i live in beautiful west virginia. lost my family home but i gained more here, i found them in my workplace, i found them in college, and i found them in my communities. i went to college in 2009 and in 2010 i had my internship at the bank. in 2010 i started working myself up to the position i am today. this year, 2018, i have a wonderful surprise from the bank. we all do. we have $1000 bonus each. for me, it is such a blessing. i am going to use that money to have a trip for me to go home to my home country to visit my parents and my dad that has not been well. i have not been home since 2009. i am going to bring my son daniel to go home with me, because he forgot everything about where he came from and it is important for him to do so. i am thankful for the opportunity you gave me and i am very honored. [applause] pres. trump: that is so nice. thank you and have a good trip. i know indonesia very well. great people. great representatives i've got to know very well in indonesia. have a good trip. your bank, maybe from

it is wonderful to be back in west virginia. special place during the election for me. it was not even close, wasn't it? [applause] trump: a lot of things have happened with your coal and a lot of things you are doing in west virginia but --you are one of the most successful -- percentage wise you are one of the most successful in the nation and you cannot say that before the election. before we got elected, it was not doing so well but we got it going and we are proud of it because you are very special people. that i can tell you. [applause] trump: look at that beautiful hat. my cat. senatoro thank jim and congressmane, jenkins, all here today. now, once again, you say that america is open for business. the numbers are fantastic. the results are really incredible what is happening. we are being talked about all of the world. what of the big things is our tax cuts. they used to call it tax reform and for 40 years they cannot pass anything and did not know why. i said how is it hard to pass tax cuts, forgot it was not that hard.

i live in virginia, i love virginia. went to school at the university of virginia but i am appalled by this decision by the governor. i remember i think it was valentine's day of last year and that recorded confession of an ms-13 gang member and what she did in this murder. let's watch it. >> you need to tell me what you did. >> i killed her. >> how did you kill her? >> with a knife. [speaking spanish] >> you are going to remember me until the day we see each other in hell. don't forget my name. >> laura: a vicious, brutal murder. this is the first time this happened in virginia. why would virginia want to welcome a legal immigrants to live in the state when you do

virginia's most famous unit, the 51st virginia. camp and foro about two weeks the men heard nothing. they were writing letters home but getting nothing in reply. thomas fisher wrote his wife complaining that quote we don't get letters enough. john campbell and offered me a quarter for my letter today. he said he had not got one for so long that he would have to buy one off somebody or else he would have to get none at all. james charles as if you don't get one, he intended to write a long letter, take it home and let his wife read it and then bring the answer back. was the more amazing letters of his wife, frances. i would've paid to a known that woman, she was headstrong and aghly opinionated and she is pleasure -- it is a pleasure to reader letters. in her first letter to thomas in her first lighter to thomas fisher, -- letter, she asked thomas fisher, i want to know if you have washed yourself at this time, or if you have washed at all? tot difference did it make her, but i guess she was concerned. she replied with, i have not w

west virginia. [applause] pres.rump: big jim is doing a good job, much better since he turned republican. nobody like him. mount for a lifetime, he is a friend of my boys, and he is doing a great job as governor. appreciated. where on television talking about it. [laughter] definitely: he is the biggest governor too. it is wonderful to be back in west virginia, it was a wonderful place for election for me. was not even close. [applause] happenedthings have with your coal and other things you are doing in west virginia, and they all happened for a positive. you are one of the most and isful in the nation, cannot say that during the election before we got elected. was not doing so well, but we got it going. i am proud of it because you are very special people, that i can tell you. [applause] i want to thank jim and attorney general patrick morrissey, and senator sherry. god bless you. congressman jenkins, alex mooney, david mckinley, they are all here. [applause] pres. trump: thank you very much. now once again we see

tony: you're using only west virginia apples? josh: i am only using west virginia apples.r thing for me: we are often talked about as being this impoverished state. we are rich, i mean, as could be, in food and the things that we make as a culture and as a community. when you are living on the land, and doing what your ancestors did, you feel a connection that you can't get anywhere else. mike: you know you look at something as simple as these pole beans, it took a community to save that seed. you know every time we put food on the plate, there's a story about the way that people have always kind of bound together to survive. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: the people around this fire are looking hopefully to the future. they are friends, they are interdependent, a community, an economy. ♪ directv now gives you more for your thing. your letting go thing. your sorry not sorry thing. your out with the old in with the new, onto bigger and better thing. get the live tv you love. no bulky hardware. no satellite. no annual contract. try directv now for $10/mo for 3 months. more for your thing.

hurley, virginia is 33 miles from west virginia were the drugstores located. anybody with any sense has a big bunch of those bills are coming into my district. likewise, had additional questions that dealt with the fact that we had problems with red flags being raised. so we had a doubt there in giles county was sending his patients to west virginia to get drugs. we have a situation in martinsville where they have according to the cdc come and they prescribe more opioid painkillers than anywhere else in the u.s. per capita and where another doctor was prescribing opioids for patients in north carolina. i look forward to working with you to solve these problems, but these are real world problems, real-world people in real-world deaths. i yield back. i now recognize congresswoman walters for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. patterson, it's my understanding the dea often uses information it receives from state and local law enforcement to develop cases against entities or individuals suspected of engaging for facilitating illicit drug diversion. is that

west virginia. he is hosting a roundtable on the massive tax cut plan which received a huge endorsement today. the ceo of jpmorgan chase, mr. jamie dimon praising the president's pro-growth agenda. neil: thanks to tax reform, thanks to deregulation, including his very own are seeing growth. all stocks extending yesterday's gains, as they digest america's first tariffs. off the highs of the session, up a solid 168. investors starting to realize here this president really is trying to make sure that we have an even playing field. that we're not taking advantage of other countries, we actually, by the way, have a whole lot of leverage and so maybe this won't escalate into the kind of trade war some actually fear. i am trish regan. welcome, he have one, to "the intelligence report." jamie dimon out there complimenting the trump administration, unlike previous administration this is white house understands how the free market works. i should point out mr. dimon is a democrat. he supported hillary clinton

west virginia has -- west virginia voted for donald trump overwhelmingly. morrisey actually stood next to me four years ago and endorsed my candidacy for the u.s. congress. my past doesn't bother him back then when he endorsed me and said i was great for west virginia to represent them in washington. what is change since patrick morrisey now has been abandoning his attorney general -- me when i'm just asking about you. i am asking why your change of heart, why did you switch from being a democrat to the republican? >> because i am the true west virginia. i'm the west virginia story, standing up for what we believe. barack obama was devastating for west virginia. he put literally tens and thousands of coal miners out of work, tried to infringe on our second moment, abortion on demand, it's outrageous. i can't be a part of that. i'm proud to be a republican, proud to be a conservative, proud to be the only one in this race who actually supported donald trump and is working with him each and every day. >> martha: congressman jenkins, thank you very much. just

the idea to begin the invasion south side of virginia. the morning of may 10, that is exactly what happened. they landed, they made their way to norfolk. the mayor of norfolk greeted them in a very elaborate, long speech that allowed the confederate troops to leave. he passed the keys of the city over to the union army. no one in the confederacy, however, thought to tell the captain of the merrimack that she had no home anymore, and so it was that on the morning, early morning, 4:58 a.m. precisely on people in hampton may 11, roads heard a terrible explosion, and it was felt for miles. it was seen for miles. it was the dramatic suicide of the css for genuine known as merrimack as well. the monitor boys were not happy. their nemesis was gone, they hadn't had a chance to beat her up, but they steamed their way on into norfolk as conquering heroes. along the way president lincoln came steaming into norfolk as well and was waving at them on the steamer, doffing his hat and bowing to the monitor. they turned around and spent the rest of the su

when i worked at the virginia historical society, now called the virginia museum of history and culture, i was fortunate to be part of the creation of the , the database of virginia slave names. it was in those records that i really began to think about the children. it is difficult on a daily basis to pull those documents, now crumbling, inc. fading. the writing almost illegible -- now crumbling, ink fading, the writing almost illegible, and listen to the parents who sold their children, sometimes to buy a horse, sometimes to give money to a relative, and not consider what that meant for the family, but those children to be sold away so easily. that is the kind of thing that stays with you past 5:00. you go home and you wonder what happened to them? where did they go? it is the remnants that we have now and that we try to reconstruct. in many ways, we are not able to. but the memory of reading those .ocuments still stays with me oftentimes, i would wake up from nightmares, scratches on me, like i had run through the fields. because to read that every day wears on the spirit. i remember

virginia was the heart of our country. but leaving nothing to fill his personal needs of the young man, richard henry lee studied and traveled in europe, returned to his virginia home to absorb a huge family library of learning before deciding to enter public service. what started as an application in public service soon became a lifelong commitment and turned them into many of his own social and economic class in the south as he ran into government corruption and widespread deprivation of individual rights. his conflicts corrupt officials and petty tyrants in virginia grew into the man's for individual liberties, for human rights, and eventually american independence from britain. as a member of the virginia legislature he shot the south by declaring black people entitled to liberty, , and these are his words, entitled to liberty and freedom by the great law of nature. in doing so richard henry lee planted the first seeds of emancipation in virginia. 12 years before britain's colonies declared independence, lee was first

. >> virginia has succeeded. there's about a river between us and the rebels. >> where the devil is mcclellan? he's as late to a meeting as he is to a battle. >> it has been nearly a year with no battle undertaken at your command. >> look at jackson standing there like a stone wall! >> when you charge... [ indistinct shouting ] >> today we preserve our constitutional rights. >> one section of this country believes slavery to be right. that's where the fight is here. >> i remember turner's rebellion. virginia cannot stand such horrors again. [ wind blowing, gunfire ] [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ [ door closes ] >> my men were murdered out there. where the hell was jackson? >> the federal forces are too great. we need to retreat, and we need to protect the capital. >> [ sighs ] we have paid a heavy price today. the failure is mine. >> sir, but jackson -- >> the failure is mine, and mine alone. we do no honor to those brave men who fell here today if we retreat. the way is forward, not back. >> [ yells ] [ man screams

welcome back to west virginia. we're glad you're here. my name is shaun farrell, we primarily service the coal industry, developing solutions for water issues. this is my wife michelle. >> hello, mr. president. >> hi. >> i'd like to introduce with you today we have our two children, carly and colin here with us today. [applause] both of our children senate st. joseph's catholic school, a private school in our hometown of huntington. >> we opened a 529 account. previously could only be used to spend on college education. with the changes to the tax law, we can now spend it with st. joe for our kid's k-12 education. it's a great benefit us to. we know a lot of families taking advantage of it as well. we appreciate the change of the tax law that allows us to save and invest in the accounts and spend it on k-12 education at st. joe. additionally, service pump where i work, everybody in the company received a raise as a direct result of the tax plan, and we made sure that everyone there knew the reason they got raises was because of the tax la

a shell from the virginia struck. it did peel back some of the iron of the pilot house and he was sprayed in the face with a shell and powder, temporarily blinded and bleeding profusely. he was carried below. the executive officer took command. warding himself was taken off the monitor that evening and eventually taken to washington, d.c. where he was recuperating. while he was recuperating, president lincoln paid him a visit and he said the president did him a great honor and paraphrasing,i am but no, sir, you do me the great honor. lincoln believed in what the monitor was doing, believed the men that were true heroes for setting out in -- let's face it, an experimental craft that could have been their coffin. he took particular interest and took the time to visit. >> very interesting talk. i have seen pictures of other ironclads. they looked more like the merrimack then the monitor. were the other monitor successful or did they have similar problems? dr. holloway: one thing that is interesting, the night the monitor

and virginia's response was about race. but to men like darden and buchanan, two well-educated sons of the south who were deeply committed to its model of political economy, brown boded a sea change on much more. at a minimum, the federal courts could no longer be counted on to defer reflexively to states' rights arguments. it was not difficult for either darden, nor buchanan to imagine how a court might rule if presented with evidence of the state of virginia's archaic labor relations or its efforts to buttress the power of reactionary rural whites by underrepresenting even the moderate white voters of the cities and suburbs of virginia. federal meddling could rise to levels once unimaginable. james mcgill buchanan was not a member of the virginia elite, nor was there any specific evidence to suggest that for a conservative white southerner of his day he was uniquely racist or insensitive to the concept of equal treatment. and yet somehow all he saw in the brown decision was coercion. find the resources, he proposed to dar

all of virginia, really. one of the boards i serve on is the state review board of historic resources. we read nominations for historic properties that then go onto the national level. you are able to go on to the website to actually look at these nominations yourself. they are beautifully written, very detailed and meticulously researched. it gives you the opportunity to look at how scholarship is created, but to go to these places and engage with history through a very personal experience. we also have the historic highway markers which you can see dotting the landscape. virginia length away in historic highway marker programs. we have the largest historic highway marker database. i am a virginian, and i am very proud of that. i also recognize the warts in our history. there is a hard history that we overlook. we tend to push it aside. in engaging the primary sources and actually going to these places, we can grapple with history from a different perspective. though it is difficult, we can push through and

virginia does still ratify. mason continues to pursue for a bill of rights. as it happens, james madison runs for congress on a platform that he will add a bill of rights to the constitution should he be elected. he did, james madison proposed a bill of rights to the constitution in 1789. it passed in some votes. george mason wrote at that point after not having signed the convention or signed the constitution in 1787, that he could cheerfully put his hand and heart into this government in 1789. he actually saw the bill of rights added to the constitution in december of 1791, about nine months before his death. so that's why we remember george mason today but he wouldn't have been able to do it without so many other people on this property. one of those was his first wife, and his subsequently, his second wife. those were anne and sarah. why don't we pop across the hall and see their space. so we are stepping into the bed chamber. in the 18th century, master bedrooms were often on the first floor so this is a space for both mr. and mrs. mason but it functione

, now, west virginia. and although she was initially sympathetic with the north in the secession crisis, when her new husband opted to side with the confederacy in the war and actually join the confederate army, martha switched loyalty to the south. she became pretty outspoken about her newfound confederate loyalty and her letters home to her father, and reading them, is are we dealing with zeke and now he's getting letter from martha -- letters from martha that are very pro-confederate and sentiment. in nearly drove him mad. he wanted to do something about it, but it took the unlikely intervention of his brother, clay. -- caches he says i figured to overlook her secession is him, because it is a virtue and a woman to go with her husband and all things very so don't think about her politics, don't take the politics that seriously, what's important is she is deferring to her husband, let's honor that marital relationship read -- relationship. that's exactly how u.s. army major from vermont approach his own

he lived in faulkner county, the western frontier of virginia. he had no formal education apart from a single year of grammar school and he spent six weeks listening to lectures in the law. frankly, my students of law school probably wish that that was all they had to do. when the first shots were heard at lexington and concord, a 19-year-old john marshall volunteered for the third virginia regiment. and he goes to the first drill, and the captain who was supposed to drill the troops failed to show up, and so marshall says, that's okay, i'll take over. he starts drilling the troops. he was, after all, the eldest of 15 children, and as many of you who have older siblings know, they're often used to telling other people what to do. and marshall's career in the military took off. he became a captain and eventually he was a part of the relative -- rifles, company of sharpshooters. there was a company of -- they were tranches and homespun hunting shirts embroidered with patrick henry's words, liberty or death and they carried tomahawks and muskets. th

virginia cannot stand such horrors again. [ wind blowing, gunfire ] [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ [ doorses ] >> my men were murdered out there. where the hell was jackson? >> the federal forces are too great. we need to retreat, and we need to protect the capital. >> [ sighs ] we have paid a heavy price today. the failure is mine. >> sir, but jackson -- >> the failure is mine, and mine alone. we do no honor to those brave men who fell here today if we retreat. the way is forward, not back. >> [ yells ] [ man screams ] >> ♪ my country, 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land of liberty ♪ land where my fathers died ♪ land of the pilgrims' pride ♪ from every mountainside ♪ let freedom ring >> the political conflict cracks the foundation of a fragile union, dividing a young nation over the issues of freedom, slavery, and equality. in a brutal battle of attrition, heroes will rise, cities will fall, and the blood of thousands will stain the land. >> come with me! >> america's struggle for life, liberty, and justice for all becomes the civil war. >> fall back! [ man screaming ] [ cannon fire, gunshots ] ♪

he will talk jobs when he is in west virginia. you will see small business owners in that roundtable. republik and strategists noelle nikpour is here, as well as david bernstein. let's talk a little bit on the border wall. part of the omnibus that he did not get. >> this is very important too. if you look at how he's doing it, i like the fact that he is working in coordination with homeland security, dealing with these individual governors. to determine how many troops he actually needs. and how he will be dealing hands on with the governors. this is very important. >> harris: it's interesting, david, when you talk about the $1.6 billion in the omnibus, the president wanted more for the wall. she wanted to shore up some of the areas where we know there are problems. >> this is the president's signature issue. his issue he ran on his entire campaign. he hasn't built the wall he promised to build. that's making a lot of people pretty upset in his face. this is an effort to do things he can do quickly but the reality is, we are at a

and when it finally started further north and got to central virginia, virginia in the 1770s, was an anglican colony. the official establishment was the anglican church. all after sudden these baptist ministers started seeping into virginia and drawing people away from the anglican parishes. and they were not happy about that and they had english law at the time to enforce, and you couldn't just go out and preach. you had to be licensed by anglican state authorities. well, it happened that one of the largest revivals and meetings happened near the town of orange, virginia. which is where james madison lived. and so james madison knew about what was happening and some of the people he knew at the time were if jail in culpepper, which is just right up the road. so he had a first-hand knowledge of the harassment of these baptist clergy and their followers. he was only in his early 20s at the time and he had begun to get interested in politics as his father was and he was elected to a committee to prepare a declaration of rights. my friend tim shaw has been talking about. the language is

when you look at the map you'll see the ninth district of virginia touches west virginia, touches kentucky, it touches north carolina. and what this means to all of us is this. it touches tennessee, of course. it means that if you really worked at it in my district, you could get to various doctors and various pharmacists in just a couple of days. because in that small corner of virginia, you can travel into other states, you can hit five states in a single day. and so this is why i have been working on some language for prescription drug monitoring, where the states will be encouraged to work together to try to make sure that we're sharing information. all of the states or most of the states now have such a program but they don't always have the language down the same way. and so what we have to do is, as one of a dozen, two dozen, three dozen different things that we're looking at in trying to help resolve this opioid crisis, is we need to make sure that we have people looking at it and making sure that those folks who are addicted and are trying to get prescriptions from different docto

but, you know, what's your sense of west virginia?ll, it's the best state other than that you will have 100,000, 1 million voting in this. low turnout. relatively low turnout. primary election among republicans in a state that was historically democratic. what matters here, these are the most intense voters. these are the people -- these are the activists. this is the core issue set folks. they are going to be listening to the answers from blankenship and morici and jenkins to the questions you and bret put to them next week very carely. words will matter, positions will matter. if these folks detect any whiff of squishiness or back down atuesday. they want to have a trumpian champion in the united states senate. >> martha: don blankenship makes a good point two of thinks opponents including joe manchin if he guess the opportunity to run against him have been working on west virginia politics for a really long time and things, in terms of the numbers have not been going all that well. as an outsider he may have a good pitch. >> west v

white silver springs west virginia. >> reporter: hi, dana. president trump has been to this area before. he was here for about two months ago for the gop retreat. this is the fourth time he has visited the state of west virginia since taking office. today at this roundtable, we expect the president and everyone on the panel to focus on tax cuts and specifically the tax reform that president trump signed into law just a few minutes ago. >> the president's gonna talk about the day in west virginia and the successes of the tax cuts. >> also participating in the roundtable will be families who have more money in their own pocket which passed without a single democratic vote. >> reporter: for the most part, the people in this room seem to be supporters of president trump. i spoke to one woman who was in the crowd who said she grew up in white sulphur springs. she's lived here for over 50 years. she said she likes president trump. she feels like she has benefitted from the tax cuts, but wanted to hear more from some local businesses. the white hous

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is he tied to west virginia.est virginia. >> harris: zac has his air thumb going. he should hire you. [laughter] >> harris: always great to see you. >> thanks so much. >> harris: thank you. we'll be right back. >> harris: i just talked about it with the panel. may first, next tuesday, in the mountain state, west virginia, fox news channel will host a debate for the senate primary race. the co-moderators you see there will be live in morgantown, west virginia. all part of the midterm election series right here on fox. >> dana: the white house briefing set to get under way amid growing questions about the president's nominee for va secretary. the white house defending ronny jackson as we learn more about misconduct allegations against him. hello, everyone. i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefing." earlier on capitol hill, french president macron addressing a joint meeting of congress, calling for america to maintain its role as the global defender of democracy and human rights. mike emanuel is live on capit

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if you visit his epitaph in monticello, virginia, you will noce three items on the itaph. one is he was the author of the declarion of independence and another was that he was the founder of the university of virginia and the third was that he was the author of the act concerning religious freedom. he does not include that he was present with the united states or the ambassador to france and all of the enormously important things and that he was most proud among two or three other accomplish ams of the fact that he was the author of the act for religious freedom and we know, too, that he was so proud of his authorship of the act for religious freedom that when he was ambassador to france, a position in which he was serving when the statue was finally passed in 1786, he immediately arranged for the text of the statute to be printed, published and distributed in france and elsewhere in europe and he was enormously gratified that the high culture and the salons of paris were impressed and inspired that the state of virginia had set for the world and it truly is something for

>> i don't think it makes a huge difference, i don't know if virginia voters are going to care abouty, if it's not racist, it's racially tinged at the very best. i think his message on trump is probably better, but jenkins and morrissey are trying to get there too. and elections aren't run in vacuums and as people have gotten expose more to him through paid advertising, he's plummeting. this appears to be going in the wrong direction for blankenship. >> what struck me was we have this whole notion of trump baggage across the country and it's typical for a republican, or any president to lose seats in congress in their first term, and yet you have a place like west virginia, which could determine the balance of power in the u.s. senate where donald trump is very popular, and the candidates on the republican side are running to embrace him. >> there was that debate on monday, you and i were both there, they couldn't stop talking about trump, everyone on stage was just trump, trump, trump, it just shows you how this midterm election, it's going to be all about the president, he's going

he led the hardscrabble western frontier virginia. he had no formal education upon a single year of grammar school. frankly my students at law school think that is all they had to do with when the first shots were heard at lexington and concord the 19-year-old john marshall volunteered for the third virginia regimen. he starts drilling the troops and was therefore the eldest of 15 children as many of you that have older siblings know the. there was a company of sharpshooters and they wore trousers and homespun hunting shirts embroidered with patrick henry's words, liberty or death and that is how they went to war. marshall fought at the terrible battle of norfork virginia where a few hundred poorly armed rebels took on a british fortress with 12 kelvin is firing at them and they successfully forced them to retreat to the ship south side of the harbor. it's for the fragility of the social contract a. it was for one of those little judged measures of which the consequences have helped the long after they are forgotten. later he was in c

there is this senate race in west virginia, sure, josh. but he also revived his claim about rapists, that he was excoriated for. certainly not by his base, his die-hard supporters, in his announcement address speech. and he just revived that as well. >> this is just trump. it's what he does. he doesn't tie himself to standards of fact and objectivity. simply decides to say these things, maybe saw them on fox news, watching alex jones. his habit is to repeat them, regardless of them being consistently disproven by the media. >> he is there to tout tax reform, right? isn't that why he's in west virginia? he is there to say, look, we delivered on something. you have more money in your paycheck. that's because of us. and, you know, the larger thought among republicans is that if you can make an economic argument that that can be a winning argument. why isn't he sticking to that and he's just getting distracted by so many things? >> i think we all know the answer to this question. he doesn't want to be told what message to be tethered to. also,

>> little virginia, follow me! [ soldiers shouting ] [ explosion ] [ bullets whistling ] [ explosion ] >> ♪ my country 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land of liberty ♪ land where my fathers died ♪ land of the pilgrims' pride ♪ from every mountainside ♪ let freedom ring ♪ >> a political conflict cracks the foundation of a fragile union, dividing a young nation over the issues of freedom, slavery, and equality. in a brutal battle of attrition, heroes will rise, cities will fall, and the blood of thousands will stain the land. america's struggle for life, liberty, and justice for all becomes the civil war. >> fire! [ gunfire ] >> general thomas j. jackson, known to history as "stonewall," a misfit and maverick who becomes the south's greatest soldier. a man of god with a desire for peace and a mind for war. but behind every misfit stands a man, and behind every legend lies the truth. >> thomas "stonewall" jackson is one of the civil war's most intriguing generals -- an eccentric, deeply religious man, uncomfortable in social se

the gentleman from virginia is recognize -- of her time. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, i yield myself the balance of the time. in closing, let me quote president ronald reagan. in his address to the nation on the fiscal year 1983 federal budget, he said, quote, only a constitutional amendment will do the job. with the stick of a balanced budget amendment, we can stop government squandering over taxing ways and save our economy, end quote. a few years later he said this in his weekly radio address, quote, one part of our founding fathers' genius was their provision for amending the constitution. they knew they created a good document, but not a perfect one. in fact, even two centuries ago some of them, especially thomas jefferson, were troubled by one omission. the lack of a limitation on public borrowing by the federal government. well, even in their reservations about the constitution, the founding fathers were perceptive and wise thifment most of you know how -- wise. i think most of you know how badly out of control federal spending has go

he was the eastern district of virginia u.s.ttorney when that office, prosecutors at that office were pursuing grand jury inquiries into both michael flynn and paul manafort. as acting attorney general, he oversaw the russia investigation. as acting deputy attorney general, after jeff sessions was recused, he also oversaw the entire investigation as head of the national security division, he signed off on charges against manafort. and now as general counsel of the fbi, he is in an unusual position with the fbi facing these attacks from the president and republicans who are hostile to this investigation. we're reporting tonight that boente has been summoned to give an interview as a witness to the mueller investigation. does that strike you as important? >> it does. and for this reason. as a prosecutor, before you embark on these interviews of people who corroborate james comey, you have to ask one fundamental question. and that is let's assume everything james comey said is true. does that cute evidence of obstruction of justice

the turnout and the virginia governor's race was stunning. all republican supporters, we need to be turning out in big numbers this fall because democrats are fired up. they want to take the congress back. we have a chance to hold it, but it does require a lot of enthusiasm. the democrats are fired up, no question about it, but so are we. we are going to be really fired up come november. >> martha: as you heard in the promo earlier, we'll be in west virginia for the senate primary debate on tuesday night. this is what john blankenship said about -- >> i have an issue when there is a lot of connections, i don't have anything against it. >> martha: what you have to say about that? >> my father-in-law is an american who lives in new york, works in new york and i don't have any comment about ridiculous observations like that. you and brett will be doing the debate, we'll see who the republicans of west virginia to denominate. >> martha: who do you support there? >> are not in that race, but i hope they nominate somebody who can win the general el

of west virginia.s a governor as a democrat. a senator as a democrat. look, he understands what really concerns and drives the people of west virginia. healthcare is a huge issue in the state of west virginia. the tax bill-he have voted against the tax bill to protect people's healthcare. medicaid is important there. the opioid crisis is important there. donald trump is making a political calculation. manchin is trying to deal with the issues important to people in west virginia. >> sandra: you look at the issue of immigration and how many republicans you hear daily saying nothing is getting done because of democrats. do they actually want something to get done? do they want to fix daca? >> i think republicans did propose a come pro henceive solution on immigration earlier this year that included a fix that would have addressed the question of the children brought here as undocumented immigrants, people brought here undocumented when they were kids that would have resolved that permanently in addition

west virginia, i think that manchin will probably survive.se you look at the new poll that was released today in tennessee and the democratic candidate, the former governor is running 10 points ahead of marsha blackburn. and i think that's a margin of error considered, he still has a pretty comfortable lead and that was a seat they weren't even thinking was going to be an issue. it makes you think that mitch mcconnell is really trying to downplay expectations. >> they have three different candidates in the election to face manchin. >> the coal mining ceo who spent time in jail. >> don blankenship who was the coal mining ceo where 18 people got killed. now he's running neck and neck with the two other candidates of president trump. this is perhaps when you undermine the courts, nobody believes in the courts any longer. >> he needs to get permission from his parole officer before he can campaign in west virginia. >> a moment ago we played some sound of mitch mcconnell saying the wind is going to be in our face, we're not sure if it's going to b

after the successful west virginia strike, a lot of teachers had been talking prior to the west virginia strike about organizing some sort of walk out. when they saw teachers in west virginia when that nine-day historic strike, a gave them a lot of confidence to keep pushing. over 100ened here is school districts throughout the state now are on strike and some of these go districts of the democratic superintendent of the schools, what supportive because of how bad the funding cuts are. crunched theand i numbers. oklahoma has cut more from its state budget since 2009 than any other state in the country. it has one of the lowest tax rate on oil and natural gas. the tax rate is through percent tax rate. in comparison, texas, which pays its teachers a starting salary of $18,000 more, texas oil and naturally as at 8%. what we're seeing here is teachers are demanding a lot more in terms of funding. already the state has passed a $6,000 pay raise for teachers. teachers are saying it is abo morehan a pay raise, it is about funding classrooms, having textbooks. i've interviewed so many teachers t

in response, four more states secede, including virginia, bringing the conflict to the southern border capital. now the only access to washington is through maryland. >> when the troops from massachusetts are coming down, they had to walk through baltimore. maryland is a slave-holding state. its sympathies are very heavily with secessionists. >> go back, blue bellies! go back, blue bellies! [ indistinct shouting ] >> men of baltimore, we have no quarrel with you. [ indistinct shouting ] >> stop! >> the baltimore riot is the first combat of the civil war. coincidentally, it takes place on the 86th anniversary of the battles of lexington and concord. in fact, two union soldiers who die are direct descendants of the boston minutemen who fought off the british in 1775. so, on the anniversary of one revolution, another one has begun. >> after the riot, secessionists disrupt the railroads, halting the movement of union troops, leaving the capital more vulnerable than ever. >> [ clears throat ] mr. president, without the railroads, your troops cannot mobilize. >> at any moment, rebels will st

joe manchin will be fine in west virginia and the reason is because joe manchin represents west virginias. he's not a d.c. senator, he's a west virginia senator. and so it is going to be really difficult to beat him. i just hold up blankenship as what is a part of the new republican party, because there are many blankenships around the country just like him running in primaries right now. >> susan, how do you like at the race. >> it is not as though the other republican cands are running against donald trump, they are running as republicans and you would think joe manchin would be the most vulnerable in the senate given that trump won west virginia by 42 percentage points last time around. that is a pretty big lead. but i think the republicans are very nervous that one of the few opportunities they have, that they are having a harder than expected time against joe manchin in a year when it is real risk in other cases, in other republicans and senators in open seats and against democrats that they thought would be vulnerable in a year that looks like democrats might be able to win control

comstock of virginia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 839, the gentlewoman from virginia, mrs. comstock, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from virginia. mrs. comstock: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that my amendment, number 84, be modified in the manner i have placed at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the modification. the clerk: modification to amendment number 84 printed in part a of house report 115-650 offered by mrs. comstock of virginia. mrs. comstock: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that the modification be considered as read. the chair: is there objection? hearing none, the modification is agreed to. the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. comstock: thank you, mr. speaker. my bipartisan amendment reflects several policy recommendations that have been proposed in various forms over the last several years, including representative bridenstine's space renaissance act. state spaceports have become part of our national