' law operating on the united states' official who is acting inside the united states. this case as far as the conduct is concerned, united states written all over it. nothing about mexico. the border patrol doesn't take these orders from mexico. >> i think it would be up to the united states to prosecute mr. mesa criminal neal if they -- criminally if they chose to do so. >> why? they wouldn't get any damages for the death of their 15-year-old son, for their emotional suffering. but i think i have to follow up on what justice ginsburg is saying, a more fundamental question. i don't think you or the u.s. government are suggesting that anyone is condoning people standing at the border and taking pop shots at passing mexicans. >> absolutely not. >> and yes, there is a criminal remedy for the government to vindicate its position. but why should there not be a civil remedy to ensure that border police are complying with the constitution? either under the fourth or fifth amendment, wouldn't shooting pop shots at mexican citizens be shocking to the conscious? >> it is shocki

that's all i know about what she intends to the state and she i the representative of the state, are not willing to fight this case, are they manufacturing adversity by appointing you? >> well -- >> if we have no adversity, hasn't this case become mooted? >> so let me -- let me tell you what happens next if the director actually grants -- issues a grant to a church. if she does, then under missouri's liberal taxpayer standing rules someone can then sue and say, "you are violating the state constitution." and if there is a determination that she was violating the state constitution, then the question before the court today would have to be answered. >> all right. >> do you agree that this court's voluntary cessation policies apply to the mutinous question? >> i agree it could apply, it is not a perfect fit. but certainly there's no assurance four years from now with a change in administration or at some point in the interim through a taxpayer standing suit that there wouldn't be a change back to the prior practice. >> mr. layton, i'm struggling still to understand justice cagan's ques

the way? >> it does. most states will have a mechanism to certify the voting machines that they're using, electronic poll books they're using, the tabulation machines they're using, making sure they comply with federal and state law and have the audit process -- >> do you all have a high degree of confidence that the certification prossies acesses leaving this other world of subcontractors and the like vulnerable? >> i have several concerns about those certification processes, including that some states do not railroad -- require certification case to the federal standards, and the standards are long overdue for an update and have significant gaps when it comes to security and that the certification process doesn't necessarily cover all of the actors that are involved in that process, including the date-to-day operations of companies that do preelection programming. >> one last question. we oregonians and a number of my colleagues are supportive of an effort to take vote by mail national. and we've had it -- i was in

here in the united states -- here the united states is answer in mexico. in boumediene, the court said -- justice ginsburg: you did say in your brief that the united states is answerable to mexico for any cross-border use of force. how is the united states answerable to mexico? mr. kneedler: mexico holds us accountable for doing something about it. we investigated criminally and concluded that a criminal prosecution should not be brought, but mexico regards it as the united states' responsibility to control this conduct. justice ginsburg: the responsibility to mexico is prosecution in the united states? that's -- mr. kneedler: to control the conduct, yes. and let me just re-emphasize where congress has decided the damage remedies are important, it has never provided for judicial remedies. it has provided for administrative remedies and not done it in this context. justice kennedy: you wanted to talk about the fourth amendment? mr. kneedler: yes. this court's decision in verdugo, as we read in this, established a categorical rule that the fourth amendment do

>> guest: that is what the states were present. they represent wade controls at $7.50 per hour they won't let people unionize. it's democracy with a difference in america that we used to have6 in the 50s and 60s.s it's very informative to see the response that we are seeing. you're not thinking you can't care for people. we just heard an explanation that if you are a red state, from two different individuals, but you don't have what is needed for the country and thatt isn't true. it's red states and blue states and the right to work is elevated more in oklahoma. i understand this polarization that we are seeing is difficult. but if in fact we have a convention in the states thatme first affordable government. you don't think you ought to pay for your medicare. we can say that isn't what we are trying to do, but that is: what we are trying to do. >> host: the constitution allows for the argument this is around the representational government. >> guest: this is exactly what the founders intended. they knew that at some point in time,

obviously the states see their own but the federal agency works with the state their the prime agency to do that. >> for election in cybersecurity that leads the partnership. >> they called you for your appearances here today in your testimony being former secretary of state my biggest concern was voter fraud unfussy participation decrease so is is there any reason anybody has the knowledge that you have from the intelligence community give you any doubt that russia was involved with the confidence level that voters have? to any of you have any doubts?. >>. >> no doubt from the fbi and. >> we have no doubts. >>. >> also during that 20 election cycle would you notify me to be on the lookout?. >> the products that we put out the public the primarily leveraging which has connections to all 50 states and we engaged with the commission that represent those individuals that we have not historically engaged with to put out multiple products. >> so oh to disperse that information and?. >> we also hold a conference call were all 50 secretary of state did not have that responsibility in august

the 2018 state department budget submitted to congress by the secretary of state. calls for 32% cut to our international affairs budget. i've never seen a budget proposal so reckless in all the years i have been here so it's insulting to our personnel and quick to have bipartisan opposition. mr. secretary when we spoke he said we hope to put the state department glide path to reduce spending levels. a one third cut is more like a nosedive. imagine being an american diplomat learning this is the value the administration puts on your service would imagine waking up every morning a dangerous place and the other side world knowing the officials responsible for your safety haven't even been nominated and america's top diplomat which is you mr. secretary coming to umatilla asked us for a 32% budget cut. some consequences of his budget will hit us down the road if we fail to invest in diplomacy and develop now. the concepts welcome back to us and the worst we'll need to fight. senator lindsey graham said it well and that will make him implement this budget to put a lot of

the state with the most connections is the central player, and the strongest state. what is the strongest today? what do we do with a state like north korea, arguably the least network, and least prone to persuasion and pressure even from the most important friends, namely china. is there an odd outlier by keeping itself out of the network north korea is making itself particularly resilient, if not just stubborn and isolated, also more difficult. >> it is exactly the way i think we need to think about power in the networked world or the web world, traditionally power, the size of your military, your territory, your population and in a networked world it is the number of connections and the quality of connections as well and i don't think there -- there is not necessarily one center because multiple states that are connected and think of a map of the internet, think of a number of portals, and lots of smaller ones, the united states today, if we don't harm ourselves by closing ourselves off from the world, if we remain open to the world while still protecting ourselves

the same thing with the appropriate of the state and we call it the islamic state. lam is not christianity and its formation may take a different shape. it's from the intellectuals and people in the west and the religious resolution best selling points. you don't have to face that much that would lead to the results that people expect. >> we are using the word reformation in the same way that it would be used then no except with the ignorance of history we would have no expectation that it would be nonviolent. it is extremely violent, and my goodness, the number of times in my discussions with supporters, they would say things that had parallels with the reformation that ceased to surprise me when they found something new to bring up in that type of comparison. it's never comforted me to find that that was the parallel that was occurring. millions of europeans and the end of that conflict, the result after the exhaustion of the continent by violence. in the reformation movement it's possible they could have the same kind of trajectory. martin luther also found that t

it's in the state department by the secretary of state. and so i would say his role is one of any other senior adviser in the west wing. he does -- he has freedom and i've invited him as i have others to call if there are issues that arise in the west wing. let me know so we have visibility so we can talk about how we want to address those. >> do you have any instances where he hasn't coordinated with state or yourself before engaging in discussions with foreign nationals or officials? >> you'd have to ask him as to whether he has. >> thank you, mr. secretary. you spoke earlier about the working relationship with china in terms of north korea. and there have been positive steps. i want to congratulate you on your work in that regard. but one of my concerns is the fact that as china might move away from trade, opportunities, to try to pressure north korea, russia seems to be creeping in with those, you know, replacing that vacuum. where there are trade opportunities and interactions with north korea. have you addressed this to russia? this i

that is the reality of the state. someone say you are cutting medicaid, in real dollars, and in accurate depiction of what we have done, this is what is going on today. we are trying to get control of the threat to the nation which is the national debt, and provide to our providers stable funding stream, and let them through the medicaid program, manage how best to provide for their citizens, empowering governors, actually closer, it compels me to raise that. my time is almost over but i will end on this. this is from a report i provided -- i'm not asking it to be submitted into the record but current projections bear no resemblance to a picture in which people historically dependent on medicaid lose their benefits. to the contrary, cms estimates, medicaid enrollment which is at current levels under the aca while still being substantially higher than projected before the affordable care act was passed. cms finds many states which sever some of the expansion population even if lawmakers do away with the inflated federal

transported and distributed back into the united states. all of that generates an incredible amount of profit, so that the network now runs up through primarily the central american, mexican corridor into the united states, is connected worldwide but it moves anything. it moves people, it moves items, it moves drugs. so it is very, very sophisticated and it is now something that if we don't get our arms around the transactional criminal organizations that control all of this, that we are -- well, i mean just the other day the leading cause of death for americans under 50 is now drug overdoses. the fact that we're the most -- the most medicated society on the planet, i read recently where we -- the united states, 5% of the world's population consumes about 90% of the opioids that are legally prescribed. we have the most medicated -- and i could go on and on. 60,000 people roughly died last year of this. so we need to get our arms, first of all, around drug demand. never go to zero, you can't do that, but significantly reduce it. our southwest

this is back to seeing the united states as both a unitary country but a country of 50 states at the same time. we benefit as a nation having our states be able to forge relationships with other countries or states around the world. i think chicago has more sister states and that is a form of social power. it helps with the culture and flow of ideas. what you have to make sure is a state or city can't get you n trouble. the reason the founders insisted the foreign affairs powers be listed with the states is they didn't want them to refuse. that could get us into war with britain. it is a balance. i tend to favor more autonomy for states and cities because again in the web world you simply have to allow more independenc independence. but you wouldn't want california making a deal with china that might imperil our defense capacity other undercutting other states economically. >> it is a diverse system as we diagnose in. i want to dig in for a couple more questions on networks thep selves. the fitting has been looking at this and i noticed mark zuckerberg talked about this yesterday in h

2018 budget request for the state department. members of the senate foreign relations committee had questions about those budget cuts, sanctions against countries doing business with north korea, and future relations with russia. it was also at this hearing were secretary tillerson announced the release of an american college student who had been imprisoned in north korea since march of last year. >> the foreign relations committee has come to order. banging] tillerson, we appreciate you being here. we were having a discussion about the timing issue. we have a lot of other things happening today, and i would like to finish this in one roun d. so what i think i'm going to do, i think what we will do, let's put six minutes on the clock, and if we really need to have a second round for some reason, we will. i'm open to discussion about that right now -- >> i think six minutes sounds fair on the first round. i don't want to preclude a member on either side that believes they need additional time for a second round, but i would encoura

, is that to say the most networked state would be the strongest state? what is the strongest network state today? what do we do with the state like north korea which is arguably the least networked, but therefore also apparently, esters we can tell, least prone to suasion and pressure, even from its most important friend, namely, china? is there an odd outlier that by keeping itself out of the network, north korea is making itself particularly resilient? or if not just stubborn and isolated, is it also then more difficult to move? >> guest: now, it's exactly the way i think we need to think about power in the networked world, or the web world, that traditionally power is your size, the size of your economy, the size of your military, the size of your territory under population. and in a networked world it is the number of connections. and i would say the quality of connections as well. at a don't think there can be any, there's not necessarily one center. because there are multiple states that are connected. and he can think about a map of the internet. y

what is see the states position on that? >> i'm glad you asked about raqqa, instead of focusing on social media. raqqa and syria is incredibly import. that's a top security position for the united states. for folks run the global have not followed this closely, it is considered to be one of two capitals for isis. attacks in europe have been plotted from raqqa, it is a ground zero for isis. the attacks were plotted from nissan brussels as well. this operation was launched today from the syrian democratic forces, we expect the fight to be long and difficult. we are confident in the ability of the coalition backed by the united states to be able to take out isis from the stronghold and eventually be able to return the city of raqqa to the people to which it belongs. >> congratulations on your new position. you mention about kabul, what is the expectations? to think it is going to be useful? >> thank you. thirty international partners including the united states attended the kabul process on peace and security. this is taken plac

so they would be valuable to the state. sec. tillerson: indeed. >> one example of what's been read into the budget by some people when they have seen consolidation of departments and responsibilities without the future result is you have the economic support fund and the development assistance account merged into one fund without any change of the authorization for the fund. a new name called the economic support and development fund. will our 2019 show the results of the mergers, not just in terms of financially but reauthorization for the departments? you are not just going to redo the budgets but restructure the departments and the mission too, i assume? sec. tillerson: that would be the intent coming out of this redesign. as all of you well know, we have a number of bureaus that have common missions, some of them have overlapping missions. not true just within the state department, but we have that with other agencies, as well. this exercise is also to identify where we have overlapping missions with defense, agriculture, dep

here in the united states. the point s. that's where the fight starts with our partners. the incredible tonnages of drugs that they take off the flow every year makes us look like we're not doing anything here in the united states. and the number of -- soldiers who were killed, police who were killed, journalist who is were killed, their attorneys general who were killed. prosecuting attorneys. the point is it starts down there. as we move closer to the border, the collaboration between the united states and mexico is paramount and is very close. but physical barriers work. they work where they already exist on the southwest border. to increase the physical barriers and increase their fix -- their sophistication will add to the security. in those place that is we don't build out to, who knows where they'll be. we can fill in the gaps as we do now with technology and people, but physical barriers do work. so we're in the process, i think the chairman knows, of kwlab brown-waiting with a number of contractors -- m

state. they'll divide the whole state and district. it's complicated sophisticated technology to gerrymander districts to benefit themselves and parties. we're say, let's give voters that power. it's way more transparent in the back rooms. it's on are the election. the voters themselves decide who represents them. not the political insiders. guest: i would add, it works well local level. it makes sense more and more the higher you go. i think single biggest barrier we dealt with over the years this is key parts of the maine equation, we have antiquated voting equipment processes. when you bring a change, it sort of institutional just get implemented. the bigger you go, the more different equipment you're dealing with. the logistical issues. there's no technical barriers. it's that regime that's difficult. that's getting better. that's a website run by a bunch of election officials who are addressing the problem. we can look at ways to liberate voterses. host: who's sponsoring your legislation? guest: congressman don beyer from virginia.

and exiting the agreement protects the united states from future intrusions on the united states sovereignty. and massive future legal liability. believe me, we have massive legal liability if we stay in. as president, i have one obligation, and that obligation is to the american people. the paris accord would undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty, impose unacceptable legal risk, and put us at a permanent disadvantage to the other countries of the world. it is time to exit the paris accord. [applause] pres. trump: and time to pursue a new deal that protects the environment, our companies, our citizens, and our country. it is time to put youngstown, ohio, detroit, michigan, and pittsburgh, pennsylvania along with many, many other locations within our great country before paris, france. it is time to make america great again. [applause] president trump: thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. very important. i'd like to ask scott pruitt whom most of you know and respect as i do just to say a few words. scott, please? [applause] >> thank yo

the state department can lead the effort as a state sponsor of terror. they are considered a sponsor of terror. i would hope that would be on your radar to do. they are doing bad things throughout the world. on behalf of terrorism and destroying human rights of many people, i would like to know what the plan is. do we support peaceful regime change. there are iranians in exile all over the world. is the u.s. position to leave things as it is? i want to mention russia. i was in georgia in 2008 after they invaded. georgia took one third in the world said that's not nice and nothing happened.ba they're in eastern ukrainene now. is that unlawful and still unlawful and those territories must be returned.r are go are we just going to accept the russian invasion of those territories. the last thing i want to mention is pakistan play in this, we give them money and that money ends up in the hands of bad guys who hurt americans. they get 500 million a year not counting the military.e they also should be removed from the major non- ally status that they have. i kno

when the program was first started, the funding was ample for states that were just ramping up the program but very quickly, by 2002, some states began to see shortfalls in the funding. we saw mismatch between the allotments and state needs in terms of their coverage. that was not unexpected in some respects, congress didn't know how many states would pick up the chip program, with participation rates would be but it gives us an example of what happens when you have a mismatch in funding. georgia reluctantly frozen moment from march until july 2007 on only lifted the freeze after they pass the supplemental budget. florida frozen roman for just five months. during those five months, 44000 children, chip children, were placed on a waiting list. when it was reauthorized in 2009, there was strong support from the congress to avoid those kinds of shortfalls and enrollment freezes. they provide an ample funding and revamp the system for distributing dollars. built-in new adjusters. it built in contingency funding and a new system for redistributing funds across the state. that funding formula ha

over which the united states is already handed over $1 billion. nobody else is even close in most of not even paid anything. including funds rated out of america's budget for the war against terrorism. that is where they came. believe me, they did not come from me. they came just before i came into office, not good. not good the way they took the money. in 2015 the united nations departing top climate officials reportedly described the $100 billion per year as peanuts. they stated that the $100 million is the tail that wags the dog. in 2015 the green climate fund executive director reportedly stated that estimated funding needed would increase to $450 billion per year after 2020, and nobody even knows where the money is going to. nobody has been able to say where it is going to. of course the world's top polluters have no affirmative obligations under the green fund . which we terminated. america is $20 trillion in debt. cash-strapped cities cannot hire enough police officers or fix the infrastructure. many of our citizens are out of work and yet u

the reality is, our state, if you will, as defined by the chesapeake a. r state is defined by its western mountain. our state is committed to ensuring our environment is present both for the future of our children but the future of the planet. we have already seen epa chief henchmenonald trump's for the environment, attacked the chesapeake bay plan. first from oklahoma before he was even the federal government, and now the epa funding slashed. the simple fact is, we are all commanded to look after the garden. we are all bound to this planet and to its future. we must lead from where we are. that means in our city governments, county governments, and state governments. the prepare to protect our environment, including taking the rare action of signing onto ,lobal agreements as a state when our federal government fails to act, when it is led by people who would rather stick their head in the sand than open their eyes and admit that climate change is being caused by human behavior and we can stop it. amy: former naacp president ben jealous, now running for go

it is the only city in the united states. every branch. their high school, they have basically seven applicants for every seat. 80% graduation rate. when i just told you already just last year -- not the year they closed but the year before where it is nearly 74%, and they have a 90% college acceptance. every school is a one or level one plus school. so the armed forces, so it is not just when we say it we have also the largest junior rotc program in the united states of america, 10,500 kids. lastly, let me close on one thing. when i talk about all that we have done and what we've accomplished, i believe firmly in the power of education. none of us would be in this room if we didn't have two things in common, the love of our parents and a good education. as mayor i have a responsibility to ensure that every child has a chance to succeed, and i have to make sure that the system and the structure and the support and our principals have what they need to succeed. we did expand the school day. we had the shortest school day and the shortest sch

the state of texas charges 25% in royalties on oil, twice what the federal government charges. in my home state of colorado it's 20%. on offshore lands it's 18.75%. if we're going to use our public lands for oil and gas development, we really need to be smart about it. i don't oppose oil and gas development on our public lands. but for now at least, all of us rely to some extent on oil production, on gas production for power generation. but we need to recognize that we could accommodate these interests without doing damage to our public lands. if we could show the slides that i think are on the scheme -- mr. flynn talked about the permian basin. this is a picture of the permian basin in texas. i'd urge you to go. this kind of development goes on for miles and miles in every direction. it's not the kind of thing that i think we want for our public lands. this is private land. but on our public lands we ought to be doing appropriate planning, doing appropriate environmental analysis. if it takes more time, we owe that to the american people to make sure if we're going to have deve

of which the united states has already $1 billion. nobody else is even close. most haven't even paid anything. of uding funds raided out america's budget for the war against terrorism. that's where they came. believe me, they didn't come from me. they came just before i came into office. not good. not good the way they took the money. 2015 the united nations departing top climate officials reportedly described the $100 billion per year as peanuts and stated that the $100 billion is the tail that wation the wags the dog. in 2015 the green climate fund's executive director reportedly stated that estimated funding needed would increase to $450 billion per year after 2020, and nobody even knows where the money is going to. say, has been able to where is it going to? of course, the world's top polluters have no affirmative obligations under the green fund, which we terminated. america is $20 trillion in debt, cash strapped cities cannot hire enough police officers or fix vital infrastructure, millions of our citizens are out of work, and ye

i have seen in the united states that businesses support the paris agreement, that states supported, the city's support it and everyone is moving forward. in the united states and around the world. it is unfortunate the u.s. administration says their pulling out of the paris agreement but you cannot stop progress. >> former president barack obama wrote, i believe the united states should be at the front of the pack -- here is the list posted by cnn of the three countries not participating in the agreement. they included syria, nicaragua which felt the agreement did not go far enough and now the united states. here's some of the covers of the china, global television network. >> you just heard donald trump make the announcement that the united states will leave the paris climate accord.

the discussion. >> next, secretary of state rex tillerson is asked about the trump administration's plans to cut the state department budget by 31%. secretary tillerson also talked korea,anctions on north given policies, -- cuban policies. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> foreign relations committee will come to order. mr. tillerson, mr. secretary, we appreciate you being here. we're having a discussion about the timing issue. we do have a lot of other things happening today and i really would like to finish this in one round. so what i think i'm going to do without -- i think what we'll do senator, carden, if it's okay with you, let's put six minutes on the clock and if we need a second round, we can do that. >> i think six minutes sounds fair on the first round. i don't want to preclude a member on either side that believes they need additional time from a second round from having a second round. but i would encourage our members to be

and exiting the agreement protects the united states from future intrusions on the united states sovereignty and massive future legal liability. believe me, we have massive legal liability if we stay in. as president, i have one obligation. that obligation is to the american people. the paris accord would undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty, impose unacceptable legal risk and put us at a permanent disadvantage to the other countries of the world. it's time to exit the paris accord. [applause] and time to pursue a new deal that protects the environment, our companies, our citizens and our country. it's time to put youngstown, ohio, detroit, michigan and pittsburgh, pennsylvania along with many, many other locations within our great country before paris, france. it's time to make america great again. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. [applause] very important. i'd like to ask scott pruitt, who most of you know and respect as i do just to say a few words. scott, please. [applause] >> thank you, mr. p

a week pledge from the united states, full of loopholes. that was to accommodate the united states. e paris agreement was nonbinding. it was voluntary. the pledges would lead to a warming of at least three degrees. it is to be strengthened. that was under president obama's watch. to accommodate the united states, i think one of the powerful lessons of this is that long is a tradition in a history of american exceptionalism within climate action. and the rest of the world has to move faster and more ambitious, and leave the u.s. behind. the reaction you're seeing now has been strong and positive,e, both from governments, but also social organizations and civil society where people are committed and recognizing the real change will come not necessarily from donald trump, but from the grassroots within the united states. this is that for the people of the united states. the temperature increase of one degree warming around the world 's leading to killer floods and droughts all of the world. the arctic melting, coral being bleached. , nothas huge implications just on the poorest parts of

does the united states recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel? >> the administration has not expressed a specific view in that regard. >> stating my own position. i believe strongly that the administration should recognize jerusalem as the unquestionable capital of israel. will the administration eventually move the american embassy in israel to jerusalem? >> that decision is under evaluation by the president. obviously, he'll have to make a decision coming up on whether to extend the final excision on that or not. he has not made that decision to my knowledge. >> and the president was absolutely correct during the campaign when he had stated his position and intent then of moving the embassy and i would encourage him to go with the instinct and follow-through with that pledge. >> what do you think about the foreign aid we provide to the palestinian authority? >> i think our engagement with them and making clear on expectations on how aid is utilized, one thing i'd like to clarify from this morning's hearing several times in the question people s

i am confident that the u.s. state department and usaid will continue to deliver results for the american people. i thank you for your time and am happy now to answer your questions. >> thank you. i'm going to use just a portion of my time i think. if you could, since there will be an appropriations process that's underway soon, when do you expect to have the -- your thoughts together on how the state department itself will be reorganized? >> senator, as i indicated, we've just completed an important listening phase. >> right. >> i have had an initial readout. i will get a final report. i'm interviewing a couple of individuals who will come in and help us now with the next stage, which is the redesign effort itself, which will be -- which will involve the colleagues in the state department and usaid. that effort, likely we'll have that framed over the course of the summer. the effort itself will likely cut underway sometime in august/september time frame when we have our pathway forward, the process, how we want to eng

as you know, the united states is constantly under threat from adversaries abroad. the desperate dictator north korea continues to defy international community by firing off ballistic missiles and brutalizing civilians, including americans. and now possibly prepare for another provocative nuclear test. a blood he civil war rages in syria, having already taken the lives of almost half a million people and displacing millions more. china's militarizing islands and threatening its neighbors in russia and russia there's instability through cyber attacks and military occurrences. a tyrannical regime in teheran funds and's international terrorists, and isis and like-minded groups continue to spread an ideology based on death and destruction. the state becomes clear and clear the challenges we face are becoming more complex. as a result, the urgency behind working together becomes greater and greater. before going to be successful in protecting the american people we must confront the most pressing issues with policies that transcend partisan politics. terrorists do not che

is not the united states of america. another 21% go on to community colleges where the rate is 22% nationally. so even though the demographics for the city of chicago is different, we match the united states of kids going from high school to college and community college. hird, our eighth graders led the united states in math. our fourth graders were third in overall reading gains. there were only three school districts in the entire united states of america whose math and readings for fourth and eight graders went up, cleveland, washington, d.c., and the city of chicago. every measure of the city of chicago's educational gains are going in the right direction. our graduation rate for the last five years, every year, was triple the national average. so if william bennett could get through t.s.a., i would like him come back to the city of chicago and see what's happening. every measure on high school, college acceptance, college attendance, as well as in reading and math scores at fourth and eighth grade levels, chicago is

i know they were actually hostages involved in efforts to get justice from the state and incarcerate people -- people incarcerated in attica were involved, talk a little bit about what happened in the aftermath? >> part of the extraordinary thing about the story the whole thing starts in 1971, depends five dais and probably the next 20 years the nation doesn't hear a lot about goes on but what's beginning on is the state of new york is filing cases not against the troopers who have killed people and tortured people but against the prisoners for rebelling. so the first thing that happens is criminal trials against the criminals and their attempts to then in turn sue the state or put on hold and can't do anything while the criminal trial proceeds. the hostages are swindled and they are handed the meager checks and told that they'll be -- go ahead just get a little groceries, take care of yourself, we will take care of you, $120 checks, 40-dollar checks meant that they quote, unquote elected a remedy. once they cashed them, they couldn't sue a state. many years prisoners were fighting fo

this would give the united states defensive bases off its coast, again protecting the united states, in return for these old destroyers which were headed for the scrapheap. churchill was delighted by this. he thought that it was assigned the united states was getting involved in the war, but there was no reason whatsoever to think that it was. this was a help to britain, even as i say, agreed to by both of the candidates, so there was another issue that came up, much more serious, at the end of 1940, and that was britain did not have any money left to buy the armaments under cash and carry from the united states. what was it going to do? after the election was safely over, what roosevelt announced was a program of lend lease. we will lease to any country. the analogy was ridiculous, but that's what he said. he probably never expected to get this back at all, but went back through the motions. how britain was going to repay it was a very good question. in 1946, when britain after the war desperately needed a bigger loan from the united states and canada to rebuild its economy, what hap

tonight, discussion on the state of congress with a political scientist. and former congressman mickey edwards. in one hour, new york times correspondent on the pharmaceutical lobby in washington, d.c. and we talked to william pomerantz about the investigation into russian interference in u.s. elections. and a bloomberg reporter on the u.s. retail industry. ♪ ♪ there are two differing opinions from senators on the future of the affordable care act. texas radiotold a station yesterday that a vote on the repeal of the affordable could come as early as july. jeff flake of arizona told reporters he had a hard time believing that. it is june 1. this is "washington journal." for the first hour, we will discuss the future of the paris climate agreement. that was agreed on during the obama administration and would

the president has dhs, state, hhs in the lead, ocp. if we can get a comprehensive drug demand strategy put together, that's not law enforcement, it's hollywood, professional sports, college sports, the president of the united states, the senate. everyone out there, the influencers, we can reduce this problem initially. we need the money, it's a holistic thing, and it's not just a cvp guy on the border. >> ea couple of us were in beijing a couple months ago, talking about getting u.s. beef into china. this holistic approach is certainly the right approach, and we'll continue to work with you on that. i want to shift gears and talk cyber. as the budget request requests, cyber is the national priority. it would help meet the current cyber threats, we need to stay ahead of these emerging threats we see everywhere. in february, i introduced a bill which provided the science and technology directorate. research and develop the next generation of cyber protection capabilities. despite the proposed cuts, how will the s & t continue to support

led by the united states and china. er half of the new power generation around the world is in the renewable space. in europe that number is 90%. and you look at job creation, job creation in the renewable energy sector, last year, outstripped job creation in the oil and gas sector. so we're talking about jobs. and over the next -- in the coming decades, it's estimated this $37 trillion infrastructure investment opportunity in energy. so retreating from a climate agreement is retreating from prosperity. scarlet: how does the u.s. pulling out of the paris agreement set the scene for what kind of license it gives developing countries, that china, indias of the world to fulfill their growth objectives? because it gives them more room to do what they need to do, for instance. they don't need to look at the moral leadership of the united states. peter: well, i think the critical thing here is that the united states is ceding leadership on a very important front. and the developing countries of the world have seen it as being