his death was front page news in tyler county, west virginia. company e join a bill was 91 passed away in 1935. he was buried in a cemetery, in the name of the governor, the restored governor of virginia, that of francis piedmont. on the eve of world war ii in 1938, the final official reunion took place here in gettysburg, where the seventh west virginia had come to the rescue of their comrades, and the 11th court 75 years earlier. apparently, only one of the seven survivors attended. in march, 1865, lorenzo the alam had substituted for a drafted man, who subsequently paid all him to take his place on the firing line. according to the right or, all of 1939 obituary quotes, he was one of the few west virginia veterans who attended a state with a draft last month, and also attended the national event this year. last summer, he joined in the blue and gray reunion at gettysburg. all i'm died a year later, apparently, what the seventh west virginia's last surviving veteran. now, all of the seventh sons of the mountains, across the divide between life

as such, western virginia felt much more closely aligned to the to the west than it did to tidewater, virginia. as an example, i'm from which is up here in the northern panhandle. e're about 50 miles south of pittsburgh, and more than 300 miles away from richmond. major issue facing the two sections was slavery. census countedia 1. -- nearly 1.6 million people living in the state. and of that number, nearly 500,000 were slaves. 31% of the population. but if we break that number 500,000, only about 18,000 of those enslaved living in the we were counties of the state and most of them were concentrated in the valley around charleston. this is -- this is a newspaper they thought hat the state of west virginia might look like. we know, it goes over here to ferry in the eastern panhandle and includes some of potomac valley. mac this is an area that we'll kind here.cus on over so that 18,000 number, the 18,000 slaves in west virginia, of the only 4% population of those western counties. virginia e slaves in were taxed at only 1/3 their market value, the rest of the was taxed at full market v

and west virginia provides that.rter: the e label emphasizs that the product is a collaborative effort. it means to provide a ray of hope in these economically trying times. coal continues to be mined in the region. whole mountaintops are being dug up, but there are hardly any jobs. even so, some people here still believe president donald trump's promise to save the coal industry. but outside with the bees, no one talks politics. regardless of who they voted for, in the end, the love of west virginia is the most important thing. robbie: the mountains are the home. i've lived here my whole life. born here, raised here. can't beat it. reporter: mark lilly doesn't think this project will solve all the region's problems, but he hopes it will help people here regain their self-esteem. and it's not just about the production of honey. they're also working on a breeding program, trying to develop hardier bees that are better able to cope with the consequences of climate change. the one with the green dot is the queen. james:

west virginia has one big advantage they tell us that there's still so much untouched nature here. yet. we don't have the agricultural problems that other states have in other words we don't have the mondo food source that bees might these might be taking advantage of they need a lot of different kinds just like human beings need a lot of different kinds of sources for their food and whispered to me provides that. the label emphasizes that the product is a collaborative effort it means to provide a ray of hope in these economically trying times. coal continues to be mined in the region whole mountaintops are being dug up but there are hardly any jobs even so some people here still believe president donald trump's promise to save the coal industry. but outside with the beads no one talks politics regardless of who they voted for in the end the love of west virginia is the most important thing. the mountains are the home i've lived in my whole life. for here raised here and. can't be that. mark clearly doesn't think this project will solve all the region's problems but he hopes it wi

and he won west virginia. and he had great plans for west virginia. he wanted to help west virginia. but you know what happened to him. we've had many other politicians. but my favorite story about john kennedy might be when he went to welch, west virginia. something to put in your mind here. there was a young man, 17 years old. his dad was a foreman at a coal mine, and by the way, movies have been made about this and books written about this. this young man was named homer hick m. there's john kennedy making the speech that nobody is listening to. so homer being an inquisitive young man and was fascinated by sputnik, and he even went out to make sure he could see it as it went over the mountains of west virginia. and he's standing there listening to john f kennedy speak. and john kennedy said does anybody have a question here? and homer, son of a coal miner, says i do. and john kennedy said young man, what's your question? he said what do you think about putting a man on the moon, and all the miners laughed, and john kennedy laughed about how ridicul

how did you settle in on this as the thing to focus on and how did you get into west virginia? good evening. how did i get into this. i was a washington correspondent and after that i decided i didn't want to be any more because i spend far too much time writing about sarah palen. so i then started wandering around the country and writing about places that didn't get written about in the marginalized communities particularly about poverty and that drew me down the path towards this epidemic because once you travel through appalachia or parts of the midwest, you constantly come from this impact on society. out of the news reports came the state questions that you don't really answer in daily journalism and the questions that haunted me were you kept hearing from people how is it that an epidemic can run for 20 years and get actually here we are talking about this now because i would imagine most of you five years ago probably had no idea of the scale of this thing. but in these communities, the data. they were living with it and it was invisible to large part of the state, but h

the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. manchin: are we in a quorum call? i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. manchin: mr. president, fellow west virginians, i rise today in strong support in nomination of frank w. volk to be u.s. district court judge for the southern district of west virginia. i want to thank my colleagues in the senate for putting partisanship aside and recognizing the importance of confirming qualified judges to our federal court. frank volk's cloture vote earlier today cleared this body by a 90-0 vote without a single dissenting vote. let me repeat that. 90-0. how many times have we seen that happen in this body? that's a testament to judge volk's judicial experience and stellar record and his qualifications to become a u.s. district court judge. i would also like to acknowledge frank's work in west virginia as a tireless public servant to both our state and the nation. he has conveyed time and time again his love and desire to serve our nation and particularly our great state of west vir

"let's not make the same mistakes that west virginia did."ell, in may of this year west virginia resolved its fourth lawsuit against mckesson corporation for $37 million. what should state officials do with that differently and what should other states and localities who find themselves in this same position do? >> i think one of the most important factors is to make sure we don't make those mistakes, for example, for the worst case in the country in west virginia the high overdose deaths, we've had a settlement altogether of less than $100 million. that's knowing that the state's losing about $8 billion a year in the opioid crisis. so we've got to make sure that the settlement matches the need of the communities. and then comes the thought of how do you use this money? it's very important to make sure that the states have some version of an abatement plan. naenz how much money will go into the health sector, how much of it will go to help babies that are born dependent on opioids and would need immediate help. how much would go into preventi

and another great state, west virginia.cheers and applause] i think we won west virginia by 42 points. that's a lot. [applause] i would say that's a lot. but they're great people. and west virginia oil and natural gas association, want to thank you for the invitation to be here today. two great groups. we're honored to be joined by members of my cabinet who are fighting every day to support the american energy revolution. by the way, did the other people ever get many in everything i said about, forget it, you won't have money for a ticket to this place. you'll all be out of business very quickly. in the meantime, you're doing better than you've ever done. but i have cabinet members here. interior secretary, largest landlord in the united states by a factor of about 200, david bernhardt. where's david? david? thank you, david. stand up. what a great job. [applause] basically the landlord to about half of the united states. [laughter] a friend of mine, a great gentleman. he's going to be leaving and, i'll tell ya, there's on

transported from southern prison in annapolis marilyn so the 577 survivors of the summit west virginia some of the volunteers who received honorable our medical discharge began to make their way home the seventh veterans who claimed to return largely unaffected by the war came on to a new state in new government and within a few years we are changing economy. one that would shift to other industries especially the -- city such a spark charleston centers of industry trade

senator representing the state of west virginia. i know that my fellow colleagues here today are fighting for a solution with me. i'm asking all of our colleagues here in the senate and in the house to join us in this fight. to be successful, we must address this in a bipartisan way. it's not who we are to be divided as we have been. it's not who we are as a country to have this toxic atmosphere that we come to. i tell people every day i go to work in a hostile work environment every day. people don't want to work together, are not expected to work together anymore. it's the norm to fight. not where i come from. we never got anything accomplished fighting in west virginia. it was always when we work together. i hope that together we can work out a solution to this terrible issue facing our nation and our workers. so that they can retire and live peacefully without a constant worry of losing their hard-earned pension. let me tell you what the average pension is paid to a miner when they retire. and most of this goes to the widows bec

you don't tell me what to do with west virginia. i've got a warning for nancy pelosi and all the democrats. i am never going to vote democrat again ever. they fixed it. they opened my eyes up. i'm not a socialist. i am not a baby killer. i'm not voting to anybody close to that. i can't wait till the republicans take over congress. they don't do nothing except stall. think of how good this is doing right now. respond.ahead and guest: this ties into our previous discussion. it's important to accommodate where there is economic pain. when you go back to what robert byrd and jay rockefeller did for supporting they were innovations and transitions. they were doing what they could to be able to make accommodations for west virginia's. i think we can achieve a balance. host: one of the things the caller brings up is a democrat in west virginia is not the same as a democrat in california. a republican in new york might not be the same as a republican in mississippi. those national parties represent a lot of diverse people. continue to be th

they're from pennsylvania, they're from ohio, they're from west virginia, they're from all over this country. they go on vacation, they take their a families there. that's where they go to disconnect. i have all the confidence in the world that they're going to continue to be good stewards of our environment. [applause] energy and conservation, they're longstanding partnerships, and i value our partnerships. i applaud your conservation ethic, and i am genuinely appreciative of your leadership mistaking our cup energy independent -- country energy independent. thank you. thank you, mr. president. [applause]

that trump won those states like michigan and iowa and wisconsin and ohio and pennsylvania and west virginia i went to those states and you know what when i had asked people in those states people in places like your reports of pena and charleston west virginia and flint michigan i'd say to them how is that obama recovery going for you i'm a donald trump since he was elected we have created one point $4000000.00 mining construction and manufacturing jobs those jobs were declining under barack obama he's brought back middle class jobs shipped out of the with the whole trade war going on obviously there are a lot of objectives president trump has in mind if there is one particular objective that he should be striving for if you could bring one thing home what should be in your name with respect to china with respect to china so i think the biggest problem i have which i think would probably agree i mean there's 2 actually there that they have never opened up their markets to us the way we've been opened up our markets they have terrorists that are 3 times higher than ours are we can't live wit

west virginia does have the most americorps workers in any state. so i don't see why we don't have the resources to do that. but if we were to get to a million, i'm sure we could make some wonderful things happen in the schools and in other youth builds as well. >> thank you. taylor, what's your view? you've worked with habitat. you did jump start. what would happen to america if we actually got to a million people a year doing a year of service like you all have done? >> i think overall we would have a more civically engaged society. i think that we would all start to see each other as neighbors. you know, kind of similarly to what we've all said, i've never really seen a more diverse, you know, spot than a habitat for humanity work site. i encounter people every day of completely different backgrounds, political views, religious views, but you're all coming together to get the task done, to build the house for a family who's also working hard to get that house built. so i think that engaging people in service like that makes them start to see some

they are moving from west virginia into this region of southwest virginia. 6, kirk and his men will skirmish at princeton. on may 8, they will skirmish at jeffersonville. they are coming up against troops led by other generals. the union forces under crook have covered 45 miles on their campaign, and this brings us to the major battle. this is the battle of cloyd's mountain on may 9, 1864 in virginia. this will pitch a 6000 troops under crook against 2000 under albert jenkins. the battle lasts about one hour, but the union forces lost 10% of their available troops. also, we have two future presidents in the ranks rutherford b hays, lloyd mckinley. the results of the battle are generally ruled as a union victory since crook cavalry regiments will continue on and head towards their objectives on the virginia-tennessee railroad in dublin, virginia. the losses at this battle for the union are 680 eight, confederate losses 538. these losses in this type of fighting is comparable to the battle of new market, between sigel and breckenridge. arrives thatn kirk something -- crook arrives at something

that trump won those states like michigan and iowa and wisconsin and ohio and pennsylvania and west virginia i went to those states and you know what when i'd asked people in those states people in places like your repulsive pena and charleston west virginia and flint michigan i'd say to them how is that obama recovery going for you i'm a donald trump since he was elected we have created 1400000 mining construction and manufacturing jobs those jobs were declining under barack obama he's brought back middle class jobs shipped out of the with the whole trade war going on obviously there are a lot of objectives president trump has in mind if there is one particular objective that he should be striving for if you could bring one thing home what should be in your name with respect to china with respect to china so i think the biggest problem i have which i think would probably agree i mean there's 2 actually there that they have never opened up their markets to us the way we've been opened up our markets they have terrorists that are 3 times higher than ours are we can't live with that all we wan

william: my name is william, i am from elk in west virginia and i completed a term with north-central and with the education alliance. now, after completing my term, i have continued to be involved. i am the head of the mentor program and i said is the seuss -- the sous chef where we train members to do that as well. hello. i am a field team leader. i have served for about six months in puerto rico, helping to support fast recovery efforts. we are serving with the office of external affairs in d.c.. it has been an amazing opportunity. i am sure i will have time to talk about that. it has changed my life. one of the first things i read about the program before i learned about any details, a team leader said it was the hardest but most rewarding year of their lives. now that my service term is up next month i can completely agree. i am grateful. quickly, i am say honored to be here, so i want to thank samantha for reaching out to allowing me this opportunity to speak. also, to barbara stewart, the president of the cncs, and very direct -- and i'm very grateful to be here. some of thels

primary held in west virginia. i won every county in west virginia. and we won with a very strong victory. >> look, elected democrat saying something about a top basically saying he can't support a top elected potential nominee. is that a problem? i know bern? i on one extreernlgs manchin on the other? >> i don't think it's a problem for manchin, i think for a progressive democrat more hoff a main stream democrat. joe manchin is obviously taken. >> you have no problems with manchin? >> i do. he flirted with thep idea of running again. even to bernie sander's he did sweep vest virginia. >> he did, it's a smaller democratic electorate these days. >> everyone in walk understands the situation joe manchin is in, in west virginia. i think bernie sanders is the only person who would take a swipe at him there. you know, who thinks that's good politics for everybody. or can't absorb it and do what's good for the party. >> by the way, he's probably right. if he were running in the democratic primary, bernie sanders, that mi

host: west virginia on the deep state? i think the supreme court is a branch of government that has sort of escaped scrutiny from the public for a very long time. you have seen historically low approval levels for the current president. you see historically low approval levels of congress in some polls. congress pulls in the single digits in terms of favorability. the court for many years has remained above the fray because growing up we all learn about the court in our civics lessons as an apolitical body. but that is really not the case. the court has been rather political for as long as it has existed. increasingly, especially in its current composition, with a 5-4 conservative majority that currently has control over the court, we are seeing it behave more and more politically. i think we are headed toward a political reckoning where the court is going to become an issue of controversy, much like it has been at other points of our history. in the early part of the 20th century, you had politicians running against the s

t's been used in certain elections in west virginia. those are the types of nnovations that could make our elections even more secure, but we shouldn't just throw off the have like the democrats tried to do. host: mr. starks, go ahead. >> this week the house had a a bill that the democrats sponsored called the shield act. you have your own bill that is counter to that. wonder if you can talk about what areas you think there might chance for democrats and on, where s to agree do you think you can find some common ground before the 2020 election? rep. davis: we actually had the bipartisan bill when you look at the numbers are from yesterday. matter of fact, i think we had three democrats vote for our to recommit which is basically my bill, the honest elections bill. the emocrat voted against shield act. the shield act could have been a bipartisan bill. ith h.r.1 and the safe act, they didn't include us or didn't want to work with us. would have addressed could the things we agree on. e ought to be able to have a disclosure requirement whe

for the pbs newshour, miles o'brien in morgantown, west virginia. ♪ amina:st now, thy of a chef workingoduceiv n american culinary traditions that existed long before euroans arrived. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports from minnesota. it is part of the series, agents for change. fred: t with well-known native rituals. organizers at this community center want to draw attention to the long forgotten native culinary heritage. taking center stage was sean sherman. a chef better known by his brand , sous chef -- sioux chef. >> there's some dandelion, three different kinds of mushrooms. fred: he uses native ingredients common to the americas for hundreds of years before white settlers arrived. >> part of our challenge was to cut out colonial ingredients. we stopped using dairy, wheat flour, sugar. fred: it is also a way to push back against processed foods that hand otrs blame for grave health consequences in the u.s. today. >> the foods most of us are eating today are killing us. they are the sources of our diabetes, our disease. fred: mary is a professor of dicine who practice

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here's what senator joe manchin from west virginia had to say. >> the year has been too long especiallya member and we want to make sure that we understood how many people involved, how many families are wondering now. these are all questions we need to answer. >> shannon: melanie, what would you say to those birds who have the need for some closure, some answer? >> i think all the families need to hear something. i mean, we've waited over a yea year. we are still waiting for charges to be pressed. we are still waiting to hear what went wrong at the va that this went this far. >> shannon: how confident are you that there will be justice in some of these cases? >> i feel very strongly that there will be justice. i think there will be justice on the criminal side and we hope there'll be justice on the civil side as well. >> shannon: again, we are so sorry for your loss and after the fact you got such startling news about your precious father, one of our decorated vets. we will stay on the case so keep us updated on your end as well. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: check out our midnigh

he went to west virginia to recruit more workers. not only did he recruit the workers he needed, but he also recruited michael owens. factory,wens ran the and libby was the one who led the marketing. he was able to go to the world's fair in order to put the libby glass company on the international stage. the place where he did that first was the 1893 chicago world's fair. glass furnace and from soup to nuts they could see glass being made shophen stop at a gift and purchase some glass. not only did they have the opportunity to see glass being made, they also were able to see this wonderful novelty that nobody had seen before, which was the glass dress. they got this technology where you spun glass threads very thin. then you can stretch it until the point it is the thickness of a threat. they pulled all of these threats, and they welded into fabric. into ade this fabric dress that could be worn. it is a phenomenal dress. we are in front of one of the best known works in our collection. it almost needs no intervention. this is known a

who would you vote for. >> it wouldn't be burning. >> bret: joe manchin from west virginia getting somehis has the impact of the impeachment inquiry and what could be articles of impeachment on the 2020 race factors and, the latest battleground state poll acting dumb like asking the question about impeachment breaks down by states as you take a look, support opposed, it's underwater as far as impeachment and removal from office in arizona, florida, north carolina, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. we are back with the panel. as the president reflects on this day of the inquiry, and he sense of how he looks towards 2020? >> this is an astonished weekly political situation. we haven't had something like this happen. in 1868 which was what andrew johnson was impeached, it wasn't the election year, but johnson's hopes were dashed quickly. the other thing, nixon and clinton, both of them occurred after the president had bad reelected. we have not of the modern era had a time like this and which we are the middle of a presidential campaign of the opposition party is trying to impeach the president

we mentioned states like west virginia, neither candidate visited west virginia in 2016. neither candidate in the general election campaign visited california or new york. >> there is a thing i was reading last night about emergency declarations, greater in battleground states than non-battleground states. you have decisions to help folks in times of duress and national also correlate with the same battleground states. >> you would like the presidents cannot be moved by perverse incentives like looking after battleground states, but sometimes we see circumstances where the president is not always motivated by serving the entire nation, consciously or unconsciously, and in those circumstances it is important to have something that creates good incentives. it's something you would not normally expect. democracy works until it doesn't. afternorms of looking the entire country start to fall apart. we start noticing that something that served us well as a nation for a long time, and now we have seen there are reasons why it would be better to fix it. i think we are seeing a lo

when senator byrd was the senator from west virginia, he moved every project to his home state of west virginia. lou: tennessee and missouri being represented, there would be agencies moving to both of those states. >> i'm happy to move them anywhere outside the district of columbia. i had a cabinet secretary say i would be happy if i wasn't competing with the agency across the street. something has to be done. it's a good step forward. lou: it looks like the republicans are finding a backbone. they are starting to fight, they are starting to scrap. matt gaetz inspired the effort by dozens of senators, republican senators to storm the scif, if you will. >> he morning they need to look in the mirror and say the public elected me to be a member of congress. i have every right as every other congressman here. this is the most of important vote i will be forced to make and i want to make sure i am involved in every element of it. and i think he's done a good job so far. lou: the president is thanking those house numbers who stormed the scif. he's build something support. but yet mitch mcco

bernie won west virginia. and not just some of west virginia. bernie won all 55 counties in west virginia. in the last month he has been number one in nevada. tied or nearly tied in iowa. the last poll in september he was number one in new hampshire. bernie is at. he has raised more money from anyone else, from contributions. bernie -- when you say bernie cannot win, you are lying to the american people. not only can he win, bernie will win. bernie will win. [chanting "bernie will win."] and finally, people say he can't win because, you know, bernie is a socialist. that is not going to fly. that on tv, they should always say the american people have wanted socialism for the last 70 years. the american people love their social security. the american people love having a free public school. the american people love medicare and medicaid. the american people love their fire department. these are all socialist programs. what they don't really want to do is tell you the truth. they don't to tell you the truth. if we structured our economic policies d

the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you, mr. president. and it is very, i think, impactful for us to be discussing today a problem that hits all of our states. senator blunt, and his great work, not just in the appropriations committee, but for his state of missouri, has been very active. i think we all have. it's a problem that knows no political boundary. and certainly my state of west virginia has one of the deepest and strongest and toughest problems. we do have the highest rate of opioid-related deaths per capita. it's not something that we wear proudly, but it's something that has really forced us to try many innovative things, to try to be the leader in the solutions and that is what i will talk about today, because a lot of what we have seen in the support act from all of our individual states has been incorporated into a national response to what is an epidemic around our country that is frightening, scary, and in my view, could -- could almost lead us to losing a generation, and this powerful reaction that we've had through the t

the great state, and another great state, west virginia -- think we won west virginia by 42 points.ay that's a lot. but they're great people. and west virginia oil and natural gas association, want to thank you for the invitation to be here today. two great groups. we're honored to be joined by members of my cabinet who are fighting every day to support the american energy revolution. by the way, have the other people got in? everything i said, forget about. you won't have money to pay for a ticket to this place. you'll all be out of business very quickly. in the meantime, you're doing better than you've ever done. but i have cabinet members here. interior secretary, largest landlord in the united states by a factor of about 200, david bern hart. where's david? david, thank you the, david. stand up. what a great job. [applause] basically the landlord to about half of the united states. a friend of mine, a great gentleman, he's going to be leaving and, i'll tell you, there's one that's going to do well. but he's been right for the beginning, almost three years now. energy secretary r

so he went down to west virginia to recruit more workers. and not only did he recruit the workers he needed, but he also recruited a man named michael owens. michael owens in those early days ran the factory, and libbey was the one who led the marketing campaign. and he was able to go to the world's fair in order to put the libbey glass company on the international stage. and the place where he did that first was the 1893 chicago world's fair. he built a glass furnace and studio so that from soup to nuts they could see glass being made and then stop at a gift shop and purchase a piece of glass. this turned out to be wildly successful. and not only did they have the opportunity to see glass being made, they also were able to see this wonderful novelty that nobody had seen before, which was something called the glass dress. they got this technology where you spun glass threads very, very thin. glass is very malleable, so you can stretch it and stretch it until the point it is the thickness of a thread. they pulled all of these threads, and the

bernie won west virginia! and not just some of west virginia. bernie won all 55 counties in west virginia! are we out today with bernie? month, hein the last has been number one in nevada. is merely tied in iowa -- n early tied in iowa. in september, he was number one in new hampshire. that is where bernie is at. more than anybody else. when you say bernie cannot win, you are lying to the american people. win, bernie will win! [crowd chanting "bernie will win"] mr. moore: and finally, people said he cannot win because, bernie is a socialist! [crowd cheering] when they say that on tv, they should always say that the american people have loved socialism for the last seven years. the american people love their social security. the american people love having a free public school. the american people love medicare and medicaid. the american people love their fire department. .hese are all social what they don't really want to do is tell you the truth. they don't want to tell you the truth. if we structured our economic policies differently, if we st

host: west virginia, republican, good morning. caller: thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak. and i been listening think i would like time to respond to a bunch of things i have heard. host: give us one or two. caller: he just mentioned about the democrats being bribed but as far as appointments, you can go back to when they packed the courts, toward world war ii. this gets intot the deep state concept, where subservientrobably to various big corporation conglomerates or oligarchs owning majority of shares in control corporations and set the campaign funding for a lot of these long-standing members of both democrat and republican parties. try and remember that when trump came in, he tended to follow --ice of many experienced which turned out to be deep state people -- in the appointments that he made. i think theuest: supreme court as a branch of government is one that escapes scrutiny from the public for a long time. you have seen low approval levels for the current president. you see historically low approval levels fo

i will turn -- west virginia and i will turn it back to the senator from west virginia. let's make sure we commit to the get this done. thank you, madam president. mr. manchin: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. manchin: thank you, senator warner. i appreciate the hard fight during the middle of this with me and everyone in this room is in this fight because we have a lot of people's lives at stake. without passing this bill, the u.m.w. pension fund would be insolvent by 2022. and that timeline could be accelerated to within a year if one of the coal companies declares bankruptcy. last night that happened, murray energy filed for bankruptcy. making it the eighth coal company in the past months to do so. it has contributed 90% of the money going into the pension fund annually. it will become insolvent even faster and they're telling me by this time next year there will have to be cuts drastically to people's pension checks if not eliminated. most of those checks, madam president, i would remind everybody watching and listening that

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i think he is a great candidate for west virginia. caller: hi, greta. hankin, i think i heard you said earlier you are not sure how your party would message the three key states. i have an idea, something simple like reagan. are you any better off? on the stump, i hear him say there are 10,000 new manufacturing plants up. where are those? t.0 miles of wall was buil where? guest: thank you. you are hired. it is simple, but it's true. they are saying things, and there is actually doing things. what has actually happened? it is the are you better off than you were four years ago? if the answer is yes, they will likely vote trump. if the answer is no, they will likely vote democratic. who democrats need to go after to win those suburban voters, it is good to be a more targeted message. it is going to be a little less about manufacturing and a little less about steel tariffs that don't hit home with suburban voters as much as rural voters depending on the area you are in. it is about winning this thing. we are going to have to be targeted and precise. target

i'm actually not from this area, i'm from west virginia from an extremely conservative place so don'ttell me outside. i come from a city 26 people in one day die from opioids and the main epidemic stems from huntington west virginia if you've ever seen any of those documentaries. but my grandfather has a neat feature for 60 years. he's g been fired from eight different churches for his beliefs anywhere from allowing someone to be a part of the church who drank and allowing women to read scripture so, my question was during your research do you think in this type of christian community churches who are trying to be more accepting can survive? >> personal thank you so much for talking and sharing. that's so interesting to hear about your grandfather and it sounds like he is like a really cool guy doing some reallyfa had work inside of a place that is very resistant to change. i think that is dominating the culture right now is the idea that when we see christian, what comes to our mind is in evangelical man who is like mid-50s and upper middle clas class. that is what dominates our idea

sandford: i think the president has been good for west virginia.he really want to be involved in that coal industry and i am on the other side of that issue. there is no doubt that the unemployment rate is in a good place. we will perhaps get to this with jobs and the economy but i think it is very important to kurt -- pursue a program policy. works is great. it worked great for the economy and our unemployment rate from the highest in the country to the lowest. those stats are working out well for the president. beyond a certain point, i think much creditet too and blame as do governors for the movement overall of the economy but it is nice to see so many people having jobs. steve: what would you say to joe? gov. weld: i would agree with you on some things -- although you may see them differently as a former democrat. i would agree with many of his judicial appointments. and the focus and trying to raise the issue on the border but here is where i disagree with you on the economy. you know the family that lives down the street that appears to be u