. >> host: booktv is on the campus of duke university in durham north carolina where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their books and now joining us here is deborah hicks. her book "the road out" a teacher's odyssey in poor america. deborah hicks what you do at duke first of all? >> guest: i have a couple of things that i do. i am part of their research into called social science research and that is a unit that is composed of people who're doing research in the social sciences and different disciplines. i do a lot of a lot of research and then i'm also a social entrepreneur so i direct a nonprofit the north carolina mountains called page, partnership for appalachian girls education in their work with appalachian girls in middle school and help them get educational opportunity and access. so i have a couple of different hats that i wear at duke university and researcher and now social entrepreneur. >> host: social entrepreneur. is that a new term? >> guest: atingua's point -- coined by people like nicholas kristof but it's a widely used term for people like me wh

north carolina. senator hagan has already spoken passionately about the need to act on climate change. she gets it. but her colleagues on the other side of the aisle, they remain silent. i visited north carolina over the recess as part of a tour of the effects of climate change along the southeast coast. i through tout where sea level rise is gnawing away at south carolina's banks. i visited a center where scientists from duke university, university of north carolina, north carolina state, eastern carolina state, and, of course, noaa are studying various aspects of sea heavily rise in north carolina and the effects of ocean acidification on microbes that form the basis of the food web. these are some of the world's leading scientists. they all know that these changes are driven by carbon pollution. there is no doubt. unless north carolina's elected officials think that their own universities are part of the big hoax that some of our colleagues talk about, they had better pay attention to what is happ

this law in north carolina is akin to north carolina telling pastors they can't baptize babies untilr harley davidson unless you have a valid license plate. it is a very clear overreach by the state of north carolina. it's not only absurd, it's blatantly unconstitutional. >> thank you, to reverend ben guest in cleveland. thank you to caden dodson and christina beltron. i want to say my favorite thing about marriage equality came from dolly parton. i think gay couples should be allowed to marry. they should suffer like heterosexual parents. more on that coming up. (music) defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. calcium citrate plus d. highly soluble, easily absorbed. wake it up with olay regenerist. formulated with a skin energizing complex, it penetrates 10 layers of the skin's surface. because energized skin is younger looking skin. ♪ is younger looking skin. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirement

in north carolina they bring in and build up the community and bring in the new recruits. they have come from germany originally. they were very cold shirt, very well read people during the 18th century america so they came to this pretty wild part of the north carolina piedmont and there were artisans and merchants and they educated their sons and daughters prospered all the way through the 19th century and greatly prided themselves on being a normal cultured middle-class. when stand up and take root in the middle of the century and is attracting that is attracting all of these young brash manner to make a buck very opportunistic. it's everything but the moravians stood for. when they are coming here is that they recognize the future law is building this manufacturing world and using the transportation opportunities and by the end of the 19th century even though ceylon isn't thrilled about the growth of the manufacturing and the new populations that whe winston is drawing. of the leading lights of winston are saying to the salem we have this great city that is taking shap

heard about around last week's primary in north carolina. renee elmers is a member of congress, a republican member of congress from north carolina. the democratic primary to pick someone to run against her this year got a fair amount of national attention because one of the leading candidates is the famous "american idol" runner-up clay aiken. since the primary vote on tuesday, clay aiken has been sweating out the vote count from what turned out to be his extremely close primary contest against a very well known and well respected in north carolina, his name is keith crisco, the former commerce secretary in north carolina. clay aiken led by just a few hundred votes. even as of today, the race is still considered too close to call. a county by county canvas to finalize the vote and count any absentee votes, that was scheduled to take place tomorrow. after that official result was announced, it turned out that the margin between the two was going to be less than 1%, rules provided there would be a run-off between the two candidates to see who

so that is something i learned from the class in cincinnati that i brought back with me to north carolina> host: people interested in your nonprofit, what is the website? >> guest: carolina page. >> host: just like the page of the book. partnership for appalachian gross education. you can find stuff on the website. you can go to a stories page on the page website a much digital stories coming are their voices and learn about their lives, for people to go check out the website and meet these appalachian girls. >> host: when you go back there, when you involve the local girls, are you treated again with suspicion as a harvard do-gooder in a sense? >> guest: in the mountains in madison county webpages located, from here and not from here. you would obviously be not from here. i am kind of that stage i rented an old farmhouse in this community called spring creek of far right side of madison county. when i'm there in the farmhouse i go to the page program where we offer this program for appalachian girls. i don't sound like an appalachian girl anymore and i am just coming in now, i've become

ellis who was a peer of former senator jesse helms in north carolina and in my opinion, ellis almost single-handedly elected three of the best senators of the 20th century, jesse helms, first election 1972, john east in 1980 and faircloth and tom is a lawyer in north carolina and tom ellis and jesse helms literally told ronald reagan and his team in 1976, reagan before he got to north carolina had lost four five primaries, lost the florida primary, new hampshire primary, things were looking really dark. so, ellis and jesse helms said don't come, we don't want you here, we will handle the campaign. end take care of it but if you insist on coming in we have to do four things and jesse helms and tom ellis told reagan four

majority would likely include north carolina.usan roberts is an associate professor of political science at davis college and said democratic incumbent who supported the affordable care act is extremely valuerible vul. >> once considered a true swing state in recent years north carolina has shift to the right. electing pat macquarie it's first republican governor in 20 years. they now control the legislature which passed voting rights, same-sex marriage and abortion. it today they show president obama's approval rating at 44%. >> everything in north carolina politics is aimed towards defeating--well, he can't be defeated because he's not running. >> reporter: a recent "new york times" kaiser family foundation poll shows many don't approve the way the president is handling healthcare. six months before the general election healthcare has become the focus of attack ads on both sides. >> hagin thinks obamacare's time has come. tell her obamacare is not the answer. >> tillis supports a plan that would end medicare as we know it, and

it's creating this confusion and this hysteria in north carolina. and when you have millions and millions of dollars coming into the state, the last thing we need is more confusion and more layers on top of that. we're going to be on the ground making sure everyone can get to the polls. it is definitely a concern that we have. >> so you have boehner in the white shirt doing the white shirt job. his job is to get out the crazy right wingers, scaring them about benghazi and irs and fast and furious. even though these are words he would normally not speak. at the same time, you scare up the vote on the right, you have to scare up the liberal vote. it's pretty much two-pronged. >> tilts the playing field. >> why are they doing this when they're already ahead? this is what nixon did and ruined his career. this is what he did in '72 when they were going to kill mcgovern. but they had to go break into offices and cover it up. why are they going so crazy here. they're going to win anyway. >> they may not be sure they're that far ahead. >> you look at the po

the modern gop is alive and well in north carolina. that is coming up next.pton pearson has the cnbc market wrap. >> let's take a look at how stocks do stand going into tomorrow. dow up 20 points on this monday. the s&p adding 7. that's it from cnbc. first in business worldwide. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. >>> our economic troubles could be behind us. so why do we struggle? politics. concern about who gets the credit for good things or the blame for bad things. here's a thought. let's forget about politics for awhile. >> in 2012, republican pat mccrory learned you can't exactly forget about politics when you work in the field of politics. in his less than two years as governor, mccrory's colleagues in the north carolin

the current speaker of the north carolina house, tom tillis. social conservative mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas endorsed a baptist pastor in the running as well. senator rand paul got behind a north carolina doctor who has never before run for office. head ed into tonight's voting it was the rand paul endorsed greg brannon who had a chance to have forcing the front runner into a run off. they would love a run-off. obviously the best outcome for them is if they ended up running against mr. brannon. democrats would have the chance to run against someone who says everyone has the right to own a nuclear weapon. just forcing him into a run off would mean the republicans had to keep fighting each other until mid july before they could turn their full focus against kay hagan. democrats would love it. they have been running ads that would argably boost the doctor guy and hurt the house speaker guy. it's all in the hopes from the left that democrats could maybe pick their own opponent against kay hagan or prolong republican in-fighting. poll

and remember, this is north carolina. we've had jesse helms and other folks, so that's saying something. >> right. >> but one i don't have the nastiest political ads in our political history, and they were trying to take out this sitting incumbent judge, take her out of the primary, so two republicans could run in november. the interesting story, though, is that robin hudson ended up winning that race and ended up becoming the top vote getter. and i think in some ways, it was a backlash to the growing influence of this big money in these court races. >> you know, the dollar figures you're talking about, i want to make sure people understand this, we're talking about a state supreme court race in the state of north carolina. you're talking about $1.4 million. you're talking about $900,000. these are big amounts of money ff state supreme court races. and of course if you are a business or an interest that might have a case before that court, that's kind of a small amount of money to pay if you've got a $50 million settlemen

modos of north carolina. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote of this series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 13 printed in the congressional record offered by the gentleman, mr. moran, on which further proceedings were postponed on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 13 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. moran of virginia. the chair: a recorded vote is requested. those in support of a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

so he moved to winston, north carolina. a tiny little town in the 1860'ss, a couple thousand people but because of its location there were tons of young brash men like himself who realized this golden leaf tobacco people were just beginning to grow along the north carolina virginia border was gold in their pocket if they could bring it into a warehouse and better yet if something could manufacture it. r.j. reynolds was one of dozens of young men who arrived in winston. he came in 1875 and had the equivalent of $7,500 at the time which is probably $140,000 in today's money and he took that money, bought a lot and built a small warehouse that he turned into a tobacco manufactory and he was so cheap he slept upstairs in the manufactory and he credits his early beginnings to a dozen african american men who worked with him to make that tobacco manufactory work. in the beginning in 1875 he really was one of dozens of other men like him setting up these warehouses, setting up early manufactory of tobacco by pretty quickly he figu

i love to cincinnati in 2009 and came back to north carolina to sound this nonprofit. as i was later to learn cincinnati in 2010 became a third worst city in the united states from child poverty and urban areas. only 32 detroit and click in cleveland this is one of the poorest cities per child poverty and part of that. many of them have bombs that have drug issues in the abuse of kind of prescription painkillers like oxycontin would be an example of that. so, i found out that many of my young students, some of them like eight, nine, 10-years-old have mothers who were doing drugs and that was a common factor among the girls. >> host: how did that affect their outlook on life, the dreams as you said? >> guest: i think that for many of these girls, they were -- what i discovered is that for many of the girls they were essentially orphans, they became orphans to oxycontin and american poverty. and so, i was their teacher. we have our own class, but our class became like a family to them. and they became kind of like sisters. and yes i was a teacher. i sometimes have to be

there's been a lot of talk in this race in north carolina and some other races, lindsey graham, south carolina, thad cochran, mississippi, that maybe the republican establishment has learned how to tame the tea party. when i look at what thom tillis has done to position himself for this thing, he's basically gone and adopted tea party rhetoric, tea party positions on issues. there's a clip of him going around where he has the same position on global warming as greg brannon, so in a way it seems like the tea party maybe has tamed thom tillis. >> or tamed other candidates across the republican establishment. that's how democrats would cast what we're seeing across the map in this senate election. if you look at somebody like tom cotton in arkansas, he didn't face a competitive primary. democrats would say, hey, this is a guy who's a lot more conservative than the kind of republican that would have previously been able to run, maybe a more successful race against senator mark pryor, who's vulnerable democratic incumbent down there and he's working to cast tom cotton as someone outside th

and i'm talking to north carolina's pickle lady. how she turned a family recipe and a few cucumbers into a global business. i'm ali velshi in washington d.c. tonight, and this is "real money." this is "real money", and you are the most important part of the show. tweet me on ali velshi.com. i am here in washington d.c., where the white house today released an 800 page gorilla of a report on climate change. now, this report describes the damaging present and future affects of global warming, warming temperatures on the united states. and it's called the national climate assessment. it's the result of three years of work by more than 300 scientists and other experts, and this report says that extreme weather linked to climate change like prolonged heat, heavy downpours, floods, and drought is "disrupting people's lives and damaging some sectors of our economy." like everything in this town, both parties will try to score points by praising or bashing this report in the leadup to the midterm leaks. more on that in a moment. but right n

life, and so that is something i learned from the class in cincinnati i brought back with me to north carolina. >> host: if people are interested in your nonprofit, what's the web site? >> guest: it's carolina dpage.org, and it's partnership for appalachian girls education. the carolinapage.org and you end find stuff on the web site, go to a stories page on the web site and watch digital stories, meet the girls, hear their voices and learn about their lives, and we'd love for people to check out the web site and meet these amazing appalachian girls. >> host: when you go back there, when you involve these local girls are you treated again with suspicion, as a harvard do-gooder in a sense? >> guest: in the mountains in madison county where page is located, we have an expression, from heres and not from heres. i am kind of at this stage both a from-here and a not-from-here itch rent an old farmhouse in the community called spring creek from farmers out of mass disson county, and when aim there in the farm house, i'm a from-here. when guy to the page program where we offer this program for appalac

remission is possible. >> we live in north carolina.ible for us to be treated as married people. and that we don't have the time to wait for the state to evolve they need to do it now. neither of us have any doubt it will happen. will it happen in time for us. >> marriage licenses will happen in time for lennie and pearl. a former mayor in north carolina campaigned campaigned on the promise that he will defy state law and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples if he is elected as register of deeds in orange county, north carolina. tuesday night, chilton won a race, 42% of the vote, beating a incumbent. no republican filed to run for office. chilton will become the next register of deed and second person in a southern state to accept a marriage application. joining me, mark chilton. how are you? >> great. thank you for having me on. >> you bet. what are you frying to do here? >> well, i am trying to be the register of deed of orange county, north carolina. mostly. but i, i am a -- a legal scholar as well as the a real estate attorne

they have been tracking north carolina's efforts as they have in texas, and south carolina, and others. and so they are bringing the hammer done to the extent that they can. i think what's interesting here, this sort of, we step back and think what brought this about. african-americans outperformed whites in the last two elections, presidential elections in north carolina. in 2008, 2012. as soon as the republicans came in and took over the legislature and the governor's office. they came in. made a beeline and shut it all down. it is one thing for these voting restrictions to be enacted. without there being some evidence that a certain particular group is a feaffecte. here we have overwhelming evidence that 70% of blacks would be affected by reducing early voting. but more than half of the electorate of the state. so there is irrefutable evidence that this is discriminatory. >> yeah. and professor, when you look at this, the motion points out that when you reduce the early voting period, of course, disproportionately, burns african-american voters and takes out one out of three voters

i run a nonprofit in the north carolina mountains.ry to keep up and i try to visit as much as i can stay in touch with the seven girls. >> host: very quickly shannon, jessica andalucia. where are they today? are all seven girls don't cincinnati area? >> guest: alicia is the one who has led cincinnati. she got married to his servicemen, to a soldier in the army and they moved away from cincinnati. she has a child. she's married and has her first child. shannon and jessica are both again struggled to finish high school and were not quite able to finish. shannon did not finish high school. she got pregnant in high school at had a baby that died soon after birth, a baby that was very premature. after that point, begin dismissing herself from school and kind of fallback and dropped out of high school. jessica dropped out as well, but it's gone back and done ged and further college studies and as i think engaged to be married. so both girls are doing well in the context of their communities. i know they wouldn't be sort of seen as let's say

and these people in north carolina put me here. they gave me this platform, this microphone.l like it's my responsibility to use that to give back to them and make sure they're represented in a way. >> stephen: i'm unwarmed by your story. that's my disability, okay. all right? i don't hear things i don't like. so ft. bragg, largest military base in the world is in your district. you're a democrat. how are you going to run to the right of a republican on defense. >> why would i need to run to the right. >> stephen: because the right owns defense, my friend. >> i think what the right doesn't own is veteran he's affairs, the veteran's unemployment rate is 11%, four points higher than the rest of the civilian population there are a lot of really in credible proposals on the table that aren't getting anywhere because people are more interested in shutting down the government, sequestration, doing things to make sure the other side doesn't get a win. there are people who are hurting now and nothing is getting done in congress because nobody wants to work together. that frustrates m

senate nomination in north carolina. it will go a long way toward setting the narrative which will develop over the next month. does the tea party movement have any bite left and will republicans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and lose the prospect of losing control of the senate if they end up nominating weaker, general election candidates. that's what this next six weeks is about. thom tillis, backed by the chamber of commerce and american crossroads has the advantage in what is a very crowded eight-way primary. it's clear tillis will be the top vote-getter. will he break the next 40% vote getter to avoid a runoff. he must win that 40% to avoid a july 15th, deep in the summer runoff. tea party groups are divided between physician greg brannon, libertarian tea party activist who supports a return to the gold standard and tillis' closest competition so far and then there's mark harris, bap tis minister who has the support from more evangelical christians that are in north carolina. the race has become somewhat of

making north carolina proposal so surprising to some.hese trade secrets like others could cause criminal penalties if they are misused. that seems quite aggressive. >> north carolina's proposal will allow hospitals and first responders to know that chemical list. the state senate passed that bill today, but it now face as bigger fight in north carolina state house. we are a lot more vigilant, and a lot less tolerance of different views. we with are all prejudiced in one way or the other. if i see a black kid in a hoody, and it's late at night, i am walking to the other side of the street. if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, i am walking back to the other side of the street. so in my business, try not to be hypocritical. i know that i'm not perfect. >> cuban said in hindsight he should have used different examples. some u.s. senators are using the racist comments to call for change in the nfl. the issue, the name washington red skins. 478 democratic sen

the people of north carolina are organizing. you got to remember -- this is the south.they had one rally with 80,000 people. 55% of them were white. in the south, this is incredibly important. it means human solidarity is overcoming history that has divided people along racial lines. this is incredibly important. we should all be really excited about it. as a matter of fact, one of the fastest-growing and aa cp chapters is in asheville -- naacp chapters is in asheville, north carolina. a predominately white community. they said, i don't know why not. they are growing and making demands. they know they need unemployment, they need medicaid, they need to go to the doctor, they need a better life. in north carolina, this thing is spreading to south carolina, to georgia, and even missouri. i'm telling you, whether it is fast food workers, folks in north carolina attacked by a right wing swing, or even the maids. the national alliance for domestic workers. organizers all over the place. demanding that this sub-minimum wage be raised to a livable wage for people. people.there

would you be for raising it in north carolina?t five quarters we've had the greatest drop offof unemployment in the nation. why don't we focus on creating better paying jobs instead of raising the minimum wage. >> sounds like you are for keeping it the way it is. >> i'm for creating better paying jobs. >> maybe the biggest race in the country. thank you, sir. >> up next, a man who went from north carolina to the president's cabinet. transportation secretary anthony fox will be here next as washington gridlocks threatens to bring infrastructure projects across the country to a stop. and later, monica lewinsky breaks her silence again. what her new revelations in vanity fair might mean for hillary clinton. look on today's politics planner. the president hits the road and goes to arkansas. hillary clinton has a speech today, public forum. will she be asked to respond to monica lewinsky today? >> you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. we'll be back in three minutes, i swear. and just give them the basics, you know. i got t

over time, north carolina will continue to show its progressive streak. it is just that right now, they have a group in there that is gerrymandering districts and continuing to try to limit the electorate. >> any backlash against the voting changes they made? >> there have been a lot of activities that have raised the volume and attention of north carolina as a place with a history of progressivism. expanding the electorate. that is a challenge that will continue to be in front of people. >> anthony foxx, thank you for being with us. when we come back, the april jobs report and latest from ukraine. ♪ >> welcome back. unemployment fell in april. for more on that and the latest from ukraine, rich miller and indira lakshmanan join me. the unemployment rate fell. that is enough to make -- >> a good jobs report. the gains were widespread. you had retail, construction. you had health care. the big question is, what is the new trend? definitely some catch-up from the winter when people could not get work. >> the trend is great. there is also the gdp report. >> o

north carolina is thinking about taking it a step further. lawmakers join in the debate across the country in the 32 states that allow hydraulic fracturing. how much information should drillers be forced to share with the public. >> reporter: for an industry focussed under ground, conseniors it is burying information. they don't have to reveal the chemicals used and north carolina is making sharing that information illegal. >> like on the side of a box of cereal, they tell you the ingredients. this bill keeps the people from knowing what the chemicals in the fracking fluid are. >> so free trapped natural gas trill drillers pump millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under the surface. the mix doors are trade secrets that supporters say should be protected. north carolina assist proposal makes the act of leaking the chemical lift a misdemeanour. the goal is to protect the industry. >> north carolina needs the jobs, and america needs the energy. i add something to that. i'd certainly rather buy the energy from north carolinians than o

north carolina was one battle ground state the president carried in 2009. hagan backed obamacare, stimulus and climate issues. this is tillis last night. >> we need to be clear, though, this isn't the end of the prima primary. it is the beginning of the primary mission: which is to beat hagan and make reed a relevant american. >> primary mission on the national level and politics were in place. jeb bush backed tillis but rand paul backed the tea party canada and mike huckabee was behind the third person who failed. in ohio, boehner won with 69% of the vote but that is down from past margins. we will get a much better idea of where things stand between the gop and the mainstream of the party over the next eight weeks. there are a bunch of primarys and the polls show most are safe and the gop is in a good position to take more positions in the house and make take to senate. tom tillis has been neck-and-neck with hagan for week and mow he has the boost of the victory and will look better as the polls come. >> he doesn't have the challenge of fighting off prima

north carolina on tuesday night. republicans needed a candidate to run against democratic senator kay hagan. the establishment had its choice, thom tillis is his name. he's the speaker of the state house of representatives. mitt romney endorsed him. the u.s. chamber of commerce spent heavily on his behalf. when it comes to endorsements, he's about as establishment as it gets. meanwhile his main opponent was backed by rand paul, who is the biggest tea party star in america. he came to campaign for that candidate on the eve of the primary. freedom works also endorsed brannon. they talked up the grass roots nrge. for the past few years, this has been the setup for one tea party triumph after another, for one humiliating blow to the establishment after another. but not this week. thom tillis won easily on tuesday. north carolina will probably be the most closely watched senate race in america this fall. it's a pivotal state for republicans o to pick off if they're going to win back the senate. now the establishment has t

i mean, they have had it all in north carolina.e tonight for the "rapid response" panel, e.j. dionne "washington post" and msnbc contributor. and william barber, north carolina naacp president and architect of the moral monday demonstrationing. great to have you both with us tonight. first of all, e.j., we'll start with you you why is the term "mainstream republican candidate" being thrown around right now when if you checked this guy's record he's as radical as anything you've got on the right? >> that's true. the charlotte observer had a great editorial on this yesterday where they said tillis is seen as the establishment candidate in this primary but his record and his rhetoric are clear. he is no moderate and can come across that way only when sitting next to greg brannon and other candidates. i think the other lesson here is that the tea party is going to lose some of these primaries as they did yesterday. by my colleague from "the washington post" has made the point that they've already moved the republican party to the right