in other states. so kentucky's own ban on such marriages for now is untouched but that appeals court decision put pressure on the widespread practice of refusing to recognize a married couple from let's say massachusetts if that couple moves to take up new jobs in missouri. but federal circuit that includes virginia also colors north carolina, south carolina, and west virginia. if the court of appeals up holds the virginia division, that's hour focus of this edition of "inside story." >>> virginia is for lovers was the slogan of the day for same-sex marriage supporters in virginia. >> today we are more american than we were yesterday, and today we're a little more equal than we were the day before. >> reporter: thursday uphurled judge struck down the state's prohibition of same sex marriage ac mandarin knowinglying long history, tradition alone cannot deny same-sex couples from marrying. in her 41 page opinion the norfolk judge referenced the history of segregation. and it wasn't until 1967 that inter

the state of our state is charted a then on and dressed you a year ago. our job growth has outpaced the nation highlighted by a driving financial sector and technological innovation from companies large and small whether it is the parts manufactured at miller metal, the new pharmaceutical developed in insight, the software made in step one or the cutting edge fuel cells made by bloom energy. our schools are implementing higher standards while thanks to legislation passed by this general assembly we are better preparing her teachers. in the companies that will hire our students are dealing with fewer and clearer government regulations. so we have made progress, but to paraphrase will rogers, even if we are on the right track we will get run over if we just sit here. we have so much more to do. and if you have the right skills and live in the right communities good paying jobs are available. for too many people, that is not reality. everyone has something to contribute if given a chance. we need to make sure that they have that chance. as governor i paid re

you put together one for the chinese head of state and mexican head of state.e you, let's see what we can do. when you are invited to a state dinner you should do everything you can to attend. we can try to make accommodat n accommodations but it is hard to do. we can make a list of ongoing folks we would like to invite. >> if you get a last-minute cancelation, what do you do? >> there are folks that might drop everything to be on a plane if you want to invite them. we tend to do that. >> this is a mix of administration, members of congress, eric cantor, nancy pelosi and some famous people like steven coburt. >> and bradley cooper. >> of course. >> it is a really great group. i love we have democrats and republicans attending which i think is so wonderful. that is such a testament to how this is a non-partisan event and it is as a great american tradition and people come together and celebrate. >> mary jay blige and the performer tonight. how does that come about? >> the performers are people that the president and first lady enjoy. and we talk to the honored g

we have a woman who is in the race for united states senate who is a state senator from our state. she is in a contested primary with several others. i think it is just a matter of time that you will see women winning the governor's office, senate seat, and congressional seats in iowa. a number of lieutenant governors, republican and democratic women. talentalways recognized and am really proud of the fact that cream -- kim reynolds is my lieutenant governor. i want her to be the next governor after me. good morning. guest: how are you? caller: you -- caller: fine. guest: you have that nook siemens plant being built north of time. -- north of town. caller: i understand that. thank you so much. we needed those jobs. will there be enough funding in iowa for resurfacing the roads? guest: we will be addressing that this year. we will have $700 million in the primary road fund this year, and as we look to the future we will have to come up with additional funding. i believe that the funding should come from the users of the roads to help improve the roads and bridges of the state. that

state-by-state which -- they are charged to do the right thing. what we are proposing on the federal level is a simple partnership. this is not from mandates, we simply match the money where you are investing. we just think about where you are investing, but where there is tremendous unmet need having a federal partner to meet the need makes sense. this would be a mixed delivery system. we were clear about that. we were at gnostic about who would provide the pre-k or early childhood education. it could be for-profits, faith-based, boys and girls club's, whatever it might be. in washington we do not think we know what is best in your state. that would be the height of arrogance on our side. you just want the children to have access in your states and have you figure out where it comes from. the final thing i will say is that what we want to push through is every politician runs through as pro-education. no one runs on an anti-education agenda. what we do not have enough our state, federal, local who walk the walk. getting past the point of saying t

it's the state department.t's also treasury because they have a kind of symbiotic relationship with wall street. >> for one thing, they control the flow of money. >> absolutely. that's why there's such a flow not only of money, but of personnel between wall street and the treasury department. there's other aspects of government. there's a portion of the judiciary -- a small portion of the judiciary, the so-called foreign intelligence surveillance courts. most of congress doesn't even know how they operate. >> talk a little more about the nexus, the connection, between the national security state and wall street. because this is a theme that runs through your essay. >> do you know that about 30 blocks north of here there is a restaurant that will sell you a truffle for $95,000. also in new york, christie's sold at auction a painting by francis bacon for $142 million. now a parallel situation with the national security state. the nsa spent $1.7 billion to build a facility in utah that will collect one yottabyte o

the death penalty in her state.orney general let me start with you. are there many people on colorado's death row? >> there is very few -- i think three or four on death row, it hasn't been carried out in i think like 16 years, something along those lines, but i have been an advocate, advocate, we should not abolish the death penalty. i do not advocate wide-spread use of the death penalty, but i maintain there are certain few crimes for which the vast majority of americans and coloradoans would conclude that life in prison is not an adequate societal response. let me give you a couple of examples. we have a guy facing first degree murder charges. he orchestrated the murder of witnesses against him. if you don't have a death penalty, gets no greater consequence for murdering the witnesses in the case against him than had he not done so. you have a scenario where an immate premeditatedly kills on prison officer. i think the vast majority of people would say taking away tv privileges is enough. i think we have to keep

you put together one for the chinese head of state and mexican head of state.mmodate you, let's see what we can do. when you are invited to a state dinner you should do everything you can to attend. we can try to make accommodat n accommodations but it is hard to do. we can make a list of ongoing folks we would like to invite. >> if you get a last-minute cancelation, what do you do? >> there are folks that might drop everything to be on a plane if you want to invite them. we tend to do that. >> this is a mix of administration, members of congress, eric cantor, nancy pelosi and some famous people like steven coburt. >> and bradley cooper. >> of course. >> it is a really great group. i love we have democrats and republicans attending which i think is so wonderful. that is such a testament to how this is a non-partisan event and it is as a great american tradition and people come together and celebrate. >> mary jay blige and the performer tonight. how does that come about? >> the performers are people that the president and first lady enjoy. and we talk to the hon

of california the state that i live in many of the states are are are following suit you know justifying that. legislating marriage or you know legislating love and that's all it is is you know is unconstitutional well mr le guen is just to put things into perspective all those legislative progress notwithstanding according to the f.b.i. in two thousand and twelve around thirteen hundred crimes motivated by homophobe ever registered in the united states thirteen hundred crimes in russia in the same period of time just twelve were unregistered so you may dispute the russian figures they were compiled by one of the leading watchdogs here in the country nongovernmental watchdogs but you know crimes motivated by homophobia in russia compared to. in the united states don't you think that you know the we may have a bit skewed picture here and the station in russia may not be ask ridiculous as it is usually described at least compared to the united states here. i feel that i take issue with that because in order to you know to register and a hate crime then you have to feel you know that you ha

we believe it should come from canada and the united states.if the environment is the issue a your concern, it is then put to rest. we spent over five years discussing this. there have been dozens of public hearings, over one million comments generated. at this point, every other pipeline has been approved in less than two years. >> how is the american petroleum institute gearing up for the mass protest that are being planned all over the country in response to the state department's report? >> our plan is going to continue as it has been for the past five or so years. we have been trying to promote andbenefits and the fax correct some of the misinformation out there that can be easier to believe. it is not heated or anything like that. it can be frustrating when you're debating a battle being fought with political organizing and soundbites. engage groups choose to in civil disobedience, that is their prerogative and right. we're certainly going to continue to stick with the facts and promote the reasons why this benefits the economy, consumers

in virtually every state -- there was a pretty good cross-section of states -- virtually every state, we have seen marked improvement in both advanced placement class participation and in this course. it has been particularly good in math. english and science, but math and particular seems to have generated significant higher increase in participation in advanced placement courses and in this course. as you are thinking about where you will invest in the future, it sounds pretty small. i think they give $100 per student per course, per grade per year. if you're sitting there any go from 10,000 kids in advance but the 240,000, it has brought into a point where your pool becomes bigger. and investment of 10 million or $12 million and several states can generate the kind of results that would help our students and our global competitiveness. as you are looking for future opportunities, which are arty going to invest anyway, that works. >> we do big rants. we sign an agreement on what is going to happen. we have one of these in stanford. we can do it in seven or 10 towns. had we get a mul

, especially looking at the republican- controlled states versus the democratic-controlled states, and i wondered if the government -- if the governors would care to comment whether this seems to be a question of having different goals or are the goals the same, and if the goals are does nonpartisan analysis about what does work and what does not work fit into this policy? >> that is the beauty of the nga , it gets the governors an opportunity to come together. we have a governors only session where we talk about different issues, and my a lot of times we find our common issues going on in our states. we may have different allusions to the problems facing our states, but we learned from each other through best practices, through innovation, and in a lot of states, we will look at other governors and other programs and that may be of a different political party. in the end, all the governors have the same goal, and that is we want to create a very strong economy, we want to create jobs, we want to improve education, we want to be fiscally sound within our state budgets. we are all conce

the states signed off on the rooting through their states. who is objecting to this except a few small or large environmental avo case organizations. susan mentioned that the oil would be exported. americans may not know that we oiled four minutes a day right now. americans don't want any idea of that. we are talking about exports on the market and that's because we are dealing with a market where oil flows to where the demand is. >> you can argue that we'll not have additional exports. the refine rice are coming up with diesel as a by-product. they are operating from keystone xl or on oil coming from the middle east. they'll be exports. >> i wanted to pick up on a point made about the opposition to the pipeline. tonight, in a few minutes, when i leave the show, i'll join a vinyling ill in front of the white house of activists gathering to ask of the president to reject the keystone xl pipeline. this is one of hundreds that have been organised over the weekend. a huge outpouring of public sentiment against the pipeline project in almost every

so while we've had some rocky starts in some states, states have been looking at transitional patches to allow people to keep their coverage. and of course it's very important to make sure we're effectuating the enrollment in the coverage. we're seeing that's getting better day by day. today, there was some good reports out about how many people have -- were paying their premiums. but something that's been a real focus for state-based marketplaces is effectuating that coverage and making sure they're able to transfer that data back to the carriers about enrollment and about payment to make sure that coverage is effectuated. overall, very promising news from the state-based marketplaces. as we look forward. and promising enrollment data. which we know we're going to be hearing more today. so thank you. i'm going to turn it over to audrey. >> thank you, heather. and of course i'm very pleased to be here. thanks to the robert wood johnson foundation for hosting the event this morning. so i know folks have heard a lot about kentucky. which we're really pleased about. as you all know, our

what may work in one state may not work for all states. we need to examine the root causes of our current situation. over the last two decades the buying power of gas tax revenues has slowly declined. not only as a result of increasing maintenance and construction costs but also as a result of increased fuel efficiency. we need to ensure that all users shoulder and equitable burden for the wear and tear on her nations roads. finally madam chairwoman you to save her the integrity of the gas tax as a user fee. we have an obligation to the users, an obligation to ensure the revenues are going to their intended purpose in maintaining our nation's roads and highways. thank you. >> thank you so much sir and now we will turn to senator whitehouse. >> thank you chairman for calling this hearing and it has not been that long since we were able to pass map-21 in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion. we did that because we recognize the value of investing in our transportation infrastructure. projects that put americans to work and ensure that our go

enhanced in the states. >> ok. thank you very much. >> i want to follow up again on the question of certification, because you have both identified -at-us s a kind of coming wave of replacement machines with new technology and if the certification system is broken, that could be a real problem in six to 10 years. is the problem the structure and lack of functionality of the e.a.c. or the idea of federal certification itself? i see those two separate issues. if the e.a.c. tomorrow became fully functional, would this open the process and we would take care of this in an expeditious manner or should we consider saying this is a state and local responsibility, why do we need federal certification? thoughts.rg, your >> it's an area where federal certification makes sense where the states desire it. there needs to be a central body to be able to judge machines and give the states some comfort in the quality of machines. >> like u.l. underwriters laboratories for appliances. >> the state directors forming a group was the

how is it that in a state the president won. so much radical right wing legislation has so sex so successfully passed what's going on though yes there is a really interesting moment so i think obama's election when north carolina swung for him that really reawakened the old guard in north carolina and it got these tea partiers stirred up because they really looked around and saw that their way of life and the way they wanted things to be in north carolina was slipping away and the future did not belong to them so the only way they could hold on was by gerrymandering the state working to suppress voter rights in the most vicious and vitriolic way north carolina used to have some of the best. and most generous voting rights laws in the country but that has gotten rolled back in the last couple of years so the old guard sort of woke up and they are furiously holding on to their turf and they have really turned against women and minorities and poor people and the elderly and students and and it's really nasty but north carolina's hi

states as those economies in those states in particular seem to be improving and the unemployment rate going down. you mentioned marijuana, two very prominent governors, democratic governors of colorado and washington represented here. that initiative also sort of the buzz, if you'll pardon the phrase here at the white house over the course of last several days and in washington. key stone pipeline, another thing, we heard bobby jindal yesterday on some of the sunday shows talking about if the president's going to use his pen and phone, if he's going to be signing executive orders and going around congress, he should start with key stone and focus on jobs instead of some of the other more marginal initiatives, so a whole host of issues to be discussed between the white house and these governors. >> there will be one governor who won't be in attendance today. >> chris christie of new jersey keeping a low pro feel. there's still an active investigation over bridge gate and the controversy and scandal. he was here, del, earlier for the national governor's association meetings, but has he

and rivers in different parts of the state. parts of california gets some of its water from the colorado river. in the past, not all of those resources have been in drought at the same time. and in fact, this year, as tom mentioned, the colorado river is relatively low, but it's not low enough to promote a shortage call on the colorado. so even in southern california, those areas dependent on colorado river water may see their whole allocations, whereas other areas that are dependent on snowfall in northern california have very very low reservoirs. it depends on where you are, and how didn't you are. and what your options are. but even in california, some farmers and cities are in better shape than others, and it's going to be a mixed story even here. >> but what if this continues. does this force really tough choices down the road? if we're not in a three or four year cycle, but a 12 year cycle as sometimes occurs in the world. >> yes, that's a great question. this is the third year of the drought. and if the drought ends this

it is run by the states and health care authority in every state.his would give that state greater flexibility to take care of a larger group of people. and if anyone said the states can't do better than the federal government. i would point them to the medicare fraud and i would say let's let the state try. >> i especially like it because it is consistent with the 10th amendment. if it is not in the constitution, it should be left with the states and nothing in the constitution that said the federal government ought to decide our doctors and insurance companies. i think you are on to something and i hope more than the first eight join you and it becomes a national movement. >> thank you for the unsight. >> congressman james langford of oklahoma joining us today. >> the air voice for donald duck is a complete through presidents' day, get 36 months interest-free financing and save up to $500 on beautyrest and posturepedic. get a sealy queen set for just $399. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. plus, free delivery, set-up, and r

attorney for the state of new jersey. their relationship spanned all seven years of chris christie's time as u.s. attorney. and then when he became governor, brought all the people over from the prosecutor's office into his new administration, phil kwon was one of them. he hired phil kwon right away into his administration when he started in 2010. so by 2012, when then-governor christie nominated phil kwon to a seat on the new jersey supreme court, by that time, the governor and phil kwon had worked together for a decade. and then chris christie was more than just disappointed when phil kwon's nomination to the supreme court was rejected by democrats in the new jersey state senate. >> good evening. first of all, phil kwon, first and foremost, is a man of integrity. had the utmost privilege to witness that integrity firsthand. where in his role as an assistant united states attorney, the first assistant attorney general of new jersey, as a husband, a father, and a son. to see what phil went through today is not only disapp

of state breckenrbreckenr idge long but some of it was other state department officials. and eventually the treasury department became convinced that the state department was going far beyond the proper and necessary in enforcing regulations, and the treasury department turned up evidence that the state department had suppressed some of the information about the holocaust, going out of switzerland. and a man whom i had the privilege of interviewing wrote up a scathing memorandum. and morgenthaler was persuaded, he talked it down a little bit but he took the memo to the president. >> what was the title of that memo? >> report on the acquiescence of the government and the mass murder of the jews. and the president decided to take jurisdiction of way from the state department and to establish the war refugee board. >> thank you. >> you talked before about the u.s. british negotiations on a joint statement. i was one if you give us a cliff notes version of a churchill and the jews book? and how you would describe his involvement. >> i don't think i'm going to do that one from

we have a woman who is in the race for united states senate who is a state senator from our state. she is in a contested primary with several others. i think it is just a matter of time that you will see women winning the governor's office, senate seat, and congressional seats in iowa. a number of lieutenant governors, republican and democratic women. talentalways recognized and am really proud of the fact that cream -- kim reynolds is my lieutenant governor. i want her to be the next governor after me. good morning. guest: how are you? caller: you -- caller: fine. guest: you have that nook siemens plant being built north of time. -- north of town. caller: i understand that. thank you so much. we needed those jobs. will there be enough funding in iowa for resurfacing the roads? guest: we will be addressing that this year. we will have $700 million in the primary road fund this year, and as we look to the future we will have to come up with additional funding. i believe that the funding should come from the users of the roads to help improve the roads and bridges of the state. that

of utah, kentucky, oklahoma and virginia as states where federal judges have just struck down state laws banning marriage rights for gay couples. texas, yes, texas. a federal district court ruled that texas' ban is unconstitutionally denied texas couples access to the institution of marriage and it's numerous rights, privileges and responsibilities. the judge stayed that ruling for now, which means that gay couples in texas are not tonight getting married. the stay is pending a sure fire promise appeal led by rick perry and by the state's attorney general greg abbott, same ideology, same deal. he's the man who wants to replace rick perry in the state house. joining us now is kenji yoshina. thank you for being leer. >> it's great to be here. >> i want to talk to you about what happened in arizona, let me ask you first about what happened today with this district court ruling in texas. to be clear, there's the supreme court. and there's the circuit court and the district court. this is the third level down from the supreme court. how important is this ruling beyond just the question o

states?es? what advice have you given and do you plan to proactively weigh in on future legislative initiatives if you continue to oppose it, what have you done? >> our role in terms of legalization efforts has been to provide constituents at both national state level and community level with accurate information as it relates particularly to the health -- >> how do you do that? what constituents? >> do you post it on your website or actively get in touch with the decision makers? do you engage in the dialogue that's occurring during these debates? >> we do it through our website by putting information -- >> that's what i thought. my next question, despite the implementation of legal -- excuse me, of what allegedly are legal dispensaries, the dea has found illegal operations and has raided several dispensaries in colorado. how confident are you that 100% of the drug trade in colorado is free from influence of drug cartels? >> sir, unfortunately i'm the only representative at this hearing. i w

dugard stated the state address. he delivered the speech before the state legislature at the capitol building. he is the 302nd governor of south dakota having been elected in 2010 after serving two consecutive terms as the state's lieutenant governor. his address is an hour and ten minutes. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. it is good to have you back. before i begin to day of would like to recognize a few new legislators who are joining is this year. at the budget address i recognize senator blake a representative dave anderson, and representative chris langer. today i would also like to recognize senator chuck jones and also senator allen flannel. all five of you please stand and be recognized. [applause] [applause] [applause] i can still remember how i felt on my first day. welcome to all of you. governor is here. there he is at the back. would you stand? welcome, governor. [applause] welcome. this is my fourth state of the state

and frankly the state should step in and really the hospital should be paying the bills the speech state required her to be kept alive the state should pay chris you've been very outspoken lea pro-life and i'm curious your take on this because they were they were trying to save the fuse so many basically pulled the plug on it became obvious that the fetus was probably not going to survive the term well you know it's interesting we sort of i wonder if i was really concerned about this case and i went back and did a little research that the language that in the texas law was borrowed from an a california law when they rewrote their end of life laws and they just put it in each other always that it was a one thousand year there in the seventy's ok that california had the law and then texas i think rewrote it in the ninety's and so they looked at what california had did they read it even the drafter said well this is not a case where that would apply because she was brain dead so even the drafters of the laws said this would not have been the case i personally think that the hospital was afr

the mandate under the law is to preserve history, we are the state of the archives, the state library. we document our history and biography of washingtonians who have been cheated to our history in some way. sam i think and how you but i know he was stopped on the street all the time from people that would come up to him and say, you need to write this down. and thinking about it as an office, we do have an obligation to document. and as i say, the big lessons are one of transparency. every vote does count. if anybody doubts that you can point to the 2007 governor's race in washington and say look, so we honored our mandate. we felt an obligation. these are circumstances that were so rare that, to be able to talk about the lessons learned and how we handled it, what we would be right, maybe what we would change would be invaluable to election administrators in the future. the voting systems and elections will have all changed but the timeless lessons will remain. >> for more information on booktv's recent trip to olympia, washington, and in many other cities visited by our local cont

states? yes? what advice have you given and do you plan to proactively weigh in on future legislative initiatives if you continue to oppose it, what have you done? >> our role in terms of legalization efforts has been to provide constituents at both national state level and community level with accurate information as it relates particularly to the health -- >> how do you do that? what constituents? >> do you post it on your website or actively get in touch with the decision makers? do you engage in the dialogue that's occurring during these debates? >> we do it through our website by putting information -- >> that's what i thought. my next question, despite the implementation of legal -- excuse me, of what allegedly are legal dispensaries, the dea has found illegal operations and has raided several dispensaries in colorado. how confident are you that 100% of the drug trade in colorado is free from influence of drug cartels? >> sir, unfortunately i'm the only representative at this hearing. i

of israel, the united states of america, the jewish state of israel being the little state and the united states of america being denominated the great satan. so we would lift sanctions on a nuclear al nation, iran, and yet we would threaten sanctions or the possibility of sanctions from the e.u. against america's greatest ally, israel? isn't that one of those most severe ironies of all time? this being the greatest exiss ten rble threat to the world, iran with a nuclear weapon, how could it be that our secretary of state would bring this up to the world at the munich conference just last weekend, the specter of a boycott against israel, saxes against israel, as a potential of a divestment campaign analogous to south africa which actually engaged in apartheid. d yet in israel, what is the so-called apartheid? when the palestinians can work in the state of israel, palestinians are allowed to live in the jewish state of israel. there is an effort of co-existence from the jewish state of israel. and what as the palestinian authority done? they have thumbed their nose at the oslo accords. the

but this is a serious state document that is designed to inform both the world and our own state department about our priorities. >> you know that in the state department speeches like this are cleared by dozens of people. so clearly this is well thought out. i serve on an advisory board to the secretary of state, but my comments here are strictly my own and don't represent the u.s. government. and they're always happy when i say that. there's no question that john kerry is right on this issue. >> that's right. >> last year when the head of the pacific command was asked what our single-greatest threat was, he said climate change and the reason is. it makes fragile situations worse, it kills crop, floods cities, destroys nations. he is right to be in indonesia talking about this because jakarta is in danger of being drowned out if the flood waters rise as much as the army corps of engineers predicts it will by tend of the century, five feet. >> you think climate change is more dangerous than nuclear proliferation? >> i'm on record saying that nuclear weapons and climate change present the tw

so in theory it was a proxy war between the united states and the soviet union the united states supporting israel in the soviet union supporting the arab side at different points it pitted a pro-american israel nurses are pro-american jordan and a pro-american saudi arabia so the lights were never completely drawn. again it was the arab-israeli war of 1973 that enabled secretary of state henry kissinger with singular vision and drive to lay the foundations of a weekend today call in retrospect the pax americana. the keystone to kissinger's efforts was egypt. it was a move from the soviet to the american sphere. it signaled the rapid decline of the soviet union as a serious challenger to american hegemony in the middle east. the pax america, officially began with the 1979 peace treaty between egypt and israel. this treaty established the precedent for later peace treaty between israel and jordan as well as for the 1993 oslo accords between israel and the palestine liberation organization. it also set the precedent for later peace conferences whether it be in madrid or in annapolis. the peop

states disenfranchised felons across the board, slave states, the confederacy states did it, and so did the northern states did it. states during reconstruction passed laws like this when the carpet baggers were in charge. the yale law journal had a recent law where they could not vote if they were felons. it was quite consistent to have that point of view. just because a law has a disparate impact on the basis of race is no evidence that it was passed with discriminatory intent. >> these laws as written, are they sensitive enough to the differences in crimes? are all felonies created equal? if you're check kiting is that the same thing as being an armed robber of a convenience store. >> roger almost suggested by virtue of a felony you're suddenly not of good character, and you have to prove yourself worthy of voting in the community. when i register to vote at the age of 18 no one asked me about my character, no one did a worthwhile test to see what i was doing. in democracy we take the bad with the good. we don't impose personality test or anything like that. i think there are legitim

i like this state. but when you look at the mlk stuff in 1990, when you look at sb-1070, when you look at potentially this becoming law, if you kind of string those things together, does that say something about the culture of your state? what message -- does it send a message, you think, when you put the three things together? >> well, i think the problem we have, for the most part, politically speaking, is the legislature and the maps, the district maps we have, are mainly decided in the primaries. so you really have the most extreme element of the republican party winning in almost all of the legislative districts that are republican dominated now and there's no moderate voices left in the elected republican body. with a few exceptions. that's been the case for really the past decade or so. but i do want to point out, since the mid '90s, the population, the general voters have passed a lot of progressive measures actually when given a chance. be it public financing for campaigns, medical marijuana, r

and the look of state politics today with more state of the state speeches. c-span will be live in oklahoma for governor mary fallin's address over on c-span3. and later, a live debate from florida's her teeth district. -- 13th district. the special election is next tuesday. you can watch the coverage live on c-span3. that is in a car wreck wrote about extensively in my book. the whole time i was in the hospital, not injured, really. i had a cut on my leg and a theen ankle, i was praying other person in the car would be ok. and the other person in the car was one of my best friends, which i didn't know. i didn't recognize that at these site of the crash. i think because i pray for him over and over to be ok and he wasn't, i felt like, nobody listens. god was not listening. very long timea of not believing and not believing that prayer is would be -- prayers would be answered. it took me a long time really to come back. >> first lady laura bush, tonight at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span radio and www.c-span.org. with her atterview the geo

but beatings, jailings, discriminations, overbearing state power and in some places state instability in others still threaten the lives of many. we have with us director of freedom houses, freedom of the press index which evaluate the press freedom everywhere in the world. and advocacy director for middle east and north africa issues, and from new york, professor of business and society at new york university, he was the obama administration's assistant secretary of state for the bureau of democracy, human rights and labor from 2009 to 2013. and professor, if you had to make your own report, would it be consistent with what the state department found? what kind of year did you see it being for the world? >> i think the report they released today is excellent. lots of time and energy goes into it. i think the trends are right. what i would highlight is that in a number of countries you have a growing activism especially by young people. and they're taking to the streets or taking to the blogs or trying to get their communique to the press, and governments are cracking down on them. i

imperial germany and the united states i think is much more apparent because i think that germany in one nine hundred fourteen did believe that it was now a power in decline and that russia was becoming increasingly powerful france was also much stronger than it had been when it easily defeated in one hundred seventy in the franco-prussian war and the germany had to do something in order to change the balance of forces and that's why a it came up with this idea that if austria-hungary can knock out serbia then austria hungary will be will be thriving power and then that would somehow. reinforce germany's role in the europe and i think what good having here now is i think the united states is increasingly anxious that this unilateral moment is the enjoyed since the end of the cold war is china is certainly are the a rising power. russia is also you know reemerging from its. weakness and feebleness in the post cold war era and i think there are that's where i think the danger lies and with the united states believing that it needs to do something to shift the balance of forces in its f

cities counties and states across the u.s. have told advocacy of homosexuality promoting a homosexual lifestyle laws state homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public in school students only receive instruction regarding homosexuality in the context of fictionally transmitted diseases. homosexuality happened to nature but showed a speciality that does not make it right or something we should be teaching in school on the bills just passed in states health of representatives thing thinks couples can be refused service in shops hotels theaters and restaurants state officials can legally refuse to deal with gay citizens anywhere from libraries to police stations and hospitals representatives voted to allow businesses to lawfully deny any services to gays officials and also turn down the state institutions such as police and hospital. if it's against their beliefs. it's not just republican states like kansas clumping down the l.g.b. t. couples reports they make as the polls say oregon will also pass the same r

blue states and purple states like social security expansion in kentucky raise the minimum wage raise the minimum wage in kentucky social security expansion fifty one percent of all voters approve it in red state of texas fifty six percent of all voters approve of the idea of expanding social security benefits you can actually run a populist progressive campaign in winning in some of these deep red states and that's how these you know folks running in louisiana and mark pryor running in arkansas if you really wanted to win in really wanted to push the envelope and show that he was a real progressive fighter that's the kind of position that is seems like the old this is the conservative republican area this is the progressive democratic period these are falling apart what is happening is you're finding tea partiers standing side by side with progressive activists to amend the constitution to say money is not speech and corporations are people tea party are standing side by side with progressive to say we shouldn't be doing draw drone strikes on people have not been adjudicated in a cou

russia is not always an easy partner for the united states just as the united states is not an easy partnerfor russia but we have to work together. we are fated to work together and we have seen at this year where there were plenty of reasons why the relationship deteriorated. in the end we are working together and we will continue to work together and those in the u.s. political class who say that russia doesn't count anymore and that it's not important, they are flat wrong. it has to be a partner even though as i say in my book it's a -- partnership. >> host: in your book you make clear that there are two kinds of leaders. first there are what i would say structural leaders because of different interests, because of different historical traditions, because of different circumstances. there are also limits which are connected to u.s. policy. to russian policy. can we do better than we are doing now? >> guest: first on the structural limits i would emphasize that the fact that we are the worlds to superpowers means in some ways we are still living in the cold wartime warp and the focus very

in virtually every state -- there was a pretty good cross-section of states -- , we have every state seen marked improvement in both advanced placement class participation and in this course. it has been particularly good in math. , but mathd science and particular seems to have generated significant higher increase in participation in advanced placement courses and in this course. as you are thinking about where you will invest in the future, is pretty small. i think they give $100 per student per grade per year. if you're sitting there any go from 10,000 kids in advance but it has brought into a point where your pool becomes bigger. investment of 10 million or $12 million and several states can generate the kind of results that would help our students and our global competitiveness. as you are looking for future opportunities, which are arty going to invest anyway, that works. we do big rants. we sign an agreement on what is going to happen. we have one of these in stanford. 10can do it in seven or towns. had we get a multiplier? how do you take a few of these and get them to multi