men, congress, who have little in common with the people of virginia? what would happen if congress enacted a law that was unfavorable to the people of virginia? could virginia nullify that law? mr. madison, why don't we begin with you. mr. madison: i should thank the worthy p. henry for his question. curious that he should ask it, he being invited to that convention. funny that he has so much to say now that he withheld in that moment. he not wishing to attend that convention because he, quote, smelled a rat. to the nature of this question, equally to public opinion, we see across this theater of the globe a diversity of factions, a faction being a great people of society, yet equally and inevitability. we see factions between followers of different ecclesiastical sects. we see factions in identifying with our various state governments. i find great curiosity in the gentleman's question, but was it not mr. henry who said boldly, i am not a virginian, i am an american? moment, there is a plurality of identities. shall we be a treaty amongst 13 separate

vaccine distribution in west virginia. with those rorpgs that we don't have, this number is probably significantly higher than the 17. 17 is way, way, way too many, i could, with all due respect, read through these i'll now.y do that right a 1,247th death is 70-year-old female from jefferson county. 68-year-old female from kabul county. county. -- campbell county. ur 1,250th death is an male.r-old a 66-year-old female. 1,222nd death is a 63-year-old male from jefferson county. 1,253rd death is a 77-year-old female from preston county. 1,254th death, a 90-year-old female. our 1,255th death, an 0-year-old male from hampshire county. 90-year-old death, a male. our 1,257th death, an 85-year-old male. an 1,258th death, 89-year-old female. 1,259th death, a male. 1,260th, a 90-year-old female. 1,261st death, an 82 beyond all reasonable doubt female. ---year-old female. 1,262th death, a male. again.ad that ur 1,262th death, an 80-year-old male. our 1,263rd death, a 94-year-old from hampshire county. that totals 1,263 great west vi

so we're going to get through this, west virginia. you just keep battling, hanging in there, and whatever you do, for god sake's a living, don't listen to somebody tell you some hocus pocus hunk of junk that you will grow another arm or start growing antlers. for crying out loud, you got to take the vaccine, west virginia, because it will really save your life. thank you so much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> use our website, c-span.org/coronavirus to follow the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak. watch our searchable video any time on demand and track this with interactive maps all on c-span.org/coronavirus. c-span's washington journal. every day, we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day. we will discuss policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, a discussion about the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill. we will talk abo

so we're going to get through this, west virginia. you just keep battling, hanging in there, and whatever you do, for god sake's a living, don't listen to somebody tell you some hocus pocus hunk of junk that you will grow another arm or start growing antlers. for crying out loud, you got to take the vaccine, west virginia, because it will really save your life. journaln's washington every day. we will discuss policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, our discussion about the $900 billion relief bill with taxpayers for common sense president steve ellis. we will talk about how the pandemic has affected budget in the cities with clarence anthony. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on tuesday morning and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. today, the house was able to override president trump's veto of a $740 billion defense authorization bill by meeting the necessary two thirds republicansth 109 voting in favor. the senate will take similar action as ear

this virginia declaration of rights went further. rights of you, the paoeeople, the rights to a e press. the rights to free exercise of religion. man it be free mind, heart, body and soul? constitution merely is a government how ought work. though there are some faults, it strength. but it lacks the greatest insistence ch is an on the rights of the individual. that is the great difference declarationvirginia of rights and the current government as it stands before us. 1776 that virginia in a bill of rights must be created constitution to ensure that it might guarantee the rights promised beforehand. that is is greatest weakness of present.ument at mr. harris: mr. madison it seems mr. mason makes some powerful points. you respond? mr. madison: the worthy you eman speaks with great a sisterity on the declaration of rights of 1776. one of my earliest political actions serving as a young man years old in assisting and writing that document in ommittee i will say it is singularly one of the greatest e epneumonia rations of the public righ

enacted a law that was unfavorable to virginia, could virginia nullify that law? mr. madison, let's begin with you. >> first, i thank him for that question. funny that he should have so much to say now that he withheld in that moment. he, not wishing to attend that convention, but he, quote, smelled a rat. now, equally to public opinion we see across this theater of the globe, a diversity of faction, faction being a great evil of society, yet equal in inevitability. i find great curiosity in the gentleman's question for was it not p. henry in 1774 that said boldy, i am not a virginian, i am an american. so what is mistaked, mr. harris, a plurality of identities. shall we be a treaty between 13 different praovences, or one state. let us turn to what took place in the articles of confederation, each state had an equitable member of delegates and votes. virginia's vote counting the same as rhode island. what was the solution? what in every instance was the sum of these various practices, inevitably the smaller states should hold back the progress of all, all for the

can virginia nullify that law? mr. maddest, why don't we begin with you. >> first and foremost, i should thank the worthy p homey henry for this question. he being invited to that convention, it's funny he should have so much to say now, but he withheld it at that moment, he not wishing to attend that convention because he quote smelled a rat. now it's to the nature of this question, equal to public opinion, we see across this theater the diversity of faction. faction being a great evil of society, yet equally and inevitably. we see faction of different set ecclesiastical ecclesiastical. sets was it not p henri in 17 and 74 who said bowling i'm not a virginia, i'm an american. so this present moment what is stated mr. harris is a plurality of identities. shall we be a treaty among 13 separate provinces or shall we be all at once the citizens of one state as equally beheld to the title of americans. now once more let us turn to what took place during the articles of confederation. particularly among the 70. -- each stat

been 30,737 doses administered in west virginia. we are still leading the nation in distribution and administration. that is really good, and we owe so much to our health officials and national guard. that is really, really good. 50.49% of the total number of doses that have been given to west virginia that have been stuck in somebody's arm. the total doses that we have for vaccine in west virginia right 875, and we are pushing it out the door as fast as we can. get absolutely vaccinated. 50.49%,est state to our the closest state as far as getting it done and getting it they are is main, and 37%. they are so far behind that we cannot even see them back there. that is how good the national guard and our health officials are doing. a are expecting to receive moderna shipment today in four of our five hub locations. we expect pfizer product today and tomorrow as well. in total, we will be receiving 25,925 doses this week. and it just goes on and on. we move toward vaccinating the people that are, you know not only the nursing homes and

the yell from virginia is recognized. mr. wittman: i have no further speakers, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 3250 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is -- >> madam speaker, on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3 of house resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? mr. gallego: i move the house suspend the rules and pass the pill h.r. 7460. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 7460, a bill to extend the authority by the peace corps foundation for a commemorative work to commemorate the p

virginia leaves the union.uring all of this, three individuals, three brave individuals -- baker, townsend, mallory -- would steal a ship, row across the chesapeake bay, present themselves at the gate of the american soldiers, and say, we're runaway slaves seeking to be refugees and protection. they were invited into the fort. the very next day, major general butler interviewed the three individuals, and he found out that these individuals were being used for the confederate army to build trenches and to do chores around the confederate camp. that same day, the owners of these individual slaves came to retrieve them, citing the fugitive slave act, which was the law of the land in the united states, saying that if you had a runaway slave, you by law had to return them to their owners. benjamin butler, being the lawyer that he was, in his former life, said this. ah, so, you're quoting united states law. my understanding is that the state of virginia has left the union. the united states law no longer applies to y

and in particular, the delegates from virginia because virginia was there early. he brought them all together and all together they produced the virginia plan. as you all know, that set the agenda for the constitutional convention. during the convention, madison was one of the delegates who spoke most often. he made crucial and critical interventions. when the convention was about to right into the constitution that congress had the power to, quote, make war, madison stood up and successfully changed it to declare war. thus making the president commander-in-chief. if you think about it, we would have not ever done so well. if all the congressman were in charge of our war, of war, it would not have been successful. this was a really important intervention. while he is speaking and understanding how important it is to get the words just right, madison was also taking notes. he set up at the front of the room and rode out the notes of who said what's in shorthand and then went back to his room at night and transcribed them. now, i could go on. i could talk about madi

madison wrote virginia, jefferson wrote kentucky. jefferson was far more forward leaning than madison was. jefferson said that a state had the right to nullify a federal law. you can all see this leading up to the civil war. that was jefferson's idea. he even suggested the idea of secession. now, along the way, various people held jefferson back including madison, from making such a bold and damaging statement. but jefferson just kept going. when madison's more moderate, more thoughtful statement went forward to the virginia assembly, jefferson got a hold of it and changed it and made it more amenable to his way of thinking. madison found out, he got it changed back and he did say a word, but not a grumpy one to jefferson. he just pointed out to him that these words like nullification and secession were not going to be very helpful if you wanted to get a whole bunch of states to come together and oppose the sedition act. so i think that madison's patients accounted for a great deal. >> i could not agree more. of the two, madison was

she is currently working on a book about the virginia dynasty. washington, jefferson, madison and monroe. that will be out in about two years, but what fascinates her is that for the first 36 years of our republic, with the exception of four short years of john adams, the virginia dynasty was in power. of the 15 books she has written, five of them are history books for children and we have bought them for all of our grandchildren and i read them, over and over, with the grandchildren who loved them. i will just mention a few, because you might want to purchase them. america a patriotic primer celebrates the ideas that are our country. one of my favorites, a is for abigail, tells about the accomplishments of women in america and of course, the one that i love the most is "when washington crossed the delaware" and it tells about general washington leading his ragtag army of across the frozen river for his surprise attack. it teaches children about courage, heroism, and dedication to your dreams. she was also a baton twirler as a child. she required

in both virginia and massachusetts. one can see these two parallel missions at work in virginia as well as in new england. bradford describes the reason that they went, and this was backed up by later preachers and public figures. the reason they went was not to create a tolerant regime or a plantation of religious liberty. they went to rule. they went to create what they considered godly commonwealth. just several years later i will read a line or two from a sermon in 1629 by the reverend samuel willard in which he said "i perceive they are mistaken in the design of our first planters, whose business was not toleration, but were professed enemies of it. their business was to settle, to and as much as in them lay secure religion to prosperity according to that way which they believed was of god." you can verify this by looking at the first massachusetts charter of 1629, in which the "the incitement of the natives of the country to the obedience knowledge and obedience of faith principle end theend o plantation." religio

we are in a conversation about doctor cheney's newest book virginia dynasty. i'm robert, president of aei. i would like to start this morning by reading from doctor cheney's opening paragraph and put the spike of a drawing compass into a map of virginia farm with george washington's boy home and extend the other regular compass or reaches out 60 miles and draw a circle. within it not only washington but also thomas jefferson, james madison and james monroe were born. they made their home. from this small expanse of land on the north american continent came four of the nations first five presidents. it's a dynasty whose members lead in securing interdependence, creating the constitution and building the republic. what a great way to start a book. i've spent most of last night reading it and it's a wonderful chronicle with four major leaders and the interconnected networks that tied them together at the founding of this country. it is a story that evokes what the historian bill mcclay called the spirit of hope and perseverance that runs straight through the amer

that times in massachusetts, virginia. think about how different the 1620s, 30s and 40s are from what is going on from europe at the same time. whether it is the english civil war which is about to commence, or the 30 years war. and there is a religious component to all of that violence. what a difference that the mayflower compact can have on these individuals, who out of their theological commitments, decide to set up a civil body politic, and to freely express their religion without coercion. it is a very, very important scene in u.s. and in world history. >> thank you both very much for helping us to understand the origins of the mayflower compact. and, it's continuing influence on our body politic today. as americans continue to discuss what is happening in our country, it is important for us to look at historical documents like the mayflower compact. and to see the legacy of equality, a legacy of covenant that we have with one another as we work forward. thank you both very much. >> thank you. >>> weeknights this mon

before it was up to virginia to ratify the constitution.but after a while, i'm not sure that madison was any less partisan than jefferson. >> yeah. >> he and hamilton, jefferson and hamilton, became great foes, and, oh, gaye i'm so sorry to tell you this, they even became great foes of washington's. washington sided with hamilton on almost everything. >> everything. >> and hamilton's idea was a strong central government. people like madison and jefferson called him a -- someone who wanted a kingly government and tell people what to do and keep the whole thing knitted together. that was the fight. and jefferson and madison didn't want that. they wanted a more power to the states. so that was the fight. and in the course of that fight the first political parties were created. but a great enmity grew up as well. >> right. some of madison's high points and low points occurred at the same time in the war of 1812 as you alluded briefly to. i wonder if you can expand on that. madison was initially opposed to this and a couple of hawks who came in

who not always admired virginia. madison's administration adams wrote, acquired more glory and established more union than all three of his predecessors. washington, adams and jefferson put together. what a wonderful compliment. i was, thinking that you might like to know a little bit about some of the people that i felt, obliged to leave out of the speech since it would've gone on and on forever. one of the people, and these are women for the most part, and they do tend to get pushed aside and in the history of the early republic. but one of the women was madison's grandmother. her name was francis madison. i became interested in her, because of a note she wrote when madison was a child and they were living together. her note look like a shopping list. at the top of it it said for a, -- . for epilepsy. the 18th century medical books that i so much enjoy, taught me that some of the items on her list, conduit camp saffron, were thought to be good for breaking a fever it's. the guests that madison may have had fever re

in both virginia and massachusetts, and so one can see these two parallel missions at work in virginia, as well as in new england. but bradford describes the reason that they went and this is backed up by later preachers and public figures. and the reason they went was not to create a tolerant regime or a plantation of religious liberty. they went to rule. they want to create what they consider to be godly commonwealth and just 7 years later i'm going to read a line or two of a sermon from the samuel willard, "i perceive they are mistaken in the design of the first planters who was decision was not toleration, but professor enemies of it. their business was to settle and secure religious to posterity according to that way which they believed was of god." and you can verify this by looking at the first massachusetts charter of 1629. and site the natives to the company and obedience of the christian faith. so principally religion, but a more robust concept than toleration, religion in that instance is considered to be a natural right. we would say a human right, a god given right. so why

now, the statute failed to pass when they first tried to get it through the virginia assembly. then jefferson went off to paris for five years and while he was gone madison, who was the sharpest politician among the founders, he saw an opportunity and he got it passed. he wrote a letter to jefferson in which he declared that the statute had extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the mind. the high regard for the statute has been shared by generations. martin marty called the statute -- and i quote -- a shift in the western world's approach to relations between the civil and religious spheres. by dividing them with the state on one hand and the church on the other, the virginia statute is a hinge between the ages. i think sometimes we're -- when we're on this side of the change that the founders accomplished, it's hard to realize it because they have become so much a part of our lives. well, madison made many decisions but perhaps the wisest was to marry dolly todd. he was walking on a spring day in 1794 when he caught sight of her and was instantly smitten.

there is a place called great britain, virginia. a. great bridge virginia.immediately the revolutionaries are confronted. what kind of know what we need to do to these british soldiers. we are less sure about the white loyalists. what do we do about the slaves? the initial desire to murder them right on the field of battle. one of the commanders has to intercede and prevent them from being murdered. he does this not out of humanity or the goodness of his heart. he wants to sell them and get profit from it. many of the masters petition to get their property back. even washington has to sign some of these. he does not seem to think it is a big problem sending property back. throughout the war african-americans in arms captured could be summarily executed on the spot. more often than not they are sold into slavery somewhere else. sold into the west indies. put on ships. privateer vessels. there is a salt and lead mine in western pennsylvania where they send black loyalists, virginia does to work there. it is even more horrific than for the white british soldier

they ran from virginia to maryland, they were caughtt and returned to virginia. so they all committed the same crime. they were runways. they got caught together. they did the same thing. you begin to see racial differences in treatment with the case. where victor and james gregory were made to serve their original owner one additional year and the colony of virginia three years. john was me to serve his owner and his owners assides or ears for the rest of his natural life wherever they lived. >> and john punch was black? >> john punch was black. he's referenced as african in this record. you've another case that turns out a little different in 1656, when you have a woman by the name of elizabeth key, and elizabeth key had a mom who was of african descent, and a father named thomas key who was of english descent, and rather prominent. in english law traditionally everything goes through the father. and she had been baptized as a christian. so there were restrictions on how christians could be held in bondage, the type of bondage they could be held in. thomas key

no woodff: governor ralph ham of virginia. governor, thank you so much r join us,we appreciate it. >> thank you so muchor having me, judy. >> woodruff: on new year's day, n e united kingdom's divorce fr the europion will be complete. whether it's a clean breakor a hard "brexit" remains to bede ded; "hard brexit" would mean no trade deal between thec two, and econocertainty, well beyond the pandemic's knfects. deadlines arn to focus the mind. s d, as special correspondent ryan chilcote te from london, in this case, they need to focus the future. >> reporte rex goldsmith always knew severing trade ties with the european union waea't going to bcut. >> messy old business. >> reporter: while the waters of the british cot make for some of the best fishing in the world. >> lovely cornish turbotthis. >> reporter: continental europe buys the vast majority of the fish. >> i just can't quite wo out why we would want to upset our that's what i don't understand. -ffore it was just an open door, all frwing. >> reporter: even in his london s

your group has the permission from the virginia company? have. >> will not these strangers stir up trouble in this regard? >> we must put our trust in god. >> master brewster, i'll go with you if you'll still have me. >> august 5th, departed southampton in the speedwell, an ill-looking vessel at best. august the 17th, set sail a second time. the speedwell is unsea worthy. put back to plymouth.worthy. put back to plymouth. september the 6th, ad 1620. the mayflower sales alone. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> they had no friends to welcome them. nor inns to entertain, no houses or much less tarps, as for the season, it was winter. they that know the winters of the company know them to be sharp, violent. besides, what could they see but a hideous and decembsolite wilderness full of wild beasts and wild men? and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not. as for themselves, they numbered 102 souls. only 35 true pilgrims. the rest strangers to their faith. as captain standish had foreseen, this was to threaten the very purpose of the pilgrimage. >> enter. >>

and the rank and file will be marched into virginia into the interior of virginia, where they will be provided with the same rations and clothing as the continental army. and they are protected against retaliation. so it is in the surrender documents that these prisoners cannot be retaliated upon. that's really very, very magnanimous of him. you can imagine how the angry farmer in millford connecticut whose brother is sitting on the prison ship feels about this. not -- not great. and even more so, the population of the southern states. corn wallace's army had marched through the carolinas spreading terror, violence, et cetera, provoking loyalist insurrections, freeing enslaved people, et cetera. so there is great demand for revenge. the delegates from south carolina to the continental congress want to recall corn wallace. they petition to have corn wallace recalled to if fill so he can be hanged in front of congress. they are like that's what we need, we want him hanged. and you can imagine, right, how that would play out. congress for their part can't afford to feed these guys any be

i walk in icu and try to save lives for the commonwealth of virginia.: you're talking about thomas jefferson? >> i definitely am talking about thomas jefferson. what we have to remember is we have to take down our symbols that are honoring legacies that do not agree with our true nature of american democracy. but we also have to take action and make sure our actions speak for our words. that means fusing on equitable this infusion, thinking about black and red committees on the outset instead of an afterthought. -- black and brown unities on the outset instead of as an afterthought. this is a chance where we can actually make true partnership with our communities that need us the most and we have to take that chance and take that opportunity. amy: they can so much, dr. taison bell critical care and , infectious disease physician at the university of virginia. the pfizer-biontech covid-19 receivedthe pfizer-biontech covid-19 vaccine earlier this month. next, how president trump has raised over 500 million dollars since october as he tries to overturn the

recognizes the gentleman from virginia, 30 minutes. mr. rigell: i rise today after two years of service to address this congress for perhaps the last time. i rise today humbled to the opportunities granted to me. i could go from living on food stamps decades ago to serving in this body is an american dream. i would be remiss if i did not begin this address by thanking my beautiful wife christine and three daughters for their support throughout this journey. i married christine christine at the age of 19. and have my two granddaughters here in washington, d.c. with me is an overwhelming lesson. i never wanted to subject my family to the challenges, but they have taken on every challenge and continue to inspire me every day. i have spent most of my life in service to this country as enlisted and commissioned airman in the united states air force and working with the intelligence community and department of defense organizations. i served in the balkans. spent time in the middle east and deployed immediately after 9/11 as parts of a team that

company to settle in virginia. >> so, we have. >> then command us now, master carver. only simply this, the ship was drawn off course, the land is not virginia, but new england. so, we demand this pilgrimage given to us by god, and you be strangers. >> command us, master carver. >> i say this, the landfall is some 200 miles north, no doubt. as for the other matter, these men are strangers to your religion, as am i. but i would remind you of this, in the land from which you fled, you yourselves were strangers, you were called disbelievers and worse. now, we are on an unknown land of wilderness, and unless we wish to leave our bones rotting on this chore before the winter is over, i say we better come together in unity. >> we, whose names are underwritten, in james i, have taken obliged to come into the new world, combine ourselves together, into a civil body politic for our better preservation. to enact such just and equal molds, for the general of a new colony. is this agreed by all present? >> aye. >> what can i say, the painful labors of those first terrible months,

west virginia university. in the book is titled "loved and wanted - a memoir of choice, children and womanhood". when we moved we had a daughter. she was three and a half years old at the time. they wanted to add more children to our family but had a really difficult time getting pregnant. we moved it for the job because we are not making it and los angeles. we did not have the money to pay the rent there. so we arrived in west virginia, we welcome the second child, a daughter. and we were on her way with her family still teaching. the year later but i was still breast-feeding our second daughter of henry self unexpectedly pregnant with her third child. it was a surprise because i had a history of tubal pregnancies and one rush sure and i was terrified because it couldn't afford a third child. my salary when i provided for their child. so i contacted my doctor. i seen right away because i had that history of tubal pregnancies and i was told i went to the doctor's office that even though i announced about it th

about my family moved from los angeles to west virginia where i'm a professor at west virginia university i teach creative nonfiction. when we moved we had a daughter three and a half at the time. we wanted to add more children to our family but i had a difficult time getting pregnant. we moved for the job because we were not making it in los angeles. we didn't have the money to pay the rent but after we arrived in west virginia, we welcomed a second child to our family, a daughter and we are on our way with our family as i'm still teaching but a year later when i was still breast-feeding our second daughter i found myself unexpectedly pregnant with a third child. it was a surprise because i had a tubal pregnancy and one rupture and i was terrified because we couldn't afford a third child. my salary wouldn't provide for a third child so i contacted my doctor. i was seen right away with my history of tubal pregnancies and i was told when i went to the doctor's office that even though i had asked about it that they didn't know how or where i would be able to get an abortion if i wanted one.

so, it resulted that both virginia and pennsylvania, claimed what is now pittsburgh. the french were there. so as, the french had attacked all settlers, both pennsylvania and virginia, so franklin had to go west, leading the troops. and he turned out to be really good at it. he had to defend pennsylvania. washington has to go west, as head of the militia, and defend what is now western pennsylvania. so they started to work together. both worked with barack, when he went into his defeat. both warned barack, don't do it. these native americans are going to cut you to slices. which they did. and famously brought said back to franklin, they may cut your poor colonial militia, but they will not beat up the british army. and they did including bra top, which washington carried back and buried. so here we have the two people working together then, and they realized that we can only win by working together. and the states, these colonies cannot work independently. they have to work together. and they learned that you cannot trust the british. they do not care about us, they o

instrumental in moving this bill forward, donald mceachin of virginia. he incredible job to promote the bill and increase he awareness of colorectal cancer. i'd like to thank my other congressman david mckinley from west virginia for well.forts as these great representatives importance of this bill, to the health and security of millions of that ans, and know olorectal cancer is a bipartisan -- bipartisan in nature of its negative impact on in this country. olorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in america. cancer and ls lung effects -- and it affects both men and women. so it's the second leading cause of death in the united states in

our land out there is not virginia but new england. >> and?and so your patent is worthless. >> we have the part to command a kilmer pilgrimage. >> commanders, master carver with. >> let's say you, captain stand-ish? >> i say this, our landfall is some 200 miles north of the limit of your patent. as for the other matter, these men are strangers as an ally but i would remind you of this. in the land from which you fled, you yourselves because we're strangers. you were called disbelieve or's and worse. now we are lying an unknown land of wilderness analysts we wish to leave our bones rotting on the shore before the winter is over, i say we better dwell together in unity because. >> we, whose names are underwritten, the live update can [inaudible] having undertaken a voyage to threaten the new colony to combine ourselves together for our better preservation. to an act such just an equal law as most convenient by the general of the colony. is this agreed by all president? >> what can i say of the painful labours of those first terrible months? to g

northam: this was a somber day r virginia, but what a tragic day.agic loss for breonna d r family. we had an opportunity to sit with her family and hear their story. we are the third state to have a no knock warrant law. we are the first to sign into law in response to her death. this is important. it is time we do more than just talk about these tragedies. it is time to take action. that is what we chose to do. i called the general assembly back into session in september. they took up a lot of measures with police reform suc decertification, co-respondings when therental illness, better training for police officers. i made the pointoday, this is not about being anti-, it is pro people. we need to treat people civilly. to be able to sign breonna's law asinto law a good step forward for the commonwealth of virginia. i would hope other states file suit -- follow suit. judy: law enforcement organizations in virginia, are they accepting this, and your other moves to reform policing? gov. northam: we had a listening tourn virginia. the more i learn, the

the first district of virginia, virginia, spans the i-95 corridor in northern virginia which includes one of the worst traffic hot spots in nation. that's undeniable. in fact, who knows it better congress rs here in what they have to deal with each day in their commute. i a daily commuter myself, understand the frustration that folks have. this is going to be a critical use for us to be able to rail as a very efficient means people and to e move commerce throughout the region. incredibly important. of this bill, e congress is providing the adequate resources to leverage commonwealth's investments to address issues on i-95. it's been a great cooperative between the commonwealth of virginia and line, to o owns the ma makes -- make sure it gets done. it's not just this line but all connectors. this is a great step to really enhance our rail system, which incredibly important to address transportation issues, not just across the but really oard, across the nation. an important component of this reducing traffic congestion in this region, as i said, is rail.er this bridge spans the potomac

randolph of virginia. george mason of virginia. the four of them were arguing for a weaker presidency. they pushed for and franklin got things like the power of impeachment. he thought that was essential. they pushed for term limits and for all sorts of things like this. they didn't get it all. the other three -- this is important. the other three vote no. mason voted no. randolph voted no. because they both voted no from virginia, it was 3-2, because they went the other way. jerry votes no. franklin in the famous last speech, which surprised some people, said i'm voting yes, because this is better than what we have now. what we have now is going to lead to chaos, collapse and destruction. and i believe this government will be led well as long -- we know who the first person is. as long as washington is president, this is going to be fine because he has civic virtue. but this could lead to tyranny in some other president. we're going to do it. we need washington to set the standard, set the terms, set the precedence that will lead

and that is virginia.ood chunk of virginia is in a dry slot and that will move to the northeast. now, when a dry slot moves into an area during a snow storm, it's like taking ice cubes out of a glass of water-- that water is going to warm. well, the air warms as well, some of that snow can turn to rain. and if you look at the future projections-- and this is just one computer model-- but this particular model is saying hey, that rain/snow line is going to push farther north. in fact, possibly as far north as hartford, connecticut. i know that seems extreme, but that is going to turn some of that snow into rain and it's going to bring the totals down a bit. but still, no matter how you slice this or dice this, it's going to be a lot of snow. biggest snowstorm for the northeast since 2018. 5-10 inches around a place like new york city. you go outside the city, maybe 10 to 16. to beot is going to be, say, eastern pennsylvania into the lower hudson valley, where you could get one to two feet of snow. so new yo

call fromks for the lebanon, virginia. oregon, good morning. .o ahead, ann caller: our situation has been a little different. as retirees we have been a little more fortunate in the fact that the pandemic has not affected us as directly as a lot of less fortunate people. normally i would save the check, but i guess we have made a conscious decision to try to not only pump it back into our local economy by ordering take-out from local restaurants or outdoor dining where it is available, to take advantage of that, but also to search the web and order made in america products to help local businesses in different parts of the country, like north dakota and illinois. help those businesses survive. we are trying to do our part that way. we appreciate the stimulus check , because we feel we can use it to help others. host: thank you for the call from oregon. indiana, good morning. caller: i think it is a day late and a dollar short. nancy pelosi didn't want to pass it until she gets her way. she can take my $600 and buy her a fr

the town of bristol was split between virginia and tennessee and business owners of the virginia 5 calling their state covid-19 rules as their neighbors across the street in tennessee operate with less restrictions. glenn cook on the virginia side of town joins me now. good morning. this is wild. main street in bristol separates the town from virginia to tennessee. you are joining us from the virginia side. tell us what rules you follow that your neighbors across the street don't have to follow. >> we have mask mandates where you get a level one misdemeanor if you are not enforcing them. we do kickboxing classes and cardio classes, maintain social distancing but when they are close you have to have a mask. todd: in tennessee all of those are by suggestion. not just rules. >> there are a lot of businesses. got to run like normal but restricted over here. todd: you can take off your mask and not face any trouble. attorney general ralph northrom. >> and border communities people cross state lines to work, shop and visit their families. what happens in these other states affects us in virginia

insides, what could they see but wilderness. >> and the wilderness was not virginia. but new england, where the winter storms had driven them. arguments broke out among the pilgrims and the strangers. some felt that because the land would not be under the laws of virginia they could leave the colony, go where they pleased. to keep them together under some kind of government, the leaders of the pilgrims wrote a document that became known as the mayflower compact. the signers promised the laws they would make. in part the may flower compact reads in the presence of god and another enacting such just and equal laws that shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the colony. >> with the mayflower compact, they took an important step in self government. electing their own leaders and making their own lawns was growth in american democracy. now, using a small boat that had been carried on board, a scouting party set out to explore the land and find a suitable place for their settlement. they had no idea what dangers they might face in this new land. wild anima

he has been to the virginia convention. he served under governor patrick henry, who he later comes to oppose. he attends the continental congress in philadelphia in -- from 1780 to 83, and interestingly in 1783 when he is in his early 30s, 15-year-old dolly payne moves from her family to philadelphia. so she's a teenager, and she's a grown man serving in congress. he has a long spell in the house of delegates through which he very consciously works towards his very strong ideas about religious liberty. what he calls freedom of conscience. of course, the critical time period, the months that he spends in 1786, studying constitutional theory, history, and philosophy here at montpellier, drafting what will become the virginia plan and his study of former attempts at representative government and his notes on ancient and modern confederacies. so madison believes the most important human right is what he calls freedom of conscience. and he means freedom to think. and to think what you want to. and he thinks that from that libert

coming off the victory, started his inch his army towards northern virginia. there was debate that he had already committed himself to a raid into maryland without jefferson davis' approval. and an historian argued, in fact, that davis and lee were not absolutely in sync when it came to confederate strategy on this point. so i want you to, one, answer that, and then the second issue i would like for you to explore is the movement from northern virginia into maryland. what went right? what didn't go right? and what's your evaluation of lee. first part, lee, davis, are they in sync here or is lee committed and already pushed his troops there. once he did, how would you evaluate the handling of the army before they get -- >> lee and davis were absolutely in sync. i think one of the most important books that i read about confederate strategy and lee and davis in particular is joe harsh's book, his first volume that he did. it is -- i forget the title of it. >> i'll look it up. i forget the title of it. it's not a really long book. it's a -- there's a lawnmower run

we west virginia governor jim justice with us. >> thank you for having me >> this administration rately impressive. especially the fact that so much of the state is rural. given the fact that so many of the doses you are administering are in this initial weave going to nursing homes and assisted living facilities. we've seen other states trying to figure out that logistic call process. what we did in that great naurd and health officials came up with the idea to recruit all the local pharmacies all across the land, people have local pharmacies got them all involved. we are probably going to come close to 95% of all the vaccines we have are out now. in the next -- probably within the next 10 to 14 days, we'll have a population close to 3% of the entire population within our state completely vaccinated. that is our assisted living, nursing homes and staff. we'll have it done probably for a lot of states that will get started, there is a lot of great stuff going on in west virginia. we've led the way to be the first to test all of our nursing homes. we've led the way in assisted living,