>> i have been chased debris construction and for many years the corruption uncovered chasing the way their newspapers got the wrong story but for the book about paranoia, i was dealing with ameritech coming out of the most devastating war right now

three-quarters of a million americans died in incalculable numbers more than others put together. looking at the way people respond how you put the company back together again for the with many historians why put them to come together? why was there a compromise for those who wanted to do as little as possible or to do it radical way. why wasn't there a reasonable alternative? but then you need reasonable people. but what happened of just about everybody has a wild paranoid fantasies people are out to undermine the republic would if they really think those people are not disagree with them but are part of a conspiracy

to destroy the american freedom? what if they begin to have evidence this is the case? wars don't just create physical empathic lord justice jury towns. they destroyed people's sense of rationality they you believe the impossible become very possible then you see them anywhere per you can imagine what is happening if you are a white then you know, when christmas comes there will be an uprising of the former slaves so they can get a hold of their with men and women and to in terms of policy. if you read the cabin you

take the guns and their arms and get rid of the right to bear arms and you do some judicious killing was there? of course, not. it was absolutely invented. was there any reality to put the fear if they run right set free? but the only blood bath in the south was white people killing black people and when they were slaves they had were property they had value but now they're not. imagines louisiana where in the course of 20 years you have 2500 people being killed by white people or imagine in georgia you have

500 rhaetian the motivated assaults and killings and to you know, what iraq was light for you have been around iraq to thousand four is like vienna it is bloody and ugly and this is going on. it is a scary time. you could not imagine once and then to be killed by the assassin to an - - the assassin said he could rise again. but for anybody would believe that abraham lincoln was like caesar but that is the reality of john wilkes booth. you can believe that maybe andrew johnson was part of

the conspiracy to get to the top. you can believe the conspiracy was part of holland standing people to kill a president. jube say that is not all that crazy? but since the party was founded, who are the presidents of the opposition party? one was harrison and he died in office but they said it was pneumonia and the next was zachary taylor and he got in the way of the selfie and he died in office but how convenient then abraham lincoln and there is the pattern and democrats say but then to the what type of

message does that send the there is a broader conspiracy out there and people believed it. there were books but it is all parts of the mindset end if you have another president who believes members of the congress ought to compare themselves to christ that think members plan to kill, kill 8 million americans in the south it is a level of irrationality that is incredible. suppose did the president of the united states said today if you want me to say where the traders of the united states? i say mitch mcconnell. speaker boehner. the heads of fox news channel of their type are traders said the united states.

the plan of the united states congress to kill at least 8 million americans? the suppose said congress the body that claims to be the congress of the united states suppose he said that what would you say? he needs to be carried off to the cookie factory but there is not a question that this is serious enough what i am doing is andrew johnson and is doing exactly that. you may think this is rational but i don't. i think it is very dangerous and the guy who thinks that way asking but the government that declares

itself but to think well will he do about it? with but then he would break into a cold sweat. >> host: andrews johnson was the grave but was a slave holding but the president and abraham lincoln was nominated then picked john gave republican ticket. his carriage of principles and believed in the constitution is not expensive is real and

sincere. his contempt for black people is also very real and very sincere. andrew johnson wanted to bring the country together as fast as possible and inouye to make sure that would not have been so in 1865 he used his presidential authority to start the process with state government run by that dominates the south end they did not change this. >> the but the ability to testify in court they thought the law was on their side.

is a daycare very clear he was not on their side but to suggest this congress had no right to pass such a bill because the states were not represented so their mate not be legal congress so he again and again rejects compromise in the most violent terms. he will make a speech in which he will declare that congress plans to kill 8 million white southerners than declare there is a treasonous conspiracy against his life that leading members of the congress are traitors to the united states and he will charge that congress may not be legal but the results is the members increasingly see have as a person you cannot negotiate with the ordeal with a and a person who may have designs to overthrow the republic itself but

johnson really believes for people who want to create not the america the you know, but their teachers they different tyrannical america from businessmen and wildlife fanatics who believe in the equality of mankind. there are two groups and by 1867 the fear is so great that people in the congress are terrified as long as branches in charge you are okay or a the -- edward stanton purpose of these people will never sell you out as the enemy there will never let him overthrow the republic to undo reconstruction but when the president fire the secretary

of for in violation of a lot of congress immediately your thought is it is step one of the coup d'etat. and on the floor of the congress said didn't i warn you? what good did your leniency do you? if you don't kill the beast it will kill you so that is why you need peace with this man because you are afraid if he gets a hold of that army of reconstruction is gone and that is one reason why johnson is acquitted by one vote because he gives the guarantees to wavering satin jacket -- savages that it will be a person they can trust and general grant can trust but the moment that happens a number of senators decide they will vote to

acquit which is why he is cave's contingent - - conviction by one vote 35 to confect common 19 in order to acquit. they need two-thirds vote and without seven republican senators they would not have got it. those votes would not have been there would is a looking like? of course, we have gotten far even if it is done with an end in advance what happened after and during the civil war is tremendous you could go to a black family to say in 1900, you know, longer can vote what are you against? shocking that jim crow environment with falling prey to any white man there is the lynch mob out there.