the states that are less opulent. would you be in favor of extending the principal over into that or not? >> well, now let's just experiment with an idea. this also came up at the governor's conference. there were governors who said there were states that had to be penned that were poverty states that didn't have the resources of the big industrial states. i challenge, i question this really. but at the same time their idea was that if we did this system, and this became effective and these states would not be getting an additional subsidy. now it makes it a little more respectable for those states to get with the federal grant than it does to admit what they are saying we want our fellow states around us to kick in and help support us. so i made another suggestion, i said this should be true and wouldn't the first step, maybe eventually you would have to discover there is a state that requires subsidies, requires fellow men in the country to help it out. before you come to that why shouldn't you take those states in

it is based at the state level. the latest information we have states ofr or not t going to go along, i think 17 states as of right now have go ahead do this, and extend renewals and not cancel the policies. 18 states have decided not to go along with that recommendation and are chosen to go another way. a third.ce is about oure that have not decided still looking to do whatever they think they can under their laws. not surprising that there are different approaches when you have a state-based system as we do. >> has though been anything you're able to do? there has been a lot of controversy over this. some commissioners said they did not want to go. the naic has learned is we do not enter into the policy considerations. it is an ample mention -- implantation job. there are some who are elected. there are some that are appointed by governors. they may be appointed by a commission. in policyent generally. to >> before we leave this topic, to be clear, even in the 17 states that are deciding to go along with that, the

secretary of state visited with people in tacloban. this is "inside story." >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. it's been more than a month since typhoon haiyan slammed into the philippines. we want to turn our discussion over to the relief efforts and the millions of filipinos displaced by the storm. with us is john, director of the world food program, and gareth with save the children. early on we were told one of the great difficulties was the tremendous damage in the cente l area of leyta and tacloban, it was very difficult to get aid in that last mile where the need was greatest. have those difficulties been solved now? >> oh definitely, the last mile of the logistics is always the challenge, but that has been massively improved now. 14 million people still remain effected, and mainly children. we've been able to reach more than 150,000 people with life-saving aid already, so the logistical effort is difficult, but we need to make sure that it doesn't happen again. >> after you get people hydration and first aid, wh

power states help other states the non-nuclear weapon states to develop their peaceful use of nuclear energy well that part of the nonproliferation treaty has been abandoned and it's there that the united states. leads a kind of a campaign to prevent iran the peaceful use of nuclear energy which is what is supposedly nonproliferation treaty and little about georgia saying if i go back to majeed in tampa is that you know the international community the term international community is george is applying it here is really the washington consensus isn't it . i think that's a great point that. i think we're raising i think it's again depends on the context that we're using and we have to define it really no order to be able to build up upon our arguments i think i think the international community from the western perspective the finishing of it is really different from let's say from. you can say from the more developing or while noble countries the definition of the international community again what i'm saying that is the from the western perspective i think the international community

in the whole southeastern united states, the only state that did put up its own state-run website for people to buy health insurance was kentucky, where the democratic governor of kentucky wholeheartedly embraced the whole idea of obama care, right, and who famously, the citizens of kentucky have reaped the benefit. kentucky now leads the nation in new sign-ups for health insurance, and that would be huge anywhere. it is a particularly huge deal for a state whose population is as unhealthful as kentucky's is. i don't mean any offense by it, but kentucky's population ranks at the bottom or toward the bottom of the nation's health ratings in lots and lots and lots of different categories, and kentucky has a lot of uninsured people. and it's the exact same deal two states over in mississippi, but in these two states, in the same part of the country, with the same health problems in their populations and a lot of the same challenges, one of them, kentucky, is now best in the nation in terms of people getting health insurance, and one of them, mississippi, is now worst in the nation, and n

states and the united states because the americans are way out in front in technology and so on and therefore what they're looking for is high technology transfer they're not really expecting the americans put troops in in singapore vietnam and so on who wouldn't really do very much but they want high technology and they want to the southeast asia not to fall behind because if america walks away then that hands over the high technology should have china and those countries will never catch up and they know that by themselves they are no match for china so therefore they desperately need american corporation and a commitment from the americans that they were the that washington will not desert them and walk away ok i guess get real quickly twenty seconds i guess we all should help it been both sides know how to play chicken well. absolutely and as i said there are opportunities for negotiation based on negotiations in the past and this is a an opportunity for all the countries to step up to the plate and show to their diplomatic agility japan china korea and they all in some sense have elected

>> well, you had variation across states. think the recent problem--a lot of states had been somewhat reckless, but the recent problem dates from the stock bubble. what happens is in the 90's the stock market was going up so much that states felt they didn't have to contribute to their pensions. the bond agencies blessed this. we assume that the bubble will continue inperpetuity, and they didn't. so you had a lot of places, illinois being one of them where they stopped making the required contributions in the late 90's which was okay when the market awas really high. but now it came back to earth. and you miss the contribution in one year, two years, but many years, you get into trouble. >> in harrisburg did it involve pensions take a haircut. >> the pension funds were well funded. but the medical costs, regular wage and huge amount of bond debt that was outstanding. when you look at the human dimension it's very sad and distressing what happens to workers in these situations. but they're not the only individuals involved. th

is the united states' privilege and it was done in public has to realize it can't just by . you know just throw it away there's a problem for instance belongs to the united states environmental protection agency and i found this on a dump site here this is from here it's not always luminal the producers of these little i have to should be able to look at these i believe the vision responsible for the products from cradle to grave. to mexico. mental health property will sell to murder incorporated it also belongs to the washington metro area plausible politi properties of a dentist aids page trend and trademark office. choose your language. make it with zero if. someone. chooses to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that you think are great to. choose the stories that impact the. child's access to. over the world and france deserves to get out of the crisis and deserve to have back all the people who are leaving the country to go and work in other places and it's very sad to see that it's really like that like it was no light. technology innovation. development. welcom

with you i don't think it's exorbitant spending at all when you look at what happened in the united states on september eleventh to have two of our biggest buildings in new york knocked down the pentagon attacked and another plane that was heading for washington d.c. that was very appropriate spending and i think we've seen the results you mentioned other countries other countries are not the target that the united states is for islamic extremists and so i think the united states citizens have gotten what they've paid for when they because we've been able to for you all and prevent numerous attacks on the continental united states and in europe with some of our allies because we're spending so much more money on intelligence and because we're able to have a more capable intelligence service going after threats to our country well you just mentioned nine eleven and that was of course twelve years ago but if we consider the. funding that the cia has requested of the intelligence community or rather has requested for the fiscal year of two thousand and thirteen it is still pretty high over fi

the vast majority of them on the state health care websites. the deadline to sign up is december 23rd. there was a fatal commuter train derailment in new york city this morning. authorities say at least four people were killed and dozens more injured when several cars of the train went off the tracks and came to rest right beside the hudson river. investigators from the national transportation safety board were dispatched to the scene to investigate the cause of the accident. the derailment occurred at a big curve in the track, requiring the train operator to go slowly. authorities say the train has data recorders that should reveal how fast it was traveling when the accident occurred at 7:20 on a sunday morning. the fire commissioner said on a workday, fully occupied, it would have been a tremendous disaster. >>> two top members of congress are warning that the terror threat against the united states has increased despite the killing of osama bin laden and american drone attacks that have killed other high-level al qaeda leaders. the head of t

but to some extent its age and there are a very many different systems of state church state religion relations in the world . and you describe you describing just about one or two of the. also other religious. ways of life in history towards the state and the secular society. religion overwhelms the state which also is a is a bad thing i think one should see that without overwhelming one of the other one should a system. religion does fulfill its toss of community building given the people sense of life is there a good reason for life to give them the opportunity to see that there is something beyond that there is something more than. so something that also goes beyond what the state can do but do you think the state has anything any obligation to try to strengthen let's say traditional religions to promote a diet kind of spirituality that you just mentioned or it should be allowed to religions themselves that they have to build themselves a strength themselves even in societies when. their support is not that strong. from my perspective states have the task to. force to freedom free

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>> the state legislature.or the last 60 years, the republicans and democrats have failed to meet their obligation into paying into their share of the pension fund. those of us like myself, who taught for 30 years, we got hired under the understanding that we would pay 9 and a half percent out of our salary into the future retirement system, run by the state of illinois. that we would invest that money and get a return, which they have, and that the legislature would pay their share. the legislature has not paid their share, and they have not paid it for decades. representative makes it sound as if -- and bob kind of suggested that everyone is to blame. but the employees aren't to blame. the state employees aren't to blame and the teachers are not to blame. what we did, we signed a contract in which we were guaranteed a certain percentage of our sally when we retire. and a 3% cost of living adjustment. representative has decided that the driver for the economic problems in the state of illinois is the retired t

ohio[//v state blocked one lasr in their game against michigan state and won by one.you called it correctly. ryan shazier over the shield and gets enough push to knock number 97 for michigan state their defensive tackle back mark scarpinato. >> gus: he is 6'3", 286 pounds. braxton miller runs it. an amazing player by ryan!zy shazier to block that punt. >> charles: quick question, partner. in the game of football, should a number two ever knock over a number 97? >> gus: not normally. >> charles: but the force shazier was bringing at 230 pounds and had leverage with that run, he packed a wallop, didn't he? >> gus: yes, he did. second and six. but can ohio state pay it off? down 27-24. miller. carlos hyde. stopped by denicos allen after a three-yard gain. tldd charles: guess where #1t t now? i think two-down territory for ohio state. it is short of the distance and unless they have a loss on this play,yçl i think it's two down ohio state to pick it up if they don't get it on third down. >> gus: ohio state 1 of 8 on third down conversions facing third and three at the mic

this was a state issue. texans voted on it, and i still support it greatly. [ applause ] >> you heard the boos there, john. the idea not just a problem at the federal level, not true. even at the state level governors like christie or rick perry face a huge backlash if they try to change this as well. >> you're right. governors are handling this in a variety of ways. in arizona they are taking a very hard line on immigration, whereas places like texas and other states they have tried to find middle ground. you know, at the state level, these same kinds of fights are going on. sometimes in a much more sort of divisive manner. in congress i think a vast majority of people believe something needs to be done. what that is is the question. at the state level in a lot of state houses, people, the only thing they really want to do in some cases is try to crack down harder on illegal immigrants and not find a way to bring them in or end the problem as a whole or find some way to make it less of a difficulty for peop

how can states like your two states or louisiana or south carolina or oklahoma, i heard a bunch of states mentioned. how is maximizing enrollment become a politically accepted goal in those states? the other thing i wanted to ask about is, is there any concern about enrolling people that are actually not eligible, and what the politics of that would be if you ended up with people getting enrolled that shouldn't be enrolled, and how does that concern play out in terms of trying to maximize expansion? >> let's break those questions into two. stan, why don't you talk about moving from a mentality of minimizing enrollment to maximizing enrollment, whether that's politically possible in many states. and alice, you take on the question of whether you enroll people who aren't actually eligible. >> the politics is tough. but it's more complicated than one might at first think. you have states where the highest selected official in the land is adamantly against the affordable care act, and publicly so, and yet you have public servants at every lefvel of the agency who make sure they have law imple

in 1997, secretary of state albright says dealing with rogue states is one of the great challenges of our time because they are there with the soul purpose of destroying the system. the friends and allies do not get it worrying rogue states were immune to deterrents. clearly, rogue regimes post a challenge, but are they reason to negotiate with someone? the noargs that not talking to countries is punishment to them is ridiculous, then senator obama said in 2007. you don't make peace with friends. you have to be willing to engauge with enemies. hillary clinton opinedded in the context of talks with the taliban. within the state department, there's a culture which treats engaugement as cost free. we will be no worse off if we try diplomacy and fail, former undersecretary of state commented, and bush secretary of state promoted a similar argument. we have enough confidence in our aided and abetted as dip mats to go eye-to-eye with people. even though we disagree in the strongest way possible and come away without losing anything. the notion it never hurts to talk never has been challenge

married in that state.ns and thank you very much for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> thank you, rachel. >> good to be here. >> i know that you two are not yet officially married as far as -- that hasn't changed in the last few seconds, has it? >> no, it hasn't. >> okay. everybody else who filed from friday to today is. do you have any sense of whether or not people believe those marriages are going to stand, even if the courts act to stay the earlier decision? did that at all affect your own decision about whether or not to act yet? >> well, for us, we want to wait and see what the courts are going to do. we're currently waiting on the 10th circuit court in denver. they've been requested twice to stay our decision from friday, and they've rejected it twice. so, we're optimistic that come one or two days from now, they will also reject it again. >> can i ask you two about your decision to become plaintiffs in this case in the first place. >> sure. >> and i ask this speaking from new york city as a person w

from my perspective states. have the task to foster freedom freedom of religion other freedoms also. should see to a framework where people can live their lives properly from their own freedom inequality that means that the state should see two. perspectives in which religion can flourish but does not mean that it supports one against the other it just means that it supports religion as such but let me also say that religion has a very strong impact within the history of people this is why it's very different from one state and community to another. they have different experiences different historical developments different fears also and that means that there are some traditional religions in some countries that have contributed just by fact somewhat more to the way people live and think. hope and fear and this specific contribution can be taken up also by the state in how to deal with religions i would like to come back to this issue of the interplay between the religious and national identity a bit later but

state, federal -- >> what does the state government says? >> state, we're compliant.ld you be arrested? >> we don't know. nobody ever really knows what happens. every story is different. this is actually a room that is just set up. >> okay. this is like such a massive setup. this is only one room. how many rooms like this do you have? >> two. this is a small to medium sized commercial facility. there are people with football sized fields. the city has no industry. so without us, the city would be worse. they say that one in three warehouses in the city. >> one in three. wow. that's amazing. so these are for all the lights that are in the rooms. you have the air ventilation system that keeps the air circula circulating. these are the charcoal filters. what each one of these does is filters out the air so you don't ever get that marijuana smell. and just here in these two rooms is about $500,000 worth of materials before they even broke plant number one. it's unbelievable. whoa. look at this. holy cow. it's like a cheech & chong dream in here. when you harvest, how many

a small state it comes so consequential? there was an arab league meeting in which the qatari representatives in the arab league -- this is before the arab spring, the representative from qatar was very passionately advocating qatar's speech and he was very easily dismissed by the representative from egypt at the time who said please sit down. all the people in the country do not add up to the people in bus stop in cairo. and when mubarak went to the al-jazeera studios he turned to his information minister and he said, how can a matchbox like this cause so much trouble across the arab world and you he told his information minister, you employ 20,000 in cairo broadcasting in the skies with their handful of people in al-jazeera studios create more problems. so is qatar and influence for real? what i discovered is qatar through a number of very carefully calculated foreign-policy mechanisms and through it very carefully -- careful use of its foreign-policy toolbox, several tools in its toolbox has been able to create conditions

the great compromise protected states like nevada. it protected states like nebraska and iowa. we all get two senators. we all get to come to the floor and fight for what we believe in. i will say what i would imagine every united states senator will say. i come from a beautiful state, the state of nebraska, where conservative people by nature -- we're conservative people by nature. i don't think you live in nebraska unless you have a pioneer spirit and you're conservative by nature. that's who we are. we signed -- kind of essentially believe that less good is a good idea. you know, when i was governor, people didn't want me running their schools. they had a school board. they thought they could make thoughtful, intelligent decisions about running their schools. i thought they could, too. that's the nature of who we are. do you realize that now on executive appointments, on executive appointments, district court judges and circuit court judges, that basically we get dealt out of this? let's say that i have a problem hueneme and i want to put a hold on that nominee until they co

in the state department? >> guest: i did not find that myself. what i found instead was a culture that, um, that believes itself pray torian in a sense, for example, the foreign service complains there was an editorial in "the washington post" about two weeks ago by ambassador pickering and a few others arguing against political appointees being named to senior ambassadorial posts. but there's actually no evidence that political ambassadors are any less good at their job than the career foreign service officers. in fact, sometimes they are better because they understand the president's agenda and have the kinds of connections to the white house that allow them to advance the agenda. very often the state department pulls itself in to believing its job is to protect american foreign policy against the people who get elected to run the country. and that's of either political bias, political persuasion i should say. and that's just, that's part of the reason congress doesn't like them, that's part of the reason t

that's the state of play.and the assumption is that it's going to be appeal ed and the supreme court will eventually make a decision. i just wanted to say that i don't think there's any member of this program that wants to support unconstitutional. we do want to support those things that can enable us to protect this country. and we believe that that program is one of -- not the only one, but one of them and it is our intention to review other programs based on the law. so i think your position is really most important in all of this. and that's where i've been pressing on the olc opinions. unless we know the administration basis for igts sarngsing a program, it's very hard to oversee it. and we have been all during -- and i was going to ask this question -- i mean, olc attorney jay biby wrote congress may no more regular late to maintain and interrogate than it may regulate its ability to troop movements. >>> well, where am i going with this? where i'm going is we have to know what regulations enable a presid

i mean it's one of the reddest states that has allowed same sex marriage, perhaps the only red state, depending on what polls you read, highly mormon state, at brigham young university nearly 70% of mormons oppose any legal relationship for same sex couples. year. what is driving the change there on the ground in utah? >> well i think what you referred to earlier, the way that people see the issue of children and the effect of homosexuality on children is a really big tipping point in this debate. and i do think i.t. sends a very -- it sends a very are important signal, even after the supreme court's ruling federal courts now recognize that same sex couples have the right to marry across the united states of america. >> clifford what states do you think are going to be next? >> well, the thing about this case it's proceeding so quickly this case is probably going to decide the issue for all 50 states. so we have 17 or 18 states right now where same sex marriage is legal. and then you know if this case is upheld on appeal the 32 states in one swoop are, you know, same sex marriage is l

this is a critically important region in the united states. and the key factor is central in this policy is china's rise and how the united states will manage china's rise going forward. >> how does china's rise look, camille, when you're standing in manila. is the country looking to tighten itself to the united states because a politically , powerful china makes it feel insecure? >> you can see that the philippines may be insecure, but we are just admitting that our military capabilities are limited, and it's challenged, and so having the united states there as a key ally, one of our oldest allies, really, gives us more confidence. facing china, however, we see--we look at it as david versus goliath. we have elevated the government has elevated the case through the al jazeera america arbitration course through the hague, there is a case there right now on the south china sea dispute. having the united states support this measurement is something that the people really appreciate, the public and the government, that they have a backer some how

do you want a federal law or gui the states in charge? state's do you want the in charge? >> our position was announced in statesd we support choosing whether or not they want to offer the game. in the absence of federal action, states have moved forward. we have begun to see states like new jersey, nevada, and delaware do this effectively. the industry is interested in what new jersey is doing, they are proving they can do it effectively. concern from a technological perspective is, to say we are going to regulate it is one thing. to do it effectively and protect the innocent. gambling is anat enticement to some who would see a potential quickfix to a financial problem. i understand that. i also understand that we do not outlaw prescription drugs because some people fall victim to addictions to prescription drugs. choice.l about the i firmly believe that the american people have the ability to make those kinds of decisions. my concern is how the technology -- how protections would be put in place to protect minors. to protect children. to protect the situation that our ch

we honor the marriage in one state in this state. why would you single out same sex couples legally married in the state of maryland, that's where this couple got married, why would you single them out and say you're denied the death benefits that spouses should get in the state of ohio. that's being raised all across the country now. >> attempting to use the full faith and credit clause of the constitution to impose same sex marriage on states is nothing new. this goes all the way back to the decision in massachusetts. look, the importance of the utah decision doesn't signify at all any change on the part of the voters of utah. what it does signify is one federal judge decided that it is okay to throw out two-thirds of the voters' will in a single decision and the tenth circuit is unwilling to have justice be done and put a state on this decision. everyone who looks at this knows what he's trying to do. let's get as many gay marriages as possible to occur in utah, so it is hard to roll back the clock. let's impose this immediately.

he was different in those three years he came into office after thirteen years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons by nineteen sixty mandated by eisenhower a national security complex that was basically had a first strike capability of the soviet union and could get away with it and that is the basis for which the cuban missile crisis and the berlin berlin crisis of one nine hundred sixty one two brought us to the edge to the brink of war eisenhower's secretary of state dollars had called it brinksmanship going against the soviet union going to rollback containment that is a far more aggressive policy in that scene we've had five or six nuclear threats we made against the chinese and against the soviet you kennedy inherited this office as a young man. and he was suspected by the military leaders the hardliners of the us that he did not have the wherewithal to really continue the eisenhower policy he had failed to do so in laos to go in to send ground troops he failed in cuba at the bay of pigs to give it to suit the air su

level and your state level reforms? what do you think of that in contrast to what you were just mentioning, which was a congress that can't even hold a lot of votes on this issue, let alone actually get to enacting laws? >> well, you know, i am so proud of the state of connecticut, and we -- you know, have some of the toughest gun laws now at the moment, and are investing in mental health services. colorado did the same, and yet look what happened to three of their legislators who were recalled because they had the courage to stand up and say we need to do something here. but if the states have to be the leader, then so be it. that has been often the case in this nation. but we have to do something nationally. we abdicate our responsibility, our moral responsibility, to the people that we serve. and to their families. look, we can never do anything to heal the hole in the heart of those families that lost those babies last year. but they certainly need to know that we are there for them to help to try to make a differen

and state department. witnesses include caroline dianne krass, nominee for general counsel, who currently serves in the justice department, and daniel bennett smith, nominee to lead the state department's into rowe of intelligence and research this. uns about two hours. >> the committee will come to order. we meet today to consider two of president obama's nominees in the intelligence committee. mrs. caroline dianne krass, nominee to be the general counsel of the c.i.a., and ambassador daniel bennett smith, secretary of state for intelligence and research, i.n.r. welcome to you both. and to the family and friends with you today. i also understand that senator bennett will be introducing ms. krass and should arrive shortly from another hearing. when he does come in, i will give him the opportunity to make his remarks, and then we will go back to whatever we are doing. we are received appears toss our prehearing questions from both nominees, and those can be found on the committee's website for anyone who's

the united states was going down. affairs.said, i junot believe the united states is losing importance in the world. this is -- she said, i do not believe the united states is losing importance in the world. a country dates is with an extraordinarily flexible economy with a great capacity to invent -- reinvent itself. the united states has something that i value very much and that we have to pay attention to. she repeated 4 times the word "education." there is a debate about the quality of education. what it requires, what will leadership here and there to make those interests. this is an cleanly out of order because i am not supposed to be saying any of this. >> ambassador, it is a pleasure to have you with us. you give such a coherent presentation. i know you choose your words carefully. i want to do address this phrase to a dress this phrase of the disclosure problem. probably one of the only people in the room who has sued the u.s. government for warrantless --e type -- wire type wiretapping. we could not prove standing. i

but in tying the state and bringing within the orbit of the state in the employ of the state, qatari business and entrepreneurs in each of these cities that are being built, one city, for example, slightly north and within it, there is doha land. not too different from disneyland. there is something called doha land. in and all of these are construction development projects, few of which the business community is drawn into the business community orbiting the state and political stability is in many ways purchased. political stability is insured. so there's remarkable political stability, which ties the business community for example in kuwait to the state division in its pursuit of development and modernistic projects. last but not least, the fourth element in qatar's success is its influence and power and one of the things that struck me about it was how a small state established only in 19701970 or 1971. how can a small state become so consequential. there was a meeting in which a qatari representative, this is before the arab spring, a representative from qatar was very passionat

, the sunni gulf states.ikipedia released a memorandum from heller clinton i think in the end of 2009 and years later and what did it say? exactly the the same thing. at the moment in syria, syria has taken over the funding of militant military groups who in -- theyn programs say do not deny their sectarianism. they only seem to differ from al qaeda in that al qaeda is independent of saudi arabia and these people are dependent on saudi arabia. so i think there's a whole series of frankenstein monsters both in syria and northern iraq that are being created and supported and hated by private citizens and sometimes the state and saudi arabia, but the u.s. has refused to do anything about this. it really is absurd to focus on hillal qaeda groups in the regions of yemen without looking at these very dangerous development in northern iraq and eastern and northern syria where al qaeda and its affiliates for the first time control a great swath of territory really from the upper reaches of the tigris river to the coa

so there are no position to talk about other leaders are leaders of the united states president can execute anyone anywhere anytime and does so how can we talk about bashar al assad seriously and say that this man is a problem and that our talk about it and that's the right to listen is to american president that's that's the difference they will talk about it they keep talking about it that's that was still a purpose of why they why until i started out because there were supposedly human rights violations in syria but we can talk about what the point that i'm making is that the us president has given himself the authority to execute anyone anywhere any time for any pretext any bogus reason is that more of a problem to the world than bashar al assad of course it is it's much more of a problem that the president of the united states says he can execute anyone anywhere any time and yet we're sitting here talking about bashar al assad which granted this man has committed crimes in syria there's no question of that but when we look at the u.s. president when we look at israel we look at

but to some extent its age and there are a very many different systems of state church state religionrelations in the world . and you describe you describing just about one or two of the. also other religious. ways of life in history towards the state and the secular society. religion overwhelms the state which also has is a bad thing i think one should see that without overwhelming one of the other one should a system. religion does fulfill its toss of community building given the people sense of life is there a good reason for life to give them the opportunity to see that there is something beyond that there is something more than. so something that also goes beyond what the state can do but do you think the state has anything any obligation to try to strengthen let's say traditional religions to promote kind of spirituality that you just mentioned or it should be allowed religions themselves that they have to build themselves a strengthened themselves even in societies when. their support is not that strong . from my perspective states have the task to. foster freedom freedom of re

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six states, new york, colorado, connecticut, maryland, california, new jersey, those six states havesome form of new gun safety legislation since the massacre at sandy hook elementary school a year ago this week. five of those states are controlled totally by democrats, in the sixth one, the democrats do control the legislature, but the new york times today totalled up new laws in the states overall to try to address gun violence, new laws that have passed since newtown. over the last year, they have put limits on the sale of assault weapons, requiring universal background checks that you can't just evade by going to a gun control. they added issues regarding serious mental illness, and keeping stronger measures. for the first time in seven years, this year, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, the atf, finally got a senate-confirmed permanent official director, has not had one in seven years but has one now. just yesterday, vice president joe biden announced a new hundred million dollar round of funding. it is true that new federal gun laws have not passed the house and sena

we have failed to properly prepare, in my state, a replacement work force in a state that is retiring engineers faster than it's graduating them, or retiring machinists in the aerospace industry faster than we're creating a qualified personnel for those operations, you have to make a significant change. and so pre-k, k-12, higher education are things that we are spending a lot of our time on a regular and daily basis trying to turn around and make work. how do you do it? fundamentally, you have to get a buy-in by all the stakeholders. fundamentally, you have to get a buy-in by all the stakeholders. that includes teachers i've already mentioned have this great job and responsibility in our democracy to raise up the next generation. but we also need parent buy-in. and i think too little time has been spent in giving the tools to parents to understand what's going on in school and to play an active role in turning around what's going on in school. i'm also fond of saying, by the way, that you're not going to get as much buy-in by parents who you have poorly educated yourself in your syst

if they were truly truly state run they would be more responsive to states and localities, and more responsive to these communities, rather than doing high level rather dramatic counterterrorism stuff. the idea of reform is not out of the realm of possibility because the report from october 2012 was co-authored by a republican and democrat, tom coburn from oklahoma and i'm not going to be able to remember his colleague. but that means republicans and democrats both are interested in this for their own reasons. but if they get together with reforms that should include whether or not they fund this at all, there is certainly a possibility that congress is hard to get to act anything. >> michael look there always seems to be a tension between national security concerns and civil liberties. do you think we can bridge this divide and come forward? will both sectors come together? especially in the age of wide sprej surveillance -- spread surveillance and technology? >> it is always an importance to consider the balance. in the 1960s and 70s there were intelligence abuses and the reforms that came o

wildfires flared across the state, yet managing the state's water supply has long created controversy, environmentalis environmentalists, firefighters and voters against each other. the irrigation water is home to much of the state and also home to wetlands and wildlife. the state's proposal backed by governor brown would build two massive tunnels to move water from the north to the state's more populist south. the state said it would also save the delta's endangered species. but critics have called it a water valve and vowed to block it. paul rogers, san jose news, environmental writer. the draft plan was released this week. what are some of the key points and what has the reaction been like? >> well, the plan is pretty intimidating to a lot of people who are just casual news observers. it's 34,000 pages. >> wow. >> you can't even get your mind around that. but it really boils down to a couple basic facts in california. two-thirds of all the water, the rain and the notice, falls in the north. two-thirds of the people live in the south. for the last 75 years, we have basically figured

secretary of state betty sedation that the defence chiefs signed instead of reports. please he sees it does not love gun to subdue home because i need to decide who signs a security pact with the united states you miss a kitschy of steve jones video using the bind up the security agreement on bse could be signed by karzai's defense minister. this may not come home and he effectively circumvent the guy's night. it's something that there is within the authority of the president of afghanistan and the afghan government whim. take action based on discrimination to the present and to make this perfect. so in other words it's up to the president of parents. to determine whether. a security agreement will be signed at a presidential level four the difference between the two governments. the bsa that she deposed or causing fourteen us made to keep busy skin of his time. us efficiency of the doubt maybe even by using the fullest to consider a door to the joys of tulips evening of gun forces to fight that the divine insurgency on their tone. i miss a meal of god. it is really a