there is nothing a determined north carolina cannot do. god bless you, our country, and the great state of north carolina. thank you very much. [applause] >> senator brown and representative bell are escorting the honorable roy cooper from the chamber. [applause] >> today the russian ambassador to the u.s. talks about the state of relations between russia and the united states posted by the stinson center, our live coverage begins at 3:00 on c-span. tonight, on "the communicators," where on capitol hill with the south -- and ohio republican congressman, a ranking member on the house energy and commerce subcommittee to discuss high-speed broadband service, privacy laws, 5g, and net neutrality. >> very much interested in 5g, spectrum availability, autonomous vehicles. very much interested in privacy, which has the potential to be a bipartisan accomplishment of this congress. realize we have to national sort of privacy standard or law that will protect people's personal information. >> we had multiple meetings on privacy and one of the big is

foxx of north carolina. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 252, the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. foxx: in 2016, the obama administration proposed adding employee payday to the eeo-1 report filed by certain employers specifying employee data by job category, ethnicity, race and sex. after strong concerns were raised about this misguided proposal by congressional republicans, the office of management and budget stopped it from going forward in august 20, 17. a federal district -- in august, 2017. a federal dict overturned this ch the administration will likely appeal. it would have impose an extremely costly and uniquely burdensome mandate on business wners providing reams of proprietary data to the government for reasons never explained. e obama eeo-1 would ha

indeed, in his service in north carolina it hit home -- at his service in north carolina it hit home for me how much that was a part of him. as we know, he was very, very unhappy with the gulf war. really, i started, he believe, and results show, he spent he rest of his career trying to find and make the right comfort for the members of the military even more so the gold star families who he knows and we all realize bear the loss the most. . i heard that he would write to every single gold star family when he would learn of one of their loved ones having fallen in conflict. or killed in action. he would take his time. in that position, as a member of the united states house of representatives, using his name, using that title, and whatever that carried, to those comfort and show families that there's people in this place that really, really do recognize -- we all do, but he went that extra measure for people all over the country, not even -- not just in his district. to take that care, to take that time. i thought that was pretty as i ma -- pretty amazing. another way he tried to hel

the chair: the gentlewoman from north carolina reserves. mr. scott: madam chair, i'm prepared to close. ms. foxx: i am prepared to close also. the chair: the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam chair, i worked for most of my life. i entered the workforce as a young woman, not because i wanted to, but because i had to. i knew the burden of poverty well. if i didn't work to support myself, if i didn't contribute to my family income, we'd go hungry. well, i've been enormously blessed to have gone from working for survival to working for pleasure and i hope a greater purpose. i know there are millions of women of all ages in this country today who must work to survive, just as i did. when i entered the workforce, equal pay for equal work -- equal pay for women was a demand but not yet the law. today, it is the law. the equal pay act and the civil rights act are clear that pay discrimination is wrong. it is unacceptable. it is illegal. managers who discr

the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. there are statistics to show it's fast and there are statistics to show in many cases it is virtually nonexistent. we should note the numbers that .eally aren't up for debate there are more working women today than ever before. 74.9 million. record 2.8 million jobs were created in the past year and nearly 62% of those jobs are now filled by women. there are more women owning businesses and employing americans than ever before. women are the direct beneficiaries of strong economic policy. they need strong economic policy. freedom to work in the jobs they want. we are here for women, not their lawyers. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. >> i would like to yield to ms. omar. honored to rise today to speak on h.r. 7, the paycheck fairness act. i am proud to be part of a congress that has finally taken action to close the gender pay gap. after so many years of inaction on this issue, when our republica

who come from out-of-state to north carolina end up staying in the state of north carolina. that is a great investment in north carolina. it allows people to give back to their economy. mr. sablan: thank you. we heard you educate your students and come back home and use what they learn. ms. parker, college students in the marianas and across the country, one in four students nationwide are parents, more than one in three are older than 25, and almost two out of three work while in college. what supports maze it easier for to you remain in college, persist? ms. parker: thank you. thank you for your wishes earlier. i have been supported -- i have been connected to resource. and that's what's enabled to get me to completion. for example, the biggest help i would say was being connected to the jobs and family services representative on campus. i went to visit the representative for childcare costs. i needed help to get childcare costs to be approved while i was in school and journey was in daycare at the time. when i went to speak to the job and family services representative, s

back in north carolina campaigners are determined that no victim of rendition is forgotten. italian citizen britell was seized in pakistan in two thousand and two and rented on an average night to morocco where he was subjected to her in disability before being freed a full nine years later. today his wife anna speaks on his behalf the trauma of his experience has left him unable to relive this ordeal. well. enough. so. in twenty fourteen after years of investigation the u.s. senate intelligence committee compiled a report into cia torture. but those who hate america was finally going to tell the full story about this period to be disappointed all that was made public is heavily redacted executive summary the entire report it is six thousand pages to this day remain secret. we ought to warn to see those six thousand pages of the full report because if the executive summaries any indication that report does to a standing things categorically it says torture not more and it says we tortured and we tortured extensively we even murdered people the ultimate torture that report sh

north carolina legislator. to strengthen our crucial role as an engine of economic mobility, make college more affordable for every student, and provide access to truly affordable higher education that leads to timely graduation and transforms futures for our students. north carolina has long and proud history of generous support for its public universities. and ranked 5th naturally in both per-pupil and per capita spending towards higher education. our state recognizes that our universities drive economic development. create jobs, and opportunities for students and communities. large and small. with this in mind, north carolina general assembly has taken steps to invest in rather than diverge from public higher education. in 2016, the general assembly implement it a tuition program across the system, that guarantees a students tuition won't change for eight consecutive semesters. the following year, a cap on student fees limited entries to no more than 3% per year. helping keep inflation and costs to reasonabl

i don't know >> i got problems picking which north carolina team. harwood is from duke that makes it hard for me. i went north carolina. you think they got a chance with zion or no can they beat him? i don't know we'll see. anyway, we got to go >>> when we come back, we are going to have much more on the markets you can on the fed, and on trade with china. first, an update on business fashion. wall street is going casual. robert frank will tell us, is the suit and tie dead? not with you, robert >> i might be the last guy in new york to be wearing this, becky. goldman sac maman sachs may hav the traditional power suit

a lower district court world north carolina's existing maps were unconstitutional and ordered. -- new maps. >> oral argument case 18422, rucho verse common cause, mr. clement. >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court. is not a of failure lack of judicial imagination or a lack of claims that the particular map before the court was the most extreme ever. rather the root cause of this failure is the basic decision of the framers to give responsibility for congressional districting to political actors. the framers consciously chose to give the primary authority to state legislatures and then to police the possibility that that state legislatures which the framer news to be partisan is constitutions would engage in too much partisanship the framers chose a structural solution. >> mr. clement, that shipped has sailed. once we decided the one person one vote concept, we pretty much in all of our jurisprudence saying that certain acts lyingly are unconstitutional, including racial discrimination and others. it can't be that simply because the constitution says that a particular act is

walker from north carolina. the chair: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. walker: thank you. and thank you for the ranking member to his work. mr. speaker, i rise today in opposition of h.r. 1. while my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have deemed this bill to be for the people, a more proper characterization would be for the politicians. voting is a foundational right for all americans, and the egregious provisions of this bill will jeopardize our freedoms. in particular, this legislation fails to address the issue of ballot harvesting. as we've seen in california and my own state of north carolina, ballot harvesting has created troubling irregularities in several elections due to the lack of oversight and opportunities for voter manipulation and intimidation. ballot harvesting allows political operatives with a partisan agenda to get involved in the collection and submission of votes, creating an opportunity for organizations of -- or campaign workers to exploit voters and violate our fundamental rights. americans should have choice on how they w

the supreme court heard a case concerning north carolina congressional district gerrymandering. it dates back to 2011 when a lower court ruled the existing maps were unconstitutionally, racially gerrymandered and ordered new maps. favorltimately ruled in of the groups. in 2018, a supreme court ruling case back carolina's for consideration. 18422, rucho verse common cause, mr. clement. >> mr. chief justice and may it please thecourt. this i course hads speed he filled to i'd a start nor partisan ger rymandering claims the cause of the failure it not a lack l imagination or a lack of claims that the particular map before the court was the most extreme ever. rather the root cause of this failure is the basic decision of the framers to give responsibility for congressional districting to political actors. the framers conscious she chose to give the primary authority to state legislatures and then to police the possibility that state ruth legislatures which the framer news to be partisan is constitutions would engage in too much partisanship the framers chose a struck to all -- >> mr

smithfield's north carolina. a quiet backwater in america's south. on the face of it an unremarkable bible belt town talk timid rural wooded countryside. but thirteen years ago stories started to emerge suggesting something sinister was going on. mysterious flights leaving from the libyan airport. people were being seized from their homes in streets around the world transported to foreign prisons and secret cia interrogation camps known as black sites. who feel some sort of them wouldn't give often. reported for. the covert operation officially called extraordinary rendition took place in the years between two thousand and two to two thousand and nine. in north carolina locals began calling the flights from their local airports torture taxes this was a planned orchestrated program of kidnapping for torture i found that to be just intolerable we spoke to a woman whose husband was another victim of rendition. to this day the truth about the cia's rendition program and the role of north carolina's airports remains officially shrouded in secrecy. but are

how does this fix what happened in north carolina? the bill doesn't. and that was an amendment that we offered, ms. torres. we offered an amendment to outlaw ballot harvesting because we've seen where it is illegal in north carolina, somebody took advantage of that and could possibly go to jail. that's why we introduced the amendment that was voted down on party lines. unless it's part of a manager's amendment, i haven't had a chance to go through, i'm assuming that's still the case. that ballot harvesting will still be legal nationwide, when we've already seen the fraud that can be committed. ms. lofgren: if i may on that point. it's ironic that the -- in north carolina, you can't let another person who is not your immediate family take your ballot to the poll for you. well, if you're an isolated elderly person, you may not have a family member available to do it. but that's against the law. and that's where this apparent really serious misconduct occurred. in contrast, in california, it is perfectly legal for an isolated elderly person to give that b

it also calls for an investigation into the north carolina company area contract is . are they participating in the illegal kidnapping and disappearance of prisoners overseas we have no idea and they certainly could do it again if a future us administration introduced this program. we wanted to ask eric contract his about their business today offering what they call specialized past. and cargo transport haitian solutions to customers around the globe we rate to three formal planets and even called on them but no one would speak. i'm sorry is not. could could we talk to him. not there. we also contacted every contract his management who didn't reply so we called on noir lamar armstrong listed for many years as a senior management representative of every contract is we wanted to get his reaction to the revelations in the north carolina report into torture and the stated role of eric. we sent an e-mail to mr armstrong mr lamar armstrong representative of eric tractors. thank you very much thanks a lot charlie why is you not interested because he's just not i mean he's goi

moore north carolina used to be a conservative state. now it has changed a lot over the years for a lot of reasons part of it as there was a "washington post" piece not too long ago about the demographic changes in the country across the board. and it has changed a lot their love north carolina, it is a but are theate, people really clamoring for sheriffs not to cooperate with i.c.e.? is that really a priority for the north carolina voters? and if it is not, i would say republicans, insane democrats better get their houses in order here, or they are all going to be thrown out of office in north carolina -- and they should be. these sheriffs should never be elected again. they should be thrown out if they are elected officials. >> fortunately, republicans control the state legislature. and i predicted that this bill will pass overwhelmingly. it is just irresponsible for any official, particularly a rcw enforcement official, to in any way advocate releasing someone who is a criminal, who has committed a crime, back on the streets who shoul

is north carolina different from north carolina, where just anybody can call? are run atelections the state and local level. there are different rules. some ways, this does create a hot podge of different laws in different states. some states are more restrictive and require voter id. some states have really liberal early voting rules. you might be able to vote in september in the november general election. you might have to have a really good reason to vote absentee, or else you have to vote election date. not everyone has the same access to the ballot box. that could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. there is one advantage, though, and that is if we do have a number of, say, recounts or things like that, can you imagine a really close was heldial election under the popular vote that required a national recount? scalee that on a national in the national popular vote election. that would be really pretty difficult. so there are advantages and disadvantages to local control of elections at this point. even with the hr-1, the new bill that democrat

not north carolina, virginia. because they are marching by their homes, they are having calls from their family to come protect their homes, they are going by roads that will lead to their homes, so virginians are the ones who will lead the army more than anyone else. most of the troops rolled from appomattox are from -- ron? georgia. georgia. i do not know number wise what ratio of a work with the army, but obviously they could not thattake off on this road goes to gordonsville, when you have got to go to georgia, it would be a long rss to go down there, so i cannot tell you what you and it's the south carolinians, texans, but it is definitely those troops who have farther to travel home. dr. janney: it depends on what you mean by holdouts. if you mean men who were stragglers and went home like benjamin simms, or if you mean macintosh, the second part, that number is far fewer. it is not that many. but i would say overwhelmingly, , buthis is anecdotal anecdotally, they are virginians , and they are young virginia

it also calls for an investigation into the north carolina company erik contract is . are they participating in the illegal kidnapping and disappearance of prisoners overseas we have no idea and they certainly could do it again if a future us administration introduced this program. we wanted to ask eric contract his about their business today offering what they call specialized past. and cargo transport haitian solutions to customers around the globe we rate to three former pilots and even called on them but no one would speak. i'm sorry is not. could we talk to him. not there. we also contacted every contract his management who didn't reply so we called on lawyer lamar armstrong listed for many years as a senior management representative of every contract is we wanted to get his reaction to the revelations in the north carolina reporting to torture and the stated role of eric. we sent an e-mail to mr armstrong mr lamar armstrong representative of eric tractors. thank you very much thanks a lot josh bolton was you not interested because he's just not right he's going t

as the senate debates a disaster relief bill, north carolina senator richard burr tells nbc news, "it is unacceptable that camp lejeune and other north carolina military bases are still waiting on disaster relief we first requested last fall." the marine corps has moved money around to pay for temporary repairs like removing moldy drywall and placing tarps on roofs. but it's not just buildings on base affected. from the air, we looked down on onslo beach. >> there used to be dunes there. >> reporter: marines learn to attack from land and sea. because of erosion, training has been scaled back. >> it just becomes harder and harder, and we ask more and more of our service members and their families to accomplish the same mission. >> reporter: with so much to rebuild, marines are already bracing for the next hurricane season. now less than three months away. nbc news, camp lejeune, north carolina. >>> in los angeles last night, a dramatic car chase lasted for hours. authorities say the man in this blue car rammed police cars, pulled a knife out, and drove the wrong way down the highway hi

it also calls for an investigation into the north carolina company erit contract is . are they participating in the illegal kidnapping and disappearance of prisoners overseas we have no idea and they certainly could do it again if a future us administration introduced this program. we wanted to ask eric contract is about their business today offering what they call specialized past. and cargo transport haitian solutions to customers around the globe we rate to three for the planets and even called on them but no one would speak. i'm sorry is not. could we talk to him. not there. we also contacted every contract his management he didn't reply so we called on lawyer lamar armstrong listed for many years as a senior management representative of every contract is we wanted to get his reaction to the revelations in the north carolina report into torture and the stated role of eric. we sent an e-mail to mr armstrong mr lamar armstrong representative of eric tractors. thank you very much thanks a lot charlie was he not interested because he's just not there he's going to call

smithfield's north carolina. a quiet backwater in america's south. on the face of it an unremarkable bible belt town tug to meet rural wooded countryside. but thirteen years ago stories started to emerge suggesting something sinister was going on. mysterious flights leaving from the little airport. people were being seized from their homes in streets around the world transported to foreign prisons and secret cia interrogation camps known as black sites. who feel some sort of them would give off and. report it for. somebody for. the covert operation officially called extraordinary rendition took place in the years between two thousand and two to two thousand and nine. in north carolina locals began calling the flights from their local airports torture taxes this was a planned orchestrated program of kidnapping for torture i found that to be just intolerable we spoke to a woman whose husband was another victim of rendition. to this day the truth about the cia's rendition program and the role of north carolina's airports remains officially shrouded in s

look what happened in north carolina. a political operative for working for a republican candidate illegally har vested ballots which led to the north carolina board of elections calling for a new special election. ballot har vesting is practice when a political operative or volunteer can come to your home, pick up your ballot, and deliver it to the polling precinct. this process while illegal in knows most states like north carolina is a perfectly legal practice in places like california. republicans both at the house administration committee markup and in rules committee offered amendments to prohibit ballot harvesting and both attempts were rejected by democrats. we can no longer be naive to think that this a practice that will simply help your elderly neighbor who can can no longer get to the polls. ask my form colleagues from california, ballot harvest something an unguard the instrument that's occurring on a large scale as a practice used by political operatives to manipulate the outcome of elections. if we want to

the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. meadows: i want to thank the gentlewoman for her deliberative process in the way she has managed that. i thank her. this is one of the rare moments you have true bipartisan support on something that is common sense. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina yields back. the gentlelady from district of columbia is recognized. ms. norton: i yield yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time sm the question is now, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 1582. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid n the table. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from from the district of columbia seek recognition? ms. norton: i move the house suspend the rules and agree to pass h.r. 1608. the clerk: h.r. 1608, a bill to amend the federal advisory committee a

north carolina the former head of the democratic party of north carolina now the publisher of shadow county line this fine newspaper the chatham county in county long graduations on this randi great to be here max this is our twentieth year i've worked with julian serrano who's been the publisher for the last one thousand years to keep this publication going in its a way for local people to have their voices heard right and other wild line is we're all voices are heard this is a radical idea in today's america where not all voices can be heard there's a drastic increase in deep platforming in the rise and echo chambers your thoughts you know it's very hard obviously to make money or make a living putting out print media but i think in micra media like this where we're not in it to make money we're just trying to break even so that we can actually put out a publication and let the community be heard is important and you know maybe in the future you know we might make a few dollars but the bottom line is to provide a platform for folks across the spectrum to put out their opinions and

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays have been requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. members, this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 242, the nays are 187. none answering present. the bill is passed. he joint resolution is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentlelady rise? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table house resolution 245 and ask for its immediate considera

he's going to be more than okay in north carolina. just a quick story. early on, when the campaign was going, i was on the plane, with donald trump. by the way, he is the only president that went backwards when he got air force one. i want to let you know that. we were on the plane, traveling and he says how do you think we are going to do? everybody is saying we are going to lose. news carolina by five points. i said mr. president, not only are you going to win, but you are going to win it by more than three points. he reminds me that he wanted by 3 1/2 points. and i was wrong. the recent polls have him way ahead. he is actually more popular and why? because he actually, has fulfilled his campaign promises that he promised all of us. that is why. >> what a novel concept. just do what you say. >> it never hurts to do what you say you will do. >> there is really nothing he is and that he did not talk about. it drives people crazy. they want to tell you, he's dishonest, what is more honest than going in front of huge rallies and these television cameras at

in north carolina, the other way around. the democrats had 47% of the vote, but only got 23% of the representations. heavily again gerrymandered. both of those cases, which is heard at the supreme court, i just wanted to listen to it. there was a rally out in front. and talked about how terrible gerrymandering is. the press scrum now after the supreme court hearing. then i was so kindly invited to come here and to sit here with attorney general eric holder and we have really never met. so this was a great occasion to meet and to team up. i'm so excited that eric is also into the same thing as i am, which is, let's get rid of gerrymandering and let's really have true representation. i feel ronald reagan has put it very eloquently. in the 1980's when he said, it is anti-democratic, it is un-american. to gerrymandering. this is a national scandal. i think that scandal has been going on and on and of course the technology's become so sophisticated that now it's really extreme. we see this extreme left and right, i think in washi

look at what happened in north carolina. in 2013, state legislators requested data broken down by race on how residents engaged in a number of voting practices. they then used that data to enactless that restricted voting and voter registration in five different ways that disproportionately affected african-americans. you do not have to take my word, the fourth circuit of appeals found that this legislation was enacted with discriminatory intent. in fact, the fourth circuit said that in north carolina, legislation targeted african-americans with, and they said this, i quote, almost surgical precision. we are better than that. in georgia, we saw actions just last year by officials to remove people from the voter rolls and prevent them from registering in the first place. . h.r. 1 would register people to vote, expand absentee voting and give additional funding to states to maintain enough polling sites so they can do their job. this legislation would help make it easier for hardworking americans to find the time to vote, by m

s report didn't denote contact lens being present when they did her autopsy here in north carolina. >> contact lenses on a dead body are often overlooked during an autopsy because medical examiners won't necessarily look for them, unless they're given reason to do so. >> detective sole needs to determine, were her contact lenses in her eyes at the time of the murder. there's only one way to find out. >> i received a strange phone call from detective charles sole. he said, "if someone exhumed a body that had a contact lens in it, would it still be there?" and i said soft contact lenses will degenerate over time. >> the exhumation was something that we didn't want to have to do unless we felt like it was gonna be necessary. and the family was supportive of it. >> it's hard because she was being dug up and then, okay, she was already murdered. now she can't even rest after she's dead. >> it's a little emotional, but at the same time i was thinking, if this is what it takes, we have to do this. >> it was a big deal when her body would be exhumed. it was the lead story that night on our ne

. >> reporter: while the investigation continues in north carolina, raven has already moved with his son to utah. >> raven doesn't seem to be taking janet's death too harshly. he's actually on the date being scene. >> he's started a relationship with a young woman named vanessa pond. >> he seemed very up front, very honest and genuine. and i found out that, you know, he was a single father. and i really, really admired that. >> did he mention his wife or what happened to her? >> yes, as we were just starting to date, he mentioned that well, i should probably tell you. a lot of people think my wife's not around because oh, she's a drug addict or she's crazy, but my wife actually died. >> did he say she was murdered? >> he said that there was an intruder. and that his wife was killed. and that he'd found her. and he'd left it at that. >> reporter: she expressed her childre concerns about his story but says that he removed all doubts from her mind. >> soon after that, raven asked my dad for my hand in marriag mg >> reporter: they go on their honeymoon in vegas, and vanessa recalls raven

she left fayettville, north carolina, without a trace. authorities weren't done with her yet, but would they be able to track her down? here with the conclusion of deadly ambush is keith morrison. >> leavenworth federal prison. doing time doesn't come much harder than it does here. this is where john diamond was serving a life sentence for murdering air force captain marty fear, but his former lover, michelle, seemed to have dropped right out of sight. where was she? people weren't seeing her around fayettville. the d.a., meanwhile, was convinced she must have conspired with john diamond to kill her husband. she was the brains. he was the braun, or in this case the shooter. though it was all circumstantial. it was persuasive. >> yorjs every i don't think there was any question as to who was involved, doimd and her together. >> the evidence? life insurance. the affair. the access to a murder weapon. those emails. the coverup. taken together, it was enough to convince a grand jury. finally, in may of 2002, nearly 18 months since her husband

just set aside in north carolina because of election fraud. the reason it was set aside is because of something called ballot harvesting, which is illegal in north carolina, but is legal in california. as the members of the house would probably tell you, it is widely thought that ballot harvesting legal in california is a reason there are only seven republicans left in the delegation from california. harvesting, mysteriously, is not a part of this parade. somehow overlooked. emphasizert i would is the federal election commission has been 3-3 since the post-watergate period this is a period during which democrats had massive majorities in the house and senate, could have done anything they wanted to, but it never occurred to them that the federal election commission to administer the law would be done on a partisan basis. so the fec has been three democrats and three republicans for all of these years to prevent either side from taking partisan advantage of the other. in hr-1, it's no longer that. -- it is no longer dead even. the party of the

host: north carolina, independent line, daniel. caller: i am a christian and as far as donald trump's wife's political doings, all god wants us to do is always do our best. donald trump is the best president we have had since ronald reagan. he was the best one in american history. host: ok. guest: i worked for ronald reagan. i would agree, he was one of the best. host: joanne, arizona. caller: good morning. this is why people say c-span is democrat, because you don't show melania trump, her speeches, or when she talked to anyone. you don't let the american people see her. host: we just showed you a bit of a presentation she made. caller: people like me, i am disabled, people want the government doing everything for them, believe me, you don't want to be dependent on the government to live. i can't afford c-span2. you only put, i have to pay more to get c-span2 and 3. you are not for the working class. host: i will stop you only because our main channel carries a lot of the presentations we have including the presentations of the fo

one case involved republican redistricting in north carolina. like you just saw. the other a democratic case of redistricting in maryland. so back to north carolina and how we got those results in the 2018 election and what happened there. well, it's a quintessential purple swing state, and one that is hotly contested in presidential elections. it has a democratic governor and a republican state legislator. democrats actually have more than 470,000 voter advantage. but republicans in the state -- in the state legislator intentionally grew congressional lines to preserve extreme partisan advantage regardless of statewide election results. and those republicans have been honest about their ambitions. david louis, republican member of the state assembly's redistricting committee told his fellow lawmakers, this was in 2016 and i quote, i think electing republicans is better than electing democrats, so i drew this map to help foster what i think is better for the country. i propose that we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to ten republicans and three democrat

think in the case of tillis, yes, north carolina is bluing. what conservatives always tell me is you still need republicans to come out for you. and they're afraid that thosemis combination. i agree with bob. this is a loss for thet. presid it shows that people are going to split from him. i don't think we're entering a p newse. i think it will be interesting to see whether the president strikes back. i don't believe he will. and tillis kind of sold his soul -- not his soul but sold his vote for a promise to work with trump going a forward. know that the president often times says he's going to work on this legislatively and then never follows up. so it will be interesting to see how those politics play for tillis. >> when theresident looked at this, he was told by majority leader mcconnell and this was a loser. yet he plowed forward. is that because he's making a case for his voters to stick with him in 202s >> interesting, because as sue was just referring to, when you speak privately to republicans, even some of them who voted with the pres

these bales of plastics are on the way to north carolina, weller they will be recycled. recyclers say a ban on plastics will make recycling plastics much more efficient. the new jersey bill is currently making its way through the senate. in new jersey, brian maness, fox news. >>> the powerball jackpot this wednesday will likely be at least three quarters of $1 billion. that's after no one won the $625 billion jackpot last night. the last time anyone hit all the winning numbers was the day after christmas. 12 people in california did win $20,000 in last night's drawing for but again the red powerball number, no one had. i guess good luck this week. buy your tickets. it could be long lines at the store. >> i was forget to get them. thank you for joining us tonight. sports wrap is next. >> join us tomorrow for mornings on 2. good night.

in north carolina. do we have that kind of database checking going on because were moving to an online system to ensure that kind of integrity? >> we do, the existing system we discovered was wrong 90% of the time, so we are coming up with a better system to cross reference. the current program is incredibly broken. >> i appreciate the efforts folks make to get it right, it seems like as i read the bill, we are going for the first time registered voters in eligible to vote by registering 16-year- olds? i'm reading that wrong? >> it is free registration, you're not registered to vote, you sign up so that when you turn 18, you become registered. that is optional on the part of the 16 or 17-year-old, but it is automatic, you're not registered to vote, you are preregistered a vote. we do it in california and it has been a great system where young people are excited about it, they know they can't vote. you can go went, on your birthday, on your 18th birthday, your automatically registered to vote. >> okay. a

in north carolina. do we have that kind of database checking going on because were moving to an online system to ensure that kind of integrity? >> we do, the existing system we discovered was wrong 90% of the time, so we are coming up with a better system to cross reference. the current program is incredibly broken. >> i appreciate the efforts folks make to get it right, it seems like as i read the bill, we are going for the first time registered voters in eligible to vote by registering 16-year- olds? i'm reading that wrong? >> it is free registration, you're not registered to vote, you sign up so that when you turn 18, you become registered. that is optional on the part of the 16 or 17-year-old, but it is automatic, you're not registered to vote, you are preregistered a vote. we do it in california and it has been a great system where young people are excited about it, they know they can't vote. you can go went, on your birthday, on your 18th birthday, your automatically registered to vote. >> okay. a