, virginia was the fourth. what's the fourth of dominion of a great britain and then when scotland emerges as an independent entity, they're five of them. so the virginia seal changes after that to end not virginia quantum genius the fifth fifth times. alright, the next image brings us to the major figure in this story and tells us much of what we know and then of course is john smith, and that's his portrait. that was published in his book the general history of virginia and it and it shows him. he's sort of a winston churchill's type figure who could do everything. it was just he was full of of energy and and and and fearless he was a soldier. he was an explorer. he was an author he fought in the netherlands and hungry. he toured in france italy the mediterranean russia central europe north africa. he was enslaved in turkey in russia all this before even arrived in jamestown. so he was quite experienced in jamestown and i think one of the reasons the indians respected him so much is he was fearless and they a

this time, we actually have a british army in virginia that is operating in virginia. so what had previously been kind of isolated incidents now is seen as part of much of a much wider conspiracy to raise men to join cornwallis and to kind of overthrow congressional authority in virginia. and this is, again, one of the main impulses. van meter is out in the colonies trying to raise 240 militia to march to williamsburg to try to defend the colony, and that will kickoff what is known as claypool's rebellion. so, april 11, van meter writes this letter to jefferson saying there is resistance. people don't want to pay these taxes. i can't get my tax collector out to actually execute this duty because the people are upset. when the tax collector comes through the lost river area, they are going to be confronted by a group of armed men. this group of armed men is under the leadership of a local settler, john claypool. and they are going to, quote, "declare they would not make up any clothes, beef, or men for the congressional forces." and then claypool is going to distribute

warfield, west virginia, is the heart of this area. petersburg, west virginia. the lost river valley towards wardensville. so, just over the mountains from the shenandoah valley. so, in april of 1781, colonel garrett van meter the commanding colonel of the militia writes a letter to governor thomas jefferson. in it, he is going to describe basically the panic that is sweeping across this area in the early part of 1781. so, we are talking a, oops. "a dangerous insurrection has lately arisen in this county. occasioned by the execution of the late acts of assembly for recruiting the states quota of troops to serve in the continental army, and the act for supplying the army with clothes, provision, and wagons. in consequence of which, the collector of the tax under the former act has been opposing the execution of his duty and has been obliged to desist from any further proceedings therein." so, there is a lot going on here. and what he is referring to is this new tax that has been passed to help support the war effort. the war has been going on for six years. virgi

they worked with a small band to build the virginia republican party so virginia would not be a one-partya true competitive two-party democracy. they lobbied nixon in 1968 to appoint john as first under secretary of the navy. john supported lynn's campaign when he was elected the first republican governor of virginia. lynn campaigned with john for the senate in 1978. john helped lynn become a member of the board of amtrak. i often at family events heard their stories about the path of virginia politics and their hope for more progress for our commonwealth and country. when and broke the news about john's death to her dad, now aged 97, he expressed profound sadness at the loss of his friend of 75 years. after a long pause, lynn said, wait a minute. he is still a youngster. he is two years younger than me. that statement tells you something about my father-in-law, but also conveys a truth about john. he is still a youngster. there was also a youthful energy, twinkle in the eye, and sense of mischief about john warner. as i entered public life what impressed me most about him was his obvious

how would they be expected to follow the resolution of virginia? we considered ourselves the largest the most populated the wealthiest so president john hancock created the entire continental congress as a committee of the whole to gather amongst ourselves and individual caucuses and decide how we should proceed do we really want independency? and then he appointed another committee of five. to draft our declaration of american independency now mind you this was not a fatal come play and we did not know that the congress would would vote for independancy, but we wanted to be prepared now of the five men appointed to the committee. well reflect for a moment mr. john adams is from that's right, massachusetts, mr. roger sherman. connecticut robert are livingston from new york, dr. franklin, pennsylvania and mr. jefferson. the virginia i was the only one on the committee south of the line drawn by messlers mason and dixon. now we all hope that dr. franklin will be the author. he was our mentor elder but franklin, oh, he cared not to take on that respon

scott of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 486, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, each will control 10 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i yield myself one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scott: mr. speaker, there are two amendments in this en bloc amendment. mr. brown has offered an amendment to require the eeoc to submit an annual report to congress on the number of age discrimination claims brought under this act and ms. williams, another amendment, is offered to require the eeoc to submit a report to congress on any remaining disparities faced by workers pursuing relief under this mixed -- under the mixed motive standard whose cases were covered by the idea as well as other anti-discrimination laws. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of

what are they in virginia? in virginia, whites outnumber slaves 3-2, not propitiou count? southampton county has more slaves than whites. it is not, you know,i also wants map of cotton production. 1820, cotton production extends into southampton county. when we see where it is going, we know where sleigh production is going. the black belt, the mississippi river. this will also play an important role in the revolt. why? we see the shift of the slave population from the coast, which is where it is in the 1830 map, to the mississippi river area. that is, without taking the slave population away from virginia. virginia still has a slave population, it is just the growth in slave population happens in the west. what is the number of slaves in the country in 1830? 2 million. in 1860? 4 million. a norma's growth in -- enormous growth in slave population in the country. notice this. southampton, slaves -- i don't want to get my numbers reversed -- southampton county population down. why? this is not a centralwhat induco rebel? one thing that may have done, this may be one of thew

especially want to hear from folks in west virginia. a democrat in west virginia, you are up next. caller: good morning. joe manchin is acting like he is, he is not my senator anymore. i am 74 years old. i have lived in west virginia. he is making things so discouraging for us democrats. i do not know how we can put him in office again. he is not worth it. this country -- host: have you voted for him in the past? caller: yes. hello? one time. i'm not voting for him forever now because i know what kind of person he is. when i was governor i would not vote for him. host: what didn't you like about him when he was governor? caller: you can see the way he does things. he sits on the fence. he goes with the wind. mostly it is the republican wind. now he thinks he has to be republican because our state did a thing after 84 years went republican and now we are positively dark red. it is a shame that that is where our state is. i am so discouraged that i cannot put up with it anymore. i've just about quit trying. i call his number tried to leave a comment. he will not even answer the phone

virginia stern was too big.t could not do that so i put her aside and put virginia with another woman, i've been having dreams about and sort of hard to slip with those together and then it almost seemed to say that this is about me for good. so put that woman aside and i started to writing virginia's book. twenty and of it and the pyrenees had i realized this is all the back for her because she went back to occupy france. why did shepe go back. and so that reaches the question and 400 pageshi later, you find page one andnd off you go. that's the way it goes. i guess that wouldn't have it any other way. i think whenua it be nice to wre a tiny little book, saul outlined in need. life is messy and writing is messy. but when it comes together, the joy is so profound. it is worth all of the trouble. >> i think it is really hard to write the perfectni book. simply member discovered information and the hidden letters and more . than generosity's from both of you, really hit me when i read this book. so i want to talk

we're down 1000 teachers here in virginia. we ranked 58 out of 50 on average teacher pair when compared to the average pay of our citizens. i'm going to end all of that. and would pay our teachers. and when to get every tilt pre-k. i'm going to lean in on broadband. i'm going to diversify, call that whatever you want. i am a job creator, 200,000 jobs. and i inherited the largest deficit in virginia history. left a gigantic surplus four years later. hi perry jobs, income went up 14%. unemployment five 8 to 3 three. you call it whatever label you want. >> i think that's the point of -- you were governor before and hope to be governor again. i think the point is that sometimes we confuse the label with everybody that is new is progressive. and everybody that has been there a while is establishment and not progressive. i know some newbies that are not very progressive. you let the democratic national committee, which like congressional democrats and the white house, has to contend with what to do about the expanding threats to vot

and we'll cause serve well a delightful virginia fair. when i think of some of the differences between colonel henry and myself, i'll never forget that when he learned that i had returned to our nation after five years in front. he said i have no doubt that jefferson's returned home. so frenchified that he's come to abjure his native. to which i happily replied to any who would listen never to have jordan, but now to have them prepared in the french fashion. so that is what i look forward to and at the dinner table on native fab vegetables, of course that we have been able to preserve here through the winter time to be offered and pees. oh my heaven they are my five favorite vegetable and one in which the entire neighborhood of charlottesville has been involved in contest through the years which form a particularly divers over in farmington. well cultivate the first batch of peas and whoever does and lets it be known invites the entire neighborhood to their home for dinner. in fact last year last year was without a question that at the la

because west virginia is a conservative state for the most part.olitical career in the middle of not getting too far to the left and too far to the right and i have to tell you despite this rally today there's not another buzz on the for the people act in west virginia. west virginia's the last couple of elections have been very smooth. there haven't been any issues. so the issue isn't getting much traction here so i'm sure that manchin who is great political instincts feels like he's on the right side for his home state on this. >> jonathan, joe manchin keeps saying that he wants the bills to be bipartisan but in this senate that means getting ten republicans so far it looks like he has maybe five on what they're calling a framework on an infrastructure bill. it's not clear where the other five would come from. is there a points in this process where joe manchin will abandon the attempt at a 60 vote version of the bill? >> i don't know if he'll abandon it but at some point i think he'll realize that the republicans are not willing to come to the t

if it is west virginia, they have had coal problems.f it is mississippi, they have historical problems and down through the list. the fascinating part, the connecting link was that the time when national politics in the united states, as you know more than anybody, has been dysfunctional. we found the functionality evident at the state, local and regional level, of people saying we can figure out a way to move forward even though we don't agree on everything under the sun. if you want an example of american minded practicality, it exists. host: how did you determine which towns and cities to visit? guest: it was an evolving process, steve. at first, jim put a post on his blog at the atlantic, asking for town square, there is a story that we might go see. within one week, we got about 1000 replies from people. they were not just the name of a town, there were stories about their town and long essays. we had a lot to work with. we started in sioux falls, south dakota, where we knew a few people who we thought could help us. it evolved fro

that virginia story was too big.put her aside but virginia with another woman who was having dreams about and they haunt you. put the two of them together in virginia almost seem to say this is about me so focus. but that woman aside i started writing the first mission. i got to the end of it she's got that gestapo honor tail i realized oh my gosh this is so back story pitch she went back to occupied france why? why did she go back? that answer the question. you find pays one and off you go. >> i guess that wouldn't have any other way. when it be nice to write a tiny little book that's all outlined? life is messy and writing is messy. but when it comes together so profound it's worth all the trouble. >> discover all these things have a family member who let's you in a new discover this trove of information. >> a hidden letter. >> the generosity both of these families to both of you is something that really hit me when i read the books. i want to talk about the complexity and bravery of these women. heard something yo

jefferson's own virginia porch. his subject is education and mr. jefferson's views of lifelong learning in creating an educated citizenry capable of self-government. thomas jefferson's monticello hosted this event and provided the video. oh my heavens. well citizens my pleasure indeed my blessings to have you all come visit here this afternoon this 13th day of april, which i am hearing and receiving of the salutations in of my particular birthday. i have steam your interest in recognizing that though. i hope you will realize that personally i prefer not my birthday to the recognized but rather the the birthday of our nation. i consider our nation to be the world's best. hope. and so when we think of what some have referred to as found us day, let it be the recognition that we have founded as the ancients would say novosaurus a new world order dedicated the principles of self-government. i have dressed perhaps somewhat a formally for this occasion in order to greet you all and particularly to receive questions from you and i encourage that curiosity

bush in west virginia in 1992 and bill clinton won in west virginia twice so west virginia does know to vote for democrats. they just haven't been doing it much, lately. west virginia is a republican state now. all three members of the house of representatives from west virginia are republicans. the west virginia state house and state senate are controlled by republicans, and the governor is a republican. i did not do well in math but i did okay in logic. joe manchin is the only democrat in an otherwise republican state , and when i say republican state, i mean, neither joe biden nor hillary clinton got 30% of the vote in west virginia. let that sink in. the last two democrat candidates for president did not even get 30% of the vote in west virginia. so, is the media really surprised that joe manchin is not going for packing the supreme court? is the left really surprised that joe manchin is not going to vote for a federal takeover of state elections or d.c. state hood, or ending the filibuster? is the media really surprised that joe manchin is not really big on the paris climate acc

we see, um, the controversy over inoculation corrupt in norfolk virginia -- norfolk, virginia in 1768 and 1769. there were riots. i am not making this up. during this period, there were small epidemics of smallpox in williamsburg and north town -- yorktown. citizens were on edge about the epidemic coming to their town. dr. archibald cambo engaged the services of another doctor to inoculate his family and neighbors. he probably learned about contacts in the medical community. also through our in article that the doctor had published in the burgeon you because that -- v irginia gazette hyping his services as an experienced inoculate her. dr. campbell hired him to inoculate himself, his family, and a group of their neighbors. other citizens were upset about this because they were afraid the inoculation process would lead to an outbreak of smallpox. the anti-vaxxers --i will use a modern term -- tried to get the local magistrates to stop these plans. the magistrates didn't want to step in. these antibacterials basically -- anti-vaxxers basically fired up a mob that marched to dr. campbell

he gets invited to go down to the virginia convention in williamsburg. and he gets there are just a little bit late. he's not super excited about traveling. he finds he's been assigned to a committee to write a declaration of rights for virginia. he really very quickly gets fed up with the rest of the committee and decides. he's kind of done with them. so he takes himself off to raleigh tavern down the street and writes this beautiful document that states that all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights. among which are life liberty the pursuit of happiness and safety the pursuing and possessing of property. might sound a little familiar the first draft of this document ends up in a newspaper in philadelphia about the time thomas. jefferson is drafting the declaration of independence. we don't know but we think it's possible that this might have had some influence on jefferson's writing of the declaration. now about 10 years later mason gets invited to go to philadelphia for the constitutional convention. it's the

of the infrastructure needs in west virginia.green-new-deal stuff that -- that's in the biden plan. but i can very much see joe biden making a deal or doing whatever is necessary to get an infrastructure bill that brings back millions to west virginia. channeling his best memory of robert c. byrd. >> jonathan, quickly, before we go. will there be something on voting rights that joe manchin will support and join the democrats on in the senate? >> yeah. he supports the john lewis voting rights act. and i would remind you, he was secretary of state and he was governor. he knows how important election integrity is. he is working hard to make sure that republicans will come to the table and pass the john louis voting rights act. and he will work with anybody to get a better bill, a stronger bill, to protect voting rights. >> what about the 60-vote threshold on the john lewis bill? >> i think -- i don't think joe manchin is going to budge on the filibuster. i have known him for a long time and i have never heard him give an inch on tha

it can feed the army of northern virginia. and this will play into the union strategy of wanting to control the area as well and the confederates desiring to defend it. is 1864 dawned? the valley was a place of humiliation for union troops those who had fought there were generally defeated and the echoes of stonewall jackson's 1862 valley campaign, which consisted of hard marches hard fought battles and a lot of defeats for the union side still was in the minds of soldiers on both sides. there were these myths surrounding the valley which the confederates like to play into their triumphant memories and the union looked at with less enthusiasm. there were hospital towns. so places where soldiers would be transported after the battle and field hospital experiences winchester, which is in the northern part of the valley was frequently used as a hospital town by both sides. the town itself would change hands at least 76 times during the war. stanton which is in the middle of the valley was also regularly used by confederates as a

, most recently a book called virginia waterways and the underground railroad. this morning shall be speaking about standing on the precipice of change, virginia's african american fighters in the civil war. ladies and gentlemen doctor cassandra newby-alexander. (applause) (applause) >> thank you so much kristie and i really want to thank everyone involved with these american civil war museum allowing me to contribute at least a little piece, a little voice to this important initiative. being a virginian, i grew up when virginia had this wonderful and i say that in the most sarcastic way imaginable, this wonderful textbook that spoke about slavery as if it was a benign, kind, generous, club thoughtful institution in which slaves, who were really family members, worked five days a week, partied on saturday night, and went to church on sunday. and i kid you not, the textbook actually pretty much said that. and so, as the song says, i've seen rivers in terms of our historical misunderstanding. but i like what jean meacham said today, that history eliminates. it doe

he drafted the 1776 virginia declaration of rights.onvention in philadelphia, but refused to sign the constitution because it did not include a bill of rights. welcome to gunston hall. my name is lacey villiva. i'm the education manager here. i'm very excited to give you a tour of george mason's gunston hall today. we're standing in front of the house right now. the house is built between 1755 and 1759 and was the home of george mason and his first wife and i'll beck. if we look at the house if we look at the carving that decoration around the outside the house tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society that he really thought he did. he was a wealthy gentleman. he belonged in that upper class with people like george washington thomas jefferson james madison and house tells us that in the details as we look at it. the driveway that you would have come up as well during george mason's lifetime was lined and cherry trees and would have really created this house as a focal point and a centerpiece of the property here at g

here in virginia we've expanded early vote 45 days. we got rid of excuse absentee balloting, now no excuse. we need to expand people's opportunities to vote. listen, i'm very tough on this. we need to do whatever it takes to get this legislation through the federal government. i don't care what they say. the democrats got to understand that the republicans are rolling back, take votes away, they're going to try to do to us in the states. democrats got to stand up and fight, and we cannot allow them to roll back in 30 plus states to take away our ability to vote. for the next presidential election, you know what they're trying to do. they're trying to get the house of representatives. if we win the popular vote, they don't want to see our nominee who will win the popular vote. democrats, it's time to start fighting. we've done knit virginia and we need to do this around the country. >> all right. >> we're the greatest democracy in the world. we owe it to people who stand up and fight. i had a son in the marine corps. people are fighting

support among west republicans in virginia 76%. three and four west virginia republican support the voting rights bill, the for the people acts. more than three and four republicans. the senator from west virginia, joe manchin, says he's against it. by 21 point margin, west virginia says they'll be more likely to support joe manchin if he supports the voting rights bill. but he says he's against it. every component of the bill, everything from making voter registration easier to stop partisan gerrymandering to the limiting amount of anonymous donations from special interest corporations, all of it is very popular. all of it has way over majority support among west virginia voters but joe manchin says he won't vote for it because republican senators won't vote for no matter what or why. no matter what their reasons for that are. he also says he won't change the filibuster roles so that democrats can pass that bill and others with a majority vote, even in the minority pub like party, the republicans oppose it. the west virginia poll

west virginia is a very individual place. i spent two years there as part of the -- i was working with the americorps program for coming to d.c. it does not fit into this cookie-cutter mold of partisansh ip. joe manchin has shown he understands his voters probably better than most people who have ever been familiar with politics in the state. shelley capito was the lead negotiator for republicans with joe biden on the infrastructure package before talks broke down before joe biden headed to europe. west virginia is one of these places that is truly -- it does not fitly -- fit neatly into the box of right-wing or left-wing. those labels don't really matter as much to people there. host: terrence in brooklyn, a republican. caller: good morning. this guy, jason dick, he sounds like -- jason dick, he sounds like a democratic opportunist. he used the term "we." he is talking with democratic talking points. host: which one? what did he say, specifically? caller: he used the term "we" on several occasions when he was talking about d

rosetta is an virginia -- is in virginia, democrats line. caller: good morning. i would like to talk about president trump, and his carrying on. i don't like to use the word white folks. i think we are all human, and we are all born into the racial god. god created everyman, and he created every man in his own way. he did not separate the races. the black folks and white folks and all that junk, we ought to cut that out and live with one another like we are human beings. host: to rose in north carolina on the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. we have allowed the world economic forum to call all of the shots and biden builds back better plan is a grocer about -- and the biden builds back better plan is a gross plan. friends of science, michelle sterling and jane berger meister, i encourage you to look at both of them, were whistleblowers about the plan, and there plane for depopulation. no one listen to because they were women. these patents, i believe, are far more important than the emails. it shows this virus was made not just in one lab bu

former virginia governor terry mcauliffe hoping to become the next virginia governor.are a virginia resident. >> yes, i am. yes, i am. we have reached out to glen yunkin, the republican nominee for governor, and we're hoping to have him on the show soon as well. >>> that does it for us at this hour. we'll be back on msnbc right after this break. msnbc right after this break struggling to manage my type 2 diabetes was knocking me out of my zone, but lowering my a1c with once-weekly ozempic® helped me get back in it. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic® ♪ my zone? lowering my a1c and losing some weight. now, back to the show. ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop ozempic® and get me

in west virginia you, could vote by mail. if you work to certain shifting you weren't able to vote during the day you couldn't do that in texas. in west virginia, you could vote if you were incarcerated by mail. you can't do that in texas. and so as we went line by line and talked about several subject matters of as one, it was very clear that texas in the rest of the country is not like west virginia and that we do need a national standard that actually empowers people to vote, and that's one as one is trying to accomplish. and i think that was very instructive for the staff to understand and other parts of the country. there is a lot of voter suppression taking place in clearly that's killing democracy. and we need a fix for that. >> what is going to happen next in the texas legislature? >> at any moment, the governor can call a special session so we broke quorum, we walked out. that's the equivalent to texas democrats crawling on our knees begging our federal brothers and sisters to please bring us a federal standard. a fe

he's down in southeast virginia. he does have his now de facto second and command and that's thomas jonathan jackson stonewall jackson to most people stonewall jackson has made a reputation of himself by beating up a b list of gent union generals out in the shenandoah valley and then coming to the eastern theater not performing particularly. well during the seven days but picking up his game as they go on towards cedar mountain second, manassas and antietam fredericksburg is not a great day for for stonewall jackson, but it's men kind of bail him out of there. so stonewall jackson is you know at times he's showing that he's not perfection personified like a lot of people think he is he's human and that's the side of these guys that i like to study is the human side of them getting to know them. it's much more fascinating robert lee as a wicked temper on it and and that makes them more human to me and they even bring that up in the midst of this campaign. you know, he his temper. so that's something that humanize thin

okay, that's without taking the slave population away from the from virginia, virginia still has its slave population. it's just the growth in the slave population happens in in the west i mean important thing and thing you can't see what's the number of slaves in the country in 1830 two million. what's the number of slaves in the country and 1860 four million? okay, so there's been an enormous growth in the slave population in the country. but notice this in southampton the slaves the slap them i don't want to get my numbers reversed and i can't see it. so it's okay southampton county's population is going to go down why because this is not a center place of this is not a center pace of economic growth. remember cotton production is going to be moving away from southampton county. the whites are moving away, but the blacks are moving away even faster. how's that happening? the slave trade okay now think about if the slave population of southampton grew at the same rate the slave population grew elsewhere in the world. what would happen to the slave population between 1830 and 1860?

of west virginia. 79% of likely voters in west virginia want expansion of the voting rights act.700,000, 315,000 make less than $15 an hour. they want living wages. they want health care. he's hurting the very block of people that put him in office, poor and low wage white people from the mountains, and black people from charleston, and they are ready to speak out, and not only going to do it in west virginia, they're then taking buses on the 23rd, and coming to washington, d.c. and they're going to be with us on june 21st for a mass poor people's assembly, low wage workers assembly, and moral march on washington as we get ready for an in-person march launching for june of next year. people are very very bothered. you know, ali, one of them said to me, there's a -- this doesn't make sense to them. manchin doesn't believe in bipartisan because he says he would never vote against the filibuster, if he had 50 democrats, and nine republicans, he's more committed to the filibuster, even if they could pass a bill to stop unconstitutional acts in the state, he says he's against ending t

west virginia, that's huge. then they polled on biden's infrastructure bill, american jobs act, another bill that manchin won't vote for unless republicans vote for it too, regardless of why. it's even more popular. covid relief has 64% support. infrastructure bill is even higher. 68% in west virginia, the jobs bill. but now look at this, third piece of legislation polled on in west virginia is for the people act, voting rights bill. it is more popular than covid relief and infrastructure bill. they had 64% and 68% for those two things, voting rights bill has 79% support among west virginia voters, 79%. support among democrats, 81%, independents, 79%. republicans in west virginia, 76%. more than 3 in 4 west virginia republicans support the for the people act. more than 3 in 4 republicans. senator from west virginia, joe manchin, says he's against it. by 21-point margin, they'd be more likely to support joe manchin if he supports the bill, but he's against it. every component, making voter registration easier, li

but it also, west virginia has a history -- they split from virginia because they didn't want to be likeest of the south. and what they are saying is do right by us in this state. why would a senator from west virginia have his office in the lotto building? maybe because he's gambling with people's health care, living wages and people's voting rights. why would a senator from west virginia stand against $15 and a union? why would he stand against universal health care? why would he join and encourage the west virginia legislature in their passing of restrictive voting laws? when you suppress the vote guess what, you hurt poor folk in the mountains. you hurt black folk in the city. you hurt everybody. this is not about democrat verse republican and left versus right and conservative versus liberal. this is about right versus wrong. >> yeah. >> this is a moral issue, constitutional issue and we're going to stand and fight against it. >> bishop william barber in west virginia. >> we might do nonviolent sit-ins in his office. the people here are ready to go. you do not mess with mountaineers

west virginia is a very individual place. i spent two years there as part of the -- i was working with the americorps program for coming to d.c. it does not fit into this cookie-cutter mold of partisansh ip. joe manchin has shown he understands his voters probably better than most people who have ever been familiar with politics in the state. shelley capito was the lead negotiator for republicans with joe biden on the infrastructure package before talks broke down before joe biden headed to europe. west virginia is one of these places that is truly -- it does not fitly -- fit neatly into the box of right-wing or left-wing. those labels don't really matter as much to people there. host: terrence in brooklyn, a republican. caller: good morning. this guy, jason dick, he sounds like -- jason dick, he sounds caller: good morning. he is talking a talking point. host: what did he say? caller: he used the term we on several occasions. he is not a journalist, he is a democratic operative. host: let's talk adjacent deck before we say g

he's just been talking to the media and claiming he's reptding west virginia, where now west virginia speak. all of the things we're fighting for, voting rights, wages, let's remember, in history, those things were never just given. they had to be fought for. >> bishop, trump won west virginia by like 40%, right? i mean, doesn't manchin have a read on what people in west virginia, the majority, wants? >> well, listen to the people today. no, manchin didn't win by 40%. and a lot of poor and low wealth people didn't vote because they don't hear about poverty and low wages. this is bigger than just who won. this is about history. this is about the country. he's saying, look, his position doesn't even make sense. he says he's for bipartisanship. but he's never going to vote against the filibuster, which means even if he got 59 votes, nine republicans, that's bipartisanship, he wouldn't vote. in his own state, even republicans, 76% of republicans want the for the people act. they want the restoration of voting rights, according to one poll. so we have to get the truth out. it's amazing wha

. >> particularly governors of virginia. first of course jefferson served as governor is the revolutionary war and the youngest governor but in thanks to the hard work republican governor holton that portrait hangs in the conference room next to my office at the center and i have had the pleasure of knowing going on 30 years. my predecessor as director who many of you know passed away last year. so we are delighted to host his predecessor, who after jefferson was the second youngest governor in virginia history. joined by his wife linda his father was president lyndon johnson and the presidential recordings program has been working for years on transcribing the office recordings of the johnson administration. which we publish at the university of virginia press. later this year in commemoration of the lbj 50th anniversary we are working on an exhibit to allow people to listen to a wider assortment of tapes for free that have been available in the past. to serve on the lbj foundation board presumably somewhere the tapes presi