as lincoln recalled, "i met frederick seward. we went to my room together. when he told me that he had been sent at the instance of his father and general scott to inform me that their detectives am baltimore had discovered a plot there to assassinate me, i now believed such a plot to be in existence." all right. okay. i'm going to quickly finish up. there's one more -- two more points i want to make before i open it for questions. one is that allen pinkerton's reports talked about the road that the rowdies and the crowd were going to get up on the morning of february 23rd of 1861 he talks about how they had rotten eggs. and the plan was to throw these rotten eggs, and in the process this would draw the police away from protecting abraham lincoln and allow the assassins to move in and either shoot or stab abraham lincoln. my research found two independent newspaper articles that in fact reported seeing people with eggs that they were preparing to throw at lincoln once he arrived in baltimore. and one of the reports the eggs were even indicated as being foul-

now, while he's suggesting plan b, frederick seward arrives. william seward's son. while pinkerton was investigating this plot, detectives from new york who had also heard of these rumors of a plot were also been in baltimore. and they essentially confirmed independently the same sets of details that pinkerton and his team have. and the details of this plot are accompanied by notes from seward and general scott telling lincoln, you know, alter the itinerary. do something. take some type of evasive action. so on the strength of these two reports, lincoln decides that yes, he will come into baltimore in the middle of the night when no one expects him. so after he fulfills his commitments in pennsylvania, about 6:00 at night he gets on the train. mrs. warny had been very busy. she went and reserved the rear half of a sleeper coach, and she told the conductor that she was bringing her invalid brother along. he needed quiet and privacy so they hung a curtain between two parts of the car. they wrapped up lincoln in shawls and put a soft hat on him and told him to slouch s

it is what it is, you know. >> this is my second time here at seward. the last time i was here, oh my god. me and the boyfriend lived in the same cell. we had the matching comforters and the matching jackets and whatever. we had packages come in and always have the matching set or whatever. we were a little couple, you know what i'm saying? dysfunctional but it's all right. so i don't try as hard to stay out of prison like i should. which brings me back to places like this. >> though both sam and polando talk openly about their sexual experiences in prison, their outlooks are quite different. >> of course i'm not. oh, my god. i don't want to get into my partners. but you know. i'm not going to go without. please. >> let's see. i've had relationships before in jail that were long-standing. and you know, eventually they faded away or i left. i'm not concerned with sex, i'm concerned with my life. i'm at a stage in my life where i have to look outward. >> despite their successes, the alaska prison system is facing a crisis. most facilities like spring cree

. >> three items on this, and the last time we spoke about the significant seward project i talked about the environmental documentation and i was told that the meeting with the general manager -- i was told that we would make certain that the members of the waste water had a minimum notification list for the environmental determination. i did not see this, the first time i saw this was at the meeting. we have not yet fixed this. the second thing is that this change in the scope of the project, i now believe was brought to the waste water committee. we have certainly spoken about this project before, but i don't believe this particular change was brought before us. it sounds like a good idea and i am in support of this, but when we do this large of a change, we should be telling people about this and finally, there is a significant typo on the -- on attachment a of the sequa findings. the first paragraph -- the last line, of the improvement project located at these facilities -- this is not really. somebody should amend that attachment, and once again, they should have caught that. and p

i do know that seward is here for the california highway patrol and i want to extend my appreciation to them. at this time, i would like to introduce our last speaker, the project manager for this great project. brian peterson. >> good morning, everyone. it is a very exciting day. i appreciate the attendance we have here. it's a great day here. it's a beautiful day. we've got a lot of this evenings ahead of us here. today is one of many great days for the project and american bridge floor marks the erection of a last piece of bridge stack. and the final major piece of the fabricated steel for the project. today's piece will allow us to start the cable work in the months to come. so you'll see a dynamic change again in the bridge. we are proud of the fabrication that has been provided by dpmc and we thank them for all of their efforts. we're also very fortunate to have an experienced work force here on the project that can accomplish great feats like you see going on behind us. without their skill, without their effort, this wouldn't be possible. milestones like today are only achieve

efforts to exert some pressure on iran but it will certainly work through the united nations and seward that ascends impulse on iran will not seriously damn make you ron's interests and certainly china would also argue all. along the general footwork was certain that suffering piece of the respect in general iran can count on time to prepare is basic vital interest in phase of international pressure i don't tamper fast or political science at city university of hong kong thanks very much indeed for your thoughts here on r.t. . thank you. tell the stories now the international criminal court has given the libyan authorities more time to provide information about saif al islam gadhafi they miss the said deadline of january the tenth now the most prominent son of the country's late leader colonel gadhafi is being held in the western town of is in town he's charged by the hague with crimes against humanity the i.c.c. wants information about his health status in agreed to now wait until the twenty third of january they accept that gadhafi can be tried and leave if the country's room worse ca

the times favored william seward for president in 1860. they were converted to lincoln after the cooper union address, and they were reliably pro-lincoln in the 1860 election. in fact, i don't think anyone in any city today can imagine this occurring, at least from the print newspaper side, maybe from television. the editor of the "new york times" campaigned across new york state into the midwest for abraham lincoln, openly. you know, just for a quick diversion, president bill clinton wrote the proface to our book and made what seems like an obvious point, but it's a very interesting point that the analog of these fiercely partisan newspaper editors of the 19th century are the commentators on msnbc and fox today. the difference is those commentators are not willing to go so far to say i'm a john boehner republican or a president obama democrat. bill clinton's recommendation in the introduction was it might not be a bad idea if they did. it would make things more simpler and direct. we have the editor of the times covering and campaigning f

it began just after the civil war when the secretary of state then, william seward purchased alaska fromal infuriated the u.s. congress and the press called the territory a polar bear garden 30 years later things changed when prospect tores discovered gold there after world war ii the push for stayed hood began. another star joined the stripes 53 years ago today. and now you know the news for this tuesday, january the 3rd, 2012. i'm shepard smith. thanks for having us into your home. and iowans thanks for having us into your state. it's a fascinating process to watch. you might not think that the arcane way they do things around here is the right process for this all to begin. but it's how to works. tonight iowans begin an american tradition, choosing who our next leader will