the politics are interesting because if you go to louisiana, if you listen to louisiana's leadership when they are in washington dc, climate change doesn't exist. if you follow them home to louisiana, they are totally accepting the un's stance on sea level rise and one of the master plans for the louisiana coast, they are relying on that science , calculating in sea level rise and intensifying hurricanes as part of the plan so the politics i think get more authentic and interesting if you leave the sort of media bubble in washington and as you go have a conversation closer to the ground so justin took me up to take k where he went to school with his professors. first, we walked by, they have all these labs where you had to do all these tests. you had to be able to tell a to from some other weed and they were doing all these experiments area one of the labs looked like the endeavor, it was all practice is and sand and justin said maybe that's a great farm in 20 years, there's the climate change lab. but when we went to talk to his professors, they all were completely clear that climat

the spill was here off of louisiana. it got to the beaches of pensacola, some to destine, some tar balls to panama city until the wind started sending it back the other way. but what happened to florida's tourism industry on its gulf coast? for an entire season the tourists thought there was oil on our beaches, and tourists did not come for an entire season all the way down to marco island, naples, all of these beautiful, sugary white sand beaches, including northwest florida beaches, didn't come because they thought there was oil there. that didn't just affect the airlines and the hotels. it affected the dry cleaners and the restaurants and all of this largest industry in florida which is the tourism industry. that's one reason. another reason is there are so many of the bays and estuaries along this gulf coast where the critters are hatched that supply the fish stocks for the entire gulf. and of course there are stocks that are hatched here that migrate out into the other oceans. but there was a third reason, and that

and louisiana is a super red state paradox. because in 2014 it was the poor state 44 percent of its state budget came from the federal government and it was a very largely a tea party event. it was perfect. i was there an exaggerated version of the red state paradox. and then i made one morethen i move.le a lot of people who are doing well had worked hard and have succeeded economically they what it themselves want medicaid or food stamps and i can understand that but how about the environment i wake up and i look and it's kind of foggy.uld and there were certain smells around the place. and sometimes my eyes woulding i stink if i was in west lake. this is a chemical center very proud to say it was the buckle of america's energy belt more companies being lured in incentive money in order to use the cheap natural gas produced by fracking. there was something in the air.look at people were drinking bottled water. and let's look at the environment here. i didn't go there with that in mind it was unavoidable i discovered that the p

the presiding officer: the senator louisiana. mr. cassidy: mr. president -- thank you, mr. president. thank you -- i'm here to speak about the american energy and conservation arctic which we'll be voting -- conservation act, which we'll be voting on today. i want to thank once more my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their hard work on this american energy and conservation act of 2016. yesterday the senior senator from florida made some statements, and i'd like to address some of those. the senior senator from florida suggested that developing america's energy resources off the -- off of our coast is incompatible or somehow conflicts with department of defense activities. let's be honest. let's just be honest. there is a been oil and gas operations in the gulf of mexico for almost 80 years. through all of this activity, industry and the united states military have been able to coexist. and as for future production off the atlantic, i personally sat with representatives from the department of defense to discuss this issue. their analysis showed that in president ob

[laughter] but those police operatives in the '60s were recruited directly from mississippi alabama louisiana. in did is a prescription for disaster. [inaudible conversations] thanks for coming. [inaudible] thank you. i did lot of work

and they were shot up by hunters in louisiana. all kinds of interesting things -- >> they had creationists meeting across the street to ban evolution taught in the classrooms. >> yeah. >> across the street from lygo to. >> yeah. one of the heads of the site said to the europeans we look so typically american, all we need is a hamburger incident. it'll be complete. i'm sensing, are we on time? >> you're not out of time, and i've been instructed not to necessarily stop to your conversation, but we would be giving up q&a. so i want a show of hands. do we have questions out here or shall we let these brilliant women just keep talking? >> i think we can incorporate the wes. so we'll -- the questions. so we'll take questions, and we can incorporate -- >> and then we have about eight minutes. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> i think there's a microphone, yeah. >> yeah, there's a line, there's a mic stand in the center. >> hello. >> hi. >> when two black holeses collide, it seems like they give off gravity waves for at least a

and louisiana is a super red state paradox. because in 2014 it was the poor state 44 percent of its state budget came from the federal government and it was a very largely a tea party event. it was perfect. i was there an exaggerated version of the red state paradox. and then i made one morethen i move.

[inaudible] cnn was calling me today class mother was the flooding is in louisiana. in. >> that is crazy. and those that go way forever? >> i adrienne after 20 years and. >> ids seen the movie die-hard? he thinks he can negotiate with the terrorist. vote in hillary clinton and donald trump. but at one point and he says hoodie thank you are? hillary clinton? the shockingly that is effective battle they she has driven a car in 30 years but with that governmental credibility especially if there is a fear they said don't get her involved with donald trump. [inaudible] [inaudible] because but he was talking about parts for of the movie and. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] and his did then is the first conversation that i had. and we have seen that but in all reality. >> and those older couples and with that american flag day hill grandma and grandpa. [laughter] >> but thanks for coming. i look forward to hearing from you. [laughter] >> but one of my oldest friends was uh detail person . where did being you can only -- >> but tomorrow i want to talk. >> here? >> t

. >> host: and dozie bush are city louisiana, republican. go ahead. >> caller: hello, how are you doing? what i would like to make a comment about is the fact that i've had three shoulder surgeries and have chronic pain and pain medication is hard to get in louisiana. but i would like to know is if medical marijuana is legalized in louisiana, are there certain walls that will govern, what kind of illness or pain it would have, will that determine if you can qualify to get it quick? >> guest: each state that passes reform have what they call a list of qualifying conditions. they are the elements or the diseases that you can have that qualify you to access the market to get this product. as the previous caller noted having multiple sclerosis andic glaucoma, those are qualifying conditions across the state. you are talking about chronic pain. h some states do have a provision if you have chronic pain you can get access. other states are hesitant toyi include that as a qualifying condition for the fear that it could be abused in the same way tha

again, we're talking about 114,000 homes in louisiana. now, that was not all of super storm sandy, just new york. i'm not counting new jersey. that was another significant number. but that gives you a sense of the magnitude we're talking about. i want to thank all of our colleagues and our colleagues in the house and president obama for proposing the beginning of an appropriate response. and before we broke for the elections, we did pass significant emergency funding to go beyond the normal help in the stafford act and other statutes that pertain to fema and related agencies. and about $400 million was sent to the flood victims in louisiana. but by any metric, that can only be the beginning. in fact, president obama at the time and congressional leaders at the time pledged that this would be the beginning and we would come back now, between now and the end of the year, finish an appropriate response. i mentioned losses in new york caused by superstorm sandy. just a little more losses on homes flooded than we're talking about in louisiana,

the chaplain was from louisiana and he said i just had to meet you, mr. rather because they had to tell you the story. read before i came here, i was the same as in i looked at the back of the church and there's a guy who hasn't been there in 20 years at least. after mass he goes up and says it was lovely to see you here, but what brought you here? just curious. he said dan rather. dan rather brought me here. the priest said really. how, why did dan rather bring you here? crisis in the gulf. any minute now be in your mouth. [laughter] but i was actually going to start with a different story also completely true and it true and it sort of takes up where dj left off which was unintentional but happy, which is one that tip o'neill love to tell when jack kennedy was president and of course tip had jack kennedy's house seat and they were friends and tipped it and like to ask the president for favors. tips very good friend was head of cyo. cyo was meeting in new york and the president was going to be in new york anyway. tip says i hate to ask you this, but real

the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. cassidy: i thank senator alexander for yielding. i thank you for his leadership and senator murray's leadership, and i thank senator murphy for his cooperation, collaboration in passing this. i will speak to mental health as a senator but also has a doctor, as a family member and friend of those with mental illness. and because of this, these different hats, passing comprehensive mental health reform has been a priority since day one. senator chris murphy and i introduced the mental health reform act of 2015 shortly after arriving in the senate. again, since then, senators alexander and ranking member murray have made mental health reform a priority, and i thank them once more for their vital work to include the provisions the four of us introduced in the mental health reform act of 2016 into the 21st century cures act. everyone in some way is affected by serious mental illness. this is not a partisan issue. it crosses any division of age, gender, demographics and certainly of politic

the chaplain was from the home of louisiana. he said, i just had to meet you because i had to tell you the story. said right before i came here i was saying mass and i look at the back of the church and there's a guy who hasn't been there 20 years, at least. so after mass i go up to him and i said john baptiste was lovely to see you here but what brought you here? just curious and he said dad rather dan rather brought me here. and the priest said really? how, why did dan rather bring it here and he said because every night he said crisis in the golf, christ is the call, i figured any figured any minutes could be in oklahoma west. [laughter] i was actually going to star with the different story also completely true and it picks up where dj left off. which is unintentional, but happy which is when the tipple new love to tell, which is when jack kennedy was president and tip had jack kennedy -- the house key. they were friends and tip didn't like to ask the president for favors but tips very good friend was head of cyo. and cyo was

that is my business so let's take it on and it is a real problem. >> in louisiana you have to have a license to be a forest and at that time you were greeted on the beauty of your floral designs. >> we have to protect customers were from a bad floral arrangement. >> he is not making that up. >> i am an endangered species as an entrepreneur and professor it does seem that it was required public for the oil holy father and if so wasn't obtained the consequence could have been significant so with a little bit of latin comedy would agree the benefit costs is the way to go if regulation is desirable or not and done with the article to agencies? and done using the cost of capital is self regulating factor? of the risk of not getting permission up front and punish later then can they sell for regulate that? >> >> good points. i can see how the cost of capital makes a permanent system is preferable in my example of the manufacturer. but i am not sure how it is self regulating in the sense of that cost of capital is brought to bear on the legislators with their deciding different approaches.

he was found -- from home or louisiana. he said i have to meet you because i have to tell you this story. before i came here i looked at the church and there was a guy that had been there 20 years at least. so he says i go up to him and say it was lovely to see you here about what brought you here just curious. he said dan rather. dan rather brought me here. [laughter] and the priest said really how, why did he bring you here? every night he says crisis in the gulf. [laughter] [applause] i was going to start with a different story also completely true that picks up where we left ofhe leftoff which was unintentt happy, which is one that tip o'neill loved to tell. when jack kennedy was president, and of course tip have his house seat and they were friends, and tip didn't like to ask the president for favors, but his very good friend was the head of the cyo and they were meeting in new york and the president was going to be in new york anyway. so he says jack, i hate to ask you this, but would you mind going and just talking t

, john groves, a democrat from louisiana and we were friends. our wives were friends. our kids kicked the camp together, we'd socialize together. they don't have that relationship. they should work five days a week, three weeks a month. they should bring their families. i'm sure you've got to raise money around the clock, but the time is here. and number three, the idea that congressman or senators are sleeping in their offices is the most offensive thing i can think of. [applause] >> i think it's inappropriate, it's humiliating and it's a very bad form of public housing. >> your preaching to the choir, that's great. i can't see this in my microphone, somebody is there. >> when you're talking about the supreme court, i wanted to ask about the lingering effects of the merrick garland a situation where you had an unprecedented time where the senate refused to hold hearings for vote for the supreme court nominee so when there is a new supreme court nominee, iguess this is more for senator daschle , though it can apply to both, how would you address

spin the louisiana floors and did lose. >> in louisiana you have to have a license be forced to at the time that case would on your graded on the beauty of your floral designs, for example, spent you might get a bad floral arrangement and with to protect customers from that. >> he's not making that up. >> all right. this gentleman right appeared at the and this gentleman writer. >> i've in an endangered species at the fcc and now three times your honor at the d.c. circuit. i'm an out of print or, and professor, it occurs to me that an inter- marker was required from the curia said dominic and the holy father. and if it was obtained, the consequence could event significant. i think the little bit of latin here, innumerable care costs, do you agree, professor, that you draw the line benefit cost is a way to go if regulation is potentially desirable or not? and that too little of it is done in article ii agencies? and, your honor, regarding seeking forgiveness rather than permission, don't you think the cost of capital is a self-regulating factor? if the risk of not getting permission up

craving for freedom that will spread down from the bent arm of the cape toward what will become the louisiana purchase and west ward to where their feisty spirit will settle huge tracks of land and explore seemingly rivers and mountain ranges. the american character has been formed by a hundred forces, defining it as someone has written it as trying to nail jelly to a wall. still, to try it it began with new england with the pilgrims landing in the afternoon in province town harbor both natural and man made and one of those forces, a force of pleasure and pain, brilliance and incompetence with passionate connection to drinking. okay, thanks. [applause] >> so questions? yes. >> exciting history that you are writing about. is it that you think and what you tried to aim with the secret history is somewhat of a blurring lines the between psycho analysis of history and history today? >> not at all. i don't think it's about getting inside's people, we can't do that. i think -- rey. exactly. so this young man is very intelligently asking, try to rephrase the questions fairly. if this new kind of his

. >> was different and avery island, louisiana. you're an old tv. go ahead. >> hi, mitch. i love your stored in miami and other independent bookstores. i am wondering though, some authors who can't get the bookbk published or can't reach an agent for various reasons and end up publishing via amazon. i know that necessarily booksellers have an unambiguous relationship with amazon because they are eating your lunch ing many ways or have read. if somebody has about publishedd by amazon, do you sell them through your bookstores or how does that work? >> well, i should let you know that amazon is just one of the places where people can self publish. there are other self-publishing platforms you can find on theete internet including bark and others where you don't have to sell through amazon. amazon is very proprietary when it comes to that. what we do do is if tre is aat local author who has published their amazon and they are doing an event at the store, we will have those authors into the store and we will carry theirl books as well. but i do encourage people to look across a

. >> host: lets here from louisiana. ken, you are in booktv with books and books owner mitch kaplan. go ahead. >> caller: hi, mitch. i love your store in miami and other independent bookstores. i am wondering, though, there is some authors who can't get the book published or can't reach an agent for various reasons and end up publishing the amazon. i know that necessarily to have unambiguous show is a relationship with amazon because they are eating your lunch in many ways or have been. if somebody had published by john sallied through your bookstores or how does that work? >> guest: i should let you know that amazon is one place where people can self publish. their other self-publishing platforms that you can find on the internet who didn't spark and others where you don't have to sell through amazon. amazon is very proprietary when it comes to that. what we do do is if there is a local author who has published their amazon and they are doing an event at the store, we will have those authors into the store and we will c

if you read the book strangers in their own land, but the tea party activist in louisiana, that makers and takers understand the world. there are the makers, the virtuous makers who create works for the engines of the train, and are the takers, the people who take from society. and how insidious that is and how destructive it is and how it renders people who need help but also everybody, everybody in our society benefits from the things that we do together, whether it's public investments or the comments we build together. one of the first people i met doing this work was a guy named martin, who i tell this to in his book which uses a software engineer, and i was involved in this effort to keep the estate tax from being repealed. at the time bill clinton was the president, congress had voted to repeal the what and no attacks on an inherited wealth, and who's going to be to with. he needed a business person to stand. so the call our office, and martin stood up and here's what he said he got up and he said, i grew up in a family with no wealth, in queens. my parents never took a vacation

louis, you know, new york, louisiana, detroit. okay take us out of america what are you left with? so not that the rest of the america isn't important but the notion that well -- you know, let imagine america without these places, no. why qowld you? why would you want to? : because right now there's a lot of warp nostalgia for an america -- that was most moved to imaginar- [laughter] very reare stricted certain segment of the population. but -- geography can be misleading so let's talk about the mapping of this book and geography because as a journalist i know there are a thousand choices you had to make before you even began to like this in terms of your prep race so how did geography, location, city versus rule all of that -- vast country how did that play into it? >> well the day kids -- so my challenge was first of all -- to evoke this space whatever this space was to kind of it life as a reducer but also to reduce it in some ways to its statistic kl kind of deaf neglection almost. definition and the range was quite substantial. you know, so rural michigan off of that road -- o

i want someone graduating from louisiana to have a good of opportunity as breanna is graduating from my hometown but we need to make sure there's local input. i feel at the federal level we need to lead by example. when i heard our schools were going to cut a .3% across the board in terms of funding, i cut my own state. pay. i was the first member of congress to do that for there was only a handful of us that did it. i can tell you the senator did not do that. it doesn't matter. it's about making sure we do what we say were going to do a >> thank you. sixty-second >> senator kirk, you have 92nd >> i do not support common core and i do support funding under the idea act. i want to encourage schools that want to go to all your schedules in the state of illinois, we have a number of all your schools that are in chicagoland. those schools with the same number of minority kids would outperform other schools. within all your schedule you can expand the academic calendar so we have just as many days as others >> investment in our education is just as important as investment in our military.

. >> from louisiana, ray, you are next. >> thank you for accepting my call. i watched the 10k for the republican party about six or seven years ago , you made a statement to the republicans that if they obstruct and block everything president obama tried to pass and then come 2016, they would grant everything on the president and it really worked. because he saved the american electorate was so ill-informed and uneducated that they would say anything and i want to take my hat off to him, it worked. >> i think what we are going to face this time is an issue of high expectations for this presidency. the question is, can mister trump build his wall? can he deal with a real replacement of obamacare? the way the president is informed is interesting. you make votes by making build bold promises. he promised hope and change and mister trump is getting votes by his big bold promise of, the question is even with a united government under one-party control, it's not so easy to get some of those big bold promises done to. >> let's take obamacare for instance. the reason

in new york city or in san francisco, it's going to cost a hell of a lot more if you do it in rural, louisiana. it's just a fact of life. and -- >> caller: i just have been waiting for people to talk about this. i don't know how much time i've got but one other thing. the health care problem. the cancer industry is a huge expense, and it is never going to change because there's too much money in it. i don't know -- i suggest you get a book called "tripping over the truth: the return of the cancer -- a hopeful path to a cure by travis kristoferson," and it us an earntive theory to the treatment of cancer, which treats 98% of all cancers. the nih, the nci, knows about this treatment approach, they saw video, the research was done at john hopkins university, and it came out in 2001, a brilliant researchers named young hi koh from the university of maryland -- >> host: don, we're wandering but made your point and got the book title and author. thank you for the call. >>> al, in minneapolis. what's up? >> caller: thom, thank you for taking my call. a couple of quick things about health savings acco

if you read the new book strangers in their own land about the tea party activists in louisiana, that makers and takers, understanding the world, there there are the virtuous makers who create wealth, we are the engines of the train and there are the takers, the people who take from society. how insidious that is, and how destructive that is, and how it renders people who need help but also everybody in our society benefits from the things that we do together, whether it's public investments or other. one of the first people i met doing this work was a man named martin, who i tell his his story in the book. he's a software engineer and i was involved in this effort to keep the state tax from being repealed, and acted time bill clinton was president and congress had voted to repeal the one and only tax on wealth and he was going to veto it. he needed a business person to stand with them. he called our office and he stood up and he got up and he said i grew up in a family with no wealth in queens. my parents never took a vacation and they worked all the time, but i went to a great publi

georgia and louisiana have had 21 constitutions between the two of them. and there's a much more instrumental what has the constitution done for us lately view at the states. they're amended all the time. some people use that as a criticism of state constitutions. i actually think that might be a strength. the united states constitution, partly because it is the most difficult to amend constitution in the entire world and partly because of this degree of veneration, has been amended extraordinarily rarely. i mean, if you put the bill of rights to one side because that's really part of the politics of the original ratification process, since 1791 there have been 17 amendments. and and that's extraordinarily few. this leads to all sorts of consequences. from my perspective, one of the consequences is that the constitution is tremendously out of date with regard to some of our basic structures which are very, very much the ones that were given us in 1787.

georgia and louisiana have had 21 constitutions between the two of them. and there's a much more instrumental what has the constitution done for us lately view at the states. they're amended all the time. some people use that as a criticism of state constitutions. i actually think that might be a strength. the united states constitution, partly because it is the most difficult to amend constitution in the entire world and partly because of this degree of veneration, has been amended extraordinarily rarely. i mean, if you put the bill of rights to one side because that's really part of the politics of the original ratification process, since 1791 there have been 17 amendments. and and that's extraordinarily few. this leads to all sorts of consequences. from my perspective, one of the consequences is that the constitution is tremendously out of date with regard to some of

literally, i have no idea how and amoeba could live in south florida or louisiana and not understand what is going on with that the second thing, go back to my essential thing, at least with me and many people but not everybody, pluralism and knowledge our shared values, thought to be good things, they are distinctly under attack. i guess i gave you three instead of two. >> thank you. be change to you think the clintons see themselves as the last hope against the corporate oligarchy and if so did they become the very thing they are against? or claim to be? >> corporate oligarchy? i think under bill clinton we had the best economy we have had under any president. the only time the 70s that incomes actually grew. so i thought i am not exactly sure what people's problem was with the clinton years? was it the peace and prosperity? something really got under somebody's skin. look. if anybody thinks donald trump doesn't represent the corporate oligarchy, need to get rid of there is a tax and lower the cost of tax and lower taxes on the 1%, all the people who bit about the clintons, you got

louisiana you know, pick your phrase. and the technocrats in the so-called moderate flank -- now, of course, moderate is all relative, but there's an expression in cuba which is that fidel gave an address in 1962, and he was saying what respect he has for intellectuals. and he said inside the revolution anything, outside the revolution nada, nothing. well, the problem though is nobody knows what's inside or outside. they keep changing the zone, the strike zone. and that's completely capricious and elastic. but my basic hunch is that raul wanted his own people, and everybody who took -- like i said earlier, who took a big slot is in, is a general. they're almost all generals. >> one last follow up. do you remember the diplomat journalist that was among this group that got arrested, does that ring a bell at all? >> the diplomat-journalist. i'm not sure -- do you know from what province? >> diplomat -- he was in havana, i'm not sure if he was in a different province before, but he was arrested along with the other dissidents

a number of candidates from running in louisiana. live coverage beginning at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. at 9 p.m. also on c-span and can republican senator kelly ayotte and democratic governor maggie hassan told the final debate. state race coverage all this week on c-span. >> this week on c-span2, we are featuring political radio programs with a national talk show hosts. >> here we are live at george washington university here in washington. up next a conversation on the 2008 financial crisis and the role housing policy played in that crisis considered by many to be the worst financial crisis since the grea great depressione also in by the federal government bailout of financial institutions. among those expected from this afternoon, an american enterprise institute scholar who work in the reagan administration, the afl-cio policy director and an economics professor from the university of north carolina. this discussion will be moderated by a securities la

quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: ask unanimous consent to end the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. vitter: mr. president, at this point i ask unanimous consent to yield back all time remaining. the presiding officer: without objection, all time is yielded back. under the previous order, the clerk will read the title of the bill for the third time. the clerk: s. 2837, a bill to require studies and reports examining the use of and opportunities to use technology-enabled collaborative learning and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: the question occurs on the passage of s. 2837 as amended. mr. vitter: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote? if not the yeas are 97. the nays are zero. the bill as amended is passed. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer:

designate the federal building and united states courthouse located at 300 fannon street in shreveport, louisiana, as the tom stagg united states federal building and courthouse do pass with amendments. mr. mcconnell: i move to concur in the house amendment and the house title amendment. i further ask the motions be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the committee on environment and public works be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 5873 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5873, an act to designate the federal building and united states courthouse located at 511 east san antonio avenue in el paso, texas, and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the committee is discharged. and the senate will proceed. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be conside

we'll have an opportunity to take up a bill that's particularly important for gulf coast states like louisiana. senator cassidy has been a leader on this issue, and i appreciate the work he's done to bring this measure up for a vote. sometime this session we'll also take up an extension of the iran sanctions extension act which passed the house overwhelmingly. this bipartisan bill will provide the basis for any sanctions which may be reimposed on iran. it's critical given the belligerent behavior exhibited by tehran since the signing of the joint comprehensive plan of action. i expect we'll pass it on an overwhelming bipartisan basis here as well. discussions are also ongoing about how to fund the government and for how long. as i noted yesterday. i'll have more to say on that issue as more details are available. so we've all got some work to do. let's work together to finish up the business of this congress as we begin looking forward to the next. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: two days ago i came here and called upon our president-elect to ri

interestingly, the list, maria hernandez in virginia and louisiana, the same person who flew from one place to the other one is maria christina and the other is maria susan and they don't know each other, they're not motivated and they're not voting twice. the biggest problem is when they compile this list, they look for people whose first and last names and who's got the most common first and last names, 80% of all the people with the last name of washington are african-american. 90% are asian. 95% have the last name of garcia are hurt hispanic. it used to be that smith and jones were common names back when it was all british immigrants, but now, if, if you're just looking for common names, if you say we've got a match here and somebody in virginia and somebody in mexico with his name, same name. we are not comparing those. we are just comparing first and last names. if that's what you're looking at, what you you are going to do is pull out massive numbers of african-americans, asians who are now largely voting democratic and latinos who are voting the mechanic. guess what, 7 million

seems to me given that women are usually 52, 53% of the electorate, my louisiana public school arithmetic suggest that she should have won this given that, but go figure. then, let's look at race. back in 1992, when bill clinton be president george h toby bush, 87% of the electorate was white and in 2012, it dropped 15 points to 72%. this electorate was 70% and the thing is, there were some folks saying this could drop down to 59 to 68%, something like that and ended up being 70, but of the whites that voted, they voted for trumpet by a 21-point margin, 58, 37 while the 30% that were nonwhite voted for clinton by 53-point margin, 74, 21. and then you look at the race education gender split. they were interesting. white female college graduates, 20% of the electorate, clinton won them by six points, 51-45. white female noncollege graduates, 17% of the electorate, but trump one them by 28 points, so six points up up for clinton among college graduates, white women and trump by 28 among the noncollege. wow, what a difference. whites mayo college graduates trump one by 15 points, white male n

you would not have cory gardner, you would not have from louisiana now others. you've watched where this country is trying to end if you watch where republicans were when barack obama took over from a number of governors, a number of legislative seats and others, we've never been stronger. but we did not run to win a majority. we went to change a country, so we should not miss this window of opportunity. when you ask about the number of days am i going to judge, i'm going to get the policy right. i'm going to judge on how they been honest and fair government. it's not are you going to use your power to benefit one person. i watched that. i didn't like all that they took place. so why don't we leave a legacy that brings us back to three co-equal branches because that keeps people more honest in then check. the power benefit to people. for everything said about this election, i don't care what side you are on should feel good about the country. so what does that tell you? nobody controls the government, but if the people get frustrated, they can change direction r

he is the professor emeritus of law at the louisiana state university law school . he has also taught at a number of other law schools, i should note. professor baker received jd with honors at the university of michigan law school and his bachelor of arts magnet come loudly from the university of dallas. he also earned a phd from the university of london. several years, professor baker taught the course for the federalist society on separation of powers from the late justice scalia.our second speaker is professor donovan ehrlich. jonathan turley is a nationally recognized scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law . and his teaching here at tulane law school and then joined george washington university in 1990 and in 1998 became the youngest chair professor in the school's history. he is the founder and executive director of the project older prisoners and has written more than seven academic articles here in a variety of leading law journals including cornell, georgetown, harvard and northwestern among

a number of candidates are running in louisiana. at 9:00 p.m., they hold their final debate. the race coverage all this week on c-span. >> in new york's first congressional race, they debate the no fly, no by legislation. the affordable care act and their opinions on the black live matters movement. another pull from earlier this week shows congressman zelman with about a 15-point lead. >> hello and good evening. my name is carol muller i am cochair of the voter services of the league of women voters and i will be moderator for the debate this evening. before we start will you please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. thank you. okay, the league of women voters welcome you. the league is a trusted nonpartisan political organization. we never endorsed candidates for parties but we are directly involved in many of the issues important to the community. we are respected for our work in sponsoring

south carolina, another one that was expected to be for donald trump and louisiana as well. they were not battleground but they were expected to fall into the republican column and they have. these are the ones everybody is watching so closely because of who wins bees could wind up in a good position in terms of the path. the florida race we keep watching this one. it's still extremely close. 1.3 percentage points of separating the two. at the moment, trump is in the lead and fewer and fewer votes will be counted. in north carolina which was a republican state that donald trump had to hold onto and was at the moment by three percentage points. north carolina to ohio which was a democratic vote is not tonight. it is significantly leading towards republicans in ohio. and if michigan, another state is four points for donald trump but still below the votes to be counted in michigan, nowhere near enough so things could happen in favor of democrats and we will see if that continues. virginia, this was mentioned before the 10:00 hour that virginia had been the lead for most of the

true what obama says there's number juvenile solitary that's not going to impact what's happening in louisiana. that's true. it's also true for example this new data driven policing initiative which is essentially a policy that says were going to deal with the crisis of policing which is the feeder for the state prisons and that intense focus on drugs is all about relying on data, a people who have the most contact with police and also with emergency responders and mental health responders but the solution is focused on the criminal justice system which is who are these people with most contact and then the idea of the policy is that they will be policed and arrested it will get these other resources. first of all where the other resources so impact they do get arrested, probably for bowl level marijuana, probably because of the dime bag. probably bag. probably because of small amounts of cocaine or opiates, or whatever. so the federal policies do have a profound effect on the state criminal justice reform like marijuana reform. i wanted to connect those dots. >> the federal government has bee

the chaplain was from louisiana. and he said i just had to meet you, mr. rather, because i had to tell you this story. right before i came here i was saying mass and to look to the back of the church and there was a guy who would not been there 20 years at least. i said, jean baptiste, it was lovely to see year, what brought you here? just curious. he said dan rather. dan rather brought me here. and the priest said really? he said how? why? why did dan rather bring your? he said because every night crisis in the gulf, crisis in the gulf. i figure any minute it will be here. [laughter] >> but i was actually going to start with a different story, also completely true, and asserted picks up where dj left off which was unintentional but happy. which is one that, when jack kennedy was president and jack kennedy's house seat, and they were friends and tip didn't like to ask the president for favors but tips very good friend was head of cyo. cyo was meeting in new york and the president was going to be in new york anyway. and so tip says, jack, i hate to ask it i

reforms to the affordable care act, will never forget there is a new republican senator physician from louisiana presiding over the senate and i came to the floor to give a speech on obama care the first half of the speech was three stories about three delaware people who lives have been saved through the affordable care act. and the other three stories were delaware's who are small business owners, contractors, or cut physicians where the increase in rates and costs have hurt them, for their business, cause them their business, cause them to drop coverage and stop providing certain care. and he was writing away when he looked at me and he said your democrat aren't you? and i said yes i am in you just spent 15 minutes talking about the flaws of obama care. and i said yes. he was genuinely surprised. he didn't think there is democrats who think there's anything but perfect. i think there's many in our caucus that recognize it wouldn't by god it was written by humans and it has flaws. the challenge here is compared to what? if you simply follow the path that the house republican majority has and r

louisiana justified to expand this year. they have put in more than, enrolled more than 350,000 people. and if you block grant is based on their federal dollars for this year, they, unlike the texas counterpart, would be able to have those dollars in decide how they're going to continue coverage, improve coverage, change coverage. so we have a very i'm even playing field right now in terms of the drawdown of the federal dollars. and last i checked the plan around block grants were really not the raising of dollars that failed to the medicaid program by constraining the amount of federal dollars in the medicaid program. so these are going to be some very hard decisions and very our hard changes and also issues a program flexibility. market mentioned about a 40 build on medicare. most people don't know that medicaid pays for the premiums and the co-sharing are low income medicare beneficiaries. medicaid makes medicare affordable for so many low income seniors and people with disabilities. are we going in a block grant world, t

it's horrible when louisiana was underwater , when people's lives were destroyed in coffins were floating down the streets and the images we saw, he did not show up once. he was nowhere to be found. he was in martha's vineyard playing golf, what are these places playing golf, i mean, i find it so disturbing, 95 million people out of the workforce. his policy has drain manufacturing from this country. we have lost so many jobs and we are paying so much in taxes. obamacare is costing people so much money in this country. he has hurt the middle class more than anyone, i mean, we have 8 million more people on food stamps right now than before he entered i mean home ownership is at an all-time low in this country and i can go on and on and on. more people working two, three, four jobs just to get by. his policies have been devastating to this country and quite frankly policies of past administrations and we need to put america active work between dean to win for this country again. it's a sad thing. host: eric trump is with us here on the mike gallagher show. are you encouraged by the way hill

it is true but isn't going to impact what is happening in louisiana. that's true. but it's also true this whole new data driven policing initiative which is essentially a policy that says that we will deal with our policing which by the way is the theater for the state prisons that are focused on drugs and it's all about relying on the data on people that have the most contact with the police and emergency responders and mental health responders that focuses the solution in the criminal justice system which is who are these people that have the most contact with the police and then the policies they will not be arrested. they will get these other resources. but first of all, where are those other resources. they do still end up getting arrested probably for low-level marijuana and a smal small amouf cocaine or opioids. so expect that those do have a profound effect on the state criminal justice reforms like marijuana reform. so i just want to connect the dots a little bit more. >> the federal government has been the innovator ron criminal justice and civil rights a