driving through oklahoma baptist university. tell me about the university. how does that play into the feeling of the city and the population of the city? justin: it plays in hugely. we are in many ways -- oklahoma baptist university has been here for over 100 years. it started on 60 acres of land and $100,000 that the community and the city helped raise in the early 1900's. so there is a strong bond and relationship between the city of shawnee and oklahoma baptist university. they bring lots of students. a culture, a different feel, and make it a civic community, which may set us apart a little bit from other communities our side size in oklahoma that do not have a university. >> we are kind of leaving that more built up hustle and bustle area. we are starting to get more into the independent businesses and the downtown area. should we go to the downtown? justin: i would love to show you downtown. >> how has main street changed since you started living in shawnee? justin: main street has changed quite a bit. we have a mainstrea

oklahoma, we are fighting for you. the last chance we had was was virginia first, oklahoma next." we believe you are next and we're going to champion your cause. amy: i want to thank you both for joining us, from west virginia and from oklahoma, katie endicott, high school english teacher in mingo county, west virginia, speaking to us from the state house in charleston. , third-gradenks teacher in oklahoma. we will continue to follow these struggles. will the teachers of oklahoma walkout? we just cover the successful , third-grade teacherstrike for teachers in wr genia. you can go to our website at democracynow.org to see our discussion with british university lecturers who have gone out on strike with librarians and staff across england. this is democracy now! we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: "up in arms." on tuesday, 16 senate democrats joined with 50 republicans to advance a bill slated to roll back key financial regulations passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. the bill would exempt 25 of the nation's 40 largest banks from being subject to heightene

while in shawnee, oklahoma. we took a driving tour of the city with city manager. >> thank you for agreeing to show us around shawnee. >> i'm happy to be here. thank you for joining me. >> where are we now? we are heading into the town. >> we are on interstate 40. heading east into shawnee. we will get off on the street. to our west is oklahoma city which is about a 35 mile drive from shawnee. as we crest of this hill, you can see the community which is fairly developed along the interstate. shani went through a rebranding campaign. things onine is great the horizon. you conceive coming into the community, we are quite noticeable. >> commented people live here? >> 31,000 people. population is probably 70 to 100,000. city limits proper comey are at about 31,000. >> who lives here? what are folks doing here? who does it draw? >> we are far enough from oklahoma city that we are our own community. we have been in it -- been in existence for over 100 years per we are close enough to oklahoma city that we benefit from

welcome to shawnee, oklahoma. 40 miles east of oklahoma city, it was settled around 1891. it grew rapidly after the arrival of the railroad and competed with oklahoma city to be the state's capital. today, it has a population of about 31 people. with help from our partners, we will explore the history of the central oklahoma city in the next hour. coming up, we will visit two locally owned distances, which will call it home for more than 150 years. later, we will hear about the mission of the monks and close ties to native americans in the area. >> american indian peoples were being removed to this territory because of the increasing white population in the land where they were trying to expand. this territory was chosen because no white people wanted the territory yet, to put it the monks went to a land nobody wanted to server people nobody wanted. >> we begin the hour with a visit to the pacific nation's cultural heritage center or visitors came inside into the tribes history and the challenges they face preserving their culture. >> we faced a lot of trials and tribulati

so oklahoma city became the capital. as we tell the history, we have to be fair and tell when the white men came and settled this area, it displays the native americans. we are real cognizant of that fact. it was not like a happy day for everybody. -- land here we have four major tribes in this county to this day. fox, the s second -- s&t shawnee. we carpentry out in front of the new museum and it has four feathers would represent the four tribes. like so many, counts, i think a lot of the locals are probably not aware. i was born and raised here in shawnee and i was not aware of some of the great history that we have here until i came down here a few years ago. we have to do a better job of advertising and getting the locals better involved in history. our visit to shawnee oklahoma is an american history exclusive. we have traveled to u.s. cities, bringing the literary's and historic sites to our viewers. you can watch more at our website. tonight, former presidential on thete pat buchanan 1968 presidential campaign. an

next, a look at our recent visit to shawnee, oklahoma. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> i like to describe it as a match only god can make in heaven. the original monks arrived in new orleans in 1872, thinking they had an invitation from the catholic bishop of new orleans to establish a monastery there, but when they arrived he said what are you talking about, i'm looking for missionaries not monks. years these two monks were looking for a permanent home but cannot find the right situation where they were really wanted, for whatever reasons, it was very complex. at the same time, the american indian peoples were being removed to this territory because the increasing white population did not want them in the land where they were trying to expand, and so they were being removed. this territory, i suppose, was chosen because, to put it bluntly, no white people wanted this territory yet good the monks that nobody wanted went to a land that nobody wanted to server people that nobody wanted, so was a

gregory's abbey, shawnee, oklahoma, 21 monks. st. gregory's abbey has been in shawnee for a little over 100 years. we have been in what is now oklahoma for 142 years. it was indian territory in 1875. our founders were from france, and after the civil war a larger number of native american tribes and peoples were being relocated to indian territory. a good number of these tribes and nations were catholic and needed catholic ministry, catholic education, but there was no structure of the catholic church in the region. our tubing monks -- two monks were looking for a permanent location to establish our community, so when the bishops of the united states established the indian territories its own region of the church, they asked us as monks to come and provide that ministry and education programs to native american people, so we explored the whole territory and eventually entered into an agreement with the pottawatomie nation that had recently been moved into the territory and establishment sacred heart abbey, academy, and mission. that

shawnee tribe who live there pre-oklahoma statehood. today native native americans make up 12% of the population and three federally recognized tribes leaving the area. with help from our partners at vyve cable in the next hour and 15 minutes we will explore the cities literary life. we'll hear from area writers including author and historian carol sue humphries who explores the importance and impact of the press during the american revolution. >> these papers would try to print in certain ways that would get peoples attention. the best example of that is one of the newspapers in philadelphia in response to the stamp act, printed its front page look like a tombstone. that was not easy because, i set by hand. the part that wasn't, the letters had to be carved and so to make it look black like a tombstone it's just really amazing somebody went to that much effort to do that. >> we begin our tour of the cities literary culture with author michael snyder on local native american author john joseph mathews. >> john joseph mathews was an auth

weoss the state of oklahoma have two production facilities. we employtal company about 200 employees. you're in and is over 200. the people you see behind me on this production floor is a product for 25 pound institution's that go into restaurants and other establishments. that goes throughout the united states. betterlaws or something creating greater awareness for the public. with this safety programs we have is a company they have been around for 30 years. we work to provide safe products for the customers and we work with big retailers in the industry. we have four to cooperate with them on things like clearly pulling, things like that for a number of decades. the government has stepped in with this which is a new federally mandated for its food safety laws. adopted by have been food companies like ours for many decades already. >> it was a crisis mode of pride there is this. people chair that sense of pride. real partnership. there has been times when we need support from the city when it comes to moving the utility line or closing the ro

biggest district in oklahoma.ssues would include oil and gas issues, that's prevalent in my district, as well as the wind farms. wind has been there for a while. and also ag issues. ag is my background, that's what i have done my whole life. i come from a family of farmers and ranchers, so that's what i do and continue to do. so it's those types of issues that i keep on, those are what i'm most passionate about in my district. >> one of the most important issues we're facing here in oklahoma is the access to high-speed internet for all of our citizens, in rural areas and all parts of the urban areas as well. >> the most important issue in oklahoma for me is making sure that we have a funded government that works and that is being responsible to not only take care of our citizens, but make sure that future generations have an education system, have transportation networks and have quality health care in the state. ♪ >> thursday morning we visit salem, oregon, for the next stop on the c-span bus 50 capitals tour. or

through the years, granddad worked in oklahoma city. he and my grandmother purchased a wood barn in 1906. it has been in our family since that time. i am the third -- my son is now the fourth generation to be president of the company. >> we are at roundhouse overalls. we are the largest maker of bib overalls. that is because we have a lot of brand loyalty. we have four or five generations of families wearing our overalls. people's whose father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and even great great grandfather wore our overalls. we started in 1903. that is four years before oklahoma was a state, back when it was indian territory. we started by making overalls for the railroad line. shawnee was really a boomtown for the railroad industry. here in this photo, you can see these are the railroad employees. there are over 1000 working on the repair station. a roundhouse is a repair station for railroads that will have lots of railroad turntable track so they can move the different cars into different parts of the roundhouse and work on them. t

spectacular candidates talking about important issues in oklahoma, which in oklahoma is public education. kids are going to school four days a week in public schools because the republicans have pushed -- the budget to the bone. actually through the bone. what gives the optimism about 2018 is that we are fielding really good candidates and the candidates who are winning are winning in the aftermath of very fair, open, safe primaries, -- spirited primaries where there is a lot of high road debate going on. our unity is our greatest that is the key to success. strength of the party. susan: i wonder if it entire about what happened in california to a democratic icon, senator dianne feinstein. elected five times to the senate from california but failed to win the endorsement of the california democratic party because her challenger argued the time and come for a new generation of leadership. he also argued she was too likely to compromise on positions important to progressives. mr. perez: i think it's a 60% threshold to get the nomination in california. this isn't the first time this has hap

spectacular candidates who were talking about the most important issue in oklahoma which in oklahoma is public education because kids are going to school four days a week in public schools because the republicans have cut the budget to the bone. actually threw it a bone. and so i think what we're -- what gives me optimism about 2018, james, is that we are fielding really good candidates and the candidates who are winning are winning in the aftermath of very, very fair, open and spirited primaries. imaries where there really are high road debate going on and that's the key to our success. susan: you talk about party unity. i wonder if we can talk what happened in california to a democratic icon dianne feinstein elected five times to the u.s. senate in california but failed to win the endorsement of the california party because they argued a new time for leadership. said she was too likely to compromise on issues that are important to progressives. are you surprised she failed to get an endorsement? threshold to 0% get this. this isn't the first time. when i read stories that made it a

all around oklahoma, there were these land runs and smaller lands. situation was bad for american indians in general. the agents were an exception because of the oil, but on the other hand, it led to widespread exploitation. guardians would take advantage casesives and in some there were natives who were educated, but were still called incompetent and guardians could take advantage of them financially and this led to conspiracies of murder. harmful, even with all the benefits they received financially, they were victimized and murdered, exploited in different ways. rapidly losingre speakers of the language and because of that ,hole process, indian education where it was the forces of producedn trying to imitation white house. the carlyle and colonel pratt who famously said kill the indians, save the man. that is to paraphrase what he said. get rid of all the tradition and wildness and turn them into good, american citizens who can be injected into the economy and they might look indian, but they are white on the inside was the goal. things were bad f

to the west as oklahoma city which is about 35-mile drive from shawnee. as we crossed this until you see the community which is fairly developed along the interstate. shawnee just went through a rebranding campaign and the tagline is great things on the horizon. >> , the people live in shawnee. >> 31000 residents. a little over 70000 in the county. the regional population is 70 to 100,000 people. >> what are the economic drivers. who does this draw? >> were far enough from oklahoma city that we are own community that has been in existence for well over hundred years but were close enough to oklahoma city that we benefit from that proximity. will number of people who commute for work but our largest local economic drivers include for area tribes, oklahoma baptist university with 2200 students and several hundred employees. >> right now we are driving through the town and the university is on the right. how does it play into the general feeling population of the city. >> in many ways we are an oklahoma town. it's been here for over 100 years it started on 6

people where these overalls and we started in 1903, four years before oklahoma was the state. it was indian territory and we started making overalls for the railroad lines. this was a boom town for the .ndustry in this photo, you can see these are the railroad employees and there are over 1000 of them working on the railroad repair station. this is a repair station that will have a turntable track said they can move the different cars into different parts of the round house and work on them. you can see where the repair station was and the actual building, in 1903, it was down here and you can see the building. the slogan. fits best and is the longest. be in theficult to old building and we would load getdenim roles that would to be as much as i have of a ton and they would take them up to take them floor and back down to the first floor to and it became a nightmare to get the production made. expand and hire more employees to make this much more profitable. my grandfathers, bought the company. this is always been locally owned. it has always been people who have owned this an

over the last 10 years, oklahoma -- the oklahoma legislature has cut per-people funding in our stateh is far more than any other state in the country. this isn't just about teacher pay, this is about the classroom. i speak with teachers every day, and yes, they're seeing their colleagues go to other states for better pay, but what they're also seeing is class sizes exploding. they're seeing schools go to four-day weeks instead of five-day weeks. 20% of oklahoma schools are now running on four-day weeks. they're seeing ap classes and foreign language classes and other enrichment curricula get cut because we don't have the funding to pay for it. this is about our students and doing what's right for our students. it's not about just teacher pay. >> we saw west virginia teachers fight successfully for a raise. we're seeing in other states, in kentucky, teachers walking out, arizona teachers have protested. do you think this is part of a national movement? >> um, i'm sure that there is an impact nationally, teachers seeing what's going on in other states. but in our case in oklahoma, it's

and today, i'm in tulsa, oklahoma.'m here to meet the son of a remarkably successful businessman and epic hoarder. file this under 80 years of grit and true metal and 40 acres of scrap metal. >> my name is john hemphill. in february 2016, my father passed away. he left me a thriving company that's a testament to his business acumen. he also left me a 3 million-pound headache that says a lot about my dad, too. >> i meet john in the lobby of hemphill corporation. and this was your dad. >> yeah, this is dad. he started the business back in the '50s. and i'm running it now. come on. i'll show you. >> as john drives me around the company, i come to understand the "jekyll and hyde" nature of his strange inheritance. these look like cell towers. >> yeah, these are guide towers for wireless communication. and that's our main business now. >> but his dad built that business while indulging his industrial-strength urge for collecting. big stuff -- iron, scrap metal, machinery... things you can't squirrel away in a closet. take,

it meant that there were no more reservations and oklahoma. there was private land that was owned by native americans and there was land owned by non-native. as we are moving into a more modern era, for the tried to tried to regain its jurisdiction, we go to a -- through a process. tribalhere we have our enterprises, whether they be our casinos or a grocery stores, we have to go back and just like any other person. we purchase it. we buy it like any other private individual and we file paperwork with the bia to move that land from a fee status, private land ownership, to a trust status. it moves it back into sovereign tribal territory. that means the jurisdiction of that land is the tried and the federal government. it takes the state government and the county government and all municipality governments out of the authority for that piece of land. that is what tribes across the country are doing now, going back and in areas where they have tribal presence via treaty, going back and in purchasing this land just like anyone else and putting it t

he's a farmer, rancher in oklahoma, he owns 200 acres in central oklahoma. he went through the process to buy that achage and -- being a acreage and couldn't get a bank to do it. why? the dodd-frank requirements. suddenly a guy in oklahoma buying 200 acres had to find a way to scrape together $100,000 of cash to buy a ranch. now, five years ago, ten years ago, 15 years ago, if you wanted to be able to get that same ranch, you would go to the bank in down. now the bank in town has to tell you, you have to go somewhere else or find some other way to do it because the restrictions are are so high -- restrictions are so high we can't do it anymore. local customers don't want to deal with someone else in another state in another city. they'd like to deal with their local bank, but they can't anymore. oklahoma's community banks are nothing to do with the financial collapse in 2008. yet, they've been penalized all the way through this process. in total dodd-frank required ten federal agencies to write more than 400 new rules imposing 27,000 new mandates on financia

we recently stopped in oklahoma city, oklahoma asking folks what's the most important issue in their state. >> the issue most important to me in oklahoma city is probably education funding. we have a lot of challenges that we face but right now we have some of the lowest teacher pay in the country. we are losing teachers to other professions and other states, and here at the oklahoma state capital we have been deliberating over this for the last year or two. it's a really serious problem. i'm actually making the transition from the oklahoma senate to oklahoma city mayor's office and it's just as much of a challenge there as it has been at the capitol. we have to have a world class education system. we can't do that without world class teachers and we can't have those without competitive pay. that's the major issue facing us in oklahoma. >> the issue that's most important to me is any of those number of issues that affect rural oklahoma. i represent, oklahoma has 77 counties. i represent seven of those. as far as square miles i think it's the biggest district in oklahoma so those issu

>> we are here at oklahoma university, home of the bison. it's here that we will explore the gakin archives which hold artifacts from the historic era. >> the christian liberal arts university, we've always been a liberal arts university, that was the vision from the founders from the very beginning, we have a mission, we exist to transform lives by pursuing academic excellence first and foremost to integrate faith with knowledge and engage in diverse world and live worthy of a high calling of god and christ. today we are looking at the murrow, a letter press that was brought to indian territory in late 19th century. the story behind the press is a fascinating one, it's a couching one, it's one that gives reason for why it is in such prominent location, all students pass by coming in and out of the library. began with a request for merce university, the president asked a student named joseph murrow to consider coming to indian territory. he was sent as missionary of baptist church in georgia in 1857, the very next month he was married and th

than a decade teaching in oklahoma schools. she's going to talk to us about what it's going to take to stop the strike. is your tax service getting you everything you deserve? switch to jackson hewitt. say goodbye to your old tax service and get $200. that's right $200. it pays to switch. visit jackson hewitt today. i ...prilosec otc 7 years ago,my doctor recommended... 5 years ago, last week. just 1 pill each morning, 24 hours and zero heartburn. it's been the number 1 doctor recommended brand for 10... ...straight years, and it's still recommended today. use as directed. >>> pay us more or we walk. that is the message from the oklahoma teachers who got a $6100 pay raise. they say it's not enough. they're planning to strike on monday. let's put the money into perspective. oklahoma is 49th in the nation in teacher salaries. there is according to the national education association. the average salary for a high schoolteacher, $42,460 a year. that is almost $19,000 less than the national average according to the bureau of labor s

the strike rumblings in oklahoma is that is the u.s. ready for their teachers to take a knee to occupy and to cry out me to start watching the hawks. but. it looks like. the bottom. like you that i got. this. week. or the one of the hawks i am tyrone's with and that happens a lot seats are striking i know i love this i love that energy in the air when i see progress mass group of people say enough is enough we demand our work you know we demand rights with higher wages we get together we organize we push our legislature to make a difference that's that's the essence of what this country in the united states and other countries you know that's the essence of what it's all about sure do you think it's because we you know we grew up with things like teacher strikes and we must drive or strikes and those are major things that may move things along and it was about workers' rights it was about treating people with respect. and now it seems obviously there's been a huge push of the koch brothers to. do well to get rid of of many many many man

have been and what is now oklahoma for over 100 years. the founders were from france. at that time, after the civil number of native american tribes and peoples were being relocated to indian territory. a good number of these tribes , andations were catholic needed capital ministry and education, but there was no structure for catholic church in the region. the monks were looking for a place to establish a community. of the unitedps states established the indian territories, its own region of the church, they asked us as monks to provide the industry and education to native americans. we explored the whole territory, eventually entering in an the citizens of another indian nation that had ,ecently been moved establishing sacred heart academy and mission. us, and a home base for we ended up establishing some 45 catholic church communities in what is now oklahoma. we also established three schools for african-american the children of the persons who had been slaves of the indian tribes. what was begun in 1876 had a school for boys from all ages, elementary through colleg

they're going to see the power of collective action in oklahoma. and it's not simply about the teachers. it's about the kids. because if you don't pay people, they can't survive. this is what it's about, my friends. collective action. democrats have their backs. i've seen it in tennessee. when i was there. the moral bankruptcy of the republican leadership in tennessee. eight rural hospitals in tennessee have been shut down in the last two years. because of the ideological refusal of the republican leadership and people like congresswoman marsha blackburn, the nominee, in all likelihood, for the senate, who's going to lose to phil brettesen. their ideological aversion to obamacare. they refuse to expand medicaid. that's why those hospitals closed. and so that family suffering with opoid addiction. they don't know where to go. and as you know in rural america, these rural hospitals are not only the health care hub, they're the employment hub. and people have lost their jobs. that is morally bankrupt, my friends. i had the privilege of being in indian

it's interesting to hear in oklahoma, started with a credential requirement. we've taken a similar step in d.c. and said we want to support all of our early childhood educators and move to a higher level of credential. it's phased in over a number of years. we would like all our center directors to have a bachelor's degree, all our lead teachers to have at least an associate's degree in early childhood or minimum number of credits in early childhood. we'd like assistant teachers to have an entry-level credential. we've set those requirements in our regulations and we're doing a lot of support to help our educators meet those requirements whether that's scholarships, cohort-based education programs that will meet in different geographic locations, online courses that are provided for free, specific on-the-ground coaching to help people look at their transcripts, look where they are currently, what the requirements are and how we can meet them. we know it's a lot to take on. we believe it will have a significant impact on the quality of care that's being provide

oklahoma ranks 49th in the country for teachers' pay.alked to some teachers who are frankly disgusted with y'all. in saying that you guys are part of the problem that they're in currently. >> they're not members. i am a-- >> reporter: some of them are ambers. >> i'm supporting what the majority of our members are wanting to do. that's the way we move forward. >> reporter: oklahoma teachers plan to walk out on monday. >> april 3rd, april 4th, april 5th, whenever our members say that it's time to go back to the classrooms, then that's what tll happen. oo i would like to get to the point where i'm not juggling so lch. i knew i still wouldn't get rich, but i did think i would be k le to support a family. >> reporter: thousands of teachers are expected to march here at the capital next week, oklahoma city and tulsa public schools, the state's two largest districts, have already canceled classes on monday in anticipation of the walkout. jeff? >> glor: omar villafranca all over that story. omar, thank you very much. next on the "cbs evening new

i've been traveling across the country, oklahoma recently. there is a great candidate for governor there. south dakota, they have the best candidate in 40 years. host: in oklahoma, -- from west virginia, not as liberal as a lot of other senators. my bigger -- bigger picture republicans want a lot of winnable races in 2000 10-2012 because of extreme candidates. they could have one. [laughter] [indecipherable] republicans would've had the majority. wibheory, they could have the senate majority of 2012 they had not nominated an unelectable candidate in 2014. mitch mcconnell, republicans at nbc got aggressive about deals, people, rubbing aggressors the wrong way on their side. in general, the party controlling the white house, you are the leader of the democratic party. what role do you seek to make sure democrats don't nominate this part of christine ?'donnell, or share angle host: i think the people of --as the people of texas should make the decision. the people of virginia last year. what worked best was, everybody who went to the polls felt

that actually you know tend to work you know to make a child's life a little better those things in oklahoma for example things have gotten so bad that even school district administrators who are generally not a teacher's greatest ally are actually throwing their support behind a potential teacher strike you know with the recent success in west virginia and the strike rumblings in oklahoma as that is the u.s. ready for their teachers to take a knee to occupy and to cry out me to hell and start watching the hawks. but that's. the bottom. that i got. with. watching the hawks i am told that and i'd have a fellow teacher strike i know i love this i love that energy in the air when you see progress mass group of people say enough is enough we demand our work you know we demand rights without higher wages we get together we organize we push our legislature to make a difference and that's the essence of what this country in the united states and other countries. you know that's the essence of what it's all about sure do you think it's because we you know we grew up with things like teacher strikes

of oklahoma has a great geological department of geology, it is seismically unstable. this is not hard to deal with. you can listen to geologists and say it is seismically unstable, don't drill there so that is what pennsylvania has done. they are much poor at regulating water because they have rivers in oklahoma, good at regulating water and you wish you would put them in a blender and -- >> that is called federal policy. >> people make mistakes and learn and that is part of the reason, fracking is generally done better than it was 10 years ago, there are still some problems but the egregious stuff, as a friend in oklahoma put it, get -- you run out of dentists. >> we will wrap it up if there is one more. the gentleman in the front. >> thank you for coming. >> i read an article recently, don't know if it is true, about predicting a new set of sunspot minimum like we had several hundred years ago, enough to create a minor ice age like when the sinews to freeze. it might delay our need to address some of the fears of global warming by 50 years or more. could you comment

we kicked off in oklahoma last fall in oklahoma city. we were looking at why oklahoma sends more women to prison at a higher rate than any other state in the country. after that, we were in l.a. to consider how media and entertainment influence how we think about incarceration. and today, the last in our three-part series, we're in washington, and we're going to explore the policy landscape and also hear about conditions of confinement affect women and children involved with the system. before we get rolling, i do want to thank google. they made today's event and the defining justice series possible. thank you so much to google for that. [ applause ] i have a few very basic practical notes before we get started. please silence your cell phones. but as we like to say, don't put them away because we'd love you to join the conversation on twitter. we are at atlantic live. the hash tag is defining justice. after each session, we're going to make sure we have time for your questions. we will begin this morning with senator mike lee. he is a r

west virginia is 48th and pay an oklahoma is at the bottom, 50.his is teresa danks. >> i'm still looking at efforts to raise money to help teachers not have to pay out-of-pocket. on top of our low salaries, high insurance, and all of the other problems that are happening in the classroom, teachers are paying out-of-pocket for everything. we need our classrooms funded properly so that teachers don't have to do that. amy: what words of wisdom do you have for teresa danks or experience from one of the longest wildcat strikes in west virginiaamy: history? teresa, i can say that everything you are saying, we have been saying the same thing. it feels so familiar to me to inr the situation you are in oklahoma. one of the things we have made it very clear about in west virginia is that, yes, we were striking for us, but we wanted to inspire teachers all across the nation. the last cnt we had, the first one, as soon as we found out we won was "we are worthy." what i tell oklahoma teachers and educators is, you are worthy and you need -- like she was talkin

amy: let's go to an oklahoma school teacher speaking at a board meeting. >> one out of five oklahoma school districts have been forced to adopt a four-day school week. in 2017 study, it shows teachers leave the state on average receive a $19,000 increase. tonight we are especially rifle for a superintendent who is standing up for our teachers and students. we stand alongside our ministry to leadership in calling for restoration of proper funding for our public schools. unless oklahoma receives a miraculous windfall to fix the bealems that we face, the is calling for the suspension of classes so we may petition our state lawmakers to repair the damage done over the years of fiscal responsibility. we did it in 1990 and we are ready to do it again. amy: we're going to go to break and then come back to the activism that is taking place in this country and we're going to go to britain where lecturers are striking across the country. we have been speaking with jay o'neal, middle school teacher on strike, in charleston, west virginia. we will continue with him and mike elk who is writing al

announcer: this weekend, american history tv is featuring a shawnee, oklahoma. c-span staff visited many sites featuring its history. in shawnee inorn 1927. he became the first asked her not to sleep in space in 1963. learn more about shawnee all weekend on american history tv. the pottawatomie nation believes these eagles help carry their prayers to the gods. historybes have a room -- have a history. we are at the citizen pottawatomie nation eagle aviary. eightare currently only aviaries in the united states. for us to have this is humbling. in 2012. we are funded by our tribe and we started with eight eagles and we now have 14. the reason it is so important for tribe to have this is to save the lives of these eagles. there is no place for them to go to of quality of life to spend out their days and they would have to be put down. we want to be able to do this and do a outreach to give our community and get young people involved and have a relationship with the eagle. we can help handout feathers to our tribal members. you see eagles feathers used in rick alea

justin: we are heading east into shawnee, and we will get off west of oklahoma city, about a 35-mile

alicia priest is the president of oklahoma's largest teachers union.pay raise. since lawmakers fell short of that amount she is urge urging teachers to walk out of class next week. >> we must ensure that every student in oklahoma has the resources and students they need to succeed. and that's why we'll be at the capital on april 2nd. >> save our teachers! >> reporter: the potential strike in oklahoma follows teacher whackouts this month in west virginia and arizona. >> we are going to demand that all teachers in arizona are given a 20% pay increase. >> reporter: teachers there say a 20% raise would keep educators from moving to other states that offer better pay. >> i feel like i should be making a livable wage. i have a college degree and 17 years of teaching experience and kids who count on me. >> reporter: oklahoma city and tulsa public schools, the two largest districts in the state still plan to close on monday because teachers still plan to walk out. here in oklahoma city the school buses will run, only to deliver meals to students who depend on

we recently stopped in oklahoma city, oklahoma, asking folks what's the most important issue in their state. >> the issue most important to me in oklahoma city is probably education funding. we have a lot of challenges we face but we have the lowest teacher pay in the country, we're losing teachers to other professions and other states and here at the oklahoma state capital, we've been deliberating over this for the last year or two. i'm making a transition from oklahoma senate to oklahoma city mayor's office and it's just as much of a challenge there as it has been at the capital. we have to have a world-class education system, we can't do that without world-class teachers and we can't do that without competitive pay. so that's the major issue facing us in oklahoma. >> the issue that's most important to my is any of those number of issues that affect rural oklahoma. i represent -- oklahoma has 77 counties, i represent seven of those so i think it's the second biggest district in oklahoma so those issues would include oil and gas issues as well as the wind farms, wind has been there f

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district in oklahoma. so those issues would include gas issues as well as the wind farms, wind has been there for a while and also ag issues. ag is my background. that is what i have done my whole life. i come from a family of farmers and ranchers so that's what i do and continue to do. so it's those types of issues that i keep an eye on and those are what i'm most passionate about in my district. >> one of the most important issues we're facing in oklahoma is the access to high speed internet for all of our citizens. in rural areas and all parts of the urban areas as will. >> the most important issue for me is making sure that we have a funded government that works and that is being responsible to not only take care of our citizens but make sure that future generations of oklahomaions have transportation system and networks and quality health care in the state. >>> voices from the states on cspan. >>> and now a conversation on preparations for the 2020 census hosted by georgetown university law center. am

oklahoma.e represent seven counties that are rural. [indiscernible] >> health issues are my background, so that is what we will continue to focus on. one of the most important issues we are facing here in oklahoma is the access to high-speed internet for all of our citizens. issue inst important oklahoma for me is to make sure we have a funded government that , so that future generations of oklahoma have an education system, transportation networks, and quality health care. this is from the states, on c-span. -- across the 50 states, on c-span. >> washington journal continues. host: for the first time on washington journal we welcome con -- claudia tenney, a republican from new york's way second district. your district is one of the tossup districts that will be on the front lines in the 2018 elections, how do you feel as a freshman member with that status? do you feel like you are walking around with a target on your back as you get to know your way around capitol hill? >> i'm used to that. i

one quick example, harbinger of things to come, oklahoma, surgery center of oklahoma started by a couple of anesthesiologists, what do they do? they take no insurance. they take all credit card. check. no insurance. and you know what, because they don't have a lot of administrative apparatus, focused on the patient, warranties which is common in haul businesses, what hospital has a warranty? i mean, they botch your knee operation, they do it again, and you pay for it again. your insurer pays for it again. what surgery center of oklahoma has done, great doctors, board certified, their prices are low. it's all on the internet. all packaged. and if they go over that package, it's out of their pocket. and their price rs so low even the state of oklahoma urges employees for certain kinds of surgeries to go there, because even though not covered by insurance, cheaper than what they would end up paying with the regular hospital. and one example of the disparity in terms of a certain kind of hernia operation, one price, there is 3,795, at a comparable hospital, $17,000. so that openness is where