wasn't one state. wasn't three states where they did this. at least five states where we've now obtained forged documents created by republicans. and it's not like they, again, created these documents to, like, hold close to their chest and fantasize that this had been the real outcome. it's not like they created these documents just to keep as a keepsake. they sent them in to the government as if they were real documents. and it's not like, hey, we know they're not the real electors, because biden won, but here's our names for posterity and your records. they created these fake documents purporting to be the real certifications of them as electors. here it is in the forged document from georgia. we, the undersigned, being the duly elected and qualiied electors do certify -- you are not the duly elected and qualified electors. but when i put those five up there, you may have noticed, all the real certificates, they're all unique, with their own quirks, fancy or not fancy paper. decorations and seals. contrast that with the forged republican d

we are taking the idf from the state of the state speeches -- the idea from the state of the state speeches. you can add your thought to the mix may be pegging off the thing the governors have addressed, other issues you think are important to address as well. (202)-748-8000 for those in the eastern and central time zones, (202)-748-8001 in the mountain and pacific time zones. in new york this is inis, if i'm saying it correctly? . caller: inez. host: inez, sorry. go ahead. caller: we have a new mayor, sorry, and we have a new governor and we have a new world. everything is uncertain and i don't get tied up with so much democrat or republican do right. make it make sense as much as we can and everybody look after each other. host: you think new york has one major issue? is there a major issue in your state that needs to be dealt with? caller: that is tough. let me speak on new york city because new york state is a very large place and different and nuanced. in new york city yes, we have an exceptional skyrocket of crime. with our new mayor i don't know how he is going to approach it and how

and predictably argue states' rights, states' rights. i heard over the weekend on some of the talk shows -- i don't know if there's a copy in here. there is. i was hoping there would be a copy of the constitution in this desk i'm visiting but article 1, section 4 of our constitution is explicit for those who question whether or not it is the exclusive province of the states to establish standards for elections. and i'm going to read it. section 4, the times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof. but the congress may at any time by lawmaker alter such regulations except as the place of choosing senators. of course then the amendments following the civil war, during and following the sif war -- civil war with went even further in terms of voting and the issue of race. it's very clear to me and you only have to read those simple words straightforward and direct in the constitution to realize that establishing standards for elections is not exclus

god bless you all and may god bless the great state of new jersey and the united states of america. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]. this is half an hour. [applause] gov. holcomb: all right. mr. speaker, mr. president, madame chief justice, lieutenant governor, members of the general assembly, fellow hoosiers, is indeed an honor to again discuss the state of our great state and the work before us as we seek to make life better for all hoosiers. winston churchill once said a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ladies and gentlemen, you can color me and optimist, because there's never been a more opportune time to realize our true potential than right now. even as we are contending with the challenges of a global pandemic, we are simultaneously strengthening our economy, reskilling our workforce, building up and out our infrastructure, and enhanc

january 23, 2020, i stood in this same spot to deliver the state of the state address. the chamber was packed. the work coronavirus meant nothing to most of us. we were looking forward to a bright year ahead. that plan did not include a global pandemic, i can tell you that. while we cancel plans and turn attention to beating the pandemic, so did the people of our state. these last two years have brought unprecedented challenges for every delaware family. many have lost loved ones, others lost their business. now children miss important time in their classrooms. miss sports games, graduations, weddings and funerals. every one of us have experienced some type of loss during this pandemic. else, we all have that in common. as weas learned the hard way the past few weeks, we aren't threat yet. more than 300 numbers of the delaware national guard are at work right now helping take pressure off our hospitals and getting delta variant tested and vaccinated. i want to take this moment and help me thank general, guardsmen and women in all the healthcare workers for their incredi

those other states weren't here and one of the 12 states which created inside the united states constitution in 1787. from then until now we have endured and overcome every obstacle and challenge created by man and nature. we have seen it all and we have endured it all and we have prospered in with that heritage we stand today in a moment brimming with opportunity and promise unlike we have seen before. .. en it all and we have prospered. we are blooming with opportunity and progress unlike we have seen before. let us seize this moment by thinking big, being bold, being confident and making transformative investments. in this way, i believe we will set our state on a course that will provide the opportunity for prosperity and happiness for generations of south carolinians. let us continue working together. let's keep winning. i believe in south carolina. i believe in america and i believe in each and every one of you. i believe that the best is yet to come. >> god bless you all. >> good morning and a loja. before i begin my formal remarks come i went to make a few comments. in normal times w

and so it's sent to the states and states began the process of considering ratification. and in fact, it was ratified almost immediately by three states and later by two states. so there were states that had already passed this amendment as our ratify this amendment and expected it to become law. the war is going to disrupt this of course. so, this is a serious attempt. at constitutional compromise. it's also one that president-elect abraham lincoln fully supported. when lincoln arrived in washington in february, he's going to spend some time talking to congressman and also going to the peace conference and supporting the efforts of folks to compromise. there was one thing he wouldn't compromise on right that's the territories because the territories are what the republican party had run on in 1860 restricting slavery in the territories, but in terms of where slavery existed yes, lincoln is on board with not interfering. on march 4th lincoln is going to deliver his inaugural address. much less confusing than james buchanan one of the wonderful things about abraham lincoln

. >> the constitution of the united states. >> in the state of new jersey. >> in the state of new jersey. >> i will bear true faith and allegiance to the state. and to the government established in the united states. it in this state under the authority of the people and i will diligently, faithfully and partially, justly and to the best of my knowledge and ability. >> and to the best of my knowledge. >> execute the office in conformity with the powers delegated to me. >> with the powers delegated to me. >> and i will. >> and that i will. >> the up most of my skill and ability. skill andust have my ability. >> promote peace andts prosperiy and maintain lawful rights of the state. >> maintain falafel rights of the state. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. how is everybody doing? thanks for coming out. tenant governor and your family, especially your great mom, god bless you. chief justice and justices of the supreme court, members of our extraordinary congressional delegation representatives alone, watson coleman,

our state very simply. we need action and can wake up every morning understanding we need action this day which was churchill's first order at the beginning of world war ii. i think it can serve to focus us on the task before us. i'd like to start by thanking our front-line workers, our educators, childcare providers and state employees for all they've done the last two years. i want to thank those who administer emergency services. unprecedented weather event demanded much of you already this year including national guard, we are grateful and special thank you to the healthcare workers who work tirelessly for two yearss with little time for rest. you are heroes and grateful for your service. happy to welcome new members in the senate, john and brandy to the house. my thoughts are with the family of former supreme court chief justice and i know who would like to reiterate error condolences to doug aronson, we lost after a struggle of covid in december. he was one of the more than 10000 washington lost to th

any other state. [applause] we have the lowest unemployment rate in history. not only the history of our state but in the history of our nation at 1.8%. last november marks third month in a row where 1 million nebraskans were employed. and our manufacturing sector has come boring back. in fact there are more nebraskans working in manufacturing today than pre-pandemic. our economic successes are a testament to nebraskans desire to work hard and earn. from teachers to truck drivers, mechanics to medical professionals from farmers to fast food workers and every profession in between. the states women and men invest their time and effort to better their communities and support their families. last year we supported their work and help them grow nebraska. thanks to the leadership of the chairman and the revenue committee, the 2021 session ushered in a historic level of tax relief that will deliver $2 billion to nebraskans over the next two years. [applause] many other great bills were passed into law thank

democrats make states on voting for their states, even if it's a democrat state. and then the next big issue is are the democrats in this room actually going to destroy the filibuster and silence the rights of the minority in america? now, if you would have asked me four years ago, i would have said no way. that's not going to happen. because a group of democrats and a group of republicans joined together and said, we are committed to not destroying the legislative filibuster. why? because it's what makes the house and the senate different. the house and the senate are not just ones bigger and one is smaller. the house and senate operate differently. the senate has been the place for 2 1/2 centuries where the debate occurs in the rights of individual senators to be able to debate the issues, defend their state, talk about the rights of americans. this happens in the senate. the majority rules the show in the house. if they have 218 of 435, they don't care what the other side thinks. people, when they talk about bipartisanship, never bring up the house of represent

. >> arizona governor doug ducey delivered the 2022 state of the state address from the state capitol in phoenix. the second term republican focus focus his remarks on immigration an education. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you. thankth you. speaker bowers, president fann, leaders rios and bolding, chief justice brutinel, members of the legislature and judiciary, everyone assembled here, thela families, the friends, the special guests and dignitaries, all my fellow arizonans, there is nowhere else i'd rather be right now than here, in thisig chamber, on this floor, together, in person, smiling, shaking hands, and celebrating the strength and the future of the state of arizona. [applause] typically in an even numbered year, we've logged a lot of hours working together. but today we have an unusually large number of fresh faces. and that makes it all the more exciting.f would all the new members of the house and senate, those sworn in since our last sine die, please rise? [applause] just wanted to make sure you got a proper welcome. without citizens like yourselves and your

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our state's nickname, the garden state goes back to when agriculture was our main industry and our state was the breadbasket of a young nation. over the past 245 years, we became known for growing something more. we grew industries which in turn gruber proud cities and towns. the seeds of innovation planted here with technology that quite literally built the modern world. we grew good paying jobs, on the shoulders of organized labor. [applause] we grew a strong and inclusive middle-class. so yes we are still traveling the garden state. but our task is building in new jersey that is also the opportunity state. an opportunity state that works from the bottom up and an opportunity state that doesn't let current generations, us and our children prosper but and ens that those that will follow, our children's children can prosper even more. my brother, two sisters and i were raised as you heard me say middle-class and i am honored to my sisters and many of the members of the families are here. [applause] in reality we were working only one of our parents held a high school diploma. what they e

the state's official electors and states that trump won, those states say these are formally their trump electors and those are the electors from this state.ecanteidstst that happened in little sort of low-key, but official ceremonies all over the country in every state capitol in the united states on december 14th, 2020. but in wisconsin, as the neke official electors were meeting that day in the state capitol, and this is footage of the official electors meeting, we know, thanks to reporting from d the journal sentinel, the "milwaukee journal sentinel," a group of republicans decided j they, too, would meet secretly elsewhere in the wisconsin state capitol.ep they didn't tell anybody about their plans. they didn't invite the press or any observers from the public.r the "milwaukee journal sentinal" sussed out what they were doing. we learned in addition to meeting to describe themselves as the electors from the state of wisconsin, even though they weren't, we subsequently learned this group of republican in a state that biden won, they put pen to paper. they not only declared that day t

jocelyn benson is the secretary of state of the great state of michigan. both of you, i'm very grateful for your time. i'm particularly grateful to have you both here together. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. you've really advanced our understanding of it tonight. >> our pleasure, rachel. thanks for covering it. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. stay with us on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54, what's my price? you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price? also $9.95 a month. i just turned 80, what's my price? $9.95 a month for you too. if you're age 50 to 85, call now about the #1 most popular whole life insurance plan available through the colonial penn program. it has an affordable rate starting at $9.95 a month. no medical exam, no health question

really state to state war was back in 1973. and today really no major arab states are war with israel or israel with them. iran is in a state of belligerence, but has never had a war with israel and as unlikely ever to have a war with israel so you could say at that level. this strategy worked made sense still prevails in a certain way. obviously a lot has changed. but he did not. maybe take a count of two things one is you know this non-state actors. i mean it started with a stateless people than the plo and now you have a whole bunch of obviously groups affiliated in many different ways at the middle east is no longer a zone simply of states. that you have to worry about and i wouldn't necessarily say that that is a consequence of a certain approach but it is interesting that it's the most non-state actor written region of the world. and secondly that is a that he said the us on a course. including on the west bank which as you say i mean really did not take the palestinian issue itself into consideration and enabled and brou

and i can encapsulate the state of our state. we need action, we can make up every morning the next 60 days, understanding that we need action this day, which was churchill's first order at the beginning of world war ii. and i think it can serve to focus us on the tasks before us. i'd like to start today by thanking our front line workers, our educators, our child care providers and our state employees for all they've done the last two years. i want to thank those who administer emergency services and plow the roads to keep washington moving. unprecedented weather events have added much of you already this year and including the national guard and we're all grateful. in a special thank you to the health care workers who have worked tirelessly for two years with little time for rest, you are heroes and we are grateful for your service. i'd be happy to welcome our new members in the senate, jasmine trudeau and lovitt to the house and my thoughts are with the former chief justice who we lost. and the condolences of the family of sen

our state is growing again. for years we were fed a line that no one wanted to be part of the new jersey family but the truth is the exact opposite. our population is growing. our real estate market is strong. we are making more progress against property taxes than any administration before us. for policies we put in place and the community investments we made our administration slowed the rate of property tax gross more than any of the four administrations, record that includes four of the lowest year-over-year increases in property taxes on record. the reality is this. we are making new jersey the place where businesses want to locate and families want to live. the census counts it in black and white. some states in the region lost population, new jersey grew. turns out the moving vans are driving into new jersey. any number of issues which are national in scope, combating senseless gun violence, protecting the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, facing the x essential crisis of climate change, ensuring

in these united states. [cheers and applause] while so many around the country have con signed people's rights to the grave yard, florida has stood as freedom's van guard. in florida, we have protected the right of our citizens to earn a living, provided our businesses with the ability to prosper, fought back against unconstitutional federal mandates, and ensured our kids have the opportunity to thrive. florida has become the escape path for those chasing under authoritarian arbitrary and seemingly never-ending mandates and restrictions. even today, across the nation, we see students denied an education due to reckless politically motivated school closures, workers denied employment due to heavy-handed mandates and americans denied freedoms due to a coercive biomedical apparatus. these unprecedented policies have been as ineffective as they have been destructive. they are grounded more in blind adherence to declarations than they are in the constitutional traditions that are the foundation of free nations. f

i am humbled once again to have the opportunity to address the state of our great state. i know there is a temptation to view today is the opening kickoff of a big game or the launch of some great battle some will describe it that way but i encourage you to do what you can to resist the perception of the competition. avoid feeding the plot line pitting one team against the other. this is not the sports page. we are all here to do the people's business. it is sacred. we are all on the same team today. in factth every day. at the outset of every legislative session i encourage my colleagues to think about the people we're all here to serve. think about their dreams and their hopes and fears and what effective service can deliver to those all across new mexico who are represented here in this building the entrepreneurs and job creators and in the belief system. we don't agree on everything and we don't have to but i believe the value that we share unitas to see our families grow and thrive and the optimism that tomorrow can and will be better than today for ourselves and for

delivered the 2022 state of the state address from olympia. he praised the state's response to the covid-19 pandemic and also spoke about challenges posed by climate change, homelessness, and aging infrastructure. this is just over 20 minutes. >> good afternoon. we know that every day of the session will be an opportunity to make good on our commitments. to change the course of our future for the better. >> i would like to start today by thinking our health care workers, for all they have done for the last two years. i want to think those who administered emergency services, cap the roads going to keep washington moving. we are all grateful. a special thank you to the health care workers. those who have worked tirelessly for two years with little time for rest. you are our heroes. we are grateful for your service. i'm very happy to welcome our new members to the senate. my thoughts are also on the family of a former supreme justice we lost in december. i know we would like to read or a our condolences to the families of senator erickson we los

, state, another state. kretzer: justice kavanaugh, i think i'd have to very respectfully disagree with the premise of that last part of the question, which is that a non-tdcj employee chaplain necessarily carries with him some appreciable additional level of risk. i can say i attach -- justice kavanaugh: okay. can i stop you right there? i don't see how you can say that. there's another human being, to go back to judge higginbotham, in the execution room in about the most fraught situation anyone could imagine, especially if the person is, by definition, close to the inmate, spiritually, friends, and they're about to die and be put to death. and the idea that we can predict how another human being will react in that situation and be sure, as you're saying, that the person is not going to react in a way that they would never react in any other situation, i just don't -- i don't know. you might be right and -- and we'll see, i guess, if -- if you prevail here, how this plays out. but it's not my decision, and

voting the in the state of new york or the state of delaware, the president's home state. few absentee voting. we have a long period for absentee voting, much longer than we are talking about here. the red state, state legislature decided that but no excuse absentee voting something we do in south dakota, something that's allowed for in georgia but not in the state of new york, because the states to slide it as it should be about standing in line, giving people things while they are standing in line to vote. the state of south dakota has a law against that, it's called electioneering. there isn't anything i understand and the law doesn't prevent an election worker from going out and getting somebody a glass of water or something to eat. there isn't anything that says 100 feet -- 150 feet away which is 50 feet away, you can't feed people lunch. all it says is when somebody standing in line that political operatives shouldn't be electioneering, going out and handing things out to induce people to vote a certain way. ladies and gentlemen, don't blow up the united states senat

joscelyn benson the secretary of state of the great state of michigan. both of you, i'm very grateful for your time, particular grateful to have you here together. thank you so much, we really appreciate. you've advancer understanding. >> our pleasure, rachel, thanks for covering us. >> we'll be right back, stay with us. thanks to realtor.com's home alerts we were able to see the newest homes on the market, super fast. so we could finally buy our first "big boi house." big boi house. big boi kitchen! big boi waterfall shower! big boi crawl space. big boi sold sign, big boi logo. realtor.com to each their home. one of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. turmeric helps with healthy joints big boi sold sign, big boi logo. and inflammation support. unlike regular turmeric supplements qunol's superior absorption helps me get the full benefits of turmeric. the brand i trust is qunol. looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? once-weekly ozempic® can help. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most p

united states of america? our united states of the democrat party. look at inflation, we have not seen inflation like this in decades, first biden denies it well, where are the media? i'm old enough to remember during reagan administration, he inherited a horrific economy, he was wrestling it to the ground, and wound up succeeding in ways that over in one had before, remember stories from homeless shelters? where are those stories, with price of food and gasoline going through the roof, when about the food kitchens? they had the stories, about a family, staying at a food kitchen, we don't see those stories. what about the network showing us the empty grocery store shelves or price of meat and beef and milk up. where are the networks? are they at the grocery stores, no, how about car dealerships, used cars up 40% in one year. if you want a new car you have to wait, no discounts. no stories about how the democrat party biden and american marxist ideology is affecting every day americans here. it would hurt the democrat party, hurt the democrat party, w

none of our states are immune. the people of dayton are still working to recover from the tornadoes that destroyed their neighborhood in 2019. senators menendez and kennedy state though -- states though, devastated the summer by a changing climate and, frankly, congressional failure to do much about addressing the climate change, our country will continue to face extreme weather events and natural disasters and we must be better prepared to recover from these disasters efficiently and equitably and rebuild our homes to be more resilient in the future. today's hearing looks at the critical role we play in offering disaster relief to the communities affected by disasters and we will discuss how we can improve that aid, i hope, through a permanent authorization of the program. since 1993 congress has provided 95,000 million dollars in disaster relief recovery assistance to states, territories, and communities through supplemental disaster recovery appropriation, particularly to low income and middle class families hit

and our state walz the bread basket -- state was the bread basket of a young nation. but over the past 245 years, we became known for growing something more. we grew industries which in turn grew proud cities and towns. the seeds of innovation planted here grew into technologies that, quite literally, built the modern world. we grew jobs. good-paying jobs. we grew on the shoulders of organized labor. we grew, yeah. [applause] we grew diverse. we grew a strong and inclusive middle class. so, yes, we are still proudly the garden state. but our task is building a new jersey that is also the opportunity state. an opportunity state that works from the middle out and the bottom up. and an opportunity state that doesn't just let current generations, us and our children, prosper, but ensures that those who will follow, our children's children, can prosper even more. my brother, two sisters and i were raised as many have heard me say middle class on a good day. i'm incredibly honored that both of my sisters, dot and jan, are here. my sister-in-law is here and many members of t

two landmark bills sit before the united states senate. the john lewis voting rights advancement act, and the freedom to vote act. [applause] and these two bills represent the first real opportunity to secure the freedom to vote since the united states supreme court gutted the voting rights act nearly a decade ago. we do not know when we will have this opportunity again. senate republicans have exploited arcane rules to block these bills. and let us be clear. the constitution of the united states gives the congress the power to pass legislation, and nowhere, nowhere does the constitution give a minority the right to unilaterally block legislation. [applause] the american people have waited long enough. the senate must act. and the bottom line is this. years from now, our children and our grandchildren, they will ask us about this moment. they will look back on this time, and they will ask us not about how we felt they will ask us, what did we do? we cannot tell them that we let a senate rule stand in the way of our most fundamental freedom

last year, i closed my state of the state by saying, in times of hardship, opportunities for growth emerges. there's no doubt the past couple of years have presented incredible challenges. our frontline workers in health care, public safety, and education, in particular, have done an exceptional job. today, we have a few of those pandemic heroes with us. they are nurses, doctors, police officers, guardsmen, and teachers. i would like to invite them to stand and please, everyone, please join me and recognize them and their colleagues in thanking them for their service to our great state. [applause] governor little: my friends, i stand before you today with great optimism and excitement about the once in a lifetime opportunity before us. idaho's economy is stronger than ever before. we're one of only four states with more jobs today than before the pandemic. idahoans are working. we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. our budget is balanced. we have robust reserves. idaho businesses and citizens benefit from living and working in the least regulated state in the nation.

a couple of -- a state. the point justice kavanaugh erased, you don't have providers before you hear. you don't have workers before you hear. providers and workers overwhelming support this statute. the second thing i'd say is that even as to the providers and the workers who are covered by the regulation, some of my friends presentation has suggested that if the stays are listed in the rules go into effect, that means that tomorrow people are going to be out of a job. that is not true. the secretary has put out guidance after the circuit narrow the injection to cover only the plaintiff states here, put out guidance giving 30 days to come into compliance, 60 days for the second shot, making clear that even if regulated entity has not met full compliance by that six today deadline, if the entity is at 90 day come -- 90% compliance and plans to come into compliance, the secretary want take enforcement action. even at the end of 90 days, they are not full complaints, the secretary has exercised enforcement disc

the chief of the state department. whether of all around 2 decades ago, lying to the world, about saddam's weapons of mass destruction. and setting the stage for the invasion of iraq, which killed an estimated half a 1000000 people. because i don't believe that russia has come close to that level of misinformation. there are no credible reports of any ethnic russians or russia. speakers been under threats from the ukrainian government violations of the right self. the multi 1000000 russian speaking population in ukraine have reached an enormous level. the government wps a discriminatory laws on language education and so called indigenous peoples driving the russian language. out of all the spheres of life, ukraine is not that democratic paradise. the washington portrays it to be and is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. say various reports, a country where the leaders of the 2 biggest opposition parties are right now being prosecuted and persecuted, a say to keep them out of power. a country where oppositi

none of our states armenian. the people of dayton, and -- are still working to discuss to recover from tornadoes that destroyed their neighborhoods in 2019. -- and again hurricane ida this summer caused devastation. and with congress's failure to do much about addressing the climate change, our country will continue to extreme to face extreme weather events and natural disasters. we have must be able to recover from these more efficiently and equitably. to make our homes and buildings more resilient. and today we will look at the critical role that -- place in long term recovery assistance. we'll discuss how we can improve that and i hope through a permanent authorization of the program. since 1993, commerce has provided 95 billion with a b, 95,000 million dollars in disaster relief. assist recovery and assist -- in territories and communities through supplemental cbd g through appropriations. for especially low income and middle class families, usually hit the hardest by natural disasters, and have the fewest re

by state level. according to the washington post, the trump campaign scrambled to distribute draft language for the certificates that would later be submited to congress. that would seem to explain why most of the forged documents seem the same front size. cnn obtained audio from one of the page electors in michigan admitting that the trump campaign directed them. this is the co-chair of michigan's republican party. >> we fought to see the electors. the trump campaign asked us to do that under a lot of scrutiny today. >> while the attorney general is awaiting a federal investigation, she didn't hesitate to say she has ample evidence to press state charges. >> at this point, do you think that there is enough evidence if you wanted to to bring charges against these electors under state law? >> absolutely. >> so here is the thing. these people could eventually face state or federal charges of forgery or fraud for submitting false election documents. but in doing so reportedly at the direction of the tru

and other states and rig the system at the state level to work against our democracy. federal action is needed to try to stop those efforts in the other states. thankfully here in the state, i'll continue to fight back and win as a.g. we have a governor to veto the bad bills but we can't count on that in every other state. we have bad actors in mitt romney's party who are working over time to under mine our democracy. that is why federal action is needed. that's why i'm so disappointed that we've got these senators who have decided that they'll stand with the filibuster instead of standing with our democracy. that is just flatout wrong and doing real damage to our system. >> that is really the issue there. you just put your -- the nail in the head there. listen, we're hearing a bipartisan group of 12 senators looking to reform the electoral count act which deals, the process of counting with a process of counting electoral votes, do you think that would fix the problem? would it at least help? >> i think it's one part of it. look, i mean, understand, don, there was a v

the last two years have taught me that whatever happens, our state, the beloved state of delaware will rise to the occasion. thank you very much, god bless you and god bless our great state. [applause] >> the inspector general of the small business administration testified on challenges in the coming year including pandemic relief programs, staffing resources, disaster assistance and detecting fraud. watch the testimony tonight on c-span, online at c-span.org or find folk coverage on the video app c-span now. >> spencer cox delivered his state of the state address from the capital in lake city. the governor touched on the state response to the covid-19 pandemic, getting kids back to school and the economy. i would ask you to hold your applause until the end as we examine together the many critical issues we are facing as a state. for some of you, i know that holding applause won't be hard. we have real work, hard work. if you're like all we have talked about for the past two years is covid. unfortunately we along with the rest of the world find ourselves in the middle of record cases a

one traditionally begins a state of the state address by acknowledging dignitaries here in the chamber, but this morning calls for something a little different. >> i want to start by acknowledging the people who couldn't be here. please join me in a moment of silence for coloradans who have lost their lives: to covid, to violence, and to natural disasters including the recent boulder county fires. we will start with a moment of silence for those we lost. thank you. now, to the legislative leadership in both parties, members of the general assembly, lieutenant governor primavera, treasurer young, attorney general weiser, our dedicated first gentleman reis, mayor hancock, mayor coffman, members of the state board of education, justices of the colorado supreme court, members of the cabinet, welcome. i appreciate and value your presence here today, and i look forward to all the good work we will do in the days and weeks ahead on behalf of the people of colorado. we are so privileged to represent you. my fellow coloradans, i want to begin today with gratitude. gratitude for the people of co

a simple majority, state by state by state. a simple majority. and then, as was noted by several of my colleagues, after this chamber has established over 160 carveouts, 160 processes in law to allow for a final vote without 160-vote threshold, whether it's for the debt ceiling, whether it's for the bush tax cuts, whether it's for the trump tax cuts, whether it is for justice amy coney barrett, 51 votes. now we hear, at this very moment, that we must embrace this archaic rule that is not in the constitution and did not exist when the senate was founded. and we're not even talking about getting rid of this rule. we're simply talking about restoring the senate to what it once was so we can have debates and we can actually vote on bills when those debates have concluded and when the speeches are exhausted. we're here because we took an oath to defend the constitution as we did that night on january 6. we're here because we know that the eyes of the world are on us, watching to see if america will stand up and take on the challenge

and they do in the united states. and so when they're being turned on in the united states they're, that's what's causing this interference. a new report is claimed, former pope benedict, the 16 failed to take action in full cases of alleged sexual abuse. while he was serving as archbishop of the german cities of munich and pricing, the study on german law firm looked into cases of abuse between 19452019. and how church officials handle the, according to the report over 2 thirds of people investigated, turned out to be priests. and the report also said the former pope suggested or supported this latest inquiry, but denied to any wrong doing. we spoke with wilfred fossil man who says he was a victim of sex abuse by the clergy during that period. he told us what he went through. that's why someone it happened in the summer of 979. i was 11 years old back then pastor act served as st. andrews church and when he left us and groups of people started attacking me, they knew i was one of the reasons he left. we moved to anot

the republican state government who is blocking people from voting in the states. and as if he is not the government. as if he is not the reason the federal government can step in to fix this. the federal government could step in and fix this, it is those senators working with republicans who are stopping that from happening. in the state of georgia today, where republican leadership has also radically restricted the voting rights of residents, they have moved one of their own officials into per the shin so they can use the power that they have given themselves to -- have all republican officials oversee the ballot. they took the next major step to taking over full county georgia, and there are more ballots in that state than any of the other country -- they are kicking out the ballot counters, and taking over for themselves. why do you think they want to do that? but do not worry, felt senator joe manchin said surely the government would help. this is the government. this is the republican-led state government of georgia. moving radically to voting rights. we do n

we are an old state and a multi-season state, things ate quickly. we are looking forward to having those funds and using the policy -- and using the big wants dig once policy. with the labor shortage that everybody is seeing and supply chain issues, every time we want to bid on a project, we are getting higher bids than our estimates. we are trying to parse that out so that we do not put all of the money out of the door too quickly. i hope and trust that the federal government will be flexible in how that money is parsed out so that we can simply fixed 10 roads over here and no roads over here. with the expansion of dollars that we are getting rid of when to thank the administration for the open-door policy that you have had for the states and we welcome continued dialogue. >> you thank you, on the latter point, i agree that we should be -- we thank you and on the latter point, i agree that we should be careful on using federal dollars. when the stimulus act passed, the goal was getting as many dollars pumped into the economy as quickly as humanly p

or whoever the trumpist nominee is. >> well, and david jolly, as we have been discussing with this state-by-state-by-state laws and it's no mystery and it's no accident that the first one that passed was georgia and then they moved on to arizona. the president even targeting texas. there's a proposal in wisconsin and in michigan, and the only thing that stops all of them from passing in some of those states are democratic governors. frankly, what jeremy is describing is more likely to happen next time than last time. >> it is. or you can look at it as a continuation of the coup. the coup attempt is not yet over, it just lost the battle on january 6th, but what you saw is the primary actors re-engage in state capitols to prepare for the next round, for the next election, for '22 and '24, and i think what the january 6th committee ultimately will put in front of the american people is donald trump's culpability. i think the subpoenas today suggest the shadow of that investigation is getting closer and closer to the former president, and then that gets to the question of, what did donald trump know about tho

in each of these five states it was joe biden who won the election, so those states sent biden electors to cast the state's votes in the electoral college. but nevertheless in michigan, wisconsin, georgia, nevada, and arizona, at least, republicans filed fake documents claiming that those states had actually picked trump electors who were going to cast the state's electoral college votes for trump. in the last few days here, thanks to reporting from nicholas wu at politico.com and thanks to public records requests filed by the watchdog group american oversight, we have been able to obtain and show you all five of those forged documents from republicans in those five states. crucially what we've noticed is that this doesn't seem to have been an instance in which five disparate groups of people in five different states all had the same forgery idea coincidentally at the same time and they just independently all happened to do the same thing. if you look at the false documents that these five states or that republicans in these five states sent in to congress and sent in to the national ar

the red states, the blue states, they seem to have different responses and i would argue neither of them is getting it just right. what do you see? >> well, the problem is a lack of leadership, coming from the federal government. again, as you mentioned beautifully, $130 million -- billion dollars, excuse me, has been sent down to the states to literally deal with this situation, covid-19 mitigation strategy. making sure we have the testing, making sure that we have the technology needed. so if the worst case scenario occ occurred we are preparethey're essential and must have. we're going to lose a generation of kids if we don't hold this line. >> it may be a gross simplification, i look at states open with regard for testing a look at blue states shut down without regard for mental health. some in between, at least the way i look at the world is the truth and the way they ought to be approaching it. >> well, the problem is, michael, we're just being told to figure it out and we're asking educators who are not epidemiologists to make these calls. they're not qualified. in red states folk

according to "the hill," the republican state leadership committee which handles secretary of state races, raised a total of $33 million in 2021. meanwhile, the democratic association of secretaries of state raised just $1 million during the first six months of last year. nationwide, 26 secretary of state position will be on the ballot this year, 14 of which are currently held by republicans and 12 by democrats. and it only takes a few races to massively change the balance of an electoral college, electoral power because in many states, secretaries of state play a decisive role in determining how election results get certified. one way to stop all this would be comprehensively voter protections like those senate democrats could pass right now if they united by eliminating the filibuster reforms to our electoral counting system would also be useful. but one of the easiest solutions would be to beat republicans at their own game. right-wing figures like steve bannon have been encouraging followers to run for state and local offices for a while, and it's been having a major impact. democrats

to our beautiful state. we're so happy you've chosen to call this your new home. we have so much to learn from you. but if i might make just one small request, please don't attempt to change us into the place you just left. you see, utah's maintained a high quality of life and abundant opportunity for our residents through practical, common sense governance and it's absolutely critical that all of us do everything in our power to keep it that way. legislators, this session i ask for your support of new bills spearheaded by representatives joel ferry, steve waldron, joe briscoe and senator jake to remove government regulations that needlessly increase utah's housing prices. we can increase supply without decreasing the quality of life. i recognize this will not be easy we cannot let our state become california. force first time ever, people on the front are experiencing something from those of us from rural utah felt for far too long. the terrible realization their kids and grandkids might not be able to live

i sponsored the maine green new deal which was the first state level bill to be endorsed by a state, afl-cio and the country, and really just trying to think differently about how can interact with my constituents. but, amidst all of thati still felt like, we made the biggest strides working for a new kind of politics when it came to the campgn season. soabout halfway through my time as a state rep, the opportunity came up to run for ste senate. and i took it because to me the work that you do on a campaigtrail last far bend a candite or an eltion day. and that kind of movement building is so exciting to me, is the heart ofhere things are at these days. the state sete distric really teresting. i call it, it's district 13 but i call it lucky district 13. most of it is in lincn county, maine, which is this very rural county in a very rural state. we were going up against a man named dana dow who had been in and out of office for almost 20 years. he had never losa general election before in his life. he is also the senate nority leader. so, the highest ranking republican in thstate. he