Are your states problems and how is your governor addressing those problems . Here is how you can call and let us know 2027488001 for mountain and specific time zones. If you want to post on this thought about your states problems, you might do so on twitter cspanwj. And you can post on our facebook page. Of currentampling issues involving governors across the United States, we start in louisiana with the new elected governor, john bel edwards. Already addressing the states budget issues. He says, hes holding a special session to do so. Saying that escalating rhetoric majord a grim picture of problems for Higher Education, health care and other services unless the Legislature Agrees on how to come up with 930 million by june 30. He says without legislative action, baton rouge some campuses would be declaring bankruptcy. And health care would suffer devastating cuts, including hospital closings. It means the difference between life and death. That is in louisiana. Turning to new york, Governor Cuomo addressing the issue of paid family leave. And talking about it with Small Business owners. That, saying that this policy has been introduced by the governor, if approved by the state legislature, would give new york the most expensive and least business friendly paid family leave law in the country according to the Business Council of new york state. Yorkerse proposal, new would be eligible for paid family leave for up to 12 weeks to take care of newborn babies and sick and dying relatives. Employers would employees would be eligible for leave after four weeks on the job, which would take effect in 2018 and apply to all new york employers. That is a sampling of what is going on across the United States won it comes to issue states may be facing. That isirst 45 minutes, what we want to hear from your. What are your states major problems, how is your governor addressing those problems . Its regional lines. If you live in eastern time 488000. D central, 20278 if you live in known in pacific time zones, 2027488001. President obama met with a group of governors yesterday to talk about issues important to them and how the federal government is addressing them. One of the issues that came up is a question from the minnesota governor. He asked the present how the current policy on trade might affect what is going on in the state. Here is a bit of the question. [video clip] impact of chinas exports and dumping has been affecting a lot of other industries. I am wondering if given your thereis on free trade, if is also way that you can be more aggressive to prevent china from doing what it is doing . President obama first of all, the good news is we have been more aggressive than previous administrations when it comes to bringing enforcement actions. And this is an area where, even the steelworkers as much as they wouldject to tpp, acknowledge we have done a lot on this. The other piece of good news is that we actually have had a tradeion bill to our Promotion Authority that just passed the house and the senate and that i am getting prepared to sign that will give us additional tools for enforcement. More resources, more personnel allows us to take more aggressive actions. So, you are going to see firm, tough enforcement of our existing trade laws. Help yourd the issues states trade situation, economics, infrastructure, education . What is the problem and how was your governor addressing it . 027488000 for eastern and central time zones and 2027 488001 for mountain and pacific. Lisa is joining us. Caller good morning. In texas, we have at least three ways that are governor is not addressing some of the basic needs for our state. Efundededucation is d by 2 billion already. They are trying 2d find it even further. To defund it even further. Public education is being defun ded. I heard of one other state where they pay their junior colleges that those, they can get a Free Education if they pass high school. Whereas, we have no support for our junior colleges. People just have to try to be able to make it regardless of whether they are attempting to finish high school or not. Houston, we have also depends a lot on the oil industry. And i believe they have thrown the Oil Industries under the bus by not legislating ways where its purposely advantageous for our Oil Businesses to switch over transition, carefully, gently into more renewable sources and that affects our whole city because we depend on those jobs. For our state. Host gotcha. Lisa in south texas. Bill is in North Carolina. Hi there. Caller good morning. North carolina, the new mississippi. If anyone has been watching, they wouldve seen that North Carolina is basically pushing up against all voter rights requiring i. D. When there is no problem with voting. Then if you look at what else is going on in North Carolina, we have a governor that came from a Power Company. The Power Company polluted our water. The legislature let the Power Company walk away without any real penalties. To go along with that, lets talk about education. In education, we moved away from public schools. We are building Charter Schools everywhere using public dollars to support those Charter Schools. The republican local legislature has taken over and is rolling us back in time. We are going backward, not forward. North carolina used to be leading the country in textiles, jobs. All our jobs are going overseas. We have seen all the jobs go to other states. North carolina is not aggressive in bringing in new industries. When you look at governor patrick cori, he is bought and paid for when you look at governor pat mccrory, he is bought and paid for the small guy does not seem to have a chance. Host ted in washington, new jersey, calling about the states problems and how the governor is addressing it. Go ahead. Caller he ought to come to new jersey. All democrats here, and we are number one in foreclosures. We are 50th in job creation and number one in people and businesses leaving. The governor here has tried, but the problem is we have 100 billion pension deficit. They are facing there is no money to fix the roads. Transportation trust fund to fix the road is empty. And they already have fees that we have income tax, we have everything on top of taxes. Property taxes are the highest in the country. The governor, he put a cap on every time, they cannot raise their taxes over 2 , because there is just no money. What the future holds, i dont know. Some people say maybe the federal can bail us out. Im closely watching this president ial race because i think states like new jersey are going to need some federal assistance somehow, someway because you cannot afford to keep raising taxes. People are leaving here because of the tax increases. 7488000 for the eastern and central time zone. And 2027488001 for the mountain of pacific time zones. Is your governor addressing her states problems is what we are interested to hearing from you. Maurice, hello. Caller how you doing . Host fine, thank you. How about yourself . Caller not doing so well. The governor is doing a horrible job. You have the governor in alabama. We are hurting down here. It might look good on the surface. People, you talk to the next or neighbors, your coworker, everybody is struggling. Outthing we like to throw church. Orshink a lot of head past need to rally around Bernie Sanders, somebody who has a positive outlook on life. Not addressing key issues in georgia. Infrastructure, i cannot believe it. Host when you say, he is not addressing, is he not proposing any specific legislative fixes to address the problems youre talking about . Caller yes, sir. Also, he is trying to overhaul the education system. Justn, it just its amazing how people do not have that deep down compassion for one another. Compassion for one another. These politicians and leaders and stuff are not being proactive. We are all living together. Years from now, will this earth still be here, 100 years from now . So, it is a real big problem. I feel right down here in the small suburb of georgia, right below atlanta. And sometimes, you know, your neighbors do not even speak to you. Its clearly a black and white issue. And sometimes even animals no prejudice know prejudice. Its just amazing. I just hope we get together and vote for Bernie Sanders so we can get this thing back on track. States problems and ensure governor addressing those problems . John in tuscaloosa, alabama, is next. Caller good morning. We have a governor bentley in alabama. And he is just about to, i guess the worst governor ive seen here. Hes taking money out of the schools and putting it in the general fund because and he is doing that because he cannot balance a budget. Heut a year ago, i thought should of been impeached because he was having, his wife divorced him. He was having an affair with his Communications Person that works on his staff. And they were using the taxpayers money that he has a jet that he uses to go around the country. And him and his mistress were going on the jet having their fair. And Everybody Knows this having their affair. I dont know why they never impeached this guy. Now what he was a due in alabama, since the gas prices are low, he wants to pu t a 12 cents tax on the gas for all the citizens of alabama. So, im supposing so that he can pocket whenn his he leaves office. Because his wife divorced him and took him for everything he had. I do not think this governor is doing a good job. In alabama. Continuing on about your governors and if they are addressing the problems your state has. President obama met with governors yesterday at the white house to address specific issues. One of the questions was by the Kentucky Governor matt bevan asked about how the president would handle the u. S. Debt problem. Here is the exchange. [video clip] what in the next 10 months your administration can do to start to change the course of direction that is currently underway . President obama the real problem that we have when it comes to debt is very simple. It is that our population is getting older and we use a lot of health care, and health care, less, frankly,or than most other advanced nations, partly because we do a lot of emergency room care. Some of it is because we overprescribed, we overtest. Some of it is we drive innovation and technology and people always want the best stuff. Host for that full conversation with the governors, go to our. Org. Te cspan we are asking you about your states problems and how your governor is addressing them. South carolina, jesse, hi there. Caller hi. How are you . Im a veteran. Im serviceconnected. I have been out of the Service Since 1982. I started collecting v. A. In 2001. Is complete train wreck. The reason why im addressing Governor Haley on this is because she had spoken about the veterans. Columbia needs to be investigated. Dust because i was denie Social Security disability back claim. , they close my and said i had to have a hearing for reduction in pay. Then they turn around and send me a letter to months later stating that they are not going to use Social Security disability against me. Hearing and 2014 that was ordered by Governor Haleys office. I got a letter from her office stating i had to go to this hearing. I went to the hearing, the lady i spoke with said dont worry about anything. Your pay will not change. You will be fine. All this inept or she got my new award letter. And that does not affect my v. A. And anyway, the bottom line is of myy are taking 722 money. Im struggling. Now they are going to take more to give to my exwife. I do not understand what is going on down there in columbia. Nobody will answer me or talk to me. They do not want to send me the transcript of the hearing. Here i am struggling to get by month whennd some a i was getting 1510 a month. I wanted to address this because Governor Haley said she would go out for us look out for us and she has not. The veteransway, affairs will be the subject of a hearing that takes place today on cspan. It features Robert Mcdonald and takes a look at the 2017 budget request. This is before the federal Affairs Committee and the senate the veteran Affairs Committee in the senate. You can see that live on cspan three today at 10 00. From michigan, jamie is next you can see that live on cspan 3 today at 10 00. Caller thank you taking my call. For taking my call. Governor snyder like all of the rest of the governors, hes a republican. In our state, they found lead in the water in flint. You probably know about that. And hes setting on it. He is not trying to help. He has not donated any water. Its people in michigan that are donating the water. Thats not all. Hes running the state like a dictator. He to call the powers away from the electoral officials and handed it over to his emergency managers. Understand emergency managers. They are not supposed to take over cities, towns, and everything else. And now the schools are hurting because he took funding from them when he first went into office. He taxed Senior Citizens retirement money. Hes took taxes from everybody. And give it to the corporations and his buddies, even the furniture people. And we are having lowpaying jobs here. And we used to be a great state before as far as work goes. Host next up is betty. In florida. Good morning. You are on. Host caller ok, you are talking to quite an old lady. My man i lost two years ago was 98. He would be 100 today. In florida when they wanted, they demanded picture i. D. , the re was no way that i could get him at my age down to the license bureau to get, hes d already given up his drivers license and get them a picture i. D. He had a birth certificate. He was born at home in 1915. And he was republican, and i was democrat. And we always outvoted each other but it was the democrats that showed up at my house and packed him up, took him down to the license. Buruea. Eau. Got them a picture i. D. The last time he voted, we didn t outvote each other. It was the first time he voted for a democrat, which was barack obama, before he died. The republicans felt that they were keeping the blacks and the poor from going. I dont think they realize that they shot themselves in the foot because it was the seniors, like my husband, that was hurt by this. Host gary lives in sassafras, kentucky. Good morning. How are you . Caller im good, and yourself . Host how about the problems in your state and how your governor is addressing that . Caller our governor may have been just elected in november this past year. Hes doing real good. Host how so . Caller well, hes cutting down taxes and stuff. And cutting the budget. Host ok, thats gary in sassafras, kentucky. Keep calling on those issues with your states and how your governor is addressing. We will look at politics as well. Nevada the Republican Caucus takes place today. Later on you can see those results on cspan. Youll probably be later if you live in the eastern time zone, probably more towards midnight. But if you go to our website at find outrg, you can more information and the responses you will hear from the candidates. As the caucus takes place today. A story taking a look at specific campaigns. Tedd curz Campaign Cruz campaign got the attention over the firing of a key spokesperson for that campaign. Senator ted cruz fired his chief president ial Campaign Spokesman after the staff are shared a false story about rival senator marco rubio supposedly insulting the bible. Cruz explains his decision while campaigning in nevada ahead of tuesdays caucuses there. From yesterday, there was a press conference that was held that took a look at this issue. Here is a little bit of the response from the cruz campaign. [video clip] anator cruz yesterday staffer sent out a tweet that tweeted a news story that arcorted to indicate m saying something negative about the bible. The new story was false. That staffer deleted the tweet , apologize. I spent this morning investigating what happened. And this morning i asked for rick tylers resignation. This made clear in campaign, that we will conduct this campaign with a very highest standards of integrity. That has been how we have conducted of hyundai on conducted it from day one. Which is why when other campaigns into my integrity, i dont respond in kind. Me throwyou have heard the kind of insult at marco rubio that he throws in the everyday. Rick tyler is a good man. This was a grave error of judgment. It turned out the new store he sent around was false, but even if it was true the news story he sent around his fault, but we are not a campaign that will question the faith of another candidate. That is why i asked for his resignation because the standards of conduct in this campaign have been made absolutely clear for every member of the campaign. Host taking a look at the rubio campaign, the Washington Post takes a look at since the end of campaign, the story suggest it is rubio that they are going towards. Bushs departure has provided rubio with a much needed injection of money and structural support. They now feel free to back rubio. Throughout monday, a string of former bush backers including robert dole in orrin hatch of utah. The former bullard,an lincoln also packed up his support. Rubio also kicked up backers who previously stood on the sidelines. Lansing, North Carolina, is where dave is. We are talking about state problems and how your governors are addressing those problems. You are up next. Hi. Caller hey. Get your pencil and paper there and write down this website. Www. Ashmountaintimes. Com. It tells in here where our governor has sold a highway project thats federal money isnt paying for in there. Bid, butact has been they do