and other states. our state has a strong tradition and history -- the secretary talked about that, about being a national leader in advancing health care reform. it is my hope that we can continue in that proposition by expanding our medicaid eligibility so that those who need health coverage the most have access to it. secretary smith, you mentioned in your testimony, and i read governor walker's comments yesterday, that he has not yet made a decision as of this moment on whether our state will participate in the medicaid expansion. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> i want to tell delve a little deeper in terms of the timeline for making that final decision. i know you had some press availability yesterday in our state. you made some comments that concerned me. you said the math will not work out, and yet the state has not yet completed its financial projections. you made comments about still continuing to build a model. yet, you say it is a straightforward calculation. based on those concerns,

he won all four states.you get a vote for every congressional district you win plus two if you win the popular state vote, if you did that then romney would have won 37 of the 61 electoral votes. it would have taken the national margin what we have now to 294-43. >> wow. >> basically at that point, florida which was less than a point could win it for romney in that scenario, even with him losing the national popular vote by four points. and then i asked dave wasserman, with the cook political report. i said if you did that in every state around the country, if that was the methodology, how would this year have gone? he said 276-62 romney. romney would have won if you did every state based on congressional districting. gerrymandering is part of it. the other aspect is lot of democratic voters are packed into geographically small areas. it's cities and the districts are drawn in ways that the city is the district. so when you do that, it opens up these sort of wide swaths of suburbia that you could have four o

only is the 50th state -- illinois is the 50th state. as a percentage of the population, the police officers who are trained are convicted of firearms violations at the same rate as the private citizens who carry concealed weapons and have permits. i do not think it is more unsafe to have private citizens protect us then to have the police protect us if the police cannot get their act in time. it doesn't take more than five minutes to shoot 20 people. you cannot get the police there in time. is somebody having a gun in a parked car could save lives because somebody could go loud and gone a gun and prevented the killer from proceeding further. this will not solve everything. have we made our mental health laws too loose? have we made some lost to extreme so we cannot possibly have a weapon? host: we have this tweet from judi bee. guest: well, that may be true. the supreme court has ruled. it will not be overturned any time in our future history saying this is an individual right for self protection. the supreme court disagrees with you. t

the right to work state, the newest is the state of michigan. if any state was emblematic of organized labor this country, it has to be the state of michigan, moving in the direction of north carolina and 23 other states as well. this is starting to look like a serious shift historically. perhaps the entire nation becoming brightwork. >> i agree with that. i agree with that because you see 91010 states. especially michigan. lou: insurance exchanges states are deciding whether to create insurance for themselves or -- i don't know whether to call them architects are what obamacare -- these insurance exchanges are not happening. eighteen states plus washington dc are the only ones who have declared that he they will set their own exchanges under obamacare. by my math, that leaves 25. we are going to leave it up to the government. that is remarkable. >> i was proud to be part of a 26 a coalition that led the fight against this health care lawsuit to this report. we were able to carve out the ability for states to opt out. i am proud of governor nikk

it was limited to just a few southern states, mostly anti-union states from the start.is coming to the heartland. it is coming to the heartland probably most likely because in 2010 the supreme court basically said we are taking away all of the constraints on political giving, political donations, very wealthy people, companies, wall street. now basically, the constraints are gone. we have a bunch of republican legislatures and republican governors even in heartland states like michigan and wisconsin certainly that are willing and eager to take on unions because that's what their patrons want. >> eliot: our time is up but i want you to come back in the near future because your blog posting which put this into the larger context of the other elements on the assault on middle class income from the taxes, the budget cuts, all directed at the middle class and the poor as opposed to the wealthy is hugely important. >> unfortunately, part of the same big picture. >> eliot: we need you to explain it some other day in the next couple of days. former labor of secretary robert rei

it is a bunch of states saying we will pledge to vote this state, no matter what happened in the statepular vote in the united states. they are a long ways away from it. 138 electoral college votes -- maryland is one of them. california just came in. it seems like a movement towards that. so, it would be closer to the popular vote approach, which is more democratic in people's minds than this method. host: a viewer rights on twitter -- guest: district gerrymandering action does not make that much difference in this case. in california there are 55 electoral college votes. you could have a bunch of districts that are very states and even after of the redistricting in california -- it does not make any difference. if a presidential candidate wins by one vote, would take all, he gets all 53 congressional districts and two senate seats. host: did you hear any more or less talk this year leading up to the election of changing the electoral college or perhaps doing away with it altogether? guest: there is always discussion, especially among those and academia and media, let's see if we can d

bound to a federal union or european union or state of the united states of europe they can of course leave or negotiate the treaties short took tony i mean i'm not saying the united states of europe is a bad idea but the people sign up for it. i think in ireland initially many many people were reluctant to both north and scythe in this country and we joined the european union but i think very very quickly people realized the economic benefits you know we've essentially got you know free trade across borders and i think one of the most important things is that when we're speaking about the various you know groups ethnic groups of people around europe i don't see that anyone has lost their ethnic identity their cultural identity and certainly if anything in ireland today the cultural identity of people the stronger since he joined the european union so i mean i don't think people here are not i reluctantly members i think they realize that in the global economy that we have today we have no choice but to work together in cooperation federalism even in ireland today we have still got ou

i think these states are smaller states, more rural states, states in which public employee unions have less leverage in politics, which makes a big difference. and i think where infrastructure needs are nowhe near as great as in the states that have several cities which requir massive public transportation mechanisms. but the fact that those analogies aren't there doesn't minish in any way the quite prudent and proper steps the states have taken to keep their own fiscal house in order. rtainly having rainy day funds, which many of the big northern states haven't had, is absolutely critical. to take care of the enormous variations that occur in budgets in the economy. i think you can't lose sight of the fact that one of the reasons you have smaller medicaid expenditure is because of the federal formula which favors some states because it isn't based on the actual need, it is based on a median income calculation. and as a result of at, states like new york or california has a lot more poor people and also has a lot of rich people, so it doesn't get the same break. you get over 60% reimbu

and a palestinian state, they always said no if there is a jewish state. it is the lack of acceptance of a jewish state for this entire time that has prevented the emergence of the palestinian state. >> charles issue right in most regards about this, and israel has history on its side in terms of the right, but at the moment it does not have the present on its side and it is behaving in a way in which it alienates a great many people. to have only nine countries signed with israel on this a vote against palestinian statehood, and have some of our closest allies -- germany, which would not do this lightly, abstain -- it is quite a message to where israel is in its position in the world, and it cannot be ignored forever. >> no wonder israel feels isolated. this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. overwhelming -- not small, but avalanche majorities. it is no wonder that they feel isolated. it puts the united states in an awkward position, but it is not new. >> nothing awkward about sticking to the decision we have had for 20 years since osl

of serbia and then head of state of yugoslavia say when he indicts. she doesn't indict him as an individual but because he's had a slate of bosnian serbs and the same thing with the croatian subs i mean it's totally disingenuous to say that we goes off their individual who are these individuals individuals all heads of state ok lawrence i want to ask another gear before we end the program if it had to turn into the i.c.c. to people to commit crimes. you think it were it's working. i don't think we. my own view is that international criminal law the justification for the international criminal law is not so much that it deters future leaders for committing similar kinds of atrocities it might but deterrence is a negative effect it's very very difficult to prove it's very difficult to prove even in a domestic law model so i look at the justification for international criminal prosecutions more as a symbolic gesture on the part of the global community that certain acts are just beyond the pale and i think it performs extremely important symbolic function

that is very different than the state and it's very different i mean. using drones while using these drones killing people the u.s. wants to join the i.c.c. george jump in the united states is more than happy to cooperate with the i.c.c. when the i.c.c. is indicting and prosecuting adversaries of the united states of course it was absolutely delighted when the i.c.c. took on the case of gaddafi and then issued its indictment of gaddafi without any proper investigation and and in due course moreno ocampo put out the most nonsensical propaganda stick statements of the americans such as gaddafi was. feeding his men with viagogo in order to commit rape so yes of course the united states is happy to cooperate when it goes after its adversaries but there is when you look at the united states is it really likely that it's going to accept jurisdiction by an international court when it is reluctant to prosecute its own crimes even in its domestic courts i mean remember president obama as soon as he was elected and then so we must look forwards not backwards and

he wanted to see the state of sonora in the united states. he had expensive designs with the united states should take which were more than he told nicholas. he told crist to come home and he refused to come home. tryst along with scott, decided it was the most important thing he could do and afterwards said himself he wanted to make a tree that was not exacting to mexico. he wanted to save the mexican people from a continuous civil war and dismemberment of the country so he said i am not going to come home and made a treaty despite the fact that he wrote to his wife i will probably never work in washington again. my career is over and his career was over. polk was so angry that he withheld tryst's pay when he returned to the united states and tryst, his family became incredibly poverty-stricken and wasn't until after the civil war when ulysses grant was president that tryst got another position at the end of his life and given a sort of not very demanding position running a post office in virginia but until that point tryst was broke and his

state environment records show.oxide emissions have returned to normal at the refinery, a full week before it was reported to have come back online. really? similarly, chevron's richmond refinny was reported down for maintenance for two weeks in may, right, that's what we were told, but emissions data suggests the refinery never ceased operation. shell's refinery in martinez and chevron's in richmond were supposedly offline not making anything so gas prices had to go up. one report concludes actually they were up and running. . what? they just didn't want to say so? everybody knows how supply and demand works. in this case if supply and demand do not explain what was going on here, that's a scandal. that had a huge economic impact. were the refinery companies lying about this just to boost prices up and pocket the difference? does this happen all over the country? what's going on here? and what tools do we have to figure it out if we are being suckered? we do have ta tool. it lives in the department of justice. six

state within minutes and to the president of the united states, within hours. got attacked twice. requests for security were being made constantly. those decisions are made by the secretary of state and the president of the you said. we need to know why they didn't provide more security for these people in benghazi. that answer is not given in this report. they evade it -- >> you know i. the secretary's not testifying tomorrow. okay? she is sick. she has a concussion. hopefully, she will recover and will be able to testify and the president has to answer for this as well. >> it's interesting. there was sort of, everyone is applauding it in the last 24 hours since it came out and concluding that the conclusion of the report eye am obviously being very superficial is that security is lax. i thought to myself, really? was that the tipoff to that? i thought, having looked at investigation for many years, i thought, why are they telling me something so patently obvious? of course, security is lax! you don't have four dead bodies -- yet there is nothing that is a --

in your state? >> yes, in west virginia we are the first states to start implementing that. >> florida is a real i.d. stadium for those of you that don't have real i.d. that can't be fun particularly on the female voters when they get a driver's license you have to show with your cord record and showing if your name was changed before marriage that is required under real i.d.. men have no such problem. the issue is this issue of -- >> maybe same-sex marriage will change that. [laughter] >> what is the model law if we can arrive at that because florida has no match, no vote at the front end. you are not eligible to be registered unless you are voter registration database and if you match up with the department of corrections and you are not a felon coming to match up with the highway safety, you have a valid driver's license that matches and weaker lottery corporate the last four digits of your social security number and pass that and you were allowed to be registered. that's how florida allows for a

red states got really red, blue states got really blue. it goes further than that. because it's not just one-party rule. one-party majority. it's one-party mega rule in a lot of states. take a look at california. democrats don't just have a majority in the california state legislature now. they are going to have a super majority. meaning that republicans essentially don't have enough minority power to stop anything the democrats want to do. the same story in indiana, but for the republicans. indiana republicans will have a super majority in the house and in the senate and they hold the governor's mansion. ditto, oklahoma. republicans took a supermajority and turned it into an even bigger supermajority. this is what happened in 2012. not just the disappearance of divided rule in the states. split rule between two parties. but the rise of super majority one-party rule. that's a position of immense power for whichever party it is in control. they get to do what they want. if you think about it, you better trust those people because there's essentially no bulwark agains

bill don't you find it very problematic that the united states likes to support the i.c.c. against its enemies but it's not a member of it and will not join it. that's hypocrisy absolutely. yeah. that is a very appropriate allegation of hypocrisy and i have spoken out publicly in favor of the u.s. joining the i.c.c. i think it's outrageous that we claim to be a country devoted to the principles of. vod justice and equity and yet do not join an international organization. that upholds those principles the i.c.c. was created largely as a result of pressure being brought by n.g.o.s such as human rights watch and amnesty international and so forth. the governments were not pressing the governments were brought into it but the problem is is that many of the important countries of the world the great powers of the world if you will including the united states china japan india and so forth have refused to join and as long as those countries are repudiating the i.c.c. it loses its credibility ok lawrence i mean what do you think about this i mean you've got a who looks out to the

, and they differ from state to state, like how old do you have to be to get married, and what do youet out of a marriage? the issue of same-sex marriage is widely expected to divide the court along liberal- conservative lines, but not necessarily. lee swislow of gay and lesbian advocates and defenders says there is a "state's rights" component in the case that could win over some conservative justices. >> when a state says you're married, does the federal government, as it has always done in the past, agree with that state definition? this is the first time that the federal government has ever reached in and said, "we don't care what you say, state. we're going to have our own definition of marriage." and we don't think there's any legitimate reason for the federal government to take this unprecedented action. >> throwing out doma would not require all states to recognize gay marriage, but striking prop 8 possibly could. a number of mainstream religious groups do not support gay marriage. >> authentic, biblical, historic, orthodox christianity has always affirmed marriage being one m

and then miraculously within a year you know state of israel was created in the small of your state prevailed and so forth. but then when you look at the details you see that the jewish community at the time which is a small group of immigrants really less than half a million immigrants were living there at the time were suddenly given by the united nations the lion's share of the country and the palestinians who were the vast majority in palestine at the time were were deprived of more than half of their land which is absurd and then you look further and you see that the jewish community had a massive militia of almost forty thousand armed men which my father was a was your father was an officer and there was an equivalent on the palestinian side there was no fighting force in the both inside and then once again you keep looking further and you see that as soon as this resolution was accepted the israeli forces began a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing is probably one of the worst acts of terror that it's taken place in that part of the world in a very long time for an entire year design

the right to work state, the newest is the state of michigan.f any state was emblematic of organized labor in this country, it has to be the state of michigan, moving in the direction of north carolina and 23 other states as well. this is starting to look like a serious shift historically. perhaps the entire nation becoming brightwork. >> i agree with that. i agree with that because you see 91010 states. especially michigan. lou: insurance exchanges states are deciding whether to create insurance for themselves or -- i don't know whether to call them chitects are what obamacare -- these insurance exchanges are not happening. eighteen states plus washington dc are the only ones who have declared that he they will set their own exchanges under obamacare. by my math, that leaves 25. we are going to leave it up to the government. that is remarkable. >> i was proud to be part of a 26 a coalition that led the fight against this health care lawsuit to this report. we were able to carve out the ability for states to opt out. i am proud of governor nikki

two states.inner of a state's popular vote takes all its electoral votes. now a republican leader in the state of pennsylvania -- or the commonwealth i should say wants to change the rules of the game. state senate majority leader dominick peg leg give announced he plans to introduce legislation to change how the state allocates its electoral votes. according to mother jones magazine, the new rule would divvy up the vote proportionally based on vote based on the percentage of the vote. instead of getting 20, a winner in a closely divided state might get 11 or 12 votes. why does he want to change the rules? could it be because the state has gone for the democratic presidential candidate? for now, we turn to david corn of mother jones and ron reagan, an msnbc political analyst joining me. i want to start with ron. why would they want to change the ee lk tolectoral state like pennsylvania? why would they do that? >> well, i think the republicans have examined the playing field as it were and through

the united states that is looking a little less with grassroots movements crying in each state to secedefrom the union that the move is largely symbolic more than a million americans have now signed petitions to the white house saying that angered with the government encroaching on states' rights artie's more in a partner. tonight. for two hundred years after the former colonies won the right to determine its own best of the. test a perfecting of art helium moves forward. for weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from the so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael tuggle. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the

in a swing state. it just presents multiple problems, and frankly it is politics that stands in the way of achieving that balance, not policy. it's the process of getting there that has been the biggest impediment for being where i think we should be in our state. and i'm going to explain to you the ohio experience. in 2011, not long after i was elected, i made a proposal that included a balanced approach, it had ideas from local boards of elections. it had ideas from my democratic predecessor. even had some ideas from pew in it. and we took this legislative package and we called it the election modernization balancing access and accuracy in ohio elections. and as a former speaker of the house i can tell you, i know how to run a bill through the legislative process. i checked all the boxes. we know how to sell a reform package. we went to the lenl leadership of both parties -- legislative leadership of both parties. we visited individually of all the committee members from both mills parties in the hou

take a closer look at right to work states verses nonright to work states.e. >> thousands of angry demonstrators came out to protest as lawmakers made in michigan right to work state yesterday. they showed the state has a much better chance at job broet thanks to t-- job groept thanks to the move. the bureau of economic analysis shows when it comes to employment right to work states have an advantage for conditions of the employment from 2001 nonfarm private sector payrolls increased 2.4 percent in right to work states while the decreased in nonright to work states. nonprivate sector employment increased 10.3 percent in nonright to work states while it increased in 9 percent in right to work states. even the latest data echos this friend in october 2012 the average unemployment right to work states was 6.9 percent verses 7.6 percent unemployment in nonright to work states. despite the numbers right to work laws and other anti-union measures lead to lower wages for workers across the board. that still beats the salary of a nonexistent am. we will be keeping a

sorry, secretary of state. i was wondering if you and the other senators could reflect on the wisdom of that appointment at how easy this confirmation process coming out? >> we believe the president's by virtue of winning the election should have the right to pick people that he wants. if those individuals we do not agree with philosophically, that is not the criteria. the criteria is whether that person is qualified and will do that job that fits the responsibility they are given. we have known john kerry for many years. we have confidence in john kerry's ability to carry out the job. i would also like to emphasize our job is advice and consent, and the nomination process in the hearings and votes are what really matters. >> i think senator kerry was a very solid person for the president. he knows most of the world leaders. when he goes to a country he will be a known quantity. i have disagreed with him on a lot of policy choices, but i think he will be a very solid choice. about nominations, i have a good rec

you didn't know our state drink. big, big mistake. >> what's the state drink?ghter ] >> there is a state drink? >> it's milk. [ laughter ] >> haley also writes on her facebook wall, he will make this decision quickly. number one, he will not take the appointment myself. number two, i will appoint a person who has the same philosophy of government that jim demint and i share. here is what senator demint and the current heritage foundation president told rush limbaugh yesterday. >> well, i can say boehner is not forcing either of you guys out, right? >> that's pretty true. it might work a little bit the other way, rush. >> joining me now, msnbc's ari melber and "the huffington post's" ryan grim. ryan, you can't -- these guys can't just go quietly into the night there has to be a little zinger, a little fork in the eye to john boehner on the way out. i wonder what you make of demint's departure from the senate. is it better for democrats or for the republican party? >> well, it's certainly better for jim demint. his salary increased something like six-fold. plus,

>> well unfortunately, this is probably going to encourage other states states to do it. as bad as this is there is always a silver lining. to me i have never seen the labor movement come together so strongly in michigan such great solidarity, from all of the un ions. a lot of our members will get more engaged now i think. so itas bad as this is for the general public in michigan it could help build a stronger movement in michigan because we see that there are attacks on anybody that is a constituent group in the democratic party, latinos, women, lgbt community, immigrants anybody who might work to voice their democratic rights, they try to take away our rights. >> all right. right. well, bob, i hope you are right. i hope everybody watching this is a progressive show. sports what's happening on the union side sports the workers and the labor movement in michigan, bob king president of the uaw, thanks for coming inside the war room. coming up tea party ringleader jim demint is leaving the senate. if you are a woman, a minority a teacher, a union member or a homosexual, not

states. so just go for it because who knows how long that will last. but it's very interesting that it's in michigan and it's governor snyder whom i've met. i spent a day with him about a year and a half ago right after he had taken office. and he clearly wanted to project a sort of very, very far right conservative agenda but with a smile, with a kind of technocratic smile. and all of a sudden the smile is like missing. it's gone. he's not smiling anymore. and neither are the people of michigan, who are not going to like this sort of governance. >> i think that state politics are important in illuminating anyway. particularly when republicans aren't actually running anything from washington. you get to see the relationship between their rhetoric and how they're actually going to behave when they're actually in control of things, and they are in the state. so it's always interesting. but in this case i feel like in these weeks after the election when the republicans just got shellacked we hea

speaking of undefeated teams and an in-state battle, wright state traveling down the road to take onearly it was wright state impressive. travis sledge with the hammer. >> seth: cincinnati has had trouble scoring the basketball. first half in this one and first half against xavier they were able to explode. you saw titus rubles with the put-back, and cincinnati, their next game is at new mexico at home and they have to play at pittsburgh. if they can't score the ball better they're going to lose soon. >> doug: they went to the sweet 16 and they have four veteran starters. a team you don't want to play if you're hitting perimeter jump shots. north carolina fresh off the loss on the road, returning home to mighty mcneese state. get-right game as reggie bullock helps them take the lead to get going, then they start hitting trey after trey. >> seth: they were 13-20 behind the arc, good to see them feeling good. >> doug: bottom right corner, they take on unlv, a payback game as rebels come to town. texas traveling without myck kabongo, out 23 games, the ncaa reduced its suspension but the

the united states claims that it wants separation of church and state in the world affairs and it's fro secularism and here we have allied ourselves with one hobby country that pumps out the religious doctrines and supports schooling for wallabies for islamic schools and so it does make a very strange alliance but we want oil and we want bases in the in the persian gulf and the arab gulf and we want to support. saudi arabia so that that is what we have and we saw in bahrain when our principles came up against our national security interests in other words supporting democracy which would be supporting the shiites in bahrain. we have done it only rhetorical but in actuality we've supported the monarchy and we've supported. the counter democratic forces if you will because those are the ones who are allied with and that helps us retain our interests national security interests in the gulf when moving on how does that look in the region i mean if the u.s. and saudi arabia are so aligned does that empower the shia. it causes a great deal of animosity on part of the shiites towards the us an

he wanted the state of sonora in the united states. he had expansive designs on what the united states should take from mexico for a much more he told tryst he had negotiated for. he told trista come home to what happened was refused to come home. traced, along with scott decided that vacated peace treaty with mexico is the most important thing he could do. he wanted to make a treaty that was not expecting to mexico. he wanted to save the mexican people from a continuation of the war and dismemberment of the country. he said i'm not going to come home and he made a treaty of quantum that they had although despite the fact he wrote to his wife, i will probably never work in washington again. my career was over and affect his career was over. polk was so angry that he withheld pay interest, his family became incredibly poverty-stricken. it wasn't until after the civil war when ulysses grant was president petraeus got another position and was given this sort of not very demanding as they should run in post office in virginia. up until tha

we're "the united states of america." we're enot the state of maryland, the state of vermont.we're the united states of america. and we've come together as a country, whether the disaster has been in california or on the east coast or in southern states or in the west. we come together, and that's what we're trying to do here. and i would defy any senator who is worried about us coming together to help these people, go to one of the homes -- go to one of the homes on long island, go to one of the homes in the devastation, go to one of the businesses where you have a couple that spent their whole life building up their business, hoping to have something to leave to their children and now they're looking at rubble. come on ... these are real people. this is the united states of america. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: stphaot quorum cal: quorum call: mr. leahy: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call b

any habitat about a four state solution. before the state being the ultra-orthodox.and lastly, aren't atomic bombs altogether and anachronistic if the next war is going to be computer -- with the code? cyberattack. >> i would answer with your permission. first of all, you're right. if iran becomes nuclear, technology will look at syria today. it's a big issue with the chemical weapons in syria. nobody can guarantee today with the chemical weapons attack knowledge he will not go to hezbollah and lebanon to go anywhere and it is a threat to all of this. it is an issue of concern for all of us. regarding orthodox and israel, i read a lot about it in "time" magazine and i know you discussed this issue. but israel is a strong democracy we are orthodox and israelis and they live together and go to elections together. i sit in the parliament that the arab member retune on to create all the time, but we do not argue all the time. i think it is a strong democracy today. israel can be proud of that democracy. i know for some americans it's easy to criticize the democracy in is

of state.e thank you lord for these colors that have been presented that our promises to every citizen in the united states for freedom and justice. we thank you for our national anthem that reminds us of such, as we celebrate the beauty of this nation, filled with opportunity and wonderment, we'd come up for the pledge of allegiance where we are called once again to dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of happiness for all of our citizens and for those in the great state of north carolina. lord, as we gather in these moments, we thank you for the meaning of the season, which causes us to recognize that there is light even in the midst of darkness. thank you lord for the power of your word and the promise of your word, that the word has become flash and walz among us. -- dwells among us. you have offered to us the gifts for the season that will take us far beyond the month of december, and that is the gift of grace and the gift of truth. bless the members of this great community of electors. we pr

it's fitting the hawaii state for the enduring state of democracy, the dome of the capitol, and it's proper that he should rest upon the lincoln platform upon which abraham lincoln, president john f. kennedy, rosa parks, and 26 others of this nation's luminaries have lain in state. dan inouye was an institution and deserves to spend at least another day in this beautiful building in which he dedicated his life. as a second longest serving senator in our history, dan inouye represented our 50 #th state on the first day was admitted to the union, but his tradition of service began long before he came to the united states senate. he was just a boy when he heard the war planes, the drop on pearl harbor, andgan to give aid to the wounded. he was 13 when he volunteered to serve the nation overseas even though his people have been declared aliens, and looking at secretary here, who served in one of those intournament camps. senator inouye became a member of the regimennal combat team, the most highly decorated unit in the history of the united states' military. that says it all. after being

two states. upon this declaration, the palestinians declared war on the jewish half. that effort was frustrated ultimately by jewish defense. when the partition resolution came into being on may 14, 1948, seven arab armies invaded the new jewish state in an effort to prevent its emergence. that effort was also rebuffed. >> what was the size of the jewish state after the vote on the u.n. and they partitioned it off? >> i'll rephrase the answer a little bit. the jewish state that emerged as the state of israel at end of the war of independence, the beginning of 1949, was 30% larger than the jewish state created by the u.n. in november of 1947. israeli forces succeeded in pushing the arabs back. the israelis had conquered no sovereign arab territory, but that 30% would have been part of the palestinian-arab state had that state, in fact, come into being. as it happened, the area that was supposed to have been earmarked for the palestinian state was taken up by israel, by jordan which annexed the wes

>> well, these are state laws so they vary from state to state. connecticut, as an example, has among the most stringent, restrictive commitment laws so the only way you can get somebody treated in connecticut is if they are overtly a danger to themselves or others. you can't treat them because they are potentially, because they have exhibited dangerous, dangerous behavior in the past. you have to wait until they actually do something. they also, connecticut's a good example of one of only six states that does not have assistant outpatient treatment. which means you can treat the person living in the community on the condition they can live in the community on condition that they take the medication. connecticut doesn't even have a law like that. >> so, but who makes that decision when you say assist in outpatient treatment. in the case of adam lanza, who would say, look, you would need to take this treatment, otherwise you're going to have to be incarcerated? >> the petition could be filed by the mother or by another family member or by a member

states that are not right to work states.n the other? >> this really gets to the heart of cutting through the spin, because there are so many partisan special interests that do the analysis. we called the bureau of labor statistics. it is clear that right to work states have a slight edge on unemployment. unemployment rate in right to work states, 7.6%. in non-right to work states, union states, 6.9%. >> jobs, great. how about wages? >> that's the rub. analysis here shows analysis in 2007 by hofstra university said there arless bankruptcies in right to work states but wages and overall earnings are in aggregate less. again, here, states can point to a higher unemployment rate, rather, lower unemployment rate in right to work states but it comes out of the wages. >> while we can do measurements on unemployment statistics and hard wage numbers, it's a little more tricky to find out what the benefits are of benefits and measuring benefits. >> that's exactly right. this is part of the key debate. contracts have great benefits. th

hoping the states will say yes. >> they want a state based exchange to run it.hey are confident they can or have the money to do it. >> the treasury department told fox news we are confident interpreting this provision to provide tax credits to individuals in every state is supported by the statute to interpret it. >> it's litigated and one of those things that decided at the supreme court level. >> critics argue it's anything but clear. federal officials acknowledge they weren't sure where the funds would come from. one more question mark long before the exchange start in 2014. >> some republicans in the senate led drive to reject the united states treaty on the right of disabled to say it threatened the sovereignty. that included former senator bob dole and wife elizabeth. dole was disabled in world war ii. the 89-year-old republican was hospitalized but came to the senate today to push for the treaty. colorado michael bennett will be the chairman of the democratic senatorial campaign committee for 2014 election cycle. they have asked debbie waserman schultz t

get the two states. by the way, that is the electoral college. 435 state representatives and senators and three in washington, d.c. if we went by strict proportional representation, some people think it would have changed the outcome of this election and other elections -- no. if we have strict proportional representation, obama would have had 282 fewer electoral college votes and romney would have more, 252, but obama would win because you need 270 to win. host: it was established in the 12th amendment, 535 electors in total. usually elected at state conventions and approved by voters. majority of 270 of the electoral votes are required to elect a president and vice president. the number of the state electors equals one for each house member and two for senators the most states except for maine and nebraska have a winner-take-all system. controversy -- how does it play out? guest: some of the criticisms of the electoral college is that it is really only the democracy in the world that does not have a po

more union states rights.ced workers must stand up because unless they fight back in a big way, michigan will metastacize. >> of course, their argument is this is good for business and good for workers because there will be more jobs than indiana has gained jobs and gained businesses by taking this route. i just want to give you a chance to respond. >> that's bologne. epi just came out with a study today, and there's been a lot of studies done in oklahoma. right to work does not help new businesses come in. right to work lowers wages both for union, nonunion members. it lowers benefits. it lowers health care. right to work is bad for working families. >> it's the right to work for less. they are still fighting for the right to corporate greed to take jobs and cheap labor markets so they can get right to work law states in indonesia and china and then made right to work law here. it means it's a gap between the wealth and the workers. workers have a right to expect liberal wages, health care, education care, th

states is that as many states start there legislative sessions next month is just the uncertainty from capitol hill. >> reporter: the uncertainty will make it difficult to put together state budgets, which need to be in place before the new fiscal year begins next summer. two big unknowns: the future of medicaid and municipal bonds. medicaid and the children's health insurance program, or chip, which under current law are exempt from the sequester, could be one area where lawmakers look to make cuts. in 2010, more than 40%-- or about $278 billion states received in overall funding-- went to these two programs. >> looking at past proposals, there is a good chance that something like medicaid would be cut, and that would obviously have direct impact on state budgets. but what it would entail is still unknown. >> reporter: also on the table for lawmakers to consider: municipal bonds. they've traditionally been tax- exempt. if that changes, they could become less attractive as an investment vehicle, and end up raising borrowing costs for states and municipalities. >> it would effectively i

national group in the world to have its own state and the what we look for in. if we can use the term international community as a solution is basic fundamental rights and reforms and that are suited to each individual case and that's where i think we would hope for a positive outcome but who knows no one really knows what's going to happen in syria first of all around when we had how many of you by him in the last minute i want to run i want to go to brussels get the last word is that what is the nature for the kurds are they going to i mean they've waited a long time that they could still wait. i mean the kurds as opposed to the clearly spies to to have the greater rights in the region they want they're living in that could be they could be described as a new nation state full kurds or it could be described as equal rights on the coming along to go in the new constitution drafted in each of the countries it is all about turkey for me because turkey has the largest kurdish population in the walt turkey has the largest claim to kurdish physical land in the old a

this is our state. >> jon: our state is a democratic state. >> jon: but here is what we've got to do. down to what dow call it delorenzo he and have a nice tomato pie. >> that would be nice. >> jon: and solve the problems of the worlding to in a booth. >> i'm ready to do it, let's do it. >> jon: governor christie, (cheers and appla #ezÀ0]