the state has really emphasized under the leadership of our state chairman and a former member and former director emphasized outreach not just at election time but on a continuing basis to the various ethnic and racial communities in the state presenting themselves as interested in the attitudes, values and interests of individuals of all kinds of background in the state of texas. through candidate recruitment we have been able to greatly increase the number of hispanic candidates and not only candidates but at the present time in the statehouse there are five hispanic republicans, two black republican state representatives. we lost one. we had four about four years we had three black republicans and one asian and in congress we have one hispanic congressman serving his third term and one new freshman african-american congressman. among hispanic voters abbott received 44% of the vote on his race for governor against wendy davis. doing even better was cornyn anti-god according to the exit polls a bare majority of the hispanic vote. so is their opportunity to reach out to new communities a

but the united states has an equivalent of it. america was kind of weird -- well, america still is weird. but part of its weirdness was the idea that could you have states that were neighbors, and normally the traditional idea was that your neighbor was always going to be your worst enemy, why? who's going to steal your stuff first? it's your neighbor. look at ukraine and russia today. it's your neighbor you have to look out for. so the united states formed an arbitrational -- if that's a word -- process by creating a federal government, designed to corral states that otherwise might come to blows. the last principle is the principle of transparency. i'd like to show mikhail gorbachev. glasnost was the policy of gorbachev, not because they had lost the cold war. and this has become a transnational value. have you noticed the swiss have been in trouble in recent years because they're not transparent in their banks? the criticism you can make of anybody is you are insufficiently transparent. we all go, whoa, that's not good. this is

he is being flown to the united states. he has been imprisoned there for five years after being sentenced to 15 years by the cuban government. gross claimed he was in cuba providing internet equipment to allow the jewish community to contact the world in ways that are hard to do in cuba. the cuban government claimed he was involved in activities counter to the cuban government that he was providing military equipment. he was arrested convicted and sentenced to 15 years. the five years in prison have been very tough. he has deteriorated in terms of his health. he is said to be in very poor health. he's lost a lot of weight. he's missing teeth. he is in quiet bad shape. there's been pressure from the u.s. government to release him and that has happened today on humanitarian grounds. recently, president obama said it was important to do this to help improve relations with cuba. former president bill clinton was here in miami saying the same thing last week saying the release of alan gross could lead to better relations with cub

as well as the united states itself. so obama isn't actually named in the suit, but of course the suit is about their deep opposition to his policy, his unilateral policy on immigration. >> from the perch of a state, is it a simple matter to go after the department--the secretary of homeland security, one of the officials named, jay johnson. does he have to show up to respond? >> well, they're used to being named in lawsuits and there are lawyers in the department of justice who will defend them. but it's difficult for the states to prevail. they have to show that they've suffered a concrete and specific injury. and nicky hayley, in the click you just showed, was trying to make that argument. but that's going to be a pretty difficult argument for the states to make. they have to show that they're specifically injured by this executive order, and that the courts' order in their favor would address that injury. >> do you agree there is a standing problem? >> i don't agree there is a standing problem. six years ago or eight

party in the state. as the democrats lost control and became more liberal, they were out of touch with the views of people. i don't know, i take that they did a tremendous job in the election. i keep forgetting which is which. mark udall was on this women's rights issues into the overkill of his own position and i think that really helped. i go back to some of the points i said. the grassroots recruitment, and both both that and the various communities you can get involved in not just any election time and i think that certainly there is a sizable growing population in colorado and i would be looking for individuals that are possible candidates from that community and outreach to the civic organizations and religious organizations in the hispanic community now. whether we like it or not we are all ideological people coming and we think in terms of conservatism. sometimes we have to render the average voter looks at them and attach broader way and it may be racial and ethnic religious and other factors tha

let's start with the state department. as you all know, world war i started in the late summer of 1914. we're in the centennial year of that now. the united states stayed out of the war until april of 1917. so, we were neutral for a bit over 2 1/2 years. now, during that period of time, germany and to a lesser extent its ally, austria/hungary started engaging in espionage sabotage operations here in the united states for a number of reasons that we can discuss during q&a. in addition, british intelligence was quite active here, trying to frustrate what the germans were doing during this period of american neutrality, the secret service, the justice department's bureau of investigation, which later on became the fbi and also the investigators of the u.s. postal service were very active trying to run down a lot of these espionage and sabotage and fraud cases but they did a lot of tripping over each other. so, secretary of state robert lansing, whom you see here, was concerned about this and provide posesed creating a special

and by the state government. this is water that is supposed to balance for all californians. it's all publicly owned and distributed, mostly to the private sectser -- sector. we have a drought. everybody knows this. it's a disaster. the president declared it that. and what we ought to be doing in congress is paying for that disaster like we pay for every other disaster that's here. this bill doesn't do it. i was a co-author of the original bill. but i'm not co-sponsoring this one and i'm not supporting this one because what this does is not deal with the problem of getting money to california to build the infrastructure that we need for offstream storage and stuff like that. what it does is just corrupt a balanced system. we have been through droughts and there have been flexible releases this year. we solved it. but to put it in law i think is very harmful. it's going to cause more lawsuits, more dissention and we're back to, as senator boxer indicated, we're back to square one and not being able to find resoluti

so what george washington wanted as president of the united states was some territory for the united states to govern over and wanted a definition of the state boundaries and a clarity of the nation and the peoples' lands. what the president was trying to do was stop any possible encroachment by european nations, stop any overreach and harm to native people by the states and to enter into secured peace and friendship forever arrangements with the peoples. he was trying to secure the northern and southern, western borders of the united states. and these were buffalo, savannah. we're talking about really eastern western borders at that time. and that was the united states. so the nations had similar goals. they wanted peace and friendship with the united states as a matter of necessity as well as a matter of inclination. they wanted someone to be in charge of stopping the aggressiveness and the lawlessness of the people who were flooding into their lands from europe. and these were europeans and new americans, settlers of all kinds who were encroaching on the native lands. so they wante

in another state in the united states getting held up. i know of an organization -- yeah, yeah. so, the bottom line of all the an tech dotes is to inject the element of perceived risk by banks. if banks perceive the risks to be too high to deal with an account holder that has an o fak license or a company that's trying to send money to purchase an import from cuba or expert from the united states of the united states to cuba, it doesn't matter what the white house decides to do because at the end it's not going -- where the rubber hits the road they're going to be a lot of roadblocks. so i want to move along quickly. but the idea that banks are dealing and grappling with these risks and that these risks have become more complex is new, it's growing and there has to be a way to reduce perceived risks. the bottom line, if licensed entities can't access banking services, white house policies will be undercut. i don't want to get into the risk discussion too much because it's very multidimensional, it's difficult and banks evaluate risks diffe

a bunch of morning newspapers have done it all across the state. basically, all the major papers in the state, prus a lot of little ones, have editorialized against this specific execution. he killed his inlaws in 1992. the prior 14 years to his crime, dating back to the time he was 20 years old, this man had been hospitalized more than a dozen times for acute instances of mental illness. he had been diagnose nosed many different times. at one point, he took everything out in his backyard and buried it. he heard voices. he thought it was controlled by unseen powers. he once nailed the curtain shot. >> he shaved his head, he changed into camouflage fatigues, got a hunting rifle, took his wife and his daughter hostage, after a standoff with police, he e venn shlly changed into a suit and tie before he finally decide ds to turn himself in. this is his mug shot. you see him in the suit and tie. they show him from the front and the back and it's kind of strange looking. he didn't quite finish shaving the back of his head when he was preparing for this ba

quite and the importance of these protests in the united states? ortant because from the border, we can demand enrique peÑa nieto to present the 43 students. bringerto, i want to roberto back into this discussion. for people who aren't following the story of the disappeared students, they were teaching students, learning to be teachers. >> they were teachers called [indiscernible] they're very engaged directly with the communities and their only crime was to demand a better life for people in mexico. that is the only thing that they did. if that is a crime in mexico, we need to stop the people calling it a crime. >> as the search goes on for them, mass graves and bodies have been found all over. is that right? in mexico? >> if you talk to people in mexico, you hear the story all the time from parents, heartbreaking stories, searching for their children in mass graves, not knowing if they are in there. i have seen mass graves like in central america. when you smell that, you smell the decomposing flesh in the soil, you listen to those grieving parent

designated to be the slave state to balance the entry of the state of maine, as the free state, missouri saw itself as preserving the balance upon entering the united states. the missouri statute sorted things out. it separated those entitled to freedom from those who were not. the division between free and slave territories and missouri saw that keeping of the balance as the covenant upon which they had entered the union. now, the interesting second and third order legal questions here have to do with rules of law. and how it is that the rule of law that recognized slaves claims to freedom held up in the face of contrary social norms and the pressures of a slave state of missouri. conventionally, one of the most important purposes of law is to protect the weak from the strong. the rule of law is expected to hold that line. the rule of law is going to be in greatest tension when it's not supported by surrounding norms and supplemental legal structures. in st. louis, the e mans pa tori rule ran at odds not only with the prevalent social norm that slavely was both legal and desirable but w

the principles under the secretary of state? >> yes, that is correct. >> and that the oversight renown implementation being made in the office of management policy. is that correct? >> i believe they are tracking implementation. >> so tracking just means is it being done. is that correct? >> we think that the deputy secretary ought to take responsibility for oversight of implementation and she take responsibility for making sure those recommendations are followed through the finding to ensure they are completed and they are adequately shared among the state department community so everybody knows what they are and why they're important. that is why we are seeking our particular recommendation. >> dino who at the state department at the time that they rejected that recommendation and that recommendation was rejected, do you know who at the state department made that decision to reject that recommendation? >> the sullivan recommendation or our recommendation? >> both. the recommendation to reject the deputy secretary should be the

the case was tried in the united states supreme court. at the heart of the case is the indian child welfare act, or icwa, which mandates that every effort be made to keep native children with their relatives or tribe. congress passed icwa in 1978 in response to an alarmingly high number of native children being removed from their homes and placed with non-native families - the tie to their cultures and communities severed in the process. 35 years later, the fundamental protections of the law are still being fought for. >> the requirements of that act apply from the minute indian parents and indian kids walk into the courtroom and it's just not happening. here in south dakota, native children are only 13 percent of the children in the state but more than 50 percent of those in foster care. and the majority are placed with non-native families, in group homes or institutions. >> we welcome you to beautiful pine ridge south dakota, where leaders are born. for the lakota people here, the issue isn't just about child custody, it's about cultural

the country. this year only seven states carried out executions. the lowest number of states in 25 years. >> putting in exceptions, caveats, age limits, boundaries, if states were to apply the plain ruling on executing the mentally ill, how would we distinguish of those who killed with reduced capacity, and those who have done it with full awareness of their actions? joining us, richard dieter, george parnum, and charles simpson. i want to begin with the core question, is it justify to believe kill someone, deliver the ultimate penalty. >> no, i don't think it is. i think the american people through their representatives even though 32 states offer the death penalty, the military offer it, most murderers do not get charged with a capital crime. those eligible for capital crimes do not get charged with capital offenses. and there's a whole series of steps along the way that george and my colleague could walk you through that i think filter away the possibility that the vast majority of pooch with mental illness who is commit horrific crimes, would ul

. >> today the united states of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. and the most significant changes in our policy in more than 50 years, we will in an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests and instead, we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries. >> president obama announces the united states will restore full diplomatic relations with cuba for the first time in more than half a century. part of the deal includes cuba's release of u.s. contractor alan gross, as well as a cuban spy. the u.s. released the final three members of the cuban five. cuban president raul castro also addressed the cuban people. >> this in no way means that the heart of the matter has been solved. the economic, commercial, and financial blockade, which causes enormous human and economic damages to our country, must cease. >> we will spend the hour in a roundtable discussion, we'll go to havana to speak with kornbluh, who wrote, "back channel to cuba: the hidden history of negotiations between washington and havana." gd we will

so i think the state will stand by what we have done. the dedication of cap and trade, 25% per year going forward. will provide a foundation for some of the major contracts and other activities. >> all right. thank you. >> um, we recommended oppose to ab23, which out-of-state, together -- which deals with the cap and trade fuels. that's on page 2. sb1 would do the same thing. that's on page 3. and sb5 from the senate is on page 5 of your matrix. all of which would seek to defer or exempt fuels from the cap and trade regime. i think they are all headed for a difficult time in both houses. probably the interesting measure for, that we've recommended support on is ab8, by mr. gato. he has been working diligently the last several years but no success dealing with hit-and-run accidents for meds and bikers and motorcyclists and tried to raise the fine last year and it bill was vetoed. this year he came back with a measure that would split-off from the amber alert cyst amnew yellow alert that would be localized, yellow alert rather than statewid

chairman, the state department along with other agencies, the united states government is deeply concerned about the threat posed by foreign fighters, who have travelled to syria and iraq to participate in the conflicts there. these fighters, many only whom have joined isil, al nu skrsra other terrorist organizations are a serious threat to our allies and a serious threat to the united states. these fighters may try to trourn their home countries or other countries and carry out attacks, in response to this, the united states has been working closely with our syrian partners for over two years. the united states has intensified it's response by building a coalition of more than 60 countries with the-goal of degrading and defeating isil. john allen is leeding a comprehensive strategy including military support to our partners, dits disrupting the flow of foreign parters, stopping isil's funding, exposing isis' true nature. today i would like to describe to you how we're fighting the foreign fighter in isil. not only with the -- broader frame work of the threat posed by other terrorist organ

developments in the united states energy sector have both the united states and the security sustainabilityd economic competitiveness but of course as we all know challenges remain and there is much to be discussed from the oil and gas industry to significant steps forward and energy and efficiency and research and develop them the main focus of our report the long-term sustainability of the electricity sector. we all know and you know and i think it's good you mentioned some of the things that we are looking forward to, long-term development requires clarity and this means predictable, effective national policies, greater coordination to encourage integration of her nobles and a common understanding of the future of nuclear power. this is something i will return to when i present our recommendations. but first let's have a look at what has changed. six years ago when they last in-depth review was published we said the united states needed a more consistent national level energy policy. in those days there was an absence of a link of the federal level among energy and environmental security

the state forward? i know there has been a lot of discussion about another attorney general, roy cooper down in north carolina. general cooper spent a good amount of time in the legislature. i think he has done a great job as attorney general. at the end of the day, the governor's race is much more -- we do not want the dysfunction and gridlock in washington, d.c. if you have an effective leader talking about what they want to do with the state, not just parroting what is coming from the national side, in any of these areas, our candidates will have a great shot. >> you think pepper curry is the most vulnerable republican incumbent in 2016? >> i think roy cooper, if he is a candidate, has a great shot at taking it. i have learned in my short stint in public life that even a year can be a lifetime. so i am not willing to hedge bets on who will be most faux marble by 2016. >> we are talking about 2016 -- will be the most vulnerable by 2016. >> we are talking about 2016. how much of your job in 2015 is recr

he gave it to the state department. a whole lot of much to improve those fiss physical squrets overseas. is that correct? >> correct? >> the team looked at security physical ability. had a high threat level. looked at such things and stuff and the height of the perimeter walls, the outside boundary. how far the buildings were from those and look at the rale bothering me. i'm pretty sure she drove. other areas that are resistant. >> wlm, he came out of d neighbor. whether they and the like. is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> so let me ask you how to five embassies or consulates did. did they comply with all the security standards that were reviewed? >> no, sir. one of them are perfect. everyone one of those facilities have police and guards on the inside. my question was had all of them would be back. >> no, i want to make it clear that most of the things were minor. do not present major vulnerables to us or philosophy. and i don't exps that any jenny team is not going to find some things that can be improved. >> i understa

also, new york state, home of the marcellus shale, banned fracking as a state. an economy basically slid into a collapse. sony pictures as we were just discussing pulled its new comedy about north korea after anonymous hackers threatened to blow up movie theaters that were showing it. three more people were indicted with poisoning the water supply with a chemical leak in west virginia this year and vermont gave up on extending a single-payer health care system. and that pea party that voted to redact high school biology textbooks, they decided they're not going to react high school biology textbooks any more. and president obama announced 20 presidential pardons or commutations of people's sentences. most are low level drug crimes plus one moonshiner. then also the president announced that we're normalizing relations with cuba for the first time in 53 years. that's the last 24 hours. today's the day when we scheduled a few evergreen interviews and segments that really could run any time when we thought that surely there would be no news today. congress went home,

it is called "civil rights and the making of the modern american state". we are going to do this and prompts everybody. it is called "civil rights and the making of the modern american state." i want to start off by saying that an academic different names inspire us to write and research. for me, it is the retelling of stories that we think we already know, but we don't really intelligent man and retelling them in different ways. what i want to do is begin -- i want to begin with the story. it's a story by transformative civil rights struggle waged by the naacp and the landmark supreme court decision that resulted from that. the struggle which began before the case was heard in the supreme court, centered on african-americans with the citizen right focused on the most blatant forms of the naacp and the public campaign that ultimately translated into clinical arguments they delivered before the supreme court. violation of the 14th amendment, the naacp legal defense team argued african-americans were denied their constitutional rights. the supreme court agree

under the secretary of state? >> yes, that is correct. >> in fact the oversight in thet implementation is being made ine the office of management policy is that correct? >> they are tracking the implementation. >> that's actual low what mr. star said. tracking just means is it being done. is that correct? >> we think that the deputy t t ought to take responsibility fo the oversight of the tha implementation that she take responsibility for making sure that those recommendations are followed through and that there' is funding to make sure they are complete and adequately shared t among the state department stat communities. everybody knows whatco they are and why they are important. that's what we are seeking witha our particular recommendation. t >> do you know who at the state department at the time that thet rejected that recommendation and that recommendation was rejected, do you know who at th state department made that decision to reject that reject recommendation? >> the sullivan recommendation m or our recom

he served as the secretary of state a long time ago. he is usually working on the north the north korean nuclear issues since the first nuclear crisis. in the nuclear case this year it raises some new options such as the dialect in the negotiations. so this could be in comparison with today's lessons in that issue and since the lifting of the failure to color was prevailing so i want to know the longevity. >> i will ask the question first and then in my comments i'm going to strategic patience. we don't know if there will be an agreement on the five plus one countries and if there is, it is likely to permit a very limited enrichment program. people have asked what is the precedent for dealing with the program in any agreement i believe it would not be possible to permit any enrichment or processing program. they have a long-standing track record of violating commitments. one of the early early commitments it violated on the nuclearization commitment in 1992 when the the north explicitly agreed not to have any enrichment processing capabi

how much of the oil came from the united states? >> mr. craig? >> well, actually oil played a very important role in daniels' life. mexico at the time was an important oil producer, and as the ships were being converted from coal to fuel oil, daniels was responsible for overseeing the invasion of mexico. now, it turns out that invasion was not related directly to oil production, but it was related to the germans running guns into the mexican government is ultimately in addition to the u-boats, it was germany's proposed alliance with mexico that led to u.s. entry in the war in 1917. in terms of what would have happened if the -- in europe if the united states had stayed out of the war, that's hard to say. certainly the british were trying to starve the germans with the continental blockade and the germans were trying to starve the british with their u-boat war. daniels had -- i found in his private diaries a quote where he was talking about the balance between the british blockade and the german u-boat campaign. he said, the stomach is the test, by

the united states is complicated, so on, so forth. pakistan is very hard, and i think it is making some success. on previous occasions whenever some space was given to the military by quarreling politicians, this time i think the military is staying out of it, and letting the system develop and hopefully flourish over time, which is what makes pakistan very interesting place in the muslim world. if you look around you'll see this is the only country making progress of its kind. therefore, it should provide with support. now coming to the united states pakistanis are very cautious of the fact that they have done well in terms of economic and social development . it's funded extremely well why? because u.s. and pakistani interests strategic interests came together. i know that the decision makers in pakistan are very keen to re-establish that kind of relationship once again. with one difference, though, which an understanding that there are so many players you need a game to figure out what is the best solution when it comes to pakistan'

new york has become the first state in the nation with major -- >> new york has become the first staten the nation with major natural gas deposits to ban the oil and gas drilling process known as fracking, citing potential risks to public health. fracking involves blasting sand, water and toxic chemicals deep into shale rock to release oil and gas, a process which can poison water supplies and pollute the air. following a two-year study, acting new york health commissioner howard zucker said fracking was too risky. >> the potential risks are too great. in fact, they are not even fully known. relying upon a limited data that answerently available to the public health risks would be negligent on my part. i've identified significant of ehealth risks in the current data, and until the -- significant public health risks in the current data, and until they are relative to long-term analysis, perspective analysis, showing that the risk for impact on public health are avoidable or sufficiently low, i cannot support high-end volume hydraulic fracking in the great state of new york. >> the decis

to win the war he has to consolidate the states and make them tow the line and violate state rights to win the war. >> guest: the tension between state rights and all of the political pressures that go along with that was his biggest headache and the smartest military resolution. in the confederation, the united states gave up swaths to britain and they eventually won. and that happened in the confederacy of course, too. but in 1861 it would have been politically impossible for davis to strip the gulf coast, south atlantic coast, of troops in order to defend let's say virginia and tennessee. he had to defer to political pressure from southern governors to some degree and the disadvantage of that is you have small groups of troops scattered around the parameter of the confederacy. it is sometimes called had perimeter defense or a corded defense. and sooner or later the enemy breaks through the thin gray line and that happened in february of 1862 and the loss of fort mcdonald and louisiana and failure in kentucky and west virginia and the enemy begins to penetrate the line. and as a cons

chairman,an, madam the state department, along with other agencies in the united states government, is deeply concerned about the threat posed by foreign fighters. fighters, many of whom al nusraed isil, front, and other organizations, are affront to people across syria and iraq and in danger the stability of the region. they are also a serious threat to the united states and our partners globally. we are concerned that these trained and battle hardened fighters will try to return to their home countries or other countries and carry out attacks. to respond to this threat, the united states has been working closely with our foreign partners for more than two years . this summer, with the growing threat posed by isil, the united states has intensified its response, by building a coalition of more than 60 countries with a goal of degrading and defeating isil. general john allen is being the conference of strategy across five lines of effort, including military support to our partners , disrupting the flow of foreign fighters, stopping isil financing and funding, addressing humanitarian cr

the united states trying to reopen the embassy. we are learning about these discussions that have taken place over the last year, and a key player in this, the vatican and pope francis. allen has arrived just outside of washington. the white house very careful to point out that this is not any kind of intelligence assets swap. they continue to deny that alan gross was there as a u.s. intelligence agent. he was arrested some five years ago on charges of espionage, and he has languished. his health has deteriorated. and here we have the president arriving, david. >> let's listen. >> the most significant changes in our policy in more than 50 years. we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed, and we will begin to normalize the relationship between our two countries. we'll begin a new chapter among the nations of the americas. there is a complicated history between the united states and cuba. i was born in 1961, just over two years after fidel castro took power. over the next several decades the relationships between o

and as the united states and the european union, we can raise these issues with the united states on eral occasions. including in lessons by the presidency of the council and regular dialogue on counterterrorism and on human rights. the select committee study is a positive step in confronting publicly and critically the way in which the cia's responsibilities were discharged in relations to the allegations of torture and ill-treatment. the commission believes that full clarity should be brought to bear on those practices in accordance with international standards, including as regards the individual responsibilities for those practices. the eu condemns all forms of torture and ill-treatment under any circumstances, and works towards the prevention and the eradication of all forms of torture and ill-treatment within the european union and worldwide, as a priority of its human rights policy. as the commission has repeatedly underlined, efforts to combat terrorism should be conducted in a manner that complies with the root of law -- rule of law and respect our common values and complies

how the united states is shaped the way it is. you don't know any of these things without understanding the history of treaties. and you don't understand a lot of the place names. a lot of the names of states that we have. dakota is named of a native nation. oklahoma is red person. blood person. relative person. in one of the muskogee languages. so, there are lots and lots of things to know about the united states that, if you don't know what's called indian history or indian treaties, you don't know american history. >>> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs anytime by visiting our website at c-span.org/history. >>> you've been watching c-span's american history tv. you can connect with us on twitter, facebook, and leave comments and check out upcoming programs on our website. >>> we'd like to tell you about some of our other american history tv programs. every saturday at 4:00 p.m. eastern, a look at american history bookshelf. that's every saturday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>>

the state budget director said that the costs were split between the state national guard and the state highway patrol. >>> a pilot has been taken hostage by isil. one of the fighter jets went down in the area controlled by isil. it was not shot down. there is social media with rebels posting photos with the plane. jordanian government officials say they will take every step they can to secure their pilot's release, but will keep up the fight against isil. >>> he said right from the beginning this is going to be a continuous and long war, and we think that we have a duty to defend our country and our region from this wave of terrorism. >> state department officials say that the u.s. is working closely with the jordanian government and the u.n. is calling on isil to observe international humanitarian law in its treatment of the kidnapped pilot. for the second time in less than a week israeli forces have launched airstrikes in gaza. it said it was retaliated after soldiers came under sniper fighter. a member of the israeli military wing was killed in the strike. shot in the strike. >> in

there's no more republican than the state of texas. but all of that grain that we're already selling to cuba as humanitarian aid it goes through the port of corpus christi, texas. that is the main point for aid to cuba. i think this is going to be something that is going to be debated and i think it's not going to break on partylines. >> it will. but i think at the end of the day you still have far more republicans in the house and senate who favor placing restrictions and keeping restrictions on cuba. you have republicans from farm states and maybe more libertarian leaning republicans like rand paul who feel that, once we've tried hasn't worked. i still think by and large republicans think we've got to keep restrictions on cuba until we see democratic action. and most importantly the speaker of the house, john boehner and new senate liter, both oppose lifting the trade embargo. i don't think you're going to see any votes with it. >> schieffer: margaret, my sense that this came not only as surprise to most people in washington but to lo

it is no longer the united states doing it alone. e has said i am going to engage the arab and muslim states. if you do not share our belief that there should be stability in your region, and if you're not prepared to sacrifice your lives and your treasure to achieve it, we cannot do it. the united states cannot do it alone, as we have shown. so i think it's important we have this debate. i would hope, and it probably won't be the case, that at the end of the day we will have a common view on what we should do here. i don't view a three-year deadline as the end of any commitment. i view it as the renewal of our responsibility to review what has occurred and under the constitution decide on behalf of the american people how we go forward. >> senator murphy, then senator

republicans have substantial majority in the state house. and mary landrieu is the last state-wide elected democrat. >> it's striking that she's losing against a candidate not viewed as a good campaigner, doesn't come across well on television, but he's a republican, and that is what people are looking at - he's saying vote for me, i'm a republican. >> with the exception of virginia and florida, where the majority of residents from born outside the state. the south is solidly republican, a complete 180 after decades of democratic dominance. the shift began with the formation shift. prosegregation democrats who nominated south carolina thurman for president. he carried four states in the deep south, despite a dismal showing. he became a republican. after a passage of the 1964 civil rights act, the democratic strong held weakened further. and with each election since then, the number of white democratic members of congress continued to dwindle. after this year's midterms, the new yorkers cody thompson defeated there are more black republicans t

they were the only state without a national park. although they're small in size, they're very important and as they are the first state in the union and so as it would be appropriate, the name of their park is the first state national park. so now every state in the united states has at least one national park, and, of course, some states have many more, and our commitment is to continue this great heritage for our nation for generations to come. this package represents a major milestone in our work to reach a consensus across party lines. we will clear much of the backlog of the public lands bill that has built up in the senate. our last passed in the omnibus public lands package five years ago and it's worth noting the congressional budget office as i said again, has scored this as revenue neutral. let me speak for maintenance about a few louisiana priorities. although most of these bills do not have anything to do with the state of louisiana, we did not have any major expansion efforts of any of our parks to present, we did -- i d

today illegal guns, not drugs, are the stated number one target for law enforcement. the baltimore police department has invited us to walk the streets with them. >> this area, notorious for drugs. notorious for drugs. but as many people you see sitting out here, there's always one person with a gun. >> but you want to stop the drug dealing as well, right? >> i do but i'd rather stop the killing. not that the drug dealing isn't bad. but the violence. >> and most of the arrests that make are for drug offenses, right? >> well at this point now, but again that's our, that's not the goal. >> what's going on fellas? how ya doin'? do me a favor, take your hands out of your pockets. >> the mayor says it's the strategy of targeting illegal guns that's seen the murder rate drop to the lowest figures in over three decades. >> anybody have id on him? we're trying to figure out how they're getting into the hands of kids, how they're getting into the hands of bad guys. >> if the numbers of murders are down in baltimore and i don't know, but if they are then i would not ascribe that

we are in a situation which strategically a victory over the islamic state builds daily, every time the islamic state won a territory--but now we say in iraq, every time iraqi state lose -- the dpe feet of the islamic state can have dire consequences, and when you have two bad possibilities, it means there is really a problem. in afghanistan, the militarization strategy and the fact that the election ended up in a deal where the tension went out from the political -- inside of the state institution, it did effectively manage to slow down the taliban advance but the risk is a pandora's box. what happened in the 1990s, in which you always have deals, more or less. so you don't have a country like in pakistan, or syria, which is on sectarian land, opening an ethnic box and opening an ethnic strategy could one day outweigh that risk. to conclude, what we're trying to explaining, what we have been trying to do, looking at the fact of the american policy on the ground is that the u.s. has gone from high investment to its role in coming back. we argue that in evidence which seems to be not bad

the islamic state the so-called islamic state controls a territory the size of great britain. they destabilized two countries. they're attracting foreign recruits around the world. in the recent weeks they suffered military defeat, but at the beginning of the year infer had heard, at least in the westers of the islamic state in iraq and the levant. and now everyone is talking about them. now they've been the big victors in advancing their own political program in 2014. >> you're starting to hear now a little critique of their power on the battlefield. they just didn't have very good opposition in the beginning. now that they're being fought by more effective forces they may not look as invulnerable they looked earlier on. >> that's true. largely for the reasons you stated there wasn't a serious fighting force to oppose them. but it's important to realize that much of the strength of the islamic state is built upon deep-seeded disgruntled public opinion in the sunni segments of iraq and syria. they feed on that resentment, the alienation, the brutality that has come from the ex

and buy subban cigars in the united states. at's still under the embargo. but no question about it, a major step forward in the relations between the u.s. and cuba. >> thanks very much, jim acosta. let's go to havana right now. our correspondent there is patrick oppmann, the only u.s. television network correspondent on the scene in cuba for us. you've been there for a while, patrick. give us your perspective. this is a huge historic moment in the u.s./cuban relationship. >> reporter: i've been coming to cuba for nearly 20 years. and there's never been a day like this i've experienced here. cubans found out in the last hour when raul castro made the announcement over cuban state tv that there was a prisoner exchange, that there was this major step towards normalization. and while we were doing live shots, our cameraman was out going to people's homes watching them as we're seeing this announcement. took them completely by surprise. he told me people had tears in their eyes, that literally broke down. most people in cuba were bor

it's a big player, not the united states. think, frankly, in the last week, vladimir putin has looked like a statesman. >> he's a partner in peace. and he's in a position he can lecture the united states of america. >> i think if this were a tennis match it would be the umpire saying adventure putin. >> i think putin has outperformed our president. >> putin decides what he wants to do and does it in half a day. he makes a decision and executes it quickly. then everybody reacts. that's what you call a leader. >> putin is playing chess. we're playing marbles. >> i think mike rogers was right yesterday. he said the president is playing marbles while putin is playing chess. >> the conservative line on vladimir putin is he puts our own american president to shame in smarts and leadership and decisiveness and putin is playing chess while president obama is playing something that doesn't even happen on a chess board. putin makes up his mind and does it in half a day. vladimir. american conservatives have kept up this strange love son

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