of the united states. first of all, i strongly and [indiscernible] -- as another abuse of authority [indiscernible] -- as everybody knows nowadays, the united betrayed the sovereign state while proclaiming peace by strength. -- reason the the united states is disturbing world peace and insisting on beginning star logic that the invasion of a sovereign state is and and proportionate -- and theyle] apply it to the corian peninsula as well. the united states has used south this is the biggest hotspot of the nuclear strategic asset. the peacehreatening of the peninsula and pushing the situation there to the brink of war. nuclear war may break out at any moment on the peninsula. ad though the syrians are threat, that is to say nothing northeast asia. the situation in the korean peninsula is often in a state that goes out of control. the root cause lies in the united states. it does not abandon it its hostile policy toward prk but has an aggressive war exercise in and around the korean peninsula. the military ex

, blue states, purple states, all states. that is focusing on the people with multiple kind of conditions and providing -- there are new options in the affordable care act to do that. and we've seen things like in missouri their health home program save money and have better outcomes. you know, we don't disagree on looking for value for the dollar, but i think we do disagree on the fact that if we decide to change the structure of medicaid and cut the federal funds, that's -- i don't see how that helps the state budget issue. so i think around, you know, better services for people with substance abuse disorders, i think beginning to think more about social determinants, looking at justice-involved populations and a lot of things that can be done around thing value proposition -- around the value proposition. and not only saving money in the medicaid budget, but better coordinating other budgets. there's a ton that can be done without arbitrary caps on the federal funds. >> i think the real place where there needs to be more w

of state we see today. the younger generations are blessed. i mean that. they're blessed. so know an israel entirely capable of defending itself, to think of israel as established and strong and in so many ways it is. israel's advancement in the tech sector makes us so proud. they're the silicon valley of the middle east. and israel's innovation and economy produce smfz the world's most popular and ground breaking products. the top american firms go to israel to figure out how to protect themselves from cyber theft. they're a vital partner this the war against isis. working with governments worldwide to help them meet every threat imaginable. israel is also becoming humanitarian leader in the global community whether it's senting medical units in search and rescue teams to haiti and japan after devastating earthquakes or opening its arms to orphan children and refugees fleeing war torn syria. so while some continue to paint israel as an international pariah, more and more countries are realizing it's in the

it does vary somewhat state by state. nationwise, one alarming trend we have seen are third-party payments, particularly the american m kidney fund and what they are doing is moving people from public coverage into commercial hicoverage, because payy higher rates. that's good for them but bad for the overall health of the exchanges and describing the premiums. that's something we really need to address. finally, when wee look at the longer-term issues, certainly our primary concern is pharmaceuticals, spending. pharmaceutical costs are the biggest part of the health care dollar. 22 t cents of every dollar when you include drugs administered by physicians, goes towards drug spending. more than weg spend on doctors, more than we spend on hospitals. we are working hard to bring more transparency. we agree with president trump that we need to bring more balance to this market. >> i would agree with many things that my panelmates have said. what has really been missing from this debate is the fact the need for l health care is

. >> during his recent state of the state address louisiana governor outlined his out reducing the state budget deficit and improving infrastructure, reducing incarceration and recidivism rates and increasing the minimum wage. it took place at the state capitol in baton rouge mr. speaker, mr. president and members of the legislator and my fellow louisiana's. good afternoon. welcome back. this time if the constitution requires you to be here. before i get to the work we have ahead of us, i'd like you to join me in welcoming a couple of guests, true heroes. first i would like to recognize the heroic efforts of a young central high school student, daniel leslie who came to the aid of the victim of domestic violence, one sunday in late november, april peck had just been shot here in baton rouge, pushed out of a vehicle and left for dead on the side of the road. daniel immediately took action. as he rushed to her aid, he was told by the shooter if you help her, i'm going to kill you. the aggressor shot daniel twice and struck him with his vehicle twice. but daniel is now thriving after underg

then to the state of arkansas. >> nobody in the modern history of the united states death penalty is attempted to carry out two sets of back-to-back executions within the same week, let alone four sets within the space of 11 days. amy: arkansas's plan to carry out an unprecedented series of executions has been thrown into chaos after a judge ruled friday to temporarily halt the state's plan to kill eight men over the next 11 days. the state have been rushing to carry out the killings before its execution drugs expired. we will get the latest. and we will look at rising in turkey where president tayyip erdogan has declared victory in a referendum to vastly expand his powers. but turkey's main opposition party says the results should be tossed out. they claim widespread fraud. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. vice president mike pence has made an unannounced visit to the demilitarized zone separating north and south korea following north korea's attempted missile launch and a massive military parade ce

you that united states will increase diplomatic and pressure on north korea. we heard prime minister what while he agrees with that and we should have dialogue for dialogue's sake, japan also places paramount importance on the need to seek a double diplomatic effort to achieve a peaceful resolution to the crisis. what exactly must north korea do and what are the conditions for beginning at dialogue and what forms of that dialectic inferred deputy prime minister, president trump during his campaign often called on japan to share more of the burden for common defense and pay more for us security presence here in japan. what specifically is japan prepared to do respond to president trump call? >> denuclearization of the korean peninsula has been a long-standing policy of united states of america, of south korea, japan, china and it's been a long-standing policy of nations across the world. for more than a generation we've seen the very failure of dialogue at large. first we remember the agreed framework of the 1990s then we remember the six party talks and with g

so, are we better off to look at state-by-state basis? i realize there's natural implications, but there's some real hotspots in the states. when we think of a strategy to combat it, should it be multiheaded at this opiate epidemic in that way or look at all of the above or one-size-fits-all? >> we look at it as a complex national security and health interest. -- and health issue. at the state level, there are unique environmental factors that cause different manifestations of the opiate problem. as you point out, there is fentanyl in some states more than others. in others, there are prescription opioids. in others, there's heroin. we've seen evidence in some places that heroin deaths are prominent and sometimes -- in the implementation of our plans, we do two things, we try to respond to unique aspects of the environment and also develop a framework to share lessons learned from one state to another. so absurd states found to be successful with their aspect of the problem can be shared with other states who may not be facing that partic

under state law. state property rights under state law. and under constitutional law, join them together. the court wanted to find out whether there was an economic burden. >> what about adding, when i look the see the reasonableness of the regulation. suppose it said you have to leave columns of a thousand feet. but every expert said, he have one who knew about it said you don't need more than 50 feet. >> certainly it is true with open analysis you pay attention. you pay attention. you don't just semiit. >> does that fit in your three? >> absolutely. it fits under penn central. in this case, this is really the easy case. the state law issue is one premised on the notion, under this circumstance, you don't face such a great hardship. it is why they don't get it. they're not challenging the restriction. they're challenging not getting the exemption. the reason is they don't have the same hardship that other people have. the owner of the lot face exemption. the owner of two substandard adjacent lots, they don't. they have the opportunity to

she says 85% will stay in state. guest: it's difficult to estimate exactly what the natural rate of staying in state is after graduating. that's probably close enough. i think the concern is the issue of complexity. the secondary issue is it's going to be expensive for new york state to create the infrastructure that is necessary to track students over time in order to actually implement that. i have heard folks saying this is just going to be an incremental change to systems already in place. i'm not so sure i am convinced that is true. is there any state outside of new york approaching this free or heavily aided college tuition that is succeeding? new york state is the first in the four-year space. oregon and tennessee have existing programs that are relatively new. a lot of other states are starting to talk about proposals for free college. not necessarily universal. programs that are free within certain bounds are for people who go into certain field of study or certain occupations. have seen free college become

and we just implement what a member state ask us to do, member states, which are the 18 arab member stateshey requested us to commission a report to see whether israel is actually imposing an apartheid regime on the palestinian people. in way of background, israel has pursued segregation and racial discrimination policies. in that, this is not disputable, because even israel doesn't deny the policies that it has implemented in the west bank on the occupied palestinian people, and some of the policies in israel itself. i mean, in the west bank, you have a dual legal system, one that applies to jewish settlers, and one that applies to the palestinian inhabitants of the occupied territories. yes, 0k. but to use the word apartheid, that brings a whole heap of emotional issues, connected, of course, to the regime established in south africa by whites, based upon a racial premise. now, did it not strike you that, as you say, the 18 nations who wanted you to write this report, and who said we want you to focus on the apartheid analogy, these were doyens of human rights standards like saudi arabia

because it is important to state that the united states shouldn't policeman. s but you can see that the world is on fire. wherever you look, there are problems, middle east, iraq, erbia, africa, even europe is sinking from the burden from refugees. n eastern europe, you have russian aggression. you have china flexing its muscles in the south china sea. ung, korea, kim jun threatening his neighbors and also the united states. you need someone to restore national order. but united do that states? power states is the only with the global reach. so that's why. said before, if the u.s. retreats from that role, you and leave behind a vacuum the bad guys in the situation. didn't sident obama sad crossed the red lines. putin has stepped in and has facts on the grounds that has made a solution much difficult now. guest: david is calling in from smiths grove kentucky on our democratic line. david. caller: hey, how you doing in i've always admired you. i've watched you for years on tv, and i think we need people pragmatic at have views of the world and russia europe. i j

but in a sense the islamic state is different. its appeal, propaganda, everybody about it is different. what makes it so different in a jihidi universe? >> i think a few things. the emphasis it has in the caliphate is shared by some islamic groups we can named but emphasized much more strongly. the emphasis on sectarian difference, especially hatred of the shitte is shared by other groups but emphasized more. the intolerance of the islamic state is something that has been cranked up to a notch that has not been seen before. there is something about the wide net the islamic state has cast that really differentiates is. it has been very intolerant of different types of islamic interpretation but at the same time has tried to say all muslims, even ones that disagree in some ways, are both welcome to joined and obligated to come to it. it is this strange combination of vicious, violence, intolerance toward muslims everywhere that has turned different from some groups that have come before. >> moderator: and yet we didn't take it serio

of the states. and we've all kind of heard this. so i mean, we're dealing with a population health crisis, it seems to me. how is this linked to the medicaid program and what tools do states need to make that link between having a medicaid card and improving access and improving outcomes? >> so just a couple comments on ben somers' work in arkansas, kentucky and texas. he will look at a large number of access measures. cost-related problems getting health care, medical bill problems, and one striking outcome on affordability is 36% of out-of-pocket decline. so major changes that stem from the protections in the medicaid program that are actually very different from people who are buying coverage through the marketplaces in states that haven't expanded medicaid, particularly on out-of-pocket cost side, on the premium spending side. but the other areas that are really important to look at in the work that he's done is the access to care among people with chronic health conditions, the testing of -- gl

since 1992, the united states denuclearizea north korea. we hope to achieve this objective through peaceful means but all options are on the table. just in the past two weeks, the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in syria and afghanistan. north korea would do well not to test his resolve. we will continue to deploy the defense system as a measure. we will continue to evolve a comprehensive set of capabilities to ensure the security of south korea. as our secretary of defense made clear here in south korea, we will defeat any attack and we will meet any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming and effective response. foreignor: [speaking language] v.p. pence: strategic patience has been the approach of the last american administration and beyond. for more than two decades, the united states and our allies have worked to peacefully dismantle north korea's nuclear program and alleviate the suffering of their people. every step of the way, north korea entered us with willful decep

on eight northern state also allowed black men to vote. in march, the american antislavery society disbanded, its work they thought, now complete. reconstruction policy was now essentially complete. hen henceforth, the focus of reconstruction remained in the south. the act of 1867 which brought black sufficient rrage to the s brought political organization. determined to exercise their new rights as citizens, thousands joined the union league, closely linked to the republican party. and the vast majority of african-americans registered to vote. in 1870, all the former confederate states met the conditions of congress and had been readmitted to the union and nearly all were under the control of the republican party. the new constitutions drafted in 1868 and 1869 by the first public bodies in american history with substantial black representation of about 1,000 delegates throughout the south over one quarter were black. they made the structure of southern government more democratic, modernized the tax system and guaranteed the civil and poli

states government handpicks each refugee that comes into the united states and individually interviews all of them. i believe it's important for people to understand how rigorous and long this process is. >> the fbi, the department of homeland security, and others are involved in the process. only half of the refugees make it through. many things have changed in the past century, many beliefs haven't. in a poll in 1939, only 30% of americans want to accept 10,000 jewish refugee children to live in the united states. in 2016, only a similar percentage supported letting syrian refugees into the u.s. >> we have to remember we are always on our weakest when we have shut our door on refugees, when we have been afraid of them. and that are greatest when we let them in. never has this country really suffered any kind of security consequences due to letting in refugees, yet we use that as an excuse many times to keep them out. we did it in the john adams administration with the alien and sedition act and we've been doing it time and time again. every time we do it, we look back on that in sham

of the state. remarks today are entitled "words, breath, text and landscape: virginia civil war monuments in the context of tennessee and mississippi monumentation." ladies and gentlemen, dr. timothy sedore. [applause] dr. sedore: good evening. -- good morning. i'm very pleased to be here to speak to you about monuments, specifically monuments in context with tennessee and mississippi. my work in this area has taken me to civil war monuments from the atlantic coast to the mississippi river, from norfolk, virginia, to memphis, tennessee, east to west, and from the potomac river to the gulf coast in the south. salt water. so, we have moved county to county to county to battlefield cemeteries to warehouses to wayside's two city parks and to state capitals. i wanted a text. i wanted to relive the monuments of virginia, mississippi, and tennessee, all of it, together. i researched and identified some 400 monuments, union and confederate monuments in virginia, some 400 new you -- union and confederate mo

finally, we have state and local government. many of the anxieties that we are seeing in terms of language, violence, will become codified in california. both in terms of the lot and in terms of the court. what i have here, these are a couple examples. the full list, i cannot fit it on one slide and we don't have all day to do every single law that affected chinese immigrants in the 1850's and 1860's. i wanted to give you at least a flavor of the types of laws that were being passed, and how they were targeting chinese. ofst is a foreign miners act 1852. this law is based upon an earlier law from 1850 that was targeting spanish and french speakers in the diggings. this law says that if you cannot, or did not intend to become a u.s. citizen, you had to pay a monthly tax in order to be a minor. from monday, we talked about one group of people who, even if they wanted to become a u.s. citizen, could not. those were people of asian ancestry. tied to the 1790 natural is a act. the 1790 naturalization act, which only allowed freed whi

the president of the united states can profit off of being the president of the united states. we saw the approvals by the chinese authorities after years of fighting. whose interests are being advanced? the united states' or personal business interests? that makes it very difficult to stand up for good governance and anticorruption. or on transparency. the president not releasing his tax returns. transparency is one of the key elements of anti-corruption strategies. or advancing as one of the first bills in this congress, sidetracking the provisions that senator lugar and i worked on on transparencies so poor countries could get the value of their minerals -- putting that on hold. all that compromises -- and lastly, when you present your priorities for the budget, the priorities you see for our country and you say we could reduce our international development programs by 36%, and america needs to be there to help countries develop democratic institutions that can protect against corruption. all of that combined weakens the united states leadership. there's only one united stat

whether it can reach the united states or not.een talking a great deal about a missile being able to range the united states. we have to remember that we have allies in the region who are much closer than that. and as a result china and the united states need to be on the same page here and it's going to take no little effort to make sure that china and we work together. if anything this -- i know our response is muted and very well so. but this should be a lesson about the united states and china that we really have to work together to diffuse the situation now because some months from now it is going to be much more difficult to solve. we got in this position because neither of us was willing to operate, to do something when it was easier to do. we have to work together now. >> colonel jack jacobs. thank you, sir, for being with us all night during our breaking news coverage here of the north korean missile launch that happened about a handful of hours ago. bringing in director of asia studies at georgetown university. these pic

the people who were voting on state initiative after state initiative on whether to give women the right to vote women. that was the audience. discipline in these parades. everybody wore white with sashes and they were massive and they made a statement. >> here and in britain, this is the first time we saw cross-class participation and cooperation in a movement. >> you might argue that the revolution provided some of that. rare.now that it was unusualelebrated as an period where each group was deeply aware of the other and conceded to them a role in the movement. there was also great resentment among working-class to were the elite because there was some feeling that they were just using the laboring classes and they would drop them as soon as they got the vote. was taking the power of their class that had been denied them because of once theyer and achieved their, they would no longer care about working-class issues. there was tension. you can see it in this progressive era across the board. environmentalism and all of their reforms. there tends to be a cross-class -- arrestshere ever m

my home state of delaware is the lowest mean elevation state in america. literally the lowest line state in ground zero for sea level rise. these cuts would have a significant impact on homeowners up and down my state, those at our seashore and those at my home community of wilmington who face steadily rising flood insurance premiums. it's not just our safety that would be impacted by the president's budget, it also threatens job growth and economic security. as a president who ran a campaign on a middle-class jobs agenda, i'm struck that his proposed budget would endanger americans across the country financially by also undermining support for development, in both rural areas and urban areas. take the department of agriculture which provides critical support through the rural development program. in delaware at least, rural development or r.d.a., has played a critical role in supporting housing, in supporting businesses, in supporting communities in the rural parts of del marva, delaware and maryland. the trump budget would also eliminate the rural busine

tend to bee things started in the states. the states serve as incubators for social change. looking at how social change is remembers important to that the public needs to be conditioned to change, that it won't swallow it whole all at once. to this career as a historian after quite a career as a journalist. what let you in this direction? >> i always love history and i always loved writing. i used to joke that i became a journalist because i cannot figure out how to make a living as a writer. in 2008, the newspaper i was working for, the los angeles times closed its washington bureau amid some financial difficulties. i took the buyout and a while later i enrolled in school. atent back to school american university and in may of 2016, i graduated with a phd in history. my first book comes out in the 2017 from new york university press and i feel very lucky that i had a rich career as a journalist, and now i get this chapter to do what i think i have always wanted to do, which is to practice the love of history and >> thank you for sharing with us on american and british suff

and in our signature segment: examining america's blue city - red state divide. next on "pbs newshour weekend." >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the john and helen glessner family trust-- supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thanks for joining us. the first round of france's presidential election is over. exit poll projections and early returns indicate controversial nationalist marine le pen will be one of the two candidates advancing to a runoff two weeks from

state department officials say that the united states with secretary of state rex tillerson still exploretionship working together with russia on areas that benefit the united states. this all coming one week ahead of that visit, shep, as the secretary of state speaking at length about syria previous to this saying that the u.s. is already in discussions, talking about a post al-assad syria and as you played leading into our discussion here, that the u.s. is leaving a number of options on the table in responding to this. shep? >> shepard: thanks. a.b. stoddard with realclearpolitics.com. this story just breaking. president obama was given as a list of bad options. he chose the bad option that was to remain out of this conflict largely. we've had very bad results. there's no questioning this. now as a pattern by al-assad continues, this president has made another decision. what are we looking at here, a.b.? >> shep, you point out correctly this has been going on for a long time. president trump knew there were chemical attacks in the past, that, as you pointed out, this president had been

through the advocacy of the regulation and state base task forces they go state by state asking for a license it for music therapy. half a dozen states have adopted such a license. and the fact these states have adopted these licenses is not as a consequence of some need. instead it is because the music therapists have mounted this campaign. there is no better example than here in georgia. georgia in recent years adopted its own music therapy license bill. the bill's adoption was classic bottlenecking. georgia bill senate bill 414 went to a committee, they had a hearing at which time the only people to testify on behalf of this bill in support were music therapists, both from the national and state organization. they received a packet of information in which they had letters of support from other music therapists, letters of support from consumers, a professor from georgia college who was a faculty member in music therapy. at no time did anyone testify against the bill. at no time was any empirical evidence introduced demonstrating a public health threat. at no time did a single legis

the state plans to appeal. yesterday, a state judge blocked arkansas from using another drug that stops breathing. manufacturers object to their drugs being used in executions, leaving states with shortages. updating a story we brought you in january, new york state now requires anyone sent to adult jails and prisons to be 18. the law, signed by governor andrew cuomo this week, also diverts 16- or 17-year-olds accused of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies to family court. juveniles accused of more serious crimes will be processed in new youth courts. north carolina is now the only state that incarcerates 16- and 17-year-olds with adults. the legislation also requires new york city to move out all 16- and 17-year-olds from the rikers island jail by october 2018. >> sreenivasan: finally, the woman thought to be the world's oldest person and the last one born in the 1800s died today at her home in northern italy. emma morano was 117 years old. she credited her longevity to genetics and eating three eggs a day, t

and russia can work together where it benefits the united states. >> shep: live at the state department to that, i mentioned we got a new word from the president speaking in south florida said it's in the national security interest the strike tonight. more from the president now, his calling for civilized nations seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in syria. the question is what is the risk of escalation? what is the risk that the syrians continued the slaughter of their own people, what with the united states do next? you heard the general suggest the united states would act again. a former cia military analyst now a and senior policy advisor for the counter extremism project. risk of escalation in your estimation. >> there is a risk elation when you launch 60 tomahawk missiles on the assad regime. having said that, i think the trump administration to a clear redline on chemical weapons used which clearly violates international norms. it is a horrific attack on innocent civilians. but it still remains to be seen what is the overarching trip and administration of policy with rega

venezuela is close to a failed state. i'm meeting with the opposition people today from venezuela to see what we can do. the courts and government have ignored the elections, and the economy is falling apart, and is extremely corrupt, and we have to deal with that in relation to a failed democracy. invoking the charter is appropriate. of course cuba is not a democratic country, i would never suggest it is. and they have widespread corruption in cuba, we have to deal with that. but i was with the foreign minister of mexico yesterday. that's a democratic country. they're fighting corruption. in some cases they're winning, in other cases they're not. the northern cartels are notorious for how they are able to infiltrate societies and police officers and judges and how the drug trade is facilitated through these criminal elements. we've got to be able to fight that. i was in the northern triangle, and the countries -- the leaders are really trying to fight corruption. they're trying to do the right thing. they're bringing in

of the united states. all, this is another authority.e council werety acting on behalf of the united states. , the u.s. has betrayed the sovereign state. the recent missile attack on syria -- states is insisting thate gangster logic invasion of a sovereign state is just an proportionate -- and proportionate. then he to apply to the korean peninsula as well. this is the biggest hotspot of the nuclear strategic asset. they are threatening the peace of the peninsula and pushing the the brink ofre to war. war may break out at any moment on the peninsula. nothing of the bills in northeast asia. the situation in the korean peninsula is often in a state that goes out of control. the root cause lies in the united states. it is a hostile policy. it has an aggressive war exercise in and around the korean peninsula. this introduced various strategic assets and the murderous operation such as andear carrier charges bombers and stealth fighters. the focus on the precision strike including our -- the pretense of the exe

a number of states and forced —— first and foremost western states, nato states were concentrated onting this or that authoritarian leader for the sake of removing the former president of yugoslavia, slobbered on the loss of rich, and the war in central europe in 1999 which was the greatest violation of un status, they bombed the tv centre which is a military crime. by any way of interpreting the geneva convention, residential quarters. the chinese embassy was attacked, bridges and passenger trains for almost three months the bombing continued. and as a result when the ammunition and the targets eve n a result when the ammunition and the targets even remotely would be attributed as a double standard. then they started talking of the un security council, another dictator, saddam hussein, who was hanged after the intrusion, we all know how this intrusion was justified under tony blair. i think he's the only politician who publicly repented. but the dossier was fake and what is now happening in iraq, you know better than i do. then it was gaddafi, his turn and people were saying this wa

state law. in other words, you are saying well, there are these lot lines, and everything has to depend on the lot lines because they been legally approved. there have been other things in this case data been legally approved, and one of them is this merger provision tricky seem to be saying we look to state law for the lot lines but then we ignore state law for the question of when lots are merged your why should we do that? if we looking to say -- to state law, the whole ball of wax. in other words,, when i buy those two lots of the arm is not to lots any more. according to state law, they are one lot. >> in defining property interests, this court in lucas notes having both recognize that you look to the state law, not to the whole body, you look to the state law that governs the creation that's the legal recognition of lots and the protection of the property interest. >> and i think that you're right. it's like the legal recognition of property, but the legal recognition has something to do w

the fusion oftood state politics and nationalist state governors compromised union. levelsl and state navigated the shoals of nationally sure in and conscription. when lincoln expanded his aims to assist governors in maintaining support for the war, it tested popular sovereignty's limits. the secretary of the navy addicted as much early in the war. the government will doubtless be stronger after the conflict is over then it has ever been, he confided to his wife, and there will be less liberty, but perhaps with greater security. state executives clung to a wide range of powers that prior to the war had existed independent of one another. spiriting the volunteer despite jealousies and competing ambitions as well as cooperate with the national government. the governors were as worried about the expansion of national powers as the conduct during the war. unity was important for northerners to achieve victory. yet they debated the nature of the union they were preserving. governors were party spokesman, policy formulators. yet in times of peas, they served as figureheads

united states of america.ly on the issue of this war but upon the future of the world. fact that citizens of the united states are to fight side by the soldiers of our empire cannot but have a splendid influence on the future of our nations. french]g there are in this canadian expeditionary force more than 9000 men who give their next of kin as residence in the united states of america. i did it say that all these men have come directly from the united states. some of them may have immigrated to this country, leaving their next of kin on the other side of the line. 9000 who were undoubtedly born in the allegiance of the united states are now fighting in the canadian expeditionary force. although the united states after the war, we do not low how long it will be before the tremendous power of that nation can be translated into military effort. it cannot be done in a few weeks. it cannot be done fully in a few months. we know that from our own experience, the british government knows from their experience and th

so my state, i'm from the state of georgia. we have a very conservative state. and all of these measures have been passed with broad majorities. the legislative majority was in the general assembly for $1 billion in road use and the other items involving m.a.r.t.a., our transit system, and infrastructure funds have been done within the city of atlanta. it's a nice mix of urban and rural showing that whether you are focused on rural folks or urban folks, people get that we need significant infrastructure investment. rep. norton: very instructive. conservative or republican, no one has found a way to build roads and bridges and transit systems without money. and i'm interested in the -- in what the states have done. because almost half the states have taken the initiative, seeing that the federal government is stuck and has been stuck for a generation, one more question. i'd like to -- i got into the f.a.s.t. act -- actually, it was the idea of a number of us funds for alternatives. we don't just criticize the fact that congress won't -- or your states with those

us base without the people to states and to begin between united states and europe and will talk about each briefly but first of all, with the sphere of influence and i do not believe putin was to recreate the soviet union in part because he understands that would have a negative economic set of consequences for russia because they would subsidize that. what they do want is the stipulation that they differ to moscow on key issues in this includes the countries such as ukraine or georgia with the european union they also oppose the opening to russian business also uses those as the way to increase the leverage critical pressure as russia has maintained a good record. but the number of embargoes like georgia ukraine or belarus is an instrument of russian policy with the use of the complex like croatia were crimea those that had russian forces to occupy a territory for when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. also looking in the post soviet states the kremlin tries to avert the revolution and then again in 2005 the way he talks about these he does not see it as a manifestation of disconte

it was not about states rights. it was against states rights, certainly not for states rights. in 1890 they got to assert or research white supremacy. three things happened at the end of 1890 that caused us to name it the nadir. first of all, what used to be called the battle of wounded knee, but now is the massacre of wounded knee in south dakota were native people go to their nadir first sure. they lose the last shards of independence. second, the state of mississippi passes its new constitution. there was nothing wrong with the 1868 constitution, except that let blacks be citizens. they were explicit. they were going to remove that error in 1890 and they did. you probably know and you can ask me that i have to rush along. the third thing that happened before 1890 -- let me say this about the second thing. the 1890 constitution was in complete defiance of the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution. united states did nothing about it. seeing this, every other state as far as oklahoma followed suit by 1907. third, 20 in the 1890, the senate refused to pass -- more or less

i think all over this country in red states and in blue states people are beginning to stand up, they'renning to fight back, they're demanding a government, which does not just represent the billionaires but represents the working class of this country. >> senator i want to ask you about this horrific incident last week in which a passenger was dragged off a united flight after refusing to give up his seat voluntarily. democratic congressman of illinois is planning to introduce legislation to ban airlines from being able to involuntarily bump passengers from flight. this could result in higher fares for consumers. what do you think congress should do? >> well i think anybody who flies a lot, and as a united states senator, i fly a lot, knows how dysfunctional in many respects the airlines are. they know that there are many, many delays that are caused not because of weather but inappropriate practices on the part of the airlines. this overbooking, which caused this particular problem, is not unique. i've been on airlines many, many times where people have been asked to leave, and i think

long-term growth in the united states is low. the united states is a mature economy. you can't just inject little things and hope you'll go from roughly 3% to 4, 5, or 6% as you remember donald trump saying during the campaign. not going to happen. i have a better chance of trying to look like stephanie rule than we have of getting to 3, 4 or 5% growth. and chances of looking like you, nil. >> this is a shared economy that people want to own less, they want to experience more. so you're betting on gdp growth that just doesn't exist. >> i want to get to the politics with you in a moment, but first with you two. he wants to eliminate all deductions except for the mortgage deduction and the charitable giving deduction. that is a big deal. there are a lot of deductions out there. >> that's what the alternative tax largely is. it's a tax that you pay without deductions. so what he's doing is taking the alternative minimum tax away and taking away all these deductions. there was talk about taking away the mortgage interest deduction, which is an interesting one, because it

states congress. the congress can approve this and admit kansas as a slave state into the union. james buchanan puts his shoulder to the wheel. nobody wants the lecompton constitution adopted more than james buchanan. he gets his way at first. the senate of the united states adopts the lecompton constitution. but there, buchanan starts to lose traction. the lecompton constitution has to go the house of representatives and in the house of representatives, the lecompton constitution fails, 120-112. a compromise proposal is put forward by william h english of indiana. a bill known as the english bill. the compromise works something like this. the lecompton constitution was adopted by the proslavery-ites without a single vote from the anti-slavery kansans and the rest of the state. this is what stuck like a fishbone sideways in the throats of the house of representatives. the english bill proposes to send the lecompton constitution back to kansas for referendum. to the enormous embarrassment of james buch

well, here's a state-by-state look. so these are all the states. the colors reflect the percentage of americans who think that climate change is happening. the break point from blue to tan is the 50% break point. so in every single state in the union no matter how red, a majority of americans understand that climate change is happening. how that 50% ends up being 9% on the senate floor is a story that i've told in other speeches. but you'll see at 45%, it's just pale blue. there's not a bit of pale blue anywhere. the entire country is above 50%. so the next thing that allows you to look at is americans who support funding for research into renewables. now the lowest color here, the kind of deep orange, that comes in at 75%. that's the lowest point of any state in wanting research -- support funding for research into renewables. 75%. and it goes all the way up into the 90's. mr. president, i see that the majority leader is here on the floor. i am prepared to interrupt my remark ses so he can do the business that brings him to the floor if i can have

states congress. so the congress can approve this and it that kansas as a slave state to the union. james buchanan puts his shoulder to the wheel, nobody wants the lecompton constitution adopted more than james buchanan. he gets his way at first. the senate of the united states adopts the lecompton constitution. but there, buchanan starts to lose traction. the lecompton constitution has to go the house of representatives and in the house, the lecompton constitution fails, 120-112.

by the large states but it was basically a power-play that the small states were going to walk out of the convention . that was long-winded but that accomplished it. [applause] >> watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> book tv takes hundreds of author programs through the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we are covering this week. on monday, we will be in cambridge massachusetts at the first paris church where no one chomsky and democracy now host amy goodwin will discuss professor chomsky's latest book, requiem for the american dream. will be in raleigh north carolina at quail ridge books where edward allison's discussion on the history of business fraud in america. on thursday we're at politics and prose bookstore in washington dc where historian lynn olson will talk about how london became a safe haven for the governments of six occupied countries during world war ii. we will also be a green light bookstore in new york city where lisa peterson will share experiences teaching incarcerated youth at rikers island. on friday we are back in wash

for the state of the think the state is right. that is not, in my view what so, a ones that have been afforded the state out to be about. death as indicated and viewed with the respect to death with dignity does involve abuse of power and shooting of private choices. other issues concern me as well. you made it clear that manyy instances he favors corporations at the expense of work people. denied disability benefits todey people with disabilities. large companies to deny basic job protection. he's written a class action lawsuit for plaintiffs to get free rights to fast riches. no example better interest ver illustrates and in a case such as leaves you practically speechless, judge gorsuch sided against the truck driver who was fired for leaving his freezing cold truck when his life was in danger. i had another significant concern about judge gorsuch that came up in the context of his confirmation hearings. this is something i think a lot of americans and even those in government are trying to get their arms around. i have been on

which pushes the state department to relist north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. the state sponsor of terrorism label is a very powerful one. in addition to imposing sanctions and other restrictions, the designation itself earns a state pariah status internationally. and that's deserved, after all these, our countries whose governments back the killings of innocent people, innocent civilians, as a matter of policy. frankly, the department should never have removed north korea's designation in the first place. but i am glad that this legislation demands a re-evaluation. i think i know what that result will be. and i thank the bill's author, judge ted poe, who has a deep sense of -- as a former judge, of justice and has pursued this issue for a long, long time. and also thank the ranking member for working with our offices on this important and timely measure. the flawed delisting of north korea has also been a particular focus to the chairman emeritus of the foreign affairs committee, ms. ros-lehtinen, and so i want to recognize her contributions as well. and i res

since the united states of america has declared that the state of war exists between it and imperialder these circumstances to see a termination of the personal relations which he has had the honor to hold with the shashada fair of the united states of america, the undersigned does not fail to force at the former's disposal the passport of the austria and hungary of himself and the members of the other embassy. at the same time the undersigned avails himself of the opportunity to renew to the fair the expression of his most perfect consideration. signed, december 7, 1917, the u.s. declared war on austria, hungary. and although there had hardly been any actual hostilities between the two countries, america's entry into the war and its subsequent diplomacy contributed greatly to austria, hungary's demise. >> the belgian prime minister and minuister of warsh send the following message by cable to president wilson. the belgian government decided in august 1914 to make an unprecedented application to your excellency. it was faith and hope in the moral of the republic friendly to belgium.

of the united states. >> under the constitution and laws of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. [ applause ] [ applause ] >>> i see before me so many to whom i owe so much. i know i would not be here today without your friendship and support. thank you, all, from the bottom of my heart. i want to thank the president for nominating me. and for the great confidence and trust he's imposed in me. i want to thank the vice president for his constant encouragement and friendship throughout this process. it's not possible to mention here everyone i should mention, but i would be remiss if i didn't thank the president's counsel don mcgann and the vice president's counsel and every single person in the white house counsel's office for their tireless and tremendous support. i want to thank kelly ayotte and my day-to-day team for their humor, for their sage advice, for their faith, as we spent months and so many miles trooping together through the senate complex. i want to thank every single person, and there are so many, in the white house and in the dep