rainey served for eight years in the house. he is the longest serving african-american in the 19th century. he is the first african-american to preside over the house while it is in session. that happens in 1874. his experience though is typical of a lot of these other individuals to come to the house in relatively small numbers -- the high point for the number of african americans is the 43rd congress, mid-1870's. there's only six or seven african-americans in congress at that point. they are really too small of a group to drive any legislative agenda. and where they do contribute to legislation is to come out and speak on behalf of of their constituents and their political rights and the abuse of those political rights and the reconstruction era south. they tend to give very eloquent speeches about some of the major bills like the 1875 civil rights act, which again is a piece of legislation not many people think about today. what that bill in 1875 has done is essentially the same as the 1974 bill did -- it would grant the qua

rainey as the first are the ones i think about. but there are these other 19 folk and one of them is robert .rown elliott, right here this is from frank leslie's illustrated newspaper where a lot of the 19th century stuff we have in the house collection that tells us about what is going on in the house and what the public's reading about it, what they are seeing, this is one of the rare ones in which there is an african-american member given a sort of little portrait there on the pages next to any number of other things going on. this is the news of the day. tell me about robert elliott. mr. wasniewski: elliott is one of the interesting members. he is from south carolina. a majority of the african-american members come from south carolina, largely because it was a majority african-american population, and their districts are african-american. so there is support for a black candidate. ,lliott is a wonderful orator and he is one of those people who events himself -- invent himself as he went along. you get the sense he was a true ch

so rainey had been born into slavery. during the civil war, he'd been conscripted into the federal army to dig trenches around charleston where he was from. he escaped to bermuda during the war. comes back after the war. gains a political experience and a political role locally. and within a decade, he's holding the seat of a former confederate slaveholder. and revel's story is the same. he was born as a freed man, never was a slave. but he, too, comes into the senate and occupies a seat that had been held by a slaveholder less than a decade before. and when you think about the great paradoxes in american history, that's one of them. that they come to the capitol and represent african-american constituencies and they're doing it after those seats have been given up during secession by slave holders. >> that's amazing. you know, i've read a little bit about reconstruction and it's interesting the sort of very small brotherhood of men who are serving right in the early 1870s and we actually have a print that has five of the

few thunderstorms possible.si where there's a thunderstorm thd there could be some heavy rainei in that k winds will be out of the northou at about fivt e to 10 miles an1l hour.ur we're going to turn the cornerne after today, all right.ay, al we're going to jump right up into the 80's. a lot of 80's and the dreaded te h word is coming back this back week, too.week i don't want to go there,, erin, humidity, that's what thas we'll be talking about thisbo week as well. w i don't like the sounds of soun that, erin. >> i don't like the sounds off that, either, gary. i just made a note to pick up more hair spray. hr 4:56 i want to smile this smilet monday morning. we'll start you off with good news.ne. metro gearing up for serviceer no alerts across all six rail metrobus is on time. is on time. with the rain moving in andng the wet roads the green on thero map may start to turn red. so far so good on your inboundnb commute from maryland and ya' virginia in. i frederick you're moving well. little bit of volume increasing through dale city. 220 fort washington things in i brandywine quiet. any

scott: junior rainey loves to run. >> i want to get my time.tt: the stand-out distance runner fell in love with the sport in her home country in africa. >> we were running. scott: in the summer of 2014, she was competing in the world championships in eugene, oregon. she never went back home. she defected. >> i didn't know i want to change my life. scott: using the same motto in life and on the track. >> if you said i'm going to do this, i have to do this, if you believe in yourself, you can do it. >> standing at only five feet tall and maybe 100 pounds, she packs a big punch on the track. lungs on legs. the farther the distance, the stronger she gets. she is leaving her mark at heritage. >> she is a really strong kid. her cardio respiratory endurance is unbelievable. cot: training hard though her -- scott: training her though her heart is in africa. >> i love you. wish love, peace, happiness. scott: running for a bigger purpose. scott abraham, abc7 sports. erin: thank you. do you know someone who has overcome adversity to star and excel in the

rainey will be among our guests here tonight. our top story, the republican party's civil war.se speaker paul ryan today opened the door to stepping down as chairman of the republican convention this july if asked to do so by donald trump. but trump clearly hasn't forgotten ryan's reluctance to sport him. -- to support him. >> yeah. i was blindsided a little bit because he spoke to me three weeks ago, and it was a very nice call, very encouraging, and all of a sudden he gets on and does number. i'm not exactly sure what he has in mind. lou: trump and ryan are set to meet next, well, this coming thursday morning in what is sure to be a pivotal moment in trump's quest to unite the republican party. and according to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's office, trump will also be meeting with senate republican leaders on that same day. joining us now, the co-chair and chief policy adviser for donald trump's campaign, sam clovis. sam, great to have you with us. we've got a -- it's been a busy weekend and monday. [laughter] let's turn, if we may first, to ryan saying after your b

that's the statement from bill rainey, president of the west virginia coal association good this is now official west virginia coal behind donald trump. neil: thank you very, very much. a very big message for hillary clinton. do not assume that all working men and women for those behind unions are for you. sabrina schaeffer on the significance of this endorsement. it doesn't strike me as a huge shocker. this is an industry that's been slighted obviously by the obama administration and all but killed off in his ideas are pretty much echoed in many state and get from hillary clinton. but it is significant in so far as a major union saying yes to donald trump a note to her. >> absolutely. i think they identify with the populist message donald trump has had them but they also reminded and hillary clinton was just there. the obama administration has in effect declared war on coal and that has been disastrous matches for west virginia, but wyoming, dakotas, pennsylvania, lots of areas where people didn't necessarily have a college degree could have a solid paying job that took them through th

as well as the human services agency we're not at this time project by project a positive to the rainey day reserve but an economic 5.9 percent at the end of the year with a start of 10 percent i'll highlight 3 welcome questions on any of them property tax above budget for the same reasons we talked about the accessory intraoral changes in ownership and construction weigh collecting the back year taxed on that dramatic decrease in property tax with the assessment board of appeals and reducing what we need to refund for the appeals and other things in prashg about business tax revenue for 2015 strongly in private payroll over 13 percent is contributing to the good news and offset slightly by a shortfall in real property transfer tax that reflects with equal - our projection for the month of may and june so at this $.50 million down from last year but we'll be paying attention to this for the next couple of months and as you may know a portion of that revenue increase is allocated to the baseline $13 million the department does the change from the last report in public health department t

as well as the human services agency we're not at this time project by project a positive to the rainey day reserve but an economic 5.9 percent at the end of the year with a start of 10 percent i'll highlight 3 welcome questions on any of them property tax above budget for the same reasons we talked about the accessory intraoral changes in ownership and construction weigh collecting the back year taxed on that dramatic decrease in property tax with the assessment board of appeals and reducing what we need to refund for the appeals and other things in prashg about business tax revenue for 2015 strongly in private payroll over 13 percent is contributing to the good news and offset slightly by a shortfall in real property transfer tax that reflects with equal - our projection for the month of may and june so at this $.50 million down from last year but we'll be paying attention to this for the next couple of months and as you may know a portion of that revenue increase is allocated to the baseline $13 million the department does the change from the last report in public health department t

as well as the human services agency we're not at this time project by project a positive to the rainey day reserve but an economic 5.9 percent at the end of the year with a start of 10 percent i'll highlight 3 welcome questions on any of them property tax above budget for the same reasons we talked about the accessory intraoral changes in ownership and construction weigh collecting the back year taxed on that dramatic decrease in property tax with the assessment board of appeals and reducing what we need to refund for the appeals and other things in prashg about business tax revenue for 2015 strongly in private payroll over 13 percent is contributing to the good news and offset slightly by a shortfall in real property transfer tax that reflects with equal - our projection for the month of may and june so at this $.50 million down from last year but we'll be paying attention to this for the next couple of months and as you may know a portion of that revenue increase is allocated to the baseline $13 million the department does the change from the last report in public health department t