how about just another example from pennsylvania. we've had a long tradition where men and women serving overseas have voted by absentee ballot. guess what an absentee ballot is? an absentee ballot is a mail-in ballot. it's the same thing. we just broadening the category of folks who could use the same method. so do we want to go back to a time when we can't have the kind of mail-in ballots that we had in 2020 that led to that great turnout? and it's entirely possible we could go back to a time when even the votes of men and women serving overseas would be put at risk because when you eliminate mail-in ballots in a state like pennsylvania, you're eliminating absentee ballots as well. -- by doing that. so i don't think we want to do that to our fighting men and women. so we can't go back to the days when farmers and small business owners and veterans and busy moms juggling their kids' schedules and seniors who may have trouble voting and need another option to vote, we can't go back to those days when they couldn't vote if they didn't

pennsylvania benefits from this. my job is training new hires to work on the process involved in making it. i am glad that to the leadership of president biden, those new hires, the job is safe today and he is investing in the jobs of the future. also, i am a veteran. a desert storm veteran. i can go to my fellow veterans and say, listen, this president is investing in us also by making sure there are jobs available for veterans coming back into society to be part of this growing economy and manufacturing business -- excuse me, sorry. a vision that was long overdue. manufacturing in this country will benefit from it. thank you, mr. president. it is very important. i have to talk about this pittsburgh region. i have 23 years of experience in this region. apostle for a second and talk about infrastructure and will happen in pittsburgh. my thoughts and prayers to all of those who are affected by that. this region, the pittsburgh region benefits from this act for several regions -- reasons. one thing people do not know,

scott perry from pennsylvania, nobody knew his name. in the case of sidney powell and rudy giuliani out there day in day out giving press conferenceance and phone calls. on what basis would they refuse the january 6th committee? seems like the opportunity of a life time to them to sit there in front of congress and explain in detail how the 2020 election was stolen. >> sure. in some ways you might see that. sidney powell said i'm ready to come in, give you a detailed presentation and tell you my -- i think bernie similarly, former new york police commission around rudy ally said similarly he wanted to do that to try to justify what they were saying, these fraud claims. the committee's not giving them a public stage to do that because they think most debunk and they want the actual information people have about how this effort came together behind the scenes. i think they're willing to let that bluster go, and people come in and answer serious questions. >> bluster actually, fantastic for testimony. good to see you. thank you for joining

they will be taken out into the 147th pennsylvania. this is a rabbit trail to the what i find interesting these three units had three units together after the war because of one regiment. if you go to many battlefields there's a 28 p8 the hundred and 47th va very close together. across the river they are dividing this regiment up on the front lines. the 28 will be ordered as they said to make this movement just before they do that they march down the harpers ferry. i'm going to give you a microphone if i may. i'll see if i can drop all these papers. what i want to do and if you don't mind holding that. a well-educated young man a teacher as i said and he keeps a diary of his experiences throughout the war. persons that were missing and i'd really like to do more with it. one of the diaries is not available. b .. what's going on in their defenses again very early in 1862. when this movement is ordered he is sick. he's laying in bed and harper's ferry he watches his harper's ferry he watches his march out of her purse effect upon a ponto

in the 26th pennsylvania emergency militia. specifically in company a. 26th. and reason of the reason is company a. is made up of students from gettysburg college, what was the pennsylvania college, now gettysburg college and the lujan theological seminary in gettysburg. so you have a 22-year-old officer who has seen some experience, he's been horribly wounded in battle. >> he has one functional arm. >> yeah, he's literally going into battle with his arm in a sling almost a year after his wounding. leading a bunch of students who have never heard a shot fired in anger. and -- >> what could go wrong? >> what could go wrong? >> despite this, despite this he and the 26th pennsylvania are going to march out on the morning of june 26th, 1863, and they're going to take up a position on marsh creek along the cashtown pike west of gettysburg, pennsylvania, to face lee's battle hardened veterans of the army of northern virginia. so i can't even imagine what is going through this guy's mind that morning as you look out, looking to the we

mostly from pennsylvania and western maryland. in fact, to this day some people still refer to levitt seville as the german settlement for this reason. what this migration is going to do is give this part of loudoun county a very different culture than the rest of the county. in the northwestern part of the county on down to goose creek, till waterford, you are going to have a lot of german immigrants. a lot of quakers, a lot of people coming from pennsylvania, maryland, their cultural roots are to the north for their economic ties are to the north their family ties are to the north. and that is going to set them apart from their neighbors in the eastern and southern parts of loudoun county. these are parts of loudoun county that are largely settled by english, tidewater planters and eastern parts of virginia. they're going to bring with them plantation agriculture per the going to bring with them in a reliance on enslaved labor. and these differences are going to play out in the very deadly way in the american civil war. but luth

pennsylvania, pittsburgh pennsylvania hadmore bridges than any other city in the world . but across the country there are 45,000 bridges in poor condition. that is simply unacceptable. as why your governor and members of congress, your mayor have been saying for years we have to do something about this. i thought about it every time i come to pittsburgh and we finally got it done. a bipartisan infrastructure law including the largest investment in our nations bridges since the eisenhower interstate highway system and i might add ... [applause] >> this is the first time in the country's history we dedicated a national program to repair and upgrade bridges . it's about time. the governor can tell you we're getting state and local leaders historic funding to make national projects real . in pennsylvania that means at least 1.6 billion dollars for bridges alone, 327 million in 2022 alone just to repair bridges. we've got to get on with. we've got to move. the next time we don't need headlines saying someone was killed in the next collapse. also providing billions more for roa

because what the facts show is that a high number of people in pennsylvania, voters in pennsylvania, came forward skpad, i want to take advantage of the safety and security of mail-in voting. and republicans didn't like that outcome. they dwant -- they literally went into courts try to throw out mail-in votes. you imagine trying to throw out millions of voters' voices. this is what donald trump engenders. all the while, if you'll recall, donald trump took advantage of mail-in ballots. >> we reported that the pennsylvania democrats are confident of success with the appeals court. i worry these days that that's where we have to be confident of success in. how do we actually change this? there are constant efforts underway in pennsylvania and a number of other states to make voting difficult, complicated, hard to do. is it enough to fight this in the courts? >> i share your opinion. this should not be something that we have to finally wait for the pennsylvania supreme court to do the right thing. so what i would say to people is, elections matter. as we face redistricting here, both at

but all these years, i never knew, i never knew pennsylvania, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, had more bridges than any other city in the world. yo! but across the country, there are 45,000 bridges in poor condition. it's just simply unacceptable. that's why your governor and your members of congress, your mayor, have been saying for years we have to do something about this. i've talked about it every time i've come to pittsburgh. and we finally got it done. a bipartisan infrastructure law, including the largest investment in our nation's bridges since the eisenhower put together the interstate highway system. i might add -- [ applause ] -- this is the first time in the country's history that we dedicated a national program to repair and upgrade bridges. it's about time. the governor can tell you, we're giving state and local leaders historic funding to make national projects real. here in pennsylvania, that means at least $1.6 billion for bridges alone. $327 million in 2022 alone, just to repair bridges. we've got to get on with it, we've got to move. the next time we don't need headlines say

the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for five minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i'm an avid outdoorsman and in november, december, if i have time, i spend time out in the woods deer hunting this is a popular passion among many pennsylvanians as well as americans across our great country. nothing beats those early mornings heading out in the woods and hope you'll return successful. our deer are currently threatened by chronic wasting disease. this is a contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk, and moose that is always fatal. c.w.d. has been detected in 25 states and first discovered in pennsylvania deer nearly 10 years ago. working across the aisle, my colleagues and i have introduced h.r. 5608, the chronic wasting disease research and management act, which unanimously passed out of the house agriculture committee. by working closely with stakeholders, we developed a bill to take us one step closer to better understanding the genetic implications of the disease and develop policies best suited to solve

host: that is lori in pennsylvania. if you go to the website of spotlightpa.org, they highlight the proposed amendments she highlighted saying two of the amendments when sent voter id already rejected as unnecessary or potentially harmful to marginalized groups. one would require government issued identification for both the other the state auditor general to look for accuracy. another would give simple majority in the legislature power to override executive orders and administrative regulations. reactions to governor wolf's actions and the announcement pennsylvania would join a coalition for regulating carbon emissions adding the pennsylvania constitution requires the state house and senate to pass proposed amendments in two sessions before they appear on the ballot. going to the south, steve in south carolina hello. caller: how are you doing? henry mcmaster is our governor here and i will give you some positives and a couple negatives. like desantis and abbott he is doing his best to keep the state open, to keep busin

they engaged in that stunt here in pennsylvania, as well. i think the real takeaway is two of the 16 people running for governor in pennsylvania participated in that charade and all 16 of them have subscribed to the big lie, and what that is making very, very clear here in the commonwealth is that they won't hesitate to steal the next election if given the chance. if given the opportunity to appoint a secretary of state who would corrupt the process. what they are angling for is the ability to overturn an election and to say fundamentally certain people don't count in our democracy, that certain people shouldn't be heard. it's why the first policy initiative of my campaign was about how we're going to defend democracy here in pennsylvania and it starts at the ballot box. >> attorney general nessel, there are waying to do this properly and ways to do it improperly like in michigan with the attempts to file a fake slate of electors. improperly is the so-called militias that decided to take things into their own hands in michigan and possibly k

i'm a pennsylvania kid. pooif been do pittsburgh a lot. i never knew pittsburgh, pennsylvania had more bridges than any other city in the world. yo. across the country there are 45,000 bridges in poor condition. it's unacceptable. that's why your governor and members of congress, you mayor have been saying for years, we have to do something about this. we finally got it done. i might add -- [ applause ] this is the first time in the country's history that we dedicated national program to repair and upgrade bridges. it's about time. the governor can tell you we're giving state and local leaders history basic funding to make national projects real. here in pennsylvania, that means at least $1.6 billion for bridges alone. 327 million in 2022 alone just to repair bridges. we've got to move. we saw today when a bridge is in disrepair, it can threaten lives. we were immediately in contact with the mayor. we're going to rebuild that bridge along with thousands of other bridges in pennsylvania and across the country because it's in our interest fo

and as pennsylvania's next governor, i'll do the same. look, i'm obviously disappointed about what is happening in washington d.c. but the battle to defend our democracy continues. it just continues now at the state level and i think pennsylvania is the epicenter of that battle. >> this is what -- i want you to hear what mitt romney said about why he's opposing the democrats to voting bills. watch this. >> they want a real dramatic change, which is they feel that instead of elections being run at the state level, they should really be managed and run at the fed federal level and recognize the founders didn't have that vision in mind. they didn't want an autocrat to be able to pull a lever in one place and change all the election laws. instead, they spread that out over 50 states. >> that's how republicans are framing these bills. how do you respond to that? >> obviously mitt romney has his head in the sand. here is the reality, we're seeing bills passing laws in states like georgia and texas and by the way it would be law here in pennsylv

. >> joining us now is pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro, he's running for governor of pennsylvania. attorney general shapiro, thank you very much for coming to the last word, election officials in arizona released a 93-page report debunking every claim made by the cyber ninjas in their sham audit. now, the cyber ninjas are shutting down. that's good news. but a similar partisan audit is still being pushed in pennsylvania, even if no fraud is found. has the damage though already been done? >> well, no fraud was found here in pennsylvania. other than maybe a handful of cases where individuals were trying to cast an extra ballot for donald trump. what's happening here in pennsylvania is a sham audit, one where republicans in the state senate have demanded the private personal information, social security numbers, drivers lay since numbers and alike of 9 million pennsylvania voters. i sued to stop them. and by the way, we've got a pretty good track record defending democracy here in pennsylvania. over 40 times we went to court against the former president and his neighbors, and we won

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. perlmutter: thank you, madam speaker. i just say in response to my friend, this is a situation in the parity act where the national guard and reserve are standing side by side with active military. they are entitled to the same benefits that the active military has when it comes to the g.i. bill. so that one is just, in my opinion, a no-brainer. the other -- and i would say, the v.s.o.'s, the veteran service organizations, supporting the parity act, the g.i. and reserve -- g.i. bill parity act, 1836, are student veterans of america, national guard association of the u.s., enlisted association of the national guard of the united states, and the reserve officers of the u.s. . with respect to the evest legislation, h.r. 4673, again, here we are, people have acted with military service and then are -- have to opt in as opposed to just let the system move quickly for them to become part of the veterans medical care and benefits system. and we

so we won't have to worry here in pennsylvania. we do have to worry in other states, and we do have to recognize that this is what's on the line in so many of these governors races. we also have to have people show up in these local elections, when their local election officials are being chosen. look, whether they're republican, democrat, or independent, what we should all be looking for in those officials are people who engage in an honest count, who respect the will of the people. that is critical, and the fact that that is trying to be undermined by the former president and his enablers is leading to the damage to our democracy and more reason why the senate should act, and they should side with our democracy instead of siding with the filibuster. >> attorney general shapiro, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >> thank you, don. >>> i want to turn now to cnn's senior legal analyst laura coates. she has a new book out tomorrow titled "just pursuit: a black prosecutor's fight for fairness." also with us, senior political a

in fact in pennsylvania where i am i'll tell you the leaders of the pennsylvania legislature, the republican leaders said under pennsylvania law and under the pennsylvania constitution they did not have the authority to offer an alternative slate of electors, that thad could not, should not and would not do anything. so these private citizens presumably on their own offer these slates. i mean, it's simply stunning to me. again, i don't know if crimes were committed here, but this is a major problem. and you're right, they think they're -- they thought they were doing something noble and honorable. >> unbelievable. charlie, cnn previously reported rudy giuliani coordinated the effort among these seven states. and according to the committee two days after the election mark meadows said i love it in a text exchange with a member of congress about the possibility of appointing possible electors in certain states. the committee wants to know how high this whole scheme goes and whether members of congress were implicated here. >> well, i think -- i think what the committee needs to find out is who

biden talking about the economy there in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. reminiscing about the big steel town it was in and out of the days of world war ii. he is continuing to build up his build back better plan which as we know right now is stalled in congress. meantime, back at the white house, a new response to video that we showed you here of my grants arriving at an airport outside of new york city and a federal contractor talking about the secrecy of the operation. peter doocy has an update on the migrants being released into the u.s. peter, good afternoon. >> good afternoon. this afternoon i have been in touch with white house officials that have been watching this video that we've been running of these flights that are resettling migrants from the border to interior u.s. states. what i'm hearing from this white house official, there are no such thing as secret flights. the video footage your network has been running endlessly is from six months ago in august, which jen and others in the administration addressed this then too. not new or news. the

at the pennsylvania law school -- at the university of pennsylvania law school, we have represented people in civil forfeiture proceedings for 20 years, our work highlighted by a cover story in "the new yorker" magazine entitled taken. we were introduced to civil forfeiture 20 years ago when a 77-year-old black homeowner who had end-stage renal disease was served with a petition for forfeiture of her home. she was never charged, never suspected of criminal activity. it had to do with a neighborhood boy unrelated to her. nonetheless, prosecutors sought to take her home. i remember distinctly her saying something to me that many clients say to me over 20 years, and that was, why is the government trying to take my home when i didn't do anything wrong? "the new yorker" article was about our representation of mary and leon adams, an african-american couple in philadelphia. prosecutors brought a civil forfeiture against their own because their adult son was engaged in small marijuana sales to a confidential informant. it had nothing to do with mary and leon adams. they were 68 and 70 years of a

how about just another example from pennsylvania. we've had a long tradition where men and women serving overseas have voted by absentee ballot. guess what an absentee ballot is? an absentee ballot is a mail-in ballot. it's the same thing. we just broadening the category of folks who could use the same method. so do we want to go back to a time when we can't have the kind of mail-in ballots that we had in 2020 that led to that great turnout? and it's entirely possible we could go back to a time when even the votes of men and women serving overseas would be put at risk because when you eliminate mail-in ballots in a state like pennsylvania, you're eliminating absentee ballots as well. -- by doing that. so i don't think we want to do that to our fighting men and women. so we can't go back to the days when farmers and small business owners and veterans and busy moms juggling their kids' schedules and seniors who may have trouble voting and need another option to vote, we can't go back to those days when they couldn't vote if they didn't

. >>> joining us now is the pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro running for governor of pennsylvania. attorney general, thank you very much for coming to the last word. elected officials in arizona released a 93-page report debunking every claim made by the cyber ninjas in the sham audit and the cyber ninjas are shutting down. a similar partisan audit is still being pushed in pennsylvania, even if no fraud is found. has the damage already been done? >> no fraud was found here in pennsylvania. other than maybe a handful of cases where individuals were trying to cast an extra ballot for donald trump. what is happening here in pennsylvania is a sham audit, one where republicans in the state senate have demanded the private personal information. social security numbers, driver license numbers and the like of 9 million pennsylvania voters. i sued to stop that. and by the way we have got a pretty good track record of defending democracy here in pennsylvania. over 40 times we went to court against the former president and his enablers and won every time in order to protect and preserve our

in fact, in pennsylvania where i am, i will tell ya, the -- the leaders of the pennsylvania legislator -- legislature -- the republican leaders said under pennsylvania law and under the pennsylvania constitution, they did not have the authority to offer an alternative slate of electors. that they could not, should not, and would not do anything. so these private citizens presumably, on their own offer these slates. i mean, it is simply stunning to me. i'm not -- again, i don't know if crimes were committed here but this is a major problem and you're right. they think they're -- they thought they were doing something noble and honorable. >> unbelievable. charlie, previous -- we previously reported -- cnn previously reported rudy giuliani coordinated the effort among the republicans in these seven states and apparently according to the committee, two days after the election, mark meadows said i love it in a text exchange with a member of con depres gress about the possibility of appointing electors in different states. whether members of congress were implicated here. >> well, i think --

the regiment was set up to lancaster pennsylvania. not too far from here if you will and they were on guard duty with the prisoners of war there where i would like to point out that hazen again was pressing for an invasion of canada. through into 1782, you know, let's do it. and of course you're everybody's waiting for the diplomats to get everything done to get the peace treaty. let's end this and there is hazen going. come on. we have one last chance. let's go for canada again, and i love it. washington writes them back going interesting. send me your plans. you know, and i think this is great as as a senior officer. he's going write it out for me about how this would actually work and the trouble is it only kept haze and occupied for a few weeks. and then he already had sent the plan back but at that point washington at other things for them to do they were brought back up. york spent most of the rest of the war up at pompton waiting for the furlough most of the troop was furloughed in july by june july 1783 one small contingent of

pennsylvania will get 1.6 billion over five years. there's 3 billion headed to airports, and 7.4 billion to upgrade lead pipes. many of the projects will take years to get off the ground, as a recent report card from the american society of civil engineers gives u.s. infrastructure a c minus. >> if this doesn't bring to the forefront the need to renew our infrastructure, i'm not sure what else can happen. >> reporter: this morning an ntsb team is on the ground to investigate but at least three people are still hospitalized in fair condition. >> got to move. the next time we don't need headlines saying that someone was killed when the next bridge collapsed. >> reporter: to think there were half a dozen vehicles including that port authority bus on the bridge that fell with it when this bridge collapsed and somehow nobody died in this is just incredible. but even with all of that infrastructure funding, officials in pennsylvania saying it will take at least a year to get a functional bridge up and running there. >> it is an absolute mir

the gentlewoman from pennsylvania. ms. dean: mr. speaker, in closing, h.r. 1192 closes a loophole under current law by establishing disclosure requirements regarding actual or potential conflicts of interest into the bankruptcy process under promesa. in doing so, this legislation promotes transparency and accountability in the puerto rico restructuring process. i thank my colleague, representative velazquez from new york, the author of the bill, for her leadership on this issue. i strongly urge my colleagues to support this commonsense measure. mr. speaker, with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendment to h.r. 1192. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the senate amendment is agreed to. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from penns

for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: i rise today to honor the retirement of james s.malthrop and long time department oftransportation professional whose impact traveled well beyond the keystone state and worked for decades as a registered professional engineer in various positions, including district and regional soils engineer and control engineer, chief of the testing division and director of highway maintenance. his work has transcended his professional relation at penndot. and he has furthered transportation policies as chairman of the transportation research boards on pavement maintenance and executive committee on the road and paving materials. he has environs counselinged pavement conservation and not om an approach to maintaining our roads but stretches the federal budget and because it benefits drivers b

. >> thank you jason the republicans as it relates to voter integrity in pennsylvania. a convoy of truckers have banded together in canada protesting the government vaccine mandate. if this makes his way to america i will tell you the supply chain crisis is going to look like the biggest christmas dave ever. allergies with nasal congestion overwhelming you? breathe more freely with powerful claritin-d. get fast relief of your worst allergy symptoms including nasal congestion, so you can breathe better. claritin-d. breathe better. are you taking a statin drug to reduce cholesterol? it can also deplete your coq10 levels. i recommend considering qunol coq10 along with your statin medication. the brand i trust is qunol. the pandemic made teaching and learning really hard. but instead of working to help students safely return to the classroom, the san francisco school board focused on renaming schools and playing politics. and they've even saddled our district with a $125 million deficit. our children can't wait for new leadership. here's our chance for a fresh start. on feb

and in new mexico in pennsylvania. republicans file basically the same kind of document. certainly it looks the same. the same font, spacing, almost the same language. but in new mexico in pennsylvania they change the specific language so that they didn't assert they were the states legal electors. in new mexico in pennsylvania republicans instead inserted language saying ultimately someday they might be the real electors and in which case this document should be processed. it kind of makes all the difference right? whether or not you are trying to pass yourself off as electors when you are not? making that change to the document, at least in pennsylvania that may have saved the republicans who signed that from potential criminal prosecution. with the new statement from pennsylvania's attorney general explaining basically what's despicable about what they did but how important it is they put in that caveat. on the front page of the paper today in lancaster pennsylvania, there's a story about the republican fake electors from that state including one of the electors same i

social media drew young supporters far from central pennsylvania. and at york central, out on the sidewalk, before the start of class each morning, the protest grew. how did you feel standing out on the street? renee ellis: at first, i'm being honest, it was a little scary. i did not know how -- how other kids would respond to it. olivia pituch: i was nervous for some teachers, because they had been put in such a horrible situation, where they can't feel comfortable saying what they want because of fear of being, um, punished. joie: a concern echoed by the author of one book on the list. "milo's museum" tells the story of a girl who takes representation into her own hands. narrator reading: "welcome to my museum," she told them with a proud smile. "i'm milo, your curator and docent." joie: author zetta elliott fears the chilling effect of book bans in schools. zetta elliott: i think it makes educators and librarians a lot more self-conscious. i think authors -- some people really feel energized by it, because it reminds us of the importance of books

the pennsylvania department of state immediately filed an appeal to its supreme court. last hour, pennsylvania congresswoman, madeline dean told me she believes it will be reversed. >> i have confidence that the supreme court of pennsylvania will see this effort to undo the 2019 bill to modernize our elections as an attempt at voter suppression, cynically an an attempt at undermining the competence of pennsylvania voters in our election. i believe they will find that act 77, which was put forward by the republican majority in the pennsylvania house and senate is constitutional. >> and back in washington, the january 6th committee now issuing subpoenas to 14 of the so-called alternate electors who falsely claimed that then president donald trump won in seven battleground states. committee members, what they tend to find out. >> who was behind the plot to overturn the election. this didn't randomly happen that people in various states decided, well, i guess i'll just do a bogus certificate. no, this was coordinated and planned and we'd like to know every aspect of that. >

i voted by mail in pennsylvania. i will probably do it again. with the process we go through, there is no fraud. you can't be fraudulent at all. the one thing i think is rigged is the electoral college. that has got to go. if a democrat would win the electoral college that trump won by the first time, you would hear a primal scream from here to the land of the dueling banjos. the election was fair. the mail-in ballots of the best way to go. guest: we have an opportunity now to push our citizens -- senators to stand up for our democracy, to not allow corporate interests to determine how we should be able to engage in this election. those two bills simply level the field so everyone has the same expectation. it is not a partisan issue. it's an access to opportunity for all of us. we cannot send our young people to fight for a democracy that we are unwilling to fight for. republicans, democrats, stand up in this moment and say pass these acts. this is not a partisan conversation. this is an opportunity for us to protect our constitution. host: tom

gutmann serves as the president of the university of pennsylvania. before i highlight a few of her many accomplishments, i went took knowledge the different aspects of penn's history. benjamin franklin was one of the u.s.'s must accomplish diplomats he navigated the collocation -- collocated dynamics of european politics to protect our nation's democracy abroad. much has changed but many double medic challenges franklin faced are the same today, including faithfully and ardently defending u.s. interests, even in times of disagreements with allies while maintaining those relationships. we face this challenge today in our relationship with an important european ally, germany. we rely on germany is a major security and trade partner, especially given its role in the european union and amidst increasing global threats, strong representation to germany is critical. i am confident dr. gutmann will arise to meet these and other challenges facing the u.s. and our european allies. dr. gutmann earned degrees from harvard university, a masters degree from londo

know the popular narrative of how the fearsome blood-letting here in adams county pennsylvania during the first three days of july 1863 changed the trajectory of the civil war before the army of northern virginia the army the potomac collided here at gettysburg goes that narrative victory still seemed possible for the confederacy, but after lee's retreated was only a matter of time before the united states armies would vanquish their opponents and restore the republic you get a sense that everybody in the confederacy. just got out their calendar circled april 9th, 1865 and started crossing days off counting. how many were left that formulation sounds very compelling. it sounds so reasonable because we know things about gettysburg didn't make it seem sound reasonable. there are things about gettysburg that set it apart from all of their battles during the civil war was the biggest and bloodiest battle of our biggest and bloodiest war. marked the deepest penetration in the united states territory of any major confederate army. and no other principle rebel field army ever came into the u

in fact, the pennsylvania magazine was filled with anti-british barbs and quips like that one. some of them more carefully disguised than others. and this makes sense. remember who paine is. he he had turned on england long ago. the marriages he'd made had caused him early ruin and regret. galvanized by what had happened at lexington and concord in april of 1775, tom paine would write "common sense" to ordinary americans that they should declare their independence from britain. as he was writing that pamphlet in the fall of 1775, tensions with britain were escalating quickly. popular notions had been aroused not only by the 1773 tea act and the 1774 -- [inaudible] act that followed it, but more recently by the battles at lexington and concord and then at bunker hill. there was a lot of anger and confusion in the air as he was writing. although to be clear, no one was talking openly yet about independence. not until tom pain's pamphlet burst on the scene. he was going to be one of the first people to make a very public argument that all grievances should be focused on achieving

and departed for pennsylvania the next day. returned to the kids and berry, and her lovely house, and her porsche, and our hummer, and what was left of the 600,000 dollar insurance settlement. and furious relatives. >> she knows what she dead. in my opinion she killed mark intentionally. she got away with murder. >> it was unbelievable that they would let her off with no consequences. no penalty whatsoever. >> mary beth? >> and mary beth? she expected a sunny reception in her big return, but there was a shake up. barry had run off with the babysitter. they had moved out and got married. you might have wondered by -- the shooting, the accusations, the trial, barry. of course, we wonder to. >> we met with mary beth as she went about rebuilding life with the kids, after spending months in jail with the trial. she says she avoids contact with the harsh burgers now. that happens to everybody in little towns where the gossip turns. she waited for -- and then as the date approached, she changed her mind. she won't do it. i don't care

in the two other states, new mexico and pennsylvania, republicans filed a similar document, likes the same, same font, same language, except crucially in pennsylvania and new mexico they changed it so they weren't the state's legal electors. in new mexico and pennsylvania the republicans instead inserted some language saying that ultimately some day they might be the real electors and in which case these documents should be processed as their votes. that kind of makes all the difference, right, in terms of whether or not you're trying to pass yourself off as electors when you are not. in making that change to the template language of that document, at least in pennsylvania, that may have saved the republicans who signed that document from prosecution for forgery or another state crime. that's according to a new statement from pennsylvania's attorney general who is explains it was basically despicable what the republicans did, but how important they put in that caveated language, explaining that they will not pursue charges against republicans who filed that. >>> on the front page of t