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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. that's going to have a dramatic impact on their state systems, and we're going to see more movement in that direction in the coming years. that's the type of thing that's going to have a dramatic impact on our system. >> tim, i absolutely agree with you on almost frg you said. i love you used referendum. doesn't get into the conversation enough. in a lot of states these convictions lead to p...

Health information going to like once it's implemented. >> you're 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. it's 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 department's information, state systems and determine your eligibility all in one place, one desktop, lightning speed fast. >> your entire li...

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, what's better, were you appointed, elected? >> i was appointed in new jersey, you're appointed by the governor, confirmed by the state, if reapainted and reaffirmed -- confirmed, you're 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 advised the governors. that doesn't mean that a political hack couldn't sneak through, but it does...

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 don't know who these rebels really are. and so, we're supporting a political end game that we don't know what's 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 is they've already seen so many refugees already going into tunisia, into italy and next into f...

It's 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. that's the problem. >> governor richardson, very quickly here, what would you say are the key lessons that america needs to learn in terms of its energy program from what we've seen in j...