of former senator jesse helms in north carolina. in my opinion, ellis almost and randomly elected three of the best senators of the 20th century. jesse helms first election 1972, john east in 1980 and faircloth. tom is still active, a lawyer in north carolina. and tom ellis and jesse helms literally told ronald reagan and his team in 1976, by the way, reagan before he got to north carolina had lost four or five primaries. they lost the florida primary, new hampshire primary, and things were looking really, really dark. and so he wants to come to north carolina, and tom ellis and jesse helms said the coming. we don't want you here. we will handle the campaign. we'll take care of it. don't coming. however, if you insist on coming and you have to do four things. and jesse helms and tom ellis told reagan these four things. the four things work you must

the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. meadows: i thank the speaker. i thank the gentleman from vermont. i would like to yield as much time as she may consume to my distinguished colleague from the state of minnesota, mrs. bachmann. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. mrs. bachmann: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. meadows. and also mr. welch of vermont. it is with great pride and also a great deal of emotion that i stand here today as the representative of the citizens of cold springs. in particular we are here to honor the memory of the fallen and that is officer tommy decker. on november 29, 2012, cold spring, minnesota police officer tommy decker was tragically killed in the line of duty. he is survived by his wife, alicia, a wonderful woman who loved him dearly and who tommy dearly loved. his four young children, beautiful children, kelly, jade, justin, and devon. his parents, john and rosela, pillars of the community of cold spring, who did a wonderful job raising their son and

even when -- >> there's been a brand around north carolina. >> there's a brand of north carolina that is tarnished and the second thing is, as much as there is undoubtedly racism in north carolina, as there is, by the way, in new york, and in all parts of the u.s., there's also this sense of this is just -- this has gone so far that it literally is stripping white privilege. whiteness doesn't even get you over in what is now happening. >> tim, to watch reverend barber and the folks around him, not just reverend barber. there are a lot of different people, two different county naacp presidents that launched this lawsuit. to see them organize on that, it's not like come join our movement, what is going on, how can we help you keep this hospital? that's where organizing really starts. >> that's absolutely right. here's the bottom line. the whole trick and lie of whiteness for 400 years has been this idea that you can take white folks who do not have a shirt on their park hardly and say, well, i may not have much, but at least i'm not black. here's the bottom line. at the end of the day,

i personally know a family in a rule a are you in north carolina that were very affected. and our very own pushed afraid they don't want to hear. they say put it they don't want to rock the boat. you know they depend on assistance from the state. i just know that they would tell back a long time ago started officials would tell minorities that they had to get sterilized in order to receive welfare benefits for that reason and yes i think. as the years start to progress your starters i also see that i see fifty thousand nine hundred sixty s. a huge increase in the number of african-american women who were just starting to be termed as unfit to be object sarah was asian in north carolina it was not i think primarily to satisfy eugenic doctrine of improving the quality of the population but to save money. birth control pills made me sick i doctor said that he had something on birth control planned that would be wonderful so i went on the hospital had the surgical procedure came out of the hospital and went on with my life and my three kids this is in one nine hundred seventy

carolina, and elizabeth haddock, staff attorney at the university of north carolina center for civil rights. she's representing women who are sterilized and now are now seeking compensation from the state. state eugenics board, the niece of that woman saying i can't believe they would do something like this, i think is probably the reaction most viewers are having now. how common was this? >> north carolina had in some ways the worst program because it wasn't just institutionalized people who were sterilized. they reached into people's homes by social workers recommending people to be sterilized. but in fact, 30 states had eugenic sterilization laws on the books, and 63,000 people in the 20th century were sterilized on the grounds that they were mentally defective, that they were promiscuous, that it would be better for the human race if they didn't reproduce. >> elizabeth, you are representing folks that are trying to qualify for this program. is it difficult to do that? >> difficult? it's difficult, yes. it's difficult to hear the stories and know that only a few of them will be el

even when -- >> there's been a brand around north carolina. >> there's a brand of north carolina that is tarnished and the second thing is, as much as there is undoubtedly racism in north carolina, as there is, by the way, in new york, and in all parts of the u.s., there's also this sense of this is just -- this has gone so far that it literally is stripping white privilege. whiteness doesn't echven get yo over in what is now happening. >> tim, to watch reverend barber and the folks around him, not just reverend barber. there are a lot of different people, two different county naacp presidents that launched this lawsuit. to see them organize on that, it's not like come join our movement, what is going on, how can we help you keep this hospital? that's where organizing really starts. >> that's absolutely right. here's the bottom line. the whole trick and lie of whiteness for 400 years has been this idea that you can take white folks who do not have a shirt on their park hardly and say, well, i may not have much, but at least i'm not black. here's the bottom line. at the end of the day,

i personally know a family you know really are you in north carolina that were very affected. and our very own pushed afraid they don't want to hear. they say put it they don't want to rock the boat. you know they depend on assistance from the state. i just know that they would tell back a long time ago started a business with minorities that they had to get sterilized in order to receive welfare benefits for that reason and yes i think. as the year started to progress your starters also see that i see fifty thousand nine hundred sixty s. a huge increase in the number of african-american women who were just starting to be termed as unfit to be objects sara was asian in north carolina it was not i think primarily to satisfy eugenic doctrine of improving the quality of the population but to save money. birth control pills made me sick i doctor said that he had something on birth control planned that would be wonderful so i went on the hospital had the surgical procedure came out of the hospital and went on with my life and my three kids this is in one nine hundred seventy two on

when we look at north carolina's impacted eugenics population we're looking at nearly sixty seventy six hundred people who were sterilized from nineteen twenty five through nine hundred seventy four and as you can see i start in the one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's sixty's so we're discussing that we have victims as young as ten years of age boys and girls then that brings us to the conclusion that we have a significant number of people who are in their fifty's and sixty's that's still very viable people with us today. over. two thousand and two when they were oh i had sound the sounds of the eugenics program and they sound now that the stand in north carolina has their last seven and six hundred people most of them against their will before i found out i thought that i was the only person that happened to i was embarrassed i was soon really into i was a creature. i would not i ended up being on prozac and sarah. sell enough kelana justice for sterilization because our nation was started and watches he thousands hand aside as a central location and playing house for people who wer

when we look at north carolina's impacted eugenics population we're looking at nearly sixty seventy six hundred people who were sterilized from nineteen twenty five through nine hundred seventy four and as you can see heart peaks in the one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's sixty's so we're discussing that we have victims as young as ten years of age boys and girls then that brings us to the conclusion that we have a significant number of people who are their fifty's and sixty's and still very viable people with us today. two thousand and two when they were oh i had sound the sounds of the eugenics program and they sound now that the stand in north carolina has sterilize seven six hundred people most of them against their will before i found out i thought that i was the only person that happened to i was embarrassed i was to merely a that i was to create. i would not i ended up being on prozac and sarah. sell enough carolina justice for sterilization victims foundation was started and watches he thousands hand aside as a central location and playing house for people who were victimized

when we look at north carolina's impacted eugenics population we're looking at nearly sixty seventy six hundred people who were sterilized from nineteen twenty five through nine hundred seventy four and as you can see. in the one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's sixty's so we're discussing that we have victims as young as ten years of age boys and girls then that brings us to the conclusion that we have a significant number of people who are in their fifty's and sixty's that's still very viable people with us today. two thousand and two when they were oh i had sound the sounds of the eugenics program and they sound now that the stand in north carolina has sterilize seventy six hundred people most of them against their will before i found out i thought that i was the only person that happened to i was embarrassed i was humiliated i was a great. i would not i ended up being on prozac and sarah. sell enough kelana justice for sterilization because our nation was started and watches he thousand stand aside as a central location and clean house for people who were victimized who say she di

when we look at north carolina's impacted eugenics population we're looking at nearly sixty seventy six hundred people who were sterilized from nineteen twenty five through nine hundred seventy four and as you can see her in the one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's sixty's so we're discussing that we have victims as young as ten years of age boys and girls then that brings us to the conclusion that we have a significant number of people who are in their fifty's and sixty's that's still very viable people with us today. two thousand and two when they were oh i had sound the sounds of the eugenics program and they sound now that the stand in north carolina has their last seven and six hundred people most of them against their will before i found out i thought that i was the only person it happened to i was embarrassed i was merely a that i was to create. i would not i ended up being on prozac and sarah. sell enough carolina justice for sterilization victims foundation was started and washes he thousands hand aside as a central location and plan house for people who were victimized who s

charlie crom from raleigh north carolina. you know, charlie crom does not appear that look in that text. but this is a picture that was taken by the wpa, the works progress administration and he is someone who was interviewed. he has about a three-page interview. he talks about slavery and being sold. but i used that picture at the end of the book because it is charlie crom photographed with his granddaughter. what that says to me is a message about the bible and people going through the ordeals of slavery. i always want to say that slavery was fertile and awful and painful, but people also found ways to live, most people did. otherwise, they would not have survived it. some people i think mentally -- people just lost their minds are people sink into depression, especially around depressions. people were for the most part brilliant. they kept going. they kept forming new families, even as they were holding on and we know this from these ads are from the letters are searches. so they are sold, separated. they keep going. they

when we look at north carolina's impacted eugenics population we're looking at nearly sixty seventy six hundred people who were sterilized from nineteen twenty five through nine hundred seventy four and as you can see her in the one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's sixty's so we're discussing that we have victims as young as ten years of age boys and girls then that brings us to the conclusion that we have a significant number of people who are in their fifty's and sixty's and still very viable people with us today. two thousand and two when they were oh i had sound the sounds of the eugenics program and they sound now that the stand in north carolina has sterilized seventy six hundred people most of them against their will before i found out i thought that i was the only person that happened to i was embarrassed i was nearly eight i was a great. i would not i ended up being on prozac and sarah. so they're not counted just as for sterilization victims foundation was started in march and see thousands hand aside as a central location and clearing house for people who were victimized wh

i personally know a family in a room they are you in north carolina that were very affected. and our very own pushed afraid they don't want to hear. they say put it they don't want to rock the boat. you know they depend on assistance from the state. i just know that they would tell back a long time ago started with issues with minorities that they had to get sterilize in order to receive welfare benefits for that reason and yes i think. as the year started to progress your starters also see that five hundred fifty thousand nine hundred sixty s. a huge increase in the number of african-american women who were to start to be termed as unfit to be object sterilization in north carolina was not i think primarily to satisfy eugenic doctrine of improving the quality of the population but to save money. birth control pills made me sick i doctor said that he had something on birth control planned that would be wonderful so i went in the hospital had the surgical procedure came out of the hospital and went on with my life and my three kids this is in one nine hundred seventy two one t

. >>> up next -- a human skeleton is found in the marshlands of north carolina. >> the longer a body's been dead, the harder it is to determine how long it's been dead. >> we don't know who she is or why she was killed. >> but it tells a story all its own. >> whatever happened to precede death, it probably was sexual. >> a story of anger and hatred. >> at what point does a person realize that, you know, they're dying? >> and a violent end. >> had this person remained anonymous, we would have had nowhere to go. >>> on a cold, spring afternoon in 2004, ray lee jacobs found what looked like human bones in the backyard of the home he rented in wilmington, north carolina. >> it was kind of gruesome. we came across these bones. it was horrible. at first, we seen her leg bones and then we came across her skull. you know, and ribs and -- and then we realized, you know, it wasn't fake. it was real. you know, so it was terrible. >> he called authorities who moved quickly to collect the remains and any possible forensic evidence. >> the bones had been scattered by the animals and maybe by the tid

when we look at north carolina's impacted eugenics population we're looking at nearly sixty seventy six hundred people who were sterilized from nineteen twenty five through nine hundred seventy four and as you can see her in the one nine hundred fifty s. and ninety's sixty's so we're discussing that we have victims as young as eighteen years of age boys and girls then that brings us to the conclusion that we have a significant number of people who are their fifty's and sixty's as still very viable people with us today. you. just two thousand and two when they were oh i had sound the sounds of the genetics program and they sound now that the state in north carolina has sterilize seventy six hundred people most of them against their will before i found out i thought that i was the only person that happened to i was embarrassed allison really hated i was the crazy. i would not i ended up being on prozac and sarah. sell enough carolina justice for sterilization because our nation was started and watches he thousands hand aside as a central location and playing house for people who were vict

michael mckee looks at the north carolina jobless experiment. we look to washington, where a cease-fire is expected to start by the end of the day. in the ukraine. on thes unilaterally government side., separatist are not abiding by this. massing troops to the highest level since the criteria crimeaion -- annexation. the reports about food and pulling back tryin -- putin pulling back troops has reversed. it would be surprised if the cease-fire last a night let alone a week. significant are these new sanctions? are sevenway these individuals in ukraine who were added to the list of those whose assets have been frozen by the u.s. and who are banned from traveling to the u.s. the third two prominent s, and the self-declared chairman of the parliament of the.net people's nesk people'so republic. the timing of these are significant, because this comes on the day when he announces his unilateral cease-fire. the message is carrot and stick. sanctions are not over, but we are a link to do this cease-fire. >> the other foreign-policy crisis that is preoc

the gentleman from north carolina reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. in closing, i would just offer our prayers and condolences to the jayne family and the people of corning, new york. mr. lynch: and specialist ryan p. jayne's friends and neighbors. we all mourn their loss and we appreciate the sacrifice that's been made on behalf of our country and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. meadows: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentleman from new york who has taken the lead to make sure that those who give the ultimate sacrifice are not forgotten. and it is truly an honor to serve with the gentleman from massachusetts, the gentleman from new york, and i would urge all my colleagues to support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is, will the house suspend the rule

to north carolina, it appears that mr. pope was responsible for 72% of all outside spending in your state in the year 2010. an open process in north carolina, it turned out wherean elite situation his wealth gave him more power than the average person living in north carolina to express his political will. could you comment on what has happened to the north carolina political process because of this favoritism towards the elite? his think as a result of capacity to give millions and millions of dollars, he basically tainted the whole election process. disproportional to the number of people who share his beliefs. when it comes to the political process, as we have seen it today, there are many people who feel as if they have been disenfranchised. and as a result of legislation, there will be new ambulatory standards applied to abortion clinics. 16 abortion clinics, all were closed except for one. they have purged people from boards and commissions that have been previously appointed by prior governors and members of --. all

basically our exporting experience is through the north carolina agriculture department and north carolina exporting that has a partnership with the x-m bank. and the agricultural department introduces us to buyers. we meet with the buyers, and take their application to the bank, who will approve them after doing due diligence, and they offer me the ability to offer my client in china or canada terms. so you can increase your terms. so it's vital to my business. >> i'm going to talk to my next guest about the argument that some are making that might be a fine system, but the private sector can do this themselves. but -- could you go to a bank to replace the terms that you offer to your british or canadian or chinese clients? >> no, sir, we cannot. and we have discussed that with our north carolina banking partners, and that is an area they are not interested in, nor do they care to fund. so without the x-m bank we would not be able to do that. and i think that's why the north carolina banks don't get into their area, because they don't understand the value. without the x-m bank, i wouldn't

on politics in north carolina? on campaigns, using north carolina as an example. now some years ago, this supreme court held congress's interest in insuring that expenditures that reflect actual public support for political ideas by corporations, they were concerned that corporations not be able to drown out the speech rights of real people. what has the ground been like in north carolina and what have the consequences been? >> the consequences have been grave to say the least. what you really have unleaked is the capacity for these independent organizations to come in and some of which are based in north carolina. many of which are based outside of north carolina that are having impact on our council state races, legislative races, judicial races. you name it. and what you really see is simply a barrage of negative ads run literally around the clock that disproportionally highlight some specific issue that they think is narrowly based. the design of these commercials, all of these barrage of commercials is to elicit an emotional response upon persuadable voters a

a republican in north carolina. standing there with reverend william barber of the moral mondays movement and demanding an expansion of medicaid? i wish mayor was the governor instead of the may your that became governor. it's time the republican had the courage to tell truth. there have been four hospitals that closed in rural georgia for the same reason. the republican legislature and republican governor wouldn't diet for political reasons. this guy is doing what he is supposed to be doing for his people. look, where democrats aren't right about everything. but when you get somebody who knows what truth is and works together with other people, based on the facts, that's when democrats and republicans can do the right thing. i wish we had more republicans in the country like the mayor. we are not going to agree with him on everything. let's do the right thing for the people who is paying our salaries instead of all political posturing hurting people. >> you talk about him sort of being a character, isn't this in yo

i am a longtime resident of north carolina. i have the honor of serving in north carolina where i represent durham and granville counties. i entered politics for the same reason many of you did. i sought ways that north carolina's government could work more effectively. in 2010, americans for prosperity, a group funded by the koch brothers, spent money in north carolina. a new organization sprang up called real jobs north carolina spent almost $4.5 million. overall, three quarters of all of the outside money in state races that money were tied to one man, art pope. they poured money into 22 targeted races. the candidates they backed one in 18 of those races. in 2012, 8.1 million dollars flooded into the governor's race. a large portion of that money was tied into pope. surprise, surprise art pope is our state budget director. when justice kennedy wrote in citizens united, he said limit us outside spending does not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. try telling that to anyone who saw how the -- in north car

tillis who's pursuing a promotion from north carolina, north carolina legislature, wants to get up into washington where they're having their own republican debate over what happened to eric cantor. what do you read, if anything, into virginia and what the republicans are trying to figure out nationally? >> well, you know, the first thing you read out of virginia is there's nothing you can do to appeal and please the tea party extremism. if you go extreme like cantor they want you to be even more extreme. here in north carolina, we're nonpartisan. but it's interesting for somebody to want to be senate when they're flunking as speaker. he's already hurt north carolinians as speaker, now wants to go further and be able to hurt not only north carolina linnians but people around the nation as senator. we actually have a study out now done by the tax and policy center that shows that the agenda that mary b. and the unions and naacp and our movement are pushing, medicaid expansion, unemployment, earned income tax credit, all those things, living wage, is revenue-neutral. they're trying to say

university of north carolina hist >> >> host: university north carolina political science professor is the co-author of this book, a "interest groups and health care reform across the united states". professor gray how did you get involved? >> guest: i was on the board of directors of a large hmo in minneapolis and as the

lived in marion, north carolina, in mcdowell county, and part of the western part of north carolina. he had graduated from the federal law enforcement training center in 2005 and had become an officer for the forest service. he and his dog, maros, routinely assisted in hunts for suspects in mcdowell, burke, avery and caldwell counties. crisp, he also served as a law enforcement reserve officer in the mcdowell county sheriff's office. he actually served also as a deputy sheriff there, prior to going to work for the u.s. forest service. his wife, amanda, and his two sons, garrett and logan, his parents and sisters and two brothers are a reminder that many times when we have people that serve, that there are other people that are involved in that service as well. and so i want to thank them today. perhaps the best words were by some of his friends at his memorial. they called him warm-hearted. always looking out for others. a warrior. and, yes, someone who even plays practical jokes. the release that came from his family says that -- said that jason was a love father, a loving husband a

charlie come from raleigh, north carolina. dense, you know, he does not appear in the book, in the text. but this is a picture that was taken by the wpa during the depression. and he is someone, he was interviewed. he has about a three page interview. he talks about slavery. but i use that picture at the end of the book because it is charlie crop photograph with his granddaughter. and so what does says to me : it's a message about survival and about people going through the ordeals of slavery. and i always want to say that slavery was brutal and offal and painful, but people offer -- often found ways to live, most people did. otherwise there would not have survived it. do know, some people, i think a much lost their minds. people suck into depression, especially around separation. but people were, for the most part, resilient spirit they kept going, kept forming families. even as they were holding on to notices from these ads, the letters, the searches. they are sold or separated. they keep going. they keep living. they are ho

i am a longtime resident of north carolina. i have the honor of serving in north carolina where i represent durham and granville counties. i entered politics for the same reason many of you did. i sought ways that north carolina's government could work more effectively. in 2010, americans for prosperity, a group funded by the koch brothers, spent money in north carolina. a new organization sprang up called real jobs north carolina spent almost $4.5 million. overall, three quarters of all of the outside money in state races that money were tied to one man, art pope. they poured money into 22 targeted races. the candidates they backed one in 18 of those races. in 2012, 8.1 million dollars flooded into the governor's race. a large portion of that money was tied into pope. surprise, surprise art pope is our state budget director. when justice kennedy wrote in citizens united, he said limit us outside spending does not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. try telling that to anyone who saw how the -- in north car

i am a longtime resident of north carolina. i have the honor of serving in north carolina where i represent durham and granville counties. i entered politics for the same reason many of you did. i sought ways that north carolina's government could work more effectively. in 2010, americans for prosperity, a group funded by the koch brothers, spent money in north carolina. a new organization sprang up called real jobs north carolina spent almost $4.5 million. overall, three quarters of all of the outside money in state races that money were tied to one man, art pope. they poured money into 22 targeted races. the candidates they backed one in 18 of those races. in 2012, $8.1 million flooded into the governor's race. a large portion of that money was tied into pope. surprise, surprise art pope is our state budget director. when justice kennedy wrote in citizens united, he said limit us outside spending does not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. try telling that to anyone who saw how the -- in north carolina.

if we put that in context of north carolina. estimates show if north carolina doesn't expand medicaid, its 400,000 more uninsured north carolinians. that its about -- 400 more death is a year that are going to occur because it is not expanding. and important to emphasize. this is not something which is cost the state a lot of money. by turning this down. the state is turning down $4 billion a year. in revenues. $400 for every man woman and child. for not accepting the money. >> in north carolina, it is 45% of the folk thousands, the 300,000, 400,000 denied care. i don't want to get up here and imply that we should pick, i mean, we are talking about moral val use here. don't think we should pick one group another. in the politics, people demagogue, medicaid, black, urban, beneficiary program. that's not what it is, or in north carolina sir. >> our numbers said, the justice center. policy center. it was a 500,000 people would have been able to qualify for medicaid expansion. according to the new england medical journal, for every

a republican in north carolina. standing there with reverend william barr ber of the moral mondays movement and demanding an expansion of medicaid? i wish mayor was the governor instead of the may your that became governor. it's time the republican had the courage to tell truth. there have been four hospitals that closed in rural georgia for the same reason. the republican legislature and republican governor wouldn't diet for political reasons. this guy is doing what he is supposed to be doing for his people. look, where democrats aren't right about everything. but when you get somebody who knows what truth is and works together with other people, based on the facts, that's when democrats and republicans can dupe the rigdo the right thing. i wish we had more republicans in the country like the mayor. we are not going to agree with him on everything. let's do the right thing for the people who is paying our salaries instead of all political posturing hurting people. >> you talk about him sort of being a character, is

instead of really being an open process in north carolina internet to be a very elite situation. elite situation where his wealth gave him more power than the average person living in north carolina to express his luca will. could you comment on what is happened to the north to run a political process because of his favoritism towards the elite? >> i think as a result of his capacity to give millions and millions of dollars, he basically tainted the whole election process in many respects because he had influenced substantially disproportionate to the number of people who share his beliefs. when it comes to the political process as we've seen it today, there are many people who feel as if they've been disenfranchised in terms of voting rights come in terms of women's rights. they've got it now and a as a result of legislation that's been adopted to be new ambulatory standards applied to abortion clinics as result of north carolina 16 abortion clinics and all were close except one. they have gone in, prior governors and prior members, speaker of the house, all of their terms were

carolina writing in north carolina. what is his motivation for revealing the story and getting us to a place where there's some recompense for these victims? >> well, at the same time that a historian was working on this, the winston-salem journal had a team of investigative reporters working on this and john moved over to the editorial page and started advocating. under democratic control in north carolina, unfortunately, there really wasn't a big push for these kinds of reparations but from the editorial board of the winston-salem journal there was this constant drumbeat what are you going to do for the survivors? >> and what are we going to do? who is eligible and what do they need to do? >> well, eligibility is going to be determined on a case-by-case basis. but on monday there is a deadline to apply. it involves notarized forms, getting official documents so you have the university of north carolina center for civil rights that has free legal clinics. you have the naacp in north carolina really trying to do outreac

polices in raleigh-durham, north carolina, had two suspicious deaths. eric miller's death was caused by a massive dose of arsenic. six weeks later, eric's friend, derril willard, committed suicide. the two had been together at the bowling alley on the night eric miller fell ill. >> derril completely out of character for him, according to everybody we talked to, buys a pitcher of beer while they're waiting for a lane to free up. but when eric took his first swallow of beer, you know, it doesn't taste quite right. >> and shortly before derril willard committed suicide, had he confessed to his wife that he had been having an fair with ann miller, iraq an's wife. >> we don't know the whether or not he told his wife anything else about his potential involvement with arsenic or eric miller at the bowling alley. >> investigators searched willard's work computer and phone records. they also searched ann miller's. they found ample evidence of the affair. >> from the middle of october until eric's death, she's got like 500 cell phone calls to derril willard's des

. >>> a memorial service for maya angelou is underway right now in north carolina. the poet died last week at the age of 86, and you're looking at live pictures from winston salem, north carolina, where she's being remembered in a ceremony at wake forest university. the former president and first lady will both be speaking. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, a race to the finish line. history could be made not just for california chrome. plus a big chance for apple stock on monday. we'll tell you all about it coming up next. only on al jazeera america >> today on the stream. the superstars. >> i love the underdog role, it's us against the world. we have this fight and this pride to play for the country. >> pushing for success. >> we've gone so far forward, the game's really really grown. >> gaining popularity. >> people are crazy for it. >> is now the time for u.s. soccer? >> anything is possible. i believe that this u.s. team, we can beat anybody. >> the stream, today 5:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> apple stock is going to plummet on monday, well at

tillis who's pursuing a promotion from north carolina, north carolina legislature, wants to get up into washington where they're having their own republican debate over what happened to eric cantor. what do you read, if anything, into virginia and what the republicans are trying to figure out nationally? >> well, you know, the first thing you read out of virginia is there's nothing you can do to appeal and please the tea party extremism. if you go extreme like cantor they want you to be even more extreme. here in north carolina, we're nonpartisan. but it's interesting for somebody to want to be senate when they're flunking as speaker. he's already hurt north carolinians as speaker, now wants to go further and be able to hurt not only north carolina linnians but people around the nation as senator. we actually have a study out now done by the tax and policy center that shows that the agenda that mary b. and the unions and naacp and our movement are pushing, medicaid expansion, unemployment, earned income tax credit, all those things, living wage, is reven revenue-neutral. they're trying

. >> reporter: mike mead and lucy johnson were building that future in gaston county, north carolina. once known for cotton mills and corn whiskey. west of charlotte, maybe, south of justice. where authorities now have to ask -- who would want to burn lucy's house down? friends and family say lucy was on the feisty side of southern belle, a good woman with a weakness for cigarettes, mountain dew, pick-up trucks and the men who drove them. lucy's uncle, ken dye, likes to call some of them unsuitable gentlemen. >> she had problems with men. >> reporter: bad choices? >> bad choices. >> reporter: deana bradshaw has known lucy since they were teenagers. >> she needed love. she never wanted to be by herself. and i believe that was her downfall. >> reporter: lucy likes kids. shell has a 7-year-old daughter with her first husband and a 6-month-old infant son with a recent ex-boyfriend, a man named jim spelock, who made his living at the nearby kacatawba nuclear plant. now, lately there is little love lost between lucy and jim. broken up before their baby is even born. in fact, after the deliv

. >>> there's a place in north carolina where complete strangers can share their inner most secrets. chip reid takes a look at the messages people have left behind over the decades. >> reporter: on a remote beach on the coast of north carolina stands a solitary mailbox. who put it here and why has long been a mystery. until now. how far are we from the nearest parking lot now? >> it's a mile and a half. >> reporter: frank says he and a former girlfriend placed the original kindred spirit mailbox here more than 35 years ago. they left a notebook inside, hoping people would leave messages, but they never dreamed would be like this. >> here's some new one. as. oh, yeah, look at that. >> reporter: over the years, thousands have come here to share their inner most thoughts and to read about the lives of others. >> dear kindred spirit, what a beautiful morning. i am so thankful for the gift of life. >> reporter: the notes range from purest joy to deepest grief. >> dear friends, to my dear sweet beautiful wife. god took you to heaven. i think of you every morning. i miss you more each day.

university of north carolina hist >> >> host: university north carolina political science professor is the co-author of this book, a "interest groups and health care reform across the united states". professor gray how did you get involved? >> guest: i was on the board of directors of a large hmo in minneapolis and as the nonprofit hmo that led me to be interested. then most of that work is on public policy and state politics. if it is deaf and l.a. a hot topic at the state and national level. the was a natural fit. >> host: one of the things that you write is the rise and fall of managed-care is what is the most significance story is -- stories over the last 50 years. what does that mean? >> guest: it is interesting because it started out hmos were something that was said the idea of liberals pushed by 1960's. people who belong to to them could not embrace the concept and the doctors also embraced the concept. then in 1974 president nixon established hmos as a federal concept to support those that change the politics to lower the cost of health care care but then they offered more and

of former senator jesse helms in north carolina. in my opinion, ellis almost and randomly elected three of the best senators of the 20th century. jesse helms first election 1972, john east in 1980 and faircloth. tom is still active, a lawyer in north carolina. and tom ellis and jesse helms literally told ronald reagan and his team in 1976, by the way, reagan before he got to north carolina had lost four or five primaries. they lost the florida primary, new hampshire primary, and things were looking really, really dark. and so he wants to come to north carolina, and tom ellis and jesse helms said the coming. we don't want you here. we will handle the campaign. we'll take care of it. don't coming. however, if you insist on coming and you have to do four things. and jesse helms and tom ellis told reagan these four things. the four things work you must attack forward, attack kissinger, tag to give what of the panama canal and you must attack detente. reagan said i'm okay with that. he did that and it leaves north carolina and that after

if we put that in context of north carolina. estimates show if north carolina doesn't expand medicaid, its 400,000 more uninsured north carolinians. that its about -- 400 more death is a year that are going to occur because it is not expanding. and important to emphasize. this is not something which is cost the state a lot of money. by turning this down. the state is turning down $4 billion a year. in revenues. $400 for every man woman and child. for not accepting the money. >> in north carolina, it is 45% of the folk thousands, the 3 300,000, 400,000 denied care. i don't want to get up here and imply that we should pick, i mean, we are talking about moral val use here. don't think we should pick one group another. in the politics, people demagogue, medicaid, black, urban, beneficiary program. that's not what it is, or in north carolina sir. >> our numbers said, the justice center. policy center. it was a 500,000 people would have been able to qualify for medicaid expansion. according to the new england medical journal, for ever

. ♪ calabash, north carolina, is a quiet fishing town located just over the state line from myrtle beach, south carolina. >> to sum it up, it's a perfect place to live, quiet, the best seafood in the world, and that's how calabash was known. >> in september of 1991, in broad daylight, two masked men with handguns walked into one of the local banks. a teller pushed the silent alarm, but the robbers got away with $40,000 before police arrived. >> the closest police station was our county complex, which is about 25 to 30 miles away. >> the bank was equipped with surveillance cameras that used 35-millimeter film. >> in most instances, we have bank surveillance videotapes, which don't give us a lot of quality and don't allow us the opportunity to enhance the photos. >> the pictures showed a well-organized crime. >> some individuals go in banks with no gloves, no mask, and no plan. those are the easiest ones to catch. the folks that are well planned, well orchestrated, prove to be the most difficult challenge in law enforcement. >> the man entered the bank just after an armored truck made its

carolina him he sees black and his pang as north carolina residents. they can vote, technically they can still vote. a speaker, tom tillis ushered in regulation that there will be new rules in place for the 2014 regulations that will make it more difficult to vote as house speaker. north carolina has passed what have been called the most draconian rollbacks in the nation. say said the voting bill he shuffled through the legislature was the single worst bill since voter suppression bills went through the country. provided non-traditional voters are able cast tear ballots, tom tillis voting back voter rights will probably always be an issue in north carolina in this senate race. now tom tillis has been dug up on tape explaining who exactly he considers to be a traditional north carolina voter, the tom tillis kate hagan race got tilted in a way. this is like george allen and his comments in the senate race. this is geico i like a guy saying he wants to divide the perfrom the sec so he can conquer both of them, since he is neither. this is not way you win

this year i'm going to clay county, north carolina's annual possum drop. for those unfamiliar with rich southern heritage, here's what possum drop means. >> they actually take a live possum. they put it in a box. and then they drop it. [laughter] steep sorry if that got a bit technical, but you get the idea. no surprise, folks, the fascist fur-scists of peta thinking this event is cruel to possum kind. i assume because it keeps them from their natural possum destiny of being crushed under the tire of a keya. way back in 2012, a judge in north carolina ruled it was illegal to use a live opossum for such an event. o-diculous. the next thing you know, the pc police will make it illegal to have the live possum nativity scene. losing the possum drop was a blow to tradition dating back to 1990. that's right, since the time of the dinosaurs, which is why i'm giving a tip of the hat to the north carolina state legislature for saving the celebration with a new bill excluding opossums from state wildlife laws between december 26th and january 2nd in clay county wher

. >>> there's a place in north carolina where complete strangers can share their inner most secrets. chip reid takes a look at the messages people have left behind over the decades. >> reporter: on a remote beach on the coast of north carolina stands a solitary mailbox. who put it here and why has long been a mystery. until now. how far are we from the nearest parking lot now? >> it's a mile and a half. >> reporter: frank naismith said he and aformer girlfriend placed the original kindred spirit mailbox more than 35 years ago. they left a notebook inside, hoping people would leave messages, but they never dreamed would be like this. >> here's some new ones. oh, yeah, look at that. >> reporter: over the years, thousands have come here to share their inner most thoughts and to read about the lives of others. >> dear kindred spirit, what a beautiful morning. i am so thankful for the gift of life. >> reporter: the notes range from purest joy to deepest grief. >> dear frances, to my dear beautiful sweet wife. god took you to heaven. i think of you every morning. i miss you more each day.

i was in north carolina, mr. mckissick, and was able to speak dinner and hear about all the things that you have talked about today in terms of the effect of the big money in north carolina and some of the policies that we have seen and what was of particular concern was getting rid of the same-day registration. whether we elected a republican jesse venturer, and independence, the fact that we have people participate matters, and the fact that that in northcut back carolina matters a lot. i was interested in hearing mr. abrams talk about how this should not be about bad policies, and i would agree. what we're trying to get at here a line heree is between what is corruption and what is not corruption and what this leads to. this is not defined in the supreme court case. for me is the basis for why we have to look at this constitutional amendment. i don't think anyone thinks the idea of a proposed 28th amendment in the constitution lightly, but we know there have been times in our history where congress has needed