. >> host: independent line, lynchburg, virginia. >> caller: yes, my thought is couple points i would like to make is if they want to make election for everybody why not make election a holiday and also in georgia it wasn't changed during the trump administration and they said it was a safe election so why would they want to change it and also you don't need a national holiday that the congress needed to make everybody because when the state did it they pick and choose who they want to win where if you got a national election that means it will be acrossct the board from every state. >> sure, robert, i appreciate that and i agree with you about making election day a holiday and i think that would improve accessibility. virginia, for many years, you had to have a reason to vote absentee and i live in virginia and one of the reasons in our work teen hours to vote and that's 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. and one of the reasons was and you are in virginia as well noted in lynchburg that you would be gone for work for 11 hours so from door to door 11 hours and if that wasn't the case for as ma

. >> let's hear from robert, lynchburg, virginia, independent line. >> yes, mr. cuccinelli, my thought is a couple points i'd like to make. if they wanted to make elections for everybody across the board fair, why not make election a holiday? and also, if the law in georgia wasn't changed during the trump administration years in office last year -- was a safe election, why would they want to change it? and also -- a national holiday that the congress needs to make everybody. because when the states get it, the states pick and choose who they want to win. whereas if you've got a national election, that means that it's going to be across the board from every state. >> sure. so, robert, i appreciate that. i agree with you about making election day a holiday. i think that would improve accessibility. virginia for many years, you had to have a reason to vote absentee. i live in virginia. and one of the reasons in our -- we have 13 hours to vote. 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. one of the reasons was, and you're in virginia as well, i noted, in lynchburg, that you were going to

host: we will hear from gloria there in lynchburg, virginia on our gas line. >> hello. agreed to share with those countries. during the time ebola was -- host: go ahead. caller: back when ebola was in africa, we did not have to worry about it because we had leadership and so it did not really get here. but yes, we need to share and for all those people who keep bringing up the border and all the people of the border, we lost a half million people. letting those people and, why not. we've lost half a million people. host: don from wisconsin sending us a text saying before we release our vaccines to other countries, we need to know how long are vaccination will be effective. we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we could be short for future vaccination. debbie from facebook saying when it comes to the idea of sharing, no. making the statement in the long-term best interest and then jamie texting us saying sharing is caring, don't forget that. this is an update from the wall street journal saying the seven day average of coronavirus cases which smooth out irre

lynchburg, virginia, looks nice. group in new york city. let's start with this. what is your problem with critical race theory? >> critical race theory is a huge problem we are seeing in education and private schools, drastic upheaval to admit schools in new york state as well as places around the country, because student body of these schools are not representative of local population, blunt and racist way of looking at the problem. stuart: are we looking at children in terms of the color of their skin rather than their educational ability, skin color is the main problem here? >> it is absolutely skin, by race, gender, sexual identification and these are not things we should be looking at. we need to treat kids as individuals, celebrate and challenge students who will become the leaders in our global economy. our education in the united states has been falling behind in this woke curriculum will only make it worse. >> what was the reaction when you spoke out against this? >> new york city, relatively liberal city ma

then jerry falwell was having breakfast in lynchberg, virginia, opens the lynchburg newspaper and there were two stories. one was that lyndon johnson had died the day before and the other was that harry blackman had rendered a decision in roe v. wade. and falwell couldn't eat his breakfast and felt this come possession to get into the public arena, it intersected with the 1976 bicentennial, this kind of patriotism surge with this religious conservative surge. by 1980, it's a key part of the republican base. and the triumph of ronald reagan over gerald ford and george h.w. bush in that area was a clear signal. and eight years later, pat robertson decided he wanted to run himself. and won a big michigan straw poll. it puzzled george h.w. bush. he thought ministers had a role, but he was puzzled they were running for office. what i think this tells us is that people who use the evidence of their eyes and are able to put aside a pre-existing prism and see things for what they are and what robertson seems in this moment, and robertson is also fully capable of saying something else today, so