>> it depends on the state. states could create it exchanges. there is some question about whether or not they could still get the federal of subsidies that were initially provided for state creation. and for some states, like in ohio, have enacted constitutional amendment that preclude the state from doing anything that forces someone to acquire health insurance. interpreted to apply to things like the employer or even the individual mandate, it seems like ohio would not be allowed to create an exchange without repealing that. because the creation of the exchange results in tax credits that trigger both the employer mandate and the individual mandate penalties. it depends on the state, how easy that would be. but certain states, politically, this would probably become a political issue in the states, just as medicaid expansion has been. in some states, it is want tolly popular to accept medicaid expansion, and in some states, it's popular to say no, we are not going to take it -- take the money. healthcare.gov has proven a creating an exchange

like most of the southern states a lot of states in the u.s. maryland was way well prepared for implementing the a.c.a. the day after the law was signed the governor announced the care ing of a health coordinating council that was going to oversee the entire so they were clearly pwrepld. the legislature was supportive. state, a democratic democratic governor, democratic legislature for a long time and supportive.ery they quickly passed the legislation needed to move this forward. decided to build its own exchange and that is part of on. i'm going to focus in terms of the implementation actors that a lot of us focus on in our work and have been discussed pretty explicitly in kentucky we have a strong political support and supplemented by the fact that o'malley had n presidential aspirations, wanted bona fides if you will with a successful lawful of the a.c.a. e was also concerned about who was going to succeed him so he was groom being the lieutenant governor on this brown. was his signature policy. he was put in charge of everything. challenges

we did it state-by-state. when it came to the end and they got the right to vote, finally, in a few of those states, there was a question whether they could vote in national elections and that is why a constitutional amendment is required. i want to make sure that we are not talking past each other. >> i do not think things are going slow, in this case. i think the process being undertaken right now -- with that, if there are no other questions. >> i am fine, thank you. i appreciate your help and the argument on this case. >> on the next washington journal, a weeklong look at lyndon johnson's great society. our guests will join us to talk about lbj's goal of murdering quality and ending poverty -- promoting equality and ending poverty. we will also take your calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter. beginning my button :00 a.m. 7:00rn c-span -- live at a.m. eastern on c-span. >> high. -- hi. the c-span bus is a multimedia education center. we bring public affairs coverage to you and your commun

what is different is what states did. states said no. the other thing to point out is that the government in its briefing has not argued that the slang which is a mistake. -- that this language is a mistake. and it has not argued the absurd argument either. and the reason is, the doctrine is pretty clear. the government would have to show it is not possible that congress could have drafted a statute that means what the language clearly says. and given that congress has done this sort of thing before, that is a burden the federal government knows it cannot meet. which is why if you read the brief, the federal government is not making those arguments, even though if you look on the blogs and in the magazines and so on, commentators are. it is important to distinguish between the argument that may sound good in a soundbite versus those that actually have some legal import. there are some other arguments being made. i can respond to questions if folks want to. one other one that is pointing to a law is that, when congress thought to revise p

incorporated and blended with the state. church and state. but by the middle of the 18th this did not sit well with the growing ranks of religious dissenters. particularly be presbyterians and baptists. establishedged that church's hegemony and they found an ally in enlightenment thought as embodied, for example, in the works of jefferson and madison. like jefferson and madison objected to the language .f toleration tolerating churches that were not part of the establishment. they didn't like toleration. it insisted instead on complete religious freedom. in 16language prevailed articles of the virginia declaration of rights in 1776 and found its fullest expression a decade later in jefferson's statute. by this time, most virginians accepted the principle that people were entitled to religious liberty, but they thought about its implications. for example, a term like religion was susceptible to different meanings. pardon me, as- george mason wrote in the virginia declaration of rights, religion was the duty we owe to our creator. think about t

china and the united states. building trust is elusive particular if one side doesn't understand what the other side thinks and why it does. that is the value of this book. and i can think of no better person to explain the iranian viewpoint to a western audience than seyed hossein mousavian who was at many events who did his und undergraduate here and has been doing research and teaching at princeton. i can recommend his book and it is for sale at the door. and i should tell you it is proved to be so poplar that we had to send out to the publisher to get more in. and he will linger a bit at the end to sign copies and chat with you. he was here two years ago to discuss his first book and i am delighted to have him back here potentially at this moment for our two countries. welcome and the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you. first of all, i would like to extend my gratitute to warren and his colleagues at ipi -- gratitude -- for planning this event. i came to the united states in mid-1970s and left the u.s. s

another state to look at is ohio. one of the states that had less of that the large change 3.6% was the growth in the consumer spending from 2002 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2012, 2.4%. can you talk more about the changes and what was happening in the states with the drastic changes? >> guest: you see the participants in the housing boom and there was no greater effect than for example last vegas. think about the way they were presented around 2006 were looking to buy condos and vacation homes or they were moving their hoping to participate in this gaming boom that was occurring while there was a tremendous amount of commercial construction occurring in las vegas. so when the dominoes fell into the financial crisis hit and pulled back significantly, las vegas was as hard hit as anywhere in the country so naturally people became unemployed. people pull back on spending so while what is the most effective? purchasing of automobiles and we can think about during the crisis as it presented itself in october of 2008 and 2007.

it is a huge state. folks just got up on television and are just really now having a much broader conversation with the voters. and what we've seen really in the last week or so, since wendy davis went up on television with a very hard-hitting ad that has put greg abbott on the defense for his lack of response in supporting women. this is a very serious issue. women are going to be shocked in texas, as they are seeing this ad. this is the conversation. who is greg abbott? people are just figuring out who greg abbott is. he's incredibly conservative with a backwards view of where the state should go. this race is going to get closer as we get closer to re-election. i'm not saying it is easy. i'm not blind to the fact that we are dealing with a race in texas, but this is far from over. >> is it more difficult for women to get elected to executive positions? i know there are 16 democratic women in the senate. there is a lower number of democratic women governors. there are a number of attorney general -- or

is not a full state.something has to be changed in order for japan to become a normal state. in my view, for japan to become a normal state, the first thing it has to do is to come to terms with its own history. to squarely face the past history. if it is a wrong history, you should learn lessons from it. if it is a wrong history, you should regret and apologize. if it is a wrong history, you should make sure the same stakes will not be repeated. that is the message that neighboring countries in asia want to hear. that is the message korea wants to hear from japan. of course the japanese government says we have made many apologies. which were acceptable to korea, but from the korean viewpoint, we are not sure that whether japan has made a sincere, genuine regret an apology to korea, the number does not matter. this is not a political issue. this is something on a different dimension. last year, the day after christmas, prime minister abe made a surprising visit. it took many koreans, it was like a kamikaz

it was like state tv.it wasn't satellite and it satellite and i was given press tv if you have seen that. it was a lot worse amount. but sometimes there would be a story from the outside like "cnn" that would be spliced ends of the first time we had television, the day that we had a tv we turned it on and there was a christian -- christiane amanpour and pictures of us in the background. it was this really crazy feeling because it felt like those kinds of shows wanted some kid that went missing and died and i was watching myself as a memory. but you know we did get things like you know one of the three american spies to be tried separately so that made us think we could talk at nottingham about who would it be that goes first? might sarah get out and we would get these snippets that we would obsess about. >> let me just clear on the christiane amanpour thing. we didn't have that channel but within the iranian state television within their news program they would show a 22nd clip of "cnn" or abc or something

consider the state motto. nothing without providence. is thefinding out that state motto. we can't appeal to heaven for wisdom and for courage, and america will be saved. everything with providence. be ever thankful. downdy tells you to sit and shut up, you can go rogue. get out there and fight for what is right. you know what is right. down the road. be ever thankful. i thank you so much for being here, and wanting to be part of you.mit that can energize you energize me, motivate me and todd. you keep us going. i got your back, because i know you got my back. i appreciate it. you so much for being a part of this cause for freedom. so god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. [applause] >> sarah palin, the amazing sarah palin! [applause] governor palin, gosh, that was wonderful. you on honor that we had campus three years ago, and we have been looking forward to having you back. this is terrific. we want to send you back to alaska with a reminder of what real mountain people look like, and how it might be if you the mama grizzly post in front of them with

in fact, i've had a moment to talk to the governor we're going to be joining the mayors across the state of california to bring up the mayors across the country to demands that president obama and other pay attention we need national leadership we can get that by invoicing our voices as mayors (clapping) you know, solar is not the only industry that's thriving there's thanks to a business tax for clean tech firms 0 over 2 hundred and 10 having their haushdz in san francisco their complimented by financial firms by their portfolios based in san francisco this is all the same we're creating a community that will be success whether it's financed or violationy or solar companies with this coop liz i'm proud of what our city is doing and thank you for the opportunity to compliment the companies if i have a solar company that wants to find a location you're welcome here in san francisco (clapping) and with that, seven years dr. weber we're proud of this and the association e relationship we're proud of the achievements that this conference brings to the great minds let's go out through and dem

to come back but one the lessons that new york has learned from climate change and two the current state of the renewables in new york and the state where we go from here i want to start with the climate change been new york economy there's been i don't know why an idiotic debate around climate change (clapping) why this is a debate i'll never know, you know, we don't talk about drowning polar bears but new york was hit with super short term sandy it was the largest and when it hit new jersey but spit despite it was the second most it's truthful storm in history trailing katrina sandy caused more than $68 billion in damage and it happened in new york state it happened in the real estate to our bridges and tunnels and roads all things were flooded with significant damage. the energy infrastructure was seriously damaged being e merged in seawater. thank fully we've landowner a lot sandy's 14 foot storm surge we talk about this is a storm surge of 14 feet 2 feet higher than any in the history. that's why the electrical system was flooded and the brooklyn tunnel was flood and lower manhattan

has a consulate and military personnel. -- united states military the united states has also begun rubbing really supplies to iraqis forced to flee their homes. about 40,000 numbers of the yazidi religious minority remain on mount sinjar near the border with syria. obama said airstrikes may be needed to halt what he said was a potential genocide. >> when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. weekend act -- we can act carefully a response bleacher prevent a potential genocide. fighting has resumed in gaza after the expiration of a 72-hour cease-fire. israel said it launched airstrikes after palestinians resumed rocket fire. palestinian officials say a 10-year-old boy was killed earlier today when an israeli airstrike hit near a mosque in gaza city. six people were wounded. ofamas rejected an extension the three-day cease-fire saying that israel had failed to meet a key palestinian demand to tease the crippling blockade of gaza. the month-long israeli offenses has killed nearly 1900 palestinians, most of them

exist and if they can be exploited by the united states usher mark -- united states? ? guest: the real divisions that we want to focus on are the ones between i.s. and other groups. if we can do that, show the sunnis that there is another way forward, we might be able to help tear them away. can you talk about your experience on the ground? you were in country there. i have stayed in touch with a lot of those folks by e-mail and phone. they have made it clear that they do not want to separate from the rest of the rock -- the rest of my rock -- the rest of rack -- -- the rest the the rest of iraq. the problem is there is no alternative for these folks. host: ben connable will be with us for the next 40 minutes or so as we continue to discuss the .ewish and in iraq you can call in with your questions and comments. host: a look at how the sunnis are viewing the campaign right about thean you talk relationship to the kurds? this is a fascinating opportunity. up until about three weeks ago we would have assumed that the kurds were back to declaring independence and that th

i think given iran's stated goals to the turf for an act of being the most out of state in the regionthat acquiring nuclear weapons makes sense from the iranian point of view. if i were an iranian adviser given those goals acquire nuclear weapons makes sense. the problem is it's an anarchic civil government. countries do things that they think is in their own interest and that ends up threatening other states. iran acquiring nuclear weapons might be good for a rant but it's bad for u.s. in >> let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400 or e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> at a recent senate transportation hearing on the trucking industry and public safety, the outgoing administrator of the federal motor carrier safety administration stressed the need to limit the amount of time a truck driver can be on the road. safety experts and advocates also testified. senator risch ard blumenthal -- richard or blumenthal chairs while senator roy blunt is ranking member. this is j

you have 55 states. a lot of it, we're working with four bureaus if you include cairo and it simply isn't possible to cover the ground. there's a flip side to that too, which is in the age of the internet you have a huge array of different sources of information potentially on the web and sites. actually, it's very deceptive because there are so few journalists there's a homogenization of news. it can really set the news agenda. he may be one of two foreign corresponden correspondents. this is changing because the african media has developed so much but it's still an issue. the news can be set by so few journalists. in terms of deciding what we cover, if there are big crisis it's hard to ignore in strategic states. that tends to soak up resources. i think we've had a blend of stories. i think a lot of the western media is still kind of hard wired to cover conflict on the continent and crisis. >> how do we get to where the positive story, i guess, sells? isn't that what it comes down to what's going to se

governor's actions and the state agency to stay out in in front of this it, it's not a state action ensue a state and local and non-governmental private effort we need to stay out in flown front 0 of this. i thank you very much for hosting today and look forward to talking more as we move forward thank you. brown are we going to do a - introduction around - >> can i start with two topics and then we can move forward yeah. okay. with that, let us begin and, you know, as i mentioned sort of the objective of today is meeting and the challenges of managing this stating event as you all know, you know, this is the third year of 3 dry years. we've been hoping working with noah in the national weather serves next week we'll have an el nino pattern there's an interpretation of what that means we need to anticipate another dry year or at least plan for it and be prepared for another dry year. our challenge has been to remain out in front of this evolving event most disasters in california is the disaster occurs we'll respond collectively and we sort of mitigate the crisis and begin the recov

the next thing that comes to mind, most of the 23 states, my state may follow. florida has a initiative referendum coming in. and other entities, state entities that may change their laws. do you plan or will there be a plan to check some of these states? now florida will change the law possibly and others have already changed the law. some have changed the law for some time. i am getting back reports on california that are -- a news reporter told me he went out and he said, it's a whole different world. again, much more dramatic than you would expect. it's not just medical marijuana use but it's spread. and he was telling me just the societal change in behavior change. so it's having impact. but i think we need to look at doing testing. those are the medical marijuana states. and each one of the languages may be a little bit different allowing more latitude. but then you have colorado, which we have had some experience to date. but i think we ought to go in and look at colorado. washington is more recent. but where you have a change in law, if it's medical mari

is are going to be you know a state in which. senior leaders take turns is there going to be a national minorities veto i mean what kind of political arrangements there are then i think we can get behind this and identify those who might be described as rejectionists well i'm basad a hero unfortunately in those debates continue but the outcome of those debates tom how if always this same chaos and bloodshed well for the time big we have to take a very short break but when we come back to case they or should he go does the policy of regime change ever result in more good than harm that's coming up in a few moments on a well the part. people . like. to think everybody. oh well. why would he. say. eat. something for nothing. just leave still be good be shot if you see the state aid look to be. teaching all of the. u.s. military was built to square off against the soviet union. over western europe but when you take that conventional military and now try to reach ask you as a counterinsurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's

why hasn't the united states done more until now?it's tried do so under international law, obviously through the u.n. security council it's tried tried to fort accountability upon the yns government and the vetoes of -- syrian government and the vetoes of russia and china haven't allowed that. i think that makes what's happening now both legitimate and legal. that's very different from what's happened in 2003 and president obama should be supported and applauded for it. >> how serious is the situation on the ground in iraq? >> i think it's extremely serious, militarily and for the people of the iraqi state, including the yazidis, we are look at a situation where they are eventually facing the potential of genocide, completely scrubbed out in this part of the world. >> how is this different than 2003 invasion it impacted there. >> i think it was a disastrous situation by the united states and i believe illegal under international law. this is a different situation, it is not going into iraq with the opposition of the iraqi government.

>> i don't think it's the states, i think it's the state legislatures. i do think the state legislatures have moved dramatically to the right, and not just on women's issues, on a whole, on voting rights issues, on a whole host of issues. unfortunately, a wing of the republican party, the most extreme wing that believes abortion should not be legal, that believes birth control should not be available are really in charge of the primary process. >> is it conceivable to you that your opponents have won the moral argument, that is they've convinced enough people in conservative circles that abortion is morally wrong, leaving politicians that you talk about no choice but to go where the voters lead? >> i fundamentally disagree with that. people, look, and we at planned parenthood talk to voters a lot, talk to the public a lot. people in this country believe that abortion is a very personal and often complex issue. they overwhelmingly believe, though, again that these are personal, private decisions that women have to be able to make with their doctors, with

the court had ruled that the state's tenure system violated the state's constitution by denying some of california's six million students a quality education. republican leaders criticized the brown administration's decision to appeal. the state says the judge had failed to spell out adequate legal grounds for his decision. a federal court in texas has struck down major parts of a law that would have restricted abortions in that state. the law, which was to have gone into effect monday, would have required abortion clinics to meet hospital building standards, like widening hallways, before conducting additional procedures. the judge said the law would have placed an undue burden on women in part because some women would have had to travel 500 miles to get an abortion. and the rare intact skeletal remains of a man thought to have lived more than 6,000 years ago have gone on display at the penn museum in philadelphia. the remains were first discovered in 1930 in what is now southern iraq, but sat in storage in the museum's basement ever since. they were found in an unmarked box only af

has stated. this can't be some rich person's gamble where you make a bad bet. this has a real impact on people. when, you know, we're asking coal miners, seniors on fixed incomes, families and children who suffer higher electric bills and the unemployed to make this expensive bet that you're putting forward and i have a lot of problems to doing that to people around the country because of some rich lobbyists and powerful lawyers in washington who are now reaching into the epa to write their regulations. you know, countries around the world are already abandoning fossil fuel, anti-fossil fuel policies because of need of affordable energy. we're seeing it in australia, their parliament just repealed their carbon tax. the associated press last week quotes the australian prime minister who said a useless destructive tax which damaged jobs and hurt families, cost of living and which didn't actually help the environment. why aren't we following his lead? >> senator, climate in action is what threatens

tennessee was the last state to succeed from the state. then they changed their minds, voting for it. tennessee has shifted toward the gop, which now dominates the state's politics. jackson, of course, founded the democratic party and yellow dog democrats from al gore senior have a long tradition in the state, following his father to the senate in 1984. downturn for the democrats sped up in the 90s when remainder of gore's -- bill frist was elected that same year. clinton/gore ticket barely carried the state in '96 even though gore made 16 state appearances there. gore lost tennessee to george w. bush. he won his state he would have won the presidency. tennessee was just one of four states where john mccain got a higher percentage of the vote in 2008 than george w. bush did in 2004 and one of two where the republican percentage of the vote has risen in five consecutive presidential elections. business-minded democrats elected sometimes, in 2010 it was republican bill haslem elected with 65% of the vote. republicans now control 26 of the 33

>> when i was secretary of state, i traveled the state trying to get texans, more texans to vote. we have a serious problem simply getting people the vote, and that's particularly true in the hispanic commitment. we're not going to enjoy any power or influence unless we come out and vote on election day. and i, for one, support two goals. one is that we encourage as much -- many eligible voters to vote and, two, we protect the sanctity of the vote. i think they are not mutually exclusive. i think we can have both, quite frankly. i don't have a problem, and i am on record supporting voter id laws so long as the laws passed by the states are not passed with the intention of discriminating against minorities and the elderly and the poor and thatthe poor and te provide a mechanism people that are poor, that they don't have the money, that they do have access to some kind of id that does allow them to vote, even secretary perez talked about the fact of expanding the right to vote for eligible voters. how do we know whether or not they're eligible? that's the key. they have to be eligib

bald face of the united states congress.ke also in violation of court orders by failing to disclose that backup system. >> you can look at the two court orders issued by the court once we discovered the melson been supposedly lost. he specifically directed the irs to submit testimony under oath about efforts to get those in melson where there were. two times they file information, two separate requests. the judge was quite specific. of what all the info. it declined to provide the information about the back of systems. we ask them sense, will you amend their declarations of the report to the court that was given? they said no. this is extraordinary stonewalling, even for this of ministration. lou: and the judge in this case, of this judge insist that the truth be told? that the court be honored by at least a chip of the hat from an organization this administration that refuses to obey law. >> you know, i think we have a good argument that the judge needs to allow us to give more information, put some of these officials under

for the time being it seems as though the tart for this state of the -- target for this state of the operation is to retake mosul dam, an important resource for the whole country, not just northern iraq. how do you think british and american forces can prevent following through and getting caught up in the syrian conflict? >> well, they'll have to really stay off the ground as much as possible, if you will, and leave the heavy fighting for the peshmerga and iraqi troops, who should be berg into the fray at some point. there is a tendency for i.s.i.s. to be clever about how they are going to booby trap around the dam. and the dam itself. it may take special operations forces in order to make the dam safe. yell have to see when that poip comes. >> thank you for the ipp site. >> thank you very much. director at the middle eastern gulf military analysis institute. >>> now, fighting between rival armed groups continue in libya, despite falls for a ceasefire. the u.n. condemned an escalation in the violence, saying it threatens the stability of the country. >>> five weeks of fighting betwe

against islamic state. but i.s. won't be beaten without much more fire power. political as well as military. it won't be hurt badly while it still has a power base in northern syria. and that is why there's talk of doing a deal with president assad. >> i think on practical grounds, we have to possibly consider taking a deep breath and holding our nose and saying that it would seem to us now that the extremely vicious and evil nature of islamic state and its objectives are actually worse than what assad has been doing. and it may be one of those situations in history where my enemy's enemy becomes my friend. >> but the west's main so far failed strategy for ending the syrian war includes the departure of president assad. britain says it won't change its mind about him. >> i've said very often that one of the first things you learn in the middle east is that my enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend. we may very well find that we're aligned against a common enemy, but that doesn't make us friends with som

two americans are killed fighting with the terror group that is also known as the islamic state in iraq and syria. president obama studies the dangers and the options. >> i don't want to put the cart before the horse. we don't have a strategy yet. >> the pentagon is conducting surveillance for air strikes in syria, will the president approve them? will they be enough to defeat sigh sister and is that even the goal of u.s. policy? and russian troops and military equipment enter eastern ukraine, more economic sanctions appear likely but can the west reverse russian aggression. >> we will ask the president one of the top president's critics, john mccain and get the latest on the fight against isis and potential threats against america from peter king of the house homeland security committee and adam smith of the house armed services committee, 60 years of news because this is face the captioning sponsored by cbs >> good morning again, we start this morning with the growing debate about what the u.s. and its allies can and should do to combat the brogue threat of a terror group isis, yester

sill just a week before the city asked the state for help.he police superintendent said he didn't want it. >> we have more police officers than any large city in the country per capita. so let's not do that. >> reporter: austin is one of chicago's more violent neighborhoods. this marks the shot where a 14-year-old was gunned down on sunday, shot in the back by two unknown assailants. austin is one of the neighborhoods the state troopers are covering. it also is in this man's district. he is convinced the state police are making a difference. >> the world is out that you cannot commit crime in chicago because if you do, you are going to get caught. the laws are there to deter. >> reporter: still ford admits it may take time before the people doing the shooting, get that message. >>> concerns are growing in the united states and around the world over ebola, senegal has now confirmed its first case of ob oboe -- ebola. the world health organization is warning that the number of cases could rise to 20,000 in a matter of months. that's six times t

if not the united states. some of the rhetoric has occasionally talked about the united states. it is not central to what they are doing. there are a lot of ways this could turn into a longer engagement. they is been firm on no boots on the ground. no boots on ground. and there the question is in terms of whether this can work, can the kurdish forces hold together? one of the other reasons for action this week is there was a terrible crisis of morale and they were pulling back. and can they get their act together and it hasn't happened yet? gwen: i wonder if you put faces on the story whether this doesn't change public opinion or one of those things that foreign policy never works for you? >> there is really no cohesive strategy here. it is one thing to say the united states this is our role in the world and this is what we are going to do, i'm president i laid this out and here is my strategy going forward. that has never been put to the american public. it does look as scatter shot as it feels. the reason the president's approval rating is 36% in foreign affairs for people tha

>> kirk: florida state started to celebrate. they thought this game was over after the green touchdown. here we are four or five plays later and oklahoma state is about to get the ball into the end zone. they haven't had to use one timeout yet. >> chris: nope. childs in the back field. back to the line of scrimmage. terrance smith was there quickly. i think you're right, kirk, that noles sort of relaxed here. hill back in there for childs. walsh with a fade to the end zone. incomplete. the receiver's helmet comes out. e.j. was defending there against ateman who hasn't really been involved tonight. he's going to have to check out of the lineup here. williams is going for the football. there's nothing illegal there at all. he's looking over saying help me out, that's pass interference, but that was a clean play by e.j. williams. >> chris: third and goal inside of two minutes. >> kirk: i wouldn't be surprised to see them try to run the football maybe back to the left, the quarterback or of course tyreek hill. >> chris: they motione

we heard the secretary of state chuck hagel say that the islamic state group is worse than anything that the united states has ever seen including al-qaeda. we heard the joint chief of staff say that they will have to be routed out of syria if they're going to be defeated, and they need to be defeated. now comes another top adviser ben rhodes when asked if, in fact, the president is entertaining airstrikes in syria at this point to go after the islamic state group, his answer is that they're actively considering what would be necessary to protect americans and they are not restricted by borders. now all of this under the stated policy, here's the concern now, a gap opening up between the rhetoric that is being used and the stated policy of the american government, that is to protect american interests inside iraq. that's why they've been executing airstrikes up to 93. most of them around the mosul dam, that vital facility that was controlled by the islamic state forces. let's listen to what they had to say. >> we're going to do what is necessary to protect americans, and so if we see plo

the united states is trying to thread a needle between states that are fundamentally opposed to assadtes that think that he's actually a good stabilizing force. now, in terms of european partners to which he's appealed, there's very little that they can contribute as a practical c matter, militarily, for example. they can make some contribution but not really for the use of force. otherwise, you know, he'se. dealing with countries that disagree on the role of the actual government in baghdad in terms of spurring the revolt in iraq that the united states is now trying to tamp down. and the administration has also got to ponder the consequences of trying to cut off i.s.i.s. t safe haven in syria and attack targets there because the farther west they go the more likely they will be seen as assad's air force and intervening in the syrian civil war at long last but on the side of the regime which will anger some of its very close allies. >> well, yeah. i mean, you've argued when we've had these discussions before for a more forceful u.s. role.p >> nothing significant is going to happen in

strike in the united states. this is like nothing the middle east has seen in your lifetime, is it? >> absolutely. i've never seen any force like this. this is a nightmarish, puritanical islamic force. this is al qaeda on steroids. unfortunately for the last two years we let them fester and grow in syria and we discovered their lethality in june when they took over most of northern iraq, including the second largest iraqi city, mosul. there was a panic in washington when they threatened baghdad, but then again, that sense of urgency dissipated in the last few weeks. the clash between the united states and isis was inevitable. the question today is whether the president of the united states is doing enough. the question is, is it too little too late. at this stage what i see is it is too little. the president doesn't want boots on the ground. i understand that, obviously. but he has to support somebody else's boots on the ground. and the only available boots willing to fight are the kurds and we need to embark on

we are protecting united states interesting as far as the state of united states personnel in the northern part of iraq and that is our limited mission but we are not going to use our military to take care of what the iraqis should be taking care of. if you look at the real cause, the real cause is the iraqi government has not perform the way it should to protect the rights of all iraqis. we are not going to get in the middle of a civil war. >> i will get to the threat of isis in a minute but when you have reservations about getting involved at all and back in may you joined a number of other senators seeking to repeal the authorization of the use military force which was the resolution that allowed the invasion of iraq in 2003 in the first place, is president obama from what you have heard, is he getting too far involved in this? when you hear him talk about this being a long-term project that could take months, are you concerned about this being an open ended commitment? i disagreed with our invasion of iraq 13 years ago and didn't thing it was a danger to the united states. i support th

one state, two states. the call should be for our government to end its policy that is grounded in support for occupation and apartheid and instead move to a policy that is grounded in international law, human rights, whether that is one state, tuesdays, five states, or 10 states. u.s. that to challenge policies that exist today. that means stop the protection of israel at the united nations, tell your members of congress they were wrong to sign onto the support israel, israel can do no wrong resolution they signed onto. two in the house, one in the senate. and demand an end to the u.s. military aid to israel. that is to the tune of tree $.1 billion a year, to start with, and they have added almost $1 billion more. imagine what we could do with that money back home with our crumbling infrastructure, our need for health care and education. that is where that money should stay. and to rebuild does a. that -- we do not need that money to go directly to the israeli military. the movement for divestment and sanc

[applause] gilbert ndungo, state minister, economy and finance. [applause] heidi shoup, a new press club member. [applause] [inaudible] journalist and tv news anchor for the middle east broadcasting network. [applause] tina masok, senior communications officer of the united nations foundation. [applause] last year "the new york times" listed the republic of congo on its list of 46 places to visit for its remarkable safaris, the world's second largest tropical rain forest and its rich culture. but beyond a tourist attraction, our guest today, president nguesso, has more if years made industrialization his priorities in the republic. economic progress in the last ten years has led to a cancellation of large amounts of debts through the international monetary fund. that has allowed the country to dedicate larger percentages of its budget to infrastructure development than it has been able to invest in any other time in the republic's history. the president's current seven-year term will end in 2016, and it's his second and final term allowable under

some states allow surgasy, and other states don't. >> coming up all new tonight, at 11:00 pm eastern,for criminal charges against the new york police department because of that choke hold death. >>> plus taking the challenge. why are so many teens lighting themselves on fire and then posting pictures online? these stories and much more tonight. >>> the first fighting of world war i broke out 100 years ago today. on august 4th, 1914, germany invaded belgium. today former enemies from a century ago came together to remember. david shater reports. >> reporter: 100 years ago they were locked in a war to end all wars. tonight the leader came as allies to pay their respects to the fallen. by the end of this day a century ago, the british empire was drawn into the fray. >> translator: the message is the same, the blight of war still plagues the world. >> translator: how can bestay neutral when a deadly conflict is happening in gaza for the last month. europe must take on these responsibilities along with the united nations. >> reporter: it was in this city where the first world battle was fo

by the united states. elsewhere around the world demonstrations against islamic state group militants have taken place in the netherlands scuffles broke out with police while demonstrators were also seen clashing with protesters at a counter-rally the netherlands has witnessed several pro and anti islamic state protest in recent months as well as incendiary public speeches on a rise in hate crimes earlier this month the country became the first in europe to ban the flying of the movement's black flag. cases by case of ebola in romania has scared people off going to hospital after a man was admitted to an infectious disease unit he recently returned from nigeria displaying symptoms connected to a bowl of what doctors say yet to give a conclusive diagnosis nigeria's become the fourth west african country to declare a national emergency over the virus. has been a mass rally in pakistan in support of next hour a cleric could claim the government was corrupt and the prime minister should be ousted the thousands

state plus another state. that is something else that illinois needs to be -- they need to be a part of that group. they need to use that to clean up. we did a whole chapter talking about voter fraud, including in chicago where in 1982 which is in that long ago the united states attorney in a federal grand jury investigated and ended up prosecuting over 60 individuals, convicted of, putting them in jail. the estimate was that there were 100,000 fraudulent votes cast in that election. in fact, there were so many fraudulent votes cast in almost james the outcome of the governor's race. >> text question. no, come on. each still a little sleepy this morning. oh, yes. down here. >> what is your opinion on the recent supreme court ruling regarding the voting rights act that made changes to two sections of the voting rights act. >> sure. last year the supreme court issued a decision in the case calls shelby county which has been quite controversial what was the right decision. in 1965 congress passed the voting right

it has been called the islamic state of iraq, isis, or the islamic state in the levant, isil or just plain islamic state which suggests they are in a lot of places. start -- i have a powerpoint that i am trusting will work. homage do anh oh my gosh honorary citizen -- the gathering storm. that was the title of his first book in his series on world war ii. -- lead up to that horrific i guess i can power through this myself. another brick, samuel johnson had this to say. i think it applies equally to this. this is of course not an isolated incident. to james foley has been happening to thousands of people. isis, yes, but at the hands of the jihadists. i want to talk to you about what makes isis a particularly dangerous outfit and then talk about their friends. i think you are probably all aware of these elements. actually folks who have been in the fight for some time, notably in syria. at no smallquired measure because of the iraqi military that they confronted when they came across the border , a very substantial arsenal, including a lot of hard yea -- our gear. it was approximated t

these authors state the contrary.they stated that the polar bear population has never had an estimate in a scientific sense. this is simply a qualified toimate, a qualified guess satisfy public the man. some conclusions are ignorant of the best statistically valid observations. the report says that terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems have sequestered about one quarter of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by our activities. i have done the first valid estimates. the estimates of carbon uptake of vegetation used by ipcc are not statistically valid. they all estimate -- overestimate by up to almost 300%. the report uses the term climate change with two meanings. natural and human-induced. i have heard that today. these are not distinguished in the text area that is confusing. of course the comment is -- the climate is changing. it will always change. if a statement is about natural change, then it is a truism. if the meaning is taken to be human-caused, the available data do not support the statements. thank you. ne

whether he was efficient or not he was handed the country in a very very poor state and the united states was a very very big player in these whole quagmire trying to dislodge the governments in both iraq and in syria i wonder what will it take for the united states to ever conceive that even for good reasons like democracy or freedom regime change is rarely a good idea i think rarely a good idea is probably a good way to put it and by the way i would agree with a lot of your comments about maliki i think you've made them better than his government has made them in fact the criticism of maliki for not having enough sunni outreach that may be true but i think one can apportion some of the criticism on the sunni's who have made it very clear they're not interested in living under a shia prime minister that has a prime minister represent shia political power and so i think it's a very fundamental problem in iraq and so i think it's a problem much deeper than maliki's behavior and whether he has kept or not kept various promises so i think he has a problem. and how he's handled himself but al

not state.something has to be changed in order for japan to become a normal state. in my view, for japan to become a normal state, the first thing it has to do is to come to terms with its own history. to squarely face the past history. if it is a wrong history, you should learn lessons from it. if it is a wrong history, you should regret and apologize. if it is a wrong history, you should make sure the same stakes will not be repeated. that is the message that neighboring countries in asia want to hear. that is the message korea wants to hear from japan. of course the japanese government says we have made many apologies. which were acceptable to korea, viewpoint,e korean we are not sure that whether japan has made a sincere, genuine regret an apology to korea, the number does not matter. this is not a political issue. this is something on a different dimension. year, the day after christmas, prime minister abe made a surprising visit. it took many koreans, it was kamikaze visit by the prime min

the statistic of the united states was e -- the constitution of the united states was designed to preserve sirred value, embody certain beliefs about the nature of humanity. it was supposed to create a check against the nature of man kind. this ises why the founders believed youd in interests to counterbalance interests and the nature of hand kind dictated -- no man could be trusted with ultimate power because men were capable of great evil, which is exactly what madison said. men are not angels. if they were no government would be necessary, and if there -- we're web site and -- we're human beings -- people who are not president obama are devils and he is an angel inch his view and the views of his administration, people who work for the government are by necessity good. a self-selected group of people who are only there for the best. all the rest of us are there for the worst. we're there for self-interest, evil self-interest. why you see president obama and his wife go around to the rest of the country and say repet lid if you want to do good for the country, don't start a business, go

arrangement of the -- one state, to state, red state, blue state -- that is not thatusiness of the u.n., is not the business of the people in this room, except those in the room who happen to be israelis and palestinians. froma jewish girl california. i do not get to say how many whoes people should have live half a world away. i pay taxes in this country. i have a right to say something to our government and one of our commands should be let the u.n. be the central actor, rather than the situations we have seen. there are so many examples of how the u.s. relies on its goal of the special relationship to ensure that the u.n. is not allowed to play the major role. what does that look like? let's look at the history of the u.s. veto. since 1970, the u.s. has cost far more vetoes than anyone else in the security council, but if you count them up, you will see that two thirds of those vetoes were in defense of apartheid policies. either in south africa or in israel. two thirds of u.s. vetoes cast in defense of apartheid. you can look at the madrid peace talks in 1991. a lot of people point