i think many red states and blue states, many states were opposed to the designation because we had no idea how it would affect our elections process. to say it was a rocky road in the beginning as far as communications, i think even dhs would agree to that. since then, we learned that critical infrastructure designation was designated in january of 2017. we did not find out what that meant to us until june or july of 2017. we have since set up a coordinating council which i and others are members of. we have a lot of resources that the department of homeland security has provided to us. things like penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, cyber hygiene scans. in vermont, we do a weekly hygiene scan of our system through dhs currently. the communication level since last summer has increased, the summer of 2017, has increased tremendously. we have an election dashboard with dhs and the fbi. we will get real-time information as to any threats that might be on the horizon. we are constantly focused on how we can do this. i can go over the details. i'm sure you will ask about the diff

ofaccounted for only 10% immigration in the united states.t allowed for only one refugee per 4000 americans. over the years, the number of refugees accepted as and and ebbed and flowed. 1980, average, since around 80,000. from 1990 through 1995, an average of about 112,000 refugees arrived each year. formerny coming from countries of the soviet union. after 9/11, the u.s. suspended refugee resettlement for a a while. paul security measures were examined -- while security measures were examined. they can take as long as 18 to 24 months. they include the review of applications by the state department and other agencies. in person interviews. health screenings and so on. in the fiscal year ending in september 2016, the united $84,095 --itted 84,095 refugees. year, the largest numbers came from syria, myanmar, the republic of the congo, iraq, somalia. when president trump took office, the refugee cap in place was 110,000. two weeks ago, the administration announced they will admit more -- no more than 30,000 refugees. that would be a significant

states? would they do it again if they could? really think about opportunities for the kids and what about opportunity overall? have we seen a change in their opinion about the united states in recent years? this get started i want to start with mexico first. this is a chart that shows you over time, the views that mexicans have had of the u.s. the greenline is a share that has a favorable view of the united states. you can see that when president trump became president, the share of mexican of those who had a favorable view of the united states dropped about two thirds in the last year of obama, and we are still at around the same number for 2018. so this is a pattern that we have seen happen around the world, and you should know that mexico is not unique in this perspective. we can also see that mexicans have little confidence in the united states president. that particularly in regard to donald trump at just 6% of mexican adults in 2018, unchanged, said they have confidence in president tr

and you look at it, you know, see how it plays out state by state. the state by state perversions in the democratic process, this tilting of the playing field, and you think my god, the structure is messed up. what can be done? but each of these map, each of these states, they have an author. there are personalities and individuals state by state, law by law, court ruling by court ruling fights behind each one of these skews. and one week from today, the north carolina author of this bias, this skew, this perversion of the democratic process in that state will be before the u.s. senate with every senator in the united states senate having a chance to vote yes or no to make him a federal judge for the rest of his life. even the long-term big picture battles in american politics break down into small scale short-term winnable fights. even right around thanksgiving. you'd be surprised. ♪ the greatest wish of all... is one that brings us together. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with $0 down, $0 due at signing, an

state of the confederacy. the civil war has no ended as a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interest on its face you can keep your thumb on the scale and impact the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat and just because mrs abrams files a flawless balts last. or the new georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights groups is similar voter purges are happening in twenty six republican controlled states across the u.s. many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was a problem wi

it's someone who is already in the united states let's say a student is studying in the united states. suddenly something changes and they are scared of going back. they apply with the immigration agency. i can't go home and i'm scared for my life and they awe ply before the judge. another type of defensive alie sum is someone who is at a port of entry or a border. they are trying to come into the united states to clinton campaign asylum. >> so for those at the border of tijuana and want to apply for asylum, what's the process at this point? >> once they get into the united states, the issue with tijuana is that a lot of them aren't being permitted to come in. at least not immediately to apply. but once they are ermt. ed to come into the port of entry and say they have a fear of returning home, they will be given a preliminary asylum interview. most people get through that interview. it's just meant to weed out frivolous claims. at that point, their case is handed over to our immigration court system where they apply defensively before the judge to apply for asylum. >> the process fro

heard jeff states that. -- state that. >> heard jeff states a lot of rural hospitals would be out of business. you would have very different coverage. >> a quick question. according to a study from the minnesota department of health, -- what is the best way to gain transparency in hospital pricing? >> we agree on this. there is a free market in this. we have seen this. the real focus is the preventative care on the front end and the cost reductions. sure we areake doing the research on the front end. price transparency matters. >> yes, we agree on something. we need more transparency. to give we also have consumers some incentive to care about the cost. if they haven't more choices and options, they are going to care. x things like brain cancer is why we have to have people covered. minneapolisof recently passed a $15 an hour minimum wage, and other cities appear to be headed in that direction. should the minimum wage the end issue tackled at the state level? ?hat is the right answer cracks it needs to be a living or a housing wage for people to be able to get by. that's maybe enough

they monitor the traffic that goes in and outs of the state. secretary of state. we have the time to join in for the segment. all others can call in. we will continue this. how much money did connecticut get from that of federal funds. improved election security. and how do you use it. our share is around $5 million. very welcome because we can always improve things. we are using it to bolster our firewalls. we are doing that kind of checks that one does. our biggest concern is at the local level. connecticut is a little unusual. we don't have county systems. so everything is done at the tell mobile mobil we had 169 toads reduced from 200 to 200,000. each of them has a router in their town that is the drop point for this close lipped system that is our voter registry. what happens when you register to vote you register at the town level. the only people able to put names on. we are worried about the routers in those towns. as the state system is. we want to make sure that the local officials have sufficient training. we are putting in other protections at the loca

state election official and the other states in d.c. it is a state board of elections, virginia, maryland, new york. while they have secretaries their jurisdiction does not cover elections. we work closely with the organization that represents the boards, the national association of state elections so we work hand in hand. my members cover a lot of issues, not just elections. and so for those who either don't have elections under their responsibility or some of these issues had not gotten nearly the attention that they deserve over the last couple of years because we have been very focused on elections and election security and building some of the relationships that needed to be built after the 2016 election. because our elections are so decentralized, right, they're run in local jurisdictions all over the country, we talk about it being a benefit in a couple of ways. one is that it makes the process much harder to interrupt from a malicious actor because you have different processes and procedures. so without one centralized system yo

the state is all over the state. even -- even if you consider the capital as designated and center, and a lot of states, well like my state, they do a little bit in juno but most of the agency personnel, most of the decisions and frequently special meetings of the governor and i think we also have special legislative sessions in anchorage even though it is not the capital. seems like states are tactile over the state. i don't know how to decide what principal place of business means. in the context of the state government. >> two points. first of all the principal i think is important that we don't deny that the states have business throughout the borders. the question is what is the principal place of business. i don't really know if they have one. >> so there were no decisions from the circuit on that issue. >> i know about a corporation is incorporated in delaware. it has its corporate headquarters in chicago. i know the two places. but i don't know for state government and that's what i'm asking for help on. >> i

because states act all over the state. and it's -- even -- even if you consider the capitol its designated center of business, in a lot of states, well, like my state and they do a little bit in juneau, but most of the agency personnel, most of the decisions and frequently special meetings of the governor and i think we've also had special legislative sessions in anchorage, even though it's not the capital. and seems like states act all over the state. i don't know how to decide what principal place of business means in the context of a state government. >> so two points. first of all, the word, principal, i think spornimporta. we don't deny the states have business throughout their borders. the question is what is their principal place of business. >> i'm saying i don't know if they have one. >> so there are no decisions from this circuit on that issue. >> i know it's easy with a corporation. it's incorporated in delaware, has its corporate headquarters in chicago. i know the two places. i don't know for state government,

united states is also fine with. the saudis sort of exercising military leverage and had data to push the who of these two a political solution and not whether that will work is to be fully up in the air but it's undoubted.

for the first time, because of cuba's proximity to the united states, the united states was a country of first refuge, meaning refugees didn't go to another country and then apply for resettlement in the united states. they went straight to the united states. especially to places like miami. the policy for cuban refugees at this time was such that these refugees would be given asylum as part of a bigger anti-castro, anti-communist policy. a number of requirements were imposed on these early refugee populations. these requirements illustrated how the united states pursued its own cold war self-interest. first, as i've already mentioned, the u.s. offered a special welcome for people fleeing communism. second, preference was given for refugees who were professionals or highly educated or skilled. this was in keeping with other immigration laws of the period. ultimately, while welcoming displaced people has been seen as a humanitarian act, these humanitarian efforts were often centered on the needs of the united states, the helper. these images feature refugees who arrived in the united s

we can't just be a state of tolerance. we must be a state of accepta e acceptance. that's the real fundamental goal we have to get to. we have to accept one another. we have to break down, as molly said, she's right, we have to break down the polarization and negativity. i don't know what's been happened in washington, d.c., the negative politics, but it's changed the culture in terms of how we treat one another. social media allows for that negativity. so we have to take personal responsibility in terms of how we're going to change the culture of the state and move forward in a productive way. >> okay. next question. >> governor, the state does have a low unemployment rate as you pointed out. but much of the economic growth has taken place in the southern four counties of the state. there's a variety of economic analysis that show the northern part of the state is still suffering in many ways from the great recession. do you agree that the north country has been left behind? and what is your strategy for spreading prosperity more evenly across the state? >> well, e

i'm excited to be able to serve as the leader of the state.en i was in iraq, it did not matter where our fellow service members came from, what they looked like. we all wore the same american flag patch on our uniform. we never thought about which of the folks back home we were fighting for, republicans, democrats, we stood for all americans. now, political campaigns are rough business and are often about highlighting our differences. unfortunately, in this day and age, they spiral all right in demagoguery. but governing is different. governing is about getting things done on behalf of the people in florida. keeping the economy going, improving our water quality and environments. promoting public safety. expanding education opportunities. we need to build a florida that is cleaner, safer, stronger and that will be my guiding light as governor. you can count on me if you are a low income family and you are relying on a step up for student scholarship for your child to have education opportunities, you can count on me to keep that going. if you

state. you told me how you're feeling. how do you feel? >> it's very important. >> are you ready to vote? >> i'm read. >> you decided not to vote early. why not? >> usually i vote on tuesday, election day. i thought my vote might weigh more on that day. >> you're going to tell us who you will vote for? >> no. >> all the conversations around voter suppression and whether absentee ballots are being counted, does that weigh on you in terms of who you will vote for for? >> not at all? >> why not? >> i feel i've made up my mind. i'm ready to vote for my candidate. >> thanks very much. >> shoe's voting. a lot of people have voted. they were talking about wa was t the voter turn out. there's something like 6.9 million. on a third of those voters came out to vote last time. it will be much different this time. >> nvr evada is a purple state. republicans want to keep dean heller in his state. jacky rosen declares she believes she will win. how does that look on the ground there? what are voters telli

while secretary of state mike pompeo has said the night states -- united states remains the most generous nation when other refugees is taken into account, including funds to shelter refugees and camps closer to their home countries, the new ceiling would be the lowest level of annual refugee admissions allowed since the 1980 act was enacted. as the political storms rage over the refugee issue, we might well turn to the past for a clear understanding of how we got where we are and shining the , light of historical perspective on current discussions can only help to -- help. to that end the national history , center this morning has invited two qualified experts to assist us in putting the current situation into perspective. our first speaker is carl. he is an associate professor of history and a professor at the university of new york in albany. he received his phd from the university of virginia in -- university of virginia. he is the author of "americans at the gate." united states and refugees during the cold war, published in 2008. a co-author of immigration and -- and american histor

works in our state and the secretary of state's role in it. and while he oversees the process, there are a lot of people involved in that. again, if our secretary of state was running, i wouldn't ask him to step down because there are so many checks and balances in the process that i just don't have any fear about the integrity of the ballot. i don't know exactly in kansas and georgia how they work, but i personally don't have any concern about that. >> president trump is a huge issue in the florida governor's race. in some places, some candidates run away from him on your side. i can think larry hogan and charlie baker, for instance. some have been running with him. is it safe to say that president trump complicates things in some places and helps in other places? if you lose florida, is it on the president? >> i don't think it's -- any race is entirely on the president win or lose. i think, again, particularly in the governor's race it comes back down to, as the senator said just prior to this, even more so in governors' races, it's about th

it is great to be in the peach state, five days away from another great victory across the state of georgiand across america! i am here for one reason. georgia and america need brian kemp to be the next governor. [cheers and applause] brianow is actually kemp's birthday. it is. i asked him what he wanted. four more wanted years of strong republican leadership at the statehouse! [cheers and applause] speaking of strong republican leadership, let me bring greetings from a friend of mine. let me bring greetings from the man people in georgia voted overwhelmingly to make the 45th president of the united states of america -- president donald trump! [cheers and applause] it is the greatest honor of my life to serve alongside the president, to fight for the promises he made to the people of georgia and the people of america. president donald trump delivers! kemp becomes your next governor, he is going to deliver for georgia, just the same way! about what we've done in the last few months. new jobs report just came out. jobs created,w and unemployment is at a 50 year low. [cheers and applause] we s

it brings an important stability to the united states. toean, how blessed we are have to neighbors that we can work with compared to many parts of the world. >> you highlight that nafta has been blamed for a lot of issues including automation. losses withn job automation is only going to grow and the vital importance of understanding its policies completely separate from the yet the white house pitched the negotiation as the solution to problems incorrectly it presentsfta and a new deal. i'm told having that economic foreness is fundamental keeping the trade relationship halted of and going on. theor example, i think trade governments and societies talking about workforce development, they have not really done that. new technology coming in and the training necessary. each nation has its own responses to that, but we should be learning from each other and in allre good practices three countries. we are all going to face this way for the demand for higher and new skill. the many moments we are holding our breath. a stunning announcement fr

and china does not want to have armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these teens are. i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. meanwhile on friday the trumpet ministration announced that it is reimposing all sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifty nuclear deal the us president took to twitter to taunt the news in a post resembling the tagline from the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday follow america's unilateral withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear agreement new sanctions come on top of those who already imposed by washington and focus on oil pain lies in states that refuse to hold crude imports from iran the u.s. secretary of state says meanwhile the main target is the iranian government. the sanctions hit a core areas of iran's economy it is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world while people on the streets of tehran it is

he won the state by 10. compare to 2016, here in maricopa county, donald trump won by 4 percentage points and the state as a whole by 3. that's why we're in maricopa county and paying attention to voters in suburbs, at lucy's at the orchard. >> vaughn hillyard in phoenix, we'll check back with you later in the day. thank you very much. seth, you know this area of the country well. you used to report in nevada, you know the dynamics in arizona, what do you think is going to be the factor that puts sinema or mcsally over the edge. >> it's how people feel about john mccain in the past. he was a trump opponent, foil, i guess i could say, what are the lingering feelings, and obviously when you look at the southwest states upyou want to look at the hispanic turnout. that's the big x factor when you go west of the mississippi. >> president trump has not visited arizona. he did mention martha mcsally at that rally over the weekend. she's great, arizona, he is coming to cleveland, a city you know very very well, and

impacts our state.t is important to work with everybody. everybody wants to know their governor cares about them. they don't care how much you know until they know how much you care, and that is the viewpoint i have over years of looking at everything as a mother and a wife and someone who lived in a small town ranch south of watertown. you know how people feel every day because you are right there with them. also integrity and consistency. that is what i have been proud of most throughout my life, is that what i say and what i support and what i stand by is what my record shows and what my voting record and experience has shown. consistency, being a person of integrity, and making sure you have experience to hit the ground running and make decisions that are best of our -- best for our families. moderator: senator, same question. we are talking about the characteristics of a good governor and someone can unite who can unite south dakota. mr. sutton: that is why i got into this race. i felt like we have

guest: caller: some states -- states do it through the social security programs, other states do it themselves. so the assessments that are done can also vary. host: carolyn yocom with us from the gao for a few more minutes, taking your calls and questions. we have a line for medicaid recipients. our caller from oregon, good morning. caller: what is the problem with medicaid and medicare covering alternative medicines? on medicaid, we had to sign a waiver promising to pay for our visit, just in case there was no money available to cover. and in medicare, it only covers chiropractors, not acupuncture. guest: i do not know much about this area. i do know that states can have discussion on what gets covered. there is a benefit package for medicaid and a there can be approvals to expand that benefit package to things like alternative medicines. but it would really be a discussion between the state and the centers for medicare and medicaid services. host: sandra in springdale, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: i am on medicaid and i am 62 years old, disa

i served in the state legislature in leadership and a listing of federal dollars in back our state.e don't need to raise taxes to do that, like miyamoto wants to do. i don't want to expand obamacare interstate like my opponent wants to. i am pro-life and my record reflects that. the next governor will appoint to south dakota supreme court justices. those justices will be charged with upholding the constitution, our state laws, and it's important they reflect our values and are south dakota commonsense. so you know me. you can trust me. i'm consistent and i love to have your vote on november 6. >> mr. evans, you have one minute to share your closing marks. >> i think i just want to say that i believe that billy and christian are both good people and its watch tv you're probably thinking how could you possibly think you are both good people see the things that they say about each other? i mean, it seems to me that there are a lot of half-truths going both ways. i don't think anyone is intentionally telling outright lies. i think the most lovely things are saying but obviously a lot of

to state. now, it works through an alliance of 27 states. which sends more information to arkansas to upload. nskris kobach kansas then searches for comparisons of registered voters to weed out duplicates. interstate crosscheck, which by 2012, and more than 45 million voter records. matches first, middle and last names. date of birth, last four digits of the social security number. and suffix is applicable. to identify those who may be going from state to state to vote, tainting election after election. [laughter] at least, that is the narrative that kris kobach told when he stumbled upon lincoln l wilson. a 66-year-old republican that owned homes in both kansas and colorado. wilson thought he was well within his rights to vote in local elections in both states. i would vote for president in one state and local issues in both places, he explained. especially when he saw his property tax bill skyrocket. and resolve there would be no taxation without representation. now, what looked logical to wi

state of confederacy. the civil war has never ended has a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interest on its face you can keep your thumb on the scale and impact the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat and just because miss abrams files a flawless balts lawsuit or the new. georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights group says similar voter purges are happening in twenty six republican controlled states across the u.s. at many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was

the deep dark red states the swing states of florida, one or two point states still stayed iu the mpso>> woodruff: so even though a lot of the information is yet to be plumed you are able to pull together an analysis. >> true. woodruff: we are going to quickly go to amna andisa looking at this from a different perspective. >> thank you, dy. it's coming up on 11:30 on the east coast it's tme to take stock and look at what we will seet. lisa, this is a cool graphic. walk us through what we're seeing here. >> this is th balance of power in the house as we have it at this moment. if you look at the while circles. the red for republicans and blue for democrats. the white are those who have flipped tonight. if it's red with a circle it was a democratic district. lock where the circles are. this is what democrats hoped to see. they're on tis sid to take over the house democrats needed to flip a net of 23 seats. theyt here yet according to our official tally. as we have mentioned these circles that we don't have results for in the grey. that's the state of calcaornia . known for often voting

because of the state of the country. i think that with president unfortunately it's i mean there's people that love him and that's great but there's people that despise him because of his attitude and the way he speaks trump isn't on the ballot but arizona will choose between congressional candidates who either support or oppose him i wholeheartedly support the president moved the national guard to the border i believe it's our duty to stand up against the president is doing something wrong trump one arizona in the presidential election outside urban centers support for him remains strong but in this state where one in three voters call themselves independents the midterm elections results are anyone's guess i'm kind of a little bit in both ways you know so it depends on what that person stands for there's also the question of whether latino's lean democrat will turn out in high numbers arizona's pride of its mixed heritage is on display here with latinos making up thirty percent of the state's population the fewer than

it's also how we got a democrat in the united states senate from the great state of alabama. when alabama decided they couldn't stomach roy moore in that capacity. so alabama has had a busy few years in general on ethics issues, but on environmental stuff, alabama has been even worse than that. i mean, it has been a poop train couple of years in alabama. that same administrator of the state's environmental agency, that one who got referred for prosecution, the one who left office under this cloud of mushrooming ethics controversies, after he left office as the top environmental official in the state, he left to go work in his private business career. in his private business career, he became a key player in the worst criminal environmental scandal to hit that state in years. i mean, even after losing the top person in the legislature, the top person in the supreme court, and the governor to ethics scandals almost simultaneously, the state of alabama has since subsequently had to endure a huge criminal bribery and moneylaundering scandal involving top businesses and law firms

those of you who have worn the united states of the united states, just put your hand in the air andlet us thank you one more time. [cheers and applause] flush. >> thank you for your service. thank you for your service. with the strong support of this congress, president trump has been delivering for our veterans. we have all new accountability at the va, we removing men and women who don't give the threatens world class health care you earned in the uniform of the united states and now we have veterans choice. where our veterans can have access to real-time health care. and this president has been standing solidly just like brian kemp will, for the principles enshrined in the constitution and all the god given liberties enshrined there. including the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech and the right to keep and bear arms in the second amendment of the constitution. and just like brian kim, president bush and i have been standing without polling for the sanctity of human life, at home and abroad. and we always will. >> about security and common defense and the rule of law and

in my home state of florida, the state senate is. as we should hold arizona and other states we're talking about but it is interesting how much money they put with special groups. paul: where is that money coming from? is this coming from a lot of big donors, mike bloombergs, george soros? eric holder made a specific announcement he would try to raise money with redistricting in mind to win these races? >> well, that's right. he raised, we think somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 million he said he would for the congressional redistricting committee he and president obama set up. we don't know precisely where the money came from because it interchanges. forward majority, put $1.8 million into several florida house races just last week. we have the center for public policy which is, very much a left side group, that is put a millions of dollars in. they say they will spend 40 to 60 million. we, we don't know where that is coming from. that is in addition to the money coming out of the soros group, coming out of the steyer group, comi

in the state of israel. this means palestinian citizens do not have a legal right to citizenship inside israel but they are the indigenous people of the land. second provision states that the jewish people's historic homeland is the land of israel. israel has never defined its borders as a state and the id of a jewish homeland is not defined in the basic law. therefore the area which jewish people may assert the exclusive rights for national self- determination has no limits. >> third provision encourages and promotes the establishment of -- and consolidation of the jewish settlement without identifying where this is to take place and how it is to be consolidated. as long as israel leaves its borders undefined and fails to guarantee equality under the law for all citizens these three provisions together provide constitutional authority for the complete displacement of palestinians arabs from historic palestine and the denial of their equal rights under law. that is not only the second or third class citizens

some states are doing it. should the united states legalize it. mr. corey: i'm going to challenge that last question. president of guatemala has said gang members have infiltrated the group and we want people to flee countries who need to flee countries. i will go ahead with the medical marijuana. >> recreational? >> we have to declassify it, it is a class one drug on the federal side. i would like to see more results come out of colorado, where they legalized it. my biggest concern is what the doctors say brain development up to 24 years old. let's see the results of that. i am all for medical marijuana. people with terminal illness or illnesses that can be taken care of. i want more research and i think the government has a big role in the research. recreational marijuana, i would leave that up to the states. we have to be classified as a -- declassify it as a class sen. one. murphy: i would fundamentally disagree. i think this is a question for state legislature to answer and it is important for the federal government to get out of the way and let

but republicans gained enormously in the states, the red states. on thesident's focus --l, the caravan, kavanaugh i think it made a real difference in a couple of u.s. senate races out there. help int do anything to the suburbs and in the congressional and other things. it sure helped them on the u.s. senate level. careful aboutally what you say and write about turnout. we know it's big. we know it went up. there are a whole lot of folks that haven't been counted yet. california aree slow about counting votes. we don't know anything on election night. anything that writes on election night, they are making stuff up. you can't really know anything this soon. clearly, it went up. we could look at the exit polls and make some guesstimates. the exit polls and 2016 had some issues. it doesn't look like young people, as relative to the rest of the electorate, went up much. snarkily said- that we would set a midterm record number of young people voting. if only 100 of them voted, that would be a record. it was a really low bar out there. what does this me

in the end it's a red state. missouri is a red state, north dakota is a red state. wel see what happens in montana. >> but he's always only focussed on his base. >> but they're not big in the electoral college. those are states that are given for the most part to the republicans. if you want to talk electoral college math this is a bad night for donald trump. and what california can do and i think what californians are going to do in the congress is start to do something that so far this administration has never seen which is a check. which is accountability, which is the ability to use the subpoena to get information that quite frankly these agencies have been stiffing congress in every way for the past two years. that is an enormous amount of light that's going to come that's going to be shed. not even including what robert mueller may bring to the table in the next few weeks. >> so we have been talking about what the democrats may feel bold enough to try to stop. what might they try to reach out to republicans on and actually get something done. or what would rep

good bell weather state. on governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, we had democrats over performing. democrat congressional candidates overperforming hillary clinton in those respentive districts by 8 percentage points. and democrats only picked up one of them but a lot of them were really republican districts. a lot of them that left the house to be to president trump's cabinet. 8 point increase in democrat performance. state legislative we had had 44 previously republican seats that went to democrats. only 6 democratic seats went republican, and then finally we look at who voted in all the 50 state primaries this year? and last midterm election, which again was a bad one for -- a good one for republicans, and a bad one for democrats. 1.2 million more republicans voted in primaries in 2014 than democrats. this time, it was 2.9 million more democrats voted than republicans. so, the number of republicans voting in 2018 primaries went up by 27%, hey that's pretty healthy. democrats, 91% increase. so y

the united states has always had the will the problem that we have seen and the u.s. saudi relationship over the past eighteen to twenty months unless president trump makes a deliberate statement. statements by his subordinates namely who cabinet secretaries of defense and state have been ignored altogether and we have also seen that on the bureaucratic level the u.s. government has repeatedly call or and of hostility and resumption of peace talks. what what is different now is that the culmination of events whether it's a fair whether it is the broader instability in the middle east and now the washington post playing a central role in demanding justice for jamal khashoggi and tying it to broader u.s. saudi cooperation in the region is drawing tremendous scrutiny domestically here in the united states and it is leaving get ministration with little choice but to up. the pressure on riyadh and even though and i will add that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia strategic including on on yemen so this is an extraordinary difficult balancing act th

>> voices from the states. part of c-span's 50 capitals tour. >> california senator kamla harris attended a campaign rally this past weekend to support u.s. house candidate katie porter in california's 45th congressional district. other speemers chud lieutenant governor gavin newsom running for governor and actress and comedian chelsea handly ler. his is 35 minutes. >> please welcome to the stage chelsea handler! >> hi, hi, hi! thank you! thank you everybody for coming out and supporting great candidates for the state of california. we're all here today because of our values. and because we care about our country. and because we know that is our civic and moral duty to use the very right that so many people fought for us to get for years and years and years to stand up to inequality, to stand up against marginalization, and to stick our next out and fight not only for ourselves but to stick our necks out and fight for marginalized communities everywhere. [cheering] we have the power to take back the house in th

state legislators deciding his fate in your state house. the gubernatorial makeup of our company could shut your 32 states headed by governors who are republican while 17 have governors who are democrats. alaska is the only state with an independent. which raises and 36 days. power rankings have eight of those races listed with all but one of those contests aligned to a republican incumbent. fox news power rankings also has arizona's governor race list it as the likely republican choice on the senate race between martha mcsally and democratic christian cinema was listed as a top. alicia acuna live in phoenix at the very latest on that battle. reporter: hike in the area. candidates making closing arguments this week and so of course both women made appearances at that state university homecoming game. ♪ for the land of the free ♪ in the home of the brave ♪ >> former air force fighter pilot republican congressman martha mcsally is an battle for party control of the sea. it's held since the mid-90s in the latest fox news poll of likely voters,

anything we have in this state comes from outside of the state, either from the u.s. or asia.ely on beinglly able to have things get to us from all over the place. without it, we won't survive. -- it is a tariffs very, very bad thing. it hurts our relationships with other countries. area, and my geographical we rely on those good relationships. we rely on goods and services that we need. i think it is extremely important that the united states be a part of the world and trade with the world. that is what a civilized place does. we don't close up our walls. we don't close ourselves off from other people. then we internalize everything and we become north korea or we become is non-significant country. it hurts us here in hawaii. we will suffer. facebook says getting a better landscape for the united states and a better playing field is very important and a worthy pursuit. tom says when it comes to it being an issue he says no, but the recession is. virginia from pennsylvania, republican line. caller: hello. what i want to say is the united states of america did great before we g

she united states, there was no chance. we always think about what happened after world war ii, the united states playing a critical role, we had the opportunity to play the critical role after 1918 and chose not to. it falls heavily on the united states, the disaster that then unfolded over the next 20 years. >> adam, i think it's a similar line in terms of the role of the u.s. but you are very critical of wilson rather than the domestic political situation and as i understand, your argument is that the u.s. had immense power and looming potential from 1969. in the u.s. basically failed to take a constructive role in terms of working with britain to find constructive order. do you see things similarly to bob? or do you have a lesson from that.? i'm interested also in trying to touch on the differences of where the blame lies in the 20s for that abdication of u.s. leadership. >> thank you very much, it's a delight to be here. it's delight for -- delightful to be here on a platform with him. i'm very happy to be here. on thi

united states is also fine with. the saudis sort of exercising military leverage and had data to push the who these two a political solution and not whether that will work is to be fully up in the air but it's undoubted there's going to be significant civilian penalties for that and cost to civilians so i don't think the united states redline iran had data has really held and i don't think the united states really has acted properly or really done all it could to stave off a humanitarian crisis they're saying go ahead. i don't think there is a united stated line around data because if there was then why the saudi that coalition has been attempted for the last three months to enter the data the united states is fully back in the coalition war effort in yemen it doesn't matter where they are the border or in aden is if they just want to keep helping the saudi to push. into her day in the other area the united states the united nation actually want to help be a many before talking about cease fire they have at least to

we've got, not every state, i maryland, state of democratic gerrymander. f you live in illinois, there is democratic gerrymander. a lot of states, very boundaries friendly that help protect the republican majority. the other thing is just where naturally live. keep in mind, when a party wins vote, every y one vote they get above that point is wasted. now ask yourself this question. do democratic voters usually live? they live in cities and college towns, urban areas. where do republican voters usually live? everywhere else. republican voters are more efficiently allocated around the voters and democratic highly concentrated. democrats waste a lot more votes. between where the lines are drawn and just natural patterns, that is enough to protect a republican the house, unless the wave is really, really, bad.y well, guess what? like it probably is and so when we go through, if you away with a idiculously wide range of in terms of forecasts and this is ridiculously wide, democrats 23, and don't worry, i'll get more specific, democrats, ery, very, very likely a

they did not have a vote in most states so what was to be the response? the guy on the left one of the founders argued that this war presents an opportunity for african-americans to organize, to demonstrate their patriotism , he had no illusions about germans being any less racist than anyone in the united states but an opportunity to step up and show what they can do, and thereby force white america to give african-americans a place at the democratic table. this was his idea. the counter argument comes from the guy on the right who is reverend adam clayton senior longtime congressman. he said wait a minute. a war is a time of crisis and a crisis is a moment to take advantage of. let's settle a few things here first before we stand up and make ourselves targets. let's get a federal government who cares more about the well- being of colored men women and children for mississippi than it does about the fate of mules on ships bound for europe. this was the argument. when you look through the black press at that time, you see that argument playing out through

third of the state. forcing the u.s. fish and wildlife and the washington department of fish and wildlife to rely on an arbitrary political boundary when delineating and managing a species. i'm sorry to share with you, mr. speaker, that as it turns out, surprisingly, wolves don't know boundaries or borders. the arbitrary nature of this current status of the law is broken. and it is impairing the ability of fish and wildlife managers on the ground to properly manage the species as well as the ecosystem, including the harm it poses on other indigenous species. mr. speaker, this is why congress as a co-equal branch must act. this legislation directs the u.s. department of the interior to follow through with the proposed rule and de-list the gray wolf from the list of eng dangered species. we have -- endangered species. we have a responsibility to protect the incredibly diverse species, both in washington state and across this country. these efforts to protect our wildlife species must be based on sound scie