hattiesburg, as you know, had two colleges at that time. we couldn't attend those colleges, but i think it had -- those colleges had an effect on the the climate of white supremacy and being close to new orleans also tempered it. the college did not lend itself to the black community. i don't remember participating in anything that the college advocated. the colleges, rather. i will say that i grew up in a community which was an outpost of camp shelby. i don't know if you are familiar with camp shelby, and hattiesburg had a dichotomy of being very religious town and also a very night life kind of place and palmers took on all of it, so most the people sold bootleg liquor, made their livelyhoods off of that. the work was very meenl for the most part if you were a not minister or zool -- school teacher. the sheriff would come up and down my street sticking his hand out. i grew up with an appreciation of the blues and the music and so forth and i also knew about the liquor being sold and i also knew about the church, and all those ingredients

just to let you know, those speeches starred in hattiesburg rejectionists to become a we will take you there live. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for being here. before we begin i ask unanimous consent that all conferees statements would be added into the record and that all conferees have five legislative days to with -- with which to revise. without objection so ordered. today we need to begin debate and negotiation regarding the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.r. 3230, the veterans access to care act a little facebook.com/booktv. i am going to recognize myself first and then recognize our co co-chair, center sanders. following that, conferees will be recognized in order of seniority alternating between the house and senate and the majority -- majority and minority bodies. each country will have five minutes at a maximum to make brief remarks. absent conferee will be recognized at the next available slot from his or her chamber. though i recognize that we have a lot to discuss the my would ask everyone to be cognizant of the 5-minute ti

cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood is at a polling station in hattiesburg, mississippi. the mississippi mud was expected to fly today. we had pro-mcdaniel tea party backed poll watchers planning to man the polls. the local naacp chapter feared that would lead to voter intimidation and suppression. what have you seen there on the ground? >> well, poll workers here at this polling station in a neighborhood center in hattiesburg tell me they have not seen any mcdaniel poll watchers. maybe that's not surprising because there haven't been many african-american voters here. really, the focus of the mcdaniel campaign is on democrats who the cochran campaign is trying to turn out under mississippi's open primary laws, any democrat or independent, so long as they didn't vote in the democratic primary on june the 3rd, is eligible to vote in this race. cochran allies don't expect a huge number of democrats or african-american democrats. and in mississippi, which is totally racially polarized by party, most democrats are african-american. they don't expect a whole lot of those to sh

>> reporter: it was a sharp contrast in optics, candidate chris mcdaniel before a crowd in hattiesburg. >> this is a historic moment in this state's history. >> while in jackson, senator thad character ron didn't show up. >> i want you to know how appreciative senator cochran has for your support. >> after 41 years in washington, cochran is absent. >> he has not stood up to barack obama. they know i will not be silent. they know i have courage to do so. >> the senate race has been a showdown between the republican establishment and tea party and grassroots conservatives who see mississippi as their last best chance to knock off a powerful incumbent. >> the people who are in washington, who said they want to crush us, punch us in the nose, the establishment, no, we're the american people. it's time for them to respect us. >> reporter: if the primary was necessary, the run-off could be down right bloody. the cochran campaign wants to bury mcdaniel. promising more pictures that were posted on the internet. >> we're going to hear more about that. >> reporter: that line of attack had little

joining me live from the mcdaniel campaign headquarters in hattiesburg, mississippi, nbc's casey hunt. in washington the national journal's michelle coddle. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, reverend. >> casey, does the mcdaniel camp expect a win tonight? >> i think at this point there is a little bit of nervousness, probably on both camps but definitely on the mcdaniel side. some of the facebook postings have fo cussed on the idea that liberals might elect the next republican nominee as a reference to what's going on with the cochrane campaign supporters essentially saying that democrats maybe in particular african-american democrats should go to the polls and vote for senator cochrane because he brought so much to the state over the past few years. the dynamics on the ground have shifted when the mcdaniel campaign swept into the run-off. they felt they had a lot of momentum. there was discussion of how it's likely that mcdonnell would have pulled it out. it's clear the cochrane campaign at least. it is a question if it will be enough to push him across the finish line. they

up in hattiesburg tonight. let's give rub rubs in the state credit. the mcdaniel people, really believe that they have sent a message, one way or the other. because, they have really -- if cochran ekes this out, they believe this does not mean an end to the tea party. there is this run-off possibility team. the first person to suggest this rather gleefully, ricky coal, the democratic chairman who would devoutly love the campaign to continue. because democrats actually have a plausible candidate in former congressman, travis childress. most people around here don't think childress can defeat cochran. but if mcdaniel were to pull this out -- and particularly after a really bitter three more weeks, you would have the odd possibility of a real contest for a senate race in mississippi. which no one was anticipating at the beginning of the year. >> right. steve schmidt, this is a, this is a place where -- the republicans in presidential years, pull about 55%. that's a lot. not necessarily out of the ballpark for a democrat under the right circumstances. wal

nbc's casey hunt joins us live from hattiesburg. at this point, any indication whether state senator mcdaniel is going succeed or plan to officially challenge the results? >> everything that we see so far says they're going challenge it somehow. we're not clear yet on the details what that might be. whether it would involve a court challenge or him trying to run in some other way. but the reality is, that the third party groups that were supporting him seem to be or at least the ones that have a lot of money in clout and organizing power like the club for growth are congratulating senator cochran and pafbly moving on from this. . how was he able to do it? tell us how senator cochran was able to pull off the victory. we should note, a guy, you know, a lot of folks that he was done after the runoff. >> so three weeks ago i was down here for the primary, you could tell that the cochran campaign was not in a good place. they were privately saying they thought they were going to lose. if anything, the runoff was almost a best case scenar

. >> we are going live now to chris mcdaniel's headquarters in hattiesburg, mississippi. casey hunt joins us. what is the latest there? >> reporter: hey, lawrence. the mood here is excited, but at turns nervous. they're watching the spread sheet with these returns coming in, county by county. this is just as tight as it was thee weeks ago, although at this point, it's looking like senator cochran is keeping something of a lead there. and that is something that a lot of people here didn't expect. the cochran campaign has very much shifted its tone over the course of the last three weeks from when i was here back when they had the original primary. at that point, they probably expected senator cochran to lose. over the last three weeks, they've poured million suppose the ground game here. they've made an effort to appeal to democratic voters, but also to bring out those republican voters who didn't show up last time. and republican sources have been telling me that they think there are a lot of republicans who are out there who didn't think it was possible for senator cochr

it was him speaking in hattiesburg not long ago. it is remarkable, though, right, he's trying to be re-elected to united states senate seat. this is an official campaign event. he gets this big laugh in the room when he says "indecent things with animals." and then there's the sort of awkward pause after the big laugh and then he gives the little smile then he says, i know you know what i'm talking about. i -- i don't. maybe this happens all the time. and this is just part of political rhetoric that i've missed. maybe lots of campaigns have anecdotes like this. i personally have never heard somebody campaign for office with a knowing joke about how we've all had sex with animals. this happened? this happened. a pac that is supporting the tea party challenge to senator cochran then turned that piece of that speech into a radio ad and right after they played that clip of senator cochran saying all kinds of indecent things with animals, they then played a sheep sound effect. to put quite too fine a point on it. listen. >> mississippi s

and it's -- right now it's at the police station in hattiesburg. >> reporter: the big question now ismississippi to detroit? >> you call me back with the price, right? >> reporter: it's still up in the air whether george will ship the car or bring it back himself. >> that's a lucky day. when i get the car here in the driveway, we'll go from there. >> reporter: whatever stories happen in this garage won't be running out of gas any time soon in detroit, andy choi, 7 action news. >> that is a great story. >> a great story. the guy is so great, so colorful. >> great story tellers. a lot of the stolen cars are actually exported abroad. one nypd officer told me there are a lot of like super high-end suvs that end up getting shipped over to the middle east on the cargo ships. >> or in this case, mississippi. >> mississippi. >> i didn't think the car looked like it was in such great shape. >> no. but the fact to get it three decades later. >> pretty amazing. lost and found. don't miss our updates on facebook at wnnfans.com. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs fo

joining me from the front lines in hattiesburg, mississippi, nbc's kasie hunt. thank you for being here. we saw the stunning gop primary in mississippi two west which e thwarted. do you think chris mcdaniel is the next dave bratt? >> reporter: well, everybody saw chris mcdaniel coming and it is different in that regard. this is a nasty, really hard-fought primary for months before we even got to this point and when i was here three weeks ago the sense on the ground was that, frankly, the run-off maybe better than team cochran privately expected. they probably thought he was more likely to lose and instead we've seen this sort of three-week extension and the race stayed pretty nasty. i'll say there's something of a marked shift on the ground here. you know, cochran's team has very clearly stepped up the grassroots organizing. they're saying at the moment the turnout is strong. that would seem to bode well for them. absentee ballots are way up and indicate they organized successfully and something while they might have energy in the tea party, they don't have the

. >> as you know, favre is from gulfport, mississippi, and he coached high school football in hattiesburgchallenger chris mcdaniel has strong support. by the way, favre went to southern mississippi for college. mcdaniel has the backing of people such as sarah palin, rick santorum and game show host chuck woolery. we'll stick to our sports theme here. >>> back here in washington, the redskins are vowing to appeal the latest hit to their name. yesterday the patent office voted to revoke six of the washington redskins' trademarks, saying the team name is disparaging to native americans. the ruling is another blow for the team who in recent months has faced increasing criticism and demands to change their name. the redskins are vowing to appeal this ruling saying we are confident we will prevail once again. this has happened one other time. if the ruling stands others will be allowed to sell redskins merchandise which would be a huge financial blow to the league because the redskins share their merchandising rights with the 30 other nfl teams. only one team controls their own merchandising ri

he has actually been teaching high school here in mississippi in hattiesburg.l and school funding has been one of the issues in this race, the idea that chris mcdaniel apparently said that there is no place for federal funding of schools here in mississippi where a quarter of the funding for education, public education comes from federal funds. mcdaniel walked that back. i talked to him myself about it yesterday. but that's another reason why brett favre, not just because he is a famous quarterback, but because it has to deal with real issues on the ground made a difference. but one quick i want to make on what gloria said about this being a proxy for the republican party. another thing that really going to be looking at is whether or not the republican party can use this as a test case to grow the party. people here who are trying to get democrats out for thad cochran are hoping that it could be. we'll see. >> all right. everybody stand by because we're going to continue to monitor these races. alexandria field is still in new york, obviously, watching the cha

the hattiesburg american in mississippi. today is the day voters decide primary elections.here is this. -- thehe 36 years since chamber has experienced dramatic changes. intense partisan debate and name-calling have become more routine. cochran himself has not changed. he is still open to negotiating behind the on major issues such as farm programs and defense spending legislation. he still looks at ways to use old-school politicking to help you stay. he still known as a southern gentleman in the senate where such traits seem almost out of style. mississippi one of eight states with primaries. show that polls cochran was up. that is within the margin of error. ,t the campaign this morning their biggest concern is turnout. supporters are more motivated to vote today than the cochran supporters. he is in jackson, mississippi for primary night remarks. from huffington, massachusetts. the morning to you. -- good morning to you. caller: i'm very concerned about climate change. i believe the entire planetary are concerned and understand that this is an issue that is affecting the

me now for a little whip-around daily rundown style of the results, i've got kasie hunt live in hattiesburg, mississippi, msnbc's "up" host steve kornacki is in new york for me and curtis lee is in denver. kacie, a little redemption for stewart stevens, by the way. stewart stevens one of the brain childs of the cochran campaign, but stewart stevens, strategist for mitt romney, his home state is mississippi. a win for him. >> reporter: a win for him. three weeks ago i asked some of cochran's top supporters how they planned to win this runoff and i got a text message back that just said win, organization, hammer. at the time i was pretty skeptical but they pulled it out in the end. you could see it early on in the absentee ballot numbers. they were much higher this time around than during the primary. and that suggested some pretty aggressive organizing. at this point it's not clear what mcdaniel is going to do next. it sounds like they're eyeing some legal challenges, but you mentioned the club for growth and they just put out a state congratulating senator cochran. that suggests that at thi

speaking to black voters here, black democrats today, in hattiesburg, mississippi, and elsewhere, you sense they believe this republican runoff is the best chance for them to make a statement they're getting behind cochran. there are even lines in some precincts. >> yeah, it's fascinating because there's -- you have national democrats saying that was chitravis childers, the man nominated the democratic ticket to run against whoever wins this race, that he'd have an even shot of taking the state of mississippi. national democrats saying that. it looks to me from the reporting i've seen that mississippi democrats are kind of hardening to the message of thad cochran if they want to have influence in who the next senator from the state of mississippi is going to be, it's a choice between cochran and mcdaniel. >> that's right. especially in a midterm year that really seems to be favored for republicans to win, at least in red states. they believe that cochran who's been a longtime appropriator, helpful to education programs in the state, helpful to other social programs, they think he's be

with them at a half hour or so of that conference spoke to his supporters, came out to them in hattiesburgmississippi. here is stage center chris mcdaniel begin to that group. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> don't give up. [applause] >> all right. thank you. let me say this. let me just say this. we thought. we have a dream. the dream is still with us. [applause] for too long we have stood by and watched straits things happen. for too long conservatives have needed a voice, someone to stand for them, someone to fight for them. you are that voice. you or that voice. the party i was born with, the party are join pereira was 13 years old was the party of a man , a former actor from californian named ronald reagan. [applause] one afternoon my father said, listen. you've got to watch this and see what this man is saying. and there in that tv was his former actor from california, and he looked dreaded me, he looked at my father, but he was really speaking to an entire nation. he said things to us that intuitively made sense. he talked about liberty and freedom. balance budgets. tradition

i grew up in gulfport, my family lives in hattiesburg. i moved to georgia, went west to texas and went north to thing land, came back south as soon as humanly possible, because i'm a southerner at heart. i don't like being cold. but more than that, i understand that the south is where change happens. i am honored to be here today, because i know that if we harness the power of the african-american community of voters, if we harness latino voters if we harness asian-american voters, but more importantly, if we tie them together in an unbroken knot, if we bind them together to look forwards the future, then the center for american progress will look no further than the south to understand what the future looks like. thank you. >> well, as the panelists take their seats, i think we can all agree with stacey, i think you can all see why i stopped telling stacey a long time ago what she couldn't do. she told me that she would be the first black governor of georgia. she certainly is on her way. i want to get things kicked off here and i'm going

this evening i'll be either in hattiesburg at the mcdaniel event or in jackson at the cochran event. >> host: emily wagster pettus, thanks to much for joining us this morning on "washington journal." hope it's not too late of an eye for you as you're watching this today. >> guest: thank you. >> you hear from both candidates tonight along with congressman charlie rangel as he seeks the 23rd term and oakland were gop voters are choosing a successor to senator tom coburn who is retiring. live coverage tonight on c-span2. earlier today on c-span through showed you the house homeland security hearing on unaccompanied immigrant children. you can see anytime on c-span.org. we also invite you to leave your comments on what the osha dude, with unaccompanied immigrant children. you can leave a thoughts on our facebook page or on twitter at #cspanchat. >> religion as a powerful identity forming mechanism. it's part of human society is figure out who is us into his them, right? who was my group and who's the outgrew. religion answers that question pretty easily. if you pray like me, if you eat l

joining us now from hattiesburg, mississippi, msnbc political reporter kasie hunt. thad cochran need to do to try on close this today? >> reporter: he has to do a lot. at this point it's an uphill battle for him. you know? i think there is a sense here on the ground that they have really picked it up since last time we were here three weeks ago. it's pretty clear they are working very hard and they have shifted their focus to the ground game and support is much more energized. absentee ballots is way up which is an interesting trend heading into this. the general wisdom the more people show up at the polls the better cochran will do like what happened the last time. it gave them a road map to show where they need to bring those voters out. cochran's ads have also shifted somewhat from his original defense of his own conservative values, hitting obamacare to kind of a broader message that fits in with this idea they might be courting democrats to try to switch over. his ads are focusing he has been good for mississippi and brought that federal money back so voters on

she comes from hattiesburg, mississippi, and she is a foundation member of the mississippi movement. she was recruited into the movement, among others, by clyde kanard who was adviser to the local naacp chapter. his name will not be mentioned in the events taking place in austin. he should be remembered. he's one of three mentors that dory would have occasion to bury. the others being vernon damar and metger evers. as a student, she was drawn into protests. she was expelled from jackson state for protesting in defense of the tugalu 9. she participated in sit-ins. she work with the freedom riders. she was a founding member of cofo. she was one of the organ iers of the mississippi summer project. she was director of the project in nach he's, mississippi miss. she's one of the few people i know that participated in the march in washington and, the selma march and the poor people march. she has continue to work as an activist from the movement to the end of the war in vietnam, to community ak programs to end profort. she eventually would spend her professional career as a social worker p