it s the bad cop good cop. but they ve drawn the same reaction. so it s that s a great point. michelle obama kind of might as well have gone the full bloomberg. if people are going to be like you re the nanny trying to interfere in my life, mike bloomberg has shown that you can make that approach work and you won t win on everything. he wasn t able to ban large sodas. he took a lot of flak for it. but he had a lot of big effects in new york. in some ways it feels to me, this is exactly the fight we re having over health care, right? the fights we re having over increasing the minimum wage. we re talking about predominantly low-income people for whom access to fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy food is not as readily available. a lot of bodegas do not sell them. right? so for a lot of children you re going to get that nutrition at school. we know kids do better in school when they have proper nutrition. and again, we re seeing that these things are actually working in ter
fracking fluid. you can drink it. you just can t say what s in it. joining me now is north carolina state representative pricey harrison. representative harrison, how did this bill come about? who s pushing this bill? it s hard know because there wasn t a lot of transparency. it sailed through the senate with two unnoticed committee meetings and then to the senate floor and then it came to the house with to unnoticed committee meetings and then went to the floor without any public notice. so it s difficult to know who was pushing it, but it does seem to be a republican priority. what do you mean by unnoticed? when you say unnoticed committee hearings. when you issue a notice you re going to have a committee hearing you usually say what s on the agenda, what bill s being heard and never was it publicly noticed the fracking bill would be up in any of the house or senate committees and it never went to an environment committee either. it never went through an environment committ
and the president had this government review, he was going to revamp government and that went nowhere. before you go, carol, you ve been reporting on the state department environmental review on the keystone pipeline came out moments ago. what did they conclude. . it concluded that there wasn t a decision either way but seems to lean more favorably to the construction of the pipeline, that there s no significant impact from one particular project, is what it says. and now we expect a decision on from the president? there s a 90-day period where they solicit comment. and then it will go to the president. the president and the white house wouldn t say that he s going to make a decision but he s said privately to his aides that this is his call. the decision is going to come right in the middle of the midterm elections and the politics will heat things up. that s going to be exciting
those are we ll in the custody of the connecticut state police. that s a different sort of request to have those released. but today we re expecting to hear about 25 minutes, seven phone calls from inside the school, people who were there and who were calling for help while this rampage was taking place, wolf. and the families of the victims, most of them i take it they re not very happy we re going to be reliving this one more time this on the eve of the anniversary. and it s always a very difficult decision whether you release this kind of thing, but there was a feeling that in fact, there was some value to releasing this, again, all care is going to be taken to make sure it s done in a way that maintains the dignity of both the families but also the integrity of the information on those tapes. again, it wasn t a decision that was made lightly but it is one that right now will happen within the next hour. wolf? we ll go through the tapes and release and air some of them here on
define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. nothing about this decision which applies only to civil marriages changes any of that. this is a huge announcement, certainly, from the president. but lieutenant governor, when we talk about how someone in new york who might be married travels to alabama, that s not the case in terms of the geography of that state. is that the next big battle for the country to be able to have that protective marriage equality across border lines of states? yeah. well, that said, i mean that s why we have to put this in perspective. the doma question, still have to be worked out, and president will, of course, be in a unique position to exercise some executive leadership. but the broader issue of marriage equality, to your point, has hardly been met. the larger issues of gay rights met. we have a dozen states firmly on the side of equality. but we have three dozen that are not. this wasn t a decision on the