taking you inside a hamilton county, south carolina courtroom where alex murdaugh, a south carolina lawyer whose wife around son were killed in june was arrested in connection with an insurance fraud scheme that could go mightily beyond that insurance fraud. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." perhaps one of the more bizarre legal cases that dramas around a lawyer and a celebrated lawyer family that goes back 80 years in south carolina. questions about a man who might have arranged getting killed so that his son could get a $10 million insurance policy. sounds bizarre. a lot of doubts. but for now the focus in this hamilton county, south carolina courtroom is just to get an arraignment on the committing insurance fraud charge. then it could expand from there. let's get the latest from steve harrigan in hampton county with more. steve? >> we're keeping an eye on the first court appearance of alex murdaugh who stands in front of insurance fraud charges. he hired a former client to shoot him in the head by the side of a rural road in south carolina. the alleged gunman,

charles watson in atlanta on the south carolina murder mystery.an llenas in new jersey on the recovery from ida's remnants. first, david spunt in wilmington, delaware following the president this weekend. david. >> reporter: hi, alicia, hi, griff. with what griff said, we had to listen to congressman mccall's statements a few times, i had to listen to it and make sure i understood exactly what he said. we are reaching out to the white house, also the national security council. we know congressman mccall specifically mentioned about an airport several hours north of kabul, that's where he alleges that americans are essentially being held on planes against their will. this is what he said just a few hours ago on fox news sunday. listen. >> we have six airplanes at sharif airport, six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak, also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. the state has cleared these flights and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> reporter: again, this is several

someone inside allegedly shooting the rom innocent south carolina lawyer in the -- prominent south carolinaad. he is reportly awake and talking -- reportly. this as state investigators actively probe the murders of murdaugh's wife and son maggie and paul, both found shot to death on the family's property. in this 931 audio -- 911 audio, you hear him discovering the scene. >> reporter: so far the case has gone unsolved and has raised plenty of questions about the family's ties to local law enforcement. last month the former prosecutor in charge recused himself and said that his longstanding relationship with the murdaughs, a well known family of attorneys, and this double homicide has led police to reopen the investigation into the suspicious 2015 death of a young man named steven smith, a man who also had connections with the murdaugh family. alicia: charles watson in atlanta, thank you. griff? griff: as we mentioned, the shooting of alex murdaugh is just the latest twist in that family's bizarre legal saga which goes back six years and involves four dead bodies and a felony indictment. joi

the governor of south carolina henry mcmaster tweeting rest assured we'll fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every south carolinaen and then there is this. >> what the biden administration is doing is government over reach, pure and simple. >> my legal team is already working, and we will defend and protect our people from this unlawful mandate. >> when we see elected officials violate the constitution, we have a responsibility to fight back, and that's what we're doing. >> you should not lose your job just because joe biden is having this hissy fit. >> in the halls of congress, the response from elected officials ted cruz calling it utterly lawless and marshall blackburn is saying biden is sounding like a dictator every day and steve scalise accusing biden of being a desperate politician abusing power and not to be out done. right wing media cut to the chase. >> we had to elect this rotting bag of oatmeal to get a real tyrant. joe biden. >> joe biden couldn't get his act in order so he decided to issue a tyrant and authoritarian order here. >> ti

rosa grew up and lived her life out in south carolina.orking as a domestic which was an occupation for most black women in the early 20th century. >> and then you talked about the significance of ruth's decision to capture the story. she could have written it down on paper. she chose embroidery. we have our first question from the audience. it looks almost like a poem. talk a little bit about your thoughts of the importance of embroidery and how it was actually laid out or how the words are. >> yes. i agree with the person that asked that question. so many in it. i think it does look like a poem. it reads like a poem. some of the elements of the haiku form. at times i think of it as being like a recipe. like a list of things that one needs to make something. make life. it is a story. it also has the look of a document. it is the case that embroiderer 's were typically women at the middle classes. often white. some of the reasons at the bottom of some of their handiwork. that is not unusual for someone that does embroidery. at the same tim

and that's where they were located in south carolina. and to come a little bit further westward in a different area and that particular moment in texas and mexico. tell us what luxury good inside of them for ashley. and it turns out the kind that are incredibly nutritious for ashley to use these to save out hunger and perhaps to trade for other things. and what was the biggest umbel this thing that rose pack for ashley that day. in ashley and her suffering and that she was working by insisting that she was living with her kids. so rose gave ashley half of the items i just listed. with the eve of the separation ashley pass it down to her granddaughters and ruth a free woman in philadelphia came the first wave of the great migration and embroider the sack with the story that i just told you in the black mother's eternal love. >> my great-grandmother wrote dear ashley it's a fact at age nine in south carolina a dress three handfuls of pecans a brave person told her if you fail to make me mad i will leave. she wore the fire again. ashley is

. >>> the mystery surrounding a prominent south carolina family takes another turn. the father whose wife and son were murdered allegedly hires a hit man for an insurance scam noath >>> and from the eighth grade quarterback already landing big college money to the big rescue involving reba to new help getting all the ketchup out of the packet, it's thursday, september 16th. >>> good thursday morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> and i'm faith abubey. mona is off. we want to begin with that historic mission to space. >> for the first time ever, crew made up only of tourists is orbiting the earth, spacex launch, a complete success. >> new images coming in from the big adventure. the first all civilian crew in space is now settling into orbit after their historic blastoff. >> inspiration4. >> overnight the crew reaching nearly 364 miles above earth slightly deeper into space than expected and farther than richard branson and jeff bezos traveled and even farther than the space station. the crew using the stuffed golden retriever to know when they hit zero gravity. 14

martin savidge starts us off from south carolina. >> reporter: his life in a scandalous spiral.lex murdoch surrenders to law enforcement to face charges in a scheme in which he was the target a warrant for arrest detailed the botched murder attempt meant to provide millions of dollars of life insurance money attorneys say. murdoch arranged for cur missmith to shoot and kill him but the plan failed because the shot wasn't fatal. smith is charged with an assisted suicide, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. he has asked for a court-appointed attorney. now another twist. south carolina law enforcement division announcing the opening of another investigation involving the murdoches. the 2018 death of the family's long time housekeeper gloria who died in what was described as a trip and fall accident on the murdoch property. >> alec murdoch told the story that she had tripped and fell over the dogs and trusted him. >> reporter: at the time the death said to be due to natural causes but then the prosecutor said in letter that th

police checked toll plazas and license plate readers between south carolina and maryland.o sign of maliek's jaguar anywhere on what would have been a 15-hour round-trip. >> would you say that he had a good alibi? >> yes. >> maliek kearney was free to go. the maryland detectives were back to square one. at the beginning of what would become an incredibly complex homicide case. an investigation that would span a half dozen states, involve hundreds of witnesses, multiple government agencies, and a mountain of forensic evidence. >> coming up -- could karlyn's top secret work have cost her her life? >> i wondered if she was targeted or knew something she wasn't supposed to know. >> i remember specifically them telling me, did she come into a lot of money that she couldn't explain? >> when "dateline" continues. phone, you just end up living with it? i don't think so. verizon lets you trade in your broken phone for a shiny new one. you break it... we upgrade it. you dunk it? crash it? yikes. doggy bone-it? ha-ha! slam it, wham it, strawberry jamit? we upgrade it! every customer.

tom rice of south carolina, pursuant to h. res. 8, mr. rice will vote nay. >> as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote yes on the slotkin amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. russ fulcher of idaho, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. fulcher will vote nay on the slotkin amendment number 15. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. morelle yes, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. morelle will vote aye on the slotkin amendment. >> as the member designated by mr. carter of texas pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. carter will vote no on the passage of the slotkin amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. cardenas, pursuant to h. res. 8,

from day one, cornwallis' orders were to focus on focusing on south carolina and georgia. he could go into north carolina if he thought it would help him with subduing the rebellion and south carolina and georgia. so, cornwallis is going to be the major player in the war in the south from the time he takes command in june of 1780, down into the late spring of 1781 and on until he arrives at yorktown in the summer of 1781. clinton meanwhile's come back to new york. he never saw cornwallis again until after yorktown. that was the southern strategy. that is what the british were trying to accomplish. i tried to argue in the book they came reasonably close spreads and things went wrong that maybe we can talk about a little later on this evening. but at the beginning of 1781, clinton was far more competent than washington was of what was going to happen that year. clinton later said that he began 1781 more confident of british success than any of the other four years that he was commander. clinton ultimately thought was if the french and the americans could be prevented in a vic

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. rice of south carolina, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. rice will vote nay on johnson amendment number 36. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts seek recognition? ms. clark: as the member designated by ms. frankel, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. frankel will vote yes on the johnson amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from indiana seek recognition? mrs. walorski: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. wagner of missouri, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mrs. wagner of missouri will vote no on the johnson amendment number 36. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. tonko: mr. speaker, as the member designated by representative morrelle, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that representative morrelle will vote aye on the johnson amendment. and

they knew -- nancy writes the history south carolina revolutionary war multivolume history and americanirst decade of the 19th century, ramsey himself was a prisoner of war in occupied charleston. warren was witnessed to a lot of occupied boston and newport. it would have known from their personal experience, the nuances during this period photos in their interest as the ruling elite of the new republic after the war not to cast the struggle itself like that. it's like adams quote you opened with. he writes that something -- going to protect us but the revolution was complete before the first was fired. everyone turned against the british well before the war and the aftereffects of this change in people's lives. people, it was in their interest to create this narrative of a patriotic revolutionary to which people could claim and their own experiences didn't necessarily that put them claim "afterwards" and say i was always a patriot or always on the side. in reading one of the things are going back through with an eye toward how they define loyalty and political region, it's how very few

police a prominent south carolina attorney alex murdaugh was shot in the head three months after hisson were shot and killed. charles watson is live in atlanta with his ongoing mystery. >> a family member tells us that alex murdaugh is expected to survive after being shot once in the head on saturday. this unfolding around 140 yesterday afternoon on a rural road west of charleston in hampton county south carolina in an attorney tells multiple outlets that alex murdaugh was traveling to charleston when he had car issues, the 53-year-old had a flat tire when a truck drove past that vehicle circling back with someone inside shooting the prominent south carolina lawyer in the head. south carolina law enforcement division said he was airlifted with the superficial head wound in savannah georgia but he is reportedly awake and talking, this estate investigators actively probe the murders of his wife and son maggie and paul shot to death on the families property in south carolina in june and the 911 audio you hear alex murdaugh after he discovered. >> it's bad i've been up through. >> are th

>> that's not going to help him at all, especially in south carolina. drugs or alcohol yourself is not a defense. only involuntary intoxication, if somebody else drugged you. now, that varies a bit state by state, but this is going to get him nowhere in south carolina. >> and what about the defense that he was out of his mind with grief about his wife and his son' death? >> that's not going to work either. emotional distress, generally speaking, is not a defense. when you think about the self-hit plot that martin just laid out, where murdaugh went out and got one of his former clients, this guy, curtis smooth to shoot him, to try to defraud the insurance company. that's not a spur of the moment crime. that's not what lawyers call a heat of the moment crime. that's something that takes real planning and premeditation, so ultimately, no, that's not going to be a defense either. >> and even hoe ththough the wo watching, this is being handled at state of carolina level. any reason for the fbi to get involved? >> most murders are actually not federal crimes

his body found on a south carolina road. police say the double-murders prompted them to take another look at the case. murdaugh's arraignment for the botched suicide is scheduled for this afternoon. andrew? faith? >> so many unanswered questions. >>> the nba champion milwaukee bucks making news off of the court. the team hiring lisa buyington for the play-by-play. giving props t the bucs in taking the first steps to make hires like hers the norm. the miami heat uses rielle hunt yer for some of the fill-in broadcasts. she does more of the color commentary. this is the first time we're seeing a woman take the helm as a tv announcer. this is awesome. >> good for her. >>> coming up, the latest baseball pitch for a hall of shame. >>> first, the video that is showing us how easy it is to return just about anything at costco. you're watching "world news now." do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully fo

of enslaved people and invade georgia and south carolina and they dole these out and those who returnheir loyalty to reclaim their property and even for some people who stuck with the crown even before the occupation with former revolutionaries and the enslaved people to do it they will during this period alternately new york and charleston have the power to take away or agitate to sees the material and goods there is a lot of using people's property people's wealth as a way to entice or punish them alternatively. >> and how the british managed to occupy during the war quick. >> it depends on the region and most of the places i am looking at they didn't go in that much further than the territory of the actual city from boston they never really control beyond the auspices of the city itself and in philadelphia as well and what we look at as the inner suburbs but the lines are pretty narrow. and in the south it's a little more all-encompassing. they occupy georgia up to augusta they occupied south carolina with the frontier settlement so at certain points so it's varied from place to pl

florida, georgia, texas, alabamh and south carolina.h the changes of the election procedures to the department of justice before they could implement. and then the and immediately adopted the voting procedures that to this day made it harder for people of color to cast ballots in the states and the freedom to vote act that was just introduced in the senate that relates to the times and changes we are seeing election procedures. most states have a history of adopting restrictive efforts now on access to healthcare. we have seen for example in texas the adoption of a new restriction on reproductive health, abortion, that is likely to be replicated in states throughout many parts of the south and regions of the country as well. so those things are. so then you have a remarkable presence of african-american and hispanic citizenry. florida and texas and georgia together each has over 100,000 african-americans. and in some other states and african-american and latino are 60 percent of those are denied access to healthcare and only 41 percent

areas getting an inch of rain in just 20 minutes >>> alex murdaugh surrendering to police, the south carolina attorney accused in a bizarre suicide-for-hire plot. what happened at his first court appearance late today >>> new body cam of a 22-year-old woman and her fiance weeks before she disappeared on a cross-country trip what it shows. >>> border showdown. the governor of texas demanding border crossings shut down as thousands of migrants wait under a bridge to be processed. and the heartbreaking image of baby and toddler found abandoned. >>> the first all-civilian crew orbiting the earth inside spacex's historic mission >>> the holiday shopping crunch arriving early >>> and "rolling stone" updating its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time what do you think about the brand-new number one >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone the debate over covid booster shots may be coming to a head an fda advisory panel set to meet tomorrow to examine key questions. whether a third dose of the pfizer vaccine is safe or even necessary for everyone they'r

the south carolina law enforcement division made a stunning announcement. found something. they didn't say what. but as a result, they were going to reopen an investigation into another unvsolved death from 2015. >> what is your emergency. >> somebody laying out. >> we'll get an officer headed out that way to see what's going on. >> i don't know about nothing like that, but somebody going to hit him. somebody going to hit it. >> 19-year-old steven smith was found dead in the middle of the road in the middle of the night just outside. there were no witnesses but among class mates and friends, there was a lot of talk police files show. and one family name kept surfacing, leading investigators obviously frustrated as interview recordings suggest. >> do a lot of people seem nervous to say the name murdoch? >> yes, sir. >> and i understand they're pretty big down there, but i'm out of charleston and that name doesn't mean anything to me. so i want you to feel like, you know, you don't have anything to worry about. >> no one has been arrested and no evidence link

i will go with south carolina. my wife loves the beach, i would go with that. or israel.e the biblical sites she head so much about. next question, tracy knight from indiana. >> if you have a hundred dollars in your hand. >> i would give it to my daughter, that is where it will wind up going anyway. i just walk over to her, and give it to her, get it over with. or, i would go to bypass golf in south carolina, see if i could get a good deal on a used putter. >> condition of our country is not what anyone would call ideal there is a lot of division. do you feel that would be political problem? financial problem? or spiritual? trey: a proportion problem, we see more division than unity, we believe it is more pervasive. because we see more pain than joy, we believe it exists more, we believe conflict is winning. with a do have challenges in our country, but to be certain. but i would rather have our challenges than anyone else's. the american people are far less divided than the politics and the media. but what all you see is bad, you think bad is all there. is to me, it is a

. >> south carolina was majority black state.th carolina, louisiana, mississippi were a majority black state. ground zero for the black community during reconstruction charleston, south carolina. georgia alabama and florida were almost majority black state. there's a real concentration of black power reverend clyburn said in those six, seven states. that was true even before the civil war. south carolina's nickname was country because it was so full of black people and that was because of economy and productivity of the sea islands and expertise of africans brought to south carolina to grow rice but there's also a sizable brief black community. we know that ame church, first black denomination born in philadelphia, richard allen and it's formerly born in the year 1860. well, in charleston there is a church and in 1822, a man named denmark as you know, was accused of plotting insurrection in charleston. how did he get free? he got free, listen to this because this is one of the ironies of american history and complexity of slavery

. >>> also ahead, the double murder mystery surrounding a prominent south carolina takes a new turn.t we learned about the husband. >>> the stunning security failures at this prison that >>> back now with video evidence of what police in louisiana say was a man faking injuries after being hit by a tesla. the driver left the scene and later showed the video from his car's camera to authorities. the man is now charged with staging an accident. >>> a major development in the murder mystery involving a well-known family from south carolina. the moth ever and son were murd. >> reporter: this morning, a new twist in the mystery surrounding a double murder involving a prominent family from south carolina. alex murdoch, whose wife and son were killed in june and who called 911 over the weekend saying he was shot in the head, is now breaking his silence. releasing a statement saying, the murders of my wife and son have caused a difficult time in my life. i have made a lot of decisions that i truly regret. i'm resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle that has been exac

and it swirls around a prominent south carolina family.legal dynasty, alex murdaugh, is facing a new state investigation into the money questions. and investigators keep digging into all the other twists and turns involving the family. with more, here's cnn's martin savidge. >> reporter: this is a story with more turns than a south carolina country road. it begins in the small town of hampton, just over 100 years ago when residents like randolph murdaugh, as the 14th circuit solicitor, most states call them district attorneys. for more than 85 years, three generations of murdaughs with the supreme law of more than 230 square miles of country. >> it's pretty well recognized in law that in criminal justice, there is no figure more powerful than the prosecutor. >> reporter: keeping residents of the legal straight and narrow across five counties kept the murdaugh family well connected to law enforcement. and probably know each other pretty well socially, too? >> that's very often the case here, yes. >> reporter: the family's grip on the solici

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this family murder in south carolina.ttorney alex murdaugh shot in the head over the weekend come months after the murders of his wife and son and a day after he resigned from his law firm. what is going on in south carolina with this family and this story? steve harrigan digging in for us in hampton, south carolina and he has the latest. hi, steve. >> there is a new twist to this multiple murder story every single day. three months ago, two of the murdaugh family members were killed. 22-year-old paul and his mother gunned down on the family's 1700 acre hunting lodge. now on saturday the father, alex murdaugh, claims he was shot. he said he was repairing his car on the side of the road and a trurk circled around and took a shot at him. he has left the hospital with a superficial head wound and gone into rehab and he has been actually fired from this law firm behind me. they are accusing him of trying to steal money from the firm his own grandfather started. keep in mind this family has also been linked to two other deaths

speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from south carolina. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for one minute. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to commend chairman ted deutch and i'm grateful to be the ranking member of the subcommittee of middle east, north africa and global terrorism. i appreciate his heart-felt comments. but i also -- i've been there and seen the example of the terrorist rocket attacks by hamas from gaza with iranian rockets. i've seen the effect on mothers and families and so this is something that should be addressed and i appreciate mr. hoyer bringing up that indeed 4,400 rockets, 400 a day. the reason for that is the weakness of the biden-harris government. they are putting the people of israel at risk. and then i also believe what we see with mr. hoyer, he's being undercut. we have -- and i sympathize with him, that his political party, the democratic party, has become under the influence, extraordinary, bizarre influence of a group of anti-semites who also hate the state

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and just hours after surrendering, a south carolina lawyer is released on bail in a bizarre case. he's accused of hiring a hitman to kill himself. now raising questions about the deaths of his wife, son and the family housekeeper. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim acosta and you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> let's go right to the capital and a new warning about potential violence on saturday. our congressional correspondent ryan nobles is following the breaking story. ryan, the department of homeland security issued a new intelligence bulletin a short while ago. >> even though capital police feel they have everything under control ahead of this justice rally, the department of homeland security warning all local law enforcement involved in protecting the capital that even though there is new online chatter for violence that could occur saturday, they need to be prepared for things to get out of control as soon as tomorrow. tonight, former president donald trump is stoking tensions t

and they were georgia and south carolina, especially 60% of the population in south carolina with african-american 60% um we will temporarily recognize your right. as long as you recognize that in principle. slavery is incompatible with the values of the american revolution and over time. we all agree it needs to go away. for now, we'll we will end the slave trade and but that the principle itself needs to be established. he was persuaded not to do that. it's brought up in the first congress and they have a big debate about this but that the original question what would have happened i think south carolina and georgia and maybe virginia. would have decided not not to join the union that was created in 1787. so let's turn to we have two related questions and they really are about the fact that to reach a consensus that brought us declaration of independence. there was a significant compromise between the founding band of brothers with who had many things on which they disagree but they compromised to create the nation. how do you see that kind of? deliberation compromise what's happened to it today

dianne gallagher is live in south carolina. this is a sad and alarming case and complicated. now responding to those claims? >> reporter: yeah, jim and erica, there are a lot of players involved vo in and as you said new investigations keep popping up around alex murdaugh. as state investigators began looking into his alleged suicide for hire, insurance fraud scheme and the murders of his wife and son, they developed information that has caused them to open new investigations. like a criminal investigation into the 2018 death of the murdaugh family housekeeper gloria saterfield. she died saver a trip and fall incident inside of the murdaugh home. well they're now looking into the circumstances of her death after the coroner made a request and the state law enforcement division determined new information there. well the attorney for the saterfield family said that this defense that appears to be laid out right now by alex murdaugh's attorneys saying that he had this 20 year opioid addiction, they don't buy it. >> that is just nothing but lawyer spin casting a defense that does

former south carolina governor and congressman mark sanford discusses the future of the republican party in his book "two roads diverged." he's interviewed by charlie den. then at 11:00 a.m. eastern dunbar ortiz says that america is not a nation founded by and for immigrants but rather a settler of colonialism and slavery. watch american history tv and book tv every weekend on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or visit c-span . org. >> next action look at the supreme court's october term hosted by the kato institute as part of their symposium. this is about an hour

the occupied south carolina as far back as 96 which was a frontier settlement, sorry, south carolina as far back as 96, and were able to at certain points exercise control over those entire states. and so it really buried from place to place. and then there are places -- varied -- both sides claimed regions are in new york city for about 100 miles in either direction were kind of no man's land where places where militias either loyal to the king or to the revolutionaries kind of fought one another for control, and neither side really had a clear advantage. >> we had a question about disaffection amongst the citizens and want to build on what you just said because i'm wondering when rebel and british armies were contesting these no man lands, to what extent did the lead to either disaffection or did it lead people to side with one government or the other? >> i think both. there were certain amount of people who were willing to side with whichever side was stronger overlooked more ready to win the war. i found correspondence between family members in different places where they say all

now, on book tv author interview program afterwards, former south carolina governor and u.s. representative mark sanford reflects on his political career and discusses the future of the republican party. he's interviewed by former republican congressman charlie dent of the pennsylvania. afterwards is a weekly interview program with the relevant guesthouse interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> great to be with my good friend, former governor, former congressman mark sanford and we are here this morning to discuss his book, "two roads diverged". i'm really excited to talk about this because i know it talks about second chances and i noticed congressman sanford was a great admirer of the author robert frost whose classic lines of course was, to rhodes diversion in the woods and i took the one last traveled by and that's made all the difference. that's what this book seems to be about, your personal journey, your story, your highs and your loves and i've always been impressed by your willingness to discuss. you can often do that with a certain-- [inaudib

he's born on a plantation outside of charleston, south carolina. he's again trade to the carpenter, skilled trade, flees to the british lines. the british were offering freedom to the enslaved people of the revolutionaries who fled behind the lines, who were willing to serve in the army, serves in a british regiment as kind of an auxiliary or grunt kind of a worker, then ends up escaping to new york, where he marries another freed slave, works as a carpenter, a hairdresser, a man servant, eventually sails in a whale boat and ends up kind of reinventing himself as a free person, ends up leaving with the british and living out the rest of his life in nova scotia in a free black community. then there's tons of people like this, kind of that are, you know, totally kind of changing their circumstance through the occupation. >> that raises the question in my mind about source material. you know, in some ways it is easier to write about the guys like sir henry clanton or folks like that because they kept voluminous papers, george washington, of course, bu

there's not one road race named after me in south carolina . i have consistently bought the establishments but i was a squish, party establishments and here's a telling thing . after my loss in next night i had a reorganized tour in the capital and so i was there with. home giving the tour. i rounded the corner and who should be there but jeff flake and his wife giving a dome tour as well. so i don't think you've ever lost an election but if you have, they treat you like you have now rigor mortis or you have a terminal illness or somebody close inthe family . everybody that day was solicitous like i'm so sorry. so jeff and his wife pulled me aside, i'm so sorry and we got into a conversation there like we really want to have another term in the senate but we saw the handwriting on the wall based on what happened to you and others and we didn't want that. so we're getting out but telling more about their lives and i said it was a weird one because people would come up and say are you for or against and i'd say i'm neither for nor against him, i'

and georgia with the rebel rebellion in south carolina and georgia so cornwallis is going to be theyer in the war in the south from the time he takes command in june of 1780 down into the late spring of 1781 until he arrives at yorktown clinton comes back to new york and never saw cornwallis again so that is the strategy and what the british were trying to accomplish. they came reasonably close. some things went wrong but at the beginning of 1781, clinton was far more confident than washington was of what was going to happen that year. they began 1781 more confident of the british success than any of the other four years that he was commander and i think what >> they will accept an invitation from neutral nations in europe to come to a peace conference. into recognize an independent united states along the lines of that map that i showed her maybe would not agree to the independence of thed united states. this with a conference primarily of the european monarchs who were not very friendly to the republican government cannot is what the united states hot a point. >> i thank you answe

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further, south carolina and possibly north carolina as well.maine thought that was in all strategy because he believed, generally correct in this that a greater percentage in the southern colonies remained loyal to anyone that was the case in colonies. they were tied to economically and through the anglican church and others so jermaine by going into the south, and many of these would willingly bear arms and since any of the troops, 8000 troops relinquished could be replaced hopefully by loyalists, some of whom would come in to the regular british army and became known as -- others would go into newly struck oil and the idea was the british army would drive the rebels out and loyalists militias would come in behind us and take possession area pass by the area. it worked out, this is assuming they got their independence might have work life following the war. the area in red was the area that would be the united states and everything else in white would be possessed so the seven strategy panned out south carolina below virginia were retaken, alr