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i endorse katie arrington for congress in south carolina." katie arrington, on the strength of that high-impact endorsement from the president, beat mark sanford in that primary. the president has been gleefully rubbing that in against mark sanford ever since, and pounding his chest about how he cost mark sanford his seat in congress. i am potus, hear me roar. last night was the general election in south carolina, just like it was everywhere. and last night, presidentially endorsed katie arrington lost that seat to a democrat named joe cunningham. did i mention that was south carolina? just won by a democrat. a few weeks after president trump applied his unparalleled presidential political genius to the katie arrington/mark sanford race, which cost the republicans a seat in the house, the president also confidently waded into the kansas governor's race. when republican voters in kansas were deciding this year who was going to be their candidate for governor, they had a choice between a sort of normal conservative republican or a much, much, m

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i wanted the lay it all on the line. >> reporter: laying it all on the line means that arrington has quit his two jobs and left chicago and came to oakland. he has been holding up this sign, i am not homeless and don't need money, but a chance at my dream. >> my goal is to be a warrior. i wanted to come up with a crazy unorthodox approach to pursuing my dream. >> reporter: arrington was not a blue chip college prospect, but he played college ball at elgin university and tried out with four different nba g-league team, and played semi pro in australia. he almost gave up on the dream, and then he remembered joe anderson who stood outside of the texan stadium who said not homeless, but starving for success. he was later signed to the new york jets' practice squad. so the stunt has gotten the attention of some real warriors. shaun livingston gave him two tckets to the game, and told him to follow the dream, and follow up with the action and the action is to try out for the g-league. >> he is hoping to get a invite to the santa cruz warriors, and getting a jump for the nba is not unheard

i actually was down there interviewing katie arrington earlier in the election cycle.lked to her about offshore drilling. you had said that you supported drilling offshore. that's a trump administration proposal. you said more recently you actually oppose it. where do you stand? >> joe cunningham, the gentleman i'm running against when i was in the hospital saw the mayors and twisted the truth. i'm not for offshore drilling. never have been. there wasn't oil off the coast of south carolina 150 years ago and there's not oil now. all the studies that i've read there's maybe six days if they tapped in, 14 million barrels total. so nobody is going to drill off the coast of south carolina. but i'm not for it. >> if the trump administration tried to, would you tell them -- >> absolutely. i'd come and say, uh-uh, no, no, not here. >> so that sort of speaks to, one, this was an issue she seems to say one thing in the primary and then change her view in that interview. but as you point out, you did focus more on this very local issue and more in line with where your voters were

katie arrington beat mark sanford. arrington in her victory speech spoke about how this is trump's party now. she was a trump supporter. right now she is on the verge of defeat based on what we're looking at right now. why that's important for a couple of different reasons, but the primary, this is a seat democrats did not expect to have. ever every one you have, especially california still coming in. there is a number of pickups. this is a plus one democrats didn't expect to have. that's one more seat whoever the speaker is going to be that nancy pelosi is going to have. that's a big deal. >> so we have this as a projected win for the democrats. we'll talk about the dynamic later on as we start to go there. georgia 6 is something worth looking at right now. >> it's also worth remembering if you're talk about georgia, everybody remembers georgia 6. there are tens of millions of dollars spent in this race. democrats had a lot of high hopes and short. here is another one that came on late. karen handel was the incumbent.

thank you, chairman arrington, this concludes my testimony. i look forward to answering questions the subcommittee has. >> thank you, dr. lawrence. mr. crow, you're now recognized for five minutes. >> good afternoon, chairman arrington,ra ranking member o'rourke and members of the subcommittee. i am richard crow, a senior vice cpresident at booz allen hamiln and the client service officer for the healthon account. i amm pleased to be here to discuss the continued implementation of the harry w. comarry veterans assistance act of 2017. booz allen's commitment to serving our nation's veterans is strongly committed in our culture, and we have supported the department of veterans affairs continuously since 1952. approximately one-third of booz allen's over 24,000 employees are military connected. that means they're either a veteran, in the reserves, the national guard or military spouse if, and we invest heavily in helping our military-connected employees building,reer benefits and formal military spousal supportrt programs. booz allen currently su

serve up second chances offering a job program for folks that had trouble finding work like dewayne arrington. >> the only thing i was able to finish, i know myself, i could have been out there getting hurt or hurting others. still doinghe same old thing. so it's definitely life changing. >> worki t with individua get to a place where they're not looking for a handout or a free ma meal, but looking for the next job. the nex pathway for independence is what we do every day. >> but with the new laws, the tax rates will now be harder to get. >> used to be you could deduct any donations above the standard deduction which was a little over 6,000. ut this year the standard is raised to 12,000 meaning you have to donate a lot more to get a tax break. >> back at then, kitc the workers say every dollar donated makes a difference. >> we hope people think of it not as a donation or gift but an investment in our shared communry and a bette community for all of us. >> in the district, amy cho, news 4. >> well, from giving to receiving, it's the kind o atm accident we all hope will happen and it just did.

florida waxing salon. [ cheers and applause ] so trump helped push sanford out in favor of katie arringtonrepublican who ran as a staunch trump ally. now remember, this is a seat that has been held by republicans since the '80s. let's see how trump's hand-picked republican candidate did. >> the democratic candidate, joe cunningham, defeated republican katie arrington. it was a surprising upset in a district that favored president trump by double digits in 2016. and it's a seat held by a republican for four decades. >> seth: damn. no wonder trump's depressed. when he heard that, he probably stormed out of the white house screaming, "if anyone needs me, i'll be hiking the tallahassee trail!" [ cheers and applause ] trump couldn't even get a close ally elected in a district that's been held by republicans for four decades in a deep red state he won by 14 points. and as a reality of the blue wave that has come into focus over the last week, trump has apparently been in a post-election funk. one administration official said the president has lashed out at several aides, from junior press assist

jodey arrington chairs the subcommittee hearing. beto o'rourke serves as the ranking member. this is one hour 50 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. the subcommittee will come to order. i'm going to apologize in advance for the length of my remarks but i think they're important, so let's begin. first again, thanks for everybody being here and everybody participating in the hearing. the subcommittee economic opportunity where we will continue the oversight, the implementation of post-9/11 g.i. bill of 2017 and associated payment processing delays. as i i said in the two previous hearings, this subcommittee is help on this topic. it is critical we work to ensure this bill is implemented so that veterans receive their due benefits they deserve and in a town and consistent manner. after all, if all we do is pass reform bills that are just kind of memo to the file unless the implement them effectively, would you agree? our hearing that we had on july -- sometime in july, we implored that the va officials who here to remedy whatever problems existed and we were promised that it w

mark sanford, remember, unseated in republican primary, ousted by katie arrington. not a lot of vote left. arrington has fallen behind by close to 4,000 votes there. >> wow, there are surprises in these house races. everyone had been combing every house race to see where these were these pickups. i had my eye on that underwood race, first-time candidate, incredibly charismatic, very good at getting press, articulating her own message down to earth. she worked her butt off. i was watching her race. i still didn't expect her to win that. >> what's important that, races like that, the ones where they're not trying to get all the attention. they're working under the radar. doing their business. going door to door. like they're running for city council. those races sneak up on you oftentimes. that's one of the advantages we had going into 2010 with state legislative races, for example, where you get those pickups where no one is paying attention. you got the candidate who fits the district, saying the right thing. we saw it in virginia earlier this year with the special

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sanford lost the gop primary after president trump aligned himself with arrington., historian, author of "the soul of america," and john meachum. >> anchor down. >> he's an msnbc contributor. >> i had no idea until i was speak to go some people in the mris publishing business, did you know that the soul of america has sold more copies than every britney spears downloads? >> wow. >> okay. >> i don' >> do you know who common is? >> i don't. >> i'll tell you later. >> and also with us, alesse jordan and house editor for the cook political report, david wasserman. we've been following your analysis all week long. what's the bottom line this morning? >> look, i wasn't expecting some of the upsets we had. i think it was night of contradictions. democrats won a seat in oklahoma city. i was having lunch -- i was interviewing the democratic county in charleston last week and our server came up to the table and she said i'm a conservative republican but i'm voting for you because of offshore drilling. we can't have that. but at the same time, he's like a country -- >> like a

katie arrington won the primary against mark stanford saying that mark sanford as a trump critic shouldn't represent the district because it's all about trump. as a centrist, his slogan was country over party and he finds himself winning a totally safe republican seat. i'm sorry to say that james mattis is my loser of this week, operation faithful patriot, they name came down, the scary caravan after the election is scary. >> mike pence finally got the nod to be vice president on trump ticket for 2020. loser of the week is chuck schumer because you think house -- wait until his >> winner of the week, nancy pelosi winning 35 seats at least in the house and it doesn't look like she'll have a serious challenge for speakership. loser of the week, the progressive stars, the stacy abrams or less the beto o'rourke or less, a lot of money, all the losers are likely losers in the races. >> bret: notable quotables. alexa, play weekend mix. the new lincoln mkc. connecting the world inside, with the world outside. so you can move through both a little easier. introducing the well-connected 2019 lincol

. >> we lost the seat in south carolina, katie arrington stood with the president much more so than mark sanford. regrettably, she did not win. i think he had tremendous success in the senate seat that he involved himself with, the house, it's a different entity. it's tough to win in off years. the historical headwinds, the money that poured in, the retirements, i think kevin and paul knew that we were in trouble even though they fought like the dickens to prevent it. i think it was inevitable. i didn't see us picking up seats in the senate, that was a plus. >> bret: we appreciate your time as always. here's how the balance of power stands right now. as of tonight with some races still pending out there, republicans have picked up three seats in the senate. 52-46 lead at this time. a couple races out still. democrats take the house so far picking up 27 seats, that's 222 to 196 advantage at this time. it appears nancy pelosi will regain the speakership she held from 2007 to 2011, she is speaking softly right now. other top democrats carrying a bigger stick. >> we will strive for bipartisa

serve up second chances offering a job program for fks that hadrouble finding work like dewayne arrington. >> the only thing i was able t finish up into that moment, i know they saved a life. i could have been getting hurt or hurting others. so i ls definitele changing. >> working with individuals to get to a place where they're not looking for a handout, not looking for a freemaleal, but te next job and the next step in that career pathway to independence, is what we look fo and what we do every day. >> but with the new laws this year, the tax breaks will be harder to get. >> it used o be you could deduct any donations above the standard donation that was above 6,000. but this year, the staard has been raised to 12,000 muning yoave to donate a lot more to get a tax break. >> and back at the kitchen, the workers say every dollaat d makes a difference. >> we really hope people think of it not as a donation or as a gift but as an investment in our shared community and a better future for all of us. >> it's 6:25. coming up, an update on the romaine recall. what to know if you want to start a

of charleston, south carolina, where democrat joe cunningham defeated huge trump supporter katie arringtonas a democrat-- as a democrat from south carolina, cunningham joins the ranks of rare mythical creatures, like big foot, unicorns, and people who do crossfit without telling anyone about it. in michigan they voted to legalize recreational marijuana. ( applause ) to celebrate, michigan turned ewlo hten.en into a bong. pine. ♪ music playing ♪ ♪ why shop marshalls? because... their prices will thrill you. whoo-hoo! the brands will surprise you. mwah! and every trip feels like an instant victory. woman: marshalls. never boring. always surprising. woman ♪ max, what [ car honk ] do today? no idea huh? i got one. let's steal christmas in style. sfx: stair creak sfx: clink sfx: deep breath sfx: grunt sfx: tinny headphone music sfx: feet shuffling sfx: slice sfx: gasp sfx: inhale. exhale. sfx: lights scraping on roof sfx: metallic scrape sfx: grunt covered california. it's more than just health care. it's life care. ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody, welcome ba

republican candidates in the house who also aligned themselves, katie arrington of south carolina, markd was too anti-trump, she was very pro trump. she loses that race. so the president's problems are beyond some candidates distancidistanc distancing themselves from him. he went to those very red states to campaign for the senate candidates not the suburban districts. >> now what is the question? we'll have weeks and months to figure that out. if you watch that news conference there was a lot of fire and fury, rage from trump. and there were snippets about high aye might adjust my tax cuts. maybe we could talk about daca. there was a little bit of both and then this question, can you get along with nancy pelosi if, as nancy pelosi says, yes, we're going to investigate this president. >> we have a constitutional responsibility to have oversi t oversight. that's the balance of power. you can be sure of one thing. when we go down any of these paths, we'll know what we're doing and we'll do it right. >> can you compartmentalize that and still continue to work with him for the benefit of th

that was yasmin arrington, who turned her own life around when she signed up for program called learn serve in high school. >> in learn serve, the ask us to identify an issue in our community or in our personal lives that makes us angry or something that we want to see changed a improve. and the issue i identified is mass incarceration, or more specifically, the effects of incarceration of children in families. >> reporter: yasmine had a reason toare about that. >> my biological father has been in and out of both jail and federal priso most of mylife. after about 3 years old, i didn't see my father. i didn't see my father until i was a teenager. >> reporter: she knew there had to be other kids with the same secret she had been ashamed to share. >> there are2.3 million youth in the united states that have an incarcerated parent. >> reporter: while still in high hool, she created a program called scholar chips. >> the chip stands for children of incarcerated parent. >> reporter: with her grant of $1,000 from the learn serve pr ram, yasmine went out looking for donations, and she found s

. >> the democratic candidate, joe cunninam, defeated republican katie arrington.was a surprising upset in a district that favored president trump by double digits in 2016. and it's a seat held by a republican for four decades. >> seth: damn. no wonder trump's depressed.wh he heard that, he probably stormed out of the white house screaming, "if anyone needs me,g i'll be hihe tallahassee trail!" [ cheers and applause ] trump couldn't even get a close ally elected in a district that's been held by republans for four decades in a deep red state he won by 14 points. and as a reality of the blue wave that has come into focus over the last week, trump has apparently been in a postlection funk. one administration official said the president has lashed out at veral aides, from junior press assistants to senior officials. ic's also fighting with am allies like french president emmanuel macron. for two years, trump has been b desperate macron's friend, at one point even brushing dandruff off of his shoulder. >> we do have a very special relationship. in fact, i'll get that l

kenny arrington beat him in the primary. joe cunningham is a nice guy. the beach town mayors are supporting him because of his stance against offshore drilling. i talked to other people and they say i like joe, but if i vote for a democrat, it will be support of the most polarizing figure and that is nancy pelosi. it will create a problem for democrats. i would like to get your take on joe and katie and the first congressional district. a lot of times down here it is just taken for granted that everything is going red. i am not so sure this time. guest: joe, it is a lower tier opportunity for democrats. they are talking about putting money in. katie errington not only defeated a congressman in the primary but had a car accident and was off the campaign trail for a while. she is back now. if they count the votes quickly early in the night and cunningham wins, he will be a big night for democrats. i think she is probably ahead in the mid-single digits but cunningham is within striking districts. this is a real race and one where anyone in the district, the

jane arrington of north carolina told one worker the story of john may, a slave who had been beaten to death by two men named bill stone and oliver may. after his death she report john may came back and worried both of the them. he kept them awake, hollering and groaning all through the night, hounding them relentlessly. it got so bad that other slaves became afraid of the white men because of the ghost of john worried them so bad. another respondent, george, spoke of haunted benton hill in missouri, telling the interviewer, one night we was driving through there and heard something that sounded like a woman just screamingful old . wanted to stop. i said, no you don't. drive on. you don't know what that might be. in these stories ghosts terrified but embedded in the tales are cautionary tales. a woman recalled how as a child she and her peers would see a covered wagon that would appear in tallahassee where she lived, always in some secluded spot. the kids might have been tented mpted to approach debugging and investigate it, they were told that inside was dry head and bloody bones, a g

carolina house district 1, for example, right near where i'm from, the closing message for katie arrington in a seat that mark sanford owned that donald trump won was ms-13. right? and so that turned away these groups of people that you're talking about when jo cunningham, the opponent, who's now a member of the united states congress, was talking about those pocketbook issues, was talking about issues that go right to the bailiwick of those white suburban women that -- >> also health care was also something democrats focused on a lot. >> i think we have to take a second to realize why we are here now. the reason we're still looking at races is because democrats are very competitive in red and purple states. donald trump won florida and we're still awaiting results. arizona was just called today. and i think republicans should really get obsessed about what happened in arizona. i thought martha mcsally was a great candidate that had the wrong strategy. kyrsten sinema was a code pink anti-war person that traditionally in a republican campaign you would have been able to sideline her re quic

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he got beat in a primary by katie arrington who was trumpyier, and she got beat by a democrat, joe cunningham, that doesn't happen in south carolina, in that district. >> some folks who have suggested that this could be the beginning of some sort of seismic shift in south carolina politics, they might not want to take that argument too far. >> i know, i wouldn't go all the way to seismic, but. >> peter, i want to come back to you because this notion that presidents who are dealt bad hands after the midterms, what typically happens to them. historically this has been a bit of a benefit politically for presidents, has it not? >> well, that's exactly right. look, bill clinton lost both the house and the senate in 1994. the first time the house had gone republican in 40 years, big time setback for him, and two years later he cruised to re-election over bob dole. same with barack obama in 2010, had the biggest sweep of the house in a long time, and he came back two years later, won against mitt romney. so presidents like to have somebody to play off of, you know? it worked for bill clinton to tria

house district 1, for example, where i'm from, the closing message for katie arrington in a seat that mark sanford owned that donald trump won was ms-13. right? and so that turned away these groups of people that you're talking about. when joe cunningham, the opponent, who's now a member of the united states congress, was talking about those pocketbook issues, was talking about issues that go right to the bailiwick of those white suburban women that the democrats have to have. >> also health care was also something democrats focussed on a lot. >> i think we have to take a second to realize where -- why we are here now. the reason we're still looking at races is because democrats are extremely competitive in red and purple states. donald trump won florida and we're still waiting results because it's so darn close. we're awaiting results in georgia. arizona was just called today. and i am -- i think republicans should really get obsessed about what happened in arizona. i thought martha mcsally was a great candidate that had the wrong strategy. kyrsten sinema was a code pink, anti-war, p

kenny arrington beat him in the primary. joe cunningham is a nice guy.he beach town mayors are supporting him because of his stance against offshore drilling. i talked to other people and they say i like joe, but if i vote for a democrat, it will be support of the most polarizing figure and that is nancy pelosi. it will create a problem for democrats. i would like to get your take on joe and katie and the first congressional district. it isof times down here just taken for granted that everything is going red. i am not so sure this time. , it is a lower tier opportunity for democrats. they are talking about putting money in. katie errington not only defeated a congressman in the primary but had a car accident and was off the campaign trail for a while. she is back now. if they count the votes quickly early in the night and cunningham wins, he will be a big night for democrats. i think she is probably ahead in the mid-single digits but cunningham is within striking districts. race and onel where anyone in the district, their vocal matter. errington beat h