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Election process for two republicans next year. the math reconfigured after state judges block lines drawn in 2016 from being used next year. the last government oriole conscious of the year will be decided tomorrow in louisiana. voters there will determine whether the deep souths only democratic governor gets to keep his job. corresponded casey stegall from baton rouge tonight. >> president trump making his second louisiana stop in two weeks, drumming up support for the republican devers pony...

Longest running state fair four country. they say everything is bigger in texas. lets go find out why. ♪ 101 years old. would you say that the state fair of tax key to long and happy life. >> yes. you can come in here and lose all your worries. >> is this the line for the corny dogs? you are kidding. whats so good. >> not yet. >have you had one.>> no. >> you wouldnt be asking the question if you had. >> uh. >> i come to the fair for the chocolate bacon. >> bacon that has chocolate on top. you ...

Population and spends $60 billion a year running state and federal prisons. the president has asked congress to al g allocate $250 million o five years to work with inmates on drug treatment, skills training and education. more needs to be done. van jones, political commentator and host "the van jones" and the co-founder of cut 50, a national bipartisan criminal justice initiative is with me. i was so glad to see this happen yesterday. im so glad youre here to talk about it. is this going to be ...

Debate recently at the university of richmond. she in the course of our debate said she didnt think i could talk intelligently about the issues. now, interestingly, just yesterday, i was endorsed by "the washington post" over our opponent. we have been imdoersed by the daily press. they cited our command of those issues. this is the kind of gutter dog whistle trump level politics that people reject in virginia. they rejected in it 2016. this was the only southern state that secretary clinton and...

The public health emergency fund from which that announcement would draw funds to make his policies work currently has about $57,000 total in it. $57,000. you cant really do a whole lot at a federal level with that kind of money. and so you look at although the rhetoric is changing and changing more quickly at a state and local level where people are implementing more programs to help pregnant women, more programs to help opioid users, more programs to basically address it on the home front. at ...

Tactics. he tweeted this week in support of the republican gubernatorial candidate, ed gillespie, that he will turn the really bad virginia economy around fast. strong on crime, he may even save our statues/heritage. i mean, now this is playing right into the racial politics and fallout of charlottesville that the president is talking about saving our statues, heritage. we talk about a confederate statue of robert e. lee, whose only claim to fame is he helped to lead a rebellion against the u.s....

This. it sort of ranked all the democrats in the house previously, the smaller the share of the obama vote, all the blues, those are yes votes on upton. there is one blue dot up near 100% from the district, 81%. its gary peters from michigan running for the senate next 84, showing some concern of running state wide in wanting to take this kind of vote. brian, you were getting at this, talking to congressmen earlier, given everything we have been talking about here, how much patience and time doe...

>> he spoeent most of his career -- >> the governor gave my opponent $18,000 and instead of take pg him to court, they were taking trips to new york city and has a turkey dinner. i said thats a lot of urk itty. >> we will have to change the state motto to quid pro quo. >> he was trailing by 18 points in our most recent poll. it is best to try to soften that image mentioning his work to combat domestic violence and convicts at every opportunity.

Comfortable boating up the nra. >> im running against the only f rated candidate in the nra running state-wide. >> whatever rating i may get, i will stand here and tell you, as governor i want to make sure every citizen is safe. >> here was an interesting divide on an issue that was surprising for folks. particularly folks in northern virginia. whether virginia should join most other state when is it comes to allowing school districts to start school before labor day. >> no. business is too impo...

The second longest war in american history is vietnam. to have three vietnam veterans in the cabinet running veterans, running state, running defense is a remarkable milestone for veterans of that war, just as a population group, and one that didnt necessarily get treated right by this country when their time at war ended. but for all of us, for all of us, no matter how old we are, for all of us, whether or not we had any connection to the vietnam politics the first time around, for all of us th...