in the northern states. that is some background to the 15th amendment. second question to address it, how did we get in that situation to the adoption of a constitutional amendment barring disfranchisement based on race? why did republicans not just stop with the reconstruction act? they have imposed black suffrage on the south, where it will enable them to build up their political party, but they have not imposed it on the north, where doing so might alienate their constituents who would then retaliate against them at the polls. historians have disagreed to some extent about exactly how we get from there to the 15th amendment. clearly the ideology of the civil war played some role in the coming of lack suffrage. the war had evolved into a war ledbolish slavery that had at least some people to reconsider their views about race generally and their perspective on black suffrage role ofally, also the black soldiers on the battlefield during the civil war as a powerful factor leading some whites to reconsider th

is anti semitic i believe its goal is the eradication of the state of israel the one jewish state in the world but i really don't want to focus on that in this discussion i want to focus on the legislation which there are too many missed statements going on here with the legislation let me talk about new jersey's legislation which i was primarily involved with new jersey's pension funds contain about seventy five billion dollars worth of assets the trade relationship between the state in new jersey and the state of israel has averaged one point three to one point five billion dollars over the last seven or eight years there is a fundamental economic basis and rationale for the state of new jersey to want to know that companies that want to receive investments from the new jersey pension funds are not boycotting one in new jersey's most reliable and valuable trading partners there's an economic reason and rationale for it and that's what the legislation is based on the legislation does not prohibit any free speech i may disagree with demon and josh on what goes on in in israel or what

is resolutely hostile to united states interests, that the united states is behind the coup and support for ypg, i think is a more legitimate cause tore complaint, this will lead to a rupture of u.s.-turkish relations and lead them to a desperate search for allies and they have to make do with russia and iran. i think its first choice stays in nato where it gets the benefits of cooperation with the west. given the deep anger and paranoia, whether that rational prevails remains to be seen. >> on what you just laid out, nick, erdogan has gone to tehran and said tehran is my second home he has at times been in an up and down policy and has brother affection for the iranian regime or i need to find somebody other than the united states to work with. what do you think? >> we kraipt a few years ago on a study honored wan's foreign policy. it talks about the oscillation of ideas where he was very much building on this idea we can work jointly with iran. it now seems to be going back out of necessity to a different approach to iran again. there is this thing, me against my brother and my brothe

through the voice of the prime minister pride in the establishment of the state of israel. and its on is a remarkable story and has produced a a safe for global jury i don't have but it also the cold healing time not so crisp and it also whilst providing safe refuge for one people started the one hundred year ring of another people and. and that's why that was celebrating is not being used as far as i know by the british government it's about commemorating. the declaration and then trying to deliver sort of a balance but we need to get real here about what the united kingdom can actually do and the suggestion that new britain should put pressure on america and america should then put pressure on israel and to take up our responsibility to deliver a two state solution i'm afraid it simply doesn't work the the the truth is is that israel has immense strength i've just come from a conference where the point was made by an israeli academics that. that the balfour declaration happened but the actual delivery of the state of israel after that was largely down to the action of the

into west of there are united states from a climate treaty and the state stepped up taking it upon themselves to do the things that would be necessary if the united states were still at the table this is a coalition that can get as big as there are jurisdictions that are willing to work with us i think there's real hope that as states see other states joining and getting some benefit out of it that they'll decide that they want to be part of it to california is also working internationally in june twenty seventh team governor jerry brown signed a deal to work on climate change with china china looks to us now as a representative of the united states they want to see not just california of other states coming to china they want to send people here to learn from some of our techniques that we've used over the years to bring down the levels of smaug which not that long ago were as bad as what you now see today in beijing seeing countries or states or cities that are cutting their emissions and doing well economically is what everybody needs to be doing and we all can learn from each other becaus

one of them, conspiracy against united states. basically the fraud in the united states. the other is defrauding u.s. banking. the other one is money laundering. the fourth one is -- will come back to me. about 75 years they are asking for. for reza zarrab. but experts say actually if the judge counts every transaction in this money laundering it could be really, really long, which apparently is the -- how these things go. so we are looking at maybe more than a century of jail sentence. all these allegations, of course. reza zarrab was not convicted in turkey. and dismissed his charges. and the police and the prosecutors who launched those investigations also dismissed and i think many of them either fled or in jail. and here 20 months we have seen dozens of pretrial conferences, hearings. but we have not so far had a person, convicted person that we can say. so these are allegations. >> svante, johan alluded to the background of this of zarrab's arrest in 2013. can you tell us the context for that? >> sure. for me the case of reza zarrab is very symptom mick of turkish-a

the room reacts like that because the president of the united states said in the united states that china is our enemy, that he's happy to upset them, that china is raping us. it's the greatest theft in the history of the world. then to the face of the chinese president, he tells him how great he is. he tells him how he has nothing but warm feelings for him. he tells him there is nothing to blame china for at all. you know, even if you're 100% agnostic, no matter what you think our relationship should be with china, that u-ie that slinking away from his own past statements, that sort of visible gutlessness on foreign soil earns gasps and laughter from a room of chinese diplomats, that's an embarrassing act of deference and basic suck up for the united states of america in the person of the president of the united states. i should also tell you the president did not take questions from reporters. the white house explained that the chinese government insisted that they didn't want reporters to be able to ask questions. now, all previous modern american presidents have stood on principle on

>> because of the new state regulations we can only buy after 2018 from state cultivators. we may go from seeing 500 vendors to seeing five vendors. they may not meet the regulations put into place or they don't have the finances to apply for the state permit or the state may lag on actually approving those permits meaning the couple may only get through. those are the only cultivators we are actually purchasing from at that time. >> you're saying that your dispensary could absolutely run out of marijuana. just like colorado and nevada did when they went recreational. they didn't have enough on hand from the cultivators to vend to the state, and we're worried that will happen here. >> they want licenses in part because they want to crack down on the black market for cannabis. isn't that a good thing? >> it is a good thing, but it takes a lot of money and time to get those that it causes the mom and pop operations in california to be pushed out of getting a permit, therefore not able to send their product and therefore floods the market. >> it seems hard to believe that they

a affects red states and blue states and every state in between. i'm grateful that they are bringing the committee on the road to investigate the devastating effects of this very difficult problem. i want to thank dr. miller for your hospitality. thank you for joining us. we are honored to have you in our presence. thank you for testifying and for all that you are doing to help us combat opioids and save lives. a year and a half ago in our committee's first hearing on the issue, i warned that so many people were dying in communities across america and that we could no longer ignore this emergency. today the centers for disease control estimates that more than 64,000 americans died from drug overdoses in 2016 and that's an increase of more than 20% over the year before. to put it into perspective, the death toll from the overdoses last year alone was higher than allus military casualties in iran and iraq wars combined. every 20 minutes, every 20 minutes someone dies from an overdose. if it lasts for two hours, a half dozen families will have lost a

there is another small state called iran. it is a very important and very , and we haven brought our guest here to explain to us what is going on. my impression was as far as lebanon's concern, you found some reasons for concern. you can speak from here or speak from here, whatever you prefer. >> good morning, everybody, and thank you for hosting me this morning. , lately,d gentlemen the world watches the news and sees images from my region which are full of drama and discord. it was not always that way. prosperitya place of thanks to shared effort to coexist. that time was lost to a dark period of closemindedness, totalitarianism, and aggression. the region went from a center of conductivity and enlightenment .o being a region of turbulence aggression,ge of extremism have flourished. government seeking domination, , intimidatingower smaller countries into submission. the is not happening in distant past. it's happening right now. the illegal blockade launched against my country six months move in an one aggressive power-play

his state gets money from the donor states across the country. we need to make sure you keep that in perspective as well. california is a big donor state. take away tax opportunities for constituents and many of the states represented, what happens is we pay more and get back class. that's not incredibly fair at all. ever talk about fairness in this tax bill. we want to see fair tax reform that helps the middle-class working families and works from the middle-class out. this bill does the opposite and as 2.3 trillion toward debt. . . . . >> the typical family and all of the congressional districts represented in the typical family no country. statistics show there is relief for every american family. the median american family that we all represent your. my colleague Ãabout $2200 per family and a lot of benefits to those that do not itemize the low and middle income americans approximately two thirds in his district and if we go down list we will see the same in every district represented on the committee and in every district in our country. als

arab states?>> it is the interest of the u.s. and israel, in my judgment, to build on those relations and encouraged them. and if you may give me one more sentence on that issue, the principal factor affecting the sunni arab world is what you do with iran. that is, -- >> so you would agree how am ie it you would agree with ambassador bolton we should rip up that iran nuclear deal. >> was no. i think you should upgrade it. i think you should take out the flaws and come up with a better agreement. [talking over each other] >> i will have little time. ambassador bolton, i just want to ask you a question. is it your view that at the present time the holy sites in jerusalem our secure with the israeli security system? >> well, i think they are as secure as they can be under the circumstances, but. [talking over each other] >> -- and accepting the recommendation of king abdullah if that's what he said and if that's what the president. >> i appreciate your candor. i couldn't wait. >> let me ask you this.

the united states will also do its part.e are also committed to reforming our development finance institutions so that they better incentivize private sector investment in your economies, and provide strong alternatives to state-directed initiatives that come with many strings attached. the united states has been reminded time and time again in recent years that economic security is not merely related to national security. economic security is national security. [applause] pres. trump: it is vital to our national strength. we also know that we will not have lasting prosperity if we do not confront grave threats to security, sovereignty, and stability facing our world today. earlier this week, i addressed the national assembly in seoul, south korea and urged every responsible nation to stand united in declaring that every single step the north korean regime takes toward more weapons is a step it takes into greater and greater danger. the future of this region and its beautiful people must not be held hostage to a dictator's t

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should be at that state center of government. there may be logistical reasons for temporary deviations from this principle but there is no compelling diplomatic business region to waste nearly 70 years, as has been the case in israel. given israel's geography certain key institutions such as the ministry of defense are located in tel aviv which means that legitimate considerations will dictate that a us embassy next should remain there. cost, efficiency and effectiveness considerations also compel the conclusion that the bulk of our embassy's personnel should follow the example of their colleagues in virtually every entire rest of the world and be moved to israel's capital. modern transportation and health medications capabilities in our city, distance still imposes cross and resources, not with aggravation on our diplomats in israel. moreover there is still no substitute to personal contact, face-to-face medication and easy accessibility to times of crisis with key host government officials and political leaders. moreover securi

one is state to state mechanism, which nafta already contemplates. and then the state investor. the state resolution, also should be basically stay as it is. you know, i think there is some inconveniences to have domestic national tribunals to resolve that kind of dispute. i think it's important to have an international arbitration or international body to resolve these disputes. >> general? >> let's talk about a completely hypothetical case involving boeing and bumbarge. so, they produce a neat aircraft with brand-new technology. which has all the advantages of new technology, faster, lighter, more cost effective. and another company, a u.s. company, boeing, for example, has ooh, we don't like that. we're going to put counter veiling duties by approaching the u.s. department of commerce saying whatever they said. and 220% duties are assigned with another 80% for counterdumping. 300% duties. well, wait a second. boeing didn't submit a bid for the aircraft type because they don't have an aircraft which meets the qualification of the customer. who is an american airline. so they d

michigan, 1-5 against the rivals being michigan state and ohio state. what j.t.tt said after going 3 for 8 and leaving in the game, while on the sideline, he was bumped into, near the bench by some one holding a camera. we don't know who the still photographer, video camera. >> brian: putting out an apb. >> rick: duane haskins did a good job off the bench. >> adam: 17-0 with duane haskins in the game. they had to use more than two quarterbacks on that run. bnl and worked out well for them. we'll see if the defense can hold up well. should be a good one. >> rick: the fans are feeling better tonight than yesterday. >> adam: got it out of way, a big one next week. we'll wrap it up when the college football post-game show powered by ram returns. nobody does it better. [crowd cheering] but when it comes to mortgages, they're less confident. fortunately there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. it's simple, so they can understand the details and be sure they're getting the right mortgage. apply simply. understand fully. mortgage confidently. rocket mortgage by quicken

states. george ten net, the cia director was in a bunker and he said we can't reach secretary rumsfeld. his phone is just ringing and ringing. about that time they came and said, you have to get to a bunger because planes are buying into building over washington, dc. when the secret service wants to escort you, thaw don't actually escort you. they pick you up and they carry you so i remember being kind of levitated toward the bunker, i said i have to make a phone call. called my aunt and uncle in berming hamp and thin called president bush and said you can't come back here, the united states is under attack. the rest of the day was dealing with the reality that american security would never be the same. >> so on afghanistan, that's been in the news lately, our longest war, 16 years, you see any solution in the near term? >> i'm worried about afghanistan. i have always said that what the -- the point we have to get to somehow in afghanistan was that the afghans were able to prevent the taliban

states. we are at a point very close to a go, no go decision on the use of military force. otherwise we will face north korea with nuclear weapons as far as the eye can see. >> the secretary of state gave a press briefing after the sessions in china and what he said was there is no difference between the united states and china on north korea in terms of goals. and yet if you looked at south korea before the visit, the new president of south korea, the new government which is left-leaning basically agreed with china to not deploy new antimissile batteries in the peninsula in the future and was a chinese demand. and we see evidence that our core outline there. the one we are protecting has been moving towards china's position on what you can deploy militarily on the peninsula. >> i think the best news about south korea is that it is politically very divided. in facts right before the trip they called on the united states to deploy tactical nuclear weapons for the first time in several decades.

the blockading states have been trying to twist the truth. with a scheme to flood the media with lies. about my country. but now over the past six months the truth is surfacing. little did we know that behind the scenes the efforts of the blockading states are deeperment cyber attacks, market manipulation and the plots of --. the disrespect of international law and the absence of enforcement mechanism made the region an experimental field for the power seekers adventures. regional players are acting irresponsibly. taking political gamble with the lives of other nations citizens. with no exit strategy. not even with aid for starve lg children is used as a leverage. while the atrocities of syria are being tolerated and in the same way that yemen is being put in a meaningless stalemate, now these powers makes their attempt in lebanon. the systemic behavior, a reckless pattern for seeking power. with a complete disregard for the suffering left in the wake. that suffering includes lost opportunities, in the war against terror. the black kading sta

new jersey, washington and other states by eliminating the state and local tax deduction.hen you do that it causes filers not be able to deduct their state and local taxes. in california, new york, new jersey, washington and other states, it's going to be tax increases to middle-class families. in addition, because of the way the tax plan is constructed, it has the potential to lower housing prices because it also caps your mortgage interest rate deduction. that's why the national association of home builders came out opposing this plan and they have put out something which is deeply concerning. they're saying this could potentially cause a housing recession. you also have the national federation for independent businesses which represents small businesses across america opposing this plan. why? because it's a big tax giveaway to the ultra-wealthy. if you look at an earlier analysis by "the washington post," they said 80% of this tax plan's benefits will go to the top 1%. if you look at this tax plan, it's going to hurt middle-class americans in order to fund those at the

i think the united states has to be a force there. i don't think united states can write off syria. i think the united states has to be a force in working with the opposition and working with the forces that are there and in making clear that the united states is not going anywhere. we are not going to surrender syria to russia and iran. we need to be there and play a role in working with forces to try to ultimately be a check point if nothing else to force some kind of negotiation. >> as far as i can recollect many years ago he put on a high nuclear alert and the russians with drew from the middle east for almost 30 years, but then they marched right back into syria and the obama administration did absolutely nothing, said nothing, did nothing. so i guess putin as usual is testing the envelope to see how far he can go and he stayed there. how influential do you think russia is in the middle east right now? >> russia, the reason which is this is another flash point which is that we are in a new chapter of the cold war with russia and what putin is doing. you know, putin in many ways

a moron, rest assured the secretary of state of the united states, does not have any credibili on the international scene. >> that's -- >> it's not a judgment of him, there may not be anyway around, but that's scary. >> so far the iranians have been benefiting from what trump has been doing. >> politically, inside of iran, how do you expect them to take advantage of that. they're benefiting at the moment. how do you expect they'll take advantage of that. >> far, the political balance has not shifted dramatically, in the sense that rouhani is still there. if the europeans cave and they go along with the u.s. position, which so far they are resisting tooth and nail, then ultimately, that will have a very negative impact for the forces responsible to make sure this deal will come abut that risks bringing about the situation which is a much more hardline elements -- we all remember the problems ahmadinejad created with the aggressive and belligerent -- >> there's also a deeper problem. you have right now in which a lot of young people in iran were tremendously supportive of this deal. the

you remember when we were in northern south sudan -- >> unity state. >> unity state. there were all of these babies. it just broke my heart, because i knew that the majority of those babies were not created by partners. they were created through rape. and we saw the children right next to bodies of water, and it just made me scared to death of how many drowning deaths they must have in that camp. so i think the best way to prevent abortion is to provide family planning. and i don't think those women chose those pregnancies. those pregnancies were forced on them. so we should look at that. we're zeroing it out. once again i think it's just an example of the hypocrisy of a lot of what is proposed in the budget, and i'm just glad as congress we can not follow and reverse some of the proposals put forward by the administration. thank you. >> anything else you'd like to add before we close? >> just appreciate your comment about the redesign. we have submitted our proposal. but we're keeping it close now so i'm not in a position to talk about it. we do look forth to consult

he declared the defense of saudi arabia as vital to the defense of the united states. the us soon began selling arms to the saudis, a trend that continues today. - the purpose of the hearing is to assess the executive grant proposal for a 3.1 billion sale, dollar sale of 315 n182 tanks and other military equipment services to saudi arabia. the equipment is some of the most sophisticated in the united states military arsenal. - oil was transitioning to becoming the life blood of modern civilization. if electricity is literally the circuitry, without which, modern life is impossible. oil is the life blood. - it's both vital to our economy and it's vital to our military, and that became true once we switch to an oil-based military. - 15% of our oil imports still come from saudi arabia. and saudi arabia is the key country that sets the international hydrocarbon's price for all the world through it's petroleum production. it produces 10 1/2 million barrels a day. it has 259 billion barrels of oil. - [narrator] the alliance was further cemented during the cold war. in the 19

so what we see from state to state is the half to get away. medicaid and medicare has way for a long time. medicaid for much of the past 50 years has been a passive and bill payer now we are now active purchaser of health working with everybody in the system plans, a physician groups groups, hospitals, nursing homes, patience to figure out how to redesign the system of care built around the individual? to be somebody's eyes in the years and teeth and breed with four different ports of the body that all of this part of the whole. and i think we just saw some statistics that said for the first-time ever more than 50% of all medicaid spending now is in the payment arrangement certainly much more than 50 percent of the people. is this all traditional managed-care? no. yes we have bigpr for a profit groups we have smaller mission driven but there are a lot of other things that our more suited to the individual states markets and demographics so what goes on in massachusetts? boston is big. big hospital systems. arkansas not a lot of managed-care bu

i appreciate very much your acknowledging and stating the fact that the united states economy has done so well since our election on november 8. close to 2 million jobs. the highest stock market in our history. so many different things are happening for the better, including the cutting of massive ape mounts of regulation, which is one of the reasons that the market's reacting the way it's reacting. this mutual respect for cultural and sovereignty will continue to bring our nations closer and closer together. and open up new avenues of cooperation and success. mr. prime minister, thank you again for inviting me today. and for opening the arms of your majestic country to our american sell gags, all delegation in th. i look forward to working side by side with you. in friendship, we will have success like rarely seen between two countries. japan and the united states of america, twovery, very special places. thank you for having us. thank you very much. >> translator: thank you very much, mr. president. now we will accept questions from the press. if you wish to speak, please raise your

president, this isn't about red states or blue states. it's time we start calling these states what they really are. these aren't blue states. they're america's blue-chip states. they're america's innovation states, america's economic powerhouse states, states like new jersey are home to millions of makers, not takers, and we're proud of it. but our success didn't happen overnight. it didn't happen by accident. new jersey's success is predicated on our priorities and our investments. new jersey is a donor state precisely because we invest in public schools and higher education so that new jerseyans continue driving innovation in fields like biotechnology, agriculture and medicine. new jersey is a donor state precisely because we invest in mass transit and infrastructure so that workers can commute to high-paying jobs, whether in new york city or philadelphia or in the financial district in places like jersey city and hoboken and family and friends in nearby states can easily travel to the jersey shore. new jersey is a donor state precisel

our state constitution limits power of the state has over citizens. in that sense, they serve different purposes. that the amendment than thes much easier amendment process for the federal constitution. we can debate whether those amendments were good or bad. question ofe the should all these policy issues, whether it is something related to health care or voting, some of these issues -- should they be put in the constitution or enacted by the legislature? that then gives more flexibility as people find difficulties in executing the laws. when something is put to the constitution, it cannot be changed by legislature. it can be struck down by the court and amended later, but it cannot immediately change. we do need to think about this issue. opposed to public policy result in the legislature. amended as needed. cannot let the opportunity pass. we have so many high school and college students here to ask you a couple questions about your career path. we like to make lawyer jokes. mr. readler: i even made one. >> i showed restraint. about looking back of

of california tyler titus one in the state of pennsylvania a state that voted for donald trump last year to a school board which is so important when we're talking about trance children growing up as well as andrea jenkins in minneapolis minnesota she is the first trans person elected to a major city council in the united states of america and we're so excited that she will probably be followed hopefully by felipe cunningham whose votes are finally being counted and will hopefully be announced today i want to ask you what are your limits when it comes to supporting. candidates for example log cabin republicans in you know for our viewers around the world at their notes and with that log cabin republicans are are basically new gay lesbian members of the republican party do you support them if they have what you consider to be the right agenda. yeah so victory fund believes that representation is power when we elect people like danica and like our other candidates that won last night that allows algy meaty people to have a seat at the table so we're not on the menu so we're able to st

the they relationships in qatar in the state department at the state department at the foreign ministry and their u.s. state department are very strong throughout its short history the front cover here we've seen a lot of thinking of the feeling ships with the diplomatic corps with policymakers in the state department so i don't believe that the actual. tillerson himself is the pillar of the relationship between cut out of the state department and also that i've always maintained a very strong relationship with their the institutions in washington whether it be the intelligence a situation the treasury department the defense department or the state department and therefore even that we can see it now in washington that even though there's air high contention in the state bomb itself but the message coming out from the state very clear was give the. shoji in kuwait. you're not i want to comment on what you've heard but i want to talk about that you've been tweeting. since the amir's speech. earlier in the day on on on. tuesday you tweeted that the locating countries have become hostage t

feakts red states and blue states. -- it affects red states and blue states and every state in between. i'm extremely grateful the chairman agreed to my request to bring the committee to -- on the road to investigate the devastating effects of this very difficult problem. i also want to thank dr. miller and johns hopkins for your warm welcome and hospitality. the work you do makes a huge difference in our community and around the globe. i also thank our esteemed guest, governor hogan and pugh for joining us. we're honored to have you in our presence. of course i thank our witnesses, governor chris christie, commissioner wynn, dr. comperned, and mr. baum. thank you for testifying and for all you are doing to help us combat opioids and save lives. a year and a half ago at our committee's first hearing on this issue, i warned that so many people were dying in communities across america and that we can no longer ignore this emergency. today the centers for disease control and prevention estimates that more than 64,000 drug ns died from overdoses in 2016, an increase of more than 20% over t

in a state authorities again i mean it's if you shouldn't even look at the state as in one of it it's different officers working in different capacities and using all abusing their power. in the dominican republic there's a there's an engine situation which is. we politically very difficult to to see any way forward on so it's a mixed bag but certainly i would agree with me they need it with the with the backing of the campaign and more attention to the issue that we are seeing many more positive stories in the last three years then we have in the in the previous decade i would see all right but there's a lot of work to be dan made a nice book of sixty thousand on average. cases being sold every year but then we have children being born into status has every year in the tens of thousands as thoughtful we have a lot of work to do to address it sickness which brings us back then to what seems to be an almost intractable situation for the region good people of myanmar rakhine state in particular let's go back to the coffee and commission that was actually tasked by unsound c.t. to analyz

a red state. missouri wasn't always a red state, but it's a red state now. you knew that you had an uphill battle. in fact, what happened in 2016. hillary clinton didn't break 38% of the vote in missouri, right. - president trump won missouri by 19. which i recently realized is like 10 points more than he won texas by, which is pretty staggering. - right, texas is more competitive than missouri. let's just contemplate that for a second. but the reality is, you only lost by about three? - two point eight. - two point eight, so you actually over-performed the democrat ticket by about 16 points, in terms of the margin, right. in theory, if i'm doing this properly, there are probably trump-kander voters. - 220,000 of them, more than any other competitive race, senate race in the country last year. - what did they see in him and see in you? build the bridge for me. - yeah, i hear you. look, the real particularly interesting thing about that, i guess, is that i wasn't out there pretending i was a conser

he remains secretary of state. as long as he serves at the pleasure of the president, he will continue to do that job. >> so you're saying that the rumors are false and groundless? >> here's what i know. i don't work at the white house. what i can tell you is that chief of staff kelly called our department this morning and said that the rumors are not true. those reports are not true. that's what i've been told. that's what we've been told. you heard from the white house today that they have no personnel changes to announce. >> wouldn't it be the right thing to do is for the white house to issue a statement saying that the rumors are groundless if that's the case? >> i'm not going to tell the white house how to conduct their business. the chief of staff spoke to reporters. he said that this report is not true. sarah sanders has spoken to reporters as well. i believe she has a briefing later today. i'd have to let the white house speak for itself from our standpoint here at the state department. we remain committed

66th secretary of state. it will be hard for me to say, madam secretary on this stage today. i will try to mix it up a little bit and make sure we know with whom we are chatting. shall we begin? i will start with the first piece i mentioned and name the threats in the world today, and they are serious. nuclear weapons in north korea, the brutality of isis, russian aggression, china's aggression in asia, and more. all of these threats attack the values and institutions that have contributed to spreading the spirit of liberty abroad and ambassador haley, let's begin with you. how is the united states prioritizing these threats in the world into our nation and what should american leadership look like, whether at the u.n., or with our alliances, to address them. ambassador haley: being between men is thecool wo jo,gest highlight and grace you inspire us so much. you are the reason we fight for what we fight for. so, thank you so much. [applause] ambassador haley: we do have a lot of threats, but leadership matte

united states senator. he is the embodiment of truly doing god's work here on earth. he turned the sermon of the mount into his mission. blessed are the poor, blessed are the sick, the children, the elderly, and the planet. john, blessed are the peacemakers, working tirelessly to resolve conflicts in the middle east. iran, north korea, and the world. he was america's peacemaker in chief. john, for theou, great job that you did. [applause] sen. markey: john has been a champion of the environment with long-standing leadership of protecting our planet from climate change, to start the first earth day in 1970, opposing the keystone pipeline, protecting our oceans, and negotiating the paris climate agreement in 2016. in fact, the paris agreement would never have happened without his leadership. his work negotiating the 2014 bilateral climate agreement with china was the piece of the puzzle that made it clear that both countries, the two largest economies and sources of carbon pollution, were committed to taking

state governments. state governments controlled voter processes. after the end of reconstruction, a point we will get to next week, state governments create elaborate structures that denied access to suffrage on the basis of race. that is the way citizenship also becomes a social practice. what else? who else doesn't have access to suffrage? thank you. roughly half the population. one thing we have emphasized this semester, especially in the period after the declaration of independence and the constitution is that citizenship is proceeding in two different directions at once. at one point, it is proceeding in a direction whereby all citizens are supposed to be uniform, with equal rights, they are supposed to be similar to each other, it does not matter which state you live in because all states are equal to each other. at the same time that citizenship is limited, is different, and is experienced differently primarily as a result of race and gender. it is also not just what rights citizens had in the decades surrounding the civil war, but also how

it affects red states and blue states and every state between. so i'm extremely grateful for the request to bring the committee to the road to investigate the devastating effect of this very difficult problem. i also want to thank doctor miller for your hospitality. the work you do makes a huge difference in the committee and around the globe. we are honored to have you in our prisons and of course i think our witnesses, governor chris christie doctor alexander. thank you for testifying and for all that you are doing to help us save lives. a year and a half ago at the committee's first hearing on this issue either warned that so many people were dying and communities into that we could no longer ignore this emergency. today the centers for disease ce control and prevention estimates that more than 64,000 americans die from drug overdoses in 2016, an increase of more than 20% over the year before it last year alone was higher than all u.s. military combined. every 20 minutes someone dies from an opioid overdose. today's hearing lasts for two hours

after the united states entered the war. even wilson administration officials who clashed with hoover and there were quite a few, suchwilson's secretary of the treasury, william macadu. even someone like him would have admitted he was effective at managing his assignments. still, being an effective manager is no guarantee of steadily rising to power in american politics. what hoover also had was political skill. to be sure in some ways he was ill-suited to be a poil tigs, he was uncomfortable being the focus of public attention, he lacked personal charm in some ways, and he tended to see the worst in any situation. wilson remarked he disliked talking to hoover because hoover was pessimistic about everything. nevertheless he was a master at self-promotion. both in the media and with high level officials who could promote his career. since at least 1912, when joining the board of trustees at stanford university, hoover wanted to get involved in public affairs. when the war broke out in august 1914 he immediately seized on it a

state. they also an empire would then be limited to the region around istanbul and western anatolia but the provisions of seven were never implemented. resistance to autumn and rule grew in anatolia a weakened and discredited regime because it had accepted the humiliating peace treaty of seven. it wasn't long before a national liberation army emerged as a result a techie shammy that fought for the restoration of serenity it was led by the hero of deliberately stuff that came. he established a provisional government in ankara in anatolia he no longer recognized the authority of the sultan nothing could stop his army. in september one nine hundred twenty two he marched into greek occupied smith in a modern day is mia the town was raised the greek population massacred. the last troops loyal to the sultan surrendered meth made the sixth was forced to step down the imperial ottoman family sent into exile. stuff abolished the sultanate and on october the twenty ninth one thousand twenty three he p

president in 25 years to make a state visit to korea, representing the united states of america as a great country and korea's enduring and long-standing ally. in your speech to the national assembly today, it marks the first speech to the korean parliament in 24 years. it is an incredibly great honor and privilege to welcome you at the national assembly on your first asia tour in the first year of your administration. i believe that the presence of mr. trump and mrs. trump here at this gathering reaffirms the great significance of our u.s. alliance. mr. president and mrs. trump, distinguished guests, members of the national assembly, korea's remarkable transformation to an aid recipient to a donor country was achieved on the basis of the blood shed by our two peoples who fought side-by-side during the korean war, and the rock-solid korea-u.s. alliance. starting from security alliance, our alliance has been evolving into a comprehensive alliance that has global implications expanding beyond economic alliance. the u.s. alliance recognized as having made a significant contribution to p

to do a state-by-state assessment in terms of emergency management. we will note that. finally, as i left puerto rico, to me it was all about power, power, power. you have a disaster, a crisis. it will grow if we do not establish power. where are we at? what are the prospects of reestablishing power? what do we have to do? >> i am exercising under the stafford act emergency authority, with the army corps of engineers, it was the right thing to do because of the diminished capacity on the island. they are mobilizing under emergency authorities to rebuild the grid to u.s. code standards. the discussion that needs to be taken after that, how do we build a power grid that is resilient? that is going to require authorities far greater than the stafford act and fema. typically, we have to do is restore to a condition but that is not the way i would recommend this country to go. we do not want to be back in the situation again after having this disaster and an opportunity to change it. i will turn it over to general johnson. general johnson: the grid today is slightly over 33%

therans of foreign wars of united states.dent, fleet reserve .ssociation national president paralyzed america.of marion polk national commander veterans, amvets. navynal commander army and union. director noncommissionedded officers association. national commander of the legion. national commander military purple heart. wendell webb, national corps league.ine smith, executive director military chaplains association. jerry walden, national commander usa.n of valor of the david gibson, commander-in-chief worldry order of the wars. john adams, national president enlistedtired association. washington, d.c. agent, congressional medal of honor usa.ty of the gary augustine, executive americandisabled veterans. dana atkins president military officers association of america. president air force sergeants association. board chair commissioned officers association of the states public health service. national commander polish liege usa.erican veterans not with us today is paul warner, national commander from jewish war veterans as they

a soviet power in the united states does not exist. frank: you do admit that there are americans who want to make russia more powerful. mr. hays: yes, but very few in number. frank: don't you think that 500,000 americans led by stalinist labor leaders are a menace, especially in the heart of our defense industry? mr. hays: the 500,000 americans are members of trade -- at one time the communists were strong in the cio and then they started playing politics. they were thrown out of the union. frank: don't you think that the organized conspiracies of american stalinism represents a threat to american civil liberties? mr. hays: no. i do not. i think those people are under the surveillance of the fbi. i do not think they are potential spies. i trust the fbi and i trust the law. what you are telling me is we have the right to violate the laws in order to get communists. what you are saying is a totalitarian government would be safer than a democratic government. frank: i want to say, i am for decency. let's make that clear. mr. hays: i know