decisions.620 those decisions are not limited to michael martin or ted stevens. cases. runcrimes in these cases the gamut from small, petty drug charges to serious murder charges. speak tondings really every single type of crime, every single type of defendant. >> in the introduction of the report you will see that we talk about three different cases, john thompson in louisiana was the third one that hasn't been discussed today. different scenarios, different socioeconomic status. to do think the report shows this problem knows no bounds in that regard, federal, state, race, all of that. i think the key to take away from this for the defendant who is about to get their attorney is to say, the government must disclose all favorable information, and i want to make sure that my lawyer is asking for it, but not just asking for, going to the judge in getting the judge to order it. that is key. until we can get legislation, that's what the individual defendant should take away from this. an incrediblys is important reality to focus on, that in these cases where defense counse

now, those decisions are not limited to michael morton type cases or ted stevens type cases. the crimes in these cases run the gamut from small petty drug charges to serious murder charges. so the findings really speak to every single type of crime every single type of defendant. >> thank you. >> in the introduction of the report you'll see that we talked about three different cases. thompson in louisiana was the third one. and different scenarios, different socio economic status. and i do think that the report shows this problem knows no bounds in that regard. federal, state, race, all of that. but i think that the key to take away from this for the defendant who is about to get their attorney is to say, the government must disclose all favorable information. and i want to make sure that my lawyer is asking for it. but not just asking for it. going to the judge and getting the judge to order it. i think that's key. until we can get legislation, that's what the individual defendant should take away from this. >> thank you. >> one thing, i think this is an incredibly important

ted stevens on america's global retreat and the coming world disorder. >>> there are actions i have the legal authority to take as president, the same kinds of actions taken by democratic and republican presidents before me, that will help make our immigration system more fair and more just. tonight, i'm announcing those actions. >> welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm stewart in for paul gigot. he did it despite warnings from republicans and even democrats, president obama announced thursday he'll side-step congress and go it alone on immigration using executive action to shield millions of people in the u.s. illegally from deportation. republicans on capitol hill are promising to fight the move and some gop governors are also even eyeing lawsuits. but are the president's actions reversible? let's ask. wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henniga, jason riley and washington columnist kim strassel, dan to you first, is this reversable? >> i think it may be reversible and should be challenged in court. this is a president who has had an extremely expansive view o

in direct response to the flawed prosecution of the late senator ted stevens, senators lisa murkowski and the late senator daniel inouye along with a bipartisan group of co-sponsors including senators michael enzi and mark be begich provided cle and meaningful standards to govern the prosecution's disclosure obligations. these senators saw what happened to their colleague and had the courage of their convictions to take action. this act, the fairness and disclosure of evidence act, would require prosecutors to disclose all -- that all information that may reasonably appear favorable to the defendant, effectively prohibiting the government from using brady's materiality standard to limit its disclosure obligation. the favorability of information alone is what would trigger a disclosure obligation. it does provide for exceptions in situations where disclosure could be detrimental to witness safety and the act includes a fair mechanism for seeking a protective order and exempts all classified information from disclosure. if legislation such as this were enacted, defendants would have inc

i remember the late ted stevens telling the story about when he first got here. senator mansfield was still the majority leader and he tried to offer an amendment, senator stevens did, and the -- a member of the majority who was managing the bill prevented it, in effe effect. and senator mansfield came over to senator stevens, took his amendment, went back to his desk and sent it to the floor for h him. sent it to the floor for him. that was the senate not too long ago. if someone isn't allowed to get a vote on something they believe in, of course they're going to retaliate. of course they're going to retaliate. but if they get a vote every once in awhile, they don't feel the need to. voting on amendments is good for the senate and it's good for the country. our constituents should have a greater voice in the process. since july of last year, there have been four republican roll call votes. in the whole second half of 20 2013, members on this side of the aisle have gotten four roll call votes. stunning. that's today's senate. so let me say this. if republicans ar

you did this to ted stevens in 2008. he was an honorable man throughout his career. you regret the tv ads you red -- ran against him? >> i don't know if you saw that campaign, but i ran ads about what i wanted to do. i don't run attack ads. i was here. the fact is the campaign i talked about was important for alaska. as a matter of fact when i , decided to run for office, i called him up. we had a conversation about that. he said, good luck on the campaign trail. as an alaskan, born and raised here, with history and the state , like ted stevens, a matter who did incredible things with the state, i did not disagree with what was happening. we had a debate right here in this room. and i did not have a conversation about it. because i believed there was an issue he had to do with that. the issue was that i believed i offered a different future, different perspective for alaska. that is what i campaigned on issues of alaska. we talked about the issues instead of attacking people. you should go back and look at those campaigns. the campaign commercials i paid for, began b

i have the utmost respect for ted stevens. and i stood with ted stevens until the end, even though my party went against him. i would fight for him to this day if he were here, because some of us actually really believe in bipartisanship. lots of people around here talk about it, but that's really it. and the evidence that i am going to give you -- and i'm sorry that senator from kentucky is not here to defend himself. i want the quote that you wrote down. and he might come back to the floor when he hears what i am going to say. and i'm going to speak for one hour. the senator from kentucky who will be the majority leader but has not left his partisanship in kentucky because you just saw it on display here, he can't help himself. i mean, he cannot speak for three minutes without mentioning the president. he had his back turned the whole time. would not even acknowledge anyone over here. he does a lot of talking about bipartisanship. but his statement just yesterday was i'm confident dr. cassidy will use his position to succeed

. -- ted stevens in 2008. he was an honorable man throughout his career. you regret the tv ads you red -- ran against him? >> i don't know if you saw that campaign, but i ran ads about what i wanted to do. i don't run attack ads. i was here. the fact is the campaign i talked about was important for alaska. when i decided to run for office, i called him out. we had a conversation about that. he said, good luck on the campaign trail. as an alaskan, born and raised to, i did not disagree with what was happening. we had a debate right here in this room. i believed there was an issue he had to do with that. the issue was that i believed i offered a different future, different perspective for alaska. that is what i campaigned on pretty issues of alaska. we talked about the issues instead of attacking people. you should go back and look at those campaigns. the campaign commercials i paid for, we talked about the record. i had a great record. >> thank you. would you like 30 seconds? >> sure. i think campaigns are about character. one of the things that has been di

begich got in over ted stevens when he was indicted. he sneaked in there.livan but it's been difficult to get a good finger on the pulse because there's not a ton of pulse. >> people complain've iowa, five-point range in alaska you have 20% range. the one thing to keep in mind is historically, republicans have done better than their polls in alaska on election day and the fact that democratic incumbents are likely to lose in arkansas but he supposedly invested more per capita annie candidate in history. >> when you look at building this model you have the average of polls. anybody can do that. now the other question is do you look at the history of these states in which -- on a state-by-state basis, whether one party or other seems to outperform its final polling. >> partisanship is a powerful variable. we rev has found that in red states republican does bert in polls on election nights than democrats in -- >> say that again. in red states, republicans outperform their polling margin on election night bit a greater margin than democrats outperform their pol

ted stevens on america's global retreat and the coming world disorder. >>> there are actions i have thel authority to take as president, the same kinds of actions taken by democratic and republican presidents before ,

i remember the late ted stevens telling the story about when he first got here and senator mansfield was still the majority leader. he tried to offer an amendment, senator stevens did and a member of the majority who is managing the bill prevented it in effect. senator mansfield came over to senator stevens, took his amendment, went back to his desk and send it to the floor for h him. sent it to the floor for him. that was the senate not too long ago. if someone isn't allowed to get a vote on something they believed in, of course they are going to retaliate. and of course they are going to retaliate but if they get a vote every once in a while -- while they don't feel the need to. voting on amendments is good for the senate and it's good for the country. our constituents should have a greater voice in the process. since july of last year there have been four republican roll call votes. in the whole second half of 2013 members on the side of the aisle have gotten for roll call votes. stunning. but that's today's senate. so let me say this. if republicans are fortunate enough to be in

republican, the only reason the democrat is in is because the beloved long-term senator of alaska, ted stevensictment one week before the election. after the election, that indictment was completely thrown out and sullivan asked in the debate, do you feel sorry for attacking ted stevens' character now that we know it was a phony indictment? and he lied. mark beckett said, i never attacked his character. those were outside ads. look on the net right now to see his ads here's smoke there's fire. and he's let down alaskans. alaska should have no commitment to this guy. he won in a fluke. he's not like a regular incumbent. >> we'll see, he's behind, which is surprising and that state is probably going to turn, but we'll find out. i have 100 more questions for you and i know the viewers have thousands. thankfully, again, we have passed the twitter feed over to you. so if you have more to ask ann coulter, she's sticking arou around, @ffweekend is the twitter handle. great to see you. >> great to see you. >>> her little girl went in for a routine flu shot and wound up paralyzed. that girl's mom joins

we were pushing for a similar outside office on the senate side and i remember senator ted stevens sitting up there on a committee saying there's no problem here. it's working beautifully. thereafter he came under a sharp ethics scandal of which the senate ethics committee never did anything. we have charts at the end of the report. e we take a look at compare that to oce. first of all, they are receiving fewer complaints than ever and there were like 99 complaints filed with the ethics committee in 2009. in 2013 last year there were only 26. we're seeing a steady drop in this. part of the reason is almost every single complaint on the senate ethics side gets dismissed. all but four have been misdis missed. much of the reason why that is happening is because the senate ethics committee operates in secret. even though they publish the number of cases they are taking a look at and published the number of dismissals each year, which by the way is almost an identical number every here, we don't get any kind of record as to what they were looking at, who is being investigated or what's going on

in direct response to the flawed prosecution of the late senator ted stevens, senators lisa murkowski and the late senator ouye, theo.i. -- in fairness and disclosure act was provide clear and meaningful standards to govern the prosecution's disclosure obligations syria the senators saw what happened to their colleague and had the courage of their convictions to take action. would require prosecutors to disclose that all information that may reasonably appear favorable to the defendant effectively prohibiting the government from using the materiality standard to limit its disclosure obligations. the favorable of information alone is what would trigger a disclosure obligation. it does provide for exceptions in situations where disclosure could be detrimental to witness safety and it includes the mechanism for seeking a protective order. if legislation such as this were enacted, defendants would have increased access to favorable information and that would reduce brady litigation systemwide. this would also address the problems evidenced by the study and discussed in the report includin

unlike the ted stevens campaign it, he ran ak at more mild campaign. there should be a richer mix of votes as opposed to 2008 when senator begich got 60 plus percent of the votes that came in after election day. we feel pretty good in our position. >> in virginia, mark warner was with most0 votes precincts reporting there. what are you expecting in virginia? as the canvas started to happen in the counties, most of it would the complete today. we expect senator warner to hold the lead. it is difficult to turn 16,000 votes into a win for the other nextand we expect over the couple of days that ed will realize the same thing and not for a recount will stop bikes is that what you are hearing from mr. gillespie? >> these are candidate-driven events. if after the re-canvas, they determine they want to take a step toward, we will take that step toward with them. >> you might have heard steve rothenberg predict republicans will ultimately have nine seats because he thinks the louisiana runoff will go toward bill cassidy. how do you view that louisiana race? i

so wasn't like there was a big bold of -- bolt of the boats, like the ted stevens campaign but also, sullivan rent a much more moderate campaign in compared to the stevens campaign. so a more active ground game means there should be a richer mix of republicans and democrats votes as opposed to 2008, senator begich got 60 plus percent of the votes taking after election day. so we feel pretty good and are positioned. >> and virginia, mark warner was up by about 16,727 votes with most of the precincts reporting there. so what are you expecting in virginia? >> i think as the remaining votes come in and that's the canvas to start to happen in counties, i think most of the canvassing will be complete today. we expect senator warner to hold the lead but it's very difficult to turn 16,000 votes into a win for the other side, and we fully expect over the course of the next couple of days ahead will realize the same thing and not opt for a recount spent is that what you're hearing from mr. gillespie? >> is our candidate driven events, and whatever ed once we will back 100% both politically and

we were pushing for a similar outside office on the senate side, and i remember senator ted stevens, for instance, sitting up there on a committee, saying, there's no problem here. the ethics process in the senate is working beautifully. of course, shortly thereafter he came under a very sharp ethics scandal, of which the senate ethics committee didn't do anything. we take a look at the report. and we've got charts at the end of the report that are very handy. take a look at what the senate ethics committee has done, compare that to oce. first of all, they're receiving fewer complaints than ever. there were like 99 complaints filed with the ethics committee in 2009. in 2013, last year, there were only 26. and we're seeing a steady drop in this. part of the reason is because almost every single complaint on the senate ethics side gets dismissed. 513 complaints that have been analyzed from 2007 through the end of 2013, all but four have been dismissed. all but four. and the reason -- or much of the reason why that is happening is because the senate ethics committee operates in secret.

in early and a lot of early voting occurred so it was not like there was a big bulk of like the ted stevens campaign. if you look at it, sullivan ran a much more moderate campaign. game meansve ground there should be a richer mix of democrat and republican votes as opposed to 2008 when the senator got 60% of the votes that came in after election day. meaning by the time they got to the counting centers. we feel pretty good. , mark warner was up last i checked with most of the precincts reporting, so what are you expecting? think the remaining votes have come in and as the canvases started to happen, most of the canvassing will be complete today. we expect senator warner to hold the lead. it is difficult to turn 16,000 votes into a win for the other fully expect that over the next couple of days, ed will realize the same thing, and not opt for a recount. >> these are candidate driven events and whatever ed wants we will back 100%, both politically after theially, if recount this they determined to take a step forward we will take it with him. >> you i have heard stu rothenberg predict that h

>>> 2008 was a very different scenario, ted stevens was having some legal troubles, and there was as sca scandal. >>> so, the late votes that came in, were going his way. >>> and he has some deja vu of that situation, and, also, the people, who likely support, him over sullivan. so he's holding those doubts, would benefit him. >>> but in order for the rest of the ballots, the margin, is a big hurdle for him. >>> that's one senate race, where it has been called and, the senator is not conceding yet and, you have the louisiana senate race. >>> that's headed to a runoff, in december. >>> so, we don't know. but in the house, there are also five races, that have yet to be called. >>> let's begin with arizona's race, what's the update? >>> last night, they completed counting all of the ballot the, and martha, has 133 vote lead. >>> in arizona, it's a race within a certain margin, it goes to a recount. so, this falls within it. >>> so there's a row count scheduled early december. >>> so this one is going to drag out. >>> what about in california, there's three races, that have not been call

he faced head winds before he beat ted stevens six years ago. ed stave vens had a felony conviction six days before the election. he won that election. he felt he woulds win this one and he will go to bed tonight and not concede this race. we are waiting for the associated press. 74% of the precincts reporting and 6% lead for dan sullivan. looks like a republican pick up in the offering. >> seven for republicans and they only needed six. it is easily dan sullivan will be number eight. dan springer, thank you and we will be back to you. >> julie, we focus on reproductive rights and they spent $100 million in this campaign. it didn't work and it cost a senate seat. republican congressman cory gardener taking the seat. it was one of the contests that helped the gop gain control of the senate. colorado's democratic senator wants to avoid being the first incumbent governor in that state not to win re-election in 50 years. he is his republican candidate now in a virtual tie. we go to denver with the latest on that. w45 a surprise upset and a virtual ti

ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >>> breaking news now. we want to take you to that press conference on the tragic shooting in tabernacle, new jersey. >> i am captain stevenones of the new jersey state police. we'd like to provide an outline of what we now know regarding the tragedy that occurred yesterday in tabor knackal. 9:15 yesterday morning dispatch received a 911 call describing a shooting at 39 holly park drive in tabernacle.ç when troopers arrived there, they found four people had been shot, three of them were children and tragically, two of them were dead at the scene. today, the burlington county medical examiner's office was able to provide additional information through an autopsy and they have identified the two children that have died at the scene as nicholas harrimna and nadia harriman, 8 years old an their brother, alexander is 11 years old, is critically injured along with the mother of all three children. her name is jeannine lepage. all pay long state police detectives were out there at the scene interviewing people and collecting evidence at this point that investigation has miles to go before it's complete. we believe with fair conf

steven hayes and the co-host of "outnumbered," jededia. you're going to be the libertarian, rand paul, maybe mitt romney, maybe christie, conservatives, maybe ted cruz, maybe conservative governor and fourth category conservative governors with good success stories. >> i would actually love that. i would love to see the contrast in the party. look, we already did moderate. we did john mccain. and we did mitt romney. and guess what happened? both of them didn't inspire conserve voters. they didn't inspire a lot. a lot of voters on the right stayed home. so i would love someone that unified the party. i would love someone to get the conservative wing excited, the libertarian wing excited. >> is there any one person that stands out? >> i like scott walker because he seems to overcome what seem insurmountable -- and i think he awakens a lot of young people turned off by big republican candidates. ted cruz is out there, i'm not a huge fan of jeb bush because of things like common core. i think that's a huge issue. i'm a former teacher, i'm a former dean, i cannot stand common core. i think that's a big concern for conservatives, moms and dads sittin

the late-senator from alaska ted stevens said, "it seemed like howard had a crystal ball when this came to counting votes on the one hand predicting outcomes" and praised him for his careful analysis, understanding of the members, and horde work that often made his forecasts correct. senator david pryor from arkansas, a democrat, noted that howard respected and served and answered to not only the senators on the republican side of the aisle but to the members on his side as well. it's clear that this man from lewis, delaware, had uncommon talent and ability. we are grateful he chose to share it with us for so many years. we honor him for it today. and we send our sincerest condolences to his family in this difficult time. now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 579 submitted earlier today, further, that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, i sugges