that was the secretary of states lane -- state's plane and that day. one wasew air force ordered, it didn't arrive until after george h w bush was president. david: you are one of the few people who work for gerald ford, ronald reagan, and george herbert walker bush. how would you contrast the working style in the oval office? who was easier? fmr. sec. of state baker: nice try, david. i get that question all the time and i tell people i don't compare the presidents i work for because the minute you say something nice about one of them, it will be interpreted to be something negative about the other. david: what was it like to be chief of staff or ronald reagan. was it fun? fmr. sec. of state baker: it was tough because i was constantly under attack from the so-called true believers. i ran to campaigns against reagan and then he asked me to be his white house chief of staff. i defy you to tell me when that is going to happen again in american politics. [laughter] fmr. sec. of state baker: i don't think that is going to happen again. he was a lovely pers

nautical miles considered state waters or part of the state boundary. under go mesa, lw cf also receives 2.5% of the qualified federal outer continental shelf revenue beyond the zone which is another 200 miles out. onshore revenue sharing is governed by a different law and what i know this committee has examined the difference between how onshore and offshore revenues are handled in the past i think that issue is worthy of additional tensions in this committee. the primary distinction between the two is that onshore lands continue entirely within the state's borders and while the leases offshore are not within a state order. onshore and offshore energy development has different histories with different leasing systems in the management of different viewers and with that history in mind changing the policy for how revenues are dispersed from federal lands and waters whether it be onshore or offshore requires a factual understanding of the complexities of broader energy market and should not be done without careful analysts. it is also important we make s

we do have state funds derived from mineral production on state lands and state water bottoms. the last three years, louisiana has run budget surpluses. the governor has allotted state dollars to the coastal trust fund for hurricane protection projects. an annual basis, all of those torts that i understand. >> gomesa -- >> can, yes sir.we historically that is typically about $35 million per year depending on the production. as i mentioned, in addition to the mineral revenues derived on year lands, we had last governor edwards allocate an additional $55 million. this year, we have been asked to put together a proposal of $220 million for hurricane protection projects. >> mr. gordon, i think you heard me in my opening statement, methane from oil and gas operations on public lands. as i said, these are public resources. taxpayers lose out. so does the environment. conference, the comparative impact of methane is more than 25 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 year. pop-up. what steps are you taking to reduce flaring? >> i can't speak to what is done by the bureau of land

they are national federal issues relegated to the states, soinstead of the united states of states with a single democracy, we have 50 different democracies operating every single day in the country. we know that voter fraud is often attributed to the voter fraud, but it is amiss, because 31 people in the last billion votes cast have been accused of actual fraud, and usually, it is voter confusion, because when you are crossing a state border, the laws change and nobody hands you a pamphlet to tell you what is new, but we know that if we have federal legislation, and restoration of the voting rights act, we can restore our progress towards true democracy in the country, and that is my mission. that is the work of fair fight action and fair fight 2020. but in addition to those operations, i was a state legislator and i took my job as minority leader in november of 2010, and i took office and began my first legislative session in 2011. and by august, i was embroiled in what is called redistricting. it was the first redistricting that had happened in our state under republican leadership.

we believe at the moment we have robust state regulation, but those state regulations vary from state to state dramatically. we have a lot of safeguards put into those state regulation but federal regulation is what we look forward to, sir. >> what's to stop -- this is my last question. i apologize. what's to stop what's happened in financial services, like wall street basically owns this institution and the regulators certainly in the trump administration, what's to stop the regulatory capture of marijuana the same way we've seen it in banking? >> i believe that some of these regulations are yet to be fleshed out. i believe we're asking to be regulated. and these are debates that need to happen with regard to the regulation. here today we're asking for the basics of banking, the ability to put our money in a bank, perhaps take out sba loans, et cetera, which again will help social equity and minority equity in getting started in these businesses. currently, unless you're of high net worth or have access to high net worth individuals is the only way to finance these businesses. so, th

it is more important to win a lot of states by 51% than a couple of states by 60%.t that does is ensures the president, in fact, represents most of the states in addition to most of the people. in other words, the electoral college really does do what the framers had hoped, which was that it would be an office, the presidency itself, that represented the people through -- represent the people, but through their states. the combination of the house and the senate. the biggest problem with it is actually a problem the parties created themselves, and in fact is not related to the electoral college. it is related to how each state allocates its electoral votes. all states but maine and nebraska allocate those votes in a winner take all manner. meaning if you win by 51%, you when all of that state's electors. a much more fair way would be for there to be essentially proportional representation by the awarding of those electors. so if one candidate won 51%, they get 51% of the electors. the other candidate who lost the state would still get 45% of the electors. that would

by state.eeing polls where several of the top nominees currently in the party beat the president in a contest in the country, but we saw the state by states come out to the states that will be battle grounds, he's doing much better than the national polls suggested overall. so when we look at the states, what may have worked for beshear, what worked in virginia? keep it local. talk health care. get off trump, get off impeachment. how do you reconcile in the national picture for president an impeachment that seems to be so consuming of the energy in dc for the democrats with what's been working state by state? >> i think we succeed by pointing out that democrats can walk and chew gum. we have passed laws to stabilize health care, raise minimum wage, reduce gun violence, make sure you're judged in the workplace by the content of your character, restore our democracy and so many other things. dealing with the issues that got us elected so we can do those things. memo to file, mitch mcconnell, we'r

state? is it dealing with congress, the white house, the national security council? mr. baker: it depends on what the arrangements are when you are secretary. it has been for some secretaries. i was lucky because i was secretary of state for a guy who had been my friend for 40 years. i had run all of his political campaigns, so nobody was going to get between me and my president. i had a leg up. any secretary of state, to be successful, has god to stay close and have a relationship with his president. i was really fortunate because i did not have to work at that. david: when you became secretary of state, did you get advice from previous secretaries of state? mr. baker: i did. david: what was the best advice you got? mr. baker: stay close to your president. the president and secretary of state are sharing the nation's foreign policy responsibility. the president always outranks the secretary of state, so you had better find a way to do that that is compatible with the interest of the preside

the greatest asset in the constitutional state is citizens trust in the state's monopoly on the use of force. but that also means the state must protect its citizens and for a while it was unable to do that the way to a promise to. a constitutional state does not abide by the rule of the strongest but by the rule of democratically established laws. we can't always agree on everything and it doesn't matter if a small percentage swims against the tide or isn't fully integrated. but the majority must stick to the rules of living together and recognize how important they are. they need to realize how badly they could be affected if these rules should one day be suspended because that's. the end of the 2nd world war in 1945 left germany completely devastated 12 years of tyranny had left their mark every one had been forced to submit to a dictatorship that ultimately driven the country into ruin. in the 1949 foundations were laid for a new beginning. a year earlier the west german constituent assembly backed by the western allies had made in the alexander clinic a natural research museum in

go back to the early history of this state. this is a border state. this is a state you go through the union wars, the harlan county war in southeastern kentucky. now that place is a hugely republican area. even tonight you look at the margins there, you're talking about something like 75/25, republican, but it was the place the strike breakers came in against the coal miners and the union organizers. a state with a hugely volatile political history over the years and definitely one where there's absolutely been a populism running through its veins for many years that was democratic at one point then republican at another, and i think you're seeing some democratic strains of that again in that map you're showing. i mean, not only -- you pointed out earlier you had the sort of two blips of democratic support in the d 2016 election in lexington and in louisville, but tonight you see maybe a dozen counties, more than a dozen counties that look blue, and just pointing out again the suburbs around senate that you spoke of and david corn was speaking of, th

is combating the deep state and they're all elements of the deep state. but the transcripts that were released yesterday add a new version do this tale that we're all living through. and the version is, if yesterday's leads was the "a" lead, mckinley's testimony being released and ambassador yovanovitch's testimony being released, if that's the "a" lead, the off lead of this story is mike pompeo. >> absolutely. >> yes. >> and what he's doing. >> we need to keep going back to that. >> and you can start with mike pompeo's service as director of the central intelligence agency when he states adamantly that russia tried to influence the election and now that's gone. now it's the ukraine that's involved. in addition to his testimony now that it's the ukraine that's involved, not russia, it's what he's doing on a daily basis to the state department. >> it is incredible. >> that's the off lead. that's a big story. >> it is. that is coming out at some point. there's too many situations where he has been asked questions, he has refused to answer them, he has bumbl

virginia a purple state.p is calling the virginia senate for the democratic party. we're waiting on the news out of the house in virginia. it's turning out to be an interesting off-year night for democrats. again with the news we continue to cover out of kentucky that the democratic challenger has taken the governorship from republican matt bevin in kentucky even as kentucky republicans were able to hold on or take some other statewide races in that state. we'll be back with the latest from virginia and more. stay with us. latest from virginia and more stay with us ♪ (dramatic orchestra) performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ i need all the breaks as athat i can get.or, at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowe

the state department, more powerful than secretary of state was himself forced out of office because his enemies had knowledge of homosexual at least one of at least homosexual pairs. so guist was not a heroic critic during the holocaust. he worked against nazi germany in a variety of other ways. after the war, helped to become an ambassador somewhere. whenever made it. and now i go back to that comment jacob beam, once made. he didn't have it in him to be an ambassador because is it too many people knew about his homosexuality at a time when this is just before the mccarthy era. people began to describe homosexuals in government as security risks. that is what jacob was wheeling to habitat to me but not to see directly. he retired at normal retirement edge. what does guist see to us today. black-and-white history. is likely to be partisan and unhelpful. there was no easy solution to all of the dilemmas that the united states face in the 1930s and during the war and holocaust. which has brought to see that the united states did everything it could. it did not. guist was a supporter o

it's huge news in a red state like kentucky, a ruby red state really. do you think a democrat was able to be so successful? >> i think first of all, don, he came across as a moderate. you know, i've told you all along, center right, center left is where the country is, and i think that's what he was able to do. i mean he didn't talk about impeachment. he didn't allow bevin to say he was some, you know, liberal democrat. he went and he talked about health care, which bevin had become sort of opposed to in many ways. he talked about education. you know, bevin had a fight with teachers down there. he was talking about things, kind of those kitchen table issues that really matter. and there should be -- look, there's a big lesson for republicans. it looks as though the midterm results, which showed the suburbs and areas even beyond the suburbs beginning to move away from republicans because of the rhetoric, the negativity, the division and all that, but there's also a very big lesson for democrats. if you think you're going to win nationally with medicare f

we don't put sanctions on the united states. we don't attack the united states. let us not be blind to our difference but our common interest and the means by which those differences can be resolved and if we cannot end now our difference at least we can help make the world safer. in the final analysis our most basic link, we all inhabit this small planet and breathe the same air and cherish our children's future. this is an official of president kennedy talking about the soviet union. why not with cuba? thank you so much. i did it. >> you don't have anything to apologize, that was a great presentation. you get to ask questions and we can entertain comments. i am going to moderate the question and take the prerogative for the first one and some given your presentation, i have heard the saying cuba is abandoning socialism. an interesting question and it was related - i will come back. if you see how many have questions or comments. i will give people numbers. 123. your number? okay. we are going to stop with that one in the first round. >> i don't believe in that.

south carolina state.elcome to bulldog country. gilda cobb-hunter, how does it work in a state legislature run issues of environmental justice? the rightout alec, wing organization that rights legislation, particularly in t e for stateslatures -- legislatures, and one by one, following a trend in the country to cut back on regulations. how do you deal as the head of the national black caucus of state legislators in responding? >> a part of it is what we will do here tonight. my role as president in my view is increasing members awareness of issues that impapact our constituents. wewe all know the roine issssues that a all of us care about and all of us working on. but when it comes to an issue like environment of justice, the awareness of black legislators in our view is not what it should be. so a part of our goal and a part of what we think is important is increasing our awarenessss. very strong footprint here in the south carolina legislature. they spend money. we have members who are in the national le

because these are states that are still rust belt states. working class states. probably not a huge percentage of college educated college graduates there. but, all donald trump has to do -- he won by 70,000 votes. three states by 70,000. the margins are so tight. if you look at what happened to bevin it has to worry you if you're trump. >> which of the democratic candidates might be getting another look at after tonight? >> i look at 2020 different than the individual races. the reality is, when you have someone like bevin winning. or losing. to someone the democratic candidate there who was a much more moderate candidate. that should send a huge signal to the democratic party. that people will resonate toward someone who is more moderate and not far to the left. that's a huge take away from the democrats coming out of kentucky. because this is someone who was certainly not as progressive as a lot of the democratic candidates in 2020. and the dnc should recognize while the aoc wing of the party is really pushing to go far left and prgive like with the warren. an

every state house seat. every state senate seat. democrats control the statewide offices already in virginia, but this meant control of the legislature was on the ballot as well. while the associated press has now called it for the democrats in the state legislature, democrats have flipped enough seats tonight to gain control of the statehouse and the state senate in virginia. that big double flip tonight means that democrats have control of all the statewide offices in the state. they've also got control of the state legislature in the state and that puts democrats in complete control of virginia state government for the first time in 26 years. of course the further big news tonight is out of kentucky where the democratic state attorney general andy beshear has turfed out republican incumbent governor matt bevin. nbc news has called andy beshear the apparent winner in this governor's race, which will send, frankly, shock waves through not just kentucky politics but national politics for a long time given that kentucky is a state do

the unemployment rate is below 5% in 48 states, and 4% in 45 states. 2.5% unemployment making new hampshireied for the second lowest unemployment rate in america. great job, new hampshire. wow. [applause] vice pres. pence: and you know what? so it's more jobs, but it's also better jobs. under this president's leadership, the average household has seen their disposable income go up by more than $5,000 a year. wages are rising at their fastest pace in more than a decade. and most importantly to the president and me, is that wages are rising most rapidly for hard-working, blue-collar americans, the forgotten men and women of america are forgotten no more. [applause] vice pres. pence: and thanks to the president's agenda, thanks to the confidence that republicans placed in the candidate who filed just about four years ago this week, america is prospering like never before. but this president also knows that the foundation of our prosperity is security, and i want to assure you, here in new hampshire, that for the first day of this administration, this president and our entire team have been wor

united states is part of that. we have graduated more than 100 doctors, physicians for free in cuba. so let's go to recent history. december 17, 2014. both presidents, obama and raul, announced they will start a new moment between cuba and the united states. that was big news, breaking news. everybody was talking about that. i like to say that we did not see the armageddon after that. we are still here. nothing bad happened, you know? but the reality is that we were more suspicious in cuba. here in the united states, i'm trying to find one media that put the cuban speech. you can see "the new york times" put fidel and not raul who was the president. this is part again of what happened in our common history between cuba and the united states. after that, you have to go i believe more quick. why this happened? i really believe this happened not only because two men want to. i believe this happened because the majority of the american people, the cuban people, and even the cuban-americans support this. probably back i

or us in the strait of state and. again i think there's i think we all remember it was only. i think a little more than a week ago when hillary clinton came out from her long walks in the in the in the force i came out and really dissed. assaulted on twitter. by an anti-war candidate and it seems to me that is coordinated all of these things are coordinated you have the deep state you have the media and they had to pile on because she represents she's a disruptor as well she said disruptor in the democratic party like trump was in the republican party and you saw the piling on anti-war pulling back from this imperial reach is something that is completely forbidden and you will be punished in public for it well and as you just mentioned the media of course the media has their impact there as well and of course you can question whether some of the media is maybe part of the deep state this is where i would go and say they are trying to impeach president of the united states that has never happened and never never been c

united states or by any state on account of sex. so letting that sink in, when you think about the wording of the 19th amendment as it applies, giving the right to vote to women, nowhere does it say guarantees the right to vote. and that is a big difference in its achieving the right to vote for everybody. sort of what we think the 19th amendment did and the reality of what it did. so in this moment states still can find ways through which to disenfranchise voters and up to this moment, up to our contemporary moment in 2019, there are states and laws out there that are seeking to disenfranchise voters. so we're still contending, basically, the wording of this 19th amendment because it's not as specific as we would like it to be and it wouldn't be until the vote rights act of 1965 that things became very crystal clear and that people had the right to vote and were guaranteed the right to vote and not be discriminated against based upon their race. i'm standing in front of a portrait of a native american was forced to attend the carli

when i returned to the united states, deputy secretary of state sullivan told me there had been a concerted campaign against me, that the president no longer wished me to serve as ambassador to ukraine and that, in fact, the president had been pushing for my removal since the prior summer. as mr. sullivan recently recounted during his senate confirmation hearing, neither he nor anyone else ever explained or sought to justify the president's concerns about me, nor did anyone in the department justify my early departure by suggesting i had done something wrong. i appreciate that mr. sullivan publicly affirmed in his hearing that i had served capably and admirably. i always understood i served at the pleasure of the president. i still find it difficult to comprehend that foreign and private interests were able to undermine u.s. interests in this way. individuals who apparently felt stymied by our efforts to promote stated u.s. policy against corruption, that is to do our mission, were able to successfully conduct a campaign of disinformation against a sitting ambassador using unofficial back c

and most notably, since 2017, john has successfully served is the united states deputy secretary of state with integrity. has done an extremely impressive job in this critical role in widely respected not just across federal national security agencies and government but internationally and most importantly, by the employees of the department of state which he has helped to lead. he has worked with them, led them, stood by them, and for them, is his tenure is deputy secretary. no i don't often take the quoting the national media you may have noticed, that there is a wide cross-section of journalists and media in our country that noted john's obligations and reaffirmed the positive impact is already had the state department an article from politico, recently stated that john sullivan deputy set secretary his winning over state department employees, so far sullivan is shown in fluency with diplomacy that is delighted his colleagues in the state department. the washington examiner, by ms. miss martin calm and experience, three crucial ingredients in leading the u.s. mission to russia. in wall

the republican led state government in missouri is trying to make that state the first state in america to go completely dark in terms of access to abortion. and they're doing it by trying to shutdown the last clinic in the state which does abortions which is planned parent hood clinic. abortion, of course, is legal in this country. access to it is constitutionally protected right in this country. but missouri's republican state government want to try to find away around that inconvenient fact. they want to find a way to effectively ban abortion in that state by putting every abortion provider that remains in the state out of business using state regulations. they want to use state regulations under the direction of the state health director to regulate the last clinic in the state in such a way it loses its license and is forced to close. that's how they're trying to limit access to abortion in missouri. and that's what these hearings have been about all week. and the state health director confirmed that, yeah, he actually has been tracking womens menstrual periods on a spreadsheet. >>

when i returned to the united states deputy secretary of state sullivan told me there had been a concerted campaign against me, that the president no longer wished me to serve as ambassador to ukraine, and that, in fact, the president had been pushing for my removal since the prior summer. as mr. sullivan recently recounted during his senate confirmation hearing, neither he nor anyone else ever explained or sought to justify the president's concerns about me, nor did anyone in the department justify my early departure by suggesting i had done something wrong. i appreciate that mr. sullivan publicly affirmed at his hearing that i had served capably and admirably. although then and now i have always understood that i served at the pleasure of the president, i still find it difficult to comprehend that foreign and private interests were able to undermine u.s. interests in this way. individuals who apparently felt stymied by our efforts to promote stated u.s. policy against corruption, that is to do our mission, were able to successfully conduct a campaign of disinformation against a sitting a

while keeping the state department and the n.s.c. closely apprised of the challenges we faced on july 25th presidents trump and selenski had their official call i was not on the call and i don't think i was invited to be on the call in fact i 1st read the transcript on september 25th the day it was publicly released all i had heard at that time was that the college gone well looking back i find it very odd very odd that neither i nor ambassador taylor nor ambassador volker ever received a detailed readout of that call with the biden references now there are people who say they had concerns about the call but no one shared any concerns about the call with me at the time which frankly would have been very helpful to know on july 26th ambassador taylor ambassador volker and i were all in kiev to meet with president selenski the timing of that trip immediately after the call between presidents trump and selenski was entirely and tiredly coincidental the key of meetings had been scheduled well before the date that the white house finally

these are state by state races.nd key to look at each individual the state polls and how the trends are going. >> the times points out that president advantage in electoral college remains in tact or grown since 2016. this race is the possibility that republicans could for the third time in the past sixth elections win the presidency while losing the popular vote. what do democrats need to do differently this time? >> i'm not ready to see that point. i think that we will do a much better job at really concentrating on bringing some of the 6 million that fell out of the lek tort in 2016 into the fold. i think that we have good candidates on the democratic side. i think there's going to be strong momentum. make no mistake about it, trump will be formidable on his side. he is running a straight to the base election. and he's going to work to turn out those difficult voters on the hard right to turn out. we'll have to do our job to turn out voters from the center. on out including patriotic republicans who believe in tr

there are less than 14 member states of the 193 member states to the u.n. that pay on time and in full what their contribution is. it is very difficult to ask an organization to reform if it has no resources or flexibility to allow it to do so. i think, for all member states, pay up. as denmark always pays on time and in full. the second thing is engage and be consistent. then, to the u.s. -- i was thinking a little bit, sitting here in washington of all the partnership the u.s. and denmark have had. -- had and have on a number of tough questions, denmark has stood shoulder to shoulder with u.s. soldiers across the world. we have bled together. that is a very, very special relationship and i think perhaps no other relationship is as important for denmark. the message here is we need the u.s. that reform everybody agrees is needed of international cooperation, of the multilateral, i find it difficult to see how that can happen without a strong and committed u.s. i can guarantee it will be a hell of a lot more difficult without them. ying the u.s. is disengag

of the united states senate.'m considering request to tbring the measure to the floo it isn't as if we are taking away an option which the minority leader, pardon me, the republican leader is using. he is not. when we look back to the debate in the effort to find compromise with president trump on this issue. every time the president leads toward daca dreamers these people intervene and stop and negotiations come to an end. it's time for us in the senate not to wait for permission slip from president trump to pass legislation. i'm prepared to bring this matter to the floor and except the decision on the amendments on the floor. and we are in the 'lminority. we will lose some of these, so be it. let the senate be the senate and deliver these measures. to argue that i should be asking to bring it to the floor because he has to go through regular order the obvious gh question is, when is senator mcconnell going to pursue regular order on a measure that's been sitting here for four months? let me say a word if i can

admitting the evidence had weakened over time is the path or is likely extradition to the united states where he faces espionage charges i discussed the case earlier lottie's donald quarter. you know this whole saga started out did it with the rape allegations against us and you've been through the whole mill since then but now we're back to those initial charges that's right neal exactly it was in 2010 that the swedish government filed in international arrest warrant against assad for 2 charges one of molestation and another of rape but assad has always denied these charges he's even cooperated with the international investigation from abroad and it was the threat of extradition to the united states if you were to have been arrested in sweden that forced him to take political asylum within the ecuadorian embassy in london and now it turns out that this case that started it all doesn't even have enough so-called corroborative evidence to the evidence sherry basis is such that he corroborating evidence is not sufficient to in a way that is prescribed by the supreme court deemed that the

i think folks that are running in states that are more like border state, purple states, states like colorado and north carolina, i think the question is how closely do you ugh hhug president versus try to separate from him. and then a second issue to return to the question of the suburban voter. how did the suburban voter look in kentucky, virginia, mississippi? was there degradation of support among suburban and x-urban voters. that could be a challenge for republicans and president trump in particular. >> even though the secretary of state of kentucky has called the result, the governor is refusing to concede. this is what he told supporters. it's worth listening to again. >> this is a close, close race. we are not conceding this race by any stretch. and here's the thing. understand this, though. understand this. we want the process to be fol w followed, and there is a process. we know for a fact that there have been more than a few irregularities. they are very well-corroborated, and that's all right. what they are exactly, how many, which ones, and what effect, if any, they have

we know the baghdadi was the creation of the united states islamic states most of the illegal invasion of iraq and the collapse of big states islamic states most of the illegal invasion of iraq and the collapse of the iraqi state when extremists who held by the americans were set free so the americans iraqi state when extremists who held by the americans were set free so the americans eliminated or we were created by them. well from our limited we were created by them. well for more on this we can now discuss it with our senior correspondent joins us live in the studio for this we can now discuss it with our senior correspondent joins us live in the studio more at thanks for this let's just start head could you talk us through what's left of had to say more at thanks for this let's just start hey could you talk us through what's left of had to say well. he's point was that the united states well. his point was that the united states its actions led to the creation of isis we're not talking about conspiracy theory actions lead to the creation of isis we're not talking about conspiracy t

it is a trend it to the united states. so with those sanctions in place so the question about coercion after a few years here i realized we have the opportunity in almost every area. and in that case that there is something really important that cubans don't see that nobody's going to ask you because you come from the united states they will ask for opportunities and then to say i didn't see the weaponization of the nationals for the world series. so engaging in almost every area. but again there is opportunity. and the last idea is to work together to know what happened in havana but using that for political purposes. you have to put more sanctions. and something similar happened in other countries. your diplomat suffered the same in china. even with the special that yes cuba is a small country but you will see the same reaction. so we did nothing wrong. for that is for political purposes. thank you so much. [applause] i hope we leave here wanting to end the blockade not just sitting on the information. thank you for comi

the uniform i wear today is that of a united states army -- is that of the united states army. the members of our volunteer force are made up of a patch work of people from all ethnicities, regions, socioeconomic backgrounds who come together to protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america. we do not serve any political party. we serve the nation. i am humbled to come before you today as one of many who serve in the most distinguished and able military in the world, the army is the other profession i've ever known. as a young man i decided i wanted to spend my life serving the nation that gave my family refuge from oppression. it's been an honor to represent and protect this great country. next month will mark 40 years since my family arrived in the united states as refugees. when my father was 47 years old, he left behind his entire life and the only home he had ever known to start over in the united states so his three sons could have a better and safer lives. his courageous decision inspired a deep sense of gratitude in my brothers and myself and has i

think what happening in the united states. these young iranians are exposed not just to the wonders of the universities, but to the dissidents of the 1960's students. and madecalized some them think about their own voices and their own set of concerns. this was a complication for america's relationship with iran. did not expect his young people to come home of a political consciousness. he wanted them to come home with a technocratic consciousness. engineers, doctors, not threats to his regime. revolution is a messy affair. not clear to those who are revolting what is going to happen. they don't know the endpoint. they are living through chaos and violence and turmoil and they are all vying for legitimacy. , it's notn revolution really clear who's going to take control. there's all kinds of factions. there is a democratic liberal faction, there's a parliamentary republican faction. there is an islamist faction which once a deoxy. they are all vying for control. they are all trying to find tools for legitimacy. -- when he retur

blocked by omb, currently referring to the state investigation the state would send for mff. on november 25th, a member of my staff got a question about what was going on with ukraine security assistance. at that time, we did not know what the guidance was on usai. the apportionment arrived that day but this staff member did not find out about it until later. i was informed the staff member told the ukrainian official we were moving forward on usai but recommended that the ukraine embassy check in with state regarding the fms. sometime during the week actuate 6-10, a ukraine officer told a member of my staff a ukrainian official might raise concerns about security assistance in an upcoming meeting. my understanding was that the issue was in fact not raised. again, i have no further information about what concerns about the security assistance ukraine may have had at that time. m staff also recalls thinking ukrainians were aware of the hold on security assistance during august but they cannot pinpoint any specific conversations where it came up. my staff told me they're aware

every state house seat. every state senate seat.emocrats control the statewide offices already in virginia, but this meant control of the legislature was on the ballot as well. while the associated press has now called it for the democrats in the state legislature, democrats have flipped enough seats tonight to gain control of the statehouse and the state senate in virginia. that big double flip tonight

we do have state funds derived from mineral production on state lands and state water bottoms. the last three years, louisiana has run budget surpluses. the governor has allotted state dollars to the coastal trust fund for hurricane protection projects. these are on an annual basis, all of those torts that i understand. >> as much as we can, yes sir. historically that is typically about $35 million per year depending on the production. as i mentioned, in addition to the mineral revenues derived on state lands, we had last year governor edwards allocate an additional $55 million. this year, we have been asked to put together a proposal of $220 million for hurricane protection projects. >> mr. gordon, i think you heard me in my opening statement, methane from oil and gas operations on public lands. as i said, these are public resources. taxpayers lose out. so does the environment. conference, the comparative impact of methane is more than 25 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 year. period. what steps are you taking to reduce flaring? >> i can't speak to what is done by

even though they wanted statehood, they wanted to become a separate state, the state of west virginia, they were very divided on slavery. we are now in the transportation section of the museum. just after statehood, west virginia, now that they are railroads,developing transportation routes. things about this time is the development in coal and oil and gas. those are natural resources west virginia had plenty of with the development of transportation. they were able to get those goods to market, and west virginia became a leader in the production of coal and oil and gas. river transportation was very important. one of the great things about west virginia as we developed the lock and dam system that enabled us to utilize our rivers to better get products out of the various areas and to market. is 12.5 see behind me feet in diameter. it is from the sheer on the canal and ohio rivers. they were on the rivers in this area. earlier, when we were talking about coverlet's, we talked about james rossi, inventor of the steamboat. he developed a process and showed it to george washington. we ha

with the united states like very much like. regular contact with the rest of the p 5 people china diplomat has also taken part in today's hot debates and he was almost attacked with accusations that thing green an important player when we speak about global security especially given that one of the biggest threats is coming from south asia rejects the dialogue with the u.s. china has never let me repeat china has never rejected the so-called meaningful dialogue with anybody in the u.s. has made this so much noise about having the strand natural negotiations but let me make it clear so far until now the u.s. has never told us what exactly they want to talk about in this trial that today's gathering here in moscow is a very good chance for participants to prepare for next year is meeting to make it more productive and more effective. lastly some world news in brief a hospital run by doctors without borders has been partially destroyed in yemen no casualties have been reported but all medical activities have been suspended the cha

states deserves. having said that, he speaks what's on his mind. and sometimes that -- that rubs people the wrong way. and a lot of times just by what -- what he says he will upset people. and a good example is nato when he started talking about nato. i doubt many people in the room if any who wouldn't agree with me that the nato is the strongest, most successful military alliance in the history of just the world. nato is not going away. we -- we in the united states congress are deeply, deeply committed to nato. the american people are deeply, deeply committed to nato. but the president of the united states was bothered by the fact that not all nato members were keeping the commitments they made in fiscal ways. as a result of that he raised that. and that really caused a lot of anxiety on the part of the europeans. indeed that's one of the first things they would ask me about. but you know, the interesting thing is i've been going there a dozen years, giving the same message to them. we talk and have

is there a united states? one of the paradoxes of western history is that for an extended period, it was the history of the united states. it presented itself as the history of the united states. and the role of the west in the history, the meaning of u.s. history is the question i think the panel has been asked. >> yes, there is a united states. [laughter] >> doing bad things in the world right now. i think we have to recognize that reality. and yet, there might not always be a united states. and there hasn't always been a united states. i think that's an important part of what we're talking about. maybe in the shadows. when bill asked the question, need are we and says, we to be thinking about and asking where people are, that question might be answered differently in u.s., andears for the for the west. we should be among the many people who are doing that thinking about what those possibilities might mean. >> i think, also, if you can just go to this map here, there's a tendency, yeah, to any think about th