>> -- in the capacity of the citizens of the state. and i think that's why i get - try to get back to the point, that's why i think this is wrong to think about this as coercion, because this is a program that works effectively for the citizens of the state, and states' governments -- and state governments think that, and that's why it has expanded the way it has expanded, because it's providing an essential service for millions of needy citizens in these states. it's providing access to health care that they would not otherwise have. >> you mentioned the -the dole case. now, what was the threat in that case, raise your drinking age to 21 or what? >> or lose a percentage of your highway funds. >> do you remember the percentage? >> 7%, yes. >> yes. it's a pretty small amount. that's really apples and oranges when you're talking about lose all of your medicaid funds or lose -- i thought it was 5, but 7 - 7% of your highway funds. >> it's -- i think i agree with your honor, that it -- that it's different, but i don't think that that makes

-- rather, as the creation of the states become the dictator to the states? jess bravin, take us through the argument of stay power versus federal power. >> well it 13 states did precede the federal government and did establish first articles of confederation and replaced that with the united states constitution in 1789. and subsequently thee union. but the constitutional structure does make federal law supreme to that of the states, and th signl change following the civil war with the enactment of the reconstruction amendments, particularly the 14th dm government extensive supervisory powers over the states to prevent states from trampling on individual rights, but that's all beside the point, because the question here is whether or not under article 1 section 8 of the constitution congress can require people to carry health insurance under its power to regulate commerce or perhaps through its taxing power, and that does not really directly implicate the states. in fact, the states most lower federal courts have found, in fact, all lower federal courts have f

>> -- in the capacity of the citizens of the state. and i think that's why i get - try to get back to the point, that's why i think this is wrong to think about this as coercion, because this is a program that works effectively for the citizens of the state, and states' governments -- and state governments think that, and that's why it has expanded the way it has expanded, because it's providing an essential service for millions of needy citizens in these states. it's providing access to health care that they would not otherwise have. >> you mentioned the -the dole case. now, what was the threat in that case, raise your drinking age to 21 or what? >> or lose a percentage of your highway funds. >> do you remember the percentage? >> 7%, yes. >> yes. it's a pretty small amount. that's really apples and oranges when you're talking about lose all of your medicaid funds or lose -- i thought it was 5, but 7 - 7% of your highway funds. >> it's -- i think i agree with your honor, that it -- that it's different, but i don't think that that makes

, the disabled in their state - >> mr. clement, i didn't take the time to figure this out, but maybe you did. >> mr. clement, i didn't take the time to figure this out, but maybe you did. is there any chance that all 26 states opposing it have republican governors, and all of the states supporting it have democratic governors? is that possible? >> there's a correlation, justice scalia. >> yes. [laughter] >> let -- let me ask you another thing, mr. -- mr.clement. most colleges and universities are heavily dependent on the government to fund their research programs and other things, and that has been going on for a long time. and then title ix passes, and a government official comes around and say -- says to the colleges, you want money for your physics labs and all the other things you get it for, then you have to create an athletic program for girls. and the recipient says, i am being coerced, there is no way in the world i can give up all the funds to run all these labs that we have, i can't give it up, so i'm being coerce

in the united states. and hamilton wrote very famously in federalist number 69 about the powers of the president, and i'm going to read this to you because he essentially said this is what the president is, and you don't have to worry about the president, because it can't do all the things you're afraid of. so he aid -- said this. hamilton wrote that the king was a hereditary monarch. the president could be impeached, while the king of great britain was sacred. the president has a qualified veto, while the king has an absolute negative. the president has a concurrent power with the senate over appointments and treaties while the king was the fountain of honor, and the sole and absolute representative of the nation in all foreign transactions. the president can command the army and navy, but the king can raise and regulate fleets and armies by his own authority. the president can prescribe no rules concerning the commerce or currency of the nation, the king is in several respects the arbiter of commerce, and

so the impact of siding with the states or even changing the law or stating what the law is in ways that reflect a great deal of the state's argument or the arguments that roger and tim have ably put just now would have an enormous domino consequences for all these programs. you know roger i enjoy going one against three. but please do something if i start to run over my time. tim was very brief. there's an awful lot that i'd like to respond to. i'm going to have to go out of my way and respond. one thing about the wonderful power point presentation is that i think i'm not an economist and i wasn't quite sure what i was looking at entirely. i think that a lot of that scary looking nearly vertical line that was going up to represent states' costs -- >> you weren't sure? >> it was like this. it went up very sharply. i think however accurate or not accurate it is, i'm sure it's substantially accurate, a large amount of those costs you should understand are not relevant to the constitutional issue of coercion at all. the fact that the affordable care act may or may not encourage people who a

bush elected president of the united states. >> and george bush is the president of the united states and barack obama is the president of the united states. >> we could learn the winners and the losers in a few minutes. >> and we are closing down on the race to the white house. >>> tonight, a republican campaign blockbuster. ten states and hundreds of delegates on the line at the tame same time. >> it is our time for choosing, and this time, we have to get the choice right. >> will this night bring any clarity to the most unpredicted presidential race in memory? >> it is a episode of "survivor" and we have to stay on the eyelan and neye l eyel eyeland and not get voted off. >> and it is america's choice, and it is super tuesday. >> mitt romney, and rick santorum are slugging it out for the most coveted prize of the night, a proving ground for november. >> and ohio is a state that often decides who the president is. >> georgia has the most delegates at stake tonight, and it is newt gingrich's home turf, and it could decide whether his campaign can bounceback. >> i said all along that

he needed the home state, and he gets the home state of georgia. take a look at vermont right now, and we have the exit poll numbers in vermont. take a look at this, and the significant lead for mitt romney in vermont next door to the home state of massachusetts. 38%, and look at who is second, according to the exit place, 27% for ron paul, and 23% for rick santorum and only 8% for newt gingrich. newt gingrich didn't do so well in vermont, but did well in georgia. over the john king and take a look at some of the early information we are getting. georgia a big win and he needed this win to keep on going, and i will assume he will keep on going carrying the home state, newt gingrich. >> and he very much needed to win, and will he only win there tonight or just in his home state. and let's look at who was voting, and how they were voting. voting by ideology in georgia, and we asked, are you conservative or very conservative or moderate or liberal. so 4 in 10 describe themselves as very conservative and they go for 38% for speaker gingrich and there is

are not within the purview of the state department. we don't have the kind of staff experience, expertise and numbers that you have in other places with the united states government. but under the laws, if that pipeline crosses an international border, then it's our responsibility. so what transcanada is doing is announcing they're going to start building parts of the pipeline that don't cross the international border. but i have to defend the process that the state department went through, which was fully in accord with the laws of the united states. >> thank you very much, mr. mack. madam secretary. another florida colleague. >> thank you, madam chairman. madam secretary, thank you for being here. it is safe to say that certainly here on the hill and around the world you are extraordinarily respected for the job you to. i'd particularly like to thank you for your leadership in the critical areas of the middle east. in particular, your continued strong advocacy for foreign assistance. i'd like to talk first about syria. rather than con

both have been informed by active conversations by the states. we have put out guidance on a strategy to the health benefits. we are having many conversations trying to reach the balance between affordable coverage and comprehensive coverage making sure we are mindful of the law. but know that having a product priced and able to be operated in a state is also an essential piece of the puzzle. we fully intend to put out interim rules and final rules. you cannot enforce without final rules in place. we want to be informed by state insurance commissioners and employers on the ground, our colleagues in governors offices across the country. >> that sounds like a very reasonable approach. this hearing is about the budget. you will be asked about everything. the budget includes the important funding to ensure effective administration of medicare and medicaid and child programs and continued budget of the health care law. it includes an increase of $1 billion over the 2012 level. that includes the request of $864 million for establishing insurance exchang

and we have made progress, the number of people who can actually get married in states across the country by adding new york state to the list that has approved marriage equality. so we're pleased about that. but as i was thinking about spending time wanted -- i want to talk very much about how our movements, which definitely overlap. so i want to make that point. but how our movements -- the feminist movement and lgbt movement are intertwined. our destinies are intertwined. and, in fact, we have much to learn from each other. i've been spending not only my whole life learning from the feminist movement, and my mother is a feminist and my grandmother is a feminist. but also studying what happens to our movements. for example, in 1973, when roe v. wade went through the supreme court, the polling on -- the public polling on whether or not a woman could have an abortion in the first trimester was at 53%. it was at 53%. i don't need to go through everything that has happened since then in defending roe and defending everything else that has to do with freedom for our own bodies. as many of yo

the same story in the gate state of mississippi. rick santorum has been declared the winner the mississippi republican primary in terms of the vote in mississippi. this is important to say. >>> this is, most of all, a bad night for newt gingrich. let's be honest. its within a great night for risks but mostly, a bad night for newt gingrich. i want you to hear from rick santorum addressing his supporters in lafayette, louisiana, a short time ago. >> we did it again! i just want to say first to the people of alabama, you made a great difference tonight, thank you very, very much for your support. we'll compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate conservative to go up against barack obama and take him on every issue. >> now as good a night as this was for rick santorum, it has been that bad a night for newt gingrich. newt gingrich, essentially staked his entire ca

his home state and the next state over. are certainly decisions that he's going to make. i think there are certain political realities he has to look at, but i think if you look at all three of the candidates, they represent largely the same philosophy, an economic policy that would take us back to a huge tax cut for the wealthy, adding trillions and trillions of dollars to our deficits and to our debts. mane of the same policies that got us into the mess we're trying to get out of right now. i don't think there's a great distinguishing characteristic between all three of these. >> yet in the most recent "new york times"/cbs poll, your candidate, president obama, his job approval numbers have dropped significantly in the last month, 51% last month, 41% of the people polled in the latest poll approve of the job he's doing. 47% disapprove. >> and anderson, still beating all three of those candidates. look, we have been at this for five years. there's going to be a poll taken tomorrow. a poll every day between now and election

last year the appropriation act is five million. but if all our states face what we see on national emergency. and what is requested in the budge budget? >> certainly i'm happy to get you information about what is clearly an important program, senator. these are tough joyce choices and we're proposing less money. we're proposing more than what was in last year enacted but only slightly more. so we're happy to get you information so you can make that case. >> but you're going to aggressively support your 10 million, which is what is in the president's budget, right? >> i believe it's 4 1/2, sir -- >> i'm sorry. i have 10. senator, we are absolutely in accord. thank you. >> okay. thank you. the epas border 2012 program is coming to an end and i understand a new border 2020 program is being developed to replace it. will you ensure that border environmental issues receive a top level attention at epa headquarters going forward? >> yes, sir, it is a priority. >> and you're going to be timely in terms of getting out as the one program expires 2012, a 2020 bord

the united states senate is of course controlled by democrats. democrats do not have to let republicans get the measure to the floor. but if republicans want to make a political issue out of being against access to contraception, democrats have decided they will make republicans do that through a megaphone. rick santorum earned the man on dog nickname. he said that. those were his words. bob mcdonnell earned the vp asterisk next to him name, standing for vaginal probe. he supported the vaginal probe ultrasound. he introduced ultrasound legislation himself, he will sign forced ultrasound legislation, you earned it, you can't escape it. republican u.s. senators are part of the anti-contraception party. they have gone to washington to block access to contraception for american women. democrats by putting the thing on the agenda tomorrow are saying republicans, this is your policy and you are going to have to live with it. senator jean shaheen joins us next for the interview. >>> i come from a state, new hampshire as governor i signed legislation pass

specifically tonight in the state of alabama. while it's the republican presidential primary getting the lion's share of attention out of alabama tonight, that's not the only game in town. there's been some really interesting down-ticket races in alabama, reflecting some national trends and national celebrity. in alabama's sixth congressional ticket, a ten-term incumbent republican congressman named spencer bachus found himself in a political fight tonight. mr. bachus is the subject of a congressional investigation over insider trading allegations. he's denying any wrongdoing, but those allegations have been dogging him for months now including in his home state. tonight he was challenged for his seat by a republican state senator named scott beason who gained national attention for sponsoring the toughest immigration law in the country in alabama. in that congressional district, spencer bachus coming in more than 30 points ahead of her challenger in congressional district six. over in alabama's first congressional district, anoth

voters across the state gathered this afternoon. you're looking at a live picture right now, the republican parties' headquarter where they're busy tabulating the votes and set to announce the totals. the early numbers, not so early now. 29% of the vote in washington state and the caucus now in. mitt romney with 36%. ron paul and rick santorum are tied for a second, virtually -- actually, exactly the same 24%. newt gingrich a distant fourth with 12%. only ron paul chose to be in washington state tonight. he's planning to address his supporters this hour. our reporters tracking the republican candidates have been busy all day as well as the washington state parties headquarters and the caucus sites. here with me tonight are chief political analyst, gloria bore ger, john king of cnn's john king usa. they're ready to assess and analyze the results. we'll get perspective from ari fleischer and hillary rosen. let start out with paul at state republican party headquarters in bellevue, washington. set the scene for us, paul. what's the late

subsequent research shows the variations in the state legislative contests around the united states. some of this is footnoted in the article and i can direct you to that. so there's a political implication or a political correlation to the variation in turnout. well, what's interesting in the last few decades is there is a structure to these turnout ratios that if we look across the 50 states, across elections, in each state, since 1992, there are two predictor variables that are powerfulplaing states that have large ratios of turnout, that have very high turnout districts and very low turnout districts. the first one is the growth of resident noncitizen populations. this relationship didn't exist before the 1990s. but it has emerged in the 1990s and moving forward. in the second one is the scope of coverage of the state under section 5 of the voting rights act. voting rights act section 5 which professor piercely requires that changes in election law be precleared by the d.c. court or by the doj. it's based on historic turnout. this variable didn't explain turnout variations before

the way i estimate state medicaid spending under obama care is to track four different factors. three of them are shares. for example, a share of the medicaid eligible population in the total population, the share of intern enrollees among those eligibles, and then the share of those who actually receive medicaid benefits, the beneficiaries among the enrollees. and finally, the rate of medicaid spending per beneficiary. these three shares and that rate of spending each evolve differently, historically at least have evolved differently for -- in different u.s. states, and also within each state evolved differently for people of different age, gender, medical need, eligibility category, income group and so on. so i incorporate each of these details. my estimates are disaggregated at a very high level of detail. projections of these shares and the rate of spending per beneficiary into the future according to historically observed trend and then taking the product of all of these four elements together essentially is a method to project what would happen in the future under a specifi

this is what has happened with anti-abortion legislation in the state since the republicans took overo many state legislatures and governorships in 2010. here is 2012. here's what happens last year after all of those republican victories in 2010, anti-abortion legislation. according to the guttmacher institute you there, were 1600 anti-abortion measures introduced last year, 600. out of those 6 hunted, more than 90 new anti-abortion laws were enacted by republican-led state governments. this is unprecedented. nothing like this has ever happened in the entire time that abortion has been legal in this country. and this year, we are apparently on pace do it again. already, the folks at the guttmacher institute tell us there are 430 anti-abortion measures pending in state legislatures around the country and it's only march. republicans in washington may be divided on whether or not abortion and contraception ought to be at the center of what republicans prioritize in governing but republicans in state where they are actually in charge they are pretty unified on this, that this is what the

it's a tragedy the state cannot find the resources to care about our young people. today, as you know, and the last couple of years, we cut over $113 million of our budget. this year we are faced with the potential of having to cut another $83 million over the next two years. that's even as the governor's tax initiative passes. if not, it gets up into the $120 million range. the budget was based on a $9.2 million deficit. as you read, the state revenues are projected to fall even shorter and the estimate would be an additional $6.5 billion. -- we used to say don't worry, things could get worse, but you almost hate to say because everytime we say it, they do get worse. when you look at all the different things we are having to do to get through these financial budgets, we are in the midst of negotiations and we are looking at next year, what are we going to do, and if you have a clear out of the woods, we've got to tough years ahead of us. the layoff procedures are not any thing dictated appear by anything standing before you. we have to look at if worse comes to wor

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

way you feel best let's do that at the state level. so whether it be health care birth control gay marriage education everything would be better if only it were in the hands of the state of go back to the public integrity report our state governments really to be trusted with every single government function after all it's the states that have been passing in fayetteville after and thing bill on collective bargaining immigration abortion just to name a few that i mention all the states that bailed p.p.i. study were also moderates a very conservative when it comes to the season so i just thought i'd throw that last little tidbit of knowledge in there so that every state missing the mark on transparency i think that it's time we all have a more balanced a more adult conversation about the role of state governments versus the pressure all government because it's good better or government bad it's just too simple and it simply isn't working. now the cia or the central intelligence agency prides itself on being the best spying machine in the

you were all over the state today. ll me what you have seen. >> it's been a pretty crazy day today, actually. it started out this afternoon. just outside of lexington and headed down the blue grass parkway to elizabeth town and then headed north on i-65 to shepardville. and there was a tornado just to the west of there in fort knox, i believe. i have not had the opportunity to check all the different reports. what i have seen on the radar and reports there was a tornado in fort knox that did head toward shepherdsville. tornado warnings everywhere up and down i-65. i got caught in some pretty severe wind and rain along with hail up to softball size. the wind gusts had to be 60 to 70 miles per hour. made it down to elizabeth town and all the hail back up the blue grass parkway with a lot of damaging wind. some additional hail and a lot of heavy rain. >> shepard: it is astounding to see these tornadoes stretch across such a large swath of our country. when you talk about going from the gulf coast all the way to the great l

whatever the states have chosen not to do the federal government can do? >> no. not at all. >> the tenth amendment says the powers not given to the federal government are reserved not just to the states but to the states and the people. and the argument here is that the people were left to decide whether they want to buy insurance or not. >> but -- but, your honor, what the court has said and it would be a sub stshl departure from what the court has said, when congress is regulating economic activity with a substantial effect to interstate kmcommerce that will be upheld nap is what's going on here. to embark, i submit with all due respect to embark on the analysis my friends on the other side suggest court ought to embark is on is to import loughner style due process -- >> excuse me. >> the key in loughner is that we were talking about regulation of the states. right? and the states are not limited to enumerated powers. the federal government is. and seems to me it's an entirely different question when you ask yourselves whether or not there are going to be limit

i think the 74th was the only state that was given the honor of retaining their state [ inaudible ]. >> do we -- hello? no? >> one of my ancestors was a volunteer with the florida regiment. i believe it was in jacksonville. and i believe that was towards the end of the war. how common would that have been or how dangerous would that have been for him to do in florida? >> i didn't hear the last couple of words. >> how common or dangerous would that have been for someone, for a black person to volunteer in florida, although i think it was at that time occupied by the union. >> yes. well, other than, well, dangerous. he could die of disease, be captured or wounded or killed in battle. but other than that -- [ laughter ] >> yes. i mean, yes. they -- wherever union troops served, that was a fertile recruiting ground for black soldiers. anyone? no? >> [ inaudible ]. >> i don't know. is it? i should -- >> [ inaudible clr i have no financial stake in this because i wrote it while i was on the government payroll. attached to it. so, yes. i mean, yes. >> [ inaudible ]. [ applause ] >>> as comme

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this is the requirement of the state of california. after that strategic plan, it informed our allocation plan, which you will hear today. we have a strategic advisory committee that went through the proper channels. we also have the index of needs developed a dcys to determine allocations based on needs of the children. so -- [unintelligible] can you see the first slide? this is just, this is our budget. we have two major funding sources said the side. we have approximately $15 million from prop h. we see a little increase happening next year. we do not know what the allocation will be 413-14. this year, -- for 13-14. some of that i will discuss later, but this is because we will enroll more children and we have to set aside in case there are state cuts. we have $3.7 million special prop funds. that was one-you're only. we also used for sustainability finance so we can find at a higher level. -- funds so we could fund at a higher level. we will use our sustainability funds for both of those years to bring it up to about 7.2, 7.3. the f

now it's not going to speak for whistleblower peter van buren just got a germination notice from the state department for charges like we're going to wiki leaks and using poor judgment and speaking about hillary clinton's are going to get all the details then three in ten young americans now live with their parents so you can see what doctors aside from the economy are playing a role and what some are calling the going nowhere generation and thanks to a boy request we get a glimpse into f.b.i. surveillance of environmental and animal rights activists over the last decade or just say that they're targeting people for no good reason so we got all that and more for night including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has it just cited to me. so if you were watching the mainstream media today it was one really big political news story for the release of a documentary about the obama administration. last night the obama campaign released this documentary called the road we've traveled seventeen minute documentary campaign for america it's the white house bio

because what is what the states are relying upon. it's coercive to give them a new system. >> we're not saying we have a vested right to participate in the medicaid program. if the congress wanted to scrap the current system and have a new one, i'm not going to tell you there's no possibility of a coercione toit. >> i want to know how i draw the line. think think usual definition of to coercion is i don't have a choice. they may not pay for something else. if they don't take medicaid, they may have to make cuts that their budget to other services they provide. it's a political choice of whether they choose to do that or not. but when we have limited the government not to spend money in the ways appropriate? >> i'm trying to answer that to. but what if congress tried to scrap this and start over? here's why it's fundamentally different and many coercive. congress is not saying they want to scrap the program. they don't have a single complaint with the way they're providing services to the visually impaired an disabled. and that's whey

and the united states would rely on them in those circumstances. and so i don't think the answer is that they can all go to court -- >> two former commissioners of the irs have filed a brief saying your interpretation is going to lead to a flood of litigation. now, they're wrong on that? >> yes. we don't -- we have taken this position after very consideration. and we have assessed the institutional interests of the united states. and we think we're in the right place. >> but tell me something. why isn't this case subject to the same bars that you list in your brief? the tax court at least so far constitutional challenges to statute. so why isn't this case subject to a dismissal for failure to exhaust? >> we don't -- because the exhaustion would go to the individual amount owed, we think. and that's different situation from this case. if the court has no further questions. >> thank you, general. >> thank you. >> mr. cat sas. >> let me begin with the question of whether the anti injunction act is jurisdictional. justice beginsburg, we think the text i

and the borders of the united states are what define the sovereignty of the united states and if we should accept the idea that there aren't borders, that people have always migrated and somehow it's immore forl for us to de-- immoral for us to define those borders or tell people they can't come across, then i would ask those who advocate a policy like, that and i believe that it is an illogical policy, that those who advocate for such a policy, i would say to them then, how many people do you believe should be allowed to live in the united states? what should the possibility -- what should the population of the united states of america be? six billion people on the planet, we're the third largest population country in the planet, 300-plus million of us. how many should live here? if you would ask the rest of the world, would you like to live in the united states and we'll buy you a ticket to go and we'll give you an unlimited -- just how about the current access of welfare benefits that are there, 72 different means-tested federal welfare freshmans -- programs, and by the way, refundable,

the closest we have come. tomorrow is a big day and features eleven states and does include the battle ground state of ohio. it hasn't always been the giant day where they rally around the candidate. we are taking a look at how it all started. the deputy political editor who helped us take a look. the history of super tuesday is only generational. >> after wins in michigan, arizona, and washington state over the weekend, mitt romney hopes to wrap up with wins on super tuesday. they hope to make this a long fight and took a look back at how it start and why it has been so pivotal. >> the phrase first emerged in 1980 when three southern states, alabama, florida and georgia held primaries on the same day. it tame into its own in 1988 when 20 states voted on day. upset with the nomination of walter mondale, a liberal who lost every state but to ronald reagan, a dozen southern states banded together in hopes of picking a more moderate cantidate. michael dukakis, a governor from massachusetts won the nomination. >> i accept your nomination for the presidency. >> dukakis, al gore and jesse jackson split with dukaki

by the way, how are the states doing? as we said earlier, tennessee and new york with some double digit gains in the overall high school graduation rate. joined by alabama, florida, georgia, kentucky, massachusetts, missouri, north carolina, south carolina, texas and wisconsin. the ten states whose graduation rates have worsened over the last eight to ten years, arizona, arkansas, california, connecticut, nebraska, nevada, new jersey, new mexico, rhode island and utah. this is "washington today" on c-span radio. >>> in some other news today, on wall street the dow closed up six. the final numbers, 13,239. nasdaq was up 23. s&p was up five. apple saying today it has no plans to bring its more than $60 billion in overseas cash back to the u.s. until congress changes tax laws. the company announced today it's going to begin paying a dividend to its shareholders and will buy back some stocks. moves that will require about $45 billion in cash over three years. but the company said it will rely exclusively on its domestic cash r

that's the definition in the state constitution approved by the voters. if you're imprisoned or on state parole you can't vote in california. if you're not, if you're in county custody, you do. the thinking is, not only did we change the addresses of these people, we changed the status. we're putting them back into the community, for better or worse, and they should regain their voting rights. secretary of state deborah bowen, the top elections official and a democrat, found to the contrary entering an opinion she sent to the county registrars, saying these people may be in county jail and it's going to be upwards of 85,000 of them as of june 2013, but they're serving felony time, they're doing the equivalent of parole, and they do not have voting rights. so the lawsuit before a state court of appeals said, voting rights are supposed to be interpreted broadly. the franchise is important to people being integrated back into the community. these folks should have the right to vote -- >> isn't there another element to this, and that is the makeup of the priso

and you do see britain and united states in iraq. the united states was a little bit more suspicious at that time. >> but we also see britain pulling out now. they had 40,000 troops in there, it won't be too long before they have 5,000 troops in there and we'll end up being there by ourselves. the french have never really supported our efforts there. you say in 1919, they got syria and lebanon. >> the french got syria and lebanon. the british got iraq and palestine which then they divided into palestine and jordan, or trans-jordan and part of pal leestine and part of tha became israel and the west bank and so on and trans-jordan became jordan. so, the -- i mean, i think the political circumstances are very different today. the british i think are pulling out of iraq. i think the americans are saying they're very pleased about it. dick cheney was on television the other night saying we see this as a very necessary move and a victory. i don't know. i suspect that british public opinion and opinion within the labor party is now i think turn

but we already see the state's threshold. rather than wait until they're all done, we'll turn on what we have and keep counting until the we get the damages identified. >> good. good. well, i can't say anything but praise so far after fema has done. it's an extremely difficult situation because there's no communication. the storm took out the tower communications, telephones and internet. and so it's difficult to even contact the county or county executive or the mayors. beside so clobbered with debris and trees and limbs and damage, it's been remarkable thing that we've been this far this quick. it's a devastating time. i really appreciate your commitment and your rapid decision because that's all important given the time of year it is down there in the winter time. the devastation is widespread as it is and the human factor is altogether important here. these people are hurting severely. i look forward working with you as we good on down the pike. >> thank you. >> thank you. i, too, want to join my colleagues, administrator,

it's a substantial risk to the united states. and ultimately it is something that simply can't be tolerated. >> from today's apec conference, comments of former house speaker and presidential candidate newt gingrich. we'll have more from today's news conference with the president and this question from cbs white house correspondent norah o'donnell. >> today is super tuesday so i wonder if you might weigh in on some of your republican presidential opponents. mitt romney has criticized you on iran and said hope is not a foreign policy. he also said that you are america's most feckless president since carter. what would you like to say to mr. romney? >> good luck tonight. >> no, really. >> really. >> one of the one or two lighthearted moments at today's news conference, which, by the way, iyo45minute exchange between the president and members of the white house press corps, it is on our website, it will air on the network later tonight. of course, we're also focusing on the results from super tuesday with primaries and caucuses in te

that the state has propped problem solving the capabilities the state as i wrote a piece today that uses that holds in poland if you meet the buddha on the road kill it in which the state is the buddha if you're on the road to restore enough prosperity on the road to restore your freedom and you need the state with a state solution along the road you've got to kill the state that's the only solution you've got to show the study and. short of that of course nothing's going to work there hasn't been a state in america since lyndon johnson. it's been run by kleptocrat of bankers sense starting with nixon going off the gold standard closing the gold when doubt there is no state in america let's be clear it got presidents and you've got banks there's the state is left the building i'd love to see an operating full functioning responsible representational government but it doesn't exist and that's why the country is not worth the that's it's doesn't say all right well we're out of time thanks so much for bringing kaiser report very very good to speak with you thank you very much all right

state contest this year. i don't know if it has anything to do with the fact the states have been screwed up and so many results have been in question and a lot of these places nobody really knows who won or whether it meant anything they did win. but the biggest republican organizational problem with their nominating process may not be what happened state-by-state, to let people vote or count the votes or decide what they mean. the big picture organizational problem may not be the individual failure in all these successive states, it may be the big problem that the republicans designed their primary contest this year so it goes on forever. is why it called super tuesday? it got the name super in part because it's a lot of states voting. super. but also because super tuesday is supposed to be so many states, so many delegates, that it is one day that can decide the race. it's the day when somebody can clinch the nomination. that is the way it usually works. happens tomorrow night, still nobody clinches the nomination. as long as somebody has a billionaire writing them checks, the race goes on, even after tomorr

and we have jordan from the state law center. t. >> the states have the right to protect the voting process and the integrity. in a former opinion within by john paul stevens they upheld a very similar law, almost the exact same law in indiana, in 20086-3 with justice stevens writing the opinion. he's been replaced bee justice kagan, but there are still five votes on the court for these kind of laws. the best argument right there is the supreme court has recently said these laws are okay if you take the safeguards that texas did. bill: based on previous legislation, states in the south like texas have a different burden of proof and all this. i think it's fascinating when you compare the southern states and northern states. chuck, make your best case for why you think the justice department has a shot at this. >> i'd like to look at it from the local view. i was born and raised in east texas. i was a local precinct judge in east texas and ran local elections in my precinct for ten years. working with the community, seeing the chec

and the state says, look, we would prefer to keep the money ourselves in our state and do it our own way rather than to send it to you, the feds, and then have you turn around and give it back to us with strings attached. >> can i respond to that? >> surely. i don't know that there is a response. >> i'm glad you made that remarkable point in just the form you did make it, because nothing could be further at odds with the framers -- what the constitution itself says and what the framers core objectives were when they gathered in philadelphia in 1787 to write the convention, and that was if they had any central aim, it was to create a federal -- a national government, robust and in particular financially independent enough to be successful both in terms of governing the 13 colonies and their people and in surviving in a hostile world dominated by britain and france. so nothing was more important than assuring that the federal government clearly had the power to tax and spend, tax citizens directly without any interference from the states and spend to provide for the general welfare of t

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they're not outcome to the notice states. but they're is a process of emptying christians of the middle east. because of the situation, the political situation in the middle east. there are questions whether christianity would survive in the middle east. syria now has some problems so after the arabs bring in needed to what you have is fear. so anybody who had relatives, a western countries just try to get out of egypt. and, of course, as a consequence of liberation on some, so they emigrated. >> is this such a thing as a muslim identity? >> come to my class, an iranian students. have a palestinian students. if you can think of that. to have it means that you can feel comfortable living in america and at the same time maintain is police, separate between the two. there are other muslims to believe the your primary identity should be muslim, so you have to dress and a distinctive white. some muslims. so it depends who decides what the muslims. >> christianity. >> absolutely. no different. >> what is a moderate muslim? >> that i

the state of texas is a proud sponsor of one such force. congress provided modest increases to the ustr and funding the program at $41.25 million in fiscal '12. the administration's budget reverse this is trend and cuts the funding by $13.7 million. the average cost to maintain a usar team exceeds $2 million, leaving local governments with bsh which sponsor the task force to fill the gap. many localities facing budget short falls themselves, sponsoring the teams is a burden they struggle to afford significantly straining task force capability and readiness. for a minor investment, congress can significantly enhance the nation's preparedness to respond appropriately. we encourage the subcommittee to increase the funding in usar over fiscal year 2012 appropriation. lastly, we wish to express our reservations regarding the administration's proposal to consolidate 16 homeland security grant programs into the new national preparedness grant program. each of the homeland security grants was established in order to serve a specific and important pu