party of virginia. please welcome courtney. [applause] and i want to personally thank you because she has been with the organization for a while. we have been working on this together, and literally it is your work that brought this conversation to american university, your work that brought this to the sine institute. i would like to turn it over to you, virginia, to lead us in conversation. >> thank you, amy. round of applause for amy. [applause] hello, and welcome, everyone. thank you for being here. this is a very important discussion to have after three weeks of breaking news, weekends of breaking news. i'm really excited to talk to you and find common ground in american society, especially if we talk about the young generation, which are going to lead us in the near future. as we see right now, before we get into the details of the questions of the issues on the policy, this is a question i would like to ask everyone, how do you talk about politics. the way i talk about politics is i have a weekly

virginia is the most populous state and there are no justices from, virginia. so the attorney general says, okay, well, are the two names john marshall bushrod washington now marshall declines and it's not clear why exactly. he seems to have been more committed to the political campaign. he was more of a political sort of liked politics more, let's say, than bushrod washington. but bush rod accepted the offer. now, of course, three years later, right. president adams is going to prevail upon marshall to accept the chief justice ship and make them colleagues the court. now, in this period before they are supreme court colleagues, so we're talking about 1798 to 1801 are washington and marshall are already working together on important projects related to george washington's death. so george washington dies in 1799 and he makes bush write his principal heir. but there are issues. it's a complex estate and martha washington is still living needs help and bush right marshall jointly advise her about different aspects of george's will and bequests and so on. okay. mo

is virginia's for lovers.nwealth of virginia. sgr congratulations. six times most decorated state. democratic and republican administrations have won this. something about virginia makes it so competitive year after year? >> first, welcome to virginia and an honor to have cnbc recognizing virginia as the top state for business. we work were incredibly well together. economic developments is a team sport, and our administration has taken huge strides over the last two and a half years to address real areas of importance. talent is always top of the list and ours rated top in america. infrastructure a top immeneed f businesses and allocated $550 million over the last three years making sure we have shovel-ready sites. power. of course. making big strides yesterday. we announce add big step for potential citing of a small reactor in virginia to be the first. a lot going on. rime so proud of the work our general assembly has done in partnership with us, all local economic development partners and all the businesse

not just virginia, across the country.make groceries affordable again. you are seeing that everywhere both with rents, cost of living, gas. more expensive because biden administration has led to this inflation crisis that really is a tax on the poor. i remind individuals virginia has the criest concentration of veterans than any state in the country. they have seen what the biden administration has done not just with our defense budget but also the weakness abroad. this impacted my hometown of virginia roads. absolutely devastated in what happened in the pullout of afghanistan and the death of the 13 servicemen that tragically gave their lives in that chaotic withdrawal that happened and for the president to sit on stage, even though we have photos of him greeting the caskets as they are returning and have the unmitigated gull to say there were no lost servicemen during his time as president, really stuck in the mind of every single gold star family in the commonwealth of virginia. virginians have given touch in defense of

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we have been working in virginia to provide multiple pathways for virginia kids. go to college. some of them want to get an industry recognized credential, and go straight to work. that's what we've done in virginia. that is one of the reasons why we were ranked number one in education and why our workforce is always rated as top in the nation. because we can get people to go to work. i think the platform is comprehensive. as i said earlier, common sense prevails here. it is great to have common steps headed back to the white house and lead the united states of america. larry: is virginia in play, governor? >> i think it is. listen, joe biden won virginia by 10 point four years ago and i was able to win by two, just a year later. and i believe that president trump's leadership and strength is why virginia is in play. it is in all the polls suggest that the state is tied, if not president trump having a slight lead. we've got a tough four months of campaigning ahead of us. i look forward to campaigning with president trump and working to deliver virginia. and liste

as a member of the virginia house of delegates. and 2022 he was elected by the members of his caucus to serve as the house democratic leader and i'm a native virginian. virginians were one of the first so in 1620, while 1619 that's where the in insured from africa and when attorney scott is elected by his leaders that was a big deal but in practice they also in 2024 he became the first speaker of the house of delegates in virginia's history since 1619. [applause] so he is committed to building a strong democratic caucus in winning back bet the majority of the house of delegates. now let me tell you he's a virginian by the taxes that he pays and where he resides that he was born and raised in houston, texas and let me tell you one of six children raised by a single mother. this brother even with the few resources performed well in school and eventually enrolled in aerodynamics program at the houston area high school and he eventually matriculated to texas a&m university where he is a student leader was one of the prime charter membe

southern virginia. he spends about, i think, nine days in west virginia, which he thinks is is just in fertile ground, like, oh, west virginia is horrible. we're living in. i find that he doesn't find what he's looking for, but he spends most of his time in in kentucky site in, eastern tennessee and in north carolina. and there he he finds an extraordinary repository of old ballads that had been passed that he believed had been passed down from generation to generation, stretching back to the colonial period that had survived in the mountains in isolation. all right. so that's but what i want to convey you here is that when he went to appalachia, he was searching for something he was looking for england in amber preserved. he wasn't he wasn't necessarily curious about appalachian writ large. he certainly didn't care about culture of of african-americans in, the mountains, for instance, or those italian immigrants that discussed when we were talking about the rise of the coal industry. that's not what he

in virginia it's neck and neck. we have work to do but virginia is ready to elect donald trump. >> if i recall you won by seven. >> by two. joe biden won virginia by ten points in 2020. we turned around and won by two. >> an amazing win. a lot of converging issues at the time. you talked about tonight being a unity night. we heard from nikki haley, ron desantis, vivek ramaswamy who pointed out six months ago we were on that stage debating and now this is together. and then saturday. has the world changed? >> i think that first of all donald trump was surging anyway. let's be clear, america is ready to elect strength back into the white house, we are tired of weakness and foreign policy, tired of weakness in foreign policy, tired of the week border that's unleashed chaos. you can see it across the nation. the wave was already beginning but on saturday i think something happened that not just woke up america but i actually think president trump saw a moment where strength and courage and fight, fight, fights, but also

it's disputed by the virginia house of burgesses. lord fairfax conducts for 11 years from 1732 to 1743. a lawsuit in the british privy council to establish that he does own this land. and then he goes over and superintend and hires washington to be his so so that the chance anything could have happened could have gone another way was a close run thing. no lord fairfax, no george washington, all right. so now let's turn to the america, because i want to ask you this question i asked you earlier. we have had landslide elections in america, 1980, 1984, 1972, 1964, but not since then, what's what's happened to the unifying impulse, americans? well, you know. since 1984, no president has won more than 53% of the popular vote. during the first, george bush was a little higher than, you know, 53 point something. in 1988, barack obama was 52.8. i think in 19. in 2008, we don't have those big landslides anymore. i think the answer is that when we had we had landslide heights, when we had an electorate that had experienced the great depression

like virginia. we saw the other week that after the debate between trump and biden, trump got up on stage at a rally in the commonwealth with glenn youngkin and they talk about how they could move forward and make america great again talking about different topics like the border, crime, and education which are all top of mind for people that we talked to on a daily basis but again, hearing doug burgum who took the company public, his major company great plains software, microsoft bought it for a billion dollars. the guy has done well in business. no longer a vp pick. he could be something else in the trump administration so we will wait and see but hearing from the trump team on the ground a short time ago telling us the first time we will see the vp nominee and person will be around 4:30 p.m. eastern. speculation although we've been talking about it for a while, it's now starting to get closer minute-by-minute here. we can't wait to see who the pick will be up on stage and milwaukee, wisconsin. as

pension bureau and former confederate states like virginia. that the last decade or so have really taken with historians. but there's so many that we're only now beginning to mine the gems that that live in these records and also newly master digitized medical journals and newspapers which represent a boon to digital historians. and what i learn from this process was essentially that addiction cost, like alpheus, chappell, everything, it cost their livelihood, their self-esteem, military entitlements like pensions, it cost them their families who abandoned them in many cases. oftentimes it cost them their freedom and even their lives. and so one major reason for this suffering is the cultural perception of opium slavery, addiction was not the word addiction. that is not commonly used until after the year 1900. and so searching for to describe what they experiencing and what they were seeing 19th century americans routinely to opium addiction as slavery to opium. but this this phrase and the lived experience of that phrase defied cultural ideal

>> that he had been in virginia all day. >> you are in virginia receiving this call?utes away from my apartment and he goes doug, your wife is missing in my first reaction is, as my wife pulling something and i said well, and by missing, but she just missing from the house of what's going on, fill me in. he says i can't do that at this time. where were you today? >> you give me a couple locations where he was to support that he was in virginia, one of those being at his lawyers office in newport news, virginia. >> and he said okay will can your lawyer verify? no, my lawyer wasn't there. when i wanted it was just the two secretaries. >> detective scott asked the local fbi to run down doug's story and they did. two women on the staff confirmed it. they said they saw him come in that day. >> a bit shocking when they said we checked it out and he has an alibi. >> what were the investigators to do? parents were adamant in their belief that doug had come and snatched venus away. to corroborate that. they described the fights their daughter had had with doug but eyewitnesses

martha it's the government for virginia on the short list for the vp pick. he is about the last two left. senator from ohio is the last name. he just walked into joint of the delegates from his state they are about to go through a roll call and go through virginia and they will give their delegates and of course the big buzz is whether or not he will be the vp pick today. kevin mccarty former speaker of the house has been on the airwaves saying over and over truck should pick him saying he would be able to give trump the virginia delegates at the end of the day that he'd be able to bring in moderates and even bring in hispanics and other governors from different states and he would be the best pick from the bunch but i just talked to him and asked if he talked with president trump today and he said he had an. i asked if he expects to and he's didn't want to say he said he is just here to join his colleagues from the state of virginia to basically hand over the delegates from virginia to president trump. >> martha: aisha thank you. this is fascinating to watc

virginia governor glenn youngkin on virginia independents this november.hat happened after the attempt on trump's life? former speaker of the house newt gingrich with the state of the presidential race. and then will he or won't he step down? if speculation is raging as to whether joe biden will step out of the presidential race as the president appears to forget the name of his secretary of defense in a bet interview this week. >> it's all about treating people with dignity. and it's about making sure that -- look, i mean, for example, look -- [inaudible] because with i named the secretary of defense, a black man. maria: coming up, texas representative and former doctor to three presidentses ronny jackson on biden's weakness and trump's wounded ear after examining the 45th president. it's all a right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the state of the presidential race with the election now 107 days away and a stark difference between the candidates as the democrats are scrambling to oust presiden

we are going to win virginia.are going to turn virginia red. >> what do you think he will do for you and the country? >> i remember when he was president before. he does what he says, he means what he says. the last four years have been a struggle. the prices have gone crazy. president trump is a man of the people. that is what we need to make this country great again. >> thanks for talking to c-span. >> yes, ma'am, thank you. have a great night. >> the music is something inside the fiserv forum. delegates have arrived for the big speech from the former president. we are in downtown milwaukee in the battleground state of wisconsin. take a look at the state newspaper -- the city newspaper, milwaukee journal-sentinel. moderate voters in wisconsin declined. a poll by marquette university showing voters identifying with both parties are more polarized and entrenched in their views than in previous cycles. i want to show you the results from wisconsin, the last two election cycles to give you a better idea why this is

west virginia, west virginia, southern west virginia, eastern. and some of these counties in south west virginia as well that is what we call appalachia, coal. right. so exactly. persistent poverty is heavily centered in those areas in within appalachia. what else do we notice? there's some other things that this map tells us as well that we can just touch on. yes, right here, a big proportion along mississippi river, big portion along the mississippi river, right. certainly, this is something that we've talked about when we the antebellum south. right. the black belt that you can see here, also the mississippi river valley. so this map is also demonstrating structural inequalities or structural poverty in areas historically align with plantation agriculture and the and the slave system in the united states. another map that i know shown you before, this is a map of excess mortality rates in really what we see is. you can kind of lay this map directly over the one that we were just looking at with poverty as well. so again, we're kind of getting

kelly bennett served in the eighth virginia cavalry. and bennett remembered was he received this order. they were going to go into chambersburg. we're going to burn it. and as torches were basically being passed around, he recorded his diary, how he thought was wrong, that we should not be doing this because he's thinking about what he has written in his diary previously. how he was condemning the acts of. individuals like union general david hunter in the valley and he thought, well, now we're doing the same kind of thing. but very quickly he begins to about this. he begins to rationalize in own mind and he begins to rationalize it in the context of the destruction that did occur. thought, well this is this is a this is a fair retaliation. this is a fair revenge for what happens to communities in the shenandoah valley. but what's interesting about bennett is, in some weird way, he believed that the destruction confederates soldiers engaged in was more humane and civil. and he wrote in part that burning, per se is wrong. no man can deny

kelly bennett served in the eighth virginia cavalry. and bennett remembered was he received this order. they were going to go into chambersburg. we're going to burn it. and as torches were basically being passed around, he recorded his diary, how he thought was wrong, that we should not be doing this because he's thinking about what he has written in his diary previously. how he was condemning the acts of. individuals like union general david hunter in the valley and he thought, well, now we're doing the same kind of thing. but very quickly he begins to about this. he begins to rationalize in own mind and he begins to rationalize it in the context of the destruction that did occur. thought, well this is this is a this is a fair retaliation. this is a fair revenge for what happens to communities in the shenandoah valley. but what's interesting about bennett is, in some weird way, he believed that the destruction confederates soldiers engaged in was more humane and civil. and he wrote in part that burning, per se is wrong. no man can deny

shepherdstown, virginia but of course, now today it is part of shepherdstown or it is part of west virginia itself, which, of course, i had the great pleasure of living in that town and still refer to it as home many times. so while we're before we get into september of 1862, specifically with shepherdstown role in, the maryland campaign just want to provide some. and while thinking about this and what makes anybody care about the history of one small town along the potomac river during just a week of its long storied history, not only in the course of the civil war, but throughout all of american history. and thinking about it, i think part of the reason that this is such an important story to be told is that shepherdstown, then the residents there today and back then had a very great awareness, the history and the story of their town. and i think that lent so much of the material that i used in my book and others have used to telling the story of shepherdstown experience as a hospital town. now, having said that, of course, thousands of towns across the united states during the course of

well, virginia hart we just left the 18th century. you've got modern virginia. you've got arlington cemetery and the lee mansion. more of arlington, the airport and the modern world here. this is a fantastic. it's one of the best years we have here in washington d.c. what is this terrace used for. well, is it's a vital part of the work do on the interior to, open up the doors and allow people to leave the 18th century and walk into something that has a very modern feel and suddenly we are in the nation's capital. now, the state department building itself built 1950s. it was planned the 1950s and opened up in 1960. so all of the work that we've done to our collection has been to the interior of the building, allowing people to walk to the space and suddenly explore. since the 1961 architecture of this building here. and you really do experience. but this this terrace was renovated during the secretary clinton, too, correct? absolutely. what is this wall here? this is the wall of the secretaries of state and. i think we'll see some names that are familiar, secreta

and that was recently published, the university of virginia press. cynthia kerner is a of history at george mason university. she earned her ph.d. from university of virginia and specializes the fields of early america women, gender and early southern history. she is the author or editor of eight books and numerous. in addition to being the organization's own of american historians, distinguished lecturer and the past president of southern association for women history science. throughout her distinguished career, dr. kirchner's research has been supported by the american historical association, the virginia historical, the library company, philadelphia, the american antiquarian society and the national endowment for the humanities. but before i turn things over to dr. kerner, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us virtually on zoom this evening. following tonight's author's talk, there will be a question and answer session. so please feel free to submit your questions any point during the presentation through the

virginia is doing great. commitments from companies and i think that's reflective of the hard work we're doing. economists project lots things. >> norah: but tariffs will raise the price of goods, and that will affect consumers. >> i believe that what president trump is doing is taking out a very strong position that free and fair trade must be reciprocal and that in fact we will make sure that we have free and fair trade as a country. let's bring one country -- go pick one c china. china is not a rival. china is trying to dominate the world and they are trying to do it at the expense of the united states and for too long we allow them to have open access to the u.s. market without any kind of counterbalance from america. when president trump struck the china trade deal and imposed substantial tariffs on them, it was a critically important statement that we are going to stand up for free and fair trade. i believe that's what he is going to stand up for in his next presidency. we will have free, fair, reciproc