sweeney. the house democrats are going to impose new fees and royalties on new mines on federal lands. in addition, the democrats would impose a tax on material moved during a mining operation. under the house democrats proposal, meinerz will of the federal government the highest rate of royalties, taxes, and fees in the world good the house democrats proposal is enacted. is it fair to expect u.s. mining operations to close? ms. sweeney: absolutely. if you look at all three of those very punitive fiscal provisions in the house package that you mentioned, they present growth. 4% on existing dirt tax. just anyone of those could have a profound impact on the industry. you take all three and oppose them at the same time, you're looking at --impose them at the same time, you're looking at premature closure and will not attract additional investment into the united states. other countries, you know, they will reap the benefit. sen. barrasso: mr. haddock and mr. brown, how would your mind -- mines be

. >> projections show edward durr winning the third legislative district defeating steve sweeney. >> i knew if i could motivate the people to vote i have a chance. hello, my name is edward durr, i'm running for new jersey state senate. >> durr has never held public office. he used a smartphone to shoot his campaign video. reports initially said he had spent only $153 on his campaign. >> all right, $153 was prior to the primary. i spent closer to over five grand, less than ten. >> sweeney's projected loss is sending shockwaves through the state capital, loretta wineburg saying it is stunning and shocking and i can't figure it out. as a candidate durr posted messages opposing covid restrictions. >> governor murphy closed 9 stores. it's going to be a passion of mine that i don't think that it should happen ever again. >> sweeney has been the senate president for 12 years. this morning he has not conceded saying while i am currently trailing in the race we want to make sure every vote is counted. our voters deserve that, and we will wait for the final results. durr has no plans of leavin

sweeney. just talk. >> good morning, i'm katie sweeney, executive vice president and general counsel at the national mining association. thank you chairman manchin, ranking member barrasso and committee members for the opportunity to testify. we needed a time when the demand for minerals is skyrocketing. in 2017, the central bank said it would grow more than 1,000% due to the focus on green technology. more recent estimates from the international energy agency said those estimates may have been far too conservative. as the world began to awaken to the exponential growth in demand, the pandemic unleashed a massive disruption of the supply chain, further exacerbating our mineral vulnerability. the biden/harris administration early on recognized the path to repairing our crumbling infrastructure, transitioning to cleaning energy, is paved with minerals. the administration acknowledged the importance of the mining industry through the january made in america executive order's caution against the u

steven sweeney. the state senate president who has been a major power broker for almost a decade, he was defeated by republican edward dur. dur is a commercial truck driver who spent $2,300 total on his campaign this year, according to campaign finance filings. but in the wake of his victory, he's now facing questions about social media posts that have resurfaced. joining me now to discuss, wnyc radio reporter, matt katz. matt, first, how did this even happen? did sweeney put no effort into his campaign, act like he was running unopposed? i mean, when a truck driver who spent $2,300 total wins, it almost feels like when my dad writes in bart simpson when he doesn't like either candidate? >> yeah, you know, sweeney spent money, but we don't think he really necessarily did the kind of door knocking that edward dur did. i think the real thing that happened was sweeney got blindsided by the same thing all of us did, and that was republican motivation. and people in his increasingly red, rural and suburba

that's a huge blow for the senate president steve sweeney -- senator steve sweeney to have been ousted like this but you look at more northern county, somerset county which used to be solid red has turned over's senate seat that used to be -- belong basically to the bateman family, a solid republican seat and that's changed so there are a lot of things happening. i don't think it's as simple as we would like it to be as far as what the messages are from these elections. i think it's clear the democrats ought to get their act together if they want to be taken seriously as the governing party and respond to the needs of the people. youngkin when he ran in virginia as part of his race embraced issues that trump had put forward but not trump himself. that's a message to be careful and jack ciattarelli in new jersey embraced not just the issues but embraced trump himself and that wasn't enough. there weren't enough republicans on the far right to take him over the finish line because he couldn't bring the moderate republicans with him to the extent that he needed. so there is this balance h

long time senate president steve sweeney. the defeat another embarrassing upset, a string of them for democrats following their drubbing that they took in virginia and virginia governor phil murphy barely squeaked by. meet state senate elect who spent a little purpose $5,000 on his campaign and calls his win -- a little more than $5,000 on his campaign. >> i didn't beat them. we beat them. the state of new jersey. the people of new jersey beat them. they listened to what i had to say and i listened to what they had to say and it's a repudiation of governor murphy. governor murphy went and locked us down. ignored the people's voice. senator sweeney chose to do nothing for those 18 months and the people were angry. >> harris: what i noticed and love about this story? it connects all of the veins all the way to the nexus of where people are now. supply chain crisis and a trucker beats you with $5,000 in a cobalt-blue state. >> ben: don't lock down their businesses and if you ruin people's lives and you don't listen to them while

i spent closer to over >> reporter: sweeney's projected loss is sending shockwaves through capitol, loretta wineberg saying it is stunning and shocking. as a candidate, durr supported gun rights and rejected pandemic mandates. >> that's going to be a passion of mine that i don't think that should ever happen, ever again. >> reporter: sweeney's been the senate president for 12 years. this morning, he's not conceded saying, while i am currently trailing in the race, we want to make sure every vote is counted. our voters deserve that and we will wait for the final results. durr plans to keep driving his truck while serving as a senator. >>> voters in portland, maine, finally got results of a vote in a city council race. the race was tied. so they pulled a name out of a bowl and that was the winner. >>> coming up, the owing impact of the supply chain crisis and what you should buy now. >>> first, new concern about a >>> first, new concern about a chemical found i [sfx: radio being tuned] welcome to allstate. ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪ and even whe

on his campaign compared to sweeney who had hundreds of thousands of dollars in his campaign war chest. here's a clip from his campaign ad. >> senate president has spent 20 years in training, higher taxes, increasing debt can and a rising cost of living. we deserve better. new jersey, it's time for a change. >> rachel: edward durr joins me now. edward, welcome to "primetime," tonight on fox. your ad is amazing. it looks like it was done on an iphone. who shot your ad? >> that was done by the nephew of a good friend. >> rachel: exactly what i thought. [laughter] >> and we did it, you know, on a sunday afternoon, you know. i figured i needed to get some kind of social media presence and kind of introduce myself a little more than just posting, you know. >> rachel: right. >> statements. >> rachel: then you jump on your harley at the end of it and you drive off. i think everyone is asking the question how did you beat this powerful democrat. what did you do? what happened in this race? >> i didn't beat him. we beat him. the state of new jersey, the people of new jersey beat him. they liste

sweeney todd, i mean sweeney todd is just magnificent. that kind of operatic intensity. in his penultimate musical, passion, i think completes his gallery of portraits of obsessives, whether they were at vizovitis lake shore sura, or apply to victorians with vengeance on our minds like sweeney todd, or the obsessive slightly fame seeking assassins of assassins who shot american presidents. by who shot american presidents. by the time you got to passion their obsession is with love itself. , ., ., , itself. then, it is hard to sum u - , itself. then, it is hard to sum u, but itself. then, it is hard to sum no. but that _ itself. then, it is hard to sum up, but that is _ itself. then, it is hard to sum up, but that is all— itself. then, it is hard to sum up, but that is all we - itself. then, it is hard to sum up, but that is all we have . up, but that is all we have time for. up, but that is all we have time for-— that's all for me, thank you for watching. storm arwen has been buffeting the uk over recent hours. so far, the strongest wind gusts i've seen have been acr

, from his seat sweeney has been the state's senate president for more than ten years. durr beat him with 52% of the vote cnbc's valerie castro now on how durr won, spending so little on his campaign. >> the past 48 hours have been a whirl wind it's been kind of surreal. >> reporter: with a few thousand campaign dollars, some yard signs and a campaign video shot with a cell phone -- >> vote for me. >> reporter: -- edward durr won the senate seat held by steve sweeney, the senate president since 2010. >> i'm absolutely nobody i'm a simple guy. >> reporter: durr, a furniture company truck driver, said his win was unexpected but he won by just a little more than 2,000 votes. >> i thought it was possible but did i think it was a reality? it didn't set in until i actually saw the numbers tuesday night. >> reporter: so why does he think the voters chose him, someone who describes himself as fiscally conservative and eager to lower taxes he says pandemic restrictions played a role. >> you cannot continue to tell people they cannot do things when we live in the freest country i

>> you know, i always like watching steve sweeney on your shows, neil, he's a great guy. the head of the senate in the great state of new jersey and a great guy and a great politician and just very very well-known. how he got toppled, i think, because i know it's hard to understand neil cavuto, but in new jersey, we invented, let's see , i think pay-to-play, we invented corruption, but -- neil: careful young man, careful >> oh, i know. neil: next thing you'll start talking about the mob. >> [laughter] hey there's no such thing as the mob, neil, you know that as an aside? neil: angry italians in a room, go ahead. >> [laughter] you are too much, brotha. i think the political bosses were at play, because steve sweeney remember he had problems with the teacher's union a couple of years ago, it could have been that but also that whole area -- neil: and he was also putting heads with the governor, right, phil murphy, he had a gubernatorial run and then this former goldman sachs guy comes out of nowhere and launch es campaign and had the money to do it and all sweeney has to ste

the turn. musicals like west side story into the woods at sweeney todd into classics. ah, his creek to musical company which debuted in 1970 receipt, 14 tony award nominations. what started as an interest in music? when he was, a teenager became a towering courier. that revolution i story telling on the broadway stage. in 2015 president barack obama awarded san time the presidential medal of freedom. he won an oscar eat grammy awards and 8 lifetime tony awards. more than any other american composer and lyricist it's, it's nice to get an award. it's nice to be recognized. just the way it's it, it, i'd rather have an audience like what i write than dislike. what are right, but primarily i want to write. so, you know, that's what called santana, transformed musical theater shondra by setting his dancing words to unforgettable melodies every day. his legacy now includes music that would reach far beyond the broadway stage. stephen sondheim was 91. hm. oh, blue or more little stories on al jazeera israel is banning the entry of all foreigners in reaction to the spread of a

steve sweeney has spent the last decade leading the effort to make new jersey the most tech state in the nation. his defeat displays how garden state voters have rejected the socialist policies coming out of democrat controlled trenton and they're hungry for fiscal sanity once again. so it turns out that raising taxes the funding, the police and ramming critical race theory down school children's throats is not quite as popular as the left and biden's administration would have you believe what went wrong is just stupid woke miss. i mean this, steve, the police lunacy this take abraham lincoln's name of schools. i mean that people see that it's just really has a suppressive effect. all across the country. are the democrats, some of these people need to go to work, detox center or something. they're expressing a language that people just don't use and as backlash in of frustration at that. but while woke policies might seem like the likely explanation for why deaths not good. i mean, i do not think the world politics is a direction to go. and we've even got disagreements within the dem

he was the longest serving official in the garden state for over 30 years, but now steven sweeney is on his way out. the significance of all of that, with david, the suffolk university political research director, david, i know a lot of attention was on the tight governor's race, still unresolved even though a lot of official agencies and news sources are saying governor murphy just squeaked by. his opponent isn't quite willing to accept that nor is the head of the republican party in new jersey, so a recount looks likely there but here this is sort of like a metaphor for everything that happened, isn't it? >> sure. i think what you're going to see is, in congressional races and now senator elect in new jersey they are going to look at what's happened over the last couple of days and think, if a republican is going to win my congressional seat, why not me? so you're going to see youngkin like or burr-like candidates who are going to emerge, and that really was the finding from the polling. especially, we polled virginia. independents were minus 11 for the democrats, and, you know, an

sweeney however has not conceded saying thursday the results are still coming in. >> i just want the votes counted, then we will look to see if there's a need for a recount or if we just accept the results of the election. >> his projected loss adds on to other big defeats and near misses for democrats including the narrow victory in new jersey for governor phil murphy who became the first democrat in over 40 years to win reelection as projected by the ap. he spoke at the new jersey education association on thursday. >> i cannot tell you how eager i am to see what we can do over the next four years. yeah. i wasn't sure until last evening that i would be able to say that this morning. >> his opponent said at this race is far from over, releasing the video he calls a jack chat on twitter. >> no one should be declaring victory or conceding the election until every legal vote is counted. >> holding onto hope, pointing to the mail-in and provisional ballots that could take one or two weeks to be counted. >> shannon: thank you so much. democrats having a family feud tonight over who exactl

he policies, steve sweeney, has spent the last decade leading the ap, her to make new jersey the must texted state in the nation. he's defeat displays how garden state voters have rejected the socialist policies coming out of democratic control, trenton and are hungry for fiscal sanity. once again, so it turns out that raising taxes the funding, the police and ramming critical race theory down school children's throats is not quite as popular as the left and biden's administration would have you believe? what went wrong is to stupid woken us. i mean, this de funds a police lunacy this abraham lincoln's name off of schools. i mean, the people see that it's just ran him as a suppressive effect all across the country on the democrats. some of these people need to go to woke, detox center, or something. they're expressing a language that people just don't news on this back clash and frustration other. but while woke policies might seem like the likely explanation for why democrats lost so many seats, there are those who actually see the whole thing as a resurgence of white supremacy. even

he also wrote the lyrics for west side story and sweeney todd. president biden has expressed concern about russia's troop build—up near the ukrainian border. he said he was likely to discuss the situation with both countries' leaders. earlier, the us national security adviser and senior ukrainian officials called on all sides to pursue diplomatic efforts to de—escalate tensions. three people have reportedly died in the unrest in the solomon islands. the political crisis in the country is deepening with protesters surrounding the prime minister's home for a third day, and police firing warning shots and tear gas to disperse crowds outside his residence. a night—time curfew has been extended. don't forget to check out our website. you'll find lots more background and analysis to the stories we're covering. just head to bbc.com/news. you can also download the bbc news app. a girl of 12 has died after being attacked in the street by a group of teenage boys in liverpool city centre. ava white was with friends when it's thought they were involved

west side story gypsy and sweeney todd. and he'll be credited with reinventing musical theater group to looks back on his life. oh, he could make woods flow and sing me here are lost on the ground, but to describe stephen san dance tenant and courier is to deal with superlative. m. look long. he was a titan of america's musical theater, one of the most original song writers and the greatest composers of the 20th century, much like his extraordinary skills, his accomplishments, and audacity were unmatched on broadway. her born and raised in new york city, san time songs revealed the insides and triumphs of modern life with humor and sympathy. oh, a unique style. the turn musicals like west side story into the woods at sweeney todd into classics. ah, his freaks who musical company which debuted in 1970 receipt, 14 tony award nominations. what started as an interest in music? when he was a teenager, became a towering courier that revolution i storytelling on the broadway stage. in 2015 president barack obama awarded san time t

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. >> givenness to a longtime and outgoing senate president of new jersey steve sweeney. viewers may have seen that he was defeated in a big upset by a truck driver who spent very little on his campaign. sweeney conceded the race this week and he defended his record of keeping costs low for new jersey that he was tossed out for the record of tax increases. >> thank you all if you have your own hit or miss be sure to treat at je are on fnc. that is it for this week's show, take you to my panel and thank you for all of you for watching. i can't wait to see you next week. ♪ ♪ ♪. arthel: new york city mayor elect eric adams standing firm on his decision to bring back the controversial police unit to deal with the city surgeon gun violence. this despite the black activist in new york, he said the welcome to a brand-new hour of fox news live, i am arthel neville untenable. eric: thank you for joining us i am eric shawn. the mayor elect adams who has retired nypd captain who one law and order, he's doubling down on his campaign

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