the united states will supplier cover. as time went, on both these parts of the plan were to be changed both with the approval and the acquiescence of the cia and the pentagon. but at this point, tell us simply wanted the okay from the president to continue preparations, and he got it. from the state, on operation pluto gets tough parity from the cia. the cia with human exiles, agree on a single lead. they want the united states help. the cubans choose dr. jose miro once castro's prime minister, he has remained neutral in the power struggle among the exiled leaders. now, he comes to new york. he comes to the anti-castro cuba. >> it is first conference the doctor speaks for the first time as president of the new revolutionary council. >> a united cuba. , a real cuba, the cuba of jose marti. >> now cubans are united, they've joined the new coalition reluctantly, they don't like the way that the cia is complimenting -- and they rightly assume that the united states participation ensures the operation success. they don't want

and let every state? consistent with how we respect voting rights. >> think you for that question representative. there are two important principles and we have to recognize both of them. states are laboratories of democracy. it's a great thing of our federalist system that states can experiment as they so often do including experimenting with election reforms like same-day registration a number have experimented with proving quite successful to make it more convenient to vote with increasing turnout. on the other hand, there is a competing principal that in the end, congress has to have the authority to regulate congressional elections. that includes regulating to protect the fundamental right to vote the first noteworthy examplee are the enforcement acts that has been written about and has been addressed in testimony of the reconstruction period that is absolutely vital for congress to exercise its authority under the election clause in 14h and 15th amendments and then to protect the voting rights of ne

[laughter] [applause] [indistinct chatter] announcer: the texas state legislature convened a special legislative session to consider gop sponsor voting bills. during the session texas house republicans adopted a motion concerning absentee lawmakers who left the state to block the special session. [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] >> the house will come to order. we came to recess friday. please rise for the honorable scott colin. >> thank you, mr. speaker. let's pray together. father, on a day like today we wonder how we should pray and we are reminded by your scripture that this is the day the lord has made. let us rejoice and be glad in it. today, father, we can rejoice and we can also, as scripture tells us, we can be in continual prayer for those we serve and to those we love. father, we are reminded -- as i am inspired by those in the chamber -- they have faithfully served their constituents in this great state. in your relentless pursuit of us and your faithfulness, even when we are not faithful to you, as you relentlessly pursue us ultimately by sending your son, jesus chri

how can the state of new york levy a tariff on nails to be sold in the state of connecticut?have to pay connecticut the tariff besides. >> aye, but these were charged as -- the law says you will pay. >> look here my friend, do you know what your government and other state governments are doing to the people of this country? you are wrecking our trade and ruining our industry. not only with these tariffs, either. >> look here. look at all of this money. and every bit of it worthless. continental money, ha. >> not worth a continental, i suppose. >> no, indeed, they aren't. if these evils burden us much longer, my trade won't be worth a continental, either. narrator: these were only two of the evils plaguing the nation. 3000 miles away in london, an american representative was facing another evil. >> lord sheffield, i have the note of my government restricting regulations of your government excluding american service from certain ports. >> yes, mr. adams. my government has studied the note with great attention. our great attention, i assure you. but we do not choose to reply at

a state willfully tried to sabotage the state elections. the states and often fallen short of fulfilling their federal duties. the framers of the constitution had legitimate reasons to worry about allowing federal elections to become over dependent on voluntary compliance of the state legislations. second, this additional authority which james madison gave on august 9, 1787, one part of the clause is actively debated. the two south carolina delegates said there was no reason to have alteration of state regulation of federal elections. madison created this motion. madison argued they were be subject to all the abuses of this discretionary policy. state legislators would share their own security to favor the candidates they wished to succeed. if there were inequalities in the state legislatures, these would be replicated in the design of congressional districts. these potential sources of abuse justified congressional oversight and revision. the framers agreed because the south carolina motion was rejected without a roll call. madison's speec

if you are licensed in this state, you can operate in this other state. states get together and see that -- uber and some of these other platforms have issues around independent contractors. we will solve that at the beginning. there's a huge gap if you look at investments in facebook occurring in 2004. we don't have data standards for about a decade. investments in ai in 2011. we don't have any ai efforts at the federal level until 2020. so there's this decade where states can act quickly and form good policy and attract investment. if they do that, they will be rewarded and it will be a productive area for them to focus on. >> i have just received one question from the audience, which i will lay out. we are running over. i'm told that is ok. which is, california regulates emissions. this is probably an extra territoriality question for daniel. california regulates emissions in california. that seems formally not extra territorial. yet the effect of that is to compel auto manufacturers to have a national standard. it's not feasible to have one set of car

the numbers you gave on blue states versus red states, pretty daunting. said one way to counteract that is for the red states to ban together and jointly act to acquire the countervailing's power. is c there any compact law violation there? have youve thought about it? >> this may be a stupid question but it strikes me if two states are forming an agreement to jointly regulate, that might be a concern. >> if i could just respond again my fear i see the only area is about creating something at the federal level is something that cements these platforms in a regulatory role and cements the business model and i think that would be a big mistake. there's a number of ways to do this without having -- most of the challenges is not necessarily when they are versus other states and successful compacts around insurance providing for the recent simple licensing and so forth but states can handle this if you don't license in this state then you can operate in other states. the states get together and say we see that some of these platforms have this issue around ind

we have states and every state is equal in the senate. the states kind of take the place of our house of lords in the senate chamber. the british using the green color government and colonies would use it. the american government. the red would kind of be much more that house of lords kind of color. you see red in the early senate in philadelphia. definitely has that kind of look to it that seems a bit on the higher end. the interesting thing about the senate is the are created with more power. the power is a tie to the president in the house of representatives, and they don't have treaties in the united states are with the advice and consent of the senate, approved by the advice and consent of the senate. the senate has to approve the treaties, the house does not the senate does. so there is one power. also and time the president makes an appointment in his cabinet and ambassador, supreme court, of course. those folks would have to come in front of the senate and be approved by the senate or rejected. here in philadelphia, we have our ve

it is a union of nation states. this nation states have kept all their powers. if they don't want to be entangled, they're not in chang and they don't want a single currency. they don't have a single single currency. and there's nothing anyone can do about it. so for, for many years, including in britain, in the last what it seems written, drawing the, the european union has always been a terrain of dispute. but in fact, there was very little the europe union could impose on britain. okay, was go, it's go to syracuse here. i mean, you know, one of the issues, particularly if we can focus on the hungarians in the polls is that they focus a lot on families here. and so you have this kind of odd juxtaposition where, because of demographics for the union, at a whole, they need population growth. but then they would say, the hungarians polls, for example, why don't we just be more friendly to families and have population growth organically, naturally within the european union, instead of importing it. and so, and then the hungarians and poles and others in eastern eu

after state after state. so we are going through a realignment in this country. it is not just an all one direction realignment. different pieces of the electorate moving in opposite directions. >> ft. collins, colorado. this is charles, an independent. good morning. >> caller: my contention about voting is also, gerrymandering. what i've seen, when a politician can make districts that severely favor them, then we get to a point where, okay, i'm a guy and i'm a republican in a 90% district. okay? and i want to speak out against donald trump because i don't believe he's doing something great. well, all trump has to do then is go to that district and yell rino and your career is over. if that district was balanced, then i think we would see more people coming across and be more pragmatic because their jobs aren't on the line. and we come to a better america where the republicans or democrats on either side can speak out. and that's why i'm so adamant about hr and sr-1. i want to see that done. i want to see the

this empowers that body to make or alter state law, commandeer state law and state offices and especially when coupled with congress's power under the 14th and 15th amendment. thank you so much for the opportunity to discuss my research. >> we will turn to the other dean. i am probably mispronouncing your name. correct me for your five minutes. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. thank you right -- ranking member davis. i am from the great state of wisconsin and the other honorable members of the community. i am the dean at the university of wisconsin law school. i have written on congress's power under the elections clause before. in a word, one that the u.s. stream court has used repeatedly for allowing 142 years, congress's power over congressional elections under this law -- clause is paramount. under the unambiguous text of the election clause in a long line of supreme court precedent, congress has plenty of authority over the time, lace, and manner of conducting congressional elections. most recent use of this principle was justice scalia's opinion for seven justices in arizona versus i

a state. moreover, d.c. has special constitutional status that grants d.c. residents three electoral votes in presidential elections. we cannot just legislate over these constitutional provisions. further, when maryland authorized the session of nearly 60 miles of its territory to the federal government, it did so for the purpose that congress may accept this land for the seat of government. when congress formally accepted the role by legislative act in 1790, we explained that the land was accepted for the permanent seat of the government of the united states. marilyn gave up this land and we accepted it so that we could create an independent federal governmental district, making d.c. into a separate state violates its own compact remade over 200 years ago with maryland. and we would be trading a state that comprises of less than 6% of the next smallest day, rhode island. a better option, in my view, would be to retro a large purse -- portion of the district to maryland. it's a perfect way to

a non state hostile intelligence service is often abetted by state actors like russia. ah. in the same year, we can leeks and russia were involved in an attempt to stabilize another country from just sweat. and i hope to become your president because you don't do the president of all the people of france. if you don't, a president to protect transforms and bibs in the face of the threat of the nationalist genetic oh, your compatriots. manuel mac homes, campaign headquarters. everyone was busy preparing for the 2nd round of the presidential election when suddenly news spread. the in boxes of campaign workers from icons mash party had been it was may, 5th, 201-7730 pm. the me the funds towards the end of the day we starting to get room is on twitter. they say there are things that are going to get released then come the 1st elements that are being talked about. and one moment i see the download link being shared. so i downloaded immediately, i open it, and i see that it's actually e mails from people in the campaign, the, from the record, several 1000 documents and e mails fr

and the state of texas.nd that is where we stand united before you here today, in preserving not only the democracy in texas, but the democracy of the u.s. thank you for your time. [applause] and, i would like to, if she has arrived, call up the chair -- the vice chair of the house democratic caucus. in her absence, i would then like to call representative read about -- represent of read about -- call my colleague. >> thank you, thank you all for being here today. i used to live here in washington. i worked, like you, for the press, for pbs, and it is a proud, pleasing moment to be back here with my colleagues, as a member of the texas house. we are here in d.c., our nations capitol, because we want to protect the civil right to vote for millions of texans. we were quite literally forced to move and leave the state of texas. we also know that we are living right now on borrowed time in texas. and we can't stay here indefinitely. to run out the clock, to stop republican anti-voter bills. that is where we need

he lasted 11 days as secretary of state. [laughter] my son said, surely, you are better that he was. it can't be the worst. [laughter] but we know what the left is trying to do to human beings that believe in christ in the way that we do. we have seen it. the president called me in january and said, the washington post headline today says you are my most loyal cabinet member. i reminded him they didn't mean that as a compliment. [laughter] look, you are here today talking , about leading with principles over politics. i want to say something i believe is very straightforward that you may not hear from other elected officials -- all of the crises facing our nation today , the big challenges that we are confronted with, are not going to be solved by any politician. it is not the way the lord works. our problem isn't the people affecting change, because we know only christ has the capacity to do that. and he will put principled men and women in those positions but it is he who will make the changes that our nation so richly nee

the 2 state solution is dead. i think the 2 states that more about boss who has a guest is knocked with international community with international law and negotiate and just let you know work and show how be a nice some compet did we are. that agenda has been destroyed by incident, by israeli actions, because it does not comply with any of its obligation well destroyed by the surely was destroyed by fata and the palestinian authority as well. who kept seeking the 2 state solution, whilst all the settlements were making that that's exactly the point that is that it can just say we are in the middle of the dogs or we negotiated mod, whatever. and at the same time, continue to see more learn more resources, build more settlements, which are going to be i own stature and continuous monitor. i'm getting out a company has the ethnic cleansing plan and gender around and backing up some of changing the elegy on the grounds. all these things thinking that it's ok we will negotiate to an hour later is not the case. that's w

there is a huge diaspora in europe and the united states. i would like for us to continue taking more people from those camps now that president biden has raised the refugee cap. part of the long-term effort here has to be working with the diaspora to help it become the force that helps to open their country again at some point in the future. it's a quarter of all syrians, so it is a sizable share of the country. to continue to be very, very tough and punishing on outside powers supporting the syrian regime, including the russians. through instruments like the caesar act. then, sees any opportunity that arises. as you know, timing is everything and the timing may not be right right now, that all kinds of things may happen in the months and years coming that create opportunities for us to seize. i wish i had a better answer and there may be a better answer out there. i would be very open to hearing from people participating today who follows the situation more intently than i do. but that is kind of where i am. gerald: it is a problem and i t

to look into the results in his state. infamous call where trump said he only needed to find about 11,000 votes. that same night the republican elections official in arizona got another voicemail. >> this is a white house operator. i was calling to let you know that the president's available to take your call if your free. >> the official told the arizona republic he presumed trump would try to pressure him. so he never returned that call. this new reporting is the latest to detail a multi-state effort by trump and his allies to undermine the results of the 2020 election, the same effort to led to a so-called audit that's been going on in maricopa county in arizona since april. run by the cyber ninjas. now the republican playbook on how to overturn the 2020 election is turning a new page, this time in pennsylvania. the associated press is reporting today that republicans in the pennsylvania state senate might be planning their own audit of the 2020 election in their state. that effort is led by republican state senator dou

utah, a republican state. it has served well every citizen of the country to have their voice heard in the direction our country goes and that's what we are fighting for, the division of our constitution. >> from the northstar state the lone star state, thank you very much. >> thursday, nominees for census bureau director and ice assistant secretary testified at a confirmation hearing before the senate homeland security committee. live coverage begins at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span, online on c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> sunday night on q&a just get along with chief engineer of the historic fire vote john jay harvey adams called back into service to aid firefighters following attacks on the twin tires -- twin towers. she tells the story of the community of mariners who came to the rescue of thousands. >> the operation that delivered half a million people safety is an incredible example of the goodness of people. that when you are given the opportunity to help you have the tools and t

in its state. congress should reverse the statutory decision through carefully crafted legislation test as congress has done in the past approving voting rights renew and extensions. legislation will have to consider the scope of congress's power especially because the statements in brnovich appears like a threat to find new voting legislation unconstitutional. thank you for your time. i look forward to the opportunity to answer questions. sen. cornyn: thank you very much professor hasen. ,i want to begin perhaps by asking you -- and in chair blumenthal: i want to begin perhaps by asking you about the chief justice's role. because i know that you are familiar with the history here. in 1982, john roberts was an attorney and special assistant in president reagan's department of justice. it was the same year that congress was debating amending section two to correct a problematic supreme court decision, city of mobile versus bolden. in the city of mobile, the supreme court held that voters challenging

as i said in april, the united states did what we wanted to do in afghanistan.o get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and delivered justice to osama bin laden. and to degrade the terrorist threat from becoming afghanistan from becoming a terrorist base. we achieved those objectives. that is why we went. we did not go to afghanistan to nation build. it is the right and the responsibility of the afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country. together, with our nato allies and partners, we have trained and equipped over -- nearly 300,000 current serving members of the afghan security force. and many beyond that to our no longer serving. after that, hundreds of thousands more afghan national defense security forces trained over the last two decades. we provided our afghan partners with all the tools, trained equipment, of any modern military. we provided advanced weaponry. we are going to continue to provide funding and equipment and will ensure they have the capacity to maintain their air force. most critically, as i stresse

sponsored in the eyes of the united states. the fact that they're happening on russian soil matters. here's what the u. s. president joe biden had to say about his telephone call at his latest conversation with latimer when we're already coming from historical, even though it's not, not sponsored by mistake, expect an action enough information to act. now you remember perhaps back in geneva that job wide and put together a list of 16 critical infrastructure areas. good. he said cannot be targeted. many people kind of criticize that and said a why did you tell them what was so critical and be really shouldn't anything be off limits. and so that's the argument now that there's been another cyber attack is but job widens, meeting. it seems to have gone to waste has fallen on deaf ears, and they're looking in the united states for tougher action from joe by the what the white house press secretary said in the last couple of hours is look joe biden pledge that he would engage with blood were put and diplomatically, that's what this

many counties and other states across the country have made some similar announcements regarding state employees. but this req when it comes to health care workers. governor newsom says california is the first state to implement a vaccine verification system for public and private healthcare workers. no one won't lose their job if they refuse the vaccinenated, ty will be required to test for covid 19 in a hospital setting those workers will test twice a week and a smaller, less vulnerable setting, say like a doctor's or dentist's office. those workers will test only once a week. governor newsom says this announcement is a result of the growing threat of covid-19 delta variant, which is now accounting for 80% of california's new infections. he says misinformation about the vaccine is preventing people from getting their shots and the state wants to end that. exhausted by the ron johnson's and the tucker carlson's were exhausted by the margie taylor greens were exhausted by the right wing echo chamber that has been perpetuating misinformation around the vaccine, and its advocacy and safe

the united states secretary of state takes up the next topic, calling for action to meet the threat ofwing red influence in cuba. the reaction to the debate was explosive. in cuba, castro defiant. proclaimed friendship with the soviet union and communist china. the oas took action against dominican strongman rule. even as cuba threatened to walk out, president eisenhower in his press conference recalled common ties and interests and left open the door for an easing of tensions. >> by no means do i want to admit or charge that this situation is irretrievable. cuba has been one of our finest friends. we are the ones that have conducted the war. when they got in trouble, we had an occupation. we set them on their feet and set them free. we have had a long history of friendly relationships. we tried to keep our hands out of their internal political affairs. we have not tried to throw out someone we didn't like. i would think that the very welfare of the american -- of the cuban people demand some kind of composition of the difficulties between the american states, including our own on the

why is our state declining? why is the state where everyone used to be. the state where anyone can get ahead. the state that so many people now can't wait to leave behind. why do we pay the highest taxes get drive over the defense potholes. why did we have the worst and yet out among the worst public health outcomes. in short. why do we sacrifice the most as california citizen is and you get at least in return. and the answer i know from my 5 years in the legislature is political corruption. we have a state government that simply doesn't serve the people of

voter eligibility varies from state to state. different candidates appear on the ballot in different states. while some variation in election procedures is inevitable and may violate the equal protection clause, it presents practical matter. it doesn't weigh in on the merits, it is about the practicalities what have it would do. it only addresses practical voting rights problems. these are serious and vexing problems. thank you for the opportunity to testify. i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you, for your testimony here today. >> as we sit here and have this hearing in the united states senate, we are within a city outside these grounds that is populated by over 700,000 americans who simply do not have equal representation or an equal voice in this congress. mr. moriale, as president and ceo of the national urban league, you lead an organization that is dedicated to achieving equal rights. would you explain to this committee how d.c. statehood furthers our democratic promise of equal representation and how ens

voting rights in their state. start of this hour. they're going to be on capitol hill.

this is the state department in united states and they, they, they share some traveling troubling issues globally. one of them is for the marriage u. s. department to state abuse for marriage as a human rights abuse. and in the case of mine as a form of child abuse, if you are us citizen and the victim of a 4th marriage overseas, you've had a whole lot of advice about what happens if you see side overseas. meanwhile, at home, there's a major issue. yeah, let me, let me bring in, let me bring in unit staff because unicef is working on this, as i guess are 2. and this is how unicef frame the challenge i have with child marriage in us. your call child marriage, a harmful packet and a violation of child, right? and believe that marriage under the age of 18 should be prohibited in circumstances . yet here in the united states, there's actually no federal law around child marriage. rather, each individual state is responsible for sending their own requirements. this is why units f usa as a member of the national coalition to in child marriage, working alongside in g o partners in order to help

what is the united states? the united states is a republic. a republic.island of republican practice in a sea of monarchies and dictatorships. what kind of an example do we think we're setting as a republic if we tolerate slavery? in fact, encourage its growth? what are we say bag the very idea to the idea most precious to all of us and that is the idea of republican government in which all men are created equal and in which the people are sovereign? doesn't that suggest that republicanism is a fraud? how can you talk about the sovereignty of the people and then take a big chunk of the people and say they can never participate in this? how can you do that? doesn't that make republicanism laughable? i mean, at least the monarchs are consistent. give them credit, you know. the king of barataria says, i am the king. you do what i say. you jump when i say and ask how high on the way up. there is no attempt by a king to put a sugar coating around monarchy. but here we are as a republic. we're supposed to be enunciating this enlightenment principle of the sover

you have a state house, you have a state senate, i'm in the state senate. the state senate is not under a court issue. we don't have a crime issue right now, so i'm just absent from the center today. you are correct that if our members go back, they can be a rest of them to take him to the state capital. and i wanted to help assure a, a corner outside of the state of texas. there is no power to arrest members of the state house. just there's just no go. so again, this is just a hollow p r. stand. that obviously must be followed, must must be gabbled through by the speaker of the house, just in case someone is going to be stupid enough to go back to the thing that's, that's to be arrested. but i can assure you that we have very intelligent house members that are working their butts off excuse expression in order to try to make certain that we have free, inaccessible opportunities to vote and in this country. very brief, very, very briefly, mr. west, what do you say to your fellow texans who say, usa being on texan, you are now going to be known as the runawa

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he's exile to the united states. he's a news paper man and uses his platform as a journalist to popularize his pro-slavery views, and this was confounding to northerners abolitionists the rest of the world who already associate slavery as an opposition to values of self-government and freedom and rights, of course, so what mitchell does is by making his pro-slavery case. he says there's an there is an alternate case to be made that these deluded self-comparisons that white southerners are making are not yet quite outside the bounds of the way that nationalism was understood and the 19th century and mitchell actually does then go on to directly draw the same comparison that native born white southerners were as well. he was quite out spoken in claiming that it was the confederacy that fought for the same he had fought for maryland so again, we from our perspective certainly recognize that he was not correct in this that the confederacy was fighting against value such as freedom and inequality and natural rights, but m

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take a listen, treat it is not a state. it's an act. freedom is not a state. it's and we must act and we will act causes just or visit to the people who are the former. so we got you all, i'm a job, protect our troops and all those who shared watch over the market. so around the country we have republicans. we're proposing laws, they say, say, are aimed at essentially preventing voter fraud. they're requiring new forms of voter identification. they're regulating the polling places. in some places, there have been laws proposed to restrict the handing out of water to those waiting in line to vote, etc. now joe biden, and most democrats see this as basically an attempt by republicans to suppress the voter turnout specifically and constituencies that don't vote for them such as low income folks, african americans and others. now, in response to these proposed rules, we're seeing democrats taking some rather dramatic measures. for example, in texas, the democrats state legislators have left the state in order that there not be a quorum so that the state legislator

gerry: troubling questions about the state of readiness of the u.s.m within its own ranks including too much on cultural and white privilege stuff again, not enough on the core mission of winning battles that seek a new report commissioned by members of congress and based on interviews with 77 current and former navy officers and sailors highlighting concerns that the distracted and handcuffed by bureaucracy shift commanders are micromanaged in a fear of bad publicity more folks the diversity of officers and not enough to work fighting, one lieutenant commented they think my only value is as a black woman if you cut us open will all be the same color. one of the officers of the report retired navy admiral mark montgomery, thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much for having me. gerry: let's start on this issue a hot topic in recent weeks focus of the military seems to have generally diversity and inclusion and let me quote something that you saw on the report one person that is quoting the report seen a retired officer, i guarantee you every un

as a result, he ruffled feathers, especially presidents of the united states, united states senators, representatives , british prime minister's and assorted other politicians. >> historian emeritus of the senate and author of, the columnist, doll -- donald ritchie. on c-span's q&a and you can listen to q&a as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. >> next, regulating social media content, hosted by the federalist society. i looked at the role of the fcc, perceived censorship, and whether regulation is better -- best left to states or the federal government. >> welcome to our showcase discussion series on free-speech and social media. and the vice president for strategic initiatives of the federalist society and director of the freedom of thought projects, new initiative to address emerging challenges to freedom of thought, content, and expression. this afternoon, july 8, we will be discussing how federal preemption and state innovation questions affect competing concerns over speech and content moderation on digital platforms and social media. this is the fifth and a six part seri

extraordinary action by state legislatures. not just a stunt but people really sort of being as creative as possible in trying to turn back this threat to the country. >> john, i jotted down that section, this forming of a coalition. wrote next to it, new, question mark. they already have that. he had the meeting with the civil rights activists. the all-star game for the mlb was pulled out of georgia because of the voting rights. they got all of these groups. you heard an admission there will not be new legislation. i didn't hear anything new from the president as what this next step will be. >> i do think we should give the president he decided under some pressure but decided to give this speech. the question is will there be follow up. will there be additional speeches. when the president says legislation is not the only tool, that to me, and does not mention the filibuster, does not promise lobby senators to change their mind. this will be settled at the ballot box next year more than settled by any big dramatic vote in the

white state. and since the year 2000, 2002017, there were a $10000.00 cases, a child marriage that occurred. and there is no typical profile, it's not tied to specific religion, it's not tied to specific grades. and the majority of those cases verbiage in a child and a person that was already legally an adult. the youngest was 30, she was made to the 3 year old man, and the way that was worth in kentucky prior to receiving the legislative change in 2018. if you were under the age of 6, you could be married if there was a pregnancy involved and a judge would sign off on that and we hear that we think will surely a judge and their right mind were not authorized. aaron with a child, but in that case that that 13 year old girl that was married after the 33 year old man, she was pregnant, a 15 year old, married off to a 52 year old who was pregnant. i mean, these are basically archaic walls that often legitimize them legalize tennessee. that's exactly what's happening. i think there is no typical profi

states would do that, places like new york, deblasio said we are fine, what about the states havingare they going to listen to use this money to combat this? >> the states will use the money in the worst possible way. i don't think they will use it to fund law enforcement because the blue states are controlled by liberals and liberals do not support law enforcement. that has been clear for the past 12 months and we see reaction to that. it is also ironic that the cities with the most stringent gun laws are the cities with the highest rates of crime. red states that are pro-second amendment had the lowest rates of crime. the democrats are not in the right position with respect to law enforcement and are wrong with respect to guns and the american people are realizing this especially the people who live in the cities of blue states hopefully democrats will be held accountable by the voters because we can't continue to see an increase in crime in all of these blue states, it's not sustainable and something hopefully president biden is starting to see is a problem and is trying to get h

washington state.e've had a thousand fires. it's burned four times more at this time of year than normal. we've had two and a half times more acreage burn in the last decade than the previous. so those are the obvious concerns. and everything you need to fight a fire, we - we could use your help on. and i think you've been totally on top of this, and so i thank you for your leadership on all of these things, including management issues. there's unanimity, there's bipartisan acceptance of the need for active management. we are acti- - we are managing our forests, just like montana is, to try to get in and reduce fuel. but here's the surprising thing, when you asked me this question, or the thing that i worry most about: the thing i worry most about is if, for some reason, the congress did not follow your leadership in this reconciliation and infrastructure bills that allowed you to realize your vision of creating millions of jobs while fighting climate change. that's my biggest worry right now. because

you hear him talking about the urgent federal efforts to help state after state after state deal with wildfire challenges across the united states right now. we'll continue to track that meeting for news. we want to get back to today's dramatic breaking news from the cdc. i'll put it on the wall. the cdc updating the assessment of the threat of the covid delta variant. as of yesterday, cdc scientists rated the delta variant just like a common cold. as in if you were sick, you were likely to infect two people. the new guidance says it's much more of a threat. if you're sick, meaning infected with delta, you're likely to infect 8 or 9 people on average. think about the math here. infecting two in a common cold. this is like chickenpox. eight or nine people. that means the delta variant is more of a threat. now it's a conversation about what needs to be done to deal with the new science. at that point let's bring in dr. peter hotez from texas children's hospital and the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor school of medicine. yesterday the conversation was this is l

we can defend the united states.t are we good for if we could defend the united states by the application of adequate resourcing, and they're out there. >> another argument that's been made is 20 years ago we didn't have the technology or the drone technology we have today. we're really good at this counter-terrorism stuff, and, you know, we don't have to be in country in the numbers we've been in in order to manage it. is that realistic? >> that is ridiculous. the idea that you can have an effective presence, not just to deal with the terrorist threat in afghanistan, but to watch what's going on to the west and iran, to worry about pakistan, which in the face of a taliban-controlled afghan government could be more susceptible to be taken over by a radical islam system, could have then a potential stock up nuclear weapons requires being there on the ground. doing it long distance is much less effective than the idea we're now going to do it from the persian gulf region or central asia is a very poor substitute for be

concerned about russian expansion is. russia has conquered those states in the past. so they fear, thomas, how can i the baltic republics? their sovereignty is threatened by russia as we speak right now. what evidence do you have to prove that? well, we have, for example, the cyber attacks on, as donia during the earlier. in the past decade, we have the lessons of history. we have the fact that russia, the, the, the, the baltic states, of course, your annexation, that's part of their historical. and as those countries closer to russia, do fear it's military power. russia, oh, shouldn't, it shouldn't be anxious about nato expansion to its border. you know, it's either 2 sides of all of these things here. i'm the platitudes here. dmitri, you're the, the russian in the room here. russia wants better relations with you, but it's always conditionality over and over and over again. you must do this, even if you know you must change your behavior therapy in union doesn't have to change its behavior whatsoever. does it go ahead, dimitri? well, of course, i would want to have

this as several states look to enact restrictive voting laws. president biden speaking in philadelphia about the ongoing republican effort to enact restrictive voting rights. >> to deny free and fair elections is the most un-american thing, the most un-democratic and most unpatriotic and sadly not unprecedented. >> reporter: the president saving restricts that in more than 16 states are painful and are aimed at denying women and minorities the right to vote. >> have you no shame? >> reporter: biden calling it 21st century jim crow attacking republicans for leaning on lies that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud calling the effort the most significant test to our democracy since the civil war. >> the confederates back then never breached the capitol as insurrectionists did on january 6th. >> reporter: the senate passing their version. it calls for a ban on 24-hour polling locations and drive-through voting, efforts proving to increase turnout among minority voters. that prompted over 50 democrats to flee the state for washington, d.c. in a