states. we heard yesterday from the person in charge of cyber security for the homeland security department janet manfra and other intelligence officials. from capitol hill this is a little over three hours. >> hearing is in order. >>> today the committee convenes the sixth open hearing of 2017 to further examine russia's interference in the election. this is an opportunity for the committee and the american people to drill down on this vitally important topic. in 2016 a hostile foreign power reached down into the state and local levels to touch voter data. it employed sophisticated cyber tools and capabilities and helped moscow to potentially build detailed knowledge of how our elections work. there was another example of russian efforts to interfere into a democracy with the goal of undermining our system. in 2016 we were woefully unprepared to defend and respond and i'm hopeful that we will not be caught flat fooded again. our witnesses will tell us about 2016, what we should expect in 201

the acts happened in the united states and projected into another state, most states, we have counsel here for officer to tell us, the family could sue the state officer in texas. he did the acts in texas, lives in texas, personal jurisdiction. >> justice ginsburg -- >> that's the first time -- >> i apologize. justice sotomayor. but the issue is citizenship and jurisdiction of where it occurred. i put the victim all the way into mexico, there would be statutory exclusion based on jurisdiction if he came into the united states or was within the control area that might be jurisdiction, then there would be a 1983 claim. >> how often do state officers under color of state law outside -- with an impact outside the united states? >> i have never heard of that. generally the interaction at the border is the border patrol with mexican nationals on the south, south and north side of our border is generally the border patrol. if there are no other questions, i would like to reserve the rest of my time. >> thank you, counsel. mr. ortega. >> may it please the court, the fourth amendment does not

that includes my state of new york, high cost of living state. a lot less in other states. ridiculous to penalize states like mine. the admin station wants to cut off federal dollars, give nearly half the flexibility to children above 250% of the federal poverty level. you hear about states rights but you want to take away flexibility states have, programs states deem are important for them to tell from the federal government, they can't or cannot do. so much for states rights. mistakes affect i imagine states will have no choice but to restrict eligibility to the chip program, children with chip coverage today. bad enough we will be helping children who needs this coverage, throwing children off who have it today. let me ask you, this provision would affect my district where one third of children covered by medicaid or chip, extremely concerned about its potential effect. you tell us what we can expect it federal support for chip kids above 250% of the federal poverty level is cut off. >> absolutely right. we have 24 states the covered children and income levels above 250%

other states. the speaker pro tempore: the ant to the rule, gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, and the gentleman rom new york, mr. nadler, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and their remarks include extraneous materials on currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. goodlatte: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the mobile work force state simplification act provides a clear, uniform states may r when tax nonresident employees who travel to the taxing state to work. in particular, this bill prevents state from imposing burdens x compliance on nonresidents who work in a days or ate for 30 fewer in a year. the state tax laws that nonresident a must pay a foreign state's income tax and when employers this tax are numerous and varied. some states tax income earned borders by nonresidents even if t

we're seeing that in a lot of states. my state of maryland is where democrats took it to republicans and neighboring pennsylvania did if the other way -- did it the other way. it would be first such political gerrymander ruling. it's going to be decided or heard argument in the next session. it would focus on the problem important way. it doesn't get to this core issue which is voter should control their own representations. we're so geographically sorted, no matter how you draw the lines, most of the conduct is just -- country is done. 12 states would have more than one seat, only one party represents it. it's not like there's any kind of packing or something. narrow all just one party. we're seeing a lot of that. we think the core is to change winner take all to open up elections. guest: dallas lot cry -- there's a lot of criteria. it's not just competition. if you need competition, only criteria and you have urban districts, there would be not very compact. there's so many democrats packed in these urban districts. the

we imagine state x. and state x says we're not going to provide police protection. we will for everybody but not the church and by the way that costs us extra money. we have to hire extra policemen. that's all. why not? same with helping children that get sick at school. these hypotheticals are obvious. nothing to do with missouri but as soon as you answer that, i'll be able to know if it asks you the question. >> well this differs. >> i'm not asking that yet. >> i'm asking does the constitution of the united states permit a state or a city to say we give everybody in this city police protection but not churches? we give everybody fire protection but let the church burn down. we give everybody public health protection but not a church. that's the law in my imaginary state and i'm saying does the constitution which guarantees free exercise of religion permit such laws? >> i'm not going to take a position that it permits those laws. >> all right. then you say no it does not permit those laws. very well. if it does not permit a law that pays money out of the treasury f

state were cancelled. what impact does the rotational lease sale schedule have on oil and gas development in new mexico considering the texas permian is right across the border? how does this affect the budget of the state of new mexico? >> mr. chairman, thank you for the question. the impact is profound from both an economic and a jobs perspective. approximately one-third give or take a couple of percentage points of our budget is derived directly from severance taxes paid by the oil and gas industry. when the state of new mexico is not attracting activity, we are suffering from an economic perspective. of the federal royalty, nearly 50% of the federal royalties paid comes back to the state of new mexico as well. we derive benefits both from our severance tax as well as our share of the federal royalties that are paid. each drilling rig constitutes approximately 50 to 100 high paying jobs. each rig on the texas side of the border means 50 to 100 high paying jobs are going to texas. that trickles down and

folks in the state see that. our revolution stretches across the state. naacp crosses the state. it is those two traditions, progressivism and civil rights that i come out of and it is what makes our state so great in our chances so good. we are one to run a tough campaign. said to me that this moment after bernie' is -- or his campaign reminds them of 1999. group know out of presidential campaigns that don't quite make it all the way can come transformative movements that allow breakthrough candidates to move their states, move their cities forward in ways that nobody thought was possible just moments before. amy: ben jealous, will you be accepting corporate contributions? >> of course not. of course not. amy: will you be pushihing for universal health care or single-payer,r, mededare for al? >> i w was re-clear today we wil ensure that every citizen in maryland -- i was very clear today we will ensure that every citizen in maryland has quality, affordable health care in maryland and a matter what happens in washington. this is my first down the campaign

states. [inaudible] the umbrella states. and those countries informal or formal alliances with a nuclear weapon states, and we were actually astonished to see, working against, lobbying against our coalition treaty, which as you said in the beginning, i complement to this. for us and nonproliferation treaty is today the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. but as the word cornerstone -- cornerstone always says, it's not the whole building. with other instruments consummate the npt, the comprehensive test ban treaty is an example of that. we also see how important it is to have more and more weapons of nuclear weapons, and maybe one day we'll have a fissile cutoff treaty. [inaudible] mainly getting rid of all nuclear weapons. i'd like to remind everybody also that the first general resolution after the foundation was exactly on the issue of getting rid of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass distraction. we believe that the proponents for the prohibition treaty, that i

one state contributing to the nontainment of another state. you want to make sure that there is accountability and that steps are being taken in one state to address it downwind. so that is a very important objective and rule we have as an agency. the agencies endeavor to do that in the past. that cross state air pollution rule was electricen by the court. we're trying to make sure that doesn't happen again. it's a very important priority and it is. we don't want the process of one state contributing to the nonattainment of another. we want a shared responsibility there. >> i'll conclude by saying a, we don't want one state contributing to another nor one nation contributing to another which is clearly happening. if you say you may need the help of congress, all hope is lost then because we -- i'm pessimistic about being able to be convince some of my colleagues that you know, because the narrative will be republicans want to weaken clear air standards. that's not true. we're trying to reflect the reality there's nothing these communities can

in practical terms for the state and what happens in my state and other states, first how does russia identify potential target? this is not just a random email that came to him. it was targeted directly at him to his address. it looked very real because they know who he was and where he worked. how are the russians that savvy to track this person, and how does it work in the future? >> i cannot go into great detail in this forum, but intelligent services do not -- they are looking for vulnerabilities. that in the cyber sense would be computer vulnerabilities. as far as targeting specific individuals, i don't know all of the facts around that email and all of the emails sent, but my guess is they did not just send it to one person. like that toemail a variety hoping that one would click on it. >> how do they get that information? go to the website and gather all the emails, tracked the individual to get more information so it looks like something they would click on? >> a variety of ways. maybe by reviewing source material, online or otherwise, but they collect a lot of information th

states would have to opt in. from my perspective, the kids of the states i work closely with our likely left out, which is why a race to the top. the democrats and republicans are split on choice, which is to say like how much, where, for whom. teachers like andrew cuomo will tell you that in new york state the teachers union came to , democrats in the city and republicans upstate, so lots of hand to beng their what i think is on the wrong side of this. whether or not this proposal can survive the politics of congress right now is like a coin toss. i still think they should try it but i don't know if it will be , successful. >> it's interesting when you think about politics that leads to the next thing that i want to talk about, some of the recent developments in states and i will first ask robert because i know you really track this closely. and we mentioned texas, which a lot of people would be mystified. how is it texas of all states has not been able to enact private school choice policy? >> football. >> dure

or in a star state one or two state stars. there are new parts of the law that gives states more flexibility with those resources, the money. and i think we will largely look back on this law as a success or failure about how we do with the schools that aren't getting it done with kids right now. meaning the lowest performing in our state are we able to significantly improve those schools. and i think some of the techniques we have been using in the past haven't worked in states. so under no child left behind has done a lot of reporting data and asking districts and schools to improve themselves. either coming up with a plan or just saying you need to improve and that didn't work as well. and i think we need a structure in place in each state. so one area where i am interested in states improve signiing is to -- is just as we have these conversations, it is really important that we get into the plans and figure out what states are actually doing. states may have submitted something to the federal government that may not have e

transported and distributed back into the united states. all of that generates an incredible amount of profit, so that the network now runs up through primarily the central american, mexican corridor into the united states, is connected worldwide but it moves anything. it moves people, it moves items, it moves drugs. so it is very, very sophisticated and it is now something that if we don't get our arms around the transactional criminal organizations that control all of this, that we are -- well, i mean just the other day the leading cause of death for americans under 50 is now drug overdoses. the fact that we're the most -- the most medicated society on the planet, i read recently where we -- the united states, 5% of the world's population consumes about 90% of the opioids that are legally prescribed. we have the most medicated -- and i could go on and on. 60,000 people roughly died last year of this. so we need to get our arms, first of all, around drug demand. never go to zero, you can't do that, but significantly reduce it. our southwes

the the enemies of the syrian state explain why is this happening. well your narrative should take account of the fact that the syrian regime has not been consistently opposing the forces of the islamic state its primary preoccupation over the last several years has been its opponents domestic opponents in syria whom it has labeled smeared if you will as terrorists are terrorists who oppose those who take up who have taken up arms simply enough that doesn't reflect the realities on the ground in syria look syria is probably the single most complicated political military situation in the middle east today and i don't think anyone sitting in washington moscow. or you name it has a full grasp of those of those realities so i suggest that you wouldn't you wouldn't deny the syrian state to protect its sovereignty and to fight against people that rate rise up with it by willingly with outside support i mean that's what they have a legitimate right to protect themselves yes or no. i think it does abuse that right from the beginning back in two thousand and

states. the point is they all love what they do. they think they are making a difference. but the overall morale, the reason it's so -- they haven't been given much credit for that over the last whatever. we're looking to give them the credit. cover their backs and make sure they have the tools to carry out the mission. as far as ramadan goes, first of uptick in violence and activities, done by a very, very small percentage of people who are just corrupted the whole concept of islam as a religion. it is what it is. we're in the middle of it. so they are up there doing what they think their religion and think they are supposed to be doing. in flint, michigan, is an example yesterday completely off the screen an individual who attacked this police officer, who will be ok as i understand it, in flint, michigan, we have seen these terrible things that happened in europe. in paris the other day they dodged a huge bullet because the individual ended up roomed the police car, ended up dying before h

and the nuclear weapon states. thank you. [applause] i want to thank you both. i think ambition o these days is something we ought to strive for. you both focused on the negotiations and the treaty and we have a lot of food for thought. looking ahead to 20 tiny, initiations are completed this year or next, the nuclear weapon states would they be able to agree to disagree on this issue when they convene for the review conference and be prepared to move on to find common ground and also a constructive discussion of how to ease the tensions between the states you made some references to that. in the creative search underground for the office as i would open up to those of you. that was instructive and yes we can take that it wa but it was a constructive proposal and we find a lot of common ground. for us and others we would do anything. this is also our intention. the big question is how to integrate the nuclear weapons state. we are not naÏve. we also understand the security dilemmas and discussion and we want to kee

of civil war, are state sponsors of terrorism and are basically failed states. they are the same countries identified by the congress in previous administrations in 2015 as nations of great concern. at the time the expectation was those in the business of securing the nation lawfully would focus additional attention on these nations and others in similar circumstances for supplementary and accurate vetting. it has nothing to do with religion or skin color or the way they live their lives but all about security for the united states, nothing else. these are countries that are either unable or unwilling to help us validate the identities and backgrounds of persons within their borders. i can tell you right now because of the injunctions i am not fully confident that we're doing the best we -- all that we can to weed out potential wrongdoers from these locations. prevents me from looking into the information that we need from each country to conduct proper screening. but from every country across the globe, it also prevents me from conducting a review under the exe

it varies by state, so in some states the law requires something called stakeholder engagement. the state department of whattion have to hear out teacher groups are saying and how they feel about this, but that does not necessarily mean that the state department is going to abide by what they say. sometime the legislatures are making these decisions, so yes, with one of the other union officials in connecticut, and they had made this point about the fact that one of the challenges here is that some schools want to use evaluations to help teachers improve, and in this law we are figuring out how to distribute teachers. so to splitting the purpose of the evaluation, and the evaluation is a very sensitive talk rick -- topic. one of the things with teacher evaluations is that most states, teachers9.5% of the getting an ok on their teacher evaluations. state farm is trying to figure out a way to make the evaluations -- states are trying to figure out way to make evaluations more challenging to figure out how to make them more effective, what role they play, all very important questio

secretary of state. calls for 32% cut to our international affairs budget. i've never seen a budget proposal so reckless in all the years i have been here so it's insulting to our personnel and quick to have bipartisan opposition. mr. secretary when we spoke he said we hope to put the state department glide path to reduce spending levels. a one third cut is more like a nosedive. imagine being an american diplomat learning this is the value the administration puts on your service would imagine waking up every morning a dangerous place and the other side world knowing the officials responsible for your safety haven't even been nominated and america's top diplomat which is you mr. secretary coming to umatilla asked us for a 32% budget cut. some consequences of his budget will hit us down the road if we fail to invest in diplomacy and develop now. the concepts welcome back to us and the worst we'll need to fight. senator lindsey graham said it well and that will make him implement this budget to put a lot of

and later former secretary of state madeleine albright, u.s. ambassador nicki hailkki haley the role of other intelligence. >> well, good morning and welcome to the first capitol hill national security forum. today's panels and discussions will bring together policy makers affiliated with both parties to reestablish the importance of bipartisan thinking in washington when it comes to national security and foreign policy. as all of you know, the united states is constantly under threat from adversaries abroad. a desperate dictator in north korea continues to defy the international community by firing off ballistic missiles and brutalizing civilians including americans, and now possibly preparing another provocative nuclear test. a bloody civil war rages in syria, having already taken the lives of almost half a million people and displacing millions more. china is militarizing islands and threatening its neighbors and russia. in russia, it is fomenting instability through cyberattacks and military incursions. a tyrannical regime in teheran funds

state. as you just said you have been arguing since 1994 as you have been looking at these networks. you say that the proliferation of these networks is a result of what i call the disaggregation of the state. meaning that different parts of governments were peeling away from the chessboard model of foreign policy. directed by the head of state and the foreign ministry and instead creating networks of both private and civic. the question i have is, as we are watching debates play out now, debates here in this country that really fueled i would argue, the election of the president. among the things that he still argues as president but then argued as a candidate was that a need to return american sovereignty. and the ongoing debate that we see even most recently in the french election. for president. where one candidate was arguing very much to pull back from the european union.in an argument she made at the time to reassert french sovereignty. and the winner ultimately arguing that the frenc

through state secretaries of state. going back to election cycles past. but this was becoming a matter for me. it was becoming front burner for me. there had been a ongoing dialogue. what was the catalyzing event that looted from back burner to front burner? sec. johnson: for me, it was the reports we were seeing about efforts and the emerging intelligence picture. bit more granular here. at the time, the voting machines and the political party databases, the associations that we understand may have been probed that you thought were particularly vulnerable at the time? voterohnson: registration databases. in the course of learning about this issue myself, i took a look along with my staff at practices in different states. they tend to vary. but for the most part, there are redundancies and most exist off the internet in terms of collecting votes. there are a few states where it does not. but the states with some doj election assistance commission help have been engaging in best practices. but they tend to vary all over the lot. what we were most concerned

united states, 27%. largest capital investment in the united states in transportation system, both public and aviation. we are also home to the largest amount of graduates from the big ten. we have a community college system that's already outlined. we have a transportation, technology, training, transparency, and also what i said in the effort of the transportation system. all the five t's -- talent, training, transportation, technology, and transparency. we have created certainty. the biggest drain on the city of chicago is the uncertainty of a budget. i think this also this debate about taxes, as if that is everything -- businesses, big, medium, small, any size is looking for is certainty. you create certainty around talent, you create certainty around the pool and resources of talent coming in, you create certainty around a 21st century transportation system. certainty around public finances and i'll get investments. -- you will get investments. you create uncertainty, you'll get the net result of th

that for that state. there's two pieces i think we're most interested in, one making sure that as states set these plans we don't go back to a time pre-no child left behind where we were able to ignore groups of kids or ignore poor performance in any sort of way in any school. before no child left behind, we didn't report out subgroups. so a school could just sort of skate by on averages or things like that. and so i think it's really important -- that's good in the first 17 plans that we don't see a real backing away from student performance as the goal for the states. and so i think that's a real positive. i think another area where i think we have a lot of work to do is on the intervention side. let's say we grade a school, if you're in a letter grade state, a d or an f. or if you're in a star state, at the low end of the star, one or two stars. what are we going to do as a state or as a district to help that school improve? there are new parts of the law that gives states more flexibility with those r

the state is facing some budget challenges like other states. these programs are so vitally important to stabilize a structure that has fallen apart. the opiate addiction that affects the child's family is just devastating. sec. devos: the promised neighborhood program can help in that regard, i believe. i also want to go back to a comment that was made earlier about state and local school budgets that are reducing and correct that. in fact, the spending estimate increase in state and local funding for education between this year and next year is expected to increase $21 billion in the state. so there is not a decrease in funding at the state and local level. there actually continues to be a greater investment on the part of state and local governments. sen. manchin: we are going to hope that somebody from your department would come to west virginia and go through our department with them and explain that. they are looking at it as cuts. maybe there is some way we can work something out. we love to do that. i know my time is running out. i want

first of all, my state, my home state of washington, is one of those states where our supreme court has said, has ruled and said, that caps are not constitutional. so this bill is an intrusion of our state's rights. this bill also clearly puts the interests of big corporations over everyday people. and sends a signal to medical and health providers that they can act irresponsibly, perhaps, to make more money and get away with it. let me give you a very real example of what happens when hospitals put profit over people. the neurology program at swedish cherry hill hospital in seattle is under investigation for negligent care arising out of a program designed to incentivize neuro science doctors to take on heavy caseloads of complicated cases that lead to serious errors and even death. one of the patients was talia, a talented and vibrant young woman. she went in for a cervical spinal fusion with a neurosurgeon who has been embroiled in numerous investigations. as a result of gross medical malpractice, talia died. according to a "seattle times" investigation, numerous problems surfaced ar

states. you just said it has been arguing since 1994 and looking at the networks. and you they sat meaning different parts of the strict and creating networks of private and civic actors. and what fuelled what i would call the election of president trump and agued at candidate and president as a need to return american sovereignty and the ongoing debate we see in the french election where one candidate is arguing back to pull back from the european union. in an argument she made at the tiement to reassert french sovereign sovereignty. what is your sense of kind of where this eb and flow goes since 1994 when you started making the arguments and digging into it. >> that is a great question. it goes back to both and. in the book, i reprint that famous picture and do you see an old woman or men and people say it is an old lady. see the big nose and wart. >> i saw the young lady. i didn't know if that said something about me or what. my point is you have to see both. if we are under attack, that i

under state law. chief justice roberts: your -- your point is -- raises my exact concern. you said "for all relevant purposes." the -- the question is what purposes are relevant? and it seems to me that what purposes are relevant is analysis under the takings clause. and we all know the -- the issue, i think, that justice breyer brought up. let's say you have three -- three acres of wetlands and you own a hundred acres. you say, well, my property is these three acres and you've taken it all. the law is you don't get -- mr. groen doesn't get to define property interests that way because it's gaming the system by saying this is what it is. now, another one of my colleagues pointed out, there are two halves of the state law here -- half of it is the lot line, half of it is the merger. and you want to say, well, for takings purposes, all we look at is the merger. and it seems to me that that's just the flip side of what the landowner can't do. you can't sort of preempt the takings analysis by saying we're

a blue state can do a blue thing and a red state can do a red thing. we allow that power to return to the states. we allow the power to return to the patient. if there is one common ground i know i have is that the patient should be the focus of all considerations. whatever comes out, if she is the focal point, if she has the power, we will have done our job. the challenge remains making sure she remains our focal point. sen. carper: thank you very much for joining us. jonathan didn't mention i spent almost half my life in the military. southeast asia and others. then i was the commander-in-chief of national guard. one of the things i loved about military was access to health care. i don't care what base you are on, you have access to health care. you have an annual physical. the pay is pretty good. a must every base i have been on there is a gym and you are encouraged to exercise. there is a focus on prevention. most people don't think of the affordable care act as a focus on prevention. there is a huge focus on value. ever since harry truman talked a

it's in the state department by the secretary of state. and so i would say his role is one of any other senior adviser in the west wing. he does -- he has freedom and i've invited him as i have others to call if there are issues that arise in the west wing. let me know so we have visibility so we can talk about how we want to address those. >> do you have any instances where he hasn't coordinated with state or yourself before engaging in discussions with foreign nationals or officials? >> you'd have to ask him as to whether he has. >> thank you, mr. secretary. you spoke earlier about the working relationship with china in terms of north korea. and there have been positive steps. i want to congratulate you on your work in that regard. but one of my concerns is the fact that as china might move away from trade, opportunities, to try to pressure north korea, russia seems to be creeping in with those, you know, replacing that vacuum. where there are trade opportunities and interactions with north korea. have you addressed this to russia? this

do questiond states united states did everything .ossible to undermine it pressure neutral countries -- not to establish relations with the people's republic of china inchina participated conferences such as geneva and bandon, the united dates generally try to do everything that occurred to minimize the importance of these conferences command to limit china's role. in fact, there's this famous story about the 1954 geneva conference, wenzhou online approaches secretary of state john foster dulles, and tries to shake his hand rituals apparently disassembled and walks briskly past him. the search was some debate among historians but whether this event actually occurred. even if it didn't occur, as it is to see why take on such powerful emotional and symbolic resonance. competition to read about this book, cultural. argue --competition i by three nature, it involves presenting a stage, aimage of your negative image of your rivals to the greatest degree possible. the -- on a lot of different things, talking about cultural competition, propaganda found particular thing i cultural competiti

state county -- state, county, city. i know you know there is not private foundation money to the -- $9f $9 million a billion a year. how are we going to come up with $9 billion a year or do think there should eat $9 billion last spent in education overall? sec. devos: the approach to the budget was to make tough dishes it's and recognize money was not limitless and respect -- and make tough decisions and recognize money is not limitless and respect the taxpayer. a. schu said the programs that would become would be supported by federal, state, and local sources. you don't say we are in an environment where we'd like to spend more if we could. there are two ways to approach $9 billion of hats. one is, we want to make $9 billion with of cuts, we think it is in the best interest of public and private education because we think the federal government should lay less overall and the burden should switch to the private sector. that is one philosophy. the other is, we don't have it up money. if we could do more, we would do mor

other states. we push back, we try to cooperate and signal our willingness to cooperate, sometimes that works sometimes it doesn't. when you think about president obama's speech in 2009, new beginning with the muslim world, to really address the causes of terrorism and lots of other problems coming out of the middle east you need to build networks. networks of entrepreneurs and civic groups, networks of muslim groups that are pushing back. that is where the web strategies commit. that is where you bring in business, civic groups and you design a network a particular way and run it. >> the question that leads me to raises someone they call page 37 of the book, the disaggregation of the state. as he just said it's been arguing since 1994 is even looking at the networks. you say that the proliferation of the networks as a result of the disaggregation of the state, meaning that different parts of governments are peeling away from the chessboard model policy directed by the head of state and instead cre

five united states states, including my home state of washington, have pacific ocean shorelines. the united states is a pacific nation both in a geography and outlook. trips as secretary of defense and a vice president pence's first trips, secretary to listen's -- secretary to placing trip, we are priority on the asia-pacific region, a priority region for us. specifically, vice president pence's words in his trip to south korea, japan, indonesia, and australia, we have affirmed the united states's enduring commitment to the security and prosperity of this region. that enduring commitment is based on strategic interests and on shared values of free people, free markets, and a strong and vibrant economic partnership, a partnership open to all nations regardless of their size, populations, the number of ships and their navies, or any other qualifier. large nations, as the prime minister reminded us last night -- large nations, small nations, and even trims can thrive in a rules-based order. such an order benefits all nations. america's engagement is also based on strong military par

to state and died. that is a balance to be struck about how to keep voter rolls accurate and current but not at weeks ends of tonight people the right to vote. host: is there any case on the topic we might hear about before the end of the term of monday? guest: not before the end of the term. host: what are you watching most closely before the end of the term? guest: a big case about separation of church and it the whether states can decline to support state -- church affiliates even if it is a as popular and uncontroversial as providing rubberized playgrounds. a church playground in missouri, the supreme court is being asked, does the missouri constitution, which says we do not want anything to do with religion in any way, does that violate the federal constitution by disadvantaging the church? this important case has wrought implications about the separations of church and state and there are immigration related cases, the border guard shoots a mexican boy from across the u.s. mexico order and the boy

over which the united states is already handed over $1 billion. nobody else is even close in most of not even paid anything. including funds rated out of america's budget for the war against terrorism. that is where they came. believe me, they did not come from me. they came just before i came into office, not good. not good the way they took the money. in 2015 the united nations departing top climate officials reportedly described the $100 billion per year as peanuts. they stated that the $100 million is the tail that wags the dog. in 2015 the green climate fund executive director reportedly stated that estimated funding needed would increase to $450 billion per year after 2020, and nobody even knows where the money is going to. nobody has been able to say where it is going to. of course the world's top polluters have no affirmative obligations under the green fund . which we terminated. america is $20 trillion in debt. cash-strapped cities cannot hire enough police officers or fix the infrastructure. many of our citizens are out of work and yet

there is barely any kind of functioning belgian state, there's basically two states in the capital city. the idea that somehow you can take in huge numbers of muslims and not have consequences is preposterous. we've now had in the space of 48 hours, we had an attack in london, and attack in paris and now in brussels. the three european capitals in three days because of the islamic-european tension. >> tucker: i have to ask you, speaking of countries divided by language and religion about canada. there's a new law in canada that apparently will criminalize the misuse of pronouns. you can go to jail for calling someone by opponent he, she, or whatever it doesn't prefer. am i misreading this law, does it actually suggest that that could happen? >> they've added gender identity to the canadian human rights act. i'm proud to have played a small part in getting one section of the canadian human rights act repealed. section 13, the hate speech thing. one step forward, two steps back. as soon as you have a small victory in identity group last throw something else into the mix. i have rather tir

to different kind of secretary of state. he needed a business peer. are the oil men know world like nobody else. they have to live in -- deal with long till investment and difficult places deal with difficult people and people working troubling circumstances. there's like secretary of state -- [laughter] jim mattis is -- one of the best commanders of his generation, hr mcmaster the same so an excellent team. but any national security teal would struggle with the north korean problem and single most dangerous problem that e we've got. i was the secretary of state who tried to negotiate with north koreans to get they will to give up their nuclear weapons that was kim jong-il the father he lived in a parallel universe, but it was abounded parallel universe. i think jr. is unhinged and i think he is living in when he says things like i can destroy the united states. i think i hope he dunts really believe that. right? he felt reckless. anybody who will reach into malaysia to kill his half brother, and by all reports his half brot

a rogue state. we will have more on president trump move to withdraw from the paris accord after headlines. in washington, d.c., the trump administration says it has granted retroactive wavers to senior staff to allow them to skirt ethics rules aimed at preventing conflicts of interest. the disclosure came in undated memos by the counsel to the president that were made public wednesday evening. one of those benefiting from the move is trump's chief strategist stephen bannon, who has reportedly maintained contact with the far-right website breitbart media in violation of a white house ethics pledge. bannon formerly headed breitbart, which frequently publishes racist, sexist, xenophobic news. the director of the office of government ethics, walter shaub, told "the new york times," the move was invalid, saying -- "there is no such thing as a retroactive e iver. if y you need d a retroactivive waiver, you have violated a rule." in russia, president vladimir putin denied allegations thursday that the rus

regulation lawyers has traditionally followed in state supreme courts or state bars or states in general. surely the federal legislature has better use of its time than to matters left to state administrations or to attempt to intimidate them to do some of its bidding. but we've done that on -- are doing that on gun laws, taking that away from the province of the states when it suits the political convenience of that side. it is a bit rich to suggest we should seek to limit attorney advertising in the name of protecting consumers and public health given the enormous amounts drug companies spend to influence consumer choice. lawyer drug injury advertisements tells the public about the dangers of certain medications and the availability of legal services for those who are injured. yet, i note while 114 million dollars may have been spent on attorney drug injury advertising in the year 2016, that pails -- fiscal year 2016, that pails in comparison to the estimated $6.4 billion spent by drug companies on advertising in 2016 alone. $114 million by attorneys. $6.4 billion by drug companies. th

system for the entire state.he proposal, called the healthy california act, was later killed by state assembly speaker anthony rendon even though the plan had widespread support. a poll commissioned by the california nurses association found 70% of all californians are in favor of a single-payer plan. for more, we go to berkeley, california, to be joined by michael lighty, the director of public policy for national nurses united and the california nurses association. michael, can you talk about this growing movement? at the national level, you now have senator warren who just came out in "wall street journal" saying she is for single payer. senator bernie sanders has also said the same thing, though he yes not introduced the latest bill. it in california, this debate has been raging. what happened? it is quite, remarkable because we got single-payer past through the state senate on june 1. momentum.ge i think ultimately we had 400 organizations who were with us in the assembly -- in the senate, rather, for the bi

system for the united states. who wouldn't want an effective national defense? if you could reliably protect the american people from ballistic missiles, the only existential threat that we have besides climate change, who wouldn't want that? i want it. i also want a cure for cancer. i would also like a really good light beer. but some things are beyond our technological capability. an effective missile defense is one of them. it's not for lack of trying. we've spent $330 billion on missile defense over the last decades. $330 billion. we have had some of our best contractors, our best scientific minds focused on this. we have been pushing. this it is not as newt gingrich said in his contract on america in the 1994 election when his onl only, and the only one of the ten points in his contract on america of national security was about this, was about missile defense, it is not because we lack the political will. that has beeen the critique tha we have not been trying hard enough. no, no, we have been trying. republi

, below the state and through the state. in this world the state with the most connections will be the central player, able to set the global agenda and unlock innovation and sustainable growth. so again my question to you is, when you say a state with the most connections will be the central player, is that to say the most networked state would be the strongest state? what is the strongest network state today? what do we do with the state like north korea which is arguably the least networked, but therefore also apparently, esters we can tell, least prone to suasion and pressure, even from its most important friend, namely, china? is there an odd outlier that by keeping itself out of the network, north korea is making itself particularly resilient? or if not just stubborn and isolated, is it also then more difficult to move? >> guest: now, it's exactly the way i think we need to think about power in the networked world, or the web world, that traditionally power is your size, the size of your economy, the size of your milit

i know that you've previously state stated what every intelligence agency has concluded there was russian interference in our elections, is that the case? >> yes. i'll not here to debate whether it was a decisive intervention or not. but they interfered. you would also agree, would you not that they are attempting to interfere in the elections of many of our nato allies, as in the netherlands or france? >> it certainly appears that way. >> it does. >> would you also degree that russia would prefer a weaker nato to a stronger nato? >> in all likelihood, they would. >> i think so, too. >> i guess my question, mr. secretary, is do you degree with senator graham and senator mccain. i think probably a majority of us on the committee on a bipartisan basis, that it's important to take additional actions and sanction russia to let them know that you cannot interfere in our elections and just get away with it. that the united states is not going to walk away from that kind of attack on our democracy. isn't that -- important? >> it certainly is important, senator and i think one of the challenges i

united states. he called itself-de-steck stiv and an ignorant appeal on the nation. >> mr. secretary you call this an unprecedented forfeiture of american leadership. what do you mean? >> when 195 countries come together working for decades and the united states of america takes the leadership in order to join with china, two largest emitters in the world of carbon emissions to say we must begin to reduce and then to have a president stand up and simply unilaterally walk away from that without scientific basis, not based on facts in terms of our economy. the truth is the president -- no country is required by this agreement to do anything except what that country decided to do for itself. so donald trump is not telling the truth to the american people, we have this huge burden imposed on us by the other states. no, we agreed to what we would do, we designed it, it's voluntary, and the president of the united states could have changed that without walking away from the whole agreement. >> the preside

state park or liberty state park this fourth of july weekend? that's a fast. you might need to change of plans if the government cannigh. >> the government closes, closes. i mean to government will close. state parks are part of government. >> governor christie proms the government shunt on which will close all state parks among other things until budget is reached. speaker over his opposition to s funds from horizon bluish cross blue shield and allocate them to addiction care and recovery. rk this weekendt to see the for fourth of july weekend. i don't want to see the speaker stopping people going to the island beach state park this .tomes out tomorrow.h of july >> take a look at the crazy dashcam video. the cars driving down the street in williamsburg, brooklyn. out of nowhere, a un uns right out of the frame.s him apparently he was fine, just a bumper bruise. i think that is because the guy was only driving about 12 miles you, you really need to look both ways before you cross. >> a different version of the hit-and-run. >> allison, were having some weather.

guest has stated. one only has to look at 1953 when most of that, the democratic leader of iran, was overthrown by the united states so they could install the shah and control the oil interests. if you look at the arms deal, trump is selling arms, which is a violation of human rights -- cluster bombs are being sold, which is a violation of international norms. i don't buy the assertion by a gust of the united states really cares about the stability of the middle east. italy cares about its unjust. -- its own interests. invading iraq, there was a horrible disaster. one can only look at israel, which the united states pays $10 million a day to prop up, basically an apartheid regime. i just disagree with your guests. i don't see how you can say the united states is concerned about the stability and well-being of the people of the middle east. it seems to me that the opposite is true. they don't want democratically elected governments that can think and do what they want. it is we want governments they can