about the question of federalization. i said in my opening comments, and i will repeat again, it s not up to us to make any decision or any agreement regarding federalization. we talked about it. but it s up to ukrainians. and ukrainians will decide their future for themselves, by themselves, with respect to what kind of definitions work for them. and it will have to be, you know, an input obviously of what the russian view is. i think it s important to take that into account. because russia obviously has long ties and serious interests. but in the end, ukrainians are going to have to make that decision. and so tonight we did not explore that because it would have been inappropriate of me to do so without ukrainian input and direction with respect to
it s perhaps a more minimalist rather than maximum approach to all of this. the games are not necessarily working the way the russians thought they would in crimea. at that point, vladimir putin, and he is the decider here, if i may quote w, he is the decider here. anytime you want to quote w here, you go ahead. i m on the right network, got it. is it an offramp towards federalization, a finlandization of ukraine, if you will, from russia s security viewpoint or does he want to double down. in the interest of world piece we all want him to back off a bit pl the intelligence game is not going quite the way he hoped but we re also very early in this fight yet. i think there s a long game going on here.
good to be with you. i know you are hosting a forum so partners and teachers can talk about this. one of the main concerns about common core is whether it was intended to or not seems to be the federalization of government of education that should be handled by teachers and administrators and parents. it is a concern of mine as well and the reason we are having the summit. it is a fact- finding mission and impacting students and families. i heard questions from principals and teachers and families. it was important to have the summit and get the questions answered. drnt states came together. but always fearful when the federal government gets involved. and we have seen the federal government getting involved. i believe in local control and parent- driven education. my fear is federal government coming in. i have a question.
in, in the first place. in the first place. the interesting thing about the growth and the number of people in the federal prisons is driven by two things. one is the increasing number of people who are being prosecuted for immigration law violations. the fastest growing number of people admitted to the federal prison system is as a result of immigration law violations and the second, of course, is the growth in the federalization of what used to be state and local crimes. crime used to be a state and local responsibility. it s become federalized. there s an enormous cost associated. they re staggering. we have 2.3 million people ins cars rated, more than any other country in the world. to bring it home, i ve spent the last year working with a team of law students at yale law school on a film called the worst of the worst. we spent an enormous amount of time with former inmates, grew
always been in the case of vetting the qualifications for marriage. it wasn t until congress got into the mix bypassing the so-called defense of marriage act, that you had the federalization of marriage. look, this idea that the president is punting to the states, i think, is wrong. the states, as i said, they set the qualifications, but they also say who can marry. ultimately, it s the federal constitution that judges whether states have gone too far, whether they have denied equal protection under the law, and it is clear that the president believes that constitutionally everyone should have the right to marry whether they re heterosexual or same sex. i would have to say, to disagree with the governor here, gavin newsom, i do think the president was going to change his mind. i think he was going to do it sooner rather than later because he was in an untenable position. the untenable position being that his words were not matching his deeds. if you look at the president s record, as y