rural tennessee is very close to my heart. and making it stronger is a major priority for my administration. revitalization starts with economic development. and quality economic development is about investing directly into the communities. so we've proposed $21 million to invest in rural communities and distressed counties to directly support rural infrastructure, industrial site development, small business development and revitalizing small town main streets. [ applause ] whether it's running a small business or accessing virtual learning or accessing health care via telemedicine, slow internet speeds have many in tennessee left at a disadvantage. i've proposed record investments in broadband since becoming the governor and i'm grateful for this legislature's support on that issue. but i'm ready for us to solve this issue once and for all. a significant one-time investment combined with significant private investment will get broadband to just about every community in tennessee. and tonight, that's exactly what i'm proposing

tennessee families also deserve safe neighborhoods. i will bring forward legislation that will help to accomplish that. yet heard me say many times that we have to be tough on crime. and smart on crime. this legislation will look familiar to you. it was moving through committee last year and we had to set aside for our covid-19 response. in addition to that legislation, we have included 4.7 million dollars for additional day reporting centers and evidence-based programming for community supervision. this approach will ensure reentry to society is done in the safest and most effective way possible for those who were formerly incarcerated. safe neighborhoods require well supported and well trained law enforcement, as well. we have made a number of important strives for criminal justice reform and police training this year. we know law enforcement's are calling. men and women who have taken oath to serve and protect deserve them best and most copperheads of training to benefit themselves and the communities that they interact with. [appla

but not in tennessee. the worldwide data on government's success is mixed, but tennessee's approach has been consistent: maintain local control whenever possible, rely on people -- [applause] rely on people more than government, and keep a primary focus on what we can directly impact. we chose a prudent structure in our unified-command group that merged the role of public health, the national guard and our emergency management response. we built a strong infrastructure to deliver tests and vaccines directly into communities and we worked in lock step with our hospital partners. one of our first decisions was to double down on testing capacity, and we were consistently one of the early testing leaders across the country. we were one of the first to make free testing available to every resident, regardless of symptoms and regardless of insurance status. we were the first to purchase masks for every citizen. as we watched disastrous outcomes at nursing homes in other states, we were one of the first states to

major league soccer to tennessee. sen. hagerty: a labor of love, tennessee is a great environment for sport, and entertainment based economy and tourism is very strong. there was a real opening for soccer offering here in our state. i decided it was time to do it. i went to visit the folks at major league soccer headquarters in new york and they were polite, there were 12 other states and cities ahead of us in the competition. i said, i think we can do very well. put together a great team. i led that organizing committee, and we basically wound up being the first of the expansion franchises selected. very proud that we had such a great win for tennessee, and we are having a great first season here in major league soccer. host: have you received any advice from senator lamar alexander or senator blackburn going into the senate? sen. hagerty: both of them have been terrific in terms of their rise in -- their advice and willingness to help and support for me. we have significant challenges i appreciate the advice of many

tennessee's economic performance was not good. the unemployment rate was above the national average in january 2011. the turn things around by the time i left my first term we had become the number one state in the nation for jobs created in foreign investment. tennessee was named state of the year for economic development to the three years i was there so it is possible to bring those business deals to bear in a way that is very helpful to the population here in tennessee. we got our economy going again and that'sno a been important because of good jobs also many issues. >> unit up in the white house under president george h.w. bush. how did that happen? >> that was a break to venture capitol. when i was living in tokyo was an incredible time. tiananmen square happened the berlin wall came down in winter the persian gulf war. as i mentioned i was a patriotic young man i wanted to do something and wanted to be ablew to help. i got a job serving on the domestic policy staff at the white house and came back and focused on deregulati

once we put this in the tennessee code and tennessee law, making their decisions, this is about seeinge extinct list or the illegal list. if we start losing some of those freedoms right now, one piece at a time, what constitutional rights will be lose next? shannon: thank you for explaining this to us, appreciate it. have a good day. todd: a christian lecturer questions president biden's policies, now for students, that teacher will join us live. byron donald live next hour. don't go anywhere. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. >> the vaccine which we didn't have when we came into office. >> those schools may only be open one day a week. >> that was a mistake in communication. we have to put more mone

member of the tennessee senate signed a letter after the men's basketball team at east tennessee state university milt during the national anthem the republican delegation the state senate is asking the university to implement policy banning athletes from protesting at all. e.t.a.'s you coach jason say defending his team said many of us don't know the same sacrifice fear pain and loss that people of color have had to endure over 400 years he said his team is a daily reminder to me that some things are bigger than basketball. and turning to professional sports golf in p.g.a. champion tiger woods is no longer fighting for his life following a car accident that led to his body being removed with the jaws of life new information released shows the 45 year old golf giant suffers from serious leg injuries including open fractures that required emergency surgery considering tiger's past 5 back surgeries the road to recovery will be long in our interests without them urgency medical treatment he received tiger could have been at risk for amputation here to tell us more is our sports producer f

east tennessee was really whig heavily political state. east tennessee was not really a democratic strong hold, but he kind of helped turn it into a democratic strong hold because he was the epitome of a democrat. andrew johnson, his hero was andrew jackson. his other hero was thomas jefferson. so, ardent states rights, ardent for protection of slavery. that's another thing he's also big for. and he was also a slave owner himself. he owned over -- about nine slaves in his lifetime, i believe. somewhere in that range. >> about 10 to 12. and johnson played up the apprenticeship as slavery that he had been treated as a slave. there was a difference in actuality. in his mind though, he conflates the two, and it's one of the reasons why he often attacks the wealthier slave owners who he sees as looking down on poor whites like him. even when he becomes wealthy, he still identifies and sees himself as a poor white. and that guides a lot of his philosophy and a lot of what he does in his life is that self-image of being the poor white person pull

cohen of tennessee, pursuant to h. res. 8, mr. cohen will vote yes. as as the member designated by mr. moulton of massachusetts, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. moulton will vote yes. as the member designated by ms. barragan will vote yes on ordering the previous question. as the member designated by mr. lowenthal of california, i inform the house mr. lowenthal will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. lieu, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. lieu will vote yes on ordering the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does gentleman seek recognition? >> mrs. mr. fallon of texas, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. fallon will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york. mr. jeffries: as as the member designated by ms. johnson, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. johnson will vote iowa. as the member designated by ms. lofgren, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. lofgren will vote yeah. pursuant to mr.

escapes to tennessee. he learns how to read and write, becomes a spokesman for poor whites and poor whites would be needed for the war effort. his hero was tennessee's democrat andrew jackson. and he imposed the lincoln in 1860. but his love of the union made him loyal even when tennessee us is seceded. as president, he's committed to following lincoln's policy rather than stevens of revenge, confiscation, addition enfranchisement. you can see in world war ii, you'll have the need to have unity in times of crisis ask war. you need to have north and south reconcile what johnson was trying to do and have democrats and republics getting together. african-americans were need too. but their plight is to the those that appeal. johnson is is a fugitive. he has a shackle on his leg. he has to have that cut off. so he's a fugitive. he keeps the shackle all of his life. then when stevens comes in and offers to help him, i'll help you win the next election. he says i have been chained before. and then he promises tha

the volunteer state tennessee has been in the news a lot lately and it hasn't been positive this week republicans the party of free speech and individual rights it's what's more working against their own spouse beliefs tennessee republican lawmakers what university athletes to be punished for protesting at sporting events after the wave of summer protests in the wake of the george boyd murder students in particular are organizing in protesting in solidarity with black lives matter college athletes are no exception particularly in sports that both large amounts of black participation like but ball and basketball every single g.o.p. member of the tennessee senate find a letter after the men's basketball team at east timothy state university milt during the national anthem the republican delegation the state senate is asking the university to implement policy banning athletes from protesting at all. e.t.a.'s you coach jason say defending his team said many of us don't know the same sacrifice fear pain and loss that people of color have had to endure over 400 years he said his team is a d

she is tennessee's new house member. >> why did you decide to run for this seat? >> i looked at our nation, and i feel like we are at a tipping point. i have a son and two grandsons. i have mentored young people for over 24 years. and i feel for the future of our families. and that is the reason i raise my hand and said pick me. -- raised my hand and said pick me. protect the country. from socialism as a viable option. that is a problem. and i felt that i needed to step up and step in and see if i should do something to take our country back to the traditions and the approach our forefathers thought would work. and it has worked, all these years. >> do you remember the moment you decided, i am doing this, i am running? >> well, i did. i've got to congress for over 25 years to talk to my congressman and senators -- congressmen and senators about my profession. for the profession i have a license to do. and i understood how valuable words are. they have meaning. they all mean something. our congressman said he has decided to retire, and i do not hold anyone against

kustoff of tennessee. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 5-a-1-b of the house resolution 8, the house stands adjourned until noon on monday next for morning hour debate and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business.

and i'll be working with high come -- my colleagues in the tennessee house.ery good bill. todd: are you going to go against the biden administration? >> i would simply say that this is a proactive bill to protect women's sports. each of these things has a value and brings forward a point of discussion, i also believe that we do have a role to play in protecting women's sports to make sure that we don't negate the value and the accomplishments of women since title 7 and title 9 have been passed in the federal law. yes, there are going to be vigorous debates. i think this is the right approach and i think that we can all acknowledge that women do deserve a fair opportunity to compete and parents are really not interested in watching their teenage daughters participate and be demoralized in a rigged competition. in tennessee, we're going to be proactively making sure we protect women's sports. todd: 30 seconds on this answer. what happens to girls sports if your bill gets shut down? >> well, i think that a coach -- an olympic coach summarized this very well. she

tennessee johnson. johnson obviously the focus is not on ross it is on johnson, in fact rosters not even appear. johnson is played by van have, flynn who just won an oscar. the film acknowledges that the medium requires taking certain liberties. for instance, even though johnson did not appear at his own trial, in the film he delivers a stirring self-defense. the film produces drama but pinning johnson against evens, who's played in a wheelchair by lionel barrymore, whose perfectly cast as just after paying the volume in it's a wonderful life. and the screenplay who wrote this wrote the screenplay for frankenstein. these are the three different works. they have lots of different similarities. for kennedy was at stake was the checks and balances of government. the independence of the executive office as a coordinate branch of government was on trial. dickson agrees with that, this isn't a chapter called a supreme test. and he says almost exactly this as kenny. if i majority -- ends. in the film it has, w

that is what makes me tennessee tough. i will stand up when others won't and have the backs of the people i represent. >> what about your background makes you authentic? >> i am just like anyone else. i am not one of these fancy people that go out and words matter. you can relate to people. i've taken care of the people in this district at a local level for over 30 years. why not do the same, as a successful business owner, i can take that experience, and why would they not trust me to take that to a federal level and take care of those precious people i've taken care of all these years? >> you talk about your christian faith during the campaign. what role does religion play? >> it is a catalyst for every decision i make. one of the most humbling things during this campaign was, i taught sunday school for over 24 years, mainly at a middle school level. to see those young people come up to me during the campaign, when i visited different churches, and they would say, we cannot wait to vote for you. let me tell you why. when

east tennessee was really a whig heavily political state. east tennessee was really not a democratic strong hold but he helped turn it for a democratic stroke hold because he was the epitome of a democrat. his hero is andrew jackson. his other hero was thomas jefferson, so our didn't for state rights, our didn't for protection of slavery is another thing he was big for and he was also a slave owner himself. he owned about nine slaves in his lifetime i believe, about 10 to 12. >> yeah. and he often -- johnson played up the apprenticeship as slavery, that he had been treated as a slave. there was a difference in actuality, in his mind, though, he conflates the two. it's one of the reasons why he's often attacks planters who he sees as looking down on poor whites like him, even when he becomes wealthy. he identifies and sees himself as a poor white. and that guides a lot of his philosophy, a lot of what he does in his life is that self-image of being the poor white person pulling himself up. i just talked about how he didn't like planters. he v

atop the high country of north carolina and tennessee lie the smoky mountains national park.es of wilderness which an act of congress gave national park status in 1933. national parks are not built, god gave that in the beginning. working with them is the preservation of the splendid features. making these features more accessible without disturbing national conditions. great smoky, containing some of the highest peaks east of the rockies, and nearly 200 varieties of native flora, represents a typical american region which must not be destroyed. fire, man's best servant and worst master, can destroy a area -- an area for generations to come. despite the heavy rains in the southern mountains, every precaution is necessary. fire towers, location finders, communication lines and firefighting apparatus. standard equipment will be provided here. emergency conservation work funds are speaking the task, making the great smokies recreationally useful to the public. it is important that the essential roles do not my the part -- the park. here is one for one of the unique spots thousan

atop the purple high country of north carolina and tennessee land the great smoky mountains national park 300,000 acres of southern highlands wilderness, which an act of congress gave national park status in 1933 national parks are not built. god did that in the beginning? so working them is directed at the preservation of their splendid features and the making of these. is more comfortably accessible without disturbing natural conditions? great smoky containing some of the highest peaks east of the rockies and nearly 200 varieties of native flora represents a typical american region, which must not be destroyed fire man's best servant and worst master can sear a timid area for generations to come. so despite the heavy rains in the southern mountains, every precaution is necessary. fire towers location finders communication lines and firefighting apparatus standard equipment in all national parks will be provided here emergency conservation work funds are speaking the task of making the great smokies recreationally useful to the public. it is important that the few essential roads do

east tennessee was really a wig heavily political state. east tennessee was not a democratic stronghold, but he helped turn it into more of a democratic stronghold, because he was the epitome of democratic. andrew johnson's hero was andrew jackson, his other hero was thomas jefferson. state writes, protection of slavery, that's another thing that he was also big four and it is also a slaveowners himself. he he owned over nine slaves in his lifetime. >> ten to 12. he often played off the apprenticeship as slavery, that he been treated as a slave. there was a difference in actuality. in his mind though, he conflicts the two, and it's one of the reasons why he is often a tax planters, the wealthy slaveowners, as looking down on poor whites, even when he becomes wealthy. he still identifies himself as a poor white. and that guides a lot of his philosophy, a lot of what he does in his life, is that self image of being a poor white person pulling themselves up. i just talked about how he didn't like the planters. he viewed himself even before the

river, a tennessee valley authority project from 1940.was dedicated by franklin was about as part of a larger network of dams built up and down the tennessee river between 1933 and the 1940's. >> tennessee valley authority. president roosevelt told the nation the project would set the example of planning not for this generation alone, but for all generations to come. >> the tennessee valley authority was one of the very new deal projects, really a project and the concept that had been under consideration for some years for roosevelt became president. in nebraska senator was looking to help improve the quality of life in the tennessee river valley, to bring flood control , generation of electrical power, and improve the lives of the people living there. it is a serious attempt at remaking the social and economic lives of the people living in the rift valley, from knoxville although it to the ohio river. when chattanooga had been struggling with flooding problems, this is a town that had become the center of the national railroad network in

now to the film 1942, tennessee johnson. johnson -- obviously the focus is not on ross. it's on johnson and in fact ross doesn't even appear. and ross is played by van heflen who just wob an usker and the film acknowledges its medium requires taking certain liberties. for instance even though johnson doesn't appear during his own trial in the film he comes in and gives his own defense. the screen writer by the way had written the screenplay for portraying monsters. for kennedy what was at stake was the checks and balances of government, the independent office as a coordinate branch of government was on trial. dixon agrees with that. he has -- this is a chapter called the supreme test and he says almost exactly the same as kennedy. if a partisan majority in congress could remove the executive stability to civic institutions was at an end. ultimately for him, however, the real supreme question was will the u.s. remain a white republic? in the film it has those stakes but also wants to rally support for the war efforts by stressing national unity. so how does it do that? we

current radar shows snow and ice stretching from oklahoma into texas, and later today arkansas, tennesseend kentucky will be under the gun before snow arrives in the major cities of the northeast tomorrow. >>> meanwhhe historic power crisis in texas drags on. the lights went out while houston's mayor was being interviewed on tv, so he finished the interview in the dark. >> the weather has also taken a deadly turn in the pacific northwest. four people in oregon died of carbon monoxide poisoning as people used generators to heat their homes. >>> but we begin our coverage with the dangerous weather conditions at this hour. this morning, parts of the country already pummeled by snow and ice now getting hit with a second round. overnight another storm moving into oklahoma where the capitol recorded its coldest temperature in more than a century tuesday, negative 14 degrees. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: bursting pipes interrupted lunch at this restaurant in tulsa. a similar scene at this apartment building in texas where people are shivering in their homes. >> it's pretty cold inside. last night

of tennessee executive director heidi weinberg said. this unconstitutional legislation demonstrates the condescending mindset underlying this bill that men should control women's bodies women are not chattel and this bill you think you stopped in its tracks i have to ask what are the chances of this bill getting stopped in its tracks and this is one of the most extreme like. the sauna most extreme moment i hate to laugh because just so ludicrous to me of men clearly just being like we just want to be able to tell you exactly what you can or cannot do with your body and you're going to go through to make every decision regarding your health care and here question moment ago. i think it could go pretty far i think that if it actually could stand a chance unless it is taken up by the supreme court ruled unconstitutional and i say that just because governor levy is one of the most pro-life anti-woman advocates that we've seen in recent times and just last year he pushed one of the again one the most aggressive bill specifically and that was

you know and i tell you if tennessee williams was in freud in therapy and i asked him. at the linear union therapist i said what's your ideal dream. of an upstate new york and brando comes that much so and i've got to twila plunger that it grabs out of my hand or force me to that would be very core. area i don't want to know what that's about that. words are going through. and these would light and we would talk about the movie soon talk about using your imagination whoever the young girl is and girl in the basement maybe you can give a shout out here judd because she must've had to use your imagination because the fact is that. everyone was great and all the actors were great in fact i was incredibly impressed with the younger kids because they play the characters that are the children that i have with my daughter and these are people that grow up never seeing the sky never seeing the sun never taking a bath never walking up stairs never having a friend you know it's like. incredible and i don't know how you begin to build those kind of characters but all these kids we

. >> harris: tennessee governor bill lee going after one of president biden's first executive orders which calls on schools not to discriminate based on gender identity including youth sports. critics say the move puts women-born athletes at a disadvantage if they're forced to compete against transgender students. former u.n. ambassador nikki haley put it this way. the order was framed as a matter of transgender rights. but really it was an attack on women's rights. my next guest is suing the connecticut interscholastic athletic conference over this policy. selena joins me now along with kristin wagner, general counselor at alliance defunding freedom. thank you both for being with me. first of all, you know, i'm curious from a student athlete perspective what that means to you and what you are fighting exactly? >> we're fighting for fairness

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tennessee williams was a world-renowned playwright, the son of brown county mississippi once wrote the violence in the mountains have roped in the rocks. what he meant was simply the decency, kindness, empathy and goodness always win even when facing hardened opposition. that is happened here in our state, in our time. we have seen courage and compassion beat the forces of chaos and destruction here at home. the victory isn't final but we can see it every single day. that victory is visible in the long hours of nurses, teachers and first responders. it is visible by ordinary heroes administering care, physical, emotional and spiritual on a daily basis and our state. it is because of those people that mississippi was able to move forward when the rest of the world came to a hault. in mississippi, we never stop working. we never shut down farms and they never shut down factories. when we did slow down we opened up as quickly and as widely as we possibly could. we've been cautious and never panicked. we have been safe but not stubborn. life cannot be lived in perpetual idleness and -- we

tennessee still had enslaved people and johnson was governor. even though he was from the south he was loyal to the union. back then it was the party convention that shows the vice president. i don't think if it were up to lincoln himself he would've chosen johnson. andrew johnson frankly in the end was a white supremacist. he also happened to be an alcoholic. he showed up when he was inaugurated, he was totally plastered and could not handle the ceremony and had to sit down . he ended up by really botching the reconstruction. he acted like a white supremacist. he was eventually impeached. he was within one vote of being convicted. he wasn't convicted but he was impeached. even with johnson, lincoln, andrew is basically -- he and i differ on a lot of points. he is basically not an alcoholic, i have high hopes you will succeed in everything. he did not know johnson would be president so quickly. no one knew that lincoln would be assassinated on april 14, 1865. at which point johnson takes over. if lincoln lived, i'm sure he would've lived in a mu

. >>> we're hearing new details this morning about the mauling of a sanctuary worker in tennessee. what started out as a slight tumble nearly ended with her losing her arm. this morning, a woman reliving a terrifying tiger attack. >> the nearest person from me had to have been at least two football fields away. i just had to scream and scream and hope someone would hear me. >> 18-year-old summer stevens was working at this animal sanctuary in tennessee last month when she says she tripped over debris and fell toward the animal's cage. >> what's going on? >> somebody got grabbed by one of the tigers. >> in an instant, the tiger latched onto her arm. >> grabbing my hand, he had pulled my arm into his mouth and he skipped this section right here and went up to my elbow, i suppose and worked his way up until he got all the way to my tevens' fiance also works at the d jumped into action. >> he grabbed the bamboo off the ground and went to put it down the tiger's throat. >> body camera video captured the moment officers arrived. you can see stevens lying on the ground, her coworkers used

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valley all the way down into arkansas into parts of tennessee, kentucky.ng to happen tomorrow, this severe threat is going to shift a bit farther south into parts of northeast texas. even parts of louisiana could see some strong to severe thunderstorms. not only the 60 mile per hour wind gusts but we're going to tack on there the chance for an isolated tornado as we head through your sunday. now as far as the rain totals go, you have to factor in the h tennessee. that's melting. you top on there 3 to 5 inches of rain stretching from parts of texas into the tennessee valley and west virginia. flooding is going to be a primary concern as we head through the weekend. now, while we're dealing with a lot of strong storms in parts of the southeast and into the tennessee valley, we do have some record warmth that will be occurring in florida as >>> beautiful sunrise over san jose. 43 degrees right now. it is a little bit colder through the north bay right now. napa waking up to 33 degrees. 36 in livermore. by the afternoon, expect some offshore winds begin to kic

and farther north, chicago could see four more inches of snow. >> new video from nashville, tennessee, shows just how dangerous the roads can be. this driver backed out of their driveway and they went sliding all the way down the street. abc's andrea fujii begins our coverage. >> reporter: this morning, historic cold hitting the country. arctic air dropping down through the plains into texas, turning roads into skating rinks. >> slow down. >> reporter: in el paso, mangled big rigs littering this highway. overnight windchills dipping below zero in san antonio. conditions so extreme in houston, the city could see its coldest february in 122 years. >> the freezing temperatures have already reached, so it's very, very important that folks stay off the roads so that we don't cause a disaster on top of a disaster. >> reporter: power companies in texas now considering rolling blackouts because the massive demand for electricity during this record cold threatens to overwhelm the power grid. and it's not just texas. 240 million americans across 40 states are on alert, with feel-like temperatur

of tennessee. then he gets elected to, the united states senate. and, he is a loyal unionist. when the southern states secede from the union, 1961, johnson's own state of tennessee, of course succeeds, but he refuses to recognize this. he bravely, stays at his, folks in united states senate, defying, the secessionists. in fact, when tennessee is reoccupy, it by federal courses -- lincoln appointed johnson as military governor of tennessee. and, johnson's service, as military governor of tennessee, is really one of the few successes, along that line. that lincoln can boast. so, choosing johnson, to be his running mate, seemed like the perfectly logical thing. until, it turned out that it wasn't, a perfectly logical thing. they started to see signs of, this very early on. johnson, shows up for his inauguration. , first of all he wrote to lincoln and said, do i really have to come? for the inauguration. that really was not the question, he wanted to be asking. of course, he said, you have to be here.

educators in tennessee weren't just confused about what they saw. they were insulted because they knew exactly what was happening. on january 26, c.d.c. officials released a study showing that if we were careful, safe reopening was indeed possible. administration officials touted that report as a light at the end of a very long covid pandemic. but now, just a few weeks later, those same officials are defying their own experts, insisting that safe reopening can only happen if congress approves additional funding contained in the democrats' latest untargeted spending bill. madam president, students in this country are suffering. they're lonely, they're bored, and many of them are struggling with clinical depression and anxiety. teen pregnancies, teen alcohol, suicides, those rates are rising. children need to be in in-person school. the american academy of pediatrics has repeatedly stated -- bear in mind, this isn't something that i'm saying; it isn't something that is partisan; it is the american academy of pediatrics has repeatedly stated that it is

congressman mark green from tennessee.plause] not just a congressman, a doctor and a combat veteran, and a graduate of west point. [applause] and of course west point is one of our top five service academies. a little officer candidate school humor. representative judy heights from georgia. also a pastor, so let's keep it clean. [laughter] who was in charge at the white house? >> china. [laughter] of course i am teasing. i was going to say iran. it is very complex, right, because so many people -- this is the biggest question that everyone has been asking. who was in charge of all of the policymaking decisions at the white house both national and foreign, and i have got to tell you it feels like a resurgence of the obama administration. and i think a lot of people from the former clinton allies as well -- john podesta, a good friend of mine said you look at him and see the influence that he has had in this administration, and i've got to tell you, susan rice, and remember we investigated their. what ever happened to all of