state level. temptation to steal thunder here is very powerful, let me kill that right now. here is peter berger, the research fellow in foreign-policy studies. he spent most of his working day as the vice president of research at the charles koch but i foundation -- foundation. his work has been published in international studies quarterly, state politics and policy quarterly, armed forces society and other outlets. a -- jason soren is a lecturer in the government area of dartmouth college. his interest include public policy and federal systems, secession and ethnic politics. he is the author of secession, identity, interest and strategy and must just his academic work is published in international studies quarterly, state politics and policy quarterly, and other academic journals. he has received his ba in economics and the loss of feet with honors and his phd in political science from yale university. we'll hear from both gentlemen and then will leave for -- time for questions at the end. you p

at the state level. temptation to steal the thunder here is very powerful slot me -- so let me kill that right now. what am peter berger is the research fellow in foreign policy studies. he spent most of his working day is the vice president of bliss and research at the charles coke institute and charles koch foundation. berger is the author of milton freedom -- friedman. his work has been published in international studies quarterly, state politics and policy quarterly, armed forces society, and other outlets. earned updates in politics from brenda's university. jason soren is a lecturer in the government of government in dartmouth college. his research interests include public policy and federal systems, secession is him and ethnic politics. he is the author of secession is them, identity, interest and strategy and much of his international -- academic work internationaln studies quarterly, state politics and policy quarterly and other academic journals. he has received is ba in economics and philosoph

state. they have different numbers of men at each table. some states allow their delegates to decide amongst themselves. some states will give their delegates specific instructions. so here in the room on july the 1st, you're going to have nine of the delegations voting why -- yes that we should be free and independent states. two will vote no, and two will be either divided or not voting. new york is still waiting for their formal instructions from home so they're not going to technically vote at all. delaware is divided. they have two of their delegates in the room. one for, one against. so they're divided. pennsylvania and south carolina are going to vote no. so on the rest of the first and into the second, because the second is the day they want to take the binding vote, the official vote, the politicking is we want to try to make this unanimous. now, new york they're going to sort of ignore because they haven't gotten any instructions. new york's going, we have to wait until they tell u

next november 8th, the united states people will elect a new president of the united states. i am sure the electoral process will continue being intense debate. all of these characteristics of the grand democratic tradition of the u.s. hillary clinton as well as mr. donald trump have publicly expressed my respect. it has been with the president and friend barack obama, the next president of north america will find in mexico and it's government a neighbor that wants to work constructively to strengthen even more the relationship among our nations and to confront, together, all of the challenges that we face in common. we, i belief there is great opportunity for both countries if we decide to take advantage of this as good friends, allies, and strategic allies beginning from a relationship based in mutual respect. even though we may not agree on everything, i trust that together, we will be able to find better prosperity and security without losing sight of security and independence are the most important of everything we value. any close relationship needs to be visits and ren

states are very well protected. you equally expressed your feelings and your love for mexico. the united states and mexico share a 2,000--mile border. half a trillion dollars in annual trade, and one million legal border crossings each and every day. we are united by our support for democracy, a great love for our people, and a contributions of millions of mexican-americans to the united states, and i happen to have a tremendous feeling for mexican-americans, not only in terms of friendships but in terms of the tremendous numbers that i employ in the united states. and they are amazing people. amazing people. i have many friends, so many friends and so many friends coming to mexico and in mexico, i'm proud to say how many people i employ, and the united states, first, second and third generation mexicans are just beyond reproach. spectacular, spectacular, hard-working people. i have great respect for them and strong values of family, faith and community. we all share a common interest in keeping our hemisphere safe,

the second of any state in the united states of america. that represents an increase from 450 cyber companies in 2011 and i am proud to say that virginia was just chosen for a new air force cyber operation squadrant. more than 67,850 virginians work in the cyber sector and that number is expected to grow by 25% through 2022. our aggressive approach to grow the cyber sector is special to build the new virginia economy capable of withstanding the uncertainty of federal sequestration and budget cuts. the aim of my chair's initiative is to replicate the work we have done in virginia across all of the states in the country so everybody is best positioned. if virginia is out on the lead in these issues it doesn't matter if another state isn't because as you hear from ceo's they will go to states with weak access and go in through a backdoor. to do this, we will provide governors resources and recommendations, we will focus on how cybersecurity affects all sectors of state government including health care, education, workforce development, economi

states because we don't get paid to states. we encouraged states to look at the coverage policies as the to do not come as more competition happened as the prices came down. back last november we got concerned about certain restrictions that some states were putting in place. what we did is we put out a guidance. we don't put out a guidance every day. the last time we put out a guidance about a particular class of drugs with respect restrictions that states were putting on was back in 1996 on hiv drugs. it does not happen every day. we heard enough from patient groups, some of which may be in this room, we heard enough from physicians and we also heard enough from states to know that while we're apathetic with the states fight with respect to cost, at some point you can't use utilization management tools to unduly restrict access to coverage. what the guidance and said, i don't know if you've seen it but it online, you can look at it, but it advises states on the card coverage requirement and for missile restriction. in other w

and a centralized federal government. >> small states were worried that big states, populous statesld end up with a greater degree of authority and power in the legislature. >> we must find a way to persuade these narrow-minded politicians who oppose a strong and energetic government. >> the stalemate threatens to derail the convention, leaving the country without a constitution or a working government. >> well, the virginia/pennsylvania caball plotting the destruction of states' rights, the very bedrock of this country. >> no, it is you who would destroy this nation with your foolish adherence to a useless confederation. >> mr. paterson, without compromise, we cannot be secure or respect abable both here and abroad. >> precisely. >> new jersey would welcome a true compromise. >> it was politics hard at work with different groups advocating their particular positions, but there was also understanding that in politics, you don't get everything you want. and what emerged was a compromise. >> the great compromise breaks the impasse among the states, creating a congress with two houses,

states are very well protected. you equally expressed your feelings and your love for mexico. the united states and mexico share a 2,000-mile border, a half trillion dollars in annual trade, and 1 million legal border crossings each and every day. we are united by our support for democracy, a great love for our people, and the contributions of millions of mexican-americans to the united states. and i happen to have a tremendous feeling for mexican-americans, not only in terms of friendships, but in terms of the tremendous numbers that i employ in the united states, and they are amazing people, amazing people. i have many friends, so many friends and so many friends coming to mexico and in mexico. i'm proud to say how many people i employ. and the united states first, second, and third generation mexicans are just beyond reproach, spectacular, hard-working people. i have such great respect for them and their strong values of family, faith, and community. we all share a common interest in keeping our hemisphere safe,

by state. but you also have to step back and look at the great mosaic. this statute is in part about our march through history to keep promises that our constitution says for too long were unmet. and this court and congress have both taken these promises seriously. in light of the substantial evidence that was adduced by congress, it is reasonable for congress to make the decision that we need to stay the course so that we can turn the corner. to be fair, this statute cannot go on forever, but our experience teaches that six amendments to the constitution have had to be passed to ensure safeguards for the right to vote, and there are many federal laws. they protect uniform voters, some protect eligible voters who have not had the opportunity yet to register. but together these protections are important because our right to vote is what the united states constitution is about. >> thank you, counsel. mr. rein, 5 minutes. >> thank you, mr. chief justice. >> do you think that the right to vote is a

united states of america. i am absolutely certain that the electoral process will be one with intense debate and many ideas and a full citizen participation which are all the characteristics of the great democratic tradition of the united states of america. both hillary clinton and mr. donald trump have publicly expressed their respect towards me. as the president barack obama has said, the next president of the united states will find in mexico and in its government a neighbor that wishes to work in a constructive way in order to strengthen and increase the relationship between our nations, bonds of our countries and to face our common challenges. if we decide to look at our opportunities together as friends, as good neighbors and as strategic allies based on a relationship which is founded on mutual respect, although we do not agree on everything, we trust that together we'll be able to find greater prosperity without losing sight of the fact that liberty and independence are the grounds for everything we do

states.hina is not a threat, it is a challenge. as we talked about many times, whether it ever did -- becomes a threat depends on how are our leadership in washington and the leadership in beijing manages this relationship in east asia and around the world. and how we deal with this fundamental problem that they want more say in the world around them because they are getting stronger, and we have that say today. they want more say in the world around them or they want more say in the world, period. not just that they see the pacific region and their -- mike: both. but i would make a distinction. in the world around them, and east asia, they want considerable influence across the board. in the rest of the world, what they want their influence primarily for his economic reasons. access to raw materials, resources, and access to markets. the goal is difference -- dif ferent in the two different parts of the world. in russia is number two on that list. we're not ready to go to war with russia. we

is a matter of state law. but they did not do that in this case. >> if we agree with you and they say that is what it means, and then doesn't that make us look foolish? >> if the state considers the merit in a mess grant from the federal court. >> so what is the federal claim? >> so what is your response from justice scalia? >> perhaps. >> that was the case from the solicitor general and probably is to that question a little better. >> denver said it could be a constitutional minimum. are you asking? >> i know believe you need to get to that question. >> i reserve the balance of my time. >> mr. chief justice said it may please the court this court does have jurisdiction to decide the question of retroactivity to voluntarily incorporate it with those three affiliated tribes in the court has recognized as they choose to adopt through those decisions then buys and sells to federal law there is a federal question. >> but they can change their mind you said voluntarily. >> but what they said is this court has juris

and then that purple state virginia leaning blue state new hampshire, blue state minnesota, blue state new jersey, red state utah rounds out the top 10 when it comes to education for states with residents that have bachelor degrees or higher the percent of those of the age 25 or older who have bachelor degrees or higher. it goes massachusetts, a blue state at the top followed by purple state colorado, blue state, maryland, blue state new jersey, purple state virginia. blue state vermont, blue state new york. blue state minnesota in the top 10. we can discuss the chart, the methodology. why don't we bring in the calls. mark, good morning. mark: good morning, thank you. thank you for taking my call. this is a great segment and i'm happy for mr. hacker for writing this report and just looking at it, it's super detailed. and not to sound biased because i am from massachusetts and i do like you said we rank pretty high in education and everything else. but when i graduated college in 2001, i took a dog to new orleans, louisiana and there's a marking manager and i soon learned that there rea

key battleground states.eports are that hillary clinton's team is reserving another $80 million in tv ads over the next few months, targeting states like florida, pennsylvania, new hampshire, iowa, nevada, ohio, north carolina, and parts of nebraska. but her campaign reportedly not spending ad money in virginia and colorado. let's bring in chris stirewalt, fox news's digital editor, to talk about that and more. hello, chris. >> how are you doing? >> you tell me how the clinton campaign is doing. in virginia and colorado they have roughly nine, ten, 11-point spreads. is it too soon to call those states or should trump forget about them as well? >> the clinton campaign has such a massive cash advantage, when you get down to it, you have to reserve the time. if you had money, you could probably get in at the end if you were concerned about it. if you look at the states where the clintons are concerned versus the states where they're not, when we look at virginia and colorado, these states have increasingly large

stream pouring on states like my home state of arizona. which was while widely hailed as one of the national leaders and school choice. i think -- i see we have some arizonans in the audience. i wondered are we better off because of it? frankly i don't think we are and based on increasing calls for the department abolition this presidential election cycle i think it's fair to say a lot of us think it's time to pull the plug on the department of education. what does that really mean? if the department's history teaches us anything it's the government or our proceeds are not like fine wines. they don't get better with age. history also teaches us that your proceeds are resilient. u.s. department of education was downgraded committee funded in the shuffle from one federal agency to another throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries. rather than abolishing it in 1980s we decided to keep it around and try and use it to promote an excellent agenda. the result today, common core. this is what we were promised at all back in 1979. the u.s. dep

red state georgia or so we thought. the poll found that the race in georgia is tied at 43%. >> a battle ground state >> matt just broke down the numbers. what's going on in georgia that's matching the ultra battle ground state of georgia. georgia isn't a battleground state until now. >> we've seen a major change in the makeup of the population of georgia. increase in african american vote and hispanic vote. we see a candidate not appealing to a section of the republican vote. the suburban vote. >> south georgia has much in congressman xhon with the pan hand l of what about south georgia? >> we're going to see trump do very wl. i'd be surprised if any counties south of macon, georgia you see trump not win. the problem he has is in metro atlanta where you have over six million people and a lot of voters and suburban voters that aren't entirely comfortable. >> florida and georgia might vote together. florida georgia line. those aren't there anymore. donald trump and hillary clinton need to look at them as one area with med

what you have is the big states and small states. balance between the three classical forms of the government and democracy. each of which the architecture of the constitution understood to have the laws. if you can somehow combine the forms into one, you could use them to check the flaws of the other. >> don in convention and the consensus of the states present and of the in dependence of the united states of america. >> please join me for the constitution. there are parts of this constitution which at present height and is not improved. i consent to this constitution because i do not expect better, but i am not sure that it's not best. >> the constitution is signed, but the new congress is going to need to establish an executive branch and pick a president. all eyes are on a man that does not even want the job. >> there are things that any single person is given the power. there's no executive authority and nobody to enforce the laws with the decisions over the sceptics. the supporters reported to george washington. >> the office o

cal state east bay! our next recipient is alfaundsonocblack student union and he is going dillered university and his sister is here. thank you for being here on behalf of alfonzo. similar -some student have left for college or on summer trip before they head off so really appreciate the family support. arina [inaudible] galileo high school graduate going on to oxburg college and michele is here on behalf of her daughter. [inaudible] from san francisco youth fund. graduate of san francisco international high school going on to cal state university in channel island. our next one up, brenda wu, from lowell high school going uc santa barbara. congratulations, brenda. next is breechaun phillips from san francisco alliance of black school educators, [inaudible] high school graduate going on to spellmen. spellmen in the house! very nice. dar lean is next from filipino educators of san francisco and graduate from george washington high school milem. eagles! she is going to cal state long beach. give it up for

red states, blue states.s pulling the strings, and we have not had good leadership and i don't trust the democrats anymore than i trust the republicans. the democrats tended pretty tough on themselves judging from that caller. there to respond to, but the first thing i would say is that job growth is a very important part of prosperity. clinton -- the clinton administration presided over a very rapid rate of job growth. he also raised taxes. one of the things i would note is historically, bill clinton raising taxes and pretty healthy job growth, then you have george w. bush cutting taxes and pretty anemic job growth and since the downturn, under president obama, job growth has been pretty healthy and he did raise taxes eventually, letting some of the tax cuts expire. part of the problem when it looks the history is that people can always throw in other factors. it was 9/11 that hurt george w. bush or maybe it just happened to be that was a time of economic change. that is why looking at the states can be help

that is why it has to be decided on a state to state basis. that authority is still locked in by the voting rights act and the quality -- constitution. you cannot pass laws that violate voting rights under federal protections such as the voting right act. those are the losses we are seeing now, when states have crossed the line and gone too far. host: jennifer clarke is a council at the brennan center for justice. find them on twitter. thank you so much for your time this morning. jennifer: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> we invite you to watch all the arguments and issues in their entirety. watch more from the courts and congress in our video library at c-span.org. >> members of congress returned to washington from their summer break in eight days. in the meantime, joe wilson started a bus tour today in his district. says, gratefulhe to begin my tour in aiken. great to

some states have been challenged on that and overturned some of the state laws. for example, new york times correspondent headline said, texas agrees to soften voter id law after court order. what exactly took place? >> that was a prolonged fight over a law in texas like many others that required voters to produce specific id to cast a ballot. this has been up into down the courts and in the most recent decision the u.s. court of appeals decided this law was discriminatory. there needed to be greater opportunities for people who had trouble getting these identifications to obtain them. there have been meetings between the plaintiff voting rights advocate and the state into they came to an agreement which effectively ended the photo id law and allowed anybody who has difficulty in getting an id to secure a vote by signing an affidavit of the polling place and they could not reasonably obtain one of the document so that was a good change. >> and north carolina scored struck down a law and in the court argument one of the judges questioned the intent of the voting l

right wing states. very noisy relationship, we find that. we also find that more rural states have more personal freedom. for economic freedom, there is absolutely no relationship. and i think what is going on there is that, again, some of the older early industrializing states, you know, the late 1800s developed very powerful labor movements, concentrate ed proletariat if you will and those states have been definitely politically to the left and as a result of that, they had those sorts of policies, labor regulation, more of a government fiscal role, and that's the reason why they tend to have less freedom. it is not that the urbanization itself causes problems, it is if you industrialized during the era of mass production and, you know, labor radicalism, that's a problem. but if you're oklahoma city, if you're, you know, sioux falls, if you're, you know, if you're houston, or one of these cities that is recently grown, largely based on services, largely, you know, non-unionized, a lot of those cities

the five states, across the country, their considered to be lean democrat states.hey're not safe democrat, not likely democrat, they're just leaning democrat. clinton campaign is leading in them only slightly. those five states are florida, ohio, north carolina, iowa, and nevada. here's the thing. those are the five lean-democrat states. right now as things stand, donald trump could win every single one of those states and it still wouldn't matter. he would still lose. because right now, if the election was held today, hillary clinton wouldn't even need the states that are leaning democrat. she can get to 270 electoral votes with just the states that are considered to be safe democrat and likely democrat. i mean, for donald trump, the way the map looks right now, winning every remotely competitive state in the country would not be enough. because not enough states in the country are competitive enough. he would also need to dislodge one of the states in this gigantic blue electoral wall. kellyanne conway seems like a very nice person. kellyanne conway seems like sh

it becomes the conflict between spain and the united states or the united states and seminoles. this makes sense. the seminole war and who the seminoles are fighting, just blurt it out. stand up. come to the mike. who are the seminoles going to fight if it's a seminole war? is it obvious? who are the seminoles going to fight? all right. someone can say the u.s. right? that seems to be straight forward. indeed, the great hero of the seminole war from the united states' point of view is andrew jackson. we have a problem with this. somehow context is missing. when we look at the record of the first seminole war we see very little written about seminoles themselves. we hear a lot of things we've heard before in this class. we've heard lots about red sticks, lots about creeks. we hear william mcintosh's name over and over and over. we hear benjamin hawkins. we hear andrew jackson. for some reason we don't hear seminole very often. instead we get phrases like this. chief mcintosh and his brigade. brigade. not his unit or his band, brigade. implying size. hundreds of creek warriors eng

states are doing y.he states are doing nothing as individuals are making calculated decisions and until we have individual accountability like the young lady said over here, nothing will change. you do say you are hopeful. i understand the politics of this that these corporations pay legislators who then make sure that their interests are taking care of but if you follow the money both up and down until the get campaign finance changes for political officials who get the money you cannot stop the corporate influence on these and this is just for the low-hanging fruit. what are your comments to the political aspects and the companies actually controlling the politicians by money? >> of course i agree with you when you say are used the phrase this day. the state is made up of people and the response ability lies with our state leaders who are aware of that these practices are occurring and sometimes they inherit them and continue from prior administrations though that doesn't make it okay. .. officials kno

jennifer: states actually have in each individual state. under our constitution, they are given authority and that is why it has to be decided on a state-by-state basis. that authority is blocked in by things like the voting rights act and the constitution. you cannot have qualifications that are unconstitutional or rights people's voting under federal protection such as the voting rights. that is what we're seeing now, states have crossed the line and are going to far in restricting the ability of who can vote. host: jennifer clarke is at the brennan center. thank you so much for your time this morning. >> we invite you to watch all of the oral arguments in the issue spotlight on the 2016 election and photo rights in there and tiredly. watch on our video library at c-span.org. >> book tv is live beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern at politics and prose bookstore in washington for "race in america." a panel discussion about race relations in examining relations in the african-american community. a bureau chief and author in moderates.hite other

all in all we are in 47 states. what happens in your state matters to us and we want to be part of solutions that you are working on and be part of the answer. what i want to do for a few minutes is talk a little bit about cybercom but from my standpoint injured phillies and critical infrastructure, you cannot separate physical cybersecurity. everybody is about the internet of things and it has all these different definitions. let me tell you what it means if you're in an electric, water, gas or telecom. what that means is that our cyber is not just our systems that of customer information and employee information. it's the systems that run the greater its the systems that make sure the water treatment plants are operating to its the systesystem to make sure thingse but the challenges are met and it's the systems that ensure the water gets through the pipes that we can of water contamination. so you cannot separate physical cybersecurity in the world of infrastructure and especially where utilities, whether it's an

can't we build state office buildings? can't wait professionalize the state workforce? smith really believed that using the government to organize the m and deliver services, that's the proper role of government. he stood with that his whole life. he thought the new deal just went too far. peter: beverly gage, you wanted to add something? prof. gage: i just wanted to add that, on the national stage, i think he plays a very different but equally important role in the sense that smith's candidacy in 1928 comes after a decade where we sort of had already issues about immigration, about race. you had immigration reform passed in the early 1920's, in part targeting people from places like italy, russia. people who are considered ethnically different. the other great social phenomenon of that decade was the rise of the ku klux klan. the ku klux klan in the 1920's is a mass organization. it's not kind of the southern targeted plan that we think of in the 1950's and 1960's. it's a mass organization with millions of members. its stronghold is really in indiana, a lot of midweste

front table of today's new york post says donations, state for state. was it?t with you. robbie luke the clinton campaign manager called the charges outrageous. he claimed there is no conflict involved. brad, do you buy this defense? >> baloney. bill and hillary clinton are the bonnie and clyde of political corruption. they do do it at the point of a gun. they do it with a wink and a nod and through email and donation. the white house was concerned about a conflict of interest when she bake secretary of state. so they entered into an agreement. hillary breaches that agreement by setting up a private server. and the clinton foundation's key initiative is global a global initiative. who is head of foreign policy. $156 million was given by donors, the same donors who were given access to the secretary of state. by the way, article one, section 9 of the constitution states a federal employee cannot take a gift from a foreign source entity and that's what they did. they breached the constitution and numerous laws. i believe they should be indicted, both of them. wil

states. all of the key senate battlegrounds in house battlegrounds are also white house states. you have the seven states president obama won twice where republican senators are up for reelection or seeking reelection. i mentioned ohio. rob portman is running for reelection in. even if the r.n.c. is not pulling out staff or fully committed to donald trump, they are going to have staffers on the ground in places where republicans need staffers in november. host: today, hillary clinton will be in pennsylvania. donald trump will be in ohio. two battleground states, the topic foreign policy. guest: this is the battleground appeals to. he has said he will make a big play for pennsylvania, ohio, michigan. if donald trump has reignited a discussion on trade and nafta, these are the states where things like that are going to take place, where that discussion and debate are going to take place. those are states hit hardest by trade deals. while they may have been good for america as a whole, they stil

he can't just rely on these southern states that he's obviously going to win. red states.ing to need to expand. this was supposed to be the week where he reset. we had the economic speech on monday and again he's step on his own message. >> how much of a problem does hillary clinton and her campaign have as a result of these latest e-mails that have just surfaced? you heard drew griffin's report. >> this is just a continuation of a naked narrative about hillary clinton and her state department tenure and also her campaign. it's secretive. they are hiding something. when these things come to light that there may have been quid pro quo, no proof of that yet but it's shady. that hurts her because of the honest and trustworthy numbers. she's getting an edge of donald trump and it's sort of like two steps forward, one step back as these things keep rolling out. you have to really question why they didn't put it out last year instead of this constant drip that we have three months before election day. >> these aren't just aides to hillary clinton and bill clinton. these are clos

for the united states. good play by lee. >> rouzier through a seam in the block and down. >> a lot of jump floats from france right now. tight set. taylor sander off the top. what a swing by matt anderson. wow. talk about taking >> i'm watching this and watching the transition block of france and with kevin le roux out there i would go set to middle. i would exploit that matchup in transition. le roux is taking off way early. >> easy serve again gobbled up. over the top and ripped. the united states serving has >> hugely important for americans to get out of this match with a win in four. save that point in case you end up in a tie situation. you want to have maximum points on your side. three points for a win in three or four. two for a win in five. >> ngapeth with a serve into the net. we don't like the system. it's fine for a long club professional season over 30 or 40 matches but not in a tournament. it is what it is. it's the same for all the s. 16-15. the united states got to get back on track serving

the state gets a warrant. they can do that and that's what they should do. >> thank you counsel. mr. mccarthy. >> mr. chief justice may it please the court. the north dakota statute strikes a bargain with the individuals who wish to use the state's public roads paid conditioning their use there on on consents to a blood-alcohol test of arrested for drunk driving. the court has held that this is a valid part and states may enforce it with the imposition of significant consequences including license revocation and the use of test refusal as evidence in a criminal proceeding. >> what about another bargain that people find texting while driving is becoming an increasing problem and so when you get a license you give implied consent from the officer to look at the text or whatever they can look at on yourself own to make sure a minute ago you were texting somebody while driving? would that be acceptable under your rationale? >> i think it's highly doubtful your honor. i think there are many differences between data

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i used to be the united states attorney in the associate attorney general of the united states. hired many lawyers, tia agents, fbi agents and on and on. i had read many background reports. if i were to read a background report on someone who had been extremely careless with top-secret material, i couldn't hire them. in other words she couldn't be hired as an assistant u.s. attorney or an fbi agent, a cia agent, she couldn't be hired for any job in the government nor could she be hired by a contractor who was doing work with the government because she has a very, very bad security record. she was extremely careless in handling our top-secret material and she wants to be president. she has made millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars and her husband. you know what his name is. they have turned the state department into a pay to the clinton foundation to play with the department racketeering enterprise. do you know what a racketeering enterprise is? it's a racketeering influenced corrupt organization. that is what the clinton foundation is. it is a racketeer inf

if you look at the states, they are welfare states. for the nuclear industry, if it wasn't for the prisons. they have mishandled their funding so badly that they can't survive without a free handout from their government. the whole kit and caboodle of them is absolute dead-end street. there's no -- they talk about giving you a lawyer or something. have pled the people guilty because they know they don't have a chance at any justice. if you have $1 million, $10 million, you can shoot somebody. do whatever you want and walk stone cold away from them. this is nothing but exploitation of the poor folks in this country who have nowhere to go. host: mike brings up several different points. which one do you want to take on? guest: one of the points he is raising is that private prisons themselves as being a form of economic development. it's something that in addition to being morally reprehensible to profit from locking people up, the idea that throwing people in prison for long periods of time is a jobs program is just insane. society would

now for the united states. good play by lee. >> rouzier through a seam in the block and down. we're tied again. >> a lot of jump floats from france right now. tight set. taylor sander off the top. what a swing by matt anderson. wow. talk about taking out the trash. >> i'm watching this and watching the transition block of france and with kevin le roux out there i would go set to middle. i would exploit that matchup in transition. le roux is taking off way early. >> easy serve again gobbled up. over the top and ripped. the united states serving has really dropped. >> hugely important for americans to get out of this match with a win in four. save that point in case you end up in a tie situation. you want to have maximum points on your side. three points for a win in three or four. two for a win in five. >> ngapeth with a serve into the net. we don't like the system. it's fine for a long club professional season over 30 or 40 matches but not in a tournament. it is what it is. it's the same for all the teams. 16-1

if you are a citizen in the state, a child in the state, you get an esa. that's it. in ideal world we're not there yet, but what i would like to see is that families pay for their own education. you have your own education savings account. i don't care what type of school, whether you're public, public/private, shouldn't, that distinction really ultimately should go away. we should focusing less where children are going to school and whether the public is educated. i would ideally like all education funding as a first step. just go into education savings accounts at every level and just like college. pick where you go to college, pick where you go to school. let's face it if you're not happy with the results, take your child elsewhere. even in families, you will get examples of the public school works well for one child. the charter school, the homeschool, the online school, the private school. you need all those options. would i say nevada is absolutely the way to follow it. we even could combine it with preexisting tax credit scholarship programs. the direction we

he will take some old blue states and turn them red.t's happened is purple states are turning blue. >> like utah. >> people are talking about he could lose utah, yeah. >> then there's hillary clinton and the latest e-mails which seem to indicate a cozy relationship between the clinton foundation and big donors there and hillary clinton state department. bob, what do you make of all of this money going to the foundation or going for huge fees for bill clinton speeches and how the state department treated those people. >> i mean serious unanswered questions. if i can step back a moment, what's going on here, what's this all about with her and with trump. in the case of trump i have really no idea what he might do if he ever became president. if you look at the statements, proposals, ideas, it is kind of a garage sale. i don't know that there's a rembrant behind that lawn mower that won't start but i haven't seen it. and he has not communicated that. she has somewhat communicated what she would do, but e-mails, her personal e-mails, rememb

lee to the united states.tes the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our two nations. and it is a reflection of my friendship and partnership with prime minister lee over the last eight years. repay the hospitality prime minister of the people of singapore showed me when i visited singapore during my first year in office. we were there for the aipac summit with its tradition of dressing in shirts that are somewhat colorful. a tradition that we will reserve only for those summits and we are not duplicating today. half a century ago when singapore was a rural island, few would have imagined a day like today. but singaporeans pride themselves on being the little red dot, the little red dot on many maps but with a great impact on the world. and less than a generation for the vision and stewardship that prime minister lee, singaporeans transformed their nation from third world to first. they did this with almost no natural resources except one, the people of singapore and their commitment to education

i was in the state of iowa last week. obviously a big state.k to a big -- a big swing state. talk to voters and party leaders there, they don't hear from the trump campaign because there is no mechanism for whatever trump has said this day or that day about the rnc, or hillary clinton, or anything else -- >> there's a campaign that won in the primary. >> sure but that's a totally different game of trying to identify voters, target voters, draw those voters out. they don't have the mechanism for that. no one can tell you what the donald trump campaign mechanism is for an absentee ballot chase. they don't have that and they're not -- tv ads aside. that's what they're not spending money on. >> he's the campaign, he does whatever he wants. if he says he wants to go to connecticut and, frankly, waste a day there, no one has the power to tell him no. that is what we are seeing throughout this campaign. maybe his children we have seen instances throughout that his children have the most influence of anyone that can come in, sit him down, calm him down

it is from a pivotal swing state or a state that it used to be a pivotal swing state.check this out. this is from virginia. hot off the presses. hillary clinton opening up, look at this, a 14-point lead over donald trump in virginia. a 14-point lead for the democrat. let's just take a step back here and appreciate what's going on in virginia because this is a big change in this state's political history. look at this. you could go back to 1968. that's when nixon was first elected president. this was as solid a republican state as you could get through the '70s, '80s, '90s and 2004 george w. bush re-elected. easily won virginia that year. barack obama able to flip it in 2008. was able to hold on barely in 2012. but now, now hillary clinton leading by 14 points in this poll. what is happening in virginia? how could that lead be so big for her? well, check this out. if you look at the state, there's a small area of the state that has a massive chunk of the population. if you look just around here, right outside of washington, d.c., the d.c. suburbs, arlington, fairfax cou

but state legislatures whether we're talking about a state like rhode island where the strong support came from the democratic party where we're talking about states like indiana where very strong support came from the republican party. there has been a lot of support in state legislatures for these bills. as a method of dealing with certain kinds of voter fraud i think in particular there's felons evidence that who are not entitled to vote sometimes mistakingly but sometimes knowing that they're doing something wrong are voting anyway. when they do that, it's easy for someone to say, well, i didn't realize, i didn't know or even gosh, it wasn't me who was voting. it's impossible to cut off all the possible argument but when you're talk about a felon voting and then finding out that felon has voted one way to at least cut off part of the argument is to say well, it must have been you who voted because the person haed to show an i.d. and therefore that creates a very strong presumption that it is indeed the person who was registered who voted that vote. now, some of these voter i.d. la

state visits and state dinners for an opportunity for the united states to reaffirm our ties and our film with america's most important and closest partners around the world and singapore clearly is one of our strongest, closest, and most reliable partners. in fact, when prime minister lee visits the white house next week, we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary year of one of our most important bilateral rhythms in aisha. the visit and state dinner also present an opportunity for president obama to resim ro indicate the hospitality that prime minister lee and the singapore showed him when he visited in 2009. it will allow the president to slow the close person relationship he has with president lee, a relationship based on personal respect. you'll see cooperation across the board. singapore sevens as host to our military operations across the country. it's been a strong proponent of the climate agreement. it's home to more than 3,700 u.s. companies and is a partner in and strong advocate for the transpacific trade partnership reement law enforcement, security, global health, mar