>> the senator from north carolina. >> mr. president, like the gentleman from connecticut, i don't understand, why we're here this weekend myself. i don't understand why a continuing resolution that has a the broad support -- all the provisions in itut have the brod support of members of both sides of the aisle. it's actually gotten us to a point to where we're putting so many people in jeopardy of gettingtt the critical services that they need, i don't understand that at all. and i think a simple request of extending the government for four weeks, allowing the c.h.i.p. program to be authorized for six years makes a lot of sense while we work through the issues that we have on daca, on daca challenge, something that i'm personally investedna in, something i'm working really hard to come to up with a solution to. but instead of us spending time on providing a solution to that problem, we're playing these sorts of games, and now we're talking about funding the government for 24 hours? .. thisop with a simply keep the government

that ble to us to ensure north carolina's coastline, north carolina's coastal economy our people are protected from offshore drilling. host: state of north carolina, he's been our guest on the the past 30 r minutes. thank you for your time, the bus s in raleigh, north carolina today. we want to thank our cable partner spectrum for helping us bus there and set it up and our next stop on our

the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. tillis: reserving the right to object. first and foremost, i want to thank the federal employees an anybody -- and i want to thank anybody who works for the federal government. some people in this body voted not to fund the government a couple of days ago. i hope we can fund the government and move on and resolve important issues, the daca that is very personally important to me. as a practical matter, i think that we will take care of the federal employees because they work hard and they deserve that. what i will tell you is the effect of these c.r.'s and something that i will say is one of the reasons why i hate these continuing resolutions, here's what happens every time a c.r. is threatened to occur or a shutdown is threatened to occur. one of the reasons why the short-term c.r.'s make no sense to me because tomorrow if you did a one-day c.r., then the good news is everybody would come to work tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon, you would say you're probably not going to come back on

the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. tillis: i want to reiterate to the federal employees, i fully believe, just like these dramas in the past, that we will fund the government, they will be paid and i apologize for those who voted against the c.r. a few days ago that they are being taken through this process. i, for one, have been here three years. i have never voted against a debt-ceiling increase because i believe we need to pay the bills that we obligated ourselves to. i never voted for a government shutdown because i believe we should do the work that we're paid here to do. i will say, in closing, that i also agree that senator heller has a great idea. when we get into this mode and we cannot actually fund the government, then why on earth should we be paid for what we're doing? i don't think any u.s. senator should be paid a dime or get health care every single day that we fail to do our job. that's something we hopefully can get unanimous consent tonight to put forth that until we solve this problem maybe we shoul

republicans took back the house in north carolina and senate in north carolina for the first time in 100 years in 2012. therefore, they were responsible for the lines, not democrats. that's first. >> no, i'm saying before '12 they were responsible for the lines, and there was no complaints. >> second is -- second is -- well, that's because the lines weren't drawn as they were in 2012. >> they were drawn very against republicans. >> second, i was actually as a state legislator, i was on the committee that went around and drew lines in south carolina. we had three republicans, two democrats. i was one of the democrats. we drew the house lines, we drew the senate lines, and we drew the congressional lines. what you learned about the process is -- and i thought this was where mike was going with the congressional black caucus, he went somewhere else, is, yes, throughout the country, you have members of the congressional black caucus who work with republicans to pack their districts. i don't think that the congressional black caucus and democrats can go without blame in that fashion. howe

republicans took back the house in north carolina and senate in north carolina for the first time in 100 years in 2012. therefore, they were responsible for the lines, not democrats. that's first. >> no, i'm saying before '12 they were responsible for the lines, and there was no complaints. >> second -- that's because the lines weren't drawn as they were in 2012. >> they were drawn very -- >> second, i was actually as a state legislator, i was on the committee that went around and drew lines in south carolina. we had three republicans, two democrats. i was one of the democrats. we draw the house lines, the senate lines. and we drew the congressional lines. what you learned about the process is -- and i thought this was where mike was going with the congressional black caucus, he went somewhere else, is, yes, throughout the country, you have members of the congressional black caucus who work with republicans to pack their districts. i don't think that the congress am blackhawks and democrats -- congressional black caucus and democrats can go without blame in that fashion. however, mik

north carolina born and bred. but this is ridiculous to comment and say we're going to start drilling off the coast and picking off a state like florida. we want to go next. north carolina is standing in line. i look forward to my meeting. >> i hear you. so do you think governor scott of florida is republican. you're a democrat. do you think that secretary zinke will be as receptive to your complaints as he was to rick scott's? >> i certainly hope so. the issues are the same. coastal tourism. we are reliant on coastal tourism in our economy. if you don't, they will see action from the state of north carolina. we are already mulling legal options here. >> what are those? >> well, we'll have to see what they are. we have to look at what is happening and the disregard for the regulatory process and exempting florida and what they said about it. clearly they said this is an economic issue. they announced offshore drilling because of economic issues. when you look at the fact that we are becoming more and more reliant

in north carolina, they are not. motive butd different results, that is going to be a closer case than an innocent motive. it is somewhat problematic. the party all the time approach yous with that by saying cannot adopt this for partisan reasons. we don't have to look at the racial question. his lust forapt partisan reasons, we have some problems. the justiceson of motivated by their partisan politics? i certainly don't think so. i don't think justice scalia's opinion in a 2004 case refusing to regulate the partisan gerrymandering in pennsylvania on this basis, it is true there has been a long history in other statesd where democrats have gerrymandered. democrats control more state legislators. i think there was a concern about where that line is. senseings have changed -- since 2004, technology has changed. for anow possible gerrymandered to be drawn that is durable for an entire decade. slicee no longer going to the baloney too thin. people voted for democratic legislators but the republicans controlled the state

if north carolina replevins it, it will still be in public hands. so the owner sent the document down to philadelphia for a meeting to finalize everything. the owner's employee bicycled the north carolina copy of the bill of rights in a big art box across the benjamin franklin bridge from camden into central philadelphia for this meeting. my conclusion about how we find manuscripts, meeting consisted of the historian of the constitution center, the dotcomer and the attorney for the owner. the dotcomer said, before i give you the check for the $5 million, i would like to see the document. they passed the art box over and the dotcomer looks at it and says to the historian, is this the copy of the bill of rights that ken boling said is north carolina's? the historian said, yes. the dotcomer said, fbi. we're confiscating this document on behalf of the state of north carolina. >> wow! [ applause ] >> charlene can tell you a little bit more, if she like, about going down to -- being interviewed by the fbi in north carolina. but i can assure you that when

of the school for conversion in north carolina. they are starting a poor people's march 50 years after dr. king's. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: performing here in our democracy now! studios in 2010. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman.n. as the nation prepares to honor dr. martin luther king, modern-day civil rights leaders have launched a new poor people's campaign inspired by king's historic 1968 action led by king and the southern christian leadership conference. we're speaking to the reverend dr. william barber of repairers of the breach. as well as it on jell-o go minister jonathan wilson-hartgtgrove, who was s oa page for strom thurmond. the man who replaced strom thurmond is republican senator lindsey graham. this is what lindsey graham had to say when he appeared on "the view" on monday. >> he beat me e like a drum. he ran against 17 republicans and crushed as all the stuff he ran against the clinton machine and won. all i can say is, you can say anything you want about the guy. i said he was a xena phobic religi

carolina what can north carolinians do about this gerrymandering. well first of all we especially in the charlotte area what we've had is our group to get together and to talk about and to pressure legislature legislators about having partisan free redistricting because then this last redistricting effort the person that drew the line and knowledge that it was politically motivated it was basically for just partisanship doing tricks one group over another and that is cuts at the heart of democracy in this country it tempts to marginalize people that do not either look think or believe the same way that that puts a person that particular party believes yeah and it's not just in north carolina look at the congressional maps around the country some of these districts are so pretzel shape that doesn't match geography or or any logical reason desmond what are you doing because change and is the approach that we just heard in north carolina political in florida should people be pestering their state senator and state rep. i can tell you how and you know t

of the school for conversion in north carolina. they are starting a poor people's march 50 years after dr. king's. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: performing here in our democracy now! studios in 2010. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman. as the nation prepares to honor dr. martin luther king, modern-day civil rights leaders have launched a new poor people's campaign inspired by king's historic 1968 action led by king and the southern christian leadership conference. we're speaking to the reverend dr. william barber of repairers of the breach. as well as it on jell-o go minister jonathan wilson-hartgrove, who was once a page for strom thurmond. the man who replaced strom thurmond is republican senator lindsey graham. this is what lindsey graham had to say when he appeared on "the view" on monday. >> he beat me like a drum. he ran against 17 republicans and crushed as all the stuff he ran against the clinton machine and won. all i can say is, you can say anything you want about the guy. i said he was a xena phobic religious

north carolina has three democratic representatives. and that happens because democratic voters live in more populated areas. they get packed into dense areas. on the left, that's packing, that's raleigh-durham and hillsborough. on the right, that's greenville. what happens is in the third district, people got pulled out of the third district and packed into the first district to make that as heavily democratic as possible. the fourth district, the same. and so these are just examples of where someone can look at where the people are. and without looking at race can look and say, you know what, i'm going to draw a circle around those people and pack them in one place. >> i know you want to respond, dr. barber. let me say this -- sam says that north carolina is ground zero for gerrymandering, and that this isn't the first time they've gotten in trouble for how they've drawn these lines. >> no, that's exactly right. what's happening here, it is race. they tried to say it's partisanism, but that's a cover for racism.

that ble to us to ensure north carolina's coastline, north carolina's coastal economy our people are protected from offshore drilling. host: state of north carolina, he's been our guest on the the past 30 r minutes. thank you for your time, the bus s in raleigh, north carolina today. we want to thank our cable partner spectrum for helping us bus there and set it up and our next stop on our "50 is columbia, south carolina. the house is coming into watching it live on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. before the y abouts house -- lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. anuary 17, 2018. i hereby appoint the honorable act as valadao to speaker pro tempore on this day. igned, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january , 2018, the ir will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. be equally ll alloca

we recently stopped at raleigh north carolina asking folks what is the most important issue in their state. i think the most important issue in the state of north carolina is to make sure we are implementing what we say in the constitution about education. we say in article nine of the constitution that we are going to provide equal opportunities for all of our students here in north carolina, so i would like to see that we continue to value equity and provide for the educational opportunities for all students here and find that as well, not just say to give lip service to fund that. one of the most important issues facing the state right now are the issues of the court system, legislative leaders working on ways to revamp the court system and take them out of the hands of the people. it's important that the court system is run for the people and by the people. probably the most significant issue for me are the many bills that have been introduced this past year which i believe denigrate the independence of the north carolina judiciary and independent branch of government. the bill h

being interviewed by the fbi in north carolina. i can assure you when i go to the archives they roll the red carpet out. thank you very much. >> that's great. [ applause ] >> so taking all of these documents, the letter about the depressed wife, john marshall when he was in france wrote to his wife who had ten children at home and said she had to stop being depressed because it made him sad. these documents are fabulous and they are so able to tell a story but not everybody is going to sit and read 22. so we are lucky that he took the information and wrote it into a very readable narrative, the first congress how james madison, george washington and a group of extraordinary men invented the government. and he is again a very distinguished historian and author. again, let's hear from him rather than about him and about the book. >> take it closer to you. >> so this book, the first congress, this book couldn't have been written without the first federal congress project. this monumental and wonderfully accessible mountain of material

we've still got a long way to go because again, it's 100 counties in north carolina. we passed the opportunity scholarship program. you all are familiar with that. you here in d.c., low income, working class families. you know, but the thing is, a as an organization, we were always constantly looking at data and we weren't coming up with data from your allies. we were looking straight from the data from the department of public instruction. we went straight to that information. it is public. and we really wanted to make the case. so when you look at the income threshold, we all know, regardless of what statistic category, the kind of kids that are lowest performing. they are low income kids, and thanks to florida, we had adopted the a through f grading system for our schools. guess what? low income families, the ones who mostly populated the "d" and "f" schools were low income families so we really made the case in 2013, we were able to pass the opportunity scholarship program, and this year, we're expecting over 10,000 children to be utilizing that program. we didn't

being interviewed by the fbi in north carolina. i can assure you when i go to the archives they roll the red carpet out. thank you very much. >> that's great. >> so taking all of these documents, the letter about the depressed wife, john marshall when he was in france wrote to his wife who had ten children at home and said she had to stop being depressed because it made him sad. these documents are fabulous and they are so able to tell a story but not everybody is going to sit and read 22. so we are lucky that he took the information and wrote it into a very readable narrative, the first congress how james madison, george washington and a group of extraordinary men invented the government. and he is again a very distinguished historian and author. again, let's hear from him rather than about him and about the book. >> take it closer to you. >> so this book, the first congress, this book couldn't have been written without the first federal congress project. this monumental and wonderfully accessible mountain of material of incompara

if north carolina replefins it, it will still be in public hands. so the owner sent the document down to philadelphia for a meeting to finalize everything. the owner's employee bicycled the north carolina copy of the bill of rights, in a big art box, across the benjamin franklin bridge from camden, into central philadelphia for this meeting. i said, my conclusion about how we find manuscripts, meeting consisted of the historian of the constitution center, the dot-comer, and the attorney for the owner. and the dot-comer said, well, before i put up, give you the check for the 5 million, i would like to see the document. so they passed the art box over and the dot-comer looks over and said to the historian, is this the copy of the bill of rights that ken bowling said is north carolina's? and the historian said, yes. and the dot-comer said, fbi, we're confiscating this document on behalf of the state of north carolina. charlene can tell you a little bit more if she likes about going to be interviewed by the fbi in north carolina. but i can assure you th

we are confiscating this document on behalf of the state of north carolina. charlene can tell you a little more if she likes about going down to be interviewed by the fbi in north carolina. but i can assure you when i go to raleigh to archives, they roll the red carpet out. thank you very much. >> that's great. [ applause ] >> so taking all of these documents, i must say the letter about the depressed wife, john marshall when he was in france wrote to his wife who had ten children at home in virginia and said she couldn't -- said she had to stop being depressed because it made him sad. yeah. anyway, but you know, these documents are fabulous and they are so able to tell a story, but not everybody is going to sit and read 22 volumes, and so we are lucky that fergus bordewich took the information and wrote it into a very readable narrative, the first congress, how james madison, george washington and a group of extraordinary men -- and he is a distinguished historian and author, but again, let's hear from him rather than about him and about the book. >> thanks.

republicans -- >> was north carolina one of the states that was impacted? >> oh, most certainly. really, after the 2008 election in which barack obama is elected and democrats take a super majority in the u.s. senate and a big majority in the u.s. house, republicans took a look at the demographics in the country and realized they had to do something different in order to have a path back to power. they recognized that redistricting after the census of 2010 represented a possible road back. so, red map was a $30 million attempt to take control of the state legislatures nationwide in all of these swing states, pennsylvania, north carolina, michigan, virginia, wisconsin, ohio, and to have every seat at the table when these new lines were drawn in 2011. it has been a highly effective plan, if you add up michigan, ohio, north carolina, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, these are five swing states. they now send to washington 49 republicans and 20 democrats. that is more than 2-1, and this happens in years even which democrats get more votes in these states. >> so, i'm illustrating your poi

host: sammy is on the democratic line from kinston, north carolina. caller: good morning. the city councilman in north carolina, in the last 15 years we have had two major floods and lost about 700 homes. we had a meeting with the north carolina emergency management team, and everybody in the past was talking about, fema would replace people's lost homes and all that, and i thought about the issue of the army corps of engineers. it is a learned in the last 15 years with two major floods? nothing.r was, they know that they need to dredge the rivers, they need to build dams and things like that. people always say you have got to have studies, epa studies that take years and years. we could have had several peoples, and some of the in the audience said it is poor spending. the army corps of engineers needs to do more long-range thinking. when you have two major floods in 15 years. host: what do you think about that? guest: in 2014, the house passed a border resources and redevelopment act and they did a lot of work to streamline the process to eliminate the duplication and ov

of north carolina. wow. [applause] charlene can tell you a little bit more she likes. going down to it being interviewed by the fbi in north carolina, but i can assure you when i go to raleigh to the archives they roll the red carpet out. thank you very much. >> that's great. [applause] >> taking all these documents, i must say the letter about the depressed wife, john marshall when he was in france, wrote to his wife who had ten children in virginia and said she had to stop being depressed because it made him sad. [laughter] these documents are fabulous and they are so able to tell a story, but not everybody is going to sit and read 22 volumes. we are lucky that they took the information and wrote it into a very readable narrative, the first congress, how james patterson, george washington, and a group of extraordinary man invented the government. he is again, a very distinguished historian and author. let's hear from him rather than about him, and let's hear about the book. >> all right, so, this book

we stopped in raleigh, north carolina, asking folks, what is the most important issue in your state? >> i think the most important issue in north carolina is to make sure we are implementing what we say in our constitution about education. we say in article nine of the constitution that we will provide equal opportunities for all our students here in north carolina, so i would like to see that we continue to value equity and provide for the educational opportunities for all students and fund that as well, not just say it, give lip service to it, but actually fund that. >> one of the most important issues facing our state right now are the issues of the court system and control of the court system. legislators are working on ways to revamp the court system, and someone to take judges. out of the hands of the voters i think it is important that the elect judges and the court system is one for the people, run by the people. >> probably the most significant issue for me, the many, many bills introduced this past year which i believe affect and denigrate the independence of the north caro

state of north carolina has been ordered to redraw is congressional map which shows how the state is divided into voting districts to republicans that admits it's to manipulating borders for political gain something known as gerrymandering caleb maupin takes a closer look here's an old political hack courtesy of us politicians redraw the voting districts in order to favor your party that's what the republican party did in north carolina in two thousand and sixteen but they went too far the federal courts have stepped in and said that they rial aid in the us constitution we. to the extent of going to use political data to draw in this manner it is to gain support of some advantage on the back. gerrymandering runs contrary to numerous fundamental democratic principles and individual rights let's take a look at how the twelve congressional district in north carolina was drawn now that's clearly not exactly a random sampling of the population but that's not the only place that happens all across the country this is an old trick in u.s. politics and even has a name gerrymandering the proc

methe significant issue for fromhat many, many bills this past year that denigrate the north carolina judiciary. they must make judicial elections part of it. i don't see anything that partisanship has in common with what we think is impartial and independent. >> i would say right now, it's the gerrymandering case. currently, yeah. therepublicans controlling general assembly in the north carolina state legislature, currently drawing out maps that are gerrymandered. at the supreme court, they are having a case trying to see maps drawn by republicans, or whether they are drawn to fit an entire population of people. currently, they are going to go through these -- they supreme if these arend legal. >> watch this on c-span. ♪ >> next tuesday, president trump will be at his first state of the union address for a joint session of congress. our coverage against at 8:00 p.m. eastern with a preview, followed by the state of union at 9:00 p.m.. after the speech, we take calls and hear reactions for members of congress. coverage of the state of the union address live on c-span. you can watch i

. >> i think the most important issue here in the state of north carolina is to make sure that we're implementing what we say in our constitution about education. we say in article nine of the constitution that we're going to provide equal opportunities for all our students here in north carolina. so i would like to see that we continue to value equity, and provide for the educational opportunities for all students here, and fund that as well, not just say, to give lip service but to actually find it. >> one of the most important issues facing our state right are the issues of the court system and control of the court system, legislators are working on ways to revamp the court system and someone to take judges out of the hands of the voters. i think it's important that the people elected judges and that the court system is one for the people, run by the people. >> probably the most significant issue for me are the many, many bills that event introduced this past year which i believe affect and denigrate the independence of the north carolina judiciary as an independent branch of gove

but then we've seen on the state level things like north carolina and ohio. give our viewers a sense of the chipping away of voting rights achievements that dr. king and that generation was able to achieve and that it's being, as i said, chipped away at in these times. >> what i like to say is if you take just the news now, you'll see all the developments and think, wow, people are rolling back voting rights. but when you say the voting rights act was signed in august 1965, this campaign to roll back that act started in august 1965. >> right. >> you saw the development of gerrymandering of the voter id laws or ways to circumvent all the courtrooms. because it's been 50 years of court rulings too that have been enhanced the voting rights act. politicians have looked at ways to get around that with color blind policies. so what we're seeing with partisan gerrymandering is an outgrowth of people trying to use racial gerrymandering and which courts have become more and more sensitive to. so now the natural evolution is to say we're not doing this by race anymore.

. >> one of 9 most extreme examples of gerrymandering is the congressional map drawn by north carolina republicans after 2010. it say map that delivered the gop an overwhelming ten-3 advantage in house seats by 2014by 2014, during a rough week 50% statewide supported into a 77% advantage. >> trevor: good lord. like they found the cheat code to elections. gree mannedderring is like up, down, up, down, ab, select, boom, republican majority, baby. gerrymandering has been around for 200 years but when lawmakers started using modern computing power to draw districts they took it to the next level because that is what computers do, right. the same way how back in the day you were decent at stalking your ex. but now thanks to computing power and social media, you can stalk your ex like a pro. yeah, like now its' not like i think she mid be there. it's like oh, i know she's at an all-inclusive resort sipping my ties ties with jeremy who said he was just a friend! but you know what, i don't even care because i don't even follow her. anyway, gerrymandering. today lawmakers can draw districts so

because 100 counties in north carolina. we passed the opportunity scholarship program. you are all familiar with that. you are in d.c., working class families. we were also constantly looking at data and weren't coming up with data from the allies, straight from the public instruction. went straight to that information. it is public. and we really wanted to make the case. so when you look at the income threshold, we all know, regardless wh regardless what statistics, they are low income kids, and thanks to florida, adopted an a through f grading system for our schools. guess what, low income families, the ones mostly populated d&f were low income families. so really made the case in 2013, we were able to pass the opportunity scholarship program, and this year we are expecting over expecting over 10,000 children to be utilizing that program. we didn't stop there. not only did we limit the cap of public charter school in 2011, but we passed in 2011 our very first private school measure. as the children with disabilities act. north carolina, we have 1.5 million children th

this is reaching the ground from piedmont, north carolina through the foothills and to the coast. what does it mean? winter weather advisories covering the metro area but one reason these are in effect as far as frederick and gaithersburg is not the amount of snow but the timing. it will be overnight ending by 7:00. just in time for the morning commute. those are winter storm warnings in white and the orange which you don't see often are blizzard warnings to the east all the way to the coast. about the blizzard warnings, that's about visibility and not how much snowfall. visibility under a quarter of a mile and that will be the case tonight and tomorrow. let's wideness out and blizzard warnings from maine and in new jersey, delmarva and in north carolina. wi s carolina. even when we're done with the snow not done with the yellow weather alerts. >>> for more weather alerts download the weather app and topper will be back later in the flesh with more on the snow. >>> you know it's cold when the call of the icebreakers on the chesapeake bay. this was near mail, maryland this afternoo

so we are preparing here in north carolina. the governor, roy cooper, has declared a state of emergency. that just means here at least in north carolina, emergency responders and department of transportation crews are going to be able to move throughout the state to those areas from the mountains to here in central north carolina, they're expected to see as much as 5 inches of snow. that snow has not begun to fall quite yet, but it's expected to fall later this morning, so crews have already brined the roads. they began that process just two days ago. they have laid down 1.7 million gallons of that brine mixture, so now the only thing left to do is snow. in raleigh, i'm lauren haviland for cbs news. >>> lauren, thanks a lot. >>> in washington now, the political temp is downright frosty. house conservatives are scrambling to prevent a government shutdown. john schiumo is here in new york with more on that. good morning, john. >> good morning, anne-marie. house conservatives insist they have the votes to reject that plan. now, th

western north carolina got eight inches of snow. >> snow's pretty, but don't be fooled. you don't have to brave the roads if you don't have to. we don't want people to get in trouble. we know from our state troopers that accidents can happen when we have snow and ice on the road. >> woodruff: in louisiana, new orleans had a record low of 21 degrees. hattiesburg, mississippi also broke a record, with 13 degrees. at least five deaths are being at least ten deaths are being blamed on the storm. the state of michigan has awarded $1 million dollars to a detroit man wrongfully convicted of murder. desmond ricks spent 25 years in prison. he was released last may after new tests showed the bullets from the victim's body did not come from ricks' gun. he accused detroit police of switching the bullets. democrats have scored another election upset in a republican stronghold. it happened tuesday in wisconsin. patty schachtner beat out republican adam jarchow in a special election for a state senate seat. president trump won the district by 17 points in 2016. former senate majority l

. >> one of 9 most extreme examples of gerrymandering is the congressional map drawn by north carolina republicans after 2010. it say map that delivered the gop an overwhelming ten-3 advantage in house seats by 2020, during a rough week 50% statewide supported into a 77% advantage. >> trevor: good lord. like they found the cheat code to elections. gree mannedderring is like up, down, up, down, ab, select, boom, republican majority, baby. gerrymandering has been around for 200 years but when lawmakers started using modern computing power to draw districts they took it to the next level because that is what computers do, right. the sameay how back in the day you were decent at stalking your ex. but now thanks to computing power and social media, you can stalk your ex like a pro. yeah, like now its' not like i think she mid be there. it's like oh, i know she's at an all-inclusive resort sipping my ties ties with jeremy who said he was just a friend! but you know what, i don't even care because i don't even follow her. anyway, gerrymandering. today lawmakers can draw districts so precise t

then were live in raleigh, north carolina for the 50 capitals tour with north carolina josh size. >> on afterwards, the women's march on washington culture reflects on the 2017 march and what's ahead in her book, together we rise behind the scenes of the protesters around the world. >> what you say to them? they may not of march but share their culture and belief. >> it might not feel like this but were fighting for them too. i know they can oftentimes to disappoint but the 47% of the percent that topo. i'm not loyal ten a political party. the known as a big critic. don't assume at this movement is about. the last year we got into the controversy what i said is that we never said we are pro- abortion. that was not the language we move. we are pro-choice. we believe a woman should be able to choose whatever is right for her and her family and her body. >> phil murphy has been sworn in as the 56th governor. he takes over from chris christie

right now for south carolina in to north carolina. charleston today had three inches of snow. more than three inches. maybe it was five inches of snow. savannah had over an inch of snow and never had snow on this particular day. cities that generally don't get it received snow. starting to push to the central part of virginia. where we stand with the advisories. there is a wind chill watch out for the blue ridge. that is looking ahead to the next weather story. late tomorrow and into friday. it will be bone chilling beyond this. winter weather advisory posted for the d.c. area. that is up unt into effect tomorrow morning. hour-by-hour. everything you are fine. heading out this evening, you don't have to worry about snow. just fine. no problems on the road with the weather related problems. once we get to midnight i see snow around the area. i will pause this at 2:00. it will fill in more. here is 4:00. let me say, though, i want to be clear. the farther east you go the greater the chance for snow. heavier the totals will be. this is n

district goes in north carolina, north carolina, where an average sky school district in north carolina, may be on the larger side that nationally we are average of 12. we are pre-k-12 and we have eight schools, one high school, one middle-school, two intermediate schools and for elementary schools. our free and reduced population is about 38%. our expenditure of north carolina's $7500 per student and a north carolina's 115 school districts, that's about 100 out of 115. but we've been able to do in on the map is soapy collar digital conversion. the digital conversion, we are one to one with k-12, with typepad in kindergarten and first grade and laptop computers in second grade through 12th grade. we started our journey a decade ago and one of the biggest reasons behind our digital conversion was we wanted to close the digital divide that existed between our students, those with means and those that did not have economic means to have access to technology. what you'll hear throughout the course of my presentation is similar to what happened that there was a disconnect between our student

but nowadays in this part of north carolina, michael peterson is known not as the novelist he in fact is, but as that man, the notorious husband, the one with the wife dead at the bottom of the staircase. you were not only the prime suspect, you were the only suspect. >> the only one. >> there was massive amounts of blood. how do you explain it? was this a fall, or was this murder? >> reporter: exactly what did happen on that staircase? and what is the truth about michael peterson? a man once sentenced to die in prison for the commission of a homicide he has always maintained was nothing but an accident. innocent, he asserts, but the novelist in him knows full well the irresistible appeal of the storyline he says he got swept up in. >> sex, money, murder, my god! what more could you have? >> reporter: tonight, one of the most compelling mysteries we've ever covered as you haven't heard it before. >> the people who believe in you will always believe in you. the people that don't never will. >> reporter: michael peterson in his own words. on the marriage, that fine old house. the blood

the justices may have to make another decision on a case in north carolina. that state is asking the treatment court to delay a ruling struck down this week for districts drawn by republicans as unconstitutional. let me just start with the case for texas headed to the court. as we look ahead to november, what clarity do you have about what will be settled for then. >> we don't know how the court will rule on any of these, you talk about the text caas case. we're still running under interim lines. we know they have been found to violate the voting rights act. they were found in san antonio on numerous occasions. some of the problems on the map, some of the blatant discrimination will be rectified. this is just one case in north carolina, but they're also looking at partisan jerry marg r gerrymandering in wisconsin. >> you know texas well, i grew up in north carolina, there was districts drawn based on race there. then you had remember lawmakers drawing them based on political leanings and that was recently thrown out. how should this be done? we're at a point

i was born in north carolina. whenever i came into the world, my mom brought me into the world and i didn't have these things that whenever the immigrants come in, how many benefits do they automatically get? host: we will leave it there. the first part of his comments -- what are your thoughts? guest: i think that does illustrate some of the issues and the impacts of this debate because so much of what gets emphasized when you're talking about overhauling these programs are taking away things that people had already paid into as part of their paychecks. working theirn entire lives and taking little bits out of their head checks for social security and medicare and those programs are meant to be there to protect them. that's why this debate gets so difficult. we are taken to these programs as we speak, but at the same republicansts nor can ignore the fact that these programs are not on a financially sustainable path. there needs to be something done to make them stable for the future. host: where republicans may a

this is in raleigh and sandhills and coastal side of north carolina. light snow developing overnight and 1 to 2 inches by don. 's metro will be over by 8:00. snow ends with 1 to 2 inches and slippery roads especially south and east where it's warmer in southern maryland. blowing and drifting snow through friday. here are the models and 2 inches for the gfa and around an inch for the euro so a reasonable amount and certainly in the immediate metro area. calvert county a sliver of prince george's county but the bull's-eye is 4 to 8 inches at the shore. and a look at a different model and at 1:30 in the morning, the snow in southern maryland at 4:00 a.m. across most of the metro. by 7:00 pretty good snow in loudoun county and moderate pans of snow near prince george's county but shuts off by 8:00 or monies across the board. 25 by 11:00. winds howling by 1:00. yellow weather alert friday and saturday. temperatures upper teens. wind chills -- wind chills below zero it was one today in dulles and cold sunday but freezing. rain on monday and maybe rain or sno

eastern for our stop in raleigh north carolina, went on "washington journal" guest is north carolina attorney general josh stein. >> next fda commissioner scott gottlieb and nih director francis collins testified about some of the latest medical innovation and research. topics before the senate h.e.l.p. committee included opioid epidemic research, stem cell innovation, and rare disease funding.

john in north carolina. what are your thoughts? inler: i am very interested immigration and i am disappointed that the president did not talk about universally verified as a means of solving the illegal immigration problem. in our area, the construction workers are entirely latinos. a young man going to trade school here can no longer study brick layer and carpenter because those jobs are available for american citizens. host: a reminder on our facebook page, a lively conversation and reaction to the president's first state of the unit address -- union address. available for american citizens. host:>> c-span has the official numbers. this is the length of the first state of the union address in the c-span era for president trump's. just over 80 minutes, and that is the most in the c-span era. let's talk about what the viewers saw and the chamber tonight while the president was speaking to the congress. some lawmakers were wearing purple ribbons. that was to bring awareness to opioid and substance abuse. called forheen members of co

eastern for our stop in raleigh, north carolina. our guest is north carolina attorney general, josh stein. >> ahead of martin luther king junior day, president trump signed a proclamation honoring the civil rights leader. at the end of the ceremony he was asked about comments he made about haitians and african-americans during the meeting with lawmakers. he refused to give a response. from the white house, this is 15 minutes. president trump: i want to thank secretary carson along with the distinguished guests joining us here today. it is a great honor. earlier this week i had the privilege to join isaac to sign into law legislation redesignating the martin luther king junior national historic site to the martin luther king jr. national historic park. the new law expands the area, protect it, and historic sites for the future. generations of americans are becoming so important, and this is a great honor for us. and a great honor to dr. king. today, we gather in the white house to honor the memory of the great american hero, the reve

join us for our stop in raleigh, north carolina. our guest is north carolina attorney general, josh stein. ahead of martin luther king junior day, president trump signed a proclamation honoring the civil rights leader. at the end of the ceremony he was asked about comments he made about haitians and african-americans during the meeting with lawmakers. a response.o give from the white house, this is 15 minutes. president trump: i want to thank theetary carson along with distinguished guests joining us here today. it is a great honor. earlier this week i had the privilege to join thousand -- isaac to sign into law legislation redesignating the martin luther king junior national historic site to the martin luther king jr. national historic park. area,w law expands the sitests it, and historic for the future. generations of americans are becoming so important, and this is a great honor for us. and a great honor to dr. king. today, we gather in the white house to honor the memory of the great american hero, the dr. martin luther king jr.