in maryland. i was invited by my colleague here, karen stone, who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to kind of bring this story out from the darkness and into the light. a little bit about karen. the director of the news seems division of saint mary's county's government. she oversees three sites in that county, is responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, creating partnerships like this overseeing -- like this one, overseeing museum operations and more. this is exciting. . love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in american civil war magazine potomac "peril on the ." thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. himn: i am glad to tell people the story. the incident actually took place ago., april 22, 155 years a great day for us to be talking about it, and there are a number of connections. between our two institutions. the incident took place off of colts point, the site of one of my museums in maryland. that is why i am involv

i won in 2014 as governor of maryland is an impossible thing to do. we have the highest percentage of democratic voters of any state, no one expects us to win. when we pull that off peoples that you should write a book about how you did that. i haven't accomplished anything. i can't write a book and then i went through after 90 days, verizon baltimore we got credited, you should write that experience and then battle this life-threatening cancer when i was governor after 5 months in you have to talk about this and a huge reelection, became the second governor in 242 years, republican of maryland to be reelected. you have to write about this. eventually i got around to it. i finished the book and turned it in before the coronavirus crisis. took a long time to write the book and i enjoy the process and hope people will enjoy reading it. i asked the publishers put it on hold. it was supposed to be out two month earlier and they could only delay it until the end of july but asked me to make it more current, some of the things going on today with my leaders

is the 62ndgan governor of the state of maryland. the second republican to be reelected in the 242 year history of the state. he has had a number of policy priorities that we will talk about recently during the pandemic, he has been a leader in ensuring that those in maryland have access to testing and they have a set of policies that are thought through and rigorous but also recognized the need to balance these important considerations that we have to go through as we try to deal with this pandemic. he is the author of a book called still standing. welcome. >> thank you, it is wonderful to be with you. >> great to be with you. i want to start with your book. one of the things that struck me early on, you talk about your dad's influence in your life. there are so many poignant vignettes in the book where your dad plays an influence in your life. you talk about the joy you shared. your dad was a courageous figure in american history. he was the only republican to ofe for all of the articles impeachment against president nixon. he spok

i've got great job in maryland until 20 of 23. i am in the middle of 20 crises i'm dealing with the economic crisis the global pandemic and i'm going to try to stay focused on that. but i do want to be a part of the future discussion about where we go as a republican party. i've been active in the party my whole life. and since i got so excited about ronald reagan especially , when i am concerned about the fact we are not listening to that advice reagan gave. we do not have that hopeful positive message and vision that is attracting more people in growing that bigger tent. and i went to at least be a part of that discussion. i'm not as concerned, i don't care so much about what my future is in the republican party, but i'm really concerned about having a future for the republican party. us winning elections and being able to win and get things done in the continuation of the party and the two-party system is critical. we got to win elections in order to do that. we have plenty of time to talk about that over the next four years we

one of which developed these tests in maryland. and we worked with the rockefeller foundation helping to organize distant planet opportunities for the state. there was competitive pricing by doing a larger order. not out competing with everybody and i was able to convince colleagues to go in together on this 5 million tests. it's a pretty big deal because the federal government had doneit . i'm not sure it's the best way to do it but it was a lot better than each person going out there bouncing around trying to find their own supplies and it's probably other things that we could do with respect to ppe, projected equipment andother types of things . out of necessity we kind of had to form these coalitions and maybe is a framework and a future about how states can form either regional and or just partnerships with a larger group of states . >> would you be open to making up maybe reopening approaches or regulatory approaches around how we deal with this virus particularly with neighboring states let's say withvirginia and other state

of maryland by january 1, 2015. in 2018 he was re- elected to a second term receiving the most votes as any candidate and becoming only the second republican governor to be reelected in the history of the state. governor larry hogan discusses his new book launches on the date of the virtual event entitled "still standing surviving cancer, riots a global pandemic and politics that divide america." he originally made with a publisher just before the corona virus pandemic hit the united ud states and they then delayed publication for two months could add five chapters about the coroncoronavirus, the economic s and dealings with the white house which he said need for more timely and interesting books. we now invite you to the virtual programming coming to you with governor larry hogan and the foundation institute director. >> host: governor hogan, it is great to have you. income junction this is going to turn out your best because the fantastic stories in it. >> guest: it is an honor to be with you today. it could be my

senator chris van hollen of the state of maryland. sen. van hollen: thank you, steny, and i want to thank steny and my colleagues from the state of maryland were here, congresswoman eleanor holmes norton from the district, our friends from virginia, and all of you for joining us for this important occasion where we blow the whistle on what is happening around the country with the new postmaster general under orders from president trump. and i want to give special workers ande postal the letter carriers and all the men and women who faithfully on time sixmail days a week. the words "neither snow nor rain night keepr gloom of the workers from the script completion of their appointed rounds" has always been part of the post office grade. we can add it to that recently, hnor a global pandemic. these are essential workers who have been delivering mail on time six days a week even during a pandemic, and they have been doing it for over hundreds of years. and then comes along the new postmaster general, postmaster general dejoy, and suddenly all

tha i wantnk m to thank my staff in maryland.ost especially i want to thank my fellow governors and r. their staffs for all of your incredible efforts and support r over the past year. i also want to thank our outgoing executive committee members for their service and to welcome and congratulate the incoming executive committee coa members. it was the honor of a lifetime to have been chosen by my colleagues to serve as chairman of the national governor's ne o association. i couldou not be more proud of this organization, of every single one of our governors on . both sides of the aisle, and of everything that we've accomplisheded together.. in states across the country, ae one of the most important moments in our history, governors are doing what we do best, we're working together ing a bipartisan way showing real si leadership, making real progress, and finding real solutions to the serious problems facing us.ica. never has that type of leadership been more important than it is right now in americah i began my term as chairman l

senator van hollen from the state of maryland. hollen: thank you. i want to thank you and my colleagues from the state of maryland who are here. to our friends from virginia, and to all of you for joining us for this important occasion, where we blow the whistle on what has been happening around the country with the new postmaster general under orders from president trump. and, i want to give special thanks to the postal workers in the letter carriers, and all the men and women who have faithfully delivered the mail on week.ix days a the words "neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of from stays the careers this -- careers from this with completion of their appointed rounds" has always been part of the post office creed, and we can add to that, nor a global pandemic. these are essential workers who have been doing their job delivering mail on time six days a week, even during a pandemic, and they have been doing it for , and theneds of years comes along the new postmaster general, postmaster general the dejoy, and suddenly we hear from constit

we got our first case in maryland, we declared a state of emergency.chairman of the national governors association, i joined vice president pence in the white house situation room with 52 governors for a teleconference with federal officials. >> 34 states with confirmed cases, many had declared a state of emergency. >> there are more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries. >> the national governors association, we don't wear red or blue uniforms. there is not partisanship like you see in washington. the governors are individual ceos of their states. we have had 12 calls with every governor in america. eight of which the president or vice president was on the call with us. >> the only way this has been contained, china or korea did, quarantine or increase the number of tests. has done a good job on testing. in south korean and i said, what you think about reaching out to the ambassador? >> governor hogan says maryland purchased enough kits from south korea to provide for half a million tests. they arrived over the weekend. he and the first lady carita kore

while the governor of maryland. and still taking kickbacks you don't he's vice president of the united states. nixon need somebody who is going to placate all elements of the party but someone who is not going to threaten him, not want to cause him to look over his shoulders. he quickly deduce is a jared ford fills the bill, gerald ford, his lifelong dream was to be speaker of the houston by 1974, that is never going to happen. becoming vice president is kind of a nice capitalist career. but then the smoking gun tape is revealed in july of 1974. it's all the news now. >> there is an elephant in the tenth. >> that's right. i say smoking gun, six months ago, people would've said what what are you talking about? anyway, nixon is revealed ordering the cia to help the fbi investigation into watergate and that is the end of richard nixon. drove forward a sense to the presidency but gerald ford has no republicans made a psychic investment in gerald ford. nobody outside of one congressional district in maryland has voted fo

montgomery county, maryland, officials continue to target private and religious schools citing concerns for their help on this reopening of schools. in video you are not going to see anywhere else, county officials throw down the race card to try to silence parents who want the schools open. also, independent journalist andy ngo has documented the chaos in portland for years, frankly, so today he traveled all the way to capitol hill to get his first-hand account. so, what was the reaction from democrats? he's going to tell us exclusively, and he's really mad. you don't want to miss that. but first, the real covid record. that's the focus of tonight "angle." for months now, the media, and frankly, most democrats, have been acting as though president trump is directly responsible for every case of covid-19 in the u.s. now, back in marth, "hannity," " like many, were dismayed the cd seed is initially mishandled testing. today, we leave the world and testing. >> we do more testing than anybody in the world, if you look at india, about 11 million, 61 million. what we have done is incredible

for that, he'll always have a special place in the heart of all marylanders. gaithersburg join me in welcoming mr. craig shirley. [ applause ] and interviewing mr. shirley today will be juan williams, a man who almost needs no introduction but we're going to introduce him any way. emmy award winner and fox news contributor since 1997, celebritied author in his own right. mr. williams has been prolific chronicler of civil rights and black experience in america in particular. selected titles include eyes on the prize, american civil rights 1954 to 1965, and thurgood marshall an american revolutionary. a ton more but for the sake of time i truncated to those two. finally, as the treasurer of the montgomery county democratic party, i'm pleased to announce the democrats announce 3-1 majority over registered republicans in our county. so, juan, welcome to friendly territory. [ laughter ] >> if you ever need a respite from fox news, we welcome you here with open arms. gaithersburg, please join me in welcoming juan williams. [ applause ] >> thank you. great pleasure t

in maryland and in queens, two people were killed when their cars were crushed by falling trees. tonight, what's left of the storm is racing through new england as the cleanup begins. at the same time, halfway around the world, nearly 80 people are dead after two explosions rocked beirut, lebanon, sending what looked like a mushroom cloud into the sky. tonight, thousands are injured, and the death toll is expected to grow after the blast flattened much of that city's port. and while those explosions and the storm are reminders of the destructive power of man and mother nature, as we come on the air, there is new evidence of the devastation being caused by the coronavirus. there's new government data that shows in the past week the death toll has risen 24% nationwide. and nowhere is that hitting home harder than in florida, where tonight hospitals are once again running out of i.c.u. beds. there's a lot of new reporting to get to and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. cbs' mola lenghi is going to lead off our coverage tonight in connecticut. good evening, m

my colleague from maryland. thank you very much, congresswoman norton. we know that the post office has a 90% approval rating. she told us 92% of americans support funding to make sure that the postal service is strong. so we know that. but have you ever thought about why that is? that is because annettee like anett -- taylor, it is a special bond between the letter carrier and the customer on the frontline. people who come to rely on the post office. they know they can count on them. they trust them. so when you attack the postal service the way louis dejoy has been doing, you are trying to break what is almost -- what has almost become an institution so revered in this country. you are trying to break a sacred bond between the letter carrier and the customer, between the postal service and the public. and that is not right. i hear rightou, now in my mind the voice of elijah cummings, and louis dejoy should be counting his blessings. not here for this moment. because i cannot even imagine what he would be doing. he cared for the men and women of the u.s

while governor of maryland. still taking kickbacks even when his vice president of the united states. so nixon need somebody who's gonna placate all the elements of the party but not somebody's not gonna threaten him, not causing him to look over his shoulder. he quickly to disses the gerald ford fits the bill. gerald ford's lifelong dream is to be speak of the house in my 1970, for this never gonna happen. so becoming vice president is a nice capsule of his career. but then a smoking gun tape is revealed in july of 1974, it's it's in all the news now. i don't even have to explain it. i said there's an elephant in the tenth. as a smoking gun. six months ago people say what 45 coat you talk in a? anyway nixon is ordered to the fbi to try to halt the investigation into watergate not spells the end of next. in gerald ford a sense to the presidency but ford has, no republicans made an investment in general for. no one outside the district of maryland has voted for general for. so his hold on the republican party is

the maryland suffrage chapter. it is from the collections of the maryland historical society. the suffragists were eventually rested, they were arrested for obstructing traffic. which wasn't exactly their fault. in fact, the male spectators that had come up to jeer at them, that was creating the blocks and the masses of human bodies that were obstructing traffic. but they were arrested. you can see in this portrait of these two women, the policeman is holding their banners. they're confiscating the banners. and the women are most likely not going to pay the fine and then they would be sentenced to jail, the d.c. jail or the workhouse. win and what i find interesting is that they are very well dressed. the women that were picketing were from and elite, wealthy background. the majority of them. there were working women that would help take it on some days and working women were very much part of the suffrage cause later on. there were no african americans that were part of this movement, this effort at this point. i'm alice paul did not include them and also, i wonder because th

in maryland. he took them as they took shoes. they, whatever they could grab. >> another collection of supplements. buttons that the first selection of buttons. you can see the other slide. here are some other confederate buttons from a variety of sources. it's interesting. we note d these are from 1860 s before the war, presumably because they created the uniforms. so lincoln himself received some gifts of war of souvenirs such as these and others but what sorts of relics did he receive? he got a cane made from the hull of old iron sides. he got another relic from the burned hull of the merrimack, the ship we discussed last week, that battled monitor. he got some faded translucent leaves from the battle of gettysburg that had been allegedly bloodied in the frenzy of the battle in july. he got them in the fall when the leaves were falling off the trees and turning. he got socks. he got soap. bibles. anything you can imagine. as he said to his wife once when another suit arrived unsolicited from a

in maryland. by the way, let's say one thing else about robert e. lee who is in the news again because of the statue controversies, but robert e. lee also took as hideous souvenirs free black men and sold them back into slavery. he captured free people and enslaved them. that was the most hideous of all the souvenirs. of course, then we go to sherman in late 1864, who forages his way through georgia. and you know, there are two points of view on that. one is that he burned georgia. the other is that he spared georgia, in some ways, by not engaging. here's 1 -- well, i'm going to do a teaser. when we talk about appomattox in a future program, i'm going to talk about another famous bit of souvenir hunting. i will save it for that. ms. paley: save it for that. [laughter] we have a few minutes left in a couple more questions. who made these uniforms and how expensive where they? were any made in new york city? mr. holzer: i would say these were expensive. some soldiers paid themselves. the union army

i was struck by a former member of congress from maryland said, i thought it didn't matter whether or not biden picked a woman of color for the ticket until it did. now i can say that kamala harris, a black woman, a woman of color, a daughter of immigrants is former vice president's pick to help him build a better future. it felt good. i wonder if you had similar feelings? >> it sure did. there was a joy deep down in my spirit that just erupted. i couldn't wipe the smile off my face. i had a chance to get to know senator harris and she's fearless. she is tough. she's a visionary and she is ready to lead our country forward. >> it's been interesting to see how the president has reacted to the selection because he hasn't

he's the chief executive of maryland in that beautiful and diverse state. he has been generous with his time, choosing to devote time and energy to our cause while leading the state government in annapolis. we have been excited to support his chair initiative, informing the progress of other states and other governors as we proceed with the necessary work of revitalizing the economy. at the beginning of his tenure, governor hogan chose to work on the issue of improving our aging infrastructure and building the modern systems of connectivity that we need to build a prosperous future. before theiority pandemic and has taken on greater importance now. governor hogan will share some of the highlights from his initiative, infrastructure, foundation for success. we look forward to hearing the conclusions and highlights of your policy work. governo the nga is not just about representing america's governors, it's about what america's governors represent. in states all across the country, governors are working together in a bipartisan way, showing leadership and fin

officers and setting fire to newspaper boxes for more on all of this let's bring in our castor she's in maryland. let's start with portland another shooting death in

i was raised in baltimore, maryland and little italy and baltimore, maryland. my father was in congress when i was born and he was the mayor and our family, we were devoutly catholic, proud of our italian-american heritage, fiercely patriotic as most immigrant families are, fiercely patriotic and, in our case, staunchly democratic. the love of america is in our dna. it's in our neighborhood and my great-grandmother lived at the white house in baltimore were one of the flags of the war of 1812 was made. we have advertised so don't pay attention to him. it's a sad thing. in terms of loving america, i can say without any fear of contradiction, i have a greater respect for the office of the president than the current occupant of the white house. >> you have the presidential election to focus on and the majority -- you are defending your majority for the first time since 2010 when republicans took over. what is the banner headline for house democrats going into 2020? what is the message you are carrying out to people? speaker pelosi: when we won in 2018 and showed t

even when she was enslaved in maryland. for those of you who saw the movie, you know the power of faith. her faith guided her walk, her steps. that is what led her to her freedom journey for herself and principally her family and friends. she freed about 70 people from the eastern shore of maryland and provided direct instruction for 70 more. in the quest for her to have a more personal relationship with her god she went deeper. that is a part of a liberation theology. she was a testament to liberation theology. when you said she was emancipated, her coming from the eastern shore of maryland up through saint catherine and as far north as auburn, that was an important but only part of her liberation theology. so everyone thinks of harriet as familiar with the underground railroad and all she did, not to diminish that because it provided frederick douglass the empirical data he needed to have for his gift of oratory to talk about the importance of the value of freedom. harriet, through her faith walk new that was one part of

here is an e-mail from laura in maryland come up there by maryland. mr. moore, i'm wondering if you and the coach should know each other, grew up near each other or have talked about all that is baltimore and structural racism? >> tallahassee, my god, he's another one very proud, his father is still very, very active in baltimore and still a person i know i look to in addition to mr. paul coates and his son,. [inaudible] we have, we've had a chance to speak a lot about the city. a lot about where the city is, about where the city is going, a lot about why the city is the way it is. and i would actually as people he's known for all of his remarkable a books, he was saying before that she thanks he, our version of james baldwin prayed which i don't think you could give a higher complement to than that. brilliance of james baldwin you see it all over. if you read a beautiful struggle, book about us up and growing up in baltimore that's just another and i willha recommend people to check out understand history, understand complications and understand why peop

it is from the collectors of the maryland historical society. so, the suffragists were eventually arrested. they were arrested for obstructing traffic, which was not exactly their fault. male spectators who had come out to jeer at them, who were creating the block, the masses of human bodies who work stock king -- you are obstructing traffic. but they were arrested. and you can see in the picture are the portrait of the two women. the policemen are holding the banners, confiscating their banners, and the women are most likely not going to pay their fine. then they would be sentenced to jail, and that washington, d.c. jail or the lorton workhouse. what i find interesting is that they're very well-dressed. the women who are picketing were from an elite, wealthy background, the majority of them. there were, as i mentioned before, there were working women who would help picket on sundays. and working women were very much a part of the suffrage cause later on. but there were no african-americans part of this movement, -- this effort at this point. be

luanne is next in annapolis, maryland. caller: good morning.at the woodrowor wilson house museum at the celebration of the 75th anniversary. i led a team of three of our other guides and some volunteers, and i would like to mention a couple of things come a few will indulge me. gigantic,re is a rich wealth of artifacts, archives, documents across the country for all 50 states for researchers that are researching this, or with the boon in ancestry, looking up what your family might have done. among the things we borrowed were lena allender cartoons through, what was then, the belmont house, the washington national women's party. there were songs, a wonderful song based on a 1920 song called "oh dear, what can the matter be?" and it went, "oh dear, what can the matter be? women are wanting the vote." and they used sticks by the brandywine battlefield, sent by pennsylvania, to recognize what liberty was. the women who would pick it wilson would use his own words against him, as they burnti his kettles and cauldrons outside the fence at washington,

the way they set it up in maryla maryland, each county has one polling place.we took our ballots up to the armory and put them in the ballot box that day. and that's the way we're going to vote if we're allowed to this time. this system has so many flaws it's not funny and it starts with the post office. we got -- like i said, we got to send our mail 200 miles to baltimore and back. a lot of it gets lost from birthday cards on down. that's my comment. >> well, you know, that's a very important point that this gentleman is making. and i'll give you an example. in arizona one of the things that we witnessed over the last several election cycles really going back more than 15 years is the increase in the number of mail ballots that -- as of election day, it takes them weeks to count all of the ballots in the county. you don't the results of the elections in arizona for days and sometimes weeks after the election. and the reason is, i'm told, that the processing center, the mail processing center for the u.s. postal service for arizona is now in idaho. so their mai

martin is from maryland. martin will be the attorney for maryland in the great case of mcculloch. 30 years later. he gives the famous speech , whiching states rights was probably delivered under the influence of a spirit, which translated, is alcohol. prof. rakove: alcohol. you can tell from the way patterson describes how martin was talking, humor have gone on a bender in order to get ready to talk. patterson is a much different guy. he is the son of scotch irish immigrants, had a very small a law practice before the revolution, and then the revolution gives him lots of opportunities. he serves on the first supreme court. he was the principal author of the new jersey plank. then i put a couple of new .nglanders out here the guy on the left, elders gary, one of the very wealthy merchants who would not sign at the end of the convention. up from the north shore, boston. and roger sherman who figures prominently in the case for the equal state vote. sherman was actually a merchant who had married well. you you c

elizabeth: are people telling you this in maryland as well and elsewhere?oters too? >> sorry, the sound is having a problem. kim, can you you hear me now? >> i can hear you. elizabeth: we're having -- you can hear me now. kim, are you hearing the same thing from other voters? >> yeah, absolutely. you know, i think gallup just did a poll where they showed 81% of black americans do not want to defund the police, they actually want more of a police presence and some people want more funding for the police. we talk about police reform. the only way to do that is to properly train them, right, and to properly train anyone you would need more funding. on the ground especially in baltimore, we had riots in 2015, we saw devastation in our end. it didn't end until we had excessive force and we used law and order. president trump deploying the national guard in these cities is the right thing to do. elizabeth: joe biden said there were not any riots in president obama's watch when president obama called in national guard troops to ferguson and there were riots in 201

g nice in maryland. janice in maryland. caller: good morning. that last caller was great.e stole some of my thunder. but i will say this. they say this is about mental health. covid-19ds bring home and the parents die, what will that do to the kids mental health? now the kids will be orphans. this is ridiculous. this is common sense. you read the article by "science " that kids are not likely to spread it, but i have read other articles that kids 10 to 17 are just as likely to spread the virus as adults. so, here we go again with conflicting information. but it is just common sense. colds, flu, normal things, kids spread it quickly to others, so my kids will not be going to in person class. they have remote instruction for the first semester anyway, but it is just a matter of common sense. it is ridiculous that they want to try to send kids back to school in some of these other states. host: that piece we read was from "usa today." they referenced that children were one third to one half as likely to contract the virus. cdc, 10%ording to the of contracted cases, but school

sheryl is from maryland.n't it you who said you saw this group of people you were related to in louisiana and you didn't know how or why? >> exactly. when i had the dna done, i had the dots in d.c., maryland and virginia. i got that. i understood that. but then there were dots here in louisiana. i was like, well, how did they get down there. and then when they made the connection to georgetown university and how all that took place because i had gone to georgetown university and had i known sitting in those classrooms the connection and that the doors were still open because my relatives had been sold and it was just surreal. i'm going to always feel some kind of way about that. >> in 2019, an effort led by students at georgetown university resulted in the school commander raising $400,000 annually for the des descendents of the 272. they wanted to be included in the conversation about how this money should be used. >> i thought, well, we got to do something. we created the descendents declaration. we go ther

callingart with cliff, from essex, maryland on the republican line. cliff, good morning. cliff, are you there? cliff. we lost once again, we want you to call in on your top public policy issues. let's talk about what is going on behind me in the u.s. capitol, as congress is struggling to get to work, get passed aphis coronavirus -- a fifth coronavirus relief bill. to an article from the hill this morning. congress is struggling to complete a deal on a fifth coronavirus relief bill, as frustration amounts amid missed deadlines and no progress. nowheres say they are close to an agreement and are facing growing skepticism about the chances for a deal that could bridge deep policy divisions as the november election draws closer. i'm telling people the truth that this entire thing has been a very impressively large cluster, said senator john kennedy, republican from louisiana. is from the outside, they are to see it from the inside -- just the mess that this is. senator mike braun, republican from indiana, added that i think we are all scratching our heads. schumer,osi, chuck

order mr pense was speaking to a crowd of about 100 people at the fort mchenry national monument in maryland he criticized the democratic presidential candidate joe biden for attacking america and said the country would not be safe under his leadership mr biden also focused on trump's commitment to freedom and ambition. the american people know we don't have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with our african-american neighbors to improve the quality of their lives education jobs and safety and from the 1st days of this administration we've done both and we will keep supporting law enforcement and keep supporting our african american and minority communities across this land for 4 more years. while our white house correspondent kimberly helka explains the symbolism is depends use to get that message across. for me henry is the site and the inspiration of the star-spangled banner for the american national anthem and this was really a message to a lot of the what many would call the chaos in the united states right now that is playing out on the streets and this is reall

we're going visit one maryland school testing out an innovative approach. >>> plus, the veepstakes, we're going to get the latest on joe biden's search from his home base in delaware, and new polling from two key battlegrounds that will likely not make the president's campaign very happy. gn very hap. start your day with secret. secret stops sweat 3x more than ordinary antiperspirants. with secret, you're unstoppable. no sweat! try it and love it or get your money back. >>> sources tell nbc news that joe biden's vp pick could come by the middle of this week or even sooner, but there's another new push for his pick to be a black woman. more than 100 black men in entertainment, activism, and professional sports have signed an open letter to the presumptive democratic nominee strongly advocating just that. with me from his post in wilmington, delaware, is nbc news correspondent mike memoli who covers the biden campaign. let me read a little bit of the letter to you, mike, and i'm quoting here. for too long, black women have been asked to do everything from rally the troops to risk their live

maryland and virginia are -- i as a marylander or virginia person cannot go to new york. so i think this is really key. people have to know that the locals are very specific where dls -- what you call a hot spot or a large amount of transmission. we measure this by a variety of things. it could be the number of cases per the amount of population, it could be how overwhelmed the hospitals are, it could be the percent positive of test that is are coming up. we have many ways to monitor that. it's very clear that there are many parts of the country where things are in control and there's many parts of the country where they're not in control and we can't use a one size fits all approach to bringing kids back to school. >> did you ever feel overwhelmed at children's national and did your doctors, nurses, other professionals ever have any issues with equipment, personal protective equipment, ventilators and things like that? >> we were very lucky in the washington, d.c., region and this is not specific to our hospital. we learned from what happened in new york, because that hu

maryland congressional candidate kim klacik joins me. of your essential themes since you decided to run for office and it's a message really driven home with that extraordinary video that debuted a couple weeks ago. let's go back again to what made you want to run in terms of just, the erosion of great american city, baltimore and now, we're seeing other cities facing the same issues? >> absolutely. thank you for having me, first of all, charles, i appreciate it. in many cities, it is not unique to baltimore like you're saying, we see a lack of law and order, number one, and number two, a lot of crime and violence come from the survival course so many people are on within these communities. you know, baltimore city we have crime, violence. the homicide rate is 10 times the national average. the poverty rate is 20%. we have a bad education system. so you know, with my platform i talk about school choice which a lot of parents in the west baltimore area, which you see in my videos are for. we talk about law and order. that is why it was so

in maryland 96% of voters in the republican primary voted by mail. in kentucky, mail voting is an ma il not malt, went from 2% to 85% just this year. this is happening regardless of what president trump think spray people are going to vote this way. the second thing we see is the numbers, the polls, and swing states that sediment congress to do something about this and keep election sacred 75% of voters see this. then you go to the elected officials the people on the frontline. in politico recently for elected officials and the voting area just wrote together and said they were worried. mitch romney's and very forthright about saying in a red state that has a vast majority of voters voting by mail that it is safe for you have republican governors and places like ohio, and places like new hampshire and in maryland who are expanding the ability of voters to vote in a different way. you have governors in states like west virginia and other places that are waiving requirements to make it easier. that's what's happening. we can't stop it we have to decide

in maryland. by the way, let's say one thing else about robert e. lee. robert easily also took as hideous souvenirs three black man and sold them back into slavery. he captured three people and enslaved them. that was the most hideous. and we go to sherman. in late 1864, sherman forages his way through georgia. there's two points of view on. that one is that he burned george. at the other is that he spared georgia in some ways by not engaging. i am going to do a teaser. when we talk about apple mannock's in the future, we will talk about another famous bit of souvenir hunting but i will save it for that. >> we have a few minutes left and a couple more questions. who made these uniforms? how expensive were they? were any made in new york city? >> i would say these were expensive. some soldiers paid themselves. the union army gave an allotment two soldiers to buy uniforms. but i am sure that these were funded by philanthropic groups in the states where they were raised. there was a certain pride and