of the state's educational system? uw system, technical colleges, k-12, in better shape than two years ago and is it well positioned to help with thing likes job creation and economic development? >> i think it is. and i said i have a vest the interest throughout this whole process. i have twol sons, matt and alex, go to a public high school where we're we're standing today. no matter what zip code, where they come from across the state have access to a great education. one of the most underreported things positive about our reforms isn't just the savings and budgetary issues bts the benefits provided to our pub luck scho public schools across the states. tens and millions of dollars spent on health insurance plans instead of putting that money directly into the classroom. that's changed bawd of our re230r78r reforms. on top of that, a young woman in the milwaukee school system name wund of the most y0ud outstanding teachers in the year. exactly what you want across the state. a couple months after that announcement wa

the state epidemiologist, the chief nurse of the state, the office of health data in the state, the health state officer, they're all putting together reports, specifically on this problem, reports to the state legislature, so the policy makers and the state legislature can try to fix this the problem. the most recent report shows that they believe they brought their horrible infant mortality rate down. they say they've got it down below 10. it's still awful. it's still one of the worst in the country, but when the next nationwide stats come out, mississippi may no longer be the worst in the country anymore, because they're working on it. but they still need to keep working on it. and lucky for mississippi, on their state board of health, which decides policy direction for the state on health issues, it's the board that appoints that state health officer, that appoints the state's overall health plan, that approves the state's overall health plan for its overall health policies. luckily, on that board, mississippi is lucky enough to have somebody uniquely qualified to understand and help t

citizens of the united states in the state in which they live, it said all persons not all white and black men. >> that are would have been the first time they were recognized as being citizens. >> the language. this issate 68. they were being held in a barbershop. the only men voted, you put your polls and your registration where the guys are that are in the barbershop. that is already shocking and she attempts to register the vote. in various places she tests. she does vote. >> then is put on trial for illegally voting because women were not eligible to vote and this is a court case. >> the vote doesn't count there. >> it's odd. it's complicated. the judge is afraid. he rules against her, but he refuses to fine her or put her in jail because he is not going to create what that will -- the point is that it was tested. there were women who said leave aside the negatives of the 15th amendment, the positive and the first section since all persons are entitled to equal protection of the laws. if all persons are entitled which is towards the end of the 14th amendment and the equal protec

kerry states. nevada, new mexico, and colorado where you'd say boy, that's tough for obama, look at what's going on with foreclosures in nevada. of course he should get all the blame on that but we'll pass on that for argument's sake here. the problem is romney cannot win those states with the differential he's running with latinos and hispanics. these are states with -- all three of those have sizable enough minority representation, particularly with latinos, that you can't lose that group 68-19 or whatever -- depending on what poll you're looking at now, and win those three states. so give him one of them. that means obama's got to pick off one of the tossup states that he's now heading every single one of. some by two. some by seven. but he's got to win every single -- and so you get into -- that's why i'm not -- look, this is going to be fought out on the issues on going forward, going back. he hasn't done anything in the economy. we've lost jobs, we've created jobs. we're going to have all tha

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

but he says the states should be the deciders, state, by state, by state. is that right?the supreme court already ruled on this matter? we turn to our senior judicial analyst, judge napolitano, who suggests to us it is actually been ruled on by the supreme court. >>judge napolitano: in loving versus virginia, the loving were a biracial opposite section couple would got married in the district of columbia and moved back to virginia and the please broke into their bedroom of their home in the middle of the night and arrested them because virginia law prohibits biracial couples. it made it to the supreme court and the supreme court if that ruling invalidated the law that prohibits biracial couples but it)jt9 also said your right to choose a mate is a fundamental liberty with which the state cannot interfere. obviously the case did not involve same-sex marriage but the language is clear and that language has been undisturbed by the supreme court since the opinion came down in 1968. >>shepard: it is interesting, bret was saying a while ago the presidents do not want to talk a

it has been recalled -- resolved on a state-by-a state issue. when roe v.de was decided, it is decided and subject to the federal 4 -- federal courts. now, we're over a generation, it may take a u.s. constitution amendment to change that and put it back to the states or a constitutional amendment at the federal level. unfortunately, it is a very controversial, very litigated issue. northwe'll go to our carolina line for our voters in north carolina. david is waiting on the independent line. he wants to talk to our pope. caller: good morning. i am an independent thinker. long time resident of north carolina. you have not really mentioned the onslaught that conservatives had to withstand from the media. just a few years ago, we had our first republican governor in north carolina. now have a republican legislature. all we are trying to do is level the field of ideas. i think you have been instrumental in doing that. i wonder seeking comment about the other forces that are impacting, if you well, the media, the newspapers. people like that. i will hang up. than

continues united states support for 10 years beyond when all u.s. combat troops are scheduled to leave afghanistan by the end of 2014. remember, as well, another important piece of information, we are told the president will be dressing the nation. addressing americans, about 7:30 p.m. eastern time. still nailing down exactly whether there will be in afghanistan when he gives the speech or whether he will be near, somewhere else. second, beyond that, i want to point out obviously the president, being in afghanistan, on this first anniversary as you mention of the killing of osama bin laden, likely to only increase the republican charges that he is politicizing that anniversary. but we should underscore the context. the president is doing this trip, his third secret trip to afghanistan since he took office. just a couple weeks before he hosts a nato summit in his hometown of chicago. at that summit, topic (a) is afghanistan. the timetable for withdrawal of combat troops by 2014. and turning over all security to afghanistan forces. so, there are a lot

the president of the united states is on the ground in afghanistan. of course, we are in afghanistan because the attacks of 9/11 and now we know that president obama is meeting with afghanistan's president karzai, an unannounced and secret visit until this moment. some describe the relationship between our president and president karzai as "complicated." which could be the unstatement of the day. casey in point: a u.s. government released yesterday. new details of the level of corruption in afghanistan. and the unthinkable waste of billions upon billions of american tax dollars. officials in afghanistan are stealing american money according to the report. the afghan attorney general's office avoids prosecuting high profile corruption cases among other things. that's the situation as the president is on the ground if afghanistan our chief white house correspondent is at the white house. did you get any idea of this? and what do we expect to accomplish? >>reporter: the president's schedule was wide open all day leaving the possibility that he could have

states. president obama is in iowa tonight. six electoral votes but a hotly contested tossup state at a wind turbine plant in newton, iowa, the president said he understood times are tough but he argues the republican agenda isn't the answer. >> when you hear somebody say, we should cut more taxes, especially for the wealthiest americans, well, newton, you've been there and you've done that. we did that. 2000, 2001, 2003. when you hear people say that we should cut back more on the rules we put in place for banks and financial institutions to avoid another taxpayer bailout. well, we tried that. >> that's the president in iowa just moments ago. republican challenger mitt romney has his eyes today on pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes, encountering some democratic protests as he made his case on education. >> education and the gap in the educational opportunity and achievement of people of color in this society, i believe, is a civil rights issue of our time. and you'll have a better per

in the state senate. so there is some possibility that if any of the democrats pick up any of the republican senate seats, that majority could go to the democrats. >> suarez: freed reek ka freyburg of wisconsin public television, thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> brown: now, the state of al qaeda one year after the u.s. launched a military strike to eliminate its leader. judy woodruff has the story. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> reporter: the president's dramatic late night announcement one year ago heralded the end of a 10-year manhunt. on a dusty road in pakistan, navy seals stormed the high wall compound where american intelligence finally tracked the man who had eluded capture for so long. bin laden's deputy, egyptian physician a with ary, assumed al qaeda's leadership, he remains at large and has fledged to continue attack. and even president obama

in those 12 states, what happened in 2008? obamacare = states by more than did before%. john mccain got just over 45%. here we are in 2012 and obama is 7 points below where he was and romney is where mccain was. who do you think will come out with a better shot of winning? romney's to win five of the 12 states and hwins the election. -- rodney needs to win five of the 12 states and he wins the election. >> if obama needs to win the carry states -- nevada, colorado, new mexico -- mitt romney can not get there. this is where demographics start to play in. obama is going to win the carry states. nevada, new mexico, and colorado -- but it was going on with foreclosures in nevada. of course, he gets all the blame for that. the problem is mitt romney cannot win those states with the differential he is running with latinos and hispanics. these are states that have minority representation -- you cannot lose depending on what paul you are looking at now and when those three states. that means obama has to take one of the states where he is ahead in every single one. some by two,

the united states should recognize the recreated jewish state. in an event which is completely unique in the annals of foreign policy, i know of no other case like this, the state department, the defense department, the pentagon, without exception told the president of the united states don't do it. if america recognizes this jewish state, there's going to be a cutoff of oil from the middle east to the united states. american soldiers are going to get embroiled in a war there because the jews don't know how to defend themselves. don't do it. the secretary of state at the time, george marshall, who was the most revered american of his generation, said that if the president recognized the jewish state, he, george marshall, wouldn't vote for him in the 1948 presidential elections. but the president was a gentleman named harry truman, who claimed to have memorized the bible by age 14 and had himself joined a restorationist group called the american christian committee for palestine. he locked himself in the white house for 48 hours and on -- at 6:11

passed at the state level. someone who lives in gunn county, iowa county or florence county doesn't have to take their case to a federal court. instead they can take it to a state court. scott walker and his allies repealed that law. veterans and women paid less, so they can have redresses in our state. those are issues important to me. treating people with dignity. making sure that that this state respects all people. >> governor walker? >> sure. paul, good question. i took an oath of office to uphold the constitution in the state of wisconsin, and it clearly defines marriage between one man and one woman. i continue to support that. what the mayor talk and is only disagreement with the facts. the facts is it's against the law today and will continue to be every day that i'm in office, against the law in the state of wisconsin today to discriminate against a woman based on unemployment, in promotion or employment itself, against a woman or to discriminate in paper based on gender. that's the law today. it's a

as hosni mubarak to be to step aside i don't think so united states should. every every arab country who faced uprising united states should immediately as the head of that cease to be step aside i think this is would be simplistic unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground i think and doesn't reflect the complexity of the social politics of the different countries in the middle east. strategic geopolitical elements are very important but i think we have really a new phenomenon year if you see like what i notice is that you seen united states or european countries are not taking in regard with syria or egypt or other libya or yemen they're not taking a unilateral actions if you see their. mind then they will when you when the united states says well here hillary clinton says this leader must go ok that's pretty unilateral sounding to me and sounds very definite as well what right does the united states have to say what leadership and what they will should go if if i might come in here jump in jumping if i might come in here years you know i thi

they are in weakened state. as long as they are in a weakened state, they are susceptible to influence, foreign influence, communist influence. when people are at their bottom rung they're willing to listen to anyone who offers them a different message of hope, whatever. the best way to hold back communist expansion is with a healthy, rebuilt europe. $13 billion to rebuild western europe to hold back the soviet expansion. congress passes the national security act in 1947. this is an amazing piece of legislation. it's got lots of different facets to it. creates a national security agency. we're going to revamp our military. we're going to coordinate our various branches of the military. but what i wanted to talk about specifically today is it created the cia. what does that stand for? >> central intelligence agency. >> if yes self stalin is bent up on getting free and countries around the world, we need to know that. how do we know that? we need to start sending out secret agents, folks who are going out there to

yes, the united states. if you're stalin and paranoid and you're suspicious, it's the united states. and so, if you're joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war senior like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. we do something, the soviet union does something. we respond, they respond. here is stalin's response. he's going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe, hungary and czechoslovakia i mentioned specifically because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections after world war ii was over. yeah, those free elections sort of go out the window by 1948. the communists, there is a purge of leadership and these two countries are going to basically become puppet regimes of the soviet union. and then there's berlin. this is -- it gets a little complicated now. just keep in mind that during world war ii at the very end, you've got the russian, the soviet army is driving deep into germany. they're going to get to berlin before we do. they're going to occ

it's the united states. if you paranoid and suspicious, it's the united states. so if you are joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war is like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. they do something and we respond and they respond. here is stalin's response. he is going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe. hungary and czechoslovakia i mentioned because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections. well, the free elections go out the window. by 1948. the communists have a purge of leadership and the two countries will be puppet regimes of the soviet union and then berlin. it gets complicated now. during world war ii, they are driving and getting into berlin before we do and occupy much of eastern germany with their army and forces. berlin is a very important city in german history and culture and government and politics. it is going to be a divided city here in the cold war era. we are going have the eastern part of berlin controlled by the soviet union and the western part will be dwighted into diffe

but rather the rent-generating state. thanks. >> explain it further what you mean. >> exactly. >> it's -- it's political economic system where the state essentially controls access to markets through political patronage. so the it oversteps the political arenas into more the economic and even the social arenas where civil society organizations included are very much tied in the sort of top down vertical network of patron client networks. >> so like the corporatist state coming out of the '20s and 30s. well, let me start out with this. i think you know, what we've seen across the development field is there have been different approaches envelope -- that have worked in terms of engagement of the state. so you know, it starts out sort of 19th century liberalism, property rights, contract, basic performance, basic education, services and others. but obviously, there's been models sometimes of state-driven development. of this gets to very tricky governance issues. so if you look at the history of a lot of state-owned enterpri

seen in the united states the big deal that didn't didn't come to the g. eight i think there were some eyebrows raised because mr obama expected to put in the obama administration invited. the middle of the rich to visit the united states maybe a year and a half even before and expected him to come. unfortunately president bush it was too busy. as he told president obama. selecting his cabinet. and instead the prime minister who normally present the cabinet to the president went to the united states prime minister media age of has a good relationship with the but i could bomb of the met last year they had burgers together etc so there is a relationship there how late it had burgers and cetera quality time yes. but i would say that g eight normally is a meeting of heads of state of the eight largest economies and we have a very difficult economic situation in the world maybe mr putin was anxious that the europeans will be asking for loans from russia and didn't want to give them loans i'm speculating i'm not being serious right now but the fact that the fir

the state also of diversity. the votes are as follows from ohio, 45 votes for governor johnson, one vote for rice. >> a point of order. we were supposed to do this in alphabetical order. this is what our bylaws stipulate. >> i am right behind ohio, and oklahoma. even though i went to government schools, it seems to me that nevada would be next after nebraska. is there any objections could just taking the vote totals in the way people are lined up in front of the microphones? do i hear any objections? i did not hear a word you said. is there any objection >> oklahoma, to help choose the libertarian candidate for president and vice president, will not be able to vote for either of them this november because of ballot access laws and our sacred cast our votes as follows. one vote, jim burns, one vote jarret johnson, to vote -- two vot3es, arlie rice. >> the live free or die state where the new libertarian renaissance is going to happen. everybody should visit. in new hampshire, libertarians led the fight for marriag

moreover, he'd been a member of both united states house and united states senate. in the latter 1850s he served as chair for the military affairs committee. in addition between 1853 and 1857 he had served as secretary of war in franklin pierce's cabinet. despite these credentials davis has been harshly judged by historians in his starring role, the president of the confederate states. the judgment of davis almost makes a prima facie case for disregarding prior achievement and experience in awarding higher responsible office. give a man with his background a big job, he fails. why do you need a background? witness professor neely. of course davis is usually matched against his wartime opposite abraham lincoln and invariably he comes in second. usually quite a distant second. yet, to me, trailing lincoln does not automatically brand davis a failure. for, in my judgment, and lincoln was clearly the greatest war leader in our history, but even when viewed alone, outside the lincoln boundary, davis commonly receives poor marks. without going into an extended discussion,

he stated under the law of the sea, the united states would have a chance to expand over 291,000 square miles of extended continental shelf. much of this is in the arctic, controlled one quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and natural gas. mr. kelly said, and i quote, by some estimates, in the years ahead, we could see a historic dividing up of many millions of square cilometers of off shore territory and all of the rights of living and nonliving resources. how much long er can the united states afford to be a laggard in this, end quote. it could be asserted to robust naval power, are not relevant to the real world. the overwhelming majority of ocean disputes do not involve enemies or issues that warrant military action. as admiral patrick waulsh testified at our first hearing in 2007, and i quote, many of the partners we have in the global war on terror who have put life, limb, and national treasure on the line, are some of the same ones where we have disagreements on what they view as their economic zone or their environmental laws. it does not seem to me to be wise now to conduct

indiana and a dozen additional states have been donor states for over three decades. we would give back about 92 cents on the dollar. as late as the 1980's only 78 cents on the dollar. we need to provide adequate funding to each state and provide states with dollars they contribute to the trust fund. the senate bill does not accomplish these goals and puts indiana and other states at risk for significant cuts. i would like to thank the chairman for your leadership on these issues. it is good for all states equally and gets us on a pathway to creating jobs and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. >> thank you. if he comes, we will definitely go back to him. we will hear from rip hand up. -- representative hanna. >> i think everybody has done their best to produce the best possible bill. i am privileged to be a witness to that. as a contractor for 30 years, i have had hundreds of employees. i have completed thousands of projects large and small. i am also a member of the operating engineers for over 25 years. what i know is that many millions of people in this countr

other states, many other state dos not do fracking at all. the ones that do do it have a track record that indicate they can do it. oklahoma, texas, west virginia, ohio, et cetera. even if they don't have an existing prom now they as states and i can this as my experience as a state regulator are in the best position to know their states, know what to do and get the regulatory plan that they need in their state. >> but you would concede at least as an intellectual could see that will could be a state where fracking is occurring that is not as robust and diligent as pennsylvania. >> i could concede that sasquatch is in the woods. >> this is my time. and the point is you don't have expertise with respect to the other states. you do with pennsylvania. >> that's a red herring you don't either. >> the issue here is whether or not the federal government has a role. you've testified you think it should not have a role. >> no, i don't think the issue is whether the federal government has a role. the issue is whether the federal government should have

state lines. so there's clearly a role for federal involvement. i'd like to take just a final minute if i could. to briefly respond to the written testimony of my fellow witnesses. in the written testimony i've heard of he's very critical of our work on greenhouse gas. i'd like to set the record straight on that. written an addendum to my testimony to do so. i'd also like to ask the committee to take into formal part of the record this paper methane emissions from natural gas stations which we wrote at the request in february which our work is compared with all other studies that have been done on this topic. >> without objection. >> our estimates of methane emissions for the first. most of the information is available on from industry sources. it's poorly documented. we called for direct independent studies that is starting to happen. the first now is now being pb lished by a university of colorado scientists. it shows us we are conservative and low. the methane emissions are worse than we said.

there is not one state that both candidates in that same state need to win.ack obama can actually lose ohio and florida and win the presidency. it would be a very difficult road for obama around ohio and florida, but it's possible. mitt romney needs ohio virginia and florida. so all of these states are extremely important. i would add colorado to that mix. if you had to pick four of the most crucial swing states i'm confident it's those four. >> and that's for romney? >> that's for -- >> or for both? >> that's for obama and romney. now if we're talking about the states that let's say barack obama cannot afford to lose he certainly cannot afford to lose -- it's those mountain swing states in the mountain west, so if he is losing nevada and if he is losing new mexico he really will have to win ohio. he will have to win florida, and that means the traditional map will swing to the right. we're watching those states to see if he can compensate and if he has rallied around the more traditional swing states. >> we were having a discussion last night on this show ab

are chartered at the state level in their state charter in laws but there are a number of states the doe were were there's just no mechanism to create a genuine work or own co-op how's it going in changing that well that's that's a challenge because the many of the states it's very difficult obviously to get laws passed you know we have gridlock in lots of states but the we are able to form co-operatives under a number of statute maybe just the general business statute in a stay. eight and then in the bylaws operate as a cooperative sort of some innovative ways that we can achieve in order to accomplish the same goal of a real worker own cooperatives that's there to serve the worker members and not outside stockholders wisconsin is kind of famous for you know peninsula manufacturing i've been there i've seen it you know cab companies the many co-ops out of that state are there are other places that are great models in the u.s. is for the san francisco has a great history worker cooperatives and there's a very innovative group of cooperatives that are forming in cleveland ever going c

lugar had been out of touch with the state. he moved out of state in 1977.e issue came up, he filed a lawsuit saying he doesn't have to live in indiana. that sent a message he doesn't want to be here. >> senator lugar put out a lengthy statement, a manifesto of sorts, and he endorses you but he does so it seems reluctantly. "i want him to be a good senator but that will require himto revise his stated goal of bringing more partisanship." >> i said bipartisanship ought to come to the democrats point of view. we wanted to give more to the national voice to the ideas that republicans and more specifically conservatives would be in the majority of the senate and the house and hopefully we'll have a republican in the white house. that means they have to come our way. if we're successful in getting the numbers, we'll work toward that. i want confront not so much people but the issues that are causing to us be in the economic crisis we're in. >> so why be a u.s. senator? why not be a party leader? u.s. senators are elected to legislate. the way the entire senate wa

effort in the state of california? >> this is a great time to work on the issue of the death penalty. every day we get closer and closer to ending the death penalty in california and across the country and indeed, across the world. several states have into the death penalty in the last four years. most recently, the state of illinois into the death penalty in march of this year. [applause] we are now at the time when 16 states, puerto rico and the district of columbia do not have the death penalty. many more states are addressing this issue, connecticut and montana, colorado, kansas, these are all states that have had bills in their legislature to into the death penalty that have moved through least one house in some cases, both houses. connecticut passed a bill a couple of years ago to end the death penalty that was vetoed by the then republican governor who is no longer in office. this is for states in four years and we expect more on the way. >> this deserves applause. >> we're making progress in california. the sta

levels, in the rain state, transgent state and consumer state? >> thank you, chairman. one of the create strengths is it is a very practicing 3459 i can and operationally focused convention so it works very much at ground level trying to actually achieve things. one of the weaknesses has been the higher level political engagement and with some of these issues if we don't get very high level politically engagement and very strong political seekings, it is very hard so one of the objectives has been to try to lift this debate, not lose at operational side but lift it to higher political sphere so in country that is are consumer or transit countries at the highest level the message is unequivocal, this will not be tolerated and you will be punished severely if you're found bridging this convention in the national legislation that implements it. we are working with all states at consumer range and transit states and trying to bring them together to have that discussion about what they're going to do in terms of sending these messages. we do, chairman

conservative democrats in the state of florida. look at those states. this is a bit of a hypothetical. a slight exaggeration to see how it plays out. let's switch to the electoral map and go to those states. this is what happened in 2008. if you take iowa out, indiana and ohio out, remember, the president has issues this these states already, the same-sex marriage debate would be a complicating factor in the debate. virginia and north carolina, evangelical voters and conservative african-americans could go away. florida. some say pennsylvania. others say michigan and wisconsin. let me focus on these. if you take these states out of play for the president, same-sex marriage wouldn't be the only issue. if you take those states out and if mitt romney were able to turn them all red, mitt romney is the next president of the united states. again. i am not saying this one issue will change those states from blue to red. in a close presidential election, when you are playing on the margins, there are some that think it could, could be an impact. that's just a h

state. a couple months after that announcement was being laid off long before i was governor, but because of cuts made in the past. under the old collective bargaining, the last one hired was the first one fired. the last one in was the first one out. the mayor and his allies want to restore that system, replacing seniority and tenure. i want a system that says merit should drive this. put the best and the brightest in our classrooms. even the survey conducted by the teachers' union said this is why they wanted to hide that information from the public showing that the responses were more positive this year than anytime over the past ten years. >> i can't think of an organization where you take $1.6 billion out of their budget. in the state of wisconsin, that's exactly what scott walker did. $1.6 billion taken out of k-12 in the state. it didn't end there. technical schools took a 30% cut. university system took a $315 million cut. we have to invest in the our kids. i've got four kids as well

>> that varied from state to state. there was no national standard. for example, massachusetts always insisted black people ins massachusetts were citizens of massachusetts and other states denied that and then the supreme court made that a national principle. but it really depended on the states, who was a citizen and what rights it they had and one of the purposes of the 14th amendment is to create this national standard so that you wouldn't have all these variations within the country. >> and obviously citizenship didn't mean the right to vote, did it, professor gerber? >> not necessarily. and that's why there is 15th amendment that says no state may deprive a person of the right to vote on the basis of race or national original or religion. there was a struggle, there was an effort to put sex into the 15th amendment which would say no person has the -- no state maiden the right to vote on the basis of sex, that lost. and at that moment, elizabeth katie stanton, this is 1870, and she says this is a chance to make sure that the vote is a capacious v

by state. that is the most polarized in terms of the legislature, more polarize is california. >> because of redistricting? >> a combination. it's a whole series of things. historically, when we begin to have good data on this now polarization over time and we have good data for the u.s. congress going back to the founding of the republic for members of congress. polarization tracks two things, one, the percentage of foreign-born. so in the old days, when i first got here to california, california was an overwhelmingly anglo white state and then we have had massive immigration of latin 0s. so the percentage of foreign-born has gone up and polarization has gone up with it. >> that's interesting. >> the second thing it tracks, right on top of it is the rise in income inequality. and california, again, has become, leading the country until terms of being more and more unequal in terms of income. the third thing is what we academics call sorting. so at the national level what happened was you have

on the coast of our state. a very large tourism area and the fact that the mayor is kind of giving us this is very important. i know we're out of time, mr. chairman, but another aspect of this concern is our migratory fish, the tuna, great part of our ocean species that migrate and oftentimes, they migrate along these paths of debris. so what do you think the risks are there to our tuna and salmon populations. >> i think you've stumped me. my fisheries colleagues probably need to answer that question for you. i've not heard it in the context of our deliberations on the tsunami and what the impacts are there. >> i think just with what happened with deepwater horizon, people wanted the answers about the impacts on the fisheries there. so again, hopefully something we'll get an answer later for the record. again, we just want an assessment if that kind of debris field and if there are patterns where these follow. >> thank you. first, admiral, thank you for your attendant and i know more records -- ten days for --

while usually called the state department, the official name is the united states department of state. it was established all the way back in 1789. with headquarters in washington, d.c., the state department is headed by the secretary of state, currently hillary clinton. its job is to oversee all our foreign relations. in fact, listen to how the state department describes its mission. that's quite a task. and to help the state department achieve those goals is the job of the u.s. foreign service. >> what we want to do is, we want to promote america's interests. we want to promote peace. we want to promote understanding. we want to make sure people around the world know what america is all about. >> assistant secretary hammer explained that foreign service officers are also called diplomats. they're assigned to work at one of the more than 250 embassies, consulates, or diplomatic missions the u.s. maintains in foreign countries. what's the difference between an embassy, consulate, and a mission? >> they all seem to do the same kinds of things, but an embassy usually is in the capital o

from every country on our state spoernsed terror list. we also now have the problem with transnational criminal organizations. we have cartel activity in maricopa county. last year the general in charge of southern command identified in well over 250 u.s. cities there's kerntdly a cartel presence. we've had beheadings in arizona. we've had local law enforcement officers ambushed by those engaged in cartel-sponsored smuggling. office executed using cartel-related tactices. this is is going on in arizona right now. so securing our sovereign border is port for all of those riesens as well as an easier way to require a requirement, people are going to seek that route. adage of water flowing downhill will seek the easier route. i would submit that a definition of operational security includes stating that we're able to detect and interdict those entering our country in an area other than an authorized port of entry within five miles of the border. where we're sensible, put a fence. but a fence doesn't work everywhere. you can't have eyes on if

states were never in play, anyway. so the states that are right on the margin are leaning against his decision. >>neil: thank you, tom. well a lot people talk about everything but the governor's position. the president has spoken and supporters have spoken time if mitt -- for mitt romney to speak on this. he will, here, next ♪ i wish my patients could see what i see. ♪ that over time, having high cholesterol plus diabes... or family history of early heart disease... can put them atincreased risk for plaque buildup. and they'd see that it's more importt to get their cholesterol where their doctor wants. and why for these patients, when diet and exercis alone aren't enou, i prescribe crestor. adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol by up to 52%. and is also proven to slow plaque buildup. [ female announcer ] crestor is notight for everyone. like people with liver diseas.. orwomen who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor about other medicin you're taki. calyour doctor right away if you have muscle

state.ending for romney and particularly if rubio gets on the ticket, rubio is going to campaign hard for mitt romney, saw i? >> he does not win florida. >> bill: so barack obama wins florida he is re-elected. >> looks good we feel positive about it. >> bill: who is we? >> i'm a republican. from a patron perspective. i'm not a cardinal so i shouldn't be talking we. >> bill: there you go. so you think that florida is state and romney did very well there. >> ultimate media state. >> bill: and john kasich is the governor of ohio and that is going to mean something. economics is improving there. ohio is traditionally a republican bastion. >> seos are two we have to win. >> bill: what do you see in ohio? is it favorable flying florida? >> it's getting better by the day. john has done a lot of things that is unpopular but he is built an organization. >> bill: how important is it to have a republican governor, like in virginia you got mcdonald? >> they have built a good structure, it's very importa

plus you can run but you can't hide as the golden state's sinks deeper into the red california governor jerry brown says deep austerity cuts are needed across the board and it seems no social program is safe well tell you what he's planning to cut and how the public is reacting. it's monday may twenty first twenty first four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our. all chaos in chicago as thousands of protesters clashed with police at an anti nato demonstration and it turned violent take a look at this. the protesters threw bottles and other objects at police decked out in riot gear using batons against them dozens have reportedly been arrested meanwhile iraq and afghanistan war veterans joined the protest hurling their medals toward the convention center where nato officials were meeting or to correspond on a stasi the church is in the thick of all the action in chicago to bring us the latest. she called under siege. the last couple of days have seen oceans of protesters thousands marching under a blistering sun to vent their anger at the military alliance who a

states and that's been a conundrum for a lot of years and i think a lot of the problem there is the conflation by the supreme court of speech and money they have taken the position that that cash is not property it is speech and so these big corporations and billionaires use their free speech money to convince people that their interest is the interest of the billionaires. the next comment of the night comes from a viewer in salinas california he had this reaction to a segment i did last week on my radio show. how you mentioned google glass popping up for internet searches and one of the things that you mentioned was at work here at your cubicle your internet searching for a chevy or porn or whatever my comment would be why are you doing these searches at work you're being paid at work to work you're not being paid at work to internet whatever condition you happen to have however tragic that might be enjoying with cancer however but you're not being paid there to search the internet you're being paid to work so it really shouldn't matter as far as work is concerned who views who see

by state. but this is different. this is a group of people who are calling for the absolute, full, and complete end of slavery. you know, every slave in the united states immediately. and the people who are very active in this movement are often devout protestants, blacks and whites, men and women, people from all parts of the united states. but we must always remember that this is a small number of people. this was never a mainstream movement. this was never a mass movement. and students from our perspective today -- you know, when we look back at this, we would say, well, of course slavery should end. of course slavery should be abolished. you know, all thinking adults today would agree on that. and slavery is illegal everywhere now. the last country to abolish slavery was actually saudi arab arabia, which abolished slavery in 1962. 1962, not 1862. so it's been a long, hard struggle. but slavery is illegal now everywhere. but to say these things in the 1830s and '40s and '50s took a lot of co