not the federal government preefrp presidented the sources of faxatitaxation? >> this is one of the great problems endangering the federal system -- well the system of a federation of sovereign states. the federal government has preefrp presidentmpted so much source they find sources without upsetting the economic balance that can keep our economy moving around then in turn the state in its desperation for money reduces the local community where the real basic services the people must depend on every day are furnished. education, the police protection, the maintenance of the streets, sewer, garbage disposal and local communities are more desperate than the states. the states end up taxing and a great amount of the money taxed goes back to the local communities. we go to washington, we are faced with this hat in hand prospect of asking for federal grants. i know i am accused of over simplifying. but it doesn't make sense to me for the federal government to take that money first and insist the only solution to our local problems is for them to take the money and t

is what you're doing legal in the eyes of the government, or no? >> which government? state, federalovernment says? >> state, we're compliant. federal, we are not. >> would 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

has not the federal government preempted the principal sources of taxation? >> this is a great problem facing the states and endangering the very federal system of a federation of sovereign states. the federal government has preempted so much of the tax source, the state find itself hard put to find sources without upsetting the economic balance that can keep our economy moving and then in turn the state in its desperation for money, reduces the local community. people must depend every day are furnished. education, police protection, maintenance of the streets. sewage, garbage disposal, all of the services. your local communities are more desperate than the states so the states end up taxing and then putting back a great portion of the money taxed by the state of california goes back to the local communities. we go to washington, and we are faced with asking for federal grants. i am accused of over simplifying. it doesn't make sense for me for the federal government to take money first and dispense it back to you in grants in which they tell you how to spend

i think it imports a look at this is the kind of the broader war on working people and federal government because it's very easy to pick on them overseas now the government the big bad government and people who are for the government. by virtue of being affiliated with barack obama must be on of mooches. take. benefits from the government. and he's really the last bastion of working americans who actually have some kind of protection in that job i mean unions have been demolished in america over the past seven decades we've been kind of annoyed. if you compare union activity in america to a country like even like britain which is that without its unions being right thank you rose yeah exactly. this is really the last group of workers that have any kind of protection over their lives and over the problem and whether they get to feed their families i can tell you though the right wing radio all day today the drumbeat was and i and i and i know this because i do three hour radio show and i get the calls from people who are you know channel surfing and they're there they're echoing the means

the revenues. under federal law, states are entitled to half the royalties collected by the federal government for energy production on their lands. to distribute the state's share, the law intends for the minerals management service to divide the amount of mineral royalties collected by the two and to write a check for that amount and mail it to the states. but an even split isn't enough under this new budget. an attempt to satisfy an insatiable appetite for spending, the budget bills plan to take more money away from our states, about $40 million each year. we had an interesting situation this last year when they did the sequester. the federal government said okay, our half of the money when it comes in is revenue. your half of the money when it goes out is an expenditure. therefore we need to paying the 5.75% out of that. when we heard that we started passing a bill around and getting a lot of traction on it from both red and blue states saying that's wrong. you can't take our money away. if you're going to take something out for sequester it ought to come out of both halves but it dunl doesn't

and footprint here, no our region by thirty percent the work environmentalists will make the federal government more efficient and more resilient in the 21st century. it's our ability to captains our community. we work closely with federal government and nonprofit and regulatory bodies to reinforce our collective plan to have a thriving economy. we share best practices and collaborate to educate the public. and we've realized on many of you who are in the audience. let's get back to where i started people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world do we have them here from leader nancy pelosi who has been protecting the environment to mayor ed lee who is building the extension programs who has helped to there our focuses and effectiveness and strengthen our role 90 in government and the architect is being trormd. we should all take heart from their transformational change. we've shown we can continue our focus to our values we'll indeed have an impact on the federal government in the lives of the american people and hopefully on the world stage where america continues to lead. now

now with more and more states not only decriminalizing, but legalizing marijuana, can the federal government still believe that pot is as dangerous as heroin? and what will it take for the feds to respect state cannabis laws? turns out, one particular dispensary in oakland, california, could decide the fate of medical marijuana for the entire nation. >> time the go sell some weed. get ready. ♪ >>> in california where we are right now, medical marijuana has been legal since 1996. and once it was made legal, there was a proliferation of dispensaries where people could go and get marijuana, you know, marijuana products. once they started popping up, then the department of justice started clamping down on them for being illegal. so while it is legal in california for them to sell medical marijuana, it is illegally federally for these places to exist, so it is a catch 22. i don't know, but it is going to be really interesting to see where you should draw the line. is legalization the answer or just opening up a much larger can of worms and a potential for more problems, because that is what a lot

congressman paul ryan announced that they had reached a compromise over to your plan to fund the federal government at a press conference at the capitol building senator murray described her enthusiasm for what she called a bipartisan deal. the constant crisis cost us billions of dollars in lost growth and jobs and the continued across the board cuts from sequester ation we're forcing our families and communities to pay the price so i am very proud to stand here today with chairman ryan to announce we have broken through the partisanship and the gridlock and reached a bipartisan budget compromise that will prevent a government shutdown in january the murray ryan budget deal sets federal spending at one point zero one two trillion next year and one point zero one four trillion the year after that includes sixty three billion dollars worth of sequester relief but at the same time it does nothing to repeal the sequester as a whole and preserves most of its cuts and while the murray ryan budget plan does call for new revenue it doesn't call for that revenue as taxes only things like higher airline trav

reversing both this 2% that i just talked about and the stealing of the federal mineral royalties and suddenly the federal government said oh, that was a mistake, you're going to get your -- you're going to get your full half of the federal mineral royalties, less, of course, the 2%. now, another little problem, the deal raises premiums that private companies pay the federal government to guarantee their pension benefits. that's something we've always insisted on. we've always said that the companies need to pay a fee so that if they go out of business, the people that they promised a pension to will get at least 60% of what they were promised. and that's supposed to be a trust fund. a trust fund to be able to pay those people if the company goes out of business. we've addressed that a number of times. we've held it sacrosanct until a couple of years ago. now, this raises the premiums that's -- that's gentle for a new tax, a premium's a tax. if every company has to pay another $200 per employee that receives a pension, that's a t tax. now, it's -- if it goes into the trust fund, maybe it's a fee, but here's the real

we never hold people accountable in the federal government. they cioast. we do not hold individuals accountable or the contractors who did not deliver. some numbers -- the federal government spends over $80 billion a year on i.t. $80 billion. when you take all the gao and ig reports and the contracts that are over -- that are high risk by gao. it is estimated that over half of everything we spent every year on i.t. gets thrown away. $40 billion. that is more than everything in this book just on i.t. in the federal government. we are now holding people accountable. the administration did not do it, congress does not do it. the number one problem is congress. congressy members of is really awaiting publication of the wastebook each year. this is the fourth year you have done it. here is a tweet from senator rand paul. the $65 million in hurricane sandy relief money spent on television ads promoting torres and in new york and new jersey. #wastebook. talking with senator coburn about his wastebook. $30 billion in spending listed in the wastebook. jonathan from

the beast. but so much of what government is doing badly cannot be outsourced, privatized or abolished. national and homeland security after all are core provinces of the federal government. if you add in all of the private contractors doing government work, there are currently about 15 million people who execute the laws, mandates under a functions of the federal government. surely urgent and important task is to make sure that they are all working as effectively and efficiently as they possibly can. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column and let's get started. >>> this thanksgiving week in american history seems different. seems the parties are farther apart than ever before and discord in washington is worse than before and the government has never been more dysfunctional but is any of that really true? i find it crucial to accept back every once in a while and look at the present through the lens of the past so we invited four of our favorite historians to join us. walter isaacson once ran cnn and is now author of bestselling biographies. and nancy gibbs first woman to lead "time" magazine and my boss. she co-wrote a great book

ultimately, like the federal government indicated, the federal government and the carriers would truehat and promise that the subsidy was paid. so if there was an over-pay, they would pay it back to the federal government, in theory. >> in theory they would pay the federal taxpayer back. but you know what kind of fights are going to emerge about whether the payment was right or wrong. and the insurance companies would argue it was not an over-payment. this has disaster written all over it. i say it as a former litigator. people just don't cut checks back on an over payment that was given to them. >> it is definitely a burden for the carriers. this is something they did not anticipate they would have to do. and so for the federal government to have the insurance carriers now really do this complicated work-around is really a burden on the carriers. >> and have the carriers do what the website cannot. and let me ask you this, there are reports out today that perhaps as high as 30% of the folks who have enrolled or think they have on healthcare.gov, this is a separate problem, have not i

the federal government has left the building with respect to my as to any. and it's been a while since we relied on the federal government. we have asked - we're going through all kinds of financial i'll say dancing around in circle to create new financial models that will enable us to build the new infrastructure that will support is the home buyers so again i'll say i'm really happy mr. mayor you're having fun (laughter) >> it's really important and a i would is that. >> about with respect to, you know, i'm very fortunate to trying to develop in san francisco this is a wonderful city and the current leadership and certainly the past lisp has created a great approach. as some of you know, we have great assets like candle stick but prior to joining the private sector i was in the public sector and i had a unique advantage point. i was city manager of city of oakland for awhile and i was the director in the city of a.m.ville and i was leading portions of this city and i'll tell you that there is at least in those days it was very little regional thinking going

education, and when the university feels as if its catholic education is being threatened by the federal government, students are really supporting it. >> so it's not so much just about contraceptives put also about the religious liberty, whether notre dame can operate with its faith without the federal government saying you can't believe that much. >> exactly. i think everyone would agree that you give the government an inch, they'll take a mile. you give them an opportunity to intrude on religion, and what is to stoop them -- stop them from sayi you have to cover abortion. that's why notre dame filed the lawsuit. >> are there students at notre dame that disagree with the lawsuit and think they ought to provide contraception? >> of course. of course. i've engaged other students and they're -- what they're saying is this is a matter of a woman's access to contraceptive coverage. one person engaged me and said contraception costs a lot of money. $2, and workers at notre dame don't make a lot of money so the university should cover it. but what we have to remember is that this isn't about a woman's a

>> it is very difficult to do such a major complex thing for the federal government. project like this, there's plenty of examples that we cite in the op ed piece, federal government trying to do major technological changes. to systems and difficulties of them. so i think there is very much a problem of management in the federal government, this is a democrat-republican problem. this administration did put forward a bill to congress on procurement reform, it's not sexy, it's not dramatic but those are the sort of things to run a government and manage it that have to be done. private sector made enormous strides. federal government is way behind. >> dickerson: what they say on bill kristol's side, you have a president who has never run anything this is what happens, what's your response? >> i think anyone who thinks that the president is equivalent to a c.e.o. just make changes, really doesn't understand how the federal government works. you have a system that been built over years that any president, democrat or prepare republicans i'm sure plenty of republican preside

the pressure on the federal government. if the federal government shifts the cost to the states, then the states are going to need to be prepared for a big increase as well. mentioned state governments pay another $160 billion for medicaid today. for most states, medicaid is the single-largest cost for government. new york spent more than $15 billion on medicaid last year, roughly 30% of all state expenditures. the kaiser foundation projects that just over the next ten years new york taxpayers will shell out some $433 billion for the program. there are going to be increasing pressures on state budgets as well. so these are some of the things that we haven't considered yet. as we go into the new year, the next big shoe to drop will be in april or so when insurance companies actually see who is eenrolling and who is not in the exchanges. i think everyone's fear is that there are too few healthy 28-year-olds signing up and more who are more high-cost enrollees, and the numbers just won't add up, and insurance companies will be

and part of the reason for that is that the government, the federal government is essentially not allowed to research it. the gun lobby, the national rifle association and others, have pressured congress for decades now to essentially stop researching the gun violence and defund it and as a result of that we don't have great federal studies of this issue. host: what was the -- did you get a response from the national rifle association and her pro gun groups guest: not yet to this particular study. but certainly in general to the gun violence reporting that i've done at mother jones we've heard quite a bit from that side of the equation. and there's a lot of pushback on what we do. but the guns issue is an extremely emotional and polarizing one and the politician of it tend to be somewhat disconnected from the reality of it. my role as a journalist is to gather information and gather data and report on facts. and that's what we've really tried to do with this project o ill lume nate the problem of violence. we did a year long research into the mass shooting. i think that people on all side

the insurers are losing money. there's only one way out, the government itself, again. but what you end up with is a system where the federal government, your tax dollars are paying for just about everybody in the exchange one way or the other and the insurers as we just saw today and we saw last week are ordering around like servants by the federal government, extend the deadline, allow people who had their policies canceled to not have to pay a fine, suspend the individual mandate. all of these things are happening that show the insurance have lost their independents and counting on the government to bail them out. >> you wonder what the people do. do they say at that point, you know, we're just going to go along with it, not going to have our doctor, not have our plan anything the way we like it anymo anymore. if this is the best you got, this is what we'll do. >> i think pressuring people in the congress, particularly in the representatives and the house of representatives to present a bill right now that says there will be no government bailout of the insurance companies if as might happen likely to happen, they're goi

local governments to make the investments they need to make. man: but the federal role is going to continue to be diminished because of so many competing demands. so the expectation that the federal government will step in and infuse a lot of capital into water infrastructure, i think, is doubtful. and whether they should or not, i think, will continue to be debated. narrator: where money continues to be elusive, some cities and towns are turning their assets over to private companies, hoping the private sector can find the solutions they cannot. man: in the u.s., roughly 90% of all water and wastewater systems are still publicly owned and publicly managed. the remaining 10% are managed by privately held companies. man: the private sector has learned to become very efficient, and frequently a municipality can save themselves a significant amount of money by bringing in a private company. this is not true in all cases. there are some exceptionally well-run municipalities, but they do have to deal with a city government system that is very hard to work within. paolic

that's where the real business is as insurance companies and the federal government share info and youinish your purchase. on this edition of inside story we're going give the affordable care act and online exchanges a checkup with the deadlines approaching fast. the obama administration says the ailing website healthcare.gov is on the mend, and close to being cured of the bugs and glitches that had the president himself apologizing. >> what i'm going to do is make sure that we get it fixed. >> this weekend was president obama's sow-imposed deadline to make the site work. the department of health and human services announced a main online artery for americans to buy health insurance is working 90% of the time. more than 400 bugs in the system has been fixed since the launch, and as many as 800,000 users can access the system daily. >> you can never get a second chance for a first impression, and it was terrible. i think it will be an unfolding terror for the president. >> bottom line, healthcare.gov on december 1st is night and day from where it was on octobe october 1st. >> reporter:

he has a report on the best places to work in the federal government. it was another bad year for federal jobs. wasn't it? guest: a very disturbing set of numbers. the federal workforce continues to go down. it has been doing that since 2010. that should be troubling to everybody in this country. host: it is record lows this year. it is the second year of record lows. if you want to follow along with the chart that we will be showing, you can go to best places to work.org. on achart is your index scale of 100. it talks about where federal job satisfaction -- this line here that has dropped for three years in a row. this drop in the past year matches less than the biggest drop the year before. guest: it is also the lowest since we put these rankings how. all of ourbelow historical records. very concerning a set of numbers. it basically tells us that we are losing our for -- what are -- federal workforce. we're disengaging them from work when we need their help more and more. of 157.8. is a scale you compare that to job satisfaction in the private sector.

years eyed nations will bring federal workers in the mid-market area and to ignite all the commitment. with the recovery act and the partnership with the federal government and the local leaders mayor ed lee is leading the way for prosperity. today, the recovery is urban finished and incomplete we're still putting people back to work and to strengthen our middle class the backbone of our democracy. we have to make decisions about how to allocate resources that just don't build a structure and create jobs that way or a place to work and create jobs that way but to grow the economy in the surrounding area. that is what it makes it a model to the nation and that's what san francisco is also ready and able to do. as we bring life into the building this is renovated in the great recession and now ready for another service hopefully it is something we'll be calling the great come back of our economy. i think mayor ed lee and everyone here for our leadership all your leadership because it's more than a building it's more than a workplace or a you mean it's to growth and regional it's the link from the past a great past as the un plaza to the future and i couldn

is to give powers to the people and to the states to take power away from the federal government. the constitution restricts the federal government while giving inalienable rights to the states. things that cannot be taken away. when you live in a local community where you park your car in the driveway i leave the keys a and a walk. i do. few want to steal my car, please do i would get more from the insurance they and if i have to sell it. but i expect people to look out after me. thank here was real added value. and gets on the other hand, what is the message? if that somehow nonpolitical a excepted the notion of federal government could be there to be watching or listening and that is affecting us all. because here i am preparing for my talk to night to and i am on the internet doing research i am around my punchline and that is understanding how the government justifies this gigantic surveillance nets cast over america. i want to urge you to forget physicality. if they want to watch all they have to do is get on the internet. they will learn a lot more than if they set outside

what the federal government has essentially done is tried, they can't force them but they can bribe them with cash to follow their federal approaches. so we have essentially the last decade federalized education. health and welfare was always part of the state's purview but once again with obamacare is and i can't call it that now. it's the aca now, obviously health care is now essentially better lives. so, this would have been hoover's concern, how much of government control and this was roosevelt's big thing. we need more regulation or economic regimentation. if you look at areas of our lives and areas of state and local policy taken over by the fed that really is a serious problem. the last issue we take up that we think is very much a then and now comparison is constitutionalism. in this part of the book, we founded our research to great speeches. one given by herbert hoover on constitution day in 1935 in one given by franklin roosevelt on constitution day in 1937 so two years apart. it's just a classic comparison and contrast. roosevelt begins his speech by pointing out that the con

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oberstar: the federal government has let down municipalities. the first investment under the '72 clean water act was to deal with the biggest waste streams. and after a period of six or seven years, to then go to municipalities under 250,000 population. but that was just about the time when the federal government converted to a loan program. so smaller-sized communities have had to deal with repayable loans. a larger cost on a smaller tax base, and, arguably, less affluent communities. man: sewickley township is a rural farming community, however, herminie itself would be considered to be the downtown area of the township. it's the agways, the auto-parts store, the bank. it's your typical small-town village. man: people think that rural areas are pristine and perfect and everybody has a nice, simple life. that's, uh, not exactly the situation here. when you come into town in the summer, you know you're coming to herminie. woman: the aroma in 90-degree days... can sometimes just want to knock you over. woman: we have water. we have power, we have