in the state of new york. riends. [applause] gov. cuomo: third, as washington has shot an arrow aimed at new york state's economic heart, the best plan is to get out of the way before it hits. we are exploring the feasibility of a major shift. different states have different tack structures. -- tax structures. some use a gross receipts tax. some use a severance tax. we are developing a plan to restructure our tax code to reduce reliance on our current income tax system and adopt a statewide payroll tax system. payroll taxes are legal. the federal government currently has a federal payroll tax system. we are creating additional so thatle organizations contributions to those charitable organizations would be tax-deductible. we are also addressing the wall street giveaway called the carried interest loophole, which is another device to give away revenue to people who don't need it. we are working with our legislative partners and local government partners. we are discussing this restructuring. you will hear more a

if you want to attend the state of the union, i brought the state of the union to you.rmal. this is normal. >> this is not a normal presidency. >> hold on. ladies and gentlemen, this interview will commence. >> i really feel like the racism and hatred that's coming out of the white house does not allow me to be in that chamber. >> do you have a designated survivor for this interview. >> i do not. >> mine's covery sutterland. >> i talked him in the car. >> you might think locking him in a car is normal. but the congresswoman is defying one of the sacred norms that make our democracy work. >> state of the union is a speech. it's one speech. but i don't think this is the president where you can count on anything he said. one day he's supportive of the dreamer, the next day he's not. one day he says mexico's going to pay for wall. next day it's clear the taxpayers are going to pay for the wall. i think he's made a mockery of that office and therefore the state of the union. >> you say the president has made a mockery out of the state of the union but i say the state of the

among the first state of the union addresses. u can see that chart from c-span. president obama's first state of the union address in 2010 lasted 69 minutes and 20 seconds. in terms of the topics that the president covered last night, the washington post broke it minutes spent each topic. when it came to the economy, the president spent 18 minutes and 17 seconds. foreign policy, 18 minutes, 11 seconds. immigration, 15 minutes, 13 seconds. health care, six minutes, 37 seconds. that arends, four minutes and 10 seconds. the rest was other topics. president trump: under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. under our plan, we focus on the immediate family, limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children. [applause] president trump: this vital reform is necessary not just for our economy, but for our security and for the future of .merica in recent weeks, two terrorist attacks in new york were made possible by the visa lottery and change migration. -- chain migr

the 2018 state of the state address. ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to andrew cuomo. thank you very much. welcome to albany. happy new year to all. may it be a great one for all of us. first to the reverend and the were, i thought they extraordinary in their blessings and indication. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] gov. cuomo: before i begin, i would like to acknowledge my partners in progress here with me on the stage today. we start with lieutenant governor kathy hogle. -- hochul. new york state comptroller thomas dinapoli. attorney general eric snyderman. senate majority leader john flanagan. speaker carl he's deep. leader client. leader brian cole. we had with us today our court of appeals, judges, and the great chief judge. let's give them a round of applause. ,t's not that they are unhappy the judges. it's by protocol they don't applaud for anything. i didn't realize that the first couple of years, but i now got it. another round of applause for not applauding for anything. [applau

in certain spots in the state. so if the word reasonable effort has any meaning, with the congress who said that the failure to vote is a constitutional right, how can we read this statute to permit you to begin a process of disenfranchising solely on the basis of that? with no independent evidence whatsoever that the person has moved? you can use the post office. they tell you that. you can use certified mail. change ofuse juror addresses. you can use drivers license, motor vehicle change of addresses. there are dozens of other ways that you could verify a change of address. yet you are suggesting that using a failure to appear at election or elections, as evidence of moving, when people have a right not to vote if they choose, many have. and others, like the veteran whose of plaintiff in this case, explains the reasons why he failed to vote in two elections. meeting ofive the the words that congress said, don't use the failure to vote as a result that results in someone being disenfranchised. i don't understand ho

to vote as the trigger, but outlawing the states failure to vote on the front end. many states who target individuals who haven't voted recently with a nonforwardable mailing with a confirmation notice. that would be equally prohibited under the logic of their argument here today because they are saying any front end use of non-voting will be illegal. >> thank you counsel, you have a couple of minutes for rebuttable. >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court if i can begin with justice kennedy's question. we think ohio's pos was permissible before congress enacted the amendment in 2002. first, sections 8-c and 8-d, the postal service process and the notice process require that non-voting be the mediate cause for removal. the only way you can construe 8-b2 is not prohibiting that. removed solely by the reason of failure to vote. second, this reflected a significant shift in the federal state balance. prior to the nvra many states removed people solely from failure to vote. none of them had a four year waiting period. nvra required everybody to improve processes

the nuclear state of north korea. we have consistently advocated the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, but this issue can only be settled through a negotiated solution by diplomatic means. it would be inadvisable to test the strength of the north korean leadership and provoke a rash countermeasure. russia is committed to the joint comprehensive plan of actions on the iranian nuclear program as a successful example of knopfler for asian and an essential factor of regional stability. we consider it important for the participants of the plan to remove existing differences from the agenda for negotiations without reconsidering the agreement itself. it is evident, should the plan fail, it would be an alarming signal for the whole or to national security system, including resolving the nuclear problem of the korean peninsula. the issue of strategic stability and arms control was and continues to be one of the key problems in russian-american relations. -- the key points in russian-american relations. our bilateral re

sub states of the united states don't agree that's fine they stand on the wrong side of international law and the palestinians don't plan to join them with that and undermine their own rights less than ians are ready to negotiate they're ready to do to have a credible political track that is based on international law but they're certainly not ready to put themselves in a boxing. where they can be bullied into submission which is what we've seen being attempted by the trumpet administration and from what we've heard as far as this big ultimate suppose a deal that trump and his team is thinking about there is nothing in it that even resembles an acceptable solution that respects the minimum required of palestinian rights ok abbas has been in europe during pence's visit did he win the support from europe that he was seeking in light of the us supporting the israeli position on jerusalem i think there is some support in europe and sympathy for the palestinians but unfortunately or fortunately for the israelis the is the us is to some degree the only game in town more so it seems he's try

next, missouri governor giving the annual state of the state address. he outlines legislative priorities, lowering taxes and reducing regulatory requirements. shortly after, the governor admitted to having an extramarital affair but denied reports of lack mailing. the addresses from the capital in jefferson city and is just over 30 minutes. .- reports of blackmailing the adjustment capital in jefferson city is just over 30 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the governor of missouri , eric greitens. [applause] gov. greitens: thank you. thank you all. thank you. [applause] thank youens: lieutenant governor person, speaker richardson, and members of the missouri house, president richard, and members of the missouri senate, chief justice fisher and justices of the supreme court thomas state officials, members of the cabinet, our first lady and my wife. [applause] we have many honored guests here tonight. one who is particularly special to me, my kindergarten teacher here tonight. [applause] gov. greitens: thank you. i was in mrs. richardsons k

to quote the i was proud of the state of my birth. his kind and gentle soul was captured in inspiring speech he delivered that cold and snowy day on the bluff. that remarkable event, mississippians of every color and persuasion came together with an understanding of the tragedies and violence perpetrated on innocent people who simply wanted to exercise their right to vote. ... it lies in the museum put away hope we never witnessed again. [applause] all of us anticipating that they experienced something very special, the anger and fear fell away, political agendas melted in the morning snow. we saw what mississippi could be when all are common bonds overpower our differences and we accept the reality that we can disagree without being disagreeable. we. into mississippi's soul. we saw that it was cleansed of any deceit or malice and that the soul of mississippi now contained the love for all its people, its traditions and most of all, our future. my dear friend and civil rights legend, doctor john perkins said, it all comes down to love

the state money. do you have a sense of where that is coming from, the source of it? just taxes? >> so, yes, i mean their federal taxes, state taxes and on the local level, they are property, business, hotel taxes. so it's really those basic sources. >> very good, that's it. >> thank you. any comment from the public? hearing none, we continue. >> ok. so changing our focus to 18-19. so as i said at the beginning of this, the city does a forecast and it's actually part of the five-year forecasting process that gets updated on a regular basis. and you know, we do that as a city for purposes of being financially responsible. we say in essence what is happening with our costs? we have a bunch of labor agreements. we pay for employee benefits. we make pension contributions. weer looking at -- we are looking at increases, or some cases not increases, in social services benefits costs. we are looking at the operations of our public health system. we are looking at the operations of our parks, et cetera, et cetera. and so we look to the future. and we say, so what is happening on the cost

why it was named the top state in the united states for doing business. and why state unemployment is at a historic low. our economy is strong. our future is bright. but there are always new heights to reach, new challenges to overcome, and persistent wrongs to right. when our state's first governor, elijah ferry, delivered his message to our inaugural legislator, he challenged legislators to think big. it is your province, he said, to make precedence, not to follow them. to mark the way. that others may walk in the path that you have made. we have been walking in the path that governor ferry and the first legislature set this state for 128 years. today it is up to us to continue that work for future generations. this year, we cannot focus just on the length of this session, which is short. we have to focus on our legacy, which can be long. several opportunities are in front of us to forge a prosperous path for the next generation. access to democracy is a cornerstone to the enduring health of our nation and our state. so let's leave a legacy of a stronge

may god bless you, the great state of mississippi, and may god bless the united states of america. [applause] announcer: from a governor for the annual state of the address -- state of the state address. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> it is not my distinct honor to present to you the governor of the state of vermont. [applause] gov. scott: thank you. thank you very much. mr. speaker, mr. president, mr. chief justice, members of the general assembly, distinguished vermont isce 1778, bound by a common oath to open up the legislative session. families and businesses traveled over rugged mountain gaps and rugged valley roads to come together and solve problems to shape the future. the work of those that came for the greater share and influence. through our courage and conviction, vermont has pushed forward in progress when it seemed unachievable. example, setthe the tone and helped usher positive change into our nation for the need -- when the need for change was essential. my friends, we have reached that time again. history has placed us together in a difficult moment for our

we are one of the healthiest states in the nation. people here live longer than anywhere else in the country. we have led the nation in health insurance for decades in the current chaos and in the current chaos, we stand firm in caring for each other. we have the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. we are strong financially. our bond rating is the highest it's ever been in our history making it possible for us to get the most bang for our buck when we borrow money. this saves the state tens of millions of dollars allowing us to make critical investments in our schools, housing and highway and we have made our voice clear , hawaii will not stand for the hateful and hurtful policies of the trump white house. [applause]. we are doing more than any other state to stand up for what is right such as daca in the paris climate accord and to stop what is wrong such as the travel ban and stopping transgender members of the military from defending our flag and our freedom. [applause]. and yet so many of us are living paycheck to paycheck re

state. we have the process to make sure that information gets to senior state election officials much more quickly. there was a lot of media attention. the pace by which the threat into the hands of the senior state election officials. we will improve on that. we will always prioritize getting security information out to the people to the people who can make security decisions. that's the first priority. i wanted talk about what's happening all over the place if it doesn't involve a security decision but certainly if something's going on in the state they deserve to know that. and can make security decisions based on information. we are doing that in terms of information sharing. state officials are working with local officials to deal with this question. sometimes what happens might be learned by local official. and they need to interchange a. there are some best practices out there. one of the government courting councils his chariot and effort to look at can there be a template for 50 states to consider. sometimes the information comes because someone is doing something on the state and local s

we have made available to the senior state officials in 50 states and some of the key state to the ability to get the key clearance, and working through the process and also available through the local officials and also in the coordinating council. so there is going to be more opportunity to share contextual information about where they may be looking to cause trouble with the elections by nation states. and another thing with the information sharing front, we have improved our protocols now that we have exchanged the business cards and made the relationships, we have a better process in place that if we have learned something, and the fbi learned something and one state learned something about another state, we have the process to make sure that information is going to get to the senior state election officials much more quickly. there is a lot of media attention about the pace by which that security information threat got into the hands of senior state election officials, and we will improve on that. we have improved on that and we will improve on that going forward. we will always prio

first, the involvement of the united states and the war with the united states. when we think of america's relationship with the first world war as being from 1917 to 1918, we are missing the main point. united states was deeply involved in this war in a variety of ways. much earlier than american entry in 1917. the other thing this poster is attempting to get across is it is part of the movement that began -- that was known as preparedness. but the united states should or should not do to change its own society. to change its way of thinking. in response to events with -- that were going on in europe. the question of how the united states interacted with the first world war before entry is something we have a lot of conventional wisdom on, half-baked ideas, but not really a lot of solid research. the book i worked on, "path to war," was an attempt to do this. to understand how a large, diverse, complicated society, like the united states, was responding to the events in europe, and how that response conditioned not only american entry in the war, but how american

we looked at the history of the state of the union. president donald trump's first state of the union address will begin in about an hour. the democratic response will follow. president and mrs. trump will depart. c-span cameras will show you the departure. tonight our goal is to provide a , behind the scenes look at the state of the union, live coverage of the address, interviews with members of congress, political analysis, and most importantly, your reaction to the president's speech. but first off, to help us with the nuts and bolts of tonight's speech, we are pleased that wilson "bill" livingood and longtime senate historian donald a. ritchie are here with us. mr. ritchie, if we could begin with the u.s. constitution. this is article to, section three -- article two, section three. of those the words from the constitution that bring us to this t are those the words from the constitution that bring us to this table tonight? donald: very short. the constitution was more like an outline for the government to fill in. it doesn't say wh

saudi arabia would like the united states remain there israel would like the united states to remain there to cut down assad's government and to deny the syrian government oil water and agricultural land that's what chopping syria into two and a bella ping a long term relationship with the kurds in the north helping them it to develop greater independence will ultimately do it'll keep syria very weak this is a way to night iran the fruits of it's a victory in syria and also to bring russia down a notch so i think the united states is seeing this as a way to hurt its enemies russia and it won and to help its allies. both israel and saudi arabia the trouble is is that turkey is collateral damage here the united states' relationship with turkey is going from bad to worse and this dependence on the kurds is in a sense underlining that the united states unfortunately i believe has looked at turkey as a last partner that it's moved towards dictatorship greater islamist i'm less democracy is not something that's going to be reversed and that america can't reverse i think the united states th

legislatures in the lower north. states where we know majorities rejected black suffrage is dutch suffrage because they had referenda rejecting black suffrage. ironically, this is how southern slave owners had tended to dominate the government before the civil war. they were the majority wing of the majority party only was the -- only it was the democratic party. now the tables are turned. i will talk about subsequent disenfranchisement. the15th amendment barred disenfranchisement based on race. by 1910, black political participation in the south was about 0%. this is one of the most extraordinary examples in american constitutional history of constitutional nullification. a provision in the constitution being rendered utterly worthless. congress did nothing to check this disfranchisement under section two of the 14th amendment, which it is obliged to enforce. it is not discretionary. congress is mandated to reduce representation for a state that that disenfranchises adult males. african-americans in the south really did no

the discussion. >> earlier today in washington state, govern jay inslee delivered the annual state of the state address to a joint session of the state legislature. here is a look. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. good afternoon. thank you for those timely and empowering words. thanks to the high school vocal jazz ensemble for that inspiring rendition of our national anthem. thank you for honoring deputy mccarthy. our hearts are with his family and i appreciate you honor him. a big thank you to my wife trudy and my entire family, and in particular to my mother-in-law, the original trudy tindle, who tells me her first 100 years in washington have been pretty great. thanks very much, trudy. i appreciate that. [ applause ] i'd like to welcome our new legislators in our ranks. senator keith wagner and representative karen eslic. may you all do good work here. mr. president, madam speaker, distinguished justices of the court, members of the legislature, tribal leaders, state and local government officials, members of the consular core, and most importantly, my fellow washingtonians. i am honored to stand

and so the state -- the secretary of state has gone to the legislator. he's gotten into the governor's budget and he said we need some resources specifically to provide to cybersecurity to the local election officials as well as to setup a cybersecurity operation more robust, if you will, at the state level. there is a lot going on even if you're maybe you're not hearing about it. because we're kind of keeping our heads down and moving forward. and i think you're going to see a lot more of that as we approach the 2018 elections. >> thank you, david. and you actually built into my first question. and actually i'll start with you, secretary. i know coming out of 2016 all of your were asking what steps can we be taking, what more needs to be done? what were the lessons learned and what are you doing to address the cyber posture of the state of right-of-way elections? >> what was interesting for us, for us it was continuation of what we did pre-2015. so once we did that, then what you really need to do parallel-wise is to make sure you have the human resourc

. >> voices from the state on c-span. at the start of yesterday's white house briefing, national security adviser h.r. mcmaster previewed president trump's visit to the world economic forum in switzerland. he was joined by gary cohen. the president leaves for europe this evening and will adjust the form on friday morning. everyone, thank you sarah. it is great to be here today with general mcmaster. as sarah said we are going to the world economic forum to share president trump's at -- economic story and to tell america just tell of the world america is open for business. president trump's economic agenda has unleashed the u.s. economy. his policies have led to a rising stock market, low unemployment and strong gdp growth. the administration's commitment to deregulation and our passing of conference of tax reform have help level the playing field for our businesses and our workers. as a direct result, president trump tax reform and tax cuts over 100 companies announced policies that would create jobs, benefit workers and g

that means the united states loses the only way the united states the only they with that the recession can work is if the united states wins and hence the others lose and that's a problem that's a problematic approach to foreign policy and to foreign trade because the united states is over the last twenty five years certainly since the second world war has built an international liberal order it's the united states that takes the credit for the entire international system the rule of law the relations between states full of ration of nuclear in other weapons or nonproliferation and certainly on the questions of trade it is all an american order and all his successors since world war two and certainly since the end of the cold war have respected in fact they have noticed this world order that the united states has built. donald trump over the last year has begun to chip at this liberal order in fact he is insists on undoing an entire liberal order the united states built and takes credit for that will not only be bad for their so the war if there's no other system or there's n

they've invested over $13 billion across the state. we should increase our affordable housing tax credits by 50 percent - these are matching funds that work only with local investment. if we believe private enterprise is part of the solution, chfa is one of the answers. [applause] i'm forgetting some other type of infrastructurewhat is it? oh right, the multi-billion-dollar hole in our roads. it's about connecting to our communities, our jobs, our markets, and the people we love. and good infrastructure creates good jobs. these are facts -- fort morgan voters said "yes" to raising their sales tax, so they could get to work repairing their city streets. and el paso county voted for new lanes on i-25. coloradans want to invest in our quality of life- because of our affection for colorado. and allow us to pass that affection confidently on to the next generation. that's why communities are easing traffic with bike lanes and creating walkable areas. and in response to demand from southwest colorado and other rural parts of the state, bustan

what could the state do? >> well, first of all, i think it's important to recognize that what paspa regulates and it does regulate it quite comprehensively, is the operation of sports betting schemes. it doesn't regulate sports gambling and says nothing about individuals engaging in sports gambling. if new jersey wants to say all our prohibitions which right now are on the supply side and demand side, all of its prohibitions on the demand side it can partially repeal. >> could not a state enact -- the federal government enact a law saying no state shall pass an income tax greater than 6%? >> i think it might be able to do that because -- put it this way, i don't know why in principle that would be so different from the statute at issue in baker, which says no state shall issue a -- >> shall issue a what? >> a bear bond. i think it's the same. to the extent there would be anything odd tubt, and it's what mr. olson suggests is ought about pasba is the idea there's a preemption provision. if congress regulated th

and security of the state of israel. [applause] any peace agreement must guarantee to defend itself by itself. now there are those who believe. the conflict cannot be resolved and then hope itself is an illusion. i stand here and i know peace is possible because history records that israel has made difficult decisions to achieve peace with its neighbors in the past. over the past few days i've traveled to egypt and jordan. i spoke with the great friends of egypt and king abdullah of jordan about the courage of the predecessors of forged an end to conflict with israel in their time. and those leaders prove every day the trust aonfidence can be a reality among the great nations who called these ancient lands home. in my time with those leaders and your prime minister, we discussed the remarkable transformation that is taking place across the middle east today and the need to forge the new era of cooperation in our day and age. the winds of change can only be witnessed across the middle east. long-standing enemies are becomi

the 21st century. and ago that was president trump at his state of the union. ining us now, minnesota state representative ilhan omar former , refugee, a muslim, and the highest-elected somali-american public official in the united states. you were in washington, d.c., from minnesota to attend one of the alternative state of the something you respond to president trump said last night? >> thank you for having me. i was sort of listening to that little bizarre bit about our immigration programs being outdated. the only thing i could think about was his fascist ideas beingg outdated. amy: talk specifically about these linkages he made, timidly, johnline he drew between people coming to the united states over the border and ms 13 killing people. disappointingy and saddens me, but it does not persone me that this can't comprehend how dangerous it is to create a link the between people who might be committing some patricia's crimes -- atrocious crimes to immigrants that are coming to this country seeking a writer future for their children -- brighter future for their

state. one of the largest around. the state to the south they're recipient states. many states in the midwest same thing. so it's ironically the poor states are the one that gets the most from the federal government. and rich states don't. they contribute to the federal government. it's been an off and on relationship. having somebody like nancy pelosi as speaker. has been helpful to the state. our two senators. had great seniority in the senate. that matters. it does. right or wrong. we have 53 members of the house. the largest delegation by far. although rarely do they vote together. they can. when they do, their votes count for a lot. you add up all those things and we have the brains here. that's not to say there aren't brains other places. there's such a concentration of talent here. it's such a concentration. of so many smart people who do so many things. innovation is just one of those things that happens all the time. and it doesn't always work. but it does what it does. it changes everything. go to facebook that company. there's whacky things all over the p

the third longest state of the union. let's listen to a bit of it. >> over the last year the world has seen what we always knew -- that no people on earth are so fearless or daring or determined as americans. if there is a mountain, we climb it, if there is a frontier, we cross it. if there's a challenge, we tame it. if there's an opportunity, we seize it. so let's begin tonight by recognizing that the state of our union is strong. >> all right. he called it a new american moment. there was positive reaction. 48% very positive reaction to the president's speech. 22% somewhat positive. negative, 29%. how do you rate it, suraj? >> in terms of length, i'm trying to figure out what is longer, the state of the union or the new "amigos" album. both were over an hour and 20 minutes. i think what president trump did was good for him. it actually -- he stayed on american legion bridge, he didn't get too -- message, he didn't get too off the cuff. what he actually did which i found pretty interesting was he almost dared democrats w

the virginia state capitol and the constitution of the united states were born in the same year. 1788. and the constitution is just a fewcapitol. the revolution put virginia on the map for a new commonwealth. then in 1861, the civil war put it on the map as a new national capitol for the confederate states of america and virginians took a long time to decide whether or not to seseed from the union and subsequently join the confederacy. but we're actually standing in the room where virginians voted to suseed from the union. once that decision was made, the confederate congress was brought to richmond from alabama and for the next four years between july of 1861 through march of 1865 the virginia state capitol was multitasking. it hosted not only the ongoing me meetings of the virginia general assembly and state governors but hosted simultaneous meetings of the confederate congress. the civil war came to a dramatic end right here in richmond in spring of 1865 the confederate government decided on the second of april to evacuate the city and the virginia state government made the same de

may god bless you, the great state of mississippi, and may god bless the united states of america. thank you and good night. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer 1: two house leaders on c-span, paul ryan and denny lawyer area they talk about tax reform and the possibility of democrats retaking the house in 2018. >> a number of states are looking at so-called workarounds to get the $10,000 deduction. will you do anything to stop that? >> i have heard the best idea or the big ideas are letting millionaires and billionaires pay their taxes as donations. that will not work. i can't imagine the treasury would even let that happen. it is beyond reason to think that tax regulations would allow that to happen. >> i expect us to retake the house, the majority, and i do so because the environment is the fact that people are looking for stability. they are looking for some focus on the issues that they care about in te

what it is the state could do about sales taxes? the supreme court decided in the quill case it would not follow evolving dormant commerce clause in jurisprudence. the state can regulate i to be that has a substantial nexus to the state. uniquely in the sales tax contests, it would adhere to the rule that the state cannot tax the sale where there is no physical presence. so that meant that the sales tax cannot be applied to the purchase from south carolina or wherever catalog company. that has been the rule for a long time. it is obviously -- it has obviously had big applications for internet sales, including amazon, but many, many other companies. and it has had a dramatic affect on how the internet economy has worked. mythis case, we represent, law firm does, the state, which is challenging this prior precedent quell and trying to establish there is a constitutional power in the state to tax sales into the state over the internet. described the case objectively. i can barely give you a sense of what the fight is all about. the case

they've newscasted 13 billion across the state. i think we need to increase our affordable housing tax credits by 50%. these are matching funds that work only with local investment. if we believe private enterprise is part of the solution, then ch afa is one of the answers. now, i'm forgetting one other type of infrastructure -- awe -- right the multibillion dollar hole in our roads. [laughter] it's about connecting to our communities, our jobs, our markets, it's about connecting to peoples we love. and good infrastructure creates good jobs. these are facts. fort morgan votes said yes to raising their sales tax to get to work preparing their city streets. and now past sew county vote for new lanes on i-25. coloradoans want to invest in our quality of life because of their for colorado and they want us to -- allow us to pass that affection kfltly on to the next generations that's why communities are easing traffic and bike lanes are creating walkable areas and in response to demand from southwest colorado and other rural arts pa of t

to build their products in the united states. ultimately we are getting the outcome we want to get, on the solar panels, he left and a a lot of latitude in that decision this we actually have business, we are protecting our panel makers. we should continue to make panels. >> what you make of canada -- are you not concerned that the ministration is giving up the united states? >> the president said this through his agent trip, we are very open to free, fair, reciprocal trade. if you treat us one way, we will treat you the same way. if you have no tariff, we will have no tariff, if you have a tariff, we should have a reciprocal tariff, it is hard to argue against that they would should treat each other equally. that is our trade premise. >> a year ago, president she -- xi maede a big splash. trump going to make any effort to counter that? is his appearance here any effort to counter that? >> his appearance is there to sell is a compass meds to remind the world that we are open for business, that we are a competitive country, that we

the missouri foster care system. all 13,000 of them. we live in a compassionate state and there are thousands of loving families in missouri who have opened their homes and hearts to foster children. in fact, some foster and adoptive families are with us in the balconies this evening. please join me in recognizing them. [applause] gov. greitens: a year ago, a year ago, if a child in foster care needed a copy of their own birth certificate to apply for a driver's license or get a job, they had to pay for it out of their own pockets. today, we can proudly say that they can get that birth certificate without having to give the government their money. a year ago, a child entering our foster care system might not have known their rights. now, this is an issue that many of you have cared about for a and you have worked on for a long time. i was proud to join you to sign into law a foster care bill of rights. [applause] gov. greitens: and last month, missouri officially joined the national electronic interstate compact enterprise to make adoption easier across state lines. i

of the united states. and i understand there is a nexus there with u.s. forces in those regions. but, the point is to reform the immigration system to protect americans. can you provide more information, more statistics that show doing so would have prevented people from coming in who committed more crimes inside the united states? do you have maybe better examples than what you are trying to say? >> so,. >> this is the first iteration of this report. we in working together with dhs certainly expect to have more statistics and address some of the issues we weren't able to address in this initial report in future iterations of this report. in terms of the cases that are reported, i mean, if you do look at the cases, some of which are included in this section 11 report, there are certainly cases that relate to conduct that has been committed in the united states. conduct that is in support of, for instance, al qaeda or isis. so there are plenty of examples of conduct that was actually committed in the united

i do hold the united states will not pull out from the deal. in case they do the deal continues for as long as the other parties. are in their commitments on the deal and i really hope that this will happen and we have or other agreements such as the climate agreement from paris. the united states decided to withdraw from but the rest of the international committee made it very clear that we stand by our commitments and we will continue getting go our responsibilities you don't find it peculiar that maybe. wald's superpower is essentially trying to get self into a pariah i believe in diplomacy i believe in dialogue and i really believe that the best way we can solve problems is that we when we talk about it if you pull yourself out of the process you lose the ability to influence the process at the same time the process it will go on with the result obviously it's a great loss to the process even the united states are not part of it and i really hope that the decisions are temporarily and that the united states will come back to the negotiating

of the united states. .. mitting more crimes inside the united states? some better example than what you are trying to say? >> a few points to that. this is the first iteration of this report and response to the executive orders directors and to working together with the hs expect to have more specifics and address some of these in the initial report in future iterations of this report. in terms of the cases that are reported, if you look at the cases, some of which are included in the section 11 report, there are certainly cases thatrelate to conduct that had been committed in the united states . conduct that is in support of for instance al qaeda or isis so there are plenty examples of conduct committed in the united states which would, in the way that we define it qualify as international terrorism investigation because it leads to a foreign terrorist organization or terrorist concepts. thirdly, of course we're trying to prevent through anyway we can the administration is tryingto prevent terrorist attacks

the american people, i get issues from flint michigan. >> california governor, jerry brown delivered his final state of the state address at the state capital in sacramento. he spoke about the recent wildfires, health care, immigration and high-speed rail construction. governor brown who won't run for reelection because he is term limited was also critical of the trump administration. [applause] [cheering] >> jerry! [cheering and applause] governor brown: as my father used to say, i accept the nomination. [laughter] governor brown: who knows? good morning. as our constitution requires, i'm here to report on the condition of our state. simply put, california is prospering. while it faces its share of difficulties, we should never forget the bounty and endless opportunities bestowed on this special place -- or the distance we have all traveled together these last few years. it is now hard to visualize -- or even remember -- the hardships, the bankruptcies and the home foreclosures so many experienced during the great recession. unemployment was above 12% and 1.3 million californians lost their jobs. the deficit was $27 billion in 2011. the ne

speaker, the president of the united states. s and applause] [applause] [applause] >> bret: you see some folks there crowded on the line to get a handshake. louie gohmert there, a big supporter of the president obviously and behind the president the house majority leader and steve scalise the house majority whip who obviously had his own challenges this year coming back from that gunshot on the softball practice. choosing the electric blue tie tonight president trump moving down the row. juan williams, let's bring you in. thoughts on this before we hear from the president tonight. >> well, i think for the democrats there is great hope that this might be an opportunity for the president to offer reprise of the kind of positive optimistic attitude that he offered at davos. we know that gary cohn, who was so instrumental in that presentation where he talked america first but not america alone has also had a hand in writing this speech along with steven miller, who is typically the more aggressive, more populist energy, if you will,

to the west of downwind states. the extent that this epa administration blew the golden rule is a good idea i ask you to consider applying this comes to cross-border pollution. when i discovered i could literally shut down -- would still be out of compliance for clean-air because of stuff that's up in other states. >> mr. chairman, since my name has been referred to, let me just respond and say, therefore committee hearings at the same time today. were trying to balance, if we can treat continue the once you're punishing out the ones that have not had ample time to get their first round of quite crushing. senses of fairness that's the reason. >> i ask unanimous consent to slip for the record the history of the obama epa's years long process to address the role. this included hundreds of millions across involving epa, army corps of engineers and builders. there were over 1 million public comments received over this activity. i am told those comments were responded to. >> thank you. one more question following the law

sources tell me you will present before the state of the union. trump president will tout it -- president trump will tout it during his state of the union address. hisas alluded this, and in new york times interview he said he wants to make 2018 the infrastructure year. we are expecting to see the legislative principles of this .lan the white house is indicating it might be a 70-page document. they will make that available, and it is up to numbers of congress. it will most likely originate in the house. congressman bill shuster, the chairman of the highway subcommittee, a republican from azeri, they will most likely unveil legislation, have it in committee, bring it up to leadership, get it up for a vote on the house floor. at the same time, the senate is going to look at what the house is doing and come up with a plan. we are expecting some time by the spring for these markups to commence. at the same time, the timeline is going to be really iffy because congress has a lot of other things on the docket. governmentou know, spending, the debt ceilin

governor deliver the state of the state address. let's watch. [applause] >> thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you for the inspiring version of the national anthem. thank you to my wife and my entire family and in particular to my mother-in-law. the original treaty kindle. she tells me her first 100 years in washington have been pretty great. [applause] >> i would like to welcome our new legislators in our ranks. may you all do good work here. president, mr. speaker, madame chief justice, distinguished justices of the court. numbers of the legislature. state and local government officials. members of the council accord. and most importantly, my fellow washingtonians. i am honored to stand before you once again to report on the state of washington. because of the work we have done years,r in the past five our state has made crucial investments in our schools and colleges. in our highways and transit systems. in our health care system. the minimum wage was raised for washington hard workers and last year we passed the best paid family leave progr