and confidence is high in west virginia.'m not able to comment on the nationwide, and not there and i am not as sure in of the states as i am in west virginia. host: what specific steps have you taken in west virginia to ensure elections are secure in your state? guest: it begins with maintenance of the voter registration process and making sure those registering are citizens of west virginia and 18 years old and meet the minimum requirements. that is the beginning. most people focus on election day and in west virginia we have for voting, both absentee and early voting for 10 days prior to the actual elections. to give people a number of options as to how they choose to vote. if we want to make sure especially on election day the machine seven tested for logic and accuracy in that all 55 counties are using the express vote system that produces a paper trail. all of the basics are covered with regards to elections in west virginia. there is also the tabulation and that is very important because that is where the final result

he also drew on his virginia colleagues declaration of rights which the virginia legislature had passed in june and which jefferson had a copy of. george mason's declaration of rights had a phrase and it that's almost familiar but not as totality because mason's draft emphasized life, liberty and the pursuit of property and that is an interesting change and is of great interest of course that jefferson and his colleagues changed the pursuit of property to the pursuit of happyness. jefferson and his confederation congress colleagues were on the whole. not all of them. wealthy landowners and slaveowners, rich people on the whole. so why the change from property to happiness? my speculation lot must but may is that they wanted the emphasis to transcend the limitations of class and social status and wealth and soey on. they wanted it to be a document that didn't express self-serving but still assume the ownership of property which c they were te leading citizens of the country. now, jefferson's declaration of course there's a strong emphasis on the separation from the british empire being f

in the climate of virginia on the other hand. it is the case may be with the exception of paris no matter where jefferson traveled in virginia and everything about it was always b better. and again, in 1791 jefferson with his friend and colleague james mattis the combined travel adventure to northern new york. enter new england. in that lake champlain area. i've made comparative notes about the climate through lake champlain northern england. even at that time of the year. and late may and early june he wrote this summer and northern new york state and new england was not only two hot but a sultry hot as could be found in carolina or georgia. i suspect indeed that heats of northern climates may be more powerful than those of southern ones. in proportion they are shorter. there is much fever and other complaints on lake champlain that on the swamps of south carolina.re find nothing anywhere else which virginia need envy for any part of the world. i did not quite feel that yesterday when he got off the plane. we know what was going

on june 6, 1776, a member of the virginia delegation acting on instructions from the virginia legislature itself stood up and the confederation congress and proposed there be a resolution declaring independence and congress immediately appointed a committee of five, most members of the congress were it's not either, some were eager, some were less eager, some were reconciled et cetera. to hearing that. the committee of five that was nominated was lee himself of course, benjamin franklin, john adams, roger sherman, robert livingston and jefferson. lee was busy with work on the articles of confederation. the elderly franklin was the committee's most famous writer and personality, recently returned from london representing pennsylvania, smart, crafty, he wasn't interested in writing assignments. john adams was a passionate participant in the floor debate and a talented writer. he felt overburdened with important committee work. the other two important men, livingston from new york, sherman from connecticut had no special interest in or talent as writers. all five were of the same mind. so wa

northern new york, new england and virginia. and he made it much to virginia his advantage, even at that time of the year because. he arrived in northern new york, new england in late may, early june. and he he that the summer in northern new york state, new england was not only hot but quote as hot as could be find and count as could be found in carolina or georgia. i, i suspect, indeed, that heat of northern climates may be more powerful than. those of southern ones in proportion, as they shorter there is as much fever, other bilious complaints on lake champlain as on the swamps of carolina find nothing. nothing anywhere else in point of climate which virginia need envy to any part the world. and i didn't quite feel that yesterday when i got off the plane, it was not quite what was was going on. and jeff well we know what was going on in jefferson's head. of course i do i do have remark that i have some summer neighborhood neighbors and east boothbay, maine, who live a good part the year in virginia not too far from here. but

she needs to run at the score in northern virginia, hold her own in southwest virginia. she needed to do well in central virginia around richmond, hanover county. if she does those things well she will win virginia. i predict virginia it will be one of the earliest dates called in the presidential election. >> what about the ground again? >> we have built up an unprecedented grandkid. i sent out an email prior to president biden dropping out. when kamala took over i get the same email and i got one agenda responses. the excitement is up, we have opened up a number of offices. i feel confident will hold virginia. we have to do the work. we cannot take it for granted. we won it by five and a 2016. we will try to win it by 15 in 2024 with kamala harris. we have 700,000 veterans in virginia, and they are mad and angry because president trump disparages the service of veterans by sink the residential medal of freedom was a better honor than the congressional medal of honor. people made sacrifices for this country, life and limb, anti-and all veterans. the veterans of foreign

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

so there are not, truthfully, there are not a lot of whistle blowers in the state of virginia. there just aren't the laws are not as robust as the other states. but hopefully that can change. and it's people like miss ratliff to make this ripple effects happen. yeah. do you want to comment on that? well, he is right. um. i just felt that the reason why i seek legal representation is because the director that's there now is abusing the system. she um is not following policy procedures and it weighed on me not knowing if our children were safe or if the adults in our community were say, having her in that role. and she did not the same procedure to the point where we lost everybody in adult protective services and child protective services . they all left the facility because of her and because there was no one there, it did make our community volleyball because she was the director. i'd like to get both of you to comment on this last one. did a beginning with you. what advice would you give somebody considering blowing the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse or illegality? and is the

you have to be certified through the state of virginia. and none of my workers except for 3, were trained and certified the director had asked that i put the new people onto these cases right away. and i had advised her that i could not do that. and she had continually requested that i do that. and i was terminated, there's been some press coverage of your suit in the local media. and one thing that struck me is that this has to do with 2 very important governmental entities, child protective services, and adult protective services. so we're talking about literally the most vulnerable members of our society. you're alleging in your lawsuit that your supervisor repeatedly ordered you to perform services that required certification and training for specific regulations. you didn't have that certification or training, and the supervisor also routinely directed you to assign newly hired staff members to process benefit applications with no certification or training. local investigative journalists have confirmed your version of the story. so y

they called me virginia robertovna after my dad's name, so it was an unusual experience, they wantedwrite dear virginia robertovna, and they looked for this word in the dictionary, and they found road, which means the way, so some of them wrote "dear" virginia robertovna , instead of dear, and to me and mine the partner had to think a little to understand what happened. she and i thought at first that maybe it was because i was going... on a trip, but no, they were trying to say: "dear virginia." in general, more than 3,400 peace corps volunteers managed to work in ukraine before the full-scale war since 1992, with the war they were forced to stop working, some of them created a public organization, the alliance of former peace corps volunteers for ukraine, after the start of the full-scale invasion, says virginia. they wanted to help, so she appeared the idea of ​​publishing a recipe book. in the grandmother's kitchen , american volunteers published not only culinary tips, but also memories from ukraine. this is where some of the authors of the cookbook visited lviv when we were tog

against west virginia offense.rter: you're on the road next several weeks and on the road all season but we have awesome games coming up. what are you looking forward to in the next few weeking? >> it is a great start to the season today is great because penn state is a team to make the playoff and michigan reigning champion and texas made the playoff that is a big noon game we're going to be there. and find out a lot more about both of the teams next week and week after in madison, for alabama as well, against wisconsin and as a team that a lot is expected in week two. next two weeks are going to be great. reporter: football is kind of crazy look this where you think you know something and you don't know for a few weeks. is there any big surprises you're on the lookout for this season? >> today there are a couple of involves like virginia tech, boise expected to be conference contenders away from home and oklahoma state is laying double digitses that south dakota and oklahoma, won, and last year virginia tech on t

ali: in the state of virginia, yes.eter: that is quite a mural in ben alley way next to the restaurant. who started that mural? ms. ali: one of our councilmembers. what's his name? graham. came up with a brilliant idea. because we had this whiteboard out there and everyone else had clean walls on the side of their building. he came up with an idea. maybe we can do a mural or some painting, maybe it won't get all messed up. ok, we thought, that's a great idea. so the city really is the one who can take credit for the murals. we were the ones who said this is what we want on our walls, and that is how it all came about. that is what you see out there now. we had the community help us decide what to put up there. you could go online and vote for who you wanted to see. mr. demczuk: there were 30,000 votes. ese 19 people were the highest voteetters. ms. ali: it was amazing. then older people were coming in and saying to me, i don't do the computer, but i wrote down a few names. [laughter] it was very special. wow, my wall is

a real champion for this in leading the efforts in virginia. and john is the president and ceo of the alliance for automotive innovation. he has a tremendous career he is also a cyclist and really has been a tremendous partner. but i am going to turn it over to the ntsb chair who has been just a tremendous warrior for safety. she really gets this stuff. can you hear me? chair homendy: can you hear me? shailen: i can, take it away. chair homendy: thank you dr. hampshire, deputy minister and certainly the secretary and deputy secretary for your leadership. i truly appreciate the strong safety partnership that the ntsb has with dot on this and so many other issues. of course there has been no greater champion at ntsb on connective vehicle technology than michael graham whose leadership i want to acknowledge. he was not able to be with us today but he is celebrating in spirit. today i'm coming to you from the ohio turnpike commission's office. very close to where we are investigating a series of fatal crashes on interstate 80. one of the issues we

shepherdstown, virginia but of course, now today it is part of shepherdstown or it is part of west virginiaof 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 the civil war be

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

virginia. is it winnable. >> virginia is competitive. reason virginians have seen what common sense policies mean. they want strength back in the white house. the other big thing from that poll is over 70% of virginians think america is heading in the wrong direction, i will tell you, kamala harris is not the candidate for change. she is just the second chapter of the exact same book. don't listen to what she says. study her track record and i'm telling you, track record vs. track record, policy vs. policy. americans and virginians are going to want donald trump back in the white house. >> kayleigh: another nugget from the poll, you have a sky high approval rating. one of the most popular governors in the nation and can i see why. governor young, thank you. tim walz's excuses and kamala's blatant lies are on display, next. ♪ [music “this little light of mine”] in the world's poorest places, children with cleft conditions live in darkness and shame. they're shunned, outcast, living in pain. you can reach out and change the life of a suffe

lunch in loudoun county, virginia, 90 minutes away. the way we go through some of the battleground parts of the commonwealth, areas where te election can be won or lost. loudoun county is the wealthiest county in the country, fueled by a booming wine industry, huge wheat growing land, and a high-tech hub. at the leesburg diner, this retiree says the rueben is his go-to. that's where his decisiveness ends. he's not sure who to vote for this fall. >> everything has risen. the cost of living. that includes homes, if you're going out to dinner. whoever can bring policy changes to that in order to make that a little easier, i think, is going to be the biggest interest for me. >> reporter: at a nearby table we found these high school friends home from college voting for the first time. >> who's excited to vote this year? all five of you. >> reporter: still teens they're already concerned about the cost of housing. >> owning a home is really important for the bulk of america. it's something you can leave to your grandchildren. it's like a leg

democrats widely believe the west virginia -- that west virginia will slip away from them.he tossup states are ohio and montana. jon tester trying to hold his seat in montana and sherrod brown trying to hold his seat in ohio. both facing tough competitors. have you paid much attention to the senate campaign this year? caller: i haven't because i have not heard anything about it. c-span is who i listen to for my political news. you guys are spending about a minute and a half talking about the senate. you spent three or four weeks about this executive branch. i'm tired of hearing about trump and harris. i want to hear you guys talk about the senate and the house of representatives. the races. who is running against who. who is going to win you think. let's talk about something else besides trump and harris. host: i got it. we have had segments on the house and senate. we will have segments on that, including the governors races around the country. there is plenty to talk about in the next 80 days. this map we have discussed before with folks from the cook political report and

love fever for women positive missing in northern virginia.— northern virginia. love that. for spar with the rest of the course of the evening, always love getting your insights and think it's much for being with us here on the programme. you are watching bbc news and you can always get the latest on the day's news on her website. you can also follow me on social media on x. i would love to hear what you think of the show. more on the way at the top of the hour, stay with us here on bbc news if you can bye for now. hello from the bbc sport centre. let's start on the track, and what a run from botswana's letsile tebogo, who claimed a surprise 0lympic 200—metres gold medal, denying noah lyles a sprint double at paris 202a. it's a first olympic gold of all time for botswana. tebogo's winning time, 19.46 seconds, ahead of the american kenny bednarek, who took silver, with lyles having to settle for bronze. it emerged after the race that lyles had tested positive for covid and had to be helped off the track in a wheelchair. katarina johnson—thompson leads the olympic heptathlon

and as such i am the oldest of the delegates in west virginia.i will repeat i will not let everything be taken away by donald trump. >> my name is catherine frazier. i have 18 years old and i'm the youngest delegate from west virginia. i stand up and i'm ready for battle because i will not let my freedom and my future be taken away by donald trump. ♪ that is why we are proud to cast west virginia's 24 delegates for the next president of the united states kamala harris. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen my name is dj cassidy. are you ready? [cheering] ♪ packers. the home of the wisconsin badgers. [cheering] and milwaukee as well as our best u.s. senator baldwin. and our great congressional -- i announce wisconsin -- former wisconsinite -- my god. [cheering] 94 votes. [cheering] i will get there. ninety-four votes for former wisconsinite vice president and our next president of the united states of america, kamala harris. [cheering] ♪♪ wyoming how do you cast your vote? >> mr. sec. delegate, we are honored to be representing the great state of wyoming. the

here with more is the governor from virginia i would hope every governor in the country is watching. crazy but i think american elections should be decided by american citizens and virginia elections should be decided by virginians which is why the executive work is so important because it make sure we have clean voter rolls and votes are counted accurately and it recognizes the fact that elections need to be trusted by voters and that is what we are doing in virginia. this will be the most important election of a lifetime we see the future of america determined and they want to make sure virginians know they can trusted the election process. the majority in our state and senate is estate and we have a giant decision in front of voters do they want to strengthen the white house or weakness and what we've seen out of kamala harris is continued weakness, weakness at the border unleashing chaos weakness in economic policy which is unleashed inflation and weakness in national security which is at the root of what we see in israel and ukraine and of course chinese threats against taiwan.

i have virginia license to practice medicine but have texas license. if i do something you to be in texas think they have a right to come after me because i hold that? and this this is a profess, right? took a professional job that is now a professional job is illegal. if you do professional job you spent your string on putting you in jail for life, treatment. >> so the three of you who are healthcare providers who have helped cure people, keep them healthy, what's the message would like the second gentleman or me surfing the vice president, the president take back from this visit? >> i would just like to scissors light of discussion about again women who need abortion or abortion fighters and it's all extract. know when it comes office thought he would ever be there. but when you're in a position, maybe the scariest most unpredicted position of your life, do you want to find yourself with no options or do you want to send your daughter,, your sister, your friend to someone like me or someone like doctor rubio who spent decades getting the skills that

he learned of virginia's. and one of the more poignant passages douglas southall, freeman's biographer of lee freeman describes how lee underwent agonizing trial when he had to choose between his and his country. according to freeman, lee's up all night, pacing back and forth in his study wracked by doubt, unable to decide where his duty lay. supposedly his wife heard his footsteps back and forth across his study on the wooden floor until he came down in the morning to, tell her that he had decided resign his commission in the united states army and seek service with virginia freeman's chapter on this episode is called the decision he was born to make. well, farragut decision was the one he was born to make. but for him, there was no agonizing easing, no midnight pacing back and forth, no uncertainty. lee's american traced back several generations. farragut was the first of his family to be born in the united states. but from moment he heard of virginia disloyalty, he knew that he was an american first. the mo

he was from virginia. and both smallpox talks and inoculation were far less common in virginia. smallpox did its damage in cities and towns. and virginia was rural, highly populated, but mostly rural. and smallpox spread less easily there. now, that doesn't mean that virginians were unfamiliar with the disease or they were unfamiliar with inoculation, and they were reading about it, too. they knew that it worked, but it was rare. so george washington had never experienced a town meeting where they're debating whether or not to have a general inoculate. and he's never been in a meeting where they're deciding whether to build their hospital or not because they don't have that in virginia, when thomas jefferson wanted to get inoculated because he was going to be doing some traveling, he had to go to philadelphia to be inoculated. most wealthy virginians in the in the 1760s and 1770s were going to maryland or philadelphia or even even london to be inoculated. didn't much happen in in virginia. washington, of course, was familiar with the disease, smallpox case because he was infecte

and later the commonwealth of virginia, who. let me let me there's another part just kind of fun. so fast forward literally 300 years the state of virginia in the 1920s is refining its jim crow laws and at time under virginia law there were two kinds of people there were white and there were colored people. and you can guess who the colored people were, if you had any black ancestry whatsoever, ever any native ancestry, any asian ancestry whatsoever. you were colored. and and if not, then you could be white. and of course, being white was better under under the laws of virginia at the time. but then they remembered that there were hundreds perhaps thousands of virginians at the time who claimed ancestry from pocahontas on us and under that law would have been deemed colored and ineligible for many of many of the advantages that were due to two white people at the time. so no fools they they they they passed an amendment saying, well, if you're a 1/16 or less native american, then you're white. and they called it the pocahontas e

shepherdstown militia was pretty well armed by april of 61 when it became second virginia stonewalll brigade. buthi the governor was pushing a lot of arms right along to the town along the potomac river including shepherdstown to try to prevent what he termed another invasion by abolitionists. not understanding with the war was ultimately going to be like and what ultimately due to their towns there and shepherdstown. we are hit early on for shepherdstown civilians in june of 1861 while those forces occupy harpers ferry on the river line some of those confederate forces burned the covered bridge that connected shepherdstown virginia to maryland just on the other side about 3 miles on the other side of the potomac river. one of the soldiers involved was henry douglass' family actually owned property on the maryland side of the river and he said for him it hit home when he looked through the burning flames of the covered bridge and he saw his families home on the other side of the river and of course that connection had been severed atee least right at shepherdstown but they still had