yeltin in north carolina defended his comments to the "daily show" today. he says he stands by what he said, but he did get fired from his leadership jobs in the state party today because of that interview. the state party chairman called for his head and the county chairman party today said that he stepped down. turns out this is the most awkward week possible for the north carolina republican party to open up its african-american outreach effort. >> there's a lot of misinformation, and the republican party needs to get it together. >> that's where a new african-american recruitment office comes into play. it opened monday in charlotte and is intended to spearhead new relationships and bring over new minority gop members. >> so that's the new republican party black recruitment effort in north carolina, opening up this week. meanwhile, the democratic party black recruitment effort in north carolina now just has to consist of this local republican official playing on a loop. >> if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that wants the government to give them everyth

investing in north carolina?t we found out, they had to talk to all these different groups, and no one person was in charge. i don't think that's good customer service. so we're putting all these people under one umbrella, and we're also privatizing the marketing of north carolina and make it more responsive to the customer and those who are in the private sector of my commerce department, they'll be rewarded. they'll be paid for that. but it's going to be based upon results, not based upon a kind of a civil servicemennalty. >> well -- mentality. >> well, that sounds exciting. let me turn quickly since you're talking about economic growth and tourism and things like that to transportation. you know, we think as conservatives that government has very few responsibilities, but what responsibilities they have they should do well. and, of course, the infrastructure to allow people and goods and services to move around not only the commonwealth or the state, but the nation is a responsibility. so tell us about your tr

the gentlelady from north carolina. ms. foxx: i continue to reserve. sproy the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: it's my pleasure to yield to the gentleman from south carolina, mr. clyburn. the speaker pro tempore: how much time? mr. mcgovern: two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. clyburn: i thank the gentleman for yielding me time. i want to speak on this bill because i have worked very hard over the years helping to put together various farm bills and this is one that i feel very, very good about from the outset. i even felt ok when the bill came back from the senate, although i had some issues with the senate version. i thought that what we were doing made some sense. but we reached a point with this bill, $40 billion in cuts, to the food stamp program, not only empact negatively those people who would receive the stamp -- those stamps in fighting off poverty or hunger but i it -- but it would do tremendous harm to various community outlets, tores, family-owned markets, where so much of the income

concern in both north carolina and texas this could drag on.or preliminary injunction. the proof on the federal government, not the states discriminating to prove discrimination. >> quickly, could you also see because of stripping the bark off of the voting rights act things like purges you're seeing in florida and virginia. in the case of virginia we're talking about an election this month. >> remember all these states throughout the south had to clear with federal government. they had to prove they were not discriminatory before they went into effect. now they don't have to do that anymore. these changes go into effect and justice department has to object or voting rights object. that's a huge shift. >> to the point it's obvious who they are targeting, the woman gets on the ballot in texas, all of a sudden we have to change the rules. interestingly enough women decided 22 of 23 senate races in 2012. if you don't have original documents, it's a $20 fee generally. women are going to pay attention. we've got to pay for my birth control, now maki

if you live in north carolina, it has everything to do with you because the refusal of the north carolina republican establishment to move forward on this and the refusal of similar governors in other republican states will mean people paying higher insurance premiums, people not getting covered if they need coverage and a lot of other things that she says she's not for. but she's so blinded and her colleagues are so blinded by their hatred of the president and by extension of obama care that they will even hurt their own people in order to score political points. and that's unfortunate because there are a lot of fixes that need to be made in obama care and they should move forward with making them. >> jonathan alter, great to have you here. i appreciate it. >>> here's today's big question for you. the obama care rollout, the hearings, grandstanding or problem solving? just as jonathan was pointing out there, are we just going to focus on the problems or actually pay attention to what the fixes are to make this work so that the uninsured in this country can have access to affordable healt

north carolina we have to unleash the resource. our energy resources, our manufacturing resource, our talent, our university, our ag, and we have to start treating our people as customers and not adversary. >> one final question. nascar. >> i'm a big nascar fan. we only had one wreck at tal -- tal and. >> you been to the nascar hall of fame. >> i. in charlotte. everyone should visit it. most people know what they see on television or read in the headlines the sports page. and they never really get to the understanding. >> well, let me tell you from a business perspective why i'm a fan of nascar and jimmi johnson and dale jr. are great people. bryan, get well as soon as possible. the private sector jobs of nascar. you go machine shop, first of all, you can eat off the floor. you have a ton of engineers, you have engine builders. what is happening as mayor and governor i'm using that work force to recruit the automobile industry and the defense industry. because they can repair things quickly. notice how quick they repair after a wre

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he has been enjoying time on north carolina local radio.e he is on asheville's y wrk qulrks nc. >> no, i don't take back anything that i said. would i do it again? yes, but what has happened is through this appearance on this show, has confirmed some things for me. number one, it's confirmed that the democratic party can't take the truth. when i said it's going to kick the democrats in the butt, this law about having the voter i.d., i meant it. to heck with it. i don't want to be part of a group that is that mealy mouthed and gutless. so the move to move black voters away from the democratic party, that turning out to be great timing, then today, we got this. >> on facebook recently, a picture of barack obama that sa said traitor. i don't it's right to call barack obama a traitor. of all the things he's done wrong, he is not a traitor. i have not come across any evidence that he has done one thing to harm -- >> so, the worst voting law since jim crow, the lazy n word guy. the president is secretly african. anything else you want to do this

the late north carolina senator was notorious for his racially charged rhetoric.e supported segregation. he called civil rights the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the congress. >> it was taking liberties away from one group of citizens and giving them to another. i thought it was bad legislation then. and i have had nothing to change my mind about it. >> and tonight north carolina's governor pat mccrory is honoring him. honoring him the same week the national republican party opened a new african-american outreach office in the state of north carolina. amazing. this shows the problem the gop has right now. then supports republican leaders who says this. >> the very first political contribution i ever made in my life was to jesse helms. when i was a kid, i sent $10 to jesse helms. the willingness to say all those crazy things is a rare, rare characteristic in this town. and you know what? it's every bit as true now as it was then, we need a hundred more like jesse helms in the u.s. senate. >> a hundred more like jesse helms. and the p

, on that same day, the republican party in north carolina opened up a new north carolina office of african-american outreach to try to convince african-americans in north carolina that if they do vote, they really ought to be voting for the republican party. that's turning out to be a really big if. if you can vote, think about -- the influential reagan appointed conservative judge richard pausner who wrote the first federal court ruling okaying stricter voter i.d. laws. he said in an interview recently for the first time that he regrets that opinion. he said he did not realize when he wrote that landmark decision okaying voter i.d. laws that the effect could be so racially discriminatory. and that is nice to know at this point. but it's not his regret. it's his ruling. even if hoe now says that ruling was wrong. the democratic party today announced a new national director of voter protection to work on these issues across the country. but in the meantime these issues are happening at the very local level. texas elections, for example, are under way with these new draconian and bewildering set of r

you have economic growth in north carolina. things have turned around a bit. >> our unemployment rate has gone down 16%. we were the third highest unemployment rate in the country. we're the sixth highest now. that is not good enough. i want to be the six lowest. that would be the visionary goal. carolina, we have to unleash the resources. our talent, universities, agriculture. treating ourart people as customers, not adversaries. >> this sounds like a good trend line. one final question, nascar? >> i am a big nascar fan. and towerd one rack data. >> nascar is big in north carolina. -- one wreck. they never really get to the understanding. me say why i'm a big fan of nascar, jimmie johnson, dale gordon. brian vickers. hope he gets well with the blood clots as soon as possible. let me tell you what the nascar industry does. the private sector jobs. go to rick hendrix machine shop. you can eat off the floor. you have metal engineers, aerodynamic engineers. i am using that workforce to recruit the industry because they can repair

who sent me to her friend down in raleigh, north carolina, do you have her? she was a librarian in raleigh? you sent me they are. so i go up there to the second floor and i asked for her and i go to her, tell her what i want. stand right here, i'll be right back. i can't just stand right here. i'm looking here and looking dad and i have been to look on the left to me. there was a whole wall of books called the roster of civil war soldiers 1861 to 18 xt five ice-t. so now i pick up pennsylvania. there were three volumes of pennsylvania. i look for ta, my great grandfather's name and there he is next to his name is colored cook. i bet he didn't cook at home. last night i bet his cooking days were long ago. this set colored cook. now i'm thinking about some of the other guys that i got from the pennsylvania regiment, one e. richard west. so i looked his name up in it just said cook. so i say to myself, i wonder if all of the cooks are black. that sent me on another road and this is what i think. the only person who is a cook, listed as a cook was black. white co

i want you to react to what governor mccrory said, that the law passed by north carolina, which many restrictive laws they've ever seen, he said it was perfectly in the mainstream. is he right about that? >> look, chris, the question is whether or not the law passed in north carolina disproportiona disproportionately negatively impacts african-american voters. the question that the attorney general and the justice department are asking is whether or not these restrictions are ones that make it harder for black voters to vote. in the face of years of north carolina where we've seen since the early 2000s an increase in african-american turnout and participation, now we have a law where the question's going to be asked, is this new law making it worse? >> can you set up the connecting of the dots between the voting rights act decision by the supreme court and north carolina being able to pass this law in the first place? because what we saw was the court strike down a part of the voting rights act, thaend a bunch of states, which if you look at a map, all seem to be in the south, passed

including asheville, north carolina. all and all, the west, this western north carolina district. 11th district. big district. relatively rural south. for heath shuler to run there and win there, he had to run as a conservative. he ran as a democrat but as a conservative democrat. anti-gay rights, pro gun rights, anti-abortion. highest level member of the conservative blue dog democratic caucus. at one point, heath shuler refused to say he would vote for nancy pelosi as leader of the democrats in the house. asked who might be a better alternative he suggested himself. so heath shuler got elected in 2006. re-elected in 2008. re-elected in 2010. in 2010 that was a big year. a census year and the year of the big republican takeover coast to coast. and what republicans did with the census data and control of state government in north carolina was that they redrew heath shuler's congressional district. so that no democrat, no matter how conservative could ever get elected in that district again. that little liberal college to

and story about a real hero in north carolina.hat is all ahead, stay with us. >>> there is a bit of a dramatic update for you tonight on a story that started dramatically in the first place. a couple of weeks ago we reported on a confrontation between russia and a ship, green peace is protesting against drilling in the arctic, they sent a ship up there to try to have their activist get up on the platform. well, russia decided to meet them with guns drawn, knives drawn, they fired shots at the green peace ship. they arrested journalists on board the ship covering the confrontation. they impounded the ship and forced it into port in northern russia. the entire crew, including the captain and journalists have been held in prison ever since. they have been charged with piracy, which carries a sentence of 15 years in russian prison if convicted. the group is 28 crew members, two journalists including one from the united states. russia is refusing them bail. they're languishing behind bars. and now russian officials say they're still co

but north carolina doesn't trust that the government will repay them. >> why is north carolina the onlyost vulnerable citizens in this way? it is not acceptable. >> north carolina's democratic congressman, david price, says it could be politics. >> the state has found $75,000, $80,000 to keep the blue ridge parkway open, and that's a good thing, but it does raise the question, why would we be the only state out of 50 that can't find the money for these families with these acute needs? >> reporter: the north carolina budget and tax center, an advocacy group for low-income families, agrees. >> we have a rainy day fund that has more than $600 million in it. this is certainly a rainy day for families in north carolina. there's no reason that state policymakers can't tap into those dollars to provide stopgap support to families today. >> reporter: all right. well, it is worth noting that we did reach out to the governor of north carolina for an explanation as to why he found it was necessary to suspend new applications for some of these welfare benefits. we have yet to hear back from him. bu

this is a good decision for north carolina now. >> as i pointed out, this is not exclusive to north carolina but your state had the dubious title of being the first looking at cutting people off welfare. >> that's right, it was really an unnecessary decision. state policy makers have available to them over $600 million in our rainy day fund. it certainly is raining and has been for the past few weeks for north carolina families as they face the uncertainty of what a federal shutdown will mean. we know that in north carolina the economic struggles facing our families are significant and loss of these dollars would have meant disaster for many of them. >> but with this sigh of relief, if can be called that, regarding in bipartisan deal, that doesn't erase all of the fears and concerns. again, nancy pelosi was on with andrea mitchell talking about the budget debates that loom ahead and what she believes is the responsibility of her party to ensure the poorest, those in most need, are not those that suffer any deals that we see made ahead. >> that's right. we know in north carolina that the impa

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just south of raleigh is the north carolina correctional institution for women. sitting on 30 acres of land, it is home to over 1,100 inmates. >> the female offenders at this institution have committed all different kinds of crimes, from murder to burglary, larceny, driving under the influence. it could be fraud, identity theft. it's from any range of crimes that they may have committed. >> annie harvey has been warden of the facility since 2000. >> one of the things i think that is really important for people to really understand, this is a prison and it's a prison that houses the female offenders. in order for a person to get respect, you must give respect. so our goal is to manage the female offender in such a way that she can maintain her human value but also understand that she has a responsibility to do her time because she committed the crime. >> i've been locked up about two months in a single cell. it's terrible. i can't stand it. >> this is the segregation unit. it houses murderers, drug dealers, thieves, all troublemakers. these women are locked in the

this is in greensboro, north carolina. police say that the fire itself involves salvaged household appliances. the smoke there can be seen, we're told, from miles away. at this point firefighters on the scene there say that that fire is contained. there's another look here from the helicopter. you can see those plumes of smoke just billowing high into the sky. very thick, very dense smoke. at this point, though, again, that fire is contained. we're told there are no reports of injuries right now. again, some breaking news for you in greensboro, north carolina. we're keeping our eye on this story and will pass along new information as it becomes available. >>> still to come here this hour, hillary clinton heckled while out on the road. hear her amazing comeback to a protester upset over benghazi. we'll talk about that. >>> also ahead, jay-z has 99 problems and brewing anger from his fans. maybe his biggest one. the rapper is feeling the heat over his multimillion dollar deal with barney's to sell his clothing line. two blac

the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mrs. hagan: i request permission to sreufrbt -- to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hagan: i request permission to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hagan: mr. president, i rise today to address the negative impact that this government shutdown is having on my home state of north carolina. it is a shame that some in congress are playing political games with the most basic function of keeping our government open. i didn't get elected to shut down the government, and with each minute that goes by, more and more north carolinians are feeling the impact of this irresponsible shutdown. mr. president, north carolina is proud to be home to almost one million veterans, but as of this spring we are also home to one of the worst v.a. disability claims backlogs in the country. we've pushed to have senior v.a. personnel be dispatched to north carolina and more caseworkers have been added. and after a lot of attention and

that is now congressman mark meadows of north carolina campaigning there in western north carolina in summer 2012. in the district that used to be heath shuler's district. now the most republican district in the whole state. and now belongs to mark meadows. mark meadows elected past november. sworn in in january. by this summer, as a freshman congressman who never held public office before. benefiting from a right red district drawn for him. newb irkts e. >> /* -- newbie, congressman, mark meadows who thinks president obama is from kenya started circulating this letter demanding republicas who thinks president obama is from kenya started circulating this letter demanding republican ouse speaker john boehner shut down the government. mark meadows' strategy in the document is the strategy that republicans followed that indeed got us the government shutdown we have which is in its seventh day. the mark meadows letter had a demand in it. and it was, demand that was not addressed to democrats in the house or democrats in the senate or president obama or anybody else who you think would be