and today, the pediment is blank. and has always been so. the state house itself was a stone and brick building. it had no roof, and no floor. when the city burned. and so the building itself did not burn. but all the materials that were stored on the ground in wood sheds were destroyed. beginning in the 1820s, people responsible for public buildings in america decided to build fireproof and permanent reflecting the permanence of the government. they hoped to create. so this building was planned to be absolutely fireproof with no structural wood. in the 1850s, that meant masonry. stone and brick. so the building was planned with ten to 12 foot thick granite and brick walls. and it was built that way in the 1850s. construction was interrupted by the civil war and when it began again, in the 1870s, fireproof systems had changed. and cast iron was in use. and the interior of the building is built on this later fireproof building method. and the library is the best example of that. the library is perhaps the most ornate room in the building. wit

it has a try ang lal pediment and substantial portico. and in the words of one architectural historian, it is like a frontal piece to all virginia. the records we have today are incomplete. but we know in the course of 13 years of construction there was a combination of free labor and slave labor involved in making the capitol. skilled and unskilled workers, local artisans and traveling itinerary artists, some of whom after working on the virginia capitol, went north to washington, d.c. and began working on the subsequent united states capitol. when you have a good building accumulating important history and has important people and event associated with it, you don't give up on the building. for over a hundred years we used the capitol as first build and it was a rectangular rome nan style building with the southportico. but by 190 # we realized the building was getting old in the tooth and needed renovation and plus it was too small for 20th century purposes and rather than give up on the building, what we did was we gave it a new roof,

we have a pediment style, temple style a-line roof. once you are inside the building and enter the hall of presidents and you look up, you discover a dome, which is what you had been expecting all along. the dome inside our building has an oculus or a skylight. directly above that dome skylight above it is an additional skylight on the outside roof. we are now inside the old hall of the house of delegates, usually referred to as the old house chamber. this room is filled with memories, rich and rare. and it's also filled with statuary that honor americans and virginians, prominent legislators. executives, leaders. military commanders, scientists, inventors, so on. in this room, this is where the public pulse of the capitol first came to life in october of 1788 when the house of delegates convened here. for about 116 years this was the historic setting for great debates and defining decisions that would shape the destiny of virginia and influence the history of the united states. the virginia state capitol and the constitutional of the

pediment to democracy and we've seen this countless times i find it interesting that conservatives are now saying well what about the privacy of his phone calls when we had a continuous conversation about e-mails during the election so i think what we're actually seeing here is this is what it's going to take for us to get a straight answer out of this president for us for them merican people to get information that they desperately need that is beyond one hundred forty characters of a tweet and that's important right now we're dealing with a big issue when the correct information isn't even coming from the white house at the same time that he's describing the media he's describing activists and organizers so it's literally this is the creation of fascism where we're all supposed to be dependent on just what this one person says as he continuously lies over and over again as i'm sure you're so right continue our in the way we've had continual liars in the white house with democracy preserve. next clinton we've had numerous lie right that does it today but they're not all there are to g

tying it to the va big but you all don't want the ceiling to be raised so aren't you guys the im pediment tying it to any sort of other bill to get it through? >> well certainly shouldn't be tied to a bill that has nothing to do with the debt ceiling. we're talking about debt and can have one, obviously we're going to have to raise it. but if that's tied to reforms to make sure we debt the deficit under control, then we can see it raised but where -- at least i'm not going to support a clean debt ceiling increase because we have to get our debt and debt problems at least on a pathway with are we can see light at the erptsth tunnel. right now keep piling it up. that's not the way the republicans should govern. when we do a increase it should have significant reforms built in. >> how do you make sense of trump's tweet where he said i suggested that they tie it into the popular va bill, which just passed for easy approval. they didn't do it. so now we have a big problem with dem's holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy, now a mess. the but you didn't want