this is not abnormal in west virginia, this is what west virginia is. it is one of the most opening -- one of the most open and accepting places. we want to represent west virginia. nobody ever asked us to say -- >> from the mountain state of west virginia -- >> i started doing the very early because i wanted to. i wanted to people -- i wanted people to know where we were from. there were times in public radio popular.t was not they wanted you to be nowhere so people could put it on their station and seemed like it was produced by their station. you will always know it is from west virginia because that is who we are. if you don't like that, you don't have to run the show. we will tell you where we are from. we want to represent west virginia, hopefully, by the personality the show has. we want to try to reflect what we think is a west virginia personality. by that i mean we are straightforward, we are warm, , wendly, we are not cute like the people we put on, we like the audience very much. and we want to give them something. west virginians are genero

during this time, this was western virginia. it was part of the state of area thatnd it was an was not greatly developed. a lot of the ideas of separation, becoming a separate state and things of that nature were not being put into this area. these are artifacts that belong to daniel boone when he settled in the area. he was in the valley for about 10 years from 1789 to 1799. this is the rifle daniel boone carried in the 1790's. this is his walking stick and beaver traps that he used to trap the river. he was also a surveyor. hes is a signed deed that surveyed land in the area and this is the way he marked a stone. daniel boone was very important at the time. he was one of the representatives of the newly formed county in the 1790's, and he was very involved in both politics and development. we are in the family cabin that was built in 1870. of whatin is a showcase type of a structure people lived in during that time. this cabin was used as the vice president's it was a school house, it has been a little bit of everything. ofhav

this isn't abnormal in west virginia. this is what west virginia is. it's one of the most open and accepting places of all kinds of things that of ever been. we want to represent west virginia. nobody ever asked us to say live performance radio from the mountain state of west virginia. >> i started doing that. because i wanted to. i wanted people to know where we were from. there were times in public radio when that was not popular. they wanted you to be like nowhere so that people could put it on their station and you wouldn't seem like is produced by their station. we said no, will not do that. you will always do took it some west virginia because that's who we are. if you don't like that, then i'm sorry you don't have to run the show. we will tell you where we are from. we also went to represent west virginia, hopefully, by the personality that the show has. we want to try to reflect what we think is a west virginia personality. by that i mean we are straightforward, we are warm, friendly. we are not cute, you know. we like the people that we put on

they are moving from west virginia into this region of southwest virginia. on may 6, crook and his men will skirmish at princeton. on may 8, they will skirmish at jeffersonville. they are coming up against troops under jenkins and mccausland. the union forces under crook have covered 45 miles on their campaign, and this brings us to the major battle in their movement. this is the battle of cloyd's mountain on may 9, 1864 in pulaski county, virginia. this will pitch a 6000 troops under crook against 2000 under albert jenkins. the battle lasts about one hour, but the union forces lost 10% of their available troops. also, at this battle, we have two future presidents in the ranks rutherford b, hays and mckinley. the results of the battle are generally ruled as a union victory since crook cavalry regiments will continue on and head towards their objectives on the virginia-tennessee railroad in dublin, virginia. the losses at this battle for the union are 688, confederate losses 538. these losses in this type of fighting is comparable to the battle of new market,

, because west virginia was part of virginia when virginia seceded. it is yeah yeah part of a long story. but there is one man who had been with lee, he is at yeah appomattox, the houses parole pass, he goes back to north no i want west central virginia, and he to do kind of like stops, and they say you cannot come back here, he pulls out a path, and they a tiny little branches like french hang laugh, that does not mean anything to us, so people's out a gun, and they let him in so he pulls out a gun, and they let him pass. he liked to tell that story. there are that's awesome how long did you live there -- all sorts of other examples. >> we have other questions, but obviously we did not have the technology to confirm that this is legitimate, but number two, at the time of the civil war, when somebody gave their word or took an oth, they tended to stick by it or live by it, whereas today we might not do that, so people really you know, if they gave their word, they were expected to do what they said. >> hi. my name is jim morgan. if you cover this, i m

virginia democrats control the big statewide offices in virginia already. but it has been the republican party that has narrowly held both houses of had legislator while democrats have controlled the governorship and other statewide seats. well, one of those two houses, the state senate has now flipped to democratic control according to the associated press just moments ago. we're still awaiting more results rights now to see if democrats might also have a shot at flipping the house as well. if they're able to do that, that would give the democratic party complete control of the state government in virginia for what i believe would be the first time in a quarter century. joining us once again is steve kornacki. steve, tell me what i need to know about virginia. >> we just got another call from the ap. i can show you two parts to this. starting in the house of delegates coming into tonight 51-48, there was a vacancy. so essentially 51-49 coming into tonight. what was just called in the last minute on the house side, right now the ap says democrats have flipp

that didn't happen in west virginia. what he observed in his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middle class that became his path, his career path from teske to being a national celebrity. booker was born south of corona, virginia, 225 miles from here. and those nine years he was a slave boy, he didn't have pants, he wore a slave boy shirt, shoes, across the top, he wanted very much to go to school and he wasn't able to do that. he left the farm in 1865 after the civil war end, there was a soldier who comes to the farm and reads the emancipation proclamation, they can leave. his mother cried, never thought she would live long enough to see her children liberated. after the civil war, west virginia did not have the devastation the confederate south did. this area went through a short period of 4 months, practically the whole war. you did not have the economic devastation you had in the confederate south. the other thing that was different is the slave population is very small, the smallest of any area in the slave

washington's life in west virginia was important and formative for him. it was because of the frontier values that were here, where the whites really were not aristocratic, like in eastern virginia. they believed that believe were worth. they had self-worth. they believed in the individual, that it was a combination of all these things coming together that gave him the idea of an american dream and gave him the idea of building a black middle class hroughout the south. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to charleston, west virginia, to learn about its rich history. to watch more video from charleston and other stops on our tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv, all tv, all weekendy weekend, on c-span 3. but tv has a life weekend coverage of the miami book fair, starting saturday and sunday, featuring author discussions and interactive viewer call in segments. on saturday, at 11:00 a.m. eastern, republican senator tom cotton talks about arlington national secretary. susan rice discusses her life and career. of const

and suddenly southern west virginia gets left behind. we have to diversify, natural gas has come on strong, you look at people -- butane, propane, and ethane, those of the building blocks for manufacturing. river and wehio can invigorate that with manufacturing and become energy for the united states. right now all of our energy is clustered around louisiana and texas. this is what we are fighting for . there's always going to be a certain amount of fossils. we could be showing the world how to use it in a much cleaner way. should not be running out of methane -- running off of methane. that could be captured for valuable resources. the same with coal, which can be burned in a cleaner way. we are finding new technologies for sequestration. if you believe you can change the climate by lamination you are living in a fantasy. the rest of the world is using more fossil than ever before. they are coming into what we did 100 years ago. inyou lived in west virginia ,930, and most of rural america 20% of people have electricity. and if it was no

i call it the virginia way. we know in virginia how things should be done and often we do not put them down in writing, but my dad used to say, it is the virginia way, son. so i got up and there is my mother at 86 years old right there in the front seat in front of me. i said mom, you heard my opponent talk about his birth. we have great pride in it, our family comes from amherst, virginia. mom got up and said i heard him, too. but i want him to know that if i and dr. john -- my father is an old-time surgeon -- if i and dr. john ever thought that our little boy wanted to be a united states senator, i would've crossed over and had him under a magnolia tree in the state of virginia. that broke the audience up. next day, banner headlines, mother speaks for sun. -- for son. i won the election 48 hours later by 1/2 of 1% of a vote. you didn't know that story? larry: no. fmr. sen. warner: it shows you the importance of what you are doing here today and have done. it has been a common theme throughout today's speeches

virginia. basically if you go back a couple of decade, not even that far, we talked about virginia as a safe red state in presidential elections from 1968 clear through 2004 without sbur ruint. that started to change in 2008, barack obama carried it, and obama carried it again in 2012. it was sort of a quintessential swing state in 2012. the outcome in virginia mirrored what the national result was. and now it's become more democratic than the rest of the nation. hillary clinton won by six points in 2016 in virginia, even though nationally her popular vote was a little less than 3%. now you see the governor is democrat, the state delegates, the senate, the lieutenant governor. if you think back earlier this week, everybody was talking about the big polls that came out in the key six swing states. virginia wasn't one of them. it's no longer a red state or a swing state. it really is now a blue state. >> steve kornacki, appreciate your analysis. thank you for being with us. back here in washingto

in virginia, a state that was hurt by gun violence in the virginia beach shooting. anti-gun violence measures were on the ballot in a sense the voters there really did care about that. columb columbus, indiana, home of vice president mike pence, a majority of the city council members there now democratic. so you are seeing it at the local level. people are going from the town squares, town halls to the ballot box making change. >> talk about hyperlocalization in some cases. you ran for president, would you advise the presidential candidates then to focus on what might be considered more local lear pocketbook issues than impeachment which you're engaged in every day as a member of the intelligence committee? >> conventional wisdom is always to look back at the last election and figure out what did we not do enough of? wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan. yes, we need to go there, but this shows the south is in play. states like texas and georgia, especially are in play. >> i want to get your take on the major development in the impeachment inquiry. ambassador gordon so

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the other big news comes out of virginia. cnn projecting democrats will flip both chambers of the state legislature, taking back control of the house as well as the senate. back with me now from los angeles, law school professor jessica levin son, and former mitt romney public policy adviser lanhee chen. even though the secretary of state in kansas has called the result, the governor is refusing to concede. here he is. >> this is a close, close race. we are not conceding this race by any stretch, not a chance. and here's the thing. understand this, though. understand this. we want the process to be followed, and there is a process. we know for a fact that there have been more than a few irregularities. they are very well corroborated, and that's all right. what they are exactly, how many, which ones, and what effect, if any, they have will be determined according to law. >> so, lanhee, you know, to raise that issue without evidence, it seems kind of like a trumpian play even towards the very end, what, to smear the results? >

this would be virginia and dinwiddie seemed to think of it as part of virginia. so, in 1754, -- earlier in the year, washington was a lieutenant colonel in the virginia regiment. he is only 22 years old. he heads up into the allegheny mountains on behalf of governor dinwiddie. i hope this is not going to get really confusing. the maps are essential because it is all about geography, folks. all about geography. on behalf of the governor of virginia, washington sets out leaving winchester -- winchester is in the lower right-hand corner. he is headed in the upper left for cumberland, maryland which is a jumping off point to the area over the allegheny mountains where all of the action was going to take place. and here is route 50. the new road. you can see there in the lower right-hand corner, edwards -- that was on the cacapon river where fort edwards would eventually be built in 1755. and then you have the south branch of the potomac river. this is all route 50. as you cross the south branch of the potomac river, you can see there is pisspot island. and further up

he was in the virginia regiment which was a kind of super militia. in colonial virginia. and he wanted -- it was his request that he be portrayed in this uniform. and it must also be said that it always rankled him a little bit that he was never able to get a commission in the regular british army. it was always -- throughout this at theime verio, even massacre in 1755 where washington was hugely important come he was never an officer in the british army. is strategic winchester. really, the only town in the shenandoah valley and it was the portal for where the action was up in what is now southwestern pennsylvania. it was not clear at the time that that would be pennsylvania. it may have in fact -- you know wheeling, west virginia goes way up there and it is fully possible that this would be virginia and dinwiddie seemed to think of it as part of virginia. 1754, -- earlier in the year, washington was a lieutenant colonel in the virginia regiment. he is only 22 years old. heads up into the allegheny of governor behalf dinwiddie. i hope this is not going to get really conf

the politics of the state of virginia. lawrence, certainly you know as well as anybody going back decades, virginia was thought of as a republican bastion. these are republican presidential winning margins in virginia. starting in 1968. you just see an ocean of red here. it flipped in 2008 to barack obama. stayed with obama in 2012. was right on sort of the national average there. in 2016 hillary clinton won it again. i think folks look at 2020 and say the democrat's heavily favored to win in 2020. the democrats control the senate, the legislature. you're not looking at a swing state anymore, lawrence, you're looking at a blue state. >> that is what professor larry sabato said in a tweet tonight. we're going to go to him now. steve, we'll be back to you. the director of the university of virginia center for politics. larry, a closer look now at what's happened in virginia. what is the meaning of the election for virginia going forward? does this put democrats in control of the next redistricting in virginia after the next

in virginia, places like virginia places like texas. and places like kentucky. there's a huge problem. what we have seen is this suburban wipe out. if you are college educated person you are much less likely to vote for donald trump. than you used to be to vote for mitt romney or mccain. if you live in a rural area you're still a trump voter probably. the more closer you get to a city the more likely to not like trump. so you can pretty much go across the country and look at the map. that's where the "new york times" poll gets interesting. those states that really matter the electoral college states. wisconsin, pennsylvania. that's where kentucky should be worrisome to trump. because these are states that are still rust belt states. working class states. not a probably not a huge percentage of college educated college graduates there. but, all donald trump has to do -- he won by 70,000 votes. three states by 70,000. the margins are so tight. if you look at what happened to bevin it has to worry you if you're trump. >> which of the democratic candidates might be

. >> the c-span cities tour continues its special look at charleston, west virginia. up next, we visit the craik-patton house to learn about two men, one who helped found the city and another who led troops to the confederacy in the civil war. >> today, we are going to talk about two gentlemen that lived here and had an impact on an expanding frontier, and not only in the city, but the region as a whole. here at the craik-patton house, located a mile and a half from is a greek, it revival architectural style home originally built in 1834. howard james craig was the grandson of dr. james craik, one of george washington's close personal friends and comrades during the french and indian war, revolutionary war, and throughout his term as president. james craik grew up in alexandria, virginia, so he decided to settle the land that his grandfather and george washington had discovered in the valley. charleston in 1861 was a city on the rise, and that was in part due to the salt industry just outside of town. prior to that, the charleston area was a militia outpost, fort lee,

what are they in virginia? in virginia, whites outnumber propitiou county? southampton county has more slaves than whites. i also want to go back to this map of cotton production. production extends into southampton county. when we see where it is going, we know where sleigh production is going. the black belt, the mississippi river. this will also play an important role in the revolt. why? we see the shift of the slave population from the coast, which is where it is in the 1830 map, to the mississippi river area. without taking the slave population away from virginia. virginia still has a slave population, it is just the growth in slave population happens in the west. slaves ine number of the country in 1830? 2 million. in 1860? 4 million. -- enormousowth in growth in slave population in the country. notice this. slaves -- i don't want to get my numbers reversed -- southampton county population down. why? slaves tot a centralwhat induce rebel? ,ne thing that may have done this may be one of thewhat indu? nat turner. who is he? whites thought he was crazy. f

leland: good people, look at 2016 virginia election results, though, is virginia a lost cause you think for republicans? hillary clinton won it by more than 5 points. >> i think things swing both ways, goes back and forth, we will do the best that we can, again, it comes down leland the resourcing has been extraordinary coming into virginia, the funding. leland: not painting an optimistic picture. >> i'm optimistic with the fight, i've been all over the state, we put a lot of our direct money in state candidates and also been on the stump for state candidates and in my area, fifth district, bigger than new jersey, we have a lot going on there, there's optimism there actually, but in some other areas i can only do what i've heard, they are word about the amount of money that's coming into virginia. leland: we will end real quickly, this was the president speaking of him on the stump in mississippi yesterday. >> i believe this is a competitive race, it's like embarrassing, i'm talking mississippi, you know, i'm talking to mississippi, i can't believe it. leland: can you believe that the p

virginia wasn't on that list. wasn't that long ago virginia would have been the first state on that list when it came to swing states. we're not even talking about virginia as much of a swing state anymore. used to be a red state. became a swing state and i think now between that 2016 result and what you see here completely control of the state government in virginia. this is a blue state now. so i think that you can maybe -- we've been talking about that evolution for a while. this might be the night it really becomes official. big picture here, look, democrats are thrilled at what they get out of kentucky. a narrow win, but they won the governor's race in kentucky. republicans will say, hey, yes, but we won solidly in mississippi and democrats will come back and say, okay, how about virginia? how about that state that used to be a republican state now again completing that transformation pretty much into a blue state. look, there's something for everybody to sort of brag about tonight, but i think certainly the

in virginia, places like virginia places like texas. and places like kentucky. there's a huge problem. what we have seen is this suburban wipe out. if you are college educated person you are much less likely to vote for donald trump. than you used to be to vote for mitt romney or mccain. if you live in a rural area you're still a trump voter probably. the more closer you get to a city the more likely to not like trump. so you can pretty much go across the country and look at the map. that's where the "new york times" poll gets interesting. those states that really matter the electoral college states. wisconsin, pennsylvania. that's where kentucky should be worrisome. to trump. because these are states that are still rust belt states. working class states. not a probably not a huge percentage of college educated college graduates there. but, all donald trump has to do -- he won by 70,000 votes. three states by 70,000. the margins are so tight. if you look at what happened to bevin it has to worry you if you're trump. >> which of the democratic candidates might be

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a completely different in northern virginia. it is a totally ohmic totally different. >> even republicans in northern virginia, laura part of the government system. so it's not exactly the graded -- the greatest territory for donald trump. and switching to pennsylvania when i originally talked about delaware county, this was a county that trump lost by double digits. so what happens in many of these county races and a many of these states is that the democrats picking up again and that trump even didn't do well in those counties. now, what you look at when he wins a state, a statewide contest in pennsylvania. some of these other victories, which is the following. donald trump can win these difficult states but you know what, laura it is hard. trump is so unique. it is very hard for him to transfer that to republicans on ballots. that is a tough riddle for all republicans to solve. >> laura: i can tell you who's doing the best in pennsylvania, donald trump you're the last presidential election donald trump done better in pennsylv

a completely different in northern virginia. it is a totally different place. >> i agree with you,and even republicans in northernvirginia. so it's not exactly the greatest territory for donald trump. and switching to pennsylvania when i originally talked about delaware county, this was a county that trump lost by double digits. so what happens in many of these county races and a many of these states is that it was just the democrats picking up gains and that trump even didn't do well in those counties. now, what you look at when he wins a state, a statewide contest in pennsylvania. some of these other victories which is the following. donald trump can still win these difficult states, but you know what, laura it is hard. trump is so unique. it is very hard for him to transfer i that to republicans n ballots.o that is a tough riddle for all republicans to solve.in these d. -- down balance let issues. >> laura: i can tell you who's doing thee best in pennsylvania donald trump you're the last presidential election donald trump don

volunteers and donors in virginia and across the country. we have been working in this since the 2017 elections. it is a one-two punch and to take the majority in the house and the state senate. voting rights ahead of the 2020 elections. all sorts of policies that have been held up because of republican control state government. >> light blue and dark blue bordering on purple, what's the take away as democrats look into the 2020 elections. last night's results tell you what of the united states's appetite in the kind of democratic candidate they could see making their way to the white house. >> these candidates represent a huge diversity of division. they just authentically want to serve. i think republicans were learning from that as well as they pivot to more moderate poli policies from discrimination and gun control and education across the state. >> congresswoman, what do you take away from last night? >> i think it was a mixed bag. s the happening to president obama and happens with parties in favor quite frequently. it is a mixed bag.

virginia has been trending to be more democratic. if you look at who was elected, this is a pretty young and liberal group. we have a few firsts. i believe we have the first transgender state legislature, first muslim legislature, first indian american immigrant who is a state legislature in this case. i think what we're seeing is partly based on what's happening in the 2020 race. i mean, it is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. i think it's partly what's happening on a state by state level. if you look at the difference between, for instance, virginia and mississippi, it's largely who lives in those states. so, this is still a story for 2020 that it's so important for the candidates to get the unlikely voters to come out and to get those swing voters to come out and vote for them. >> and lonnie, we keep saying this is an off year election. sort of sleepy elections. there's only state measures on the ballot. if that's part of the story for 2020, is it the level of enthusiasm among democrats that seems unprecedented especially if you

is virginia now a blue state? >> look, i'm going to tell you right now we're going to see virginia now is shifting dramatically. it has been consistently in the era of trump. but i'm telling you right now don't give up arizona is shifting. north carolina, you see incredible changes there in the last cycle. this is a president that is pushing more and more areas, suburbs, cities, southern states more and more to the democratic column. >> you can bring that water in. what is the lesson -- here. there you go. cheers. >> thank you very much. >> thanks, kevin. what is the lesson here, you think, for democrats? john kasich, the former governor of ohio, was on earlier and said this is a lesson for democrats that they need to run more moderate candidates. when they run more moderate candidates they win because the country is center right, center left. >> first, the lesson is to fight, cede no ground. put up candidates. we can win. i sincerely do not believe that we should ever begin in the democratic party give up on stat

is virginia now a blue state? >> look, i'm going to tell you right now we're going to see virginia now is shifting dramatically. it has been consistently in the era of trump. but i'm telling you right now don't give up. arizona is shifting. north carolina, you see incredible changes there in the last cycle. this is a president that is pushing more and more areas, suburbs, cities, southern states more and more to the democratic column. >> you can bring that water in. what is the lesson -- here. there you go. cheers. >> thank you very much. >> thanks, kevin. what is the lesson here, you think, for democrats? john kasich, the former governor of ohio, was on earlier and said this is a lesson for democrats that they need to run more moderate candidates. when they run more moderate candidates they win because the country is center right, center left. do you agree with that? >> first, the lesson is to fight, cede no ground. run a 50-state strategy. put up candidates. we can win. i sincerely do not believe that we should

trump very, very unpopular in the state of virginia. very unpopular in the suburbs, the washington, d.c., suburbs. so that was a big flip. looking forward to 2020, i think this is rather important. if you look back to 2017, all of them won the vote by nan. one year later, democrats won the u.s. house of representatives by nine points in the popular vote. tonight or last night virginia house 2019, they won it by nine points. what does that mean for 2020? we'll see, but it's good news for democrats. >> virginia, a fairly blue state now in elections. quickly, any way to extrapolate out what is needed in the suburbs in other states? >> in states like pennsylvania which obviously flipped toward donald trump, there were a lot of sub suurbs there. that's something i'll be watching. >> okay. thank you very much for all of that. really interesting everything that happened overnight. this suburban revolt harry just talked about against republicans may be growing. how worried should the gop be heading into 2020? ♪ ahhh ♪ you are the one ♪ li

what was virginia going to do? , he hasaration for this the commanders, most notably joseph mansfield. to have their engineers scanned the area and come back with the report. this is what the engineers say. you have to do something about northern virginia. i'm sure a lot of you that have been to the national cemetery, the heights.s if you look across the potomac river you could see washington, d.c. the great fear was the confederate army could roll up artillery. that was a justified fear. believed jury -- virginia would secede from the evening, u.s. soldiers including regulars cross the potomac river and occupied arlington heights. they shifted south towards alexandria. even months before the battle of manassas the union forces crossed the river and occupied virginia. called this the union shield. you will see what i mean. the first spot will be the arlington heights. it was a great fear they could shell the city. especially when virginia breaks away from the union. off the river and occupies the heights. that is t

, and virginia governors, virginia lieutenant governors, virginia attorney generals, virginia legislators have been running for rational gun safety laws whether it's background checks or whether it's the banning of military style semiautomatic assault weapons. they've been doing that, and they have been winning. at the home, again, of nras national lobbying force where their three lobbyists are who are mired in just unbelievable corruption charges. but steve kornacki, you know, we took note several times after president obama left office that the democrats' biggest problem at the time wasn't just the loss of the presidency, it was the hundreds and hundreds of state legislative seats and congressional seats that were lost during barack obama's eight years. what we've seen over the past three years is a complete reversal. donald trump appears to be responsible for an equally dramatic loss of republican seats, and he's giving democrats statewide across the nation pretty extraordinary opportunities here and really did the same thing in the house of representatives last year, which again, we c

this is true for alexandria virginia on the eve of the revolution. they define themselves by adherence to strict social hierarchies and clothing and textile consumptions provide a unique dichotomy. i want to take you on a journey, a journey through 18th-century alexandria, a city on the eve of revolution. can everyone hear me ok? i will try better. utilizing this account book as our guide, my goal is to give you just a glimpse of prerevolutionary alexandria through the lens of how it's residents acquired clothing, and importantly the lives they lived. hopefully what will emerge is a more complete picture on the city of the city on the eve of revolution. or at the very least, eliminate what society war to the revolution. we are going to get started right away. william carlin serve the residents of alexandria as a tailor from 1763 to 1782. he offered a very rare and unique insight into the world of consumerism and culture. carl and's account book provides the names of 130 customers who entered his shop to be measured and for clothing. his taylor busine

walloping in virginia where statehouse elections there pushed the republican majority out of both sides of the statehouse. so the governor and statehouse both sides will be democrats. >> i'm here to officially declare today november 5 that virginia is officially blue. congratulations. >> so tipping the democratic for the first time in decades, they only had to win a few seats to do this. the republican majority was very small. one of the newly elected representatives who made that tip is an indian immigrant and the first muslim to serve in the virginia statehouse. the president travelled to kentucky monday to rally for the governor there 15iing republicans had to show the world impeachment was a fake. can't do that to me, he said. don't let it happen. the vote was close, but the democrat has won the governorship from kentucky, it is a very close race it will no doubt be challenged. and the republican incumbent has yet to concede. we're watching everything that is happening in washington and indeed all over the united

epstein employed virginia roberts and many other young girls. in 2008, he was convicted of a child sex offence and sent to prison. so... do you regret the whole friendship with epstein? now, still not, the reason being is that the people that i met and the opportunities that i was given to learn, either by him or because of him, were actually very useful. in 2010, andrew visited epstein after his release from prison and stayed for several nights at his home in new york. a wrong judgement, andrew now says, "i let the side down." 0verall, did he think his behaviour had damaged the royal family? i don't believe it's been damaging to the queen at all. it has to me. i wonder what effect all this has had on your close family? you've got daughters of your own. it has been what i would describe as a constant sore in the family. finally, as he looks back... i wonder if you have any sense now of guilt, regret or shame about any of your behaviour and your friendship with epstein? as far as mr epstein is concerned, it was the wrong decision to go and see hi

what we're seeing in virginia, you look at the suburbs around richmond virginia and washington, d.c. and republicans are getting pummelled in those areas. so this is formerly republican strongholds that are no longer in the republican kol ucolumn. that's a trump legacy. >> college educated -- you only have 23% college educated in a state that's 87% white. that was at play there. so ax was trying to help me understand something, david, in the break. the role of impeachment and the debate over whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing for the democrats. we keep hearing tim kaine, what we saw in beshear, keep it local, talking health care here, talking jobs, talking local concerns, not talking impeachment, nobody's asking us about that, yet it is the dominant narrative in washington, d.c. how do you have reconcile? >> well, i think you are hitting on, chris, exactly why nancy pelosi was as reluctant as she was to move towards impeachment because of concern that by doing this in a partisan fashion, as the vote on the inquiry indicated this is in this partisan polarized era of am

the virginias 262 feet virginia is 262 feet. the pilot house is out in front, and then there is the tourette turret. they have bad communications between the pilot house and turrentt turret. when the monitor sank, what are had gotten into the tube, so it didn't work. inside, there are white marks to tell you the captain's order. if you are in a spinning turret, do you know where that is? if you are using black powder, are the white marks covered up? and can you see out of the turret? we have to look over the top of the 11 inch guns and you see a dark object guns, and you see a dark objects, you fire. one of those would be the pilot house. it is called monitor roulette. out of 41 shots, they only hit the virginia 20 times. that tells you that there is bad fire control. virginia doesn't have the proper ammunition on board. one of the ship's inventors is john mercer brooke and brooke will have invented not only the virginia with its submerged ends, but also the finest rifle canyon of the civil war canon of the civil war. and he inv

virginia has trended against a party in the white house. whenever bill clinton was president, they lost a lot of presidents when george washington was president and they ran up the score little bit whenever obama was president that we've seen something in virginia going back to the early '90s, even the late '80s when you see the parties which transition there. i think the next election in virginia will tell us whether this is a permanent trend or one in which it's just a reflection back or a rejection of the party which has occupied the white house which happened the last four copresidents. >> shannon: i will ask you both what messages if and you can extrapolate from tonight's result into the 2020 election. i'll start with you. >> if you are a governor and you don't have the support of the republican party, you aren't going to win the election whether president trump shows up at the last minute or not. the lesson for governor bevin who is traveling right now, look, you've got to build allies to win even in a red state. he had trouble doing

thank you, all and i just want to think the people from virginia. going to phoenix, arizona tomorrow. democrats torrent liberal -- too liberal? are have no idea but we going to do that test and it is called voting. >> our c-span campaign 2020 bus team is traveling across the country visiting kate battleground states in the 2020 presidential race asking voters what issues they want candidates to address during the campaign. >> one of the most pressing issues we are facing is poverty and income inequality. the rich are getting richer. clichÉ, that the poor are getting poorer. something needs to be done to equalize things. not taking money away from the rich people by giving more opportunity to better themselves and get a better education to others. so that they can get out of poverty and their children can get out of poverty and we can continue to build the middle class which is being threatened by the inequality. be howuestion would would you tackle the climate crisis without coming off as artisan? >> i would like --without coming off as partisan? >

the state of virginia. the commonwealth of virginia. the house of delegates. republicans came into the night with a narrow advantage 37 one vacancy that was a democratic seat. really 50 -- 49. really it was 51-49 coming into tonight. the associated press says democrats have picked up five. a net gaven five. the a.p. says for democrats on the house delegate side, that is enough to get the delegates into control there on the state senate side. again there, was a vacancy. so it came into tonight 21-19 essentially. republican vacancy. it was 21-19 essentially and the associated press says the democrats have picked up two seats there. net gain of two. they needed one because a 20-20 tie they would have been able to break with a lieutenant governor's vote. the democrats get the house of delegates. the democrats also already have the governor in virginia. they have the lieutenant governor. they have the attorney general. democrats have complete control of virginia state government. it's just again to put that in some perspective the transformation politically, the st

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the republicans did hold some key seats down in virginia beach in the state senate, but the virginia senate is going to be 21-19. the house is going to be, depending on how the final count goes, the democrats will have a 55 or 56-seat majority in the 100-seat house. guns was a big issue in a lot of the races across the state. republicans were actually in some of the suburban areas trying to talk a little bit like democrats and saying they were, you know, one of their priorities was gun violence prevention. and of course, democrats were hammering republicans on their voting record, saying it doesn't match your rhetoric here on guns. so, the gun issue was very important. one key thing, though, down in virginia beach, where the mass shooting happened at the municipal center, a republican senator was re-elected with a pro gun record against a democrat, missy cotter smosel, who made guns a very big issue. this race was very close, but it appears that the republican there has been re-elected. so, there was some strength for republicans down in the virginia beach area. >> well, then in term

epstein employed virginia roberts and many other young girls. in 2008 he was convicted of a child sex offence and sent to prison. so... do you regret the whole friendship with epstein? now, still not, the reason being that the people that i met and the opportunities that i was given to learn, either by him or because of him, were actually very useful. in 2010 andrew visited epstein after his release from prison and stayed for several nights at his home in new york. a wrong judgment, andrew now says — "i let the side down". 0verall, did he think his behaviour had damaged the royalfamily? i don't believe it's been damaging to the queen at all. it has to me. i wonder what effect this has had on your close family? you've got daughters of your own. it has been what i would describe as a constant sore in the family. finally, as he looks back... i wonder if you have any sense now of guilt, regret, or shame about any of your behaviour and your friendship with epstein? as far as mr epstein is concerned, it was the wrong decision to go and see him in 20

roberts in sterling, virginia. -- robert's in sterling, virginia, independent line. caller: good morning. just like to go out with a little bit of history first. i'll be quick about it. my father did not really like newt gingrich. he didn't think he was a good politician at all. or good house speaker. later on came mr. paul ryan, the gentleman who actively said he didn't want to be house speaker. he took the job anyway. and we all see how that turned out. now we have house speaker pelosi . she has a lot of experience. she's very professional. in what she does. the problem is she's making a critical error when it comes to this trade deal with mexico and canada. it's something that should have been passed. at least brought to the house floor over six months ago. and she's personally stalling on this. refusing to bring it to a vote. she's personally insulting canada, mexico, the senate, the president, of course. but also the hardworking families waiting for this bill to at least come to the floor. she can vote it down. she could approve it. but she won't even bring it t

what are they in virginia? in virginia, whites outnumber slaves 3-2, not propitious for a slave revolt. how often do they succeed? never is an ok answer. haiti is full credit. it doesn't happen. it is hard for a revolt to succeed in history. will it succeed in virginia, 3-2? that will be really tough. what about southampton county? southampton county has more slaves than whites. it is not, you know, like, six guys, like the high schoolers are revolting. [laughter] that would be sort of cool. there are a lot of slaves in southampton county. i also want to go back to this map of cotton production. 1820, cotton production extends into southampton county. when we see where it is going, we know where sleigh production is going. the black belt, the mississippi river. this will also play an important role in the revolt. why? we see the shift of the slave population from the coast, which is where it is in the 1830 map, to the mississippi river area. that is, without taking the slave population away from virginia. virgi

virginia. the democrats were so successful they flipped both the virginia house and the virginia senate. that has not happened in a generation. move back up to the philadelphia suburbs. again, a region critical to the democrats in the 2018 elections, a lot of local races here just outside of philadelphia in bucks county, in chester county, democrats winning races in some cases holding seats they hadn't held since the civil war, a suburban revolt that will carry over into 2020 calculations. >> this isn't about politics anymore. that ended last night. this is about being the best governor that i can be for the people of kentucky. it's about changing the tone we have heard for the last four years. no more us versus them, no more this side or that side. this is about focusing on those core issues. i'm done with running for office. it's now time to govern. >> smart message from the likely winner. we're going to let it play out but it sure looks like he will be the next governor which is embarrassing

that woman was virginia roberts. the details were later officially struck from the court records, when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were "immaterial" and "impertinent" to the central claim. thejudge did not rule on the truth of the claims. virginia roberts says epstein directed her to have sex with a number of powerful men, one of whom was the celebrity lawyer alan dershowitz. she says dershowitz had sex with her while she was under age. he says she's a liar and is countersuing her for defamation. he spoke to newsnight this year. let me be very clear. i never met virginia roberts, i never heard of her, and she never met me or heard of me. these are virginia roberts‘ allegations about prince andrew. she says epstein first forced her to have sex with the prince in early 2001 in london. she was 17. i was so young. ghislaine woke me up in the morning and said, "you're going to meet a prince today. " i didn't know at that point that i was going to be trafficked to that prince. she says th

when you talk about virginia politics, you've got northern virginia, the d.c. suburbs, fairfax county, alexandria, arlington, that part of virginia. then you've got richmond, what some folks call the real virginia, the charlottesvilles. do we expect that chasm to also manifest itself again today? >> to some degree. it's called nova and rova. northern virginia and the restv. they're voting for democrats in a place where republicans used to get 70% of the vote. ham ton roads area is split. charlottesville, 20 localities focused on colleges or units, they're heavily democratic. it's really the very rural areas that are republican and actually becoming more so under trump, but they can't outvote all the suburbs and the central cities. >> sounds like you think the democrats have shifted in such a dramatic way that virginia should no longer be considered a purple state. it seems you think it's a blue state now? >> i think it's bluish. how is that for coming down in the middle? >> larry sabato, thank you. thanks to you as well, phillip. thank you for making your debut