not the state's forte. there are people in the private sector who are expert at this, want to be helpful. we want to invite them in. put together a task force and actually lead this effort. we want a comprehensive master plan of all of the states construction over the next few years and how we can coordinate and maximize that work to have a positive synergy among the projects. we also want to accelerate the construction. we can't do this on government time. this is going to have to happen on real time. it can't take three years to put a shovel in the ground. it just can't work that way anymore and it is not going to. [applause] and i said, said in the beginning, that the task for us is to find leverage with private sector partners. we want to find a 20 to one, leverage throughout these projects that we maximize the impact of the state money. we are planning to improve more than 100 bridges, which will include finally building a new tapanzee bridge. 15 years of planning and talking and commiserate something t

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the state address. now, an in-depth report on the voter-approved bullet trains that have been running into a lot of resistance from throughout the state. >> belva: in downtown san francisco, construction has already begun on the $4 billion transit center. the vision is for a grand central station of the west. and as these schematics in the construction office show, high-speed rail is literally the foundation of that vision. scott roule does community out reach. >> california is going to grow by millions and millions of people over the next few decades. and we need to be thinking of ways to be able to accommodate the transportation needs of all of those additional people. bullet trains would arrive every fu mints. even las vegas. but the prospects for high-speed rail have dimmed in recent months. last week's announcement that ceo will resign was the most recent blow. tom amburg also announced that he was stepping down as chairman, though he will remain on the board. >> this project is bigger than any one

a slug fest going on in the sunshine state. newt gingrich, mitt romney within a few percentage points of each other. florida, the next epic battle in this ongoing republican presidential contest. >>> want to bring in our "news nation" panel now. good afternoon to you. >> how are you? >> steve, let's start with you. what are the major reasons that many think newt gingrich did so well in south carolina. his performance where he went after the mainstream media, went after political correctness as well. spent a lot of time throwing red meat at the base. last night he was far more reserved and polite. why the change in strategy be. >> let me answer the first part. in south carolina, what you saw is something that conservatives have lacked for a couple of decades, and that is a champion that will go on a national stage, reverse the politically correct premise of the media's questions, turn them around on them and use this as an opportunity to advance. this is something we haven't seen. after eight years of george w. bush assuming the

we are electing the president of the united states, not the president of the battleground states. and the third issue we have is every vote should count equally. i think that's a basic premise or turn that every american probably believes in. but how could we have a situation where a vote in ohio or florida can be so much more important than a vote in texas or california? but that is the situation we have because of the winner-take-all rule. can you imagine trying to explain this to your children? now, how do we solve this problem? we are on our way. first of all, 65% of the voters in a recent gallup poll indicated that they want to go to the popular vote. the most, the candidate with the most votes in the entire country becomes the president of the united states. i think that number 65% would probably be higher if more people understood the winner-take-all rule and what it means. second, we have states representing 132 electoral votes that authority passed legislation to go to the national popular vote, a compact that is conditional upon is getting 270 electoral votes or states re

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 to why this is here, as well as why this should not be here. i do believe that becau o

the state and nebraska? >> we feel that we do need the time that he had put out. we had talked about the environmental quality as well as the applicant. the estimate that came in from all of this was run the same. >> has the state department recommended a pipeline without having the entire proposal before it? >> no. >> was there any question that would be able to complete a modified proposal by the deadline? >> no. that is why we felt we cannot go forward. quite as much time has expired. what i'm trying to get their everybody. we will not be able to come back. -- >> i am trying to get through everybody. we will not be able to come back. >> i have respect for my friend from pittsburgh. it is about 60-65% of the steel is u.s. steel. the reason why he is not here is because our state objected to him being on the panel because it was beneath them to have a state official. that is why he is not here. >> will my friend deal for one second? >> there is an e-mail chain verifying this. i may have put a little editoria

it changes the dynamic in our state. -and-a-half ago when my predecessor was the governor even back then he was told of the democratic control hundreds of millions of dollars in public education the difference was the did respond to that. in milwaukee it was interesting there was a situation where a young woman was named the outstanding teacher of english teachers council wisconsin she got this great award in a week later because of these cuts she was laid off. why is that? because the collective bargaining contracts lasting and first out to was named one of the best teachers in wisconsin was one of the first lead off to read that changed now. that process has changed other than a handful of school districts who still ran out to put in contracts before the reforms were in effect. it's wide open. so the schools and the state government are going to do better. in indiana we saw mitch daniels when he did the state employees state government and the of the difference was a couple of weeks ago we got our tax bills and for the

the united states has the latter. so i am very optistic about the united states' position in the world going forward. and i think you do have to think about this in a, you can't think about this in a static way or in a one dimnsional way going forward. >> charlie: iran. where are we because you get the feeling that somethingbeyond threats are going on, become sanctions or clearly van impact. oil sanctions may have a deepening impact, there's covert action that's clearly had an impact. we don't know who is responsible but we have ideas about that. is there a sense that the iranians are feeling that and they really do want to have serious negotiations. >> i can't answer the last of the questions but i can address the lead up to it, if i might. i do believe that the ranians arfeeling a tremendous amount of pressure. when we came into office, there was really, iranian was internally no threat. it was on a rise in the region and it had divided the international community. a lot of questions about should we give the iranian

in the united states. pplause] >> because the people of south carolina care and they understand and they are going to fight for what's right. and with your support and your vote, i would like to ask the next president of the united states to come back up here, rick perry, to answer some of your questions. god bless you, god bless your families and god bless america. thank you very much. [applause] >> mike thornton, ladies and gentlemen. that is what our country is all about, men and women who understand that freedom is not free, there is a great cost. when he went back in across the field of battle to go get tommy norris, you know, the commonsense brain was saying don't go back in there because this guy is dead, that's what he was told and he said just like james butler bond, who was stopped as he had left to go find out the question whether reenforcements were coming to the a lmp amoo and why are you throwing away your life away? he said buck travis needs to know the answer to his question and his request.

and [applause] the insurance commissioner for the state of california, the hon. david jones. and your state senator in the state of california, mark little. an[applause] his colleague, state senator at leland neyeat. [applause] member of the california state assembly, fiona ma. [applause] and a majority of your board of supervisors are here, which is a good thing. [laughter] the president of the board, david chiu. [applause] the rev. of the board, sean elsbernd. [applause] and the three women that are always undying loyalty you in support almost everything you'd do, and i will introduce the three of them together -- jane kim, leah komen and carmen chu. [applause] mark farrell. [applause] scott wiener, member of the board of supervisors. [applause] eric mar, a member of the board of supervisors. david campos, a member of the board of supervisors. [applause] you have some other city officials who are here. you have, of course, the man who takes all of our money, the treasurer, jose camos. [applause] campos would like to be there one of these days. i am so focused on campos, he

he will go to the battleground states. the white house should not only go to mississippi, go to louisiana and alabama and go to red states you won't win and make your argument i'm also fighting for you. the president has to get out there and push people as well. you can't say, he's out there, he's not governing. everybody has a role in this. congress has a role plus him. >> we will take a quick break. the panel will stick around. until after the speech until midnight live. facebook, twitter. anderson cooper. i'll be tweeting tonight. and a look at how the themes president obama lays out will play in key states this fall. you're watching special coverage of president obama's third state of the union of the speech. the house call to order is just minutes away. one of 7 entrees. four courses for only $15. offer ends soon. i'm jody gonzalez, red lobster manager and i sea food differently. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms.

if the states can't -- if the plan has not been precluded you should be saying the state can't look at the plan but on the one hand you're saying is it great because the court did look at the plant. on the other hand you say the court can't work at the plant. which is it? there's real tension. on one page isn't it great the court looked at the plan and then you say the court -- >> we don't say the court can't look at the texas plan. what we say is the court can't implement the texas plant and certain we can to implement the texas plant if there's any suspect of discrimination. it was exactly right measure. >> you are saying the court shouldn't. >> i think the court did the appropriate thing. >> let's go to something just this scalia asked. what does the court do with privilege claims? does it assume under your theory that those claims are valid? if you say no, it should assume that, at what level of inquiry should the court engage in before it accepts or deviates from the enacted plan? >> i think that the court first of all should not start with the state's plan. it should look at wher

i give the floor -- hillary clinton, secretary of state of the united states of america. >> thank you very much, mr. president, and let me begin by thanking prime minister and secretary general larraby for their thorough briefing. the arab league has demonstrated important leadership in this crisis. and for many months, the people of the region and the world have watched in horror as the assad regime executed a campaign of violence against its own citizens. civilians gunned down in the streets. women and children tortured and killed. no one is safe. not even officials of the syrian arab red crescent. according to u.s. estimates, more than 5,400 civilians have already died and that number is rising fast. the regime also continues to arbitrarily detain syrian citizens, such as the activists. simply for demanding dignity and universal rights. to date, the evidence is clear that assad's forces are initiating nearly all of the attacks that kill civilians. but as more citizens take up arms to resist the regime's brutality, violence is increasingly likely to spiral out of control. already, t

the state required redevelopment and it -- agencies repay some other tax increment to the state. the redevelopment agencies and city responded with proposition 22 withich prevented the state from taking tax increments. the governor's solution to the problem was to abolish redevelopment in order to get access to that money to close a budget gap for the 2011-2012 budget year. in order to do that, the legislature passed a be 26 and ab 27. ab 26 eliminated redevelopment, require that they liquidate their assets, for a successor agencies to pay down all of the enforceable obligations of redevelopment agencies, but otherwise, to terminate redevelopment as we know it. in conjunction, the legislature passed a be 27, which allowed them to continue for some payments of the tax increment in redevelopment areas to close the budget gap that the governor required. the redevelopment agencies and cities challenged proposition 26 and 27 as the violating proposition 22, and on the basis of the other arguments. on december 29, the supreme court upheld proposition 26 and struck down proposition 27 pa

the people of this state can offset the money against them. there will be unlimited money in this campaign but the people are signing petitions, tens of thousands every day for the last 60 days, brand new petitions have been signed. we are going to do it. >> what do you make of walker doing a media tour and the help he's getting nationally? >> well, he should be trying to cover wisconsin but it just shows he has a national agenda not a state agenda. he's promoting a agenda, fighting the working family, the middle class. he's trying to develop a national reputation, we'll change that. >> i want to highlight one of the most important thing senator risser said. what we're seeing in wisconsin is a template to fight back against citizens united. this is one of the most incredible stories i think i have ever covered in the media in over 30 years. because the people of wisconsin have not given up. they can't take your vote, they can't take your heart, they can't take your soul. in this situation, they just can't take the enthusiasm of these people of

of the state address in san jose, talking about repealing a law allowing illegal immigrants to receive driver's licenses and talked about small businesses receiving tax benefits returning home from war. this is about 40 minutes. >>> thank you. lieutenant governor -- lieutenant governor -- senate president -- >> sergeant-at-arms. [ chanting ] >> please refrain. we appreciate if you would leave the house. >>> governor martinez, i want to welcome you. >> thank you. thank you. lieutenant governor, senate president pro tem, mr. speaker, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your loved ones and new mexico is pulling for you. democratic and republican leaders, esteemed members of the new mexico legislature, representative nunez, chairman of the independent caucus -- honorable members of the judiciary, tribal governors and lieutenant governors, former governors, members of new mexico's congressional delegation, distinguished guests, the state's first gentleman, my husband. my cousins are here today as

that will be made by the state department. and the very next day president obama said the decision would rest with him but in the president's announcement last week to reject the pipeline's permit he said he had accepted the state department's recommendation to do so. my question would be review involved in the decision made at the state department and did you recommend to the president that he rejected this permit? >> thank you, mr. chairman. the recommendation that went to the president was a state department recommendation and it came from the state from my bureau and other bureaus. it came through the deputy and to the secretary to the president. >> you recommended the permit be denied. >> yes. >> what other bureaus at the state department were involved in that decisionmaking? >> the bureau of economic affairs, the state department looks at this pipeline across all the other issues that are involved so there are multiple bureaus involved in all the meetings and discussions that we have. we have energy expertise and of cours

our schools and the future of our state. now, in another challenging budget year, our top priorities in funding for higher education must continue to be high-quality academic programs and student scholarships. in addition to the record investment in the case resolved classrooms my budget will provide stable funding for the college scholarships including bright light and access missouri and a-plus. [applause] let me talk for a moment about that a plus program. the scholarships cover tuition and fees at any public two-year college in the state for students who are willing to work hard, play by rules, get back to their communities. since i've become your governor, we have worked to add 110 new a-plus schools. in a number of students on the program have risen 30%. this year 12,500 missouri students will take advantage of our scholarships. next year we anticipate closer to 14,000 students will be scholars. we will continue to expand access to a-plus scholarships to students all across our state. now, investigating kawlija portabil

the prebuttal to the president's state of the union. let's go ahead and listen in. >> thank you, thank you. thank you so much. thank you. very kind. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. thank you so very much for that warm welcome. it's good to be in the sunshine state. but it does break my heart to see plants like this one. in 2008 this plant closed because of an economic downturn. in a normal recovery under strong leadership, it could be full of workers by now. here in florida, people used to wake up and look forward to a hard day's work and a good honest wage. the money they earned helped support families and build communities. today toot many factory floors are silent. warehouses are deserted, corporate offices are empty, and real estate endeavors are abandoned. floridians are struggling to find a job, keep a home, and raise a family, and as i have traveled across the country i have heard similar stories in virtually every corner of america. high unemployment, record home foreclosures, debt that's too high, opportunities to

the state attorneys general have been eager to prosecute. after all sort of in recent months there would be get out of jail free settlement for the banks to make the lingering controversy go away, last night president obama unveiled something new. >> tonight i'm asking my attorney general to create a special unit, federal prosecutors and leading state attorney general to expand our investigations in the abuse of lending and packaging and risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. this new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law. speed assistance to homeowners and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many americans. >> a special unit of federal prosecutors and state attorneys general. the most crusading of all the crusading state attorneys general on this, is the one who has been put in charge of hunting the banks down and the mortgage holders for what they did to the economy. that is something that has essentially no capitol hill r t restonance. harry reid is playing chess when everyone else is playing che

mitt romney had the support of the state's governor. te in south carolina today? pretty spread out. the largest group, 50 to 64. senior citizens, 65. they make up about 30%. this is more important, a very, very conservative electorate today. 66% of the vote, 2/3 of those casting votes in the presidential election describe themselves as born again evangelicals. the more moderate conservatives live here along the coast. up here, this is your bible belt up here. go back to 2008, john mccain down here, mike huckabee up here, that's what we're watching on the map. >> new for about, a new way for us to show you how money is influencing the presidential race and a lot of money has been pouring into this race. >> a lot of it has been on advertising. look at the wall here. you can see how much the candidates have spent. mitt romney's campaign, more than $1 million in south carolina. the candidate that spent the least, newt gingrich, with $335,000. take a look at this, this is the real story. superpacs. almost $7 million. mut myitt romney 2-1 over

budget, the highest of any state in the nation. [applause] >> no state anywhere devotes more of its state funds to education, but that's not why others are following indiana but our new commitment to rewarding the best teachers, liberating principals and supets and providing parents the same choices as their wealth year neighborhoods. and this year, when we end the cruel defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth gade and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years and get a head start on college costs, others will take notice of indiana again. there are a few subjects more studied or more intriguing than leadership. leaders come in many forms and often from unexpected direction. but some qualities are common among them and one is that leaders never loaf and never settle for things as they are or stop pursuing innovation or excellence of result. if they do, leadership will pass and new leaders surpass. leaders who loaf aren't leaders for long. indiana now bears this burden o

what does that tell you about the state of play? olitics have broken out in egypt and there are people now, particle parliamentarians who represent the will of the people, who have legitimacy, they have a real state, particularly the muslim brotherhood which won the most seat bus not quite a majority they have a stake in converting square politics into party politics. getting on with the stuff of that politics which is electing a speaker which they've now done, a muslim brotherhood speaker. and then engaming in a negotiation with the military about getting the military out of the government, this interim government and establishing powers for the parliament and the presidency >> warner: one of the major points of disagreement was how quickly does the military need to step out of it. now, you faulked to the players. what is your sense of the balance of power between the brotherhood and the military? >> i think there's a common interest among all of these parties from left to right in getting the military out but i think muslim brother

even before the president step to the podium to give his state of the union address conservatives are laying out their call her arguments republican national committee sent out an e-mail this morning entitled state of failed promises which hits on the typical conservative talking points of slender debt and obamacare things that are cliched talking points for hannity and limbaugh conservatives say the state of the union address is nothing more than a campaign speech this year and appear to be backing up that argument with their own campaign material in the form of that flyer so is there anything the president is saying tonight that can lead to real compromise and action in congress for more analysis of the president's state of the union address and how it will be received on both sides of the aisle and welcome my panel tonight brian darling columnist of human events and director of government studies at the heritage foundation and richard follower democratic strategist and advocacy director for young democrats of america welcome to both thanks for all the young the president is promoti

the balance would go back into the state revenue reserve fund. supervisor kim: this is the only supplemental be made to the state reserve? >> i would defer to the mayor's office about what they have pending before them. supervisor chu: from the mayor's budget office, i believe that we have allocated a certain amount for the adult day care. it wound up not being used. there was a previous request for child care subsidies, but that was not the source of money. it was actually through dpys. i believe that that is all for now supervisor kim: i what -- for now. supervisor kim: i wanted to get a sense of what we might be anticipating, since there are so many worthy funds to come before us. >> good morning. we are working on a six month budget status report, which will be completed likely on february 8, or thereabouts. part of that analysis, they are working for the upcoming week and it includes reconciling reserves. but we do not know about the cuts, the biggest picture beyond the reductions talked about here, there is continued uncertainty regarding a

president obama, first since the state of the union. is our first cabinet meeting after my state of the union address, and it give please an opportunity to share my ideas and initiatives with my cabinet but also to get some feedback from them. one of the top priorities that i mentioned during the state of the union was it's need for us to promote small business. and i'm very pleased that we've got karen mills here, who has participated in our meeting before, but is now an official member of the cabinet. it is a symbol of how important it is for us to spur entrepreneurship to help start-ups, to move aggressively so that we can assure more companies that create the most jobs in our economy are getting a leg up from its various programs that we have in our government. i mentioned at the state of the union that there have been bipartisan discussions between democrats and republicans about whole set of measures that accelerate start-up company, provide tax fwrtax breaks for increasing wages that looks at innovative ways for them to raise cap

he could always say, anything wrong with the united states -- was the united states fall. it is time to stop the isolation business of not talking to people. we talked to the soviets perry talked to the chinese and open up trade. we fought with the vietnamese for a long time and gave up and started talk to them and now we trade with them. i do not know why the cuban people should be -- should be so intimidated. i do not agree with the assumption that all the cubans are coming -- they are going have a lot more free them if we would only open up our doors and say we want to talk to you in trade with you in come visit. sometimes they cannot even send packages down there. i think we're living in the dark ages when we cannot even talk to the cuban people. i think it is my 1952 anymore. we do not have to use force and intimidation and the overthrow the government. i don't think that is more the work. >> senator santorum, if there was a strong lobby of chinese dissidents living in a state as politically important as florida, do you think we would have a trade policy with china tha

what this is going to do is launch a nuclear arms race between the united states and china and already the chinese have responded to the provocation by saying this is war mongering and do we really want to get into another nuclear arms race after having just been lucky to survive the first one christian if i can go to you some critics of obama's new plan say that what we have right now is just a reordering of the military to the to asia though a basis will remain in europe for some reason twenty years after the end of the cold war but that may be a different question but nonetheless it's really at how ad hoc is and this is not a new plan this is just rearranging the pieces on the board. it is it is barely even that you know again there's this duplicity and what president obama says so he says we're reorienting toward the pacific which we ought to do not because we want to start a new war cold war but because the chinese have been acting incredibly provocatively they have undergone a naval buildup that is almost unprecedented sense the japanese build up before world war two but

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

>>> on the broadcast tonight, state of play. a wild day on the trail. tonight, our exclusive new poll numbers tonight showing gingrich convincing the voters, but can he beat the president? >>> also tonight, an angry gingrich is unleashing new anger against the gop machine. >>> also, finger pointing. that photo everybody was talking about today. who have you ever seen talking to the president like thisnd what was this all about? >>> fair deal. new rules for airlines that take effect today and what's in it for all those of us who fly. >>> and drunk at the wheel. dirty little backstage secret about pat and vanna and those early days at the monster game show. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. in the poll numbers we are debuting tonight, there is a new gop front-runner in this race. that's newt gingrich. now leading mitt romney by nine points nationally. santorum third. ron paul with 12%, fourth. seizing the lead, however, as you know, comes with quite a cost to newt gingrich. as we've seen in this rac

from the united states the i.a.e.a. basically kowtows to american foreign policy is a political tool even of that it did not say that he ran his weaponized thing so i don't know marc you may have information you would like to share with the i.a.e.a. that's not not from the terrorist cult that mossad and israel are supporting them which i had enough and america is considering of the listing as a foreign terrorist organization may be not information from them but if you have genuine information that iran is weaponized thing then i think is it your duty as a citizen of whichever country you belong to to presented to the world because that is just the way they are what. you are and your libeling me here i know there are forty five paragraphs in the i.a.e.a. report that detail all of the evidence about nuclear weapons related work or work the very much appears to be nuclear weapons related now that is what iran has to respond to you asked me what does iran have to do answer those questions and follow the rules about reportin

to the best managed state in america. hat economy to the number one position, number one in job creation, as compared and contrasted with massachusetts which was number 47. doing pretty well, you know, third wasn't too bad. i wasn't too far behind and doing pretty well. catching up on mitt every single day. well, time to break down what we know, what we can expect about the promissory. >> megyn: and joining us tonight, steve hayes, senior writer for t. krist kristen. >> bret: we've seen polls the latest from suffolk, mitt romney at 35% and ron paul at 20%. huntsman surging to 11% and there you see the rest of the candidates. just to put up the average, real politics average of polls changed a bit. and this is the recent polls. and what do you see here and from your experience on the ground what are you seeing. >> the thing you see, you look back and mitt romney has consistently had between 15, 20, 25 point lead and as you look forward to tuesday, you want to see if you can maintain that lead and andy smith said he thought

al was a mentor to me and one of the best friends this state ever had. and also please remember the nine washingtonians who lost their lives in afghanistan and iraq serving our country. and just last week, the normally idyllic mount rainier national park was witness to the loss of park ranger michael anderson who died in the line of duty. will you all please join me in a moment of silence in their honor. thank you. good afternoon, everyone. first can i say thank you, bishop burger, for starting us off with such an inspirational prayer this morning. may god bless you. thank you. and thank you, sophia, for your beautiful performance of our national anthem. you are our future. remember, public service, political office is in your future. mr. president, mr. speaker, madam chief justice and distinguished justices of our court, honored officials, members of the washington state legislature, former governor, tribal leaders, local government officials, members of the consular association of washington, my fellow citizens. i have some of my family with me today, m