the united states will supplier cover. as time went, on both these parts of the plan were to be changed both with the approval and the acquiescence of the cia and the pentagon. but at this point, tell us simply wanted the okay from the president to continue preparations, and he got it. from the state, on operation pluto gets tough parity from the cia. the cia with human exiles, agree on a single lead. they want the united states help. the cubans choose dr. jose miro once castro's prime minister, he has remained neutral in the power struggle among the exiled leaders. now, he comes to new york. he comes to the anti-castro cuba. >> it is first conference the doctor speaks for the first time as president of the new revolutionary council. >> a united cuba. , a real cuba, the cuba of jose marti. >> now cubans are united, they've joined the new coalition reluctantly, they don't like the way that the cia is complimenting -- and they rightly assume that the united states participation ensures the operation success. they don't want

and let every state? is that consistent with how we respect voting rights. >> think you for that question representative. there are two important principles and we have to recognize both of them. states are laboratories of democracy. it's a great thing of our federalist system that states can experiment as they so often do including experimenting with election reforms like same-day registration a number have experimented with proving quite successful to make it more convenient to vote with increasing turnout. on the other hand, there is a competing principal that in the end, congress has to have the authority to regulate congressional elections. that includes regulating to protect the fundamental right to vote the first noteworthy examplee are the enforcement acts that has been written about and has been addressed in testimony of the reconstruction period that is absolutely vital for congress to exercise its authority under the election clause in 14h and 15th amendments and then to protect the voting righ

[laughter] [applause] [indistinct chatter] announcer: the texas state legislature convened a special legislative session to consider gop sponsor voting bills. during the session texas house republicans adopted a motion concerning absentee lawmakers who left the state to block the special session. [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] >> the house will come to order. we came to recess friday. please rise for the honorable scott colin. >> thank you, mr. speaker. let's pray together. father, on a day like today we wonder how we should pray and we are reminded by your scripture that this is the day the lord has made. let us rejoice and be glad in it. today, father, we can rejoice and we can also, as scripture tells us, we can be in continual prayer for those we serve and to those we love. father, we are reminded -- as i am inspired by those in the chamber -- they have faithfully served their constituents in this great state. in your relentless pursuit of us and your faithfulness, even when we are not faithful to you, as you relentlessly pursue us ultimately by sending your son, jesus chri

a state willfully tried to sabotage the state elections. the states and often fallen short of fulfilling their federal duties. the framers of t constitution had legitimate reasons to worry about allowing federal elections to become over dependent on voluntary compliance of the state legislations. second, this additional authority which james madison gave on august 9,787, one pt of the clause is actively debated. the two soutcarolina delegates said there was no reason to have alterationf state regulation of feder elections. madison created this motion. dison argued they were be subject to all the abuses of this discretionary policy. state legislats would share their own security to favor the candidates they wishedo succeed. if there were inequalities in the state legislatures, the would be repcated in the design of congressional diricts. these potential urces of abuse justified congressional oversight and revision. the framers agreed because the south carolina motion was rejected without a roll call. madison's speech also identified oblems t

as a result, he ruffled feathers, especially presidents of the united states, united states senators, representatives , british prime minister's and assorted other politicians. >> historian emeritus of the senate and author of, the columnist, doll -- donald ritchie. on c-span's q&a and you can listen to q&a as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. >> next, regulating social media content, hosted by the federalist society. i looked at the role of the fcc, perceived censorship, and whether regulation is better -- best left to states or the federal government. >> welcome to our showcase discussion series on free-speech and social media. and the vice president for strategic initiatives of the federalist society and director of the freedom of thought projects, new initiative to address emerging challenges to freedom of thought, content, and expression. this afternoon, july 8, we will be discussing how federal preemption and state innovation questions affect competing concerns over speech and content moderation on digital platforms and social media. this is the fifth and a six part seri

we have states and every state is equal in the senate. the states kind of take the place of our house of lords in the senate chamber. the british using the green color government and colonies would use it. the american government. the red would kind of be much more that house of lords kind of color. you see red in the early senate in philadelphia. definitely has that kind of look to it that seems a bit on the higher end. the interesting thing about the senate is the are created with more power. the power is a tie to the president in the house of representatives, and they don't have treaties in the united states are with the advice and consent of the senate, approved by the advice and consent of the senate. the senate has to approve the treaties, the house does not the senate does. so there is one power. also and time the president makes an appointment in his cabinet and ambassador, supreme court, of course. those folks would have to come in front of the senate and be approved by the senate or rejected. here in philadelphia, we have our ve

it is a union of nation states. this nation states have kept all their powers. if they don't want to be entangled, they're not in chang and they don't want a single currency. they don't have a single single currency. and there's nothing anyone can do about it. so for, for many years, including in britain, in the last what it seems written, drawing the, the european union has always been a terrain of dispute. but in fact, there was very little the europe union could impose on britain. okay, was go, it's go to syracuse here. i mean, you know, one of the issues, particularly if we can focus on the hungarians in the polls is that they focus a lot on families here. and so you have this kind of odd juxtaposition where, because of demographics for the union, at a whole, they need population growth. but then they would say, the hungarians polls, for example, why don't we just be more friendly to families and have population growth organically, naturally within the european union, instead of importing it. and so, and then the hungarians and poles and others in eastern eu

after state after state. so we are going through a realignment in this country. it is not just an all one direction realignment. different pieces of the electorate moving in opposite directions. >> ft. collins, colorado. this is charles, an independent. good morning. >> caller: my contention about voting is also, gerrymandering. what i've seen, when a politician can make districts that severely favor them, then we get to a point where, okay, i'm a guy and i'm a republican in a 90% district. okay? and i want to speak out against donald trump because i don't believe he's doing something great. well, all trump has to do then is go to that district and yell rino and your career is over. if that district was balanced, then i think we would see more people coming across and be more pragmatic because their jobs aren't on the line. and we come to a better america where the republicans or democrats on either side can speak out. and that's why i'm so adamant about hr and sr-1. i want to see that done. i want to see the

a non state hostile intelligence service is often abetted by state actors like russia. ah. in the same year, we can leeks and russia were involved in an attempt to stabilize another country from just sweat. and i hope to become your president because you don't do the president of all the people of france. if you don't, a president to protect transforms and bibs in the face of the threat of the nationalist genetic oh, your compatriots. manuel mac homes, campaign headquarters. everyone was busy preparing for the 2nd round of the presidential election when suddenly news spread. the in boxes of campaign workers from icons mash party had been it was may, 5th, 201-7730 pm. the me the funds towards the end of the day we starting to get room is on twitter. they say there are things that are going to get released then come the 1st elements that are being talked about. and one moment i see the download link being shared. so i downloaded immediately, i open it, and i see that it's actually e mails from people in the campaign, the, from the record, several 1000 documents and e mails fr

and the state of texas. and that is where we stand united before you here today, in preserving not only the democracy in texas, but the democracy of the u.s. thank you for your time. [applause] and, i would like to, if she has arrived, call up the chair -- the vice chair of the house democratic caucus. in her absence, i would then like to call representative read about -- represent of read about -- call my colleague. >> thank you, thank you all for being here today. i used to live here in washington. i worked, like you, for the press, for pbs, and it is a proud, pleasing moment to be back here with my colleagues, as a member of the texas house. we are here in d.c., our nations capitol, because we want to protect the civil right to vote for millions of texans. we were quite literally forced to move and leave the state of texas. we also know that we are living right now on borrowed time in texas. and we can't stay here indefinitely. to run out the clock, to stop republican anti-voter bills. that is where we ne

the 2 state solution is dead. i think the 2 states that more about boss who has a guest is knocked with international community with international law and negotiate and just let you know work and show how be a nice some compet did we are. that agenda has been destroyed by incident, by israeli actions, because it does not comply with any of its obligation well destroyed by the surely was destroyed by fata and the palestinian authority as well. who kept seeking the 2 state solution, whilst all the settlements were making that that's exactly the point that is that it can just say we are in the middle of the dogs or we negotiated mod, whatever. and at the same time, continue to see more learn more resources, build more settlements, which are going to be i own stature and continuous monitor. i'm getting out a company has the ethnic cleansing plan and gender around and backing up some of changing the elegy on the grounds. all these things thinking that it's ok we will negotiate to an hour later is not the case. that's w

he lasted 11 days as secretary of state. [laughter] my son said, surely, you are better that he was. it can't be the worst. [laughter] but we know what the left is trying to do to human beings that believe in christ in the way that we do. we have seen it. the president called me in january and said, the washington post headline today says you are my most loyal cabinet member. i reminded him they didn't mean that as a compliment. [laughter] look, you are here today talking , about leading with principles over politics. i want to say something i believe is very straightforward that you may not hear from other elected officials -- all of the crises facing our nation today , the big challenges that we are confronted with, are not going to be solved by any politician. it is not the way the lord works. our problem isn't the people affecting change, because we know only christ has the capacity to do that. and he will put principled men and women in those positions but it is he who will make the changes that our nation so richly nee

utah, a republican state. it has served well every citizen of the country to have their voice heard in the direction our country goes and that's what we are fighting for, the division of our constitution. >> from the northstar state the lone star state, thank you very much. >> thursday, nominees for census bureau director and ice assistant secretary testified at a confirmation hearing before the senate homeland security committee. live coverage begins at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span, online on c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> sunday night on q&a just get along with chief engineer of the historic fire vote john jay harvey adams called back into service to aid firefighters following attacks on the twin tires -- twin towers. she tells the story of the community of mariners who came to the rescue of thousands. >> the operation that delivered half a million people safety is an incredible example of the goodness of people. that when you are given the opportunity to help you have the tools and t

there is a huge diaspora in europe and the united states. i would like for us to continue taking more people from those camps now that president biden has raised the refugee cap. part of the long-term effort here has to be working with the diaspora to help it become the force that helps to open their country again at some point in the future. it's a quarter of all syrians, so it is a sizable share of the country. to continue to be very, very tough and punishing on outside powers supporting the syrian regime, including the russians. through instruments like the caesar act. then, sees any opportunity that arises. as you know, timing is everything and the timing may not be right right now, that all kinds of things may happen in the months and years coming that create opportunities for us to seize. i wish i had a better answer and there may be a better answer out there. i would be very open to hearing from people participating today who follows the situation more intently than i do. but that is kind of where i am. gerald: it is a problem and i t

to look into the results in his state. the infamous call where trump said he only needed to find about 11,000 votes. that same night the republican elections official in arizona got another voicemail. >> this is a white house operator. i was calling to let you know that the president's available to take your call if your free. >> the official told the arizona republic he presumed trump would try to pressure him. so he never returned that call. this new reporting is the latest to detail a multi-state effort by trump and his allies to undermine the results of the 2020 election, the same effort to led to a so-called audit that's been going on in maricopa county in arizona since april. run by the cyber ninjas. now the republican playbook on how to overturn the 2020 election is turning a new page, this time in pennsylvania. the associated press is reporting today that republicans in the pennsylvania state senate might be planning their own audit of the 2020 election in their state. that effort is led by republican state senator

as i said in april, the united states did what we wanted to do in afghanistan. to get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and delivered justice to osama bin laden. and to degrade the terrorist threat from becoming afghanistan from becoming a terrorist base. we achieved those objectives. that is why we went. we did not go to afghanistan to nation build. it is the right and the responsibility of the afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country. together, with our nato allies and partners, we have trained and equipped over -- nearly 300,000 current serving members of the afghan security force. and many beyond that to our no longer serving. after that, hundreds of thousands more afghan national defense security forces trained over the last two decades. we provided our afghan partners with all the tools, trained equipment, of any modern military. we provided advanced weaponry. we are going to continue to provide funding and equipment and will ensure they have the capacity to maintain their air force. most critically, as i stres

why is our state declining? why is the state where everyone used to be. the state where anyone can get ahead. the state that so many people now can't wait to leave behind. why do we pay the highest taxes get drive over the defense potholes. why did we have the worst and yet out among the worst public health outcomes. in short. why do we sacrifice the most as california citizen is and you get at least in return. and the answer i know from my 5 years in the legislature is political corruption. we have a state government that simply doesn't serve the people of

challenge after challenge brought to local, state and election officials, state legislatures, state and federal courts, even to the united states supreme court not once but twice. more than 80 judges, including those appointed by my predecessor heard the arguments, in every case neither cause nor evidence was found to undermine the national achievement of administering the historic election in the face of such extraordinary challenges. audit, recounts were conducted. in georgia it was recounted three times. no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny, and such high standards. the big lie is just that. a big lie. [ applause ] 2020 election is not hyperbole. the most examined and fullest expression of the people of this nation. they should be celebrated. we continue do see an example of human nature at its worst. something darker, something sinister. in america if you lose, you accept the results, you follow the insticonstitution. you try again. you don't call facts fake and try to bring down the american experiment just because you're unhappy. that's not statesmanship. [ app

sponsored in the eyes of the united states. the fact that they're happening on russian soil matters. here's what the u. s. president joe biden had to say about his telephone call at his latest conversation with latimer when we're already coming from historical, even though it's not, not sponsored by mistake, expect an action enough information to act. now you remember perhaps back in geneva that job wide and put together a list of 16 critical infrastructure areas. good. he said cannot be targeted. many people kind of criticize that and said a why did you tell them what was so critical and be really shouldn't anything be off limits. and so that's the argument now that there's been another cyber attack is but job widens, meeting. it seems to have gone to waste has fallen on deaf ears, and they're looking in the united states for tougher action from joe by the what the white house press secretary said in the last couple of hours is look joe biden pledge that he would engage with blood were put and diplomatically, that's what this

many counties and other states across the country have made some similar announcements regarding state employees. but this req when it comes to health care workers. governor newsom says california is the first state to implement a vaccine verification system for public and private healthcare workers. no one won't lose their job if they refuse the vaccinenated, ty will be required to test for covid 19 in a hospital setting those workers will test twice a week and a smaller, less vulnerable setting, say like a doctor's or dentist's office. those workers will test only once a week. governor newsom says this announcement is a result of the growing threat of covid-19 delta variant, which is now accounting for 80% of california's new infections. he says misinformation about the vaccine is preventing people from getting their shots and the state wants to end that. exhausted by the ron johnson's and the tucker carlson's were exhausted by the margie taylor greens were exhausted by the right wing echo chamber that has been perpetuating misinformation around the vaccine, and its advocacy and safe

the united states secretary of state takes up the next topic, calling for action to meet the threat of growing red influence in cuba. the reaction to the debate was explosive. in cuba, castro defiant. proclaimed friendship with the soviet union and communist china. the oas took action against dominican strongman rule. even as cuba threatened to walk out, president eisenhower in his press conference recalled common ties and interests and left open the door for an easing of tensions. >> by no means do i want to admit or charge that this situation is irretrievable. cuba has been one of our finest friends. we are the ones that have conducted the war. when they got in trouble, we had an occupation. we set them on their feet and set them free. we have had a long history of friendly relationships. we tried to keep our hands out of their internal political affairs. we have not tried to throw out someone we didn't like. i would think that the very welfare of the american -- of the cuban people demand some kind of composition of the difficulties between the american states, including our own on

is the number two state for education where we measure the states across ten categories of competitiveness, close behind massachusetts, also number three for workforce they're having a hard time attracting work ers to the state because of the high costs. but still a very smart, educated workforce. this state has done well on a category that we have re-imagined during the post social reckoning time. the state has, in the last just couple of years, has protected lgbt lgbtq rights and expanded voter rights >> two years ago, ralph northam was facing calls to resign >> reporter: he said at the time he was not going to resign but devote the remainder of his time to increasing equity in the state. a lot of folks were skeptical at the time his message today was that the ranking today proves that good business and inclusiveness are not mutually exclusive >> when you do the right thing for people, it's not only right for them but good for business a lot of good things are happening with virginia with equity we're an inclusive state and open for business. >> reporter: northam is not up for reelection

our secretary of state appointed by the governor of the state of texas specifically said there was no election fraud. the attorney general that wants to get up in arms who had the opportunity to prosecute election fraud, his office said, we have had 44 cases. not just in 2020, but over the years. 44 cases. you can pair that with the fact we have 30 million people in the state of texas and we have 700 die in the winter storm. you tell me, do we need to talk about the integrity of our electrical grid or do we need to talk about the integrity of our election system? amy: we're are going to bring as well texas tech representative jasmine crockett, another of the organizers of the state reps going from texas to d.c. i state representative trey martinez fischer of san antonio. you were in one of those two chartered flights and the bus that left goalless -- dulles. can respond to governor abbott singh when you return he will arrest you, have you all arrested in cabin, keep you in the capital until you vote? they can't go after you in washington, d.c. but the republican representatives don't

tonight, the state health department responding. in utah, authorities investigating covid cases linked to ten summer

he's exile to the united states. he's a news paper man and uses his platform as a journalist to popularize his pro-slavery views, and this was confounding to northerners abolitionists the rest of the world who already associate slavery as an opposition to values of self-government and freedom and rights, of course, so what mitchell does is by making his pro-slavery case. he says there's an there is an alternate case to be made that these deluded self-comparisons that white southerners are making are not yet quite outside the bounds of the way that nationalism was understood and the 19th century and mitchell actually does then go on to directly draw the same comparison that native born white southerners were as well. he was quite out spoken in claiming that it was the confederacy that fought for the same he had fought for maryland so again, we from our perspective certainly recognize that he was not correct in this that the confederacy was fighting against value such as freedom and inequality and natural rights, but m

make any of these state. , , , , state. yes, because it is affecting _ state. yes, because it is affecting all _ state. yes, because it is affecting all of - state. yes, because it is affecting all of our i state. yes, because it is affecting all of our lives | state. yes, because it is i affecting all of our lives in different ways will stop with rushin different ways will stop with rush in different ways. with agriculture, animals are dying because we are unable to keep them alive. we are also, i have been hearing just being cooked alive on the ocean itself because the temperatures are so high. —— mussels and seafood. with other things, migration, it is making an impact and actually pretty quickly. find actually pretty quickly. and 'ust actually pretty quickly. and just briefly. _ actually pretty quickly. and just briefly, what _ actually pretty quickly. and just briefly, what conclusions are being drawn about this with regards to climate change? i think the main conclusion is that we are seeing the effects of climate change in california and other parts

take a listen, treat it is not a state. it's an act. freedom is not a state. it's and we must act and we will act causes just or visit to the people who are the former. so we got you all, i'm a job, protect our troops and all those who shared watch over the market. so around the country we have republicans. we're proposing laws, they say, say, are aimed at essentially preventing voter fraud. they're requiring new forms of voter identification. they're regulating the polling places. in some places, there have been laws proposed to restrict the handing out of water to those waiting in line to vote, etc. now joe biden, and most democrats see this as basically an attempt by republicans to suppress the voter turnout specifically and constituencies that don't vote for them such as low income folks, african americans and others. now, in response to these proposed rules, we're seeing democrats taking some rather dramatic measures. for example, in texas, the democrats state legislators have left the state in order that there not be a quorum so that the state legislator

it has been categorized, by the way, by the department of state, the united states department of state as human trafficking. it is the definition of human trafficking. you get an individual, you use their services, they don't get paid, the person that traffics in them ishe one who gets paid. these people have no right that's precisely what happens in cuba, for example, with the medical professionals. but, also, if there's a european company,or example, that sets up a hotel in cuba, the workers are not pd directly. the money goes to the regime. the regime picks the people that they decide to send to, for example, that hotel, and the regime gives them a little bit of a -- you know, a tiny bit of money. the vast majority of the currency is kept by the regime. you can call it human traffickg. you can call it slave labor. call it what you might -- well, you know, it is the extreme of a government who in essence owns the people, traffics in those people while the only beneficiary is the regime, mostly the castro family. we have all seen the videos of the castro's nephews and grandchildren in

gerry: troubling questions about the state of readiness of the u.s. navy for war, facing criticism within its own ranks including too much on cultural and white privilege stuff again, not enough on the core mission of winning battles that seek a new report commissioned by members of congress and based on interviews with 77 current and former navy officers and sailors highlighting concerns that the distracted and handcuffed by bureaucracy shift commanders are micromanaged in a fear of bad publicity more folks the diversity of officers and not enough to work fighting, one lieutenant commented they think my only value is as a black woman if you cut us open will all be the same color. one of the officers of the report retired navy admiral mark montgomery, thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much for having me. gerry: let's start on this issue a hot topic in recent weeks focus of the military seems to have generally diversity and inclusion and let me quote something that you saw on the report one person that is quoting the report seen a retired off

extraordinary action by state legislatures. not just a stunt but people really sort of being as creative as possible in trying to turn back this threat to the country. >> john, i jotted down that section, this forming of a coalition. wrote next to it, new, question mark. they already have that. he had the meeting with the civil rights activists. the all-star game for the mlb was pulled out of georgia because of the voting rights. they got all of these groups. you heard an admission there will not be new legislation. i didn't hear anything new from the president as what this next step will be. >> i do think we should give the president he decided under some pressure but decided to give this speech. the question is will there be follow up. will there be additional speeches. when the president says legislation is not the only tool, that to me, and does not mention the filibuster, does not promise lobby senators to change their mind. this will be settled at the ballot box next year more than settled by any big dramatic vote in the

states would do that, places like new york, deblasio said we are fine, what about the states having a problem? are they going to listen to use this money to combat this? >> the states will use the money in the worst possible way. i don't think they will use it to fund law enforcement because the blue states are controlled by liberals and liberals do not support law enforcement. that has been clear for the past 12 months and we see reaction to that. it is also ironic that the cities with the most stringent gun laws are the cities with the highest rates of crime. red states that are pro-second amendment had the lowest rates of crime. the democrats are not in the right position with respect to law enforcement and are wrong with respect to guns and the american people are realizing this especially the people who live in the cities of blue states hopefully democrats will be held accountable by the voters because we can't continue to see an increase in crime in all of these blue states, it's not sustainable and something hopefully president biden is starting to see is a problem and is try

you hear him talking about the urgent federal efforts to help state after state after state deal with wildfire challenges across the united states right now. we'll continue to track that meeting for news. we want to get back to today's dramatic breaking news from the cdc. i'll put it on the wall. the cdc updating the assessment of the threat of the covid delta variant. as of yesterday, cdc scientists rated the delta variant just like a common cold. as in if you were sick, you were likely to infect two people. the new guidance says it's much more of a threat. if you're sick, meaning infected with delta, you're likely to infect 8 or 9 people on average. think about the math here. infecting two in a common cold. this is like chickenpox. eight or nine people. that means the delta variant is more of a threat. now it's a conversation about what needs to be done to deal with the new science. at that point let's bring in dr. peter hotez from texas children's hospital and the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor school of medicine. yesterday the conversation was this is l

concerned about russian expansion is. russia has conquered those states in the past. so they fear, thomas, how can i the baltic republics? their sovereignty is threatened by russia as we speak right now. what evidence do you have to prove that? well, we have, for example, the cyber attacks on, as donia during the earlier. in the past decade, we have the lessons of history. we have the fact that russia, the, the, the, the baltic states, of course, your annexation, that's part of their historical. and as those countries closer to russia, do fear it's military power. russia, oh, shouldn't, it shouldn't be anxious about nato expansion to its border. you know, it's either 2 sides of all of these things here. i'm the platitudes here. dmitri, you're the, the russian in the room here. russia wants better relations with you, but it's always conditionality over and over and over again. you must do this, even if you know you must change your behavior therapy in union doesn't have to change its behavior whatsoever. does it go ahead, dimitri? well, of course, i would want to have

this as several states look to enact restrictive voting laws. president biden speaking in philadelphia about the ongoing republican effort to enact restrictive voting rights. >> to deny free and fair elections is the most un-american thing, the most un-democratic and most unpatriotic and sadly not unprecedented. >> reporter: the president saving restricts that in more than 16 states are painful and are aimed at denying women and minorities the right to vote. >> have you no shame? >> reporter: biden calling it 21st century jim crow attacking republicans for leaning on lies that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud calling the effort the most significant test to our democracy since the civil war. >> the confederates back then never breached the capitol as insurrectionists did on january 6th. >> reporter: the senate passing their version. it calls for a ban on 24-hour polling locations and drive-through voting, efforts proving to increase turnout among minority voters. that prompted over 50 democrats to flee the state for washington, d.c. in a

and particularly the united states. they have made ever greater contributions to peace as we saw with egypt in this regional conflict. finally, with the united states, the u.s. administration like all administrations decides that since the priorities for the international agenda -- good luck. when asia's aircraft carriers are shipped out to the middle east outside of afghanistan, it is outside of joey hood's responsibilities in the middle east and the entire appomattox apparatus of the united states dropped most everything else to focus on the gaza cease-fire. this is the nature of the middle east that every administration has experienced. we can dream about doing things that are more important but the middle east is very hard to ignore. i think that is the lesson everyone has gotten. i will stop there. >> before i turned back to you, i just want to remind our viewers to submit their questions via twitter or email them to us. the important role of the united states, a proactive role, particularly to ensure that the ceas

and the states are responding. >> a business is never going to choose a state to relocate or to expand in just based on subsidies that the government is providing. they are going to want to make sure that the work force there, that their supply chain is there. >> hopefully, we won't have to endure another pandemic or another disaster, but we may right? we may and what will happen if and when we do? we are going to be better because of this experience. >> reporter: tonight after nearly six months of crunching the numbers, we have made our way to america's top state for business america's top state for business will be revealed on cnbc tomorrow you can also see where your state stacks up at topstates.cnbc.com which they once you find out where i am, it's going to make a lot of sense this state has put a lot of the factors together to compete. not every factor, but no state is perfect it will give us a sense where things are in this new competitive landscape., live shep >> scott cohn, live somewhere tonight. >>> did you catch richard branson pulling ahead in the space race that's not all

the state in what they are pretending is some great moral crusade. in reality they've just come here to washington to snap selfies, bask in the limelight, and beg senate democrats to take over texas elections. once again this outrage is completely phony. the texas legislature was going to consider bills that would expand the minimum hours of early voting, make even more counties provide 12-hour days of early voting, and make it even easier for voters to fix mistakes on mail-in ballots so their votes would actually count. these bills would apply voter i.d. to mail-in ballots through a simple process that doesn't even require a driver's license number. they'd clean up voter rolls to remove voters who have died or moved away. this is not controversial stuff. it's common sense. more than 80% of texas -- texans support voter i.d. but democrats have pulled out the same chicken little playbook that failed in georgia, the same big lies. yesterday the president of the united states delivered a speech that was set in an alter nat universe -- alternate universe

the business of the people of the state of texas. today in essence we are allowing and coddling people who should be at work in the state of texas , their constitutional duties. yet we are treating them as hometown heroes in washington, d.c. i believe they need to have their constitutional duties performed and be back home. now, mr. chairman, texas has been a pioneer in passing early voting laws that began in 1988 in texas. but i would say to you that texas has used every two years for the legislature to be able to strengthen these laws and to provide feedback and to allow texans the opportunity to vote. i would note that texas allows 17 days more of early voting than delaware, which is where our president is from. texas allows each texan 17 days more than the state of delaware. these bills that we'll be talking about today keep the ability for disabled or elderly persons to vote curb side. that's important to me. i have a disabled son. perhaps my son may or may not want to go inside. he can stay outside and it allows that. we need t

nearly $30 million damages to the state. that does not count for the impact of the storm and the impact of the storm had families who lost loved ones and countless other project applications storm and post. governor desantis at the time the damages were going to be almost incalculable. the depletion on the jersey shore is probably going to be the worst we've ever seen. unfortunately, he was correct. natural disasters have life altering consequences which is by members of the committee must work fema has the tools and is prepared as it possibly can be to respond. i understand fema, and this is very important to me, updating the national flood insurance program waiting methodology. the latest system 2.0, the current state one of the goal is to deliver active rates, i am concerned for many of my constituents, they will be forced to pay higher wages for move as a result of not being able to pay. meyer neither of these are viable options especially because of new jersey, as i think you all know, it's just about the highest in the

states like georgia, states like arizona. >> yeah. indeed. representative fischer, you are working with nancy pelosi, the congressional black caucus, hoping for a sit-down with kristen synama. what do you hope to gain? >> we've got to know the positions of the parties. we've heard recently of some discussions regarding with clyburn and his attempt to work on a resolution to carve out the filibuster for voting rights. i agree with him 100%. there should not be a rule or tradition that trumps our u.s. constitution, and our right to vote should come before senate tradition, and this is a now or never moment for our country. this is a now or never moment for our democracy. we need to have one standard when it comes to voting in the united states, and that's the american standard. it is very clear to me there's an attack on democracy. voices are being silenced across this country. the eyes of the nation are on texas. we are here in washington, we are asking everyone to join us in this fight and let's do this together. we are the last folks on this

you couldn't be more correct, their secretary of state state. it's in the blink. and recently announced that the u. s. will provide more than $436000000.00 in additional humanitarian assistance to syrians and the communities that host them. what are your thoughts on this somewhat of a relief package? well that it's how the it's who they want to provide it to. and that is primarily to syrians who are in the live problems area and to bring in humanitarian assistance. they want to do it without approval of the syrian government. and the russians who control the border area, where this assistance would be coming in has not agreed to that. so the, the whole issue of, of, of trying to work something out. i absence the, the syrian government in whose country they, these refugees would reside, is, is problematic, and the united states continues to want to oust aside. in fact, it was during the summer with and biden were asked by not to try to remove aside forcibly. and there was no response. so that's not a good sign. so that suggest to me that they may attempt to, to, to

this is just as important from blue states as it is for red state. some future republican congress may overstep bounds of federalism and i guarantee new york or california see a supreme court case and say you are not allowed to do this the way current congress and biden administration accomplished this. paul: i guess the other thing is, you now went ahead and passed the tax cut. for a lot of viewers i think there might be surprised for the reason that i thought the state were under pressure quickly, didn't have any money because of the pandemic, is ohio doing that well in terms of revenue you can afford to cut taxes? >> i was the legislature's policy choice and that is part of it here. the state get to decide their own path. high tax states are hemorrhaging residences, a lady in cleveland who left new york for ohio because of the regulatory burden in previous home state so i think the key here is local elected legislatures get to decide what's important to have citizens resources are going to be spent. paul: congratulations on the court victory and w

>> we have to state. the main thing for the cuban people, remember, 25,000 people, 30,000eople involved. there are 11.3 million people in cuba. the main issue there is the pandic. the government has two good vaccines they are deploying them massively. they have almost 20% of the population vaccinated. it's hard to tell what will happen next. if the government said do whatever you want, they would be frustrated. the government is going to do what it can to tamp it down, and we have to see how that plays out. laura: thank you so much for joining us. before we go tonight, we have a heartwarming story of a long-overdue reunion in china. this is the moment when a mother and father were reunited with their son, 24 years after he was taken from their doorstep. he was snatched at age two by human traffickers. he spent years writing a motorbike across china. he traveled me than 500,000 kilometers, 300,000 miles. if this sounds like the stuff of movies, it is. it inspired a film in 2015, thankfully, the real life v

we are seeing that in state after state after state. we are going to a realignment. this country is not just an one direction realignment. host: fort collins, colorado. charles, an independent. good morning. caller: my contention about voting is gerrymandering. because what i see in gerrymandering, where a politician can make districts that severely favor them, then we get to a point where, ok, i'm a guy, a republican in a 90% district. and i want to vote against donald trump because i don't believe he is doing something great. then everyone that districts yell rhino, and your career is over. to the extent that it was balanced, i think we would see more people coming across the aisle and be more pragmatic because their jobs are not on the line. and we we come to a better america where the republicans or democrats on either side to speak out, and that's why i'm so adamant about hr and sr one. i want to see that done. i want to see citizens -- thank you, charlie. guest: you made one of my points for me, that hr one, i think the mistakes made was because they put everyt