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Colorado that are going even further than eric holder in rethinking the war on drugs. voters in those two states approved referendum last november that is going to end the war on marijuana in those states. thats going to have a dramatic impact on their state systems, and were going to see more movement in that direction in the coming years. thats the type of thing thats going to have a dramatic impact on our system. >> tim, i absolutely agree with you on almost frg you said. i love you used refe...

Health information going to like once its implemented. >> youre right. the database of your life, what is it going to look like. one of the things people have to realize is data exists today. its at the irs, v.a., social security administration. but what they are talking about doing is unprecedented. they are talking about creating this one-stop shot, so if you sit down to see if you have eligibility to be in the system they are going to look at seven departments information, state systems and d...

Running for and being elected to the besm and thinking she can do this for herself and get away with it. jenna: just in your opinion, whats better, were you appointed, elected? >> i was appointed in new jersey, youre appointed by the governor, confirmed by the state, if reapainted and reaffirmed -- confirmed, youre appointed for life. >> jenna: are you more partial for that as -- >> yes, because before i was appointed, all of my background, personal and professional, was examined by people who a...

Coalition then be on the hook for nation-building? >> i think that while it is a possibility, the one concern, and you bring it up very well here, is we dont know who these rebels really are. and so, were supporting a political end game that we dont know whats going to come out of it. and without knowing that, we could end up with a pretty bad cast of characters. second, we could end up with a lot of refugee fallout. my opinion is, the reason we see the president of france intent on leading this...

Its not so much the individual power plants. many countries are really quite well protected. they may not be well protected against earthquakes and tsunamis of this size. but pretty well protected. the problem is that the grid itself is vulnerable, because a lot of its control systems operate across the internet, the so-called-state systems. one can hack into them, one can otherwise disrupt them increasingly. thats the problem. >> governor richardson, very quickly here, what would you say are th...

Whether or not you should use the term b.c. before christ and a.d. after death to reference certain time periods in history. the state of texas, the board has voted that they will, indeed, use those terms going forward. shep? >> shepard: cant think of anything really more important than that brian wilson live in texas. thank you. that state by the way joins alaska as the only two states not going along with the proposal for a new national education standards in math and english. the national gov...

Poor district, and that is problem, ali, no federal system when it comes to education, and you have state systems and the county systems and then inner cities, so it is a different situation in connecticut from texas from illinois. so that is not all one. >> so, lets start with steve. lets look at a solution then. how do we deal with the fact that there are some schools working very well across the country, no question, performance rates have gone up, and some of them because the d kids are goin...

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