Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding provided by. Governor Terry Mcauliffe, welcome to firing line. Margaret, great toe back with you. So you are the former governor of virginia, the former Democratic National ammittee chair, and youve been out of politics for 40 years. Yes. Most people know you because of your prolific fundraising capabilities and your closeness with thelintons, but now that you have been in the seat of governance, which did you like better, raising money or governing . There is nothing like being governor because you really can get out of bed every single day, and through executivr, you can get a lot of things done. You can help peoples lives. You know, i restored more felon rights than any governor in american history. I was able, opth a swipe of my pen, to give 200,000 back the right to vote. And you focus much on racial issues, especially this book that youve written, beyond charlottesville, t which ing a stand against White Nationalism, which were
Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Governor Terry Mcauliffe, welcome to firing line. Margaret, great to be back with you. So you are the former goveor of virginia, the former Democratic National committee chair, and you been in and out of politics for 40 years. Yes. Most people know you because of yolific fundraising capabilities and your closeness with the clintons, but now that you have been in the seat of governance, which did you like better, raising money or governing . Mo there is nothing like being governor because you really can get out of bedy evngle day, and through executive order, you can get a lot of things done. You can help peoples lives. As you know, i restored more felon rights than any governory in american history. I was able, with a swipe of my pen, to give 0,000 people back the right to vote. And you focus much onal rassues, especially this book that youve written, beyond charlottesville, aiwhich is taking a stand t White Nationali
That we keep thinking we hit rock bottom. I suspect we thought that two years ago, and we are bottoming out again. So, governor, congratulations on the book and thank you for making time to talk about it. Thank you, dahlia, great to be here today. Host i wonder if we could start with the question that hovers a little bit over your first couple of chapters in book and then hovers over so much of the debate were having right now in america and its this question of place. I think its not an accident that you start the book saying that when you wanted to run for novembers virginia, people said to you, youre from new york, youre from florida, youre not from here. I lived in charlottesville for 17 years and heard, youre not from here asian lot, but i think it has a funny echo in the things say when people protest immigrants. Youre not from here. And you clearly anxious about establishing that, look, im from here, lift here most of my life. I live and work here. Why are we having this convers
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