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
For today. Not only do th see , but were also seeing the very hot temperatures. You can see the temperatures right now. On the warm side. Again, the temperatures are in the 90s right now. You see the 70s out there. Thats where weme have so rain showers rolling through the area. Let me show you the showers and storms that ar out there. We have a severew thunderstorm ning to the south and west for loudoun, clark, warren, fauquier and Rappahannock County until 4 30. Well continue to watch that as it moves up the north and east at a pretty good rate, about 35 Miles Per Hour. Could have a downburst so well continue to watch the storm as remainder of the the afternoon. Can you see the storms are leading all the way back into west virginia. Of course we he the heat advisory until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Its rather warm around here, beotuse its narm enough already. The heat indices are well into the triple digits at this moment. Were going to continue to trac. This stor just to the south and west
Odington, bowie. Croften, were going to see the storms coming tough with a vengeance, if youre just to ths of this line, that are you taking coverage now. We do have reports of tes on houses in gaithersburg, also in poolesville. A portion of Montgomery Co ty. These are pushing through the baltimore beltway. Just now exiting or getting ready to exit the eastern side of the d. C. Beltway. These warnings continue to push out in front of it. We will see annapolisn its wake. Bowie along 50. Heavy rain, damaging winds, Power Outages reported and trees are beingo talk about timing. Theres more storms and rain behind the line so well show talk about let the heat that was the main story today. Its not over yet. Building for the weekend. Well show you that coming up. Lets get to breaking news. The weather lauren is talking about caung mage. Erica gonzales is working that story at the live desk. We pick things up where lauren left them. Ea the h has made it a tough day for firefighters who have h
[applause] [applause] hey, come on here. [applause] as speaker of the house of toegates, its my pleasure present you the governor of the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] gov. Mcauliffe thank you. [laughter] gov. Mcauliffe thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow virginians, good evening. Speaker cox, senator newman, justices of the supreme court, ladies and gentlemen of the virginia General Assembly, i do once again appreciate the opportunity to address you one final time. [applause] gov. Mcauliffe i would be careful. Last year, every republican i gave a shout out, they are not back this year in the chamber. [applause] [laughter] gov. Mcauliffe you guys have done just fine. Before i begin seriously, i would let the think speaker bill howell for his many years of service to this commonwealth and to tell him and his family that we are praying for his speedy recovery. [applause] gov. Mcauliffe i would also like to take this opportunity to congratulat