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states.ou have more of the grants that come from the federal government. so it's time, we believe, that every vote in every state should count the same. >> thank you. trent? >> yeah, so thank you so much for putting this on. i completely agree with ted, one of the reasons we were talking about this is that i spent so much time working on the electoral college and studying this, going back into the 1990's, but really over the last 10 years. it's probably because it's an issue where good people can disagree and there are democrats who agree with me. there are republicans who agree with ted. i think it makes it a more edifying issue to work on. but i do think it's important to go back to the getting of the electoral college in the beginning of the national popular vote movement to understand what the institution is about. and if you go back to the founding debate at the constitutional convention, you actually find a debate like this althoughbit, which is, it's james madison debating himself. bec

solution is over so if there is no 2 state solution then there is a one state solution can israel's political right deal with a one state solution or are you going to be just like jared kushner and just pretend they're not there go ahead and tell be well they're a year from now probably would not be around. secondly israeli still is solidly of vital democracy. obviously the result you patient alongside the israelis democracy i don't think he needs story where are eerie very. moved and 1 i i would say that's not the end of the 2 state solution but you need. to put all that label on israel for the occupation and for their wars it's wrong you need 244 x. 4 an agreement the palestinians for many many. year is lloyd's dying many times so if we are very new beginning maybe dairies it all change and i think it's a good it's a good sign did you always going out ok philip we were talking about the 2 state solution i mean and all of this goes back to which i think at the end of the day my personal opinion it was just a con job that's how it's been worked out and i'm not giving any kudos to th

so i think states are different. this kind of federal restriction really is not the way to go. >> i remember now talking here, this should have came in the stimulus, for me to want more money as a democrat, i was thinking, why do i want to do this? we probably got a billion dollars for education for squirrels. what happened was that the largest chunk of it, 600 million as i recall, went to special education. we were sitting around talking at first there was, hate this is quote. look how much money we are getting. then we started into what we know we are doing, most of the money we got for social services or housing or whatever, there's a benchmark because there are people and when the money for special education went, it was not about case, it was a single grant but we did in the school district, you increase both budget for us and this was a one time payment. i know how to problem because the state supply 70% of this funding. i had to come up with how i felt that call. it was a debate about you want to take it. afte

states. i am pleased to recognize mr. davis. i'm pleased to recognize mr. davis, our ranking member. >> thank you very much, madam chair. the subcommittee will focus on school bus safety. buses00,000 school transporting more than 25 million school children to and from school each day. school bus safety is an important part of the discussion. statistics show the school bus is the safest and most regular ted vehicle on the road. according to american schoolbus council, children are 75 times more likely to get to school safely taking a bus when compared to walking, biking or traveling by car. with that said, ntsa most recent estimates are that school bus crashes account for roughly 0.4% of traffic totality's on a -- traffic fatalities on a nationwide basis. no matter how safe statistics show school buses are, we unfortunately see 4-6 children die each year on the school buses. and another 10-15 die as a result of cars passing. each fatality resulting from a schoolbus crash is more than a statist

the "the deep state" many people say there's no deep state. i believe there is and i think historically we find that from the beginning of government there has been a deep state. my book i actually go into the where the word came from, from the 1900s from turkey and the deep state are bureaucrats. as the infrastructure that continues to matter what the administration is and the case here in the united states i talk about the deep state with the government employees talk about how it's different than it's been in the past and here's the thing, i also talk about basically a collusion of nongovernment entities that are in support of the government bureaucracy the deep state. >> let's start with the government bureaucracy as you call it. isn't it important to have a nonpartisan civil service? >> ideally if you are taking a civics class in college, that's what you would think it would be. the whole idea is there is 1.8 million people better in the federal government of course there state government and local government, a lot of different employees

today we may have ten big states, 11 big states.only represent, let's take 11 biggest dates represent like what, 112 -- i'm trying to remember the number. the other 3838 states can basically the 11 and the 30th represent the same number of people. with big cities if you take the top ten cities is 15% -- top 10%, 8% of the population in the country and the top 50 cities is only 12% of the population. this idea that big cities or big stick to go to control the election, the arithmetic just doesn't support it. the other thing get to think about is that assumes that big cities are always going to vote all democratic and that big states are going to vote, which is not the case. historically when to take a look at the large estates, the highest percentage of democrats receive overall when you average about is 63%. that is the same for the remainder 38 states for republicans. what that says to us is that this country really is hurting much 50-50. when you take a look at -- another example. one-sixth people live in urban centers in the unit

we bring groups of people to the united states and let them feed the united states, meet americans, meet our institutions and experience life in the united states but they also are able to adjust the themes of the programs to address current priorities like religious freedom, countering disinformation and radicalization, and advancing women's participation in society. in support of the white house , women's global development prosperity initiative, we hosted 18 women leaders from around the world who are here in the united states meeting us companies, business incubators, financial institutions, looking at ways to produce legal regulatory and cultural barriers for women's full participation in the economy.the fulbright program as well of course is the well-known academic exchange program which sends thousands of students, scholars, professionals from the unitedstates overseas and from overseas to the united states . the program that's well over 70 years of old now. but that program to is able to focus on specific regional and functional priorities of the government, for example to highli

state tax system, a lot of states do it . i don't see that in the future for illinois. i think if they repeal this constitution they will have less tax forces and the one thing that kind of keeps things going in illinois, that is this low income tax, people willing to put up with the rest of it because there's countervailing positives including that, then that will be gone. one of the things i mentioned was wanting to tackle the quality. i've yet to see evidence that tax policy can meaningfully address that. these states with the highest inequality are also the state with the most progressive tax systems.there the states with the millionaires taxes and the income tax. what i do agree with is this is an opportunity that has not really been used forstate to tackle structural changes. one we focus on quite a lot at the tax foundation is real tax reform. most date tax systems , i would say there dying badly but that concedesthey were designed at all . that's the process of historical evolution and accident that i can go into a st

today, we may have 10 big states, 11 big states. and then the other 38 states.hey represent the same number of people. and with big cities, if you take the top 10%, 8% of the population in the country, and the top 50 cities is only 12% of the population. this idea that big cities or big states are going to control the elections, the arithmetic just doesn't support it. the other thing you have to think about is that assumes that big cities are always going to vote all democratic and big states are going to vote, which is actually not the case. when you take a look at the largest states, the highest percentages democrats receive, 63%, that is the same for the remaining 38 states for republicans. so what that says to us is that this country really is a much 50-50. and when you take a look -- another example, 1/6 of people live in urban centers in the united states. 1/6 live in rural areas. and the same kind of percentage flip applies to that 1/6. the rest of the country lives in the outside urban areas, the suburbs. and in those areas, historically, presidential el

of state, mike pompeo.plause] >> good morning everyone. across the splendid array of countries and cultures represented here, we come together this morning unit about our belief that flourishing societies are sustained by religious freedom. sadly, this understanding is not universal. today, all over the world, people of faith face a rising tide of persecution. in just the past year, we have witnessed horrific acts of violence committed against worshipers in mosques, churches and synagogues. we have watched the arbitrary detention and mistreatment of religious minorities in countries around the globe. and we have felt the chill of a world that seems increasingly disinterested in defending the rights of all people to exercise a sincerely held religious belief. as leaders, a times such as this calls us to demonstrate our commitment to religious liberty not only in word, but in deed . which is why i'm so extraordinarily pleased and honored we are joined by president donald trump and vice president mike pence. [

individual state launching a lawsuit for example and in that instance of the states are free to join or add support if they think it impacts their consumers. this is an investigation. the investigation i am sure with the talent that these offices represent will be thorough and comprehensive. >> we are meeting it out of our office. we are open with our leadership teams to participating talents from literally every office in this country. thank you all for being here. obviously very important investigation and you will be hearing more about this as the days come. thank you. >> thank you. >> as they leave i will stay around and all our officers and departments in the states and states participating will take questions and press releases will be forthcoming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> moving on here if you missed any of the attorney general had to say about the investigation of large tech firms the remarks will be available to view online shortly at our website, c-span .org. just type attorneys general in the search box. congress retu

we embraced federalism and the role of states but federalism does not mean that one state can dictate standards for the entire country. to borrow from jeff landry, cafe does not stand for california assumes federal empowerment. so we are moving forward with one national fuel economy standard. we believe the law is clear. no state has the authority to opt out of national fuel economy standards, and no state has the authority to set its own fuel economy standards that impact human safety, environment, and commerce for the rest of the country. one national standard will provide much-needed certainty to the automotive industry, and it sets the stage for president trump's ultimate objective, a final safe rule that will save lives and strengthen the economy by reducing the price of new vehicles and helping more americans purchase newer, cleaner, safer cars and trucks. this is good for public safety, good for the economy, and good for the environment. here's how today's action works. under the energy policy conservation act, dot sets cafe standards. it expressly provides federal government r

to be able to state there. and not just on a personal level but also to do it in a way that helps me celebrate with the people of ireland the connection that so many tens of millions of americans feel to the emerald isle. >> think you very much. vice pres. pence: thank you. >> on wednesday, president trump announced $1.8 billion in

in colorado, a western state, a second amendment state, we passed these background checks. and as a result, every year 2% or 3% of the people that come to buy a gun don't -- can't buy a gun because they're murderers or they're rapists, or they're domestic abusers. they're people that shouldn't have a gun. i'd like to see anybody come to this floor and tell me why colorado would be more safe if we didn't have those background checks, why we'd be more safe if murderers got guns and rapists got guns and domestic abusers got guns. they can't come here and do it and they're hiding from the vo vote. they're hiding from the vote. and it's their responsibility to vote. and there's only one person in america that can hold that vote and that's mitch mcconnell. i can tell you this. it's not because we're too busy around here. we were in session last week for 27 hours. that's not even a french wor workweek. that's pitiful. pitiful, 27 hours. do you know how many amendments we've considered in the nine months that we've been here this year? 18. that's two amendments a month. we have pas

you mentioned the fact you can work with the state legislature but. >> most states it is more we are the downturn fall in terms to make the cuts with those tax increases and depending on where you are relative to the economic downturn. >> some of the states already passed a budget for the year did not include administrative cost so he didn't have the ability to speak who became the irs commissioner afterwards but with the aid of one.2 when we could create a category of indirect cost so people could use that for administrative purposes. it with those challenges that can exist if you spend money quickly you run into those obstacles that you don't think about when you are writing the budget policy and that is havin having. >> that national organization of street one - - state controllers and auditors what is very helpful because they could see and let folks know what the budget office it was okay to do these things. >> going back on the maintenance of effort, we had a huge fight and but i would say i remember getting that that governors association along with others there were five obje

reporter: is one state missing the 49 states of the district of columbia? >> forty-eight states, district of colombia puerto rico and a , few states missing. >> you might be surprised that it's in california where google is located and in alabama. [inaudible questions] >> and by the way, we can still change our minds. reporter: even if it is too soon to say what the remedy will look like, what should the marketplace look like? again, we will go with both of us. you shouldn'tet, punish somebody for having a unique technology. but when you have companies that may be preventing other entrants into the market with unfair practices and dominating a market, it hopefully hurts consumers because even though there is maybe not a direct cost to searching on the internet, if advertising costs are higher, who ends up paying it? it is passed on to the consumers, so ultimately, our consumers are harmed. so that is our focus. >> the only thing i would touch on an fsis again is the ubiquitous mess and -- emphasize again is the ubiquitousness of the search engine itself. in

the united states lost 60,000 entereds after china the wto. this is happening to other countries all over the globe. the wto needs drastic change. the second largest economy in the world should not be permitted to declare itself a developing country in order to game the system that others' -- at others' expense. for years, these abuses were tolerated. ignored or even encouraged. globalism exerted a religious pull over past leaders, causing them to ignore their own national interest. but as far as america is concerned, those days are over. to confront these unfair practices, i placed massive tariffs on more than $500 billion worth of chinese-made goods. already, as a result of these tariffs, supply chains are relocating back to america and to other nations and billions of dollars are being paid to our treasury. the american people are absolutely committed to restoring balance to our relationship with china. hopefully we can reach an agreement that would be beneficial for both countries. but as i have made very clear, i will not accept a bad dea

in state courts now.a lot of people are going to be looking at arcane parts of state constitutions to figure out what losses they could file next based on this north carolina decision. >> just to keep people's eyes on the prize here, this is the power, this is the power to control the government or not, right? these lines end up being the lever by which partisan power is wielded, and sometimes counter majoritarian power. it's a means by which you can create a situation by which your party has less votes in the state and you still run the state. >> that happened in north carolina in the last elect. 54% of the seats, 58 in the senate. that's so undemocratic. you're right. the state legislatures in most states draw the districts, not just for themselves but for congress as well, for the u.s. house as well. and elections in 2020 are going to determine who draws the maps for the next decade. that's a story i don't think is getting nearly enough coverage, so i'm glad we're talking about it now. >> all right. ar

thirteen states you only have 11 other states after the two big ones now we may have two big states are1 big states they all represent then the other 388 states and with big cities the top 10 percent than the 80 percent of the population so the idea that big cities or big states control the election so that assumes that big cities and big states and historically when you take a look at the large estate that was the remainder of the 38 states but what that says to us is the country is pretty much 5050. another example with those urban centers in the united states and rural areas in that same percentage flip the rest of the country lives in the outside urban areas and with those historically presidential elections have been 5050. so the country is 5050 and that rural areas are not controlling it just asle much. >> and you can see this in political science and also if you work for a candidate the problem is in the district and those that are very but every voter was mathematically equal in the campaign. you would be crazy to treat every voter the same. and then not to get as much attention

you are not the head of the state and in fact the united states will defend its flood. it is an accurate position that was put by the secretary of the war in a conversation with winston churchill. it seems you are aware thinking particularly of the philippines and the secretary of defense and said that was also an accurate prediction. as others might put it, we conquer the colonies. guam first in the united states fortified since they were able to take it through the day going another way with a bookmark difficult. in preparing to take guam, the united states bombarded them for two weeks taking on japanese military targets but laying waste to the capital cities overall with four fifths of the buildings in guam were destroyed and there was a japanese assault on fighting a fight and they begin beheading and executing hundreds of them and had started rolling through the streets. that was a preview of what might have been in the philippines. shortly after the united states under douglas macarthur went to take the philippines and particularly focused its attention on the cit

united states ambassador to the united nations kelly craft, united states secretary of state mike pompeo[applause] >> good morning everyone. across the countries and cultures we come together as one --ted by our belief this understanding is not universal. today all over the world people of faith face a rising tide of persecution. we have witnessed horrific acts of violence committed against worshipers in mosques, churches and synagogues. we have watched the arbitrary detention and mistreatment of religious minorities in countries around the globe. and we have felt the chill of a world that seems increasingly disinterested in defending the rights of all people to exercise a sincerely held religious belief. as leaders, at times such as this calls us to demonstrate our commitment to religious liberty not only in word but in deed which is why i'm so extraordinarily pleased and honored we are joined by president donald trump and vice president mike pence. [applause] >> under the leadership of these is note united states only -- just two months ago president trump posted victims of religious p

iran has lived without the united states for 40 years iran has lived in spite of the united states for 40 years in order to remove security council resolutions the presence of the 5 permanent members of the security council required so we were not eager to negotiate with the united states is was a necessity once. that. objective was achieved for us the presence of the united states was not a major plus as you said from the very beginning even during the obama administration the united states was more interested in keeping the sanctions that it had not lifted than observing its obligations to lift the sanctions so this has been the case and we will never be heard never. naive about the united states i lived in the u.s. for 30 years of follow the united states for the past 40 years so i know what i'm probably missing many of your interviews you stressed that economic benefits is one of the tenets of this deal economic benefits economic benefits are one of the tenets of the deed and the deed actually rests on 2 pillars not nonproliferation and normalization of economic relations but that

state government. michigan,mber that in 43% of the state budget is federal dollars. every single day, we should be working together. she can state university takes in a ton of federal grant -- michigan state university takes in a ton of federal grants. we have block grants. we have an incredible amount of federal dollars. we have a lot of interaction between the state government and the federal government and it is wonderful to have the state government here in the district. it means you do not have to work hard to find the right people in state government who can tag with you on important issues. with youn tagteam on important issues. it makes it really effective. the most important thing i carry ofh me from 15 years national security is the focus on the mission. when you are at the cia or doing a tour in iraq, none of the policy matters. the mission matters. what are you trying to get done? i bring that same spirit to congress. on homeland security, there is no way to get around the fact we have a gr

already in a very bad state like when they have been. named. the pirates they used to be then told us. they have no income so i think it's.

spoke to the states in particular, on, similarities, particularly in preclearance states? >> no, sir. but one of the things that is important about the preclearance provision is that it accounts for changing practices, so, state could change the practice to encapsulate more people in the purge process. >> it you said, did you not say, shall be first is holder, the purges have increased in the clearance states while they have not increased -- but it is correct, that is correct. the state however that, use a policy like for example, i'm assuming you're pointing to ohio and the like that use a failure to vote as a trigger for sending a notice. another in more places, not just 70s. speculatively with australia? it is required by law you have to vote? but that is correct and how do they get along, and have to purge anybody, do they? but i'm not familiar with how they enact the law. i think it is important in this country is there is evidence of discrimination. congress has vast majority to rectify that pursuant to the ability under the fifth amendment. >> it >> does the effecti

the state of israel. we have defended and developed our homeland and today the state of israel is the wrong -- is strong on defense, a nation that leads in many fields. israel is a real democracy for all of its citizens, jewish and non-jewish alike. theel is the nationstate of jewish people, based on thousands of years of jewish history and the right of the jewish people to its own u.n.and, just as the decided 72 years ago. the president of the united states, donald trump, for his historic and brave decision to recognize jerusalem, the internal capital of the jewish people for 3000 years, as the capital of israel. [applause] and to relocate the american embassy to jerusalem. [applause] countries to follow the united states and to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. no one can separate the jewish people from our historic homeland, and no one can separate us from jerusalem, our eternal capital. [applause] israel wants peace with all its neighbors. withgned peace agreements egypt, jordan, and are w

the united states state department has categorized it as a neo-nazi hate group.are very clear on what is going on with fascism and nazism. regarding ukraine's sovereignty, it is an independent nation and has been for 30 years. culture,s own history, and traditions. at theans would bristle idea that because they were part of the soviet union and the russian empire that they do not have a right to self-determination, which is the agreement and international law, that all nations have a right to self-determination. if ukraine wants to pursue nato and european union membership, that is entirely up to ukraine and not up to larger governments that would like to sway their decision. host: let's go to john from new mexico on the independent line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am a registered democrat book kind of float back-and-forth. i choose by candidates. this young lady is clearly a democrat trade there is no doubt about it. she is an apologist. that is fine. that is her side and i have got mine. we are kind of the same in some ways. i want to

talking about the existence of the-- state and in a study of the state department, the regular state hierarchy and hidden security hierarchy which would act parallel to the former but also exercise control over its decisions. or consider the best-selling book on the cia published in 64. distinguish between visible government and shadow government, interlocking machinery representing real power comprised of individuals and agencies drawn from the government but agencies relating to the fear of government organizations. but the most prominent form built into the national security state, one that perfectly sets a precedent from an autonomous center from within was ranked in different terms and i'm of course referring to the notion of the industrial complex that pres. eisenhower addressed from january 1961 to which i will now turn. eisenhower's discourse on the military-industrial complex does not require much exposition. everyone in the room will be familiar with the setting and the context. the speech represented a combination point of eisenhower's long-standing frustration of policyma

a lot of the states in this new band of former warsaw pact states were left untethered.new security problems arose that we had to deal with. instability in the balkans, old historical grievances, separatism and the question became, how do we handle these things? and in part by default and in part by design, nato became the primary institution that was addressing these problems. a lot of the states that were facing this new situation looked at nato and said, that looks attractive. why? the folks in that club are all pretty rich, pretty secure, pretty prosperous and we remember some of the old problems we had with the folks running things in moscow and that security blanket over there looks pretty appealing. so what happened, that vacuum in the immediate post-cold war period got filled by nato and as it did, russia's insecurities became exacerbated. we gradually in part by design in part by the logic of events that nobody really planned wound up in a situation where we have a new security arrangement in europe and one of europe's largest powers is not a part of it. russia

state is of this great live free or die.t you to help us live free from donald trump starting on january 20. that, we going to do cannot do the same old thing. if we are going to do that, we are not going to win by trying to be safe. we are going to win by being bold, by being fearless, by standing up for our values. that is what i have tried to do in this campaign. the mobile little, we have been getting stronger and stronger. i came here today to ask you for your support. i hope you all will be ambassadors to this campaign. i am looking forward to the debate on thursday. [applause] believe that we are picking up momentum, and we can win when you will vote on february 10. win in texasn to and california and defeat donald in november 2020. 2021,n january 20, someone asked me what is the first thing you would do as president? i said i would sign our reentry into the paris climate accord. my favorite moment would come earlier in the day when it is traditional for the incoming president to usher out the outgoing president. i ca

i know what the deep state looks like.the difference between a whistleblower and a deep state operative. this is a deep state operative pure and simple. people who haven't been in the federal government, who haven't worked in the white house may not appreciate this, but the situation is you have a group of unelected bureaucrats who think that they need to take down this president. i'll attend interagency meeting, chris, where i know for a serb fact if i don't -- certain fact if i don't invite the right people, the meeting will leak. if i don't say the right thing, they'll go to hill. they'll work with their kind of appropriators to try to block it. they leak this president's phone calls, they publish hit pieces, fake stories. they've been doing this continuously for nearly three years, and their motives and their agenda is clear. this is about do you want a democracy in this country, or do you want a deep state. it's a binary choice for the american -- chris: again, this person that you're accusing of all this, the directo

years and then we have a 30 year old taking over the helm is the middle east envoy for the united states i mean this program is titled vaudeville politics is that an appropriate title go ahead in beirut. i mean it sounds like it has really is a comedy of errors i mean i think part of the reason for this though is. the trump himself is not particularly interested in the middle east except in the sense that he would like to support israel as best he can and he would like to make money so sell weapons to. gulf countries he's not particularly vested in the long term or middle term strategic objectives of you know the deep state. in terms of you know keeping troops in the region and so that the u.s. maintains had germany those are not his priorities so. i would say that the u.s. government is that odds with itself in terms of middle east policy on one hand you have the deep state that worked you know consistently over the last few decades on its gemini goals in the region and on the other hand you have trump who works entirely on instinct and what he thinks will benefit him most ok that's a v

as a state employee, are you involved in recommending, encouraging our state politicians to create state climate action plans? because we have to go beyond the city ones to the state level, and i just wondered that your influence of their with mitigation and adaptation with climate action plans at the state level. >> good question. >> this has to be multiagency, public-private partnership. one agency can't do it. iowa did have a plan in 2011 from the legislature, mandated in the legislature, then it expired. there was a starting point in iowa, and we have noticed smaller cities, des moines, iowa city, iowa flood center, our universities. they have the pieces there. getting those pieces together is why we need a larger collaboration. >> alright, another question over here. >> i teach at drake. i can see indeed the younger generation is getting slowly but surely, it is not that fast, to it. my question is how bad do you think things have to get before those who actually make decisions wake up? and then the question is that beyond the tipping point that point we can still do it? >> so the t

overall, 35 states have debated more than 250 school safety bills in 2018. 33 states considered more than 200 bills in 2019 thus far. inpare this to 132 bills 2014 and hundred 73 bills in 2015. you can see there has been an uptick in legislative interest in bus safety. are designed to protect writers through compartmentalization using high-energy observing seatbacks and closely spaced seats so children are kept snug. these features do not necessarily protect children the way seatbelts do during side impact crashes or high-speed rollovers when passengers can be thrown from their seats. in may of 2018 a school bus crash took the life of one student and one teacher impairments new jersey. in response, new jersey enacted legislation requiring lap shoulder seatbelts instead of solely lap belts. in addition to new jersey, several states or parsley belts on buses. in 2018, where than 108 school 84 thousandobserved vehicles illegally passing school buses in one single day. thankfully, most state laws require vehicles on both sides of the road without a median to stop and remain stopped while

virginia was no ordinary state. it was by far the most populous state. indeed, by itself it made up a , fifth of the population of the nation. it was as well the largest state in territory and the richest. it's not surprising that four out of the first five presidents were virginians and the working model for the constitution was the virginia plan. during the first few decades of the new republic, virginia dominated the nation as no state ever has. as virginia went, so went the nation. there were signs in the 1770's -- 1780's and 1790's that virginia was trying to do something about slavery. if virginia could abolish slavery, it was assumed, then the rest of the south would surely follow. in virginia, the harsh black codes of the early 18th century had fallen into neglect, and by the time of the revolution, fraternization between whites and black slaves had become more common, both in sporting events and in religion. the growing of wheat instead of tobacco was changing the nature of slavery in the upper south, and many of the planters, now calling themse

the economy was hot a beautiful state it was a state that everybody wanted to go to now it's a stateeverybody wants to leave. that is the difference. between them and us. everybody lives in florida right now with no income tax and the democrats try to put an income tax on it. for five states have no income tax they are bustling people are moving to those states. what gets me is you have people that spend their whole life in new york or new york city and they vote democrat, democrat, democrat, ty get a big pension then they fly - - then they moved to florida and they vote democrat. i called the locust. [laughter] [applause] then the former crazy governor brown has vetoed some i am crazy but you're crazier than i am. [laughter] and that enormous amount of money on the railway. people should go to prison for stuff like that. they really should. it is like obama care. they said it would solve everything. and nobody says a word about obama care. it is medicare for all. like locusts they destroy one thing they move on to the next if you read the first chapter of my book you always have to

atevery state is beginning their commemoration. one of the great things, it's during more research at the local level. so were going into archives and places that were not looked at to get all of the voices into the story. like the black women's club, like the church records. all these places that hold the story of ordinary women who really make a big sacrifice, they risk theirac reputation, ty wrist being condemned, their pastors are against them marching in the streets, ishe vy brave and there at every level throughout the country. in one of the great things, we are getting a much larger complex colorful idea of what the suffrage movementol was. it was not just two ladies at the top. your grandmother is part of that. >> from the women'sot hour, it's too easy to imagine that the enfranchisement of american women was a lie. women asked politely know. [inaudible] >> that's not how it happened. >> jim in ann arbor michigan. >> thank you. the group that hit me the most was anti-severed death women and where are they going? >> very dif

in all of my intercessions with the secretary of state and with the state department, no one has ever told me that rudy guiliani plays any role at any level in any way with the state department. >> members of the house intelligence committee, senator, want to hear testimony from rudy guiliani and from the attorney general, bill barr. what happens if these key witnesses refuse to cooperate? >> well, this is where the house can play a much different role than we can in the minority in the senate. the house has the power to subpoena these individuals. if they fail to comply with the subpoena not just for documents, which i understand the house committees did today, can subpoena the secretary of state to come before their committee, if in fact he refuses to do so voluntarily. i would hope he does so voluntarily, i hope he would do so before the senate foreign relations committee. i hope chairman risch will take participation in doing the oversight, reviews, request for documents, and engagement with the secretary of state because this goes to the very essence of how we're conducting forei

and many states have exercised their state rights. their state rights. to address what they felt was in the best interest of their citizens. but there is a heavy hand in the federal government here. so our basic argument is let's stand with states' rights. let's stand with the judgement from across the nation that individuals are doing the best this he can for their people and not proceed to create a federal chaos that is good for money laundering and it's good for organized crime. it's good for treating on tachs and good for cheating on payroll, but it's bad for citizens. i'm delighted that one of my constituents is here and is here to testify that the view from our state but across the country businesses operating legally under state laws are faced with banking and safety challenges. oregon passed their ballot measure and for the use of cannabis and vote of the people way back 23 years ago. and in 2014, passed another measure legalizing and regulating adult use cannabis. however, these cannabis businesses and other related companies that serve the indu

trump, you are surrounded by the deep state and treasury and in-state. they are, their overarching objective is to prevent this administration from dismantling the iran deal completely because they believe one of the 2020 democratic residential candidates is going to win. we've all seen the debate stages, tweedledum and tweedledum are. and every one of them would eagerly reinstate the obama iran deal. if we finish the job and in the waivers there will be no deal to reinstate. and indeed what we should do is exercise the sanctions that the us has a unilateral right to do to impose united nations sanctions, that is what we should be doing. but mr. pres., the deep state doesn't want you to do it. and they are arguing to you with everything they can and you've just got to issue a waiver, these are the same people that told you you couldn't pull out of the deal to begin with. these are the same people that told you we couldn't move the embassy to jerusalem. they are urging weakness and appeasement and if the trump administration takes their advice they will h

our state employees were all over the place, so we put a freeze on out-of-state travel.dn't tell them they couldn't go, we just said they had to tell us where they were going and why. and that reduced the budget for out-of-state travel 78%. [applause] for eight years, the number of state employees had been increasing at a rate of 4% to 5.5% each year. we didn't think it was necessary, but we had to prove it so we put a freeze on hiring replacements for those who quit or retired. and now, a year later, i can tell you that we did bring that annual increase to a halt at we have 2.5% fewer employees in the state of california than one year ago. not all our savings were in the area of millions of dollars. in my office, i discovered a onery with another fellow's name on it. i got some with my name on it for formal correspondence. now the girls just x out that other name and type mind in. -- and type mine in. and you know i get a certain , amount of pleasure out of that. [applause] but we turn to the most inspiring thing. returned to the people as we said we would. we turned to

mayor, who i think is one of the best detectives in the united states. would like to have him head my squad of detectives. the beginning, do we face, hopeless job, clearing out gangsters and racketeers. for the last time, are you going to keep out of our territory or not? >> i'm not. ♪ i don't need any protection. handpickeddewey's staff began singling out single records and getting them to talk. after long months of hard , patient, dangerous work, do we had collected enough evidence to move in on the racketeers. out of the 73 indictments he secured, duly convicted all but up, brackets begin breaking and the gang overlords went off to jail. on the strength of this. record, he was nominated for district attorney. candidatee tammany and continued his crime smashing record and was on the roles of the governor's in albany. though it was in new york that dewey rose to fame, he is the product of a small town in the midwest, having born in a general store in michigan in 1902. he was the only child of george martin dewey, leader and the publisher of the local ne