since 1950, west virginia lost nearly half of its black population. damn. and in some ways, the culture they created is barely hanging on. the first stop on my appalachian trail brings me here in full camo with a shotgun. >> jesus. >> stay tuned. if the history of this show teaches us anything, this doesn't go well. >> this is chicken the woods. i smell that. >> marcus ogilvie is a mountainman, actor, comedian. this isn't the first time he has taken me outdoors. he is taking me outdoors to hunt for his dad's squirrel gravy. that's right. squirrel gravery. i want you to try to do a squirrel quali. >> logistic. >> just like that. close your hand. >> that's good. squirrels are is he making fun of us? >> clearly i'll keep work on my squirrel call. luckily, i'm with marcus. he shows me that out here there is food everywhere. >> this is a paw-paw tree. ever heard of paw-paws? >> huh-uh. >> it is one of the only indigenous groups to the area. this is like an avocado full of sugar. >> okay. >> bon appetit. >> all right. >> carefully. >> mmm. >> and look up. right h

and some of them are unnecessary, like virginia, detesting. it is still practiced in many communities across the world. the un actually phase. it is painful, traumatic and humiliating. let's take a closer look at the fox. no examination can prove that a woman is a virgin. her janitor testing is performed in at least 20 countries around the world. in these communities, people believe that the practice can determine if a girl oh walmart has had sex. this however, is a false belief. regina testing involves inspecting and fema vagina to see whether or not her hyman is intact. communities that performed virginia testing link the worth of a goal to have a janitor and reinforced the idea that girls and boys are not equal. testing is also often a painful, humiliating and traumatic experience. virginia is not a medical term. it is a social construct. there are many reasons, a females. a hyman could be pierced, that have nothing to do with 6. the u. n. and world health organization have condemned the virginia to testing as unscientific and the violation

and west virginia. taste virginia and west virginia. we didn't virginia and west virginia. - didn't have no time to get nothing out of our apartment in the basement, i've lost everything, twice. this makes twice that i've lost everything.- twice that i've lost eve hin. , , twice that i've lost eve hina. , everything. many parts of kentucky _ everything. many parts of kentucky are _ everything. many parts of kentucky are still- everything. many parts of i kentucky are still struggling after being hit by tornadoes last year and this latest extreme weather, a reminder of the deadly impact of our changing climate. terrifying scenes there from kentucky's. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: a rare dinosaur skeleton has sold at auction in the us for $6 million. he's a relative of the infamous t—rex, but faster and with a stronger bite. cheering. the us space agency, nasa, has ordered an investigation, after confirmation today that astronauts were cleared to fly while drunk. the last foot patrol in south armagh, once an everyday part of

virginia's governor declaring that state of emergency. the search continues for those unaccounted for, david. >> all right, kenneth moton leading us off tonight. ken, thank you. >>> we turn now to the other major headline this wednesday night, that new number on inflation. worse than expected. and as americans well know, it remains painfully high across this country. the consumer price index, 9.1% higher than a year ago. a nearly 41-year high now, of course driven by those record gas prices. the typical american household spent $493 more in june to buy the same goods and services than they did a year ago. president biden hearing the news as he arrived in israel calling inflation, quote, unacceptably high. but also pointing to what he called, quote, out of date numbers, because he says gas prices have been slowly coming back down for weeks. but families across this country are still feeling this. and what bank of america is now signaling about a possible recession. abc's victor oquendo tonight on the need across this country. >> reporter:

ends monday. >> this is the prison, in virginia. robert davis's home, this and other places like this, for something like, 40% of his life. every moment of those years, dictated by one, long night with officer randi snead, at the end of it, roberts edwards he could not take back. >> you stabbed that woman >> i stabbed her >> you stabbed, or didn't? you >> won, one or two times. >> most people would, say i would never, ever in 1 million years confess. >> or how could he be so stupid, and not know, you know? like, i was young. naive. i was scared. >> robert is of course, not alone. there are people like him in situations just like his, in jails all around the country, who confessed as teenagers to primes that they maybe did not commit. in fact, to prevent that very thing, police departments in many other countries banned or dispensed years ago, with interrogation techniques still used in america. >> had the murder happened elsewhere, for example, here in the united kingdom, it is probable that robert still would be brought in for ques

judge of the united states of virginia. mr. schumer: i send apcloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: , cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring bring to a close the nomination on calendar 1068 signed by 16 senators fools. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i ask the reading be waived. i ask the cloture motion filed today on july 28 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas is recognized. mr. cornyn: mr. president, a few weeks ago the fate of the chips act, our collective effort to shore up a vulnerable semiconductor supply chain, watt in limbo. -- was in limbo. republicans said we would not move forward with what was then known as usica, the u.s. innovation and competition act. while democrats were crafting a partisan, reckless massive tax-and-spending bill behind closed

of saying it is an honor and privilege to be here before the virginia bar association. i am appreciative of the of a presentation. to get to the question justice mims asked about the electoral count act, the plan to overturn the 2022 election was multifaceted. and we now know this was not a plan that was developed by political hacks. it was actually quite the opposite of legal hacks. the plan was hatched and developed by individuals, one of whom was a former law clerk of mine, disappointingly, by scholars of constitutional law, in particular >> of presidential politics and the constitution. in fact, i've said that on january 6th i don't know that, of course, but i don't doubt it that among the several who developed this plan, my law clerk john eastman, on that day, i believe he would have known more about the constitution and the laws of the united states and the history of the united states and constitutional evolution, if you will, than any man in america. which is to say this. as wrong and as wrong-headed as the plan was, it was conceived and ill-conceived in the law

. -- point 2, i live in virginia. host: some people who had weapons did not go into the rally because they would've had to give up those weapons. what is the point you are driving at? caller: technically they did not show that. my big point is two days before all of this happened, just ask pelosi, who has natural caught -- national guard there, they have not brought that up again. they mentioned at different times. he did ask for help. i do not think he wanted violence. i also need to say i do live in virginia. we got ballots that were not legitimate and i put them in my woodstove. i wish i'd kept them for evidence. i have family in pennsylvania that got as many as 10 ballots in the mail to be used. that is wrong. i am a christian and i believe in one ballot for a presidential election or any election. i work at the polls. i know what honesty is and i know that mr. trump has done a lot of good for this country that joe biden has undone. host: let me go to this claim you made and another caller about the role of the na

whitman of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized whit whit i want to begin i do not agree with everything in this bill but the committee passed a bill worthy of your support and i command chairman smith and ranking member rogers for navigating a markup that was 16:12 and debate of 900 amendments. the house armed services agreed to increase our national security top line by over $35 billion, accounting for the damaging impacts on inflation and the rising threats tay we face today. i am proud of the decisive bipartisan vote of 57-1 that passed this bill out of committee. unfortunately this national security bipartisan effort is in peril. the rules committee has harmful provisions that speaker pelosi would like to attach to the backs of our servicemembers in support of our service and national security. i specifically hope during our floor debate we can move to exclude these harmful riders. as to the committee mark, we started with he anemic budget request that in the sea power portf

this however, is a false belief. virginia testing evolves inspecting if fema vagina to see whether or not a hyman is intact. communities that performed the janitor testing link the worth of a goal to have a janitor and reinforced the idea that girls and boys are not equal. testing is also often a painful, humiliating and traumatic experience. virginia is not a medical term. it is a social construct. there are many reasons a females, a hyman could be pierced, that have nothing to do with 6. the u. n. and world health organization have condemned the virginia to testing as unscientific and the violation of the rights of women and girls. virginia to testing is based on false beliefs, and he is a harmful practice that must end to take a closer look at what actually happens. we head over to south africa where the tradition is teal deeply rooted virginity testing is still practiced in the zulu culture. with certificates even awarded in ceremonies. now the 77 percent team attended one of these ceremonies in dublin to find out why the community and even young women still defend it. we are in d

and even thomas jefferson when he wrote about virginia, he always said my country was virginia. so the us and the 13th states were initially they were part of a big british empire. in fact only half of the british colonies got together and went into revolution there wasn't there were a bunch of others you and you think well, why didn't canada or quebec or newfoundland or the west indies? why didn't they join? well, they said big story, but they didn't join. so what happened is when these countries states got together and there were 13 of actually there were 14 because vermont broke off from new york. nobody acknowledged it when that happened. poor vermont but what happened is that they were they felt very different from each other. so, for example, i always like to point out. minnesota and jamaica both british colonies not one nation under reggae that they they didn't feel like they were part of one country. there was no automatic one country-ness about these 13 colonies now countries any more than we today would say that jamaica and minnesotaans are part of one natural country

of the rights of women and girls. virginia to testing is based on false beliefs, and he is a harmful practice that must end to take a closer look at what actually happens. we head over to south africa where the tradition is teal deeply rooted virginity testing is still practiced in the zulu culture. with certificates even awarded in ceremonies. now the 77 percent team attended one of these ceremonies in dublin to find out why the community and even young women still defend it. we are in durban, south africa, and the girls that you see behind me are just a small group of thousands of women will get tested to find out if they still a virgin. i feel important in the community because when you a virgin everyone loves and praises you. i was, i wasn't going, you are not a virgin. you're not allowed to be with other virgins because they are clean and you are dirty. i just was a little me for many respect this as a cultural practice and as a find and degrading ability when they see lee on your back, open your legs when they put the fingers in to you, that this is not right. it did not feel r

west virginia is one of the poorest states. it mystifies me as to how guy gets reelected every time, even when his -- so that to pharmaceuticals and transferred 1200 well-paying jobs to india. there is no backlash. host: that is making up time making his point about senator manchin. guest: the caller's sentiment is shared by a lot of folks. it is certainly true that senator manchin has received substantial campaign funds over the years, from fossil fuel- related businesses and some others that our caller from ohio outlined. it is also true that when you look at the demographics of voters in west virginia, it is a state that was overwhelmingly favorable to president trump. the question is always could any other democrat other than joe manchin ever win that state, at least in the current construct? there is always the tension with the democrats -- would the democrats rather not have to be relying on senator manchin is a tie breaking vote, but with a rather have senator manchin and have the ability to have senator schumer calling

the massive flooding and now the state of emergency in virginia. the urgent search for 40 people unaccounted for. authorities releasing that number just before we came on tonight. the flooding has been devastating. floodwaters roaring through the valley triggering landslides there, closing roads. search and rescue teams across the region at this hour. homes swept clear off their foundations. some landing hundreds of feat away. while in college park, maryland, straight line winds downs trees and causing lights to flicker there. tens of thousands in the dark tonight. those powerful winds splitting this home into two. one person inside was taken to the hospital. while back in buchanan county, virginia, tonight, authorities are urging people to call a missing persons hotline to help them locate family members and neighbors. abc's kenneth moton leading us off tonight from the storm zone. >> reporter: tonight, after powerful storms raked the east coast, a desperate search underway in rural buchanan county, virginia. officials there say after up to six in

that process is underway in virginia. we have five minutes left so let's use that to wrap this discussion up. what do you think hope will happen as a result of this conversation and your book? ms. thompson: i hope people are surprised and confused when reading. surprised out of their certainties to come together and have a real conversation instead of thinking they know what the history is and what the future should be. i hope people take another look at monuments, including those in their communities. i could not write about every monument in america but i think people should dig into the history of monuments they see every day and ask themselves if they want it representing their community. susan: is there a central location developed where people who research this is being gathered? ms. thompson: that would be a good idea. i think wikipedia is the best answer so far. susan: what are your thoughts on your own role going forward? ms. thompson: we will see. i think i have acted as a legal consultant to certain cases, what

this virginia bar association event is about 90 minutes. [applause] >> think you so much. i want to thank steve bush, paul atkinson for their exceptional work for the work they did to get this program together. the events of january 6 are feared in our memories. i use that firm appropriately. the only connection, the only other example i can think of is 9/11. i think in each instance we actually saw this in real time, almost as if we were there. but we have to get past those images and we have to ask ourselves why did it occur? who or what is responsible, and perhaps most importantly for our discussion today, how do we prevent it from happening again? that is why this panel and these four individuals are so extraordinary so we can hear them altogether. we will spend the better part of an hour with each one of them giving us their thoughts and perhaps i will have a follow-up question or two. then we will do the audience questions. at the end of this 90 minute period i expect we will know more than we already do about these critically important events. our apostle -- our pan

west virginia senators joe manchin and o pay tribute to him on the senate for. here are their remarks. >> the last surviving world war ii medal of honor recipient of west virginia and one of the last of the greatest generation. before i began today, i want to recognize members of woody's family who are here today with us in the gallery, and i want to say thank you for being here and thank you for sharing woody all those years with me and shelley and all of our west virginians. we're here to respect woody's wishes of honoring all veterans and their families and to pay

chair, he yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from virginia. the chair: the gentlelady is recognize the forked minutes. ms. spanberger: mr. speaker, i rise in support of my amendment to protect seniors and crack down on drug companies obscuring the side effects of their prescription drugs in their television ads. the united states is one of only two countries that allow direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and there are serious consumer safety concerns about these ads. these ads use distracting imagery such as butterflies, happy puppies, cheesy music and beautiful sunrises to distract consumers from a drug's dangerous side effects. congress instructed f.d.a. to crack down on these deceptive techniques more than a decade ago. however f.d.a. has misused that statutory deadline by more than a decade. my amendment simply instructs the agency to finalize the rulemaking as soon as possible. medical decisions should always be made between a patient and their doctor, not between a patient and their tv screen. i urge my colleagues to support my

virginia. news on the urgent search tonight. and at least 100 homes there damaged, many lifted right off their foundations. rescuers now marking cars that they've searched with pink tape. >>> the war in ukraine tonight. the horror revealed. surveillance video seen online showing that deadly missile strike. at least 23 people killed. the death toll rising tonight. russia targeting offices and apartment buildings southwest of kyiv. >>> president biden's mideast trip tonight. the tensions on display in israel over how to handle iran. and tomorrow's controversial strib to saudi arabia. president biden was pressed today, will he bring up the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi? how the president responded made immediate news. mary bruce traveling with the president. >>> tonight, the 10-year-old ohio girl who was raped who had to travel to indiana after roe was overturned to get an abortion, well tonight, the indiana attorney general now indicating he will investigate the doctor who helped her. >>>

search effort in western virginia. authorities scouring some 30 miles of roads and rivers and 400 structures in the wake of devastating flash floods. >> crews were out all night last night and there was five crews out this morning. >> reporter: officials say all of the 44 people once unaccounted for have now been found alive. at least 100 homes are severely damaged. this street is full of them. if you look up above, you can see houses swept clean off their foundations. this one dragged across the street into their neighbor's front yard. that neighbor is robert rife. >> the car got lodged under the house and kept it from coming any farther. so it probably saved my house. >> reporter: for a time, robert himself was on the list of people feared missing. >> i'm here. and alive and well. >> reporter: good. the flash flooding was caused by a stalled front that dumped six inches of rain tuesday night. look how high the water line was. this is well above my head. this is basically as tall as the front windows. with zero cell s

and virginia where some of the heaviest rain will be falling. i take you through today. you do see a bit of a bull's-eye there. to pay attention to the timestamp up in the corner. not just a today issue. a stationary front. it just continues on and on. more rain falling across eastern kentucky and tennessee. taking you into next weekend. still an area where you are seeing more rainfall. not as much rain as we saw last week. another three-5 inches on already saturated ground and that will be enough to let those rain totals pileup more and see a little bit more flooding on top of all the rain all the heavy rain we are paying attention to a lot of heat in the western states where getting up in the pacific northwest, an area where it does not typically get this hot, battling with extreme heat again. heat advisories. temperatures in the middle 90s at least. arthel: it is hot out there. thanks, adam. eric speed to a second major u.s. city has declared a celt of urgency over the rising cases of monkeypox. what you need to know about the possible risk t

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a lot of jobs in west virginia are tied to that. was there something his state wasn't going to get out of this that may be other states were, that made him pull the plug on it? >> unfortunately no. senator manchin has had so much leverage. he could have delivered amazing resources and investments to west virginia. i'm sure he could have gotten fossil investments out of this deal. senator manchin was not acting in the interest of his constituents, people who work in the fossil fuel industry or people who don't in west virginia. when we wonder who he is working for, we can look at the fact that he has received more campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry than any other politician in congress right now. that includes every single republican. we can also look at the fact that he has personally profited from coal. over 10 years, senator manchin has made $5 million from the coal industry. he makes $500,000 every year and that is three times as much as his senate salary. it is not about doing the right thing for his constituen

mile district which we are in right now and in 1835 they gave back part of virginia to virginia because it wasn't being used and i happen to live there now. so the democrats come along and say district of columbia should be a state. we should allow people to vote. i'm for voting rights. that sounds great but let me think of a different solution. why don't we give back part of maryland to maryland if it's not being used? because it's already a state and access. there areagainst that . why? why wouldn't you just give back to maryland which is maryland which by the way is the same g we did to virginia and you keep this enclave from about here to the white house, carved that out with afederal district . thatseems to make the most sense but again what's the real motive ? it's about getting two senators and if we don't scratch the surface of the arguments we miss the real motive at hand . >> it's amazing the way the left works because they almost convince you. we've been talking about that that imperative action. they almost convince you it's sad telling you it's water and that's a huge probl

i just saw a documentary on the university of virginia. where it was, you know, under the regime of thomas jefferson, you know? guest: yes. caller: he told folks, don't bring slaves. we have slaves for you here. but no one wants to know that, even though i believe they know that. they don't want anybody else to know it. mr. buckley, he was supporting glenn youngkin -- you know why? they just had glenn youngkin on the other day and he did everything he could not to admit that they sabotaged the election using books to make folks think. every time their children have some kind of conscience, don't make people think they have responsibility. we all have the responsibility to tell the truth. host: ok, debbie. we will give ellis cose a chance to respond here. guest: it's unfortunate that you have a lot of politicians who want to, in effect, burn books, bar the truth about american history because they think their rationale, it will make white students feel bad -- that's just idiotic. it's teaching ignorance. you certainly can teach these subjec

they taught in alexandria virginia. a another school in south carolina during the war. harriet tubman photographed. basically this is her way of getting people to move north and this is a young photograph as she imagines her life in the studio. one of the most important battles of the war of 54 he wrote letters and diary entries and was newly married to a young wife. i see some of the phrases in these experiences. these are some of the black soldiers that are part of the 54 in the album collection and the range of images. photograph of charles douglas, the son of frederick douglass when he entered the war and a photograph of his other son when he entered the war. we begin to see we need to read the sense of masculinity, the purpose, the purposeful poses and this is the first time we can see the love with a mother writing and explaining the story. then we see love through the relationship of lewis douglas and his fiancÉe, amelia. she writes to him and he writes to her i've been in two fights and i'm about to go to another. he says if i survive i will write you a long le

host: stephen in virginia on the democrats line. caller: the congressman is doing a great job articulating a message that the democrats are failing with. on january 6, mike pence would not get in the secret service car. republicans did wonderful work from 2016 to 2022, but the only thing wrong with the economy was covid. on january 21, it is all biden's fault. all of the pain that the country was then, but january 21, covid ruined the trump economy. host: congressman, go ahead. guest: even in times of national emergency, republicans play games and they will put process over people. they have always stood for putting politics over people. since january 21, we have dealt with the pandemic and its effect on people's pocketbooks. we put people back to work, children back to school. it is always joe biden is responsible for inflation. joe biden is responsible for everything. he is, but he is doing a great job. they are the ones trying to change the narrative, trying to get people to see a different way of the difficulties we are facing.

there is no way of hn one it is prohibited that actually virginia can say west virginia can save look with a voter is registered in binghamton so now you can actually vote twice in an election. again as ken stated in his opening remarks this undermines the right of every citizen to vote and undermined the integrity of my vote counting. and that's why people feel like this is a top issue. look, it's been the number one issue in my district for a long time. on the net displays by gas prices and by inflation. and people still care about it. it's really important issue, thank you. >> look, i think it's important to understand that the way we get fair, transparent elections in this country is through each and everyone of you all participating the things that afpi are doing can give you the tools. but i think that virginia showed us the virginia elections last year showed us the power that people have when actually get involved in the system. when you start to say guess what, i want to get involved, i want to go watch, i want to poll watch. what is he what's going on inside of my precinct.

level to seattle for muslims. virginia, along with the planned offensive of 150000 ukranian troops and don baths and crimea . nato developed to plan to launch preventive missile strikes on russia's retreat is actively russia preempted. these steps moves into the cylinder storm. so graham scheme, norwood boonies are used to own before the football ball. no. when you're still probably in im. fischer, michigan for an interim. look to which in them and of course the proper should it not season. so by should it do not suit the rooster d sports which will korean look up in storm young usually have a seat. the operation has already yielded visible results. much of the dynette skin lugens people's republics, has some region thought of hock of region and zappa rogia of been liberated from the neo nazis. the ukrainian armies defense system. and don bass has been practically dismantled. the battle that don bass is in full swing and its outcome is being decided. i essentially, this battle has been going on for the last 8 years since 2014, when a coup d'etat was staged under nazi flags and slogan,

he's from west virginia and he makes tons of money off coal. we know what's going on here. >> to take your point, though, you're saying if i'm reading you correctly, chuck schumer is not exactly lyndon johnson. he's not exactly -- like, he put manchin as chairman of the natural resources committee. >> in pennsylvania, there's a county called carbon county. what do they make? coal. it's west virginia, joe manchin is never going to vote for anything that does -- >> then he shouldn't pretend he's going to. that's the point. >> i agree with kirsten. i think some of this is, you say why are you fooled again? and it's joe manchin has the idea of what joe manchin is in the u.s. senate. right? joe manchin is the guy who works across party lines and gets stuff done. so he keeps putting himself in that position and then he acts like, oh, my gosh. what happened? everyone is misunderstood except for you. if you keep getting misunderstood and everyone thinks something else, you may not be the one who is misunderstood. >> or maybe chuck schumer is not interp

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but to the good people of west virginia, you got snookered. you got taken to the cleaners alone, just week this week he has recklessly added more spending more than 7000 billion dollars ind more spending. is that going to help youmo hit the gas tank? g is thatoi going to help you with inflation? no. and he raised taxess. on everybody is going to feel that in west virginia and the coal industry also got a tax increase. so gooddu luck going back and explaining that shelley moore capito, she got it right. but joe manchin, don't believe that he thinks he stands on principle. he raises taxes, spends likera a democrat and the people of this country are going tot t py the price, especially there in west virginia. i am so disappointed in thisga guy. he talks a good game. buthe then when the push ofve the shove, he h just falls like a house of cards. , say look atrlie this objectively. i just cannot wrap my mind around the idea without anyth real alternative. they say, well, we're going to will be energy independent with renewables. have that technolog

connolly of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute [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 proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. pramila jayapal, mr. peter defazio, mrs. ann kirkpatrick, mr. bill pascrell, mr. albio sires, and mr. donald payne, fi inform the house that these members will vote yes on the connelly amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from utah seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. herrera beutler from washington, i inform the house

virginia by yourself, black lady, you should be afraid put i went and we had this conversation. i called him bob in the book. that's not his name. it was so interesting because part of me was like i am not going to confront him about being a confederate reenactor and i've been socialized -- as a southern black woman, girl, you don't start this dust because it can explode bit i was fascinated and i realized because his passion is to live inside history as is mine and yet i couldn't figure out why he wanted to live inside that part of history and i couldn't ask him but he told me this story about glasses. for the first time, free and actors you have to be, if you read confederate in the attic you know the senate helped me because i knew lots of questions to ask him because i read that book so he tells me, he goes into the field and they are like you got to take off those glasses because everything has to be authentic and accurate for the time period. so he's like okay, i have to get glasses from the 19th century so super expensive and they took a long time and then he gets them an

in west virginia. and yet i get to west virginia and that's the first conversation. so the confederate actor is one of these sort of moments of kismet and this is a man who is an archivist by profession. and we bonded over that. yes. yes, and he is a confused. he's a reenactor for marilyn regiment and he spends his leisure time working volunteering at harpers ferry, which is the site of john brown's raid. that was an he intended to emancipate africans. he wanted to sort he sort of and tried to start a civil war that would free black people before the civil war actually happened, but in some ways he failed like in almost immediately they were defeated and some people thought it was a suicide mission right like frederick douglass right was like, yeah. i'm not very good called in sick right here was like, i'm not feeling well and so, you know, we don't know if she actually was not feeling well, she was like that. it was just it was not a very well thought out plan arguably but a passionate. one, you know