rosalyn: i will answer that.people to get along and that is something she tried to do early in the white house years, which was to be fair and greet people and encourage people regardless of what party they were in, in terms of women i think she may have been persuaded to be a feminist, but it is kind of hard to tell. susan: well, we are out of time, and i hope we have done what we set out to do, which was to provide a more nuanced picture of mary todd lincoln, the wife of our 16th president. i want to say a special thank you to the white house historical association who has been our partner and will be our partner throughout our series, 35 installments of this all together, and to our two special guests, richard norton smith and rosalyn terborg-penn, for your contributions tonight. thanks for being with us. rosalyn: my pleasure. richard: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and

rosalyn jordan, al jazeera state department. >> the international organization for migration is trying to play down fears of a mass deportations of haitians from the dominican republic. human rights groups say the law is prejudiced against haitians. adam rainey visited the main area where people said discrimination goes back decades. >> little haiti where people of haitian dissent settle, i asked maureen why so many haitians have settled in the dominican republic rear haiti. rather than haiti. >> we came here for the is universities and there's so much violence there that's why we cemented here. >> reporter: ann maria still feels like an outsider. >> admin kansas that can't find work, they see us as enemies and treat us like trash. >> haitians by dissent born here 58-year-old andre joseph had lived in the dominican republic since he was ten. our team complete him on the haitian side of the border after he was deported on thursday. >> i have nothing left. the next chapter of my life will be determined by the authorities. >> on friday the country's foreign minister rather than focusing o

on behalf of the national board of directors lead by rosalyn mcalister block, our special contribution fund lead by dr. dennis procter, and the divisions of the naacp all across this country. we come to this place, in this historic city a city in which i spent a great amount of time as a little boy, by grandfather owning a barbershop not too far from here growing up in a little town not too far from here called georgetown being a minister four generations in that church this tragedy hits close to home the idea that a pastor could gather his flock in an historic sanctuary, to study the scripture, to study the gospel penned by the life and sacrifice of the prince of peace, and in that place, in that moment a stranger who has no doubt extended the hand of fellowship, and the hand of welcome, perhaps extended a bible, so that he might study the scripture with these congregates at the historic' manual african methodist episcopal church and that a stranger welcomed into the house of god, by the children of god, could spend an hour in fellowship, an hour in study, and then perhaps lay down a

rosalyn jordan has more. >> when u.s.efense secretary ash carter met recently with chinese general the two promised to work together on disaster relief, counterterrorism and peace keeping medications restricting air and sea travel on what is recognized as international territory in the be south china sea. and the u.s. expressed concern over the choirnz chinese reclamation efforts in the spratley islands. >> responsibility and capability to provide better public security service. >> reporter: even as beijing says it's about to finish the that project the obama administration is calling it a bad idea. >> nothing's changed about our view of these destabilizing activities there in the south china sea. and i suspect that this will be an issue that comes up, in fact i know it will come up next week. >> reporter: secretary of defense john kerry will host the economic dialogue in washington on june 23rd and 24th. efforts to expand its military efforts in the south pacific are be expected to dominate the talk. those two are expect

but as rosalyn jordan reports the report also highlights increased acts of terror around the world. >> reporter: from the many be be shool attacks toal shabaab attacks to tren was a very violent2014increased 35% and total fatalities increased 81% compared to 2013, largely due to activity in iraq, afghanistan and nigeria. >> reporter: i.s.i.l.'s takeover of eastern syria and northern iraq in 2013 be coousmed much of the world's attention. in nigeria nigeria, boko haram be kidnapped some 300 school girls from the town of chibok. the girls are still missing. the much more difficult problem of so-called lone wolves. >> be retaliation by afghanistan and iraq. >> who then attack civilians. the shootings in ottawa and quebec and the hostage crisis at a coffee shop in sydney are two of the more prominent incidents in the past year. the government says the numbers don't tell the entire story but that has some asking whether this is aggravating the situation by being in these countries in the first place. one analyst says it's really a balancing act. >> i think we're articulating this idea, und

al jazeera roz rosalyn jordan looks at other issues that are on the agenda. >> when u.s. secretary of defense ash carter met with the chinese foreign minister the two promised to work on certain missions, but to restrict air and sea travel in what is recognized as international territory in the south china sea. the americans also expressed concern at china's land reclamation project in the spratley islands. it is a project beijing insists it has to do. >> as the biggest economy in asia and the biggest country in the south china sea china has responsibility to provide better security service. >> reporter: even as beijing says it's about to finish that project the obama administration is calling it a bad idea. >> nothing has changed about our view of these destabilizing activities there in the south china sea. >> reporter: china's efforts to expand its military activities in the south china sea are certain to dominate the talks. but political ambitions are also on the agenda and economists say those too are set to generate conversation. beijing supported hackers have been b

rosalyn jordan reports. >> kurdish flag flying over bl tal abyad syria, won back the border town from i.s.i.l. on tuesday. but u.s. military leaders say the war against the group is far from over. in part because of the lack of iraqi manpower. the defense secretary says it's unlikely the goal of training 24,000 iraqi military recruits will be reached by the end of the year. right now u.s. advisors have trained just 7,000. >> we have had unused capacity in our training equipped sites in iraq because iraq hasn't furnished us with trained troops. now it has to turn around. >> chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey says the situation is difficult especially since the fall of ramadi dempsey suggested it might be ending sooner rather than later and that the u.s. was talking with its allies about how to respond. >> it's generally the consensus there that in the near term it's probably more likely that the regime would limit its -- would go over to the defensive and limit its protection of the aloite shia and some of the minority groups, leaving the rest of shia essentially ungo

rosalyn jordan explains. >> at every opportunity in the last three days u.s. officials say they raise the concern of cyber security with their chinese counterparts. u.s. secretary of state john kerry said both countries came up with a form to deal with the action. >> we believe strongly that the united states and china should be working together to develop and implement a shared understanding of appropriate state behavior in cyber space and i'm pleased to say that china agreed that we must work together to complete a code of conduct regarding cyber activities. >> chinese officials however are bristling at the suggestion that they or people working at their behest may have been hacking into u.s. government computers one official said on wednesday the u.s. should be very careful and to only bring up matters with the facts and not innuendo. >> rosalyn jordan in washington. >>> tents, set up by the occupy central movement which protested daily in the central business district before finally being shut down by the government. >>> with greece just days away from a p

one of the persons responsible for migrant and refugee issues, talked to rosalyn jordan. henshaw at the u.s. state department. here is what he said. >> what comes to me is the horror that people would take such a dangerous journey and driving them to do such dangerous things and risk their lives at sea. i think it's illustrative of how bad the situation is that people are running from. traffickers are usually operating in areas where there is very lil legal authority and they take advantage of people and run their trafficking networks. civil war is the basis for many of the crisises in the crises around the world. if you want to see the crisis end, if you want to see people go home then politicians and diplomats have to find the way to end these crises. more than half a billion that we have created have gone inside syria. we've worked through united nations and nongovernmental organization he to bring about the aid to the country. but it's very very difficult. syrian government makes it very difficult for organizations to bring aid throughout the country and then it's the

rosalyn jordan, al jazeera. >> neither side was able to advance into the region that was once syria's commercial hub. >>> u.n. is appealing for $1.6 billion to help prevent yemenis from suffering a humanitarian traj. there are fears of an outbreak of dengue fever. >>> negotiations in geneva collapsed on friday without an agreement or a truce. >> reporter: the differences between the warring factions were too big to overcome. .the houthis were determined that air strikes led by saudi arabia had to stop before peace talks could move forward. but yemen's government said the houthis had to pull out of cities they control and stop shelling civilians before a deal could be done and the u.n. wasn't able to help reconcile that differences. >> translator: unfortunately from the start we had nothing solid to hold on onto. there is no way that the houthi parties will get involved in discussion with a government which is not elected or legitimate. >> both blame the other for not making concessions. >> we are still optimistic that we will go into a peaceful solution for yemen. under the umbrella o

. >> rosalyn jordan has more from washington d.c. >> it should not be surprising that president barack obama said the u.s. doesn't have a complete strategy for dealing with i.s.i.l. in iraq and syria but telling reporters on monday that the fight against i.s.i.l. in iraq is led by the iraqi government not by the obama administration so it would be inappropriate for the administration to try to dictate exactly how the i.s.i.l. fighters should be taken on particularly right now in anbar province. one thing that is also being stressed by u.s. officials is that the u.s. is basically trying to look at how to train fighters. it's already trained more than 8900 fighters in the iraqi military. however they say that one of the big problems is that prime minister haider al-abadi shas nothas notprovided enough recruits for additional training and as long as he is not providing enough recruits particularly from the sunni majority population it is going to be very difficult to take on i.s.i.l. in any comprehensive way. that said, the u.s. says it is committed with trying to come one a strategy and

want to let me metro riders know we have a delay on the blue line because of an earlier issue at the rosalynon. >>> on the inner loop of the beltway we are problem-free, especially from river road to cherry wood lane. no issues on i-66. from lee highway to north lee highway a 35 minute commute. the typical grind on 95 from the virginia side. a 1-minute commute for you. westbound on 50 you guys are good do go. no issues on the bw parkway or the maryland side. 395 from the 14th street bridge into town no issues there. for those of you heading southbound from frederick toward the beltway you are looking at a smooth commute, so no major issues there. >>> these workers will need to take plenty of breaks and drink a lot of water, they are beginning a project that could impact your life today. >>> we are back, after this. >>> police are searching for answers this morning after a map was shot and killed in forestville. eric talon bert was shot. >>> the prison worker accuse dollars of helping two convicted killers escape has a court appearance today. while joyce mitchell faces a judge in new york, hu

rosalyn penn is a history professor at meredith and morgan state university.the table again is the director of five presidential libraries including the abraham lincoln library in springfield illinois and a presidential biographer. thank you for being here. we will start with richard. mary todd is often viewed in broad strokes. criticism of her lavish spending and overly indulgent mother. if you look at a more nuanced picture, what do you see? >> that is why we need to get 90 minutes, to begin to get at the nuances. has been called the great american story, an integral part of the great american story. steven spielberg doesn't make movies about julia tyler or louisa adams. mary todd lincoln remains someone who is symbolically divisive, perhaps. to some, a heroin, others a victim. she is a surprisingly contemporary figure as well. >> i like her because she is so complex. i say i like her. elizabeth was her dressmaker and companion. she did not live at the white house a good deal of time. formerly enslaved, purchased her own freedom and was interviewed along wit

. >> i know they do it in rosalyn, probably a couple other places.le great thing to do on a hot summer night. beautiful. >>> in sports, the disabled list keeps on >>> well, the nates are getting pretty close to being able to field an entire team on the disabled list. >> pretty much. seems like every two weeks another key player goes on the dl for the nats. tonight, they begin a four-game set in milwaukee. and the nationals will play that series without their starting first baseman. this afternoon, ryan zimmerman was placed on the 15-day dl with a foot injury. zim batting only .209 this season but battling the foot problems all season long. >>> the opposite end, a guy red hot right now, infielder danny espinosa. he is starting tonight at shortstop in place of ian desmond, the night off due to rest. matt williams said yesterday after the game, he needs to find a place for espy swinging a hot bat lately, 3-4 -- 3-5 a single double and home run in yesterday's victory. over the last week, he is batting .438. >>> the naggals making a move today to help the

an earlier signal problem outside of rosalyn. and we have this marc issue penn south we have some trains cancelled. 403 407, 413 and 502. they will be honoring metro tickets. eastbound, southeast freeway, the ramp to south capital, the right lane is blocked because of a crash there. a car fire on university avenue at merrimack drive. 66, no major problems and 95 we're slow after you pass the river going over the oak akwan. and overall, prince george's county looking pretty good. inbound indian head highway a little slow as you approach the beltway. back in ten minutes where with a live look at 95. >>> in georgia, animals are still on the loose. they escaped during the big flood. rescuers aren't sure how many animals are still on the loose. two dozen people are still missing right now. zoo staff and animal workers had to round up tigers bears and a hippopotamus in the capital city of georgia. animals and zookeepers also drowned. >>> a massive water main break in west philly. this turned a neighborhood street into pretty much rifre

on behalf of the national board of directors led by rosalyn mcalester brock, our special fund led bynnis proctor and 2,100 branches and units of the naacp all across the length and breadth of this country. we come to this place at this moment in this historic city, a city in which i spent a great amount of time as a little boy, my grandfather owning a barbershop not to far from here, my uncle growiowning a barber s growing up in georgetown. being an african metti imethodi minister, this hits close to home. the idea that a pastor could gather his flock to study the scripture, to study the gospel penned by the life and sacrifice of the prince of peace sand in that place, in that moment a stranger who has no doubt extended the hand of fellowship and the hand of welcome. perhaps a bible so that he might study with these parishioners at the historic emmanuel african methodist episcopal church and that a stranger welcomed into the house of god by the children of god could spend an hour in fellow sh fellowship and then lay down a bible and take up a gun and lay nine people into untimely gra

. >> former president jimmy carter and first lady rosalyn carter sat down for a wide ranging congress nation at the aspen institute in colorado. they spoke with the ceo of about race relations, the middle east, and meeting with russian president vladimir putin. [applause] walter: when i told president carter we had an overflow crowd he said they all came for rosl slynn. so, thank you. the former president of the united states and mrs. carter, wellcome to aspen. i will start with a quick story because kathy and i are here at the aspen institute because of president and mrs. carter. you were the honor he at an aspen institute dinner in new york and kathy said, i excepted that dinner, and i'm thinking oh no. she said judy woodruff called and said president carter will be there. i said, great, and it was at that dinner they recruited me to come work at the aspen institute. i thought, yeah, that is cool. president carter: if he has not done a good job, it is my fault. [laughter] walter: believe it or not president carter is now 90. the title of this book is called "reflections at 8990." no