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Organize this and not be stuck? what we normally see in these oversight hearings where members go back and forth five minute periods to make a statement and ask their questions. it doesn't get to the heart of the questions we have. i think a much more orderly process would potential will i take some of the emotion out of the question and allow us to get to the facts and make the decisions after we get the information we need. neil: in the meantime, the democratic candidates who want to be president, holed together in new hampshire, state conventions and going on and the one under considerable ...

Activists, but thousands of members from the public. we've been here -- last hour we talked the to joe biden people. i want the to introduce to carrie. what led you to volunteer for cory booker? >> i met him in april at a house party and i loved what he had to say. >> reporter: have you done one much these state conventions before? >> no. >> reporter: what brings you out this morning. >> i started volunteering for his campaign in small ways and i feel i can follow his positive message and the change he wants for this country. >> reporter: i appreciate it. we got more than activists. we've also...

That is laid out in the green new deal rather than 2050, and you're only talking about a few decades here but this is one of the key things that activists, democratic activists are looking for when they want to know if somebody is really being serious about climb change and talked to some of the democratic activists this morning. very excited about senator warren's plan and they are not excited about biden's plan and part of this is because warren shopped this around and bide dehn no. they did it in their own silo. it's a question of whether -- warren is getting some enthusiasm from the activi...

Legislatures to the congress that we have a convention of states or a constitutional convention and so that's what's been going on here. let me just provide a little bit of context. this is something that happens about every 70 years interestingly in our political landscape as a nation and in 1790 to 1830 there were the antifederal lists that filed for state conventions, constitutional conventions to limit the federal power. then of course in 1861 the confederates filed a fleury of papers. and then the segregationists in 1963 started an effort of calling for constitutional conventions to limit...

Unfortunately, in some of those, i have received death threats. i had people that have talked about putting a bullet in the back of my mouth, burning my family, sending me pictures of nooses. it's been a pretty despicable frankly experience from getting letters from people like that. >> simply no place for that in this system. the michigan state law, let me read it. refusal or failure to vote for the candidates for president and vice president appearing on the michigan ballot of the political party which nominated the elector constitutes a resignation from the office of elector, his vote shall...