the statehouse and e did that. and pat at that time recalled the words of t edmund burke who served in the house of commons duringar america's revolutionary war. the word burke imparted to the elector of bristol in 1774, inspired pat leahy's approach to public service. burke said quotes, your representatives owe you not as industry only but his judgment. burke also said he represented the opt-out have the most unpreserved communication with his constituents". now, in my mind that still is the essence of representative government. although we serve on different sides of the aisle, find our size and strength ourselves on different sides of the ideological spectrum inhale from different regions of the country, pat and i are called to serve our constituents. we have battled together in the trenches countless times over the years. he is a worthy adversary and countless times he trusted legislative allies. it takes grits, takes grace to score victories and stick to the courage of one's convictions. indeed pat and i have

the group went and grabbed the representatives and made them come back into the statehouse and physically made them sit to establish the quorum so they would do stuff like that a lot but the quorum call is important and general people could speakho without limit. occasionally there were these rules that could potentially limit their speaking but courtrooms are important in that aspect. >> you mentioned also the house of representatives used to have a filibuster type activity as well. why did they get rid of it early? >> they had the previous question rule and thomas jefferson was kind of behind that when he left being vice president as presiding officer he became president and established the rulebook. the motion as it is called wasn't used a lot and i believe 1810 there was a situation there was a senator or representative who was a rather long-winded speaker who'd been known to speak for four and five hours on the superfluous topics. there was a situation there was a measure before the house and he was speaking. another representative said i'm going to make the previous motion to get hi

school, those types of majors, are all things that can be done and ideas that can happen at the statehouse level. >> thank you,at governor. let's continue on the conversation of higher ed for another momentco here. secretary devos, you spent a lot of time working on title ix and really tackling due process. tell us why that was important and where it stands in the impact that you think it's making today. >> thanks, heidi. before i do that i would just like to comment one second on our conversation you previously. about higher education. because american higher education is the envy of the world, but we have to continue to innovate and change, and i agree with bill about the necessity for thinking more broadly about what higher education actually is. we need to be talking about lifelong education and viewing it as a lifelong pursuit, not just a four-year college or university after high school as being the only pathway. and i really give credit to both of these governors for their efforts to break down that barrier. and i think a lot of it goes to around accrediting and accreditation and th

at the statehouse in concorde his office is just steps away from the secretary of state's office wheredates register to be in th ballot for new hampshire's famous primaries. >> so if you were to run for president he would walk out tha door, walked down this hallway and all you have to do is go right there? >>> probably just would analyst. at some point, don't tell an anyone. >> you have an advantage if in the future you decide to cross this threshold and actually sig it because this is the first in the nation primaries. >> yes but not as much as you think. being governor is very differen than being president. there is possibility is very different and i think our voter appreciate that. so i imagine anybody from their homes to the it's a couple candidates in south carolina or if you candidates and flow to you still have to earn it one way or another. you can't take anything for granted. so will he make that walk to r run? you think about running for president in 2024? >>> i'm not thinking about it right now, i'm really not. >> right now? >>> looking folks have talked t me about it. that

to work for them as a county official, as missouri secretary of state and both the united states statehouse and united states senate. missouri is where the country comes together, the north meets the south, the east meets the west. no states have more states at its borders than us, and only one as many states as we have. we've been the population center of america for the last five decades, kind of moving down interstate 44 as the population has moved west and south. we set in the middle of the biggest piece of contiguous agricultural farmland in the world and the only one that has its own built-in transportation system, the mississippi river valley. st. louis is sometimes described as the western-most eastern city and kansas city really may be more like denver and omaha than it is st. louis. springfield, where i live, kind of looks to the west and the south to tulsa and to fayetteville. the boothill of our state is the delta south in every way. the economy, the topography. what happens there is reflective of other places more than it is the rest of our state. i was in northern missouri qui

popular social media app t gather all sorts of information about people, but i also want every statehouses going t ban this to do the same thing and stand up to the united states government that has been abusing their power spying on americans willingly. >> you are a libertarian so thi has to be a deal at you a littl bit. >> i agree with kennedy. also, when we talk about government, state devices, hate that language because it's really taxpayers paying for this . so we should be able to tell them. i should be able to choose your phone backwards because i got i for you. >> that's a good point. >> you don't have any rights to what's on the government, but your own fresher, but this deep device, that is the state devic that the taxpayers paid for. if there's any security concern are, that should be. >> for private companies, the biggest problem we have we chin is stolen intellectual especially on college campuses word chinese students work with professors, but now because everybody has tik tok, they can go right into your phone and se what you're working phone and see if you're on company th

the statehouse the night, the statehouse representatives over 50% were unopposed.cans have to get serious about their responsibility and stop playing around with it. and new england, there is only one republican, susan collins. at of six states. republicans need to move on from trump and biotin. america has to get our groove back. we are not stepping up. the most important that we have is our vote. host: let's go to john calling from virginia on the -- on the independent line. caller: good morning. i had a couple of questions for topics for future shows. the other night i stumbled on your book tv one evening. you had a gentleman on their who wrote a book about the truth about global arming and i called the last half of the show, but it would be a fascinating show and he would be a great dentist, if you could get him on. the other thing i was wondering is, when are you going to do a segment on all of the revelations coming out from twitter, how -- that is big news, how they actually did censor the election. maybe can ask -- maybe you can ask people how many people w

. >> talk about the florida model republicans have held the statehouse for a long time and they controlegislature so you get a real good laboratory test how republicans can govern in a big state on take that to washington so how appealing is that model? >> i think it's very appealing to a lot of republicans. school choice florida has long been a leader i think governor desantis has cheaper charge that there is some analysis of the initial election that says a larger share of black women voters given the baseline and at school choice voters gave him the reopening of florida as a governor desantis runs against donald trump he has a lot of time making that argument with the closing two weeks to stop the spread and it turned into two years in florida did not go down that road. >> i just want to ask about the democrats and joe biden. we have the zelensky trip to the president of ukraine here how much credit do you give biden for his ukraine policy overall? >> it is the one thing that joe biden seems to be consistent with over his career. he has always been a foreign-policy hawk and he sticki

the statehouse the night, the statehouse representatives over 50% were unopposed.ave to get serious about their responsibility and stop playing around with it. and new england, there is only one republican, susan collins. at of six states. republicans need to move on from trump and biotin. america has to get our groove back. we are not stepping up. the most important that we have is our vote. host: let's go to john calling from virginia on the -- on the independent line. caller: good morning. i had a couple of questions for topics for future shows. the other night i stumbled on your book tv one evening. you had a gentleman on their who wrote a book about the truth about global arming and i called the last half of the show, but it would be a fascinating show and he would be a great dentist, if you could get him on. the other thing i was wondering is, when are you going to do a segment on all of the revelations coming out from twitter, how -- that is big news, how they actually did censor the election. maybe can ask -- maybe you can ask people how many people would h

representatives out of the hands ofto the senators in our bicameral body going to the state legislature and statehousend they are much closer and going to decide that for you that has to be why you can't let that argument get in the way of that because it's not a consistent argument. it's something the government loves to usear as a blanket on everything to take control and as a representative i can tell you that i've yet to see the federal government work overtime to try to give control back to the people. i wanted to see that. people have arguments but it's consistent with the republican argument you heard us talking about. if you are republican and talking about the decision in that way then in my opinion you should be consistent and talk about cannabis legislation sending it back to the states and a host of other issues but that is certainly one that was in the news. >> now that the republicans are taking over the house majority and controlling the chamber, whatn has changed in terms of prospects for reform? is it more favorably disposed with republicans or less, what is the argument. it's stronge

if you're the state capitol of trenton tomorrow you can catch jon bramnick the state center the statehoused arthel as you heard his humor does have a serious point for all of us and for what we've seen in washington as he just said hates is not a political strategy. arthel: no it's not. we are going to be sharing some laughs tonight by the winter holiday specialty great christmas debate. fox favorites go head to head there going to discuss the moor's divisive topics of the season like is it diehard a christmas movie? realtor your victory? that's tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. what do you lease a dude you put up a reel to request a request go to central park and i cut it down. [laughter] [laughter] he hasn't delivered trust me he goes, he points and the guy comes and brings it to the door. that's what happened before that's what happens in new york city. what you do? you have a realtor your victory? arthel: we have both it just depends for think this year we have one we purchased and i think were going to put the not surreal tree up this season. but it's going to be a lovely just the same.

elect won by a comfortable margin, and so did the senator-elect, and we picked up a seat in the statehoused the u.s. senate, and so pennsylvania is really put to a lie the idea that the party in power does poorly in a midterm election. >> do you attribute that to the fact that so many house republicans, and so many republicans in pennsylvania were actually outwardly anti-democracy, and so many house republicans from pennsylvania except for one, fitzpatrick, voted to disenfranchise their own citizen, and i should vote only on the presidential ballot, and they did not vote to disenfranchise the other candidates on the same ballot. >> yes, they voted for the party of the adults, and not the party pedalling nonsense. i have been in government for year, and i have been marked by a party of responsibility, and marking medicaid and fiscally responsible way and we have not raised taxes, and we have surpluses, and lots of money the rainy day fund, and so people were voting for the adults in the room, and that is what happened in pennsylvania, and it could happen elsewhere if the party decides that

it was at the vermont statehouse that he did that. and pat at that time recalled the words of edmond burke, the dubliner who served in the house of commons during america's revolutionary war. the words that burke imparted to the electors of bristow in 1774 inspired pat leahy's approach to public service. burke said, quote, your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgment. burke also said a representative ought to have, quote, the most unreserved communication with his constituents, end of quote. now, in my mind that still is the essence of representative government. although we serve on different sides of the aisle, find ourselves on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, and hail from different regions of the country, pat and i are called to serve our constituents. pat leahy and i have battled together in the trenches countless times over the years. he's a worthy adversary and countless times he trusted legislative -- a trusted legislative ally. and it takes grit, it takes grace, it takes gr gravitates to scor

when you actually do it in a nonpartisan way, the majority of the democrats are elected to the statehouse and state senate because statewide people are going for democrats, but because the districtings were so gerrymandered it was never reflected in the legislature, and now it is. so we also passed an '18 voting rights protections, same-day voter registration and so on. it was so exciting to see on college campuses, you know, university of michigan, michigan state and others, long lines of young people waiting in line to vote and to register. they could register. they could vote. they were motivated by a lot of things, including a ballot proposal to protect our reproductive freedoms. and so in michigan, we had the largest election turnout ever for a midterm. and so i think it's an example of what you can do if you plan, are strategic, think ahead, have great grassroots efforts, and of course the folks at the top of the ticket were wonderful. >> and democrats can depend on young people to turn out the vote. that's somewhat new in some areas. thank you, debbie stabenow, the number-three ran

to kill the governor you know, that wasn't their plan their plan "a" was to actually seize the statehouse and execute all the democrats on television by hanging them out the windows. kidnapping the governor turned out to be plan "b. but that was a blueprint that law enforcement should have been ready for on january 6th, when it had already been plotted by groups in the united states. >> yeah, and there is -- unfortunately we've run out of time, but i want to have you guys back, because i feel like there's a part of the 1/6 committee that could have explored more those ties and documented it more, and even it a little more real estate so people can understand, i don't think it's fringe anymore. this is mainstream so i respectfully disagree with this idea it hasn't entered our mainstream system to take katherine's analogy. i think the body is infect but again, we're out of time happy holidays to you guys and please come back very soon and we'll run at this topic again. thank you. >>> and ahead, we're going to have a special conversation with the iconic creator behind the shows you know and

there, but basically in the 2008 election, democrats won about 1.5 million votes in the wisconsinn statehouse, and republicans -- sorry, democrats won 1.5. republicans want about 1.2 for democrats then one a slight majority of the overall seats. in 2010 you had a republican wave, and a surprisingly the gop took control of the state legislature and this of course gave governor scott walker the opportunity to control the redistricting process. in 2012, under the new republican boundaries, the result of the popular vote was remarkably similar to what it was in 2008. 2008. democrats want a slight majority of the popular vote, 1.4 million votes to around about 1.2. but the result was very different. instead of the slight democratic majority of 52-46 that you got in 2008, in 2012 democrats, despite winning the popular vote, 139 seats to republicans 60. andnd that alignment has been pretty much glued in place ever since in all of elections at a been held here in wisconsin since the 2010 redistricting. and that creates the situation that i was cautioning against at the beginning. the republicans who

. >> each day when he walks into his office at the statehouse he's greeted by a portrait of his father new hampshire governor john sununu. >> you're in that. you're back there, right? >> i'm in the left coat kneeling there there. if you zoom in you'll see how awkward i looked because again i'm an eighth grade boy at the time. but i believe because of that this is the only portrait in america with two governors in it, which is kind of funny, right? >> not only are there two governors in the family, his older brother represented new hampshire in the house and senate from 1997 to 2009. big shoes to fill for chris, the seventh of eight kids. >> so when i first become governor i think one of my obvious first thoughts was, oh, boy am i going to be in the shadow? he has a great reputation and all that, a very smart guy. i do lean on him sometimes. i'll call on him and ask him a piece of advice. now, the sick is you've got to take his advice and say, wow, that was probably brilliant back in 1988. >> back when those computers were coming in. >> exactly. so how do i craft that to a 2022 message

turned out to be the first midterm since the 1930s that the opposition party didn't flip a single statehousenate. and in fact, the democrats were the party that flipped four state legislative chambers both houses in michigan, house in pennsylvania and senate in minnesota. it went against republicans all over the country in all kinds of races. look at wisconsin and in kansas. in both those states, republicans had control of the state legislature. they were a total look to stay in control of the state legislature. but on top of that they were confident they would get rid of the democratic governors in both of the states in both kansas and wisconsin. there by full republican control of the both states republicans expected that at the end of the day, by this point right now, they would have not only the governor's office but the whole state legislature in both wisconsin and kansas. in wisconsin and kansas, as it turns out, republican candidates for governor both lost. to democrats. so the republicans were not able to a get full control of the states even though they fully expected to. it was act

and the fact of the matter is, you still got most of the statehouse is still republican. the state offices are still republican. one election and even with jon ossoff doesn't turn a state blue or even purple. there's still work that has to be done every day in a state like georgia and there's a hell of a lot of work that has to be done in the other states in the deep south to get to that point. >> what will a win tell us on either side? >> former president trump has a lot riding on this tomorrow night. if warnock wins, it's going to be the final exclamation point that the republican party cannot afford to go with his hand-picked candidates in the future. and so if i were in mar-a-lago, i would be watching this tomorrow night real, real closely. >> charles cook, great to have you, tia mitchell, vaughn hillyard, thank you. >>> coming up, tens of thousands of people in north carolina don't have power or heat after an intentional attack on two local substations. why were they targeted, though? we've got the latest on that investigation. >>> plus, the arguments under way right

and i used to draft up suffolk university when i was in state government is wi in the statehouse is a very good but the interesting here was we about 45 of those community is hooked up by march of 2020 and the other ten were on their way there. those communities. believe the government works because we solved their biggest and greatest heartburn, which was their inability be part of the 21st century and. i think i think we underestimate the power of doing something well and and i think the. i think that i that does matter when it comes to the issues associated with democracy. the there are a lot of people who are cynical about lot of things. and and you give, you know, you give, you give fire to those who want to promote that. when you don't get something done and get it reasonably well, i will we'll kind of stay on the democracy theme a little bit throughout. and one of the ways i want to stay on it is we had a survey that was conducted by the sign and it was called the sign of things to come, and it found that it's pretty clever by the sign institute sign of things to come. i looked

and i were just having this conversation -- on that day governor abbott stood on the steps of the statehouse in texas and announced with great joy that -- wuld be going into effect and days later we knew the supreme court was not going to do anything about that. and that 10% of our country was going to be living without roe v. wade, before the rest of the country. but he said to all the reporters, everyone listening, that the women of texas did not need to worry because it was a six-week ban, so that means you have six weeks to get an abortion. plenty of time. putting aside that it is not plenty of time when you factor in all logistics involved, you are not six weeks pregnant the day you find out you are pregnant. you are not zero weeks pregnant the day you find out, you are four weeks pregnant at best. anyone who understands anything about the menstrual cycle knows that. if governor abbott was lying, if he was misleading, if he does not know, who cares? he is giving out misinformation about menstruation. all i could think about was every legislator, every governor, every person of influence

from when david was a delegate in the west virginia statehouse to when he chaired the west virginia republican party to later when he became my colleague and our colleagues in the united states house of representatives, we worked together a lot. you know, david got a slot on the energy and commerce committee during his very first year in washington. i had already been there ten years and still hadn't made it to the energy and commerce committee, so i was a little bit jealous of david then, but, wow, did he really do tremendous work on that committee. although time has gone by, david's passion for, and his love for west virginia has never wavered and his pragmatic service has never changed. as the only licensed engineer in the house of representatives -- and if you didn't know that, david is quick to tell you -- his unique and thoughtful analysis to challenges has helped his quints -- constituents immensely and made west virginia a better place. by the way, he's helped me understand some very complex issues. in fact, i don't think there are many members of congress who have held town hall meeti

and that's the -- it needs funding and needs representation in statehouses.multi-tiered sort of, not just coalition, but project moving forward. it's difficult to manage, but it is being done. >> to communicate with voters. >> absolutely. >> the rev and basel, stick around. >>> up next for us, president joe biden is proposing a big shake up to his party's primary calendar, evaluating the state that changed everything for candidate joe biden. we'll tell you about it, next. n. we'll tell you about it, next. for me. i may have trouble getting around, but i want to live in my home where i'm comfortable and my friends are nearby. i can do it with the help of a barber, personal shopper and exercise buddy. someone who can help me live right at home. life's good. when you have a plan. ♪ ♪ i love all types of dancing... salsa, and even belly dancing! i am a triathlete. i've always been into health, and wellness, and fitness... i tried everything with diet and exercise, and nothing worked. there was just kinda this stubborn area on my stomach. but coolsculpting worked

who was the governor of the state and spent a lot of time in the mansion to our right and to the statehouse to our left, this is a different political party. george w. bush strove not only to bolster democracy in our country, but throughout the world. he was pro-immigrant. in many ways, it was not a nationalist, he was not xenophobic. it is a different republican party today and when the bushes talk to me on the record for the last republicans, i think they expressed concern that donald trump would be not only the standardbearer for the republican party, but at the time, a possible successor to them in the white house. we had spoken before donald trump became president in 2016. the last interview that i did with them for the book were in the latter part of 2016 and donald trump had yet to be elected president. >> what was the relationship between the bushes? mark: i think there were a lot of misconceptions. as you know, there were 70 misconceptions about that relationship. there was the thought that george h w bush was schooling his son behind the scenes and saying son, you're not doing thi

that perhaps my prior service as a county supervisor, as the minority leader in the california statehouse, and a presidential appointee might lend me expertise to finish the term for congressman nunes and represents the constituents as california's central valley. i must say that i felt very welcomed here. that california delegation on both sides i served with many of them in other capacities. i felt very welcomed. i want to mention very quickly my staff, my prior staff, my staff now they know once you have served with ms. conway, you are a staffer for life. i also want to thank the staff of this building, even coming here today i got a little turned around. i know where i'm going politically. just not sure of the building. all the stave has been very gracious. i think they actually all know me by first name. the effervescent ms. conway. when i was sworn in i promised the good people of central valley they would be the only special interest i represent. congress is not a particularly popular institution right nowrks and a good dose of the criticism is well deserved. serving in congress do

according to -- in 2020 the missouri statehouse introduced 23 pieces of anti-lgbtq plus legislation. they have repeatedly absolutely disgusting, filed library book bands come bands on doctor recommended care, student organization bands and sports fans. ms. robinson, could you tellfi s more about the. draconian measures state republicans have advanced that target the health, the safety and the rights of our lgbtq+ community? >> it's a crisis that we are experiencing. we are trying to sum to be able to live freely, they couldn't hold as our true selves in every aspect of life and what we see is continued legislative attacks paired with extremist rhetoric. and when some of these bills are moving forward whether not they are enacted has a devastating effect on our community. looking at florida again, as a don't say gay or transpose molina state legislature we saw it paired with penitential social media campaign resulted in a 400% increase in anti-lgbtq+ hate and sores happening online. and majority of it was perpetuated by ten bad actors. this is a step we have to make sure we are interr

to work for them as a county official, as missouri secretary of state and both the united states statehouse and united states senate. missouri is where the country comes together, the north meets the south, the east meets the west. no states have more states at its borders than us, and only one as many states as we have. we've been the population center of america for the last five decades, kind of moving down interstate 44 as the population has moved west and south. we set in the middle of the biggest piece of contiguous agricultural farmland in the world and the only one that has its own built-in transportation system, the mississippi river valley. st. louis is sometimes described as the western-most eastern city and kansas city really may be more like denver and omaha than it is st. louis. springfield, where i live, kind of looks to the west and the south to tulsa and to fayetteville. the boothill of our state is the delta south in every way. the economy, the topography. what happens there is reflective of other places more than it is the rest of our state. i was in northern missouri qui