we live in west virginia.e proud and we should take care of our kids in the best possible manner. i think we reach agreement on that. and so there have been challenges for a number of years. i know the legislature has been slowly trying to address some of those changes, but i think that this is an area that's really going to benefit from a lot of the auditing the performance reviews. and i think steve would agree with this to be able to find the right people. this is such an important area and the people who work in cps and foster care. these people are one of some of the dedicated state workers you're ever going to find. i know in the attorney general's office because we have dhr and lawyers, they're some of the lowest paid people. we don't control that. you actually have to be competitive. we have to have the right people and make sure that the kids are being looked out for. so i want to make sure we're taking care of the kids. there are a lot of important ways that we do that. i think we can find a lot more

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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

even worse, western virginia. we repeated this statement to other as we have letters from his son and namesake robert e lee jr. writing to his sister that i got a letter from pa written from some place near savannah. he says all is well, but that fears are as about as bad down there as western virginia. and then robert e lee quotes the elder robert e lee another war hope as he expresses it. and so we with large problems and had little means at hands with which he could them. and then the capture of port royal on november 7th had given the union army and navy base from which they can continue to stage raids the coast. sea power enabled the federal mobility. its heavy naval ordnance provided support for forays ashore. lee his son custis that the enemy never went 400 yards from his steamers, not even to the extent of the range of. his guns. lieberman the fact that the union force could, quote, move great facility and rapidity and land anywhere he can bring his steamers and burn, pillage and destroy and we cannot prev

as you know, robert e lee's army of northern virginia against john pope's army of virginia and pieces of george v mcclellan's army of the potomac. and i believe should be framed as the second of three acts in a sprawling drama extending from june. through september 1862. it's typically relegated to a supporting role. second manassas garners less attention. the more celebrated seven days, which brought later four and ended mcclellan's advance on richmond or antietam, which marked lee's first foray on the united states and allowed abraham lincoln to issue preliminary proclamation of emancipation. somehow, second manassas seems less important. a bridge, as it were, connecting two more noteworthy events. but in fact all three of these elements of this sprawling campaign, i think of this protracted offensive on lee's part that reentered the war, reoriented the war in the eastern theater deserve significant attention. second manassas, two defining elements of the confederacy's bid for independence. first, it provided the initial testing ground for a new style of leadership and command struc

lee's army of northern virginia against john popes army of virginia and pieces of george mcclellan said army of the potomac. i believe it should be framed as the second of three acts in a sprawling drama extending in june through september 1862. it's typically relegated to supporting role. second manassas garners less attention than the more celebrated seven days which brought leaked to the for an edited macaw lens advance on richmond or antietam which marks lee's first foray on the united states soil and let a family can to issue his limited proclamation of emancipation. semi-segment nasa seems less important, a bridge as it were connecting to more noteworthy events by the fact all three of these elements of this one sprawling campaign i think of this protracted offensive on lee's part that we entered the war, reoriented the war in the eastern theater, these are significant attention. second manassas shape to defining elements of the confederacies bid for independence. first, it provided the initial testing ground for new style of leadership and command structure in the army of norther

robert ely's army of northern virginia against the army of virginia, pieces of george mcclellan's army of the potomac and i believe it should be framed as the second of three acts and a sprawling drama extending from june through september of 1862. it is typically relegated to a supporting role, it garners less attention than the more celebrated seven days that ended mcclellan's advance on richmond or antietam which marked lee's first foray of the united states soil and allowed abraham lincoln to issue his emancipation proclamation. second manassas seems less important, a bridge as it were connecting two more noteworthy attempts but all three of these elements of this sprawling campaign, this protracted offensive on lee's part that reoriented the war and deserve significant attention. second manassas shape two defining elements, first, it provided the initial testing ground for leadership and command structure in the army of northern virginia that would make lee and his soldiers preeminent among all rebel military forces. as part of this develop and lee began his own assent to replace

virginia is to be given up and tomorrow i will have to leave the city.he followed after that leaves progress on the progress of his army until september 2 she observed glorious news mto the victory of our arms on the plains of manassas my heart is full. 10 days later newspaper account told of lee being in maryland i like the idea of our armies insisting on the enemy they certainly have subsisted on us enough that we should d return the compliment. robert e lee directly link the three pages of the summer campaigning if the victory of the seven days the commanding general "you have defeated the enemy of cedar mountain expelled him from the rappahannock utterly repulsed on the planes manassas and forced him to take shelter within the fortifications around his capital without hoping for repose you cross the potomac stormed the heights of her very and on the fields of shelter repulsed every attack along the enemy's front of more than four miles. lee affirmed " history records few examples of greater fortitude and endurance in this army as exhibited. newspaper

constitution for the virginia constitution and virginia law. just recently of course what we found was back in 2006 the then justice department actually approved of this law and said it's not only further constitutional, we have given it thorough review we are okay with you moving ahead with it. and now, at 25 days last week before the election the justice department decides they are going to bring the suit after this law has been in effect for 18 years. administered by democrat and republican governors. this is the room why i believe americans and virginians wonder what the justice department's into a braid spit in effect for 18 years. it's been applied universally by republican and democratic governors. and now all the sediment virginia is getting tight it launches a lawsuit against the commonwealth of virginia when we are trying to make sure that citizens vote, not noncitizens. shannon: a couple questions a follow-up to that paycheck but the d.o.j. getting approval in 2006 early on in conjunction with when this law was actually passed under

constitution for the virginia constitution and virginia law.nd just recently of course what we found was back in 2006 the then justice department actually approved of this law and said it's not only further constitutional, we have given it thorough review we are okay with you moving ahead with it. and now, at 25 days last week before the election the justice department decides they are going to bring the suit after this law has been in effect for 18 years. administered by democrat and republican governors. this is the room why i believe americans and virginians wonder what the justice department's into a braid spit in effect for 18 years. it's been applied universally by republican and democratic governors. and now all the sediment virginia is getting tight it launches a lawsuit against the commonwealth of virginia when we are trying to make sure that citizens vote, not noncitizens. shannon: a couple questions a follow-up to that paycheck but the d.o.j. getting approval in 2006 early on in conjunction with when this law was actually passed unde

what i saw last friday in virginia was the extraordinary demonstration of heroism, virginia state policeing to tennessee and rescuing patients off the roof of the hospital that was being flooded, virginia national guardsmen rappelling out of helicopters into rushing waters, pulling people out of cars. and when i just interested he out for hundreds of thousands of virginians and cell phone coverage completely disabled they need food and water and peoples have gone to work, i'll tell you, it is in these moments of absolute crisis that the character of a community comes forth. and this is about virginians helping virginians and americans helping americans and a moment where we need to all pull together, i am encouraged by what i seen in southwest virginia were people are coming together, seen with folks sending resources to north carolina for search and rescue missions. there hundreds of people unaccounted for and we've seen what president trump was doing in georgia today, across the southeast we are watching people come together in a moment of tragedy. >> sean: trying to understand this. i

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

virginia resorted to conscription from the states militia. the drafted men would serve 18 months in newly constituted continental regiments. the first levy took place in autumn 1780 at chesterfield courthouse. these men were destined for the first and second virginia regiment, serving under major general nathaniel green in the carolinas. they saw actions guilford court. guilford courthouse and later battles. a second draft was held in april 1780, one of which major general william friedrich wilhelm to steuben, describing, wrote that june in the whole only 450 or yet assembled, those men were destined to serve in lieutenant colonel thomas gaskins, virginia battalion under lafayette, in their home state. that summer and autumn. now, given my work on black soldiers, i would be remiss if i didn't mention some of that, some who were drafted into the army in this case, the virginia line during the 1777 autumn winter virginia levee, brigadier general thomas rodney wrote general washington on 21st november 1777 from williamsburg. my dear general, you

from its voting rolls basically up holding virginia's election laws. former u.s. attorney andy mccarthy moments ago. >> it's the only result that really makes sense. what virginia was trying to do was take people off the ballot who are not voters because they are not americans and that's by their own admission. and this idea that this could prevent or mistakenly result in american citizens from virginia not being able to vote is bogus because under virginia law, let's say they've taken you off the ballot mistakenly. under virginia law, if you show up to vote on election day and you attest that you are an american citizen. >> harris: matt whitaker, former acting u.s. attorney general and trump campaign surrogate with me now. so you have looked at this issue before this quick vote or quick ruling by the u.s. supreme court. by the way, we've just heard governor glenn youngkin is at an event now and will step up and call into us just moments from now. want to let the audience know that. this seemed very quick, matt. >> it does but it's a pretty simple issu

>> first of all, it is novel idea, virginia citizens should be decided virginia elections. this state swings both ways and to go back in the way back machine, bob mokdonald won state wide by less than a thousand votes, we have close elections in virginia. we want everybody, i don't rare republican or democrats to have confidence in our elections. it should be easy to vote and hard to cheat. 83% of americans, according to gallup, support idea only citizens can vote in our elections. citizens pay taxes and determine who leaders are, it should not be controversial, it is common sense. >> todd: begs question why is doj fighting to keep noncitizens on voter rolls, it does not make sense. over to lawrence jones, going up the map, now pennsylvania. he is in pennsylvania talking to voters before election day. lj. >> lawrence: todd, your yankees live another day. >> todd: they do. >> lawrence: this is good for you. it wasn't a total sweep. we're going to be covering the big game. there is some crazy fans in the stands on the new york side taking or attempting to try to take the ball

virginia about 6300. over the weekend, iowa reported about 2000 suspected aliens on the voter rolls. alabama, over 3000. the numbers start building up. in virginia since 2014, they have removed about 11,000 aliens from the voter rolls. folks may think that is not a large number in a state with several million registered voters. but keep in mind in virginia for example, within the last decade and a half, they have had two attorney generals races decided by less than 1000 votes. a couple of years ago, control of the statehouse came down to one race because the two parties were evenly divided. it was a tight election. host: let's talk about the virginia case. this is from the justice department. it says the doj sued virginia for violating federal law on systematic efforts to remove voters within 90 days of the election, these are voters suspected of being noncitizens. the federal law states it is too close to an election and people cannot appeal the decision or proof they are eligible to vote in time to vote

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

this is under a law in virginia that has been in effect since 2006. it has been applied by republican and democrat governors alike into this 90 day period. here we are 11 days before a presidential election and a federal judge is ordering them back on the voter rolls. this is astounding to me this could possibly happen. common sense says non-citizens aren't on the voter rolls. the constitution and law say it as well and why we're immediately petition the fourth circuit for an emergency stay on this injunction and we'll immediately go to the u.s. supreme court if necessary. but we're not going to sit by and let this happen. >> harris: i am reading the executive order requiring the removal of them came on august 7th, which was 90 days before election day. so clearly you had begun this process far ahead of when the d.o.j. was coming for you. i don't understand why there is any question about the timing of this >> this process has been going on for years, for years. this is not something that just started in the 90-day window. by the way, it doesn't -- th

virginia separated. and he builds a house there, calls travelers rest. is house obviously still stands today. it is privately owned asou might be. hotel gates and not enjoy a satellite tv tv like on the on the left there but it is privately owned the woman who owns it she was nice enough let me come visit over the summer and she's lived there since 1965. such owned it for almost 60 years so she knows a lot about the house but gates builds his house right after he moves to move virginia and and he becomes immersed in virginia society. his radical big ideas are more and more accepted and one way that it becomes more like an american or more like a virginian is it becomes a slaveholder as begins purchasing enslaved people and becomes, by the standards of berkeley county, is not the tidewater of virginia becomes a fairly substantial slaveholder in that particular county. gates views in america intensified his all all of us have been set in motion years earlier. concerns about corruption and autocracy in the

you are a resident of virginia.ink the supreme court would turn around a decision if the governor appeals quickly? >> it's possible because they do have this emergency docket that operates on a pretty regular basis. whether they decide to go through the fourth circuit or straight to the supreme court. they do have options. the court knows having talked to a number of the justices recently they're likely to wind up in the middle of some kind of election case. they're very well prepared for that. not anticipating anything specific but knowing it will likely land on their emergency docket. if there is as much litigation out there including the federal cases like this. i don't know if you talked about it but having governor youngkin on last week he talked through all of this which i heard professor turley mention. the doj approved this system years ago. there are ways for people to cure this and if they are a citizen including voting on election day having the provisional ballots as bill talked about. you could set thos

he will be in salem, virginia right outside of roanoke.tes will open at noon. the program will start at 2:00. and is he coming to ask for virginians' votes. he has been here three times. kamala harris i don't think has been here at all in a rally format asking people for their votes. and i think that's reflective of the fact that donald trump knows that he has got a better message, strength, when it comes to the economy. strength at the border. strength in foreign policy and safer communities. that is what virginians and americans are looking for. and i think that's why he is surging in the polls, not just in virginia but around the country. >> bret: you mentioned president biden, a lot of clean up today from something you said last night about trump supporters saying they were garbage. they walked it back. the white house said d. saying he didn't mean that about supporters. we just saw moments ago in green bay, wisconsin, the former president in a garbage truck saying that president joe biden needs to apologize, again. what do you make of

not only the commonwealth of virginia but here in the sabbath. the next -- in the seventh. >> the next question goes first to candidate vindman. >> each of you comes from a military background and the seventh congressional district has thousands of active and retired duty military families. how has your military springs informed your beliefs about the role of the united states in addressing conflicts in places like the middle east or ukraine? mr. vindman:mr. vindman: i spent 25 years in the army. i'm externally proud of my service. my brothers and sisters over the course of those 25 years helped me get through should first thing i will do is commit to making sure veterans get the services they need. that is ironclad. there are plans out there like project 2025 that my opponent who is funded by extremists, he will vote down the line. the bottom line, that reduces veterans benefits. i think that is unacceptable. there are lots of other goodies in 2025. i'm sure we are going to caulk about it. i spent 25 years in the army as a paratrooper through a

army of northern virginia.ostou went to the great dumping ground of the confederate ineptitude the trans- mississippi. lisa choice perfectly his conception of an effective culture of command. performance of the seven days impressed him greatly imposing confederate soldiers called him handles his troops a while and powerful assaults and gains and then at glendale. july 21, 1862 thomas of long longstreet staff recounted a conversation between lee and a person who offered congratulations for the success against mcclellan. lee was the staff in my right hand and the seven days. stuart had similarly logged sound service in his own fashion in the fighting around richmond. his during a ride around mcclellan carried out on june 1d considerable national attention as an example of aggressive success that lifted morale. elite was very happy with what he called the admiration and the courage and skill of stuart and his man. jackson presented a far more complicated pace. lee knew that valley campaign as a confederacy leading

virginia parated. and he builds a house there, calls travelers rest. thse oiously still stands today. ght be.rivately owned as you hotel gates and not enjoy a satellite tv tv like on the on the left there but it is privately owned the woman who owns it she was nice enough let me come visit over the summer and she's lived there since 1965. such owned it for almost 60 years so she knows a lot about the house but gates builds his house right after he moves to move virginia and and he becomes immersed in virginia society. his radical big ideas are more and more accepted and one way that it becomes more like an american or more like a virginian is it becomes a slaveholder as begins purchasing enslaved people and becomes, by the standards of berkeley county, is not the tidewater of virginia becomes a fairly substantial slaveholder in that particular county. gates views in america intensified his all all of us have been set in motion years earlier. concerns about corruption and autocracy in the sense that the

our law in virginia which is absolutely consistent with the u.s.itution and the state constitution demands than that when we see that a person who has self-declared is a noncitizen is on the voter role, that we send the notice and give them 14 days to affirm that they are citizen. and if they are not then they come off the voter role. and of course in virginia we have the ultimate fail-safe witches you can same day register and cast a provisional ballot case you've missed your 14 day period. we have a very common sense approach to this and what's happened today is beyond common sense in my view. >> were too thick the chances are that the fourth circuit well put an emergency stay on this order by u.s. district judge gilles? >> we first file with the fourth circuit for an emergency stay and then we go to the supreme court. we're going to do whatever it takes because here we have been instructed by federal judge to put 1600 noncitizens back on the voter rolls when they declared they are noncitizens. it is just beyond any measure of common sense out bu

virginia has spoken on this issue. i opponent will continue july whether it be on media or have you about my position on this. i will be very clear. i do not want to federalize this issue so i will not support a national ban on object -- a ban on abortion. i will support ivf. my brother is using ivf. i want to make sure he has an opportunity to have a kid and i support over-the-counter contraceptives. my opponent continues to lie about my position on this ship he cannot talk about the other issues. you cannot talk about the economy. he cannot talk about the border. he cannot talk about anything else. my opponent will be one of the most far left medical people in congress virginia has ever seen. he would support like ralph northam did government-funded abortion up until and even after birth. governor northam said it. it would make them comfortable. my opponent would support those policies. >> 30 second rebuttal. mr. vindman: as someone who has been a prosecutor, i would say that is murder so that is also a light. he is

virginia didn't get the party started then. my question then becomes -- emily, maybe you can address this. why wait until the last minute when this had been going on for years, glenn youngkin said? they had been doing this for years, and these particular voters had already been looked at. much prior to august 7th. so i don't understand what the justice department is doing. >> emily: because it is political. my point was exactly that, that the opportunity to cure is baked into the law. since the law was passed, we've had over four presidential elections where there was no issue whatsoever. if you look at this from a sort of objective analysis point of view and you say, as judges take into account balancing factors, what would be worse? having a noncitizen on the roster? would it be worse to have a citizen removed? they err on the side of preserving our sacred right to vote in this country. it had been working just fine, and the whole point is, irrespective of the 14 days, on the date of voting you can cast your provisional ballo

so from his time colonel of the first virginia us, what became eventually the first west virginia through his tenure as division commander in 1864? colonel thorbu witnessed civilians caught in the midst of wars, maelstrom and. he largely believed that the practice of waging any form of war against civilians. he thought that taking civilian property however much you took. he thought that destroying civilian property that for any short term benefits it might produce would ultimately in the long prove detrimental. on july 22nd, 1864, this is four days after his division fought a very, very fierce engagement along the banks of the shenandoah river at the battle of cool spring. many of you have been out to that battlefield with me at the university. of course, 195 acres of that property. but this is what thorburn in his journal four days after the battle of cool. the vindictive that is manifested the people of the south may be just. but it is not to win them back to the union and have fraternity with u justice be tempered with mercy. the government should be mild and forgiving as well as firm

. >> john: virginia governor, glenn youngkin his dates to push their noncitizens from voter rolls but the federal government is suing the state. why? shannon bream is up next. >> sandra: fox news chiefpa correspondent and fox news host, shannon bream next. at verizon new and existing customers can get iphone 16 pro, and a new ipad all on us. only on verizon. ah...family time. of course it's not the same if you can't enjoy your favorite foods. but getting your teeth fixed at a price you can afford? don't really see that one on the table. here's something to chew on. aspen dental has custom made solutions with flexible finance options to make implants and dentures more affordable for you. with 0 dollars down plus 0% interest, if paid in full in 18 months. helping people like rose keep family traditions going. it's one more way aspen dental is in your corner. hey ump! you need your eyes checked! yeah, things are getting fuzzy! then go to america's best! why? for a comprehensive, quality eye exam! i'll go! good call! get two pairs and an eye exam for $79.95 at america's best. hi, my name

that's harry in virginia. this is carl in west virginia. he said he's planning on voting for former president trump at the earliest time possible because he is 86 years old and if he dies before election day, i want my kids to know i was thinking of their future. there is a reason there. maybe you share that or there are other reasons why you participate on election day itself or you go the early voting or mailing route. text us if you wish, post on social media if you like, and let us know what your plan is when it comes to early voting or election day voting or otherwise. massachusetts, independent line. hello. caller: thanks for having me on c-span. i will vote on election day. i think the biggest problem with voting early is that people have not heard enough from each candidate and their positions and what they are going to do when they are president and other things that come up during that period of time. when people vote early, other things come out of that. the information they did not know about so really when people are voting ear

>> virginia and alabama, they say there's no systemic removal of voters, long standing process.d they are kicked out by the dmv. and they are not a citizen but they can't confirm they are a citizen. and we tell them you are not reported as a citizen and would you like to correct that. you could still vote and it. they have an option on election day, they have a lot of belts and suspenders here, we should somehow just ignore the fact that dmv data says this is a noncitizen, they have a chance to show they are citizens if the justice department is right, saying get you scooped up citizens. will: you are not supposed to do anything before the election, keep them on the voter rolls 90 days before the election. in context, how many of these suits going on across the country when it comes to voter rolls? >> they are ramping up. we've been looking at a lot of these, the last 4 or 5 presidential elections we see this uptick that occurs. some of these are placeholders, some of them are efforts to say we saw this coming but there's a different dynamic that is really evident in virginia. n

>> virginia governor glenn youngkin is appealing a federal judge's ruling to reinstate noncitizens to voter rolls, a week before the presidential election. cb cotton has the latest on this, state officials tell fox they filed an appeal hours after the judge's ruling which said virginia governor glenn youngkin's executive order violated federal law, barring large scale changes to voter rolls, so close to an election. youngkin's executive order issued in august required daily checks of dmv data against voter rolls to possibly identify non-citizens. prior to this, virginia only did monthly checks, according to a state law passed in 2006, but under the new executive order, virginia ended up removing more than 1600 voter registrations from people suspected to be non-citizens. the department of justice and a coalition of immigrant rights groups though asked for an injunction, arguing that many of these voters were indeed eligible, but had made mistakes when registering. the judge, siding with them, and requiring those people removed to have their voter registrations restored with a written