violation of the law, whether there is sufficient proof of discriminatory impact and involves provisions of arizona law. in order for votes to be counted, to cast it in his or her precinct. the second set, relative to the absentee ballots to eliminate ballot harvesting. the ninth circuit, 7-numfour, racially discriminatory effect, shifting the precincts, statistics show adverse effect on people of color and in terms of limits and ballots with us especially with an adverse effect on native americans. the supreme court in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines reverse the ninth circuit. justice alito wrote the opinion for the court, section 2 of the voting rights act involve the solution, with a racially discriminatory impact, this is the first time we have dealt with the time, place restrictions of loading. under section 2 of the voting rights act, important to look at totality of the circumstances. he then identified five considerations to be used. first the extent of the burden imposed on voters, all laws impose some burden on voting, second the extent to which the rule apart from practices in 198

arizona. ernesto miranda was arrested for suspicion of kidnap and rape, and he signed a written confession. the supreme court ruled the confession was inadd misbl because he was not notify before being requests about his fifth and sixth amendment rights against self-incrimination and rights to an attorney. watch landmark cases sunday night at 9:45 p.m. eastern on c pan, c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. ♪ mr. .. by writing a biography of thomas sowell. i'll begin in an odd way. how do you explain, i think you know the answer, nevertheless, i want your answer, how do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last half-century is unknown to have america? >> guest: well, i guess to use today's -- thomas sowell was canceled, canceled a long time ago. he's a conservative. he's a black conservative. and way back in the 1970s when he began writing about racial controversies, he got in trouble with a lot of his fellow intellectuals in the academy, and in the media. and he's never r

experience inng arizona will be normal for other regions iner the country. 's there are some great lessons to be learned. so first of all our buildings are built that this is a hot climate all built a central air and then to understand we have to provide for comfort but also the structures as well looking at public transit we make sure it is shaded or will be shaded. the infrastructure is already there for some extent and normal way we approach it is very normal so with playgrounds you have the covering to protect from extreme heat so my advice is other municipalities learn from what we done in the region toeg address it. that said we have a long way to go in arizona to make sure we are keeping people safe. the other areas the government could be helpful is to formulate these regional working groups not to be in that competitiveve environment so working with cross purposes those areas within wine region that political will of heat. thank you. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman for five minutes. >> i have no questions and i yield my time. >> thank you you

because fox news reported arizona way ahead of biden winning arizona. they obviously knew he won arizona when it was showing trump was way ahead at the time. it cannot be about the ballots because of fox arizona head. so, who gave that order? that is what i would like to know. >> there was no order for the media to report this one way or the other. news organizations, fox news to the associated press had put two project winners get it right. the entire reputation on these decisions. how many ballots are left, a lot has been written on this. in the news organizations brought a way to explain their methods and procedures for these calls with. >> call for youal on twitter with the description of being called into the white house with an interview with the president. they say you are a journalist for that cannot think a bigger complement to give a living in today's political scene. breathe left on in the office waiting for the president oray be in the middle of a rally? >> when this movement was fresh and brand-new for all of us were i made sure when i got

the territory they took from you in the earlier war and they talked about texas and new mexico and arizona. they did not offer california because germany offer that to the japanese. so a lot of the mexican antagonism and there were two open battles with american soldiers and the mexican government, germany is encouraging the mexicans with money and weapons germany is in the middle of it and mexico and america came very very close to work. open more. mexico never could have one that but america would have to use up the best soldiers in munitions fighting mexico maybe we couldn't get into world war i speaking of world war i that is john j percy who is also a big character in this book along with a very young george patton. describe their roles. into you think pershing learned anything from fighting in mexico compared to europe from a military standpoint quick. >> with the general pershing with my research in this book he was put in an impossible position leading that expedition into mexico. first he is told the public expects you to catch teefour and bring him back if you can't do that at le

in first is a native of arizona, we probably would rather think of la differently. one needs to be done is addressing it be five wells, i know in the near term, we have to get to supply change printed chains through our economy and expanding to people getting back into the workforce and also going to canada and we need to convince more people and citizens in her own children growing up, those immigrants going to the trade and give us the labor that we can build with and at a reasonable rate. we need to have more lots available with her in places like los angeles, or other places that are great, there is some expansion of city limit. we also need to make sure the banks are lending at a reasonable rate in a consistent rate in the making regulations need to be reevaluated. and finally, we need to also make sure that we are no longer participating are practicing it any type of discriminatory selling or buying practices we need to truly talk the talk of diversity inequity in housing as an industry and as a country. >> thank you for mentioning equity, this is a big issue

arizona is one such case where you could be able to provide cooling. even though people are spaced out and you could also have a network of people helping so in our case we have had all sorts of community members step up including a utility company. long-term solutions provide cooling spaces along the way. to provide cooler spaces and handle long-term mitigation adaptations. >> thank you so much for your comments, and i will yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. kyl mr. kilby for five minutes. >> thank you, for holding this important hearing. i've been toggling back and forth with lots of things going on today so if my question is redundant, i apologize. over seven years ago in my hometown, a water crisis emerged. my hometown is flint michigan. the children were affected by the crisis and exposed to high levels of lead that poses significant health risks particularly in their development. what was not as well-known in the water crisis that there was an outbreak and as a result of the crisis. michigan again is experiencing a surge. the michigan depart

my dad had been his flight instructor for new marines in zuma, arizona. and he said i knew your dad. it's interest ago moment, and we're asked as journalists why we write on a topic and spend five, six years to write about it. >> one of the interesting things about it, we're not the only ones picking. sdims we come to this. and mark was looking for someone who help potentially tell the story and i arrived at just the right time and he arrived in my life at the right time and we've since become friends and that-- . pardon? >> he's read the book. >> what did he say? you went pretty deep and he was open, but you went pretty deep with him. >> he knew, after the new yorker piece which was raw and some people said, what are you thinking? why are you cooperating with this guy still? i think he felt that i was fair and that understood him and all the personal things, failed marriage and relationship with his kids and that. >> that was really wrenching, that was a great part of the book. >> thanks. >> and you know, that stuff is personal, that's what makes for gre

>> because of where the bases are we had three tours there for ten years total and yuma arizona which is often the middle of nowhere. and then between quantico and the pentagon those of the areas that ie will bounce between. >> let's talk about branson. at the beginning, i guess as the project went on then you realize branson is serious. he sees this as the next frontier. personally i know he spent billions of dollars but these are very hard charging guys that like the future like elon musk. but what was your sense of branson? publicity? i want to do something different or how dedicated was he quick. >> i think he was very dedicated. >> surprisingly frankly. >> here is the reason why. it's important to go back and realize the centrality of this boutique aviation firm the first built spaceship two and one. it explains why mike made that mistake in 2014 and why there were not all these failed states built into the spaceship so we remind in 1996 there is a contest the first private leave built spacecraft to reach space twice in two weeks. so in 2000 for the contest is about to expire and

i objected specifically and senators filed an objection to the state of arizona so we had a debate on both of those and my view is we needed a debate on election integrity. i think it was appropriate to have it and democrats with a previous election with a debate is appropriate and certainly within their rights to raise these issues and i promised my constituents that ie would, soi did and that is why i raised the issues and i wasn't going to let the actions of a criminal mob who came to the capital and tried to stop the certification process and debate that we were in the middle of i wasn't going to allow their actions to interfere with my obligations and constituents in doing what i said i was going to do so those who committed acts of violence and crime on that day, they deserve to go to prison and i don't care whether justification is. it wass wrong, violent, i don't care if you are doing it on the right or the left. those folks who came to the capital and committed violence it's like those across different cities in the country over the past year and just like the deranged indivi

arizona. ernesto miranda was arrested for suspicion of kidnap and rape, and he signed a written confession. the supreme court ruled the confession was inadd misbl because he was not notify before being requests about his fifth and sixth amendment rights against self-incrimination and rights to an attorney. watch landmark cases sunday night at 9:45 p.m. eastern on c pan, c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. ♪ mr. ..

danny is a republican from arizona. good morning to you, danny. go ahead. caller: how are you? host: doing well. your thoughts this morning? caller: yes, ma'am, the so-called select committee is a sham, for one thing. and i want to know if it will come out, who was the person that killed that young lady at the capitol that day. thank you. host: ok, shelley, louisiana, republican line. caller: good morning. the way i feel about this is they have two republicans on their committee and both have been overtly against trump, openly, said very poor things about him. so, it's not surprising they let those two republicans on but that they wouldn't accept the choice of the republican leader, mccarthy. to think that it's anything other than something that would lead dishonest and used for political purposes is just to be fooled. you are having the wool pulled over your eyes if you believe that. host: kevin mccarthy is giving a news conference this morning at 8 a.m., at the top of the hour. we will have coverage of that on c-span two and he will have with him the republican members that h

morning to you from chicago, leo's hometown, santa fe new mexico, lexington north carolina, phoenix, arizona and happy to see her friends the georgia commission on the holocaust good morning to all of you. now, when did your father encounter japanese diplomat? they have to bear my father never wanted to get back because he held the communists and such the idea that leaving was one of the main forces for him. and of course everyone understood the nazi are only months away which is then the capitol of lithuania would possibly give visa to the jews who wanted to leave russian rule and the fear of not see occupation. and so he there are very few that managed to get out was the bravery as a diplomat to deny the orders of the government because they did not want him to enter the transit visa. anyone understands they probably seen the movie casablanca. the only hope you have of escaping and certain death that it probably is anyway. and so the council general gave out over 2000 visas. those 2000 could represent a lot more because the visa that was presented we ended up getting out. the needed permis

we've seen it in arizona and florida, texas, arizona. but many more state legislatures are moving in this direction, and the voting rights of this nation are at stake because what we're seeing is a deliberate and systematic attempt to make it harder and more difficult to register to vote and particularly for people of color to have this right. it is an attempt to subvert our democracy and attack the lifeblood of our nation. we know in theory that the founders intended that in fact our government, quote, derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. but more than an exercise in theory, this effort is a direct, clear attempt to defend against the tsunami of voter suppression bills now crashing on our nation, and that is why the john lewis voting rights advancement act should be bipartisan. i have no illusions about it being so. but one way or the other, we ought to follow the advice of john lewis, who said, quote, the right to vote is precious, almost sacred. it is the most powerful, nonviolent tool or instrument we have in a d

the certification stopped when they got to arizona. host: of course when the select committee does meet, which could begin as early as later this month after the july 4 recess, c-span will be your source of covering the select committee. if you are listening on c-span radio, we are asking should republicans serve on this committee? speaker pelosi making the announcement yesterday of her choices of democrats and one republican, liz cheney. she explained the mission and the priority moving forward. speaker pelosi: it is important for you to know what our purpose is for this. that is the findings of the legislation speak to the testimony for the director of the fbi when he basically said there were more deaths on domestic terrorism then from global terrorism in our country. the department of homeland security with concerns that are out there. all of these institutions talking about -- i hate to go there and it's what they had said in terms of white supremacy , anti-semitism, islamophobia. all of these attitudes that have contributed to wh

adrian montez served as county recorder for maricopa county, arizona. the second largest voting jurisdiction in the united states, representing over 2.5 million active voters and approximately two-thirds of arizona's population from 2017-2020. this position was the most recent in a long list of his service to his community and country. from 1992 to 1996, he served on active duty in marine corps and thank you for that service, and meritorious commission. and after being honorably discharged bachelors before turning to the sterm county of law in denver after law school served as a prosecutor with denver district attorney and worked in the maricopa county attorney's office and headed the foorn prosecution unit. he was elected to the maricopa recorder where he served four-year term implementing national award winning systems and procedures to serve for maricopa county elections even amid the immense personal safety challenges posed on the election administration by the covid-19 pandemic. he remains a resident of maricopa county where he's raising his three

he also knew my dad, my dad had been his flight instructor 35 years ago as a young marine in yuma, arizona so he set your mind me of somebody else, too and i knew your dad way back when so it was an interesting moment and we are often asked, i think as journalists, wife we pick a topic, why we are doing something for five or six years write a book about it and i think one of the interesting revelations from this was that we are not the ones picking, sometimes subjects, sometimes we come to a subject and sometimes a subject comes to us and i think mark knew he lived a phenomenal life and always have been looking for someone to potentially help tell that story and i arrived at just the right time and he arrived in my life at the right time and we became really good friends -- yes, he's read the book. >> what did he think? you went pretty deep with him. >> after the new yorker piece which was raw, i think some said to him, what were you thinking? how are you cooperating with this guy still? but i think he felt like i was fair and i understood him and all of the personal stuff, all the stuff a

when he was lashing out into the late john mccain, a hero in his state, he brought his when in arizona saying he didn't lose because he criticized mccain and began talking about what an awful person he was, how he was a flip-flop or that nobody could rely on many people who agreed and rightfully so was one of the president's best lieutenants. most loyal, most in the weeds of getting donald trump reelected. he was ecstatic to describe to us that bill barr failed him in the end and got worried about media criticism and failed by not doing what he needed to do to investigate and prosecute the allegations of fraud that trump said existed and called nonsense. he finally gets to tell his version of the reality. even if it doesn't stack up with the truth, he gets to say it. >> a lot of the coverage in your book that you've gotten with glowing reviews and you've made news everywhere with this which also is an estimate to how much is there, the idea that a presidency that was reported on so exhaustively for four years and especially in the past year, you were able to get jaw dropping new inform

difficult speeches, was at the funeral of the 19 granite mountain hotshot firefighters, when the prescott, arizona, fire department got clobbered. that tragedy happened eight years ago today. that's the reason i mention it. it's hard to remember, of all the costs that firefighters risk when they do their job and their bravery to step up and do the job. now, traditionally, federal firefighting has been a seasonal job, but because of climate change, and i know you all know it, and i hope your constituents know it. there is climate change. it's no longer a seasonal job. this is a year-round mission. so we've made sure seasonal firefighters can stay on the job, as long as they are needed this year, by allowing them to work beyond their term. and for next year, we're working to make more than, of those positions, permanent positions so that when fires aren't burning, we have a workforce of experienced hands enhancing our forest management, reducing the risk of future fire in the future fire season. second thing, we are harnessing new tools and technologies to better identify and respond before new fire

i was in arizona recently, and i was able to visit a school where there wasn't another school for miles and miles and miles, and it just seemed like we needed to make sure that they had everything they needed to be successful there. and a lot of that is really broadband and making sure that devices are working, making sure that they haves access to the same learning -- they have access to the same learning activities that students in more dense areas of our country. so those conversations with those educators and with those mayors and state and federal leaders involve trying to build an infrastructure that can withstand what we experienced before and just make sure that we're looking at the digital do divide in the rearview mirror soon. we have the american rescue plan and the infrastructure plan that can draw on $100 billion in infrastructure which our students need. this isn't -- you know, the internet is not a lofty thing anymore. it's like the new pencil. the device and the internet is needed. it's a require ared tool for learning. -- required tool for learning. so we have to get pa

away she knew there were major voting rights cases in the order granted one for this term, case out of arizona another jurisdiction like georgia, a set of laws one of which failed the procedure, she was aware of all voting rights changes in voting law changes that it just taken place, i thought she appreciated a huge issue in the issues that were extremely timely and they've only become more so in the time that she passed away. >> talk to me a little bit about gender discrimination what do you think she was highlighting focusing on work that still needs to be done. >> one of the things she talks about the book and materials that come in that highlights the importance of being able to control their reproductive lives that that is an important component to being able to truly evil to control their careers and destiny, but she also let a better case which is a really important case involving ongoing change discrimination, that was the case she cares very deeply about, she talks about how important it is for the law and for these theoretical decisions that the supreme court makes at a very high le

eastern, landmark case in arizona, brenda was arrested for suspicion of kidnapping and rape and everything confession written and about the convention was inadmissible because he was not having his fifth and sixth amendment rights the right to an attorney and select marked cases sunday night at 9:45 p.m. eastern on c-span, online is cspan. ernest on the c-span radio app. ... ... ♪♪ ♪♪ >> legal experts testified about theti

it is corruption for the democrats without the open and a complete lie now first off the arizona gop had a historic victory in the supreme court. [applause] so think god with election security lives in arizona so hopefullyha which is all we expect to fight tooth and nail for local control that we have to be reunited as conservatives and republicans to make sure every election is free and fair and we win. this is a complete lie from biden on down if you have any election reform we are racist and trying to oppress voters it is a complete lie. we have to stand up and say democrats are lying. voter id is not racist. it is common sense. [applause] preventing ballot harvesting is not racist it is common sense. preventing illegal immigrants from voting is not racist it ist common sense that your direct corrupt politicians act to make sure in a free and fair election we will when. [applause] >> our goal is maximum participation in zero fried not a thousand dollars here but zero fried democrats cultivating they don't like racist. the filibuster is racist. right? even though biden many used it

we're not talking a little bit of money, arizona, mark kelly is running and we will beat him, but if this passes, he'll get as much as $18 million of your tax dollars. how about raphael warnock in georgia, as much as $25 million of your tax dollars. new hampshire, maggie hassan, by the way, call chris sununu, the governor of new hampshire to make sure you want him to run for senate. if he does we will win. cortez masso in nevada as much as $11 million. in colorado michael bennett he'll get up to $11 million. or 16 million dollars. now let's talk about our good friend chuck schumer, now, chuck schumer, don't you just love the guy? so you know, he's not partisan at all. so he says we have to pass this bill, he's working on it really hard because we have to pass it to save democracy. no, he wants to pass it to save his skin. guess how much he would get? up to $45 million of your money to run attack ads. it's corruption for the democrats right out in the open and it's based on a complete, complete lie. there's no basis for this. now, first off, we all should congratulate the arizona g.o.

because fox news reported arizona way ahead of the biden winning arizona. they obviously knew he won arizona when it was showing w trump was way ahead at the time for it cannot be about the ballots. fox already had arizona ahead. so who gave that order? that is what i would like to know. >> guest: well there was no order for the immediate to report this one way or the other. news organizations, fox news to the associated press had put years of research and millions of dollars into the technology to project winners and get it right. his reputation of news organizations on these organizations. not only to be first but to be correct. getting too far deep in the woods here. the projections, trends, how many ballots are left? where they're moving a lot has been written on this. and these news organizations go out of their way to explain their methods and their procedures for making these calls for. >> mlb has a question for you on twitter going back to the description of called into the white house for an interview with the president. they say it michael bender

arizona cannot point to anyy voter fraud that justifies this law. study of the 834 million ballots passed in elections between 2,002,014 found at least 35 critical allegations of in-person voter fraud. by contrast there are voluminous examples of proliferating racist donation voting during the same period. rein short this unscrupulous decision disregards the purpose and the court fundamentally disagrees disagrees is with congress's views of its enforcement power toy legislate broadly to protect the right to vote from racial racial discrimination present a short attempt to rewrite in weekend section t 2 resulting in a pocketable costs to our democracy. since the t disabling of section 5, section 2 has been the primary defense against discriminatory abridgment. in 2020 loan lbf filed five cases under section 2 and a filed two more this year. in the first five years following shall be an impressive 61 were filed under section 2. it's been eight years since the chief justice expressly invited congress to update section fives preclearance formula to refl

and the principle was justice scalia's opinion in arizona versus inter-tribal council of arizona back in 2013 where he referred to the broad and comprehensive scope of congress's elections clause power. in the remainder of my testimony i'll provide some background on what the elections clause means and in particular, how it has been construed by the supreme court. so the elections clause, the text of which, madam chairwoman read earlier, allows states to prescribe rules for the election, only in so far as the court says in foster versus love. and justice scalia said in grant, this was snuns against the possibility that states would try to undermine the union by either failing to have procedures for congressional elections or having ones that were inadequate. and as he put it, legislators could at any moment anay-- annihilate it, that is the u.s. government. congress has used broad powers repeated lie through the 1842 apportionment act, the civil wars acts of 1870 and 1871 and more recently through the registration act and help america vote act. i won't go through the precedence that s

myself, governor doug doocy of arizona and governor murphy of new jersey and governor asa. i move to have this resolution adopted.k >> governor doocy, thank you very much, that sounds like a winning slate to me. is there a second in favor of the motion? soe moved. >> please indicate by saying aye? >> aye. >> those opposed, nay. in the opinionav of the chair, e ayes have it and new officer of executive committee members are agreed to. congratulations to all. governor hutchins, governor to my neighbor, phil murphy and the committee. before i hand the gavel over to our new chair, let me just say a few final words that i have the mike. i had the pleasure oft serving with asa hutchison last year and i think it's been outstanding partnership. as you know, we had weekly meetings with the white house going through substantive issues that have been very difficult. asa jumped in as vice chair in the middle of the pandemic and helped me as my partner lead this organization. and that's what's truly great about the nga. over the last 18 months, firstgo we had governor larry hog anticipa

everybody knows he won arizona, but he actually lost arizona. he continued to claim that the election had been stolen from him and that there was this widespread fraud, the evidence for which has really never surfaced or been produced. it was a revealing capstone i think to our investigative reporting process, but by the time we went down there to hear what he had to say, we had already talked to 140 of the people who worked closest with him, so we had a pretty good sense of what the reality was and where the truth lie. >> did you challenge him on what his aides and what his friends and what his cabinet secretaries told you? >> you know, in that interview, we often let donald trump talk and tell us his view. we wanted to hear his world view, but there were many times we said sir, you know -- there wasn't hugging and kissing, you know. he argues on january 6th, many of the protesters storming the capitol were part of a loving crowd and there was a lot of hugging and kissing, and we definitely questioned him, but, you know, the purpose of this int

that's what joseph scalia wrote in the arizona case. >> secretary adams, beforeou respond, you noted in your testimony that you were testifying today primarily about politics. in other words, whether congress should pass election legislation. r the sake clarity, when it comes to the narrow legal of whether congress can pass legislation and that's what my first question is about, would you agree the elections clause is the broad and expansive authority to regulate congressional elections, putting aside policy concerns? >> it's kind of a subjective question with a subjective answer. there were certain things congress can do. there are guardrails in our constitutional system. we are a system of dual sovereignty, the states and congress. we see in supreme court decisions congress cannot require states to >> >> if i could finish my ansr. congress can tell the states to do in coming due them, required to do certain things in exchange. if you're asking if i think we have seen it -- significant authority, i think we do. >> mail-in voting? >> i can't tell you. >> a moment ago, you mentioned t

i understand that you see the region that includes arizona. as you probably know, we have a visitor access issue at the lake in glen canyon national park. mr. chairman, i have a letter from the mayor of the city of page, arizona, that i ask you to be added to the record. >> without objection. >> it talks about closure of boat ramps due to the declining water levels. he reports that visitors cannot launch any boats from the southlake -- from southlake powell. drought conditions in the west have cost the nation to lose access to one of the largest reservoirs in the nation. if this continues unmitigated, it could crush the economy of page, arizona. this is certainly an engineering issue. if the ramp does not reach the water, the ramp is unusable. i get that. but what is the park service are doing to rehabilitate or extend the ramps at southlake powell? >> thank you, senator. we are aware of the mayor's letter said thank you for having that in the record. our superintendent is working closely with the mayor and i understand your staff as well for

stability from jean in phoenix, arizona. go ahead jean. >> good morning. two main items. first c-span files, have people go to eight defender 2020, look under senate hearing committee of all things is under homeland security. in the topic is going to be an hydroxyquinoline. that is one of the items that i believe this book is going to attack. the second thing having to do with the election i think he miscoded from his book, wolf who is a liar. when an audit that went for months the duration went for months having to do with mail in ballots, are you ready for this? biden received 74000 more votes were mailed out the me rephrase that her said that a different way. they mailed out xm of mail in ballots. they received 74000 more ballots for biden them were mailed out. >> michael will forgive your chance to respond with the dig color did call you a liar think it's fair for you to respond to that. >> guest: i have no response. the caller will think what he wants to think. steve went to sam to crystal springs, mississippi. sam is on the republican line go ahead. >> caller: i'm s

my dad had a bit in his flight instructor 25 years ago in yuma, arizona. and he said you remind me of somebody else. i knew your dad way back when. so it was an interesting moment. we are often asked i think as journalists why we pick a topic, why we sort of are ready to stick with something five or six years to write a book about it. and i think one of the interesting revelations from this process was that we are not the only ones picking. sometimes the subject sort of -- sometimes we come to the subject and sometimes it comes to us. markes stucky knew he lived a phenomenal life and had been looking for someone to potentially help tell that story. i arrived at just the right time, and he arrived in my life at just the right time. we have become since good friends. and that, you know -- >> has he read the books? >> pardon? yes, he's read the book. >> what did he think? >> [inaudible] >> he knew after the new yorker piece which was raw, and some people said to him what are you thinking? how are you cooperating with this guy still? ybut i think that he felt

my dad was his flight instructor 35 years ago yuma, arizona and he's had you remind me of somebody else and i knew your dad way back i when so it was an interesting moment and we are often asked, i think as journalists why we pick a topic, i stick with something far five or six years to write about it and one of the interesting revelations from this was that we are not the only ones picking. sometimes we come to a subject sometimes the subject comes to us and i think that mark knew he lived a phenomenal life was looking for someone to potentially help tell that story and i arrived at the right time and he arrived in my life at the right time and we have become good friends. >> he has read the book? >> he has read the book. >> what did he think? you went pretty deep with him. >> the new yorker piece which was raw, but you thinking? i think he felt i was there and understood him and all of the personal stuff, all the stuff about his broken marriage and failed relationship with his kids and allat that -- >> that was really wrenching in that part of the book. that's what makes it great, you

one of the issues was from arizona, a situation where you have no easy places to drop off your ballot in large native american reservations. so by banning the ability for people to collect ballots and drop them off, you essentially make it extraordinarily difficult for this targeted community to vote. and that was the intent. that was the intent. now, this law, section 2, it didn't say that anything about intent. it said the result. and it didn't say it had to be denial. it said an abridgement. in other words, an afringe -- an infringement on the ability to cast a ballot. but alito doesn't care. the majority doesn't care on the supreme court about defending the right to vote. the pulse stating heart of -- pulsating heart of our republic. so where does that leave us? it leaves us as the critical factor to defend the constitution. the supreme court won't do it. the states are undermining it. it's our responsibility, our responsibility to set out those basic standards that defend the ability of every american to vote. and that's why i'm here on the floor tonight talking about the for the

you will not arizona is comparable to mohave and it's awful middle of nowhere thing. then an increasing amount of timein northern virginia . those were the main nodes where i havebetween . >> let's talk about branson and in talking about grandson that's another important part of the book . at the beginning, i guess the question is was this really a lot and as the project went on, you realize no. branson is really serious. personally, i know he spent billions of dollars but these are very hard charging guys, challenging the future and obviously there's the lawn must what was? was it for publicity? was it was you something new? >> i think he was very day. >> surprisingly, frankly. >> here's the reason why and it's important to go back and realize the centrality of this boutique aviation firm first bill spaceships 21 as its predecessor. this explains why my alsbury made a mistake in 2014 widener work on these things into the spaceship. we rely. contest to the first $10 million to the first private legal they spacecraft reached the west in two weeks. contest in 2004, the

my dad has been his flight instructor 35 years ago in arizona. so he said you remind me of somebody is too great i knew your dad way back when. it was an interesting moment we are often asked i think, as journalists why we pick a topic, why we are ready to stick with something for five or six years to write a book about it. i think one of the interesting revelations from this process was that we are not the only ones picking. sometimes we come to a subject and sometimes a subject comes to us. i think mark stuckey knew he lived a phenomenal life and had been looking for someone to potentially help him tell that story. i arrived at just the right time and he arrived at my life just the right time. we have become since really good friends. >> he has read the book. >> what he think? >> he went pretty deep and he was open. pretty deep with it. >> he knew it was raw some people said to him, what are you thinking? why are you cooperating with this guy still? i think he felt like i was fair and that i understood him. in all of the personal stuff,ri all t

we have similar examples all over arizona where this cleanup needs to -- we've got to do better. there are four abandoned uranium mines, four out of 500 that's unacceptable, thank you. >> acute senator. senator markey. >> thank you for having with us. very important hearing. in farmville justice populations been burdened over and over again i pollution, and designed neglected not benign neglect designed neglect. as discussed by professor toledo it is critically important to address not only individual sources of pollution but the cumulative impacts of each alongside socioeconomic conditions. in drafting the environmental justice a mapping and data collection act, senator duckworth and i worked closely with environmental justice advocates to create a framework for eight federal method to map these cumulative impacts and ensure communities that are most at risk for environmental injustices are prioritizes we address the climate crisis. professor toledo and mrs. flowers would you agree it is important to consult with communities in the process of creating these maps as well as addre

we will now hear from the distinguished gentleman from arizona, mr. stanton, for five meant. >> all right, thank you very much, chairman johnson. what an outstanding hearing thus far, very educational, informative and our public policy moving forward, thank you to the witness is for being here today. in my home state of arizona, we're lucky we have 22 federally recognized native american tribes and we are so proud that the first native american woman ever appointed to the federal judiciary, judge diane wethua is here in arizona. and that's my first question directed to mr. warner, president biden named lauren king for the western district of washington. if confirmed, ms. king will become the third native american currently sitting on the federal bench. in fact, ms. king will be only the fifth native american ever to serve as a federal judge. i'm really interested in that commission that you discussed earlier. i wanted to find out, as your commission worked to recommend candidates for judgeship, how did you account for such a historic lack of represent

i was in arizona recently and i was able to visit a school where there wasn't another school for miles and miles and it just seemed like we needed to make sure that they had everything they needed to be successful. a lot of that is broadband and making sure the devices are working and that they have access to the same. so those conversations with those educators and mayors involved trying to build an infrastructure that can withstand what we've experienced before and making sure we look at the digital divide in the rearview mirror soon because the american rescue plan is the infrastructure plan that can provide $100 billion in infrastructure which the students need. the internet isn't a lofty thing anymore. the device and the internet as needed. it's a required tool for learning so we have to get past that idea. it's on us to make sure that they get it. the funding is there and the urgency is there. one of the things the pandemic has shown us or has exposed, the inequities and the gaps that are there and i just wonder when it comes to that kind of access, was the access even more sever

now we've got some things going on in arizona and those other swing states that are going to come out and i asked for everyone to call it, all of my citizens that are democrats also to get ready and look at the election audit because not only the audit -- >> what you think is going to happen? >> i think we are going to see undeniable proof that the election was fraudulent. >> you want to react to that? >> i appreciate you providing some context, i fought with the number of people who came from their wives and daughters, friends of mine and people who live in the district who visited the capitol the same way you described, the same as normal trump rallies, w peaceful happy, in terms of support for the trump presidency but also concerned about the election in this particular case, that was the reason for the rally but clearly some people cross the line. who they were and where they came from and that's why we should probably have already concluded an investigation and should have been launched in january. it's become partisan, politicized unfortunately and it continues to be described p

in your state, you brought a lawsuit against the company that had an ad in the super bowl when the arizona cardinals were in the super bowl, seen by just about everybody in the state, each viewing of the ad was potentially a violation, you can find each violation, you put that together and have fines that are close to us not over $100 billion and then you come in and say if you buy now you can settle for tens of millions. states do this sort of thing all the thing and it is extraordinarily powerful and extraordinarily effective and i'm surprised it is not being used. departing a little bit but some of you are familiar with the case that came through washington, this woman was selling flowers for this wedding ceremony and was signed by the state and the penalties in that case came because the violation of washington does, nation law is a per state violation and so that is why the penalties were so large. tidying -- a violation of the state consumer to failing to act in good faith, would be a productive path for states to go down. but i think the real concern and productive activity is encou