the current statehouse twels the two previous statehouses stand on highest point in the city. which would have afforded a commanding view of the harbor and theed surrounding hand escape in the 17th and 18th centuries this would have been the tallest building in town. it is still the tallette. the statehouse was built in the mid-of a war which complicate the let efforts to build and conduct government. the first general of the of the sem bring was 1779. every making this it the the oldest statehouse in continued use. we're standing in the northeast corner of the bill i believeding. this is a space while in primary use by the maryland senate it's national significance and what thaks in maryland's most important room are for the events that took place in the period between insofar 1783 and august of 1784 the. the primary one gaining most national attention is what occurs on december 23rd, 783 when george washington returns his military commission no congress. washington's resignation which took place in in room was an event really without precedent in the history of the world. th

the statehouse actually opened for business in 1857. the ground floor, the first floor and most of the building was completed minus the center of the statehouse. as the height grew, so did the time that it took to complete. so the legislature, both the house and senate, moved into the chambers in 1857 as did the governor. he moved into the brand-new governor's office and that first governor to reside in this building was salmon p. chase and later became the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court. i'd like to now take you inside the governor's office and take a look at the history that resides in this space. not only connected to some of ohio's historic governors and our country governor as well but also to abraham lincoln. let's take a look. it was in this room that abraham lincoln came to visit the sitting governor at the time, governor dennison. it was february 13th, 1861. he was in this statehouse, sitting across from governor dennison behind me. he was delivered a telegram and lincoln opened the telegram and indicated that the elec

this is the center of the floor plan or layout of the rooms and this statehouse and many other statehouses. the lobby symbolizes accessibility of government to all the people. the house and senate chambers are on either side of the lobby. reflecting, perhaps, the by lateral nature and some would say the tension built into the governmental system. they are two rooms and that's what we have here in the building. one of the interesting things about the inside of the building is was planned before the inventions of plumbing and electricity and before our government had become so complex with agencies a very little office space. it's really a large, ceremonial shell for the legislative purchase. the major rooms were the library behind us and the house of representatives and the senate chambers. originally, there was almost nothing else. behind me is john c. calhoon, who many people would say is the philosophical father, the most prominent spokesman for southern political sentiment in the 1850s. the symbolism of this building begins with the laying of the cornerstone. the constitution, bibles, n

it was here on the statehouse grounds for more than 100 years. roger b. tawny himself, a controversial figure and maryland native. he decision. the decision was going to uphold slavery and also said that people like scott, african-americans were not due the rights of citizens. it is a decision that has linked him to confederate ideals for years. the statehouse trust oversees these grounds. they voted via e-mail to remove that statue. the tawny statue, again, stood here since 1872. the next stop based upon reports here is into storage. now, governor larry hogan did call for the removal of the tawny statue in the wake of the violence in charlottesville. again, as for right now, we're told it's held in storage as of right now as they decide what to do with that statue and also the discussion has been what to do with this spot behind us that does sit empty. what could go there. there are talks of abolitionists, like harriet taking that spot. justin finch, news 4. back to you. >>> we're also watching the president's reaction to all this. he will be at camp dav

and we are all very could go nizant that we are the oldest statehouse in continuous use. and it's something we take pride in and we work to make sure that both marylanders and people in the entire nation know the significance of the building. >>> welcome to the new york state capitol. here atop the state street hill in albany this amundsoning building has serve as a center for the new york state government since the mid-19th century. the capitol took 32 years to build, starting in 1867 and deemed completed in 1899 by governor theodore roosevelt. construction materials such as granite and marble came from all over the country and all over the world. five architects worked on the building. it reflects the different architectural styles. we're standing on the eastern approach. this stairway contains 77 steps and we're sold the 77 was chosen to kmemright the year 1777 when new york became a state. the stairway is also important in the history of this building because it's said that governor theodore roosevelt used to run up the steps and he would challenge reporters if they c

tawny was removed from the maryland statehouse around 2:00 this morning. tawny was a supreme court justice. he wrote the dred scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to african-americans. the statehouse trust board voted by e-mail wednesday to have it removed. governor larry hogan says it was the right thing to do. >>> we have much more on the latest on the situation in charlottesville in a few more minutes. we're also news in spain. police killed five suspects after a second attack in that country. this time it happened in the popular seaside resort of cam brils. media reports say a vehicle hit a police car and people nearby. government officials say the five suspects killed were armed with explosive vests. police detonated the explosives and say the suspects are linked to the terrifying van attack in barcelona. >>> barcelona is just to the north of that seaside resort where the first attacks and people running for their lives after a van careened down a sidewalk hitting pedestrians. so far, three people have been arrested but police say

he would be calling on the statehouse trust to re move the statue of roger tawn any from the statehouse grounds effective immediately. in light of that one statue there are dozens across the country. it is right in the district across the judiciary square metro pike protestors on both sides of the alley when it comes to this issue they feel a lot of rage and anger at least some of them do when they discuss it. do these confederate statues honor and celebrate the con ephedras i part of history. this is footage of an event that took place since the violence in charlottesville. it's at a statue being tommed over, a confederate statue outside of a north carolina courthouse. they are kicking the statue as it lay s on the ground. that statue was in its place since 19246789 it represented a confederate soldier who fought on the civil war and on that statue were the words, the confederate states of america. if we step away from the violent and unlawful examples that we have seen on both sides of this there are opinion that have opinions and starnses either supporting or opposed to these confede

julie pace in madison, wisconsin, statehouse correspondent scott bower in atlanta, ap national political reporter bill barrow, also here on the set with the conversation we have columnist for "the "new york times"" brett stevens. let me begin with you, julie. anything new here, or are these a lot of the same republicans that said donald trump would never run, donald trump would never win the primary, donald trump would never win the general election? >> well, we tried to talk to republicans who really were across the peck trum on trump during the election.

live: john gonzalez is after a busy night at the statehouse. john: good morning.night m.v.p. or. a statue vested here for 150 years on the ground that the house in annapolis, in fact, right in front of the main entrance of the state house has now been reduced -- well, look for yourself. now a box covering the stone base. crews are doing their best to a small group of spectators literally cheered when it was delicately hoisting the statue of supreme court justice base.taney off his payroll challenge to get into the area because of the large trees that surround the controversial statue. the second roger taney statue to come down this week along with three confederate statues removed yesterday in baltimore. it was back in 1857 that tony ruled against -- taney ruled against slave drives. -- dred scott. the governor had a change of heart and call for it to be removed. two days after a vote for it is now gone. it is stored now at in archives facility in maryland. it cost about $80,000 to have it removed. reporting live washington." autria: john, thank you. in spain, off

the removal the result of a statehouse vote held by e-mail. tawny, of course, a controversial -- a supreme court chief justice got who wrote the dred scott decision denying african-american citizens rights and upheld slavery. the statue has stood here on statehouse grounds since 1872. the tawny statue, of course, comes the same week as baltimore moved forward. there was a replica of at this point, no word on where the statue will go in the meantime. we're live here in annapolis. i'm justin finch. news 4. back to you in the studio. >> justin, thank you. >>> one of the virginia state police troopers killed near the violent outbreak in charlottesville will be buried today. one will be in richmond for trooper bates. cullen and bates were in a chopper that went down on saturday. bathe was from northern virginia. the funeral for lieutenant cullen will be tomorrow also in the richmond area. there was no distress call from the helicopter before it crashed. investigators are trying to figure out the cause. >>> happening today, a major announcement from

at the statehouse, there was a -- entangled. it took over an hour. at the statehouse, there was a highway on paper which could have alleviated all of the congestion. lack of public support kept it in the piles until the people of essex county got it out into the light of day. here, you see on the map highway , 128, starting from gloucester, it swings in a wide 80 mile arc around the ring of greater -- around the rim of greater boston. the last section is now nearing completion. today john smith can leave his , family in the morning and travel safely and quickly over a modern express highway to his job. because new roads pump increased values into adjacent land, he travels past property whose values have increased 100 times over. longest highway sprouted seven , -- a long this highway, sprouted seven industrial centers occupied by some of the countries leading manufacturers. other centers are now being developed. new wealth and new revenues have come to the old new england towns along the highway. and not to forget our mr. smith and thousands more lik

it's on statehouse grounds. governor hogan went into this debate this afternoon putting out this afte call on the statehouse trust to basically remove that statue immediately and then as you said we're in front of this statue, across from the judiciary square metro stop. this is albert pike . they pointed out that this is on national park service land and that they would like to see it removed. this was the mayor's press secretary and they'd like to see basically public input used to determine which historical figure should replace this statue. i heard you both referencing it but let's take a look one more time at this footage from north carolina. the thing that really stands out to me is that this violent protest pulling down this confederate statue, this took place after the violence in charlottesville. they're kicking the stat eurks pulling it down and the point that is really important to make is that take away the violent and unlawful efforts to debate and have a conversation about these confederate statues

taney at the maryland statehouse. our maryland bureau chief brad bell picks up team coverage now live in acin his. what happens there now? brad: brad: this is what everybody is talking about. this is the roger b. taney just outside the old historic entrance to the state house. the governor offices have windows above it. two years ago the governor said it was political correctness run amok. now he says the time is right. roger b. taney was the fifth chief justice of the united states. dred scott was a slave who sued for his freedom and they became tied together in history in ruled in dred scott's case saying african-american could not be considered citizens of the united states. ever since then the statue has been controversial since it went up in 1872. but never more so than now. >> it shouldn't be in a place of honor. it belongs in a museum. not the state house lawn. >> activists murray launched a petition drive to remove the statue on sunday. now it has nearly 800 signatures. yesterday another boost when they offere

confederate era chief justice at the maryland statehouse be the next to get the boot? the governor just made the call. what is that thing? an eight-legged beast has the experts and the locals stumped. 5:00". on your side. alison: right now the search is on for the person who scrawled this graffiti right here on the lincoln memorial. early this morning, d.c. bureau chief sam ford live on the national mall with the latest on the investigation developing now. sam, what have you learned? sam: the united states park police are handling the investigation. defacing federal property is a crime which apparently happened here overnight. it's not the first time they vandalized the lincoln memorial. it was a black sharpie last winter and green splatter plaint -- paint four years ago. >> it looks to be an expletive directed at perhaps law enforcement. sam: he says it may be tied to other gra itty found at 14th and constitution. at the memorial it was discovered around 4:30 this morning. >> witnesses that may you know, the lincoln memorial. there are people here all the time in the

gunmen, dylann roof, a white supremacist, posed with the confederate battle removed carolina's statehouse month ashooting. and officials from new orleans to dallas to baltimore tomontgoe issue. in biloxi, mississippi, members of the missgicaucus boycotted af legislator5 states because the mississippi stflag e emblem. those advocating for removal saa past of racial segregation, slavery, and white sopponents ss rewriting historobliterate symbn pride that pay all much to the confederacy's garrett epps grewe confederate capital city of richmond, virginia. writer, lawyerresearched the ime confeda recent conversation, hed me the veneration of the and said, it's time to take down the stat , capitol of the confederacy. whatn terms of those statues? garrett: you have to understand that forch lived a block and a half from the equestrian statue of lee that is the center of monument avenue. everywhere we wente going past confederate generals -- gen. steward, gen. lee, gen. jackson. the school i went to divided into two teams. you were either one of the lees or you were one of the jacksons. our school

president mike miller isn't happy with how larry hogan went about removing a statue of taney from statehouse grounds. in a letter he said the decision should have been made in public and the members of the general assembly should have had a chance to way in on the decision. he wrote the 1857 dred scott decision that upheld the violence in charlottesville has a priest with the diocese of arlington reflecting on the past. he was one of member of the k.k.k. >> this is a quiet enclave of worship. >> just accept it for what it is. ask for the forgiveness. >> members are shaken by the news that a priest for 25 years admits he's a member of the k.k.k. >> he should keep staying as a pasture. that is in the past. everyone needs forgiveness and a second chance. >> he says he was a k.k.k. member 40 years ago ped sehe he thinks back to the burning crosses. >> if he doesn't act on them, that is fine. >> the father says a terrible current event triggered memories and says the images from charlottesville brought back the memories of a bleak period in my life i would prefer to forget. the reality is we cann

in fact george rountree went to the statehouse and king concocted a piece of legislation called the grandfather clause. this legislation basically took voting rights way from blacks until 1965. not just in north carolina but drops south because it was copied by states all over the mason-dixon. the said huge repercussions. it had huge right repercussion right here locally and of course it took the african-americanouto community in about a thousand people we know were driven there people put on the train they vanish from wilmington. there were local leaders and lawyers, preachers, funeral directors, local politicians, the people who to this point have been the african-american policemen, firemen, sheriff's deputy and so on. and wilmington went back to being ruled by white supremacist so, that's a big legacy to overcome. one of the things i think about since so many of the people involved on the white side went on to have very prosperous lives, children and grandchildren all who stayed here. they built their wealth, some like the keenan family became great philanthropists. we great deal to limit t

in fact george rowntree later judge rowntree went to the statehouse and he concocted a piece of legislationpopularly called the grandfather clause. this single piece of legislation basically took voting rights away from blacks until 1965. not just north carolina but throughout the south. this had a huge national repercussion. it had a huge repercussion right here locally where the economy was sitting and of course it took the african-american community about 1000 people we know with were driven to hanover county and included people who were put on the train. these were local leaders. they were lawyers. they were preachers. they were funeral directors and local politicians. they were the people who up to this point it and the african and american alderman the african-american firemen and sheriffs deputies and so on. .. >> the family was gone and he came back in 1925 searching for properties that he said he own. he said he never own property here but i saw the deed. >> so, you have a situation where the intelligence and leadership of the black community is wiped out for generation. from there

way to appeal to republicans after he was criticized for removal in-- removing the statue from statehouse grounds. they denied citizenship to african-americans . >>> a supporter of president. trump is fired from his job because of a facebook post. or his comments over the line? >> wusa9 at 5:00 on friday evening, we are back in 2 >>> another day, another example of online behavior impacting people's lives. >> he was fired for what he wrote on facebook, it was a thread for people talking about meeting out to protest the presidents rally. he wrote you are all pathetic. can't wait to drive through. we will be sweet in this crowd, i name my lifted truck trumper. the man seems to be referencing the charlottesville that ended with the death of heather heyer. >> i made several posts and because they stated fact and showed reality rather than living under the fantasy that the liberals seem to, they kept on getting deleted. it was meant to ruffle some feathers, it wasn't meant to cause a scene. >> i have absolutely no desire to drive my truck through an angry group of people that will do harm one

now, if they go to boston and they stand on the steps of the statehouse and they're there peacefully,i'm not talking about people going to boston, and i didn't want to make this a referendum on black lives matter. i'm talking about people who are organizers in greater boston who are loved by people who agree and disagree with their politics because people involved in this leadership are quality in boston. they're not flying in to make the problem. we're talking about boston leaders, boston voters, boston centrists, democrats and republicans coming together to oppose hate speech. and i think to paint some kind of illusion that these are a workers' party or a communist party -- even if they were, that's not the point. maybe your facts aren't correct. >> well, here's the issue. that's all flourly and nice -- flowery and nice if the people that he's saying are going to be there are the only people there. bottom line is that's probably not going to happen. these other groups have instigators that they shove into these things, and they go hay wire. that's exactly what happened in charlottes

we've got the republican majority of statehouses explain to someone how conservatism is lost. i remember very well when we were in this position just a few years ago i got to congress in 2001 and ran a conservative think tank in the goldwater institute. we knew each other then and during the 1990s the party was animated by the ideas and i still remember and talk about in the book the chairman of the ways and means committee. they promoted it like a concert tour where they were debating the merits of the flat tax. the party stood for principle. it was federal intrusion into the local education and that was anathema to conservative and mike said i feel sometimes like we are called up to the battlefront only to be told the illusion is over on the prescription drug benefit that added about $7 trillion. we lost our way and because we were not fiscally conservative anymore that went out the window and then we had to argue about things like flagburning and to delve into the issues and i think in some ways we've never gotten back. we had the majority in the house and senate. because w

but i used to work across the street from the statehouse and clients would come in and say my parking meter went over we get a ticket. i said no because somebody's going step two blocks away. >> i would put a quarter in the meter and knocked it over into the street once i took a picture and said okay, if i get called on this i have evidence. >> at the risk of sounding like republican, isn't there private industry solution? can we bring in a public-private partnership to bring a new meters at the company's cost and then they get it take? >> is i would should be advocating for in trenton? there's people living on the streets and kids that don't get enough food. it's a disaster. >> and new jersey in does a horrible job in criminal justice. there's a ton of reform that could happen. we can all agree on that. i think that would be better use of $1.2 million check them parking meters. there are cities to bring in private industry solutions to do this and they are big problems. >> eric jackson, how about thinking outside the box. there are bigger problems in your city for sure. >> what you t

a state panel in maryland voted to remove the statue of robert taney from outside the statehouse in annapolis scott decision which said african-americans could not be citizens. >> last night the president tweeted rather than putting pressure on the business people of the manufacturing council and strategy and policy forum i am ending both. both were the president on economic policies and focus on creating new jobs. several members of the business council began resigning after his comments about the events in charlottesville. >> and no one won the powerball drawing last night. the jackpot now climbs to $510 million. that is the eighth largest lottery jackpot ever in u.s. history. it's the fifth largest for powerball. there hasn't been a winner since june. next drawing is on saturday. >> i wonder if you can get tickets on amazon. >> pretty soon you might be able to. >> kevin durant day in seat pleasant. he'll be honored with a parade in his hometown beginning at att 10:00 at the judith p hoyer montessori school. >> thank you for joining us. i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. today is t

he lost his white house campaign from the old statehouse where lincoln began his career. he arrived in washington on inauguration day along the same route lincoln took. he took the oath on lincoln's bible. he named a cabinet that everyone talked about as being a team of rivals like lincoln's was and so there was this very very heavy moment as you all remember at the beginning in which we thought here's another incoming abraham lincoln. he was not the only president we compared barack obama to. he was remarkable to see that analogies out there especially in the beginning when we thought of him as this symbol of hope for me generation. he was cast as sort of a latter-day john kennedy, jack kennedy, camelot's with a beautiful african-american family living in a house that had built built in part by slaves. we thought of him as fdr because he was taking over at a time when it looked like we might head into a great depression and we were at war in iraq and afghanistan. time magazine putting on the cover with a fdr-- fdr example. some called him george washington. remember the

how many people in this room were at the old statehouse when barack obama first announced for president? oh yeah. that's a crowd. this is something. [applause] i should be asking you questions. you guys know him better than i do. what a great. i don't get an audience like this often. you will keep me honest if i get anything wrong. i can't imagine a place better to talk about barack obama and kick off a book about barack obama's presidency than here in the land of lincoln. when he kicked off his presidency he did it emulating the 16th president and he lost his white house in the old statehouse where lincoln began his career and he arrived in washington on inauguration day for on the same route that lincoln took and he took the oath on lincoln's bible and he named a cabinet that everyone talks about being a team of rivals much like lincoln's was and there was a very heady moment, of course, as you all remember here's another coming of abraham lincoln but what was interesting is that he wasn't the only president compared barack obama to, was he. it was remarkable to see the remark analogi

. >> at the maryland statehouse, rodger tawney, he is the former supreme court justice that defended slavery in the dread scott decision. they are supporting plans to remove the statue, it could come down at any time, today the state senate president came out against removing it. saying the statue should stay to educate people about the past. >> wiand we are sorting on out confusion of the possible of renaming of two different schools. you may have heard that's a gofundme account to cover the cost of changing the names of stone wall jackson schools. the chairman of the schoolboard started the account and today, the school district responded saying chairman ryan sawyers is doing it as a private citizen and not on the behalf of the district. >>> hundreds turned out to remember a teenager killed by a stray bullet killer. news 4 jackie benson explains why officers from another state were among those in the crowd tonight. >> somebody out there knows who killed my baby. somebody knows who did it. >> reporter: the plea came from a woman who at that moment was not the veteran police sergeant

yesterday maryland governor larry hogan called for the removal of this roger tawn any statue from the statehouse lawn in supreme court justice who wrote the 18357 dread scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizens to t african-american americanss. meantime, a total of four people are now under ar rest for tearing down in th confederate statue in durham, north carolina on monday. ben carson says his home in industry en a, virginia was recently vandalized with rhetoric about president trump p . the incident happened while he was out of town. he he praised his neighbors for helping clean up most of the mess before he and his wife returned. >> let's take it outside now. it is clear at this point, but tomorrow could be a different story. the possibility of storms could even slow down the evening commute. let's check in now with sue palka who is outside. >> is it still a little l humid. >> he oh, yes, it hasn't gone anymore and it won't be gone tomorrow much that's the why we are highlighting if you see some showers and storms they will likely feature heavy rains showers moving through spots

today he called for the removal of the confederate statue of roger tawn any from the statehouse grounds. tawn any was the supreme court justice who wrote the 1857 dread scott disee situation that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to black report is shedding light on the deadly explosion at a silver springs apartment building last year. the report says investigators found a disconnected vent pipe in a base basement room. natural gas built up in that room where the blast originated but that the cause of the explosion re mains undetermined. the blast killed seven people and hurt dozens of others last august. also new tonight imagine going into your child's room and finding one of these. that is a bullet hole in the window. also a bullet hole in the wall. it happened to a d.c. family this weekend after someone fired multiple gunshots outside their home. one of those bullets shattered the glass, hit the wall right above the bed where a three year old girl would mormly have been sleeping. fortunately she wasn't in the bed at the time of the shoog. as you can imagine her family is still sh

. >>> the governor of maryland is giving the boot to a statue that's outside the statehouse that's a monument to robert b. taney who served as chief justice to the u.s. supreme court. think back to the dred scott decision of 1857 that said african americans can't be u.s. citizens. taney wrote that. today governor larry hogan said we can't hide from our history, but we should not glorify the dark chapters. >>> a statue of the confederate soldier stands outside the old loudoun county courthouse in leesburg. a pro confederate group planned after seeing what's happened in charlottesville they've now canceled that rally and by the way, the naacp wants that statue moved to a nearby confederate cemetery. >>> what will protests of white supremists look like. in virginia a team will review the process for issuing rally permits, but a charlottesville attorney said everyone should be able to have their say peacefully, even a possible terrorist group. here's stephanie ramirez. >> reporter: the keyword is peaceful. as long as you follow the law and are peaceful, the rutherford institute president

she has covered three presidential campaigns and the virginia statehouse. she has also served as vice president of the board of the washington press club foundation. please join me in giving a warm welcome to miss christina bellantoni. [applause] christina: thank you and keep those hands ready because we will be giving a warm welcome to our panel as well. really lucky to have such an esteemed panel and i'm glad to be here. i think it will be a good conversation. in the green room we mostly talked about our children, but i think we will have fun talking about the important conversation in politics right now. what is the future of the republican party, effectively? and what is next? and what does that mean for democrats and those bigger picture political questions so many people are engaged in now more than ever. so i appreciate everybody being here. first in no particular order, i will start with leslie graves, who is the publisher of ballotpedia. the encyclopedia of american politics. she founded the organization to equip everyday citizens with accurate and

virginia statehouse reporter. through what very monumenthave avenue. it's a big tourist attraction in your area. and what is the debate right now? thank you so much for having me this morning i really think it's important to start icing that this conversation that richmond is having is not a new one. virginia does a wonderful job of preserving its history, respecting its history and one oldlook at archives and newspaper articles and see that people in richmond just as soon as the lead monument was erected in 1890, john mitchell jr. who was the editor of the richmond planet editorialized that people were going to be debating about the legacy of treason and blood. have always been met with resistance and debate and controversy. we're just having a contemporary sort of iteration here in richmond. there are folks who have said and the violence that he inflicted on worshipers in south carolina was a jumpoff point for our conversation in richmond now. accuracyhere is some to that. after that happened it was a big issue during our mayoral race. our mayor now

workers carted away a statue of supreme court chief justice roger taney from the grounds of the statehouse in annapolis. taney was the author of the dred scott decision that upheld slavery and ruled that black people could never be citizens. >>> three organizations have pulled events from president trump's mar-a-lago club in florida after his response to charlottesville. the american cancer society cited its commitment to diversity as the motive for dropping its plans. the cleveland clinic also says it will now change venues. >>> overnight financial markets are down, and the barcelona attack was just one of the reasons. they were following the u.s. markets, which is coming off its second worst day this year. experts say investors worldwide are worried about the problems in the trump administration. >>> let's take a break now from that and take a look at your weather. well, one of the tropical storm systems in the atlantic ocean could be one of concern to the u.s. the weather forecasting models do show that it could reach the southeastern coast by sometime late next week. you see it there.

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governor jerry brown and how the democrats have managed to become a minority party in washington, in statehouses, and secret v voted out of the white house. we agree washington is not working. what can we do to fix it? joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. heather mcgee, president of demos and david french, senior writer for the national review. welcome to sunday and a special edition of "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. what was extraordinary about this week was how ordinary it was. the russia investigation heated up again. there was a shake-up in the white house -- again. congress couldn't get anything done -- again. there was talk of reviving the republican health care rewrite -- again. still two things stood out to us. one was that president trump's approval rating hit 33% in the latest quinnipiac poll, his lowest number yet in that poll. and the rapturo

leland: right outside the statehouse there in boston you've got one of the s.w.a.t.om the boston police or one of the other agencies that look an awful lot like tanks. >> the tragedy is there's a little bit of a tinge of red guard in this. the red guard, the mayo red guard, they wanted to purify things in china, and they went into the streets, the mobs went into the streets and yanked people out of automobiles and whipped them because they were stopping. they wanted them to go on red and stop on green because red was the color of the revolution. and they went into homes and killed pet cats and pet birds because they were consuming grain, and people were staiving. so when the mob -- starving. so when the mob takes over, the reason there's so many robert e. lee statues all over south is he was the one guy who was a moderating force. he ran schools for black children to teach him -- teach them how to read out of his mansion, which was illegal are. his wife and mother smuggled slaves out of the confederacy to liberia. he tried to bring healing when the war was over. so t

we have a republican in the white house, republican control of congress, republican majority of statehouses. explain to someone how conservatism is lost. >> or remember very well when we were in this position just a few years ago i got to congress in 2001. i ran a conservative think tank in the 1990s, the goldwater institute. mike pence was running indiana policy review. we knew each other then we were elected together and during the 1990s the party was really animated eye ideas. i still remember and i talk about in the book, bill archer the chairman of the ways & means committee and dick armey later the majority leader, they had a book tour and it was kind of like a book tour but they promoted it like a concert tour like they were debating the merits of the flat tax to the consumption tax. i kept it as a reminder of the party standing for principle and argued for principle but i remember the floor at one point with mike pence who said sometimes we are presented with a presidents "no child left behind" which think tank conservatives that was a federal intrusion into local education. that wa

chief justice roger tawney outside the annapolis statehouse. he wrote the infamous dred scott decision in favor of upholding slavery. the trust board will either to storage or it relocated. they're working to figure out would you hold public hearings on the issue. larry: continuing coverage of the development out of charlottesville and across the country in the wake of this violent weekend. stay up to speed at wjla.com. news, there is no winner for last night's powerball drawing which means we're doing it all over again this weekend and there is still a chance for you to win. the jackpot for saturday's drawing is up to $510 million. good luck. prince george's county will celebrate its very own nba champion kevin durant. a parade from 10:00 to 11:00 in his hometown will depart from the montessori school and finish in goodwin park. it was supposed to be an all day event, but the rest of the festival was shut down at the last minute. permits were not secured. game against the miami on our sister station beginning at 7:00. autria: hbo hit by hacker

and they are unhappy about the removal of the statue of taney from statehouse. as supreme chief justice who wrote the dred scott decision. >> we have a society coming together collectively and work together, we need to be able to remove symbols and start to replace symbols with the positive sym there is a statement saying that the flawed history should not be forgotten. but he regrets some of this. nancy: across the country in seattle, another lawsuit filed on behalf of two transgender americans that were hoping to enlist. >> this is the scene outside the white house this morning as the demonstrators demand that the president honor the deferred access for childhood arrivals. it protects those brought in the country illegal as children. they plan to picket for the deadline that the ten state attorneys general gave the president to terminate the program >> 90,000 students went back to look at them getting off the school bus. classes started at 100 schools. they hired 900 new teachers for the upcoming school year. they look excited to be back. >> most. maybe not hi

it's the oldest statehouse still in legislative use in the country. it is somewhat of a living museum. host: pamela wood, baltimore sun political reporter. guest: thank you for having me. host: we are at the top of the hour on "the washington journal." we will continue getting your thoughts about what should be done with these confederate monuments, getting reports from political reporters across the country where the debate is happening. shouldthey remain or they be put in a museum or cemetery, taken down? in the situation in baltimore, many of them are in storage until the city can decide what to do next. let's go to stand in billings, montana. good morning. caller: good morning, greta. i was wondering, where you public schooled like i was? host: what is your point? caller: my point is this -- when we came out of public school we thought that the north and south in the civil war was all about slavery and only about slavery. i contend that if it was about slavery and only about slavery, it would not have happened. here is my point. should we tear dow

it began in earnest with the removal of the confederate flag from the south carolina statehouse following the church massacre. since then the cities across the country pulled down the statues. in alexandria city leaders are debating renaming the roads named for the confederate icons. as cheryl conner reports some historians say the national trend isn't it's removing history. statue of a confederate soldier now has a water view. >> we don't believe you remove historic feature from the landscape. you need to understand it. is there standing on the bank of the potomac river in dickerson, northern montgomery county. matt logan is the executive director of the county historical society. >> the narrative around the statue changed. >> but it's in the eye of the beholder. >> stands for all the things that america is not. racism, separation. >> montgomery county executive leggett announced that it was relocated to private land last month. at this point you would never know that the statue stood here f >> the county executive said the statue is inaccurate because it pays tribute only to the montgom

reporter: that taney statue taken down overnight happens to be a replica of one that stands at the statehousepolis. governor hogan called for that monument to come down as well. back to you in the studio. >> justin finch live in baltimore this morning, thank you. >>> 6:48 now. the violence we saw this past weekend in charlottesville began after the city discussed removing the statue of confederate general robert e. lee. now we're hearing from one of lee's descendants that lives in the area. this is an interview you only see on news4. robert e. lee iv is 92 years old. says his great grandfather would be ashamed at the violence t >> in my opinion he never would have on the side of terrible people that started the riot or the klu klux klan. we don't need people like that in this country. >> after the civil war, general lee taught at what became washington and lee university. his great grandson says he saw it as a time to unite as one country. >> interesting perspective. i posted that story on my facebook page. >>> someone painted red graffiti yesterday. the national park service discovered n and

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