the state of new york state is that new york state is rising. new york state is rising because its more unified than ever before. new york state is rising to build back better and stronger than ever before. new york state is rising to build a smarter, stronger state than we ever had before. new york state is rising with a passion and a commitment to make this state better than its ever been with a brighter future than it has ever had for your family and my family and new york is rising. with us together as one committed to that vision and making it a reality this year. thank you and god bless you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming and that ends the 2013 state of the state. thank you very much. >> new york governor speaking almost an hour and 20 minutes laying out his agenda, the state of the state taking place in the convex center. he covered issues from tourism to education. we're going to focus on his comments about the assault weapons. the seven-point plan he laid out, the toughest assault weapon plan is what he is

the state of new york state is that new york state is rising. new york state is rising because it's more unified than ever before. new york state is rising to build back better and stronger than ever before. new york state is rising to build a smarter, stronger state than we ever had before. new york state is rising with a passion and a commitment to make this state better than it's ever been with a brighter future than it has ever had for your family and my family and new york is rising. with us together as one committed to that vision and making it a reality this year. thank you and god bless you. [applause] , bob macdonald delivers his state of the commonwealth address. education and mental issues. this is just under one hour. [applause] [applause]

than in many states and other states. this is the time to use the language of experiment mentation. the primary concern of the fashion will be if colorado and washington will lead the rest of the country? colorado and washington may become the way for the other 48 states. supremacy clause aside, it does not seem reasonable to expect the federal government to allow colorado to create a system that profoundly affects the other state. so the price of federal aquiescence should be minimizing out of state consequences. when it comes to legal marijuana affecting other states, you hear mostly -- i think it makes for a -- you mostly read about the kids going off to the mountains. moving towards people is equally important with moving in both direction is important. but people moving in with tourism somehow attracts more stories. this is going to be extremely flunetial. if and when a matter of time the subjects in those stories include children. the government might want to make a show some effort to stop pot terrorism promotion.

the other system is state to state. an area where dhs provides money for a consortium of states to work on. the ideal would be if someone came in for a driver's license presenting an identity, the state would be able to confirm that that identity is not associated with a license in the other states. great idea principle but when you get into details, privacy, technology, a lot of those issues have come up. at the time of our report what we reported was this group saying they were looking to pilot the system in 2015 with ultimate full implementation by 2023. long time. longtime to live with this boulder ability out there and in fact what we did was exploit this vulnerability because we wanted to see how easy could we do this? how is this possible? lot of states have done a lot of things. if you look at the whole country as a system, we are only as strong as the weakest link, only as strong as whatever loophole is still there for criminals to exploit. what we did is we created -- we have an identity that as far as the sec

yes exactly united states. gets more of damage because united states is much more active but even for russia i think the major major point to you we can see. articles oh it's absolutely impossible to understand what's happening let's be cautious that there's he blamed states for didn't want to give you the last word in the program how we could see mr obama and mr putin meet after all of the things that are said about putin well i think that on the russian side there will still be a hand outstretched because as i told you the russian elite wants to the east wants to be friends with the americans the problem is that it was not accepted back in the ninety's and even now and the whole conflict inside the russian and what we see now in the media you know with these and time again it's good deals and other things this is basically a fight of two groups within the russian elite one group says do everything that they want without any fascinating discussion thank you very much all right we have run out of time on it tha

it's easy to undo an experiment in two states than in many states and other states since this is languagether washington colorado at the risk of the country. colorado and washington become the white house for the other states. it does not seem reasonable to expect federal government to allow colorado to criticism that profoundly affects the other states. the price of federal acquiescence. when it comes to legal marijuana affect gene other states, inmates become mostly read about the kid -- [inaudible] but it's equally important across the lands. people know the power coming in for the curious and attracts more and so this is going to be extremely influential in shaping how to generate public regards the legalization because that's the price of their meeting. especially if and when any matter to the subjects of the stories include children. the federal government might want to make a show some effort for promotion, it is to be adjusted towards trying to make it salty promotion. if they make a good-faith effort of tourism and happens anyway, they can save the hard thing to do. if they don't

bound to a federal union or european union or state the united states of europe they can of course leave or negotiate the treaties short ok 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 and they should leave many many people who are reluctant to both north and siphon this country let me join the european union but i think very very quickly people realize the economic benefits you know we've been safely 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 we joined the european union so i don't think people here are not a reluctant 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 our two co

and an experiment in two states than in many states, and other states will tip since this is the time to use the language of experimentation. a primary concern of the states will be whether washington and colorado flood the rest of the country, a reasonable concern. colorado and washington may become the weighhouse for the other 48 states. it does not seem reasonable to expect the federal government to allow colorado to create a system that profoundly effects the other states. so the price of federal acquiescence should be minimizing out-of-state consequences. and when it comes to legal marijuana affecting residents in other states, the media tends to obsess about -- [inaudible] i think that's what makes it more fun. but pot moving towards people is equally important across state lines. pot moving in both directions is important. but tourism somehow attracts more of the story, so this is going to be extremely influential in shaping how the general public regards marijuana legalization. and especially -- if and when, a matter of time -- the subjects this those stories include children.

the reasons why each of these states have only one clinic vary from state to state.ut in each of these states it was not always the case. each of these states used to have more than one abortion provider and in each of these states only one clinic is now left. and the same intimidation and targeting that in many cases helped shrink the abortion clinic population down to one in each of these states makes it all but certain that no one else will try to open another clinic in these states any time soon. >> in the early '70s, after roe v. wade, there were 17 physicians providing abortion services in central arkansas. as the anti-choice forces became more and more well versed in their coercive tactics, these physicians started to dwindle. by the time i entered abortion practice in 1985, there were five physicians in little rock and one in fayetteville doing terminations. now we have younger physicians from out of state come in so i can go on vacation or get a break. but if you're not going to be an abortion provider, soly an abortion provider, then you're going to have se

the state of our state is strong. we are fortunate to say that because i can assure you as a tech to governors the country, not everyone can. we are thankful for energy resources, tourism, agriculture, national treasures, businesses and our greatest strength, our citizens. before i get further along, either to recognize the remarkable citizens have asked to be with us today. we have representatives of the northern arapahoe tribes. i very much appreciate the close working relationship i have with the tribes. we work with a shared recognition reservation faces many challenges and opportunities as the rest of wyoming. our core term relationship will benefit both the reservation of the state. the tribal members here, please stand so we may recognize you. [applause] one of the great blessings for me is governors to get to work with men and women who serve in our card but we never want to forget these men and women are still being deployed overseas. i see them when they leave that i try to be there when they get back that i

those are our two largest increases in state revenue. we also got $16 million from fares and parking meters, a combination -- mostly due to our annual fare increases that we now have established a policy on and the fact that we are getting more money from parking meter because of our new technology. to offset the increase in revenue of $6 1 million we saw an increase in expenditures of $54 million and mostly in the personnel services and repairs and maintenance cost line items. so we change our from $7 million in the prior year. here is a picture of our bloat, which gives you a sense of our assets and liabilities. our assets went up $225 million from the prior year. the majority of it is in higher revenues and investment of capital assets. we shows decreases because debt service were decreased because as you know we resised es reissued debt. we had increases in other postemployment benefit, and our liabilities went up. so the full financial picture is much better. unless you have any specific questions for me, i would like to turn it ove

actively working because the state has defunded all the prop 36 courts in efforts across the state. so i think this provides senator leno's bill really does the right thing and tries to move in a direction that's not contingent to how much money is available within one jurisdiction or not and actually frees up $64 million of general fund at the state level that could be reinvested into services. i know when you look at realignment, for example, here in san francisco, a 1/3 of our plan, a third of our dollars for realignment has been invested in substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment and housing but we've made that choice. i think if you compare us, though, to many other jurisdictions, we have a collaborative court continuum that is unmatched in other parts of the state. so i think to say they wood, it's not happening. and if you look at other jurisdictions throughout the state, you'll find heavy incarceration rates and not used. in fact the prosecutor is not using those programs. we're very fortunate in our district attorney. he is very visionary, and i just commend him

this is the delaware state float. >> the home state of the vice president. >> it's a replica of the stategton. capitol is dover, delaware, right? >> correct. >> yes, i knew that. there they are. >> you know these floats, they were making these floats around the clock over the course of 19 days to get them ready. >> all custom made. >> from delaware, university of maryland marching band, college park, maryld, the terps of maryland, playing for the president. ♪ john king is watching this as well. every one of these bands, these floats, they all have a significance for this president and the vice president. >> you've mentioned the home states, the birth states. now we're moving on to the neighborhood, as you might say, washington, d.c. i think part of what you're seeing, a band from ohio as well, is maybe a march to the electoral college map that president obama and vice president biden put together in the november election. i'm with gloria borger and david gergen. jessica yellin. from our vantage point, i can see a half dozen marching bands still lined up and there are still a few around th

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interest, valid as it is, to invest at the state level. the governor released his budget, which most of you know, just recently. it's pretty good for transportation. there are some projected adjustments, if will you in the state transit assistance, which is a key source of operating funds for this agency. we have confirmed with our cfo, despite of that fluctuation in that fund source, our budget is okay. fairly conserve estimate that allows for the fluctuation in that fund source. that fund source used to be a line item in the budget, but you recall a couple of years ago there was a gas tax swap, a complicated maneuver to ensure that transportation funds continued to flow. the result is that the state transit assistance is now based on the details sales tax receipts. that is a fluctuating amount of money and therefore we only rely on the projections over the course of the year. so far it looks pretty good. the other big news is that the state is looking pretty good. troop prop 30 passed, significant dollars in projected revenue. so i think

in virginia, the state that set off this controversy, the state senator, his idea was not only do you congressional district, you also give the two additional electors to the candidate who wins the most districts, rather than the most votes in that state. that set people off. unlike maine and nebraska. that's an idea that really set people off. because it says that even if someone loses the state overall, they're not going to get the two extra electorates. >> this is what this whole thing exposes. it exposes the weakness of the democratic party by focusing on national elections and not state elections. one of the reasons we're seeing these take place, like voter suppression laws, like when it comes to abortion and the president's health care plan, is that republicans flipped 60 legislators in 2010. democrats have got to understand, if you do not have statewide parties, if you're not running statewide, this is how you lose. howard dean talked about a 50-state strategy. if democrats don't begin to understand that, and keep letting republicans take over the house and the senate and the g

that is on our state level. on the national level, let me quote, vice president biden saying, i want to make it clear, we are not getting caught up in the notion that unless we can do everything, we're going to do nothing. does this suggest already that they know that there's going to be a continuing battle on this? they're trying to put something on the table that says we can have -- >> i think "the new york times" article today summed it up pretty well. the white house knows it's going to be very hard to get an assault weapons ban of the kind senator feinstein is imposing through the house of representatives and through the senate as well. they don't want to set that as the only possible bar of success. they're going to be looking for other things they can do, perhaps through congress, perhaps through executive order, dealing with things like importation of weapons from overseas and so on and so forth. to get something on the scoreboard here as a response that will have some sort of effect on the gun culture i

we are currently in the state of new york, the state of new york -- you guys know that. the state of new york has actually been, has had a tremendous success in the populating its prisons. in the last 10 years, new york is actually reduced its prison population by 22%. and has witnessed during this period of time historically low crime rates. so new yorkers really become an example. new jersey as well has reduced its prison population by about 20% and still maintain all time low crime rate. and new york and new jersey and other states like michigan reduced its prison population by 14% in the last several years as a result of a whole host of reform. we know that you can reduce the prison population and actually get lower crime rate. that is something we are seeing around the country. this chart is one piece of evidence for that. we talk about new york and the model of new york. indiana, on the other hand, between 2000-2010 increased its prison population by 47%, and only saw a reduction in its crime rate of 8%. we know that there isn't, the argument that mass incarceratio

the state of their states. laying out the priorities for the new year. tonight at 7:30 we'll take you live to the kansas statehouse for an address by the state's governor, sam brownback. that'll get underway at 7:30 eastern. >> he had been talking about this dream that he had had. he had talked about it for years, you know? the american dream. and that had become his dream. and he had been in detroit just a few months before, and he had talked about, you know, i have a dream that america will someday realize these principles in the deck declaration of independence. so i think he was of just inspired by that moment. >> sunday on "after words," clayborn carson participated in the 1963 march on washington to prominent historian and editor of martin luther king jr.'s papers. it's part of three days of booktv this weekend monday featuring authors and books on the inauguration, president obama and martin luther king jr. >>> this coming sunday president obama will officially be sworn into office in a privateer isny at

and on that question, preservation of the union, the need to defend the state's of the united states from an armed attempt to destroy it as a nation, the vast majority of those people who lived in the free states, republicans and nonrepublicans alike, agreed wholeheartedly with lincoln and his party. he and his government, thereby, and therefore, raised an army to resume their property places in the union. the next question then was, exactly how to fight that war. the republican government, we need remember, embarked upon the war not intending to lose the -- use the war itself to transform the south. the purpose of the union war northwest the eyes of its republican government, was simply to keep the slave states within the union, and a union in which the republicans could then proceed with their plan to slowly, gradually, peacefully, and with compensation, eventually do away with slavery. methods that, by the way, had that been the way slavery came to an end, they would have allowed some people to remain in slaveriry through the end of. the 19th center or later. that how gradual eman

state.. >> well, it's very simple. barack obama carried the state in the last election by 5.5 points. but the way the vote came in for obama, it was concentrated in philadelphia and pittsburgh, two big areas that had significant democratic representation. if you did it district -- congressional district alone, out of the 19 congressional districts, governor romney would have carried 13. president obama only 6, and if you gave the two bonus electoral votes to the president, it would have been 13-8. if you decided to pass a law that said the bonus two go to whoever wins the most congressional districts, it would have been 15-8 in favor -- excuse me, 15-6 in favor of governor romney even though he lost the state by a very significant majority. >> but wouldn't you have -- maybe not riots but something close to it if the word got out in philadelphia, for example, that the state had gone by popular vote by as you say five points, for example, and yet the state's electoral votes had gone by and lar

the state department would have to approve it.overnor says the alternative group would come close to an aquifer that said any spills would be localized and he would be responsible for the clean up. the pipeline would create $418 for benefits and 16.5 million in state tax revenue. the first proposal for the keystone pipeline the white house says it's waiting on an assessment on an alternative route. >> the state department is conducting its assessment as appropriate and as has been standard over the years on behalf of the federal government. i don't want to get ahead of that process. when the state department as something to move fore wad on we will obviously address that issue when it does. >>> the state department says the federal review process will continue at least through march. >> thank you, molly. >> here's what we would like to brew on today. did beyonce or not lip sync the national anthem? >> sounds great, right? beyonce is under fire after conflicting reports from the u.s. marine corps band. at first a spokesperson for t

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way up north figured out a way to disband or even move out of the state those southern. elisha's the police state of the south would collapse and similarly if the north were to invite into military service the slaves of the south which they could then emancipate that would collapse the institution of slavery and the southern economic and social systems all together these two possibilities worried southerners like james monroe george mason who owned over three hundred slaves and the southern christian evangelical patrick henry who close opposed lavery on principle but also opposed freen slaves their main concern was that article one section eight of the newly proposed constitution which gave the federal government the power to raise and supervise the militia could also allow that federal militia to subsume their state militias and change them from slavery and forcing institutions into something that could even one day free as slaves this was not an imagined threat. famously twelve years earlier during the lead up to the revolutionary war british lord duns more offered fre

but we do remain an optimistic state, a visionary state and an innovative state. time has not dimmed and the recession has not diminished our thirst for innovation and our talent for technological growth. we are the most creative, entrepreneurial group of business men and women, scientists, educators and workers on the planet. companies like silicon energy in marysville are leading the world with some of the most durable solar cells ever built. janicki industries in sedro-wooley is driving innovation in aerospace. valve, a software company in bellevue has grown into a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment. and in grays harbor an across-the-board effort led to the re-opening of the paper mill last year, putting 175 people back to work making 100% recycled paper. i have this to say about washington. innovation is in our genes. [applause] we create. we invent. we build. so now we must go forward, with both high ambition and a recognition that the power of innovation will fuel the next wave of job growth in washington. make no mistake, our top priority today,

state government to change who that state votes for, for president. this last election would have cast its 200,000 more votes for obama rather than romney. and instead, wisconsin would have cast half a vote for romney and half a vote for obama. under this most aggressive plan that has been put forward on the republican side, president obama would have finished nationwide with 5 million more votes than mitt romney, but mitt romney could have still won the electoral college and the presidency. fair vote did the math on what the republicans are rigging in the states, and it kind of works like magic. if the republicans had passed laws regarding the votes, it would have converted barack obama's advantage of nearly 5 million popular votes and 126 electoral votes into a resounding electoral college defeat. republicans didn't make those changes in 2011 so it didn't happen this past election, but they are very quietly thinking about changing the rules in these states. now, and with republican control and nobody really paying attention, why wouldn't they make t

the case united states v. reid in the fourth circuit actually considered this and said -- you know, it sounds like it won't take that long, but it turns out these procedures actually take a while. and it's not just the time to get a warrant. it's the initial time that had been taken at the stop, the investigation, the field sobriety test. then, there's the time to get to the hospital. and -- you know, sometimes these people, these folks, get to the hospital and they're not given first priority, so there's sometimes some waiting at the hospital. justice sotomayor: so is it okay -- is it okay to let police officers take the blood? ms. saharsky: well, we think that's a different question and one that the court reserved in schmerber. the court said there was medical personnel in a medical setting taking the blood in that case. that's the exact same thing that's happening here. but it said if we had a different case, we'd ask whether the -- the situation invited an unjustified element of personal risk of infection

separate companies that whole russian developer economically into state owned and private. companies should be selected based on their financial ability and technical expertise. with state we're going to have a look at the stock markets and i can tell you things were going rather well read into data came out from the us really spalted zero so we ended up negative figures to be on the my sales ending the trading day with a skull and really we had energy firms doing rather well though they benefited from growing growing oil prices it's not worth a mention meanwhile the russian ruble that it finished up the wednesday session you can see is make says that she gets the u.s. dollar but lower against the common currency. we'll move on to european markets they ended the day down it was a similar story to russia thanks to what was happening in the u.s. with fourth quarter g.d.p. figures slipping is contraction just as a u.s. figure came out last week as well so with that in mind let's get to wall street and see what's going on there i can tell you the thoughts have been fluctuating

this devastation can happen to any state and no one state has the money to make sure those people that were injured in this storm can move forward and i will remind all those members that are not here supporting this bill that that could happen to your state. you know, as i sat here and supported alabama, i supported mississippi, i supported texas, i was hoping that by now the northeast part of this country would have -- congress would have acted. it's been 77 days. those people are hurting. people in my district still can't get back to their homes and here we are in the last congress we just didn't do anything about it. now we're moving forward and hopefully january 15 we can get the rest of the money so those people that are suffering from all these states hit by this storm can get their lives back together again and i thank you, i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. does the gentleman from new jersey continue to reserve? >> i yield one minute for his floor debate, the gentleman from new york, sean patrick maloney. >> the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. >> mad

states department of justice.if the state of floats a good portion of the records they're supposed to get a carrot. a weaver of 10 percent. a requirement for the national history of the improvement programs. if the state fails to approach the records and penalties and 50% cut and burned. now please answer the question is yes or no. do you believe that the doj is currently doing enough to help states to upload their records? yes or no? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. as a state level official do you believe -- >> he wants to know if it is federal doj -- >> [inaudible] >> i wish she would get closer to that microphone. >> is the fed doing it, yes or no? >> yes. >> you do believe they are? >> yes in terms of interoperable becoming yes. >> as a state level official, do you believe that the current incentives are enough to compel them to upload more records? yes or no? >> nope. >> is the report also indicated the state's uploaded their records with state privacy and public health laws, is that one of your concerns? >> not

two states, colorado and washington state support legalization.resident obama admits that he got high and smoke. and now he is locking people up for doing what he did. >> he thinks it's funny that he got away with it and it's ruining other people's lives. the federal government should never been involved in this area. john: what is ruining other people's lives? >> they are getting locked up and prosecuted for the things that he did and he thinks it's funny. he is in charge to make sure that those institutions go forward. the federal government should have no involvement. let the state to represent the people that make those decisions on their own. >> the president did also say that he has bigger fish to fry than people smoking a joint in colorado. so we will see. >> what they want is to create a nation of criminals and unsure of who will be prosecuted. they do it not only with marijuana and drug policy, but all areas create we get so much over criminalization is creating homes for all of us. john: let's talk about guns. since the connecticut schoo

team let's begin this hour with a big story out of washington today the testimony of secretary of state hillary clinton on capitol hill about the september eleventh two thousand and twelve attacks on the consulate in benghazi libya you might remember four americans were killed in those attacks including u.s. ambassador christopher stevens. as i have said many times i take responsibility and nobody is more committed to getting this right i am determined to leave the state department and our country safer stronger and more secure and there are several interesting aspects of this including the timing as we know secretary clinton was about or was unable to testify last month due to her illness but several lawmakers have been calling for her to testify before the november election and said they were told they'd have to wait after the election after the inauguration essentially until what would be secretary clinton's final days in her post so what was really the point of having her testify was there one since it was after all after the election after inauguration a whole lot of lawmakers took

states or by any state on account of sex. congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. fleischmann. mr. fleischmann: amount 20, section 1. the terms of the president and the vice president shall end at on on the 20th day of january and the terms of senators and representatives at noon on the third day of january of the yearin which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified. and the terms of their successors shall then begin. section 2, the congress shall assemble at least once in every year and such meeting shall begin at noon on the third day of january unless they shall by law appoint a different day. mr. goodlatte: i yield to t gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen. ms. ros-lehtinen: section 3, if, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the president, the president-elect shall have died, the vic president-elect shall become president. if a president shall not have been chosen before the

two states colorado and washington state outright legalization. the feds keep running aids.t obama although he admits he got high and that was pint as he said, now he is locking people up for doing what he did. >> he thinks it's funny he got away from it and now he is ruining people's lives. >> what is ruining people's lives? >> they being prosecuted for the things he did. he thinks that's funny and he's in charge of making sure the prosecutions go forward. federal government should have no involvement in this. it should be at the state level. let the states who represent the people best make the decisions on their own. >> we will see how much the government puts into this. >> not a good way to govern that you may be arrested for anything but they don't have the energy. >> i would argue for those in power that's the perfect way to govern. they want to create a nation of criminals. there is unsurety about who will be prosecuted. they do it not only with marijuana and drug policy but all areas of the law. we have so much over criminalization it is creating problems for all of

you compare the state of vermont with the state of new hampshire. new hampshire has no sales tax or personal income tax and does better over time than the neighboring state of vermont that is a so-called progressive state. on a national level change the constitution or we will end up with a income and a consumption tax. >> unfortunately the constitution was changed in order to bring in the income tax. >> you have to change or we would get the both. >> you are against the idea of bobby gindale. >> i don't like sales tax. we saw the experiment in europe with that. they are onerous often than income tax . they are sneaky, too. it is vast and they are put in every element of sales and you don't know what the true tax rate and the cost. gin dale's program is to replace one source of government to do with another. it doesn't reduce what john and i would like to reduce the flow of money to the government. >> milton freeman didn't like national sales tax because it is too easy for governments to raise money and yet you are in favor of this idea why? >> i am

the number one state.e in new york, we've seen a loss the last 15 years internal revenue service and u.s. census bureau combined. 58 billion out of the state. stuart: there's new york and 58 billion out. >> going to the other places. stuart: is california second? >> that's right you've got nearly 32 billion dollars migrated out. adjusted growth income out of california to the other states. stuart: hold on, talking adjusted gross income. california 31 billion dollars worth of income, that means middle class, wealthier people, they're the ones who moved out taking that money with them. income out. >> that's right, we're looking at 1040 tax returns, taxpayer mobility and not just talking professional golfers or presidents of state. we're talking about working families and all sizes of businesses and going all over the country. stuart: is there any evidence that california is speeding up, pushing out money? i'm thinking of the mickelson story and the higher tax rates. is there evidence that maybe that is speed

without being a security state. with cairo, we had to call and tell the egyptians get your people out there. with libya it was dlifrnt. the libyans were very responsive and willing but no levers to pull. what we've been trying to do -- and we need your help to help us pay for what we're trying to do, we're trying to help them build a decent security force to try to reign in the militias as best they can. this was a constant conversation. >> before the attack in benghazi, what had we done specifically to help them build their security capacities? >> there's a long list and i'll be happy to provide that to you because it is filled with training, with equipment, with the kind of planning that they had not done before, and i'd be happy to send you the detail on that, senator. >> senator casey. >> madam secretary, thank you for being here today to provide this testimony. i'm going to ask you a question that relates to the implementation of the accountability review board recommendations, but before i do that i want to ex

the state.ause he may be in trouble for re-election. it's one of the most transparent political acts i've ever seen and really, really despicable. it means he didn't get it. it also means penn state didn't get it. they're a silent partner in this thing. i know they can't fight the suit, but they want the sanction lifted. this was about the culture of football. it was a hideous criminal act. to say it's not -- football has nothing to do with it, it's a disgrace. >> let me ask you, in my religion, it's good to suffer some penance in admission of guilt, and then you move on. but when you try to cover something up and you don't confess or accept punishment for it, it stays with you. why doesn't penn state want to get this over with, take their punishment and penalty and get in the huddle and figure out the future? why do they want to go back at this thing when everybody knows they were guilty? >> well, i think penn state probably does want to continue on and get this behind them. and i think it need

states. another $33 billion is for long- term spending. some republicans argued that much of the money isn't for emergency relief at all. california's tom mcclintock called for stripping that funding out. >> according to the congressional budget office, more than 90% of this money won't even be spent this year. that's not emergency relief. $16 billion is to quintuple the size of the community development block grant program. that's the slush fund that pays for such dubious projects as doggie day care centers and doesn't even have to be spent in the hurricane area. >> sreenivasan: other republican >> sreenivasan: other republicans joined with most democrats to reject offsetting spending cuts. instead, lawmakers from the northeast urged the house to pass the storm aid now. new york democrat hakeen jeffries said it's already taken too long. . >> it's unacceptable given the nature of the disaster that people at home have experienced. we have defaulted on our obligation to provide assistance to am

john kerry has wanted to be secretary of state. it's no big surprise that this is a role he has coveted. but for people out there who don't follow politics as close as we might, they might ask a question, why. here is a guy who has been in the senate since 1984. he's been a presidential nominee. why this, why now? >> well, there's two jobs he's always wanted. first, he wanted to be president of the united states and he lost that bid in 2004. the second job he's wanted is this one. the reason why you're seeing a difference between the way he'll be treated and the way hillary is is clearly and simply the fact he's no longer a political threat. hillary clinton could be the next democratic nominee. so the republicans want to come after her. he's old news as far as republicans are concerned. he's not going to be running for president again. he's one of their own. he came back to the club, the rich guys' club. so they're looking at him completely differently. >> as we see hillary clinton as one of the people who is going to introduce him

the state of new york state is that new york state is rising. new york state is rising because it's more unified than ever before. new york state is rising to build back better and stronger than ever before. new york state is rising to build a smarter, stronger state than we ever had before. new york state is rising with a passion and a commitment to make this state better than it's ever been with a brighter future than it has ever had for your family and my family and new york is rising. with us together as one committed to that vision and making it a reality this year. thank you and god bless you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] >> next, the removal of troops scheduled for 2014. this is an hour and a half. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i am delighted to have you all. distinguished guests. it is pretty rare to get three extraordinary ambassador sitting next to one another. each has tremendous familiarity with the subject. the council has bee

there are 13 other states, and the federal government which already do this and in the 13 other states, we have the data that shows that we get better results, better outcomes, meaning safer communities, and surprisingly the states include not only the large eastern states of pennsylvania and new york, but also states like mississippi, south carolina, west virginia, wyoming, iowa, all of which use this mid deem charge rather than felony. and what we find in these 13 other states is that there are higher rates of drug treatment participation, lower rates of drug use, and even slightly lower rates of violent and property crime. so again, we can prove we can have safer communities. and then of course there are the unintended consequences of a felony conviction. consequences that really can cause great damage to a young life for many decades out. the very three things that can keep someone successfully in his or her recovery, access to housing, education and employment are put farther out of reach because of a felony conviction, especially in a down economy, someone with a felony has great