew at the 2014 sochi games — told how the "intense pressure" of training took its toll and says she believes the duty of care towards athletes needs to be addressed. she's been speaking exclusively to our sports editor, dan roan. 0n the outside, rebekah wilson was living the dream, representing team gb at the 2014 winter olympics. a star of a sport defined by courage and speed, the bobsleigh. but behind the dedication was a darker secret she now wants to share. a 26—year—old telling me how life is an elite athlete took its toll. i had to hold it together and the only way i could do that was at the time when i was self—harming, i would tr

those are some strides we're taking in south dakota. again, i want to thank nga and the merkel foundation and siemens and j. morgan chase to this eye opening experience to me. >> thank you governor. i'm going to give the last word to governor bullock. >> very much appreciate your all's commitment, from my perspective as governor that's how we're going to meet work force stoert image needs. we've race raised the number of apprenticeship program in the last four years. i followed from 2000 to today, 90% of those are still working in our state which is so important for every parent. average salary of a graduate is about $60,000 which is significant. i think we need to educate goegt the employers, government institutions and the students. at the end of the day, so many people think of apprentices as the trade. there's 1,000 different apprentice fields. we have them in februaphlebotom it. last legislative session said if you higher a apprentice we'll pay you 700 tax credit, if it's a veteran, we'll pay 1500. i had to work a lot with my two y

this arrest not related to yesterday's crash on south dakota avenue but rather to a previous crash.'s get right to news 4's pat collins with details. what's >> reporter: sources say a few minutes ago the truck driver was arrested not in connection with the dump truck crash yesterday but in connection with a truck hit-and-run case two years ago. now, when you hear this story you are going to wonder why his company continues to let him drive. sources tell news 4 that the fort mayer construction truck driver who allegedly ran over a woman yesterday on south dakota avenue has been identified as 62-year-old alvarez. sources say alvarez was involved in a similar accident two years ago, an accident that seriously injured 22-year-old ethan zimmerman, a student. according to court documents alvarez was charged with hit-and-run. alvarez didn't show up for trial and there was a bench warrant issued for his arrest. there is also a $25 million lawsuit pending in the ethan zimmerman matter. yesterday sources say alvarez was behind the wheel of a dump truck when it ran over a young woman on south

this happened tuesday on south dakota avenue. on wednesday we learned this is not the first time that driver had an accident involving a pedestrian. news 4 pat collins has been on the story since the very beginng, woman's family today. pat, tell us about it. >> well, leon, we have two pedestrians seriously injured runover by dump trucks, dump trucks owned by the same company. dump trucks driven by the same man. why is this guy still behind the wheel? let me take you back to the last accident here on south dakota avenue. the victim of the dump track crash has been identified as 23-year-old bianca butler. they say she was walking down south dakota avenue to a job interview when she was hit by this big dump truck. the truck belongs to fort meyer construction. bianca told her grandmother what happened. >> she say he at the stop sign and he didn't stop. that's what she sign. >> he was at the stop sign, no light, it was a stop sign, she says. >> he didn't stop? >> no. >> reporter: now we learned the driver of the fort myer dump truck w

we do our powwows in south dakota. the one message we get time and again is they sent us here to fix some things. they didn't send us here to let the status quo continue on. part of the way you do that is you actually get together and you get things done. well, we're finding this senate schedule is such that when you have the delays that are being imposed right now, and it is the democrat's prerogative to delay, they can do that. that's their -- that's their right. but that means then we've got to do as the majority what we think is right and that is to get our job done as well. you not only got tax reform we have to address. we've got a budget that's got doing to be done. none of this stuff is new to any of you. but simply to look at the 30 days or so that are in august and simply to say that because we -- a number of us have looked at codels and so forth, and i know some senior members are really serious about the codels, they think they're very, very important and they are, that's one way to learn about a lot of dif

he was awaiting trial in that case when he got involved in the south dakota avenue accident. >> she'll be scarred for life. i'm very angry. i'm not going to say i'm not. >> reporter: because you don't think that driver should have been behind that wheel. >> i really say the same thing, he should never be behind the wheel. >> reporter: now, alvarez is still awaiting trial on that 2015 hit-and-run charge. the south dakota avenue accident that's still under investigation and we're still waiting some response from fort meyer construction chris, back to you. >> you're going to stay on top of it, thank you, pat. >>> chopper 4 has been flying over the scene of deadly crash in charles county. it's not clear what caused it. we know it happened just before noon, rock point road near kings farm. state police tell us the car head-on collision with a pickup truck. the driver of that car died at the scene. the driver of the truck died at the hospital. it's still not clear why it crossed into on-coming traffic. >>> the women's march is on the move this afternoon. and this time there's a singular targ

. >>> a long way from his home in sioux falls, south dakota, he's in munich, germany to meet with dr.t alt. >> good to see you. >> have a seat. >> and even the simplest of greetings, this handshake would have been nearly impossible just eight months ago. >> day-to-day, shaking hands was very painful. >> range of motion is back. putting on my jacket, reaching up, like anything that had to do with bending my wrist down was painful. tucking in my shirt hurt and it -- it just got to be so every once in a while i'd wake up in the middle of the night and it would be aching and it was something needed to happen. >> bill lost his arm in a motorcycle accident as a teenager. but the active kid from south dakota didn't stop playing sports like football and wrestling or running track. over the years it put a strain on his remaining hand and wrist. >> there's no cartilage so it's just bone on bone. then there's holes in the bones, and then that was irritating some of the tendons that go across it, and so it was just constantly inflamed, and very sore. >> bill works in finance for a company called

it happened right at the end of the morning rush on south dakota avenue.re was a lot of police work to be done here. >> this is a large truck and small female, you know, it could have been an issue where he may not have seen here. she could have crossed, you know, at different direction where he thought she was crossing, we don't know. >> they saw that big truck and they saw the woman on the ground. >> to tell you the troourt, i had never seen injuries that bad. that was the most i had seen in my career. >> for more than four hours, police investigated the crash scene. a portion captured by security cameras at this nearby gas station. you can see the woman walking down the sidewalk on south dakota avenue towards 33rd street she goes out of view, it's unclear exactly where she was where she was struck by that dump truck, the truck makes a turn from 33rd street on to south dakota avenue. you can see someone waving their hands in front of the truck to get the driver to stop people at the gas station then movered to give first aid to the woman. the firefighter

do you know what that means in south dakota? that's almost $3,600 increase, in just the last five years. now, what average family is trying to raise kids, trying to pay the bills, trying to save for retirement, trying to put something aside for college education, try to pay the mortgage and the utility bill? how many families can put up with a health care bill that's gone up in the last five years by almost $3,600? that, madam president, is a crisis. that's why we're here. and our colleagues on the other side want to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to what's happening out there, but we can't afford to do that anymore because the status quo is unsustainable. there is just absolutely no way that the american people who are suffering under the harm that has been caused by obamacare can continue to abide the status quo. it is up to us to take the steps that are necessary to move us in a different direction, a better path that brings stability to the marketplace, that gives people more choices, more options, greater competition and b

that's in areas of south dakota through minnesota. torm system then treks further east and to the south on wednesday. the area of yellow is under a slight risk of storms. and that includes a lot of big cities in the midwest. that's why there's 24 million people at risk. from chicago to champagne through almost all of iowa. by the time we get to thursday, we take this storm system and the cold front through west virginia, virginia and through philadelphia, d.c., baltimore, and new york. we'll track the storm system. there will be wind damage and an isolated tornado or two. it won't be horrible. the storms this time of year only last about a half hour or so. the central plains is the target. there's a couple heat advisories. dallas at 98. the southeast is beautiful. it's not that bad. still warm in the low 90s, upper 80s. that's not bad for this time of year. not many days like this this d.c. cool this morning. low muhammhumidity. it was a miserable day yesterday in new england with the rain. still struggling there. west, still watching

paid visits to people in rapid city, south dakota. all over the country. joan lived there as an early franchisee, st. paul. and finding people -- it was a thrill of pursuit that we have in journalism because sometimes you're banging your head against the ball because waugh can't find a person but i loved when someone had an unusual name because it made it easier to find them. if i found out they were deceased i knew i found them using modern research tools like an ancestry or old date books and things like that. so, it was tough because there wasn't an archive. joined biographers international organization, an amazing group of biographers, for guidance, and i learned a lot going into their conferences and reading their newsletters -- their pulitzer prize winners who are experts in research and mining for information, but i learned very quickly that those tricks don't necessarily work when people haven't left behind information and neither ray nor joan did. so thankfully ray's brother ran the foundation, the first iteration from the kroc foundation, from a

alvarez still awaiting trial in that 2015 hit-and-run charge in the south dakota avenue accident, well, that's still under investigation there's a lot more to be known here. >> collins reporting live. >> hundreds of protesters are marching 28 miles into dc, first in blistering heat today and now in the heavy rain out there, all to protest the national rifle association. are leading a two-day long demonstration against the gun rights group. this all started outside the nra headquarters in fairfax, virginia this morning and it's set to end late tonight at the department of justice. northern virginia bureau chief has been following along. she reports now from arlington. >> there is per sis stens and resistance, let's keep it up. the reasons for joining this women's march, polly's reason, pictured on a sign she held high. >> this is my niece. she was born and raised in annapolis. >> it's been five years since sarah was shot to death by a boyfriend while away at grad school. the message from peters and the other demonstrators, well, the nra might have dominated the conversation about guns i

the senator around the south dakota who is open to that idea, liked the idea.eadows, the conservative caucus saying that he too would be open to such a thing. take a listen. >> even if you let that in for repeal in replacement, we've got a tax reform on the backside of that. we know lower taxes stimulate the economy. >> part of the means of getting a tax cut. >> the devil is in the detail. our official position is to repeal all the taxes appeared at the same time, i want to make sure before i weigh in on anything that i look at both the trade-off. neil: that's a big deal, folks. back i rent the house freedom caucus, very conservative. congressman, we are big on keeping any tax hike, let alone entertaining as part of the deal to get tax cuts. if that is a means to an end, getting tax reform done by getting this thing done, so be it, he would be open to it. i wonder if that was shared by thomas massey who joins us now. good to have you. how do you feel about this? >> it is not the taxes that ruined our health care system. it's the mandates, subsidies and bailout

. >> the most recent crash happened along busy south dakota avenue in dc, but it doesn't end there. let's go to pat collins superior court with new information about the company involved. pat. >> reporter: doreen, fort myer vehicles running over pedestrians. it's got lawyers lining up in court. you see there's a high stakes battle going on. >> what we have found in our investigation is that fort myer the bottom line for them is money. they don't give a damn about pedestrians in this city. >> that's ted williams. >> reporter: he represents the family of james sr. mr. gary was run over and killed by a street sweeper back in june 2015. he was 73 years old. it happened near his house on clay place in northeast. that street sweeper belonged to fort myer a big road construction outfit in our city and a multimillion dollar lawsuit filed in court by williams, he says the safety eq broken. >> the horn on the street sweeper was inoperable or the back up camera was inoperable, backed over my client, sucked him up into the street sweeper and he died. >> reporter: another multimillion dollars la

south dakota lost jobs.ost of the nation has regained those jobs and then some and most of those jobs at the state level that is true. but if you look at the nature of the person who has regained the job, when the recession began and then at the bottom of the trough at the end of the recession, those with a high school diploma or less lost to exploit 2 million jobs. the nation has regained 11 million jobs since then. how many of those jobs went to high school diploma holders or dropouts? 80,000. if you are high school diploma holder or dropouts and lost your job during the recession, what is happening is those people , theyachelor's degrees are taking them because employers are using the bachelors degree as a way to screen. that is one problem we are seeing. howncourages to recognize important it is to go to high school and get some post secondary training. that can really get their attention. it makes people realize, i have got to do this. havewe have done is we dual credit. we have a tremendous success. yo

>> absolutely, keeping bad money out and getting the good money is, south dakota, perfect example. involved in a referenda last year that brought in the small dollar incentives and stopped the practice of unlimited and undisclosed gifts and contributions, that's a south dakota law, it's absurd. i think these things are going to work, but we've got to keep bad money out as well. >> you got very excited about democracy dollars, not in a good way. >> i'm excited because it's gally challenged by the pacific legal foundation, and they'll probably win, it's clear first amendment violations happening in seattle right now. this has been flirted for decades, voting with dollars, leveling the playing field which never happens, although you've got wonderful intentions and refreshing to see something happening from a different side, you know, the reason that there are so many progressives upset with the citizen's united decision, the supreme court decision was because it allowed for free flow of money into election. they only wanted unions to be able and nonprofits to control elections and uni

south dakota and new mexico joining a growing list of at least 29 states refusing to turn over voter data or expressing reservations. the trump administration claims it simply wants to investigate voter fraud. the president and his commission asking all 50 states to turn over full names of registered voters along with dates of birth, party affiliation, voter history, and partial social security numbers. several of the states objecting to the request, led by republicans. that includes kansas where the secretary of state is co-chairman of the voter fraud commission. he says privacy laws prevent him from sharing personal voter data. all this not sitting too well with the president who tweeted, "numerous states are refusing to give information to the distinguished voter fraud panel. what are they trying to hide?" >>> the white house pays women 80 cents for every dollar it pays men. that pay gap is wider than the national average. according to cnn analysis of white house pay data, the average salary for men is nearly $104,000. for women, though, $83,500, about $20,000 less on average. the

massachusetts, minnesota, missouri, montana, new hampshire, north carolina am a north dakota, oklahoma, south dakota, rhode island, vermont, virginia, and wisconsin. [laughter] [applause] to boil this down to one point -- canada is the u.s.'s biggest, best customer by far. we are a bigger customer than billion,roughly $152 bigger than japan or the u.k. close.else even comes in fact, canada buys more from the u.s. than china, japan and the u.k. combined. we've been consistent this year. some might say relentless. but we are polite in our relentlessness because we are canadian. [laughter] in sharing that message, with my regular dialogues with president trump and fanning out from there. let me tell you why. this is the most successful economic partnership in the history of the world. it is worth about a trillion dollars each year. most importantly, it is well-balanced. more broadly, the north american free trade zone is the biggest economic zone in the world, comprising a $19 trillion regional market of 470 million customers. the united states, canada and mexico together now account for more than a qu

next week, i am scheduled to .peak in south dakota as it happens, keith ellison and the democrats are going to be there and keith ellison is, it has been 11 years as a ravingerson for the anti-somatic -- anti-semitic [inaudible] which keith ellison obviously is. and is now the deputy chairman of the democratic national committee. host: and was almost chairman. david: we were endorsed by bernie sanders. another racist. we happened to be [indiscernible] center, innvention the same building. they objected because i was going to speak. they do not want to be in the same building with david hurwitz. what is that about? i should be an on person that i unpersont exist -- an and that i should not exist. this is what the democratic party has become. most disgraceful episode of recent months was the so-called confirmation hearing of jeff sessions. jeff sessions has been a friend of mine for 20 years. one of the he is half-dozen most decent human beings in the u.s. senate when he was there. he is a champion of civil rights. he was the attorney general and the deep south state of alabama, prosecu

two weeks ago he was behind the wheel of another fort myer dump truck on south dakota avenue when it ran over 23-year-old bianca but her family said she's gone through three surgeries and is still unable to walk. there's a lot of medical work yet to be done. police say alvarez stayed on the scene of that accident, which is still under investigation. at a hearing today in court, a judge ordered alvarez not to drive a commercial vehicle at least until another court hearing about a month from now. welcome news to allison zimmerman, the mother of one of the victims and her attorney sal. >> this is real people with real with real needs and two people's lives have been changed because of the actions and we're very grateful that, for a month, there will be no commercial license for mr. alvarez. >> and hopefully longer than that. >> reporter: this tonight from fort myer construction, they say driver with their company. they say they consider safety first and they say they're cooperating fully with the police in the investigation of that south dakota avenue accident. leon, back to you. >> all

the names of people associated with them if they were still alive or paid visits to rapid city south dakota, all over the country because she was there as the early franchisee. sometimes you bring your head against the wall but loved it when somebody had an unusual name. but even if i found out they were deceased i knew that i have found them. like old datebooks so it was tough because there was not an archive so i joined an amazing group of biographers for guidance and a learned a lot going to their conferences there were a pulitzer prize winners there were experts in researching and mining information but i learned very quickly that those tracks don't necessarily work when people have not left behind information and neither one did so thankfully raise brother ran the foundation from the ranch and california but his job was a scientist the exact opposite and was a meticulous record keeper endued he was doing something important with a fortune in what it had made so there was a hardship assignment to keep myself and uc santa barbara sifting through all of that and looking for clues was labo

i will talk with republican senator mike rounds of south dakota for update. we are look ago head right now on sunday morning futures. ♪ ♪ ♪ maria: white house begins new week with new chief of staff. president trump selecting current homeland security secretary john kelly for the new chief of staff replacing outgoing chief reince priebus. kelly expected to be sworn in tomorrow morning right before cabinet meeting. mr. trump hoping military discipline can bring order to west wing. joining me right now to talk more about it, former arkansas governor and fox news contributor mike huckabee. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, maria. great to be with you on the sunday morning. maria: your thoughts of john kelly as chief of staff. >> i think he's going to be great. you can't get four stars pinned on your shoulder without not being an extraordinary person and certainly running the white house is one of those. it may be his toughest challenge yet but i don't think there's any doubt that he's up to the task, the big question for john kelly is without a rea

these are people who live -- these are your constituents in south dakota. they live paycheck to paycheck and they worry about their health insurance. >> that's why two years is a time to figure out that replacement. i don't think anybody thought obamacare would go two kweeyear without a replacement put in place. if that's a concern, i don't think people should worry about that, and stay calm. it's a challenge that's difficult in the senate as well as the house because this is a controversial issue that affects people in a very special way. we want to make sure we get it right but it's simply unsustainable. >> let's talk about the repeal people are calling skinny repeal, because it would get rid of the employer and the individual mandate and also get rid of the medical device tax. wouldn't that measure, if it were signed into law, hurt insurance markets and cause premiums for those who go up? obviously it would mean people being removed from the insurance pool. >> what you would have, the original mandate, i think, is what people find most objectionable. man

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look at the purple and green above south dakota shortly before sunrise in this time lapse video. just didn't get it this far south. we never do. they were visible in michigan and new england as well. the particles jump up and down like fans and give you that brilliant, brilliant show. >> looks like a picture. beautiful. >>> we have an update on a story that put thousands of brides and weddings in limbo. a major bridal chain closed with no warning. sarah tells us that brides are raging mad, gone underground. >> he proposed on the beach in ocean city -- >> clearly some issues with that story. sorry about that. we'll get back to as soon as we can get that stuff fixed. >>> in the meantime, let's talk about another democrat throwing his hat into the race for maryland governor. the montgomery county democrat has been one of the most vocal critics of current governor public larry hogen. hogen is running for reelection, of course. he joins four our democrats in the race, including a county executive and former naacp president. the primary is in june of next year, the general election nov

joining me now to discuss the trump agenda from south dakota at the chair of the republican conferencetor john tony and from baltimore, democratic senator ben cardin. gentlemen, before we get to obamacare, i want to talk about the agreement that both parties have apparently reached over the weekend about a bill to impose new sanctions on russia and to limit the president's ability to let those sanctions. as the president going to sign that bill? >> senator thune: i believe he will come of the senate passed it 98-2. both of us voted for that. the house is made some minor modifications, they extended it to north korea. this is a bill that will go to the president's desk and he started to should sign it into law. >> chris: there has been some pushback from the administration, they don't like the idea that it limits his ability to conduct diplomacy by imposing sanctions and limiting his ability to lift them. >> senator thune: that's true, but i think in the end of the administration will come to the conclusion that an overwhelming majority of congress has, that we need to sanction russia f

. >> berg -- who lives in south dakota -- logged onto an ovarian cancer website and started asking questions >> and who responds? >> allen smith, the lawyer. >> allen smith is a lawyer from jackson, mississippi. he told berg he'd been researching the issue for years -- and in 2009 they became the first to file a talc lawsuit against johnson & johnson and its talc supplier. >> you're a solo lawyer taking on one of the biggest companies in the world. they're a multi-billion dollar corporation. >> well don't remind me of that now but now that i'm here, it is very important to me that women be informed to make a decision about their health and safety. >> smith claims studies going back decades show that women who use talc -- the main ingredient in johnson's baby powder -- have an increased risk of getting ovarian cancer -- and johnson & johnson fails to warn women about it. >> baby powder is absolutely safe. >> but johnson & johnson has fought back -- defending its iconic product. bart williams is a lawyer representing the company. >> the notion that johnson & johnson would sell that product kno

joining us is republican senator john thune from south dakota. sir, thank you for joining us.t do you think is going to happen tonight? >> i hope that sometime in the wee hours of the morning we pass a bill to the senate that will enable us to go to conference at the house of representatives and relieve people from the burden of obamacare, which has led to skyrocketing costs and collapsing markets. we got to do better. melissa: you know some people are saying what you're voting on tonight is really more the idea of keeping the thing alive, moving it back over to the house so they can work on it. what do you think the final incarnation looks like? what could get enough votes? >> in the senate? melissa: yeah. >> i think that, obviously, this is just one step in the process, but my guess is what we ultimately end up voting on tonight does away with the mandates. the individual mandate which requires people to buy insurance products they don't want or can't afford, and secondly, the employer mandate which is a job killer in the economy. those are the two core items on which obamac