♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> 16 people were arrested earlier this month doctor forming a human chain blocking west virginia'sthat senator joe manchin has made off of the plant while local west virginians suffer the toxic consequences. joining me now stewart acuff, a member of the poor peoples campaign and west virginia and former national organizing director. thank you so much for being here. talk about that protest. how long have you all been protesting, and why? >> thank you so much, joy. it is great to be with. you folks have been calling for a new relationship with earth, and the climate, and with regina for a long time. it has really accelerated in the last year because of president biden's initiatives, and because of the activity of folks who understand we have to have a different relationship with the earth if humanity is going to survive. so for the last year, we have really stepped it up with as much grassroots pressure as we can put on joe manchin, and now calling on him to separate those personal ties which taint his thinking, which corrupt his actions, and which influence his decisions. that coal

here in west virginia where i am currently, it is one of the poorest states. 710,000 people in the state who are poor and low income. yet you have senators in the state who have refused to expand health care, expand -- raise wages, pass any kind of build back better and extend the child tax credit. and that doesn't not just hurt folks in west virginia, but hurts people across the country. leaders of the west virginia poor people's campaign and other community leaders decided to organize a march. it is a moral march on senator manchin. we wl be marching from harpers ferry, from the college with a second meeting of the niagara movement and dubose and many powerful leaders, freedom fighters in our country's history met and figured out how do we keep our struggle going. we will march to martinsburg to senator manchin's offices. there will be demonstrations at various places, including thecoal waste plant where manchin makes his money off of coal. really highlighting the connection between the eagles, the interlocking injusces that the po people campaign has taken

catherine herridge, cbs news, martinsburg, west virginia. >> duncan: next on the cbs weekend news, it is full stem ahead, a popular video game exposing children to careers in aviation. ing children to ing children to careers in aviation. ens, can >> duncan: finally tonight, "minecraft" is not just child's play. the federal government is now using the popular video game to help kids improve their science, technology, engineering, and math skills by designing airports of the future. here is cbs' erroll barnett. >> we welcome you to d.c.w. airport. >> reporter: real airports in a virtual world. what began as a simple idea to engage kids stuck in isolation from the pandemic, grew from 180 countries taking on the challenge, using the video game building world of "minecraft." >> we created a fully autonomous program. >> reporter: a grade school in grand rapids came up with the space terminal. >> reporter: a term from detroit added virus detectors. >> we love building structures. >> reporter: these brothers of buffalo, new york, teamed with abby roe of west virginia to design runway lights a

west virginia -- patrick morrisey. a.g., welcome.plan to release oil from the reserves. >> first of all, maria, thank you very much for having me on. and i think that president biden's entire administrative policy from day one has been to put american energy last. it's really been russia first, america last central. you saw that with canceling of the keystone pipeline, you saw that with respect to the moratorium on oil and gas drilling and coal mining. you saw that with respect to his climate change policy that seems to put all our foreign competitors first. and now he wonders why inflation and gas prices have gone through the roof. this is the result of biden-general is rated policy. what's really important is that president biden is actually making every decision that you absolutely should not make when you're in the middle of a conflict and you're watching what's going on. he needs to get american energy roaring back by making certain regulatory decisions. and, obviously, his decision earlier that he made about the nord pipeline i

i can tell you firsthand it isn't going away anytime in my state of west virginia. it disregards the fact the different communities and businesses have different needs for transportation solutions. it may be true that electric vehicle sales are slowly but surely increasing. it is conversational and liquid fuel is especially important as the program enters the new phase next year. from 2006 to 2022 but after 2022, epa has the power to determine the annual volume amounts and as the chairman pointed out. the expected to issue a rule to do just that. the office of radiation at epa this is the office that is in charge and many other complex regulatory programs. yet we've been waiting for more than a year for the administration to name a nominee to their office. i talked about this more than once in the committees. the previous record was 260 days. with that, mr. chair man, i yield back my time. would you repeat and say your name for us. finally a partner before this began for the testimony i would turn over to the colleagues. looking at the renewable fuel standard as we

probably aware the case that i brought forth in west virginia of two favorable court decisions from the fourth circuit. shouldn't epa take into consideration that the courts have actually taken into consideration making regulatory decisions and that this was causing hardship to this small refinery, how would you respond to the epa blanket denial of everything when the courts have actually come forward and said it's not a sound decision? >> you are exactly right. for the 2016 to 2018 compliance, the fourth circuit demanded of thedecision to deny hardship ref to west virginia. if they produce about 23,000 barrels per day and it's isone of the smallest refineries in the country. the court rejected the decision because the epa didn't consider the facts of the specific case. its location, how it distributes its fuel, the fact 70% of it is then production with diesel. epa then took another shot and denied the petition even though it had been vacated by the court and again determined that it was an eligible. the second time the fourth circuit vacated the decision this time finding epa had arbi

is anybody here from west virginia? you know the scotts run is right near morgantown west virginia, and it's a coal mining community and the lines were shut down. and so that miners were still there still in scotts run, but they had no source of income. they had no food and so their children were really really struggling. this is from 1935. so it's after they've had some relief this photo but this is family from scott throwing the kids. so the hoover administration was very concerned about children's starving and they said that we want to send the children's bureau out to look at what's happening at scott's run and see if we could do something to ameliorate that suffering and they were thinking about something like a milk program where they could bring milk to families and children could have milk. so the children's bureau will solicited the help of the quakers social action division. and that's the that's the american friends service committee, and they went out to help figure out what was going on. and they when they

. >> in the gentle, rolling hills of northern west virginia, in this sweet college town in the heart of coal country, lived three teenage earls. their photos capture a moment in time. they were smart, talented, lovely. everything a parent could hope for in a daughter. and so, who could have guessed, that just by looking, that some of them carried a dark secret about a friend. >> it's an emergency,? >> i have a 16 year old daughter, i am scared to death. >> the teens played a strange and haunting game. >> would you guys rather suffocate or get shot? >> a game of betrayal that would go way beyond typical teenage drama. >> she is calling out, help me, why, why. >> the death at the center of it all was a girl named skyler. >> dave and mary welcomed their only doctor schuyler to the world in 1996. tell me about the day she was born. was that the greatest moment of your life? >> i wouldn't go that far. [laughs] >> first time you saw her. >> first time i saw her, yes, i can say that was the greatest moment of my life. yeah. it was instant love. >> they live in star city, a small suburb of m

i can tell you firsthand it isn't going away anytime in my state of west virginia. it disregards the fact the different communities and businesses have different needs for transportation solutions. it may be true that electric vehicle sales are slowly but surely increasing. it is conversational and liquid fuel is especially important as the program enters the new phase next year. from 2006 to 2022 but after 2022, epa has the power to determine the annual volume amounts and as the chairman pointed out. the expected to issue a rule to do just that. the office of radiation at epa this is the office that is in charge and many other complex regulatory programs. yet we've been waiting for more than a year for the administration to name a nominee to their office. i talked about this more than once in the committees. the previous record was 260 days. with that, mr. chair man, i yield back my time. would you repeat and say your name for us. finally a partner before this began for the testimony i would turn over to the colleagues. looking at the renewable fuel standard as we

they're in west virginia, they're in kentucky, they're in virginia they are a conventional bank theyy have a 3% yield $1 billion market cap. this is the place you can hide this is a place that will not get you in trouble >> based in the wall street hotbed of charleston, west virginia at chuck yeager international airport. this is bigger out west silicon valley bank. sve. bit of a different model trying to grow a little faster are there similarities between the two? >> again, what i like about silicon volley u valley is it ie from a typical bank. you don't want to own a bank going into the recession you have bad loans you have non paypayables these guys are insulated they are in silicon valley they don't do the traditional banking. they make loans to private equity and firms when they have been funded. bridge loans primarily what they do they make loans for wine growers. they make loans to new startups. early stage and mid stage. they get warrants for some of the start-up loans in lieu of interest they think they loan money to hundreds of unicorns when the loans come due, 99% fail a c

i can tell you firsthand, liquid fuel is not going away anytime in my state of west virginia. forcing a single technology approach, such as insisting on 100% electric vehicles disregards the important fact that different communities and businesses have different needs for transportation solutions. it may be true that electric vehicle sales are surely but slowly increasing, but the fuel not only in passenger vehicles, it's also important for heavy duty trucks and airplane to see name a few so one issue i'd like to hear about today is how important are liquid fuels and do you think liquid fuels are going away anytime soon? this conversation on liquid fuels is important as the program enters a new phase next year. when congress enacted the rfs, annual volumes were include for calendar years 2006 through 2022, but after 2022, epa has the power to determine the annual volume amounts, and the chairman pointed out that we're not even hitting the amounts we're supposed to be hitting as it is now, epa expected to issue a rule to do just that sometime this year, however i have concerns

our coal in west virginia is like gold over there now. i do want to follow up, but i will stop here and wait for the next round. thank you. >> before i turn to senator cardin, most of us have had the opportunity to meet with european ambassadors a couple of weeks ago in the capital. i asked the german ambassador, any advice for us on what to do about our aging nuclear plants? should we get rid of them? in germany, my family on my dads side is german, but we closed the nuclear power plants so they would have an opportunity now to buy gas from russia. we have to be smarter than that. all right. you are on. >> thank you you, mr. chairman -- >> wait, i need to ask a unanimous consent request to place materials in the record as far as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. >> i will not object to your request. thank you for being here. i appreciate your cooperation with the stakeholders of maryland. i have heard positive comments from state and local officials in the private sector officials about the ability to work with epa. i thank you for that

but i always point in west virginia. west virginia, used to, on election night, through the early 1990s, was one of the first states called for democrats. you know, [inaudible] caucus, 1988, who lost by it points to george w. bush. nobody's ally idea of a populist figure. thank you jackson or franklin roosevelt either. pretty awkward. i he won west virginia by ten points. it was called right away [inaudible] why? and then, now you know, election it, it's called for republicans. after donald trump, he won by 35 percentage points both times. why? because the union united mineworkers used to educate people not just in the coal mining union but aside the union too in west virginia to vote for democrats, and why they should vote for democrats, and now the united mineworkers is a fifth of its former size. it makes a big difference. >> you discuss the organizational abilities off the party, are they created those, quite a book, in your book, what it took to win, a history of the democratic party. michael kazin, this has been fr

as i write in the book as early as 1949 the factory workers in west virginia making those compounds were completely torn up. james ray bogis had his face pried off 5 times in a solvent to get rid of this acne that was developing because of exposure to dioxin and this was huge before agent orange was sprayed and affect millions of people. not only the science but when did they know about the toxicity of these products, being accurate about that, people argue it was a different time, didn't understand all this. i wanted to show what they knew and in some cases they knew about the problems of their products before they pulled them off the shelves. the last thing, i never talked about that but super fascinated with chemistry and biology. environmental history which is my subdiscipline is a great hum because we are encouraged to deal into the deep science, talk to scientists and get to the bottom of all this. at ohio state university, the best weed scientists in the country, out the window, being able to walk over and have those conversations enhanced the book. new america was part of that bu

i don't know if we have time, but i was point to west virginia. west virginia used to an election night through the early 1990s was one of the first states called. for democrats, you know michael dukakis 1988 who lost by eight points to george w bush. nobody's idea of a populist, you know figure of andrew jackson or franklin roosevelt either pretty awkward guy. he won west virginia by 10 points. it was called right away. i never got your election night. why and then now, you know election night. it's called for republicans. and for donald trump. he went by 45 percentage points both times. why because the union united mine workers used to educate people not just the coal mine union, but outside the union too, west virginia to vote for democrats. and why did she vote for democrats? and now the united mine workers is like a fifth of its former size that makes a big difference you discussed the organizational abilities of the party how they created those quite a bit in your book what it took to win a history of the democratic party. michael kazen this

another incumbent who says he brought back the spending to west virginia but he's up against this trumpndorsement and we will see how that endorsed candidate does. you are seeing another republican on republican primary in illinois and down in texas you have that runoff. that has been a very close race. it went to a runoff. progressives are really hoping they can pick up a win there. lisa: i keep thinking about campaigning and i wonder where they are going to be campaigning the are they going to be on twitter, especially because there is potential for donald trump be invited back on. how much focus in washington is there on a new owner and privatization of twitter? >> when news like this breaks during a congressional recess, you don't get the immediate response from lawmakers if you are able to bug them in the hall. i haven't heard a lot of response on twitter. republicans are concerned about the amount of censure going on on some of these websites. they feel it conservatives are being targeted. i think if republicans to get control of the house in november, we are going to see a lot mo

but he also is in west virginia that has a lot of coal mines and there's a lot of special interest to make sure those coal mines stay producing co. that's the set out. now have a look at the push back. oh sure. he does not care about his future as a millionaire, and as in all regard, oh, with the wind to keep their minds. a coal mine with no alternative user be a seems of reason to rent that home. we have a dining and a dirty clothes with their entire community. usually we are seeing because you are blood on your hands. said charlie, here i am thinking about what you rebecca, michael had been describing which so the full sense of doc money. ok, i'm losing proposing to thought is, what was it a dollar money that a really derailing what is possible in climate action. but then we see a campaign like the cold, barren blockade. how effective can that be? what is the all the t dot money in climate crisis? well, well, we've seen in the course of history in this country. anyway. it's that organized people can beat organized money. and that's, that's exactly what starting to happen here. it's

overtime pay, the coal miners started all this in west virginia way back when. people died on the picket line there. they brought in the pinkertons and things like that. there was a lot of people that brought the movement to the forefront. a lot of the things that people enjoy today are from those people working hard in those companies did not profit from those union workers. they are all doing well. gm, ford, everything like that. i'm just saying, the teamsters, the uaw, people who make tires, those created a lot of wealth for union people. but they also created a lot of work for companies -- well for companies. guest: you are absolutely right. too many americans forget, americans used to work 78, 80 hours a week. 12 to 15-year-olds eased working coal mines, factories. we've all seen the bumper sticker, unions brought in the weekend. that's true. a lot of people, for people -- reasons i don't understand, no institution is perfect. people forget that it is unions that played such a major role lifting typical american workers. we've gone from workers working seve

in a statement, tiktok said... 8,000 km away from the epicentre of the war, in west virginia, lindsayising funds for the ukrainian red cross. i actually have two friends in ukraine, so it hits a little closer to home than i would have liked. they're both males in their 30s, so they can't leave. do you want to say hi? hi. i launched the pop—up shop about 48 hours after the initial invasion, you know, in a desperate attempt of, "i need to do something, "i need to keep my hands busy because i'm restless." and then i was able to use my twitter to promote it. then she noticed some suspicious behaviour on her account. i noticed that it was someone who had copied my profile picture and my header and started tweeting like me. and they were soliciting several of my followers for money. lindsay's is one of a number of twitter accounts that have been hacked or cloned by scammers. it was extremely upsetting, you know, notjust being scammed, but it's also trying to discredit someone who's trying to do their best. and it's also taking money away from the people who need it, who are fleeing from war

host: that is kelly in west virginia.s just coming up from roll call, saying that the supreme court will hiller oral argument on tuesday against gratian on the border and beyond. the case centers on the biden administration's attempt to end the remain in mexico policy. the trump administration launched the policy in early 2019, forcing migrants to wait in dangerous areas in northern mexico for decisions on u.s. immigration cases. the biden administration did not follow the rules when it try to follow through on a campaign promise to resend the policy overcommitted tearing concerns. the courts heard it reinstated and it remains in place. if the justices decided the biden administration cannot and the policy, it could set a legal precedent of that type for that branch of immigration and foreign relations. in louisiana, republican line, this is joseph. hello. caller: hello. i was just wanting to comment on the wide open border at the southern border. sorry, i am on delays. i did not understand that. host: just go ahead and f

joe manchin of west virginia. republican cosponsors, john thune of south dakota, john cornyn of texas, thom tillis, shelley capito of west virginia, rob portman of ohio. you mentioned james lankford as the author of that legislation. guest: is an important piece of legislation. it is bipartisan. this is not just introduced by one side of the aisle. any bipartisan bills, there is a better chance. just because these are the cosponsors does not meet these are the only people that support the bill. you have to start with a sponsor and then cosponsors than people can debate it and decide whether or not they want to support the bill. because it starts with such strong bipartisan support, there is a good chance it could get past. host: 10 minutes left in our program. this is joe in new jersey, a republican. caller: this discussion on immigration typifies everything that is wrong with america right now. anxious to blame someone. you see that in the oil. it is a global oil challenge. we blame biden. the immigration thing,

i don't know if we have time, but i always point to west virginia. west virginia used to -- on election night, through the early 1990s, was one of the first states called for democrats. you know, michael dukakis, 1988, who lost by eight points to george w. bush, nobody's idea of a populist figure, an andrew jackson or franklin roosevelt, pretty awkward guy, he won west virginia by ten points, it was called right away. why? and then now, you know, election night, it's called for republicans, and donald trump won by 45 percentage points by both times. why? because the union of united mineworkers used educate people not just in the coal mine union but outside the union too, why union members should vote for democrats and now the union of mineworkers is a fifth its former size. that makes a big difference. >> you discussed the organizational differences in your party. in your book, "what it took to win: a history of the democratic party." michael kazin, this has been fun, you're always welcome on the podcast. since you're local, you know, now we can have

senator manchin mentioned west virginia. senator collins brought this up as a big issue. we've had meetings over the last two weeks and sentinel is the killer. it is coming up through the southern border. i would impress upon you how absolutely critical it is that the situation at the southern border has got to get better. i understand the demand side drives this but if we can cut the supply and think we can cut a lot of tragedy out of people's lives and you know that well. according to the pandemic a significant increase of first time gun owners almost 60 percent in 43 percent of asian american. and of course i want to see her second amendment rights protected but those that run the background checks go toee west virginia. do you have any kind perception as to why gun ownership is up among different groups and during the pandemic it's bigger in all groups what do you attribute that to and what kind of strain is this honor system quick. >> i'm sorry this is the k analysis i cannot make up or even guess that. the second question i can the more difficult it is for the syste

and manchin claims that this is what west virginia wants. but west virginia ranks 50th and infrastructure, 49th and cancer mortality, 48 and the economy, 47th and health care, and manchin is not helping. i would like to thank you stewart acuff, thank you so much for everything you do. >> i will see you june 18th with the poor peoples campaign. >> all right. i will be. there i will be there. and that is tonight's read out. thank you, sir all in with chris hayes starts now. ll in with chris haye>> tonight on all in. >> what did you mean when you said that once you lose your freedom it has to be earned with the price of blood? >> well, i have always said i am against violence. >> marjorie taylor greene confronted with reality in a georgia court. >> we can't allow it to just transfer power peacefully. >> and you will not believe the things she can't remember. >> would you advocate for president trump to impose martial law as a way to remain in power? >> i don't recall. >> so you're not denying you did, it you just don't remember? >> i don't reme

maria: west virginia is also a -- u.s.istration and democrats are trying to act now as they -- wouldn't tell companies not to drill. what? >> i have said for a long time we have a russia first china first american last energy policy, and from the very beginning, when biden shut down keystone, started to do the bans moratoriums in terms of drilling approved nord stream pipeline changed policy to wipe fossil fuels, now war in ukraine americans hurting badly higher gas prices standard of living inflation all pin to do biden's policies he started, the better answer to just opening up the strategic reserve is to say let's actually unleash america's energy independence much better way get rid of terrible policies he put in place the last year. maria: we will see about that always a pleasure thanks very much for being here we will be watching all of that. >> thank you so much maria. maria: and the trial underway thank you attorney general patrick morrisey, quick break, a heartwarming story out of difficult times in europe, the bi

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then west virginia with a of hotly contested primary, they lose a congressional district, two republicansen pitted against each other. mooney and mckinley. a hotly contested primary. and then we have may 17, senate primary, there 3 candidates, former governor, mark walker, former congressman. and ted bud, a congressman who has been endorsed by trump. mcrory has been ahead this will be a barn burner to the end. idaho another test between trump and not trump. the governor brad little is opposed by his lieutenant governor, she was endorsed last year by trump, little is sitting governor, latest poll, this january, showed him up 64-24 over the trump endorsed candidate. we'll see on the 17, how strong the president's endorsement. is we close it out a badge, alabama senate primary, a veteran named mike duran, and former chief of staff katie brit. got into the race. and they are way ahead of them in latest poll has durant at they, brit at 32, and mo brooks at 18, and performed so badly, trump withdrew his endorsement. then georgia governor primary and senate primary, likely to be won by hershal w

guest: a few moments without -- host: a few moments with our guest, this is frank in west virginia. good morning. caller: go right ahead with your fresh -- good morning. host: go right ahead with your question or comment. caller: [inaudible] union contacts. coal mines at 11 years old. my uncle was there at 12. they got him underground. but i want to tell you something -- the unions made this country. now it is all lost. we threw it all away because, to tell you the truth, back then you had respect to buy a house, you could buy a vehicle as a working man. technology wasn't there back then. now, for some reason, i've got is best us in my lungs, -- asbestos in my lungs. it's a shame what's happened here. people should have to send their kids at 11, 12 years old to a coal mine, then they would understand better how people had to live. they had company towns. the company owned the town, they have the company store, all that. steve, it was good talking to you. c-span should be calling schools. it should be mandatory. god bless you, bye. host: thank you. guest: thank you, frank. i apprecia

my home state of west virginia will receive over $3 billion. this legislation also create add $2 billion rural surface transportation grant program that includes dedicated resources for the appalachian development highway system, the adhs and other critical projects across west virginia. the dedicated fund something critical to completing the adhs in particular quarter h in west virginia where i just visited last week, which will connect the eastern and central parts of our state with the metro -- area and open up more opportunities for economic growth and tourism. the iija also includes numerous project delivery provisions, including environmental review and permitting reforms for highway and bridge projects. notably it codifies one federal decision, which requires agencies to coordinate on a predictable joint schedule and sets a two-year goal for completing the environmental review and permitting process for major projects. we heard could take previously between seven to 10 years. the iija also includes a number of policy and funding wins for

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myself and senator -- the state of west virginia, we've been number one as, far as getting slammed with this. can you speak to the status of doj's current efforts to curtail the opioid crisis, including the appalachian regional opiate of the are pro strikeforce. >> i hope you agree, that's a very effective task force. that money is included in our request for me finds. i'm not sure whether that's the one that comes under the officer justice programs, under the criminal division, those task forces, both the math and heroin ones, that senator collins was concerned about the last time we spoke, and the opioid one that you are talking about -- >> we need your support for, that sir. >> the support expanding those. if we get the money requested that budget -- >> very quickly, i want to follow up. -- it would amend the immediate suspension order, the standard overview from the suspension likelihood of an immediate threat standard to a probable cause standard. that's again, order standard of review from a substantial likelihood of an immediate threat, to a probable cause standard. one additiona