in the state. today we will consider whether the legislative proposal authored by our colleagues, congressman steve loebsack of arkansas and congresswoman jackie spinner of california. their bill, h.r. 3179 the marketplace equity act of 2011, has bipartisan support from members both on and on the committee. in the 1992 case of not to cover, the supreme court held that under the dormant commerce clause a state may not compel the retailer to collect and remit the state sales tax the retailer lacks a physical presence in the state. the supreme court's view to for savory character collect taxes to more than 9,000 state, county and local tax interest actions throughout the country places a serious burden on the retailer's ability to sell and interstate commerce. the physical presence rules for tax collection mix interests that cannot afford to track and comply with 9,000 different tax codes as a cost of doing business throughout the country the constitution doesn't allow one state to reach into the pock

states. through our monitoring, the asc is aware that the foundation is currently working on a new strategic plan. the asc played no role in the development of this strategic plan, however, when made public, the asc will review and possibly comment on matters related to asc responsibilities. the asc continues to make progressn addressing the dodd-frank act requirements. last fall, the asc approved a plan to establish the appraisal complaint national hotline and a great deal of work has been completed towards its implementation. asc member agencies are currently working to finalize the details for internal complaint intake and disposition. launch of the hotline is anticipated before the end of 2012. the dodd-frank act also required the gao to conduct a study of the asc. in its report issued last january, the gao made three recommendations. first, gao recommended that the asc clarify definitions used to categorize states' compliance with title 11. in response, the asc has clarified the definiti

now running for state senate in the state of maine. [applause] i have also become chair of the maine green party. the state of maine, where the green party was founded in 1984 under a tree in augusta, where we got recent -- instant runoff voting for the city of portland. i have more stuff to brag about. we have had continuous ballot access since 1998. we had the first l.e.e.d. gold airport in the nation. we split our delegates. jill barr, and seven for stein. [applause] >> are gracious hosts, maryland. -- our gracious hosts, maryland. [applause] >> greetings, we are continuously fighting for the life of our chesapeake bay, which is mostly dead zones these days. we are fighting for the light of our cities and the civil-rights of all of our residents here in the great state of maryland. we are also fighting to stay on the ballot here in maryland. after 10 years of continuous ballot access, we are struggling to get back on the ballot. all of you who are watching from home, if you are a maryland registered green, please go online and sign

tax states. yet the legislation endorses the state tax disaster enforces businesses and other states to comply. would it be fair and equitable of congress passed the marketplace equity? first, would it be fair to senior citizens whose catalogs and mail female czech supporters? here is a cadillac for a national wholesale established in 1952 in north carolina and the 200 employees today. they sell sensible clothing and shoes for senior women. the average age is 70 years old at 40% pay by check for the mail-in. the national collects sales tax for north carolina, but not customers and other states. it just isn't fair to ask a grandmother to fill out the form in a way that causes us to search through 46 different states and thousands of jurisdictions to find the tax rate applied to her. second, with the speaker to a small business? it has a 1 million but that is not nearly high enough since 1 million is a tiny approbation. let me explain. i did a million in gross sales, they'll pay 750,000 or so for c

efforts here not only in san francisco, but across the state. and to mayor lee, thank you for example, your leadership, your stewardship, and her strong support and wisdom of identifying a great leader of china sf and darlene chu, carrying the torch for the board of directors. there are a number of you assembled here and you have done an extraordinary job to demonstrate our commitment not just rhetorically but substantively in terms of engaging in defiance -- advancing our collective efforts to focus on trade and exports. to the entire team that have been at the helm for decades now, here in san francisco supporting our efforts to reach out to china on behalf of them, dianne feinstein who established our sister city our protocol chief, i am honored to be here. a 12 take a brief moment to say a few things on behalf of the state of california. like san francisco, california has always been a state of dreamers, and doors, and entrepreneurs. a state head -- that has prided itself of being on the leading and cutting edge of new ideas. we're one of th

not only in states like new jersey but in all the states across the country and our federal government as well. two weeks ago i signed mied they balance budget in the a row since becoming governor. it it's a budget that increasing spending on k-12 education to a record level. $8.8 billion kniss year in state aid the k-12 education increases aid for tuition assistance, for children who need it to head to college. supports the notice sheer inable including veterans. of the working poor and makes a significant down payment 0 our pension obligation. the fact the largest single contribution that any govern hear made to our state pension system in its history, $1.1 billion this year. at the same time i used my line-item veto authority to vetoes 3ds 60 million in special interest spending so our budget this year in fiscal year 2013 which has just begun is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor governor corzine. you know, pretty good budgetary success, we're happy with it. we feel we can do better but there's one thing that did not happen i think shou

it is always is the gateway of the united states to china. as the economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and california deepens, now we believe that trade and investment keeps growing. china is the third largest export destination for california. many multinationals like hp, intel, cisco, and chevron are doing well in china. they're making money in china. at the same time, as the close relationship is going on, many chinese companies are working in san francisco in california. i would like to name a few. the tsl, ciuts, just to name a few. these are successful chinese companies working here. as the american companies in china, the chinese companies working in california in san francisco are also making contributions to job creation and the development of the economy in local areas. we're thinking these are very good signs. as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to cooper

the states in yellow are states where bills were carried over 228 swells in the states in blue are stateswhere bills were preceded or they just were not acted on. so when i'm talking about voter suppression legislation, here's the kind of thing that i'm talking about. i'm talking about cutting back their rights and abilities of everyone to vote early, requiring group of citizenship, partisan voter purges which we see actively happening now in florida, in in the same-day registrations, discouraging or making it very difficult for third-party groups to go out and just register voters and i think something that we have all heard of quite a bit about, voter i.d.. voter i.d. is something that i will touch on a little bit in just a couple of minutes and just explain why it's so bad because on the faces sounds very good but this particular legislation is something that affects women in a disproportionate way. so why does it matter to us and why does it matter to women? well, we are 52% of the voting population. if you look at what happened in 2008, we had about 70 million women vote as opposed t

in the united states when people come to the united states they become us. i'm an italian descent, whether you are jewish-american or hispanic-american you become americans and maybe the first generation is whatever the home mother country was but by the second generation the kids are in the mall and have the earphones in and are normal american kids. we integrate them into our society. europe has failed to do that and i think that then presents a very different threat. i think what you'll see politically as the europeans go to the polls is that a voting block they cannot ignore and the worry is that as europe faces economic crisis, the margins of victory are ever, ever closer in any election that they cannot ignore that voting block. and if that voting block is radicalized then i think it becomes a serious and major problem for europe. >> as in t.t. mcfarland as in ambassador ware as in many of the women in public service or private life in colorado today and across the country, conservative women, women who love freedom, women who know what's at stake. in

state of play. jeremy ayers, associate directer for the american progress is the co-author of the report, and he's going to share a bit about that now. >> we do know that some of you or all of you should have had a handout if we had enough. there's extra information. if you want to go home tonight and look at that and memorize it, you can, but we only put the social information here on the screen. for those of you watching remotely or watching us later, we'll ensure the information is on the website. what did we seek to accomplish with the report? last winter, we participated in a debate with the waivers with the folks at the institute, a debate i think we won in my humble opinion, but someone should dig into the applications and identify what's new or innovative, and so we took imhup on the challenge. the method used is simple and straightforward. we looked at every second round application. new plans approved, and we looked at that information. we were looking for changes, new changes compared to

, much smaller than in state out of state sellers. this is a problem to you? how to reconcile that? >> maybe if we had more time, that would be when it goes to next. the list of simplifications do not all need to be done. if we have a simplified system, maybe we do not need a small cellar exemption. maybe they would need a really high level for small sellers. however, i do not know with the magic number is. there is no economic policy that dictates with the magic number is. i think that is the balancing approach. >> i will let you address any of those questions in your response. but also, there is a concern that this is putting small mom- and-pop businesses out. how do address that concern if we do not do something? >> amazon, target, for over decades now. that impact is driven as the last best hope to turn to the internet to try to reach customers that may be never darken their doorstep for customers that bought once in their store and traveled home. the internet turns out, for small businesses, perhaps the only way they can survive

he was hired by penn state's board of trustees to look at penn state's role in the sandusky scandal. to find out exactly what penn state may have done wrong and this is supposed to be a no holds barred report. i have, carol, our producers going through his opening remarks now. for additional information. but we know that he is taking a very hard look at what penn state officials knew or should have known about events leading up to the scandal. we can also tell you in his prepared remarks that louis freeh, i was just told, was not able to interview the vice president, gary schultz, at penn state at the time or athletic director at the time, tim curley. and remember both of those men have been charged with the state of pennsylvania with perjury, lying to a jury, and failing to report a case of suspected child abuse. carol? >> susan, just a few questions because i know you want to go and read this report along with the team of producers who are also reading that report right now. why louis freeh? why did penn state hire him to conduct this investigation? >> well, certainly his credentia

and state by state, states began getting rid of their prohibition on birth control until finally thereme court ruled in 1965, actually, not until then that it was unconstitutional to have any ban on birth control. >> this period between 1910 and 1920, was this also parallel to the women getting the vote movement? >> yes, very much. very much. birth control was seen as a really fundamental thing that women just needed if they are to organize their lives the way they needed to be organized in modern society. but again, i would say at that time the main motive is still economic is that people are seeing that they need smaller families. that they have to educate their children. and also that they can't expect their children to go out and work at age 13 and contribute money to the family. so you can't afford as many children. >> your history on the issue is titled "moral property." what do you mean by that term? >> it's a quote. and it's actually a quote from a french minister of health at a time very recently when they tried to ban the drugru-486 which is actually an abortion-creating dr

they added an eighth state. now they are up to nine states.may be that michigan, if the numbers in michigan are real, they ought to be advertising if ten states. starting to stretch their financial resources. between may 1, roughly, and the end of july, president obama and the outside allies will spend $116 million on television, based on the buys they have placed today. and romney and his outside allies will spend $150 million. obama campaign will spend $115 million out -- excuse me. $100 million out of its own war chest. romney campaign will spend $40 million. difference will be made up by outside allies, and that is starting to stretch, the financial resources of president obama. >> i agree with karl. i think what, i think the obama campaign was hoping by now it would be slinking to four or five-state fight. and instead of that, it's broadened out. if it broadens out from michigan, then i think they planned on shutting down some get out the vote, some field organizations, shutting down the number of states they were buying spots. and instea

the reason they chose a so-called right to work state in the united states, they are competing with boeing which chose south carolina. they are competing on the low road and that is not good economic policy for the country. it is what they are doing to pad the bottom line. >> i don't know wayne, maybe all is fair in love and cheese. maybe the french have a point. what work in america. we'll build our aircraft in america . right to work state, going to do it. >> what christian mentioned was the word competition. that is the key to this. and there is competition for venues where people want to work and companies want to go and work and where the environment is for that. there is competition for venues and bid for that. if they get a thousand workers who are paying taxes that. is a boost to that economy . not only is the competition for that. but there is competition for labor and we know that capitalism. we have capitol. and labor and it is going to go to the place where it produces the most for the least coast and that is a good thing. jobs going over seas if it is cheaper to produce it ove

what we are doing in our state with medicaid we are going to a state-wide managed care program, but, even with that we are waiting on the federal government for a waiver. so, give us the flexibility to fix our medicaid program but do not force us into a program that the federal government we know cannot even afford. >> governor, you knowledge build about this as a former hospital executive, hops are saying, now, what you are required in most states by law to accept whatever patients arrive whether they have insurance or not, that if you do not have medicaid expansion in the uninsured people they will continue to turn up in large numbers in hospital emergency rooms, expecting and by law required to get treatment, that money is going to come out of the people who do have insurance or out of the hospitals bottom line. what will do you about that? >>guest: the way to fix that is what we have proposed we are waiting for a waiver from the federal government, a medicaid expansion across the state, where the medicaid population will be taken care of by managed care organizations, which will

if i'm at penn state, i love penn state as much as i love ole miss and this happened it my penn state make an argument for as long use want to talk, this is not about football. this wasn't about football and football power this was about a man who did bad things and never involved any football players, no allegation of anything involving football players and then i would return to, again, an article or a column from jeff shultz in the atlantic journal constitution and the very end of it, "the tone at top of the school said that the investigator was dissuaded the school janitors from coming forward after witnessing incidents and they were afraid of being fired for reporting a mowerful football coach." don't forget, coach sandusky's office was next to joe paterno, the offices closest to the man in charge are the offices of the greatest power. ask anyone in any corporation anywhere. the last line of this column "sandusky will spend the rest his life in prison, he could have been stopped sooner, but paterno and the powers at penn state were too concerned about the ramifications off-and-on

on this but it's not every state but it's a fair number of states across the country. so i think the states that governor ravitch looked at in his report are pretty representative what we're seeing nationally. >> i have a lot of respect for the studies but we see the problem's far more severe. we think just with respect to the healthcare liabilities to public employees that the unfounded amount of that throughout the country is in and of itself in excess of a trillion dollars. and we think the under funding of pensions depends on the interest rate you want to make about what those pension funds are going to earn. if you assume that they are going to earn 7.5 to 8% then the under funding of pension funds is in the billion dollar category. >> you're suggesting -- >> well we don't try to take a position on what the right interest rate assumptions should be, but there are an awful lot of people who think in the economy we're living in we're likely to be de-leveraging for some period of time. 8 percenters is not the direct one. >> you're also suggesting that states are usin

a state of emergency has been declared in several states. some colorado springs residents are getting a first look at their fire damaged homes today. officials are finally allowed to go back into their neighborhoods temporarily to assess the damage from the state's most damaging wildfire ever. people took to the streets of los angeles yesterday to protest the opening of three new wal-mart stores. protesters say they don't want to see those stores show up in their city and others say the company needs to treat its workers better. three colorado boy scouts and their scoutmaster are dead after a car accident in wyoming. police say the group was on its way home from a camp when their car crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a motor home head on. those are the top stories right now. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: thank you, steve. >> shannon: president obama and governor mitt romney are going head to head over the supreme court's health care decision. in a 5-4 opinion, the court declared the individual mandate constitutional as a tax. but the

we're at the missouri state penitentiary, the old missouri state penitentiary in jefferson city, missouri, and it's kind of right in the middle of the capital city of the state of missouri. from 1836 until 1989, this was the only maximum security prison for adult male offenders that was run by the state of missouri, and so basically you got every individual that was a problem child. at one time, 1967, this was called the bloodiest 47 acres in america. the building of the prison itself is located off east capital avenue, which used to be called east main street, and initially when the prison was built on this site it would have been on the outskirts of jefferson city, but the town actually built around the prison, so actually it's on the eastern side of jefferson city, but it's still with the way the city limits incorporated other areas, it's right in the middle of the town. there's two basic philosophies that evolved with regard to prisons in the united states, the first one being the pennsylvania system, which was initially started by the quakers, the first prison being the walnut street

united states. by the way, $17 trillion is 2 1/2 times the unfunded liabilities of social security, which is $7 trillion. so if my colleagues think i'm in error about any of these numbers, i would hope they would correct me. perhaps i am. we work hard to be accurate about them, and i don't believe i am off in any substantial degree. the bottom line is this -- we cannot afford this law. and the additional burden that it places on our finances. we must repeal this health care law in its entirety and replace it with the kind of reforms that improve both our finances and the health care costs of americans, not driving up their costs. this bill, whether you like it or not, will not be implemented. we don't have the money. at this time of high unemployment, no growth, it will be hard to do the things that are necessary, that we have to do. fix social security. fix medicare. provide for the common defense. those things have got to be done. we have no money to pay for a 2.6 trillion program over a ten-year

a state capable of standing on its own without the assistance of the united states and the state of israel even the president silva kier went to the people's republic of china to request that they build an alternative pipeline through kenya so they could bypass the people in the north of the country and i mean you know it will turn out a kind of not going to end with everyone else on america when there will be when south sudan got its independence they were supposed to be interdependent that was part of the plan why isn't it working out. it is not working out because of the challenges that south sudan has a war of over fifty years in the country did reduce the country troubles you travel in south sudan today and you wouldn't find about two hundred miles of paved road in a country the size of france it was a theater of operations and all the war was in south sudan the south sudan is destroyed there were no new situations to talk about and the independence had been challenged with a lot of issues one of them is south sudan is landlocked and the longest border with any country is with

this is new york state., the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. >>> hello from new york, i'm chris hayes. with me this morning, congressman peter welch, democrat from vermont, maria, anchor of npr and glenn greenwald. if you thought there was confusion over the supreme court's health care ruling, consider one of the court's other major decisions on immigration harsh statute. scholars are still debating what effect this mixed decision will have on immigration policy. the court deemed most of the law unconstitutional, including a provision that made it illegal to be an immigrant in arizona without carrying documentation, another that made it a crime for undocumented immigrants to solicit work. b

they won more seats in state they won more seats in state legislatures than since 1968. they won 63 seats in the house. look at this. look at this, the republicans did great in both of these midterm elections, 1994 and 2010. whatever party the president is, his party tends to lose seats the next time people get to vote. it happens almost every time. when you compare what happened in the first midterm under president clinton to what happened under president obama in his first midterm, look what happened in the senate. the republicans did not get much this time around in the senate. even as their landslide got bigger in the house, it shrunk a little bit in the senate. why did that happen? that happened because i am not a witch happened. the republicans were so cocky that they would be able to run the table in the 2010 elections that they picked some koo koo for cocoa puffs candidates. they picked really, really out there far right candidates for the senate in a bunch of states in 2010, and those candidates did not win, even in that bright red year. so the democrats held th

. >> state politics in new york, the teens and today. >> well, as i said, new york is this key state nationally, but it has its own particular political culture, and i think in many ways reflects some of the same things we see today, the difference between your sort of urban core, your new york at that time, largely dominated, although not exclusively by a machine, and up state new york, you've got cultural differences. you've got political differences there. and because you had all of these disdifferences, it was always a question of what kinds of issues you were actually going to be able to deal with at the state level. one of the things that al state ends up doing as governor is that he tries to make it possible for the governor to do more than he's been able to do. it's not a particularly strong post at that point. your power is really concentrated in new york city, and so al smith is sort of an ambassador from the city to rest of the state in certain ways, but he's also trying to make it possible in this kind of progressive impulse to actually make more things possible, to conso

it's way nicer to red states than blue states. the reason is the medicaid part. the medicaid part of the bill works like this. right now, states have a ton of leeway to decide who is and who isn't eligible for medicaid. texas, the they only cover adults at 26% of the poverty line. it's $11,170 a year. so you could be a single person making $3,000 a year and you're not poor enough to qualify for medicaid. that's part of the reason texas has the highest uninsured rate in the entire nation. in massachusetts, by contrast, they cover working adults up to 133% of the poverty level. this is due to a former governor whose name rhymed with smit smitt sromney. everyone making up to 133% of the poverty line, they get medicaid automatically. right now, the federal government pays about 57% of medicaid's costs. states pick up the rest. and that's a good enough deal that every single state participates. in the affordable care act for the first three acts, the feds will cover 100% of the difference between wherever the state is now and where the law wants them to go. 100%. afte

all of them could be affected by the sanctions imposed by the ncaa on penn state. >> penn state had feelers out this far. >> reporter: he is the athletic director. he has more than 30 years of coaching experience in anne arundel county. he sees the decision on players. >> it's take an player out of the game. >> reporter: with the options of penn state looking less appealing, there could be an impact on the university of maryland program. >> hopefully maryland who be in aings to jump on that. many of the kids who thought about leaving can now stay here and be provided with, obviously, a quality education. >> reporter: seeing all the desists that penn state has gone through reminds ken of how much impact the educators and at let tech department have on the students. >> the adults or entrusted with the care of young peernlings obviously, the coaches, myself, teachers, administrators, i mean it's our responsibility, and with that responsibility, some very, very -- a very, very serious duty. >> reporter: people aren't sure what the ramifications will be. a lot of people do agree it will have an

it strikes me that this state is a tough state for governor romney, wouldn't you agree? >> obama cared it by 10 points last time and he campaigned to unite people and there is a lot of independents that voted for him last time that feel betrayed and he spends all of his time attacking other people contrast that with ronald regan. he ran for reelection. good morning in america talks about the things he's doing to revitalize the american economy and dream and reducing taxes and regulations and that's what i am doing as governor and what republican governors are doing and contrast that with obama and his illinois friends. and what has the democrats done? they have the highest debt percapita. we don't. >> brit: your state is doing better doesn't that help the president? if >> it helps the republicans. as a republican governor we turned it around. so has wisconsin and michigan. but illinois hasn't. illinois is raising taxos corporations and individuals and driving and attacking the very people that you need to invest and create jobs. iowa is doing the opposite. >> brit: let m

can't we build state office buildings? can't we professionalize the state work force? so smith really believed that using the government, which was basically the people, to organize them and to deliver services, that's the proper role of government. he stood with that his whole life. he thought the new deal just went too far. >> helen in -- beverly, you want to add something? >> yeah, i just wanted to add on the national stage, i think he really plays a very different but equally important role in the sense that, you know, smith's candidacy in 1928 comes after a decade where, as we sort of said already, issues about immigration, issues about race, immigration reform passed in the early 1920s. in part targeting people from places like italy, like russia, people who were considered ethnically different. the other great kind of social phenomenon of that decade was the rise of the ku klux klan. and the ku klux klan in the 1920s is a mass organization. it's not kind of the southern targeted klan that we think of in the '50s and '60s. it's the mass organization with millions

these cases can be filed in state court and federal court in both courts, state or federal, are equipped to consider both claims, state and federal claims. i am pointing to a slide now, this is sb 1608, passed in 2008, codified in the civil code. 55.51 through 55.57. this was a piece of legislation that was intended in part to try to contain what was perceived as a growing problem presented by excess litigation. you probably heard and read about the few plaintiffs lawyers out there who have made the news. the legislation was introduced in part to address that problem. one way of doing so is that it clarified under state law per occasion which is the measure for what the scope of damages are. what it used to be prior to 160 a is civil code 55.51. prior to 1608, a lawyer could stack a case as follows. they have their client go to a public accommodation, they locate 10 barriers, and they claim damages for each barrier encountered on one occasion. multiplied by two or three different businesses identify the same problem and you have a significant problem. 1608 said it cannot do that. instead

you know i state i sorry that go ahead. here i'm sorry i missed it we had a little bit of technical difficulty and i missed a bit of the debate it just to take it back a little bit at the point that that i was in on this you know. i i'm just flabbergasted to hear something being said that the gun debate has been saddled clearly we've seen in the past few seconds on this show it's not saddled it if if you know one side has has maybe been bullied into silence that might be a way to describe the debate but hardly it's been saddled if we have politicians that don't want to show leadership on this. and have been silenced on this or chosen to be silence on this but i don't think that we can call that a debate that spends saddled and i hope we don't have to have only going on this issue go ahead david go ahead sure we can have a robust debate like we're doing right now but the in the media is very interested in that but the american people have settled the debate through their elections and the reason the politicians in washington

-- i think the state recognizes your state, ms. tucker do they recognize you too? >> we have no recognition. we were honored in 1984 and recognized in 1986. i have the language from the people sending it back and forth and since we had no indian commission they had no where to put us so we are a defector state recognition. >> i believe you've been recognized by the state? >> we have. >> if you are recognized by the state and i know the virginia tribes were, mr. moran specifically showed that less and i just think for some reason there is a shortage of wisdom in the interior department and i still believe with my colleagues that although it would take some time and effort i think we have though response of of the trust buys we shouldn't transfer power to the executive branch. we are doing it and we've done it over and over in all walks of life and i think in this case because of the nation to nation trust and authority we have to do a better job than we are going to try to do that. any other comments? >> two quick questions. >> go a

one of the states is my own state of vermont. we're seeing laws that make it severely harder for millions of eligible voters to cast ballots. i am not talking about people who would have been ineligible. these include beyond the voters, african americans -- young voters, african-americans, the elderly. i will submit all of my statement to the record, but i remember the recall election in wisconsin. voters got a robocall. the 2010 midterm elections, it went out to democratic voters in maryland before the polls had closed saying that martin o'malley and president obama had been successful and there was no need to vote. relax, everything is fine. this is orwellian. it could cost the governor o'malley and the people of maryland. 22 african-american neighborhoods in houston, texas. i think the need for a voter intimidation act is documented, real, and would prohibit any person from purposely misleading voters regarding the qualifications are restrictions. the bill offers new ways to enforce these provisions. it provides a tool for eff

three states moved to romney. one change from a t tossup state to solid romney state, missouri. minnesota and new mexico moved from obama to lean obama. now the net shift was about 58 more electoral college votes in to the lean obama category. ten more in the solid romney camp. the rest of the changes in the other states didn't affect the status. >> bret: joe, of those, what is the most significant in your mind? >> the move in the the midwest. wisconsin got better for obam obama. with michigan and ohio moving from tossup to lean obama. we start adding that up, obama is now up over 280 electoral votes, if you take obama strong states and obama lean states. that means romney now is in a position today where he has to win every single remaining tossup and get ohio or one of these lean obama states to come back in his direction. that is very significant. i think the first time we have had that number since we started looking at it. except in the very early stages when obama was ahead everywhere. >> bret: when you look at the polls, karl, you start to analyze where people are spendin

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that the state finance department is overseeing the audit of the state? >> it will be up to the state finance department to instill that confidence. i can't say. >> belva: kathryn, with your story, we are getting bad news about how much the state of california is doing on behalf of its young children. there is no confusion there over the funds. we just have a lack of effort. >> something is missing. i guess given the olympics, i'll say that the gold in this report, which is the 2012 kids count report, is put out annually by the annie e. casey foundation. california wasn't in medal contention at all. we came in 41st overall. now this looked at four broad areas. the economic well being, health and education and an area that is called family and community. and out of those four categories, we actually did, you know -- we did somewhat well in health. we came in 23rd, i believe. there are so many numbers here. 23rd in health. a lot of that, actually, was due to a major gain in the neo natal care in the state and the healthy families program which we know will

but regardless of your state law you don't need to know what your state's law is because common senseuld rule here. if you have a real suspicion of abuse or in a case like this where this wentay beyond suspicion, this is people that actually witnessed criminal acts, that should be enough to get you moving. >> brown: theresa huizar, common sense you might think but it doesn't hold. >> well, i think two things. all adults should have a sense of moral responsibility to report abuse and suspected abuse and that's something that i think the outrage around this case i think it has been at watershed moment for this country in terms of recognizing that all adults have this moral responsibility to do that irrespective of the law. i think the other piece of this, though, is that universities and other organizations really do have to have appropriate policies and procedures limiting or eliminating one adult/one child contact because that's the context in which most child sexual abuse is occurring and so... and any of those contacts have to be observable and interruptable and in this case the tes

here in washington it's seven to one military personnel opposed to department of state and u.s. id i mean clearly what is happening is that u.s. foreign policy is becoming very heavily militarized in various parts of africa peter what do you how do you respond to that because that's how it that was right there is that was my first question ok go ahead. well i think again it's a matter of looking at the data and looking at carefully for example afrikan does have at headquarters approximately thirteen fourteen hundred personnel but those are people personnel based in supporting roles in germany in stuttgart on the continent at any given moment afrikan has probably fewer than fifteen hundred military personnel many of them in and out on rotations of short periods of several weeks or even days in training exercises and other functions so when compares that to the number of. personnel in diplomatic missions and u.s. aid in any given country at any given point except when that exercise is taking place it's very hard to make the case that military personnel outnumber diplomatic and dev

they have the highest debt in the state per cap paw tau. >> your state is doing better. doesn't that help the president? >> it helps republicans because they can see with a republican governor we have turned it around. so has wisconsin, so has michigan, so has indiana. illinois hasn't. illinois is following the obama rule of raising taxes on corporations and individuals and driving -- and attacking the very people that you need to invest and create jobs. in bough hua we are doing the -- in iowa we are doing the opposite. >> let me ask you both quickly one question. and that is the obama campaign has mounted intensive attacks on governor romney on his record at bain capital and whether he was there when out sourcing was allegedly being done and so forth. does it appear to you now based on the polling with the president ahead in states like florida that they are having some affect, governor scott? >> look, i think it will come down. what governor romney is going to do, when you go to the polls and you decide in november it is going to be who will help me get my job back, w

down to make an example out of penn state? that major announcement coming in just minutes. we'll be there live. president obama comforts survivors and victims' families in aurora, colorado telling the country to focus on them and not the shooter. who himself heads to court for the first time later this morning. >>> and mitt romney gets ready to fly across the pond for a trip to israel, poland and the london olympics. is there any political risk to a week long trip abroad at this stage of a tough campaign? good morning from washington. it's monday. july 23rd, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. our first read coming up. first breaking news any minute now, penn state university will learn its fate as the ncaa prepares to hand down punishment to the football program the entire athletic department for the child sex abuse scandal. it comes just 11 days after a scathing report accused university officials of covering up allegations again then assistant coach jerry sandusky for more than a decade. national investigativ

in their states, with ten states enacting their bans since january 2001. three -- january 2011. i'd like to ask abc members and chapter staff from the virginia chapter, oklahoma chant e the heart of america chanter and the san diego chapter to stand and be recognized. finish. [applause] i would also like to recognize abc members and chapter from michigan and the inland pacific chapter for its work in idaho. [applause] both states reenacted their bans after two poorly-decided federal court decisions invalidated their 2011 laws. we strongly encourage chapters to continue working to guarantee government neutrality with regard to pl as in as many states as possible. this sends a powerful message to president obama and leaders in other states that pla mandates are something taxpayers do not want and cannot afford. the fight extends to the federal level where abc national, with the help of the open competition committee and abc members, continues to defeat proposed pla mandates and preferences on federal construction projects think effective public relations, po

revenue to our federal and state governments and many other benefits. the convention also broadens the definition of the continental shelf in a way that would significantly favor the united states. as tom touched on earlier, it would secure an additional 4.1 million square miles of ocean and provide natural resources in the arctic and other areas where in other countries and russia, for instance has already laid claim will protect our navigational rights and freedoms for our vessels. we understand that there are legitimate concerns about certain aspects of the convention. we greatly appreciate the attention by members to ensure that this convention is truly in the best interest of the united states. i'm here today to express to you the benefits for the oil and gas industry. our expectation is the administration and the congress will continue to work to ensure that the u.s. interests are protected as they represent the nation in the implementation in the treaty. in short, the law of the sea convention will advance and protect america's energy interests.

all states.media, with a very big job to do. it is a job we hate to do, because it involves actual research and reporting, all of which, all of which has to occur outside of washington, d.c. but, it can be done by phone. we now have to ask each of the 50 governors if they will veto or sign a bill expanding medicaid coverage in their states. we also, then, have to check with each of the 50 legislatures on whether they will pass a bill expanding medicaid in their states, in effect, accepting the optional offer of expanded medicaid in the affordable care act. now that you've heard the political media's homework assignment, you can understand why no one is doing it. no one is making those phone calls to all 50 states. and so i am, tonight, inviting the national media and the local media in all 50 states to put this question to governors and legislative leaders around the country, so that we can fill out a map showing exactly how much health care coverage with was lost in the united states supreme cou