within the state. it's precisely that circumstance where the laws diverge that the issue arises. and the three states that have this issue, tennessee, ohio, and kentucky, are, between them, able to identify only 5 instances in which they did not recognize a marriage that was valid outside the state, even though it could not have been celebrated inside. and those instances are incest which we think the state would have sufficiently important justification not to recognize miscegenation laws, not a precedent on which i think the court would want to rely in this instance, or other interests that i think probably would not survive today, such as the rule against allowing a divorced person to remarry. so they're and more importantly, the most recent of those cases is from 1970. so the rule that the states cite about their ability to disregard, to effectively dissolve marriages that already exist, around which people have already begun to build their lives, is less applied than the federal government's own a

now, well in the united states -- while in the united states he , was introduced by senator depew of new york to none other than president mckinley. so my talk this morning has been mislabeled. it really is from mckinley to roosevelt. churchill wrote back to his mother that he was very impressed by president mckinley. of course president mckinley was a veteran of the american civil war, fought at the battle of antietam. churchill knew that and had a great deal of respect for president mckinley. while in the united states he , also met theodore roosevelt. now roosevelt, as you are going to see, did not form a very good impression of winston churchill. they went to a dinner party together and this is what the odore roosevelt had to say about the experience. he found churchill to be a rude young man. roosevelt wrote to his son, that he hates it when a man of light -- when someone obliges him to behave like a swine to prevent that other person from behaving like a swine. why was he angry at churchill? i had to ask him to say goodbye to his hostess. he was going to go away from the dinner

was it the united states or britain?ch country was going to be the leading naval power of the world? this is part of the history of international relations of the period between the two world wars that is not well known today. i want to highlight this because this is one of the major irritant -- irritants points of contention between the united states and britain between the two world wars. what size should each country's fleet be relative to the other? should britain remained the dominant naval power? or should the united states be on par -- at least equal with that of britain? so, a naval rivalry emerges between britain and the united states after the first world war. churchill, after the first world war, the british government holds an election and this is churchill going back to his seat, his parliamentary seat in the scottish industrial fishing city of dundee up in the north, and here he is delivering a speech at the end of november 1918. the war was over on the western front for a couple weeks. there you see church

there is 50 million in state contracts that go dracktly to 28 state contractors who operate multiple sites and so everything we do has to keep in mind what that system looks like and how we work in tandem with that system and comp lment that subsidized child care system in the city and there are part ners in delivering services. those are a total of 5 providers. one of the things in terms of the policy issues kw response strategies that we are working on, we manage san francisco pilot that allows us to have a higher state reimbursement rate. the state has a single rate throughout the state which is a problem for us because our cost of care and i have a sloyd to show the rate disparity for title 5 contractors. it is our number 1 policy problem because as we try to support those providers if the state isn't paying their fair share it is a problem. it is a problem for them to keep their doors open let alone provide quality care. that is a big challenge. we have this pilot that allows us to pay a slightly higher state rate and that pilot is due to sunset. it also allows us for families t

not just for my state or your states but for all of our states. for those of us from states already being impacted by climate change the epa's clean power plan to regulate our nation's larger source of carbon pollution is not just important but it's essential. many states, such as maryland, my home state of delaware, have already taken action to reduce local power plan emissions and we need all states to do their fair share to protect the air we breathe and stem the tide of climate change. in order for these standards to be effective the epa must ensure that all 50 states are capable of complying with these standards. today, the epa has conducted an unprecedented level of outreaches to utilities and businesses in order to craft a comprehensive plan that works for each state. under the clean power man, states can create their own plan for targeting -- for meeting their targets in a number of ways, including by increasing renewable energy, such as wind and solar and increasing the efficiency of their electrical grid. unfortunately, since the day tha

badly won or corrupt states rose from the end of colonialism and the state never delivered. much of the modest resources of a country ending up in too few hands and a state valued with keeping up order. too many came to adulthood dissatisfied. hardly able to support a family, unable to see a way their circumstances would improve. if the map is redrawn, the raw material, the recruits that kill on demand will be easy enough to define if they remain places to don't commute with the common people. >> on "america tonight." >> do you think that you were discriminated against because of your disability? >> yes. no parents should have to lose their child and who are you to make the decision who's a good parent and who's not a good parent? >> can a disabled parent properly care for a child? "america tonight's" christof putzel with the story of parents with disabilities, demanding change. also tonight, the orange county, california, district attorney's office in hot water.

what constitutes an examination varies from state to state. in a lot of states, an in-person examination of that patient is required. as you can imagine in the telemedicine encounter, that may be difficult. some states have seen fit to pass statutes which allow that examination to occur by telemedicine, meaning if gict the same information that you can get in the telemedicine encounter that you would get in an in-person encounter, those states say that's fine. the problem is we have not yet developed enough peripheral and diagnostic technology to make those examinations to facilitate those kind of examinations yet. what i see a lot of is folks providing telemedicine services without actually doing an examination. there's a video connection with that particular patient, and a lot of folks are concluding that that's enough. that really doesn't constitute an examination by telemedicine. now, the federation of state medical boards again came up with a model policy for the appropriate use of telemedicine technologies that sought to loosen some of t

those three states. oklahoma's governor just signed into law a new three-day mandatory waiting period for any woman who wants to get an abortion in that state. the great state of alabama is dealing with a huge catastrophe when it comes to their budget this year. it's a really big crisis in that state. they're considering everything up and including gambling statewide in order to deal with this mess they have gotten themselves into. this mess they have gotten themselves into doesn't mean they don't have time to pass more anti-abortion legislation. the state legislature in alabama just advanced three new anti-abortion laws in the past week including one that would effectively ban abortion all together in that state. the great state of arkansas just this year has passed six new laws banning and restricting abortion. the "new york times" reported that as of last week 11 states have passed 37 new anti-abortion laws already in just the first five months of this year. and this is turning out to be a very salien

state. so what these movement lawyers were doing was to adopt what they called the 10/10/20 strategy and they said what they wanted before they went to the supreme court was 10 states with same-sex marriage, 10 states with civil unions that were the equivalent of marriage, tim states of recognition in 10 states with nothing. it was never more than a guideline but that was the guideline for when they would be prepared to go to the supreme court knowing full well and i is a constitutional scholar endorse this to be supreme court is loath to tread too far ahead from public opinion so that we see in many of our landmark cases like round versus board of education or lawrence versus texas or in the international -- inter-racial marriage context the supreme court is washing out outliers so by the time loving versus virginia was decided in 196734 states had inter-racial marriage in the supreme court was just washing out the 16 states that did not have it yet. at the time lawrence versus texas was de

or as a slave state. we're going to look at a map of kansas and nebraska territories. this is 1856 and in 1854, the kansas-nebraska act was signed creating the twin territories of nebraska and kansas territories. both people assumed washington politicians -- assume that the kansas-nebraska act would probably somewhat replicate the missouri compromise in that if you bought in twin territories, one would naturally be free and other naturally slave. most people assumed that the new territory of nebraska would be settled by the free state of iowans. set up the government, rent a free state constitution and bring nebraska in as a free state, and nebraska would send northern senators to congress. conversely, i think there was -- i think there were 100,000 or so slaves in the state of missouri. most people about people in missouri would come into eastern kansas, settled the area, set up a government, and write the constitution and coming to kansas as a slave state. and kansas would send two southern senators to

when secretary of state hillary clinton -- former secretary of state hillary clinton announced she was starting her campaign for president she said she would take sort of less traveled path to trying to win the nomination. yes, she would start in iowa and new hampshire like they all do but she would do small scale events, meeting with small groups of voters in informal settings. they described the way she was going to run her campaign at least initially as a listening tour. and that strategy does seem to have paid dividends in terms of issues and policies and what the candidates want to talk about. hillary clinton said what she has found surprising was how often people brought up the issue of drug abuse and people needing access to good drug treatment and worries about drug overdoses and the rising tide of heroin and opioids. because she heard so much concern about that from regular people who she wasn't expecting to talk to her about that because she kept coming across that in lots and lots of conversations, she has decided to start talking about those issues as matters of policy on t

it is very hard, state-by-state, it is a very, sort of, difficult process. secondarily, it is because of the historians themselves. people like us up here at this table -- except 100 years ago were largely white historians. they were largely in the thrall of something called the dunning school. starting in the 19 teens started by w. e. b. dubois. there was a tradition of african american scholarship that challenged the rule. a second ago, he talked about the role african-americans played in reconstructing democracy in america. one of the things that the dunning school, turn-of-the-century and started by william dunning, it argues that not only that african americans are sort of inferior but more importantly, incapable of democracy, incapable of self government. i think one of the main themes in dunning's work is to suggest that some people or not fit to participate in american democracy. so for dunning and dunning's school, it is a question about democracy. we see this overturned finally by historians in the era of civil rights, but it is something that has

the islamic state is fighting a two front war.cause the kurdish regional government -- against the kurdish regional government and against the syrian army. they have substantial forces on both sides and are able to attack in both places. as we've seen with how myra in ramadi falling, excessively to fight these two front wars. the fact they can do this means that they have not given up, have not retreated. there were hopes in iraq there would be an attempt to retake moselle --mosul. ramadi is so close to baghdad. in syria taking palmyra or the town next to it, were there was a notorious prison where there were many islamist prisoners is a major coup for them. but when we say half of syria is now under isis control, what that means is have to territories, three court is of the population is still under government control. nermeen: charlie glass, could you talk about the significance of palmyra? not only is at the side of the ancient ruins, but it is also close to the oil and gas fields which the syrian government uses to generate el

individuals and we see that in the 14th amendment, nor shall any state, the state government or officials, not private citizens. it did not give congress the authority to create the code of municipal law for the regulation of private rights. in his majority opinion, justice bradley added this rhetorical florist, which looks particularly unfortunate in hindsight, given what had occurred in the south -- he says, when a man has emerged from slavery and by the age of legislation has shaken off the inseparable incompetence of that state, there must be some stage in the progress of this elevation when he takes the rank of a mere citizen, and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws. when his rights as a citizen or men are to be protected in the ordinary modes by which other men's rights are protected. in his dissent john marshall hall and noted that given when it happened this far in american history, that it is scarcely just to say that the colored race has been the special favorite of the law. for many commentators, the court's decision in the civil rights cases prove that the court was

from there to columbus, ohio, where he laid in state in the state capital. from there to indianapolis. to that point, that duplicate in reverse the trip that lincoln took out in the first place when he went to be inaugurated in '61. from there, went up to chicago because that was by now a large city and he laid in state in chicago for three days until he left at that point to head back down through illinois. in illinois, he -- this was all night too. the train left at 9:00 in the evening. it was supposed to leave at 9:00. it left about 10:00. and all these towns had thousands of people with bonfires as the train passed through illinois, his home state, of course. joliet was 15,000 people were in joliet. and all these towns were draped in black. they had portraits of lincoln. the train itself had a portrait of him on the front. and from joliet on down through all these towns, too numerous to mention here but they came to the town where i live in bloomington at 5:00 in the morning. having gone through the town of north wroomington first, which is now normal, i

or a slave state. we are going to look at a map of kansas and nebraska territories. this is 1856. in 1854, the kansas-nebraska act was signed, creating the twin territories of nebraska and kansas. oath people assumed -- both peoples assumed that the kansas-nebraska act would probably replicate the missouri compromise in that if you brought in twin territories, one would be naturally free and the other naturally slave. most people assume that the territory of nebraska would be settled by the free state of islands -- of iowans. they set of the government, wrote a free state constitution and brought nebraska in as a free state. conversely, there were 100,000 or so slaves in the state of missouri. missourians would come into eastern kansas and settle, set up a government, write a constitution, and kansas would come in as a slave state. they would send two southern senators to washington and you would keep an equilibrium in the u.s. senate. that is what people thought. they assumed wrongly. the kansas-nebra

so they are in an uneven state of mind. that is why i think is a recommendation and maybe persuade a few people to buy my book it really is to go back and look at washington's presidency. see how he did it. this could lead a long way toward solving the problem that is disturbing the country right now. let me thank you for coming. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured? send us an e-mail tweet us or post on our wall. >> next line the national world war i museum germany's violation of rules of war during world war i. several asked by several asked by germany including the dispersal of poison gas against french and canadian soldiers the submarine attack on the lusitania in the aerial bombar

out of the state of kansas deal with those natural disasters and what is the relationship between state government and federal government in dealing with those situations? governor brownback: well, you usually anticipate that these things will try to happen, so you try to get position ahead of time and try to prepare for it. there is an old story about a farmer going to bed at night, a big storm coming through sleeping well through the night because he had prepared everything ahead of time. he had made sure the doors were all shot and locked down. -- all shot -- all shut and locked down. he had made sure the livestock was secure. you try to prepare. so we do. you do a lot of preparing ahead of time, working with emergency management. we have a great partnership at the federal and state level. we have got command centers that we have put together that are well-established, and then the people have worked together enough, each knowing their duty, that when something starts to shape up, we will even stand the command center of before anything will hit, or we will get a big snowstorm. you j

when the state steps in, whose life is it. sheila macvicar vets the rights lost in the name of protecting a ward of the state. >> you were under guardianship. >> yes. >> how would you describe it? >> i would describe it as tyranny, gestapo >>> thanks for joining us, i'm when. as we get older, what we want most is independence, the right to make decisions for ourselves, when we lose the ability to be our open caregivers, what then? >> a family member is a guardian, but when no one is available, an elderly person or a young one can become a ward of the state. as sheila macvicar found in here investigation of texas's guardianship system. it can be the first step to isolation, and the end of control of our own lives. >> reporter: which doctor is this now? >> this was their doctor. >> reporter: dorothy's life changed forever with a knock on her door. >> they said this will take about 3 minutes. >> reporter: they were a couple of attorneys, and it was the beginnings of the end of dorothy's freedoms to make her own decisions. first a

government is going to take over a state in the united states. >> mr.ation here or is this just a serious stupid miscalculation on his part? >> no he is still pandering to the right edward. one of the things people need to know about this is the state of texas has 30 significant military installations. if you count the coast guard stations in texas. if the president really wanted to do something like this he wouldn't have to send invading forces. he would just have to send an e-mail to all those commanders and tell them to march out the gate. the largest military reservation in the world is about an hour north of where i'm sitting, fort hood. most of the people there are deployed around the world, courageously serving their country, while back here in texas, their integrity and their service is being insulted by conservatives. and on top of that at the legislature just across the road here, they're busily reducing the access to tuition, free state tuition to state universities for members of the military while they're cutting business taxes. that's the

they're now in the custody of the state department. the state department has to do its review. she can't order or demand the state department do that. they have to do it according to their own procedures and process seize. as a private sits now, she can't influence the department as she once crowd as secretary of state. so she's urging them on, saying she wants this to happen but she's saying it's now a state department-controlled process. >> ifill: matea gold, the other cloud hanging over this campaign that never seems to go away, the money, how the clintons earned their money and in some cases how they spent it, but mostly how they earned it, $30 million in speeches in eight months or something like that. where is the money coming from? >> so friday night we got our first look at how hillary clinton has been earning her money in the 15-month run-up to her announcing her presidential campaign mostly through speeches. she personally earned $11.7 million on the lecture circuit, an enormous sum of money by any stretch. we looked at the top sectors who are giving her money, and te

they come from across the united states to refund cases in teen states. fbi director said their ongoing in 50 states. they don't fit in the ethnic profile whether wider african american or arab american or pakistani-american. this of course produces problems for law enforcement and the fans like al-shabaab mostly from minnesota, the percentage of university i believe is a very focused group who are going. this is across the united states. we also found an unprecedented number of american females. obviously a group of highly highly misogynistic individual to highly misogynistic individuals whose goal in life is to preclude women from having any role outside the home and yet we found about a fifth of the 62 are females, a number of them are teenagers and this is really a very new phenomenon. we also found this is a relatively young for her. the average age is 25 that the teenage girls as young as 15. the only profile this group really showed 53 of the 62 individuals were active in social media downloading and sharing propaganda in some cases directly commun

as criminalized states.the states that actively other will use the organized crime that the state craft would rely on active to its fund themselves. with terrorist organizations. and venezuela. and when have you the political project the joint political project among multiple nations harming the united states as well as operating the criminal enterprise. and in the states to impede activities. and protected terrorism for stable vierpz that businesses crave. and margins of the state. seeking to co-op small pieces of the machinery. the groups will concentrate at the state on levels. within the stable environment. options will become available from the sale of weapons and the use of the national aircraft register stories and the use of banking structures and the national airlines and shipping lines. to move the large quantities and accurate sdifgs diplomatic passports and other identification forms. and resonating that could not be confined to venezuela and concert with allies and ecuador. bolivia. argentina se

they are much concerned that the united states is riveting away from the arab sunni states that have or less, we have to be careful about using the word allies. but i would say that the united emirates is a far stronger ally then for example, saudi arabia. at the same time you have a situation where the gcc are very much concerned that the lifting of sanctions is going to provide more funds to an iranian regime to allow mr. for the region. there is now a sore team military campaign against that development. the saudi's are truly to delegitimize their role as the custodian of the holy places. they are four main shiite rebellions in bahrain. they are very much a role in iraq and syria. the states are very concerned that the united states security blanket is more or less owing to event rate they decided to vote with their feet. host: the essay by marketing -- martinsbuc ginsburg. let's bring our callers into the conversation. john, ohio, independent line. caller: good morning. i would like to know why there is not a bigger discussion about islam, sunni versus shia? i think that there ne

states to overreact and embroil the united states in a long war against radical islamic extremism.ltimately leading the united states to disengage from the world, stop supporting what al qaeda saw as oppressive puppets across the islamic world. alieed with the united states, probably most notably egypt mubarak's egypt and other countries in the lahm islamic world as well. he almost succeeded. so the attacks in response to the attacks of september 11th the bush administration correctly turned to afghanistan asked them to hand over those upon for those nefarious acts. the afghan government refused to do so and the united states had no choice but to attack the government to topple it and attempt to bring bin laden and al qaeda 1.0 to justice. we fumbled that ball to a certain extent. we sent ininsufficient troops into afghanistan and bin laden was allowed to cross the border into pakistan. and we nullified al qaeda 1.0 inside pakistan and in afghanistan. but the spread largely as a result of the misguided unnecessary invasion of iraq in 2003. that became a cause celeb that informed th

but in the state courts, there have been some state appellate courts and state supreme courts that have said knots and carab don't control gps and that's not binding appellate precedent for our purposes. that is a minority position to be clear, and that's one example of how you could use that riley moment to kind of further that argument. when you're talking about leon god faith boipdinding reliance on an order that on its face looks good but later found insufficient, one area and this maybe reflects this kind of growing, reflects the fact that state law enforcement officers will oftentimes be the ones investigating the case that eventually makes its way up to federal court. in those instances if you can show the state law enforcement violated a state constitutional protection or state statute, if you can win the fourth amendment issue then you can use the state law as an advantage to defeat the leon good faith. you can argue i'm glad you created this new rule that you hadn't really thought of before but note that in this state for example police are allowed to do this for 30 years. in

for south carolina state. cobb-hunter has represented orangeburg in the state house for 24 years. >> we needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. there was a real systemic problem at south carolina state, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years. >> ifill: interim president w. franklin evans hopes confidence in new leadership could lead to more state funding. but he conceded that is not the only solution. >> we're looking at rightsizing across the campus, even looking at our facilities and making sure that we are maximizing our facility use in our building and optimizing every bit that we can so we're not wasting any money wasting resources. >> ifill: he's also looking to build on the school's strongest academic programs, like one in nuclear engineering. kenneth lewis heads that program, the only one of its kind in south carolina, and says it supports the kinds of students historically black universities have focused on. >> a lot of our kids are rural

they are a state, and that this state is working. it's not a perfect state, it's not like the united states. but it's a state. >> how isis shook the world starts now. >>> the questions haunt us. each time we witness some terrible new savagery. >> the images that are emerging are horrifying. >> each time we meet the face of evil. >> i will continue to strike the next of your people. >> we ask how, why. how could a band of butchers come out of nowhere. take over vast lands, slaughter indents and threaten the world. >> we'll cop off the heads of the americans, the french, whoever you may bring. >> and perhaps the most important question, how could we not have known. >> the answer is, we did. this is the story of what we knew about isis and when we knew it. it is a story that has not been told before, not in its entirety. told by the people who have made the journey into the mind and heart of isis. >> we begin with an extraordinary chance to look into the islamic state. not a single reporter has dared to venture there. since the gruesome

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it's state law, it's very robust. and what we thought is that -- you can see we have a third party disclosure form, by the way for all of the local requirement, which the nettics, commission staff staff simplified it but it's eight pages long we basically consolidate the requirements streamline and make it one standard, so all of these groups that are engaging in this activity know generally what the standard is when they have to report i will say, generally, i will go back a little bit. these reporting requirements, at the ethics commission, they're so confusing, but people who have the money they pay people to do compliance, and they comply. the problem that we see all the time is the smaller groups the groups who you want to hear from, who don't have the time or the money to understand how to comply and they mess up all the time. so we thought, we have this one standard within 90 days of election if it's an ie saying vote for or against, it's an election year communication, you spend a thousand bucks for a candidat

after losing so much ground in the fight state by state. what now. we talk with a lower whose job it is to make the cause against same-sex marriage. it's "inside story". >>>tonight on "inside story", we are look at the battle over same-sex marriage, at the outset in the 1990s, those that wanted to keep marriage as between one man and one woman won - over and over again. in recent years the tide turned and decisively so. where does it leave those that fought same-sex marriage. robert is with a legal group founded to protect religious freedom. welcome to "inside story". >> thank you for having me. >>> the battlefield changed shape. what is the fight now. what is a plausible set of victories now that same-sex marriage is legal in so many states of the union? >> we don't know what the supreme court will do. there's no shortage of commentators that predicted the supreme court will impose same-sex marriage in all 50 states, doesn't mean it would be legitimate. the supreme court's only power is in the legitimacy, it was once recognised and that depends on m

if you let the state do it, the state can make an exception. the state can say, yest two men can marry, but ministers will still be authorized to conduct marriage is on behalf of the state. you cannot do that once it is a constitutional prescription. ms. bonauto: if one thing is for them and i believe it is firm, under the first amendment that a clergyman does not have to officiate a marriage that he or she does not want to officiate. justice scalia: he will be required to officiate but he will not be given the state's power unless he agrees to use the state's power in accordance with the constitution. it seems to me that you have to make that exception. you cannot appoint people that will then go ahead and violate the constitution. ms. bonauto: i think we are talking about a government and individual, a clerk that is a different matter that they will have to follow through unless again, the state decides and makes an exception. in connecticut, after the court permitted marriage they passed a law to deal with these sorts of issues. justice scal

the united states facing challenges on three fronts.ountries iran, north korea and russia, threatening to proliferate nuclear weapons. and to do so without regard to treaties or international convention. iran's supreme leader effectively ending president obama's desperate drive to negotiate a so-called framework agreement to limit the development of nuclear weapons. today adamantly insisted as before will never permit foreign expections of iranian military sides or interviews with scientists under any nuclear agreement with any group of world power, ayatollah khomeini. such inspections are suspicious am a nuclear site, they would never be part of a credible framework. in addition to this north korea today announcing it has developed the ability to miniaturized nuclear weapons. it's a key step towards a nuclear warhead. and russia, now threatening the west with enlarging its nuclear arsenal to build more nuclear weapons adding to what is already the most powerful nuclear arsenal. and what did the obama white house do in response? out of

secretary of state to somali. john kerry's mission on tuesday was to communicate the obama administration's support for the fledgeling democracy, three years old. somali gets ready for parliamentary elections in 2016, the secretary of state wanted to show the administration support but also to encourage somali to do more to try to improve its military wap caste, particularly as it is trying to get rid of al-shabab. >> i'm here today because somali is making progress in its mission to turn things around. somali forces have pushed al-shabab out of major population centers. a determined international effort put somali's pirates out of business. >> reporter: they have pledged to use military force to degrade al-shabab. they have to deal with the fact that there's no long-term military tradition. kerry wanted to underscore the willingness to help somali develop military capacity finally, he wanted to deliver the message that the rule of law and free expression are important. to that end he made it a point to met with p

in the state of georgia. most notably is roy roberts' annual barbecue. for over 1,000 georgians will come and presidential candidates will come to meet at his farm, enjoy a little barbecue and enjoy the best grass-roots politics. were it not for people like roy we wouldn't have the body politic that we have, and georgia would not be the great disait state that it is. i pleased to rise today and commend the work of citizen roy roberts, a great american, a great georgian and a pretty darn good basketball player. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: i'd ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be re-sunned. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, it was just a few weeks ago that the united states senate took up and passed s. 178, the justice for victims of trafficking act. this bill took us a while to get through but ultimately garnered unanimous support from this chamber, a vote o

my least favorite state. the small islands, north of jamaica, north of haiti, so close, so small, has had inordinate influence on the united states because of what has happened on that island has not followed the wishes of america and american society. this island is an important part of our story. from the 1860's, this island is going through convulsions. it is an incredibly diverse and complex place. it is part of the spanish empire, part of the spanish empire but it has a mixed population. you have many african descendents, afro cubans, dark skinned afro cubans who were former slaves or were slaves brought to the island. it is an area where slaves were brought, not just in north america but to brazil. they still have slavery until 1888. it was a transit point. there are a lot of descendents of slaves, many who are themselves slaves until recently. you have those of spanish dissent and were brought over as part of the spanish empire. you have other caribbean and central american people. you have a mixed pop

and daughters of every state. one of the two for maryland both placed there in 1903, there in the capital. the sculptor made this full-sized model which is about seven feet tall. if you have been to the maryland senate chapter there are two one of which is of hanson on the deus. -- dias. hanson twice kept the nation whole. that is one of the reasons why he was twice elected as president. in late june, 1776, when there were 12 colonies on this new thing called the declaration of independence, the doubting maryland was out. the predecessor to the maryland general assembly was not sure they were not sure what the other colonies were doing. thank you. it was supportive but was not short wanted to do this. hanson took the lead among many in the maryland legislative body sing this isn't going to work -- saying this isn't going to work. the british would love this. we have to go in on the declaration of independence. the second continental congress was sitting there in philadelphia waiting on word from maryland. they fin

states senate, both of whom are running for president. both of whom are running presumably to be president of all the people, and to become president of the very institution that they're sowing fear and distrust about, the federal government. that's always been a pattern in american politics. but this is taking it to a dangerous extreme when you're basically saying the united states military is against you and is going try to lock you up. that's a huge paranoid theme in right wing literature. it's been that way for 50, 75 years. and it's come back around again in a way we haven't seen in a long time. >> i want to appreciate both of you guys coming on. but i want to especially thank todd smith coming from fort worth. that republican party you speak of the party of james baker and george herbert walker bush is still alive. good luck in taking back your party down there. >>> coming up, deflategate. that's what we're calling it. the national football league finds that some personnel on the new england patriots likely did deflate those footbal

state department's list of state sponsors of terrorism?it's significant for the united states and more importantly for cuba because it has been something that has affected them for decades. politically and economically. and -- and every bilateral conversation that the cubans have had with the united states as far as i can tell especially when i was there, it was most definitely one of the most urgent things on the list of things they wanted resolved. >> several senators in the u.s. has criticized these talks as giving away too much. i want to play a sound bit. >> this is a one-sided -- i don't know what we have gotten in this return. we have gotten nothing in return. but the cuckoobans have gotten plenty in return. and if that is our way of negotiating we have a real problem on our hands. >> what can washington seek as far as democratic reform as far as human rights when it comes to these talks with cuba? >> again, it's a process, this bilateral relationship has been frozen for decades. the goal is to create a scenario whereby you have suf

some company or state.f others ask you who is doing something right, in terms of private, especially retailer that you are trying to get open quicker after disaster, is there a retailer that you like to use as an example -- go watch them and try to do the same thing to -- and even more important, is there a state or county that you think does disaster preparation and response right? guest: there are a lot of states, but often times until you have an event, you can't really show what they can do. you want to see a good effective team. look at texas and the leadership there. as they work with local officials and respond, that is how you say it should be done. you have good operators and a lot of states, but in a real-time disaster look at what , texas is doing. that is, again, why we are in a support role, but it is important to plug into a good team. there are a lot of examples i can use, but people get nervous when i start mentioning brands by name. there are a lot of indicators that we find -- what i have

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they occur in almost every state in the united states, attend gives a chance for all of the clubs in that state to get together and discuss current affairs. current problems, settle dinners, whatever. normally there is only a couple of members from each organization present at each consideration meeting but this time there wasn't. >> what would you expect as far as further violence and retaliation out of this incident? >> i think the likelihood is quite high considering the amount that are dead at this point. my sources tell me that there are now ten dead. >> and what impact do you think this incident will have on biker gangs in general? would you expect a major crackdown on their activities now? >> i would expect the department of jazz, justice fbi atf are pursuing every tool in their toolbox right now to eliminate the potential for this kind of violence in the future. >> edward former member of the bandidos biker gang and author. thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> a marine has died in a fiery aircraft crash. it happened near honolulu, hawai'i. the military said that the osp

states into cuba. it hasn't been announced as a big breakthrough in this country. people are wondering what will come in on the ferries. does that mean the united states will send in thousands without permission. lots of regulations. they are not sure how they'll manage all this. >> the cubans wanted to get off the state sponsor's terror list be allowed back into latin american meetings, they got those things. how come there's not a more developing trust that the united states is working out of goodwill. >> it's history, it's a long history going back to the spanish american war, and the fact that the guantanamo navel base is occupied by the united states. cuba sees that as an injury a wound in its heart. that's how they describe it. this is a treaty signed more than 100 years ago. and it doesn't allow or almost 100 years ago. it doesn't allow the kooubons to tell the united states to leave. it has to be by mutual accord. that and other reasons the political differences that exist between the united st

so do you have a state by state program or plan that would enable communities and fire departments and state and counties to work collaboratively with the forest service to prevent the wildfires? do you have something for hawaii? >> in the past, we've done it more community by community, with communities that developed a community wildfire protection plan. and now with the cohesive strategy that we just put out, it allows us to take more of a es not only to we need to have fire adaptive communities, but we also need have fire adapted human communities. so we're taking the action so that we're working together to reduce this threat. and these two efforts then along with the immediate to keep the suppression resources we have is really going to be i think very helpful for us to be able to move forward and address this problem that goes way beyond just the federal land. >> i'm sorry, i'm running out of time. but you said you work community by community. are you working with any particular communities in hawaii? you -- >> i'll have to get back to you. the point you raised about the invasiv

the european system will apply and the united states.round, service and air have given the numbers and types of individuals within their command who have become surplus or can be replaced. they will transfer their men to the surplus. -- surplus for designation to the nonessential. if any man has been declared nonessential under the land remains in the army, such a man will not be forced out if he can be usefully employed. in the case of the army's officers, necessity will determine which ones are nonessential and will be separated only as they can be spared. and the women's army corps has not been forgotten. they aren't integral part of our armed forces and a priority for release among its members will be determined just as in the rest of the army. treating a core as a second -- as a separate group. however, soldiers of the women's army corps whose husbands have been separated from the army will be discharged on application. you have seen how the worldwide readjustments in the army will take place. the surplus men from all overseas theat

the size of the state. if you are having an argument about whether small states deserve to be overrepresented just because they are small, madison's argument would be small states do not represent -- deserve representation per se because size is not correlated with their interests. you are just going to give them in a to benefit -- give them an extra benefit. the exception is when you are operating on laws where you do not know what your social position will be later. if you are voting on rules for voting and you know what your interests star, of course -- what your interests are, of course, you have the incentive. luther martin was moot. size does not affect our opinions. suppose you are a big second amendment guy. someone taking a gun into walmart so she could be killed by a two-year-old. let's look at the strong second amendment person. you really believe in hunter's rights. does it matter if you live in what is called the venison belt, working-class guys who like to go out with their rifles on the weeke