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Regardless of whether president trump is president or not. >> harris: i want to get you in here. >> i want to sound a warning to the president if i could. in 1798, this country pass a law called the addition act. and that congressman john adams signed it and that criminalized criticizing your government. >> but it was overturned by thomas jefferson. >> harris: we have to ease back into a 2019 because we've got a lot of breaking news. i promise to bring you back. we will move on. >> okay. we have ticket to puerto rico right now with breaking news. a massive protest as the governor has refused t...

On the enemy of the people as the press. it is not going too far? >> it is so passive when you look at history. it is almost ridiculous. give jim acosta covering the white house, creates trauma and then all of a sudden it is news. that is what we call fake news. the president or pseudo-news. no, it is not. john adams, 1798 put in place an act, he locked up journalists. shutdown newspapers. abraham lincoln, during the civil war, give 32 the secretary of war, shutdown 300 newspapers. locked up journalists. woodrow wilson, the great progressive. but in an act in 1918 locked up journalists, locked...

He had the papers in his pocket signifying when his great-great-great grandfather was freed by lord fairfax of great britain. we're talking about 1798. >> that's how justin fairfax got his name. it's an amazing piece of american history. to me it's even more amazing that those freedom papers would exist in the same family for some 200 years and you're right. justin fairfax is the direct descendant of a freed virginia slave and when he was sworn in he had the papers of his great-great-great grandfather tucked into his pocket. you have the democrats who say they want ralph northam to resign in p...

Get my sea legs back. >> john: oh, really? >> april: yeah. >> anthony: april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> april: it was built in 1798. >> anthony: how long in the family? in your family? >> april: over 75 years. my father, during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had nina symone, ella fitzgerald, all the big names in jazz. >> anthony: how has town changed? has it changed? >> april: i think tremendously. gay lifestyle is much more accepted. >> anthony: okay, 1972, my feeling was that this was a...

Confederate monuments and then he back tracked on that and said, well, maybe we shouldn't get rid of them. maybe it should be a local decision. he's been inconsistent. >> congressman mceachin, i'd love for you to tell us about justin fairfax. there's poetic justice if he becomes the next governor. the day before he took the oath of lieutenant governor his father had done some research in his family trees and found the man you mission papers that freed his an zest -- ancestors. and he said it was the manumission papers for my three greats ago grandfather simon fairfax in 1798 and he was freed b...