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Susan our guest on newsmakers this week is tom steyer, the businessman, philanthropist, environmental activist has been spending much of his own money over the past year and a campaign to impeach president trump. We will talk about that effort organizationally and politically. We have two reporters here to ask questions, Niall Stanage and Darren Samuelsohn. Thank you for being with us. As we get started, two questions on the mechanics. What are the numbers on your website so far . How many people have you enlisted in your campaign to impeach the president . Tom i think we are somewhere over 3. 6 million people. I have not looked at it in the past couple of days. Im sure it is over 3. 6. Susan you are running ads in markets. Have any stations refused to run your ad . Tom foxs refused to run our as a couple of times. As far as i know everybody else has agreed. Susan what is your reaction to the reception do been getting . From the station owners . Tom i would say this has been we have ta
All of this event available at our Video Library at www. Cspan. Org. We are now taking you down to richmond, virginia. Attention. The are we all set . Everybody all set . Call to order, the Virginia State or of election on january 4, 2018. Have one item on our agenda this morning. Drawingre to conduct a of the winner of the house of delegates in the 94th district. Crowd. To say hi to the mr. Alcorn i do not believe mr. Yancey is here this morning, as is his right. He and his contingency have been caught in snow. E newport newshe norma area. They will be about 30 minutes late . I think we have added an update. We now have a local representative here. Mr. Alcorn thank you. Youre welcome to have a seat in front row. Civic sacrament of democracy, and this election has shown the importance of every vote in the power of one sickle vote. This election will certainly he ever monitored for everybody that every vote counts as we encourage all 12 virginians to participate in the election. I would
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