of the states. it is maybe true that in every issue there is always some catalyst that brings it about. . the issue in florida and west virginia was a catalyst but it is not the only situation that has provided the basis for this particular bill. we have a letter from the louisiana department of agriculture and forestry who has written in support of this bill simply because louisiana is currently facing a similar threat from the e.p.a. chamber of commerce strongly opposes several amendments to this piece of legislation but they also wrote that the clean water act grants states the primary responsibility for protecting water quality, however recent action by the e.p.a. upset and you is plant this partnership with -- is up plant this partnership with arbitrary power that is being exercised even over states with regulatory programs. individuals and firms that meet the requirements of and obtain permits from state regulators ought not to be left exposed to the enforcement whims and can prison of the fede

within the current state budget, there are a number of figures in the budget and what the state did to balance this budget as i am sure you have heard is rather than actually does make all the cuts that it needed to get to balance, the state made an aggressive assumption about the revenue that will be coming in over the next year but essentially said that if that revenue does not command, there will be triggered some place said that if we don't see the revenue, these cuts will go into effect. despite the fact that the state has passed a budget, we are potentially going to see additional cuts to public safety, child care, other services in the city. i know that the issues of government service are certainly relevant to this body, i want to put this in perspective in terms of why we took this approach and how the impact on businesses in the city is going to be felt relative to other people who are sharing the solutions of this budget. the mayor as he was developing his budget was very concerned about not trying to put a proposal in the budget that was going to inhibit the recovery of our

wagner noted, down from 9.5% on june 30 -- almost 2/3 of that flows to the state itself. a small piece is then reallocated back out to local governments. about 1% of it, in a sense, flows directly to the city's general fund, and that rate fluctuates in different jurisdictions, based on choices voters have made. in san francisco, we have about 1.25% of the 8.25% that flows to in part, the transportation authority, and our schools. in effect, this proposal would create a new 0.5% that would be dedicated within the local category to support current the general fund supported expenditures -- currently general fund supported expenditures. as we discussed in the report itself, our sales tax rate in san francisco is comparatively higher than most other jurisdictions in the state. with this change, we would have the highest sales tax rate of the largest tent cities in california. as you can see from this chart, this proposal would move our sales tax rate in san francisco from kind of mid to high in our peer group in the bay area to the highest, at 9%. this does not make any assump

from the slave states absolutely incorrect. [laughter] that's the mason-dixon line. it's not a line, its 3-cd lines. it was created or surveyed by mason and dixon to s best they could mitigate conflicts in the colonial documents the creative pennsylvania, maryland and delaware. now they don't know but it could be the phrase dixie comes from the name jeremiah dixon but jeremiah dixon was not a southerner, he wasn't even an american. charles mason and jeremiah dixon were very eminent british scientists, and to get mason and dixon to come over to become survey years of the line is the equivalent of getting mozart to play at the prom. [laughter] they came in 1763 before the revolution. well, in 1763, there was no prohibition of slavery in any of the colonies and in fact slavery existed in most if not all of the colony's. so the question becomes where do we get the phrase mason-dixon line as we are referring to the states and the slave states, the answer begins here the louisiana purchase in 1803, president jefferson made this purcha

based on the budget that was just approved and signed by the governor at the state level that they have balanced the budget with a condition. that condition is they have assumed a certain number of revenues would come in of the first half of the year. they are relatively aggressive assumptions that assume an economic rebound. if those revenues do not materialize, there are trigger cuts that will automatically take place and have impact on local government services. i know we have spent a lot of time thinking about our finances, stepping back over the previous year, including our first five-year financial plan. we have two-year budgeting starting next year. we've tried to incorporate that thinking in to this proposal. we have also tried to be conscious of the fact that we have a delicate recovering economy, and we do not want to take actions that will be overly burdensome and set us back on our economic recovery that restricts our cities' ability to recover, and grow, and create jobs. he does things in mind. on the financial planning picture, as you know, in our five-year financial plan

that's the state. second is the rule of law. it's all about community rules of justice that are regarded as superior to the will of whoever happens to be running the government. whether that is a president, prime minister, king, monoarch, whatever, the executive in the society doesn't feel that he or she can just make up the rules on the fly, whatever they want. but they actually have to implement a law that someone else makes. all right? that's the second set. and then the third is institutions of accountability. today we associate those with democracy, elections, but that's not the only form of accountability. and in any event, when accountability institutions were first put into place in 17th century england, the king was accountable to parliament that only accounted 10% of the population. the richest 10% of you can have accountability without having democracy. as within china, you can also have moral accountability. that is to say a government can feel obligated to take the interest of it's citizens into account, even in the

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you can make an argument that the state may not have the right to tax the income although there's a lot of states that disagree with that. but that is the only burden on the tax burden on overstock. all we are asking them to do is collect customer sales tax. they collect today they presumably benefit from the utah sales-tax and corporate offices but it's the customers who's fire departments are not being funded because overstock sales tax. >> there is the other issue of how the

and how we're going to implement some of the other proposals in the state budget. so we will fold that conversation together and bring that to the board probably within the next couple of months. the timing is still a little bit uncertain, but this fall, to have bought the policy discussion and financial discussion about what the impacts are on operations. supervisor mirkarimi: now that some of the blanks are being filled in, because the state appears to be arriving at a budget resolution, there will be another meeting, and we have already hit -- already had two on this. we can begin to round out what we expect to win with the first infusion be? january or sooner? -- when will the first infusion be? >> likely, october 2. when they release on october 1, they released into our custody for probation supervision. the court commitments will take a little bit longer. one thing i would like to say is that as we're building this realignment plan, alternatives to sentencing will be key. so the judges are going to have a core component on how the sheriff's budget and populati

it would be tied to the state sales tax rate. as we have been discussing this proposal, i know i aspens time -- have spent time talking about this with you and the mayor. we have also spent a lot of time talking to our community about what this proposal looks like. we have had a lot of feedback that people would prefer we extend that time to provide a greater sense of certainty about what the sales tax rate will be over that time. essentially, the argument, and we heard this from the small business commission, when i presented it to them, we have heard this from small business stakeholders, the mayor has talked to people on his merchant walks, and you have heard some feedback -- essentially, a longer window where we would extend the time where the state reimposing a sales tax would invalidate hours would provide a greater level of shorty about the sales tax rate. -- sure to -- surety for about the sales tax rate. that has to do with balance about the city certainty about revenues and what the future brings and the policy decisions

states. is never going to present to be the united states. the russian empire and the soviet union were not accidental. it bound together economically and politically regions that had a mutual dependence your division of the liberals in russia and the united states was that following the fall of the soviet union they would reorient themselves towards europe, the united states. they fail to understand that these countries cannot compete in any reasonable time frame in europe, the more dependent they became on your of the week became. and also russia as a geopolitical entity. it experienced some terrible wars in its history, and its extremist cautious about expansion of things like nato. it regards made as a military alliance. we regard it as a club of nice people are fairly mismatched about what it is. and as the united states moved into the balkans and nato moved into the baltics, as the orange revolution, the ukraine took off, as the united states became very influential in central asia, the russian saw a second encirclement taking place. so

i work with the chiefs from across the state. we're in the same place in terms of developing the plans. san francisco has a lot to be proud of we have been working on it for months and have a plan to present to you. it will help us prepare for this milestone date. also what i would like to recommend or recognize is that no state prison inmates will be released from jail that are in prison right now. as of october 1, any and made that is in prison that will be released, instead of going to parole, there will come to adult probation supervision. any individual sentence to state prison that meets the criteria will go to jail if their the non-serious, non-filing, non-sex offender, but it will only affect sentencing from october 1. also, the law creates a new sentence structure that is a blended. basically, it is the ability to sentenced to prison time, which would be local commitment time, and coupled that with felony probation. say if an individual would have been sentenced to up to a 36- month sentence in state prison, instead of th

, the states that post-date the 1548 that ended the long religious wars which youay were states that focused on prospects, that the process of the state was issues of process, not issues of substance meaning not issue of religion. perhaps draw that argument out a little bit and tell us why those modern post-west states as we call them, why those states have had trouble in this part of the world where islamist was from? >> guest: before the modern age, that's before the early 17th century, all the way back to antiquity, there was lots of con cement of world order. the chinese had a world order. there's a world order in the south asian area, a world area in south america in sense of the mayans and people thinking of themselves being the center of the universe and conducting things as if they were the only way to do it. that changed in the early modern period, 15th, 16th, 17th century when there was what i call the reconnaissance of the world when people coming out of europe primarily began to realize there was a globe out there, and there was many, many different kin

while the state figures sort of look good on paper, the look very well for the state, but as with most sheriff's department, we do not believe that their projections have much application to what may happen in the county jail. it is nice to know. it has given us an idea of how many people are currently on parole in the area and how many will transfer to post-release community supervision, how many do less than 30 days in the state prison when they get revoked. it is nice to know that stuff, but whether or not those numbers pan out, it is our belief that those numbers are understated. but we will nano. it is something we will monitor closely. certainly, we are aware of the fiscal restraints that the city and county. we want to be part of the solution and not -- and not part of the problem. the other mechanism in the law that helps is this release in lieu of bail. the law allows the sheriff to release in lieu of bail people in on a misdemeanor. it requires that the district attorney's office and the sheriff to come up with rules and regulations to move forward with such a program. that i

do you give the state the right to kill you. this is the question and see what the response will be. >> let me ask him that question. do you support the death penalty, under what conditions do you want the state to be allowed to kill you if there was a law enforcement officer trying to evaluate whether or not to seek the death penalty. >> many of us will not say that we want to stay to be able to kill us. i am not certain that this is the way the question needs to be framed. i think that mrs. woodruff -- they are embracing the point that has been discussed. these are very complex issues. i am not certain that modern society, that the state should have the power of life or death. i understand all the nuances as

one from the republican state legislature and the statehouse and democratic-controlled state senate. hen doj asked me about the redistricting plans, their questions were primarily about the democratic plan. they were fine with the republican plan. and there were opportunities i believe because in the course of my work for the governor's commission i drew an additional minority district that the legislature did not adopt and so in the statehouse there was actually an opportunity there. there was some language in the voting rights act which may even provide an opportunity for the department of justice to, that to require the state to draw that additional district. they did not do that. instead they looked at three districts that the democrats had drawn down in voting age population. they were concerned as to whether or not those districts were going to continue to be effective to elect african-american candidates of choice in those districts. that's exactly what they need to do with the voting rights act. that is exactly what's required under section 5. that's what they looked at and th

the the only countries that are really angry at the united states are those in which the u.s. is interfering with the internal affairs of those countries either with bombs or invasions occupations do you know i think there are a thousand military bases around the world in terms of occupation that's a lot of. well that's right those are u.s. bases but that's what creates the anger in the anti american sentiment if if the u.s. just dismantled those bases we'd find that we're living in a very harmonious world where there is no military threat against the united states no nation state has the money i mean we're broke but everybody's broke or the military means to attack and invade the united states this is the time that we should be capitalizing on dismantling the military industrial complex the for an overseas empire and establishing a peaceful harmonious society with the rest of the world to take up let's be realistic here i mean do you see this happening do you see the u.s. dismantling these bases i mean even in places where clearly this country is not wanted there even some of

in late april and early may the governors of the states along the river declared states of emergency prepare for the impeding flood and deltans began making preparations to protect their lives, homes and properties as best they could. over the next two weeks, the mississippi river rose to levels unseen since the 1927 flood. and in many locations, surprising those levels by several feet. the high water forced the army corps of engineers to breach the levee system in missouri and later opening the spillway in louisiana. throughout the ordeal the corps of engineers and local levee districts worked tirelessly to inspect, maintain and repair any levee issues that arose. throughout their diligence and hard work, the levee systems worked as designed and no failures of main line levees occurred. unfortunately, the levees along many of the tributaries of the mississippi did not fare as well. due to the massive quantities of water flowing down the main river channel as well as the significant rainfall across the region, it got into the main river channel were unable to drain or left their bank

difference does it make to the united states? >> well, what difference it would make to the united states is obviously if there was a peaceful transition and a coalition of groups came forward an opposition came forward working with each other to put together a transition to a responsive and non-repressive government, that would be a positive thing for the united states. interesting there is the opposition is beginning to kohl together. very difficult for oppositions to arise these places and it's really been amazing if you think about it. in libya, for example, the opposition, the t.n.c., has come together in a place-- and i've reflected on this-- where for 40 years there was no civil society. qaddafi and his crowd crushed everybody. >> rose: it was a tribal nation. >> b they've come together and presented themselves to e world. syria, we'd like to see the same thg, an opposition come together. they he a meeting outside syria and in istanbul last week that president erdogan and the turks-- the turks--osted. >> rose: right. are th

80% in the poorest states. by contrast, federal law imposes an annual cap on funding in the territories. historically puerto rico's cap was so low that the federal government paid less than 20% of medicaid costs on the island in any given year. inadequate, total funding have made it difficult for puerto rico to provide quality health care to its low-income population. if the purpose of this policy was to save the federal government money, it was shortsighted. between 2005 and 2009 over 300,000 puerto rican residents moved to the states. many were men and women of limited means who upon you migrating immediately became eligible for full benefits under medicaid and other federal programs. the last congress my fellow delegates and i fought hard to ensure our constituents were treated in an equitable manner in the affordable health care act. under the law, funding for puerto rico's medicaid program will triple over the next decade. though it is far less than puerto rico would receive if treated like a state, this in

he was called most of the prosecutor in the united states. he was posing with a miniature electric chair. and this had several african- americans on this. i was in the middle and in this picture, six of us are there. one of us is still awaiting trial. he was given and it -- the release of sentence. he was a winter of $14 million lawsuit against this man. in this matter -- is also passing this returning to help me out. what would you do? >> thank you for the chance to respond. one reason i accepted this appointment was because i believe that there are a lot of problems with the criminal justice system, i think that this is to be reformed in many ways. we have problems with prosecution misconduct, problems with police misconduct and i believe that we have wrongly incarcerated a number of people in many communities and this is something i have worked on for many years. one thing i have done, and i was appointed to it -- i have been known to say that one of the things i say in my office -- we have the structural integrity unit, and the evidence an

that's coming from the state, correct? >> exactly. that is in the form of the formula funding that's going to each county. supervisor mirkarimi: and then the general fund for san francisco is $4.8 million is what that looks like? >> that's the portion of the general fund that's already appropriated. >> from our budget that we just deliberated on. >> exactly. so right now this is simply the funding sources that we have in hand appropriated in the budget and allocated to us by the state. and what would that look like if we distributed those two pods of money. so the biggest pieces as we've discussed here and as included in the plan are the budget to, as i just said, re-open the two dorms at the small jail and in the adult probation department. of course in the adult probation department in terms of the population numbers, the greatest impact, this would include funding the new probationers, former parolees, now probationers, at the former ratio managing the probation department which is probably inadequate as the probation chief will tel

the prison gangs that are so prevalent in the state prisons, that will grow along with the population, so that's something that we're going to have to gear up for. >> reporter: deputy sheriff bobby introcaso sees problems ahead. >> state inmates are more, we call them more sophisticated inmates, so they know how to work systems, they know how to work deputies, they are more manipulative, you have to watch them a lot closer and it's a lot more work. >> reporter: in addition, costs of the new plan are a major concern to local officials. in stanislaus county, which includes modesto, supervisor jim demartini is worried. >> there's no room in our jail. if we put somebody in from the state prison, we've got to kick somebody else out the back end, or we have to put more people on probation or electronic monitoring. >> reporter: demartini and stanislaus county chief probation officer jerry powers say that when county jails get too crowded, local sheriff's and judges will be forced relieve the overcrowding there by releasing prisoners. so the supreme court order will reverberate throughout the

the brown administration's position is we only have so much public money in this state to go around. that benefits of a lot of these redevelopment agencies are shaky at best, that there's some evidence that the job creation they've put a claim to isn't really stacked up. there was a survey that just came out yesterday, thursday, from the "los angeles times" university of southern california that showed californians when they're actually briefed on what these agencies have and haven't done, they're actually okay with some of that money being taken away from them and going to the state to help with the state budget deficit. >> refresh my memory. is this one of those things governor brown told the state, if we don't make these tax extension, we're going to have to cut super, super deep? is this part of the plan? >> part of the deal that resulted from not having any new revenue. you do have to look at it as a part of that. and certainly that's still something i'm sure the governor would like to be able to remedy next year, but this is -- unless the supreme court stays, this would go throu

it's one for each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary and a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitches mistake apartment claims one of the arguments is that even an error like that could produce a random result and the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializi

other major cities in the state. they believe -- and there are good grounds to believe that -- that this is not a maneuver taken by the governor's office. >> does that mean we are going to have a temporary injunction first? >> i think so. the national league of cities, as well as the california redevelopment association, have indicated strongly their attorneys have strong opinions that that was not legal. >> [inaudible] you said many times that you would not be running again for mayor. have you changed? with all of these campaigns asking you to run, what is your position? >> i tried not to pay too much attention to the people who have been starting the campaign to ask me to run. to the extent that i read and see it, i do appreciate that many people support what we are doing and how we are doing it. i enjoyed a lot of support, i think, not only internally from the government, but i think there are lot of people that agree with me. therefore, they believe that should automatically translate into my riding. there are two

and so do all the gulf states. so the idea that egypt is going to reestablish relations with iran, don't think that means iran is penetrating egypt at all. >> my view is the iranians want to take advantage of what is going on in the middle east but they have to be careful because they want others to have the freedoms that they won't give their own people and that is not lost on a lot of people. every one of these -- what is striking to me as up until now for one of these uprising has been the internal. they have not been focused on external factors, israel, arab-israeli, i ran, united states, europe. now it doesn't mean that we won't come very soon to a point there will be a clash, but these have been internal. they have indigenous roots in every one of the cases in my view. there was a question here. yeah. one of you go first and the other one goes second. >> touching off a that question and touching off of what you were just saying. you talked of little bit about the potential dangers of bahrain if the shia majori

be to extend the time line that our local sales tax is tied to the state sales tax rate, so that if the state recomposes its sales tax hours will not be additive to that. instead, ours will go away. currently, we started this proposal with a time line for those to be linked together only leading up through this election, under the thought the state may be calling for an election this year to we extend their tax. a subsequent version extended that to one year. the amendment we have been talking about would extend that now instead through 2016, which is the final year of our five- year financial plan. the idea being that we would lock in over the course of the five-year financial plan the principle that if the state reimpose is there 1 cent sales tax, it will -- the interplay will last over the life of the five-year financial plan. we will discuss what is appropriate for the city and whether or not it is appropriate to continue to collect our local sales tax. but an automatic link between the two would no longer be in effect. i think there has been a lot of good policy discussion, especia

he could surprise some people here in the state of iowa. i guess i question whether he is likely to win the caucuses, but i think he could do better than he did four years ago, and a thing considering the financial problems of the country then, he has been warning about the way things have been operating in washington, d.c., for a long time. i think a lot of people are saying he has been right, and we certainly need to change course and direction. i think you will see a certain level of strength, but there is also a lot of candidates to choose from. some of his stance on other things, his libertarian positions on things like legalizing marijuana and stuff like that, do not sit well with a lot of conservatives in the state. >> there have been a number of books, including some republicans, who have been critical of the iowa caucuses, saying that they are not a fair test for a mainstream conservative, that they are too heavily dominated by one part of the party, the most conservative part of the party. do you worry that over time, iowa's influe

the united states the biggest full of charts and graphs comparing them up and they compared every one of the states against each other and what they found was that the more an equal society was the minority view you had a lot of poor and a lot of rich the worst outcomes you had in for example infant mortality here's infant mortality you see very low in for mortality japan in sweden this is you know deaths and inequality here's the usa out here worst infant mortality worst inequality in the next what imprisonment rates in prison rates again the more equal countries less imprisonment singapore by the way is a very. country and just like the usa has very high levels of of imprisonment teenage pregnancy rates teenage pregnancies japan denmark no one's norway germany for it all down here usa way up here we're one of the worst in the world we're also on income inequality the most unequal in the world. homicides homicide rates again here these are the same thing the more unequal society is right across the bo

it's that politics one of the united states to. the right and danielle say that agreement is no reached so how will that damage the u.s. refutation well light i think it would be a very significant prayer. mainly because again not because there would be you know a week or two debate of interest payments to countries that want us dead now but obviously that would obviously be something these countries with the right the biggest are going to be this concert reputation in the back of the united states has never defaulted on its debt is something that it's something that is the reason people are attracted to buy u.s. debt in the first place and it's what's enabled to the united states to deficit spend good decades now because there's a insatiable appetite for its debt defecting i would say that would be like i said it would be the third strike against the u.s. in three years it would make it look we're responsible it's going to be harder for the united states to go to china and say you need to. allow your currency to appreciate china or

unilateral action by the soviet union, eisenhower stated, would be forcefully opposed by the united states and ordered the sixth fleet stationed in the mediterranean order to place on alert. this was election eve. distresses retake and it's on the president. after a tense meeting over the message, eisenhower found the president heartbeat irregular. he laid down and developed a headache. after all, he'd only eat eaten a dish of carrot and a glass of yogurt since breakfast. the president agitation recorded was due to what he termed an ultimatum that had been served upon him. he crowd i'm concert was soldierly profamily. he crowd that if he were a dictator, he would tell russia if they moved a finger he would drop our entire stock of the public weapons on him. tuesday, november 6 was election day. i cruised to an even greater turmoil. in a meeting that morning, he was somber. our people should be alert, eisenhower said. the presidents of russian plane and syria were inevitably trigger taxonomist airfields. if that didn't come, as i'd like to say, that would be in the fire. in a crowd of ryde,

you could make an argument that the state may not have the right to tax the income of overstock.com, although there's a lot of states that disagree with that, but that's the only direct burden on, tax burden on overstock. all we're asking overstock to do is collect their customers' sales tax. they collect sales tax in utah today, they presumably benefit from the fire protection and police protection that the utah sales tax provide to their corporate offices, but it's their customers whose fire departments and police departments are not being funded because overstock's not collecting sales tax. >> host: of course, there's also the other issue of how the taxation differences effect small business bees or retailers in states, physical and online. in your view there's been estimates anywhere from 5 billion to 11 billion of the amount of revenue that could be collected if sales taxes were applied online. does your organization have any estimate of how much that shortfall is, and how do you think it impacts retailers in states where they are at the disadvantage to online companies? >> guest

i had hearings across the state. i had a transportation committee, about 31 the burst people who helped work it through. we were able to do it but we did it with an inclusive, respectful way and we got the job done ver. >> is that a criticism of all the governors who could not resolve their state problems? >> i cannot criticize my colleagues. i don't know their dynamics. i am sure you the experience of my state. i don't think i am alone. i think there are a number of states that have been able to make the dramatic transformation that we have been able to do. i have about a $32 billion annual budget but 60% of that is off-limits. that left me with about $14 billion for which i had to cut $5.1 billion without new taxes. the voters said no new taxes last september. we were able to do. it is painful. we have shredded the safety net in some areas. we ask the nonprofits to step up and help. help your neighbor or that person you don't know but the bottom line is, each state does it their own way but many states have been abl

, the post states 1648 and the long religious war which you say the state's focus on prospect of the purpose of the state was issues the process, not issues of substance, meaning if not issues of religion. perhaps you could draw that out a little bit and tell us why those modern states as we call them, why they have had trouble in this part of the world where islamism is? >> guest: before the modern age, that is before the barely 17th century beckon to the antiquity there were lots of different concepts of world order and of the world order in the south asian area and world order even in south america people of thinking of themselves as being the center of any universe and deducting the things. that's changed in the early modern period 15, 16, 17 centuries when there was what i would call the reconnaissance of the world when people coming out of europe primarily began to realize there was a global out there and there were many different people in different societies, religions, and it was going to be a very difficult thing to figure out how to deal with them. the c

the first is the timing of the state budget, by the point that the budget was finalized and it became clear that the governor would not able to get republican support for the tax extensions. it was late for a lot of local boards to get the measure on the ballot. we would have been out of time to place this measure on the ballot in time for the elections. we submitted our measure with the mayor's budget not knowing what is going to happen at the state and that is why we have a trigger to allow for this measure to either go into effect or not going to affect -- not go into effect. we are waiting for that contingency. by the time that they have a final outcome, it was too late. in addition for a lot of governments, this will not be the freedom to place a general tax measures on the ballot. a general tax measure is a 50% threshold as opposed to the 2/3 threshold. i would expect that you would be more likely to see other governments propose a general tax. this is a non answer to the question. the real question is we don't know what everyone is going to do. >> this makes you wonder if this

joining me now to talk about what's going on in the state, the minnesota republican state representative, kurt zeller, he's in a suburb of minneapolis, st. paul, for me this morning. sir, i appreciate you being here. and are you, the republicans, and also the democratic governor working on this this weekend? >> well, yeah. and thank you, t.j. good morning. we continue to work and i think one of the things in the report that maybe has been missing is that this isn't necessary. it just didn't have to happen. we had negotiated with the governor and come to a lot of compromise. we had made five different compromise offers to the governor, and we were really close, within a few hundred thousand dollars, even, of some of these budgetary areas, that the governor could have signed the bill. he's the only one who can call us back. in our constitution, the legislature can't meet without a declaration from the governor in special session. so if the governor would have called us back, we could have passed the environment bill and passed the -- >> mr. zellers, let me ask you, though, but are negotiat