his interview by the associate editor. act,e federal exchange with the idea that this would stabilize money at that point, local banks could issue money against gold. it created a national currency. the journal supported that. in the 1920's, began to have second thoughts. >> for more on this we can schedule, go to book tv.org. >> when congress returns from the august recess, it will have to come to an agreement on raising the debt ceiling. on washington journal, we talked about the significance of the debt ceiling and the coming debate with the economist mark zandi. washington journal continues. chiefmark zandi is the economist at -- analytics. a decision on raising the federal government borrowing limit. it is a lot of really big numbers that we are talking about. just explain why the average person should care about this debate over the debt limit. if we don't raise the debt limit, then the government

host: how did the federal courts get this land? guest: originally they but the woozy -- the louisiana purchase. the acquired the land from foreign government and so that is why there is so much western land. the federal government try to give away a lot of land through the homesteading act -- tried to give away the land through the homesteading act. there is a lot of mountainous and very. -- very air and land out west. switche conservation act , it went from the government giving away land to the government trying to protect land. to give you a sense of the amount of land, let's take a couple of samples. the state of alaska, the federal government owning the vast majority of land in that state, over 61 percent. .- over 61 percent over half of the land is owned by the federal government. the rest of the land, much less percent, 4.2%. over a quarter of the percent is owned and operated by the federal government. agenciesere is for that are part of the made for. -- the main four. land.% of the there is also the defense department that

the constitution created the federal government, therefore the states are the creators of the federal government. >> so july 2, 1776 to, what, september, 1783. >> 1787. >> when the constitution was finally ratified. >> question had the articles of confederation in between there, but they proved to be faulty on several aspects. when you read the notes to the ratification and the corporations they had with each other you learned that they greatest difficult at the, the great e problem with the original articles of confederation was that the federal government was operating outside of its boundaries and didn't have enough direction. the great problem we had at that time was the federal government was making inequitable treats where one city or one set of states had to provide all of the resources and then a separate state got all the benefits. so, the states having just now formed this union with this understanding it's supposed to be mutually beneficial, who are having to foot the entire bill were like, wait a minute, this is not why we signed up for this, to transfer our wealth to anot

the state and local and federal. in understanding those spheres of government there is a separation of power. he explained that in federalist 45. what we have lost attachment to in america is the greatest check and balance on federal power. thomas jefferson explained in many of his writings that the greatest check and balance on federal power is not the federal government checking itself but the check of the state on the federal government. jefferson says if the states look on with apathy, the gulf which is to swallow all, that term the gulf which is to swallow all is a euphemism for washington dc. he says we will become colonies in a kingdom rather than independent sovereign governments in a constitutional republic. the great check and balance is the authority of the states through the governor and attorney general and local representative, through the authority of the sheriff in their promise to uphold the constitution of the united states. to say to the federal government this power that you are exercising is outsi

the constitution created the federal government, therefore the states of the creator of the federal government. >> so july 2, 1776 until september 1783. >> 1787. that's when the constitution was finally ratified. >> we have the articles of confederation between their, but they proved to be faulty on several aspects. when you read the notes to the ratification debates and thes correspondence they had, you learn the greatest difficulty, the greatest problem they had was that the federal government was operating outside of its boundaries and it didn't have enough direction. the greatest problem we were having at that time was that the federal government was making inequitable treaties. what they were doing is they were making treaties with foreign governments in whichch one state were one set of states had to provide all of the resources and then a separate set of states that all the benefit so the states, having just form this union with this understanding that it's supposed to be mutually beneficial, who are having to foot the entire bill, were likely to minute, this is not why we signed up for

on board for the federalism as the total solution. i want to bring it back to several -- to federal civil service reforms that affect all the state having to deal with federal agencies. we have more than a century of civil service protection. it is nearly impossible, as mr. devine pointed out, to fire career civil service. people who make decisions without democratic accountability. and the political officials elected by the people have to land like it is omaha beach into entrenched your actresses that have their decision about how to make government decisions. i recognize what you are saying about the fact that it has gone back and forth, and any advance has been rolled back bank congress. ifas wondering, mr. devine, you had special regulations. would you go back to the carter reform? what would be your recommendations by which civil servants are hired and fired? mr. devine: there are two theories of public administration. one is that experts run everything theory. the administrative state goes back to wilson and to max weber, and tha

secondly, do you have any early takeaways on the federal hiring freeze? >> in terms of the cyber security area, in the last several years, congress has passed at least five different pieces of legislation that address the cyber security issue. i know they're focused on it and a number of committees, i've had a number of conversations with members about it. and they'll stay focused on implementing, but they've taken a lot of legislative action, both in terms of the work force issues, they required a number of reports, and so i don't expect attention in the congress to wane with regard to cyber security issues. with regard to the hiring freeze, we have ongoing effort right now to look at what impact that it had, you know, during that period of time that was in effect. we looked at the hiring freezes in prior administrations, and obviously, we judged that they were not an effective tool for managing government. it was better to manage based upon having a good work force and strategic plan in place and then deciding what you have. you know, the other area on t

remember the federal government is a creation of the state's the states are the master of the federal government and our framers hamilton, madison, jefferson , all of these understood it is the role in the duty of the states to control its creation to say we will remind you you have been delegated this power alone what you're trying to do is not delegated power. and since you are stealing the power from the states than the people is a lawful exercise which makes it nall and void. hamilton says this federalist 78. jefferson says it quite a of medicine says even the power of the judiciary cannot be above that because the states created the judiciary so the proper response of those who designed the check and balance is the state as individuals to say this is the of lawful exercise. therefore it is null and void to us and we will not comply. james madison called interposition the role and led to devastate two-step between them lawful exercise of power by the federal government and jefferson explains called it nullification that a power exercised by the federal government not authorized by

on federal dollars. the issue is further competition by concerns raised by the congressional budget office on the efficacy of enhanced trade. according to the bought -- office, and illumination would basically not impact coverage rates for children in the country while a continuation of the enhanced funding would add another 7.5 million dollars to the deficit over the next five years, if no other policies were undertaken to offset the cost. host: i wanted to pick up on some of what was in that statement by michael burgess. how big of a stumbling block will this be to the reauthorization? guest: he hit on one of the controversial aspects which is bill,n 2015 in the macra it funding was extended and a policy of been put in place which increases the federal share of spending on chip was implemented and funded. that is a 23 percentage point increase in the match rate, which to step back for second and explain about what that means, chip is funded in part by the federal government and in part by state government

but the left, excuse me, the federal right is not. so to the north, van leave has been able to take position up here short of the nashville pike. about 11:30 as the regulars fall back, van cleave encounters 8,000 guys under patrick cleburne. these are the guys marching and fighting since about midnight. and the one that is have thwarted stones river and doing this on three hours of sleep. but they sense victory is nigh. the hit van cleave goes out with a wind, they push back the brigades and push the skirmishers into the early afternoon on the nashville pike. the confederates have it right here. but this is where leadership makes the difference. because van cleave and his brigadeers launch a counterattack. 39th michigan and ohio. boys, go in and attack, do something to blunt their momentum. and guess what? it works. because the confederates believing they have the victory, these exhausted confederates, believing they have the victory in their hands suddenly the shock is too much. napoleon once said, the moralist of the physical is 3 to

the last of the federal assaults of the day had just ended. and, like previous ones, it had ended in a federal repulse. jackson's line had held. on jackson's left, the brigade completely emptied the cartridge boxes and lost fully half its men, while the rest of the light division suffered severely as well. general hill later sent word to jackson that the enemy had attacked in his front and the attack had crested and they had pulled back from his line. when jackson heard the news, a rare smile came across his face. tell him, i knew he would do it said jackson. thus on august 29th, had lee, jackson launched and had they participated in offensive actions on the plains of manassas? or had they instituted add strong defense? on numerous occasions throughout the day, jackson's line had been severely tested and, at time, broken. additionally, because the line had bent and broken, it offered required jackson's particularly a.p. hill's brigades to go on the offensive to restore their line. jackson's defense necessitied a strong offensive in its executio

today the federal government has its hand in every state and local matter is too cumbersome for the federal government to administer these programs effectively. >> a single point at which the question is asked, it was how much more or less, should it persist with federalism issues. i don't expect a dramatic change in the mission of the agency. i do think subtle introduction of that question in the policymaking process could make major positive improvements in certain areas. not sure what those are but if you asked if this was an appropriate role of government, that is one of the questions in the draft of the rating tool we designed but it was thought to be too political so it was removed. asking that question more and more, really useful. >> i just add one which i didn't make my point very clearly because my whole point was federalism, we are doing too much but i tell you something that is going to happen. as certain as we are sitting in this room, the real smart big government people are so worried. the entitlements are going to eat up discretionary spending period. clearly you can't even

the federals, the stakes could not be higher. because it's the largest army on the union army and the army of the potomac has failed and the third largest army, grant's army is retreating ignominiously and the second largest army is the army of the cumberland, if they fail, too, i'm not sure lincoln will be able to withstand the political storm that will be in advance at the moment and that is the stakes at stone's river and that is the stakes of 1862 when on boxing day the 26th of december rosecrans and his men leave nashville. there's five days of maneuvering through cold weather, rainy weather. at one point the men are so frozen as they march that as they -- when they wake up their pants are so frozen that they have to crack them before they can start marching, but at the end of december 30th, the two armies are lined up between two parallel line, running north south where bragg has decided to offer battle and rosecrans has decided to accept battle. those night both brad and rosecrans consults with his commanders. each corps i

the wrong way. let me take an example relating to federal funds. the special meal program picks of the federal government takes money out of my paycheck. the department of treasury since it to the department of agriculture. the department of agriculture center to what i the food and nutrition service. the food and nutrition service in the back to the state of wyoming where i live, which then sends the money down to laramie county school district one which sends it to east high school so my daughter can have milk with her lunch. i could of course just take money out of my pocket and get to in the morning. went to go through this loop -- >> she would have bought chocolate milk. >> probably or coke or something. >> i know. >> but i want to thank donald devine to your service with the reagan administration to $60 billion in in today's money is a lot of money, but the federal aim is about ten times as big, and if we could rehash the purpose of the federal government and rein it in to only deal with federal matters and not with state matters, i think you

and the federal government or anybody shouldn't be too overly prescriptive in in this how you do that. -- in how you do that. but you set standards, you make it clear, you give them the resources, give schools the resources that they need, and then you hold them accountable. and you hold them accountable by allowing parents to have lots of options more their kids; different schools they can go to if they're not happy with the one that their kids go to. so that's what a good school system looks like, where you give school-level autonomy and you have central financing and standards. i think there's a growing consensus around the world, actually, that that's the model that works. and you see this now, you see, you see lots of different countries taking on reform that looks a lot more like that. so there is this convergence slowly occurring where that occurs. so then the question is, well, how do we do that in the united states. that's your question. that's really, really difficult because it's so different from what we have. and i think the best chance we have are some experiments. you h

the federal government takes money out of my paycheck. the of treasury sends it to the department of agriculture. the department of agriculture sends it to the food and nutrition service. the food and nutrition service sends it back to wyoming, where i live, which then sends the money down to laramie county school district one, which sends it to the east high school so my daughter can have milk with her lunch. i could just take money out of my pocket and give to her in the morning, but we have to go through this loop -- >> chocolate milk. >> probably, or or coke or something. [laughter] >> i know, i know. >> i want to thank donald devine for your service to the reagan administration. $60 billion in today's money is a lot, but the federal desk is about 10 times as big. and if we could rehash the purpose of the federal government and rein it in to only deal with federal matters and not with state matters, i think you would see some major opportunities for reorganizing the federal government. thank you. dr. muhlhausen: i think this question i

it is not the federal government's responsibility. all fema is required to do is to go in and help people that have shelter and food entering the --er until they can get three double water until they can get their issues resolved. i don't see why the federal government is involved at all. guest: that is more or less my perspective, and my co-author' s. i think your point is right. there are other kind of risks homeowners face for which the federal government does not feel compelled to ensure. insurance is flood really all that different from subsidence insurance or earthquake insurance or wind damage or anything else. it's almost a historical accident. we have a few storms that were particularly severe when the government seemed to have more money and annuity do with any thought this would be a good way to do it. -- and they thought this would be a good way to do it. host: what kind of smart reforms would you suggest? congressmannk what interlink is trying to do is a good way. try to find a way to get the federal government to stop pro

the federal government if it wants to do something it's not translated down to the school level. it's at the classroom level because each of those entities has a lot of the economy. they have all sorts of ways to not comply or to comply in a way that appears they are complying but they are really not. so this is a quick example of that. think of the no child left behind at the federal level that was passed by president bush in 2001. that was an effort by the federal government to tell states, you have to have , articulate what your standards are for your grades three through 10. if they articulate what you are expecting to learn, and then you have to demonstrate to us that the kids have actually learned those things you want them to learn. that was the essence of what no child left behind was. set standards and then tell us, proved to us that you've met those standards. so if you know anything about no child left behind, you know that just about everybody in education hated it. so there's a tremendous amount of resistance to this. some people were actually quite like no child lef

the federal government is not its own separate entity. these lands were set aside for public use by many people, not just those who can afford to lease it, the rich, and the huge corporations. rarely does the common person benefit from these big huge government contracts and they are leased out to corporations. the comment i have is, the counties need reimbursement in an appropriate fashion if people wish to have access to these public lands. normally we collect property taxes from owners of land, and payment ind pilt, lieu of taxes, and that is something that needs to be looked at going forward if the public has problems accessing these beautiful lands. it probably started 100 years ago when president lincoln signed the act for the huge park out west, yellowstone, i cannot think of it. host: how long have you been a county commissioner? caller: eight years. host: california, two areas californiadered, one desert national monument is safe but still another in jeopardy. we will have a final decision by the interior secretary next week, and

yet again, the federals had succeeded in cracking jackson's line. but yet again, further reinforcements would be sent to seal the breach. by 5:15 p.m. as kearney's assault moves forward he's looking for any and all available reinforcements to send forward. something he had not done earlier in the day. he would find daniel lesher's two regiments brigade, 7 huh men. they would go forward with taylor ad nagel's men that kearney had been able to rally. general kaer i didn't would ride up to stevens, and in regard to lesher's brigade asked, will these men fight? and stevens replied, by god, general kearney, these are my round-heads, referring to the 100th pennsylvania volunteers. kearney pointed tout to lesher that this is your line of advance and sweep everything before you. look out to your left, i'll take care of your right. >> the last of the federal assaults of the day had just ended and like the previous ones it had ended in a federal repulse, jackson's line had held. on jackson's left gregg's brigade had emptied cartridge boxeses and lost half its

the other is the federal reserve is clear from the beginning that qe was temporary. the injection of money would be put out. that money will be temporary, pulled out and was not packed much of a punch. the fed has been clear that it was just to stabilize frictions and keep the economy going. they were never meant to juice up, jumpstart a massive amount of spending. host: time for a couple more calls, democrat in wisconsin. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: glad to be able to speak with c-span. comment on my question is to is republicans in the white house have asked for new immigration policy, and they will discuss that, how about affect our federal reserve and ?onetary policy are they setting up the new immigration or rule or policy with the point system that they are acquiring from other countries? australia, buta, when they come to help, or health care in this country, they do not want to consider other countries. would you please comment on that? guest: that will not have much effect on fed policy. there is a small, possible side effect and that i

president trump has requested 1.1 trillion dollars in the 2018 federal budget. of that, he would like the -- that isepartment a cut from 2017. this is a guideline. congress gets to decide with final number is. joining us is education reporter caitlin emma. th a 14% cut in funding proposed are the president, which programs would be affected? >> his budget has gotten a lot of criticism for targeting these programs that provide billions of dollars in federal funding for public school programs. at the se time, he proposed a investment in school choice, which is the next spansion -- the expansion of charter schools and private schools, even choice among private -- public schools. some of the programs targeted that stirred up a lot of controversy included more than $2 billion for teacher training and classroom reduction. it is a popular program. studies about this program have showed mixed results. it is on the chopping block for the top administration and trumpicans in progress -- administration and republicans in congress. congressman like reblican lou barletta, who

we are in good hands at the federal level. as you might know, the secretary of homeland security and fema administrator are responsible for bringing together the firepower of the government to assist state and local governments, but the state and local governments are in the lead here, and we have a lot of theect for and faith in governors of these states in the affected path. governor john bel edwards in louisiana has a strong handle on what he is doing and governor added in texas likewise. we would like to reinforce their planning efforts, challenge the people in the path to be prepared to listen to their institutions and their state and local governments. now is not the time to lose faith in your government institutions. those emergency managers giving you advice and making recommendations for you to evacuate are doing so with your best interest at heart. we encourage you to listen to them. lastly, a little shameless plug here for all americans to visit ready.gov. i think maybe you will learn something if you go there that w

historically the federal government, and ultimately the u.s. treasury has borne all of the rest and this is part of the reason why the program is $25 billion in debt. what has happened recently is some share of the risk for very severe flood events has been ceded to private reinsurers and with respect to hurricane harvey , it appears that the private reinsurance sector involving reinsurers from around the world were, for the first time of the ever be paying on these claims.. this was a good move for taxpayers. the national flood insurance program, for the first time ever has coverage in place. the flood program covers the first $4 billion of loss and then for losses in excess of that up to $8 billion, 26% of that will be paid for by private reinsurers. i fully expect that they will be participating in the losses associated with this event. >> our guest is here to talk about the program. we will talk about his current fiscal status and you can ask questions as well this morning. the lines are open. then, if you are a texas or louisiana resident,

property and the asset of services to be received by the federal government. gsa has limited experience in successfully completing swap exchanges and his only completed a few relatively small changes in 2001 but under $10 million. in the 2014 report we reviewed five projects are gsa proposed and canceled swap exchange procurement. for example gsa officials told us that there was little or no market interest in baltimore and miami properties. from 2012 to 2015, gsa pursued a large swap exchange intentionally involving up to five properties in the federal triangle south area of washington in order to finance construction of gsa headquarters and other federal properties. in 2013 gsa decided to focus on exchanging only two buildings, the gsa regional office and the right 2016 gsa cancel the procurement state and the private investor valuations for the two buildings fell short of the government estimated values as well as the amount gsa required to complete the other projects. subsequent to, gsa officials noted that they plan to improve the swap exchange process inc

we're in good hands at the federal level. of ou might know secretary homeland security are responsible for bringing together the fire power to state and local government but the state and local governments are in the a we have respect nd faith in the governors of these respective ones as well. louisiana has a good handle on what he's doing and governor abbot like wise. to reenforce their planning efforts and challenge people to be prepared and listen and state and local governments. faith.t the time to lose best interests and then encourage a shameless plug. i think maybe you learn something if you go there and it help you and your family. an idea of what the president is doing to monitor the development of the storm and what he'll be doing moving campaign this weekend. done.what he has fairly regular briefings. john kelly and myself and had in touch with the secretary and that started several weeks months as weeveral transition in this administration you saw president give a talkfema and to the team but also to set the expect

we have the federal judicial center. the administrative offices of the courts and then the sentencing commission. they go to all of these different organizations and they serve a year long fellowship. where they learn something about judicial management. i have often wondered why did law schools not have two or three people who are directly engaged in that? it's a very important field and everyone thinks that on the bench. also, quite a few lawyers do as well. so anyway that's a thought. but to complement the fellows program, the supreme court alumnis association was established in the year 2000. it has a network in which you can remain connected and continue to exchange ideas. they have as their goals supporting and enhancing the fellowship programs efforts to improve public understanding of the judiciary. and i hope you're involved in that. that's so important. people don't know about it. high school students don't. college students don't. we can all help there. they provide a mentoring group for the current class of fe

state and charity, but particularly from the federal government. they believe the government will bail them out. there is evidence in events like this that people come to view that, the large, federal aid packages, and there is tremendous pressure on whoever is president, tremendous pressure on president trump, just as with president obama and president bush, to provide large packages after the events. that is what we do as a country and we need to reach out to our fellow americans to make sure they are taken care of in their time of need, but is it the most efficient way to handle the recovery? wave, aith a huge tidal synonymy of federal money in the aftermath of the event rather than investing it prior to the event in terms of zoning, location of homes, and the many things we can do to prevent flood loss before the flood occurs? by making those changes to the national flood insurance program now, as it is about to be reauthorized at the end of september, but we can do is slowly over time harden the infrastructure of the united states, make us more

they work at hhs for the federal government during the day with superheroes in the federal government, they might take off their suit and then put on the uniform of the public health service which is an unarmed branch of the us military and they go to rescue efforts, disaster areas across the country, often all over the world and they apply their expertise of taking people in trouble so the public health emergency is one way , is the way that you trigger deploying those people but also brings up federal resources and expand cooperation to state and local governments but the importance cethat secretary price took on is that. >> host: albany new iyork, good morning. >> caller: i would like to say that i don't believe anything on the news about some of the people that have terrorists during this time and in texas, because they only keep reporting only two people died and in all this flood and they had even got a lot of people and i wish they would tell the truth about how many people. today i heard that it was six people who drowned in a truck trying to come out but there's a lot more de

defender service in the district of columbia and federal court. each are supplemented by criminal justice act lawyers, and these are lawyers who apply to be on a panel which is monitored and selected by the judges of those courts. they are then paid an hourly rate -- certainly not as much as our friends in the private bar are making, but that are reasonable rates, and they are appointed by the judges. so in the superior court the public defender service does most of the important cases, the more significant cases like homicide and rape, but there are a lot of cj lawyers doing a lot of misdemeanors as well as lower level felony cases like minor drug distributions and street crime, robberies for example. now, if you can hire your own lawyer and you can retain your own lawyer, of course you're free to do so, but there have been many, many times when i have shaken my held, i thought to myself when the defendant says, i'm bringing in a paid lawyer as if the paid lawyer is going to clearly be better than the public defender. most of the time she isn't be

and the federal court. they have a criminal justice act. these are lawyers who apply to be on a panel which is monitor and selected by the judges of the courts. they're paid an hourly rate certainly not as much as our private friends of the bar are making but reasonable rates. and they're appointed the by the judges. in the pure your court public defendanters does most of the important cases. the more significant cases like homicide and rape. but there are a lot of cj lawyers doing a lot of misdemeanors. if you can retain your own lawyer, you're free to do so. there have been many times i've shake my head when i thought to myself when the defendant says i'm bringing in a paid lawyer. as if a paid lawyer is going to clearly be better than the publ publ defender. they have such good lawyers that the person who is usually doing themselves a disservice and paying for it. what do you do if the lawyer has been hired by a defendant. defendants have right to counsel of their own choice. what do you do if the lawyer

we are already organizing the federal partners. for example, we've been assigning the coast guard to do search and rescue. they've been actively supporting the search and rescue mission that is underarea in harris county, but other counties over the past 48 hours. the other thing is we can support the mass care shelter operations. we're expecting a peak shelter population of over 30,000 people flocking to shelters over the next 48 hours within the state of texas. we've already been supplying emergency power sources to critical infrastructure. we've been supplying emergency communications capabilities to the state of texas. we also have amassed a large amount of emergency, life-sustaining commodities within the state and actively supporting. this is exactly how emergency management is supposed to work. we have great lines of communication with the governor of texas. they're doing a fenn knoll job for the state of texas. but this is going to be a very long, frustrating, large disaster, landmark disaster for the state of texas. host: w

the federal assault had risen and reinforcements had arrived to the scene. but what the story does illustrate, however, is the veracity in which jackson's men defended their position. a story that we will explore today. as we make our way through the program today, we're going to be examining several key factors to jackson's defense during the fight at second manassas. first and foremost, we're going to examine some of the strategic events that led to jackson's defense at second manassas. and what we're going to come to find as we examine those strategic defenses is the word "defense" will little be found in the writings of stonewall jackson, robert e. lee, and many other confederate leaders associated with this campaign. as we finally make our way to the fields and planes of first bull run and second bull run, we'll explore the numerous tactical moments that compromise jackson's defense on august 29th and august 30th, 1862. and lastly, we'll examine just how well jackson did in this defensive line all those years ago. so we need to begin a little further be

one of the things we have talked about is is there some way to use the federal employee health system as a way of getting coverage for people? we did not say that must be the way to do it to you it is an option to look at. leveraginga way of the fact that you have insurers providing coverage for federal employees, and let's use those insurers in such a way that they provide coverage in the individual market place. part is toer reassess the affordable care act's insurance market stabilization mechanism. explain what that means. when we hear "market stabilization" and plans to help the insurance market, what does that mean? a number ofans things. there are a whole host of things that could be done to try to stabilize the marketplace. perhaps the one that has gotten the most attention is these things called "cost-sharing reductions." that means below income people, they have some protections, so the cost they have to pay out of pocket 40 decibels and copayments are not too high. they now have that protection. the question is, when they do not have to pay the deductibles, or the co-pays,

they work for the federal government during the day. i call them the super heroes of the federal government. put take off their suit and on the uniform -- they go to rescue efforts disaster areas all other country, often all over the world. they apply their public health expertise to saving people in trouble. the public health emergency is one way you trigger deploying those people. think it's important secretary price took that step. york, good morning. to say thatuld like -- [inaudible] in texas, they always keep died.ing on two people all this water and flood and ofy haven't even got a lot people. wish the fed will tell the truth people.w many today i heard it was six people drowned in a truck trying to come out. deaths than two. i wish the press would just tell about that. host: the number is going up. the "washington post" today on front page pegging it as nine. nighty the deadline last when they had to publish that. there's a lot more recovery efforts. that number is expected to go up. i seen reports 10 or 12 at this point. at wha

secondly, do you have any early take aways on the federal hiring freeze? >> yeah, the-- in terms of the cyber security area, in the last several years, congress has passed at least five different pieces of legislation that address the cyber security issue and i know they're focused on it and a number of committees, i've had a number of conversations with members about it. and they'll stay focused on implementing, but they've taken a lot of legislative action, both in terms of the work force issues, they required a number of reports, and so i don't expect attention in the congress to wane with regard to cyber security issues. with regard to the hiring freeze, we have ongoing effort right now to look at what impact that it had, you know, during that period of time that was in effect. and so, we will see. we looked at the hiring freezes in prior administrations, you know, and obviously we judge-- they weren't an effective tool for managing government. it was better to manage based upon having a good work force and strategic plan in place and then deciding what

of those about 1100 are rescue.rming search and it's my job to coordinate the resources of the federal government. seen the coast guard choppers and we're back filling support guard as well for national guard we have customs and border patrol in providing ople security to all types of things oing on from the federal government. the other thing you'll see is you guys are very capable state. we all know it and you guys have capabilities and roviding life sustaining commodities and we are back filling that. 2,000,000 have over liters of water and tens of ready to backarps fill the needs of the citizens just north of y here in rock port trucks are pushing them e're to distribution of our state and how it'stners and this suppose to work. unified effort and we're a team on each other going forward. as the governor said it's and i want mportant to push this message. the first step to do if you one of those 18 countries under the individual declaration the president swiftly approved for he governor start to register now on-line first. .gov and thenstance as the senator suggests call and the pr

whether it was the best deal for the federal government, we may never know. but certainly there was interest out there. i'm going to come back to this last point. gsa has the authority to select a location. gsa has the authority to figure out what financing mechanism works best. they can gently work with congress in order to get whatever they need.congress has expressed itself in numerous ways that we want to help you. we know that the overall funding in one fiscal year is going to be extremely challenging. it is even more challenging now that we have terminated the contract. so we have to find a way to move this quicker than saying is going to get another four, five or six years before we get this done. because the fbi cannot wait and taxpayers demand is to be more efficient in this. so i urge you to work with not only authorizing but the appropriating committees. you have a good deal of information working with the fbi. working with what has already been developed. to move this project in a fast way consistent with law that you using a lot of the information

merritt: at the federal level, we observed one case in which one federal organization d.c. was not aware of how much property had been transferred to that agency or to its respective activities in the field. that was quickly remedied when they contacted them, they were able to obtain a list and halt any approval at that time. at the local and state sites, that went pretty well because they have a state coordinator. a lot of the processes were being double check. unlike the federal level, there were more checks and balances. >> i yield back. >> we now proceed to austin scott. congressman scott: my questions are primarily for the dla. you said that you recognize the problem prior to the examination. >> correct. congressman scott: when did you recognize the problem? >> we started our efforts in september 2015. he began by bringing in federal agencies for more training to ensure they knew how to work with the program. that led to the development of the memorandum of understanding. when we heard in march 2017 the investigative what had happened as you heard we quickly moved to im

if the constitution gave the nation a blueprint for federal governance, the first congress was left to interpret its design and set precedence in national law making. i have here an illustration of federal hall where the first congress met during its first two sessions before moving in december of 1790 to philadelphia where it would stay for a decade before eventually coming to what became washington d.c. in federal hall, it was located in lower manhattan in what is now the financial district. so such issues as creating a national financial system, funding the revolutionary wart debts and locating a permanent seat of government were some of the most important subjects tackled by the nation's first congress. one topic however that the congress did not expect to address was slavery. the federal convention of 1787 had resulted in a constitution that gave no indisputeable victory to either pro or anti-slavery interests. as with many divisive subjects standing in the way of creating a stronger union, the federal constitution retained enough ambiguity to allow states to -- excuse me, to allo

the federal assault had already crescendoed and had arrived to the scene. what the story does illustrate is the fer osty in which their men defended their position, a story we will explore today. as we make our way through the program today we will be examining several key factors during the fight. first and foremost we'll examine the that lead at second and what we'll come to find as we examine those that the word defense will little be found in the writings of stone wall jackson, robert e. lee and many other leaders associated with this campaign. as we make our way to the fields and plains we'll explore the numerous tactical moments that comprised on august 30th, 1862. we'll examine how well they did in the defensive line all those years ago. so we need to begin a little further before that and take us back to the fight. the guns had grown silent. thousands upon thousands of soldiers laid dead or wounded from the fighting over the last month. the new commander in the field had provided the capital of the confederacy more breathing room the threat was far

and at 6:20, the first federals see the confederates coming.osit theion federals are not expect to have to be in position untilt 7:00. and one of theheit indianians s later, bull run, we all know ha what that means. but we had a second and more cod improved version.of the f as a matter of fact, the ast confederates, several confederates take advantage of o the federal breakfasts, which are just about ready, just about cooked. and as they go through the ey federal camps, they start to push on the blade, they enjoy nice hot coffee and breakfast, d of the united states army. the two divisions fatherly quickly collapse and the jackknife begins to close. sheridan's division on the hinge begins to, he's been up since about 4:30 in the morning and his men stand and begin to make a stand. over on the other end of the line at this point, rosecrans hears the firing.s he he's supervising the crossing of the river. he says they need crans reenforcements. he's fine. rosecrans says. it's working right, he says to his staff officer. 7:00 turns to 7:15 which turns to 7:30 and all of a sudden things are