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to the south, sumpter was a standing menace.on's defenses. >> beauregard had been at west point pupil of anderson's. and they were actually friends. >> reporter: he built confederate batteries all around the harbor. >> these were so close, on still nights men could hear the heavy equipment as the confederates were establishing their batteries to kill them. >> reporter: how badly outnumbered was anderson? >>oh, incredibly. 25 to 1. >> reporter: but surrendering sumpter, lincoln wrote, would be our national destruction consummated. for three months, the tense standoff persisted. >> major anderson was frustrated with the communication from washington? >> very. he was left here to determine the fate of america. >> reporter: at 4:30 a.m. on april 12th, 1861, confederate guns opened fire. over two days, more than 3,300 shells and balls would rain across the harbor. how badly did they damage the fort. >> in the course of the attack, they never breached the walls. >> reporter: fire ultimately forced major anderson so surrender. remarkab
to the south, sumpter was a standing menace.on's defenses. >> beauregard had been at west point pupil of anderson's. and they were actually friends. >> reporter: he built confederate batteries all around the harbor. >> these were so close, on still nights men could hear the heavy equipment as the confederates were establishing their batteries to kill them. >> reporter: how badly outnumbered was anderson? >>oh, incredibly. 25 to 1. >> reporter: but...
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issue, the first attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power since the cannons fired at fort sumpter. the conservatives in the court and the framing of the question adopted the motion that what is knew here and extraordinary needs to be justification is the prosecution itself. and in so doing, what they did was as you said quite well, adopted the most cynical sort of authoritarian and relative view of all this that trump himself adopts. which is any prosecutor can prosecute anyone with anything. and we saw this in the colorado case as well. this assumption that everyone below this court. these austere gentlemen, everyone below them are impeccable hacks. what if a red state court gets them off the ballot? a democrat gets prosecuted by a republican. we are the only ones who see clearly. we don't trust all the other process happening beneath us. the district court and the appellate court and the grand jury and the prosecutor and the department of justice and the attorney general. all of that, no. we get to say. never considering they are the political hacks. the people who are actually
issue, the first attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power since the cannons fired at fort sumpter. the conservatives in the court and the framing of the question adopted the motion that what is knew here and extraordinary needs to be justification is the prosecution itself. and in so doing, what they did was as you said quite well, adopted the most cynical sort of authoritarian and relative view of all this that trump himself adopts. which is any prosecutor can prosecute anyone with...
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that before one shell was shot at fort sumpter the church had split over the issue of slavery.ted states, the temptation of idols that can lead to the distortion of one's faith and one's belief. that's why i have to ask you, what's the substance of the false white gospel, why not just a false gospel? how are we to respond to this? in the book you give the wonderful passages from the bible, take us to the word as a way to respond to what we're seeing. give us a sense what can we do in the face of what you described? >> as we both know, our demons, our racial demons run very deep, run very deep. so this is a time to bring the story back. bring that story back. so i've taken six iconic biblical texts. you'll know the truth says jesus and the truth will set you free. and the opposite of truth isn't just lying, it's captivity. truth and freedom are indivisibleable we have a lot of people who are stuck. and the false white gospel is coopted by nationalism. a gospel coopted by nationalism and the good samaritan story which i love, i tell in the book. here's jesus lifting up the samari
that before one shell was shot at fort sumpter the church had split over the issue of slavery.ted states, the temptation of idols that can lead to the distortion of one's faith and one's belief. that's why i have to ask you, what's the substance of the false white gospel, why not just a false gospel? how are we to respond to this? in the book you give the wonderful passages from the bible, take us to the word as a way to respond to what we're seeing. give us a sense what can we do in the face...
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the first attempt on the union since the cannon fired at fort sumpter should knock a person's poll ratingsop, that stuff is not popular. that stuff has been a little lost, i think to memory that if he is in power and if there's a republican majority and a republican senate, they're going to try that again. he just did a fundraiser with john paulson where he told everyone, i'm going to get you another tax cut, don't worry. they're going to make another run at health care. there's a lot of things the government can do and did do the first time to pare back enrollment in medicaid. i'm in the same boat. we're doing this on the podcast, because it gives us time and depth to drill down into this stuff, because the whirlwind of psychosis that is the donald trump experience so sort of overwhelms in other ways. >> so january 6th is obviously extraordinary important to us that people remember that. but let's talk about issues, again, the brass tacks of it, of the three things you just brought up. donald trump passes the largest tax cut ever for billionaires and multinational corporations. that night
the first attempt on the union since the cannon fired at fort sumpter should knock a person's poll ratingsop, that stuff is not popular. that stuff has been a little lost, i think to memory that if he is in power and if there's a republican majority and a republican senate, they're going to try that again. he just did a fundraiser with john paulson where he told everyone, i'm going to get you another tax cut, don't worry. they're going to make another run at health care. there's a lot of things...