south carolina is the time and ifa carolina. a three headquarters of america, with michelin and continental and a lot of other folks. a lot of other companies. and they all concerned about the possible tariffs and the impact it could have on the economy. you may choose to look at the glass half empty, but many look at the glass half full. look at this: manufacturing jobs, high wage, half full. look at this: manufacturingjobs, high wage, up 37,000 injune manufacturingjobs, high wage, up 37,000 in june alone. manufacturingjobs, high wage, up 37,000 injune alone. 400,000 quality manufacturing jobs created under the donald trump administration. and worker pay rises 110w administration. and worker pay rises now run at the highest since 2008. listen, stephen, again, it is not about how i am looking at it, but with so much fabulous numbers from donald trump, why is he not over 50%? if the economy and everything is working so well in this country, he is still dealing with the low 40s in terms of his percentage rates. and his popularity

you know, i live in south carolina, where agriculture is huge.is building right now and drive down the road and see just miles and miles of soy bean farms. and guess who's a big consumer of the soybean farms here in south carolina? it's china. and now donald trump created a problem and his solution is, well, because i've created this tariff war problem, i'm going to find $12 billion to give to farmers. they don't want that. what they want is stability in terms of being able to figure out how much can i plant? how much will i get? so that they can plant — plan accordingly. you're a political strategist, both in south carolina and nationwide, with your advisory role with the dnc. would you agree with me that what matters in politics is being on the front foot, making the political weather, it's being proactive? and right now, surely, there is no debate. donald trump is making the political weather. he is on the front foot. and the democrats are constantly having to play defence and react. no, not really. and listen, donald trump has been — in some

i wanted to stay in south carolina.but every time i would go and talk about the issues important for lieutenant governor elect a candidate they would say healthcare, that's washington, talk about military and service to the country that's washington. we might go free for lieutenant governor but you be a better congressional candidate. it's like the david that kills goliath. >> i found myself not really wanting to challenge the incumbent. i found myself in a race. seventh out of nine in a race wasn't the best strategy looking back. it worked out okay. the truth is when i arrived in washington i realize the strategy to get there was not enough to be successful there. the reason why been able to lean on trey. the things i have found to be true about trey is that he was grounded. his philosophical disposition was not based on polls. was based on experience. having someone grounded, anchored in something that does not move, made it easier for me to defer to him on important issues. there was trey, mick mulvaney, duncan and m

navy now off the coast of south carolina, jackson is ready to invade the state of south carolina. what's going to happen? the nullification crisis. we are on the brink of civil war over a tariff. who would have thought? henry clay at the last moment, desperate, passes a compromised tariff in the midst of this crisis, a compromised tariff that lowers the tariff gradually over a ten-year period. by the end of ten years in stages that tariff will only be 25%. between this compromised tariff and between jackson's forced bill south carolina backs off and accepts the tariff. calhoun does not like jackson. probably doesn't like jackson any more than henry clay does. but south carolina, they back off. jackson called their bluff. just to prove a point, though, the south carolina legislature nullified the force bill. jackson said, okay, whatever. if you insist, go ahead and do that. well, henry clay, he looks at jackson, he says, well, i never thought i would say this, andrew, but thank you. jackson goes, oh, clay, oh, clay, i'm not done. clay says you are not done? what do you mean you are

navy now off the coast of south carolina, jackson is ready to invade the state of south carolina. what's going to happen? the nullification crisis, we're on the brink of civil war over a tariff who would have thought. henry clay at the last moment desperate passes a compromise tariff in the midst of this crisis. a compromise tariff that lowers the tariff gradually over a 10 year period by the end of 10 years, that tariff will only be 25%. this compromise tariff in jackson, south carolina backs off. calhoun does not like jackson. right. probably didn't like jackson any more than henry clay does. but south carolina they back off. jackson called their bluff. just to prove a point though the south carolina legislature nullified the force bill. jackson said okay whatever. to -- go ahead and do that. well, henry clay, looks at jackson and says, well, i never thought i would say this andrew but, thank you. jackson goes, oh clay. oh clay. i'm not done. clay says you're not done? what do you mean you're not done? what else is there. jackson says well there's one other thing. the bank. clay

i fell short of that standard in south carolina, and i want to tell the people of south carolina and all americans that i sincerely regret breaking my promise to always tell you the truth. i was asked during the course of my campaign how i personally felt about the confederate battle flag that flies above your state capitol. i answered that it was an issue that the people of south carolina could decide for themselves. i did not answer the question i was asked, how did i personally feel about the flag? my ancestors fought for the confederacy. and i am sure that many, maybe all of them fought with courage and with faith that they were serving a cause greater than themselves. but i don't believe their service, however distinguished, needs to be commemorated in a way that offends, that deeply hurts people whose ancestors were once denied their freedom by my ancestors. that, my friends, is how i personally feel about the confederate battle flag. i should have done this earlier. i did not do so for one reason alone. i feared that if i answered honestly, i could not win the south carolina p

south carolina and other states in the south are very angry about this. clay fears that maybe 45% is pushing it too much. let's lower it a little bit. high enough still but just a little bit in order to soften some of that opposition. the bill arrives on andrew jackson's desk. president jackson signs the bill. signs the bill. all sounds good. oh, well, south carolina isn't so pleased with this bill. south carolina nullifies the tariff of 1832. why would they do this? it lowered the tariff. south carolina says not enough. not enough. this tariff is unconstitutional. we have a right to declare this tariff null and void, and if you do not respect our nullification of this bill, of this tariff, we will secede from the united states. unbelievable. what's going to happen? what's andrew jackson going to do? calhoun is a democrat. well, jackson gets word of this, and jackson could not be more furious with john c. calhoun. for jackson this is an affront to his authority as president. jackson signed a bill. jackson says, quote, to say that any state may at pleasure

i want to stay in south carolina have the desire but every time ago when the south the important issuesto the governor they would say that in washington military or public service that's washington you are running for the wrong office. maybe lieut. governor or two would be a better special candidate. so it was like david killed goliath i looked for the open ticket opportunity. [laughter] so i found myself wanting to challenge the incumbent but now found myself in the race. that wasn't the best strategy looking back but when i arrived i realized strategy just to get you there is not enough to be successful the reason i could lean on trey is that what i found to be true is he was grounded. it wasn't based on poles or ask by experience and have something so grounded anchored so that made it easier for me to rely on him for important issues like rick mulvaney. the four horsemen. >> esquire morgan seen name dust. >> there was a self-promoting moniker left. >> and now the budget director and jeff duncan from the upstate of south carolina the four of you had dinner regularly for a long time. t

we ought to have a governor who's going to fight for south carolina families and south carolina jobs. so i went to fairfield yesterday to show what ought to be happening. we ought to be marshaling our resources and getting our congressional delegation together, organizing our chambers of commerce and knocking on the door of the oval office and telling the president how much this is hurting our state. >> the guy that you are running against, henry mcmaster, republican there in south carolina, this is what -- this is what he has said about element electronics. take a listen. >> we are doing every single thing that we can, making every effort, every contact. i've spoken to the president and the vice president myself several times about this as well as wilbur ross, the secretary of commerce and others in the administration. >> your response? >> well, craig, i heard he said he had a full-court press going on this matter. if that's a full-court press, then he shouldn't either be our governor nor a basketball coach in this state. the fact is so much more needs to be done and so much is not h

keep in mind that the flag in south carolina continued to be a political issue. primary between mccain and george w. bush and mccain having to walk back what yet set the time and admit he had done it for political gain. the primary season is coming up again the following year in south carolina and i'm sure republican tenets were saying, i will have to deal -- republican god, ites are saying, oh will have to deal with the flag again. it is an issue in politics so all of these things were pre dictable. compromise any more than a come from eyes of 1850. of 1850.he compromise they are short term fixes. when you see these compromises in your own lifetime, try to take a historical view. they are likely not to be forever. mentioned protecting the memorial of value of the flag, take, or yourur position on how you combat the commercialism of the flag when it makes so much money for so many vendors and how you fight that? >> how you combat the commercial -- there is an inherent problem in the proposal that i made it is i am dealing with human beings and a diverse nation an

there was south carolina processing the casket through the streets of columbia, south carolina, the united states flag was at half-staff. the state flag of south carolina was at half-staff. the confederate flag was at the top of the pole. that moment just incap sue lat d ed everything when we said black lives matter. part of why i became involved in the modern movement, i grew up in a very solidly middle class family household. i'm the third generation in my family to graduate from college. what i recognized, however, when the u.s. supreme court struck down voting rights in 2013, when i saw the trayvon martin case unfold was there was no level of education, no level of income that could protect me or my child from being the next trayvon martin. >> the violence, the latest is stephon clark in california. you heard from the white house, i believe, they called it a local matter. the press spokeswoman at the white house. i guess william, i want to ask you. it really matters to boys. i hear and i read these chilling reports that fathers have to have the conversation with their kids as young as

. >>> next tonight, a deadly alligator attack in south carolina.rtedly protecting her dog when the eight-foot alligator dragged her into the water. here's victor oquendo tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a deadly alligator attack on hilton head island in south carolina. a 45-year-old woman was walking her dog near a lagoon when she was pulled under by an eight-foot alligator. the victim, identified as cassandra cline, was trying to protect her dog, who survived. a neighbor spotting an alligator earlier this morning. >> it was an eight, ten-foot gator, and it stopped traffic. and i was like, man, you don't get to see that every morning. >> reporter: it comes just two months after a florida woman also walking her dogs was dragged into a lake, and killed by a 12-foot alligator. >> there's a gator about 300 feet away from us. >> reporter: experts warn against walking by water with children and pets. >> if he sees a small dog or anything that the alligator thinks he can get by the side of the water, it's going to come out there faster than you can react. >

but currently five of south carolina's six gop congressmen are backing the president.e is one of them. >> it's not free trade if you stand and let the other guy stick it to you. >> reporter: he argues that u.s. pressure will eventually force china and europe to drop high long-standing tariffs on u.s. goods. >> this is the classic example of short-term discomfort for long-term gain. >> reporter: in the meantime, msi has applied for a waiver from the tariffs on canadian steel. >>> could you use u.s.-made steel? >> right now we can't because there is no u.s. supplier that gives us the kind of material that we use. >> reporter: and with the president considering more tariffs on chinese goods, china recently struck back increasings to 40%, a move that is designed to hurt u.s. auto manufacturers like bmw right there in spartan burg, south carolina. >> a baltimore police officer resigned after disturbing video surfaced of him beating a man on the street. the officer has not been identified, but his partner has been reassigned. errol barnett has the story from baltimore police

county south carolina suffered a series of economic tbacks in recent years.rt shut down and so did a textile factory. o closetal is preparing and a nuclear power plant was halted. now a local manufacturer could close its doors andhe company is citing tradeta uncerinty. kate rogers is inorwinsboro us tonight. ♪ ♪ >>> this south carolina plant assembles tvs with parts imported from china, but tariffs on those parts may raise costs, putting the plant and more than 120 employees in peril. element electronics declined to participate in this story, but in a letter to state officials earlier this month, the company said it would close down it fall and lay off 126mployees adding it hopeful the closure will be temporary. mike says he'll be working closely with state lawmakers and politics aside to keep the plant open. the c tariffs thepany is hoping to avoid are not yet inc efccording to the united states trade representative. >> this is not the way to do tariffs. if you want to have a tariff policy, make sure you're taxinge people that competing against americans. tu

keep in mind, of course, the flag in south carolina continued to be a political issue. remember what happened in the 2000 primary between john mccain and george w. bush. mccain having to walk back what he had said at the time and admit later he did it for political gain, the political primary season was coming up again the following year in south carolina. and i'm sure confederates were saying, oh, my god, i'm going to have to deal with the flag issue again. it was in everyone's interest to remove the flag as an issue in party politics. so all these things were pred t predictab predictable. so what does it matter? the compromise -- don't look at any compromise any more than a compromise of 1850, a compromise of 1820. we're talking about causes of the war. compromises are sometimes proved to be armistices. they're short-term fixes. when you see these compromises in your lifetime, try to take a historical view of them. they're likely not to be forever. >> john, we have time for one more question. >> please. >> john, you mentioned in protecting the value -- memorial value

in some states that in south carolina were jordi of the current there are literally being warehoused and i mean they're not working. so there are other ways that people have decided to engage in the strike such a sit in boycott not spending any money during for the next twenty days all of this is designed to send a message to the system and so in fact yes there are many prisoners in this country who are working under slave like conditions and we know this clearly as a slavery. but i do just want to mission for the record there are a number of people in the news in this country prisoners who were incarcerated in detention centers.

south carolina's got a long tradition of being very tough.ten, politics is a tough, tough, tough sport are's no tougher than south carolina in america. >> narrator: bush allies orchestrated a bitter underground attack designed to appeal to the republican base. >> it was a series of attacks, rsonal life distorted, political record distorted. it's a real smear campaign, but it hurt. >> there were rumors all over hie state that mccain had fathered a black out of wedlock, and that his wife, cindy, was a drug addict. >> narrator: mccain's daughter bridget was adopted from bangladesh, and cindy mccainpe had beenabout how she had overcome a prescription drug addiction. >> it's just despicable. what they did was despicable. i thinthey were desperate. and if you think about it, had bush lost south carolina, it nds over for george bush. >> and it's wrong,t's wrong. my friends, this is what's going on around here. hi you saw more and more anger from senator mccaielf, who was openly frustrated and angryb t the ads against him, the attacks against his wif

this was the dixie division 31st division at camp jackson, south carolina. they use the confederate battle flag as part of the official symbolism. and a soldier in korea in 1951 with his proper square confederate battle flag. received quite a few photos in response to an add i put in a magazine of ved raterans becaus americans were fighting under the u.n. banner, not under the stars and stripes. it was the most popular american flag in korea. so much so that the mayor of new york city sent 100 new york city flags to korea to give the confederate flag some healthy competition. it was another kind of warfare that really brought the flag into popular call tour. the gridiron. this is the field at ole miss which has been over the decades quite closely associated with the battle flag. beginning in 1948, a very crucial year when the school was 100 years old and, of course, most of the student body of ole miss went off to fight in the unit in mississippi whose flag i showed you earlier. but beginning in 1948, the battle flag was used as part of the ritual of footbal

prior to public service he had a small business of his own he was elected to the south carolina state house and city council and house of representatives january 2013 he was sworn in as united states senator from south carolina and was reelected january 2017. the first african-american senator from south carolina as well the first african-american republican to serve in the senate since 1979. ladies and ladies and gentlemen please welcome senator tim scott. [applause] >> thank you. america are there any on this side? there is. [applause] thank you very much. do you mind if i take a quick selfie? i can see you. good job. thank you very much. what a great crowd. i will talk about five or six minutes about my personal journey about becoming a republican and the trump economy that is on fire. [applause] if you think about the fact to go all the way back to 1854. not 1954. in the middle of the third largest economic expansion because of president donald trump's 17 it's amazing. everyone said it was impossible that we could get tax reform done in this environment. you're looking for a mirac

next, we will show you a few of the speaker starting with senator tim scott of south carolina. he talked about the republican plan for economic growth and how his childhood informed his political beliefs. >> good evening, everybody. so before i start this introduction i i thought i woud take a few minutes to talk about an internship opportunities of young america's foundation has available for everybody. so i began my journey with yaf when i saw freshman in college. i came to conference in november of 2016 and i been hooked ever since. i went home and started the yaf chapter. i came here, i came to headquarters and went to training seminar and it was just amazing. i was amazed at how welcoming the staff was unwanted no more -- to know more about it. i apply for internship and i came out here in may and i have loved every minute of it. i don't want to go home. basically, my fear thing about the internship is that you get to choose what you want to do. there's so many different facets of yaf that, there's some opportunities available, that company, there's the development team, s

pretty much mirror each other i know in south carolina the brothers over there are asking for voting rights which is something that we here in alabama have someone one foot in the door doing so. at this hour by inmates that have not moral turpitude crimes are allowed to vote it's obvious to seize or inside the jails and once they return it's . receiving a pardon from the state but i think it's important that we remember that our main focus and goal is to. ask. for the movement and. the third thing from them. thank you for with for for mentioning prison abolition because that should be our primary goal is to abolish prison and as she said to that list there are so many demands all ten of them are very important. for me i would definitely want to say that number one i'm just improving the conditions but we need to abolish prisons and since we still have prisons that exist in our society today we need to have those prisons. with. conditions that support the health hole in this and wellness of people and that's access to programming good mental health good medical care dental care and ac

. >> yeah, in south carolina after he won in new hampshire, he went to south carolina and one of the hot issues there was what to do with the confederate flag which at that point was flying on top of the capitol building, and mccain's personal belief was that it should come down, but he felt that would cause that woul him votes so when asked about it, he stiffly said, no. it's something that should remain there. it's heritage, and it ate him. you could tell he was not -- he was not true to himself. i spoke to him about it shortly after he lost south carolina in michigan. next primary state, and he told me one night after a big rally that he was going to make that right. that that was wrong, that he did something that he rarely did in politics. he was not true to his own beliefs and after the campaign, he went back to south carolina and he did effectively a mea culpa, and said it was a mistake and did the right thing. it was amazing. >> cokie roberts, his proudest political victory new hampshire, as jon said, but also proud of the bipartisan achievements many -- in congress. >> absolu

martin savidge, cnn, winnsboro, south carolina. >> how do we make sense of this week?avid axelrod joins us with the bottom line next. >>> it's been an eventful week for the trump administration, between michael cohen's guilty plea, omarosa's disclosures, now the "national enquirer" publisher flipping. >> i'm sure it's also been infrastructure week. every week is infrastructure week. >> so we can feel free to talk about that as well but some democrats think this is their golden opportunity to call for impeachment. but many are focusing on the trump administration's culture of corruption. what should they be focused on? let's get the bottom line with david axelrod. ax, do you cringe when democrats talk about impeachment or do you think this week is a good time to float these ideas? >> i've been from the beginning reluctant to talk about impeachment as a campaign issue in 2018 because i think bob mueller ought to finish his work and congress ought to make their judgments once he finishes and i think in most of these districts people are thinking about those things in fron

and that's why we saw so much power, wealth, and focus go againshim in south carolina. incredible. (tires screech) >> narrator: jusover two weeks later, in south caroli, the establishment and the bush team struck back. >> things happened in south carolina that were pretty ugly. south carolina's got a long tradition of being very tough. sten, politics is a toug tough, tough sport and there's no tougher than south carolina in america. >> narrator: bush allies orchestrated a bitter underground attack designed to appeal to the republican base. >> it was a series of attacks, personal life distorted, d political recotorted. it's a real smear campaign, but it hurt. >> there were rumors all over the state that mccain had fathered a black child out of wedlock, and that his wife, cindy, was a drug addict. >> narrator: mccain's daughter bridget was adopted from bangladesh, and cindy cain had been open about how she had overcome a prescription drug addictn. >> it's just despicable. what they did was despicable. i think they were desperate. and if you think about it, had bush lost s

pretty much mirror each other i know in south carolina the brothers over there are asking who are voting rights which is something that we here in alabama have somewhat one foot in the door doing so. inmates that have not moral turpitude crimes are allowed to vote in saddam's two sons or inside the jails and wants a return of saddam without receiving a pardon from space but i think it's important that we remember that our main focus and goal is to. ask. for the movement and. the third thing from them. thank you for with for for mentioning prison abolition because that should be our primary goal is to abolish prisons and as she said to that list there are so many demands all ten of them are very important. for me i would definitely want to say that number one just improving the conditions but we need to abolish prisons and since we still have prisons that exist in our society today we need to have those prisons. with. conditions that support the health hole in this and wellness of people and that's access to programming good mental health good medical care dental care and access to higher

in the wake of that tragedy south carolina legislature voted to remove the flag from the front of the statehouse. in october of 2015 students at ole miss decided to remove the mississippi state fight from their campus because it contained the confederate battle flag. not just the flag. soon confederate monuments school names were also being debated. in august of 2015 students at the university of texas decided to remove statues of jefferson davis from the quad and in 2017 both robert e. lee and hours in the justin welby removed. committeess convened to discuss monument removal. 4 monuments were removed from new orleans. then there was charlottesville. august 11 and 12 last year. white supremacists gathered there under the pretext of monuments from being removed. this was voted on by the city council in february. the unthinkable happened, the murder that followed in the then monuments in baltimore, durham, and elsewhere were toppled by kreuz or relocated by governments. debates have served as a reminder to the nation of the deep intense and sometimes violent nature of the civil war or

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it may not look like it but spartanburg, south carolina is a trade zone, thanks to the president moste voted for. spartanburke is the largest to the bmw plant in the world. they employ 10,000 people pumping billions in the state's economy. is it safe to say how well bmw does is how well spartanburg county does? >> you might say that, there is a lot of industry directly connected to bmw. >> growth, jobs, and i know that that's brought in a lot of families into the area. it brings money into the area. >> reporter: spartanburg voted 63% for donald trump. president trump promised tariffs on bmw parts, that could make bmws made and sold in america a lot more expensive. the company is feeling the impact with china over 80,000 spartanburg made bmvs are sold in china every year. now china is striking back, placing tariffs on the american-made vehicles. it's an economic double whammy of trump's making, which bmw could have negative effects on employment in the united states, in other words, bmw might have to scale back production and lay off workers in spartanburg. >> i feel like ahelped spurt

what not, we bring in south carolina congressman ralph norman. the president's tariff program, you really believe there's a lot of folks boycotting harley davidson? those allegiances don't change easily. >> no, they don't. harley-davidson has had a following for a long period of time. the fact they are moving this emotional issue the president pointed out. will it result in people buying less than? they will be loyal to the brand and keep buying it. leland: to manufacturing of harley might move overseas. the manufacturing of going to europe and asia and other countries. the terrorists program has begun to affect jobs in your district, not necessarily in a positive way. i'm sure you are familiar with electronic manufacturing down there, the company that makes components for tv. they just laid off 94% of their 126 full-time employees and announced that they are closing the plant on october 5th, say that the tariffs have forced them now that they are unprofitable. thought? >> you know, i hope we can make amends with the element tv as you know they a

he just won south carolina. that was something. was that an exciting night? one of the worlds most. you know they kept saying the state of texas which every rally i went to us like this and by the way do you think this is a big crowd? go outside and take a look. go outside.

prison system the strike was called in response to the death of seven inmates in a riot at a south carolina state prison in april it was the worst disturbance in a u.s. prison in twenty five years organizers of the strikes have seventeen months take a look at this case featuring a former prisoner and organize a court cold dorsey he outlined some of the most pressing issues for inmates. prisoners of calls for. media prisons and prison conditions access to vote having access to law library law resources rehabilitation access and services. grants should be reinstated there's been less and less services were there to be college degrees and particularly rehab services for more in the strike we are joined from columbia south carolina by crystal rountree she is a representative and organized if a jailhouse to speak which is leading the protest we're also joined by shawn drug was out though she's a formerly incarcerated writer whose prison diaries was honored with several awards she joins us from orange connecticut where molly roasted is a member of the california coalition for women in prison is s

. >> but he hit a snag in south carolina, when he told voters it was up to them to decide if they shouldly over the capital. >> he was opposed to the fact that flag was flying in the capital of south carolina. but his advisers had convinced him that coming out and saying that would be devastating for him in south carolina. so, it was one of the few times you saw mccain come out and do something that was absolutely against his own personal convictions. >> so, mccain actually returned to south carolina to publicly apologize. >> and i want to finish today by owning up to my failure. >> he lost south carolina and faced a formidable opponent in george w. bush, along with a barrage of negative attack ads. mccain would not prevail in the 2000 race. >> the majority of republican voters made clear their preference for president is governor bush. >> mccain's second presidential run was against barack obama in 2008. it took him farther to the right and much closer to the white house. >> john mccain, interestingly, understood that he lost in 2000 in part because he didn't have enough conservative ma

there could also be layoffs at a different south carolina facility. why?use of the tariffs. that is the fear of bmw's largest plant in this country in spartanburg. mart martin savidge reports. >> reporter: it may not look like it, but spartanburg, south carolina, is a war zone, a trade war, thanks to the president most folks here voted for. spartanburg is home to the largest b mcht w plant in the world. last year they made more than 370,000 luxury suvs, employing 10,000 people. pumping billions in to the state's economy. is it safe to say how well bmw does is how well spartanburg county does? >> you might could say that because there is a lot of industry in spartanburg county that are directly connected to bmw. >> growth, jobs, and i know that that's brought in a lot of families in to the area. brings money in to the area. >> reporter: spartan duburg's a deep red, meaning in 2016 the county voted 63% for donald trump. but president trump has threatened to place tariffs on imported bmw vehicles and parts. that could make bmws made and sold in america a lot

he was elected to the - - council and the south carolina statehouse. in january 2013, senator scott was sworn in as the united states senator from south carolina and was reelected in january 2017. he is the first african-american senator from the state of south carolina as well as the first african-american republic to serve in the senate since 1979. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senator tim scott. [cheering and applause] >> thank you. [cheering and applause] [indiscernible] are there any - - in the house? on the side. i can only hear about 17 of you on this i did let me see if there's any on the site over here. are there? are there any real - - in the house? [cheering and applause] >> thank you very much. you mind if i take a quick selfie? will you join me in a selfie real quick? i can see you back there. good job fellas. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you very much but what a great crowd. i want to spend 5-6 minutes talking about my personal journey to becoming a republican. spend about the same amount of time talking about the trump econo

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but the horrific killings at emmanuel ame church in charleston, south carolina in 2015 brought renewed efforts to purge the south of its confederate symbols. in the wake of the tragedy the south carolina legislature rightfully voted to remove the flag from in front of the statehouse. in october 2015 students at ole miss decided to remove the mississippi state flag from the campus because it contained the confederate battle flag. but as you know it was not just the flag. the confederate monuments, street and school names were being debated. in august 2015 students at the university of texas decided to remove statues of jefferson davis from the quad and in august 2017 both lee and albert sidney johnston would also be removed. richmond, charlottesville and other places convened committees to discuss monument removal. in may 2017, for confetti or monuments were removed from the landscape -- four confederate monuments were removed from the landscape of new orleans. then there was charlottesville last year. white supremacist gathered under the pretext of preventing lee and the jackson monume

morning, new details about the moments just before an alligator pulled a woman underwater in south carolina killing her. >>> plus, nasa discovers ice on the moon. for future space exploration. ♪ >>> and jennifer lopez wowing the crowd at the mvt video music awards. >>> and we do say good morning on this tuesday. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm lynda lopez in for diane macedo and begin with the new allegations in the colorado murder case. >> the husband charged with killing his family now blames his wife and this morning new details about his alleged affair have come to light. this morning the colorado husband charged with killing his two young daughters and pregnant wife is making a shocking claim. documents reveal chris watts says his wife shanann killed the girls. 3-year-old celeste and 4-year-old bella. he says he witnessed her actively strangling one of their daughters on a baby monitor while the other lay sprawled out on her bed already blue and that prompted him in a fit of rage to then strangle her. it also reveals he was actively involved in an affair with a co-worker after denying it to

and he did it in south carolina. >> he did it.me three days before we traveled down, and he said, johnny, it's time for us to go make this right, call the team in south carolina and tell them i'm coming down to apologize for my actions. so you can imagine how that call that i made went over, initially. but we did it. and as you said, i can't remember a time before that, maybe michael can, or since, where a politician admitted expediency and fought to get his honor back. and that says everything you need to know about the man. >> as the hearse carrying the casket arrives, kelly o'donnell, you're there. and we know this is the beginning of yet another very solemn moment for the family of john mccain. cindy mccain, waiting for this arriving. >> reporter: and of course here, yes, lieutenant jack mccain will be at his mother's side. also sergeant jimmy mccain. their spouses, holly and renee, are here as well. mrs. mccain being greeted. she will be escorted by her sons who she is very proudly often referring to their military service. a

is something such in south carolina would your any of the people incorporate there are literally being warehouse and i mean they're not working so there are other ways that people have decided to only gave him the strike such a sit in boycott not spinning any money during for the next twenty days all of this is designed to send a message to the system and so in fact yes there are many prisoners in this country who are working under slave like conditions and we know this clearly as a slavery. but i just want to michel for the record that there are a number of people in the news in this country prisoners for a car or a indiscretion centers immigration detention centers. and other locations that actually do not have a job they are literally doing things a warehouse that they will be participating in the strike will show i have to pay just for our audience this comes from the cost wanted well because organizing committee this is stop and can't he summed up what it is like to work as a prisoner and the wages you get have a listen to how i stormed out of the long story short of food for brea

. >> a deadly alligator attack stuns a south carolina community and raises new questions of safety near swamp lands. >> the pit falls of perjury, president trump sheds new light on why he hasn't agreed to sit down with special counsel robert mueller in the russia investigation. >> an explosive night at the mtv music video awards. the biggest winners and losers at this year's vmas. "early today" starts right now. >>> good tuesday morning. i'm marlie hall. >> and i'm phillip mena. an interview with the special counsel in the russia investigation seems further out of the question for president trump this morning. in a new interview with reuters, the president said he is worried any statements he makes under oath to robert mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him. the interview just his latest attack on the mueller probe following a report that a key staffer is cooperating with investigators. nbc's susan mcennis is joining us now from capitol hill with the very latest. susan, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, phillip and marlie. this is a hastily arranged inter

the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham: thank you. i have been thinking about this. i have been dreading this. and i am now going to do this. to all of my colleagues who have gone before me, you have done right by our friend, senator mccain. the family appreciates all the good words, the kindnesses, the anecdotes that have come their way. this is a tough time for the family. john has seven wonderful children, cindy, devoted wife, you really did well by john. but before anything else, i just want to know -- i'm going to try to make this somewhat fun, even though i don't feel in a funny mood right now. but the bottom line is, let's start off with the tie. to anybody who may be watching on television, this is a naval academy tie. i wore this today, john, to honor you and to annoy you all at the same time. he would constantly tell me, lindsey, i wish you were in my naval academy class. i said, well, that's very nice, john. you know why, lindsey? i said no, john. if you'd been in my class, i would have been sixth from the bottom, not fifth

smaller of the buildings is reminiscent of the kind of house jackson may have been born in in south carolina in 1767. what's interesting about this, though, is that the larger log building next to it that's opened up so you can see the inside are two buildings that are here at the hermitage. the larger building is the one that andrew and rachel lived in for the first 17 years that they owned the hermitage. it was built in 1797, the oldest building on site. the smaller building andrew and rachel built after they moved here in 1804. half of it was the kitchen for the log house, the other half was a slave quarter where the cook lived. over here the large panel lays out jackson's early life. jackson was our first president who was the son of immigrants. his parents came to north america from northern ireland in 1765. jackson born here in 1767. his father died just a couple weeks before jackson was born, so he never knew his father, but was raised with his mother and two brothers in an aunt and uncle's home and many ways treated somewhat like a serve ant. that contributed to his somewhat obstrepe