the state talks about the robson case. johnson versus robson that the state only needs to show that the inclusion of the excluded group shows a further inclusion but the state is misriding that and the court found that the line drawn there rationally distinguished between the two groups, that there was good reasons why conscientious objectors could be denied veterans benefits but veterans could not. the court ruled that the groups were not similarly situated in respect to those benefits. in klebor, it failed because the, quote, purported justification for the ordinance made no sense in how the law treated other similarly situated in important respects. and here this is the problem that we have with the biology of the rationale, michigan allows single, gay and lesbians to adopt. it allows donor sperm and artificial insemination so it doesn't further any of those ties. remember, cases are struck down under rational basis that are riddled with exceptions. so the ban doesn't logically fit that rationale. time procreation to ma

the state that the countries should not intervene in the domestic affairs of other states. and that the borders in the international affairs began by attempting to have an impact on other societies. and some kind of international law would be created and that the diplomats should be called into existence. that never happened before. so the interesting thing is none of the people had an overwhelming statement but out of a separate state it's still a number of principles which for several hundred years governed the european relations and by us around the world. now, some of them still are of great consequence namely the basic unit of international relations should be the state and that if you conduct purely ideological basis and try to undermine the state that then the structure of the strained could be disappeared. now of course, the nonintervention set of principles, these were useful instruments. the dilemma of the president period is that several things are happening simultaneously. the state as a political organization is attacked in many parts of the world and the nonsta

how do i protect my states against this and the united states was the only available partner.the perception of the traditional ways of thinking is shown from the first day in office they had concluded that the attempt must be made to bring china into the international system he wrote a piece called asia after vietnam and there was a hand in the midst of the normal. >> china was in the middle of the cultural revolution, so it was very hard to know to get the dialogue started. but they wrote periodic reports about what they might do and they published the report and it is now available. they published a report in early july, 1971 while i was on my way to china which said it listed all the arguments i just made of why china should look to the united states but they concluded with this could not have been while he was alive. so one has to wait until he's dead. today we know that it couldn't have happened and that he was alive. >> that's reassuring that it hasn't changed all that much. his jacket was understandable. at any rate then china and the united states had to deal with each

the state of indiana has 28,000 employees. and you multiply $2,000 times your work force, and that is your tax penalty. even if you were just to miss a few employees being covered under the affordable care act. so, again, this is that same type of threatening coercion that doesn't really fit in the relationship between sovereigns. this 39 school corporations who have joined, i was talking to a few people in the hall. they are usually not standing next to me during my election process. let's leave it at that. but they were very concerned about the way we educate our children and the way our school corporations as a part of our sovereign government has been structured. we have a school board. they elect the people who run the school and they use part-time workers. so it's bus drivers, the teacher's aid, people that work in the cafeteria. under indiana's law, 30 hours -- or 37 1/2 hours, anything less than that is part-time. >> we're going to have our last keynote address and then we will break for lunch, which will be held upstai

>> not with respect to the united states constitution because the united states constitution sets a very high bar for constitutional amendment. >> no, no, no. no, no. i'm talking about the going into every state in the country, every city, every school board election for 78 years and trying to get enough going to convince the legislatures to adopt or to extend the vote to women, 78 years of it. and would you be surprised to find out it didn't work and it took an amendment to the constitution to finally achieve that after 78 years? >> yes. there's no question that the u.s. constitution is very difficult -- >> no, no, no. that's not the question. excuse me. you're not getting the point. the point is, you want to do this democratically state by state, legislature by legislature, municipal government by municipal government as far as i know, and it just doesn't always work. >> well, that's the way -- >> it doesn't always work. 78 years to get the women to go to the polls and vote. that's all. you don't have to respond. >> okay. >> i just thought you would like to know that in case you're eve

the vote. oeta and e comes from oklahoma state university. good evening. on behalf of the bored of regents, the administration faculty and staff. welcome to the gubernatorial debate. it is my pleasure to moderate tonight's it debate. the production of this tee vent is a combined effort of oeta, the league of women voters of oklahoma and oklahoma state university. and now lets introduce the candidates. republican governor mary fallin and democratic state representative joe dorman. [applause] now each candidate will be asked a series of questions by a panel of journalists. the questions were selected by the journalists. the panel members are rachel hubbard, the associate director and u raidor, dick pryor rick green. now before start the debate we need to go over the ground rules. these rules were agreed upon by both candidates. each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement as well as two minutes for closing remarks. questions from the journalist panel will be directed to both contrabandities. they will have 90 seconds to answer the question. t

we have the lowest of any state in the nation. hundreds of thousands of people have access to health care tha t they did not have before because of pre-existing conditions. the number of other ways in which the affordable care act has opened doors for people to have quality care. 140,000 people with health care plans that were not compliant and were required to become so. the insurers had to adjust those plans to offer them something better than what they had before. that is one of the purposes of the affordable health care act. assurere people -- people that they will have coverage for their needs. half of the bankruptcies in this country are caused by health care costs. most of those people have insurance. >> thank you. we are looking up for straight up yes or no answers. the state's building code was updated to mandate indoor spring for systems, which will at to the cost of new homes. do you support the new mandate? >> absolutely not. is that consumers should be up to choose. >> yes, i support it. people who have not had the ex

i have had the pleasure to represent the state for 18 years in the united states senate and while president obama is not on the ballot the future of louisiana is. collecting a senator that can get the job done when it comes to energy building a middle class in our country and in louisiana supporting more domestic production, supporting the keystone pipeline, supporting the changes in the pipeline that kept 25,000 plus people with natural gas using my influence in my clout which is the people's influence and clout in louisiana. i think fighting hard for state when it comes to disaster reli relief, loan forgiveness, supporting her your university and bringing billions of dollars to the state when it was necessary. i also believe supporting our seniors not raising the retirement age to 70, keeping medicare as we know it, supporting health care for people that work and let's not repeal the law. let's improve it and i have suggestions to do so. finally coso frustration. whatever you do in louisiana won't be worth anything if we can savor coast. the bill that i passed the sustainability efforts o

the final objective, united states troop aircraft assemble for the long trip back to the united states to the united states armed forces. despite the dust the giant , planes airlift men and equipment back to united states safely and on schedule. it is important to realize that for the first time in our history, an entire army airborne brigade with all of its heavy equipment was transported 12,000 miles on an ally's call for assistance to help stem the tide of aggression in their country. united states military officials have devoted considerable effort to the evaluation of exercise delawar and the contributions to the defense of the free world. they believe the success of the exercise has given a strong boost to the central treaty organization. united states and iranian fighting men have gained invaluable experience, both in staff and command function and combined operations in the field. this effort helps prove the differences in language and customs need not be a barrier to allies working and fighting together for a common cause. the exercise demonstrated that joint operating procedu

that is the state of maryland in the upcoming state election decided to disenfranchise every voter in the city of baltimore. this is a stunning moment in american history. whether you are democrat or republican, black or white, from the south or north, if you are in american you should be alarmed and appalled. what this tells us is at this moment we must shift our conversation about voting to a conversation about how we infr n enfranchise our voting population. 60% of americans eligible to vote, nearly 30% are not registered. millions of voters who are absent from the political process. and would voter id laws have created to essentially a regulatory obstacle course for those who we should want to participate in the political process. i hope that today's conversation will help shift the narrative and help engage us in the conversation about how we enrich voting in this country rather than deprive voters of the opportunity to be full citizens. thank you. >> i would like to call upon hans bonds the posse -- hans hans bonds for-- cops beat will give his wha spoke about this issue a coupl

the last state to default was arkansas back in 1938. it would be a huge black eye across the country for rhode island. i'm running for governor to rebuild rhode island, to move the state forward, not to go back. >> mr. healey before you when i -- before i go to mr. fung to you have used it as a campaign prop. how do you square that with voters? >> if i could respond to one point. i would like to question the treasurer's judgment on this and i think the rhode island voters deserve to know what fighting means. i stood up and asked for a full investigation when allegations move forward. sending an e-mail is not fighting for the taxpayers. and as far as judgment let's talk about the treasury -- treasurer's judgment. they rehired the same financial advisers that put us into that deal for southwest. she and governor chaffee rehired those individuals when we as a state or suing them for fraud. i question her judgment. raimondo: i also would like an investigation but that's after-the-fact. where was he as an elected official before it happened?

parents called us the best run state in america. cnbc called as the number one state for business. xes are among the lowest in the nation. in a political year it's sometimes hard to remember the good news but it's true. our unemployment rate is second lowest in the nation. our student test scores are above the national average. we balanced our budget. our communities are among the safest in the nation and our population and economy are growing faster than the nation. i know that government doesn't deserve credit for most of this but i've worked hard to help south dakota families and businesses achieve success. i'd be grateful for the opportunity to serve four more years and continue to build on those successes. i would be honored to serve as your governor again. >> moderator: all right thank you. and mike you too have the opportunity to make one -- take one minute to share your thoughts with voters. myers: there something going on out there. a level of anxiety and underlying anger among the people that i meet and talk with. i really believe that we need to respond to that anger and

he lost the equal state vote. he was deeply depressed by the idea that rhode island, not to mention wyoming later, but have the same number of members of the senate as virginia and massachusetts. he lost another proposal to which he was deeply attached. he wanted a joint council that could review legislation. if enacted, he would deal with the consequences later. he did not like the idea of remedy by postoperative legislation. so he loses those points. look at madison's batting average. his r.b.i., on-base percentage, slugging percentage. let's be a little careful about this father of the constitution stuff. perhaps he was overrated. i never really agree with that. constitution-making is not like baseball. it is a bad analogy. it is an entirely different enterprise. what i find really impressive about madison is, you think seriously about his role at every point in the process of constitutional revision. back to 1780. he did not sit in congress. jefferson knew what was going on here. think about his role in the ear

the only state worse than us was illinois. if they were not there, we would have the worst-funded system in the country. that's what gets you into bankruptcy. the pension system, with nearly a $9 billion hole and they would not fix it. look at where we were in jobs last decade, we lost private-sector jobs. during my administration, we have added 58,000 new private sector jobs. 58,000 new private sector jobs during the time i have been governor of the state of kansas. those are the things that have happened. by the way the question was on , resources. i think we need to deal with the issue of water. the ogallala aquifer, the resources that we have in reservoirs. i think we need to have a good solid discussion about this. i have credibility in this area. i've worked on the issue of water for years. i was the agriculture secretary. i think we have a serious issue that we need to confront and deal with if we have a future in the state. it is one of the major issues over the next 50 year outlook that we have. we have a discussion go

some are at the state, and district. mature everybody knows what the standards are. >>> there's way too much testing in our schools today. >>> and, the reason that is, is that rick scott signed a bill, i vetoed that bill, because it put too much about teaching to the test. >>> that's not right and it's to the fair to our children. we need to have somebody like me, as governor, who served as education commissioner. >>> we have had 4 educational commissioners, in four years.

but in the united states. eheen: is being governor is more than hanging and the governor's mansion we need honest leadership governor haley department of health and abetted tuberculosis outbreak over year ago and did not tell the parents for almost two months after it became known i went to make "meet the parents" and they told me why doesn't governor haley come hear? why were we told there was a tuberculosis outbreaks? why did teachers' contract it? i met with them again months later and i promised i would tell the story so i am telling it to you. sova to say that they have been exposed when they tried to get jobs this is bigger than the stages of honesty and leadership to bring south carolina to gather to begin -- together again i ask report. reeves: it is now ended down stretch at university we put the polls out that was personal opinion but let me say to all of you what separates me from the rest i keep god in the pitcher and i have mentioned his name with anybody may he bless your children. vote democrat f

the first of five that will be held in the state. tonight's event is organized by greater minnesota cities. and it's being broadcast live on public tv and well beyond and thanks to our public tv sponsored tonight. >> we're joined by the three major candidates. incumbent governor mark dayton, republican commissioner jeff hnson and independence candidate hannah nicollett. thank you for being here and you can applaud. [applause] >> ok. leer the ground rules. i read the question. you have 90 seconds to respond. we have timekeepers to keep us on track. i have the discretion to allow a 30-second rebut tall. or i'll ask another one if the candidate hasn't addressed the question. so it behooves the candidate to address the question. e'll have a lightning round. very quick yes or no questions. then we'll resume with more questions and the candidate has two minutes of clothing statements. -- so that's a lot of work to do in an hour. we determined who gets to respond to the next question. we have one hour. we appreciate if you hold your applause

the southern states -- the smaller states will not yield on this point. question of yielding to them in the spirit of accommodation or scrapping the whole enterprise and going back. unfortunately, they did agree that the house of representatives would be based population and the senate would be based on equal the states.on among the philadelphia it goes to constitution. it goes from the constitutional convention in philadelphia to george washington taking the the balcony of federal hall. but what transpires in between two-year knockout, dragout fight across the copt innocent ratify the o constitution. each state elects the constitution to sit and judge -- constitutional convention to sit in judgment of the constitution of philadelphia. chapters of this book on the va rah ratification most tion as the largest culturally important, commercially important state in the country. that virginia ratifies the constitution. the anti-federalists, the of the constitution, try that and it completely them.red on they decided they're going to hold the debate in june. the

the unions corrupt, the state establishment is corrupt. and he scared the bajesus out of them. they're not good friends with pat quinn, though he's a democrat because pat quinn has crossed them on a number of issues. but they are energized. and pat quinn is competitive, though bruce ronner has put 40, $50 million into the race, and he's still in it because of the unions, and because they have come together and created these pacts and they have helped pat quinn be exceptive on the money front. in the end, we're looking at $60 million is being spent in illinois, and the union contributions are strong in that area. >> patsy, the one guy, chad quinn, this is the case in a couple of states where the main parties are virtually tied, or tied within the margin of error and then getting 5, 6, 7% depending on the poll for a third party candidate. and can they make a difference in some of these things? >> without a doubt. the third party candidates are throwing wrenches into a lot of senate races. particularly in georgia, and a number of gubernatorial

among the revelations are details of how then-u.s. secretary of statenry kissinger considered launching air strikes against cuba after fidel castro sent troops to support independence fighters in angola in 1976. in the years that followed, top secret u.s. emissaries, including former president jimmy carter and nobel prize-winning author gabriel garcia marquez, worked to normalize relations with cuba. the book's release comes as cuban leader raul castro is set to participate for the first time in next year's summit of the americas in panama. earlier this month, panama's foreign minister flew to havana to personally invite castro to attend for the first time. president obama has not said yet if he will attends the talks. >> meanwhile, cuba has denounced the obama administration for extending the more than 50-year embargo. the white house authorized the trade embargo for another year in a little-noticed move in september. speaking before the u.n. general assembly, cuban foreign minister bruno rodrÍguez said u.s. restrictions on cuba have worsened under pre

state. we need to put that to an end and change the climate in the state. will do well. >> moderator: you have one minute. cuomo: rhetoric is fine, facts are better. our taxes on the middle state are the lowest they have been since 1953. corporate taxes are back to the level of 1968. we just won and award from a business point of view we have gone from 25 to 4. from a conservative organization that studies taxes. we have brought down taxes and that has brought up jobs, 511,000 new jobs. this state has more jobs than it has ever had in the history of the state of new york. in terms of credibility, my friend mr. astorino when it comes to taxes, if you promise to point to some tax cuts, he guaranteed there would never be a downgrade and he promised they would not be the highest in taxes. after five years they are the number-1 taxed county in the united states of america. property taxes went up 8% and the county was downgraded. >> moderator: you have one minute. hawkins: trickle-down corporate welfare doesn't trickle down to working people and small businesses.

those are real people across the state. i set a big goal of 250,000 jobs to make up for the jobs lost and aim big for the future. i believe in the state. while we are not there yet, we have come a long way. over 100,000 new jobs in the 3 1/2 years we have been in office. there is plenty more work to be done. as voters look at it they are not going to blame us. we want to have big goals. look at the contrast between the two of us. in the last three years we have created nearly twice as many jobs as were created during the three years that my opponent was in charge of the department of commerce under governor doyle. at that time we were 42nd in the country for job creation. we have just come off a september with the best september for private sector job creation we have had in more than a decade. i think that is a good sign for the future. >> well, with the number of times that governor walker has mentioned jim doyle, he would rather be running against him than me. i am a business executive, and that is the experience that i b

ted stephens was sort of the grandfather of the state. he helped found it back in the 1950s and 60s. served as senator for decades until his defeat at the hands of begich in 1988. and the election and the money being spent in it sort of exemplifies the difference you see. whether the state is going to line up behind the traditional issues that the people tend to care about, whether that's fishing whether that's the energy industry whether that's the independence that alaskans really see themselves as having or whether this is going to be sort of a straight par sedan response to six years of barack obama, a state that's traditionally republican, whether they're going to vote that way just to stick to this party line. >> key sources of money, where does the money come from and is it difficult to figure it out? >> well, a lot of the money coming into alaska is actually coming from these nonprofit groups that don't disclose their donors. over $12 million already of the total in outside spending has come from these kind of groups. the advantage

we are not driving the state into bankruptcy. what we are doing is making sure that we are making steady progress. heading up the infrastructure that will allow us to compete with massachusetts who are doing some of these things long before we were. in the last two quarters of 2013 when we outgrew every state in new england. things made statements, like "not asmany jobs as we said," that's wrong. total private-sector job growth over the time of our administration is much more than 60,000. at the same time government has gotten smaller. government has gotten smaller while i have been governor of the state of connecticut. sure, we should be more efficient. sure, we should be investing in technologies we did not have in our state previously. when i inherited this state because you elected me governor, the largest department spending 18% of our money was operating on a format from the effective age of 1989. >> i'm sorry to cut you off. now onto the rebuttal phase. mr. foley. >> i'm glad the governor brought up his experience in stamfo

he ran for election to be the leader of the united states. as a leader, you have to make some incredibly difficult decisions. whether he's made the right ones in this case, we'll have to wait and see. >> has he? >> no, i think this is a very tragic mistake the president is making, intervening in these conflicts. i think it's giving the islamic state exactly what they want. i go back to some of the guiding strategy that osama bin laden had and bin laden said, all we have to do is send two mujahedeen to the farthest point east, raise the flag of jihad and al qaeda, and the american generals will come racing and exhaust themselves economically, militarily, politically. and i think that strategy has been successful. we're -- -- that cost for these wars are already totaled at $6 trillion at our lifetime. we have suffered casualties much greater than i think the american people understand. there is the 7,000 dead, the 50,000 wounded, but of the two and a half million veterans who served, including myself, a third of us suffer from post-traumatic str

the state has its own on top of that. i am not sure there is a lack of funds right now, so in that respect the lack of funding is campuses, for the equipment, technology, and building improvements that are necessary so that the training that does go on his training people for the state-of-the-art jobs that are out there. >> ms. nicollet? >> would you repeat the question with regard to the $10 million program? >> sure. program that was introduced legislation last year, $10 i would be used for job training solutions. more generally, what would you do to generate more training programs for workers? also mentioned economic development economic development is the first thing, and as i said, i would like to give the corporate tax. that was hard for is little areas as well as the twin cities. that will affect all areas equally. we also do need to get all areas in the state connected to the internet. that is another area where we are deficient. we need to address the achievement gap in education. we have schools that have major pr

the state legislature had to raise the tax. i lobby for it because it really believed that we needed it. i also said that we should have the option to do that .5% for things they wanted to do. you're also missing the fact that your counterpart was a strong supporter. speech, in her initial i'm looking forward to working with the new mayor on a real transit solution for hawaii. don't know what world you're living in back then, but the senator voted for it and a majority of the legislature because we were trying to follow the expressed will of the people. 87% of the people want it. done theou environmental impact study, you would be sailing today. i want to bring that back. that is what we need to do. >> 30 seconds. it's a matter of refreshing the recollection of people not only in this room but the people out there. that you had to approve because if you didn't approve it, it would never be in the pipe right now. the bottom line is this. you, you andone of your children and her grandchildren will be responsible for that tax impo

the same time. but i have to share this before my question. i'm a state representative in phoenix, arizona, married to a person that is in process that was detained in the last session before finishing my session this term. it affects us all. but my question is this. and i'm confused. i understand the issue at the federal level here in washington. how that translates to my local area in arizona is that i'm a democrat, a registered democrat, and i have my own democratic party whose priorities do not match that of the federal. i'm passionate about immigration. ,'m organizing a massive market you name it. different --a very reverend, again, the faith-based, pro-life, how does christianlate to my churches? i understand that we got to organize and register and do that work. but there is a big disconnect. i don't know if that is only in arizona, or across the nation. what can we do? for everyectations elected official to start speaking the truth and speaking about their challenges within their party, because it shouldn't be a partisan issue. and you're right, i

she is married and lives in the state. the independent candidate, blaine richardson. he is a retired navy officer and is married and lives in belfast. welcome to you all. we are coming to you from lewiston. the first segment of this debate, we will talk with broad topical questions and we want to devote about five or six minutes total to each of those. and we wanted to be able to articulate your opinion and your positions and also your differences from one another. we determined the order earlier and emily, please go first. >> the first question is the overall unemployment rate has gone but it is higher than that in several counties in the second district area for example, in washington county, the unemployment rate is 1.9% and a neighboring county to 7.3%. voters say the economy as their number-one issue. how can you as a representative in congress helped grow the economy and add jobs in this district? >> thank you, and i'm so glad to be here tonight to talk with you and voters across the second district. we need an econo

crist: the state defamation. the state always has. an, when i went to high school i played high school football. it was an afterschool program, if you will. we had banned, we have music, art, sports. one of the things that really saddened me when governor scott cut education funding by $1.3 billion his first year is that some and our schools had to be shut down. you know, after school programs across the state had to be mothballed. in my home county of pinellas, ap classes had to grow their class-size by almost 30%. that is not the right thing to do to help a community, go to school or to help a child. so i think we have to do as i said at the outset, reinvest in education because of the dramatic cuts that rick scott has brought about. those are the facts. they are stubborn things but we need to move forward. >> moderator: governor crist that is investing in schools. the question was about does the state have a responsibility to family life, teaching people how to be better parents for preparing kids to go to school so they can perform

a pretty isolated part of the state. what's the latest on the showdown between the nurse, kaci hickox, and the state of maine? >> well, wolf, we have heard for the first time today from the governor of the state of maine, governor lepage he has come out officially saying he has tried to work with the health care worker, negotiate, but negotiating ati negotiatingations have broken down and he will exercise the fullest extent of his authority. he does not delineate beyond that but what that means is going to court. we are in front of the health care worker's home, kaci is behind closed doors, she went for a bike ride this morning with her boyfriend and all of a sudden they just came out of the house and that was in essence violating the state requesting her to voluntarily remain in her home for those 21 days. she was gone for about an hour, came back with the boyfriend, then went back into the house and now we get this word from the governor. this small town community, wolfe, it is on the northern part of maine on the canad

latin america is uniquely relevant to the united states. this comes from a variety of , security proximity and of course the evolving demographic makeup. in terms of prosperity, the numbers speak for themselves. the u.s. took in about $180 billion from latin america and $160 billion in exports. natural resources element and energy reform improves energy security as well. thanks to nafta, 40% of goods mexico" "made in have items made in the u.s. production chains are deep we integrated as well. the u.s.-mexico border is 2000 miles long. vying to venezuela takes about 3.5 hours. cuba is 90 miles from florida. that should give you an idea of how truly close we are. because of the close list violence and drug trafficking reverberate. in flying that maintaining security on the border is a shared responsibility. as a result, most u.s. foreign-policy in the region is channeled into corporate security frameworks. cooperative security arrangements, which is a cooperative security arrangement with mexico. these issues of drug trafficking and violence

most people in america are against -- the islamic state. d there are a few americans that want them to come here and help the ypg in any way we can. everything has been fine there. very nice. very accommodating. hospitable. very good people. lou: 28-year-old army veteran jordan mattson also in syria to fight the islamic state. he's now recovering from a wound in a hospital. mattson tells usa today he went to battle because he couldn't sit and watch christians being slaughtered anymore. we're coming right back. stay with us. >> ebola fears throughout the country. experts now warning about the unavoidable spread of the virus in europe. what happened to that vaccine for ebola? one of the the top scientists dr. anthony fowchy of lou: our public health officials are now working with the obama administration to create new screening rules. those rules we understand will be released in coming days while the obama administration itself is working very hard to reassure americans about the spread of the deadly virus. dr. anthony fouci is the director o

she is married and lives in the state. en we have the independent candidate, blaine richardson. he is a retired navy officer and is married and lives in belfast. welcome to you all. we are coming to you from lewiston. the first segment of this debate, we will talk with broad topical questions and we want to devote about five or six minutes total to each of those. and we wanted to be able to articulate your opinion and your positions and also your differences from one another. we determined the order earlier and emily, please go first. >> the first question is the overall unemployment rate has gone but it is higher than that in several counties in the second district area for example, in washington county, the unemployment rate is 1.9% and a neighboring county to 7.3%. voters say the economy as their number-one issue. how can you as a representative in congress helped grow the economy and add jobs in this district? >> thank you, and i'm so glad to be here tonight to talk with you and voters across the second district. we nee

>> public schools fail because we are the most segregated state in the united states. we have concentrated poverty. those problems come into the schools and they are not getting the resources they need. then they are assigned as failed by these high-stakes testing. then they turned to charter from hedge fund investors who make money even those charters are nonprofit. this is a cannibalization of our public school system. i am for equitable funding of public schools. we need to go back to the foundation 8 formula based on a court order to provide and every student with a sound basic education. we need to fully fund our schools. charters, i am not for expanding them. i am for reviewing those we have. if they are good, good and if they are not, they should be shut down. >> i don't agree with that. do you know what charter schools >> i don't agree with that and i'll tell you why. schools what charter are? they're publicly funded schools that have no local control. u.s. education secretary under ronald reagan said charter school is is the game. common core is the distraction

senator who represents 1/40 of the state. he's one of the state's four congressmen. the fact she has moved ahead of him is a testament to the strength of her candidacy because until this quarter, she has been outspent by the brailey and his democratic allies by considerable margin. lou: karl, i love the way you say brailey and his democratic allies, you make it sound like they're gang members. [ laughter ] . >> you know, some of them are pretty tough hombres. harry reid, his campaign is brutal. when fox poll covers arkansas. the democrats ran an ad saying republican tom cotton didn't want to prepare america against ebola. this is how tough they've been. lou: tough races in lots of places. you've -- well, american crossroads raised 100 million to throw into the midterms. the republicans right now are getting outspent, do you close the gap here in the final days, 26 days away now from the election. >> yeah, good news is in the final four weeks of the campaign for republicans, the good news is that the spending gap has narrowed dramatically in part because of outside gro

i also take an oath to the constitution of the state of georgia and the united states and would surelytinue to uphold the constitution as long as remains valid under the law. >> moderator: to our panelists, jim galloway, your turn to ask a question. >> mr. deal, mr. carter has -- personal finances three or four years as governor. specifically cited the sale of yourself which business the company that owns $73.8 million in state taxes. during the republican primary you agree to make your income tax returns available. you have yet to do so. do you still intend to do so? if so, when? let me add, i believe mr. gore has made the same commitment and has not made his income taxes available. deal: i intend to make them available as i've been previously when i ran for governor. for many years under the bill at that that time. let me just say i've seen senator carter's ad about my business. that is a typical illustration of the way that some liberals look at private enterprise. they have disdain for people like me and my partner some 25 years ago invested by borrowing against our assets to make

i want to talk about the state your in right now. or, the incumbent, he has a couple things going for him, maybe three if you count bill clinton. he has the name, pryor name, and tom cotton's vote against the farm bill. are either of those things working? >> it's funny you brought up the farm bill. i'm about to do a voter chat with some farmers. the farm bill hasn't played as big as i think some of us thought it would six months ago. i know privately a whole bunch of arkansas republicans were very concerned when -- he was basically alone in the delegation. tim griffin, another republican congressman running for lieutenant governor, he voted for farm bill and there was some split. but it hasn't played yet. interesting you brought up the early vote, i was with mark pryor an hour or so ago in jonesboro and that was his whole pitch to folks about voting early, going through the specific numbers. oh, in pjonesboro, it's up here. they made a concerted effort. it's sort of a symbol of why democrats are still in the game. they basically, if y

we are definitely pursuing the sort of state-based versions of the not my boss' business bill. t's certainly still alive in both chambers and at the federal level. i do think we're going to see more court cases. i think we're going to see cases coming up from the states exactly about what your caller asked about, which is access. the constitution guarantees access without undue burden. and certainly most people, including myself, believe there is significant undue burden on women seeking their constitutional rights right now. >> host: let's go to louis, georgia. republican. you're on the air. >> guest: i just wondered what the lady felt about male birth control? >> guest: i think male birth control is fabulous. [laughter] i think anyone who has any ability to access any family planning tool means that every child is a wanted child, that every life's being lived, is empowered which is what we care about, that if you have is access to family planning, men and women around the world, we see that not only do they individually thrive, but families thrive, communities thrive, even cou

the state is now arguing that the facts will matter. this is a different argument than we faced if the district court. that the voters must have believed that the mother-father families are preferable. that claim is based upon the irrational speculation, it's based upon disproven irrational speculation. the social science consensus answer. that's not what matters. parents are important as people. two parents bring double the resources. the parent-child relationship matters most. the relationship between two parents matters, and please note it's in the district court, the state fully engaged in this trial process. they offered expert trial testimony on the mother-father rationale on the biological tie rationale. they don't even summarize those witnesses before this court. >> can i ask you a question about pacing, which seals to me to be at the heart of this. at least one way of looking at it. i saw statistic in one book that said in 1985, 25% of americans knew someone who was gay. by the year 2000, it was 74% of americans knew somebody w

the state has handed out just 20% of the $1.1 billion allocated. and christie said yesterday while he's still not pleased with the pace of the program, he's made changes to get it moving faster. but reports have pointed to deeper problems from the botched process to nine residents to funds being awarded to towns who sifred little damage. this is an issue christie has called his number one priority. >> we have made it a priority to put the people who are most affected and least fortunate financially to the head of the line. >> that doesn't even touch the other challenges new jersey faces like the fact that its long term unemployment rate is now the second worst in the country or that the state's credit raid e rating has been downgraded eight times and this's the nearly $1.6 billion budget shortfall last year, its allegations that christie has skirted state and federal pay to play allegations to donors, including the firm of the guy currently running for governor in massachusetts. all of which makes it not much of a surprise that christie's favorabil

>> not with respect to the united states constitution because the united states constitution sets a very high bar for constitutional amendment. >> no, no, no. no, no. i'm talking about the going into every state in the country, every city, every school board election for 78 years and trying to get enough going to convince the legislatures to adopt or extend the vote to women, 78 years of it. and would you be surprised to find out it didn't work? and it took an amendment to the constitution to finally achieve that after 78 years? >> yes. there's no question that the u.s. constitution is very difficult -- >> no, no, no. that's not the question. excuse me. you're not getting the point. the point is you want to do this democratically state by state, legislature by legislature, municipal government by municipal government as far as i know. and it just doesn't always work. >> well, that's the way -- >> 78 years to get the women to go to the polls and vote. you don't have to respond. that's all. >> okay. >> i just thought you would like to know that in case you're ever on jeopardy. [ laughter ]

it's up to the state. that's why you have the dichotomy of some folks that have been here less than 21 days in the white house and nurse hickox in the house. >> not only do you have moving targets in all 50 states. you have moving targets within the states. new york has sort of changed its rules. new jersey appears to have changed its rules. here, maine is trying to set up the rules. one thing to keep an eye on. i think this is potentially very pernicious. the state of maine may go to court and say, well, we can't prove that she is -- has a communeicable disease. we know there is fear in the community. so for the sake of the community's state of mind, she should be required to stay in this house for 21 days. if that's the rule, that really would be a very anti-science approach. >> it's something to keep an eye on to see if the argument is made and if the judge buys it. >> that's a little bit like saying, there are plenty of people we are all scared of. that doesn't mean we get to lock them up forever and ev

i believe we can do it better in the states. lieve the federal government can do it as well as we can in the states. i look at obamacare. it's top-heavy and it's a bureaucratic nightmare. i voted at times to repeal it and he said what would you do? you don't want people to have health care works of course i do. i voted on the plan that worked for the state and that may not work for california or new hampshire we have smart people in the state. we can develop a plan that addresses all of the concerns and i believe we can do it more effectively and be quicker and less top-heavy and we can really step back from the bureaucratic nightmare and don't forget we have a business mandate coming in after the election and that is the number one blanket i don't care where you live employers and the lawyers are keeping their hours under 30 so that mom like my mom for those of you that know mom and dad were married and divorced and by the time i was 18 when my mom was lucky had a job for 40, 50, 60 hours and she could spend a little time with u

but as the role of the military in the united states and the threats that the united states confronts increasingly expand, as the scale of the military increasingly grows we have a fascinating tension because who is there, well, sometimes the military is there, we have people in garrison and people on base but more and more it's deployed abroad and who has capability and capacity? from sheer scale many people believe it's dod that has that. so the question becomes, what is it that d.o.d. has available in terms of capacity. what authorities can fema and other departments and agencies bring to the table to make use of that? and how do we form partnerships so that we can leverage those authorities, those capabilities and capacities in the way that make the most sense both operationally and economically? because from a cost perspective, and i say with my brother to the right of me, there is probably no higher value but no higher cost than working with d.o.d. to get resources in. but sometimes there's also no comparable service provider who can bring those types of resorts in so it's findi