alabama. a native american name. most of the cities and alabama have native american names. this chief led the drive in the tuscaloosa alabama area. they didn't spell it with that she. they spelled with a k. we are now entering into the old senate chamber. we have 35 chairs. 35 members of the alabama state senate. house the senate in this room from 1851 to 1985. this is the most historic room in the capital. the confederate states of america was formed here. jefferson davis worked in this room for several months. floodlights in here are identical to what was there in 1861. either oil or gas fired lights. the space above is the gallery. they can watch the lawmakers make the laws of alabama. we had the senate in this room from 1851 to 1985. the last room we will see is the old house of representatives. there are a hundred and five chairs. . froms to them in this room 1851 to 1985. this room is used on a continuous basis. the main purpose today is for the governor of alabama to deliver his or her state of the state address. there has been address delivered in alabama since 1851 we will continue that. it tells the story of the e

alabama and m. to help establish that school, powerful for that time period. when we talk about the history of alabama a and m. some people forget ruben jones who served in alabama legislature and it was he who was the guiding spirit under the efforts to establish alabama and m. they were neighbors. you can see the kind of tie or relationship those two persons had. the third two instances of things that happened in alabama regarding black officeholders. look at article xiv in that constitution. when a woman married in alabama before 1868 her property became the property of her husband. with the constitution of 1868, that was no longer the case. in addition, whatever debts her husband held before the marriage became hers also. in article ii, imprisoned in alabama for debts, that constitution democratized the state of alabama. we can applaud those black officeholders for having a role in seeing that the rights of women were large. reconstruction wasn't a monolithic experience. whites benefited and blacks did too. in 1883 the united states supreme court struck down the civil rights act of 1875. reconstruction was drawing to a close. whatever right or privileges whi

alabama alabama about a al about a albany thistime of year, we are still in winter for a few more days but i out there. the dupt is 61, winds out of the east-southeast, and to the north, 67 in wiki weeki wachee. and 67 in frost proof and 68 out in wauchula. we've been talking about all of this intense rain across louisiana, on into mississippi and now making its way toward alabama and georgia as well and it just continues, you don't see an end in sight, and you see more rain gathering off shore and you switch to the water vapor loop and there is just so much moisture in the air. we call this an atmospheric river, and it's streaming in and hen flow into mexico and this is so rare that they saw snow across portions of a had guadalajara,and that is rare to see, the last time was 1997. and so it's been a while since we have seen a cut-off low e and that is what is aiding aiding all of this flooding. by the time they move east it looses that moist connection it has right now and so by sunday when we see the showers and storms there could be a few heavy downpours but for the most part we are just look at scattered shower activity. starting at the coast and moving eastward, similar to what we see time. and once again, mid to upper 80's. fairly humid, mid 80's tomorrow and therefrom is the there is the rain threat. 80 on monday and hanging around the 80-degree mark hea

alabama, which is a unit of the alabama department of archives in history. it was founded in 19 no one. -- it was founded in 1901. we are the oldest independent history organization in the country. we are in the alabama voices exhibit, the centerpiece permanent exhibition of the museum of alabama. this exhibit opened in 2014 to help us present a new telling of the story of our state's past. the exhibit provides a nice introduction. we introduce then the european colonial powers and later, the new united states government, who becomes both trade partners and at times, adversaries to the people who live here in alabama. we're looking here at an artifact that is extremely important to the story of changing relationships in the 18th century. was is a piece metal that cast to commemorate the signing of the treaty of new york in 1790. this is the first international treaty signed by the new united states government. six of these were presented to the party that came to new york to sign the treaty. this treaty was important for establishing a new standard and a new expectation in terms of who was going to be treating with the native american people. the treaty of new york declared quite specifically that th

alabama. donald trump. again. take a look at the percentageses. 48-20. rubio again in third place there trying to catch up with ted cruz to get closer to but he didn't do it in alabama. alabama hillary clinton. another southern state. take a look at the results. 78 to 19. 4-1. over sanders. andal pwachlt let's keep movingdal pwachlt let's keep movingal for numbers virginia donald trump this was a state that could have gone against him. but he won. barely beating out rubio but 35barely beating out rubio but35-32 w is a w. virginia also take a look on the democratic side. hillary clinton with another victory. the numbers easy for her in virginia. keep rolling along. texas ted cruz got a b b victory there. he said if you can't win your home state you can't win election. he won and he won easily over donald trump. rubio had 19 percent there. on the democratic side hillary clinton with an easy victory in texas. she got the nomination there, viory there 68-30. over 2-1ver bernie sanders. victory you will see. oklahoma ted cruz got the second victory of the night thisasn't a certainty. donald trump was winning there but he didn't win. he pulled in behind ted cruz. marco rubio in th

alabama a&m. that was located in meridian built at the turn. with accounts of digital established that school was just powerful for that time period. and even whe when you talk brith alabama a&m, some people forget ruben jones which have been alabama legislature, and it was he who was the guiding spirit that undergirded the efforts of william h. council to establish alabama a&m. reverend jones and william h. council were neighbors. so you can see that kind of tie a relationship those two persons had. and these are just two instances of some things that happen in alabama regarding lack officeholders. you look at article 14 in the constitution. when a women married in alabama before 1868, or property became the property of her husband. with the constitution of 1868, that was no longer the case. in addition, when a woman marriage before 1868, whatever gets her husband held abroad into the marriage, became her debts also. and then article ii, you were not imprisoned in alabama for debts. so that constitution really democratize the state of alabama, and we can applaud those black officeholders for having a role in seeking that the rights of women were enlarged. so reconstruction wasn't a monolithic experience. whites benefited and blac

alabama. next, we tour the archives and special collections unit at alabama state university to view books and manuscripts related to the civil rights movement. >> we are in the campus of alabamatate university in montgomery, alabama. we are in the archives. the dean envisioned it as a cultural learning place. some people were confused. you are not sure if you are in a library or not. we wanted to bring the archives alive, the history of the institution and area alive. we have a timeline downstairs covering the totality of the alabama state experience from its origins all throughout the 150 year history through today. what these hallowed halls and made an impact on what is america today. we have two primary areas. we are in the primary, and we have a secondary. almost 200 collections in our holdings. an array of artwork, over 1,000 media items. real surreal, cassettes, film, a variety of formats over 60 years that are collected here. i chose the collections we will look at today because they are more impressive and tell an interconnected story of the civil rights movement that really had -- it played out in various parts of the world, but there was a synergy here. montgomery b

reconstruction, he returned to montgomery, alabama, staged a campaign here, and was the first black in alabama state capital. first and only evere governor for alabama had. elected to serve the state alabama for four years as governor. 16 months into the tour, she died of cancer. we are one of two states in the anted states of america with unelected husband-and-wife team together. the wallace is served alabama in the 1960's. they served texas in the 20's. we have had them all as governors of state and alabama. becomecampaign trail, to governor of the state of alabama. killedson he shot and was his life and lover. it was ruled as justifiable homicide, so he was not convicted of murder. that allowed him to go on and become governor of alabama. the governor married his first cousin. he closed state government down at the age of 39 and married a 16-year-old girl. is a working museum. alabama sinceof 1819. this is on the south wing. the secretary of state, along with the governor and those are the only four elected in alabama state capital. we moving into the old supreme court chamber. the supreme court landed here from 1851 to 1884. today, they meet on

alabama -- alabama has 13.5% unemployment. a lot of that is because of the trade disaster. we need a renaissance of education and learning in science. once tonext generation defend themselves, they need the support. finally, we need a president who leads us to justice. i mean and forcing the civil rights act, ratifying the equal , standing upent for social security and medicare. the country must be fair to the history of america is when a president lead us towards fairness and towards our future, it can be done. two comments, mr. chancellor. i have made an issue out of the ofd of a new generation leadership. i mean primarily those who have common to the political life and leadership in the past decade. that is because there is a strong antigovernment feeling. i fundamentally disagree with ronald reagan when he says he loves our country but hates the government. i do not hate the government. we ought to have leaders who ask people what they can do for their country, using the best instruments of our government. that there is a fundamental difference between the vice president mondale and myself. that is i think we can meet the basic human needs and commitments of the people in this country by restoring entrepreneurship. jobs in this society have, from small businesses. democraticion of the party to minority should not just be jobs. it should be the opportunity to own and create businesses that create jobs. what is new about coming out for entrepreneurs? your new ideas, i am reminded of that at last "where's the beef?" [laughter] >> let's keep going. [laughter] >> wait a minute, he is going to tell you where's the beef. i think you listen, would know it is here. one of the other differences is if a president goes back into office, and one of us must to save the country, you cannot go back. ofcommitted to a handful constituency groups that you cannot make this economy grow again, again a major difference between myself and mr. mondale. >> wait. i told you i would get the deficit down, educate the next generation. those are not special interest groups. i said i would stand for -- against special interests -- [laughter] support social security and medicare. what is wrong with that? >> nothing is wrong with that. >> i would like to move on. ckson: the role of the government is to be a balance between egg labor and big management. the government has to assume basic responsibility for enforcing the laws. you cannot have the interest of the old weaver and the cotton. there are zero blacks in ,ongress, and the supreme court 14 years after the civil rights act. the government must enforce the law. equivocate in the case of local consideration. on the other hand, well we focus on what the government does, the has billionomy dollar tax perks to corporations. they must be obligated to reinvest in this economy and not export our jobs to slave labor markets abroad. that is a strong, central government that is a balancing wheel. >>s when i was a boy, we had around 60% of people below the poverty level. fdr came in. for theame into work wpa. we estimated a few years ago only 9% of the people in this country were at or near poverty level. that is a record of social evolution that happened with good, solid democratic programs. we can be proud of those. we went a little too far and some of those programs. we have to correct those. now you're are talking about intrusion of government. there are areas where we have major differences. i spoke them out between myself and mr. hart a couple of days ago. e.r.a.. i am proud of it. he said he would use the power of the federal government to withhold projects -- >> no i did not -- >> yes, you did. i will read it to you. i will read it, if i have enough time. >> you can read it on the next turn around. >> he said he would withhold federal projects. that is flat wrong. when you are going to intrude into people's lives in that basis with federal projects. he set an industrial policy that said he wanted to make choices in credit and allocate those things. and that intrudes the federal government into business. >> i am sorry. but if you can take that out of your closing statement -- we have not heard from george mcgovern about the federal role in megan life. : there are two them types of concentration of power. one is too much federal concentration. the other is too much corporate concentration of power. on the federal side, president reagan has increased the percentage of gnp now being taken up by the federal government. the reason is obviously the traumatic increase in military spending. he has cut nutrition and education, the environment. things like that. those cuts are less than the increase in the interest rate in federal debt since he took office because of the escalating deficit he has brought on. on the corporate side, we have had more, huge corporate mergers anyhe last three years then previous time in american history. enormous oil companies taking over others to the point i think it is a call on all of us to see what we can do to strengthen antitrust laws. saying -- democrats, think of the private sector can pick up the slack insert in federal governments'programs? private,k of that a healthy economy is indispensable to everything. if you do not have a growing, healthy economy with entrepreneurship and small businesses, we will not solve anything. thatey is to make syrup the prosperity and arch for sure to make sure that the entrepreneurship is found in minorities as well. there is a lot we can do through tax incentives, federal licensing laws, the small business administration to make sure more black, hispanic, women, and other minorities can participate in full in profit making. and through training and education make certain that people who are now being left the hind arm a of this process. that depends on a private, healthy economy. that is why you have to get the deficit down and get going with an environment where we can prosper. >> when i was in operation .irst, reagan cut down on aid we began to move toward trade. river king, for example, made the judgment to build a plant in utah and alabama. they guaranteed a market of 5 million pounds of cucumbers a year. if a company does that, they get a tax incentive. if a corporation puts a day care center at its plant, which allows the mother to calm to work - to come to work. if there is a tax investment and forcerains our work rather than closing plants and sending workers abroad, these of tax incentives as leverage for development is a creative use of leverage. hart.ator then after, we have time for one more response before i have to ask you to go into your closing statements. almost 10 in the years of the center for me, vice president mondale has pulled about half-dozen of my thousands of votes to say i am not for this or that. one was a vote for osha. vice president mondale knows i am as committed to a safe workplace as he is. it wase is this -- towards the big difference. it was to exempt from certain people work requirements. small businesses who have 10 or fewer employees. and farmers who employed fewer than five people. it

alabama marches. alabama the speaker of the house posted a congressional gold medal ceremony the drink -- ceremony reis.ing frederick d this program is about one hour. as the chaplain of the u.s. house of representative's, father patrick conroy, gives the indication. conroy: let us pray. god of justice, god of mercy, we call upon you to send your spirit upon us now as you have so generously done in the past. those, your honor servants, who marched years ago so that we americans today find it unacceptable that many still do not have easy access to the vote. in the 50th year since their brave determination was on display, we bestow the congressional gold medal on those men and women who changed, not only alabama, and america, but the world. so many people, worldwide, have been inspired, to struggle for their own freedom, thanks to the fellow countrymen so many years ago. as we gather to inspire and a knowledge that the struggle to vote continues in our own time. i history of elections demonstrates that exclusion from the voting rolls, not fraud, has been the greater scandal. may the kurds of the foot soldiers then be hours now -- the coverage of the foot footourage of the soldiers be ours now. we make our prayer in your most holy name, mighty counselor, holy god, eternal father, prince of peace, amen. >> amen. >> please be seated. ladies and gentlemen, the united states representative from alabama, the honorable terri sewell. [applause] rep. sewell: to the honorees, the brave men and women of the voting rights movement, all elected officials and guests assembled, today we gather to honor the courage, tenacity, and faith of the foot soldiers who marched in 1965 from selma to montgomery. the pe

panhandle area and some people consider it to be trump country because they call this la, lower alabama. alabama went decisively to donald trump. we attended a gop dib dinner in santa rosa county, just one county open and a bit of a torn emphasis on which candidate they really want to support as a competent gop nominee. >> i really like ted cruz. but i'll accept donald trump. if that's what it ends up being. >> the senator of my state alone has become an absolute embarrassment with his behavior. it's like a high school child. this is not what we sent to washington. these people are existing in a bubble. >> trump and i don't agree on everything, absolutely. he's an imperfect candidate as we all are. but to send a clear message to d.c. and thaur they're terrified. i think he's the man to do it. >> all of them bother me when they speak. because i don't trust any of them. >> and, guys, as you know a new intensity with ad buys here in the state of florida from these anti-trump super pacs that are flooding the different markets here. the ten different media markets trying to get people to recognize th

alabama, arkansas, hospital won alabama, arkansas georgia, massachusetts, 10 see and virginia. >> ted cruz won in oklahoma and home state of tech and rubio won only the state of minnesota tonight. >> as for the democrat hillary clinton takes alabama and arkansas. georgia, tennessee. texas. massachusetts. and virginia. >> bernie sanders won oklahoma vermont colorado and minnesota. here's more now from marsie. >> good evening. poll now closed in every super tuesday state here in texas a loss for donald trump but wasn't the case in almost every other contest. >> after a day and night of long lines ballot counting tonight abc news projecting major win for front runner donald trump and hillary clinton. >> stake in this election have never been higher. and the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has never been lower. >> i am unifier. once we get all of this finished i'm going go after one person that's hillary clinton. >> among the state's projected to be taken by clinton, texas. the power house state with the most delegates also giving ted cruz a crucial win at home. >> so long as the field remains divided donald trump path to the nomination remains more likely and that would be a disaster for republicans. >>reporter: home state

alabama in the 1960's. they served texas in the 20's. we have had them all as governors of state and alabama. on the campaign trail, to become governor of the state of alabamaperson he shot and killed was his life and lover. it was ruled as justifiable homicide, so he was not convicted of murder. that allowed him to go on and become governor of alabama. the governor married his first cousin. he closed state government down at the age of 39 and married a 16-year-old girl. this is a working museum. 53rd governor of alabama since 1819. this is on the south wing. we have the secretary of state, along with the governor and those are the only four elected officials in alabama state capital. we moving into the old supreme court chamber. the supreme court landed here from 1851 to 1884. today, they meet on dexter avenue two blocks down. it is a historic room. the casket carrier remains from louisiana to richmond, virginia. for five hours. you can see the casket there in the picture. mrs. davies was a very passionate woman. in the book, she wrote, as the train rolled into montgomery, alabama, she felt it was fitting to allow the train to stop in here and let the cask

has now become a matter of some ethical urgency in the state of alabama and that brings us to today. in alabama, the secretary of alabama law enforcement is a cabinet-level position. under governor robert bentley a man named spencer collier was promoted from alabama's secretary of homeland security to that cabinet-level position of being the state secretary of law enforcement. governor bentley yesterday fired spencer colliers. fired that cabinet official. and spencer collier responded by calling a press conference at his lawyer's office at which he let loose a fuselaud of bombshells about the governor. >> everything that i'm about to tell you i'm willing to say under oath. i am willing to say in front of a grand jury with my hand on a bible. and i challenge the others to be willing to do the same. my relationship with governor bentley was positive for the better part of almost 15 years. as i mentioned earlier, i considered him both a close personal friend and, in fact, at times i even looked at him as a father figure. i saw the first sign of change in governor robert bentley in august of 2014. i became aware of a text m

alabama expected to be a bigger player this year. in previous super tuesday election, alabama was not a part of it, but this past year, the legislature voted to move alabama's primary up to super tuesday. you've seen more focus on this state, candidates stopping by and pending money on advertising. let's look at the polls on the republican side, donald trump really with a commanding lead, most of the polls showing him now over 40% of the vote. really the thing to watch here in alabama will be who can come out in second, because rubio and cruz both running neck and neck. they will see if they can win. a large part of the electorate in alabama is made up of african-americans. hillary clinton has been talking directly to african-american voters, hoping to pick up supporters just like she saw in south carolina. >> that's important for her in general in the south. voters in alabama and several southern states are dealing with a stricter voter i.d. requirement we've been reporting on a lot here at al jazeera. what is being said on both sides about this requirement? >> a lot of talk about this and people watching to see how this will impact voter turnout. it's spe

one tornado was reported on tuesday near alabama, alabama. four people were hurt and dozens of homes were damaged and thousands lost power, including some super tuesday polling stations. >>> the american astronaut who spent nearly a year in space is back on earth this morning. scott kelly landed safely in kazakhstan overnight after 340 days aboard the international the longest an american has ever traveled in space. mark strassmann it he is johnson space center in houston for what is next for the astronaut. mark, what a historic day. >> reporter: inside building nine, this is a mock-up of the soyuz space capsule that took kelly back to earth and think about it. kelly has orbited the earth 16 times a day a year now. that is 14 million miles or about the distance between earth and mars. >> scott kelly, back on mother earth after 340 days in space. >> reporter: he's back. after nearly a year living in earth's ultimate pent house apartment. about 220 miles above the rest of us. >> folks here in mission control houston letting out a very big cheer

robert bentley of alabama digging in, refusing to resign over a scandal of an alleged extramarital affair. >> today i want to apologize to the people of the state of alabama. >> reporter: alabamar robert bentley under fire, but refusing to resign after being excu accused of an affair with one of his top aides, rebecca mason. sexually explicit recordings of him were made public. the 73-year-old republican is the only voice heard on the tape, but he publicly apologized to mason and her family. the governor who doesn't deny the legitimacy of the recordings says they were made two years ago. at the time the >> it was a period of time in my life that i have made inappropriate comments. >> bentley and his wife have since divorced. he maintains -- >> i have never had a physical affair with mrs. mason. i can assure the people of alabama that as their governor, i have never done anything illegal. >> reporter: the governor has been under mounting pressure to resign since spencer collier, the governor's former laumts chief, held a news conference last week to accuse bentley of having an affair and inappropriately using resources to cover up that relationship. the governor fired collier t

alabama. >> montgomery, alabama. is there but you don't have any accent, what gives? >> well, i do when i work. competitions to pay for college. and you kind of eradicate any type of dialect. >> stephen: but when you work you have an accent, but in your real life you don't. >> in my real life -- >> only when you pretend to be somebody else you have your actual accept. >> yes. >> stephen: that's way more complex than i can understand. >> it's true. i'm more relaxed, and i think it comes out. >> stephen: oh, really? >> yeah. >> stephen: i'm from charleston, south carolina, and i don't really have an accent, either, unless i get a little too much to drink or i get really angry. then it comes out. >> yeah, i get really-- yeah, that-- that would be true for me, too. ( laughter ). >> stephen: i don't want to see. t. i don't want to see it. >> i get real southern. yes, i do. >> stephen: how do you go from montgomery, alabama, to winning an oscar? >> with a little nisan sentra. >> stephen: did you drive yourself out? >> i did. i have a television because i didn't know if i was going to find a tv. a television, $3,000 and a clothe s. >> stephen: wow. >> yeah. >> stephen: and you didn't start off as an actress, did you? >> i didn't, i wanted to be-- well, there are a few things i wanted to be. but i love broadcast journalism, and i loved jessica savage, so growing up i would also sign off, "i'm jessica savage. nbc." >> stephen: that's why you don't have an accent. you're imitating a news person. you don't know where the hell they're from. that's the whole part of the job. when i was a kid i wanted to sound like john chancellor. when i watch tv, i noticed on tv they would indicate someone was dumb by giving them a southern accent, and i didn't think southern people were dumb but i didn't want to seem i was dumb by having one. >> i kind of love it when people think i'm done with a southern accent because then

alabama yesterday. >> i was in alabama. we had 35,000 people in alabama. it was the most incredible crowd. biggest crowd of the season. for anybody. far bigger than the bernie crowds. i mean, frankly, getting 60,000 and 70,000 to take a stadium. i don't know if it's necessary. we went t and going to do greater. it's closer one in arkansas but every place we go, we have something special. i'm so impressed with the people of this country. we have unbelievable people. like these people. but we have -- no matter where we go, whether we go to dallas, i went to dallas. mark cuban gave us the arena. no nice. where the mavericks. 21,000 people. packed up in three days and like a love fest. a friend of mine said, how do you do that and without notes? i said there's so much love in the room it's easy to do. >> we'll take a break and come back. more with 2016 republican presidential front-runner donald trump as "hannity" continues from georgia. stay with us. how do you stay on top of your health? ahh... ahh... cigna customers have plan choices and tools to take control. so they're more engaged, with

alabama. -- montgomery, alabama. you're watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. welcome to the first white house of the confederacy in montgomery, alabama. this is the home of president jefferson davis and his family when they were in montgomery in the spring of 1861, march till end of may when the confederate government was formed across the street at the alabama state capital. president davis and his wife and their three children first moved in to the white house in march. i want to tell you a little bit about the house, it was built in 1832 by a man named william sayer. this is a picture of the house in its original location, it was not here. it was down on the corner of lee and 5th street. you can look at the map, we were very close to the river. this was the first montgomery preservation project, because the house became endangered. come this way. a copy of ature of painting that hangs in the pentagon. he was secretary of war under franklin pierce, and it was the end of 1860 when mississippi eded -- sisseceded from the union. this original piece was in his office in montgomery, and it was given to his private secretary when he left