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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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