should the state drop out of that suit? if the ac is overturned, how can you guarantee the state will provide affordable coverage for pre-existing conditions especially since recent days legislative leaders have raised questions about whether they will support a new effort to cover this? >> we can protect people with pre-existing conditions in the state without protecting the failure that is obama care. my wife is here tonight as a type one diabetic. my mom is a cancer survivor. my brother has heart condition. we talk about covering pre-existing conditions it's personal. in wisconsin, everyone living with pre-existing conditions is covered right now. as long as i'm governor it will always be covered. the difference between tony and eyes obama care. obama care is failing. i talked to christine, she told me under the obama care exchanges her premiums were going up by almost $2000 per month. so while washington failed to act obama care premiums were going up. we got democrats and republicans on board to pass a healthcare stabil

now, in the average state in the united states, about half of the funding for public education comes from the the state and half from property tax the. so that's why our property taxes are so high across the state of illinois. that's why we need a fair tax system, to lower local property taxes which are driving people -- you asked about outmigration? -- it's driving people out of the state. having a better funded and higher quality education system is critical for us and for our economy. the governor stands four square against making a fairer tax system in the state because he benefits from the flat tax system. we have a very unfair tax system. in fact, we have the most unfair tax system in the nation. it's been called out that way. that's why we need to make changes in that system. and to the question, a funding formula change was made in the state over the objections of the governor -- rauner: i led that change. pritzker: he'd like to get credit for that, but actually it was state senator andy minar that led the effort. rauner: oh, come on. pritzker: it only works if we actually fu

all across the state of indiana. apitol hill, their entire agenda is to undo all of the progress that we've made in the last two years. but we are not going to let them. we are going to reelect and expand these republican majorities and we are going to send mike to washington d.c. in my right? [applause] they know mistake about it, we've got a lot of work to do. the truth is, the terms of elections, challenging. history teaches that. it's actually been proved for every midterm election, the party of the white house. when we were in the white house, for the last hundred years. conventional wisdom says this is going to be a tough your. i think we all know what president donald trump thinks of conventional wisdom. [laughter] we made history in 2016 and we are going to make history again in 2018. we are going to elect mike to the united states senate. and elect republicans all across america. [applause] it's going to take all of us to do it to get ready for dinner. i want to encourage one thing. number one, right now, my

those losing population relative to the other states will lose seats in the u.s. house. host: 31 state legislatures currently across the u.s. in control of republican hands, 14 in democrats. if you look at the elections coming up in november involving the house and senate, only four states with no 2018 election. steve, go ahead. morning, c-span. i been watching for years. it gives americans an opportunity to go inside our lawmaking process. i think this redistricting has a lot to do with money. who they find our more valuable to cater to. they are breaking up districts. it may be the democrats -- i'm not sure. we know that the democrats have their hands in a lot of shady things these days, going back to the brett kavanaugh hearings and all of that other stuff. i'm on the street every day talking to voters. they took my right to vote away, pounding out there the pavement. i'm discovering people in , arena my age, 46 to 60 disgusted with the democratic party, even their democratic neighbors. onht now, they are talking msnbc about what is causing the divide in america. that

officer for the state. youru believe the adage, next best customer is your current customer, you have to spend a lot of time with the employers that are here, as well as all the small businesses. take the time to listen to them. tell them that they are loved, that the taxes they pay are appreciated, the taxes their employees pay are appreciated, the investment they make in their plant and equipment and researches appreciated. we have taken the private sector for granted for far too long, which has opened us up to 49 of the governors coming into court people. we are in a competitive world for jobs in capital and investment and if you don't see yourself as competitive, you don't get that going forward. i would have developed relationships with senior people at ge early on, and if they had told us that would -- that they had these problems about --nsportation, before problems about transportation, problems about luring employees, we will make sure the property stays on the tax rolls, let's coming to new haven,

the state lost a lawsuit with the court ruling that the state's $2.4 billion education budget doesn't adequately fund the education k-12 in the state. for the first question, as we move forward are we spending enough on public education in new mexico? >> clearly not. this decision as you referred to was brought by a minority student who was clearly not getting dedicated resources for equality and the public education. now the last eight years, the martinez administration which by the way the same tea party republican agenda in congress was to start a public education and to privatize its -- >> you don't think we spend enough -- >> i'm not alone on that. i have a court decision that says unequivocally we are. >> we don't spend enough on education, but the problem is where will you come up with the extra money? we have a surplus right now. but always in the legislature, you must be able to adjust those. you must be able to adjust figures to where it fits in your budget. we are not allowed to run a deficit spending in the state, therefore if you give more to education, you will take from

that has -- that is half the state average. san diego county has been mentioned as places we should try to emulate. anaheim use a hundred and 84 gallons per capita. the santa fe district of california uses 559 gallons per capita. the goal should not be to recycle the most but use the least. they should be more like san francisco. we should be less like them. thank you. >> by the way, that number is for san francisco and not necessarily all of the people that san francisco serves. >> the user district is about 6s well below the state average of over 80. >> hi. i am in support of the state water board's plan for increased fresh water flows in the delta. i i'm a san francisco resident since 94. i enjoyed extensively as most people in the room have. hiking, kayaking, fishing, obviously the utmost importance. and what will we do when they're gone? san francisco needs to continue its support and leadership of positive environment of plans like this and strongly implement water reduction and greywater options. during drought years, the

the state has turned around. they are one of the top business states. i get really excited. this is not rocket science. this is about delivering core services more effectively. that is why i think i am the right guy to lead. if the career politicians with fix it, they would have already done it. eyesll take a fresh set of on state government to turn things around. chris: let me ask you about your company, couple of your opponents. they called your company shady. what did you do personally in 2008, when your company faced regulatory action over unlicensed loan people and other infractions? mr. stitt: besides being the ceo of the company, i have not been --olved chris: i meant what did you do after you found out these things had occurred? mr. stitt: we all people accountable. we will do the same thing in state government. i am proud of our employees. dohave 1200 employees and we home loans every single month. we are licensed in 41 states. about is are talking one of the states that we paid a fine and, we terminated two of the employees there. audited in, we get 41 states every

the tai. mr. bolton: thank you, sarah. earlier today, sec retear of state pompeo made an important announcement regarding the president's decision to terminate the 1955 treaty of amity with iran, a treaty iran made a mockery of with its support for terrorism, provocative ballistic missile proliferation. today decision at the international court of justice was a defeat for iran. it correctly denied almost all of their requests. we're disappointed that the i.c.j. failed to recognize it has no standing about any sanctions. instead the court allowed iran to use it as a forum for propaganda. the iranian regime has systematically pursued a policy of hs tillity toward the united states that defames the central premise of the treaty of amity. the regime cannot prackity -- practice animosity and its conduct and then ask for amity under international law. in addition to the treaty of amity, i am announcing that the president has decided that the united states will withdraw from he optional protocol and dispute revolution -- resolution to the vienna agreement, this is

there from the united states of care. emily, take us deeper into the pursuit at the state level. seen ishat we have given the political reality in washington, it is not a likelihood they will be far-reaching policies in the short term that are bringing real relief to american families. beene have seen, we have listening over the last several months in getting the lay of the land in states across the country, and there are a number of things across party lines people are looking at, dressing affordability of premiums, how a stabilize the markets -- affordability of premiums, how to stabilize the markets. medicaid at an affordable rate. drugsst of prescription comes up and never conversation we have. we think there is more opportunity in the short term that states will take action. even things like surprise bills, you set it up for your line to be the insured and uninsured. but people who are uninsured go to the hospital and a five that they have a huge bill they did not expect -- but people who are insured go to the hospital and find they have a bill they did not expect. host: user

nearly half the people in this state. of the 67 counties, 36 of them are doing worse today than they were doing in 2007. we've got to build a more robust economy that makes way for people to have one job instead of multiple jobs. >> here's the problem. andrew this has been tried. seattle imposed a mandatory $15 minimum wage. what happened? businesses left city. people lost jobs, but even the people who did see the bump from say $12 to $15, ended up with less take home pay because their hours got reduced so it's an incentive for automation and quite frankly it will be incentive for more people to come illegally to undercut the blue collar workers wages so this has been tried. it has not worked, and i don't want to see hundreds of thousands of jobs lost because of bad policy imposed in addition to his tax increases. >> mayor gillum, let me ask you. you want to raise taxes on corporations to finance your age damp the florida economy under governor scott added 1.5 million new jobs. how can you guarantee that your proposed tax

this was the oklahoma state chamber. dr. jennifer leopard with the chamber research foundation and their ceo and president, fred morgan. thank you for sponsor asked. -- sponsoring us. [applause] civil discourse is a cornerstone of our democracy. while we live in a very polarized and liberal environment right now, it is our hope and expectation that this evening we will participate in an exchange of ideas in every speckle and courteous way. that goes for our candidates and it goes to all of you. as have a front row seat engaged voters with the top two candidates. we would ask you and remind you that this is not a political rally. this is a political forum and an exchange of ideas. we would ask you to be respectful and mindful of that throughout the evening. with that, i am going to go ahead and turn things over to our moderator this evening. chris casteel. good luck candidates. take it away. >> good evening, think of for joining us. thank you both for coming. people want to know what the candidates are going to do. let's get s

the real state tax are the property taxes. it's three times the state income tax. and we have to get local governments to control their property taxes. for example, duchess county, my opponent over seven years raised property taxes 58%. that has to stop. i passed a 2% cap on counties, big 2% cap on counties, and the state cap is making a difference. >> moderator: i have a follow-up question because you keep saying you cut government spending, but it still goes up. what we're asking you to do is to commit to spending less period so that the money can go to taxpayers. >> look, i am, been accused -- >> moderator: 30 seconds. >> i've been accused, as you know, in the democratic primary -- you accused me -- of being too fiscally moderate because i have the first spending cap in the state history, only 2%. think of it, my rate of spending is less hand george pataki who called himself a republican conservative. i am always working to reduce costs further, get those taxes down. we have to to. but three times the taxes come from counties -- >> moderator: and we're going to

ultimately, my job is to represent the state of connecticut. people in connecticut did not support judge kavanaugh. they were worried about what he was going to do to try to help president trump steel health care away from the residents of this state. it doesn't matter to me what the whole country thinks. it matters what people in connecticut think and people in connecticut did not want kavanaugh put on the supreme court. >> how have the trump tax cuts been good or bad for connecticut and if elected, will you work to keep them in place or repeal them? as a small business owner, it helped myself. brought back 35,000 jobs from overseas. 35 hundred supported connecticut. it is helping small businesses grow. we need that tax cut. connecticut is looking in from the outside. senator murphy says he wants to put up a blue wall in connecticut for trump policies. he is so disconnected with the residents in connecticut. we need to move forward. our country is moving forward. businesses are thriving because of that. they are reinvesting in this country. we

i have followed all the rules of state disclosure. if properly disclosed in did everything according to the rules, just like the governor claims she did when she took the airplane flights from company she gave money to and people who contributed to her campaign. >> thank you so much for both of your responses. i'm going to add this as a follow-up to tom's question. each of you have 30 seconds to respond with no rebuttal. tool economic developers used to make us competitive with neighboring south dakota, a no tax state. it is called the targeted jobs program. it expires next year. will you commit onstage tonight to extending the targeted jobs program? havenor reynolds: i would the tendency to extend that. we're looking at all tax credits holistically and then we're going to take a look at how we can bring down the corporate tax rate. question, we can only take his word that he didn't take advantage or do anything else because i released 10 years of my tax statements providing transparency to i/o wins -- two iowans. as much as you want t

i love the state. think i can bring a moderating pragmatic, effective approach to government and i look forward to serving you. >> mr. lee, closing remarks. mr. lee: thank you for that comment. it's been a pleasure to be on the stage with carl, multiple times. i respect the way he has run his campaign. marie and i are in the middle of our 95 county, 95 date tour. we're calling it believe in tennessee and i would say that, the reason we are it that is i believe that tennessee cannot only be a better place for the 6.5 million people in the state that we call neighbors but i believe with the right leadership tennessee can leave -- lead the nation and i'd be honored to serve as the leader of the state. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> candidates. on behalf of richard, bob and myself, we thank you for joining us. good luck. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite

at the state level for the past few decades, we've been over stuffing our state institutions, our jails and prisons, with people who have been convicted of crimes. as a result, we haven't actually jails andng those state prisons like we should. so we had overcrowding, and as a result the federal government stepped in and said you need to do something to reduce that crime population. brown andy put jerry the legislature at a disadvantage because they face a lot of constituents who don't want to build new prisons in their backyard. so we haven't had any new prisons being built, with the exception of one in the stockton area that is a hospital prison. a lot oft has been overcrowding, and the federal government telling us we need to reduce those prison populations. and if not, they were going to be released anyway. the federal government was going to find a way for us to reduce the prison population. the legislature and the governor came up with a few ways to try and reduce the prison population. some of that does involve early release. some of that has been to decriminalize certain kinds o

it's the duty of the united states government. we will continue to execute that with great energy and vigor. second, i will get you the numbers. i want to make sure i get them right. iere's not a lot more that can say about it, other than to say this is not the last step. we will continue to do our own efforts, our own fact-finding to make sure that decisions that the united states makes are based on real facts and data that we can confirm ourselves. we will certainly take information that comes from other sources, the turkish intelligence service. we will evaluate that information and validated. we will form our own judgments about the fact and hold those responsible accountable based on the fact that we determine are appropriate. congress, i with have spoken to our allies around the world. we want to make sure that everyone understands that the united states doesn't believe that the killing of jamal khashoggi was anything other than a horrific act. we help we can work together with congress and our allies to hold those responsibl

morning, wednesday will talk with the secretary of state from around the country, about what their states are doing to bolster election security. now we are live in hartford, connecticut, for the next stop on the c-span bus 50 capitals tour. we will discuss election issues. and the connecticut governor talks about issues facing the state. watch washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern wednesday. join the discussion. oregon, the democratic incumbent governor faces the republican challenger in their final scheduled debate before election day. they answered questions on health care, abortion laws, and education. governor brown holds a narrow lead in the race. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> tonight, kgw news and the oregonian bring you a debate in the top two candidates in the rancce for governor. the candidates will answer video questions submitted by dozens of oregonians. heom kgw news, teh oregonian and oregon live. this is d

ones, i am not running for president of the united states. i'm not running for governor of california. >> we have yet to know where you stand on multiple issues, i am curious when you say transparency when people do not know where you stand. >> the next question on one of those issues. >> in a recent debate you said whether you have been here for seven months, you're still in -- an idahoan but many are being deported. immigrationeased since the trump administration took over and it has been gripping families apart and affecting a lot of our agriculture sectors and dairy industry. the new york times did a piece about a man living in saint anthony who was supported and -- deported and died in the california desert trying to return to his family. many law enforcement agencies a very disheartening story. -- a very disheartening story. many law enforcement agencies has entered to carry at these policies. do you agree with the trump administration's tactics? >> i have been abundantly clear that we have to have comprehensive immigration reform and th

the state lost a lawsuit with the courts ruling that the state $2.4 billion education budget does not adequately fund public education k-12 interstate. the first question, very straightforward, are we spending enough on public education in new mexico? lujan grisham: clearly not. this court decision as referred to was brought by a minority student who was clearly not getting a dedicated resources for a quality public education. the last eight years in the martinez administration which by the way is the very same tea party republican agenda in congress which is to start public education and to privatize it. >> moderator: you don't think we spend enough? lujan grisham: i the court decision this is an equivalent we are not. pearce: i would agree with the courts that we don't spend enough on education but the problem is where i could come up with extra money? we have a little bit of surplus now. a beat we have a lot of budget surplus but always in the legislatures must be able to adjust the figures to where it fits your budget. we are not allowed to run a a deficit spending in the state an

will be right here in the state of ohio. ybody that lives close to the border better get out of the way because they are coming in. >> mr. dewine, mr. cordray have 30 seconds. >> he didn't do anything with the fcc when they took net neutrality away. that neutrality away. now he promised he's going to stand up. fentanyl has exploded and the network said all enforcement supports drug cartels flooded the state over the last several years on your watch. it went from 70 in a year can understand this from 70 year to 3,431 last year. drug dealers have had a playground in ohio while you've been asleep at the switch you've been a failure for ohio. next question. >> and players across the state complained they cannot find enough people to fill their available jobs. one of the biggest underutilized tools of the potential in the state are restored citizens, offenders, men and women with criminal records have paid their debt to society and want an opportunity to make a living. but many businesses are reluctant to hire them. if you are ele

i have had the honor of not only traveling or state but traveling the world, talking about the amazing things that are happening in our state. that's not always been the case. eight years ago when i took office, iowans were struggling to find a job. and theigh unemployment budget was a mess and we were facing a $900 million deficit, massive spending, debt, education in schools had been cut by the governor that fred served with. today, we cannot go backwards and that's where fred wants to take us. he wants to stop the progress we are seeing, stop the momentum that we are seeing in the state of iowa. iowa is moving in the right direction and the facts are undeniable. we have been recognized as the number one state in the country. we have the second lowest unemployment, the second lowest cost of doing business. we are third best managed state in the country. we are seeing wages rise, taxes go down. our budget is balanced and we have $127 million surplus. we are investing like never before in education, job training, and health care. iowa is working and we are moving in the right direction

there will be a response from the united states. there will be a response from the allies to make sure that they understand that is unacceptable behavior. >> good afternoon. i'm john fortier. i directed the project of the bipartisan policy center. we are here with an all-star panel to discuss something on many people's minds. are we ready to run our elections? elections are coming up. people have questions about how they vote. people have questions about security. people want to know what is behind the curtain of the voting process. we have here today a group of people who run that process, watch the process, and make sure it works well. let's me begin by introducing them. we will have a set of questions on the panel. we will turn to you for questions as well. to my left is tom hicks, the chairman of the u.s. elections commission. he has been a commissioner since 2014, but also previously served on capitol hill are working on elections of the house election -- has administration committee. that masterson. left is aown to the senior a

georgia is the state where the secretary of state said these warnings were ridiculous. ridiculous warnings. there is no chance russia would ever target his state. are you kidding? it turns out his state is one of the states that russia targeted on october 28th, 2016. and we can name the guy who did it. and the office he was sitting in when he did it. once those russian military officers start -- were targeting georgia's elections system starting on october 28th, 2016, i wonder what they did with georgia's voter systems. we don't know because under that secretary of state, rather than let anybody investigate if anything untoward might have happened, instead they wiped the servers. they erased the servers. so nothing can ever be checked. that secretary of state in georgia is now the republican candidate for governor of georgia. he is presumably running for governor on the basis of his performance as secretary of state. which honestly, is a performance for which anybody might rightfully expect to be famous. well before the disaster of georgia election security in the 2016

it sounds like you are clear and asking the people of the state to send jeff deal to the united states senate. gov. baker: i have worked hard on the issues here in massachusetts. i will continue to do so. >> governor, you said you want to have a full investigation of justice kavanaugh. you also talked about having a full investigation when someone is accused of touching a woman on an airplane inappropriately. the u.s. attorney's office has jurisdiction. they said the only way to know the outcome of the investigation is if someone is charged. it happened in june, it is october. can you tell us what has happened then? are voters entitled to know something about this so they know there was no favoritism? because you are his dad. gov. baker: i haven't talked to anybody in the u.s. attorney's office about this issue. i haven't talked to anybody at the state police either. when the issue first came up, i said it was serious, the allegations were serious. it should be investigated by the u.s. attorney. which is a federal agency. they do have jurisdiction on it. people should direct questions

joining us aboard the c-span bus is secretary of state. we have learned since that 116 election -- since the 2016 election, it was one of the states that had one of its voting systems targeted by russian hackers. what were the russians trying to do and how far do they get in connecticut? guest: yes, good morning. they did not get anywhere, frankly. returned them back at the perimeter -- we turned them back at the perimeter as we do with these occur shins. i do have to tell you, it is a very common occurrence. the difference is that it was identified as a russian address and that everyone's attention. they did not get into our system at all, and by the way, the system is the voter registry. it has nothing to do with the tabulation of ballots or anything like that. i would say, we don't know what they were attempting to do. i was president of the national association in 2016, so i was involved with all of the things going on in all the different states. but it was turned back in all but one state. so, i personally think it is to basically sew

our healthcare costs are among the 10 worst in the united states. and, we pay the third-highest deductibles of any state in the country. it is no wonder big drug companies have given millions of dollars to the campaign. he has been protecting them, not you. if you or someone in your family has a pre-existing condition, like asthma, or diabetes, or cancer, you should know this. mike took your tax dollars and sent attorneys to court to allow insurance companies to deny you coverage or raise your premiums when you get sick, think about that. he also sent lawyers to court to wipe out the medicaid expansion, that governor kasich later brought to ohio that has helped so many people. i will work tod improve healthcare for all of us. we will battle the greedy middlemen to bring down costs. we will fight to keep medicaid expansion and we will protect everyone with a pre-existing condition to make sure they don't lose their coverage. there is no issue on which mike and i disagree more than on healthcare and there is no issue more important to ohio's family. i

governments and state policy. the democrats have 12 or 13 states where they control the house and senate and then there are a handful of states, small number, where one party controls the house and one party controls the senate. heading into this election, back to this question about why this is so important, this is sort of the little kahuna. for redistricting, 2020 is the big kahuna. there's a lot of action in this midterm because over 800 weight -- state legislatures will be elected in two weeks. so less than two weeks. 36 governors. 34 of them will be elected and involved in redistricting. this is a big redistricting election. not the biggest. in 2010 it was the first midterm for barack obama. it was devastating for the democrats. republicans, that's when they lurched forward. the 2010 election. they wound up having to have the strong upper hand in the redistricting process of 2010. democrats don't want to be caught flat footed. they would want to work hard to work on the state election. >> if there is an emergenc

we are the highest uninsured state in the united states. yes, texas leads the attack on pre-existing conditions. a pre-existing condition is that you are female and can get pregnant. now you are being singled out because you are female. we are leaving over $10 billion a year on the table by not accepting the medicaid extension. yes, he put in a system. in the system, there was no accountability, there was no measurement, and as you saw time and time in the media, it was profit over pain. you put your friends in an organization, they make a lot of money, and the vulnerable suffer. we need to accept the medicaid expansion and invest in communities that have become a medical desert. governor abbott, will you stop your attack on pre-existing conditions? >> you have 30 seconds to answer. gov. abbott: on pre-existing conditions, let me be clear to the people of texas. under no circumstances will you lose coverage for pre-existing conditions. if the aca is repealed, congress has made clear that they will make sure that pre-existing conditions are c

the state privatize the prison. shortly after this happened conditions rapidly got worse i found a memoir of a prisoner who talked about very similar to what you hear today. any attempt of reforming inmates was dropped it was all about profit. but this time the idea the penitentiary is new based on the notion that people would be rehabilitated through labor. but there is no evidence the penitentiary that existed for 30 years there is no evidence to support this there are still high crime rates but at this point by 1857 louisiana was making the modern day equivalent of one.2 million dollars in profits from this penitentiary $4000 per inmate per year. and with this mode of punishment because they were making money from it. when i was in training most of the people i was in training with were poor people from town a lot of single moms people who needed health insurance. also kids out of high school there is one guy who is 18 years old and working at starbucks so i will read a scene that involves them. this is from my s

hawaii is the southernmost state in the united states. we are the south. we are way, way south. that is the thing about hawaii. we are the most remote landmass anywhere on the planet, anywhere on the whole planet. to get to hawaii is a 5.5 hour flight from anywhere to get here. by ship, three or four days. we are isolated. when you got here, you realized how different this place is. violence -- af set of islands dependent on the outside for everything. we are dependent on the outside for our food, power and , for building, everything around you is imported. when most people come here, the first thing they realize is this is a different place. it feels like the rest of the country. same currency, same language, saying forms of government. but it is different. something is different. that is different, our extreme isolation. for us to be a vibrant and healthy society, we have to become a lot more self-sufficient. we are looking at that. in thel is 100% energy next 20 years. we are on our way. we are starting to innovate and come up with ways to do that. food, same thing. how do we

cuomo: the most powerful unions in the state have been. i have no problem angering a union when it comes between doing the right thing by the people and doing right thing by a union. i'm the most aggressive governor when it comes to building in the country. $100 billion, j.f.k. airport, laguardia airport, rochester, syracuse, albany, et cetera. i will take on the m.t.a., i have no problem ducking responsibility. it's a question of funding. the mayor doesn't want to pay. the state legislature, my opponent voted against $7 billion in m.t.a. funding. you need the funding. my opponent endorsed my plan but it's about the funding and we need the money. marcia: mr. molinaro, how would you get unions to get in line and cut jobs and waste? mr. molinaro: first of all the , governor's abandoned responsibility for the m.t.a. and we've seen it in the death spiral in the last several years with on-time rates declining, with those living with disabilities not able to access subway platforms. we see the continued delay and it hurts real people, governor. a

they were all over the state of ohio. i put a group together and challenge them and said, what is the protocol? they came back and told me every rape kit should be tested. we have now tested close to 14,000 rape kits. 12,000 of those were there when mr. cordray was there. we have matches on a huge number of these, and we have justice for victims, justice for victims. so i am very proud of what we have done. we have taken rapists off the streets. equally importantly, there has been justice for those victims. colleen: this question goes to mark, from right here in marietta. nurse, i ametired interested in the best medical care. we have excellent facilities here in southeastern ohio, but expert care. have many do not have the means to travel to these hospitals. you bring affordable transportation to rural ohioans to visit bigger cities? mr. cordray: -- dr. dewine: thank you very much. it is a problem, mark, in our rural communities, as far as their care. we have hospitals that have closed in some of our rural areas, so people

in the state of ohio. in 2018, and voted republicans have made every effort they can think of to suppress the vote. there's people in a certain area, poor people have a tendency to move more than upper class or upper middle class. he'll say, they haven't voted in two years, their addresses changed, i'll send information to the wrong address. then all of a sudden, they are removed from the voter rolls. have a case where a lot of times, in the state of ohio, people try one time in ohio to have different voting hours for early voting. a lot of the republican districts were staying open later during the evening. later at night, they had more hours. then they had to have a law to change that pattern. -- i thinkof times they have one college campus in predominantly black college, where they actually shortened the voting hours and the weekendome of early voting, whereas in the larger community of georgia, they expanded those hours. so kids who live on college campuses may not have the opportunity to vote, between

it's also the most diverse county in the state. more than 60% of the residents of gwinnett county are latino, black, or asian, and that is the county where ballots are being thrown out at a rate far exceeding every other county in that crucial state. so you are noticing a theme here. you are noticing the tilt of the playing field, right? you're noticing how republicans are using their power to administer elections to try to s make sure that their voters have an easy time voting. but voters who are less likely to vote for them have to run some sort of steeplechase in order to even try. we're seeing that all over the country this year. here's how it's going right now in north dakota, where the u.s. senate seat that is now helped by democrat heidi heitkamp may well be the key to whether or not the democratic party controls the u.s. senate or the republican party does. i mean, every seat matters. but the way the math and the map match up this year, republicans are pretty confident that if they can take heidi heitkamp's seat in north dak

the we have control at state level in $7.5 billion. half of that does go towards k-12 education and institutional education. and another significant portion goes towards medicaid. those are the two biggest drivers of spending for the budget. ist: we see the iowa budget $22.7 billion but you only have control of one third of that. guest: $7.5 billion is the general fund budget just what we, as the legislature, pass and legislate. host: 22% goes towards medicaid but iowa has done some innovative things when it comes to health care. guest: oh, we have started to do -- we have started to use management companies, medicare management companies like every the united in states. to manage the medicaid spending. and that is one of the things we have done. we also passed an historic mental health care bill last year which helps people on haveaid or evil who people on medicaid or people who have private medical as well. where the best place to send them will be. unfortunately, in the past, it happens too often is that if somebody has a mental heal

this is what the picture looks like for extreme rationing under the state plan. another option is we would change our rationing profile and we would look at whether or not we can survive our a and a half year drought planning scenario. the first thing we notice is after the first year of the drought, you would be going from 40% conservation. one thing that you don't know is in the first year of a drought you don't know you're in a drought until you are hitting the second year. you can see a gets to be very extreme if we wanted to conserve the water supply. we would need to conserve up to 64% during the drought planning scenario. this is where the 12 billion gallons per day come in or 15 million gallons per day coming over the 42 we are using today. >> this is based on how many mpd >> this is based on 265. the total bill that which we have to take into consideration. >> so this whole scenario is based on 265 million gallons per day, which you wouldn't get too until the middle of this eccentrically that is not anywhere close to what we use now. >> that is correct. w

this is in connection with a case brought by the so-called state of pakistan naming the united states as a defendant, challenging our move of our embassy from television -- tel aviv to jerusalem. i would like to stress the u.s. remains a party to the underlying vienna convention on diplomatic relations, and we expect all other parties to abide by their international obligations under the convention. are consistentay with the decisions president reagan made in the 1980's in the suits tohe politicized the united states by necker agra to terminate our acceptance of the optional compulsory jurisdiction of the international court of justice under article 36.2 of the icj statute and his decision to withdraw from a bilateral treaty with nicaragua. it is consistent with the decision president bush made in 2005 to withdraw from the optional protocol to the vienna convention on consular relations j'slowing the ic interference in our domestic criminal justice system. our actions today deal with the treaties and print litigation involving the united states and before the international court of ju

what really are the states laws? -- state's laws? could we bring the old programs back to the schools where the kids actually see the voting? it makes you think i should vote. i will take your answer off the air. host: thank you for the question. secretary merrill? guest: you are singing my song. i was a teacher wants myself. i wish we could do more. there is a whole conversation we could have about why civic education has disappeared largely, particularly in elementary schools. it is not on the test. that has really impaired our ability to teach about civic education. nonetheless we keep trying. i think what you're referring to -- i believe registrars used to demonstrate these things. there is so little time in the curriculum that maybe they are not doing it anymore. there is a requirement that you -- they going to the high schools every make and bring the registration materials. the rest of it is up to the teachers and frankly the parents. yes, you can bring your children to the poll. that has been established for many years and i t

, some and of the smaller states. usually they'll have hearings, public input, draw draft maps, send it to the chamber and to the governor. goes through the traditional process in the states. legislatures in states how many are held in republican hands? state e are 31 legislatures where the house and senate are controlled by republicans. this is the most republican legislatures in the history of the united states. have riding ns high. they control state governments and policy. the democrats have 12 or 13 states where they control both the house and the senate, and a handful of states where one party controls the house and one party controls the senate. heading back to this election, so t why this election is important, this is a little kahuna. 20 is the business kahuna, but there's a lot of reaction in his one because over 800 state legislators who will be involved will be in two weeks, so less weeks.o there are 36 governors, 34 will restricting.n this is a big redistricting. 2010, it was the first for barak obama. it

to judge johnlerk walker junior of the united states court of appeals. he is the author of a number of contributor to two books on constitutional law and civil rights. the reverend dr. andrew bennett is program director -- he is an ordained begin in the catholic or diocese of toronto and eastern canada. he served as canada's first ambassador for religious freedom and head of the office for religious freedom from 2013 to 2016. he simultaneously served as canada's head of delegation to the international holocaust remembrance alliance. body which leads international efforts to holocaust education, research and remembrance. fromlds degrees in history -- he received his phd from politics -- in politics from the university of edinburgh. he and i have actually known he was ar since 1997. precocious phd student and i was a study abroad student and actually had hair. this is in many respects a continuation of a conversation we were having even back then. dr. sophie van bijsterveld joins us from the netherlands. she graduated in law from the university of an boroug

to give $100 million with illinois the same time a zero state tax credits. but apple by the way did not come to iowa they came to iowa because the local community gave them $190 million with property tax credits and we have a low cost of energy and higher renewable energy we did not give apple but with $120 million estate tax credits surrounding des moines about 650 jobs are $120 million of state tax cuts. it would be a much better investment. reynolds: the tax credits when he's not for them he hands amount - - them out. ask a triumph that they appreciated the tax cut its they could receive but that is just the investment but to the school districts so it does make a difference to make the tax code more competitive and we can do a reliance on tax credits but that would help to keep us competitive and it is about growing the economy. >> you have 30 seconds as a rebuttal. hubbell: 2009 i was asked to go to the department of economic development to look at the tax credit scandal. giving away all these tax credits we had a problem. you cannot compete on tax credi

to live in, choosing other states. the number one state, indiana. they are not going there for the weather. they are going there because the taxes are lower in the regulations are more reasonable. the manufacturing sector there is booming compared to illinois. and add insult to injury, those states have changed the regulations and growing their union jobs faster than the state of illinois. in indiana, wisconsin, michigan, we are hostile on taxes and regulations in mr. princeton's plan, a graduated income tax with 11 billion of new spending. independent sources. 11 billion of new spending, new taxes will crush the middle class. question creators, they will flood out in the sound of that flood, will not be the sound of toilets being flushed. it will be the sound of businesses getting flushed down the train in this state of illinois. we need to cut the taxes, reform our state government, reduce the regulatory burden on our businesses and end the corruption that mr. princeton is a part of. he is funded, part of the political machine that has been destroy

the costs of the state have to be looked at. in terms of equity and whether we have the right number of judges, i would work with monty and the bar association to see if we have the right number of judges. if we don't, we need to fill the open slots that are there. mr. lamont: we have cut back on the probate judges over the last seven years and that has not hard justice. but as a businessperson, nothing is worse than a slow judicial system. sometimes you need answers. i would be very careful before i talked about willie nelly cutting the justice department. i think it's important that we have the courts fully staffed. mr. stefanowski: a true businessperson does not fill roles because there was a quota. a true businessperson starts with what do we need, what are the qualifications, can we do with a few less? a true businessperson looks at the bottom line. a person who wants big government blindly fills roles year after year whether they are needed and charges the taxpayers of connecticut, rather than finding deficiencies where we

i'm not running for president of the united states president of the united states. not running for governor of california. >> we have yet to know where you stand on most issues. people have no idea where you stand. >> we would get too many of those issues tonight. the next question one of those issues mr. governor little. >> you said what you've been here for seven months. or so of idaho or so of idaho in but a lot are being deported. i.c.e. has increased immigration holding deportation since the trump administration took over and it's been ripping idaho's apart and affecting agriculture structures and industry. i don't know if you read the article "the new york times" did a piece about the man who was deported and died in the desert trying to return to the family. many have entered into agreements do you agree with the trump administration's tactics. >> i have been abundantly clear. we have to have comprehensive immigration form. for people who have been here, the dreamers and of course work permit. when i was in the industry. we have to have that salt. we did it on

. >> in the texas constitution it says texas is a free and independent state. >> the governor holds the state's highest office. >> all political power is inherent in the people. >> and it is up to texans. >> the fate of the people of texas stands pledged. >> from the roy grande to the red river, the panhandle to the gulf. >> when you can't find a way, you go out and make a way, make it happen. >> they will decide in november who leads the lone star state over the next four years. >> to make sure that texas will remain the premier state in the greatest country in the world. >> tonight, two candidates debate the issue, setting the course for tex on immigration, taxes and how we help those in need. >> listen closely, see if you like what you are hearing from your candidate. or are you willing to change your mind and your vote like an independent texan can? >> good evening, we are coming to you live from the l.b.j. presidential library from the university of texas campus at austin for the only texas gubernatorial debate this season. hello. i am robert had lock, the -- kxaan news in austin.