the local state press is scrutinizing all his presidential stuff.cott walker, you are now out there gallivanting in iowa and elsewhere. i think his record will be scrutinized. there are some successes to it to be sure. but the release of the budget and the fact they were tone deaf about it his staff is going to have a lot of work to do to make this a net success rather than put him on the defensive. if you are under pressure it makes it a lot harder. >> there are a lot of questions around various things that happened out there. i think in the end it is the big victory over unions that will still push it to the net positive. for so many conservative activist of voters, for so many grassroot voters around the country this was the guy who took on the public unions opinion. >> when he was giving two of his high-profile speeches he focused so much on winning the recall. he has to have a broader portfolio. his only calling card is governor of wisconsin. i don't think this budget showed he had leverage of seeing governor. >> i know you know this, it is fai

the locality state press is scrutinizing all his presidential stuff and saying, governor walker, youought to get re-elected, you were re-elected and now you're out there gallivanting around in iowa and elsewhere. i think that his record now will be scrutinized. there's some successes to be sure. but the budget and the way they were tone deaf about a number of things he cited suggests to me his staff is going to have a ton of work to do to make this a net success rather than something to put him on the defensive. if you were running for governor and you're under pressure, it makes it a lot harder. >> there's a little bit of a minor league quality to them at this point on this stuff right now. especially the wisconsin crowd. there's a lot of questions around various things that have happened out there. i think in the end, that the big victory over unions is still going to be a net, is going to push it always in the net positive. for so many conservative activist voters, so many grassroot it's voters around the country, all they know about scott walker was, this is the guy who took on t

local jobs. the republican governor will try to convince local businesses to move to the sunshine state. but, he won't say which companies will get his sales pitch the day -- today and tomorrow. if press release sent to the news room, the florida governor also took a verbal shot at pennsylvania governor tom wolf. saying, quote, unlike governor wolf florida is focused on creating an environment where families and job creators can succeed. >>> and, new jersey governor chris christie is getting ready to unveil his budget plan for the garden state. he'll layout his sixth budget tomorrow during speech before the legislature. some of the big issues christy has to deal with are the state's struggling pension and transportation funds and his proposals will also be closely watched across the country as he considers running for president next year. >>> penn state university raises more than 13 millions for pediatric cancer this weekend. it is all part of a year-long fundraising effort, capped off by a 46-hour dance marathon called thon. unfortunately there is year's thon totals fell little short of last year's record, still $13,026,653 were raised and participants were so proud to take part. >>

federal and many states and local prisons already administer hormone therapy to prisoner with gender dysphoria but manning is the first transgender military press they are to request and be granted the treatment. >>> ethics scandal is rocking oregon's governor's office. lawmakers including fellow democrats want john kitzhaber to quit. he and his fiancee are under criminal investigation allegedly asking to find his fiance paid jobs with groups hoping to influence oregon policy. hayes is accused of a bogus marriage involving marrying a nigerian immigrant in 1996 for $5,000. kitzhaber is oregon's longest-serving governor. >>> you'll hear this at courthouses today across alabama. same-sex couples lining up to marriage licenses to get those after a hearing yesterday a federal judge made it clear probate judges cannot refuse gay couples. it's been legal there since monday. but 11th hour pressure from alabama's chief justice had some places refusing to give them out all week. alabama is the 37th state to allow same-sex marriage. >>> new help for the country's war vets. a suicide prevention bill. president obama signed it yesterday. it supports program

local governments. at the end of the day the states will pay for whatever actions come out of washington. >> well, for some reason we think there's a money machine in washington, d.c. and certainly a printing press, but the taxes they generate all come from the states from the local communities. it's from the men and women in our local states that send money to washington, d.c. sometimes for good and noble purposes but sometimes, just an overreach, where they are trying to make us partner and mandate to us how to do things, whether it be education whether it be how we build our roads our transportation, you know, how we do our health and human services, and frankly that string that comes attached with our money back to the states gets in the way of effectiveness and efficiency. better not to take the money from us in the first place, but if you do take it just block grant it back without the strings. >> and you've written a letter to john boehner mitch mcconnell to try to get them to help balance the powers between the federal government and the states. >> that's exactly right. the concept of federalism, which is really a shared responsibility where we are partners, unfortunately, we've become t

the action has been in state and local government. i think going forward we are going to see public employee unions as being getting a lot more attention in the press and the media and the subject of a lot more scrutiny than they have been prior to 2008. so i think that prior to 2008 journalists did not cover public employee unions closely. scholars do not either. when it comes to labor historians, political scientists, there just is not much written looking at public employee unions. my book is the first to try to take on this big subject and synthesize what we know, and make some arguments and conclusions from that. i think it is interesting because the study of public employee unions is really fundamental to our political life because we are studying the state. we are really studying the political activity of government's own employees. what do i argue? i try to make a conceptual, very important distinction between unions in the public and the private sectors. a lot of us, myself included came into this project thinking about unions as being sort of more older style industrial or craft unions guys in hard hats, steel toed boots, who worked diffi

the united states conducting air strikes over libya and yemen and syria and iraq. when does it end? where does it end? >> carol, you know exactly. it scares me. oddly enough i read local press a lot of gulf arabs are going into iraq and yemen to fight with islamic state with al qaeda. if this spreads to the gulf we're in trouble. and that's what we should look about is the speed of this disease and come together with a plan. like a manhattan plan how to stop it. i don't know myself. we got to bring some good minds to it. >> all right. bob, thanks for your insight. i appreciate it. still to come in the "newsroom," the country of denmark reeling after a homegrown terror attack and now intelligence officials are trying to determine if the shooter had any ties to the united states. we'll talk about that next. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. [ m'm... ] [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.® >>> checking top stories at 38 minutes

this is where the action has been in state and local government, and i think that going forward we're going to see public employee unions as being really getting a lot more attention in the press and in the media and the subject of a lot more scrutiny than they had been prior to 2008. so i think that prior to 2008 journalists didn't cover public employee unions very closely scholars didn't either. as i document a little bit in the book there's -- when it comes to labor historians, political scientists, there just isn't much written looking at public employee unions. so my book is really the first to try to take on this big, and fascinating subject and kind of synthesize what we know offer some new research and make some arguments or conclusions from that. so, and i think it's very interesting because the study of public employee unions is really fundamental to our political life because be we're studying the state -- if we're studying the state we're really studying the political activity of government's own employees. so what do i argue in the book? well, i start out and i try to make a conceptual, i think, very important distinction between unions in the public and the priva

local hospitals are still at risk of collapsing. that's next. ♪ good morning, usher! hey! did you know bees communicate through dance? me too... we're practically twins! >>> today on "meet the press," secretary of stateohn kerry said the united states is on the road to defeating isis but he also asked for patience, something that's running short from america's allies in the fight. and this week president obama is expected to take a long awaited step. nbc's brian mooar has the late latest from washington. >> reporter: president obama is expected to go before congress this week to ask for oughtization to continue the fight against isis. bombs began falling six months ago and victory remains elusive. >> as we said from the beginning, people need to be recognizes recognizeing the importance of putting in place a strategy that can win. >> a strategy that depends on patience and ground troops. >> they're not going to be american or british or french or european. they're going to be iraqi. >> reporter: jordan the key ally in this can't be waiting. they burned one of the fighter pilots alive and also they need the u.s. leadership. >> you need to see that translated into action. >> so you're not seeing it. >>

pressing local needs. the inherent flexibility of the program allows state and local communities to address the needs and fill in gaps created in the criminal justice system but since fiscal year 10 the byrne program has been reduced by 1/3, causing serious restriction in reach of the byrne jack funded programs across states and territories. if additional reductions are made successful programs will be pulled from the field partnership with the federal state, local, tribal law enforcement will be further weakened. hundreds of communities will lose a range of critical grant funding and their public safety will be compromised. i hope task force will be endorse the program and keep funding at fully funded level. i would like to endorse testimony later today by chuck wexler. with respect to the importance of open communication and mutual respect between labor and management. ongoing dialogue with the shared public safety goal is a must. even if in absence of collective bargaining, that said dialogue between the rank-and-file should compliment, not supplant the collective bargaining process. in closing i would lik

pressing local needs. the inherent flexibility of the program allows state and local communities to address the needs and fill the gaps created in the criminal justice system. but since fiscal year '10, the burn jack program has been reduced by over one-third causing a serious constriction in the reach of the burn jack funded programs across the states and territories. if additional reductions are made successful programs will be pulled from the field and partnership with the federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement will be further weakened. hundreds of communities will lose a range of critical grant funding and public safety will be compromised. i hope the task force will endorse this program and keep the funding at a fully funded level. finally i'd like to endorse the testimony that will be given later today by chuck wexler with respect to the importance of open communication and mutual respect between labor and management. ongoing dialogue with the shared public safety goal is a must. even in the absence of collective bargaining that said dialogue between rank and file should compliment not supplan

this republican state senator said to his only female colleague that women, like for example her, are a lesser cut of meat. that's nice. she told the local presshe comments went too far, that women deserve respect. and then she went on the senate floor in south carolina and she made like a super hero. >> the women and ladies in this chamber today, you will experience roadblocks and challenges. don't be discouraged. and don't give up. and don't you dare let anyone tell you that you're less than what you are. >> so yeah, the guy who called her a lesser cut of meat, he apologized. and because he's classy, he said he was sorry she chose to be offended and make such a big deal out of this. maybe the lesson is that south carolina should maybe have more than one female state senator out of 46. not only because it might cut down on the lesser cuts of meat jokes, but also because it turns out women make better legislators. don't take it from me. this is a website called quorum run by harvard students. they crunch all that data and come up with reports. what they have found has to do with the women of the united states senate. there are currently 20 wom

with local authorities and federal officials issued a statement in which they said that there was no direct threat that they were facing here. jen psaki the state department spokesperson today had a press conference where she addressed the threat achtd downnd down played what jeh johnson said. >> to us it's proppropaganda. it was to instill fever. >> and just within the hour you can jeh johnson had a press conference in which he's talking about dhs funding. and he said he had nothing to add to what he said yesterday. >> i mentioned somalis who joined up with the terrorists oversea, do community organizers say why this is happening? >> we spoke to community organizer here today, he's with a group called american friends of somalia. he utterly rejects the notion that whatever jihadist movement we're seeing in this country from disaffected somali youth or muslim youth is caused by poverty, hardship or lack of jobs. listen up for what he says is the root cause. >> some of this gets eventually turn out to be doing something crazy came from a wealthy family. thrs they were going to good school, they had good grades. >> so he's on the ground living in the largest somali community in the unite

the action has been in state and local governments. i think that going forward we're going to see public employee unions as being really getting a lot more attention in the press and in immediate and a lot more scrutiny than they had been prior to 2008. so i think that prior to 2008 journalists didn't cover public employee unions very closely. scholars didn't either. i document a little in the book when it comes to labor historians, political scientists there just isn't much written looking at public employee unions. my book usually the first to try to take on this big fast and faceting subject and synthesize what we know offer new research and make some arguments and conclusions from that. and i think it's very interesting because the study of public employee unions is really fundamental to our political life because we are studying the state, we are really stepping the political activity of government owned employees. so what do we argue in the book? i started and i try to make a conceptual, i think a very important distinction between unions and the public and the private sector. a lot of us, myself included came into this project thinking about unions as b

fight programs enabling communes to target resources to the most pressing needs the phleb are flexibility of the program allowed state and localcommunities to address the needs and fill the gaps created in the criminal justice system. but since fiscal year 10 the practice program has been reduce bade third, causing a serious construction in the reach of the funded programs across the states and territories. if additional reductions are made successful programs will be pulled from the field and partnership with the federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement will be further weakened. hundreds of communities will lose a range of critical grant funding and the public safety will by compromised. i hope the task force will endorse are doors this program and keep the funding at a fully funded level. finally i'd like teen doors the testimony that will be given later today by chuck wake with respect to the importance of open communication and mutual respect between labor and management. ongoing dialogue with the shared public safety goal is a must. even in the absence of collective bargaining that said dialogue between the rank-a

the local press in arizona. even this morning the parents obviously still holding out for hope for the fate of their daughter but the local reporting says yes they were in a fragile stated you get the sense just by reading it, they knew something and likely more than we did until now. >> i feel sorry for them and our hearts go to all of them. thank you for being with us. "happening now" starts right now. jon: and a fox news alert to begin. new england digging out of a monster snowstorm, five feet falling in less than two weeks. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> and i'm lee lee. more on the breaking news lut the day today but we have to touch about what's happening in boston. hard hit for sure by this storm. schools and businesses are closed, public transportation is suspended. hospitals forced to set up sleeping areas for workers. officials are struggling with how to remove the latest amount of snow, two feet since sunday. >> no city administration has dealt with this much snow in a very short period of time in the month of february. i know there are

states because of new jersey. happening today, philadelphia's fire fighters union will discuss more details in the alleged sex scandal case involving a dozen fire fighters. local 22 officials will hold a press conference this morning. we will have a cam were there. to address issues surrounding the ongoing investigation. a dozen fire fighters and supervisors a accused of having sex with the female paramedics in the firehouse's cross philadelphia. union leaders say they still haven't gotten the inspector general's full report. >>> attorney for penn state, ncaa and family of joe paterno are due in court this morning. parties are trying to resolve misuse in a lawsuit filed by paterno's family concerning 2012 consent decree. >> 7:09. we have heart breaking news concerning daughter of whitney houston. people magazine is report ago this a family member of bobbi kristina brown says everybody is coming to the hospital to say their goodbyes. this is after that source say the doctor told them nothing more can be done for bobby christina that source also added that the news was especially devastate to go her father, bobby brown, bobbi kristina was found unconscious in the the bathtub last saturday. >>

state and local government debt collection practices. plus your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. "washington journal," live on c-span. and homeland security spending was the main topic at today's white house daily briefing. pressretary josh earnest spoke with reporters about the friday night deadline that could result in a partial shutdown. this is an hour. >> good afternoon everybody. appreciate your being patient through some of the technical difficulties we've had today. i want to do one thing at the top, before i go to your questions. this afternoon, as you know, the president is traveling over to the headquarters of the aarp. he's going to be talking about the fact that middle class economics means that americans should be able to retire with dignity after a lifetime of hard work, but the rules of the road do not ensure that financial advisors act in the best interests of their clients, and it's hurting millions of working rg and middle class families. a system where wall street benefits or wall street firms benefit. they talk responsible americans into buying bad investments instead of recommending quality investments. it's a conflict of interest and it isn't fair. this administration is going to take st

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