at the state level, states have been getting better. this is congress stepping out of the way and i realize they are addressing special problems and things like that but maybe they can have an easy opt out for state. if you meet these simple criteria you can have a vote waiver from this bill were pushing through. >> i dad one thing. the federal government does it play an important role and it's one that the government wasn't playing appropriate for many decades. they should be a robust defender of individual rights when states and localities are violating rights. this is not an open-ended option to do whatever they want. that's not what we are arguing and it wouldn't be consistent with our liberal regime. >> can you look at international comparisons between countries that are more economically free? those that are more economically free tend have better outcomes whether it's better education or life expectancy. what are some of the other outputs from your look at freedom of the 50 states where you can show that freedom does actually pro

the impact of this, the trafficking of drugs into america and in my state and every state in the nation we see record number of addiction. it's affecting our communities directly as well as the criminal elements and what they do. we've certainly seen that in the trafficking of migrants in april, 500 people died alone in the mediterranean on one capsize traffic it'd vote. there's a human cost of this. it's big business. the numbers are astronomical. just in the trafficking of refugees in 2015, it was a five or 6 billion-dollar enterprise. it's a huge amount of resources that are being taken out of our productive economy through organized transnational crime and we need an equal response to it and i look forward to hearing from our witness. >> thank you for your comments today. our witness is william brownfield, the assistant secretary for the bureau of international narcotics and law-enforcement affairs. we had a long meeting last week to go through many aspects of this problem and i think him for being here today. thank you for sharing your knowledge and thoughts about how to better att

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

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to the united states supreme court.ant it to be hillary clinton. and just one more thing, please, since he raised it, the idea that donald trump is going to drag down the other ballots, i home the republicans run the table, but i have to -- >> i have to let the congressman respond. >> but he talked about dragging down the ticket. these people were in trouble a year ago. they reelect numbers a year ago. look at the clear politics from 2015. >> michael, thank you for letting me stop that. >> please, go ahead. >> stopping that nonsense. >> that's not polite. >> it's not just me saying -- >> what a gentleman. calling me nonsense. >> i'm not going to get into personal attacking, please. >> i want him to respond. i gave you your chance. give him his. >> there are plenty of opinion writers in the united states in the major newspapers of this country who have said that donald trump is emotionally and not fit to be president. it is not just me. there are a lot of people who do have this feeling. 60%, over 60% of the american peo

i think it is in the best interest of the united states and the world as a whole that the united states negotiate rather than go back to the cold war relationship with the soviet union. i don't look at the picture as bleakly as you -- you have indicated. i believe we had many successes in recent years and recently as part of the communist movement is concerned. inhave been successful portugal were a year ago it looked like there was a very great possibility that the communists would take over. it did not happen. we have a democracy there today. ago, maybe two years ago, the soviet union looked like they had continued strength in the middle east. today, according to prime n, the soviet union is weaker in the middle east and they have been in many years. s are thatare -- fact the soviet union relationship with egypt is at a low level. their relationship with syria is at a low point. the united states today, according to prime minister rabin is at a peak in its influence and power in the middle east. let's turn for a minute to the southern african operations going on. the united states of

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come and join the islamic state. it struck an alternative than the alternative is based on this myth or utopia. in fact the reason i says represents the rest of the system is it challenges the nation-state. that's why this is very important. mosul is the second largest city captured by isis in june of 2014. it released a video in arabic call to abolish in borders in which isis in very direct language told sunni muslims to destroy the border basically set up at the colonial powers between 1916 and 1920s and establish a new order based on identity, sunni identity and that's why isis in the video which shows isis destroying the border between iraq and syria. even many muslims who do not subscribe to the ideology of the salafi to hodus him take seriously the idea of the failed system, the institutional fragility, the economic collapse so in this particular sense isis has done as well as it has because really it connects on this particular intrinsic level, the level of the state billiar the religious establishment and wha

the five states, across the country, their considered to be lean democrat states.e 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 she has

because he knew that if the united states acted, if the united states took a number of air strikes against his military facilities where there were chemical weapons, that it would put his rule at risk that is why he was gave up his chemical weapons, because he was frightened about what an air strike would do to him politically. so i think we missed an opportunity there. >> rose: the president would argue on that case. we didn't know what would follow assad. and that is a huge bet. >> yes, he is right about that, he is absolutely right about that. it is my argument, right, about you got to-- you have got to have that drk dsh you need to place the structure. back in fall of 2012, back in 2013, the syrian army, the syrian security services were much, much stronger than they were today. right? and there was less risk of them fracturing the way they had in libya or the way they had in iraq. so i think it was a different story. but that's looking backyard, right, let's look forward. i think "the washington post" op ed today which is very interesting, you know, it's one of the reasons why secreta

foundation and the state department during hillary clinton's time as secretary of state. the 44 emails include exchanges between top members of the clinton foundation and clinton's top state department advisers, including huma abedin and cheryl mills. cnn reports the fbi wanted to investigate the clinton foundation earlier this year, but u.s. attorney general loretta lynch pushed back. on thursday, state department spokesperson elizabeth trudeau denied any improper communication between the clinton state department and the clinton foundation. >> the department's actions under secretary clinton were taken to advance administration policy as set by the president in the interest of american foreign-policy. with statement -- the state department is not aware of any action that were influenced by the clinton foundation. amy: one of the newly released e-mail exchanges is about billionaire nigerian-based developer gilbert chagoury, who contributed between $1 million and $5 million to the clinton foundation. the emails show a top clinton foundation executive writing to abedin and

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

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

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

isis is now in 18 states.group that president obama called jv, now we are talking about eisis and it's a helpful thing to clarify. >> let me clarify, isis did exist, it was called al qaeda and morphed in to eye kiss. the islamic state, there were claiming isis was in existence for a while. >> obama said it that we have al qaeda on the run, instead, al qaeda regroups and changes their stripes and name and rebrands. >> that doesn't make him the founder of isis. >> it happened under obama and hillary clinton. they should have said we pulled out and we did not have vuktry. >> here is an interview i did with donald trump in 2007 when president of the united states was george w. bush. >> they are in the midst of a major civil war and there's nothing -- and by the way, we are keeping the lid on a bit, the day we leave, it will blow up. and saddam hussein will be a nice person compared to the man and it will be a man, it will not be a woman that we understand, people say, oh, gee, you did not give the women a chance,

san francisco in santa cruz county, was the first state park created when the golden state set out toreate a system of state owned recreational areas second to none. it is a magnificent monument to those stately giants of the forest world. the park is splendidly equipped to serve the requirements of the visiting public, and in the summer season is constantly thronged with pleasure seekers. the members of the civilian conservation corps under the ecw plan speeded up development that will take many years to complete. additional roads and trails are needed, for it must be remembered that the park covers almost 16 square miles. the trail building is not easy, for there are timbered canyons to be encircled and traversed and mountains to be climbed. bridges are being put in, instructed entirely of bold native material. timbers are easy to procure and therefore inexpensive. the conservation corps, under the expert direction they are given, are able to handle every detail of the work. system thata larger is well known and intensively used for the minor details of the park equipment in every w

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

especially when you're the state department head. the secretary of state.number three, you have the pay for play. basically you make a large donation and e-mail comes out saying to huma abedin saying take care of this guy, basically vip treatment. now, if hillary clinton was not the secretary of state, does that individual get that kind of access to the state department? it really doesn't matter whether the meeting took place or not. although i think the next series of freedom of information act requests needs to get that information. that's the information we need now. what happened once the request was made? >> well, jay, certainly more to come. and the guy chagoury, a conviction. a lot of stuff going on. $66 million fine for corruption. a lot of bad stuff there. very bad stuff. anyway, jay, thanks so much for being with us. more time next time. >> thanks, judge. yeah. >>> quite a week of controversy for both of the candidates. a lot to talk about. we're going to get right to it with my political panel. republican strategist and trump campaign senior advi

but the state by state detail is even worse. in virginia, trump claims to have 18 offices, but all 18 of them turn out to be regular offices run by the republican party. the trump campaign itself appears to have zero campaign offices in virginia. in other major states, where they're supposedly going flat out, the numbers are almost unbelievable. take pennsylvania, the clinton campaign has 36 field offices, according to pbs. the trump campaign, in contrast, has two. 36 offices versus two offices. in north carolina, the clinton campaign has 26 field offices. the trump campaign has one. in florida, the clinton campaign reportedly has 34 field offices across the state. the trump campaign again has one. they have one campaign office in sarasota. so if you have been donating your hard earned money to the trump campaign, rest assured there's almost no chance that your money is being spent to open field offices and staff, get out the vote operation centers in states where donald trump needs to fight to win. rest assured they're not spen

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

large as the big states.th taking a look at some of these other states. for example, trump is doing better than expected in both iowa and nevada. now, i have no idea whether he will end up actually carrying them in november. but in iowa, for example, he's led in a couple polls within the margin of error. >> larry went on to say pennsylvania, ohio, north carolina, florida. iowa and nevada are all states we should be looking at. garland, is he using unconventional strategy and targeting those states and if he is not, should he be? >> well, definitely, he should be. for this reason. if you look at barack obama's big win, i mean, north carolina, virginia, states that indiana, states that hadn't been traditionally won by democrats. so certainly if drurch wants to win being unconventional candidate he's going to have to take a different path than republicans traditionally take and go with a different message than republicans traditionally take. >> sean, i want to move the conversation forward. pundits say that he's

state wide waivers. of waivers. number some were things we copied from other states like the make work concept that you've heard from the governors and from others. one that we did, i was told we the first at the time to do a true state wide full family sanction. that was right as implemented and varied by week media s answering more queries on that or signing off on more studies or reports on and policy changes and process studies. i think what we learned from two years bsequently after i worked for governor as director. services what we learned out of that is what we're really trying to do forms was to t of increase risks and rewarsd. through things like work incentives, making work pay, opportunities to build assets, services. you're creating the rewards and the opportunities for welfare work.ients to go to risks were, of force, really transformed in the form of we to make these programs look like employment. these are employment programs after all. consequences o be if you don't show up to work on ti

he wants to see the state do well. trump talking about the economy and the need for jobs pennsylvania being one of those states that is really hurting economically and so he is stressing how he and his policies will help get those pennsylvanians back to work. is it a method that is going to resonate that is the big question of course nonetheless it's been challenging for him as of late but he's been suggesting at times he might not win this thing. >> utah is a different place. where have a problem because it could cost us the supreme court. the blunt billionaire said his lack of political correctness and this might be what cost him the election. let's continue to watch them there. we will monitor this to see if he talks about this at all. you think about this is that hard. this is why he has motivated all of the thousands of people to come out. how does donald trump the kennedy gel with donald trump of the everyday man and how does that everyday man himself to the oval office if people take issue with everything he say

the state department is reviewing them. yesterday a federal judge ordered them to be released before the

the arab states.hese are not the narratives -- the air state narrative, they are very different in terms of their relationship and the potential of their relationship. i'm asking how you see a relationship with iran and measure -- and i'm using this word carefully -- any equivalency in a relationship to the arab states? the president has basically been saying to the air states, you have to talk to these people. you have to find common ground otherwise we're looking at -- that is what president obama's position is as i understand it. mike: that's a great question. first of all, i would say there is no equivalency between what the iranians do and what the gulf arabs do. the iranians want to dominate the region. the gulf arabs do not. they do not have an interest in dominating iran. they are pushing back against an iranian attempt to dominate them. there is a fundamental difference between the two. having said that -- and i think this is a really important difference -- a revolutionary iran that wants to

they want to have an independent state and proud state. an arab state, absolutely. and the question brings us to the question of iran and i am really confused. i don't know what iran wants. i understand if iran wants to maximize influence but what i don't understand really and i have thought about it a great deal. i don't understand this monstrous miscalculation and counter productive measures that are teared down by iraq and syria in the neighborhood and to me as a person who was born in that part of the world and feels strongly about that port of the world i am worried about the shiite community in the arab world. in particular as the struggle unfolds and sectarian deepens and widen and you wrote a book on this. 90% of the sunni communities. with when the shiite communities have the dust settle the future is at stake. i am hoping shiite arabs would construct a different kind of world view, would challenge this kind of push and try to bridge the divide that is widening and deepening in the region. >> host: the problem for some of the shiite and i will use baharan,

and lost the state.n 2008, 60% of the county's voters went for barack obama and he won pennsylvania. he held the state four years later when he took 39% of the county. you have to resist the temptation to apiece the loudest voices. what excites your base won't work here, even if it draws crowds. the week before their elections, both romney and george w. bush played to big crowds in suburban bucks county, but both lost the state. yard signs don't vote, suburban philadelphia does. and we pick presses. joining me now, mitch stuart, director for obama for america, in 2012 and former georgia congressman, jack kingston, a trump supporter. congressman, i'll give you the first word. they say all politics are local. and i just described in detail what's going on in my backyard. in your home state of georgia, which ought to be in donald trump's category, he is struggling. why? >> reporter: >> well, i don't really believe he is struggling. i'll tell you why, michael. and you've just run down how well you know the k

one group of rust belt swing states and new hampshire is a swing state. and michigan, oeyeo, iowa, and pennsylvania. they're white, older and more blue collar. that is where donald trump focused and there's a path for him to 270 through there. and then the sun belt, virginia, north carolina, florida, southeast, colorado in the west. and arizona, could come into play. these states are younger, diverse, and in the white population, more white collar. that's the coalition that causes trouble for trump. he's losing by 12 in virginia. north carolina is on that list, they're not there. and right now-eventually the midwest and the rust belt he has to find votes. the poll watchers guide this week, there's want a giant shift. the republicans are drifting towards unsure and undecided which suggests they could return. >> john: so donald trump is losing something in his base. thanks to both of you. thanks to both of you. stay for the politics panel coming up. for now a break and back in a moment. >> john: one other controversy this weekon the trump campaign. an event

here is james rosen, live at the state department. >> reporter: senior officials here at the state department said today they were aware back in january of how bad the optics looked in this case, but they went ahead any way, because they needed, as they put it, to get creative about how to deal with a hostile foreign government like the islamic regime. >> we feel very comfortable that the united states of america held on to its principles, got its people home, kept faith with them, and i do not believe we have invited further situations. >> reporter: what secretary of state john kerry did not mention last january when he welcomed iran's release of five american hostages the day before as part of a prisoner swap was that the united states, as first reported today by "the wall street journal," had also arranged for an unmarked cargo plane to deliver to iran $400 million in hard currency on or about the same day the americans were released. >> any suggestion this was a ransom is false. yes, they were done simultaneously, so i understand the coincidental nature of the timing. >> reporter: the $40

and i have to say i love this state. i have businesses in this state. they're great businesses. and we're going to take care of this state and we're going to take care of this country. but first let's talk about our amazing veterans, veterans. the commonwealth of virginia is home to about 800,000 veterans who have served bravely our country. to all veterans here tonight and across this nation, thank you very much, thank you, thank you. we will never let you down. we will never let you down. government let you down very badly right now. we are never, ever going to let our great veterans down. the obama/clinton administration has betrayed our veterans and it's betrayed them very badly. veterans are dying waiting for simple care. they're dying online waiting to see a doctor. five days, six days, seven days. it all ends and it ends fast under a trump administration. i have a detailed ten-point plan on veterans reform available on my website which everybody is talking about and the veterans love. and the va will remain a public system because it is really a public trust. but veterans

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

if he loses all four states, his chances are doomed.f our researchers can figure this out, so can trump, and also leaders in congress. noweast one republican is saying that donald trump is a most certainly going to lose. on the record, mitch mcconnell of kentucky said that the chances of the republican party keeping control of the senate are "very dicey." while we are on the topic of congress, consider steve king of iowa, one of the few not hiding at the convention in cleveland. theelivered a speech at iowa state fair that gave the impression that he could work with the next president of the united states because he has worked with her before. >> i have set across the table with hillary clinton. she is somebody i could work with. loses susan collins, meg whitman, but steve king? steve king made comments last month that were called literally white supremacy. yes, that steve king. that explains why republicans are holding a come to jesus meeting in florida with the trump camp lane. zika-free mosquito on the wall there. in politics, good g

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

and that state. he doesn't talk about the poll numbers at his events that much anymore. is he aware of the situation he's facing? >> he is and he isn't. i think the most telling moment tonight watching this event in green bay is the long, wind-up. the amount of time it took donald trump to get to the endorsement of the speaker and then to senator ayotte and senator mccain, in this long, winding introduction. he talked about how independent he is as a political candidate, how he's an outsider, but acknowledging the need for party unity. so it was a reluctant endorsement tonight, one done with positive words, but not too much enthusiasm. >> i think, robert, if past is prolog, the question is, will donald trump stick to this? or are we going to have a story days or weeks from now where he's at odds with paul ryan or another republican leader all over again? >> i think when it comes to primary contests, the trump campaign and my sources they don't want to get involved in it. they want to plow forward in

this is a totally corrupt state department! let's be clear, uranium is used to make nuclear bombs. >> yes and some of that uranium went to irairan. she sold out our country. >> so she sold 25% of the uranium to russia? >> yes. the headlines would be clinton sells out america. because the new york times fawns over her and has forever you end up some place with a little watered down story. the clinton foundation, is to me, a give lent in terms of scope. you a little independent research and we are talking about at least 12 rico predicates. the state department is where you got your access. you got it. it is a quick pro quo. you have a meeting with an ambassador. the exact same thing, you put 130 million in. i call that bribery. >> when you look at the timing of it, for example, the uranium deal when the clinton foundation got hundreds of millions and bill clinton got 600,000 for a speech. >> and puts us in jeopardy. >> is it resonating with voters though? >> i think there's so much now that even the most loyal hillary people and

illinois is a very blue state. if you look at other states like new hampshire which is a swing state, you don't want to have depressed republican turnout. if you distance yourself too much from donald trump, you could end up with that. at the same time, if donald trump is behind by 10 or 15 points in your state as he is in new hampshire, you don't want to be tied to him. it's a catch-22. i'm not sure there is a correct answer for them. >> what is the profile of a doe himself or herself from the nominee? all these states are very different. they have different demographics. >> yeah. they are all very different. it could be a different prescription for each one. i think the key if you're a republican candidate is you want to play up your own tie to your state. i think rob portman in ohio is a perfect example. portman with a long-time congressman from ohio, he raised a lot of money. he made sure he isn't donald trump. you haven't heard portman make too much of the anti-trump comments if you look at the polls, you see

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

guest: the states have the power to set qualifications for voting in each individual state.is something that under our constitution they are given authority over, so that is light has to be decided on a state-by-state basis. however, that authority is still blocked in by things like the voting asked -- voting rights act and the constitution. you cannot have qualifications that are unconstitutional or violate voting rights under federal protections such as the voting rights act. that is the lawsuits we are seeing now, when states have gone too far in restricting who has the ability to vote. host: jennifer clark is that the brennan center for justice. . thanks so much for your time this morning. guest: thank you. next, our weekly "your money" segment. we will be joined by marcus weisberger talking about history and development of the f-35 joint strike fighter. that is coming up in a minute or two on "washington journal." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption cont

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

states because we don't dictate to states that we encouraged states to look at the coverage policies as the drugs cannot as more competition of it as the prices came down. last november we got concerned about certain restrictions that some states are putting in place and what we did is we put out a guidance your we don't put out a guidance every day. last time we put out a guidance about a particular class of drugs with respect restrictions that states are putting on was back in 1996 on hiv drugs. so it does not happen every day. we heard enough from patient groups, some of which may be in this room are clear enough from physicians and we also heard enough from states to know that while we are empathetic with the states played with respect to cost, at some point you can't use utilization management tools to unduly restrict access to coverage. what the guidance said at a don't know if you've seen it but it's online, you can look at it but it advice states on current coverage requirements and permissible restrictions. in other words, we told states here's the coverage rules, here's the

of state. [crowd boos. as the evidence has become public over the last several months, i have become increasingly shocked by the vast scope of hillary clinton'hillaryclinton's crimin. everybody knows it our country has gone so far behind, everybody knows. it hillary clinton said she turned over all of her work-related emails. [chanting lock her up] shoe testified to congress under penalty of perjury now we learn about another 15,000 emails she failed to turn over and they have just been discovered, i guess today. [crowd boos] >> and don't forget the 33,000 emails she has already deleted colin powell just proved again how dishonest hillary clinton is after he busted her for trying to pin the email scandal on him. one more hillary clinton e.coli. her foundation took in large payments from major corporations and wealthy individuals, foreign and domestic, and all the while, she was secretary of state. the clinton foundation accepted as much as $60 million from middle eastern countries that oppress

states.eived calls from his party to release his tax returns, and on friday, trump toward louisiana, giving us a first look at how we might serve as a comforter-in-chief. and then, there was this. mr. trump: i have never been politically correct. it takes too much time will stop and i do regret it -- it takes too much time. and i do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues, but one thing i can promise you is this, i can always tell you the truth. [applause] trump's uncharacteristic apology followed yet another staff shakeup, his third in three months. pauls called metaphor -- manafort. in steps kellyanne conway, a pollster skilled at winning female support. she is joined by stephen bannon, a former investment banker and entertainment mogul. as we welcome josh green to washington week for the first time, let's start with today's shakeup. what do we know? >> we know that the old regime is out. fort has submitted

we know the state. i will tell you the western side of the state is a lot different.ere's what you have to understand. the fluidity and the wing swing vote in pennsylvania. when ed rendell ran in 2006, i believe, correct me if i'm wrong, you won by approximately 20%. four years later, 2010, the republicans then win the governors race by ten points, a 30 point swing in just four years. the point of pennsylvania is you have to throw out history and understand rick santorum was elected twice state-wide. tom ridge was elected governor twice state-wide. tom corbett. pat toomey is our senator. they will vote for republicans. we are struggling at the moment in the eastern side of the state as the governor says but that can change. >> how would it change? >> well, first of all -- the paradox of pennsylvania and the paradox of trump is he's appealing to what are the son and daughters of reagan democrats, particularly in the western center parts of the state. but he's doing it in a way that i think is hurting him with some of the more moderate republican, oftentimes female vote

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

this makes it a single contribution to those interested in the state of liberty at the state level. the temptation to steal thunder here is very powerful so let me kill that instinct off right now and introduce the creators of this remarkable new volume. william p. ruger is a research fellow in foreign policies in cato institute. he spends most of his days as vice president of policy and research at the charles koch institute. he's the author of the biography "milton freedman" and a co-author of the state of texas. he has been published in state politics and policy quarterly, armed forces and society and other outlets. ruger, a veteran of the war in afghanistan, earned an a. b. from the college of william of mary and a .a ph.d. from brande university. jason sorens is with dartmouth college. his specialists are secessionism and ethnic politics. he is the author of "says sigsism, interest and policy" he's been in the journal of peace research, state politics and policy quarterly and other academic journals. he received his b.a. in economics and philosophy with honors from washington a

remember, a federal court has intervened and said that the state court's findings and state appellateg. they were forced as a federal entity to step in. that does not happen in the united states very often. in fact, most of the time the federal courts will stay in their own lane except in an instance where there's an extraordinary case where it's so out of bounds and was so obvious what should have really happened. and that's what happened here. >>> now a story in the united states. four amusement park ride accidents in the past week have many people wondering who regulates these attractions. cnn's jake tapper reports the answer may surprise you. >> reporter: the week ended with an accident at an amusement park in pennsylvania. a 3-year-old boy injured when he was thrown from a roller coaster. and it began horrifically with the death of 10-year-old caleb schwab, whose neck was broken after he was tossed from his raft on, this the world's tallest water slide, in kansas city, kansas. >> we found out what happened and were sick thinking, oh, my gosh, the same things likely happened where

he's defining this intrusion of federal government into state law and into the immigration of state universitieswhat you see here is wallace's reading copy that he read from on june 11th, 1963. wallace really sets up this debate between states rights and federal rights. as we see here on the second pa page, he makes a powerful stance against federal involvement. he says i am standing here today as governor of this sovereign state and refuse to willingly submit to power by the central government 67 government. the lasting impact of the speech is not necessarily, you know, that he made a successful stance against desegregation of the university. it is actually where he sets himself up to become a national political figure that is pursuing the desires of this population that feels like they have not been heard and this group of white southerners but also other middle class working americans that feel like their views have been, you know, over shadowed by the federal government. once the state troops arrived about two hours later, about 12:00, wallace sees the federal troops arrived and he steps out

for other states had their voter -- four other states had their voter suppression law struck down in july. yet we see that new tactics are being borne by locations and districts all over the country. just today or yesterday, the new york times reported that in different districts, police officers are now being used in order to intimidate voters and challenge their capacity to vote. we say that they are made in the image of god, and if they are citizens, they have the right to vote. and so, sojourners is launching the witness the vote voter suppression project. is calling on churches and faith communities to show up at the polls on election day and especially we are targeting five specific states. ohio, florida, pennsylvania, north carolina, and michigan. these are states where voter suppression laws have made it and policies have made it a very tenuous place for people who are vulnerable in those populations. we are encouraging churches to engage in community spirit at the polls. stand in solidarity with the least of these. bear witness to voter suppression efforts in precincts acros