come at democratic senator tim kaine is running for a second term being challenged by republican cory stewart. the candidates met at a town hall event hosted by liberty university and hampton university. the topic was foreign policy and defense. ♪ >> good evening. welcome to tonight's town hall. the second in a two-part series brought to you by the hampton university center for public policy. the center for law and government at liberty university and the virginia university broadcast. .> i'm april ordered host at w tkr and journals professor at hand in university.

and let's remember, also, cory stewart was fired from the trump campaign in 2016.e pretty damned extreme wacko to be fired from the trump campaign. that's cory stewart. >> noelle, the virginia that bill press just outlined is real, but it's also the place of charlottesville. where as the republican party reached out to minorities, blacks, whites who are against confederate kind of ideology and kind of praising confederate generals. where have they reached out to close the gap in terms of the divisive problems that we still have in this country? is the answer a cory stewart? >> no, not at all. >> well, that's your nominee in virginia! >> but i mean, you can't -- you've got to understand this, you can't stand behind every nominee. you can't have a, look, for instance at alabama, look at roy moore. you really think republicans thought he was great? no, they did not. you've got to look for somebody. when he came on your -- >> you mean who the republicans voted to nominate? >> horrible. >> you mean the republican nominee that donald trump went down and campaigned for? >

eastern virginia democratic senator tim kaine faces his republican challenger cory stewart in the second of two count health events. >> watch all these live on c-span, the primary source for campaign 2018. >> debate and discussion on the nomination of brett kavanaugh continued on the senate floor. while we're in this break we will show you some of that now. >> you can practically hear the democrats try to move the goalposts on judge kavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court. remember, before judge kavanaugh was even named, several democrats on the judiciary committee indicated they would oppose whomever, whomever the nominee might turn out to be. the junior senator from california, for example, explained on television that whoever president trump chose would bring about quote, the destruction of the constitution ofit the united states, as far s i can tell. that incredibly enough was a member of the judiciary committee. of course mere hours after judge kavanaugh was announced my for the democratically made the announcement that he is now become famous, i will oppose and with everything

cory stewart.- corey stewart: how are you? april: welcome to hampton university. mr.tewart: thank you for having me. april: let's get started. the world watched the kavanaugh hearings in the new york times did an article that featured the opinions and perspective of the international world. one of the people from new zealand said i watched in despair. as america slides back into the dark ages and loses its reputation in the international stage. did your opinions at all change based on what you saw at the hearings? should judge kavanagh be confirmed? about thencerned impression the world has about the united states? mr. stewart: what's happening in the united states senate is a national disgrace. here's the thing, so while you have these guys who are listening to these unfounded accusations rumors and innuendo ago tote back 36 years when he was in high school they are not looking at their own senate. what we just found out was that the united states senate and the rest of congress paid $17 sexual and 268 separate harassment and racial discrimination claims against unit

eastern, tim kaine faces cory stewart in the second of to town hall events. coming up live on friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, iowa republican congressman rob plum debates state congresswoman abbie fink in our. montana candidates. 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, your primary source for campaign 2018. every fourth january, c-span camps out in iowa for presidential politics. we are pleased to be back in des moines during a warm season. this is part of the 50 capitals tour and joining us on the c-span bus is the iowa state senate president charles schneider. thank you for being with us. how is trump doing from your vantage point in iowa? well, i would say, a couple of things. the economy is doing well. and that is due in large part to what is going on

the added piece, cory stewart at the top of the ticket.n added boost to them that could hurt republicans. there's evidence to bear that out. look at the polling here from this district. dead even. this one dated. more on the way right now. both parties targeting this race closely and really this is a state to watch. the polls close early in virginia on election night. count them up. one, two, three, really four districts here. republican-held districts where democrats think that combination of the suburbs of maybe a drag from cory stewart from the senate race at the top of the ticket, maybe more particular considerations. four shots for democrats potentially in virginia. >> steve, we'll see you tomorrow for more 18 in 18. we want to wrap up with our sources are saying. >> we have a story today about how a record number of american companies are giving their workers time off to go to the polls and vote in the midterm elections. there was 37 % of companies did that in 2016. now it's 44%. turn out is everything in elections. these are million

in the evening at 7:00 p.m., senator tim kaine and republican challenger cory stewart take part in their second town hall debate in virginia senate race. on cspan 2 the senate comes in at 10:00 for more debate on brett kavanaugh' nomination to the supreme court. the nomination has been delayed until the fbi investigation into sexual assault investigations has been complete. there's a system to prevent train accidents called positive train control. day two of the atlantic festival continues in the afternoon at 2:00. including senate judiciary commissioner pamela harris of florida. >>> former vice president joe biden took part in a discussion with doctors and health advocates as part of the first annual summit of the biden cancer initiative. they talked about cancer prevention, cancer research, and helping the families of cancer patients. this is an hour and a half. [ cheering and applause ] >>> my name is joe biden. i'm delighted you all are here. i know this is highly unusual what i'm about to do. before i begin, i'd like my entire staff to come out here for a minute. is the staff back t

thank you so much. 7:00 p.m.ay at eastern, virginia senator tim kaine faces republican challenger cory stewart in the second of to town hall event. fried or -- i debate 8:00 p.m., for a seat in iowa's first congressional district. and saturday live at 9:00 p.m., montana representative candidate anforte and his democratic challenger denise wilson. >> next, a conversation with retiring pennsylvania state representative bill shuster. got -- he talked about his family, life in congress, and his father, former state representative -- former u.s. representative bill shuster. steve: congressman bill shuster, republican from pennsylvania, you will step down at the end of this year. why? shuster: i'm coming to the end of my term because republicans limit ourselves in our leadership positions, and i thought to myself, when you are on the starting team and they put you on the bench, it's not much fun. i decided it was time for me to leave and make room for new members. we have a lot of great

come up with a narrative that this was an accident and big mistake, and what they are saying is cory stewartepublican in virginia said yesterday, you know, one thing we have to understand is that khashoggi was not a good guy himself. of course we don't encourage a regime, including the saudis to do something so gruesome, so two thoughts woven together as though whatever they can find about khashoggi's past, could somehow make dismembering a journalist in a consulate okay and i guess the u.s. doesn't have to respond. >> it was pretty difficult to make the tactic seem like it's a reasonable thing even in a vacuum that is impossible to do, and what is going on basically is the president needs recovery for his reaction, and this is potentially where he is going to get it. the president is not that great about turning on the people that he thinks to be -- that he -- i don't want to say allies because some of the traditional allies of the united states he has turned on, but he made a very hard push towards reforming very strong ties with saudi arabia that this would potentially look at, and member

senate race in virginia where tim kaine and republican cory stewart talk about foreign affairs and defenseolicy at a town hall hosted by liberty university at hampton university. this is just under an hour.

senate race in virginia where tim kaine and republican cory stewart talk about foreign affairs and defense policy at a town hall hosted by liberty university at hampton university. this is just under an hour. >> good evening. welcome to tonight's town hall. this is a two-part series. we are live at the hampton university convocation center. april: i am a journalism professor here it hampton university and the host of w tkr. thank you for joining us. tonight, we will hear from the two candidates individually as they each answer questions on topics of foreign policy as well as military and defense. my co-moderator and our town hall team have not shared questions with the candidates prior to tonight's event. >> following that, we will have a special interaction between the candidates and the university students seated on stage with me. they represent majors from all across the country. they will be allowed to ask questions directly to the candidates. when that segment has ended, each candidate will be able to make a one minute closing statement. these young voters have research the issues, th

i'm cory stewart, republican for senate. >> somebody's face says thug, it's got to be tim kaine. i'm kidding, but that's the nature of it. it's so brazen. it's so obvious. and then there's another ad. i almost didn't show you this one because it gets my trump up, and i think we should be turning down the hostility. but you need to know what is being done out there in the name of democracy. so after the synagogue massacre, after it, this ad from republican ed chair ra mutt, who is running for state senate in connecticut, shows a mailbox, depicts his jewish opponent, daet state rep matthew lesser holding a fist full of money. look at his face. look at the expression on his face. this is what trump is encouraging. this is how he is molding the gop in his image, and that party seems to be sitting by, scared, or joining in. this is a far cry from where that party ever was, and they're basically daring republicans who don't believe in all this jingoism and hateful talk to vote for someone else or not at all. and trump is betting they will not. one week from today, we will see if he mad

eastern virginia democratic senator tim kaine faces his republican challenger cory stewart in the second of two count health events. >> watch all these live on c-span, the primary source for campaign 2018.

come at democratic senator tim kaine is running for a second term being challenged by republican cory stewartcandidates met at a town hall event hosted by liberty university and hampton university. the topic was foreign policy and defense. ♪ >> good evening. welcome to tonight's town hall. the second in a two-part series brought to you by the hampton university center for public policy. the center for law and government at liberty university and the