mr. cunningham: can i respond? dean: yes, you can. mr. cunningham: once again, your record does not clear. two suggest otherwise is being dishonest with the voters here in the low country. dean: professor gramley, question for representative arrington. prof. gramley: the partisan divide feels wider and deeper than it ever has before. how would your character, behavior and choices in congress mend that divide? ms. arrington: thank you, that is a great question, lead by example. this has turned into the whisper campaign. because i did not bring out the fact that i had breast cancer fact that i had breast cancer out publicly, a whisper campaign went around charleston that i was lying about it. the worst thing that happened, i had nine african-american democrats endorse me and what came out was a picture of them being lynched with me standing there in southern regalia. that is exactly the problem with nancy pelosi and the d.c. democrats. that kind of division. i will lead by example. when these things are set about -- were said about me recent

mr. cunningham. to -- i'm sorry, i skipped over you. you get a question here for mr. cunningham. >> one of my loved ones has been personally affected by the opium crisis here -- >> [indiscernible] >> typologies. apologies. go back to your original question. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> go ahead. >> my loved one has a chronic illness and this makes it difficult to get the medication they need. would you have any modifications to the current opioid laws? crisis is an epidemic in this country. greensut in all and all and i met a gentleman whose son passed away because he is addicted to opioids. he told me his son was number 150 in the state. trust in county now leads the state in opioid overdoses. i think big pharma has got too much control in our health care system. they need to be kicked out of the driver's seat. they should be there dictating the prices of pharmaceuticals controlling the market with opioids. that is why we are not taking a single dime from special interests or pack dollars. my opponent is being fueled by pack dollars, payday lenders, big oil. i will be

mr. cunningham? >> mr. cunningham, where would you support the president's policies? representative arrington, is there a line in the sand you won't cross when it comes to supporting the president's policies? mr. cunningham: president trump came out and spoke about a bill for infrastructure. i think that is a huge concern. mr. cunningham: at 6 p.m. every night i want to be home, because that is when i give my son a bath. it is the only best quality time i have with him sometimes. i put my phone and the other room and it is just him and i. sometimes i get home around 7:00, 7:30 p.m., that is taken away from me. each of you at home have something different that you want to make it too, maybe it is your daughter's softball game. if we are stuck in traffic, that is a tax of time we are paying because government cannot fulfill its basic responsibility. i think the reason they cannot fulfill that responsibility is because there is so much divisiveness. i know that we can work together. katie arrington has been clear that she doesn't want to work with anybody in the statehou

mr. cunningham. been reported that contraband cell phones contributed to seven inmate deaths at the correctional institution during a right. where do you stand on the fcc installing cell phone jamming technology in our prisons? volunteering in the prosecutor's office and understand the risk that comes to corrections officers and law enforcement and how they put their lives on the lines every single day. every measure put in place that dampen those risks, i would be willing to consider it. it is wrong for cell phones to be inside prisons. i think there's ways to illuminate that risk, we should consider those as well. but i always stand on the side of law enforcement. i've worked with them, alongside them. roomseen to grand jury with them, presenting evidence and solving cases with them and i will continue to do that in congress. >> prior to becoming a legislator, i'm the subject matter expert on cyber security, specifically disruptive technology. i worked with brian stirling to get some jamming techno

mr. cunningham. i do have respect for your opinions. host: we will let our guest respond.st: you lay out very well, i think, the conservative case for judge kavanaugh and the way this has been handled. i will note this. last thursday, when many of us watched the testimony or exerts of the testimony, after spoke, theresey was no when that day saying she looked like she was lying or question what she said. i turned on fox news and watched chris wallace and others shaking their heads saying, wow, she seems quite truthful. we need to really take this extremely seriously. at that time, nobody was questioning dr. ford's testimony. after judge kavanaugh spoke, he of course came forcefully, angrily, pushed back very hard. you did hear a lot of people questioning his veracity. and i am at the same people on the left, but people on the right who said that wasn't quite the approach that i think i might have taken. so i have to say i'm as somebody who watched the testimony of both, i personally found it hard not to credit dr. ford hearing her testimony. whether something that happened

mr. cunningham thank you for your time. guest: thank you. we will hear from the forer special assistant foreign affairs. , (202)-748-8000 for democrats, (202)-748-8001 for republicans, (202)-748-8002 for independents. those, we come right back. announcer: geraldine brooks is our guest on sunday at noon eastern. include march,s caleb's crossing, people of the book and the year of wonders. watch in-depth fiction edition with geraldine brooks sunday from noon to 3 p.m. eastern and be sure to watch it next month with jody pico. book tv on c-span2. >> sunday night on q&a, joanne freeman on her book, the field of blood, violence in congress and the road to civil war. >> you end up with scores of congressman in a mass ball, in and of itself it is a dramatic scene. punches, massive encounter, what was interesting to me was, people at the time looked at it and what they saw was a group of northerners and southerners, lots of them armed, running at each other in the house of representatives and several of them said -- this does not look like a normal