. >> john molly moorehead was governor of north carolina from 1841 to 1845. he is known as the father of modern north carolina for his support of the newly established public school system, the extension of railroad lines and construction of waterways and turnpikes. the c-span cities tour visited his home, blandwood. ♪ >> we are in blandwood mansion. this is the oldest structure on its original foundation in the city of greensboro. it is a historic house museum, a national house we can landmark building. it was the home of governor john motley morehead in downtown greensboro. >> day -- today, many historians look on governor john motley modernd as the father of north carolina. he was the governor from 1841-18 35 -- 1845, he was a popular governor with his ideas of industry and human rights. earlylitical career began education and law. after he graduated from the academy here in greensboro, he went on to the university of north carolina and he graduated from there as a lawyer. to the north of the pretty, but quickly found that more business in greensboro. he f

i am talking about carolina. i told you what it was like to begin to basically make clear it is not the same as every other university. i think we need to understand what community colleges do -- look at our historic black colleges and universities. find what the great research universities do, and we need to start building in the metrics of success based on who they are, their mission, and what they are actually doing. that is one of the problems. second, everyone is willing to do efficiency. it is not true -- yes, universities are like herding cats, but they are like innovation centers -- every single invention that make sure life better has actually come from the university. some beginning of that innovation. our industry right now in america used to be 70% rnd. it has moved to last and 30% all in university -- less than 30% all in university. i think we need to talk about the specifics. it is important to understand where economies come in you should allow universities to feed it back into the innovation p i

you would be interested to know that greensboro was the last city of any major size in north carolina to integrate. having been the first to experience the sit-ins. when you talk about a formative experience, pretty much opening the door and getting in that car was like, ok, this is it. that particular moment said to me this is who, this is a huge part of of who you are that you will take a stand for what is right and you will not worry about the implications of this and the risks that you're taking. you will be -- this is who you are and you do this out of love. you don't do this out of rage and anger. you do it out of love. in the battle of guilford courthouse, in what is now greensboro, north carolina, 2100 british troops battled a larger contingent of 4500 americans fighting for independence in the revolutionary war. the city of greensboro is named for major general nathanael greene, who led the americans in battle. the c-span city's tour visited the guilford courthouse national military park to learn more about the battle. john: we are in greensboro, north carolina at the militar

at carolina, it's $17,000. so, again, keeping those costs low is a way to really help attract capability students to try. it's very important. if you look at the united states statistics, we have about 3.2 million students graduating from high school. about 1.8 million of them will apply to a four-year university. but in the end, only about 900 million of them are going to graduate. so that means about 2.3 million of our graduates right now, high school kids that could do anything that are the town pool of america, aren't even making it into college. more than 50% are on average not graduating. so there's a lot of work here. many students who start don't finish. it's known to be a very negative cycle for them. we also know that educational attainment is one of the most prominent determinants of class status. it reinforces the socioeconomic gaps, the disparities i know everyone wishes we could eliminate. applications are going down. at the very moment when we know the skills of college are more valuable. no matt

carolina advising core. it is probably one of the best programs in america right now. it started in virginia and was housed at unc and now has branched out. they take recent graduates, the most dedicated students you could ever meet, and put them into high schools. we're in 65 of the 90 poorest schools in north carolina right now. the time in those schools that can be given to any student that wants to apply to college, can you guess how much time they have to spend talk to go them about college? less than five minutes a year. they don't have parents, families, people to get them in -- they can't possibly do it. since they have gone in with the advising program, they have seen application rates about 12% to 15% just in the first couple of years. i went to one of them and i talked to the students there. a number of them will go to junior college. and another from junior college to carolina. i went as a junior college as part of my own background. i had no idea how meaningful that would be. the students had a

i am talking about carolina. i told you what it was like to begin to basically make clear it is not the same as every other university. i think we need to understand what community colleges do -- look at our historic black colleges and universities. find what the great research universities do, and we need to start building in the metrics of success based on who they are, their mission and what they are actually doing. that is one of the problems. second, everyone is willing to do efficiency. it is not true -- yes universities are like herding cats, but they are like innovation centers -- every single invention that make sure life better has actually come from the university. some beginning of that innovation. our industry right now in america used to be 70% rnd. it has moved to last and 30% all in university -- less than 30%, all in university. i think we need to talk about the specifics. it is important to understand where economies come in you should allow universities to feed it back into the innovation p i t

of north carolina at greensboro. >> we are in the hodges reading room at the university of north carolina at greensboro. and we will be looking at a collection that is pretty distinct. inr 450 world war i pamphlet our holdings. think really stands out with this collection is that it really runs the gamut of combatant countries. representation of pamphlets. a large collection from the united states. we also have templates from the austro-hungarian empire. and from russia as well. i would like to show a number of

south carolina, iowa, and new hampshire.rman confirms payments have stopped, but that everyone though is still working as volunteers in iowa, new hampshire, officials there confirm to cnn that workers have been informed, informed about the fact that they wouldn't be paid, and they've been asked to stay on as volunteers if they can. the perry campaign though says that they are still in this for the fight and for the long haul. in a statement, the campaign says this, that it has tough decisions to make with respect to both monetary and time-related resources. though they say they're going to fight on. joining me now is bruce haines, south carolina republican strategist, thanks for coming in. far lot of folks, this raises eyebrows about the viability of al campaign because you need money and you need money to stay in the race. the campaign acknowledges now they have tough money decisions to make, but what does that mean for his organization and his chances in places like south carolina? >> well, little head, it's not good. you

in south carolina, in south carolina, over 200,000 people would gain health insurance if the governornd legislature approved the expansion. [applause] not only would several hundred thousand people gain health insurance, the state would create tens of thousands of decent paying jobs. [applause] and the federal government picks up almost all of the bill. pretty good deal. [applause] in my view, it is terribly wrong to allow a rigid, right-wing, political ideology to stand in the way of health care for hundreds of thousands of south carolinians. [applause] it is wrong to allow hundreds of people in your beautiful state to die unnecessarily because they cannot go to a doctor when they should. it is wrong and immoral to have a situation where people will suffer and become much sicker than they otherwise would have been because they don't have medicaid. that is wrong. [applause] and i would hope very much that not only here in south carolina, but all across this country, republican governors and legislatures would let go for one minute of the right wing ideology and take care of the people

columbia, south carolina. i have the privilege of serving as the national press secretary for bernie 2016. you will be dmc for this evening. is that ok -- i will be your mc for this evening. the man ofing out the hour, i want to chat with you all. america celebrated the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act? the voting rights act was a civil rights moment, landmark legislation. we we are knowledge how far have come. but the supreme court 2013 decision getting the voting rights act was a shameful step backwards. it was. today we know our voting rights, family values, the quality of education and a black lives are under attack. we still have work to do. we need people we trust at leading this country to get the work done. am i right? we need new voices that are not afraid to speak truth about the injustices plaguing people of color and the plight of everyday hard-working americans. know theeople who critical civil rights law which protected voters in places with a history of discrimination is as necessary to

south carolina is now up to 18%. something really really special is happening. >> reporter: what's happening is a result of an intense push by south carolina leaders to attract aerospace and auto manufacturing jobs. helping push down the state's unemployment rate. recently volvo picked south carolina over mexico for an assembly plant that will employee 2,000 people. governor nikki haley says convincing companies not to build south of the border means offering them a better option. >> the way we can step up is certainly costs you can go so far but we can step up on our training with our workforce and we can step up with the business environment and how we proceed going forward. >> reporter: a big reason why made in south carolina has become so popular is because manufacturers like bmw can ship their products around the world. in fact, the port of charleston has become the busiest on the east coast. >> the infrastructure is really good because we bring in a lot of raw material specifically natural rubber from southeast

day, how i d of the perform in south carolina is how well, i perform outside of south carolina. won a six-week primary. at the end of the day what's going to get me through south carolina is perform well in narp and do well in iowa. if i don't do well in iowa and new hampshire then it will be a campaign that knees to be reassessed. i feel great about south carolina. smiling faces and beautiful places. i don't know how mr. trump fits in that motto. time will tell. >> i'm an economics reporter but i see you a respected member of the armed services committee. withou're slinging insults donald trump. tell me why for you personally this is worth it? >> it's fun. i mean, he gave out my cell phone number on national television. so i had fun with it. at the end of the day we'll get serious. this is the silly season. you know, you have scott walker talk about destroying isil, i like scott but there's no plan there. you don't have american ground troops in iraq and part of a regional army, there's nobody left in syria to help, so at the end of the day if you don't understand we need groun

those are our thoughts in north carolina. i will defer to my usda colleagues. >> it is interesting to note that did happen in minnesota. we had broilers where there was infection. they were never affected at all. i think chickens are a little harder to be affected. it takes a higher dose and they do not transmit it as much as much. the age factor was there as well. >> if i may make a quick comment, there are two factors that have impacted the lack of euler infections -- broiler infections. there appears to be age susceptibility. older birds are more susceptible than younger birds. broilers are young. in farm operations, there are fewer entry points. most of those have a family taking care of them. fee trucks usually only come on the third or fourth week. few points of entry versus if you look at a layer farm, large farms, lots of people going off. trucks that may be shared a turkey farm. you have a greater chance for moving a iris. rep. newhouse: i will submit my other questions for the record. i appreciate your input. >> i h

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he was actually born across the bridge and south carolina.area is called the central savannah river area. it borders the savannah river south carolina, as well as georgia. he was born across the bridge down in barnwell county. he grew up in augustine -- augusta. that is why he made the beautiful song "georgia liner." >> ♪ i'm a georgia liner ♪ >> ♪ georgia liner ♪ >> i was born in carolina ♪ georgia liner ♪ >> ♪ georgia liner ♪ deanna: my grandmother and grandfather were poor. he grew up in the terry, short for the territory, which is where poor people live. his days were growing up and and honey's place. there were some things going on in the house. it was a prohibition house. military gentleman came down to visit ladies of the evening. as a young boy he got a chance to see some things. that is the area in which he grew up in. he met bobby byrd, who i call on uncle bobby, in georgia. uncle bobby was part of a gospel group. they came and performed in the boys home. they met there and they became friends because in order for dead to be able to

marcos: al conocerse mÁs Íntimamente carolina descubriÓ que era indocumentado.te de todo es que esta mujer tambiÉn era una mujer comprometida y con hijos. marcos: las seÑales de alerta no se diferencian mucho de estas infidelidades. >> no quieren despegarse del telÉfono, de su computadora. de todo lo que pueda conducir al uso de redes sociales. carolina: despuÉs de perdonarlo una vez, sufriÓ lo mismo en mÚltiples ocasiones. creo que debÍ haber terminado desde hace cinco aÑos. >> me parece que es saludable que se respeten los espacios y las contraseÑas. ese tipo de cosas deben mantener privadas. marcos:usted no debe seguir en esa relaciÓn porque es muy posible que se repita la infidelidad. dice: el alcalde de san francisco y varios miembros de la junta de supervisores pondrÁn en marcha un tranvÍa que corre a lo largo de la costa de san francisco. leÓn: el servicio funcionarÁdesde el estadio. podrÁ disfrutar de toda esta maravillosa vista que nos ofrece esta espectacular ciudad. que tenga muy buen fin de semana, muchas gracias.

he might not even get on the ballot in south carolina because the south carolina republican party isow making it a requirement that any candidate who wants to be on the ballot in the primary has to promise to not run as a third-party candidate. you have to love south carolina politics. >> doug, thank you so much. >> great to see you, doug. >>> a reminder to everyone, if a few minutes donald trump will be speaking to voters in the great state of south carolina. we're going to bring those remarks to you live right here on cnn. >>> and what about the democratic side? joe biden speaking words out loud that have a lot of people wondering maybe he's not going to run. he wonders does he have the emotional fuel for a race? and is his heart and soul in it? he says they're pretty banged up right now. >>> also, alison parker, she was supposed to be in a dance competition in a few weeks. she was supposed to have a rehearsal yesterday afternoon. her tango partner didn't know she had been killed. he joins us next. >>> alison parker and adam ward, they were called the "a" team by their co-workers.

it borders the savannah river of south carolina as well as georgia.born right across the bridge, a little bit down in barnwell county. he grew up in a augusta. he had a heart for both areas that is why he created the song georgia liner. ♪ i'm a georgia liner georgia liner i was raised in georgia, born under a lineup. georgia liner georgia liner ♪ ♪ >> my grandmother and grandfather were poor. he grew up in the downtown area, which at that time was called the terry, or the territory where the poor people live. his days growing up and our and honey's place, there were some things going on at aunt honey's house that was a prohibition house. the military gentleman came down to visit the ladies of the evening at aunt honey's place, and so as a young lawyer he got a chance to see some things. that is the area in which and the surroundings he grew up in. he met bobby byrd, who i call uncle bobby in georgia. uncle bobby was part of a gospel group gospel star lighters. he came and performed in the boys home. dad was there as an inmate, and then met there. they

it came after a wild speech in south carolina.oman even touch the hair on his head, invited her up from the audience. he was trying to counteract something written in the "new york times." in between the theatrics and the talk of immigration, trump turned to his fellow republican candidates. here he is specifically attacking jeb bush. >> hillary and jeb, i can't call him bush. he doesn't use his last name. there's a reason he doesn't use his last name. it's not going to work too well. we had a lot of problems with that last name. >> joining me now, former governor of new york, george pataki. when we see donald trump out there on the front lines attacking other leading republicans in the field, is it smart for someone like yourself, for a jeb bush to attack back? >> it's not a question of whether it's smart. it's a question of whether it's right or wrong, thomas. to me, there's no question, when you have a candidate like donald trump who demonizes an entire category of people, mexicans, or he goes after megyn kelly, a respect the j

in south carolina, in south carolina, over 200,000 people would gain health insurance if the governor and legislature approved the expansion. [applause] mr. sanders: not only would several hundred thousand people gain health insurance, the state would create tens of thousands of decent paying jobs. [applause] mr. sanders: and the federal government picks up almost all of the bill. pretty good deal. [applause] mr. sanders: in my view, it is terribly wrong to allow a rigid, right-wing, political ideology to stand in the way of health care for hundreds of thousands of south carolinians. [applause] mr. sanders: it is wrong to allow hundreds of people in your beautiful state to die unnecessarily because they cannot go to a doctor when they should. it is wrong and immoral to have a situation where people will suffer and become much sicker than they otherwise would have been because they don't have medicaid. that is wrong. [applause] mr. sanders: and i would hope very much that not only here in south carolina, but all across this country, republican governors and legislatures would let go fo

i feel good about south carolina, there are smiling faces, i don't know how mr.mp fits into that model, time will tell. lizzie: senator, i am in economics reporter, but i see you as someone who has a strong voice on national security, but you are destroying a phone, slinging insults, how for you is this worth it? lindsey graham: it is fun. he gave out my cell phone number on national television. so i had fun with it. at the end of the day, we will get serious. this is the silly season. you have scott walker talking about destroying i sold today -- isil, but there is a no plan there. there will be nobody left in syria to help. if you do not understand that we need ground forces in syria, you are not serious about isil. john kasich is a great guy. he said under sequestration, it did not bother him at all. but it bothers me, we will destroy the military. john: i knew you wanted to take that shot at governor casey. thank you. we will be back. coming up, we had an exclusive tour of the campaign headquarters other trump earlier this week. we will show you what we found

. >> south carolina is at war with this federal government and this administration. (cheers and applause). >> jon: whoo! whoo! war against the government led by south carolina! (laughter) that always has a good ending, right? i think i remember us clapping for this in a previous incarnation. (cheers and applause) wow. so a faint hint of civil war. (laughter) hoary! what didn't the audience like? >> maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy. don't do to other nations... (boos) ... what we don't want to happen to us. (laughter). >> jon: let the record show on january 16, 2012, the good people of south carolina booed the golden rule. (laughter) but one man managed to both win the debate and provide a fitting tribute to the late martin luther king. >> speaker gingrich, you recently said black americans should demand jobs not food stamps. can't you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all americans but particularly to black americans? (applause) >> no. i don't see that. (cheers and applause). >> jon: hooray! yes, hooray for your inability

i feel good about south carolina, there are smiling faces, i don't know how mr.mp fits into that model, time will tell. sen. graham: senator, i have to ask you. i haven't -- i am an economics reporter. i see you as someone who has a strong voice on national security, but you are destroying a phone, slinging insults, how for you is this worth it? sen. graham: it is fun. he gave out my cell phone number on national television. so i had fun with it. at the end of the day, we will get serious. this is the silly season. you have scott walker talking about destroying isil today. i like scott, but there is no plan there. if you don't have ground troops in a regional army, there is nobody left in syria to help. if you do not understand that we need ground forces in syria, you are not serious about isil. you were not ready to be commander in chief. john: mark and i got an exclusive tour of donald trump's campaign headquarters. more on that after our sponsors. john: earlier this week we got the first exclusive look of trump's campaign office. this is what we found. ♪ mark:

or here in columbia, south carolina. nobody would have told me that we would have 28,000 people coming up to portland, oregon. were 27,000 in los angeles. not just the size of the crowds, it's enthusiasm. it makes me a bit nervous. as i said tonight, this is not about me. i cannot do it alone. what we need is a political movement of millions of people who are getting involved in the political process in a way that we have not done in the past. if we continue to have low voter turnout, if people are not paying attention to the major issues facing us, right wing republicans will continue to win. if we can bring people together around a progressive agenda, i think we can transform this country and win this election. host: dee is next from rockford, illinois on the republican line. guest: under the obama administration, ina cancer patient -- i am a cancer patient receiving care. becau were to be elected, se honestly i have been a republican all my life, and i am frustrated. i am frustrated with the choices that we have right

george is joining is next from north carolina. good morning to you. caller: i just heard your .omment on elizabeth warren i don't think she is going to follow joe biden. bernie sanders is the answer. after the obama joke for the last eight years -- people say, theyt reelected -- no, just voted against the republicans. that's all it was. that is my commentary. i have been pushing bernie sanders for six years now. i'm really glad. i just wish he would get more ir time. host: by the way, his speech from north carolina is online. daniel, good morning to you. caller: good morning. i have a pretty adjusting been paying i have a lot of attention to the field recently, especially after the first gop debate. it is a good move on his advisers. any well-established leader who has not entered the race should distance themselves from the nominee. i think entering the field could really only hurt their career. host: thank you for your call. michael has this point, the media loves another thing they can speculate about early in the 2016 election season. by then a dr

as it applied to alabama, georgia, north carolina and south carolina. the reason being all of the states award their electors on a winner take all basis that is not based on any sta chute in that state. so he argued that they do not have the vet split or lose their representation in proportion to their percentage that voted for democrats in those states. now, this provision has never been enforced. to be frank with you, the reason we got the 1865 voting rights act is because this country did not have the guts to ever enforce this provision of the constitution. and what's interesting historically, what wr i'm at with this. oh, one of the things that was introduced in that panel was the concept of automatic universal voter registration for anyone who pays his federal income tax in the state. if the state denies automatic registration from anyone who pays taxes in the state, he must require, the state is required to sent out someone who has paid their taxes their voter registration card. if they don't they deny representation to those for the registration

there's also a south carolina poll that's out today for from monmouth. looks the same, donald trump polling at 30%, doubling the candidate doing second best in south carolina and mr. trump is not only way out front, he pushes all these supposedly more viable supposedly more mainstream candidates down into single digits low single digit, total dominance, a huge day for donald trump in those early state polls news that is very bad. here's one thing to notice. in that p p p poll, yes, donald trump does better than jeb bush or scott walker or new bedford, but none of them even come in second to donald trump in new hampshire. none of them comes in third in new hampshire. donald trump comes in first, second place the john kasich, third place is carly fiorina. what? john kasich doesn't do great in south carolina but carly fiorina does there, too. in that south carolina poll donald trump by a mile, then ben carson is second, jeb bush comes in third in south carolina but then carly fiorina is tied for forty place with marco rubio. carly fiorina relatively speakin

i will retire in south carolina because that is home for us. it is very meaningful and we are always proud people. i can go home now because it's an outlier simply because the racial dynamics are very intense and that's a end up in the flag will help people and i cannot go home and talk to my family. >> in "blind conceit" come to talk about the president. has the president does anything you can save lives? >> he's made a major contribution because he is polarized us so much. he has been so aggressive in promoting progressivism that people like it would have been in our corporate lies over the last 50 years and they are waking up realities. in "blind conceit" attack about the crossroads in the 1860s when abraham lincoln said we can't do this anymore. we can't be half free and half slave. when you think where we are today, we are half and half. i think what the president has done is he has encouraged all americans to choose which side you are on. only biblical and for your secular status. there are a few things i agree with him on, but i do agree

he hired two new staffers in new hampshire, in south carolina he's made two new hires as well including a woman named nancy mace, the first woman to ever graduate from the citadel, now working on donald trump's campaign in south carolina. individually, none of those hires, none of those announcements is the sort of thing that would make for a spectacular and entertaining television from a celebrity candidate. none of those is a celebrity move at all. none of them zingers. but they are the serious staffing hires that will impress whether or not donald trump's campaign for president gets treated as a political campaign rather than just an ongoing and admittedly hilarious publicity stunt. on the political basic, stuff like staffing, stuff like polling was one of the biggest days donald trump has had since he started running for president. the political news started with this rocket from public policy polling. public policy polling is generally described as a democratic-leaning firm, they

so there he is in greenville, south carolina.he republican presidential front-runner answering reporters' questions as he likes to do following his big speeches. let's get some analysis of what we just heard. joining us, our political commentators, s.e. cupp and nia-malika henderson. s.e., what did you think? >> asking for analysis of either the speech or those questions is a heavy lift, wolf. it's hard to analyze when someone answers questions with total nonsequeters. when asked about women issues, he said jeb bush would not fund women's issues, which is not true. he said ask my wife and daughter if i'm good on wife shooters. what about mass shootings? something has to be done. again, there's not a lot of substance when it comes to trump. so where he distracts, diverts, touch my hair, i don't know. there's not a lot for me to sort of weigh in on because he's not very meaty with actual solutions to problems that a lot of voters want addressed. >> having said that, you know, look at this new poll out today. nationwide, republican

i don't know what he's going to do in south carolina. your thoughts?ell, someone asked me recently what i thought of him raising hi hand. how could he not, he's made, great head qai in the polls by being himself. he's stepped in something that is strong and potent in american politics. people are upset about out of control national debt, world seems out of control. as a i said my job is republican chairman to elect someone in 2016. >> wishing you luck matt thanks so much. coming up after the break with this all one big giant publicity stunt? >> excuse me, sit down. you weren't called. sit down. sit down. you haven't been called. go back to univision. >> okay, wow wild day yet again here you can see we're almost at 400. take a look at the dow pup 32391 right now. investors, they have just spent -- so volatile in this environment, but we'll see whether or not this rally holds. television quite an interesting day. right around this time just yesterday keep an eye only the green on a the screened or terse to u.s. factories for durable goods up 2% after a 4

there were so many attacks and north carolina on a variety of levels.it is able to get so many people riled up. voting rights connected all of them because people realize if you undermine the right to vote, you undermine the most core ability to do something and martin luther king said it gets you into the arena. if you don't have that come you don't have the most basic prerequisite for change. i think we are at a hopeful moment in a way and that there has been a resurgence of activism not just voting rights, the civil rights were probably. people realized lessons are still applicable to today and people realizing the things we took for granted, how important they were really hard and how badly they are needed now. >> hi, my name is scott. reef question. he talked a little bit about abigail finch providing a lot of the intellectual arguments why the majority, minority districts wasn't the intent. i wonder what you think about the other dynamic that is happening with the bush administration in the early 90s where they were advocating promoting the exact

if i go into a filling station in south carolina and immediately i'm speaking with a southern accent. it's almost safer sometimes to do that otherwise you get that you aren't from around here argue. [laughter] so, 25 years ago i was reading a biography of the famous british explorer richard francis who visited the united states in 1860 and disappeared for several weeks somewhere between washington, d.c. and new orleans. i don't know what he was doing. and i don't think anybody does. i had a hunch that there might be a compelling story to be told about british spies in the american south on the eve of the american civil war and if you sort of played with those elements, fiction or nonfiction maybe you could sort of have them meet the confederacy. and it seemed like a good idea. so i picked this up and put it down. but one day that i said i'm going to do nothing but work on this book was early in september, 2001 i closed the door and turn off the tv and did you see the fit hit the world trade center said that was the beginning of the time i was not working on the book. meredith's change

right before this interview you said now i can go to my family reunion in south carolina. what'd you mean by that? [laughter] >> guest: well, the reunion moves around, but 90% of my family is in south carolina. people don't know that i'm from there. ..

and, essentially, south carolina and the other southern states said that the federal government didn't have the power to regulate state voting changes and state voting procedures. and the supreme court said very clearly in an 8-1 decision that, yes, in fact, that's why the voting rights act was passed, precisely because the federal government needed to regulate state voting procedures to make sure that african-americans and other minority groups weren't disenfranchised. after the initial constitutionality was upheld, states started thinking of more sophisticated ways to subvert the power of the vra, and they tried to dilute the power of the emerging minority vote. and mississippi held a special legislative session in 1966, and they passed 13 election changes to try to weaken the power of the african-american vote. they gerrymandered political districts to prevent african-americans from getting elected. they consolidated smaller black counties with larger white counties so that the white counties would remain in control. they made every election in multi-member districts so that if you

in north carolina it was essentially transparent.any of these have same-day registration, that was passed in 2007 and in 2008, north carolina actually saw the largest increase in political participation across the country. but unfortunately, instead of celebrating that these democratic pro-voter rules are working to include everyone's voices in our government we saw, in fact that these -- that these programs were ended. and in north carolina they had to wait until after the shelby decisions, until after the protections of stloeting rights act were removed in order to pass this -- this monster voter suppression law that is currently on trial. the trial just rested on friday. we are awaiting a decision from the federal judge. and the head of the naacp there who runs their moral monday marches is explaining that this is their selma. similarly in texas, that texas strict voter id law was actually suspended or held up by the federal government in 2011 when it first passed because they said this will have a discriminatory effect. >> so the

. >>> we'll tell you about the fight being waged in north carolina when we come back.k. >> jurors resuming deliberating today trying to decide whether james holmes should be put to death or sentenced to life in prison without parole. the lawyers rested their case in the penalty phase just yesterday. in july jurors found that holmes was legally sane when he killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a movie theater. >>> an 11 year old boy is now facing manslaughter charges in the shooting death of a little girl. it is the first such case involving a person so young. bisi onile-ere has that story. >> reporter: aer to iffic scene in detroit as police responded to the shooting death of this 3 year old. according to police, walker's 11 year old playmate took a gun from his father's closet, went outside, and climbed into a car with the toddler, and shot him in the face. on wednesday the unidentified 11 year old was charged with man slighter. the prosecutor said in a statement: the boy was charged as juvenile, though, so if convicted he will not serve the 15-year maximum sente

south carolina can especially a test for this. in 2013, china consumed $4.2 billion of goods and services produced in the state. that is more than any other country. that supports thousands of south carolina jobs. because of good policies from your governor and legislature, textile jobs was taken by china are now returning. as he found out this week, the negative effects of china's economic meddling are severe. the chinese government's efforts to devalue its currency and bring global trade are a threat to economic interest. china is going to our national security. earlier this year, it was behind the largest cyber attack ever carried out against the united states. its current ruler, xi jinping, is trying to convince his 1.3 billion people that the way to reestablish chinese greatness is to undermine the united states and enhance china's influence at our expense. to this end, he is asserting control over the east and south china seas through which more than half of global commerce passes each day. this is beijing's way of gaining l

and john also in north carolina, weighing in. democrat should support bernie sanders, he represents the soul of the party. finger onl he put his an issue for pelicans and democrats. the income inequality issue, which raises good questions which he talked about very clearly there. for the republicans and the democrats, jeb bush is talking about him come -- income inequality. areour they going to be -- they going to be able to the messengers on that issue and obviously does to families have done quite well on that. is he going to be up to speak to enhance the mouth and month-to-month, when their speaking fees are more than the average american makes in a year. host: there's a story from politico, reporting on troubles fundraisers, and they left the campaign parting ways as his political campaign continues to flounder. his fundraising has slowed down to differently. guest: that is what we are hearing. what i'm hearing is fundraising has slowed down for just about everyone this quarter as trump has risen to the top and stayed here fo

we have his original dictionary that he brought to texas from north carolina. he has an exceptional vocabulary and it is fun to look through that. we have a piano that his wife played is here that is original, rosewood with mother-of-pearl inlay pleaded -- inlay. music was something that brought him and his wife together. he was in a quartet and was also a singer. we have the only known recording of o. henry's voice, a minute and a half, and he is talking about the craft of writing. [indiscernible] writing. >> i just sit down and let my pencil do the rest. >> we have beautiful rocking chairs that his wife purchased along with landscape rents here in the house. -- prints here in the house. he had set aside money for his wife to attend the chicago world fair and she decided instead of spending the money on herself she would buy some things for the family to enjoy. she bought these rocking chairs and a landscape print. we like to say that act of selflessness might have been an inspiration for "gift of the magi." after prison he moved to new york and he was an extr

police in south carolina shot to death an unarmed teenager. the victim's family is now asking for a federal investigation. >>> street fight with homelessness booming in the big apple a police union is stirring controversy by posting pictures that critics call a campaign of shame. >>> unsafe at any speed. investigators are blaming a truck driver's fatigue for the deadly crash that seriously injured actor tracy morgan. we'll examine the prevalence of the problem on our nation's highways. plus, tragic comic. our conversation with barry cremens. >> there are children going through absolute hell and we need to know bit and have the courage to talk about it. >> how the trail blazing comedian overcame trauma to help save other kids from abuse. >>> there is anger and debate in south carolina tonight after the police killing of an unarmed teenager last month. 19-year-old zachary hameham19-yd was shot and killed. >> breaking news from the doj, washington, they are actually making the announcement that they are going to do a parallel investigation in sou

he's now out of the fbi, and he lives here in bethel, north carolina. on our way to meet him now. >> frederic whitehurst is a forensic scientist who joined the fbi lab in 1986. >> we're putting human beings in cages and death chambers. fellow citizens based on garbage. >> in the mid 1990s, whitehurst alleged that over a dozen fbi agents had performed false or sloppy forensic work. >> whitehurst, you may remember, was the fbi chemist who blew the whistle on shoddy work at the bureau's famed crime lab. >> i'm a law enforcement officer. if i see violations of the law, abuses of authority, corruption or whatever, i am required to report those. >> in response to whitehurst's claims, in 1997, the inspector general of the justice department released a bombshell report. >> the justice department's final report documented example after example of what it called scientifically flawed and inaccurate testimony. >> i think it is highly inappropriate for the fbi to manipulate scientific data in order to obtain a conviction. >> the justice department realized there we

doug was in north carolina, good morning, go ahead -- douglas in north carolina, good morning, go ahead. caller: cap hole where it's said the republicans rejected it wholeheartedly, that based -- that poll, where it's said the republicans rejected wholeheartedly. -- i live in this the inner city of baltimore a long time ago, i moved to north carolina in the early 1990's. now, there was a time when heroin was an inner-city problem . a problem with blacks in the inner-city. now, it is an epidemic among white people using cocaine. and they use the word epidemic. if the police were gunning down unarmed white youth the word epidemic would come up again. -- when the kids got killed in colorado -- blacks in the inner-city were getting killed because of the crack cocaine epidemic was all over the place. columbine,appened in kid getting shot going to school, they said, this is an epidemic. do was start youthsg unarmed white and see how things will change, there would be a big change. it should not be that way. it looks like that is the way it is going to be in this country and white people won't