in in the same sense, regards to the state, i wanted to ask about investment programs state and for states. we'd like to see the state get own or d not hold its get by with where it was, since my nephew is the treasurer for state of arizona, jeff i'm concerned, not of the same party, but my concern politics is involved, programs, e of set could we break away and in this investments, how work for a ment state to get ahead to get through the infrastructure problem? ahead. guest: i would say, when you say investment, i think about economic growth, you are getting at economic growth in the state. gets back to the idea of the rules of the game. state of texas have the you want ax climate, to counter texas and compare to connecticut and new jersey, you have environment causing businesses to flee, causing people to flee, various there. i think you're getting at the notion of making a strong texas c environment for to thrive. host: let's hear from salem, for eileen norcross. hello. caller: yeah, hi, eileen norcross. i come from oregon and like er's is one area that is settled out really well. our

states in every major conflict over the past 100 years. currently we are partnering with the united states in the fight against terrorist and extremist in iraq, syria, afghanistan and the philippines. --. leadership has been military and security operations worldwide. australian leadership has been timor-leste, where we have demonstrated our ability to contribute to regional security for the benefit of other nations. against this background, and in this context, to my mind, there has been no diminution in the united states engagement or commitment to our region. continues to build regional capacity through development assistance in maritime security, counterterrorism and intelligence sharing. this could also be evident by the number of frequency of high-level visits to our region by senior u.s. cabinet members. there have been visits from our reason -- region to united states to make president trump -- the president has emphasized personal rapport with world leaders. i met with prime -- the prime minister in new delhi and he spoke of the w

to create a state plan. of course, we call this the bottom up approach rather than the federal top-down approach. georgia has gone to great lengths to maximize the flexibility provided by essa to support its vision of offering a wholisting educati wholisting wholisting -- holistic vision in our state. of course i look forward to working with the department in its interpretation of essa, does not exceed the intent and limits of the law. our goal is to achieve every child succeeds. dr. wright, have you been encountering some of the same problems that georgia has as far as, you know, bringing stakeholders together and then submitting the plan to the federal department of education and getting pushback? >> we have not yet submitted our plan. we're going to be submitting in september. but we have had absolutely no problem gathering stakeholders. there's a lot of people out there that want to have their choice heard around what they consider most important for our children. so that's been a very exciting and invig

but this is an agenda that has to go state by state. in addition, we have a higher rate of poverty of children in this country than we have had before. the poverty rates for children now are almost double what they were in the 1970s. half of the kids in public schools receive free or are eligible for free and reduced priced lunch. if you compare us, somebody asked a question on the earlier panel how we compare to other countries on things like piza, one of the things that differentiates us is the rate of poverty in the country. we are way above any of the high achieving countries in that regard. interestingly, in literacy in schools in the u.s. that serve kids with fewer than 10% of kids in poverty, we're number one in the world. if you look at schools with as many as 25% of kids in poverty, which is way above any other country, we're still number three in the world. a lot of our teachers are working very hard to make progress, but the context is really challenging. so at some point, we have to have a conversation again as we did in the

registered, we will say state a and a vacation home in state b, that they can be registered in both states and potentially vote in one state and go to a resort state and vote another ballot. i don't know if it happens or not. it seems like to had me, it would be, i would like for us to discuss, a recommendation to the president that someone can only be registered in one state. if you have a vacation home, great, vote an absentee ballot or by mail in your home state. i don't see where anyone needs to be registered in one more than onestate. i would like to see us discussing that. >> i can add something there, the interstate cross system check, all those here are participants and it's easy to get registered in the new state, but it's harder than one might think that deregister the person, because that is the last thing they think of when they are moving, i better call the county i used to live in, and send them a written piece of paper saying, i am no longer wishing to vote there, because i'm moving. it's a big problem and it's worthy of discussion. >> two things, one on secretary blackwell'

red states care for their people as well as blue states. is elevated wages in oklahoma. i understand this polarization we are seeing is really difficult, but if in fact we had a convention of states and force the federal government, what is wrong with us living within our means? is very moral question, you don't think you ought to pay for your medicare? you don't think you ought to be paying for what is coming down the pipe to benefit you? or should you charge it to your children? that is the moral question. we can take it off into a back alley and say that is not what we're trying to do but that is what we are try to do. host: do you see this as an ?nron -- an end run guest: they knew the ineffectiveness and cost of the central government collecting power to itself would have to be neutralized. what wasbout restoring originally in our constitution in terms of the state having the ability to make decisions. we $100 billion we waste every year in the military, who is working on that? i have documented it. who was working on that? nobody. the question is, do we have repres

a state in the middle of the united states if you put a deployable in the united states you might have a two or three hour drive time but in hawaii it's different. you can't necessarily put one on a boat and go to the next island quickly so we understand we will be putting multiple. we are dealing with a team to determine that number but we understand we need multiple deep labels to meet the needs of hawaii specifically. >> thank you. this is a technical question so i don't even know necessarily this is a challenge, but how does at&t intend to build the network so that hawaii does not depend on continental united states infrastructure to keep the network operational? in other words if there's a problem on the mainland in the middle of a natural disaster in the pacific, are we still required to balance the server in tucson or ho how to does tha? >> unfamiliar with the issue. you are referring to the network that reified subcontinental u.s. so hawaii's traffic does traverse the ocean. your team has brought this up as an issue and we recognize it as an issue and we are working to find wha

that's the way to auction off the resolution does not build nations and certainly does not build the states. a lot of welcome to worlds apart the russians have long taken americans more seriously than the americans took that is until the russia gave candela obsession with their logic the election hacking and been seeing policy paralysis have dismayed many in moscow showing washington in a way revolution before as lacking in confidence and they able to pull itself together how accurate is this impression to discuss that i'm now joined by matthew craning a senior fellow at the atlantic council mr craning it's great to have you on the show thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me on it's a pleasure to be here while it may be a pleasure for you to be here but i assure that you're not going to fall under suspicion of colluding with the adversary because of appearing on our t.v. no i'm not worried about that i think it's important for americans and russians to have a dialogue to important countries and we need to do a better job of understanding each other i absolutely agree wit

this is an important program in my state, the peach state program. it is a program that benefited many recipients. i want to ask you, i will start with you, ms. snyder, and then mr. holmes, i also want you to address this. i know that in my district alone we've got six federally funded health centers and they serve over 55,000 patients, very, very important. one of the things we require, the federal statute requires is that states reimburse these federally qualified health centers and rural health centers using prospective payment system. there have been groups who said this could be done better. let me quote real quick. the national association of medical directors, of medicaid directors, excuse me, said this distinct reimbursement system limits medicaid's ability to use value based strategies in this setting. including models that incorporate financial risk. it also prevents many states from comprehensively transforming the health care system across all providers. the directors have said states need to be allowed to align value -- value-based purch

review of the state department reauthorization bill for fiscal year in as well as the state department's reorganization plans. chairman corker has laid out what those of us were very passionate about. congress has a responsibility to authorize the programs that the state department and the senate foreign relations committee, we watched what the armed services committee does with the authorization act which is a very important goal. and recognize that a lot of issues that should come through the committee, we need to look at the bill in order to get a vehicle to get those issues into statute. we should have our own opportunity to do that and under chairman corker's leadership we were able to get an important bill done in the last congress and we look forward to your help in establishing that principle. the draft legislation when looking at deals with the organization of the department of state. it deals with construction, personnel issues, diversity, information security, public diplomacy, anticorruption and other related issues. it is more ambitious than the bill we had last time. it kee

states, but there are a number of states that are saying we may be able to give you something. have to make your request in a way that anyone else went. you have to pay for the data that we provide, so we are watching closely to see how much states turn over. , we do notof the day believe any stage should participate in this commission. the goals of this commission are clear. this commission was set up to lay the groundwork for a massive push of voter suppression laws and policies on a national scale. we think that goal is a very and our hope ultimately is that states will not in any way legitimize the work of this commission by turning over data that could be ultimately abused by cyber hackers. there are 200 million registered voters in our country and we have never seen an effort like b and pullom together this extensive amount of data on individuals in our country. so we are going to be watching closely to see what states do this week, secretaries of state will be convening at the national association of secretaries of state. they are holding an annual summer meeting in indi

photo id states. why is it important for the public to have confidence in their elections? the reason is contrary to common belief. one vote does matter. i have conducted nearly 500 recounts. all done by hand, counting paper ballots in a public process, including statewide congressional and various smaller district greases. 11 -- district races. 11 of those recounts have ended in a tie. 32 were decided by one vote. and a total of 202 by less than 10 votes. and while serving as a state representative back in the 1970's, my state had a u.s. senate race that was decided by two votes. the u.s. senate after that tried to do a recount of that race and gave up after trying for five months. i am a witness that every vote matters. and it does it need to be -- and there doesn't need to be massive voter fraud to sway the outcome. these are the experiences i will bring to this commission. and i will work with all of you, endeavoring to let the facts we receive speak for themselves. thank you. >> thank you, mr. se

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of the state department. the plan is part of president trump's fiscal year 2018 budget proposal. the entire hearing is about 90 minutes. >> senator cardin wanted to make sure and said that everyone had the opportunity to hear everyone's questions, and so in order to accommodate that gladly, at 5:30 we will recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5:45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back so that everyone's able to hear what everyone else's questions. we thank you for being here, mr. secretary, again so promptly. we appreciate that you've made time to appear before this committee twice in a week's time. passing an annual state department authorization bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee, and when we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority to the executive branch and other congressional committees and fail to do the jobs our constituents sent us here to do. restoring this annual practice was a top priority of mine

united states? >> thank you for the opportunity to address that you this was in 2002, not 2007. it was 15 years ago that took place. it was during the time when the department of homeland security was being stood up. aftermath ofdiate 9/11. a lot has changed in 15 years. i'm enthusiastic about the future of the way this will be doing its function. >> i don't want my time to expire. do you believe the state department is committed to the rule of law and the national security of the united states? >> i absolutely do. the fact that even i was terrified by state incompetence and apathy toward a law enforcement proves how far this has progressed. hired some to fort -- support the transfer of these is to the new department of homeland security. a department that will be committed to the rule of law and the national security of united states. the mission is to provide life-sustaining assistance to those uprooted through multilateral systems, to build global partnerships, promote practices and military in r

three states get 37%. and although i don't have an accurate sort of, oh, this is what the demography is, i estimate their population to be roughly 18%, if that muscle, of our -- if that much, of our nairgs' total population. so they get twice as much if you will on a per beneficiary basis than the rest of the nation put together. that is not fair. and if we're going to provide access for patients, fellow americans to health care, ultimately you have to have adequate financial resources to do so. now, my colleague, senator graham, will speak in more detail about the inequities between the states, but let me just say as a guideline how do we create equity, how do we create fairness so it's not just three states which benefit but wherever you live. if the term taxpayer is contributing to your access to insurance, you get about the same amount whether you're in louisiana, colorado, south carolina, mississippi, or in california, massachusetts, or new york. that's about equity. and what we attempted to do and we

that states face and states continue to rebuild reserves.hey have only partially rebuild financial cushions after tapping into them to plug budget gaps. only 15 states could cover more government expenses using balances.nd total rainy day funds have regained more ground than ending balances with at least 24 states rated rainy day funds exceeding prerecession levels when measured at a share of operating costs. we want to hear from you about the fiscal health of your state. do you think your state's fiscally responsible? vicki is in minnesota. good morning. caller: i think minnesota is fiscally responsible state -- is a fiscally responsible state. is wonderful. i wish more politicians in our country would pay attention to him and how the democrats have been running our state. i'm worried that more republicans will be getting in and changing a lot of the good quality of this state. one of the things i do see stateing, because this really does try to take care of its people, i see a lot of people from other states moving here. .edical care easie

state. so very different notion from current law, where all financing, all costs that are legitimate medicaid costs are shared by the states and federal government. if you go to the next slide. this just looks at how those trend rates compare. i will not go through detail on this but let a just say the trend rates are designed intentionally to save the federal government dollars. they are pegged at a rate that is intentionally below what the states are expected to spend over the next 10 years, and that is one of the main ways in which some of achieves its, the savings and the $772 billion score. if we go to the next slide, please, this one you might want to look at, at your booklet. this shows the year-by-year -- this is our modeling where we showed the year-by-year, and we have this state-by-state impact of the caps on -- this is just the caps, not the effect of the thension so just part of $772 billion -- and what you see here is the federal loss of dollars. but i also want to point out wh

host: what does this supreme court decision mean for those 38 states that have a provision in their state constitution? guest: it does not bode well for them. the have the opportunity to negate those 38 state constitutions. they chose not to go that far. this would not have been a 7-2 decision haddock on that way. they will resolve it sometime down the line involving some other issue. host: this was kept to a narrow decision. there is even a footnote that said this is specifically about government paying for the use of tires on playgrounds. well now, that is ridiculous. that is why it is a footnote. judge gorsuch said, we don't even agree with the footnote, this means a lot more than that. host: quantico, virginia is next. kevin. caller: good morning. i have two quick comments. the separation of church and state, i think the people that are for that always accuse christians or people promoting the christian worldview as being against it because they want to promote a christian worldview, when i think folks that are promoting, misconstruing the original intent are promoting a non-christian

against the united states to punish the united states for its overthrow of the government of libya and the creation of chaos throughout the world we suffer from what we call american exceptionalism we apply a very different standard to the united states when the united states screws up around the world our motives are always pure but somehow we made a mistake but we're innocent but we have a very very different standard and that's that corrosive environment that we live in in the united states where we judge ourselves by completely different stand than we judge everybody else and unless we begin to get past that we can understand how the world looks to anybody else from the standpoint of the rest of the world russia might be a problem in certain areas but the main threat to world peace over and over again in every survey around the world this is the united states the united states is viewed internationally as the main threat to world peace americans don't know that americans are very limited very parochial and they don't have a sense of how we are perceived in the world or the role tha

some of these states particularly the democratic states taking an opportunity to point out that thision was set up on a flawed premise, the premise that the president believes millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election, something for which of course there is no evidence at all and the white house has not put forth any evidence to that effect. >> jeremy diamond, thank you so much. joining me now to discuss cnn senior political commentator, former senator rick santorum and basil michael, executive director of the new york state democratic party. great to see you both. >> good morning. >> this effort seems over before it began. does this hurt the president's credibility on these claims of voter fraud? >> no. i mean look the letter was very clear. they're asking for whatever information that can be provided publicly to the commission, so they can begin the process of looking through this data and determining the extent of voter fraud. the bottom line is the system, if you don't have a voter i.d. law in your state, the law is pretty much an honor system. we're just trusting p

at a state owned restraert in retreat in island beach state park.this. >> looks like you got some sun. >> didn't, but go ahead. i didn't get any sun today. >> the governor's spokes man made this point today, he said he did not get any sun, he had a baseball hat on. now governor christie is letting people know there are plenty of beaches to go to this holiday weekend. and in the last hour, another beautiful day at the jersey shore, our beaches are open and full of people. joining me now, governor chris christie's spokes person, brian murray. thank you for joining us. i think the first question is -- >> thank you for having me. >> the optics of this, it doesn't look good add all for the governor, does it? >> that's what it is, isn't it? it's optics. it's a couple photographs of a governor with his family on the beach. not much of a scandal there when you consider 119 miles of coast are open, they're packed with people, we're talking about two beaches that had to be closed. not because the governor closed them personally, but because we don't have a bu

competed for these scholarships and they've chosen the second states the -- the seven states, virginia, rhode island, nevada, hachlt, michigan, delaware, within those seven states, the top hundred dollar will each be given a $1,500 scholarship to study cybersecurity and they will go on to be able to access over $$500,000 worth of scholarships. let's give the sans institute a great round of applause for building that work force for the 21st century. >> i want today comment briefly, first thank you for taking the time to come here, matt, spens, i want to thank you for your service, you've played a number of different roles to bring that experience to our -- we had a old trw defense contractor who had left a large building, 140,000 square foot building, we get the legislature to fund the rehab of that building. we're trying to find ways to build bridges between the -- well one is making sure that elected officials, by that i mean not just governors but mayors and city council members, county commissioners, had the education to deal with cybersecurity not just in -- not just -- they don't

states. some of that maybe mistakes and errors, some of it may be individuals illegally voting in more than one state. we should look at what are the steps weekend recommend to fix those kinds of problems. this is an advisory commission. it has no executive power. the only thing it can do is write a report and make a recommendation to the president, congress, the states what they can do to fix and improve the security of the election process. host: is it bipartisan? guest: it is. there are a number of democrats, for example the secretary of state of maine, individual county clerks, the people who really know how our elections are run. elections in this country are run at the county level. you would not believe this from the new york times editorial, but at the meeting on wednesday there was almost complete unanimity among the commissioners at all the issues that should be looked at to figure out how good is the voter registration and election process, and what can we do to recommend solutions

of course the the mainstream media that is an echo chamber for the deep state in the state department that russia must change its behavior but it's never seems to dawn on them that maybe they should change their behavior in some way shape or form that would be amenable to other countries in the world it's either you know our way or the highway go ahead peter. i'm often amused to watch the mainstream media in the united states. the perceptive reception is that we should put sanctions we should punish russia for all the russia's transgressions and bad dealings in the world did you ever hear anybody on the mainstream media calling for the world to have sanctions against the united states when the united states invades iraq to everybody the maze free media call for the world to have sanctions against the united states to punish the united states for its overthrow of the government of libya and the creation of chaos throughout the world we suffer from what we call american exceptionalism we apply a very different standard to the united states when the united states screws up around the wor

forty five states have now said that they won't give sensitive voter data to donald trump's so-called electoral election integrity commission theoretically at least this is good news the election integrity commission is. led by the king of crossed . himself former secretary of state from kansas kris kobach it's a blatant attempt at a national voter suppression campaign but according to my next guest the bipartisan resistance forseen to the states and the commission's data request isn't what a scene is joining me now is greg palast investigative reporter and creator of the new documentary the best democracy money can buy a tale of billionaires and banded ballots pallas welcome back. be with you tom so first off can you explain for us a little more detail about what the specific voter data the trump is or the trump administration co back is asking for and why do they want that data and why is it such a big deal for them to be asking for ok number one what they want is the entire voter files of all fifty states you know your name last four numbers of your social security number your addr

on your state. the question is what type of impact and you spoke earlier about the economic impacts of what happens on those lands and the lack of activity there that generates economic activity, does have a significant impact. you spoke about that, but i want a little more detail about not only how it affects the state, but how does it affect local economies? what do you see from a standpoint having to deal with, as you talked about, mr. flynn, budget deficits, keeping economies going? how do you deal with massive amounts of public lands, looking at ways to make sure they generate some revenue, and then looking at the regulatory hurdles there for energy development on those lands? i want to get both you and dr. nelson's perspective on it from your state viewpoint. >> chairman gosar, representative wittman, let me give you two quick answers, one not really going to the economic, but from an economic perspective it boils down to infrastructure. roads and sewers are the bread and butter and council, l

>> i would say of course that differs state by state but every state that i have seen statements fromaid no. they do not believe that there's anywhere near that number. republicans and democrats alike have said that yes, does fraud occurs kare occasionally in ther state? yes, but not anywhere near the number they are talking about. it's a very yoafe overstated nu. >> sreenivasan: the faculty that it's decentralized, are you dhearnd a centralized voter file in essence what would happen if the administration got all this information from all of these states, could be heldñrÑi secur? >> i'm deeply concerned about that personally. aand i don't speak now for every secretary of state as you said. it's very decentralized. but i'm deeply concerned about that. it seems like a very odd moment when we are talking about the dangers of cyber security, to be centralizing somehow, that is on the computer at the white house, that does not fill me with confidence. >> sreenivasan: denise merrill, president of the association of secretary of states of state, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivas

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of the state -- the state municipalities as well. if confirmed i think it's -- i'll need an opportunity to wrap my arms around a little bit better on what they have, and each state operates differently. i'm committed to work with the committee and yourself and to have a thorough assessment. what i can say is when meeting with numerous of the organizations that graciously supported me, the chiefs and the state law enforcement we see the need for it. we need a mechanism to share information. i think it's without question there can be improvements in that. i know undersecretary taylor my predecessor if confirmed was working that -- i'm obligated and i'm committed to do that as well. >> i don't have a -- i don't have a set of recommendations. i do think the whole concept though needs a fresh look. i look forward to working with you on that. thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator cornyn. >> thank you, congratulations, mr. glawe. anyone chairman grassley he supports usually guarantees my support so i look forward to your continued service to

that's because their fight against the islamic state is really about creating their own state.‘s fighters are so close they can hear is in the building across the street. for the kurds this is more than a war. it's a revolution. and it's attracting its share of idealistic outsiders. there's a million ways to die here. it's notjust on the front. there's no front line. it's a huge space of war, that is like, even though it seems peaceful here, anything can happen. kimi taylor is a former maths student. she is originally from blackburn in the north of england. she left behind a life of activism at home to come to syria to fight islamic state. what are the biggest worries, the biggest threats? on the moving front, where we are moving to take more space, it's snipers, there's mines everywhere and snipers everywhere. are you scared? no. there's something bigger than me. it's for people here. it's for women here and women in the middle east, and even maybe potentially the world. in a conservative society this feminist revolution faces internal opposition too. but this is a movement th

on the positive side, the good state, these are states with stock cash reserves. these are states with revenues that exceed expenses. so they're running surpluses year-to-year. you've got very low pension liabilitys and they're not states that issue a lot of debt to cover expenses. host: if you want to cover the state's solvencies, ask eileen norcross. phones are open. 202-748-8000, 202-748-8001. eileen norcross, one of the things we heard about the last couple of weeks was the fiscal condition of illinois. give us a sense of what that state did wrong. guest: they are a great example of poor performance. they issued debt to cover unfund pension liabilities when they were not making those full payments. so they had a habit of underfunding the pensions. issuing debt to cover it and then just not servicing their short-term needs either. so attentive got weak cash position and not enough revenue year-to-year to cover expenses. they've been building in the bills. and so much that i would go back to the usage of debt. when you're issuing debt to cover debt that's a bad

some states you mentioned state states and cities are actually coming up with their own solutions tell us some of those you're absolutely right and so what you're seeing is more than a thousand and to tease across united states hundreds and hundreds of municipalities dozens of states are saying if the federal government is good isn't going to lead we're going to step into that vacuum and so the big leaders here are california and new york that have established very aggressive in the case of california greenhouse gas emissions regulations they've got super robust programs that are funding renewable energy deployment same thing in new york where they've got a fifty percent were. energy target. in california they're actually debating one hundred percent renewable energy then you've got hundreds of cities across the country that are taking all sorts of concrete actions to either green up their electric cars sector or promote electric vehicle infrastructure and i know e.v.a.'s aren't one hundred percent perfect but the electrification of the transportation sector is a key if we're going to

by 1929 there are 38 states that have at least one woman in their state legislature. we will talk more about that in just one second. i thought i would give you just a couple of examples that women who achieved national office in the 1920's. a sense of who they were. one very well-known woman who u.s. congress in new mexico was nina warren. she was the first latina to run for congress. she does not win. she is from a very prominent new mexico political family. she is a very average -- avid suffragist. she is a great advocate of women's suffrage. she was elected to the position of superintendent of schools in santa fe and continues for a while. in 1922 she runs for u.s. congress. she is having a fantastic run for that congressional seat when a relative of hers reveals that she was not the widow she claims to be but was divorced. that just tanked -- should have come out with that right off the bat. she had a very good run and remained prominent. in the 1930's she was the state director of the civilian conservation corps. there are latinas elected the new mexican state l

we are a partner with your state. i have to understand the gaps each of you face and how we can meet in the middle. how we can help you overcome those gaps through pre-disaster funding or how we maximize .unding in your state what i don't want to do is come into your state, set up joint spend a lot of money, and repeat the cycle over and over again. hopefully the experiences positive and we leave you better and stronger for the next time you have to face it. achieving resiliency is a partnership. i look at it with two different thoughts. there is the citizen and there is the public infrastructure side. on the public infrastructure side, it is amazing to me to look at that fema on average without about $8 billion a year in recovery funding to rebuild after the disaster. had we get that money up front? there was a time between 2011-2014 where a gao report found fema put out three point $2 billion and post-disaster mitigation funding in that three-year time. during the same time frame we were able to cough up 222 million

to state to vote.erience is that if you can get somebody to vote once, you're doing a great job as an elections official. >> well, yeah, given our numbers i think that's true. i mean it's -- compared to a lot of, for example, european countries, our voter turnout is pretty sad. i have to tell you both that when all of this started to come up, i have a lot of friends who have moved and i'm one of them who moved from california to washington, d.c. to new york state over the course of the last five or six years and none of us knew that we had to like unregister in one place before we registered. certainly never occurred to any of us that we were going to vote in two states. what do you think the point is behind all of this? >> the concern is they're going to take this data, use some dubious methodology and junk science to come up with policies that are going to justify federal laws and actions that make it harder for people to register to vote. the commission was ill conceived and ill designed. this rollo

host: and talk a little bit in some t you found other states, you listed a areer of states where there still long sentences being given to juveniles in addition to michigan including pennsylvania, louisiana and category. states give any long sentences to juveniles. ne thing to bear in mind, juvenile life without parole is still allowed in some states. example, michigan and pennsylvania are still seeking parole sentences for juveniles, even though i changing in y be pennsylvania so sort of backtrack, i think it is quite is moving away for sentences, the pennsylvania a ruling urt just had wanted hat in the state a life without parole sentence for a juvenile, it had burden of proof. this is important because it sort of arguing the presumption life without parole sentences, which i think makes a sense because it's been very clear that life without arole sentences for juveniles should be very rare, they should be irrepairably corrupt, which be something like they could never possibly be redeemed. i think given science and what we know about the brains of about what we know people, it's pret

president of the united states is the chief executive officer of the united states. if wants to fire the fbi director, all he's got to do is fire him. somebody said the other day if john f. kennedy had fired j. edgar hoover over investigating and wiretapping martin luther king jr., would people have thought it was obstruction? be so, you know, so there's not really collusion. so what's the latest leak to "the washington post" whose record, by the way, of running anonymous leaks is actually beating "the new york times." it's an enormous achievement. and i give the post credit -- [laughter] that in their energy and enthusiasm, they have been even more consistently wrong than the times, which is actually in the olympics of stupidity, an enormous challenge. [laughter] so the latest thing is mueller, who will not be able to get anything on russia or obstruction, is now going to look at finances. and what you're seeing, obviously, is exactly -- this is why when i was speaker i opposed renewing the independent counsel act. you bring in a whole bunch of high-priced lawyers,

and many distinguished members of congress from his home state. as well as the senators that i mentioned before. in fact, it's important to note that senator corker is in fact the chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee. and we're truly honored to have you and senator alexander here. we're also joined by members of congress from the house of representatives in tennessee, congressman john duncan, congresswoman diane black, congresswoman marsha blackburn, congressman scott dejar less, david cuss staff and congressman phil roe. will you give them a round of applause? [applause] and i know it's a particular honor to have with us bill's counterpart, japan's ambassador to the united states of america, ambassador sasei and his wife. [applause] as well as the special advisor to the prime minister and kawai.ki [applause] as i had the privilege of expressing during my trip to japan on the president's behalf earlier this year, under president donald trump, the united states is firmly committed. firmly committed to our treasured friend and ally, japa

it was the leadership of the united states congress and united states government that has raised this issue to the international community making it clear we will not tolerate trafficking in persons. and that we will take all necessary steps to end this tragedy. it distorts labor markets, destroys people, it e roads communities and undermines communities fueled by corruption, greed, violence. we will continue in our trafficking in persons report to me is the gold standard for what is used to have all countries do better. i mentioned previously when foreign guests come into my office, whether heads of states or foreign ministers, i have the report in my office and will review that country's need for additional progress in order to deal with this. so, it was with great anticipation that we had this hearing and look forward to the 2017 report. thank you for your extraordinary leadership on this issue. we know that you will be doing other things and i want to first and foremost acknowledge that the 2017 report represents the professional dedication that we expect to see in the trafficking

number two, as has and stated, new systems in the united states of america. the last time the government was a true partner in funding, upgrading, and adding secure systems to our elections was in 2002. the help america vote act was passed, also on a bipartisan basis. number three, don't eliminate, fund the eac, the election system commission. the very body we look to that sets the security standards for voting systems in the country. the very body we look to to aggregate data as to what is working and not working in elections administrations to make it at her for voters in our secure. we need that now more than ever. number four, restore the voting rights act, because the blatant attacks on our voting rights have come in the last several years since a supreme court decision gutting section four of the vote -- the voting rights act. it has opened the floodgates to voter suppression laws running rampant state-by-state. we see the single agenda for the front commission and we will stand for it. it is my honor to introduce my friend and colleague from the state

below the state and through the state.in this world the state with the most connection will be the central player. able to set the global agenda and unlock innovation and sustainable growth. again my question to you is, is - when using the state with the most connections will be the central player. is that to say the most network state will be the strongest state? what is the most network state today? and then, what do we do with a state like north korea which is arguably the least networked. but therefore, also apparently least prone to suasion and pressure even from its most important friend, namely china. so is there an odd outlier here 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? >> it is exactly the way i think we need to think about the way we need to think about power and the network world or the web world. traditionally power is you know the size, the size of your economy, military, this

state. if nothing else, the repeal and replace debate has shown that liberals, conservatives and centrists have different health care priorities and allowing different approaches and experimentation would be politically therapeutic. the more innovative can become examples to those that stay heavily regulated. it's clear we have an important opportunity to achieve positive things for our country. it's also clear that if we let this opportunity pass by, the options left are not good ones. senate democratic leader acknowledges that obamacare isn't working the way they promised, but his solution, as he noted in a statement last week, is simply more money for insurance companies. the solution would be an insurance company bailout. no reforms, no changes. just more money to pay -- paper over the problems under the current law. it's a multibillion-dollar band-aid, not a real solution. senator sanders acknowledges that obamacare isn't working too, but his solution, as he stated in my state over the

and our partners at state level. and companies from across the country and the wider world, are going to continue to invest in american jobs and american workers and america's future, because under president donald trump america is back. [applause] so ladies and gentlemen, with gratitude, for his leadership and his determination to make america prosperous again, my honor and privilege to introduce to you 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] >> thank you [applause] >> please, thank you very much. i want to thank your great vice president. thank you to speaker ryan, we're working closely, get a lot done. governor walker has been tremendous from the first time we announced that terry had a small amount of interest in going into the this country someplace. and you know when you give that to governor walker, it pretty much of a done deal. ron johnson, senator, he has been so helpful to us. on a thing you have not heard about much healthcare, we're hearing good things, secretar