they monitor the traffic that goes in and outs of the state. secretary of state. we have the time to join in for the segment. all others can call in. we will continue this. how much money did connecticut get from that of federal funds. improved election security. and how do you use it. our share is around $5 million. very welcome because we can always improve things. we are using it to bolster our firewalls. we are doing that kind of checks that one does. our biggest concern is at the local level. connecticut is a little unusual. we don't have county systems. so everything is done at the tell mobile mobil we had 169 toads reduced from 200 to 200,000. each of them has a router in their town that is the drop point for this close lipped system that is our voter registry. what happens when you register to vote you register at the town level. the only people able to put names on. we are worried about the routers in those towns. as the state system is. we want to make sure that the local officials have sufficient training. we are putting in other protections at the loca

united states is also fine with. the saudis sort of exercising military leverage and had data to push the who of these two a political solution and not whether that will work is to be fully up in the air but it's undoubted.

we can't just be a state of tolerance. we must be a state of accepta e acceptance. that's the real fundamental goal we have to get to. we have to accept one another. we have to break down, as molly said, she's right, we have to break down the polarization and negativity. i don't know what's been happened in washington, d.c., the negative politics, but it's changed the culture in terms of how we treat one another. social media allows for that negativity. so we have to take personal responsibility in terms of how we're going to change the culture of the state and move forward in a productive way. >> okay. next question. >> governor, the state does have a low unemployment rate as you pointed out. but much of the economic growth has taken place in the southern four counties of the state. there's a variety of economic analysis that show the northern part of the state is still suffering in many ways from the great recession. do you agree that the north country has been left behind? and what is your strategy for spreading prosperity more evenly across the state? >> well, e

the state is all over the state. even -- even if you consider the capital as designated and center, and a lot of states, well like my state, they do a little bit in juno but most of the agency personnel, most of the decisions and frequently special meetings of the governor and i think we also have special legislative sessions in anchorage even though it is not the capital. seems like states are tactile over the state. i don't know how to decide what principal place of business means. in the context of the state government. >> two points. first of all the principal i think is important that we don't deny that the states have business throughout the borders. the question is what is the principal place of business. i don't really know if they have one. >> so there were no decisions from the circuit on that issue. >> i know about a corporation is incorporated in delaware. it has its corporate headquarters in chicago. i know the two places. but i don't know for state government and that's what i'm asking for help on. >> i

i think many red states and blue states, many states were opposed to the designation because we had no idea how it would affect our elections process. to say it was a rocky road in the beginning as far as communications, i think even dhs would agree to that. since then, we learned that critical infrastructure designation was designated in january of 2017. we did not find out what that meant to us until june or july of 2017. we have since set up a coordinating council which i and others are members of. we have a lot of resources that the department of homeland security has provided to us. things like penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, cyber hygiene scans. in vermont, we do a weekly hygiene scan of our system through dhs currently. the communication level since last summer has increased, the summer of 2017, has increased tremendously. we have an election dashboard with dhs and the fbi. we will get real-time information as to any threats that might be on the horizon. we are constantly focused on how we can do this. i can go over the details. i'm sure you will ask about the diff

guest: caller: some states -- states do it through the social security programs, other states do it themselves. so the assessments that are done can also vary. host: carolyn yocom with us from the gao for a few more minutes, taking your calls and questions. we have a line for medicaid recipients. our caller from oregon, good morning. caller: what is the problem with medicaid and medicare covering alternative medicines? on medicaid, we had to sign a waiver promising to pay for our visit, just in case there was no money available to cover. and in medicare, it only covers chiropractors, not acupuncture. guest: i do not know much about this area. i do know that states can have discussion on what gets covered. there is a benefit package for medicaid and a there can be approvals to expand that benefit package to things like alternative medicines. but it would really be a discussion between the state and the centers for medicare and medicaid services. host: sandra in springdale, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: i am on medicaid and i am 62 years old, disa

the united states has always had the will the problem that we have seen and the u.s. saudi relationship over the past eighteen to twenty months unless president trump makes a deliberate statement. statements by his subordinates namely who cabinet secretaries of defense and state have been ignored altogether and we have also seen that on the bureaucratic level the u.s. government has repeatedly call or and of hostility and resumption of peace talks. what what is different now is that the culmination of events whether it's a fair whether it is the broader instability in the middle east and now the washington post playing a central role in demanding justice for jamal khashoggi and tying it to broader u.s. saudi cooperation in the region is drawing tremendous scrutiny domestically here in the united states and it is leaving get ministration with little choice but to up. the pressure on riyadh and even though and i will add that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia strategic including on on yemen so this is an extraordinary difficult balancing act th

ofaccounted for only 10% immigration in the united states.t allowed for only one refugee per 4000 americans. over the years, the number of refugees accepted as and and ebbed and flowed. 1980, average, since around 80,000. from 1990 through 1995, an average of about 112,000 refugees arrived each year. formerny coming from countries of the soviet union. after 9/11, the u.s. suspended refugee resettlement for a a while. paul security measures were examined -- while security measures were examined. they can take as long as 18 to 24 months. they include the review of applications by the state department and other agencies. in person interviews. health screenings and so on. in the fiscal year ending in september 2016, the united $84,095 --itted 84,095 refugees. year, the largest numbers came from syria, myanmar, the republic of the congo, iraq, somalia. when president trump took office, the refugee cap in place was 110,000. two weeks ago, the administration announced they will admit more -- no more than 30,000 refugees. that would be a significant

united states is also fine with. the saudis sort of exercising military leverage and had data to push the who these two a political solution and not whether that will work is to be fully up in the air but it's undoubted there's going to be significant civilian penalties for that and cost to civilians so i don't think the united states redline iran had data has really held and i don't think the united states really has acted properly or really done all it could to stave off a humanitarian crisis they're saying go ahead. i don't think there is a united stated line around data because if there was then why the saudi that coalition has been attempted for the last three months to enter the data the united states is fully back in the coalition war effort in yemen it doesn't matter where they are the border or in aden is if they just want to keep helping the saudi to push. into her day in the other area the united states the united nation actually want to help be a many before talking about cease fire they have at least to

states? would they do it again if they could? really think about opportunities for the kids and what about opportunity overall? have we seen a change in their opinion about the united states in recent years? this get started i want to start with mexico first. this is a chart that shows you over time, the views that mexicans have had of the u.s. the greenline is a share that has a favorable view of the united states. you can see that when president trump became president, the share of mexican of those who had a favorable view of the united states dropped about two thirds in the last year of obama, and we are still at around the same number for 2018. so this is a pattern that we have seen happen around the world, and you should know that mexico is not unique in this perspective. we can also see that mexicans have little confidence in the united states president. that particularly in regard to donald trump at just 6% of mexican adults in 2018, unchanged, said they have confidence in president tr

and you look at it, you know, see how it plays out state by state. the state by state perversions in the democratic process, this tilting of the playing field, and you think my god, the structure is messed up. what can be done? but each of these map, each of these states, they have an author. there are personalities and individuals state by state, law by law, court ruling by court ruling fights behind each one of these skews. and one week from today, the north carolina author of this bias, this skew, this perversion of the democratic process in that state will be before the u.s. senate with every senator in the united states senate having a chance to vote yes or no to make him a federal judge for the rest of his life. even the long-term big picture battles in american politics break down into small scale short-term winnable fights. even right around thanksgiving. you'd be surprised. ♪ the greatest wish of all... is one that brings us together. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with $0 down, $0 due at signing, an

state of the confederacy. the civil war has no ended as a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interest on its face you can keep your thumb on the scale and impact the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat and just because mrs abrams files a flawless balts last. or the new georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights groups is similar voter purges are happening in twenty six republican controlled states across the u.s. many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was a problem wi

it's someone who is already in the united states let's say a student is studying in the united states. suddenly something changes and they are scared of going back. they apply with the immigration agency. i can't go home and i'm scared for my life and they awe ply before the judge. another type of defensive alie sum is someone who is at a port of entry or a border. they are trying to come into the united states to clinton campaign asylum. >> so for those at the border of tijuana and want to apply for asylum, what's the process at this point? >> once they get into the united states, the issue with tijuana is that a lot of them aren't being permitted to come in. at least not immediately to apply. but once they are ermt. ed to come into the port of entry and say they have a fear of returning home, they will be given a preliminary asylum interview. most people get through that interview. it's just meant to weed out frivolous claims. at that point, their case is handed over to our immigration court system where they apply defensively before the judge to apply for asylum. >> the process fro

he hates the united states.e wants to create problems and trouble here. >> he wants to see western democracies in crisis, in chaos, mostly so they can't challenge him. >> vladimir putin is one of the most powerful men in the world. and he has forced himself onto that stage, no matter how much anybody else might want to keep him off. >> that's a toughness that came early to putin. he was a child of the soviet union, born in leningrad in 1952. the only surviving sun of vladimir and maria putin. in a city still reeling from the ravages of the german invasion during world war ii. >> no country's ever suffered the losses the soviet union suffered between 1941 and 1945. over 20 million dead. the siege of leningrad, putin's home city, was surrounded for 900 days. >> people in leningrad talk about eating human flesh to stay alive, how people are just dying on the streets as they're walking around of starvation. anybody who grew up there would have heard these stories. >> it was a hardscrabble life. the putins lived with

state. it figure out can get coverage for the doctor that we need. the doctor wasn't in network. can we get a waiver? coming for out-of-pocket? it is narrowing that works the entire cost of because of obamacare -- moderator: i want to give miss mccaskill 20 seconds to respond. >> this bill will not protect pre-existing conditions. nothing to do with pre-existing conditions but it's reinsurance on individual market for people who don't get insurance at work. the pre-existing condition part is in the law now. he wants to remove it. he went to yale for law school. i went to missoula but i can keep up. there's a pleading making court called [inaudible]. he believes it's constitutional and can stand on its own all he had to do was file the pleading to sever out pre-existing condition. the people could be protected. if, in fact the lawsuit is successful. he knows there's no safety net. they want this case decided after november because he knows the impact it would have on this election when everyo

mitt romney will be the next united states senator from the state of utah. he beats jenny wilson. mitt romney, the former republican presidential nominee, the former governor of massachusetts. he will be the next u.s. senator from utah. in nevada, too early to call right now. a very competitive race between jacky rosen, the democrat, dean heller. in montana, similarly, too early to call. the incumbent democrat jon tester facing a very stiff challenge from the republican matt rosendale. too early to call in montana. let's take a look at the balance of power in the senate where things stand right now with these projections. 38 democrats. they will be in the senate. 45 republicans in the senate including one pickup. 17 seats right now remain outstanding in the u.s. senate. we're watching those 17 seats. democrats must pick up three republican seats and not lose any more of their own. three republican seats in order to get closer and closer to the majority. it's looking tough for the democrats right there. let's go over to john king and take a closer look because these senate contests

i'm excited to be able to serve as the leader of the state.en i was in iraq, it did not matter where our fellow service members came from, what they looked like. we all wore the same american flag patch on our uniform. we never thought about which of the folks back home we were fighting for, republicans, democrats, we stood for all americans. now, political campaigns are rough business and are often about highlighting our differences. unfortunately, in this day and age, they spiral all right in demagoguery. but governing is different. governing is about getting things done on behalf of the people in florida. keeping the economy going, improving our water quality and environments. promoting public safety. expanding education opportunities. we need to build a florida that is cleaner, safer, stronger and that will be my guiding light as governor. you can count on me if you are a low income family and you are relying on a step up for student scholarship for your child to have education opportunities, you can count on me to keep that going. if you

state. you told me how you're feeling. how do you feel? >> it's very important. >> are you ready to vote? >> i'm read. >> you decided not to vote early. why not? >> usually i vote on tuesday, election day. i thought my vote might weigh more on that day. >> you're going to tell us who you will vote for? >> no. >> all the conversations around voter suppression and whether absentee ballots are being counted, does that weigh on you in terms of who you will vote for for? >> not at all? >> why not? >> i feel i've made up my mind. i'm ready to vote for my candidate. >> thanks very much. >> shoe's voting. a lot of people have voted. they were talking about wa was t the voter turn out. there's something like 6.9 million. on a third of those voters came out to vote last time. it will be much different this time. >> nvr evada is a purple state. republicans want to keep dean heller in his state. jacky rosen declares she believes she will win. how does that look on the ground there? what are voters telli

works in our state and the secretary of state's role in it. and while he oversees the process, there are a lot of people involved in that. again, if our secretary of state was running, i wouldn't ask him to step down because there are so many checks and balances in the process that i just don't have any fear about the integrity of the ballot. i don't know exactly in kansas and georgia how they work, but i personally don't have any concern about that. >> president trump is a huge issue in the florida governor's race. in some places, some candidates run away from him on your side. i can think larry hogan and charlie baker, for instance. some have been running with him. is it safe to say that president trump complicates things in some places and helps in other places? if you lose florida, is it on the president? >> i don't think it's -- any race is entirely on the president win or lose. i think, again, particularly in the governor's race it comes back down to, as the senator said just prior to this, even more so in governors' races, it's about th

a threat we need a europe which you felt itself better without just depending or there were other states in a more sordid manner and of course so what we're globalists is kind of interesting coming out of his mo who is threatened here you know if you want to build a european army against the united states no against russia he says it quite openly and i think it's a disgrace one hundred years after the war in which province and russia were on the same site in which millions of russians that he says that russia which is know it all bought us he forgets to mention why russia is at the borders of the european union it's not because russia expend it is because nato and the european union expend that not paying any attention to any concerns that russia might might graze about it only mention russia did he also wanted to you know this is a series of russia china and we all are fearing the imminent chinese invasion of europe on the other side of the world. although i know i am right you know trying to use troops or about the disembark normandy i pretty sure but he also mentioned the united state

state of. the civil war has never ended has a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interest on its face you can keep your thumb on the scale and impact the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat in just because miss a brahms flossy balts lawsuit or the new. georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights groups says similar voter purges are happening in twenty six republican controlled states across the u.s. many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was a problem w

it is great to be in the peach state, five days away from another great victory across the state of georgiand across america! i am here for one reason. georgia and america need brian kemp to be the next governor. [cheers and applause] brianow is actually kemp's birthday. it is. i asked him what he wanted. four more wanted years of strong republican leadership at the statehouse! [cheers and applause] speaking of strong republican leadership, let me bring greetings from a friend of mine. let me bring greetings from the man people in georgia voted overwhelmingly to make the 45th president of the united states of america -- president donald trump! [cheers and applause] it is the greatest honor of my life to serve alongside the president, to fight for the promises he made to the people of georgia and the people of america. president donald trump delivers! kemp becomes your next governor, he is going to deliver for georgia, just the same way! about what we've done in the last few months. new jobs report just came out. jobs created,w and unemployment is at a 50 year low. [cheers and applause] we s

heard jeff states that. -- state that. >> heard jeff states a lot of rural hospitals would be out of business. you would have very different coverage. >> a quick question. according to a study from the minnesota department of health, -- what is the best way to gain transparency in hospital pricing? >> we agree on this. there is a free market in this. we have seen this. the real focus is the preventative care on the front end and the cost reductions. sure we areake doing the research on the front end. price transparency matters. >> yes, we agree on something. we need more transparency. to give we also have consumers some incentive to care about the cost. if they haven't more choices and options, they are going to care. x things like brain cancer is why we have to have people covered. minneapolisof recently passed a $15 an hour minimum wage, and other cities appear to be headed in that direction. should the minimum wage the end issue tackled at the state level? ?hat is the right answer cracks it needs to be a living or a housing wage for people to be able to get by. that's maybe enough

it brings an important stability to the united states. toean, how blessed we are have to neighbors that we can work with compared to many parts of the world. >> you highlight that nafta has been blamed for a lot of issues including automation. losses withn job automation is only going to grow and the vital importance of understanding its policies completely separate from the yet the white house pitched the negotiation as the solution to problems incorrectly it presentsfta and a new deal. i'm told having that economic foreness is fundamental keeping the trade relationship halted of and going on. theor example, i think trade governments and societies talking about workforce development, they have not really done that. new technology coming in and the training necessary. each nation has its own responses to that, but we should be learning from each other and in allre good practices three countries. we are all going to face this way for the demand for higher and new skill. the many moments we are holding our breath. a stunning announcement fr

he's not going to be able to keep this same route of red state, red state, red state.ingly, all of these rallies have been, yes, been about republican candidates, but there have been very few signs of senate signs. no matt rosendale, all trump signs. that is by design. so the trump show, maybe a slight hiatus, but not much of one. it's going to be back in full swing. >> all right. the fall season, can't wait! >> i know we've jumped a lot about it being infrastructure week, but if house democrats win on tuesday, it might actually be infrastructure week. we have seen signs the that senior white house officials are actually making overtures to key democrats, even ahead of the midterms, to try to talk about an infrastructure deal. the legislative affairs director visited a top house democrat who would be overseeing is infrastructure projects a few weeks ago. she carried a message from the president, saying president trump wants to do something really and that he acknowledges that it's going to require real money. so if democrats do take back the house on tuesday, they're g

and china does not want to have armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these teens are. i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. meanwhile on friday the trumpet ministration announced that it is reimposing all sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifty nuclear deal the us president took to twitter to taunt the news in a post resembling the tagline from the hit t.v. series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday follow america's unilateral withdrawal in may from the iran nuclear agreement new sanctions come on top of those who already imposed by washington and focus on oil pain lies in states that refuse to hold crude imports from iran the u.s. secretary of state says meanwhile the main target is the iranian government. the sanctions hit a core areas of iran's economy it is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world while people on the streets of tehran it is

he won the state by 10. compare to 2016, here in maricopa county, donald trump won by 4 percentage points and the state as a whole by 3. that's why we're in maricopa county and paying attention to voters in suburbs, at lucy's at the orchard. >> vaughn hillyard in phoenix, we'll check back with you later in the day. thank you very much. seth, you know this area of the country well. you used to report in nevada, you know the dynamics in arizona, what do you think is going to be the factor that puts sinema or mcsally over the edge. >> it's how people feel about john mccain in the past. he was a trump opponent, foil, i guess i could say, what are the lingering feelings, and obviously when you look at the southwest states upyou want to look at the hispanic turnout. that's the big x factor when you go west of the mississippi. >> president trump has not visited arizona. he did mention martha mcsally at that rally over the weekend. she's great, arizona, he is coming to cleveland, a city you know very very well, and

that has -- that is half the state average. san diego county has been mentioned as places we should try to emulate. anaheim use a hundred and 84 gallons per capita. the santa fe district of california uses 559 gallons per capita. the goal should not be to recycle the most but use the least. they should be more like san francisco. we should be less like them. thank you. >> by the way, that number is for san francisco and not necessarily all of the people that san francisco serves. >> the user district is about 6s well below the state average of over 80. >> hi. i am in support of the state water board's plan for increased fresh water flows in the delta. i i'm a san francisco resident since 94. i enjoyed extensively as most people in the room have. hiking, kayaking, fishing, obviously the utmost importance. and what will we do when they're gone? san francisco needs to continue its support and leadership of positive environment of plans like this and strongly implement water reduction and greywater options. during drought years, th

the senate races were fought in conservative, red states, states substantial, small town, and rural populationsthe other races had a strong component of suburbs and a strong component of some urbanized areas. so that kind of panned out a lot like what we thought. our friends at nbc at first read this morning made a really good point, that if you look at the state exit polls and the results that they matched up really closely with where president trump's job approval ratings were over 50%. --ublicans did pretty well where president trump's job approval ratings were over 50%, those places republicans did pretty well. to the extent that they were below 50, not so well. in the senate, and i know that luke has gone through this quickly, it looks like republicans, and there are still some out, but republicans knocked off three incumbents. joe donnelly, heidi heitkamp and claire mccaskill. but they lost dean heller and we are still kind of waiting to hear about arizona, florida, and montana. arizona is and i was listening and interested in luke's analysis. i thought it was really, really good. and he

the state legislature in our state is majority republican. the only race that is the most important and others, but most important is the state legislature. can the republicans hold on and form some sort of opposition to the governor? will the democrats take most of the assembly and the state senate? then there will be a complete home all run state. there is a small pocket of opposition that is possible for republicans to hold onto in new york and host: where is governor cuomo going wrong? what don't you like? caller: i think he has really been lazy when it comes to. i think it is pay for play. ofhink he gave buffalo billion dollars. one of his aides was caught .rying to did rig there seems to be paper play action that cuomo is inviting. host: then is next in maryland. national issues. go ahead. caller: i am driven by the national issues at hand. i think the economy is going great. trumpal security, i think is on par with that. the only thing that needs work is health care. sides are in, both favor of the pre-existing conditions. if we as rep

to state. now, it works through an alliance of 27 states. which sends more information to arkansas to upload. nskris kobach kansas then searches for comparisons of registered voters to weed out duplicates. interstate crosscheck, which by 2012, and more than 45 million voter records. matches first, middle and last names. date of birth, last four digits of the social security number. and suffix is applicable. to identify those who may be going from state to state to vote, tainting election after election. [laughter] at least, that is the narrative that kris kobach told when he stumbled upon lincoln l wilson. a 66-year-old republican that owned homes in both kansas and colorado. wilson thought he was well within his rights to vote in local elections in both states. i would vote for president in one state and local issues in both places, he explained. especially when he saw his property tax bill skyrocket. and resolve there would be no taxation without representation. now, what looked logical to wi

we are a state of firsts. currently the executive director of thexecutive directorof the ln southern nevada that provides a legal assistance and representation to those that cannot afford an attorney and helped create the legal guardianship advocacy program. it is crucial to protecting those that are the most affordable. thank you for this important hearing. madam chair. >> thank you very much. i also want to acknowledge the three other senators that are here and may be returning. senator fisher, senator jones and senator donnelly and a special word to senator donnelly. he's been a terrific member of the committee and i just wanted to say that we will very much missed your service here. i know how deeply you care about the issues affecting our older americans and i just wanted to personally thank you for your service on the committee. >> chair callings, ranking member casey and members of the special committee on aging thank you for inviting me to discuss the efforts to overhaul the guardianship process and pr

for the first time, because of cuba's proximity to the united states, the united states was a country of first refuge, meaning refugees didn't go to another country and then apply for resettlement in the united states. they went straight to the united states. especially to places like miami. the policy for cuban refugees at this time was such that these refugees would be given asylum as part of a bigger anti-castro, anti-communist policy. a number of requirements were imposed on these early refugee populations. these requirements illustrated how the united states pursued its own cold war self-interest. first, as i've already mentioned, the u.s. offered a special welcome for people fleeing communism. second, preference was given for refugees who were professionals or highly educated or skilled. this was in keeping with other immigration laws of the period. ultimately, while welcoming displaced people has been seen as a humanitarian act, these humanitarian efforts were often centered on the needs of the united states, the helper. these images feature refugees who arrived in the united s

we elected our representatives and senators within each state given to the state so that is why we seeuch diversity in the election process but the second thing is we have to look at why the focus is on the federal elections and the very tight swing of power and overreach of the federal government. the states have more constitutional authority than the federal government would like us to believe. we see an overreaching federal government. we the people to article 5 of the constitution can call for convention of the state to reign in federal government power and we need to look at that moving forward is the optimal solution to reign in government power and convention@states.com has passed a petition in 12 states and looking forward in this gap between 2018-2020, that is the best solution we can look at. heather: we will see what happens, a lot of deadlines to reach those this week. thank you. the time is 20 minutes after the top of the our. manipulation, fear, and a new cell phone. l top oh heading to court today, the notorious drug lord putting new york city on lockdown. losing a legen

because of the state of the country. i think that with president unfortunately it's i mean there's people that love him and that's great but there's people that despise him because of his attitude and the way he speaks trump isn't on the ballot but arizona will choose between congressional candidates who either support or oppose him i wholeheartedly support the president moved the national guard to the border i believe it's our duty to stand up against the president is doing something wrong trump one arizona in the presidential election outside urban centers support for him remains strong but in this state where one in three voters call themselves independents the midterm elections results are anyone's guess i'm kind of a little bit in both ways you know so it depends on what that person stands for there's also the question of whether latino's lean democrat will turn out in high numbers arizona's pride of its mixed heritage is on display here with latinos making up thirty percent of the state's population the fewer than

it's also how we got a democrat in the united states senate from the great state of alabama. when alabama decided they couldn't stomach roy moore in that capacity. so alabama has had a busy few years in general on ethics issues, but on environmental stuff, alabama has been even worse than that. i mean, it has been a poop train couple of years in alabama. that same administrator of the state's environmental agency, that one who got referred for prosecution, the one who left office under this cloud of mushrooming ethics controversies, after he left office as the top environmental official in the state, he left to go work in his private business career. in his private business career, he became a key player in the worst criminal environmental scandal to hit that state in years. i mean, even after losing the top person in the legislature, the top person in the supreme court, and the governor to ethics scandals almost simultaneously, the state of alabama has since subsequently had to endure a huge criminal bribery and moneylaundering scandal involving top businesses and law firms

run for state office, and typically the secretary of state oversees the races. here you have one, and where want to ask you, rob, as you look at this, it sounds like what happened here is that a whistleblower, not a whistleblower, a concerned citizen said hey, there may be vulnerabilities in the system. democrats got word of it, now they're accused of hacking the system. is that a fair representation? >> what you said at first is right. secretary of states have run in the past. they have stayed in office and run. this is not unique. >> the question is do you abuse that position? >> i hope he's not, but the fbi has been alerted and homeland security. so we'll find out in the days afterwards whether or not there's realism to this or not, but i think in these days of hacking and these machines are easy to hack, we have seen it internationally, we have seen it within, that you have to take it seriously. you have to be alerted. >> agreed, but brian kemp is the current secretary of state. in 2016, he was one of the only secretary of states in the country to refuse hel

while secretary of state mike pompeo has said the night states -- united states remains the most generous nation when other refugees is taken into account, including funds to shelter refugees and camps closer to their home countries, the new ceiling would be the lowest level of annual refugee admissions allowed since the 1980 act was enacted. as the political storms rage over the refugee issue, we might well turn to the past for a clear understanding of how we got where we are and shining the , light of historical perspective on current discussions can only help to -- help. to that end the national history , center this morning has invited two qualified experts to assist us in putting the current situation into perspective. our first speaker is carl. he is an associate professor of history and a professor at the university of new york in albany. he received his phd from the university of virginia in -- university of virginia. he is the author of "americans at the gate." united states and refugees during the cold war, published in 2008. a co-author of immigration and -- and american histor

-- state.oday's american politics. 0n of the divisions in today's american politics. on one hand you have, as you mentioned there, andrew gillon, he is the mayor of tallahassee, a liberal, progressive politician, believes in a lot of progressive agendas when it comes to healthcare and the economy. and he is the polar opposites, you could say, of his republican candidate, ron de santos who sits on the opposite end of the political spectrum. in many ways that reflects the divide across the country. offered in florida politics can do is try to move more to be sent to try to pick up some of those floating voters. what we have seen in this particular governor's race is now divided this state has become will stop so that is why the results are so will stop so that is why the results are so consequential when we look ahead to 2020, christian. florida is also interesting because it is a state that donald trump won narrowly. barack state that donald trump won narrowly. ba rack obama state that donald tr

but republicans gained enormously in the states, the red states. on thesident's focus --l, the caravan, kavanaugh i think it made a real difference in a couple of u.s. senate races out there. help int do anything to the suburbs and in the congressional and other things. it sure helped them on the u.s. senate level. careful aboutally what you say and write about turnout. we know it's big. we know it went up. there are a whole lot of folks that haven't been counted yet. california aree slow about counting votes. we don't know anything on election night. anything that writes on election night, they are making stuff up. you can't really know anything this soon. clearly, it went up. we could look at the exit polls and make some guesstimates. the exit polls and 2016 had some issues. it doesn't look like young people, as relative to the rest of the electorate, went up much. snarkily said- that we would set a midterm record number of young people voting. if only 100 of them voted, that would be a record. it was a really low bar out there. what does this me

rob: florida is a big state today. jillian: in texas, could appreciate the state.z fighting to keep his seat in the historically red state against hollywood back democrat beto o rourke. a contentious house race in texas. >> reporter: a couple big races, we are at the old south pancake house in fort worth, we will talk to voters all morning long. if you are in the dallas-fort worth area come on out and share your opinion with us, two big races, the senate race as mentioned, beto o'rourke against ted cruz, the composition of the texas electorate. what you guys are covering we will be covering, the house of representatives hangs in the balance and there's a race we are watching closely, if it flips would foretell a bad light for republicans. 30-2nd commercial district held by 11 term incumbent pete sessions fighting a challenge for democrat colin allred, the race is a tossup within the margin of error. the district was won by mitt romney in 2012 but clinton in 2016. a bellwether nationally and worth watching. back to the texas statewide race where conservative credent

it will vary from state to state you can usually go to an online portal and some states detail.n more some allow you to track where it s in the postal service and whether it is ultimately counted. ut you should have a way -- if not that then contact the local election official. call is from florida. caller: bless you, greta. and thank you for speaking there. we vote by mail. it is very simple, easy. i don't need to wait until the talking heads. my vote. trump that check those taxes and him up and the vote for the epublicans is a vote against medicare and social security. the coming up on "washington journal" we will look at the battleground state you can a so i hope continue to watch. john in massachusetts voting on election day. any concerns? caller: yes, i do. i think both parties are corrupt. been going on since the conception of this country by fathers who were masons, ok? the problem that we have had is an attack on people with melanin in your skin. it is a continuation of he descendants of descent. "wall street journal" -- ers and people is host: we will go to south name your to

in the end it's a red state. missouri is a red state, north dakota is a red state. wel see what happens in montana. >> but he's always only focussed on his base. >> but they're not big in the electoral college. those are states that are given for the most part to the republicans. if you want to talk electoral college math this is a bad night for donald trump. and what california can do and i think what californians are going to do in the congress is start to do something that so far this administration has never seen which is a check. which is accountability, which is the ability to use the subpoena to get information that quite frankly these agencies have been stiffing congress in every way for the past two years. that is an enormous amount of light that's going to come that's going to be shed. not even including what robert mueller may bring to the table in the next few weeks. >> so we have been talking about what the democrats may feel bold enough to try to stop. what might they try to reach out to republicans on and actually get something done. or what would rep

the state dmv, the voter registration lists from the state. and then they bring in a change of address from the postal service. there are a lot of different committees that come together and put out reports to the not a, and whoever is part of the voter registration system, they get mailings to encourage them to register to vote. there are 24 states now that are participating. there may be a way to incorporate what you are talking about into that process, but there are ways that the state is looking -- opt-in? a purely >> the cost is more about the mailings having to go out. >> interesting. member. is a to get rid of dead people, two people who have moved to other states. >> in virginia, we have pretty robust practices. in addition to what leslie mentioned -- we get roughly monthly updates from that program about deceased from other states, for example. we doing annual mailing of people that would not match from other states, through the national change of address system. if there is a difference in address, we say, hey, where do you really li

california is a state of results. california is america's coming attraction arocket fueled engine of human industry and innovation. the nation's greatest job creator and the fifth largest economy in the world. the true genious is california is not the value that we work for but the value that is we fight for. this is a state where, you know, we don't criminallize diversity, we celebrate diversity. we don't reject, we protect the most vulnerable. deadly weapon don't put profit and loss ahead of clean air. we don't put it ahead of clean water and coastlines. we don't regulate a woman's body more than we regulate [ ap >> we don'tde mean, don't discriminate and we don'tde moralelize. we don't separate families and we don't lock kids in cages. at our best we always stand up, step in and fight for what's right. see, there is a reason why california's dream is america's leading brand. it's california's dream that has always been and always will be too big to fail and too powerful to bully. here is the thing. the california d

she united states, there was no chance. we always think about what happened after world war ii, the united states playing a critical role, we had the opportunity to play the critical role after 1918 and chose not to. it falls heavily on the united states, the disaster that then unfolded over the next 20 years. >> adam, i think it's a similar line in terms of the role of the u.s. but you are very critical of wilson rather than the domestic political situation and as i understand, your argument is that the u.s. had immense power and looming potential from 1969. in the u.s. basically failed to take a constructive role in terms of working with britain to find constructive order. do you see things similarly to bob? or do you have a lesson from that.? i'm interested also in trying to touch on the differences of where the blame lies in the 20s for that abdication of u.s. leadership. >> thank you very much, it's a delight to be here. it's delight for -- delightful to be here on a platform with him. i'm very happy to be here. on thi

of the united states want. let's take this situation first. it's not just about should america be involved in the world but let's take two specific examples, but iran nuclear deal and the paris climate agreement. the president is against both taking the united states out of boat and has gone around the country talking about how bad those deals were, how they hurt america's interest. what is interesting in the organization that is done is to support for both of those agreements has gone up, not down and that is where the notion including republicans that trump has been good for nationalism and if you look abroad i think one of the concerns i would have ihave iseither that others willp on us or they will come away with a different vision of who they think we are and then we think we are. i don't think that america should never underestimate how much political capital they've built up around the world because the united states defeated nazi germany and stood up to the soviet union. people didn't forget that. it wa