in state. the fact of the matter is they've remained very constant over the last five, six years. but you had the ability, governor, to do as i did which was to freeze college tuition. for your first three years in office you never did it. in fact, one of your biggest accomplishments was to force a 40% increase in college tuition. right up on an election year, yes, you did something different and froze it for one year. we are the only state in the country to go four years in a row without a penny's increase to college tuition and i'm proud of that. furthermore, the property tax, governor, you actually did vote to increase the property tax and you know you did it and did you it at the board of public works and perhaps you thought no one would notice that. [ loss of audio ] >> i'm -- denise, i get to respond here because it's important. the ads have been running. i didn't bring up the fact that property tax went up. you're right. thank now reminding me -- thank you for reminding me of that. gover

in this state, especially oklahoma's uninsured state -- a sure children. the bill did not pass because there were a lot of conflicts with some of the specialty hospitals in our state. it is my understanding that negotiations have gone on that would allow that bill to come forward again without opposition. i would be willing and have already had discussions with the man i believe will be the next speaker of the house, and i absolutely support the idea of the legislature and governor working together to figure out a way that we can raise the amount of money oklahoma can bring in so we can reach the upper payment limits for purposes of health care. if it means going to vote of the people, i am confident if the people of oklahoma trust the way the money will be spent than the people of oklahoma will support it. >> next question for jari askins. >> this deals with what we can expect of you as a leader if you are elected. would you compare and contrast the last governor's we have had -- governors we have had -- i think our chamber has done a good job and our law

we are in the embassy states. if you talk to people, they will tell you that if we open up the research and development at our universities we will be doing far better. the bottom line is, if you believe this bureaucracy can move at the speed of business, then you would support jobs ohio. but if you think we need to get a group of people with the experience to go into the toughest places in this state to begin to remove barriers and began to work with companies in the state to be stronger and expand and to ultimately search the country for other opportunities to bring jobs to the state, which cannot keep doing what we are doing. 41 other states in america have outperformed us. it is because we have been too slow, not innovative and creative. i would change that. >> over to governor strickland. >> if my opponent and his friends had had their way, there likely would have been no surviving automobile industry in america. i was over at the chevrolet when the new car came off of the line. it is a card that is almost to

and then his eye will be treated as an apartheid state sure ok even an apartheid state that claims to be a democracy. israel is a democracy it's nowhere near an apartheid state and what hasn't been mentioned fascinatingly so in the show up to now is the terrorism is that when israel in ninety three signed the oslo accords and we gave the palestinian police force the guns because you know as they do today they say they run around and they do their thing what we got in return were years and years of terrorism jews being blown up jews and arabs everybody being blown up in coffee shops on buses we left gaza we threw ten thousand jews out of their homes we transferred ten thousand jews not arabs but jews and destroyed their communities and what we got in return was this terrorist state just south of tel aviv they not just threatens israel but it's apparently become a base for critical al-qaeda and all the joyful people in the world and so israelis aren't stupid and israelis more than anybody want to live in peace but we also understand we've put our hand to peace and yet we see textbooks t

he is the chief law enforcer in the state. meth labs have doubled in the state. he is the one in charge, for goodness sakes. >> as of our latest question and answer board, more than 70% of my money was in state and more than 70% of his men was out of state. he thinks -- he does not think the rules apply to him. look at kentucky taxpayers united. he made up 1000 dues-paying members. there has been numerous stories this week that shows the organization did not even exist. what was he doing there? >> dr. paul, you said you would return money for missing votes. do you see your job as senator as being more than voting? >> he should return his money because he is not doing his job. all of his jobs are getting worse. he spent half of september, traveling, trying to troll for cash in california. so yes, i think he's a return is. >> i was not in california for half of september trolling for cash. i have been working attorney general. look at my history. i have taken on special interests. i have taken shot from recites off the internet. we have brought the state further in

in the state of maryland. we have different definitions of progress in this state. over the past four years, we have seen a lot of job loss in the state. we have doubled unemployment, 3,000 small businesses shut. the largest tax increase in maryland i history and driven debt to historic highs. i believe we can do better. we have done better during our tenure. we can create jobs. we can lower taxes and we can retire our debt. the bottom line to today's debate is about who you trust. we have seen a lot of negative ads out there. it is a silly time. some of these ads are just over the top. and we are going to talk about those ads today and taste that's why, mary i appreciate the opportunity to have this confrontation and debate about the issues of the day and ads that have been running. who do you you trust to lead the state forward over the next four years? it is my pleasure and honor, humble, obviously to represent this state in 2003 to 2007. governor, thank you for being here today. i look forward to our debat

that being said, once you have states impacting states, state laws and federal laws, is there any moreeing given by the federal government for the state government in terms of cooperating together? like many of the callers have said, local government controlling water as opposed to it having a bigger impact on the community, you have to live with water. you do not have to buy gasoline to live off of it, but you do need water. guest: these are very good points. hydrology is a science that is largely beyond me, but i think i am correct in saying that most would laugh at anyone who said that there is no connection between surface water and ground water. all r

he attributes much of the to the state's strong hees. he claims prop 23 is not a jobs initiative but rather an attempt by texas oil companies to repeal regulations under the global warming law. according to map light.org, a political watchdog group, the companies that contributed over $5.6 million to yes, on 23. >> they have totaling made ten billion dollars in california in the last decade. they make a lot of money. they like it that way. >> it may be expedient to demonize the funders of yes on 23 but our coalition includes organizations that represents hundreds of thousands of california businesses and millions of californians, such as the firefighters association, the hispanic chamber of commerce. >> no on prop 23 has support from clean energy and jobs, national resources defense fund. governor swarzenegger is also against the legislation. he signed the global warming act in 2006. with california unemployment at 12.4%, those opposed say the standards set by prop 23, 5.5% for four consecutive calendar quarters is unrealistic in this ec

to 41 states. the developments come as new figures show foreclosures have hit record highs in recen months. according to realtytrac, banks seized over 100,000 homes in september for the first time. over 288,000 homes were seized in july to september quarter, the highest ever total 43-month time frame on record. in afghanistan, the u.s. appears to be taking new steps in backing peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban. the new york times reports u.s.- led forces have allowed the movement of senior taliban leaders to attend negotiations and the afghan capital of kabul. a na official said top taliban leaders have recently made overtures to senior afghan officials. the talks come as six u.s. soldiers were killed in various attacks around afghanistan on wednesday. four and italian troops also lost their lives. the and sicker the council meanwhile but a wednesday to extend nato's mandate in afghanistan for another year. in other news from afghanistan, the guardian of london is reporting

>> well, the united states came to afghanistan after september 11th in order to make the united states more secure from terrori terrorism. that, they wanted to do by making afghanistan and this region more secure. as i mentioned in my opening remarks, part of that has been achieved. the united states and actually all of us around the world must find ourselves more secure from the threats of terrorism and we should do the right thing in order to get that. and in our opinion, the right thing is to be focused strategically on the financial resources to terrorism, on the sanctuaries to terrorism, on the availability of guidance to them and training to them. if we do that correctly and together, all of us, we will surely succeed sooner. >> larry: was it a good idea, mr. president, for the united states, the surge, the adding of 30,000 troops? was that a good idea? >> the united states, towards the end of 2007 and '08, felt that what the afghans were asking for a long time in 2002 and 2003 was adequate resources in both men and material to fight terrorism and to rebuild afghanistan. that was

funds state funds are used to fund the party of chinese yet state funds are not used to fund any other party that is not democracy you have david and goliath situation and besides this you have to remember you have to remember besides the fact that you have in venezuela the shut down of media that opposes the government you have. anyone persecution. if you stand against that job is going ok you get persecuted i think we got your point we got your point ever go right ahead that's not true. jump in here well foreign funding foreign funding and there is certainly millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars are funding political organizations parties and campaigns here there is clear and direct funding to the opposition campaign from u.s. agencies and other international agencies and it's a violation of the. i mean you could say maybe the government invested some funds into their own party for this campaign but that does not justify opposition groups receiving foreign funding in violation of the law and of course u.s. agency. there is a call to interpretation. actually excuse me by turn

ohio secretary of state, and colorado secretary of state. thanks to both of you for being on c-span's "newsmakers" today. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. >> let me turn to our two guests in studio in washington. jessica of politico. reed of hot line, also knee deep with all your staff in this year's election. we heard two confident secretaries of state, but what they also seem to be pretty confident of is that there are going to be court challenges going forward? is this the way of the world for elections in the united states from where our society is is? >> i think minnesota gave us a new standard, and both parties have been preparing definitely for this. we've seen fund raising appeals come out from both sides saying we have to be ready to go on november 3rd. and it's almost inevitably going to be either the house race, several senate races so dedloked in the polls. so it's not going to surprise journalists. but i think what you did see from both of them is that people want to minimize the time and the length. they don't want the electi

we also have our state reserve.seems like we have our state reserve that is here to respond to the cuts in services or cuts in funding, and how that impacts services. this one seems like a key service, especially for very low income families who are struggling with education and in the work place with the child care. eliminating child care would eliminate them moving forward. what is the city looking at to address this issue so there is no impact on parents who are trying to make a go with their lives? >> supervisor, kate howard, mayor's office. i think you raised some important points. as you may have heard, the legislature is working on and has said they are committed to restoring this funding. this was lined out by the governor out of his budget, a line item vetoed. in san francisco, it is a $13 million loss. over 1,200 kids are affected by the cut. the legislature is working on negotiating a deal with the state first five commission, who have state and local first dollars for kids. in san francisco, that is abou

also state benefits paid more than some jobs in the u.k. causing generations of unemployment statistics show we've got behind us number of workforce households of all the large e.u. economies. guest from officials and talks in romania on the country's participation in the south stream gas project we'll look at the twists and turns of the pipeline and other countries involved in it. a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our twenty first up this hour at their wit's end with drug addicts a group in russia's your old decided to take the laws into their own hands their extreme methods of kidnapping dealers and users and forcing treatment on them may have one great support from the people but it's falling foul of the authorities who have jailed some of them for abduction and torture. a drugs raid gets underway and after hours of waiting for.

states because they are state agencies and sometimes they use those powers of the state to enforce this pull it what you would call political correctness and i think that's where really crosses the line and you know that it's very difficult and i think it's telling that you know this show none of us really are are standing up for the power of the state to be able to tell you what you can say and what you think and i'm really glad to see that i think most people really there just isn't there isn't something they think is acceptable ok if i could just one thing i will say is that. one reason why we're so obsessed with the language of politicians is because they do have a bully pulpit they do set examples. the way they speak because we think that they are in somehow representative of the state you know we are obsessed with the way sarah palin or barack obama in the usa david cameron here in the u.k. we're obsessed with how they speak and we obsess with them using this inclusive language of political correctness because the very act of them speaking even in a private situation gets broadcas

the world i'm joined by john hamilton in baton rouge he is a professor of journalism at louisiana state university and author of the recent book journalism's roving eye history of american foreign reporting in atlanta we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university and in new york we cross to peter hart the activism director at fairness and accuracy in reporting and another member of our cross talk team and the hunger all right if i can go to you sean first why are the two things are going on here obviously there are new global english language stations coming on line r.t. came on line five years ago or less than that was al jazeera press t.v.'s out there right now the chinese are going to be pouring an enormous amount of money into an english language station but at the same time there are people that are afraid of these stations in the united states so some people want more news a different perspective and other people appear to be afraid of that perspective what is some of the trends that you see. well there's there's certainly a massive amount of govern

since i became secretary of state. in [applause] the first place, which some may question whether it is still in the united states, it is of course washington where i of spoken several times, and hawaii on my way to asia. i have been invited to come to the commonwealth club many times over the years, and was unable to accept the kind invitation, but i thought it would be inappropriate time for me to have this conversation. -- but i thought it would be an appropriate time for me to have this conversation. but i want to thank all of the officers and members of the commonwealth club. it is a great treat to see the former secretary of defense, bill perry and his wife right here in the front row. and i welcome them. [applause] i know, even though i cannot see much beyond the third row, that there are a lot of other friends. i am so pleased to be here with all of you. mostly this is going to be a conversation, but i wanted to make a few points, because i think it is important to give you a bit of an overview of what we have

the public in our polling stated very clear preferences for what they want from state government. the challenge is that given the current fiscal crisis, it's hard to see how policy makers are going to be able to give them everything that they want. >> susie: let's look at what some of those preferences are that you outlined in your report. for starters the public thinks that statement government, too big and too wasteful. were you surprised by that reaction from the people that you surveyed? >> no. i think being too big, we've heard before. but more of the respondents were concerned about how effectively and efficiently government operated. in fact most of them thought that state government could cut spending significantly without affecting services. in some cases 20% or more. it's remarkable, you look at california, 20% would be 16 billion dollars. cutting $16 billion without affecting services would be tough. >> susie: and speaking of services, one thing they said they do want to keep the essentials, the public wants public school education and health services to stay intact, an

the united states. "tough and salty through the debate, questioning how harry reid could afford the high and life style on a government salary. harry reid is a good public speaker, but he delivered a solid performance, attacking sharron angle's opposition to -- >> we will show you last night's senate debate at 2:00 p.m. eastern right here on c- span. for now, we go to the national press club where former secretary of state condoleezza rice will talk about her new memoir. you are watching c-span. >> thank you. [applause] the parents of today's speaker had two early goals for her. in dr. condoleezza rice's words, "my mother was as determined to raise a musician as my father was to cultivate a sports fan." they succeeded on both counts. her mother bought her her first piano when she was 3 months old. she went on to be recognized as an accomplished pianist. she went on to live up to her goals.s "for better or for worse, the cleveland browns became my team." her book tells the highly personal life story of s

in the state of alabama ordaz -- it is a red states. -- in the state of alabama -- it is a red state. my son has been in the army since 1999. he has had several deployments to iraq. i would get the coura to call in about award. host: thank you, lydia. overall, we have the statistics on the number of males to females that call in. libya says she gothe courage to call and we would encourage -- lydia said she got the courage to call and we would encourage more females to call in. you can see the average caller is 70 dozen mailed to 16,000 females. -- 70,000 male callers to 16,000 females. here is another tweet. let's turn to the newspaper >> we are going to leave this now and go live to the national press club. brian moynihan is expected this afternoon to talk about the state of the global economy, and the news today that the company is halting foreclosures in many states. >> tarp allow the federal government to take stakes. it was regarded and heralded as "the end of wall street as we know it." in many ways, the banking sector and wall street are continuing along today. bank of america

darren gersh looks at the bottom line impact on state ballots. >> reporter: in washington state, it is the battle of the billionaires. on one side, bill gates senior and his son pushing an initiative to establish a state income tax on those making more than $200,000, while cutting property taxes and taxes on small business. on the other side, microsoft c.e.o. steve ballmer and amazon's jeff bezos arguing the measure will hurt their ability to attract high skilled workers. this will be one ballot battle that is watched closely across the country says u.s.c. law professor john matsusako. >> it is the same sort of argument that we are seeing come into play at the federal level about extension of the bush tax cuts. should we have a specific tax expectation that the wealthy pay even more than they are paying now or should we do across the board taxes. so i think it's a very interesting microcosm of what's going to go on at the federal level. >> reporter: while washington state is considering raising taxes, voters in colorado will decide whether to cut income taxes and other fees and cap rev

remember, foreclosure is a state law, state by state by state on what goes on and the local requirementsts on the ground with the states attorney general and they are saying in there, not just "stop it," but they are we are doing aofficialive investigation, looking out to see what they are doing. some of the big lenders have said, well, i am backing off because of the problems i have found. and others, surely, have to listen to the fact, like i said, the attorney general standing behind them, and so i think what this is really about is trying to drive the system toward confidence that if anyone is losing a house it is because that is what the law says. no one is failing to abite by the -- abide by the law and the second part, if there are sales that can go home, vacant houses put back into the market make that happen simultaneously. >>neil: what is screwy about this, say you are a home owner and have not paid the mortgage for a long time you could take advantage of this? saying while they sort this out i can skate free for another six, eight, nine months, maybe a year, and then the other

it kind of depends what state you are in, in florida, in colorado, states with key race. we do seat republicans edging out but a state like nevada that has that marque reid-angle race it is almost dead even. so that is not quite reflect hag that enthusiasm gap we are seeing nationally with the republicans having that edge. >> ifill: if there is a wave as the republicans say there is going to be, which are the-- who are the people who each party is watching most closely on that? >> well, they have to get their partisan, their most committed supporters to the polls first and to doubt we see that is what barack obama has been doing nonstop. he's going to democratic strongholds and trying to rally that base. but this is a story about independence. we cannot forget for all the talk that you and i have had about tea party enthusiasm and all of this energy on the right and how drummed that up conservative wing of the party is, elections in america are still about independent voters. and take a look at this poll out today from gweground "polit4 percent are leaning republican, 30%

state law.nd we really have time -- it's -- there's no equities on the other side. and mr. brown could no longer argue that he was invalidly convicted or sentenced. but when it turned out that the urgency was really of the state's own making, and that's just what the court said, then all of a sudden, you know, they basically said back off, we're not going to shorten the time to appeal a lower court ruling that lifted an injunction that allowed these new procedures to take effect and we're not going to shorten our time to review it and the federal judge said i'm not going to shorten my time to decide whether these procedures are constitutional. just because you're running out of drugs, which you didn't really tell us ahead of time. so it was a fiasco, all right, and it really led to questions about kind of who's rung the sh show here. >> there's this controversy over the one drug versus three-drug protocol. why is california sticking with the three-drug when some of these states are doing just th

members get to vote state by state with each state getting one vote.he way this country's divided, that's the way the small states vote. they're republican. so if it does go to the house, it would go to a republican and be run by conservative republican states that wouldn't like bloomberg. there is a chance that palin could be elected president by a conservative majority among states. it is possible. >> it is interesting and that's what john pointed out. i think without the bloomberg equation, she could win. you're right. if it goes to house representatives, many of her mama and papa grizzlies win next tuesday and i don't think she's backing people, that she's planned it out, but i think that she probably read it today and said, it's great that i backed all these people. obviously, not all will win next tuesday, but it's going to help her if this scenario happens. >> you're making a pretty easy argument to make. it isn't hard to imagine that bloomberg steals some of these democratic states. a handful. that denies either party the chance to get 270, pro

across state lines. they're a lot of individuals that have to take the -- same tax incentives that their employer has when their employer by is a bit. bill allows small associations to pull together and provide insurance for their members. these are common sense ideas that will help insure people and cost a lot less money and would not have the dusters impact that the bill these gentleman supports would have. >> i have voted for it and i would vote for again that i had the option. at this important to pay very close attention to what marco rubio as saying. everything he identified saying that interest payments would go up, copays would go up, individuals be dropped -- that is what the insurance companies did the year ago in the year before that. now they are using the health- care bill as an excuse for things they have already done. the fact that 85% of the medicare goes to make -- patient care, the fact that we have small businesses that are getting a tax cut right now. when you hear more rubio and char

other states. that is not a necessary thing. nullification is where the state government says would refuse to enforce the law. if the federal government has a problem with that, that is just tough. if the floor of a sense agents to your state to try to enforce so that, that is what the state militia and the county sheriffs are therefore, to protect citizens against marauding federal agents. concern in the commerce clause, i think the commerce clause has been greatly misunderstood. the only reason the commerce clause was in the constitution was so that states to not interfere with each other as commerce and not to cut the federal government -- they can interfere with that. guest: thank you, scott. i have reviewed an awful lot of commerce clause president over the last six or eight months. i would agree that the presumed power of the government under the commerce clause has expanded dramatically over times since the founding. you walk through an alternative to filing suit in court. your first alterna

be left to the states. that is our 10th amendment. education is primarily -- primarily falls in the category of state involvement and state control. the federal government has created a huge bureaucracy in the department of education, which has done little to improve the scores and to improve the education of children and the public school system. states have the flexibility to promote choice, to let parents make those decisions, and to give low-income students the opportunity to escape a feeling school and have the opportunity to gain an education. that flexibility is critical, i believe, in proving our education -- and improving our education system. if we allow the federal government to dictate our children are educated, you get one size fits all. every state is different. every community is different. states are in a much better position to decide what is best for children. cox our next question was submitted by john thompson, a utility worker who lives in hartsdale. he would like to know, what are the

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i worked with the state farm agents in the state to beg them not to leave our state. unfortunately, rick, you need to understand that for so many people here in the state of florida, citizens' property insurance is the only choice they have. it is not the insurer of last resort, it is the only ensure they have. so the only way for us to get ourselves out of such a heavy reliance on citizens' property insurance company is to be sure that we have the policies in place, as i will do as governor, to attract global capital and come back in our state and compete for our business. i know i can do it. >> you have had for years. in four years, this is what has happened. insurance companies have left the state. you have not solve the problem in the last four years. why would you think you could even saw that in the next four years? you have not proposed anything to deal with a sinkhole risk. nothing happened with regard to that. more insurance companies are leaving all the time. state farm is not excited about being in the state. nothing yet done so far has worked. >> i want to

what are the states?- income tax. go ahead. california-- income tax. >> mistele: texas, florida, michigan, colorado. >> stahl: okay, four out of the six have income taxes. i mean, i've heard a lot of businessmen say what you're saying, and i keep wondering, "well, where are they going to move if they leave?" >> mistele: well, each state has its own competitive advantages. so by adding this additional burden, it makes us much less attractive. >> stahl: adam stites is another entrepreneur who opposes the initiative. five years ago, he moved his company, istores, from portland, oregon, across the columbia river to vancouver, washington, just nine miles away. >> adam stites: it broke down to taxes. there... oregon has the highest income tax in the united states, and washington has the lowest at 0%. >> stahl: istores is the largest online retailer of paint ball equipment. stites has been hiring staff for a new company he acquired that sells prank novelties. this is for halloween? >> stites: it is for halloween

a law forcing perspective israeli citizens who are non jews to pledge allegiance to a jewish state has unleashed a storm of anger among arabs despite the israeli government wanting to extend the oath to jews are obsessed to refuse to swear loyalty to a state that has prosecuted them. reports this photograph is all that remains from some near his family home the hall survived for generations but it couldn't survive an israeli demolition two years ago. i started to have problems with the circulars ten years ago they wanted to take all of my land do you took one house and then they wanted to take this house since then he started rebuilding the only thing god the supreme court's discovered that big documents they changed the name of my grandfather on paper and. but the discovery didn't help him hang on to most of his grandfather's learned a family of israeli settlers now lives on property samir insists is his and his story only one of many. in the two hours we spend here therefore a recess and the usual round of tear gas rubber bullets and blame and they are because the union shouldn't com

the states. i had met with the share of clark county. i have also spoken with sheriff's throughout rural nevada. we do not need an arizona style all in the state of nevada. however, at the time came and a state -- and a bill was presented, i would talk to all the interested constituencies. always be with all enforcement. i would speak with the latin community. i would speak with the business community to see if this is a law that would work in the state of nevada. >> we need comprehension immigration reform. we need to have a federal approach. different states do different things. the problem will just move around the country and never be result. immigration needs to be tough but fair. we need to have undocumented workers pay whenever clients they of. we need them to earn -- learn english. we need them to go to the back of the line and go to the process to become citizens. >> my opponent is not -- has not responded to the question. i do support the arizona law because it was a valid response to a

>> in seven states, you can never vote again. most states, you cannot vote while you are on paper. because of the criminal background record checks that are now ubiquitous, incredibly, a, you have a hard time ending an apartment, getting a car loan, getting any kind of job. i'm a convicted felon, and it would not hire me and walmart. i could not work the cash register at burger king. most occupations and recessions are close to you because you are a convicted felon -- occupations and jobs. when you see homeless people outside, most of them have felony convictions, mostly bullshit felonies, the little felonies. that is why they cannot get jobs. that is why they are panhandling and sleeping in doorways. their numbers are just going to multiplied next year, the year after, 10 years from now. >> let me ask, would you agree there are significant areas for people who have criminal history records? >> i would agree. it is not just people who have felony convictions and going to prison, but i was struck this morning by the stories that amy told, and a gentleman who was a reporter in santa

in the state of california, a study by stanford university shows the state's pension system is half atrn dollars in the hole. the group californian for fiscal responsibility keeps tabs on thousands of local and state officials pulling down six-figure pensions. under the rules here, employees can add in unused vacation, sick leave and uniform allowances to inflate the pay numbers used to calculate pension. unions have watered down attempts to change that. >> nobody is able to push back, so it's really a catastrophe that's coming up. >> reporter: as more public employees are added to the pension rolls, state pension funds are going broke, and taxpayers will be on the hook to make up the difference. george lewis, nbc news, sacramento, california. >>> as we reported here last night, barbara billingsley died this weekend at age 94. she will be remembered as the perfect mom june cleaver on leave it to beaver. this morning on "today" i talked to jerry mathers about her memories of her. >> she loved manners. she told me the proper way to eat or set up the silverware and how to put the napkin on

things like welfare reform came out of the states, clean air came out of the states.governors coming together on a bipartisan basis and pushing an agenda. and often times, it gets done. >> all right. well raymond schepach, a powerful collection of folks clearly. we appreciate you, and again, to our viewers, no matter if you're picking a governor right now or not, even the state next door might be picking a governor. that could still have an impact down the road on the presidential election. >>> and getting out the vote could be critical to both the democrats and the republicans this election. >> okay. we've got a group coming up who says they don't care who wins, just get out and you need to vote. >>> what does democracy mean to you? >> what does justice mean to you? >> i'm not going to vote. >> it does make a difference. >> then you're an idiot. our points from chase sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel. we're like forget florida, we're going on a safari. so we're on the serengeti, and seth finds a really big bone. we're talking huge. they dig it up, put i

the united states in favor of reconciliation in afghanistan it's not. not now elements of the taliban but the know now but the taliban in order to reconcile unacceptable terms they need to be under constant military pressure you're saying they have to so they have to surrender is that they have to surrender they have to surrender when they have the upper hand right now why would they even do that. they don't do you know there's an ongoing fight and you don't notice the render but they don't they do have to accept certain terms and those terms include. violence acceptance of the surrenders and their current. wishes read their own affairs and say so go ahead this is the problem the idea that we're going to get the taliban which is by far a politically stronger than the afghan government to say that it's going to agree to join or you know to serve that that government and its present constitution is absurd because it's never going to happen and u.s. officials know that very well i just did a story last week quoting somebody who within the government saying

my company is the largest generic in the united states, facilities in multiple states. as well as more than 20 countries. one out of every 13 prescription drugs in the united states is accounted for by my company. while we share this goal in the ordinance to reduce the risk of drug abuse, accidental poisonings, and protecting the water supply, we respectfully opposed this proposal and the method in which it uses to address this issue. we believe that this approach could be difficult, if not impossible, to implement on the scale of san francisco county and city. we also believe that it would increase health care costs and reduce access to lower care drugs. -- lower-cost drugs. currently they account for 70%, but we are only 22% of the cost. i would like to address a couple of things very quickly. first of all, we would beg to differ with the spokesperson from the department of the environment on what the cost of this would be. i worked on this effort in maine, which is similar in population to this city. proposing a cap of $1.5 million for the first year with an expectat

that we build a new state?hat we concentrate on our competitive advantages and addressing our competitive disadvantages? that's what i propose to do. >> the laws in connecticut are made by the legislature. they pass the laws and they pass these mandates aldpolicies on our employers that have killed jobs. so it's not true to say that the governor has done this. we need to get a better balance in the legislature. i think that's likely to happen given the way we're expecting november 2, democracy will be improved in connecticut if we have a better balance in our legislature and we have a check-and-balance on that legislature with a republican governor. >> mr. foley, according to numbers from the state department of social services, three managed care companies in the state's program recorded profits of nearly $20 million last year and some spent less than 72% of revenues on medical care, that's less than federal mandate. what would you do to ensure that insurance companies comply with law? >> we have a new law tha

the rich states, the poor states, there is information about the future economic state of states. colorado has a strong economic future. taber must stay in place. one is our low property taxes. one is our balanced budget amendment. i do not see any conflict there. it makes a strong and healthy. amendment 23 needs to be reexamined. they have been a hog at trough for 10 years. graduation rates are not going up. dropout rates are not going down. scores are not going up. we cannot continue to throw good money after bad at k through 12 without more accountability. 23 is the first on my radar, not because i don't treasure public schools. i have a 15-year-old 2 was a public high school sophomore. i have a 7-year-old -- i think he is still seven. [laughter] he is in second grade. i want great public schools. throwing money at it will not solve the problem. 23 is causing an imbalance. if we had enough revenue in our state and our coffers were full with the right kind of executive leadership, we would not be debating this at all. we only debate when we have bad leadership and not enough tax

we begin we state legislators. they may not enjoy as much limelight as those in washington, they do control more than $1 trillion in spending and have as much impact on your life as anyone in congress which is why you may find a surgery in bad behavior that ranges from koreany to criminal. here's brian ross with how far the decay has spread. >> reporter: in statehouses across the country, while few have been watching, a california lawmaker was caught on tape talking about his sexual conquests. texas legislators were seen casting votes for their absent colleagues. a new york state senator was seen assaulting his girlfriend. a massachusetts lawmaker was caught on fbi cameras stuffing a bribe into her bra. >> one, two, three, four, five -- >> reporter: and in one state after another, powerful state lawmakers, who control hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, have been sent to prison after taking envelopes full of cash from undercover fbi agents. our abc news investigation found that in the last five years, at l

it's about the weakness of market and state power institutions and the quality of administering of state functions in other words excessive interference from the state insufficiently clear regulation within the tories administrative barriers lower competition the economy it's going official helps when the competition this is the main obstacle for further development because the knackery connery in the state finances are good. reasons now i know that finance later on this international monetary fund meeting we're discussing the so-called battle is a concept. that you know we know that the u.s. and. they complain about china and some other countries deliberately undervalued their currencies to aid their exporters and this may lead to trade war. i haven't heard that how serious is that and where is washer standing on that matter and it wouldn't be a word of god he wouldn't currently there's no battle of currencies it's very likely that it's more of an expectation that one day currencies will become a more serious tool in competition at the moment the best examples are the u.s. and china the

the activists in their state. i could identify a couple senators who want to be looking over their shoulder because somebody is gaining on them. cannot plan is is set for next election cycle. i won't identify them because i don't want to tip them off. [laughter] >> i think olympia snowe you might want to get the chance. >> really, feel free, speak out. this is an open forum. were happy to make news. >> i hear from citizen voters in their state with the set of principles will intent to influence the outcome of the republican party primary. >> following on that question from the audience, what is the concern within our political culture/political hierarchy about the emergence of a third political party with tea party backing? >> i think people in the tea party will fight talk to think are parties to work. it takes to learn to organize. we have a two-party structure that is so ingrained, >> translator: hover you what went to you describe it for so long. they look at the example of ross perot in the unit itself -- i t