own state. that will be the primary piece. there's not enough funding that we could provide nor should provide to every county, every state in america to be able to oversee all their election equipment. some election equipment, as senator harris mentioned, is very old. but it's still very reliable. and very consistent. and fully auditable. just the age of equipment, just saying we want to update our stuff is not appropriate. we need to find the balance on what cannot be audited and help incentivize them to get it done. reporter: you said it's not about russia. it could be north korea, it hacktivists. do you think the white house gets that sense of urgency? mr. lankford: i do actually think. it's not about russia, it's not only about russia. clearly russia could come back and do this again. i do because the department of homeland security has stepped up significantly in the past year. working with states, trying to develop security clearances. helping them with critical audits. >> at another ques

to that nation state. all nation states will not engage, will refrain from behavior if it's cost behavior, if they know it's cost prohibitive. the department of homeland role on defense in working with the public to harden our cyber security. i do think that -- and i think touches on this -- our open society, our strength an open society is also our have to bety and we somewhat careful in going down of having u.s. government agencies trying to speech, trying to regulate political speech, political debate. inyou know, they do that other countries. we don't do that here. so this is -- the information easytplace, and its access, is definitely a problem for our democracy but i would governmentr the u.s. to go down the road trying to regulate it in some way. there are matters of federal be sure, things that violate title 18. happen to believe that a lot of this has to depend upon internetlation by service providers and social media providers. cornine: secretary nielsen, do you think we have a national security

out in the states and i like the flexibility of states being able to do what they feel is right state,ir own individual thinkme of these things i the federal government needs to are arole in because we small state some issues we may be trying to address in maryland really help if someone goes into washington, d.c. to overeroin or they cross the border in virginia. >> do you which we need federal, we need federal into it has been work in our state it? has been working in the region. don't know why it would not work some, at least, some standard from the federal level. >> what about e prescribing. a look at,rth taking too. the state cannot control what is happening across the internet. >> and, and, what is the other one you mentioned a couple of others? >> well curriculum, limiting the doses. >> on the limits the dose, i know, massachusetts just recently passed a three-day we pushed for a seven day limit in maryland, and i think limiting the dose is important. but many of the states are already take those action. >> governor zon. >> senator alexander, i don't know if i disagree anticipa

state. they are people, one people and it's useful to be loyal patriots. denying the people their right to self-determination did not give israel the right to exist is an example of anti-semitism pair. they are not the spokesperson for all of american jews. they feel they should not support the occupation of the west bank. [inaudible] for many today and since 1948, the state is not an expression of jewish self-determination. the question of their right to exist is not the same thing as its right to exist as a jewish state if that exist and is predicated under the displacement and predicated of the jews in its borders. given the flaws of the state department, there's no place in campus speech although discussions around it may often be uncomfortable for its supporters and detractors alike, something i witnessed in my classes most master, its responsibility and to foster dialogue and not to limit it. to understand the historical implications of our speech and allow the meaning and definition o

for example where state agencies have different -- than state now has one. we have made long-term policies that would serve wyoming for many years with an energy strategy water strategy health and recreation task force recommendations and now endowments. a lot has been achieved already. just a few examples baseline water testing testing well plugg continuous efforts to establish the pipeline corridor the fourth clapboard of assistance program and development of uniform high drug of first manual bidding please report the first five of 10 and 10 projects have started for construction. because these are long-term strategies there is more to come in and pleased to see the legislature considering a statutory framework for continuation of the energy strategy. one of my top priorities as many of you know has been growing technology and we have done so. with a 100 gigabit network that is double the national standards for her to be in school it is the envy of many states. [applause] we have not only connected to fiber but provided a connection for many industry exper

programs throughout our state. we know dean founded first 26 years ago right here in new hampshire, but support had never been provided at the state level, so we changed that and we put nearly $1 million in a fund, a transform tiinitiative and th robotics education fund so every school in the state of new hampshire would have the opportunity, and the opportunity to inspire the next generation of engineers, and to quote dean, the kids don't build the robots and the robots build the kids, and first robotics is a perfect example of driving innovative school programs today to create the workforce of tomorrow. and part of this -- [ applause ] >> it does deserve a cheer. [ applause ] >> i was -- i just looked to my right and i saw my dad and i'm reminded, we were talking about it a few weeks ago, we're engineers in my family, as you know, and my father takes great pride as i think he should. in the early '70s, he was one of the founders and he helped found the clean air race. the first national competition of engineers a

in making investments in how we help build those states from fragile states to strong states with democratic nug nu institutions and well defined governance and rule of law. i will simply say that when americans wonder whether or not it is in our national interest to be engaged in fragile states across the globe, i am reminded of the consequences of the interconnectedness that we have in the world, and that what happens someplace else in the world can very often effect us here at home, and in our interests abroad. with that, mr. chairman, i ask the full statement i have be included in the record. >> without objection. david cameron served from 2010 to 2016. during this time he addressed significant foreign policy challenges sushs the arab uprising and the global fight against isis. he increased uk spending and allocated 50% of it to fragile states and regions and co-chaired the u.n. high level panel that launched the sustainable development goals. we want to thank you so much for being here. it is certainly a treat for us to have you here. and we look forward to your report and the questions

in your state. if you do not need it additional education funds, do not make that communication. an opportunitys to better align federal funding mechanisms with our state needs and state offices in serving students. piece. the funding now i will speak about potentially pending bills. first of all, the higher education act. this is the primary vehicle at the federal level. it has a bunch of different programs that affect higher education. mostly interested in the teacher preparation provisions within those, it governs data collection requirements for teacher preparation programs, also the loan and grant programs to assist teachers and to provide compensation to under compensated teachers, and the house committee has advanced a bill called the prosper act, it happened last year, it is at this point a republican bill, a partisan bill, it would move through committee with only partisan support and it is a lean bill. the intent is to reflect the intent of the committee to go smaller and have a smaller fe

states. mississippi joined west virginia's brief in support of new jersey in its appeal in the christie case. that was argued in december. anare to set -- expecting opinion to come down probably in april to make in -- to make a decision on whether or not for the states to have sports betting. about 20 states have casinos. some of you have statutory schemes to allow it to go into effect immediately. such as in mississippi. if the supreme court rules like we think they probably will, that's reversing the third circuit, we will have to develop regulations. inpoint to you, if you're one of those states, you better get ready because your lawyers are going to be busy establishing a regulatory scheme for sports betting. if you lease holes in it, there professionalslick sports better that will find those holes and exploit them in your system. it is going to also create an of you doing it for prose and not college games. that is another issue that i issue can -- i have an about, college. i would think

i also know and recall that in 2016, when we were working with the states, every state or every state owner of the system that was informedeted either by dhs or the fbi or sac.gh the msi publicd never been made -- the had never been made public. america is the victim, america has to know what is wrong and if there are states that had been attacked, america should know that. this victim answer with me has no credibility at all. >> the 21 states themselves had been notified. i take your point. >> people have to know -- i had better see they do something about it. everybody thinks it is some other state. >> i understand. i look forward to reading your report and finding out what you heard from the state. what i was trying to explain earlier is unfortunately -- >> what other report? what we have seen throughout the last 15 years at dhs is when it comes to this situation, the victim stopped reporting. we are not aware of that -- the attacks. we cannot help other victims who are likely to be victimized in the near future based on the same vulnerability. i look forward to working with you on

court -- the state supreme court and the state's gerrymandering. so we're seeing again that we really have an opportunity in 2020 to really move the ball forward, to really have hopefully for the first time, fairer districts, districts that really -- membership that really reflects the members, the needs of the district, rather than the needs of the political parties. so i think that's very, very important. and so i'm very, very pleased to be here. i want to thank you. i'm just going to end. i think this is a very exciting time, and thank you all for coming, and let's get on with it and let's work on these cases and understand, educate ourselves. because i will tell you, most members of congress do not understand or this is very low on their priority list. and our job is to educate them, is to say, this is not low on the priority list. and so that's why we're here. that's why i'm going to be supportive, and thank you. >> thank you, congressman. and thank you congressman blum for also joining us. i actually would like to turn to congressman blum. i

a one-party sta state? >> well, i don't think that there is a danger. always having vigorous dialogues as well as debates is good. we have witnessed in real time what is happening in washington, d.c., and the paralysis and the gridlock, and the deep dysfunction of the insular political culture that is washington when you see that you have three branches of government whether it is the executive or the ledge h slaytive or the bi-cameral with the u.s. senate and the congress, and we have the judicial branch dominated by perhaps more right of center republican thought. in california, you are absolutely right about the executive branch and the bi-cameral legislative branch are dominated by the democrats have, and nonetheless, we are the most productive, progressive legislative house in america, bar none, and accomplishing the most far-reaching climate policies in the entire world and raising the wage to $15 an hour, and investing in health care for undocumented children, so we have to pay the costs, so at the e

wyoming governor matthew mead delivered his final state of the state address to a session of the state legislature last month. this is about 45 minutes. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much, thank you. thank you very much. have a seat. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. have a seat, thank you very much. good morning. members of the 64th legislature, treasurer gordon, superintendent baylo, members of the judiciary and military, fellow citizens, my family, good morning today i give my eighth and final state of the state address. in preparing it i've had a lot of thoughts and including the speaker and president have been kidding me in recent days that it's too bad it takes about eight years to train a governor, just when you get them trained, they leave. but it was a couple years ago when the president of the senate, when he was announcing me rather than saying his excellency he said "the executioner." [ laughter ] so it takes a while to train a speaker and president, too. wha

and another arab state state but it's been seventy years since then and no palestinian state has been established no no palestinian state has has seen the sun yet so it does of course are a lot of the friction with the palestinian people in general since they have not been able to establish their own independent state and second it is definitely an in caution against the palestinian arabs who are a minority inside israel but they are twenty percent of the state of israel so by saying that israel is the nation stead of the jewish people what about the others the none jews the original people of the the land the palestinians who have been there and that our systems for hundreds of years that the nothing in my opinion that is a violation of their right and a violation of their culture who have been living there for as i mentioned hundreds of years come up with what to what extent do you think that the white house this decision to move the us embassy to jerusalem is is playing into this does it. well what we have been seeing is that there is a systematic merger by both the right wing gove

the state department. highly experienced and talented foreign service officers have been fired, pushed out, resigned to menial -- reassigned to menial tasks and ignored. many senior diplomats have just packed up and left. nicholas burns and ryan crocker who served as ambassadors in both republican and democratic administrations have warned, we are witnessing the most significant departure of diplomatic talent in generations. on the top of retirements, the number of people who took the foreign service exam, dropped by more than half between 2016 and 2017. there is real concern this will have a lasting and negative impact long after the trump administration. director pompeo will need to answer tough questions during confirmation. will he impose congressionally-mandated sanctions on russia? what actions will be taken to counter russia's ongoing cyber warfare? we are on the razor's edge with north korea as chief diplomat, does he support a preemptive strike against north korea? what will he do to avoid a disas

and from a state's rights perspective, here's an amazing fact about the case. 25 states actually weighn, with amicus briefs on one side or the other, friend of the court briefs, 22 of them side with gideon and only two join florida saying we shouldn't be forced to do this. >> mr. gideon's case went to the florida supreme court. did they have any choice but to uphold the conviction based on the laws of the state? >> well, based on the statutory laws of the state they didn't have much choice. it probably would have been open to them to decide a right under the state constitution. but i don't think there was much of an appetite for that. and unlike the supreme court, the florida supreme court didn't pick clarence gideon's case as a vehicle to make a change in the law. and so from the perspective of the florida supreme court, this was just another case, just another prisoner with really not a valid claim in their eyes. and so, you know, i think when you get to the way the supreme court of the united states treats this petition, it's night and day compared to the florida supreme court that

and more so what states are best for women and what states are failing to live up to the expectation of a quality well looks like the study found that states that voted blue primarily in the last presidential election tend to be friendlier for women with republican red states struggling to give women a fair shot in all areas the best state for women the absolute best based on social wellbeing health and safety is minnesota the top the rankings and median earnings life expectancy and safety and the land of a thousand lakes is the only midwestern state to top the list north dakota and my home state of wisconsin were in the top five as well filling out the top five or top ten were northeastern states vermont and massachusetts coming in six's maine with hawaii connecticut iowa new hampshire rounding out the top ten places phillips for what to get to the bottom of the list will have to go south the worst states for women are alabama. oklahoma mississippi and arkansas and at the very bottom is the great state of louisiana which brings is the worst place for women with a score of thirty six

and pro-life states. if a pro-life estate can tell a dr. you have to tell people about adoption why can't a pro-choice state tell a dr. a facility or whatever it is you have to tell people about abortion. the one we've said you can make a dr. who is very pro-life tell her about abortion and why don't we have to say to keep it the same you can make these people tell them about abortions. >> then be unconstitutional and any state. the laws that have been upheld are doctors who are going to perform abortions. whether it is medical treatment about to do. the only other question i have is you have a totally different line in which you are attacking this and that is you say which is certainly a point that this statute picks out 60 to 70 really pro-life facilities and says you have to post these sides but nobody else does. and so they give a point there. if that's correct it doesn't have to be a trial on that. this is just a preliminary injunction. don't have to have a of a trial and present some evidence. i don

there should be two states, a jewish state and a palestinian state.se] senator schumer: some say, some who argue that settlements are the reason we do not have peace, but we know what happens in gaza. israeli soldiers dragged the sellers out in three weeks later the palestinians through the rockets. it is not the settlements that are the blockage to peace. [applause] senator schumer: some say it is the borders. israel wants different borders. but they forget. during the negotiations in 2000, huge territorial concessions were being made that most israelis did not like. it was arafat rejected the settlement. it's not the borders. [applause] senator schumer: and it is certainly not because we have moved the embassy to where it should belong in jerusalem. not that either. [applause] senator schumer: now, let me tell you why -- let me tell you why, my view why we don't have peace. because the fact of the matter is that too many palestinians and too many arabs do not want any jewish state in the middle east. the view of palestinians is simple. the europeans

they call it the state of the state and there's lots to share. you know it's been nearly a year since we gathered here and took the lead on making education more equitable for all of our children. we published the equity report a commitment that this organization has taken to heart and to advance equity to children across our nation. they were published in february of 2017 so we know that our work was well underway before that and i want to publicly recognize attorney e. verse. i know he is here. tony was really the person that started all of this. he led this organization in creating and signing onto the equity commitment. he brought us together to have the necessary conversations about equity and to ensure that all children to receive an equitable education. you know i am very proud to be the president of the organization this year. just about everywhere i go, i value the work of this organization so much and i love the fact that each year we have renewed our commitment toward equity and taken on one of the commitments as the president will do.

. >> next, here new hampshire governor delivered his annual state of the state address from the state house in concorde, new hampshire. he talked about stem education, school safety and education savings accounts. >> good morning mr. speaker, members of the house and senate the executive council will join us here today my fellow citizens, welcome. i want to give a special thanks to a few people without -- to people who instilled what public service is all about, my mom and dad, for joining us here today. [applause] >> i love that my wife is taking pictures of my mom and dad a big thank you to my family, some of you have seen my family scampering around in the woman who has sacrificed everything, my wife. [applause] >> i want to thank another guest, some of over the past year we've spent time with, you know her incredible well someone who has brought a lot of pride to the state of new hampshire and handles her job with dignity, chief justice -- >> finally, i would be remiss if we don't take pause and thank god for his grace and compassion and instilling in all of us the application of

surely the equality state, the cowboy state has a belief in self-determination. on the state of the state, i am pleased to report that revenue forecasts have improved since my last year's address. specifically, revenue is better now than was forecast in early 2017 and looks even better ahead. the revenue forecast increased by 140 million from the october report to the january report, just a three-month period of time. beyond money matter, the people of wyoming have remained steadfast during the downturn, from the leaders of our towns and counties to tourism and teachers to our schools and the business people in families and to the ranchers and farmers and the workers and our factory, fields and energy and other industries to the standouts in sports and the arts to state and local employees, the citizens of wyoming have kept us strong. with our great citizens, improved revenues, large savings, well-funded pension plans, investments in our future and the opportunities on the horizon, the state of our state is strong. [ applause ] the 1920 budget, the primary work o

in be states, things happening in the states. what do people need to do to address the issue of gerrymandering? to be able to reach out to good government reform groups like common cause and find out how to get engaged. a number of people from presidential elections bounced off of their sofas and decided to find ways to get engaged. in pennsylvania, gerrymandering that roset sexy thing from the grassroots for people to rally around. because it does connect to so many different things, it remains engaging and so nice for people to say, listen, i want my votes to be protected. i want to feel that when i go to vote, it is not wasted. i want to feel it has been protected and that my voice and my vote count. i think people have to find a good government organizations. i also think in this age of activism, people are starting to begin to do it right in their own living rooms. organizing within your communities, at your churches, mosques, and synagogues, fighting people who are interested in helping to embrace democracy and begin to tal

we are working state-by-state. we have asked for another $25 million to help our own resources, but as i mentioned earlier, we prioritize these. >> to have the final recommendation? , depending ony all the different parts i mentioned earlier. in some cases, they have resource constraints. >> thank you. secretaries, we have come to the end of the hearing. two of the people indicted in the special counsel were a mixture of mail fraud. indictments, the other charges were directly at the russian facility where they carried out. if that helps to clarify your memory. and it is my understanding that the appropriators have taken care in the omnibus bill of an grants.f money to be too not want to -- i want thank the appropriations committee for working with our staff and hopefully i have made a commitment to secretary nelson that we would be more than open as weress any other needs i want to thank you for your testimony today. it sends a strong message that the integrity of our election system is truly the heart and strengt

before the state of israel was born, the united states opened up a consulate in the city of jerusalemow in the united states we established our religion it is a core constitutional principle ingrained in the amendment and the bedrock of democracy, and yet we are most certainly a nation of god and in god we trust. our support for israel derives from the shared values instilled in us from ancient text of freedom, democracy and independence and the sanctity of life and of course from the covenants the father of all great monotheistic religions that he will bless those who bless israel. [applause] millions of people in our great country as we sit and ponder the wonders of our republic in the magical transformations that we update over the 242 years of our history as one indivisible nation under god we can't help but be convinced that america's steadfast support for israel has had a profound effect. i am convinced that america is at its best when it supports. [applause] i stand before you today the evidence that demonstrates now more than ever that support for israel is the quintessential

and threatened to throw sheriff hutchins in jail. >> state law is state law.t is my job to enforce state law and i will do so and we want to make sure every jurisdiction understands what state law requires. the subdivisions of the state of california. >> reporter: legal battle lines are blurring, in-laws lme dose, to exempt itself from the state sanctuary law but county seat of santa ana the self-declared immigrant saints were considering filing an amicus brief, quite a bit of a tangled web to see how this plays out. back to you in new york. >> thank you so much. jillian: the white house defending its decision to add a citizenship question to the next census, democrats targets illegal immigrants. sarah sanders says it is nothing new. >> this has been the practice of the united states government, the purpose is to determine individuals that are here. it also helps to comply with the voting rights act. without that information it is hard to make the determination of the information needs to be gathered. heather: the citizenship question was removed from a once i

state. by the way there's no such thing in international law as apartheid state, but practices are consistent with apartheid and i'll come back to that in a moment. but the deeper answer here is yes, and so are a lot of other people, including people who wouldn't think they are. and that's what i wanted to come to in regard to the implications of this finding for a question such as a two-state solution. essentially, those seeking partition are endorsing an apartheid state and that is a bit startling, so i want to get to that. and it raises this dilemma, that if apartheid anywhere is inadmissible and destabilizing. it cannot comprise the basis for a just and stable peace. now, this lifts us out of a question of whether you're pro anybody, and simply if you're concerned about international peace and security, which apartheid is considered to be a threat to. so, in this talk again, i'm going to talk briefly about the analysis, legal definition of apartheid, how it works, and why it requires isr

states. mississippi joined west virginia's brief in support of new jersey in its appeal in the christie case. that was argued in december. anare to set -- expecting opinion to come down probably in april to make in -- to make a decision on whether or not for the states to have sports betting. about 20 states have casinos. some of you have statutory schemes to allow it to go into effect immediately. such as in mississippi. if the supreme court rules like we think they probably will, that's reversing the third circuit, we will have to develop regulations. inpoint to you, if you're one of those states, you better get ready because your lawyers are going to be busy establishing a regulatory scheme for sports betting. if you lease holes in it, there professionalslick sports better that will find those holes and exploit them in your system. it is going to also create an of you doing it for prose and not college games. that is another issue that i issue can -- i have an about, college. i would think

it shouldn't have to come from your state capitol. the imperative to do better comes from the students. we are accountable to them. better to try something new than to just hope for a better result because hope alone is not a strategy. students don't have time to waste while adults hope the plan will work. that's why our plans aren't set a ceiling. there is no ceiling on what students can achieve. these plans merely established the floor. let me put it this way. we don't evaluating foot tall team solely on who has the better game plan on paper. we evaluate them by what happens on the field. the real work lies ahead because there is much more to be done. we must all do better to prepare our students for success in the 21st century and beyond. students need learning environments that are agile, relevant and exciting. every student deserves a customized and challenging lifelong learning journey but when you picture most today in the classroom does the word agile come to mind? what about customize or relevant relevant? that's why we must

seventh floor of the head the front office of the state department by the secretary of state might come here will bring that ballast that gravitas that connection to the white house and rex tillerson was not a player at the white house that's how i knew he was leaving a couple weeks ago when i was at the white house it was obvious that he was just not a factor not a player on these key issues and they were looking to head toward a different kind of department. by. so as we talk about north korea and we've we've we've had this talk about a mean thing that may or may not happen in may with a new had the state department with a more hawkish attitude towards north korea do you expect that meeting still to take place especially given the number of gaps that in the state department at the moment. well i don't see the gaps is really a fundamental problem with staffing a summit meeting but it's still a fair question and i think we don't know is the short answer and i don't know for sure i like to explain what's happened on north korea diplomacy as having gone in stages sort of week by week but

een for a moment, any state or our. our 13 states don't cooperate with the federal government. that would have been different than our founders belief that that which was given to the federal government you expected to cooperate in that process. >> that would tear apart the states from being yoke to the federal government. i, you know when you look at the civil war and what it was about, it was about the government saying, this , and states saying, yes to that. and when you separate those two things. then it was freedom today is keeping us safe and i will inauguration. >> one of the entering things when i tloin my attorney general at the state willful level and my governor they would have you believe it is failed immigration policy that causes us to want to deport ail yens it is our failed policy that wouldment us to do it. reality is no matter what we did in washington in the way of immigration reform we would give amnesty to everybody and the next day you would have the stap problem. you have foreign nationals committing crimes and under these laws obstructed from the coopera

under state law, because of the severability clause, there would be state law contract issues. there might even be a duty to bargain that kicks in under state law where we would have to renegotiate not only this provision but surrounding provisions. that's a serious reliance interest in our view. thank you. justice roberts: thank you, counsel. mr. frederick. mr. frederick: thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, i would note at the beginning that all of these arguments were before the court 40 years ago in abood. and when the court unanimously upheld the idea of agency fees, it considered whether or not these issues would constrain the constitutional prerogatives of government to act under democratic impulses to come up with a system that would fit the local culture, history, private sector background of what state governments were having to do to recruit and attract the most willing and able people to discharge the public services that public employees are required to perform. so, when this court addressed in lehnert the question of how do you draw the line

today i give my eighth and final state of the state address. and in preparing it i've had a lot of thoughts, including the speaker and president have been kidding me in recent days that it's too bad it takes about eight years to train a governor, and just when you get them trained they leave. but reminder it was a couple of years ago when the president of the senate then, president nicolas when announcing me, rather than saying your excellency, he said the executioner. and so it takes a while to train a speaker and president, too. what a privilege it's been to appear before a joint session each year and talk about wyoming. the state we love. i believe our work these past seven years has built a better legacy and a solid bridge to the future. we have one more year together, a little less, and i look forward to a great year. i want my last state of the state address to begin with tributes those worked so hard for wyoming. in past years i had select individuals to acknowledge. but today i want to start with the wyoming legislature. i thank you wyo

but it would allow more states do what the state of alaska has done. the presiding officer is from alaska. alaska took the very sickest people in alaska and put them in one pool and called that the reinsurance pool and paid for their health insurance. and when they did that, it so reduced the cost for everybody else that it lowered the rates for everybody else by 20%. what we're talking about is lowering the rates for everybody else by 40% if states take full advantage of what we're proposing next week. so reinsurance is the first thing. three years of reinsurance at $10 billion a year. the second thing is three years of cost-sharing subsidies. now, you have to stop and think about it a minute, but the cost-sharing subsidies pay for the reinsurance because cost-sharing subsidies are payments that are made to insurance companies to pay for the copais and the -- copays and deductibles for low-income people. that allows the companies to reduce the premiums. when you reduce the premiums, you reduce the obamacare subsidies. according to conversations we've

gives to the secretary of state. it was clear from this relationship from the beginning y at president trump did not give full author rex tillerson. that was indicative from the very beginning. they had disagreements on a variety of issues. there -- their styles are very different. rex tillerson comes from the re there isorld, w a process. president trump comes from his own world, where there is no process but more of a chao environment where decisions are made on impulse without greatnc conseqgiven to -- katty: how much does it matter, the relationship between the secretary of state and secretary of defense? hawe understand tillersoa good relationship with general mattis, secretary of defense. you were secretary of defense when madeleine albrigh bill clinton's secretary of state. how much did that relationship matter? mr. cohen: oh, it is very important. state and defense sometimes disagree on major issues, and i is reported that the sec atary of defen state work together. we did. it was a wonderful relationship wit

states cannot print money. states cannot lift that debt ceiling. we see some of the aftereffects of this in the mid western states that have decided go this route. it's intolerable. i'm working with chambers of commerce across north carolina, i'm not saying raise taxes, but i'm saying stop these cuts and make your priority public education. >> i want to be sure i understand this, because this is quite interesting. you're saying when you're talking to ceos of global companies and they're talking about coming to the state, they're more concerned about the workforce than the tax rate? >> the workforce is the number one thing. >> they clearly care about both. >> obviously they care about quality of life, they care -- they care a lot about where their kids are going to go to school. >> interesting. >> yes. >> when they move somewhere. they do care about tax structure and economic incentives. but that number one threshold is workforce. and the workforce is changing dramatically even as we speak because of the kinds of skills that people are going to need

but even in non- growth states and rule states where there desperate to have broadband so their children and students in school can have the learning tools that others in urban areas that have access to 5g, so they have equal opportunity to an education. the question is, how will you pay for it? we borrowed $1.5 trillion to pay for huge tax cut that set a tour national debt. the president has proposed an infrastructure plan consist $200 billion, but there is no plan for how you're going to pay for it. how are you going to get members of the senate to vote for the tax revenue to pay for these plans? we can all agree the infrastructure needs are overwhelming support. indeed you saw what some of the dollars from infrastructure from the stimulus bill to help us get out of the recession that we were in. yet, sitting on the table was the first project for high-speed rail to go down the middle of interstate four oh. the right away was there. the state of florida and the governor turned down $2.4 billion on the table to do that huge infrastructure project. the florida department's study showed i

the united states was spending enormous sons but the united states said that it was impossible to sleep with the financing those reparations because they are not even close to self-sustaining. but there was a much deeper fundamental conflict between the united states and sovie the sovt union when it came to germany andma that is neither the united states or soviet union could count against an ally of the other. it was threatening to both parties fundamental national interest. in mid april after meeting with stalin, george marshall flies home and thinks a famous radio address in whichan he announces the patient is seeking while the doctors did a great and we will not wait any longer. that is the cooperative arrangement that we made with the soviet union at 1945 where an end the soviets had undermined a of them and they've committed economically but they were not doing anything of the sort so they said that it was at an end. while they were in moscow, the president was delivering his famous doctrine speech into things that were worth highlighting about the speech, he famously pledges to t

as a jewish state.emocratic is an oxymoron. this is an oxymoron that we are fighting against day by day. it seems to me your speech was based on empathy and a genuine effort to understand the israeli mindset. what aspect of the israeli mindset. what aspect of the israeli mindset. what aspect of the israeli mindset is that they see more than a decade ago when the palestinians had a free election that a majority at least in gaza voted quite clearly for harm us, a movement that is dedicated in its original constitution, the destruction of the state of israel —— hamas. destruction of the state of israel -- hamas. it is democracy. palestinian people, like in england and germany, and in france, like evenin and germany, and in france, like even in the united states, whojust elected a very bizarre president, weak, palestinians, are free to elect exactly what they want palestinians want. israelis are going to listen to this and your belief that the palestinians can choose hamas if they and still believe that the

claims by both sides, depends whether you near red state or state, te.metimes the other side is saying claims, it is just we're all a part of that problem. that we perpetuate it, know, continuous. we're trying to combat that as best we k. reagan, to take john's point, issue with illegal arizona?ting in secretary reagan: not in arizona, not to say it never there are isolated case we just caught somebody and this person wasn't dead l, he was using his father-in-law's identity, had een for years and voted in multiple elections. we were able to catch that, send to our attorney general. we also had instance where is people vote in two states. just had a case like that a ouple years ago, but as far as illegals voting in arizona, what we do here and not every state do, have , what we proof of citizenship when you are registering to vote. to prove you're a citizen. mvd keeps that information and check that before voter registration cards go out. hey are part of the voter registration system, they are linked into it. applicants off the mdv system. it is hard in a

as a state department we're bound together by that oath. we remain steadfast here in washington and at posts across the world. many of whom are in danger pay situations without their families. the world needs selfless leaders like these, ready to work with longstanding allies, new emerging partners and allies who now, many are struggling as democracies and in some cases are dealing with human tragedy, natural disasters, literally crawling themselves out of those circumstances. these are experiences that no lecture hall in an academic environment or think tank can teach you. only by people going to the front lines to serve can they develop this kind of talent. to the men and women in uniform, i'm told for the first time in most people's memory department of state and department of defense have a close working relationship where we all agree that u.s. leadership starts with diplomacy. the women and men in uniform protect us daily at home and abroad. as an all-volunteer military they do it for love of country. they do it for you and they do it

to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle fifteen years ago this month the united states and its so-called coalition of the willing illegally invaded in occupied iraq american troops remain there to this day and iraq continues to grapple with that fateful decision many call the invasion of iraq a blunder shouldn't we call it what it really is a crime. cross talking about fifteen years on i'm joined by my guest ken o'keefe in calgary he is a political analyst and an ex u.s. marine who renounced us citizenship in washington we have chris turney why he is a former army military police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill and into iran we have mohammad marandi he's an associate professor at the university of toronto writes of the crosstalk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate before we get started here i'd like to refresh everybody's memory of what happened fifteen years ago preceding the war and also because the mainstream media is largely ignoring this fifteen year. because it's certainly not an anniversary here let

california is essentially a one-party state -- governor, state senate, state assembly, all democratic. what is the danger in being a one-party state? guest: i don't think there is a danger. i think they're always have been vigorous dialogues as well as debates. have witnessed in real-time what is happening in washington, d.c., the paralysis, the gridlock, the deep dysfunction of the insular political culture that is washington. we see it when we have three branches of government, whether it is executive, legislative, bicameral, the u.s. senate, the congress, and the judicial branch, dominated by perhaps more right of center in republican thought. in california, you are right. the executive branch and bicameral legislative branch are dominated by democrats. nonetheless, we are the most productive, progressive legislative house in america, bar none, become pushing the most far-reaching climate change policies not in the nation, but in fact the entire world. $15aise the minimum wage to an hour, investing in health care for undocumented children. at the end of the day, we all have to pay

but russia is not an inspected state party in this case. we are asked why we were so keen to ask for a quick answer. that comes from our past experience. one of the key tactics in the russia play book is to delay, delay, delay. distract, to meyer procedural delay. so we know that of course from the tragic case in 2006. we waited for months in the hope that rush why would cooperate with our requests. to extra date and investigate known suspects. we waited in vein. we will not make the same mistake again. and finally, my russian colleague quotes fiction. let me quote the russian president when we think about who benefits. in 2010 he said, quote, traitors will kick the bucket, believe me. those other folks betrayed their friend, their brothers in arms. whatever they got in exchange for it, those 30 pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them. thank you, mr. president. >> i thank the representative of united kingdom for his statement and representative of russian federation has the floor to make a further statement. >> thank you,

the state bar associations are justified by the state's compelling government interest in regulatinghe practice of law before its courts. the student association fees are justified by the government's or what -- a university's compelling interest in setting up a viewpoint-neutral forum for speech. and then, with respect to the private sector cases, they hinge on a question of state action. so, in this case, only public sector union fees are being challenged. in the private sector, you'd have a question of whether state action applied, and, therefore, the rule of janus would apply to that case. justice sotomayor: i'm sorry, i thought that we had always recognized that the government as employer had a compelling interest in regulating its employment decisions. we permit the government to fire people, deprive them of all money, not just a fair share fee, but deprive them of any income if they speak outside of the government's approved policy messages or messages generally. so, if we can permit the government as employer to have a compelling interest to do something as dramatic as firing

we call it the state of the states and lots of good news to share. you know, it's been nearly near year since we gathered here and decided to take a lead on making education more equitable for all of our children. we published the leading for equity report a set of ten commitments that this organization taken to heart and advance equity for children across the nation. published in february of '17 and we know our work was well under way before that. i want to publicly recognize, tony evers, where is he? i just left a meeting with him [ laughter ] >> so tony evers was the person that started this the president of ccsso at that time and lead this organization in creating and signing onto the equity commitments. he brought us together to have the necessary conversations about equities. you know, i am -- i'm very proud to be the president of this organization this year. i say it everywhere i gochlt i value this organization and the work so much. i love the fact that each year we renew our equity and take on the commitments as the president will do. the th

, jewish state and the palestinian state.re are some that argue settlement of the reason there is not peace. but we all know what happened in gaza. israel voluntarily got rid of the settlements there. the soldiers, israeli soldiers dragged the settlers out of their and three weeks later the palestinians through rockets. it is short of the settlement -- [applause] some say it is the borders. israel wants different borders. but they forget, during the negotiations in 2000, they were making huge territorial confessions that must israelis do not like. it was arafat who rejected that it is not the borders. [applause] and it certainly is not because we moved the embassy to where it should be-- where it should be long. it is not that either! [applause] now, let me tell you why, in my view why we do not have peace. because the fact of the matter is that too many palestinians and too many arabs do not want any jewish state in the middle east. [applause] palestinians, it is simple. the europeans treated the jews badly culminating the h