and the so-called best men of louisiana will now rule. completely collapses as the white creole members are lambasted by noncreoles for doing it. beauregard doesn't show up. things fall apart. that's probably the last moment where a coalition could have worked. >> thank you. >> thank you. any more questions? >> all right. so my question is at the end of your book you discuss the coincidence between what you were researching and where you were at the time. can you explain that? >> yeah. again i was mentioning we were in the edgar allen poe room. i'm not much of a believer in the super natural, but the houses i showed you earlier -- there. are across the street from the women who are accused. i found this story while i was with my wife at 5229 camp street. i began with the story of the kidnapping. then i found the women who were accused were operating this line in hospital. 5229 camp street is across the street from the houses on the exact site where the women ran in house but on a good portion of the story took place. i'm in the study looki

mynk you all for being at side with our family fighting for the right thing for louisiana. [cheers and applause] right. i just called congressman congratulate him after a long and tough campaign. i told him that representing the is theof this state greatest honor that anyone could ever have. [applause] >> the people of our state have while we were working and hoping and praying for a did different scout come i'm proud that our campaign was open and to voters. talking about issues that are to the people of louisiana because where i only a littleyou can tell bit with this family, there is no quit. excited to work hard. never ever have started this race or finished it if it solid and secure faith in god himself and without family, my extraordinary who was not only there with me every step of the way -- [applause] >> not only there with me every step of the way but encouraged me on actually egged every step of the way. beautiful daughter mary. and our wonderful son and daughter in law emily and the angel of all, maddox parker. never put a child on the stage with you, they will y

the gulf coast. in colonial louisiana, anyone born in the colony is a creole. white, who identified with french culture and language and feared being overwhelmed by the americans who arrived in new orleans after the louisiana purchase self-identified as creoles. afro-creoles of his class considered themselves to be cosmopolitan gentlemen and lady. bilingual and mannerly, they looked to paris for inspiration. many elite afro-creole men wore silk pants and fine jackets. they dined with silver utensils, filled homes with books and furniture, attended the opera, published their own newspaper, studied classical literature, formed lodges and drew inspiration from the ideals of the french revolution. their ranks included writers, poets and composers as well as doctors, merchants and skilled art sans. they constituted only 7% of the south's free black population in 1860, louisiana's afro-creoles held almost 60% of the real estate owned by the free black people. on under the slave regime, creoles of color took pride in the identity they shared with white creoles. they r

and the so-called best men of louisiana will now rule. completely collapses as the white creole members are lambasted by noncreoles for doing it. beauregard doesn't show up. things fall apart. that's probably the last moment where a coalition could have worked. >> thank you. >> thank you. any more questions? >> all right. so my question is at the end of your book you discuss the coincidence between what you were researching and where you were at the time. can you explain that? >> yeah. again i was mentioning we were in the edgar allen poe room. i'm not much of a believer in the super natural, but the houses i showed you earlier -- there. are across the street from the women who are accused. i found this story while i was with my wife at 5229 camp street. i began with the story of the kidnapping. then i found the women who were accused were operating this line in hospital. 5229 camp street is across the street from the houses on the exact site where the women ran in house but on a good portion of the story took place. i'm in the study looki

so mary, i feel for the people of louisiana. i truly do. i'm hoping that somebody can come along and have the same spirit and fight that you have but nobody will be able to replace you. what you've been able to do and what you've been able to make us aware of, my little state was involved in helping katrina, helping the state of louisiana. the state of west virginia came in immediately. when that happened and we were so proud to be part of that. and then we have a lot people in louisiana living in west virginia today because of that effort. so there's been a wonderful relationship, a wonderful friendship. but more important, a wonderful person who has graced the halls in this tremendous body for 18 years. that will not be replaced in this senate, in this body. and again, people of louisiana should be extremely proud to have someone that was a fighter, that gave every drop she had of public service for her state. never forgot where she's come from. that is a tremendous tribute in and of itself. i say to my dear friend thank you for your servi

the fight. it has been a blessing. a fight worth waging. louisiana will always be worth fighting for. may god always bless us, bless our nation. we thank god for the democracy that we have, for the right of people to vote. we honor and accept the decision tonight but i cannot tell you all and my family how proud we are to have made a big difference every day for many deck aids and we will continue to do so. thank you so much. god bless. >> whoa. where did all y'all come rom? this victory belongs to you. thank you! >> this victory happened because people in louisiana voted for a government which serves us but does not tell us what to do. thank you all. >> think about it. on november 4 the american people sent a message. they sent message that they did not the like the direction our country was going in. now, if you in this room, our state is the exclamation mark on that message. we echo that that we want our country to go in a conservative direction. >> patience has the power not a bureaucrat. where we have no shame in using america's natural resources to create better jobs for working

thank you all for being at my side with our family fighting for the right thing for louisiana. [cheers and applause] >> all right. i just called congressman cassidy to congratulate him after a long and tough campaign. i told him that representing the people of this state is the greatest honor that anyone could ever have. [applause] >> the people of our state have spoken and while we were working and hoping and praying for a different outcome, i'm so proud that our campaign was open and accessible to voters. [applause] talking about issues that are important to the people of louisiana because where i come from and you can tell a little bit with this family, there is no quit. so we were excited to work hard. i could never ever have started this race or finished it if it wasn't for a solid and secure faith in god himself and without my family, my extraordinary husband frank who was not only been there with me every step of the way -- [applause] >> not only been with me every step of the way, but encouraged me and actually egged me on every step of the way. our beautiful daughter ma

we have a panel of questioners tonight from the station across louisiana. greg meriwether in baton rouge, cynthia in lake charles and doug warner in shreveport. we will take questions from twitter to join the conversation and send your questions using the hash tag the final debate greatly encourage you to get your commentary and occasionally you will see them flash on the bottom of the screen at hash tag the final debate. for tonight's format of the candidates have one minute to respond to questions at the moderator's discretion for academic way to do that there is a follow-up with no set time limit. we begin with the candidates specific question one for each of the candidates and by luck of the draw tonight that goes first to senator landrieu. he made it pretty clear today that you would like to talk about congressman cassidy. but i must tell you that when i hear from the cassidy supporters, the feedback i get is make sure that you ask mary landrieu about her travel into the idea that you refer to the most $35,000 to the claims that were billed to the senat

i yield the floor to my friend, the distinguished senator from louisiana. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu: thank you, senator. i'm so happy to follow him on the floor today and some to see him again. we've worked together on so many important issues, mr. president, wonderful to see you and to be back on the floor. i come today for a very special reason. i am so proud to present to the senate a package of lands bills that have been included in the defense authorization act. and what's significant about this particular package is it's quite large and it's the first package in almost six years, in almost three congresses which is quite an accomplishment for our committee. and i am so proud of the staff of our committee, energy and natural resources. i made this a priority when i took over as chair nine months ago. it was a long shot to see if we could put any package at all together. it had eluded us for several congresses but i worked very closely with my counterpart, congressman hastings in the house, we met on several occasion

the louisiana senate runoff now just two days away. ith time running out it looks like the national democratic party is banning senator mary landrieu the dscc canceling plans to buy ads. republican congressman bill cassie and karl rove joins us. good evening, karl. and, boy, i mean, they certainly have given up on her. >> well, they did so shortly after the election. but they had done this in kentucky as well. they had walked away from alisyn lund green grimes and came in at the last moment. key moment here last wednesday before thanksgiving a lot of chatter that if the democrats were going to try to come back, swoop back in and try to win this thing that they would do so by buying a bunch of ads starting late wednesday afternoon. it would be difficult for the republicans to match it it and run through election day and tear up cassidy and hope that somehow mary landrieu could push through. when they didn't ride to the rescue last wednesday this indicated they had done their polling and testing and looking at the race and there was no ch

this weekend on booktv and inside look at campaign contributions, coverage of the louisiana book festival land war waged in cyberspace plus books about improving public education, the life of general george custer and the mia's coverage of national security issues. for a full schedule visit our web site booktv.org. 40 hours of nonfiction books and authors. booktv, television for serious readers. >> the idea of the book came out of the experience paul and i and many other people at the observatory half of the people coming to us with the same questions over and over and over again. not only are we tired of answering them that the answer is we have been giving really weren't satisfying or they wouldn't keep asking them. in a lot of cases the questions that are being asked are not the questions they are talking about but the questions being assumed before they ask. to want to give an example of what i talking about. in september of 2012 live in birmingham, england. i was there to give an astronomy talk that the science festival. if you can't read the tea should it is god's that and maxwell's

to the louisiana democratic party that never left our side. what an amazing young woman. congressman richmond who has been with us since we won in the primary. the entire leadership. we had election officials on the stage tonight. there are too many to mention. they are in the deep and extraordinary debt of young democratic leaders in the state. ready to carry on. briefly, on a sad note. people working0 today. we have been working every day for 18 months. a young woman that had just started working with us, her older sister works for the mayor of shreveport. she was fatally struck by an automobile while canvassing today. we want to acknowledge her and her family tonight. we have been saddened. our hearts are broken. our family is in mourning with them tonight. say it has been nothing but a joy to serve this state for over 34 years. [applause] when my amazing father ran for mayor, he put a coalition of progressive's, men and women together from all walks of life, from different racial backgrounds. he fought for openness and opportunity, and freedom for all. security and ju

bill cassidy now declared the winner in the louisiana runoff. ars in the senate now will be going home at the beginning of january. john roberts fox news in baton rouge. >>> congress has made an important first step to protect the critical infrastructures. this week the house passed unanimously the act. arizona congressman trent frank. this has been a mission of yours for many years, sponsoring legislation for at least five years. the resistance has been great. what happened and why now? >> well, i guess first of all, i just have a great sense of gratitude in my heart right now. you know, i think when the holidays approach, we all get a sense of how precious our families are to us and the nation that my children and the children in this country would have to face the aftermath of a worse case emp event in this country is unthinkable to me. so i'm deeply grateful. vi to say to you, judge, it sometimes takes people like you to remind government that our first purpose is to protect people, protect the people of this country. you have been a clarion

, we'll look at the exit poll on election day in louisiana here was the question, do you think bobby jindal would make a good president? 27% said yes. 69% said no. governor, these are louisiana voters. these are the people who know you best. >> well, again, if we took on the entrenched interest like the teacher unions, and they tried to reform with over 38,000 government employees who balanced our budget without raising taxes. >> in the time you finished president, 69% of americans wouldn't think you made a good president? >> if you had a president that had grown the private sector economy, we would run our economy twice as fast as the national economy. substantial improvements in the public education system. i think that's a record we need here. we need fewer politicians in d.c. that kiss babies and say, i'm just going to do what is politically popular. we need a president to make the big, tough choices. >> i want to talk to you about that because you say you don't follow the polls but your critics say that's what you have done in the case o

in the louisiana, we do not know how that will shake out. in kentucky, we are coming out of incredible leadership. and i think we have a strong candidates in kentucky that will really talk about kentucky. as long as we keep it about our state and how we are actually going to govern, i think we will win. the filing is not until sometime in january but jack conway, the current attorney general, i served with him. i think he is a solid guy, and putting together a good effort. >> he said candidates, talking about kentucky. do you expect a primary? conway has staked out a claim. alison grimes has not ruled it out. do you think there will be a contested democratic armory in kentucky? >> i am not sure where that will go. i think the filing deadline is late january. so we will have a clear picture of the field at that point for certain. but i think that democrats in kentucky have a real good story to share. governor beshear led that. from that perspective, we do not have real divisive primaries. we want to make sure we have a strong candidate coming

she always had louisiana's interests at heart and the people of louisiana have been all the better because of this. for example, in the aftermath of katrina, she stood up to the bush administration and demanded for disaster relief for the people of louisiana. "the new york times" called her -- quote -- "the national spokeswoman for victims of the hurricane." close quote. as her time in the senate comes to an end, all louisianians will miss having mary in their corner. i wish mary landrieu, her husband frank and their children connor -- who recently is married -- mary shannon the very best. mary shannon, i remember when mary brought that little baby home and she brought that baby to the senate. a tiny, little baby. now, a beautiful child, this woman is an excellent horse woman. she is one of those people who rides horses all the time. shoo has entered in contests -- she has entered in contests. connor, of course, i knew him when he was a little boy. he is married, they have a little bay named maddox. mary is so proud of that grandchild. frank, her husband, is a wonderful human being. i thin

ralph republican candidate -- be the longtime mayor of monroe, louisiana. makes this point -- unrelated to everything else we talked about, but certainly an important day. can we pause for just one moment to remember the brave men and women who died today at pearl harbor. a day that lived in infamy. a sunday, o on december 7. thank you for your tweet. tulsa, oklahoma, the republican line. good morning. caller: yes. in this conflict that has now over michael brown and the new york heroes are charles barkley and dr. carson for the levelheadedness. saying that al sharpton has aligned himself very well in backs ng violence somewhat by obama as best he can. the obama administration promotes this type of conflict -- to divide and conquer and stir up. we have had people who are that are calling in, you know, and playing playing the card of agitating on race. is not an issue, unless someone wants to make it an issue. ben carson t dr. says -- hhe says the right things and does the right things -- that this is no the usa a conflict. conflict is the political ccoming f

since the event at louisiana state university was announced, student groups at lsu have organized protestsulty senate say they want new restrictions on what campus facilities can be used for in the future. so maybe this won't happen again. but a long as events with the american family association are how republican candidates have to start their runs for president. events like this are going to keep happening somewhere. they're good for something, aparentally. joining us now is professional kevin cope, the chair of the lsu systems council. thanks for being with us. appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. i'll try to warm up after all of those chilling excerpts. >> i feel like we keep this sort of scary jukebox sort of things that american family association folks have said in the past. you've got to sort of roll it out as a remind r. governor jindel's staff said when he start getting questions, oh, listen, we didn't read everything e everything on the web site. we're not exactly sure how this was read. >> i think that the reception has been very chilly, indeed. and i might say the fa

. >> my questions of the louisiana territory purchase. one of those times -- >> the only real connection between the louisiana purchase jefferson in france is that who signed the agreement for the french was the same man who sent jefferson the questions to answer in 1780. i guess it would be right to this he jefferson saw large opportunity. >> thank you very much. i am interested in the notes on on the virginia. did someone in france sent him an outline, or a series of questions, did he circulate all those? he circulate just some of those two people in virginia and the colonies? >> i have the pleasure of an original copy upstairs before the talk. i think it is a very interesting subject. he started working on these in of 1780 -- shortly the 23 e had received questions. can't response -- i remember -- i think it was in 1781, or 1780, but, he continued collecting information about these 23 questions for the next 2 1/2 years. when he came to france, i was under the impression that he had a book ready to print. that way -- sound he communicat

let's take a look at the exit poll on election day in louisiana. here was the question. do you think bobby jindal would make a good president? 27% said yes. 69% said no. governor, these are louisiana voter, the people who know you best. >> well, again, if we took on the entrenched interests like the teacher unions. they try toed to recall me because they reformed tenure and have statewide school choice. we have eight credit upgrades, balanced our budget without raising taxes. >> you're saying by the time you finished being president 69% of americans would think you didn't make a good president? >> i'm saying if you had a president right now that balanced the budget without raising taxes, a president that had grown the private sector economy -- we've grown our economy twice as fast as the national economy, eight credit upgrades, substantial improvements in our public education system, that's a record we need. we need fewer politicians in d.c. that kiss babies, cut ribbons and say i'm going to do what's politically popular. we need a president who's going to make the big, t

it was the most expensive senate race in the history of louisiana. republicans had a lot of momentum. they picked up several seats and were hoping to put an exclamation point on the majority received in november. we heard from both candidates a few moments ago. >> this victory happened because people in louisiana voted for a government which serves us but does not tell us what do. >> thank you. >> tonight we have so much to be proud of. a record of courage, honesty and integrity, and delivering for the state when it mattered the most. in some of our darkest hours after katrina, rita, gustav, ike and the b.p. yoil spill. >> political observers will tell thaw it came down to advertising, and fun -- money. mary landrieu couldn't keep up. mary landrieu, oh has been a fixture in louisiana -- who has been a fixture in louisiana politics will be leaving her seat and bill cassidy taking over, padding the leave for republicans in the u.s. senate. >> jonathan martin in new orleans. another race was decided tonight. republican garrett graves defeated democrat an

let's take a look at the uisi election poll in louisiana. ere's the question, do you think bobby jindal would make a good president? 69% said no, governor, these are louisianaa voters, these are o people that know you best. >> we did state wide school choice. we have got 4,000 les state government employees, eight credit upgrades. balanced the budget without raising taxes. good >> if you had a president that h balanced the budget without e raising taxes, if you had a ---eight credit upgrades.onomy substantial improvements in our public education system. i think that's a record we need here. we nee bd fewer politicians in a d.c. we need a president who's going to make the big, tough choices. >> i wafbt to talk to you about that, you say you don't follow o the polls, but your critics say this is exactly what you have done in the face of common core. your lettingation under president obama's race to the top. you bragged about being part off the tproblem.m.prog take a look. >> we adopted the common core state standards, which will raise expectati

. >>> tonight, on c-span2, live coverage of the louisiana senate debate between three-term democratic incouple bant mary landriue and bill cassidy. that will determine the winner of the louisiana senate race, a race which has been undeclared since election day in november you e you can watch the debate tonight live c-span 2. >> remind us again of where this race stands just a few days before the runoff. >> yes, thank you for having me on. we're just a few days out from the election. tonight is the debate which we'll have on c-span and on tv. so, yeah, we're heading into the final stretch. >> mary landriue and bill cassidy joining her in the runoff for that senate seat. you bring up the debate. that's happening tonight. we appreciate you promoting it for us. what does each side have to do for the debate tonight? >> you know, there's been some -- some little things that have just kind of been being promoted and a few that are coming out right now that are focusing a lot on bill cassidy's time as a teacher and how much work he was doing for su. he had some residents that he working with

next senator. >> it was an explanation mark that the people of louisiana put behind the rest of what america said on november 4th. we don't like the direction president obama has taken our country and we wish to go in a different direction. and i'm privileged to represent these fine folks in louisiana as we place that explanation mark. >> after a hard-fought race, senator landrieu thanked supporters during a concession speech. >> we honor and accept the decision tonight, but i cannot tell you all, and my family, how proud we are to have made a big difference every day for many decades. and we will continue to do so. thank you. >> mary landrieu is the last high-ranking democrat to hold office in the deep south. >>> and here is a british invasion. the duke and duchess of cambridge are due to arrive in new york city late this afternoon for the start of a three-day visit. and the big apple is rolling out the royal welcome mat. it is live in the new york city newsroom with all the details. hey, brian. >> reporter: good afternoon. this is the first trip ever to

my question is about the louisiana territory purchase. mentioned that jefferson was in france watch wrote times and one of those times he would -- >> the only real connection between the louisiana purchase and france is that the man who signed the agreement for the french was the same man that cindy jefferson the questions to answer and 1780. he was a consul of his times. and i guess, it would be right to say that jefferson saw this large opportunity but that was not something that was topical during his period in france. it was when he was president of the united states. yeah? >> thank you very much. i am interested in the mechanics of the notes on virginia. someone in france sent him an outline or a series of questions, did he circulate all of those or did he circulate just portions of the people in the colony are virginia that he thought would know about the questions? >> well, i had the pleasure of seeing the original copy of stairs before the talk. i think it is a very interesting subject. he started working on these in the middle of

the people of louisiana put behind that which the rest of america said on november 4th. we don't like the direction president obama has taken our country. we wish to go in a different direction and i'm privileged to represent these fine folks in louisiana as we place that exclamation mark. >> cassidy's victory was a huge blow to democrats who now do not control a u.s. senate seat, st from texas all the way to the carolinas. landrieu went out gracefully. >> we honor and accept the decision tonight, but i cannot tell you all and my family how proud we are to have made a big difference every day for many decades and we will continue to do so. thank you. >> clearly, the democratic senate campaign committee saw the writing on the wall with the race, it pulled out of louisiana almost immediately after the november 4th primary. we should also point that that republicans will hang onto the majority no the house because they won two runoffs in the house last night. >> all right. john roberts there in new orleans. new orleans to those of us from there. >> from there, exactly. >>>

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the u.s. senate race in louisiana. defeats three-term senate democrat mary landrieu. publicans are also winners in the two house races tharp decided in louisiana. theave speeches by both of senate candidates. we begin with senator landrieu. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> what a crowd! [cheers and applause] >> thank you all for being here. all for being there every day. mynk you all for being at side with our family fighting for the right thing for louisiana. [cheers and applause] right. i just called congressman congratulate him after a long and tough campaign. i told him that representing the is theof this state greatest honor that anyone could ever have. [applause] >> the people of our state have while we were working and hoping and praying for a did different scout come i'm proud that our campaign wa

look, david duke got half of the white vote in louisiana when he ran. you can't run as a republican in the state of louisiana -- ask mary landrieu -- unless you can appeal to a certain segment of the population that happens to be racist. and i'm tired of these republican candidates saying i didn't know i didn't know. it's like the guy who gets caught coming out of the strip club, saying oh i thought it was the dmv. we know where you were. that's the real problem here. he knew what he was doing. >> david duke told "the washington post" that his political adviser was friendly with scalise. quote, scalise would communicate a lot with my campaign manager, kenny knight that is why he was invited and why he would come. kenny knew scalise, scalise knew kenny. they were friendly. at the very least, does this raise questions about scalise's judgment, that he was friends with a white soup remist? >> i think this should remind people of what politics in louisiana was like as recently as then. david duke was actually fairly prominent in the party for longer than a l

mary landrieu brought millions of dollars in this her final year into the state of louisiana, she got forgiveness for the loans dating back to katrina. but, you know, when she saw the drubbing the democrats took from all over the country, she had

exciting for the republican party in the state of louisiana. republican bill cassidy, a practicing physician, defeats mary landrieu in a senate runoff. leland vittert is live in washington with details on this sweep. good morning. >> reporter: tucker, good morning to you. over the past couple of weeks, a number of experts predicted this would happen, but the margin is particularly telling here as you can see. 56-44, bill cassidy over mary landrieu. you may remember mary landrieu tried to sponsor a political show vote on the keystone xl pipeline that failed and quick ly brought money to the republican party like an oil running dry. she is closely aligned with president obama and it worked for bill cassidy. >> people in louisiana voted for a government that serves us but does not tell us what to do. thank you, y'all. >> reporter: now republicans will have 54 seats in the senate come january. so it is certainly significant to give mitch mcconnell a little more margin to play with. and there's a larger story here. mary landrieu's loss means there's

. >>> there are just six days until the louisiana senate race runoff. conservative groups have just released a new television ad hammering president obama over his executive actions. >> what if they held an election but america's president said it didn't count. and what if rather than listening to the voters about a new direction or talking to republican members of congress or democratic members of congress, that president decided that if the congress or the people wouldn't approve of what he wanted to do, then he would just do it anyway? >> president obama though -- 12 points. still her campaign is now running a radio ad that hammers republicans for their approach to the president. >> they have shown our president so much disrespect. they said he wasn't a u.s. citizen and sued him. and if cassidy wins, they will impeach him. >> they will meet tonight in a face-to-face debate. >> the louisiana senate race is a top item today in 2016 presidential campaign news. hillary clinton is highlighting a fund raiser in new york city tonight. in washington tonight

the voting. there's also been a shift in louisiana, as carl cameron mentioned earlier, we are four days away from deciding the final makeup of the senate in the next session, saturday will be the runoff for the seat in louisiana. candidates staged their only face to face confrontation in the overtime campaign period. john roberts tell us how that went. >> reporter: if the polls are correct, this may be the last debate of mary landrieu's senate care. landrieu is throwing one last pass deep down field in an attempt to derail republican big cassidy's fortunes. >> told us that he was a doctor for the poor, but he is not a doctor for the poor, he's a doctor for himself. >> these charges are absolutely false. >> reporter: for his part, cassidy kept up the drum beat, that cassidy is about to continue president obama's agen agen agenda. obama care is deeply unpopular in louisiana, but when asked by cassidy about revelations the bill was written in a way to dezee voters, she was forced to gefd it. >> i don't talk to jonathan gruber, i talk to my con stitch wents. >> reporter: the candidates sparred over t

the massachusetts plan. and it has proven to work. it is not working in louisiana because bobby jindal and bill cassidy are standing in the way but it is working in arkansas, it is working in california, it is working in new york. and the saddest thing is that our state the people of our state who need it the most who are poor than connecticut and new york have to pay for everybody else to be able to go see their doctor and get their -- >> your time has expired. let me let the congressman respond. >> my question was not ansd. when did did you understand that jonathan gruber has purposefully written this to deceive the people? and would you vote for it tomorrow? >> i don't read what he says. i don't talk to him. i talk to my constituents and my constituents that i've represented for 18 years were tired of not being able to afford insurance. tired of waiting eight hours in an emergency room. tired of having to choose between their rent their food and their health care. tired of seeing people take bankruptcy. as a doctor you should know this. it is heart breaking to m

he defeated the incumbent governor of louisiana got into the runoff and amazingly re-elected edwin edwardss, vote for the crook. it's important. then duke ran twice for the u.s. senate. he ran for the house of representatives. throughout the 1990s, he was a major figure which, by the way, makes it nearly impossible for scalise not to have known what this group was. just listen jake to the title. european-american unity and rights organization. >> right. >> i think anybody could figure out what that is and certainly scalise, who was a member of the state legislature himself at the time that he addressed the group. >> i remember when the former governor of louisiana, mike foster a republican a mainstream politician, he was fined in louisiana because he bought and hid the purchase of david duke's mailing lists. i wonder if you think the issue here is not that scalise is racist necessarily, but that he was trying to get the support of racists, which is not uncommon in whether politicians are dealing with david duke. >> that's exactly what he was trying to do. precisely. he's trying to sidestep

the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: thank you, madam president. i rise to strongly oppose this nomination of sarah saldana to head i.c.e. for a very simple reason. because in this position, if confirmed, ms. saldana, as the new head of i.c.e., would be a key player in the administration to help president obama further a very bad policy that is very, very unconstitutional and completely beyond the president's proper constitutional authority. so it all comes down, in my opinion, madam president, to this very important issue of his executive amnesty, his recent decision, without authority, in my opinion to move forward on his own, without legislative approval, without congressional action, to grant about 5 million illegal aliens in this country an executive amnesty. madam president, i think that decision is a horrible one, a dangerous one for two reasons. first of all, madam president, i think the policy is wrong and is guaranteed, ensured, alas even designed to produce even more border crossings, to increase the problem, not to solve it. you know, ma

yes, there's one more big democratic loss, the louisiana senate runoff. we know republicans will have 54 seats, up from 45, when the new congress convenes next month. but, gas prices are down. friday's job numbers were robust. the president's executive actions on immigration are stoking the republican civil war and has promised to narrow the gap between trust deficit. >> beyond the specific issue that has to be addressed, making sure people have confidence, that police and law enforcement and prosecutors are serving everybody equally, there's a larger question of restoring common purpose. >> to that question, he had a miserable year. 2014 will be a year he hopes to forget. as it ends and people start to think about a republican congress, you see even in the polls people say they want them to get along, you get in the president's way too much. did they sense the white house can end the year on a better note? >> i think at the white house they hope that looking toward a republican congress where republicans feel responsibility for governing they really can g

duke was also a member of the louisiana legislature in the early 1990. that's when he gave up that seat to run for governor. when that happened, he was seceded to legislature to become the united states senator of louisiana, david vitter. at that time, he had to at least be aware of. in facts, back in 1999, when he was still a member of the state legislature, he gave an interview with many of the same conservative views as david duke. he talked about cultivating duke leaders. the novelty of david duke has worn off. duke has proven that he can't get elected. that's the first and most important thing. david duke's long time political lieutenant came out just today to say that he had invited skalise to that white supreme sis e sis workshop. hoe had no idea of the group he spoke e spoke to that day had anything to do with david duke or twiet supreme sill. for now, we can say that skalise's version of events is at least plausible. maybe he had no idea. maybe he thought it was just another random speech. maybe he barically eely gave the group a second thought

but in may ofo, two his office confirms that scalise when serving in the louisiana legislature spoke to a convention of the white supremacist group called euro, a group devoted to what it called white civil rights and whose president was david duke the former leader of the ku klux klan. according to a statement from his office, scalise ha has never been affiliated with the abhorrent group in question. in 2002, it says scalise was speaking to hundreds of different groups on state issues including slush funds that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars, and his opposition to a proposed tax increase. in louisiana's political circles, scalise is known as a prolific speaker but the euro group's affiliation with david duke and anti-jewish anti-minority messages were promoted and well known in 2002. scalise's office says he had no idea he was speaking to a david duke group and wouldn't have gone if he had known. for a republican party reaching out to minorities this year, this could hurt. >> o'donnell: thank you. today the lapd released a photo of a black man shot in a confrontation with police

. >>> a loss by senator mary landrieu in the louisiana run-off. e election shows a more seismic shift in politics in the deep south >>> the minimum wage to go up for workers in chicago. some say mayor ron emanuel acted too soon in passing the pay hike >>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm madored. -- morgan radford. >>> a powerful typhoon hagupit hit the shores of philippines. winds up to 150 miles per hour at its peak. this is the same area battered a year ago by a powerful tropical storm. that was typhoon hagupit. and this hour dozens of cities are in the dark, and roads blocked by land slides, floods and debris. kevin corriveau has been tracking the typhoon. what are you seeing? >> we are seeing the storm increasing in intensity. it's equivalent to a category 2 hurricane. it is a big deal. it is monday night in the philippines. i want to show you what the store looked like. this was, at one point, a strong storm. it made landfall in the area as a kat gree three equivalent. i'll show you the old track of haiyan and how close it was. let's go clo

but in may 2002 his office confirms that scalise when serving in the louisiana legislature, spoke to a convention of the white supremacist group called euro. a group devoted to what they called white civil rights and whose president was david duke the former leader of the ku klux klan. according to a statement from his office, scalise has never been affiliated with the abhorrent group. he was speaking on slush funds that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and his opposition to a proposed tax increase. in louisiana political circles scalise is known as a prolific speaker but the euro group's affiliation with david duke and its anti-jewish and anti-minority issues are promoted and well-known in 2002. scalise's office insists he had no idea he was speaking to a david duke group and would not have gone to that speech had he known. but for a republican party trying to reach out to minorities this year this could hurt. wyatt andrews, cbs news, washington. >>> the release of an autopsy of a man killed by los angeles police is sparking new protests. demonstrators linked arms and blocked traf

the only possible presidential prospect who said anything is bobby jindal but is also the governor of louisiana and supports scalise. he has a different interest than the rest of the field. i think it's going to stay this way until they absolutely have to talk about it. >> i think you're right. jeb bush continues to ramp up -- he stepped down from another position, board of directors from a publicly traded company. how close do you think he is to making a decision anne? >> he could well take another step. >> are you surprised by that? you've been covering clinton, obviously, for quite a while. >> i am. we all thought she was -- he her in inevitableity alone would carry her to be the first big name to make it official. she looks now as if she's going to wait on into the spring. i wouldn't be at all surprised if late february or even march before she makes it official. she can afford to wait. her democratic primary opposition is -- you know exists but isn't any kind of a real threat to her at this point. and the bigger threat comes, frankly, from jeb bush. >> senator jim webb was the first to lau

the massachusetts plan. it has proven to work. it to work. it is not working louisianaecause bobby jindal and bill cassidy are standing in the way every step and every day, but it is working in arkansas in california and new york. and the saddest thing, our state, the people of our state who need it the most, have to pay for everybody else to be able to go see their doctor and get their care. >> your time has expired. >> my question was unanswered. wind you understand jonathan gruber to liberally wrote this so as to deceive congressional budget office and the american people and now that you know that, would you vote for it again tomorrow? >> i don't read what jonathan gruber says. i talked to my constituents. my constituents that i ever presented for 18 years were tired of not being able to afford insurance. eight hours ing emergency room. tired of having to choose between their rent, food, and health care. tired of seeing people take the groep seek. as a doctor, you should know this. it is heartbreaking to me that he would claim to be a doctor for the poor the yet whe