and i'm delighted to say that south carolina representative weston newton from bluffton, south carolina, has surely met all of those criteria and has chosen to receive the inaugural carl levin award for oversight. representative newton before we call you up here to give you this award, i'd like to embarrass you a bit and read what the speaker of the south carolina house, jay lucas, said about representative newton's work when he nominated representative newton for the award and here is what the speaker had to say. in 2014 and 2016 weston newton was unanimously elected by 19 colleagues as the chair of the south carolina house legislative oversight committee. under his leadership, the oversight of agencies is objective. committee members are afforded ample opportunities to ask questions and obtain information about agencies under review. weston has directed staff to assist any member of the house with matters relating to oversight. as chair, weston terdetermines e number and size of the subcommittees and appoints subcommittee chairs. four of the five subcommittees have equal representatio

priority today he will be presenting the inaugural carl levin award for effective oversight to south carolina state representative and following that presentation general counsel pars one - - house ways and means committee on the how to's legislative oversight and part of that oversight work of a commitment to bipartisanship in fact-finding. we will briefly introduce senator 1136 years on the armed services committee serving as committee chair and ranking member for 36 years on the governmental affairs committee now known as homeland security of governmental affairs where he chaired or part of several oversight subcommittees including the's permanent subcommittee on investigations and in these roles he led investigations into everything from social security disability to defense procurement to lobbying and ron and money laundering and that operating with a commitment to bipartisanship and the fax and the vast majority of the findings and recommendations and those investigative reports were supported by members from both sides of the aisle. retired from the senate in 2015 and now lives in detr

today senator levin will be presented the inaugural car levin award for effective oversight to south carolina representative, weston newton. following that presentation, the general counsel of the house ways and means committee will moderate a conversation with senator levin and representative newton on the how-tos of legislative overnight and why each made a part of his oversight work a commitment to bipartisanship and fact finding. let me briefly introduce senator levin. he served for 36 years on the armed services committee, where he served as both committee chair and ranking member. and for 36 years on the governmental affairs committee, now known as how many days, where he chaired or was ranking member of several oversighing subcommittees, including 15 years on the perm subcommittee on investigations. in these roles he led investigations into everything from the social security disability program to defense procurement, to lobbying disclosure,ism r.s. seizure policy, enron, monday laundering, tax evasion and the 2018 financial crisis. he operated throughout that person with a commitment

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

had been west who won a city council seat in the state of oregon and in the deep red state of south carolina jason elliott in a heavily conservative district won in his bid for reelection for the state house of representatives this is someone who had the support and the endorsement of former south carolina and heritage foundation president jim de mint in his bid for reelection i think it just goes to show just how far hearts and minds are changing on both sides of the aisle when it comes to supporting good candidates regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. we do the wall street journal exit poll from tuesday to twenty four percent of the community voted republican in thirty seven percent of transgender people voted republican i mean those are those are very high numbers are those reflective of reality i think so you know i mean i can just go with the data that you saw in that wall street journal poll where you are going to and the data there that survey had not

also the primary sponsor of recently enacted legislation enacting south carolina's freedom of information act. his leadership is evidenced the nomination goes on in all phases of the committee investigation of the south carolina department of public safety. the investigation included 14 subcommittee meetings, three full committee meetings and receipt of public input for more than 800 concerned individuals. outcomes from this study include both legislative and internal changes at the agency. nye want to read very briefly a couple of letters we have received from his colleagues in the house of representatives first from lori the democratic vice chair of the oversight committee and i will just read the last paragraph but she says as a member of the minority party in the house i can attest to the chairman's bipartisan leadership and seeking to increase the transparency effectiveness and accountability of our government. chairman newton is unwavering in his commitment to a fair and open process that shows respect for the input of members of the public, agency staff and all committee members. a

he fled his home state of south carolina. giving up the idea of enrolling in south carolina state. he went into greensboro north carolina. this impacted his life profoundly. he ended up in a good place it turned out. doing a lot of productive things in greensboro. that wasn't his choice. he was far from his family. his parents fell ill. he scrambled to get back 20 years later. as his parents were dying. having missed something. that otherwise may have transpired. >> thank you. do we have questions? >> the family of mr. weathers is pretty protective. were you able to use some of those photographs were they not too thrilled about it. >> from the beginning when i revealed it there was astonishment and denial. early on by his circle of supporters. they kind of morphed over the years in two different things. i don't know where they stand right now. there was no cooperation. i do not use any of his images. even any of the stuff that's in the fbi files. i think that there are questions about copyright issues. even though, as a matter of fact, a good good legal advisor told me there is no p

t - south carolina has a history of roughin 2000.s - but i like my chances here in south carolina.was very nasty. there were thousands--i don't know how many thsands, tens of thousands of phone calls made that said, "you know that the mccains have a black baby." - a spartanburg, south carolina woman, donna duren, describes how her son idealized the former navy pilot and pow until e 14-year-old boy scout took t allegedly from a bush pollster. - but he was so upset when he came upstairs. and he said, "mom, someone told me that senator mccain is cheat and a liar and a fraud." and he was almt in tears. - you guys socked mccain in the jaw pretty hard. th e was some pretty toughcamp- - like what? - [laughing] i mean, u've heard the push polling. the--the whisper campaigns. - look, first of all then was an allegatiode that mccain had fathered a black child out of wedlock, and mccain blamed it on us. now, this was an important moment, though, because it angered mccain and caused him to strike out at bush in ways that caused people to say, "wait a minute, that's not fair; that's not true. -

in 1966 the south carolina center, tried to put it into law but he did not succeed. part of the problem, the keepers of the confederate flame, compromised their views, and compromise their standards, for understandable human reasons. for one thing, the kind of like seeing the flags out there is nicole to see young students appreciating their heritage like that? they kind of liked it jaunty on the back of that. and secondly, african-americans did not like the flag they were telling us they were racist symbols. they cannot tell us that. that is not a racist symbol, so i'm going to respond to that by putting more flags out there, just to show them that they cannot show or call my flag races but by doing so of course you can see what they did they sold their soul, they had this logically, ethically, consistent position trying to limit its use, understanding that the less that it was use the more they controlled it, and then they let african- american criticism of it have a -- of a symbol of white supremacy let them take advantage of it. they did not want african- america

columbia, south carolina, live. that, press in the next room mobbed, mccainmpad just won new ire, and it was dirty campaign. ant before we go out, we're standing, it's about two minutes to 9:00, the debate was at 9:00 and i'm standing-- bush here, mccain here. mccain said to bush, "george." like this, "george." "what, john, what? he said, "is everything-- "you can do anything to win, george? is that it? you'd do anything to win?" says, "hey, it's politics. "we go to war, you went to war. this is going to war." anenly they called us on stage. this is the south carolina republican debate. - and i was beat up very badly by all of the surrogates. called clinton, called clinton, like, you've seen it. turn on the radio, turn on the television, and unfortunately now pick up the telephone and you'll hear a negative attack against john mccain - let me say one thing about all this business, john. - i told you i pulled them all down. - you didn't pull this ad. - yes, i did. - this had ended up in a man's it questions my-- this

south carolina will be very important. learned from this business deal. i've learned that leaders do not create movements. moments create leaders. the 2018 election for democrats was a movement. we'll see the birth of a lot of new leaders that will pop their head in the presidential -- >> neil: might as well. >> and it's goods for the country. >> creates opportunity for a wild card. i was looking at the morning consult polls. the two topics are bernie sanders and joe biden. that's the blue collar boat that trump -- >> neil: those are always wrong. >> one of the interesting things was, their supporters flipped. if you went down the ticket, it was all over the place. >> they hadn't come to south carolina. >> opportunity for a wild card. >> one of the things you'll see in this large field for 2020 for the democrats, i think that whoever wins that nomination, you'll see what direction their message will be. right now they have a progressive message, they have a moderate message. let's see which one prevails. that will dictate

and then to come back to south carolina god a job with university of south carolina running the african-american studies program to build that up into what it is today. it's too perfect it's almost ridiculous he went back to denmark it's almost a clichÉ he went full-circle as president of the college where he attended college. all the way back home to the same school he was a high school student now a college president and there he is today. innt denmark. . >> he is a pretty famous son and daughter. if you want to know more one how infiltrated and stayed in thee shadows that should be part of the daily conversation please join me to think bothh of our authors join us on the plaza day event is free and any donation can be made out on the plaza thank you so much for coming out. [aus

in south carolina, preston , thes' home district newspaper wrote this. some say sumner received 50 lashes, yet we very much doubt if cap converts -- everyone had a military title -- cared to exceed the legal number of 39. by law, you could not with ace wave more than 39 times. we feel our representative to exactly right and we are sure his people will commend him highly for it. ominously, we have born in salt long enough and now, with the conflict come if it must. another man who recorded his reaction to this was a senator from georgia named alexander stephens. in about five years, he would find him off with the title of vice president of the confederacy. he wrote matter-of-factly in his diary, brooks with sumner the other day. i have no objection to the liberty of space -- of speech when the liberty of club is free to combat it. i already mention what happened to sumner. brooks thinks the vote to be expelled from the house of representatives. but the vote did not succeed. enough senator -- enough southerners in the house of representatives voted for bro

thank you for your time spent now we have the executive director also former representative of south carolina good morning. so what about your organization with environmental issues quick. >> we are conservatives talking to conservatives about free enterprise solutions to climate change. we have heard a lot about government regulation and that sort of thing with that free enterprisese system. >> what are they and how do quick.e those >> i don't know anything about it but since that represented a very red district and i had not looked into that at all i figured al gore is for itt but out of congress for six years doing commercial real estate law again then i ran for congress again in 2004 my son came to me the oldest of our five children and said dad i will vote for you that you will clean up your act on the environment. his four sisters agreed in a new constituency was born. that was the first step then to see the evidence so that is something of a spiritual awakening that was inspired and that climate scientist and caring for the creation with a carbon act of 2009. >> and one of the republic

south feel the same way? > i spent 15 years, 17 years, teaching in louisiana and mississippi. carolina. in north born in ohio. o, i do not speak for all southerners. but a few observations on that question of how does the south the civil war today. it depends on who you ask of course. range of whole responses to this. ne thing you will hear often the war is not over, it is only halftime. one view. i think that shelby foote was on condition burns' comment is riod his southerners are very peculiar .bout that war maybe the best description i ave heard that goes to how southerners feel about who won is that many southerners wish won every battle but they are happy they lost the war. they do want to be part of the united states and they part of theth being united states. so there are all sorts of i'm sure psychological studies that be done on that very question. good question. anything else? >> i will give you an example. 1962 i took a summer job in north carolina. headed down there from connecticut. i had never been in the south before. my meals at a very well run diner in wilmington. waitre

things move slowly in the small town of latta, south carolina. but when shuler's bar-b-que opens its doors, people near and far come rushing in with some traveling hundreds of miles to eat their legendary barbecue. lynn: hi. how are y'all? welcome to shuler's. lemonis: it's an all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet, and their speciality is pulled pork and ribs. their biscuits are always one of the biggest draws. woman: excellent barbecue, some of the best i have ever had. norton: thank you, ma'am. lemonis: married couple lynn and norton hughes struggled to have a family until late in life. they were blessed when they adopted their young son and named him after norton's father, shuler. lynn and norton opened up shuler's bar-b-que restaurant in 1996 without any prior restaurant experience. they've relied on time-tested family recipes... norton: i can remember my daddy putting meat on the coals. that shows you we're cooking right. lemonis: ...and traditional cooking practices passed down by norton's father. this business has grown bigger than they ever exp

from there i want to south carolina -- i went to south carolina, became the evening anchor in myrtleeach. from 2006 on, i had candidates tripping over for two years. primary, theolina first of the south. i grew up around john mccain all of my life. i circulated brochures for him in his first campaign in phoenix in the early 1980's. when i left you, it was one of my last interviews. we did a border story with senator mccain, and i said, i'm going to south carolina. we might not see each other for a while. six years later i got a phone call, and it was him, saying i coming to greenville, if you want to follow along. we drove up to greenville in 2006, and i saw john mccain more in south carolina than i did in arizona. he ended up winning the south carolina primary. that was an amazing election cycle. i thought i wanted to write a book about that, but it was not >> it up. my career took me to columbus, ofch was the epicenter battleground states. it was a state where i was born and do a lot about. columbus was the place to be for the 2012 election, covering obama as they tripped around oh

he won the south carolina primary. and so that was an amazing election cycle and i thought i wanted to write a book but that but there wasn't quite fluff so my career took me to columbus, ohio, which is the epicenter of battleground state, a state i was born and know a lot about, been a buckeye fan all of my life, and columbus was the place to be for the 2012 election. covering obama and romney as the tripped around ohio, trying to win its electoral votes and seeing john mccain who was campaigning for mitt romney and that's my career track and now back in arizona, writing books and the publisher of a web site, jim heath.tv. my book gives you information about what was happening during the time periodie interviewed these candidates for president, both in south carolina in 2008, and in the state of ohio in 2012. kind of takes you through and gives you some of the background of where the candidates were at and what the campaign was like. and i think it's an inning sight into how the presidential campaigns work. in south c

fort sumter in south carolina. but i'm going to try to convince you and i i don't think it's going to be very difficult, that there's an alternative beginning for the american civil war. that in fact the civil war began over a six-day period in may of 1856. and actually in two places. in washington, d.c. back east and then right here in kansas. now to understand why i'm going to make this argument that the civil war began in 1856 five years early by most people's accounts and in different locations, we have to really set the context for what happened in those six days. let's back up just a little bit. two years to may of 1854. at that point, the united states was in a very good place. the mexican war ended a few years earlier. the united states had gain. ed a huge chunk of territory. the whole southwestern corner of the u.s. gained in that territory. the issue of slavery that had been so contentious for so long had somewhat boiled down. because o most of that seemingly had been resolved. so the country was really f

a run-down-looking takeout about two hours' drive out of charleston in hemingway, south carolina.that's crazy. >> rodney: i grew up doing this. my family started in 1972, so i grew up running around this place. >> anthony: it's hard. >> rodney: it is. >> sean: that's why no one does it, man. that's why there's nothing but bad barbecue 'cause in my opinion the only true way to make barbecue is the burned barrel and the pits and you gotta stay up all night. >> rodney: all night. >> anthony: rodney scott, a man sought after all over the world for some of the finest whole hog barbecue there is. rodney and his family have been doing it like this and only like this for 43 years. burn barrel, fresh coals, slow, slow, slow-cooked all night in the pit. there are no shortcuts. this ain't a craft, this is a calling. look at that. >> rodney: yes. >> anthony: oh, man. >> rodney: got to have a little bit of white bread with it. >> anthony: yeah, at least no doubt. see this is what everybody always gets wrong in new york. you serve cornbread with barbecue? which of course falls into crumbles. ye

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

. >> martha: we can also now projected that republican south carolina governor, henry mcmaster, win his race against democrat james smith. >> bret: now remember, the two overarching questions of the night or whether democrats can take control of the house and whether republicans can keep control of the senate. it is honestly too early to make both important projections. we are also watching governor races around the country, and we'll have a big impact on "20/20", 20, as well. >> martha: so, the first polls up close, 7:00, coming in right now, any first impressions? >> interestingly enough, i think it is not particularly controversial, but virginia and what i suspect will be a landslide reelection victory by tim kaine over corey stewart, the republican, he was pretty far out there. he even at one point in the

only 13 times earnings i think this one could have a lot more room to run let's go to bill in south carolina bill >> caller: yes, sir. boo-yah, jim. >> boo-yah, bill

schools from the southern landscape, but the horrific killings at emanuel ame church in charleston, south carolina, in 2015 brought renewed efforts to purge the south of its confederate symbols. in the wake of that tragedy the south carolina legislature rightfully voted to remove the flag from in front of the state house and in october of 2015 students at old miss decided to remove the mississippi state flag from their campus because it contained the confederate battle flag. as you all know it was not just the flag, soon confederate monuments, street and 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 august of 2017 both lee and albert sydney johnston would also be removed. richmond, charlottesville and other places convene committees to discuss monument removal. in may 2017 four confederate monuments were removed from the landscape of new orleans. and then there was charlottesville. august 11th through 12th of last year. white supremacists gathered there under the pretext of preventing le

i endorse katie arrington for congress in south carolina. katie arrington, on the strength of that high-impact endorsement from the president, beat mark sanford in that primary. the president has been gleefully rubbing that in against mark sanford ever since, and pounding his chest about how he cost mark sanford his seat in congress. i am potus, here my roar. last night was the general election in south carolina, just like it was everywhere. and last night, presidentially endorsed katie arrington lost that seat to a democrat named joe cunningham. did i mention that was south carolina? just won by a democrat. a few weeks after president trump applied his uncare legaled presidential political genius to the katie arrington, mark sanford race, which cost the republicans a seat in the house, the president also confidently waded into the kansas governor's race. when republicans were decide thing year who was going to be their candidate for governor, they had a choice between a normal conservative republican or a much, much, much trumpier choice na

- jesse jason grew up in segregated greenville, south carolina.fountains, separate schools, in segregated greenville, south carolina. separate housing projects, an fighting against that all his life. - this was the scene in little rock, arkansas, when nine black teenagers attempted to integrate the city's high school. the nine would be turned away on the school's front steps after the governor ordered his national guard d to block ther. - i will not force my people to integrate against their will. - i went to jail july of 1960, trying to use a public library. in greensboro in '63, we were marching. we were jailed in greensboro for inciting a riot-- just a trumped-up charge. - i mean, y people in life are born with a lot of potential. i mean, many people in life ar about god, and he's one of the few people i know who's always felt that god believed in them, and he's wanted everyone else to understand that god believes in them too. my father had a career choice. he chose between the duke university school of law and the chicago theological seminary

i'm trying to do things in south carolina to get you back. brother johnson, thank you for all you do. our job for the next several months, you've heard a lot about some of the problems. i want to tell you a little bit about solutions. if you look at what happened to the voting rights act, it was not outlawed. it was not overturned. they took a scapula and they cut out, carved out that formula in section four. getting rid of the formula actually neutered the voting rights act. i don't know what the first bill is we are going to introduce. i know of the first bill is am going to see past, restoring that formula in section four of the civil rights act. that should be the first bill passed. al green, myself, other members of the congressional black caucus, we are going to be moving on the first day to restore that formula to be voting rights act of 1965. [applause] clapper: now let's talk about economic justice. talking about economic justice. once again we've got one of the best, i believe the best, economic system in the world. free markets. al

one other thing from our home state. >> oh, yeah. >> that was interesting, south carolina. >> the sanford seat. >> along the coast, held by mark sanford who had been, i think rather mildly critical of president trump. he got beat in a primary by katie arrington who was trumpyier, and she got beat by a democrat, joe cunningham, that doesn't happen in south carolina, in that district. >> some folks who have suggested that this could be the beginning of some sort of seismic shift in south carolina politics, they might not want to take that argument too far. >> i know, i wouldn't go all the way to seismic, but. >> peter, i want to come back to you because this notion that presidents who are dealt bad hands after the midterms, what typically happens to them. historically this has been a bit of a benefit politically for presidents, has it not? >> well, that's exactly right. look, bill clinton lost both the house and the senate in 1994. the first time the house had gone republican in 40 years, big time setback for him, and two years later he cruised to re-election over bob dole. same with barack

he is also the primary sponsor of recently enacted legislation and acting south carolina's freedom of information act. weston's leadership is evidence the nomination goes on in all phases of the committee's investigation of the south carolina department of public safety. investigation included 14 subcommittee meetings and three full committee meetings and receipt of public input for more than 800 concerned individuals. outcomes from the study include legislative and internal changes at the agency. i want to read now briefly from a couple letters we received from weston's colleagues in the house of representatives. the first one, i hope i pronounce her name correctly, laurie funderburk. to get that correct? she's the democratic vice chair of the oversight committee and i would read the last paragraph and that she says as a member of the minority party in house i can attest to germans newton's bipartisan leadership and in seeking to increase the transparency, effectiveness and accountability of our government. chairman newton is unwavering in his commitment to a fair and open process th

we have seen in south carolina a reduction in recidivism. that means our communities are safer.n from incarceration is down about 10,000 from 30,000. we have seen safer communities being smarter on criminals, which has proven to be a wonderful formula for the nation. kevin: what would this legislation do? >> it allows those folks reentering society do have the skills necessary to go to work. it gives training and looks at areas like ged's, education opportunities. it gives the prisoner a reason to get involved in programs that have been positive in reducing recidivism. kevin: switching gears, there has been a lot of talk about the president negotiating with china on trade. he will meet with world leaders at the g20, including xi jinping. what would you like to see from that meeting? >> i hope the chinese continue to move in the direction they have been moving, which is to cede more territory for the american economy. the present has been very successful in negotiating with other markets. i hope this success continues with china. kevin: what do you think the outcome should be fro

atee days later, we ended up walterboro, south carolina. we were the first class to be shipped over to join the three 32nd fighter group. -- 332nd fighter group. i was put in the 301st fighter squadron. i flew 18 and one half missions. [laughter] my 18th missions were escorting p-51's. i'm cutting it short. escorting b-17's and between four's from italy to germany -- italy to france. was the firston time we came in straight, and i'm in the 301st. , red, the 16 airplanes white, yellow, blue -- i think. i cannot remember it. anyway, i'm blue. i'm over here. we are scraping. southern france, radar stations. we did not know that the invasion of southern france came off on august 15. our job was to knock off the radar stations, which controlled the guns firing out to sea. we went in first flight, second flight, third flight, fourth flight. the fourth flight, who is the last guy to go across the target? me, god dammit. you look up ahead and you see all this stuff coming back at you. i went up across the top of the target. came up out of the floor

let's begin first with lieutenant colonel robert born in claudia south carolina. he fought in world war i. what we will do is colonel, we will yield the floor to you and the human -- and then we will ask friends in the audience so let's have a round of applause for our first panelist. >> so let's give a free -- a brief history about you. >> i was always interested in flying and when the chance came to me for instance i had a pilots license in the late 30s because i was part of a program in the united states, and that was to train people to fly airplanes as they were doing in europe. and so, when the team asked for us to go to tuskegee i was more than prepared and i enjoyed it very much. the one thing i would like to clarify for my personal standpoint, everybody says tuskegee is a place where they trained the african-americans, that is the wrong way, i think to look at it. the right way to look at this is that was the place where they trained people who were not white, you could be anything else and so, i went through the program. i went through three wars. i'm ver

at therific killings 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 legislature rightfully voted to remove the flag from in front of the statehouse. in october 2015, students at ole decided to remove the mississippi state flag because it contained the confederate battle flag. as you know, it was not just the flag. confederate monuments, street names, and schools were to being debated -- were being debated. students in texas decided to remove statues of jefferson davis. lee andt 2017, both albert sidney johnson would be removed. other places convene committees to discuss monument removal. in may, 2017, four confederate by newman's were removed from the landscape of new orleans. then they were charlottesville. last year. white supremacists gathered there under the pretext of presenting lee and the jackson monument from being removed. -- preventing lee and the jackson monument from being removed. the unthinkable happened, the murder of heather heyer, and in the days that followed, the conf

so nobody is going to drill off the coast of south carolina.'m not for it. >> if the trump administration tried to, would you tell them -- >> absolutely. i'd come and say, uh-uh, no, no, not here. >> so that sort of speaks to, one, this was an issue she seems to say one thing in the primary and then change her view in that interview. but as you point out, you did focus more on this very local issue and more in line with where your voters were as you explain it. what can other candidates learn from how you ran this race that you think would apply elsewhere? >> yeah, i think just speak to the local issued and we got to get past this partisanship. and we've got to listen to one another. democrats need to listen to republicans. republicans need to start listening to democrats. and we need to start working together and realize just because we don't agree on everything, doesn't mean we can't come together and work on anything. and i think what you're seeing across the country are new leaders stepping up to say, listen, we have to come together and fo

we may never know who that winner is, because south carolina is one of 8 states that lets the winners stay anonymous. >>> it is 4:14, a south san francisco man is excited to be the first legal commercial cannabis company in histone hometown. we're talking about martin who told the daily journal he and his grandmother will run the company called the loaded bowl. they plan to deliver prepackaged cannabis products. they'll limit the service to the south san francisco, the city commission approved the business last month and it needs to be approved by the city. they'll accept phone and online orders and no customers will be allowed into the company's work space. >>> it's 4:14, and thousands of chair survivors, it's not like anything people have experienced before. people have lost everything and still they say they're thankful to live in a caring community. many survivors enjoyed a warm thanksgiving meal in a brewery surrounded by their neighbors. most of those people lost everything in the wildfires. that woman lost her home in the paradise camp fire. you're looking at the house before a

it was in greenwood south carolina, at a rally for obama in 2007. the rally was a bust. something to do. obama was looking out at the emptiness. fire it up, -- fired up, ready to go a woman with a gold tooth shouted. as if on cue, the people around her repeated her words, began to chant and in an instant, the rally went from dismal to glorious. it shows you what one voice can do. that one voice can change a room. obama said later, recounting the story. and if a voice can change a room, it can change a city. >> then at 9:00 p.m., ben sasse from nebraska talks about his "them" and he is interviewed. >> i think political tribalism is filling the vacuum of the kind -- declining local tribes. family, friendship, meaningful work. worshiping communities. all those things are being undermined in technological history. -- underlined -- undermined by the point we are at in technological history. about theht presidents before i began the book. forgotten -- not that they were forgotten but there were -- they were significant in some way. >> tonight, michael gerhardt talks about thos

the assistant leader of south carolina. assume they're all distinguished. bobby scott of virginia.alifornia. g.k. butterfield of north carolina. barbara lee of california. henry clayor of texas. karen bass of california. don beyer of virginia. and brendan boyle of pennsylvania. we all join in thanking all of you. many of you are v.i.p.'s, our volunteers in politics. women and men have mobilized in stark numbers, who saw with his gop congress was doing and refused to stand still. i recall you made, every text you sent them every conversation you had made the difference between winning and losing in this election. thanks to you, we owned the ground. thanks to you. [applause] speaker pelosi: thanks to you tomorrow will be a new day in america. [cheers] speaker pelosi: remember this feeling. know the power to win. most of all congratulations to those dynamic, diverse, and incredible candidates who have taken back the house for the american people. let us salute all of our candidates. [applause] speaker pelosi: today is more than about democrats and republicans. it's about restoring the

employees went into the communities of north carolina and south carolina, virginia, florida and georgia and brought out veterans with spinal cord treatments needs. we distributed oxygen to all our veterans who needed the oxygen. we made sure the dialysis was up-to-date and ready. heard, and iy i see my friend, virginia johnson from north carolina here today, was when i visited wilmington. a spinal cord patient in wilmington was evacuated, he was evacuated to athens georgia. because of the unique nature of the wounds he had suffered in 2002, he got to athens and our v.a. did not have the proper bed to use to treat him. the v.a. employees in wilmington, north carolina got the bed to athens and that veteran was able to rest comfortably, even though his house had probably been destroyed by the hurricane that hit the southeastern part of my state. so that is a testament to what i said at the beginning, that this is a noble mission, and that even though i am a temporary custodian of the flame that 370,000 of my fellow americans carry because of the decision that they made to join the v.a., i

i do know when i ran, we had to go i will first then south carolina.ohnson who had south carolina, stand up either. just in case, in case you run. you might want to exchange numbers. just in case. [laughter] give another hand. [applause] let me give it back to kimberly. >> okay. now i have to follow senator and reverend. [laughter] i will try my best. i want to let you lineup your -- >> i think what he said, young people of color, we are. it seems like we are not good enough to get a job on capitol hill. we got over two thirds of this body that does not have a single senior staff or of color. we have 19 committees in the u.s. senate that report absolutely no diverse staff. we got less than 20 serving as chief of staff. we are the highest voting in the country. there is only but one black woman. 2018, that was not okay. my charge and challenge, if we want to push forward in voting rights, criminal justice reform, achieve the most robust agendas, we've got to have the staff in place to get it done. you won't include get inclusive policy if we don't have

from there i went to myrtle beach, became the evening anchor in myrtle beach south carolina. it was a wonderful place to be for the 2008 election. from 2006 on we had candidates tripping over each other for 2 years leading into that south carolina primary which is the 2nd primary in the processand the 1st in the south . i grew up around john mccain all my life. i circulated brochures for him in his 1st campaign in phoenix in the early 80s and when i left yuma, he was one of my last interviews. we did all border story with senator mccain and i said i'm going to south carolina, we might not see each other again for a while and 6 years later i got a phone call and it was mccain and i'm coming to greenville, you want to follow along and we drove up and for 2 years i saw john mccain more in south carolina and i ever did in arizona as he campaigned for that nomination and ended up winning that primary. so that was an amazing election cycle and i thought i wanted to write a book about that but it wasn'tquite enough so my career took me to columbus ohio which was the epicenter of bat

but in trying to do things in south carolina to get you back.her johnson thank you so much for all that you do. our job over the next several months, you've heard a lot this morning about some of the problems, but i want to tell you a little bit about some of the solutions. now, if you look at what's happened to the voting rights act, the voting rights act was not outlawed. it was not overturned. the supreme court took a little scapula and they just cut, carved out section four. and getting rid of -- actually neutered the voting rights act. i don't know what the first bill is that we're going to introduce, but i know what the first bill is i want to see past. restoring that formerly section and that should be our first bill passed. [applause] >> it doesn't take a whole lot, you can do it with one or two sentences. al green, myself, terri sewell from alabama, other members of the congressional black caucus, we are going to be moving on the first day to restore that to the voting rights act of 1965. [applause] now, let's talk about economic justic

south carolina republican senator lindsey graham joins us this morning from clemson. senator, welcome to "face the nation." i want to get right to it. the french president seemed to be saying the liberal world order is being undermined by forces nationalists forces that seem to be represented by president trump. do you agree with him? >> no, i think he's got a political problem at home, mac macron and probably picking a fight with trump is good politics. i like the idea of president trump pushing nato to pay more. getting outed of the ballistic missile treaty because russia is treating and it doesn't cover china and north korea. the main friction getting out of the iran deal which was bad for america and the world. republican presidents always have hard time in europe, i'm not really worried about this at all. >> brennan: senator, lieutenants move to what's happening here at home. you're seeing some of the worst fires in california history raging there. nearly dozen dead. yet the president is taking an aggressive, combative stance even threatening the cut off funding

elder johnson, charleston, south carolina.jamie bland, patterson, new jersey, and jamie is also the deputy mayor up there. she's not only president of the chapter, she's the deputy mayor and if i was the mayor, i would be real nervous because ain't no telling, she might get a vision one night, decide to be mayor. cynthia dawkins from newark, new jersey. bill griffin, our new york city chapter. nia truex from washington, d.c. where is nia? sean brown, newport news, virginia. and katherine parks from louisville, kentucky. all right. i'm going to recognize chapter leaders throughout the day because i want folks to know, when we told people that we were serious about bringing our national group together, i wanted you to know this is national. we didn't go out and get some folks from round the corner and bring them down here and call it a national meeting. [laughter] one of the most passionate and vibrant voices in america and certainly one of the most courageous members of the house of representatives is this next person. he is th

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