of south carolina, let's destroy the environment that we have in south carolina and the economy.obody want to look out their window to see oil rigs off the coast. but our senator is the one waving the flag, here, oil and gas companies, you can drill off our coats. not on debbie harrison's watch. sen. graham: i have had a consistent view of south carolina offshore drilling, south carolina will decide and nobody else. we have achieved energy independence under president trump, i don't want to go back where there were -- go backward. i don't want to be depended on middle east folks to supply energy, i don't want to make russia and iran stronger. protecting the coast, i am for that. on the one who went to president to extend the moratorium that he was planning for florida to include south carolina. let me say this. aoc has endorsed your campaign. she is the author of the green new deal. i understand that south carolina could benefit from clean energy, nuclear power, i proponent of marginal reactors, i am a proponent of wind, solar, not of the green new deal and when you look at it, y

i have the best campaign in the history of south carolina.cheering] [applause] it is wide and it is deep and if you take is on, you better get up early and stay home late. $130 million is not enough. [cheering] scotty howe who did the a ds, well done, my friend. [applause] tw, toby, youions were incredible. [cheering] i know a lot more about the digital world than i used to and i thought we competed well. wide and deep -- i cannot thank you all enough. team graham is a joy to be part of. all i can say is that the results speak for themselves. [applause] raising $108ou for million and counting. lindsaygraham.com. [laughter] 2026 wil

despite south carolina's succession in 1860. up next national park services story in mark maloy describes the mental april 12, 1861, when confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on something. it's a symposium on the warren east, hosted by the emergency bill war blog. >> welcome back to the emergence of a war symposium, great to have you with us my name is chris mackowski. our next speaker today comes to us, actually from our sister site emerging revolutionary war. mark maloy it's a historian with a national park service and he's like what can i do that's revolutionary war? and i said, mark know this is a civil war. so we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter because it's the closest we can get to the war to the revolutionary era. mark is a delightful historian, a wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue. the most distinctive feature that we are like is his laugh. but we are delighted to have him, and he came here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war act fort sumter. mark. >> th

of south carolina, let's destroy the environment that we have in south carolina and the economy.nt to look out their window to see oil rigs off the coast. but our senator is the one waving the flag, here, oil and gas companies, you can drill off our coats. not on debbie harrison's watch. sen. graham: i have had a consistent view of south carolina offshore drilling, south carolina will decide and nobody else. we have achieved energy independence under president trump, i don't want to go back where there were -- go backward. i don't want to be depended on middle east folks to supply energy, i don't want to make russia and iran stronger. protecting the coast, i am for that. on the one who went to president to extend the moratorium that he was planning for florida to include south carolina. let me say this. aoc has endorsed your campaign. she is the author of the green new deal. i understand that south carolina could benefit from clean energy, nuclear power, i proponent of marginal reactors, i am a proponent of wind, solar, not of the green new deal and when you look at it, you said,

they were in charleston when south carolina seceded. his name was major robert anderson and he's in command of companies "e" and "h" of the first u.s. artillery, really only about 85 men that he's commanding that are in this -- in charleston. it's important to realize how small the united states army was at the outset of the war. you only have about 15,000 union soldiers across the entire nation at the time. and so, you know, they were kind of spread out all across the country and like i said less than a hundred here in charleston harbor and of those 85 men eight were musicians in the regimental band so it was a pretty sleepy post and most of the men, it's interesting, who were actually in the first u.s. artillery were immigrants that came from -- a lot of them came from ireland and germany. and major robert anderson is an interesting figure too because he's actually a southerner. he's from kentucky. and he was very much against the idea of secession, but he really wasn't in favor of any sort of war. he writes his heart wasn't really in

south carolina is going to adopt this as their symbol and you will still see it to this day on the south carolina state flag. that harkens back to the revolutionary war history. but this is the actual flag carried by the palmetto guards, which was a local charleston militia group. it's going to be stationed over on morris island during the initial bombardment of for sumter sumter this gives you a good map that gives you a good view of what it looks like in charleston harbor in 1861. you can see sullivan's island, they took fort moultrie and started building batteries there. they even built a floating battery, which is basically a raft where they put cannons on and they covered it -- almost like an ironclad, and it would float in the harbor and they could fire on the fort from their. they are going to take fort johnson and castle pinckney. this island here on the south, morass island, it would play an important role not only during the first battle but later on in the war as well. that position, they are going to fortify that island as well. there's a battery there that's manned by some s

and i worked there for about a year and charleston, south carolina is a beautiful town. there's a lot of history and revolutionary war history and most people associate it with its civil war history and the war started there in 1861 in april and over the next 45 minutes what i will do is go over the buildup to the first shots of the civil war there, and going to tell you about the battle that happened on april 12th and april 13th and then i'm going to tell you what happened to fort sumter in the city following that for the rest of the worry and then what's there today and encourage you if you get a chance to go down and visit at some point, hopefully after covid and be able to check out a lot of these important historical sites that are pretty well preserved out there. i really love the battles at fort sumter and there's a lot of high-profile characters and personalities involved in the opening shots of the war and i'm going to go through some of those as we talk today. fort sumter is a microcosm of the civil war and how it started off as this kind of gentlemanly, chival

congress.o serve in nancy mace will be the first female graduate of the citadel republican women from south carolina to serve in congress. the firstarold who is native american woman native to ongress and stephanie is the first iranian american woman congress. this makes me very proud as a republican. and as an american. lincoln that party of is also continuing the legacy of he first black american to serve in congress, joseph rainey of south carolina. into slavery and even after gaining his freedom, he received little education as child. he was drafted by the confederacy, but he escaped and and started a business. after the war, he moved back to georgetown, south carolina, with his family in 1867 -- and in chairman of the county's republican party. just a few years late he -- in 1870 was elected

in south carolina, female republicans were especially targeted by the failing democrats. south carolina has elected the first female republican congresswoman ever, congresswoman elect nancy mace. the south carolina state senate has elected the first republican ever to be elected to the state senate from kershaw county, joining senators she'llly of lexington and sandy of charleston. despite democrat dirty tricks, a smeared senator lindsey graham swept to victory with republican gains at all levels, federal, state, and local with the largest number of republican elected officials in 140 years. state senate chairman -- state party chairman drew and executive director have been dynamic leaders for successfully leading the victory party with governor mcmaster, lieutenant

south carolina didn't have the registration list of voters. this one and of being the biggest challenge that democrats need in the south carolina results just like the state constitution requires that voters be registered and if they haven't been registered the whole constitution is -- to throw out the votes of south carolina. real people voted, they just voted illegally. but what i wrote down and i didn't get into this, what was feared by democrats when they found out that the republicans were going to florida in particular. ants what was feared by republicans at the same time was that florida was a big state and most of the people lived in it in the northern counties but there were people down in key west, it took a long time for the vote to get in. and what republicans feared and legally manoeuvred by democrats, they wanted to find out, they wanted to hurry up the count of the vote and find out how many votes hayes has so they can rig the returns for these counties that had not turned in their votes yet. this is lyndon johnson's first elect

there is true love and affection for donald trump in south carolina. democrats wasted the largest onslaught ever of cash with over $200 million from out of state to pathetically spend money to the point where their votes were $120 per vote to lose. democrats unintentionally exposed their socialist agenda of everything free for everybody, resulting in citizens with no freedom. but the political and media elite have all the power. prime minister margaret thatcher was correct, that, quote, socialism will work until it has run out of spending other people's money, end of quote, always failing. in south carolina, female republicans were especially targeted by the failing democrats. south carolina has elected the first female republican congresswoman ever, congresswoman elect nancy mace. the south carolina state senate has elected the first republican ever to be elected to the state senate from kershaw county, joining senators she'llly of lexington and sandy of charleston. despite democrat dirty tricks, a smeared senator lindsey graham swept to victory with

clyburn's friend a huge victory in the south carolina primary. joe biden never had another difficult day on the presidential campaign trail and the rest is history. joining us now is democratic congressman james clyburn of south carolina. congressman clyburn, thanks very much for joining us tonight. it's very important for me personally to be able to hear from you and to be able to get your reaction to what it felt like for you to see joe biden win this election, knowing how low he had fallen in this campaign by time he reached you in south carolina. >> thank you very much for having me. when you're involved in this business, you know some things very clearly. number one, you must remain committed to who it is and what it is that's best for this great country. this country is an experiment that is always in search of perfection. it's not a perfection country, but we are in pursuit of a more perfect union. and you look around for people involved in the process who can help advance that sprpursuit. and over the years, i have not interacted with any

he's from south carolina and majority of african-american members during the 19th century come from south carolina. there's seven members all from that state. largely because it's majority african-american population, in their districts, majority african-american, and so there's support for a black candidate. elliott is a wonderful -- one of these people who invented himself as he went along. you get the sense he was a true character, but he had a great classical education. he came up after reconstruction, worked on a newspaper. he had some journalism background and then moves up into the state assembly in south carolina. and he comes to the house for two terms in the early 1870s. and he is one of the men who comes on to the floor and talks about the importance of passing the 1875 civil rights bill, and gives some speeches that are perked up in the northern press, and they just swoon over him. one of the speeches he actually, kind of a point, counterpoint debate with alexander stephens, the former confederate vice president who has by that point come back to the house, and elliott just bl

in south carolina, the idea that south carolina would have two black senators is just -- i'm gobsmacked at the idea that this actually could happen, also that it could happen. jaime harrison, incredibly well-financed, has been shown by polls to be in a statistical tie, basically, with senator lindsey graham. this is in the context of south carolina still being, i believe, a republican state. i believe president trump will carry the state. but lindsey graham has had some problems from both sides, both from the trumpy side and the non-trumpy side of the republican party in south carolina. and jaime harrison has proved just to be an extraordinarily talented candidate. he's been a really good candidate for south carolina who has run on local issues, local connections, constituent services, sort of bread and butter politics in every corner of the state. he has not neglected the northwest corner of the state which is whiter, more conservative, around greenville, spartanburg, he spent a lot of time up there trying to get every vote he can out of that corner of the state. obviously this is a ra

where joe biden was on the ropes and south carolina namely black voters in south carolina, namely blackoters in south carolina came to the rescue of his campaign and helped to push him forward and eventually become the nominee of that party. donald trump in 2016 won your state comfortably by 14 points and expected to win there again, but what changes have you seen in your state from just 2016 to today on this election day? >> willie, so many changes. you know, the most amazing thing is i can go into some areas that have been traditionally republican communities and i see a sea of jaime harrison signs. i think what has changed, i'm actually talking about the issues that people care about here in south carolina and lindsey is not. in the last debate he talked about nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and not about the fact that four of our rural hospitals have closed or that we have 14 counties that have no ob/gyns and our roads and the bridges are falling apart. the old adage that all politics is local is true. people want to know that the people they send to washington, d.c. is fighting for

south carolina is taking its time to get there, north carolina, virginia, texas.g. if jamie harrison is able to get to 45%, we have something to build off of. the biggest problem that rick santorum and many other republicans, tim scotts of the world, marco rubio, they have to contend with is the fact this is now donald trump's party. he is limiting their growth, their expansion. all of the major cities, whether or not it's charleston, south carolina or houston, texas, they are out wardlwardly rejecting t republican party. what was a party of quiwith gro now more associated with bigotry. that's something we have to deal with. what we will see tuesday, i believe democrats will take back the senate. i'm not worrying like my democratic colleagues. i'm comfortable in where we are. i feel really good about going into tuesday. >> senator santorum. >> i was going to say that i agree on one remark he said, which is donald trump changed the republican party. i don't think in the way he suggests. there are elements that trump's personality and character that are problematic.

>> reporter: mace, now the first republican woman elected to congress from south carolina. single mom, one-time high school dropout, former waffle house waitress. >> the rules are different. so it's not just what you say, it's how you say it. it's not just what you wear, it's how you wear it. >> reporter: senator susan collins defying all odds. the first republican woman to win a fifth senate term. >> when i was chairing the homeland security committees, i remembered looking at the panel, looking to my left and my right and all of a sudden realizing that i was the only woman. >> reporter: in the new congress, at least 141 women will serve. a record-breaking 36 of them will be republicans. of those 36, half of them will be freshmen serving their first term. >> the democrats gained more than 30 seats in the house. they won seven governorships.

no idea what south carolina is about.ll the stories about this race are just, might as well be written about mars. >> leigh ann caldwell joins us from lexington, south carolina. interesting conversation with senator graham. he sounds confident this morning. give us a sense of his state of the race there. >> reporter: hey, hallie. but this is 2020. nice everything else this year, nothing is normal. that's why we are in south carolina on election eve. in a state that the president won by 14 points four years ago. lindsey graham is in a statistical tie against his democratic opponent, jaime harrison. this battle has turned into a $200 million race between the two. senator graham is warning people about a democratic-controlled senate and a democratic-controlled white house. meanwhile, jaime harrison is trying to litigate the republican handling of covid. let's take a listen to what both candidates had to say. are you concerned about lindsey graham's attacks tying you to speaker pelosi and chuck schumer? >> you know, i think l

the problem is that south carolina was watching this whole thing develop, and south carolina decided it's time to act against the federal tariff. so, that summer, they cooked up the nullification ordinance, which some of you may remember. south carolina believed that the federal government did not have the power to pass a protective tariff, which was hurting imports coming into south carolina, which produce nothing but indigo and rice, and you can only get so far in life with indigo and rice. they needed stuff like clothing and, you know. so, they were opposed to a high protective tariff. nullification ordinance said, since we can't push our new tariff or repeal this tariff in congress, we don't have the votes, let's adopt this view -- the constitution is a compact among the states. we're a state. we're a party. we get to interpret it, as anybody else does. and so, we don't want to impose our interpretation on anybody else. we're kindly folk. but if we believe that your federal interpretation is wrong, then we have the right as a party to the deal to nullify the impact of a federal s

look at them already leaving up country south carolina, why? they've already used up the land. look how fast this is happening. and so that white people are no sooner are they settling in a place, look at bluegrass of kentucky, remember that was just 30 years ago that they were settling that and now they're leaving and moving to places that are new. you've got to picture, this is -- we're living in the least mobile time in american history right now. our population is moving less, right now, than it ever has. in american history. this is moving as fast as it ever does. and we think about western migration but look how the south is being defined during all this time. but you can see that white people are moving, and then the richest of them are taking enslaved people with them. so you've seen this map before, a version of it. and you know the story, the 1830s, of how these folks are being driven from their homes. give some sense of the total numbers of all of this. so in 1830, the native people still occupy about 25 million acres of ancestral lands. about 60,000 cherokees, chick

so, is north carolina the old south, the new south? a different south? h carolina becoming? >> it's just a strange hybrid right now. >> jimmy: that strange hybrid making it difficult to know which way the state will go tomorrow. because the state's new diversity could can mean a win for biden. >> it's going to be very, very close. >> jimmy: david lara, a son of immigrants moved to north carolina from new york city, for a better life. >> traditionally, it's ban conservative sta -- it's been a conservative state. but with the transplants of other people moving here from other states you see a swing of liberal minded individuals. >> reporter: covid-19 is also on the ballot in north carolina. seventh highest rate. >> i was struck by a church today that 95% of the congregation was not wearing a mask or social distancing. explain that to me? >> everyone is individual. even when i serve as, in my profession as a registered nurse. vy i have to respect that person has a right to choices that comes to their care. >> reporter: is it fair to say that for you, covid i

lindsey graham is speaking in south carolina. senator graham: if you do not get this message, it is hopeless. here is the message i got. people like what i am doing, and i am going to keep doing it. back to the senate with a purpose. i have never wanted my job more than i do now. i never appreciated my job more than i do now. i have never been more grateful to have it, and i think i have never been more prepared to do it than i am right now. so here is what we are going to do. we are going to put our national security interests ahead of everything else, because without national security, nothing else matters. isn't that right? to the men and women in uniform, i will continue to have your back because you have got all of ours. it is my goal and my desire to make sure we have the best prepared military to deter war, but if we get in it, we are going to win it. to the people in austria, vienna, my heart breaks for you. to the rest of america who may be watching briefly here, radicalism is not dead and buried. they have been hit hard

she made national headlines in 2015 when she scaled the 30 foot flagpole at the south carolina statepitol to remove the confederate flag after the massacre of eight prisoners and their pastor by white supremacists at the emanuel ame church in charleston. bree, we're going to begin with you. as we ended that last clip with kamala harris, i could only think about that metaphor of you scaling the flag saying "you come against me with hatred. i come against you in the name of god. this flag comes down today." harris ascended the stage. talk about your reaction. >> is undoubtedly an historic moment, right? i also see a lot of historical parallels right now. that ipeatedly saying think the central conflict in the united states is not -- has been this tension between white supremacy and this concept of having a multiracial democracy, where everyone is allowed to participate it. and i think that tension is continng to play outoday. we just ve t electioof the first woman vice psident, d black ce predent, woman o soutasian descent, a descdent oimmigrants. and so on eand, you have wh represes a

now south carolina is taking back up again. 1850's, this is slavery at full peak. look at how fast texas has filled in with enslaved people. so as we put all of these pictures together, look at how the upper south is being depleted of enslaved people. why? they are being shipped to the south. as we picture all of these histories and motion and interaction, we have to see how the relentless pressure against native peoples is a part of the creation of the south and of the united states. this is not a marginal story, it does not deserve to just be a couple of pages. this is central to the creation of the united states and central to the creation of the american south. here is something that is interesting to think about. thousands of native people were moved in the 18 30's, but -- 1830's, but many remained. white people proclaimed the differences, but many intermarried with those who had indian ancestry. black people were held in bonds, but they also found companions among native people. they remained in north carolina and virginia. seminoles in florida. one generatio

and it's states other than south carolina.dress the hypocrisy of sating you can gamble go to and since my mom is watching dance clubs and i will not use another word but how do you wage through the hypocrisy to say you can't go to church but you can do all that? >> that is the problem, trey. you cannot wait through the hypocrisy but you have to laugh at it and frankly ignore it and challenge it. one of the reasons that a lot of americans have had it up to here is because they feel like the public officials who tell them to be careful, they are not being careful. who tell them don't go eat out but they go weed out. while gavin newsom with $700 person french laundry restaurant didn't wear a mask and the denver mayor. you add all of this up and i think sometimes people are afraid the public officials are not trying to control the disease as much as they are trying to control them and the people. we do need to be careful. we need to socially distance, where the mask and do all of those things for everyone's safy and well-being. bu

house majority whip congressman james clyburn of south carolina whose endorsement before the south carolina primary gave new life of joe biden's then somewhat flailing campaign. majority whip clyburn, thank you for joining us. i want you to listen to what joe biden had to say about the black community. >> especially when the campaign was at its lower ebb, the african-american community again stood up for me! you've always had my back and i'll have yours. >> i don't think so it's hyperbole to say were it not for you and black voters in south carolina, i don't know what i would be covering this morning. you gave biden's campaign new life and if it were not for you, i don't know if he would have gotten the nomination and i don't know if i would be covering a democratic president-elect and kamala harris as vice president-elect or the re-election of donald trump. what do you think about that? >> well, it all came from the voters of south carolina. first of all, thank you for having me. but, you know, when i was to the how to be involved in the campaign i was always going to vote for joe biden, b

what did you learn about how much money can and can't do in a state like south carolina?the thing, you know, i raised over $100 million. lindsey graham raised over $100 million as well and in addition the last few weeks of our campaign mitch mcconnell put 30 some odd million dollars into south carolina because they saw what we saw, the polls were saying that this was a close race. and it broke away at the very end because donald trump was able to have coattails. well, donald trump is not on the ballot on january 5th in georgia and so i think reverend warnock and jon ossoff get an opportunity to make the case on their own about their records and what they're going to fight for and they are going to have support. i have raised $450,000 for ossoff and warnock and the venture that we are announcing today, my new pac, is going to continue to raise those resources to make sure that they can get their message out to the people. >> talk to me about this new pac. dirt road pack, what it's going to do and what the name means. >> well, dirt road pac i'm very, very, very excited abou

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elijah cummings, you may know, elijah's roots in south carolina.amily were a part of brown v. board of education which at the time was briggs v. elliott and elijah and i used to talk about it all the time. and when he got elected to congress i had a big homecoming for elijah. brought him back to mount zero baptist church where his grandfather was a member and these two guys meant so much to me. i used to sit on the floor and talk to them all the time. and elijah passed away, it was just -- you know, john and i, our relationship was great. but elijah and i used to talk about our roots in the county and south carolina and how that personalized our relationships. so on a personal basis i was very close to elijah. and when i spoke at his service there in the capitol i talked about that because we were both what we call pk-ers. preacher's kids so he had the challenge of growing up with the obstacles of being the preacher's kid. so he and i were very, very close. to serve with these two guys in the united states congress was just a remarkable experience.

he needs to focus on south carolina.ason whatsoever that he should be calling the secretary of state asking about election and recount that they're in the midst of. we should not have any political influence on counting of our votes. every american citizen should have their votes counted and not have political influences, democratic or republican, officials trying to influence that. my advice to lindsey graham, focus on south carolina. we have enough issues here that you can fill up your calendar on. you don't need to be in georgia messing with their elections. >> you call it criminal. do you think he broke the law? >> well, i think an investigation should take place in order to see if he did. i'm not sure, i wasn't on the phone call but it doesn't smell right. something is not right. the question is are there other secretaries of state he is calling. he needs to focus on issues that are important to people of south carolina, not on how votes are being counted in georgia. >> there are in nevada and arizona, we know that,

woman's ple, we saw the monument in south carolina. the theme of women's role in the war is much more widely developed in the south than in the north. pretty e some interesting northern monuments that is a topic that the south is a much broader field for and on shapes the kind of national narrative to a than other areas. for example, the building of the build which is very much a civil war memorial winds up being a monument to northerned a southern women. i do think there are some areas different, sop areas where it is quite similar. a lot of things beyond sort what monuments are o and what they are designed for. well idea of the county the mopment inre monument in the square is dip in the south than the north symbolism of putting it on the county courthouse square southern ly a phenomenon and it is in declaring what are the sources power and authority in the kphaourpt and they are partly in partly rthouse and outsideed a include us so the omen of united daughters of confederacy that put that up and the legal processes that defend whit

that's south carolina, here's virginia.will continue to watch that. >> and let's talk about north carolina. chuck, this will be one of those states that might really tell the whole story. >> one big thing for american turnout, if, four years ago, hillary clinton lost the race by about 3 points. 49-46. and when barack obama won it in 2008, he just had a bigger share of african-american voters. so the real question will be, did joe biden get an african-american turnout. >> here's the numbers for north carolina. this is what we have. too early to call but our first numbers are the polls close in north carolina. ohio, too early to call as well. >> we've got west virginia, too early to call but we have the president in the lead as expected. so where does it shake out? to 270 electoral votes. that's what is required and we are still early in this night. joe biden getting three so far. donald trump with indiana at 11. >> yeah. a long road to 270. certainly, we'll be watching ohio, joe biden late in the game, decided to put ohio on

yes, i recognize, of course, that james clyburn is a long-standing politician from south carolina.is black. and i don't -- you know, i'm sure that he recognizes what the political landscape is like in south carolina. but if we're looking at the bigger picture, they're going to cost themselves the senate race in grgia if the case that they're making is that we're going to try to lean more towards republican than making it clear to people that unless they turn folks out for those senate seats in georgia, you're not going to have access to the things that you need, like healthcare and all these other things. so if they embrace a more centrist or republican agenda, then theakeaway from folks is going to be, again, that it doesn't matter whether they turn out to vote or not. so i think it's just like e complete opposite. and the ct that the focus in the immediate aftermath of the election, when we are still dealing with the situation of a president who does not acknowledge the election results, we've got him stoking violence among white supremacists who are threatening violence against

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democratic congressman jim clyburn from south carolina. i always appreciate when you come on and share your perspective with us, sir. >> thank you. >> and again, joe biden, look, he was your guy from the beginning. congratulations on that, sir. >> thank you very much. >> you got it. >>> when we come back, what did the election just tell us about our divided country and our chance of healing? the panel is next. chance of hea? the panel is next. our chance of healing? analysts are next. >> we did it! we did it, joe. you're going to be the next president of the united states. president of the united states when you switch to xfinity mobile, you're choosing to get connected to the most reliable network nationwide, now with 5g included. discover how to save up to $400 a year with shared data starting at $15 a month, or get the lowest price for one line of unlimited. come into your local xfinity store to make the most of your mobile experience. you can shop the latest phones, bring your own device, or trade in for extra savings. that's simple, e

and in south carolina this was the most expensive house race in the history of south carolina. had to raise over $5 million to win this seat back. >> it is, obviously, a polartized time in america you look at the presidential race you look at, you know, very close race. and how do you go to washington and try to ease some of the tension? >> well, i've been a state lawmaker for a number of years and one of the things that i've always done is that, you know, on the legislative side the policy side, even though i'm in south carolina, and republican majority i've always reached across the aisle to work with democrats to try get things done, in fact, just this year governor of south carolina governor master signed a prison reform bill of mine into law and when that bill was passed, every single republican in the voted for that measure to be signed into law. and that's the kind of energy and spirit we've got to bring to d.c. because for so long now, it has been completely divisive but decades ago, it wasn't like that people actually reached across the aisle and worked together and i

stanton: she went to south carolina.uth carolina to discuss building a movie studio there. she met with all the movers and shakers there. narrator: carpenter is a special guest at dinner parties and is given a helicopter tour across the state to scout locations for her studio. and they wined and dined her there because there was this california woman who's gonna build a movie studio in south carolina. it was gonna be great. narrator: but the south carolina project falls apart when local officials say carissa carpenter fails to make down payments and misses deadlines. the heat was really turned up on her because the people that she was dealing with in south carolina were not like me, where, "eh, i made a bad decision, time to move on." they felt that they were wronged. they felt that they were misled. and then that project fizzled. she just disappeared. narrator: next on "american greed"... carissa carpenter's scheme has unexpected consequences. anyway, i just, uh... i just can't take it anymore. i was shocked. i was deva

in south carolina.relationship with southern leaders and northern antislavery leaders was important. he would lose one group of those friendships. 1850, the same year, a revolutionary period. nine southern states convened at a succession convention. they decided not to, but they came close in 1850. it was also a period in which this boston and massachusetts were deeply divided over slavery. taking a position on anti-slavery, a time that you could not say antislavery or proslavery is irrelevant to me. you have to take a position. revolutionary fervor. not that different, and my view, from today and when you have this extraordinary rise of protest movement, black lives matter, very successful and inspiring these daily or weekly protests. one reason is that he shows his reputation, his public status as a scholar, as a person who is always in the news north and south over providing or circulating disseminating evidence that he feels. the other reason that i feels he tabled this is a profound difference betw

in south carolina biden got 43.5% and harrison got 44.2. 44. in iowa he got 44.9. the number of candidates on either se of ran withi two points ahead or behind is pretty small. even kelly ended up being about two points ahead of biden. that's it. obviously collins, bullock, you know, ran four points at but that was fro 40-44. it is really hard now to win senate races andtates they go the other way forresident. it's not impossible. '08 we have six of those, six senate candidates in states that voted the oth way. in 12 it was five or four and zeron 16. it was one in 2020. any off there's more opportunity, to kind of separate, but certainly eve in the house, last time chart it was what, like fiv -- 28 split tickets aer -- split house districts every 2016? >> it was 2 >> total? 2 [inaudible] >> i was like 23 balkans and four owe five 2 democrats in trp districts. it probably going to be mewhere in that very low number again. this has reall consequences for governing. if your jill biden and trying to get a senator to vote for you from a state that just voted 53, 54% fro

once he got that big boost from jim clyburn heading into the south carolina primary and ran off with it and then ran off with the rest of the primary season, the way he was going to approach the general election is win back the upper midwest. he won back the upper midwest. but he knew -- he knows who he is. he knows we know who he is. he knew how to run the race. i mean, hats off. >> rachel, i want to discuss one other very important woman in the biden campaign and that is jen o'malley-dylan who has entered the hall of fame of american politics. she's the least famous person in it. i think very few people know who she is. the campaign manager of joe biden's campaign. people don't know who she is because she refuses to do television interviews with people like us. she's not in it for the glory. she's a mother of three who has been running what all professional observers have called a flawless campaign for president for joe biden. she has been doing it in a way that never asked for attention to herself. and, again, this itself is one of those giant stories that lives underneath the muc

and because he spent so much time in south carolina. delaware being the state that it is, a part of brown voter education. a lot of people don't recognize that. brown v education started in south carolina but five states and district of columbia involved in that. these are the kind of experiences that joe biden has had and i've talked to him about them for 20 some on the years. so i believe that he was the bet bet. >> joe biden has been president-elect hours now. trump has not conceded the races. should trump concede the race and how should president-elect biden handle this potentially volatile situation? >> i think trump should concede but i think the republican party has a responsibility here. this country is bigger than any one person. this democracy is teetering. he called it inflection point. we are in a very dire set of consequences here and we had better get hold of ourselves and this country and stop catering to whims of one person. so it doesn't matter to me whether or not he concedes. what matters to me is whether or not the r

if south carolina doesn't, that's a big question that south carolina should address immediately because understanding that every state has them. >> we -- well, your understanding's wrong. we tried very hard to get drop boxes, and the legislature would not e approve them. no, we don't is have voter drop boxes. that's why i'm saying, when this campaign is over, we need to go to work and say to every state that for federal elections -- do what you want for your own state and local government, but for federal elections congress and president, there must be drop boxes. martha: i stand corrected, sir, there are no drop boxes in south carolina, although the absentee balloting has been going on for weeks if not months. bret: one last thing, congressman, what you're saying here is, essentially, what joe biden said on that radio show, that if you're black and you vote for trump, quote, you ain't black. that's what he said. he later apologized for that, but you're sending the same message to african-americans who may have a different choice in this election. >> what i said was any man that calls o

joining us is democratic representative and majority whip james clyburn of south carolina.hank you for being with us. >> thank you very much for having me. >> congressman clyburn, as much as i know you are celebrating the victory of your friend and fellow democrat, joe biden, this wasn't a landslide. despite 237,000 americans dead in the pandemic, despite a major economic crisis, despite the racial reckoning this country has faced in the past several months and trump's past comments about s-hole countries and good people on both sides, about 70 million americans still voted for president trump. what does that tell you about where america is right now? >> well, thank you very much for having me. you know, it tells me what i've always know, i lead my entire life here in south carolina. in fact, every address i've ever had has been within the sixth congressional district that i proudly represent. there's one thing that i know, and that is this country keeps battling with notions of race. and that is a big problem in the country. many of us have been trying to get this issue ad

my guests republican senator mitt romney of utah, democratic congressman james clyburn of south carolina, and biden deputy campaign manager kay bedingfield. >> this is not what the democrats dreamed. >> disappointed democrats lose seats in the house. >> we had a very good day. most pundits thought we would lose the senate. >> two georgia runoffs in january will decide control of the senate. joining me for insight and analysis, nbc news washington correspondent andrea mitchell. democratic pollster cornell belcher. "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan. and david wasserman, house editor for "the cook political report." welcome to sunday and a special election edition of "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> and a good sunday morning. one side of a deeply divided country is celebrating this weekend. [ cheers ] a nationwide block party broke out from coast to coast yesterday. spontaneous celebrations mostly in cities moments after television networks called the