it is located in the piedmont region of central north carolina. with the help of our time warner cable partners, we will look at the history of greensboro. visit that woolworth's counter at the center of the civil rights count -- movement. >> is that at the counter and ask to order coffee and pizza. the response was really mixed. another waitress was saying something like, we don't serve colored people here. they came here to sit down and take that first step. >> later, here about a deadly clash in 1979 between members of the kuklinski plan and ask ku klux klan and communist party workers. >> i think it is so shocking to watch the film of the event of november 3. you have a group of people standing on the sidewalks, cars driving by a close and reach the sides of the cards. you have men running back and forth. it's hard to tell when you watch the film who represents the klan or cwp. >> first, get an up close look at a 200-year-old dress worn by first lady dolley madison and hear the history surrounding the dress that dates back to the british. >> t

all weekend long american history tv is featuring greensboro, north carolina. greensboro is home to where civil rights activist started the sit in movements, inspiring nonviolent protest throughout the south. our time warner cable partners worked with our staff, and we recently traveled to greensboro to discover the city's rich history. learn more about greensboro all weekend here on american history tv. >> we are in greensboro, north carolina at the military park, standing on the battlefield. during the revolutionary war the british had moved their campaign to the southern department and had captured georgia and south carolina and tried to what they called restore the party, which meant they would conquer the land, and that is how they ended up here in the middle of north carolina. it was march of 1871. general nathanael greene was pitted against the british army, and cornwallis was making his march through north carolina by conquering the land and so forth, and general greene wanted to stop that. nathanael greene was george washington's most trusted general,

[laughter] >> north carolina commissioners. 2006, house of representatives in north carolina. he was chosen by his colleagues to be the speaker of the north carolina house and served there from 2011 to 2014. so this is a passion for public service and determination that the country needs. i'm going to spend about 20 minutes asking some questions. then we're going to turn over the audience. i think i'd like to get started with an issue you spoke about quite a bit in your campaign and that is what you were hoping to get into, that there is kind of obstructionism here in washington, which i think is standing in the way of a lot of public interest. you were a management consultant, so how do you turn with an issue you spoke about this place around? >> i guess the thing i can look back to is what i've done as speaker of the house when i came in as a freshman in 2007. i ran against a two-term incumbent in 2006, who was the award getter of all the conservative organizations in the state, but the fact of the matter is he wasn't very effective, and that's why i decided to run against h

and the case that was brought against north carolina. in fact i was named in the case because at time i was speaker of the house. i'm just curious how, as you go forward and you're dealing with the challenges in this office, as i believe senator schumer said, trying to focus your resources on the bad actors, the hardened criminals, the difficult challenges that the department faces, and a case that has 10 attorneys on it, focused on no less than 10, i believe, focused on that, i would hope that there would be some focus on is that the best and highest use? if given the merits of the case and other laws that have gone to the supreme court, that it's likely to end in a situation where it's going to rule in favor of the state and at the expense of those resources could be used for other purposes. i mean, what is your thought on going into this role and taking a look at cases like that and maybe determining priorities based on the likely outcome? have you given any thought to that? >> certainly as we review a case, both throughout my career

couldn't get land we came back and ended up in north carolina come in central north carolina where heb in 1859 taking ditches for a local landowner. they got into his a dispute about his weight. he murdered the man and was eventually executed by the state of north carolina, but before he did, his defense attorney, and at si dubious defense attorney was writer from greensboro, took down his life story. and so we know a lot of details about, for instance, all these there is jobs he, the fact that he was so mobile, the same things a lot of poor whites did not he is very typical because he was a murderer and not many of the poor whites to talk about our murderers. but having come i don't have those kinds of voices or those kind of individual personalities that come through the way that he does because those doors those documents just don't exist for people in this social class. i have a lot of fragments which iare trying to put together to kind of tell the story. they really kind of filled in as a casual labor force, kind of plugging some of the holes in the labor needs of either people w

he would ultimately march as a conqueror into charleston, south carolina. the city of greensboro is named fort nathanael greene. we have this wonderful statue behind the of general greene on the horse at the time of the revolutionary war. general greene was one of the major heroes of the revolutionary war. his conduct in the war was exemplary. he was able to put men into the field and keep them into the field. the militia saw that general greene was not going to sacrifice their lives needlessly. so, following the war greene had not only the respect of the generals and >> general green stop the total british victory in the south. he was the one who could get the army alive and in the field and had washington's confidence. he proved his worth in the southern campaign. >> american history tv is featuring greensboro, north carolina. our staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about greensboro on c-span's city tour at c-span's

>> show me you're a south carolina resident and show me some money. private sales between individuals must be done within the state. >> within the state? >> i can't cross state lines. >> this is $325 and this is $600... we find another group of private sellers, and pick out a handgun. >> is cash all right? >> cash... >> cash and carry's ok? >> yep. south carolina id >> uh, if we're from out of state, is there a way to... we're just passing through... >> there are grey areas that do come in handy. >> well i have to be extremely careful with them grey areas. >> what are you looking for? kind of nice. >> what do you want? >> what do we want? the .40 here. >> i'll take it out with them. all we're going to do is put it in a box. >> sounds good. how much? what's >> $425 >> you didn't get it from us. >> we hand over the cash and we walk out with the gun - no id, no background check, no record. all in less than an hour. >> later that day, we sold the gun back to a licensed pawnshop. in 9 out of 10 gun crimes, the shooter is not the original purchaser. guns ar

. >> all weekend long american history tv be featuring greensboro, north carolina. television commentator edward r. murrow was born in greensboro. he was known for criticizing senator mccarthy and his catchphrase "did night and good luck -- "good night and good luck." >> the international civil rights center and museum opened in greensboro february 1, 2010. museum tells the story of the sit-ins that happened in the city that launched a wave of sit-ins across the south. >> what happened here in 1960, february 1, four young men from north carolina amt state -- amt -- north carolina a&t state university chose that day to make a stand, really to take a seat so that the rest of us would be able to do that. so they took a stand against jim crow, against segregation, against whites-only access to public accommodations and to being seen as a first-class citizen. they came here to this woolworth building and this lunch counter to sit down and be treated like a first-class citizen and be served against their policies and practices. this is the actual lunch counter area that's

the pond was in south carolina. well the story goes out to greensboro and the conservative press and they say he is lying to the north and making up stories. they claim 15 bodies were found in the greensboro pond. a lot of misinformation goes out and pretty soon there is death threats and people want the family to leave and business partners sever ties with him. he made it clear the stories wasn't about greensboro but sticks to the story and sources and eventually when he comes back he makes a stand and joins the republican party and gets elected to the constitutional convention as the representative of gill ford county. one of the things i have the documents discussed in the book, is a listing of 15 points that he advocateed as a representative to the constitutional convention. and one was equality of all people regardless of race equality of rights of everyone everyone to vote free public education for everyone in the state which all of things ended up in the constitution and guaranteed by the constitution and cha

the three people killed in north carolina.for president obama to come and say something about it, the silence is an excerpt of all. -- unacceptable. we should not be selective in our condemnation. >> tariq ramadan, you been following the position of muslims in europe for decades. is it your sense, as some claim, that more and more young muslims in europe are turning to a more radical form of islam and also, violent acts like the one we just witnessed in copenhagen? >> i think there's something completely new that is difficult for us to understand, this attraction with social media. we have never had such a thing [indiscernible] going to bosnia or even palestine, so i don't think we had this before. at the same time, we have to be cautious. [indiscernible] it is a tiny minority. they're are not even going to the mosques. we have to be very cautious. it might be that we have more young people being involved, but still, this is completely disconnected from the muslim community in the west. because you are asking the question tryi

it's not clear what would happen to south carolina. he could certainly ruin the primary, which would have huge implications for a lot of these candidates who expect south carolina to be the big opportunity. >> again, for the few viewers that know this south carolina has been the most reliable predictor for republican nomination winners in the modern era. it would be interesting if it happens again this time. the gingrich when did a lot to take the steam out of south carolina. if they were devalued this time, it would hurt. >> it will be of the early states about. >> you have to look at florida. >> these other southern states deserve a big place. in the end, senator graham will not be a candidate. the more he is out there, the more series he is, the more likely that the primary does not have a place in the process. >> he says he wants to run as a foreign-policy candidate. they tend to go around and make noise, promote their vision and when he gets down to it, pull away and not go through what you have to go through to be a candidate. >>

. -- the upcountry of south carolina.iolence prompted the u.s. army to fight the ku klux klan. the arrests were almost all in york and spartanburg counties. the trials, however, were held in columbia, which underscored the contrast between the relatively peaceful capital -- the completely peaceful capital -- and the bloodsoaked resistance elsewhere in the state. a good demonstration of this contrast and our landscape is the cemetery, a product of the violence of 1870-71, which prompted local african-american leaders to look over the political terrorism of the last several years in the landscape. they turned back to the assassination of benjamin franklin randolph in 1868. randolph was in the state legislature. he had previously lived in charleston. but he was buried in columbia after a funeral at bethel church. after the violence of 1870-71 or in the midst of continuing violence, republicans planned a monument to randolph. there was a dedication ceremony at what was then part of elmwood cemetery, in february of 1871, which

it's worked in north carolina. i don't believe it's any coincidence over the last four years in north carolina's economic activity is outpacing virtually every other state in the southeast. i don't think it's any coincidence that north carolina for the first time in 10 years is ahead of south carolina on an appointment i think it was through some of the systematic approach we have used for responsible regulatory reform. and incidentally it's not always pulling it all back. it's doing it in a reasonable fashion. north carolina's upper state in the nation to tackle coal as sure issues and putting forth a regulatory framework to do that. we have gotten all the stakeholders together environmental organizations and utilities and i think we got it right. we balance the regulations. there were a lot of people who are concerned because we had the coal ash bill in the dan river that was just overreach. i refuse to allow that to happen happen. we want to use the same framework that we tell the regulators in north carolina th

>> guest: i found them in south carolina.y thurmond tompkins lives in edgefield, not far from where senator thurmond and his family all grew up, although that house does not exist. his other sister, martha thurmond bishop, lives in the town of greenwood, kind of up in the northwestern part of the state. c-span: senator thurmond has quite an accent. >> guest: yes, he does. c-span: do the sisters talk the same way? >> guest: sort of, but a little softer. the one thing i think of -- senator thurmond's first name as strom. they refer to him as strum as though it were spelled s-t-r-u-m. but they were very charming. i had no trouble understanding them at all. they are both retired school teachers in what was as sweet as anything. they were both prepared for my visit and had written notes about things they wanted to tell me, not so much that strom was the most wonderful person, whatever, but just stories they wanted to tell me about their very early years in edgefield. this is not too long after the turn of the century, and their me

carolina on unemployment. i think it was through some of the systematic approach we've used for responsible regulatory reform. and incidentally and it's not always clawing it all back. it's doing it in a reasonable fashion. north carolina is the first state in the nation to tackle coal ash pond issues and putting forth the regulatory framework to do that. we've got all the stakeholders together, environmental organizations, utilities, other power countries edited we got it right and we balanced the regulation. there was a lot of people who were concerned because we had a coal ash bill on the river that we just overreach. i refuse to allow that to happen. i said we want to use the same framework that would allow the regulators and north killer that they have to follow, for us to sing with a policy to solve a problem, but not just all of a sudden run these private on emotions and maybe the pressure we're getting from certain special interest groups, and we got to a good policy and a belief that regulatory policy

a look at our recent visit to greensboro, north carolina. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend. >> today we are at the greensboro historical museum in an exhibit called the murphy confederate long arms collection and this collection was actually originally loaned to the museum, and then bequeathed to the museum upon dr. murphy's death in 2003. john and isabel murphy was a particular collector inveterate long arms. he was born in washington, d.c. and attended school in virginia. he was a southerner. he then enrolled in the navy. he served as a doctor for 20 years before retiring and assembled what is an outstanding collection, one of its kind of confederate long arms, and by that i mean rifles, was it, shotguns, and carbines made in the south for confederate soldiers. his interest in the civil war, talking to his maternal grandfather and some great uncles, and the fact that his maternal grandfather was a confederate veteran, so i think that sparked his interest in the civil war. the centennial of the civil war in t

this fall north carolina's speaker defeated the democrat kay hagan.responsible for some of the state's most extreme right-wing policies. pat mccory is up for reelection in 2016. north carolina is set to be a critical battleground this election cycle. last year somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 people from 32 states turned out to hear their voices heard. this year will focus on voting rights the need to expand medicaid and dealing with the minimum wage. joining me tonight is my guest. i want to ask you first about the movie "selma" and what impact this has had. you have been quoted as saying that north carolina is the new selma. are things coming together and emotions being sparked with a touch of history and a real reminder about what the civil rights movement was all about? >> when we look at the extreme turn here in north carolina and we look at the fact we have a first case of the shelby decision on july 6th federal court 30 days to the date when the voting rights act was signed, we're fighting to win this case. more than 180 organizations are c

i thank the gentlelady from north carolina for their leadership. i think you can look at me and understand the importance of the federal government for when i went to school, those of us of minority status african-americans hispanics were not protected by our states. it had to be those in the federal government who indicated that no matter what you look like, what your race was, what your disability you had the right to equal education. that's what the federal government can do. that's what this involvement of the federal government is. it is to ensure that no child is denied an education but yet we find ourselves today with a decrease in funding to education across america. parents should understand that. 3.2 million student enrollment increase, this bill flat lines any increase in education. it does not support teachers and it does not support highly qualified teachers in providing for them an incentive to teach. more importantly, my fellow students that may be called disabled, you know what they do to them. they raise the numbers of those who ca

paul beban is in chapel hill, north carolina with more. paul. >> reporter: well, good evening john, yes the community here at the university of north carolina chapel hill really shocked. this is a big quad called the pit where they held the vigil to honor and mourn these students tonight. about 1500 students and community members maybe more were here lighting candles talking about their fallen friends. we heard from the mayor of chapel hill, we heard from relatives of the victims. the campus bell rang out during the ceremony. sharing memories, sharing tears as well, the victim -- the perpetrator, the alleged perpetrator the accused gunman is in jail, craig hicks and police are trying to understand his motive. >> craig hicks charged with three counts of murder. >> all three were pronounced dead at the scene. >> the motive, according to investigators, a dispute among neighbors. >> based upon all our information that our office and that law enforcement has at this time, that the events of yesterday are not part of a targeted campaign against

a day of grief in north carolina. families and friends say final good-bye to three wonderful muslim students gunned down execution style. we're going to bring you the latest on the investigation. >>> also ukraine and russia they agree to a peace deal but does it have any real collapse of lasting? we're going live to minsk and live to the front lines in ukraine. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours but aleve can last 12 hours. and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are ya? good. aleve. proven better on pain. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals antioxidants and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition in charge™. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to

carolina coastline on the day thursday. but in the process, it's got a lot more moisture to work with and push northward. big question is will we see any snow? there's the possibility of that during thursday morning. once again with the southern track, the better chances of snow measurable snow will stay south of the area. in advance of this new system a wide area of winter storm watches all the way to southeast virginia and the outer banks. large area in pink winter storm warning. this area will pick up five inches or more of snow and maybe some ice mixed in. clearing skies around our area tomorrow but a rapid increase in cloudiness tomorrow night. here comes the effects of the storm as it heads out to the carolina coast. see some areas of snow possible. this is one model solution. and another model to keep the snow further to the south. we'll track it as it develops. and then it should be out of here during midday hours of thursday with a little clearing to follow. here's the story. through the rest of the night, and the

south carolina votes on a saturday. that means north carolina will go on a tuesday.e days after these first four states you could have a state with a lot of big media markets and a lot of voters right square in the middle of this nominating fight and the people i talked to in north carolina in the republican party there say they do not care at all if the republican national committee penalizes them with delegates or whatever. they want the attention. they want to be square up front. remember, they usually go in may. it looks like they could be going in february in 2016. >> that would change a lot. >> they'll talk a little bit about this this session. >> that would make it interesting. >> john kasich, the governor of ohio is headed to south carolina this week. it's his first trip to an early primary state. he's someone who has the credentials to be an instant conte contender. just re-elected by 30 points and hasn't done a lot to sort of stoke the 2016 talks to date. this is part of this tour he's been doing all over the country of quacking for a balanced budget amendm

i think as they say in north carolina, that dog don't hunt.e choices. it's important to recognize we're voting on here today. this item is respond inging to two specific petitions from two cities. the rulinging is enforceable only on behalf of the petition ners and their states. i do hope however that this decision was shine some light on the fact there is an ongoing effort to impose restrictions. on what elected local officials can do at the request of their people. and that it calls out the activities of incumbents to block consumer choice and competition. through legislation. the bottom line of these matters is that some states have created thickets of red tape designed to limit competition. we're not talking here about the state's authority to determine whether a community can offer broadband to its citizens. in both north carolina and in tennessee, the state has given the localities that authority. but that grant of authority has been undermined by state imposed bureaucratic red tape requirements. and what we're doing today is cutting awa

in north carolina alone mr. speaker, over 4,000 homeland security employees are going to be furloughed or go without pay. house republicans forced this unnecessary stalemate by including poison pill riders in the bipartisan bill that our homeland security subcommittee negotiated late last year. it was a bipartisan, bicameral negotiated bill. it's ready to be passed right at this moment. should have been passed in december along with the rest of the appropriations bills. instead, the republicans held back homeland security and they added riders designed to poke the president in the eye and to impose radical immigration policies. now thankfully senate republican leaders understand the potential consequences of a shutdown. they have resisted this tea party bait and decided to take up a clean homeland security funding bill. so, the senate must quickly pass that bill. and speaker boehner must let us vote on that bill. the american people didn't send us to washington to shut down critical functions of the united state

from the confederate side together in this room, and governor vance surrendered the state of north carolina in this room. morehead passed away in 1866 shortly after the surrender. by the time the surrender came along, he was not in the best of health so he was not a participant in the reconstruction of north carolina during the confederate period. i see governor morehead as someone who is really struggling with the world in which he lived. he lived in a world that included slavery that included a situation where women were not allowed to own property, were not allowed to vote. the state was in a situation where people could grow wonderful crops. they could make wonderful things, but they didn't have a market. i think he was frustrated that the rings were true -- these ends were true. he began to establish a system that would change that. i think what he started, he was taking a first step, and i think he would be incredibly pleased to see that the first step that he began to take in north carolina history in the 1840's and 1850's in transportation, education, individual freedom, social issu

. >> the lexington county sheriff's office immediately organized the largest manhunt in south carolina history. >> we really didn't know whether shari knew her abductor or not. we had no reason to suspect she had run away. >> whoever it is who has our daughter, shari, we want other back, we miss her, we love her. >> all her parents could do was wait. >> the smith family was a very influential family in the community. and there was no reason that we could determine why she would be kidnapped other than maybe for ransom purposes. so we anticipated that the individual, or individuals responsible would make contact with the family. >> the sheriff's suspicions proved right. two days after shari had been kidnapped the smiths received a phone call. a man with a strangely distorted voice demanded to speak to mrs. smith. to prove the call was not a hoax he described the black and yellow bathing suit shari was wearing underneath her shorts and shirt. >> he said he would release her. he said that she was fine, they were watching tv. >> he made no ransom demand. but he told the smiths that they wo

jamie: on his way to the a north carolina -- to a north carolina coin show in march 1962, eccentric coin dies in a car crash. it's front page news in the coin world. >> george walton was a respected knew mistist. jamie: a new york city auction house is called in to appraise george's collection. >> so they sent a man to evaluate all the coins. it took approximately 2-3 weeks. jamie: how much did the family get for what was sold? >> total came to over 850,000. it set a record for an individual collection. jamie: it would have been even more, maybe $60,000 more, if not for the stunning pronouncement that walton's prize 1913 nickel is a phony. because the 3 in 1913 is unlike any font used by the u.s. mint, stacks concludes the date has been altered. >> there were so many altered dates out there, it wasn't difficult to take another liberty head coin such as the 1910 and alter the 0 to look like a 3. jamie: in fact, walton has a number of suspect currencies in his collection. so many that the bank feels it needs to notify the secret service. >> the secret service came and took some of the item

so if you are a low income family say in north carolina it's much harder. you fall behind in your bill the state has less money to work with. there is fewer utility supports an they're more likely to get into a shut off situation or fall further behind in their bill because there's just less money to help them with. i mean this is not like curing cancer. we have very very straightforward problem. it's a bill. and the northeast and midwest states have more money than the south or western states. >> this gets to the philosophical question of what is the role of government and what is the role of assistant poverty right? >> exactly. in a sense there's a broad agreement that programs like snap or food stamps medicaid, they are entitlement programs in the sense that if you are eligible based on income there will always be money to help you. energy assistance is discretionary grant program which means when the appropriation runs out the program ends. so that there is a real difference. it's a societal agreement to help people with food to help old age elderly peo

joseph kennedy is a law professor at the university of north carolina.is it to prove a hate crime? >> it's very hard. it's always hard to get into someone's head. it's always hard to prove motive. >> reporter: kennedy says prosecutors will have to prove the main reason the students were killed was because of their race religion, or another protected status. >> it's not enough if it's one of the reasons. it has to be the main reason why they committed the crime. you can't prosecute someplace for a hate crime simply because of past hate speech or even because of membership in a hate group. >> reporter: north carolina does not have a felony hate crime charge, though it is a death penalty state. prosecutors may be able to make a case for the death penalty even without steak a hate crime occurred. still, leaders at this mosque are hoping to meet with federal investigators next week to make their case.tant to them to prevent other muslims from becoming victims of similar crimes. vicente arenas, cbs news raleigh, north carolina. >> axelrod: up next, same star,

>> jean casarez reporting live from north carolina.an said just because the community wants a hate crime investigation, it doesn't mean the murders were a hate crime. legal analyst mark omara writes -- >> initial reports and it's early so we know little. they reveal not much more than an alleged facebook post could be interpreted as hateful against muslims. it's subjective and barely qualifies under one of the fbi's 14 points for establishing objective evidence of a hate crime. it's not enough to make a case. certainly not a case to withstand the skutcrutiny of a good defense attorney. mark joins me now. good morning. >> hey, carol. >> should there be a hate crime investigation at all? >> first of all, my sympathies of course with the families and their loss and the whole muslim community going through their loss. a hate crime investigation, yes, absolutely. the issue is whether or not there is enough there for hate crime. let's remember he's going to be indicted for three counts of first-degree premeditated murder. that act is full of

they were freshmen at north carolina a & c, a historically black university here. they came to the store, sat at the lunch counter and asked to order i believe some coffee and a piece of pie. the responses with really mixed. "you boys go on from here," i think another waitress was saying, "we don't serve colored people here. " the word spread quickly the next day that this was going to be ongoing and that other people were wanting to get involved. other adults were showing up there were other students that said we want to be part of this. students from bennett college and what is noy unc greensboro but was at the time women's college. other students who wanted to get involved and stand behind this brave, courageous step. they weighed the consequences. they talked about being afraid but they also talked about what i would say that courage many is not the lack of fear, it's doing what is right in the face of fear. it's the way they decided to finally come here and take the step that day. so they talked about the community, talked about law enforcement, they talked ab

and we're going to go on to talk about what happened in north carolina near the university of north carolina, the three young students, two sisters and one of their new husbands who was just gunned down. police say over a parking spot. the family says it is hate crime. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> we're speaking to media critic norman solomon. i want to ask you about the suspension of brian williams for making false state's after running the country was on board a u.s. helicopter down by rocket fire in iraq in 2003. woman solomon, you wrote the book "war made easy: how , presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death." can you talk about brian williams and the other lies around the iraq war? >> well, brian williams was, of course, one of the many mass media spinners, not only for the invasion of iraq, but later the catastrophic interventions in libya and elsewhere. this is pension story, the. told -- this is pension story, the fall sold falsehood told by williams, is not about st

south carolina senator, women are a lesser cut of meat.epublican state senator said to his only female colleague that women, like for example her, are a lesser cut of meat. that's nice. she told the local press that the comments went too far, that women deserve respect. and then she went on the senate floor in south carolina and she made like a super hero. >> the women and ladies in this chamber today, you will experience roadblocks and challenges. don't be discouraged. and don't give up. and don't you dare let anyone tell you that you're less than what you are. >> so yeah, the guy who called her a lesser cut of meat, he apologized. and because he's classy, he said he was sorry she chose to be offended and make such a big deal out of this. maybe the lesson is that south carolina should maybe have more than one female state senator out of 46. not only because it might cut down on the lesser cuts of meat jokes, but also because it turns out women make better legislators. don't take it from me. this is a website called quorum run by harvard s

the police there in north carolina are paying at this point we haven't developed that. then you get the question of what about a federal investigation. >> how would that work? >> yeah. basically it's interesting. apparently there's no specific hate crime in north carolina that would cover this situation. the federal government there is a hate crime statute. i looked at it and worked with it before. again, killing somebody by virtue of their ethnicity, color, religion et cetera. the interesting thing the department of justice has a policy that they want to justify a reprosecution. think about it. if he's convicted of three murder counts and ostensibly gets life in prison on three different counts. >> also, north carolina is a death penalty state. >> exactly. it would be very hard to justify -- again, people could take this the wrong way -- not saying i don't think it should be vindicated as a hate crime if it as a practical justice resources matter you're not necessarily going to want to prosecute for a hate crime if there's three murder counts. >> and if it's not consid

. >> host: beth, columbia, south carolina, got a couple minutes left. >> caller: hi, guys. first of all, i just wanted to say, thank you so much for your service, and thank you so much for coming forward with this story. it truly amazing. i'm sorry for the loss of your team members and i think it's absolutely shameful you didn't have the support you needed. with that said, i just wanted to know if you -- what kind of response overall you guys are getting from people now that the book is out and also, if and when you're coming to columbia so you can sign my coffee? >> guest: where is she from? columbia south carolina gamecocks, got you. >> guest: thank you very much for your support. the support of the people out there when we're meeting the people is what makes us a worthwhile. it's wonderful to see and hear what people have to say, that

of south carolina on unemployment. i think it was through the systematic approach that we've used for responsible regulatory reform. and it is not just clawing it all back. it is in a reasonable formation. we are the first to tackle coal ash and putting forth the regulatory framework to do it. and we got the investor owned utilities and other power companies and we balanced the regulations and there were people that were concerned because we had the coal ash bill on the dan river that we would just overreach and i refused to let that happen and we've used the same framework to solve the same pressure from certain special interest groups and we got to a good policy and i believe that regulatory policy will be adopted by other states. >> a question right here. >> senator i was curious about your views on [ inaudible ]. last year we asked the government for some documents and they said no to foyer the documents and then the government said now you have to pay for them and they said you said we have to foyer them. and this

, south carolina and tennessee. and then it continues east later on tuesday morning for places like columbia, charleston, maybe even wilmington north carolina and the outer banks of north carolina may see some snow as well. in the northern states it's the brutal windchills. it continues wave after wave after wave of cold as minus 30 over the next several days, into thursday. it just won't let up, lester, back to you. >> janice, thank you. >>> new hope tonight for families worried about peanut allergies. two new reports indicate potential breakthroughs going against conventional wisdom by carefully exposing kids to peanut proteins. in one report researchers gave small amounts of proteins over time to babies deemed at risk. those who already have eczema or egg allergies. five years later the risk was significantly lower for 80% of them. in the other report kids with peanut allergies were able to tolerate small amounts of the proteins after using a new type of skin patch. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. the family of

carolina and florida and all across the country after greece broke. what are we going to do about restaurants in movies -- after greensboro. what are we going to do about restaurants and movies? they try to keep hope alive, as jesse jackson says, by having meetings and energizing people. it was difficult after a wild. people graduated, they went home, got jobs. you have a small group of students and faculty who are left here to try keep things moving, and a lot of that is in the book also. a lot of those people were bennett people. one of the original sit-inners sai, if it had not been for the -- said if it had not been for the women of bennett after the will worse sit-in, we -- wool worth's sit-in, we would not have been able to move forward. things quieted down in 1961 and 1962. then it picked up again. i cannot tell you why. there are different things that happened in history. people began to say ok, and the national organization, the congress of racial equality sent some national people down the greensboro to help and they began to have organized

kasich is thinking about it quite seriously, headed to south carolina. i know money matters to him.e might not think there is space for him, but he has said a number of times, with all of bush's fundraising strength there are a lot of problems lurking in the polling we've seen so far. the question james is pointing to is, where is jeb bush the front runner? i know you think he's going to win them all and run the table. >> i don't think he will win them all, but he can can -- win. >> i'm not sure that's true. >> the thing about kasich and pence, they are still ambivalent, and i don't see how anybody ambivalent gets into a field where people are hiring staff and raising money. i don't see begging from anybody, even donors. >> i am begging john kasich to run. ident you, john kasich. it would be fantastic if you ran. >> the other thing about romney that is interesting to me, his people say, he's going to get in after new hampshire. the problem for romney is, new hampshire is his best state. >> then he's got a go to south carolina where he lost to newt gingrich. >> i don't quite get that

more news about that shooting in chapel hill north carolina. the fbi today opening a preliminary inquiry is the term they are using, into the deaths of those three young muslim college students. killings of the family members of deah barakat and yusor abu salha, the father was on the program yesterday and recounted the previous run-ins with the suspects. >> the murderer can say it was a parking dispute, whatever he was picking on he came to that apartment with his gun two or three times before the murder on different occasions. my daughter yusor complained and told us that she felt that man hated them for the way they looked and the muslim garb they wore. she felt the heat has risen after she moved into the apartment. and her friends came to visit and most of them wore muslim attire. >> but the chapel hill police say their preliminary findings still suggest that suspect and neighbor craig steven hicks was motivated by a dispute over parking. joining me from north carolina is ali ya how is the fbi investigation going to dove tail what's being lo

in the south, it is miserable there, from texas to the courage carolinas. at dfw, passengers tweeting photos. on sleet-covered roads it is treacherous out there. one person is dead and over 100 accidents. the frigid weather is forcing schools to close today. >> it's freezing. we're not used to this. >> and in tennessee, the storm has been dangerous there as well. 27 deaths reported. power lines are sealed in ice, cutting electricity to thousands. >>> we now want to turn to national security. america's nsa chief is speaking out about the impact of the edward snowden leaks. take a listen to this. >> i would say that it has had a material impact on our ability to generate incites into what terrorist groups around the world are doing. anyone who thinks this has not had an impact i would say doesn't know what we're talking about. have i lost capability that we had prior to the revelations? yes. concerns me a lot. given the mission of the national security agency. given our footprint around the world, i mean, us as a nation. >> those comments come one day after a