all right, welcome to mississippi.ching the president over the last few days, i'm sorry to hear that, and there were some overlooked follies i understand. >> there were. president biden's guests, he is practically a monday through friday folly but i won't go on. the good news is when he is really in a pickle, when he is simply saying things that are untrue he can always rely on some help from his friends. >> what did you do for me lately? $1.9 billion we took care of. >> los angeles and -- what am i doing here? >> is at long beach? >> long beach, thank you. >> those were the two more mild fumbles but the white house spent the day trying to clean that up. those were simply untrue statements for the president told anderson cooper he was going to deploy the national guard to relieve the supply chain constipation. nope, they can't do that. you know why? the white house said we don't plan to do it, that is the governor's prerogative, someone didn't tell biden and then this is even worse, he's been down to the border. he has

in the mississippi situation. and they get on the river and he sent earl van dorn in the summer of 62, that is when van dorn sends john c breckinridge to attack baton rouge that's the end of the css arkansas, van dorn is over that department of the time of the offensive taking place, does that make sense. what i'm trying to get you an overview of how many places this guy is that in the short span that is in the war, no doubt jefferson davis trusted him up until this point. we have a problem again in northern mississippi, the missourians who crossed the river are under the command of sterling price the same guy at alcorn tavern van dorn is supposed to go up there and unite with him and take over and they are jointly going to attack the real junction of mississippi. the battle of shiloh with the real junction at the mississippi. . . . over and over and october 3 indian army is a lot to and is awaiting its arrival william rosecrans. there's a small gap between what the two union brigades in the confederate eventually

in the mississippi situation. and they get on the river and he sent earl van dorn in the summer of 62, that is when van dorn sends john c breckinridge to attack baton rouge that's the end of the css arkansas, van dorn is over that department of the time of the offensive taking place, does that make sense. what i'm trying to get you an overview of how many places this guy is that in the short span that is in the war, no doubt jefferson davis trusted him up until this point. we have a problem again in northern mississippi, the missourians who crossed the river are under the command of sterling price the same guy at alcorn tavern van dorn is supposed to go up there and unite with him and take over and they are jointly going to attack the real junction of mississippi. the battle of shiloh with the real junction at the mississippi. . . . over and over and october 3 indian army is a lot to and is awaiting its arrival william rosecrans. there's a small gap between what the two union brigades in the confederate eventually

they left mississippi.ome of the leaders in mississippi went on to organize in a different way than hammer was organizing. people to plant gardens, grow their own food, raise hogs so they would have meat for the winter time. and health care, she wanted healthcare for everybody. it was not good healthcare and accessing it was very difficult and expensive. she wanted universal preschool for every child. she was struggling for all the issues we are still struggling for that. she understood those basic things in her community could be replicated throughout the country. but her support system really fell away and it is tragic anyway. but a lot of those people went on to do great things in other parts of the country. that left her still in mississippi struggling with that economy, that environment. and it still in the bottom five for healthcare. and for education et cetera in the country so mississippi is still struggling. >> is there a landmark to show her she's from and recognize her? >> yes there is a monument

welcome to mississippi.the president over the last few days and there were some overlooked follies. >> president biden's gas, prior practically monday through friday folly. when he is really in a pickle, saying things that are untrue he can always rely on some help from his friends. >> when we had $1.9 billion. >> los angeles -- what my doing here? >> long beach. >> long beach, thank you. >> reporter: these were two of the milder fumbles, the white house spent much of the day trying to clean this up. these are untrue statements. the president told anderson cooper he was going to deploy the national guard to relieve the supply chain constipation. they can't do that. the white house said we don't plan to do it and that is the governor's prerogative and this is even worse, he has been down to the border. he hasn't been down to the border since 2008 when he was on the campaign trail and drove up from the southern border. laura: he says i have been busy, traveling, the hurricanes, i know the border. this weekend

principal of holmes county high school in lexington, mississippi. war." it airs tomorrow night here on msnbc. the subject is something that gets my gears going. i decided to dive in deeper for "velshi across america." my conversation about this with six locals in jackson, mississippi is next. n jackson, mississippi is next. we've been married 53 years. we love to walk on the beach. i have two daughters and then two granddaughters. i noticed that memories were not there like they were when i was much younger. since taking prevagen, my memory has gotten better and it's like the puzzle pieces have all been [click] put together. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. voiceover: riders. wanderers on the road of life. the journey is why they ride. when the road is all you need, there is no destination. uh, i-i'm actually just going to get an iced coffee. well, she may have a destination this one time, but usually -- no, i-i usually have a destination. yeah, but most of the time, her destination is freedom. nope, just the coffee shop. announcer: no matter

>> in mississippi. >> my name is missy jones.linton riots? >> almost 15 years now, if i think back. >> what is this? >> this is johnson milling company. it's been here for ages, but right behind it is the location of the old train depot. and the thought was that we would put the marker for the clinton riot here because of the importance of the train depot. the clinton riots began on september 4th, 1875. and the diorama behind me tells a version of those events. the original train depot is where white paramilitary units flocked into clinton. there was a political rally, and it was one of the first times that african americans had gotten together to really listen to political candidates. and it was organized by the republican party, but there was also a group of white democrats who were sent there to disrupt things. shots rang out. african american families began to flee the scene. even one mother left her child in the hollow of a tree just for protection. and then over the course of the next several days, white liners began to flo

and davis being from mississippi, and for the lid on that right away. lee said, finally be anymore troops i will have to retreat i can't give these guys up pretty sword sends a pad and happening as long street stays with lee ratably doesn't allow to be with johnson because he didn't look at amazon for his. >> washington dc, i noticed that on senate being appalled at theu mean sherman and johnson. sherman. [inaudible]. when sherman passed away, it was a rainy day and for the funeral and johnston is there uncovered, no hat on in the rain pretty and someone said something like, you should cover yourself and protect yourself a simple sherman would do it for me and i have a lot of respect for each other that really came out of the meaning of the bennett place in the weather twice as for several days. they work through a lot of things political and military they didn't have the authority to do all that they try to work together to end the war and move things forward to get beyond the violence in the unrest in the attention that was still going to linger and i

challenge white domination of the mississippi democratic party.e party challenged the all-white mississippi degation at thdemocratic conventi, with fannie l hamer as the lader. her ice, along with otrs, led to an integrated mississippi delegation in 1968. this is part of her address at the democratic national convention in atlantic city, new jersey on august 22, 1964, when she testified before the credentials committee about her efforts to register to vote. fannie lou: it was the 31st of august of 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse to try to register to become first-class citizens. we was met by policeman, highway patrolman, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. after we had taken this test and started back, we was held up by the city police and the state highway patrolman, and carried back to indianola, while the bus driver was charged that day with driving a bus the wrong color. after we paid the fine among us, we continued along and reverend jack sunny carried me four miles in the r

first, officials in mississippi are now threatening to sue one of mississippi's favorite sons brett favre. an auditor there says the southern miss hero and former nfl star still owes more than $800,000 in welfare funds that he received for speeches that he never gave now, here's the backstory. it's been developing for a while. brett favre got this money from two nonprofits, the founder of the nonprofits has been indicted as part of the largest embezzlement scheme in mississippi history. state officials say the money favre got should actually have gone to needy families in the magnolia state when the scandal first broke last year, favre said, i love mississippi. and i would never knowingly do anything to take away from those that need it most. favre promised to pay it back, all of it, and he did repay about a half million dollars, but the auditor says he still owes hundreds of thousands more, plus interest. brett favre isn't charged with any crime or any wrongdoing. but if he doesn't pay all of that money back within 30 days now, he could face a civil lawsuit. we reached out to favre's age

the gentleman from mississippi. mr. thompson: madam chair, the vice chair of the committee put in the record the fact that the f.b.i. and the department ofjustice declared no such thing in january 6. the assertion that they somehow conducted an investigation is just not true. madam speaker, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. schiff, the distinguished chairman of the house intelligence committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. schiff: we are here this afternoon to test the proposition as old as the country's founding, are we a nation of laws? we are here because one man has decided that we are only a nation of men and rich and powerful men need not follow the law and the question that we must confront is nothing less than this, is he right? are some people now truly above the law, be holden to nothing and no one and without consequence. congress is investigating the worst attack on our capitol and made worse that it was carried out by our own people, p

mississippi plan spread through the south. south carolina, and by the way joe agreed that if i did that, this lecture, he was going to buy me a house in dietrich. in buford, i think it would be fitting for fletcher university to be right about reconstruction in the new museum. i forgot where i was. in louisiana in 1898, ladies and gentlemen coming in 1898, there were registered voters in the states of louisiana. after they shook that, by 1904 that number was reduced precisely, 342. think about that, that is how devastatingly effective the rollback to reconstruction looked. one more thing. the narrative, the narrative. birth of a nation, the most racist film ever made, is not about the civil war. it is about reconstruction and it focuses on south carolina majority black legislature. they become the metaphor of the trope for incompetence, ignorance, lust. one woman in the film, in silent film, they passed the miscegenation law making it illegal for black men to marry white women. that is where the invention of the trope of gus t

indiana, mississippi, illinois, alabama and maine all acquired statehood. but with great respect to our brothers and sisters from illinois and indiana, their entrance into the union was not a headlight event. nor of course was it as divisive as what happen here in missouri. deciding the fate of missouri was a multiyear political crisis in which the nation was forced to reckon with the meaning of citizenship and freedom. compromised measures ultimately cleared the way for statehood for missouri but the issue was so heated, so intense thomas jefferson famously likened to a fire bell in the night that will awaken and filled me with terror. joining us tonight the editor of a new two-volume series that takes its title from that famous jefferson concern eight fire bell in the past missouri crisis published by the university of missouri press for the first installment is available now the second is due out later this year hopefully in december. our first guest associate professor of history and assistant director of academic affairs at penn state university in ken

. >> reporter: to mississippi where one clinic sits at the center of a supreme court case that couldt to choose. >> there aren't any laws on the books in any state regulating men's bodies. it's sexist, it's unequal, and it's wrong. >> reporter: one young woman pulls back the curtain, revealing the lengths people will go, the hurdles they will jump, in order to have choice. >> my body is not their property. my name's maddie. i am a senior in college. i just turned 21. >> they moved from it online lab to in-person lab, but i don't know where the lab is. >> does it say? >> i would say i'm a pretty typical college kid. wake up, go to work or class, depending on the day. >> tell me a little bit about what's going on. >> well, i am 13 weeks pregnant right now. and i'm not in a place to have a baby. >> you didn't plan to be pregnant at this period in your life? >> absolutely not. i was in a committed relationship. but things happened. it didn't work out. but i was on birth control, i didn't want a family. >> i think people watching this may have the question of, if you were on birth control

what about being white in mississippi? what's the complexity of that heritage?i had a pretty different experience than most people in my demographic background. i was raised in and around activist circles by white parents intentional about making sure i had a different sensibility than a lot of white guys born and raised in mississippi. i had a different perspective to begin with. i was raised in diverse public schools and i know for a fact that it was, you know, within the white community it was known the fear that barbara and jean are talking about has really a fear of potential to lose power and that whiteness has meant power in this state and we can't talk about it because the fear is that this is a zero sum game if we give black people power, white people will lose power and you can't have both and it really is rooted in this deep insecurity bred over generations and really, we have to understand that the history of this place of this state and of race relations is a living history to the state. people are still deeply impacted. the kids in our schools. >>

>> i would say down in the mississippi, chairman, i would say down in mississippi valley division, which is my headquarters, we have the engineer research and development center, which is a corps of engineers, and for a lot of our issues, we're working closely with them to get -- they are our lead for science, technology, and i can tell you just on studies in the lower mississippi river, we're incorporating the best science and data that they have helped to provide us. >> thank you. general, anything you want to add before we turn the page? >> just reemphasize that research and development aspects of this, which we know the world is changing, and to mack sure that we're on a solid foundation of science is absolutely critical. >> all right, thank you. we ought to be guided by science, not blinded by science. that's good. general tickner, if i could, another question for you regarding flooding impacts in urban areas. not like what we saw in the greater wilmington, delaware, area when the hurricane came through, your command covers the north atlantic region which includes some of the most d

remember, mississippi the first state to send black men to senate in 1873 and this mississippi man spread throughout south. south carolina which i love. by the way, joe agreed that if i did this lecture he was going to buy me a house. [laughter] >> a house that i've been looking at and writing about richard. [laughter] >> if i had place down there. oh, i forgot where i was. [laughter] >> louisiana in 1898. in 1998 there were 301,000 black men to vote and after they passed state constitutional convention in 1891, by 1904 that number was under 30,000. had been reduced precisely to 1,342. think about that. that's how devastatingly effective the rollback construction was. one more thing which was the narrative. the narrative, it's not about the civil war. it's not. it's about reconstruction and focuses on the south carolina majority black legislature. they become the metaphor for incompetence, ignorance, one moment in the film where all the black men, they had just passed law making legal for black men to marry white men and that's where the invention and ever wonder why others -- there's not

in november but on december 1st, the hearing a whole different challenge and coming out of mississippi and i don't know what they will do there were certainly a big chance that they will decide those cases together sometime in june in texas law will at least be legal until then and i believe that way and we can talk aboutt this later but i think that procedurally, is likely between texas and that at the same time next pretty. >> one of the deciding pretty. >> i think there are two different kinds of problems, one is the frontal attacks on a woman's right to choose that is coming out of this directly asking the supreme court over in mississippi which i believe is 15 week abortion man more traditional in the bounty hunters that would also be. [inaudible]. and i believe the court is trying to do this i believe the reasons why the republicans have tried to stab and attack the court for the past 30 years is against the deficit to overturn this family they have to do it but i don't think they're going to say that we don't - that would make people angry rated they will simply accept the missi

the mississippi river project and the o+m work we have. our goal is to get that work delivered as fast as we possibly can. >> what is the timeline stretch on those dollars? do you know? >> i do not know. we will get that answer to you. >> thank you. general, we were astounded when we saw the video. it was hurricane ida flooding the subways in new york city. it was something we had not anticipated. what do you attribute that to? was there something here predisaster could have been better performed to mitigate that? as the colonel said, the predisaster we did in response to katrina actually prevented a lot more damage in ida. what do you see in the northeast in terms of unlikely places to see pictures like that? >> appreciate that question. as an engineer, we watched new york city. we don't have a project there that takes care of that. what happened was the large amount of rain fell in a very short time, record levels. there storm water system, the drains could not handle it. the roads turned into rivers. water went to the lowest point, many

but on december 1st hearing a whole different challenge to roe v w wade coming out of mississippi. i don't know what they will do but there is a chance they will put those cases together sometime in june and the texas law will be the goal and tell them. on —- untold that but it is very likely they will do texas and mississippi at the same time next year. host: what are they deciding? how do they decide those quick. >> there are two different kinds of problems one is the frontal attack on roe v wade and women's right to choose those that the supreme court overturning roe v wade and then more r traditional with the bounty hunters and mississippi but ire believe the court is trying to do this and over the past 30 years to overturn roe the v way. however i don't think they will say we overturn roe v wade because thatth would make people angry but that would just express the 15 week abortion ban as mumbo-jumbo to reimagine of planned parenthood with abortion rights. the same thing goes on and texas that they will eventually get around to stopping is the bounty hunter business you cannot

i can't count to five votes on the current court to strike down the mississippi law.hat what will that mean, ultimately than for a woman's right to an abortion in this country. i think ultimately it's going to be left to each state and its political process decide for itself in california abortion will remain legal but in place like mississippi and texas will be illegal. women who have resources will be able to come to places where abortion is legal. but women who don't have resources to teenagers who go back to what it was before 1973. having to choose to an unwanted child and once a back alley abortion. yeah i mean, do you think that what happens in this as people watching? we're talking about the public's confidence we're talking about where people think president biden should step in will. the decision should go different one way or the other in the mississippi case do you think really? how do you do that's going to impact the discussion. really? and what happens next big picture? for this. i think the mississippi case is going to have an enormous effect within ou

wade coming out of mississippi. i don't know what they will do but there is a big chance they'll decide bolt of those cases together sometime in june and that texas' law will at least be legal until then. i believe that the -- we can talk about what i believe in terms of how they'll decide it later but i think procedurally it's very likely that they will decide both texas and mississippi at the same time next year. host: how could they decide both at once? what are they deciding? guest: i think that there are two different kinds of problems here. one is the frontal attack on roe v. wade and planned parenthood v. casey and a woman's right to choose. that's coming out of texas which is asking the supreme court to overturn roe v. wade and mississippi that has a ban that's more traditional, doesn't have bounty hunters. i believe the court is trying to do this. i believe the reason why republicans have tried to stack and pack the court over the past 30 years is to get enough justices to overturn roe v. wade. i believe th

and over into mississippi .t tennessee where the chickasaw's had control of that land. treaty after treaty had been signed with the various tribes reserving this piece of land with this piece of land for these tribes again and again, hot land, hungry settlers came and put themselves there and state their claim in spite of the fact that it was on land reserved for the native americans. once the cotton gin gets introduced here you are suddenly going to see land hungry people coming that intensified when tennessee becomes a state in 1796 and people are still coming. they are pushing all the way down to the tennessee, alabama border by about 19, 1810. imagine this. if you go west from here you'll get to the tennessee river but one of the tributaries over there just a little bit south of where waverley is. one of the tributaries over there is the doc river and a group of settlers had gone over there and planted themselves were there when the greek decided to attack. so the greeks attacked this settlement. they kill a

. >> inside they heard oral arguments for two cases, a groundwater rights dispute between mississippi and tennessee, at a challenge to the armed career criminal act. outside protesters had other issues on their mind. picketers called on the court to uphold roe versus wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion a constitutional right. it follows the weekend of similar major demonstrations around the country. in december, justices will hear arguments on the mississippi law that bans the practice after 15 weeks of pregnancy. the cases, just one of several direct challenges to roe versus wade, from republican-led states. >> it's going to be a big term . >> associate dean alan morrison says, the mississippi case is a candidate for overturning the landmark abortion decision. >> this is not a case where they are trying to chip away at edelman, they are going for the whole thing. >> biden has called on congress to protect abortion rights. and next month he's expecting and a report from the commission on the supreme court for possible reforms including expanding its size and term limits for justi

the supreme court begins its new term monday with a case on the docket stemming from a mississippi lawed most abortions at 15 weeks of pregnancy. for more on the legal cases, i spoke with mary ziegler, aand author of the book, "abortion and the law in america: 'roe v. wade' to the present." so, professor ziegler, one of the things that people have been concerned about since the passage of the texas law ihow it would impact other parts of the country. are there lots of other states that are trying their own versions of this law? are they concerned now that there are kind of challenges and there might be roadblocks ahead? >> there's several governors of conservative states who've said they're going to look into passing this-- or pledge to pass the law. the momentum slowed down a little bit in the weeks since i think, in part, because these challenges have arisen and made it seem as if maybe this law will not be able to prevent abortions from happening in the state of texas. the other thing that's happened, of course, is that the plaintiffs who have come forward have not been people that

the mississippi law, for some reason, people feel is more consequential. if that goes a certain way, there's a real fear that this is not going to be a slow roll across the country. it will be almost instantaneous, that the protection of abortion rights in this country will go away. >> that's right, because the mississippi case squarely presents the question of whether "roe" should be overturned or modified in the ways i've described. the texas law hasn't brought that question to the supreme court. right now there's litigation in the western district of texas, the department of justice has sued the state of texas over that law, but there is a procedural thicket around that law that has made it hard to get at the question at the heart of it, about the constitutionality of the right to choose, whereas, the court is all set up to decide that question in mississippi. and, of course, there will be consequences for all the states. >> thank you for joining us, ms. weinstein, we appreciate your helping us understand this. we appreciate your time tonight. >>> still