So far. That doesnt mean were not alone. More on the lake and ocean. A new eighteen i can in washington d c im going to france to watch our team. Im talking about the two thousand sixteen president ial election no im not talking about speculation regarding who might run or a grandchild and how it might affect a certain candidates political ambitions. Instead im talking about a movement is underway to fundamentally change how the us alexis president every four years the National Popular vote the kids to interstate compact movements. And while that might sound like a complicated jumble of words is actually Pretty Simple idea. It is time to replace the Current Electoral College system the country uses to elect its president mr called National Popular vote system as in whichever candidate thats the most folks around the country wins the presidency. As we learned in two thousand al gore winning the popular vote does not necessarily mean winning the laptop college and white house. The National PopularVote Movement wants to change that. Rather than pursuing a constitutional amendment to scrap tax which is very difficult and time consuming the group is trying to get a certain number of states to agree to a compact saying that they will all get their Electoral College votes. Not to the candidate who wins the state but instead to the candidate who wins the National Popular vote men can get enough states to sign on by twenty sixteen that it would make the Electoral College completely irrelevant before the next election this week the movement the debate this with the state of new york and its twenty nine Electoral College votes signed on to that contact. I enjoyed earlier by our chief political commentator sam sax break down what all this means for american president ial politics the first asks him where this movement currently stands and how close is coming to the pending deal a top college. Will there more than halfway there. This National Park we will move to accrue eleven states have signed onto it. You mention york to the latest it also includes washington dc. If you have all that all the states combined together have about a hundred have a hundred sixty five Electoral College votes. The point is to get to two hundred and seventy Electoral College votes he can get more state on board to get that number to seventy. What happen is all the states would agree together they would act as a voting bloc in the next election they would say hey were going to dollar votes to carry that wins the popular vote not to the candidate wins each of our states and theyd be able to swing the election board toward the candidate tom. We know that the oregon house has approved this or they might be the next day that goes into is the Oklahoma Senate has approved it. Um do is to stitch people fourteen Electoral College votes that could be added to the number and the governor of arizona jan brewer. He has said that she supports this idea so this could be another step in terms of the max actually true. Why get rid of the Electoral College experience beginning of a country like that where the strike is its a bit outdated and armenia was created more than two or thirty years ago now was created along with the wood with the senate with each taking two senators was sort of compromise to caught all the small five small states and slave states who had large portions of their populations not counted toward representations of that. This was the deal that brought them on board that the constitution to join the country. Um but its not very representative of the country. Because those two senators at all says to regardless of population factors in the states but pro college broke out in small states have an outsized influence in electing the president. Weve had four times in the countrys history when youve had any candidate whos gotten them of the National Park the robot theyve lost the election you mention of course most recent this most recent so nowadays has information is more readily available and was torn thirty years ago. You can devise a system set up. The National Popular vote of the American People is perspective when electing the president. Ok so lets talk about making this thing stand at the moment separatists use the interstate compact rather than a constitutional amendment. Ive explained the reasoning of the seat behind desks that are complicated for them to do that youll do this next april. This is a really good idea that theyre going about this said i joked about the cost of home and then its time consuming its very difficult its hard to imagine other. Post office remaining bills passing through congress nowadays what a loaded constitutional management which is what we would require congress to get on board that plus two thirds of states with a chapter at a price of thirty eight states have to abort that. Its basically impossible to do right now. This movement though if you can get an upstate city Court Ordered seven electoral votes in the can be as few as fifteen states to pick the right state of the retina electoral votes all the way up to the no fifteen to twenty to thirty. Either way its less than thirty eight you would need to get two thirds of its constitution so youre getting this and the fact we are doing it with a lot less work gallo more effective to stand up assuming that this movement succeeds how it changed it to future president ial candidates in this country. Right now we all know the election system here especially to Media Coverage that its like a circus called recovery the Electoral College. I was a circus booted two circuses narrowly focused on just a small amount of face right now in president ial elections are focused on about twelve battleground states like florida. Like michigan like ohio the state you are constantly in the last election. Um and they have the electoral votes they can just won an Election Year and then i think we have a map pictures these were the iranian brock obama scale official Campaign Events post convention in two thousand twelve and use it. They were relegated to just twelve states and in fact two thirds of all the good of the visits were just four states. Soo week if you were to change or National Popular vote was rather an Electoral College and these candidates would have to go all around the country that have to turn up the road. In every single state not just about over sajc democrats going to texas where they can hopefully get democrats to the polls and democrats would have their votes outweighed by the by the republicans in that state toward open up the game considerably. Yes thats a lot of times antonio campaign bus tour right now goodness and i are typical commentator sense i think you did a criminal case against the former blackwater Security Guard charged in the teeth of the seven killings of fourteen iraqi citizens in jeopardy the Appeals Court ruling earlier this month effectively terminated and slaughter attempted manslaughter and weapons charges against nicholas slot bill is described by prosecutors in court papers as one of them need anticipates in shootings saddams lawyers say the charges against him were dismissed in two thousand time and effort failed to ask an Appeals Court to reinstate them. They argue that too much time elapsed when the government obtained a new indictment against won it late last year the government and im afraid those loopholes could lighten his sentence is seeking a re hearing of the issue before the june eleventh child begins to slide and three other former blackwater guards accused in the case. The court filing in april to legal team for the forum and said thats the time on september sixteen two thousand saturn the client went to the store square Traffic Circle where they came under attack and returned fire. The garden where blackwater worldwide even provided prosecutors are photos of the guards vehicles parked in st with bullet marks. The government said it will establish at the child the slot and fired the first shots in that incident military judges ordered the c i a good lawyers for the man accused of planning the uss cole suicide bombing that killed seventeen us sailors back in two thousand a chronological account of his whereabouts. From that data is captured in dubai in two thousand to two his arrival on in Guantanamo Bay prison in two thousand and six. Experts say the request to reveal information about the overseas detention and interrogation forty nine year old doll rahim on the sherry is likely to produce a drawn out legal fights. Rather than release the information pentagon prosecutors are likely to ask military commissions Appeals Court to overrule that jace. This time they came and the sherry civil attorney. Ive told the miami now the prosecutions argument that defense is precluded from attacking the governments work is for the last one of the defense function says to check the governments story. Even if the prosecution doesnt show any information it doesnt mean the will ever see at the request includes names of agents interrogators medical personnel interrogation out and cables between the so called black sites and the headquarters approved enhanced interrogation techniques the man many call the architect of those techniques. The retired air force psychologist James Mitchell has broken his silence in the Guardian Newspaper for us torture techniques. The air. Her bday it all. When you think. Tts been prosecuted abuse has taken center stage. Lawyers for colleen shake the hermit and four others charge of nine eleven attacks said they are seeking similar orders to uncover their interrogations well in emergency talks in geneva of top level diplomats from the us the eu ukraine and russia agreed on a path to de escalate the violence raging through the east of ukraine. But the organization for security and cooperation in europe tasked with monitoring the situation the ground. Its reported that pro russian protesters occupying Ukrainian Government buildings and ten cities say they wont leave them until the countrys interim government resigns the same time. Ukrainian authorities have imposed unprecedented travel restrictions on russian citizens. All men aged sixteen to sixty traveling with our families are now denied entry into the country in the housing gone down well with the east of ukraine as our teeth read russian reports from one of the areas transport hubs this has been an International Airport as bases to launch a holy so you can see the link had applied to kiev and taking a tumble but the everyday to restrict least one flight to wean from heated to more scattered and the recent least one or sometimes even to that place in line for almost a two day naps and now people are worried about what hes going to happen with the spikes and with the passengers of these flights i arrived in the netscape news immediately stopped and the Golden Ticket they started asking me about my education how much money have them they told me i had to go back to moscow by myself in front and ask my son lives there. Youtube videos labels look my best friends relatives missed his wedding because their age and physical condition are now suspicious Ukrainian Border control officers in the fine came close for military boot from your luggage the need to rethink your russian agent dont wear gold separate this. Were Peaceful Protesters much more peaceful than the local rally at my guns. We reduced the treacherous actions of the ukrainian authorities to ban people from seeing their loved ones. These two states have very close ties and of course these concerns. I think the entry all this ukrainians have many russian attitudes emotions have been in ukraine in mountains in the travel a little too easy a child and of course am now afraid to admit these new restrictions from ukraines political told me that it will affect their relations with the time in his brief Oceana County from cadets in ukraine. At Cairo University has become the center of unrest in the chechen capital cost is between statement supporting the deposed president hundred more seats and police fly out on a weekly basis. The association has hit back keeping some nine hundred student of classes for protesting. As our keys beltran reports from cairo. Test tendency to be a street close to Security Force is a common sight in higher rate. No the week he rallies in support of toppled president muhammad mostly of the legs by stevens the ministry has told government has banned demonstrations saying it despite a spike in terror attacks on the Graduate Center was held on to an exam in january. He says the police are using too much finance the officers came in three hours after the clashes and two students from inside the university. Those that were taken were tortured inside the Police Station there were keeping them in the toy listen to any policeman would beat them up it was like a weasel. Rights defenders say the crackdown is a tactic of intimidation by the authorities have surrounded the countrys main universities with aunt offices lasted till about nine thousand students were arrested some of them receive long term sentences. Nifty at a tenth grade two winner stephanie and i hold to the educational process here at sky or univ as the bomb anything to crises that Screen Printing was a cds on Security Forces. Just last monday in on the project mohamad at the initial dads becoming the fourteen scenes to dine since last september critics say this is the wise crack sound since ousted president mubarak. However the authorities maintain that if the young princess is going to blame for the violence. I still reminisce about the kids not to read it every so can i say stand by the saints. Egypts interior Ministry Says the skis and seize weapons and are part of the brotherhood plan to de stabilize the country. A little low but again thats what dave hughes and the students inside of the universities and encouraging them to write and use violence targeting the maximum amount of police cars and transporters of soldiers and burn them for the purpose of weakening and demoralizing the police forces. But this and insists he is not about to hit and People Living or rested and eight degrees and im afraid to be a students average diegos of university and i know it can be taken. Exams are just a few weeks of graham will coincide the president ial elections the x on the teeth out that that icc is expected to win with little hope of reconciliation and anger against the government announcing the country is bracing for more months of violence. Go to auntie hiring this may sound crazy but breaking news alert cops in hawaii soon no longer be able to think that constitutes by on duty. Both chambers of the Hawaii State Legislature have agreed to restore a line in a pending bill that will make it illegal to have with prostitutes during an investigation. Kylie white please send to all prostitution mosque house bill nineteen sixty two was written to change that whelan told the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee heard of the Honolulu Police department cited the story they told him vice officers needed the exemption law to prevent pimps and prostitutes from knowing the limits of police methods. Yesterday rose change the minds of the bill will return to its original language. Police say their current internal policies prevent officers from using their legal right to have with prostitutes but said theyll drop their opposition to removing the exemption house and senate will not compile their two verses of the bill and one document vote and send it on to that. My son and is pushing down below for genetically modified food is concerned. I passed a bill on wednesday that would make it the first us state to enact mandatory labeling of goods made with genetically modified organisms noticed she announced. And it would make it illegal to describe any food product contained she announces natural or all natural. The bill approved in twenty eight to two by the senate has already passed the state house of representatives. It goes back to the house for approval of changes made in the senate now. If passed the law would take effect july first two thousand sixty. According to the National Conference of state legislatures are nice idea my labeling bills under consideration in twenty nine states where they have a chance of being passed is anyones guess but the high stakes to fight back in two thousand file ballot measures in california and Washington State and narrowly defeated among the opposition monsanto the Worlds Largest seed company and the Grocery Manufacturers Association an Industry Group representing package films which include huge amounts of genetically modified canol