new hampshire the buck stops here. if folks have an issue and things are not getting done at the end of the day it is up to me, myself, and my team ultimately having that one-on-one connection. we do not need to be on the phone every day but one call in a year, really? >> you will see them in washington this week. what will you till him? governor sununu that when he got on the phone with a month ago it was awesome. it did him good. it did us good. it gave us confidence that our voice was being heard and it is not about attacking or anything. it is about innovative ideas that are working. can you try doing that more broadly? if you are going to create the rules and have a one-size-fits-all, take ideas from laboratories of democracy across the 50 states, right? the governor has been on the front lines of this longer than anybody and i think there is a lot to learn. republicans and democrats across the aisle have done innovative things. it was great he got on the phone with us a month ago. it would be great if he kept doi

it is quite beautiful in southern new hampshire. david: i assume you are the town's most famous resident.

45 years as new hampshire's top election official. if there is anybody who is an expert on election administration, it is you, mr. gardner. it is good to see you. congratulations on making that next -- on creating a new chapter in your life, but i don't want to close it yet. so let's put your expertise to work. write the bill you think senate democrats should be pushing right now when it becomes to protecting the integrity of this democracy at the ballot box. >> well, i can speak for new hampshire and what we have done here to protect the integrity and in this state the people in this state survey calls that were done after the last presidential primary and this -- the last presidential election actually trust the accuracy of the vote more than they do the powerball, and those are unh ground state polls of over 1,000 random new hampshire -- we -- and the ease of the vote. the people who actually vote, whether they feel it was very easy, somewhat easy, very difficult or somewhat difficult. after both the presidential primary and the ge

a little girl from new hampshire. harmony montgomery hasn't been seen in two years but she was only just reported missing. abc's megan tevrizian explains. >> reporter: this morning the urgent search to find a missing 7-year-old last seen in new hampshire two years ago. >> quite frankly, enough is enough. this is a 7-year-old girl. let's find her. all right? let's come together as a community and do the right thing. >> reporter: officials say harmony montgomery went missing in 2019, but it wasn't until last week when authorities learned about her disappearance. two years passing by apparently with no one flagging law enforcement. >> it's the question i've asked, all right, that hopefully at some point along this i get an answer to. >> reporter: manchester police confirming harmony was in the child welfare system in both massachusetts and new hampshire before she was reported missing. it was new hampshire's division of children, youth and families that finally notified police about her disappearance. investigators have

>> i'll say in new hampshire we're a little different. to speak for my own state, we already have a lot of local control in our schools, the parents, school board, teachers have a lot of say in how that's managed. we let them have that discussion and decide, understanding that maybe southern new hampshire and manchester and a big high school might have different resources and different availability and different strategies to manage than a one-room schoolhouse in new hampshire. you let that flexibility happen at a local level, let the parents have that voice. as a community, they figure it out. a one-size-fits-all mandate saying everyone must wear a mask, that's just not the way we roll in new hampshire. we've been very successful with the local control flexibility and the parents have a voice. >> the opposite of that saying, you can't wear masks. >> again, i believe in the local control. that's where we really want it to be. to your point, are we out of this? are we not out of this? when do we lift regulations? from a state level, i'm tr

david: i assume you are woeful, new hampshire --walpole, new hampshire's most famous resident. ken: oh no, i thought if my great-grandchildren would keep their heads low they could be part of the volunteer fire department. there is a different hierarchy here were in no variety plus $.50 gets you a cup of coffee. david: let us talk about the most recent film, the four part series on muhammad ali. >> he stood up to the whole establishment. david: why did you decide to focus on him? ken: he is one of the most compelling figures in american history. he intersects with all of the major issues of the last half of the 20th century. the role of sports in society, the role of the black athlete in sports, the definitions of black manhood and masculinity, the civil rights movement. not as a fixed thing but as an ongoing, developing thing of race, freedom, is also about faith and religion and islam, sex, all of these things. human nature does not change. so when you have a larger-than-life figure like ali, he lights up page after page of history. he is, in a way, communicating the complex

overseas. >>> the growing mystery surrounding the disappearance of this 7-year-old from new hampshire. she hasn't been seen since 2019 but was only just reported missing. >>> 5g delayed. the decision overnight affecting your wireless service. >>> and later from betty white's 1977 cadillac on display to the news overnight about the giant powerball jackpot to a giant crab that could be straight from your nightmares, it's tuesday, january 4th. >>> good tuesday morning, everyone. we begin with breaking news in virginia where a dangerous situation is unfolding hours after a storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas. >> authorities are working to reach stranded drivers on interstate 95 after a crash involving six tractor trailers. heavy snow and icy conditions then continued to back up traffic for miles. some drivers were planning to sleep in their vehicles as temperatures plunged below 20 degrees overnight. >> earlier monday the heavy snow brought down trees creating an obstacle course for drivers near fredericksburg, virginia and it caused 500,000 power outages. many school dist

walpole, new hampshire is not known as a media center. [laughter] so i am curious how come you happen to do all of your work there. ken: i moved here in 1979, 42 years ago, when i realized that becoming a documentary filmmaker focusing in american history was taking a vow of anonymity and poverty. though my first film was nominated for an oscar and everyone presumed i would come back to the city or go to l.a., i stayed here because of the labor-intensive nature of what i do, the fact it is all grant-funded, philanthropic projects and that they are very time-consuming. so i keep my overhead very low here, and it is quite beautiful in southern new hampshire. david: i assume you are walpole, new hampshire's most famous resident. ken: oh gosh, i don't think so. you know, i always thought that if my great, great, great grandchildren kept their heads low, they might be able to be a member of the volunteer fire department. there is a different hierarchy here where any notoriety plus $0.50 gets you a cup of coffee. david: let's talk about the mos

in that sense, you could say, new hampshire is an example. new hampshire is a small state with a 400 member lower house. the joke is, everyone has their turn. serving in the lower house of the legislature. but the fact is, they are likely to know, they have a lot of contact, they are likely to know their state legislator. that's not the case in many places. that can improve representation. the question is whether it becomes unwieldy. you couldn't have that ratio for the house of representatives, you would end up with tens of thousands of members and that couldn't function to enable face to face bargaining, things you want some of in the legislature. i think the question is finding a balance, being representative of the largest society and still being functional as the body of human beings you have to negotiate with each other and work together somehow. >> also -- i mean, i think it's a fascinating question. and you are right, there is always a trade-off between size of the legislature and connections to constituents, as we all know. it's an e

think about new hampshire. >> what would be the best thing state like ours could do? >> expand all types of treatment. expand or try types of treatment. >> thank you very much. i yield back. >> chairing the committee and time our members speak in the case and i would like my colleagues to weigh with me into the record. >> thank you -- are you yielding? i couldn't quite follow because you broke up here. >> yes. >> i would like to enter a video of parents telling their story for the record. it can be found at stopthevoid.org. i'd like to introduce that into the record. >> without objection. can you hear me? >> i can hear you now. you're breaking up a bit but we can hear you. sgla i have do objections. >> the record will reflect the documents that have been entered into the record. thank you very much for your cooperation. this committee is now adjourned. >> c-span's washington journal, everyday we are taking calls live on the air, on the news of the day, and discussing policy issues that impact you. >> coming up this morning, natalie andrews talks about the january 6 at

that might not be popular this year, like senator maggie hassan of new hampshire. there is some question, why take this note if they know if it will fail question mark to that, senator chuck schumer says we have to vote on the record. republicans are more than happy for democrats to do that. judy: what is next for decrats? lisa what is going to happen here, thi is a critical period coming up. let's start with where we are now. this is the voting rights discussion today, yesterday. we want to look at a calendar also going possibly tomorrow. next, we have got about five weeks where the senate will be here and could try and work out a possible alternative to build back better. after those five weeks, you will see at the end there is a deadline for government funding on february 18. that is important because immediately after, the senate is set to go on recess. following that, another very big date on march 1. president biden does the state of the union address. he wants to have some part of the agenda through. followin the press conference, it seems that there are mor

we're not seeing that in new hampshire. right now we have more covid patients in the icu than we ever have since the beginning of this pandemic. our icu is full and we've had to create a second icu just to take care of the other patients. the patients that are coming in, i think they generally didn't think they would be sick or this sick from covid. a lot of them are younger and a lot of them don't have preexisting conditions and have been healthy before coming to the hospital. a lot of them are remorseful, they're scared, they're really worried. but i think a lot of them honestly didn't think they would get this sick. >> in terms of where we are in january of 2022 with regards to the treatment tools that we have that we did not have at the start of the pandemic, have those been especially helpful there in new hampshire? >> there are certain treatments we do now that we didn't do at the beginning of the pandemic. it really doesn't change the overall course all that much once a patient is so sick on a ventilator. these patie

. >>> a female captain and the police investigate the disappearance of a new hampshire girl. the new hampshire union have set up a tip line and are offering more than $12,000 reward in the case of a missing seven-year-old. they were only notified harmony montgomery was last seen in october of 2019 when she was five. on sunday, investigators searched the property and they have been in touch with family members. >> i'm appealing to everyone. help us find this little girl. someone knows something. >> police are operating under the assumption that the girl is still alive. >>> for the first time ever, a u.s. nuclear powered aircraft carrier was deployed under the command of a woman. captain amy bauerschmidt. headed to the western pacific on a 6 to 10-month deployment. she said she was humbled to be entrusted with the safety of her crew. >>> usa today said the world's oldest person turned 119. she celebrated at a nursing home in japan. born in 1903. she intends to live another year to reach her 120th birthday. japanese officials say there are more than 186,000 people in their count

are the outcomes of the california state legislature better than new hampshire state legislature? it depends on your politics, i suppose, to some extent, but it is also the case that california's state legislature is dealing with a wider range of difficult questions because california's economy is regulated and often winds up being the defective way in which a lot of regulations work in the u.s., because a lot of companies make products, if they're gonna make products for the california market, you might as well use the same manufacturing processes . so the u.s., another problem that the u.s. legislature is something we have been beating the drums on since we first met over coffee many years ago, about the fact that the u.s. congress does not invest enough in its own policymaking capacity, so that is one question, whether, if you increase the number of members, but don't increase the expertise and staff capacity, you may not be solving the problem. the hope is if you have more members, you would also have more staff capacity and expertise, and more focus on committees and subcommi

i yield the floor.iding officere senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: madam president, i come to the floor today to speak in opposition to senate bill 3436 which is the nord stream 2 sanctions bill sponsored by senator cruz. i certainly share the concerns that have been expressed just a few minutes ago by senator mcconnell about the threat that russia poses to ukraine and to eastern europe and the role that nord stream 2 plays in that critical issue. i have been a strong and long-standing opponent of nord stream 2. i believe now what i believed at the time that i originally cosponsored the nord stream 2 sanctions bill with senator cruz that the nord stream 2 pipeline is a long-term threat to the energy security of europe. but right now we're in a different place on this. and while senator cruz and i worked together on sanctions legislation to stop this pipeline, my disagreement now with senator cruz is in his approach to what we need to do to address what is right now a much more serious threat to europe, to nato, to the transatlantic alliance.

that is vermont and new hampshire. he is meeting them and he is making these distinctions about are they like us or unlike us? are they with us? are they are not with us in some form and we expand that to all of the thousands and tens of thousands who were part of that army at that time taking what is imagined and making it real in some form or another so we come back to that reality as we look at hawkins, so i wanted to pick it up, especially. in this one aspect whose country campaign. this was in 1779. so even before this a year before this and 78 there was talk about a possible another invasion into canada. general lafayette was given charge of that possible invasion in '78 is let's move up and go for it. certainly hazen was gung ho for this. yes. let's get back to canada. i have my estates back there. you know, i want to get my lands back the rest of it and it went nowhere. okay, that was the end of it in '78. they could not get the supplies. they could not get the support quite frankly general washington was not r

i'm now joined by the leaders of that delegation: democratic senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire, and republican rob portman of ohio. >> woodruff: i spoke with them ter president biden's news conference was starting. senators shaheen and portman, thank you very much for joining us. senator shaheen, two americans who are right now preoccupied with covid and a number of things at home, explain why it should matter to them if russian troops go into ukraine. >> well, we don't want to see a reprisal of the cold war and, unfortunately, that's what we've begun to see with vladimir putin. and the fact is, if he does invade ukraine, it would be the worst conflict on europe since world war ii. that's not good for our allies and it's not good for america. we want to see ukrainians, like americans and other democracies, have the opportunity to determine their own futures, and we do not want to give vladimir putin and russia a veto power over what happens in ukraine in the future. >> woodruff: but, senator portman, if the united states is not prepared to send troops of its own into ukraine, wh

i heard my colleagues from new hampshire. and they're not hiding the ball, folks. they're not -- they're not trying to tell us oh, we're concerned about it. as early as 2011 state republican house speaker at the time in new hampshire, senators, you know william o'brien? can i gel a hallelujah there? promised to clamp down on unrestricted voting by students calling them kids voting liberal. voting their feelings with no life experience. i hear what you're saying that this is -- all these laws ares f you start looking at the legislative record, you see groups are being targeted in this country. polling places are diminishing on college campuses. voter i.d. laws are being created so complex in midwestern states that they're saying you can't use a four-year i.d. it's got to be a two-year i.d. that's some of the laws that are being passed. can somebody be witness on that. and i hear this rhetoric where people pull out one law. well look at this law. this is just about shrinking the days or this is so innocuous on its face. and i know there are people at home, thinking t

host: and that's new hampshire public radio's civics 101 podcast. here are the cohosts and producers, hannah mccarthy and nick capodice. thank you for joining us today. hannah: it's a pleasure to be here today, thank you. nick: thank you, jessie, it's a delight. host: let's get into the origins of the civics 10 one podcast. how did this first start? hannah: yeah, i can lay that on you. shortly after the 2016 election, we were working for new hampshire public radio and our station, as i'm sure stations across the country were, were flooded with questions from regular news listeners who were paying a little more attention. there were democratic norms people believed were being skirted or broken, and people wanted to know -- i know we have a secretary of state, but i don't know what that secretary of state does. or how does a bill become a law? or what is a rioter? one of our producers wrote at the time on a post-it note -- i call this the west wing moment, writing on a napkin. but someone wrote on a post-it note -- pardon me -- "schoolhouse rock for a

miles northwest of boston, right on the new hampshire line. and it had a very rich history. but it seemed to me, that it had an even richer untold history, much of it i accumulated through discussions with older folks, who were in world war i, world war ii. they made it come alive. i was very lucky. it was a company town for a very long time. it housed the world's -- second largest cooper ridge, or barrow making factory. i think my grandfather worked there. it was classic. there was a family that lived on the house on the hill. the house was called windy crest. and i had a great aunt who worked, briefly, as a maid at windy crest. but then i got to know the family. and in particular, -- and this is where history bleeds into biography, although i think they are inseparable, -- i thought, a very poignant interest -- in 1960, the world had moved on and didn't need barrels anymore. and the family had to close this enormous -- and i love to see it. this enormous complex of buildings that comprised this barrel making enterprise. and the last of the f

that is how they do in new hampshire. both democrat and republican legislatures, no matter which party has control since 1976 they have elected to continue with him as the secretary of state with the simple reason that they believe he has been doing a great job. he will tell you that avoiding early voting makes election day special. avoiding early voting allows for a cleaner elector. avoiding early voting avoids overburdening logistical challenges that your local election officials have to absorb and contend with. he thinks that the new hampshire system, without early voting, it works spectacularly well. he would be the first to make the statement that if you had some reason you can't get to the polls, there would be a combination for that. mail-in voting, absolutely with used absentee voting. i don't know one on any part of this debate that doesn't support the continuation of the availability of mail-in voting for people who are sick or have moved away from their polling for the locality on election day. those kinds of t

amy: today is presidents day and tomorrow is the new hampshire primary. welcome to the maiden voyage of democracy now! pacific can't's daily national looks show. greetings to our audience in california, texas, new york, passionate d.c. washington state. kansas city and colorado we are embarking on a journey to pick up community radio stations in more states as we give voice to the grassroots. that project will begin a quarter of a century ago. democracy now! went on the air on nine community radio stations in 1996. it now airs in over 1500 tv and radio stations around the globe and online at democracynow.org. in 1998 democracy now! documented chevron's role in the killing of two protesters who occupied a chevron own oil platform in the oil rich niger delta. democracy now!'s jeremy scahill and i traveled there to investigate and produced this special documentary drilling and killing chevron and nigeria's oil dictatorship. this is an excerpt. >> until now chevron claimed its only action against the occupation was call the federal authorities and tell them w

that is how they do it in new hampshire. both democrat and republican legislatures, no matter which party had control, have elected him to continue for the simple reason.

townsend was just to say physically and massachusetts spiritually in new hampshire although now new hampshire has become an extension of massachusetts but those days it was out of 4000 people 50 miles to boston right on the new hampshire line. it had a very rich history. and but it seemed to me that it had an even richer untold history, much of it that i accumulated through discussions with older folks who were in world war i and worldwar ii . made them come alive and it was, i was very lucky. it was a company town for a long time. it housed the worlds allegedly second-largest cooperage. my grandfather worked for them when he was there and it was classic. there was a family thatlived in a house on the hill ss. the house was called when the crest and i had a great aunts who worked briefly as a maid at windy crest which gave me an opening but then i got to know the presidents and in particular, here's where the history sort of weeds into my biography although i did feel inseparable, i thought a very poignant instance in 1960, the world moved on. it didn't need a lot of wooden barrels anymore an

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a different system turned interstate 93 in new hampshire into a skating rink wednesday. the ice causing big rigs to slide into cars that were already stopped. luckily no injuries were reported. checking today's high temperatures, upper 30s in new england, frigid in the twin cities and mild across the southwest into the gulf coast. >>> coming up, when buying groceries could soon get easier. >>> also ahead police uncover a massive scheme to steal amazon packages before they're delivered. >>> and later, antonio brown tells his side of the story after >>> back, now, with cows making trouble next to this highway in idaho. two escaped from the pasture. cowboys helped police corral the cattle into a trailer. it took about two hours. >>> police in oklahoma have busted what they are calling a massive scheme to steal undelivered amazon packages. now three suspects are under arrest. here's andrea fujii. >> reporter: this morning, three people are e behind bars, accused of stealing thousands of amazon packages right before christmas. >> everywhere we look, there are packages. >> rep

new hampshire's u.s. senator is a moderate, practical, swing state senator who is up for reelection this year. a few months ago, she also opposed creating a carve-out for voting rights. she was open to some kind of narrower reform. last month, you may remember here on this show, she came on the air to talk about her decision that voting rights was too important, that voting rights should be allowed to pass with a simple majority, it's too important for the country to let it go. she's not alone in this shift. several other moderate senators have had similar evolutions over the past year. all saying they now support passing voting rights with a simple majority because it's too crucial. we are in too much of a bad place in terms of protecting our democracy as a country. we need to do this to protect who we are. most democrats want to move forward on voting rights and doing what it needs to take to pass it. manchin and sinema continue to stand in the way of any changes that would allow voting rights legislati

let's bring in august and keen new hampshire. we have richard feldman, the former regional political director, national rifle association and author ricocheted confessions of a gun lobbyist in oakland. we have pastor mike mcbride, director of the free campaign and the co founder of the national black brown gun violence prevention consortium in arlington. we have chuck an as be he's a firearms instructor and formerly a naval officer. gentlemen, welcome to the program. richard feldman and new hampshire coming to you 1st personalized guns. what are the, what are the good points and what are the bad points? now i the person eyes gun being something that is only operational by the authorized user. a one can see instances where that would be a very good thing. they were originally developed over 20 years ago, primarily for law enforcement, who from time to time in a scuffle, will have their gun taken from them by the perpetrator. and it's of course, in the interest a law enforcement to the gun not to operate if it's in the hands of the

our next guest, erica cohen, is the chair of the dairy school, boarded new hampshire. she and her fellow school board members have been threatened at meetings. here's just one example of whatever cohen is dealt with, throughout covid mandates in schools. >> i just have to call it for what it is. you guys are cowards. you force the mass on these kids, and i just want to say, if you do force a mandate, genocide jab, and experimental jab on these kids, you astronauts. and i hope you hang. >> please stop! >> you guys are war criminals. >> if you do that to the, kids are war criminals. have a good night. >> the disgusting behavior we've seen from national politicians trickle down to our local governments. we can expect democracy to work if that's what happens, when you attended a school board meeting. erica cohen fears a moment like this are going to discourage democratic participation. she writes in the boston globe, but i fear most of that community participation will become the domain of those who seek conflict or hold an anti mask, anti vax viewpoint. for the conflict a

gardner is getting a lot for his successful efforts over all those years to keep new hampshire first in the nation's primary but i think he deserves equal attention for being one of the only democrat in recent years to oppose his parties attempt to federal takeover of voting laws in the country, he stood up for new hampshire's constitution and laws just as he did most of his career. >> there aren't too many of those left. bill. >> you talked about lori lightfoot unable to help students thanks to the chicago's teachers union at the center for education reform stepped in to provide alternatives which chicago public schools failed. it's called. award rescue fund and its emergency funding for schools or programs ready to immediately provide education for the chicago school kids, expanding capitol school to a learning center. a hit to the rescue fund, we hear a lot about putting children first, these folks are doing it. >> got it. kyle, to you. >> a missed to the recent panic about gerrymandering democrat talking for months as if it's another finale for democracy, the endless and politica

the presidi -- the president pro tempore: the senator from new hampshire. a senator: just briefly, mr. president. i know i was scheduled to speak but i want to respond as one of the signatories of the letter. i associate myself with everything that the other sig takers -- signatories have talked about in terms of wanting to restore the senate's tradition of extended debate on issues of grave importance to the american people. ms. hassan: but let me be clear about the reason that i now support, an adjustment to the long-standing rules of the senate. and it is because i never imagined when i signed that letter that not a single member of the republican party would stand up for our democracy since january 6 when we saw an acceleration of state laws that would allow partisans to overturn the impartial count of an election. we need to address the issues that so many of us have talked about here. the people of new hampshire, the people all across the country, they need us to address pressing issues like lowering the cost of prescription drugs or making it easy fo

that connect vermont and new hampshire. in an effort to catch the dog, a german shepherd named tinsley, police went after the dog and ended up finding a brutal car accident where tinsley's owner and another passenger were found alive but injured, quite injured. joining us now is new hampshire state police officer lieutenant dan baldisari. thank you for being with us. you're a supervisor of the trooper who experienced this. can you take us through what happened with this dog? >> sure. thanks for having me. so we got a call for a loose dog running on interstate 89, in lebanon, which borders vermont. the trooper went out there to go check the area, did find a loose dog, a german shepherd running up the northbound side of the highway. and in an attempt to just get the dog off the highway, which is the number one priority so it didn't get hit, it tried to shoo it off the highway, the dog wouldn't leave. it was a little bit skiddish, wouldn't come up to the trooper, but the dog continued to run north and the trooper followed the

we will hear from cutler in new hampshire. hello. guest: good morning -- caller: good morning. how are you doing? my experience with covid was last march. my wife and i got the johnson vaccine. and we were doing fine. but then, this christmas, one of the granddaughters texted after christmas that she had covid. so my wife went and got tested and she tested positive. then she wanted me to go get tested so i went over to the v.a. and they said, do you have symptoms? i said no. well, come back if you have symptoms. so then, i called the v.a., and the lady referred me to a mobile unit downtown in manchester, new hampshire, and i went there on thursday, and i didn't have symptoms yet, so i took the test and you had to wait 72 hours for the results. the results came back on monday that i was ok. but, starting friday, i started getting a runny nose. i had a fever. i had chills. i had diarrhea. and complete fatigue. so i went back to the v.a. and got a test and that said that i was positive, so i am now in quarantine in my house until january 9. my daughter was out of work for 11 days.