i remember a very pregnant me opening baby shower gifts at one of our statehouse committee rooms. most of my male colleagues didn't know what to buy for a baby shower, so i got a lot of stuffed animals. my family members have marched in countless parades, attended thousands of events with me and planned birthday parties and hoogdz around the legislative calendar. they sacrificed their time and in many cases their personal privacy and through thick and thin have always been there for me and i am incredibly grateful. and i love you all so much. my family story has inspired my work as an elected official. i grew up in clair, michigan, where my mom was director of nursing in our small rural hospital. this sparked my lifelong interest in health care. as a 24-year-old grad student at michigan state university, i led an effort to save the county's medical care facility from closure. it was the only nursing home that served low-income seniors at the time. i've never been involved in -- i had never been involved in politics before, but i knew it was wrong to close that facility. we stopped

we lost our statehouse. 2023 we all get punched in the face, a lot of these elections specifically tonia it was a blood bath and we all looked in the mirror and said what are we going to do? so in walking through these different things and agreeing, we said we would knock 500,000 doors across pennsylvania in targeted areas and we set a goal that i got a lot of push back for, and the democrats laughed at me, they're not laughing now , i'll tell you that, but they laughed at me because a lot of the political consulting class and charlie and tyler talk a lot about this, they talk about effort, they talk about activity, they don't talk about measurable results and so we looked at the numbers and said do we care about the percentage that we get when it comes to mail in votes? do we care about the amount of votes we can get for trump? and always comparing it to 2020, the last time he was on the ballot. so we set out and went bold because republicans in pennsylvania have averaged 20% of the male in share. you going to the election and you are down 60 percentage points. so we said if we can t

when i started in the west virginia statehouse of delegates, i was one of 100. one of a hundred. then i went to the state senate and back one of 34. then i became secretary of state and then became governor of the state of west virginia. at every step i asked myself one simple question -- how can i be in a position to help more people in my state? one of a hundred and one of 34 and one of one. and then the opportunity to go to the senate to really do something extraordinary for the whole country, help millions of people. that question has been my compass eventually led me here to the united states and that's exactly why we're all here, i believe. when asked what my politics is, i never hesitate to tell you i'm fiscally responsible and socialally compassionate. you go back to your child, where you're raised, how you're raised and who raised you. take care of yourself and help others if you can. as secretary of state i started a program called shares. we had to do something because our voting turnout was low and i was the secretary of state. we come up with this program. first of a

israel's feeling and todd to be able to take out the whole of that has put a leadership, including statehouse on the throttle and then to attack the level of across the board. i mean, uh from all sides of level, and i mean is really suffering the sort of because a treat whereby they are dividing up their routes into sort of sectors. i'm telling people to evacuate one sector, a move to another sector. and then when they caught the, as i told to move back, because that sector is about to be a tech. so there are more than the 1000000 displaced from the homes and the something a large number, i think 1500 killed them about 8000 injured. but these are not as bullet people the so basically ordinary level needs. that being said to be connected with, says paula. and of course we have the same. the same justifications. oh yes. um. has buller is hiding behind the people? he's using them as human shields in every house. there is they produce this fantastic idea of a sort of missile at b and b, whereby lebanese was sort of keeping me solace in the homes and getting a small fee from as bullet for doing so

diluted at this point for the american people -- or do you think it is going to be more from the statehousesnors? where do you think that energy is going to come from, in your mind? >> i mean, look, i think it is going to come from all over the country. i think it is going to come from democracy summer, the project we've got for young people all over america to learn about the history of social change in the country and to get involved in digital organizing and canvassing and organizing. you know, it may come from our two new states. and i'm not talking about panama and greenland. i am talking about washington, d.c., and puerto rico. which we are fighting to admit as to dates to the united states. >> jon: but you don't control anything! you can't get these things done. by the way, congressmen, let me just say this, democracy summer sounds like really, the worst camp anybody has ever been to! that does not sound -- >> well, i invite you to come and appear. i think you will find something very different. >> jon: i will do it! oh, congressman! [cheers and applause] would you invite -- if you gu

public education and a multiracial politics, black and white were joining together and taking over statehousesedemption movement comes along, since we got to take america back. not make it great, we've got to take it back to white rule. they despised equal rights. they despised voting rights. they despised public education. they despised labor rights and they despised the civil rights of 1875, which pretty much made discrimination a federal violation. so what they did was they wanted to undermine this multiracial coalition and they stacked the supreme court. they overthrew the 1875 voting rights act and then a guy by the name of fern hall simmons, came up with this idea of recruiting. he got with a multimedia media magnate named joe and he put him together with conservative extremist religion. i want you to hear that. it was the media. it was a political operative and it was extreme religious activist who said, what we're going to do on november 10th, we're going to bring a gatling gun into wilmington. we are going to overthrew duly elected people who have been elect, white and black. we will

in a memo to lawmakers both the statehouse speaker and senate president said while the governor has aon, it is the ultimately up to lawmakers to decide what bills to pass. stu. stuart: ashley, thanks very much. here's what we have later in the show, biden on the way out. he made america look weak. trump on the way in, he's already oozing strength. the whole country feels it, and so do our enemies around the world. that is me take coming up, temperature of the hour. stuart: ah, let's see, we've got brian kilmeade. he's about to appear with us. in the meantime, look at this. the dow is up 150, but we've got a smaller gain for the s&p and the nasdaq. still green but less green. put it like that. 10:51, here is brian kilmeade. brian, our very own peter doocy shared a warm moment with white house press secretary karine jean-pierre in what may have been their last exchange with one another. i think you've seen it, but let's look at it again. >> reporter: thank you, karine. [laughter] if i don't see you again -- >> i, well, you know -- >> reporter: -- in the briefing, thank you for, you coul

this is the california statehouse speaker talking about calling into session right now a special sessionfocus on trump-proofing california. watch. >> i'm, you know, i'm here to address this, this, you know, these, these wildfires. >> your chamber gaveled into special legislative session to prepare for donald trump. again, is now the right time for that? >> so, certainly, our focus right now as speaker, ashley, at this moment my colleagues and i, we are acting with great urgency to to ensure that we're providing much-needed relief to angelenos. rachel: yeah. i mean, these people are so tone deaf. how about instead of trump-proofing california, we talk about fire-proofing california right now? whatever political agenda they have with trump, the put it aside. focus on the problem. lives are at stake. a perfect example of somebody who's just had it with the liberal, woke, out of touch policies of california is former democrat leader gloria proproher if row from the state -- romero from the state of california. we had her on earlier, here's what she had to say. >> that speaker, that legislatu

yeah, i often -- we get a lot of visitors to our sites, the old south meeting house and the old statehouse every year, who come here to learn about the revolution, and i find i often have to remind visitors that the revolution is only a part of people's lives, right? they're living full lives, they are navigating the day today of their family's activities and their communities activities, and it is not all politics all the time, even though the noise of politics is outside all the time. so, we had a little hint of how the tension between the political layer and the cultural piece might have intersected here in boston, but boston is not all of north america, right? i mean, i hate to break it to all of us who are here in boston, but there are other colonies out there. you start the book with a chapter that is titled the tea party that wasn't, which is about what happened down in charlestown, south carolina, because tea ships went to many different ports, right? so, can you just give us a little bit of a glimpse of how things it may have played out differently in other places, what happened i

john is former reporter at maryland statehouse bureau chief of the baltimore sun and united press international. he also covered the virginia assembly in richmond for upi and was editor, reporter and for the reston times, a weekly newspaper in fairfax. john later worked on staff of the governor of maryland at a university of maryland academic research center and, is director of the smart growth office in the u.s. environmental protection agency. in the obama administration, john is married to the children's book. priscilla cummings, who with us tonight. and they have two grown children. well and hannah, two grandsons and two cats who are not with us tonight. i assume so. so with that, i'd like to pitch it over to gary for a couple of words, and then we'll be back to and then we'll be we'll be off and running with these two guys. thank you very much, charlie. and thank all of you for coming. the maryland center for history and culture is a great institution, and we're so grateful, katie, that you and your team had us here for this event and they've just been a delight to work with all them, espe

pieces, you know, like abolitionist trail, like the great 54th regiment statue across from the statehouse, you know, and this other there's others exceptions, but i think the abolition history here is really not been portrayed in a in a really strong way the abolitionist trail is one way i think i may be misidentifying what i'm calling it. but, you know, i mean, this goes across beacon hill. is it called freedom, not the freedom trail? no. this an app? yes. yes. what did you say? black history trail. so do you know what said. yeah, on that back side of it. yeah. but in any case i think a lot of it is i think a lot of it has to do with the fact you cani have made many trips south and of course in the south there are there are civil war battlefields. there are civil war markers. i think a lot it is that the south gets no further than gettysburg. that's their high watermark. so there's no battles here. and i think in some ways affects how this abolitionist movement i mean, think about this massachusetts is are the first people to send troops first state to send troops when lincoln calls for

the privilege of passing the gavel to him and have full faith and confidence he will ensure our statehouse will continue to serve the people of north carolina with integrity, purpose, and dedication. as a mentor and colleague, i've watched dustin grow into an exceptional leader who listens, collaborates and fights for the people of north carolina. mr. moore: his vision for a stronger, prosperous state make him uniquely suited to this critical role. as we work to rebuild north carolina and address inflation and strengthen our communities, i know speaker hall will guide the north carolina statehouse with wisdom and resolve. it's been an honor to work alongside him and look forward to the positive impact he'll make as speaker of the statehouse. thank you, and i yield back, mr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. moore: mr. speaker, i move the house adjourn at this time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it and the mo