president trump: i can be the most presidential person ever, other than the possibly the great abe lincolnck: he is still obsessed with the crowd size at his inauguration. in a new interview he turned his attention to the group calling itself islamic state, syaing -- saying its fighters were sick and demented. trump: they do not wear uniforms, they are snooty, dirty rats. they blow people up in a shopping center and in a church. these are bad people. nick: the presidency is traveling at a hurtling pace. he's now calling for a 20% tax on mexican imports to pay for the wall. donald trump is reveling in his seat of power, whether it is in the oval office or at 30,000 feet. president trump: great plane. laura: allthis cross quarter -- cross border conflict comes as theresa may landed in the u.s. with an agenda of her own. she will meet with mr. trump tomorrow. earlier i spoke with someone to wrap this up. quite the busy day. we have seen many ties to donald trump a twitter war with the mexican president. how is president trump going to pay for that border wall now? >> just as he's trying to st

donald trump said, quote, i can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great abe lincoln. >> are you going to direct u.s. funds to pay for this wall? will american taxpayers pay for the wall? >> ultimately it will come out of what's happening with mexico. we'll be starting those negotiations relatively soon. and we will be in a form reimbursed by mexico. >> so they'll pay us back? >> absolutely, 100%, yes. >> so the american taxpayer will pay for the wall first? >> all it is it, we'll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make with mexico. we have to stop people pouring into the country and when he have no idea where they're from. the wall will cost us nothing. >> right now undocumented immigrants are protected as so-called dreamers, the children brought here by their parents. should they be worried that they're going to be deported? is there anything you can assure them right now? >> they shouldn't be very worried. they're here illegally. i do have a big heart. we're going to take care of everybody. we're going to have a very strong border. we're goi

i can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great abe lincoln, all right? be the most presidential person. he's still obsessed with the crowd size at his inauguration. a sea of love. but in a new interview with fox news, he turned his attention to the group calling itself "islamic state," saying its fighters were sick and demented. the people that we're going against, they don't wear uniforms, they're sneaky, dirty rats. and they blow people up in a shopping centre. and they blow people up in a church. these are bad people. the presidency is travelling at a hurtling pace. the late—breaking news tonight, that he's now calling for a 20% tax on mexican imports to pay for the wall. donald trump is clearly revelling in his seat of power, whether it's in the oval office or at 30,000 feet. beautiful. great plane. nick bryant, bbc news, washington. the british prime minister, theresa may, has arrived in america at the start of a trip which she hopes will pave the way for a post—brexit trade deal with the united states. she'll be the first foreign leader to hold tal

i can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great abe lincoln, all right? can be the most presidential person. he's still obsessed with the crowd size at his inauguration. a sea of love. but in a new interview with fox news, he turned his attention to the group calling itself "islamic state," saying its fighters were sick and demented. the people that we're going against, they don't wear uniforms, they're sneaky, dirty rats. and they blow people up in a shopping centre. and they blow people up in a church. these are bad people. the presidency is travelling at a hurtling pace. the late—breaking news tonight, that he's now calling for a 20% tax on mexican imports to pay for the wall. donald trump is clearly revelling in his seat of power, whether it's in the oval office or at 30,000 feet. beautiful. great plane. nick bryant, bbc news, washington. britain's prime minister theresa may has arrived in the us to start a trip she hopes will pave the way for a post—brexit trade deal. she'll be the first foreign leader to hold talks with donald trump at the white hou

so i can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great abe lincoln, all right? the most presidential person, but i may not be able to do the job nearly as well if i do that. national security has loomed large in this first week. president trump promising once again to suspend the flow of refugees from several arab countries. you're looking at people that come in, in many cases, in some cases, with evil intentions. i don't want that. they're isis. they're coming in underfalse pretences, i don't want that. i'm going to be the president of a safe country. the world is a mess. the world is as angry as it gets. you think this is going to cause a little more anger? donald trump says american interests will always come first. listen to what he says he would have done in iraq. well, we should have kept the oil when we got out. and you know, it's very interesting, had we taken the oil, you wouldn't have isis. because they fuelled themselves with the oil, that's where they got the money. so you believe we can go in and take the oil? we should have taken the oil. these are

. >> "abe lincoln, the rail-splitter" made him sound like a man of the people. >> is this the kind of that lincoln used as a young man? >> he would use mauls and mallets splitting fence rails, working around the farm. >> but did young abe swing this? >> it was just a relic that was around our house. we didn't really give a lot of thought to it. >> it's their strange inheritance, but it's never been put to the test. >> even though, in our minds, it was 100% real, just because we think so doesn't make it true. >> anybody could have carved their initials "a-l." how do you know it's really lincoln's? [ applause ] [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

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george washington, honest abe lincoln, andrew jackson who they say was the most like my campaign becauseious campaign. >> sean: it was a pretty rough campaign. >> president trump: that was the most vicious campaign in the history of our country until his campaign. >> sean: when you first walk in this office every day, and you think of it -- >> president trump: look at my desk pa. papers. >> sean: you have ivanka, jared has young kids. will bc them crawling through there? >> president trump: that was john john, the secret door in that desk. that was a famous picture. >> sean: why'd you pick that picture? >> president trump: a lot of great presidents. we had a lot of great presidents using this desk. i thought that would be the appropriate desk. when i came here, you have a right to use her desk, they have like seven desks. >> sean: you were very impressed with your phones. >> president trump: the technology that we have in this country is incredible. unfortunately, perhaps we don't use it. >> sean: but we need to. >> president trump: it is great. the experts that do this work, we really g

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. >> jimmy: i think he's out of touch. [ light laughter ] finally he put, "abe lincoln's gettysburg addressntained 1,464 characters. that's less than 11 tweets. i top that in one elevator ride. sad." [ laughter and applause ] sad. let's get to some sports. on sunday, a facebook live video of pittsburgh steelers' coach mike tomlin trash talking the new england patriots went viral. right? yeah, but patriots coach bill belichick didn't seem too bothered by it, telling a a boston radio station, quote, "i'm not on snapface and all that." [ laughter ] snapface. belichick went on to say, "if tomlin wants to come at me on instagoogle that's his business. [ laughter ] we'll settle this on the field, not skypee, myface, or tubebook. but please, follow me on pinterest for tips on how to update your home interiors for spring. k, byee!" [ applause ] k, byee! guys, last night was another fantastic episode of "the bachelor." [ cheers ] yeah. are you watching? it's all very exciting. and one of the best scenes last night was when a contestant named corrine confessed -- i know, she's -- [ light laughter ] t

donald trump said, quote, i can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great abe lincoln going to direct u.s. funds to pay for this wall? will american taxpayers pay for the wall? >> ultimately it will come out of what's happening with mexico. we'll be starting those negotiations relatively soon. and we will be in a form reimbursed by mexico.

remember abe lincoln, "we are here to rededicate ourselves to this nation conceived in liberty and dedicatede notion that all men are created equal." this is the only nation on the planet that was an idea, a vision, a value. it was not a tribe. a lot of people want to make sure that does not change, and some people are confusing multicultural with somehow we will change, that we won't tolerate different religions, that we won't tolerate different opinions, free press. you can support that and be multicultural. megan: when you travel in sort of europe, where this is also a very deep phenomenon, we see it in italy and germany. we see it in france. we see it in the u.k. to be sure with brexit. do you think this is a temporary phenomenon in terms of how people are feeling? do you think this is a generational phenomenon? or do you think it will weed itself out or you think this is a rmanent moveme of people more focused on redrawing national borders, national identity, regrouping around that and what has been two decades of constant disruption across so many stabilizing forces in their lives? jam

i can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great abe lincoln, all right? but i can be the most presidential person. but i may not be able to do the job nearly as well if i do that. >> reporter: your predecessor -- used to talk often about finishing the day to get to his family upstairs. the stairwell's right over here. to have dinner with them. and i know that the first lady, melan melania, has a big job back in new york, taking care of baron. >> she does, yes. >> reporter: does it make it a lonely place for you, at the end of the day? >> no, because i end up working longer. and that's okay. i -- i mean i'm working long hours. i mean the country has a lot of problems. >> reporter: he says a lot of problems, and president trump tonight on the controversial news he has made already. >> reporter: mr. president, i wanna start, we're five days in. and your campaign promises. i know today you plan on signing the order to build the wall. >> correct. >> reporter: are you going to do with u.s. funds to pay for this wall? will american taxpayers pay for the wall? >>

check out abe lincoln's rail splitting mallet. what made him president?ht-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. abby: good morning, everybody, happy sunday, it is january 15th. it is the war of words dominating the headlines this morning. >> i don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. abby: now the left is outraged after mr. trump tired back at congressman -- fired back at congressman john lewis. clayton: and after another singer dropped out of mr. trump's inauguration, we asked, do we even care? isn't this about the people who put the president-elect in the white house in the first place? we speak to a member of that silent majority this hour. clayton: and you hear her now? one woman's aback for bad cell phone service. [laughter] it really is the most amazing video you're going to see all morning. pete: like slow drive-through. clayton: "fox & friends" hour two

. >> "abe lincoln, the rail-splitter" made him sound like a man of the people. >> is this the kind ofing around the farm. >> but did young abe swing this? >> it was just a relic that was around our house. we didn't really give a lot of thought to it. >> it's their strange inheritance, but it's never been put to the test. >> even though, in our minds, it was 100% real, just because we think so doesn't make it true. >> anybody could have carved their initials "a-l." how do you know it's really lincoln's? [ applause ] [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

we found abe lincoln's rail splitter, what we believe to be, that helped him become president and watchingverything unfold in washington, more of my neighbors will put their american flags back up. we have a terminus amount of patriotism and that is what the show is about him a meeting great american families who have strange inheritances, willing to share. neil: i like what you said about the american flag. honoring the presidency, history and traditions, people forget that. we forget on inauguration day everyone comes out. >> it is a day for all americans to see the strength we have, our show launching on inauguration day is a real symbol of the kind of stories we want to tell at foxbusiness not just about your money in the markets but also about americans, small business owners and how they are getting by, passing wealth and some of the wacky veiny things a lot of us can relate to. 11 of 28 shows we are doing on foxbusiness are from viewers. the emails jamie@strangeinheritance.com, next thing you knew i showed up in their living room. neil: did you do what i said? don't fall down in the

. >> interesting, donald trump using abe lincoln's bible in swearing in ceremony i inaugural on fridayrst president. >> crossing the delaware. >> here we are. >> george washington. >> the man father of our country you are going to the inaugural. >> yes. >> you, too, right. >> i will be at the inaugural, to watch donald j. trump take oath of office get sworn? >> you travel each and every highway ♪ ♪ but more much more than this donald, you did it your way ♪ ♪ ♪ that was so much fun joe, joining me right now telephone from the amline studios in new york that was so much fun yesterday, taking down the walkdown medical lane with presidential wax configures. on the phone: so great you are so much fun to be with how about perspective of it all historical notes, display that was pretty exciting. maria: yeah, it was, you know you had jimmy carter, during the oil crisis so they had shell oil gas tanks. what else? we talked about castro. on the phone: how about about when we went into one room frederick douglass lived not just presidential historical figures eerie the eyes are -- was that wild?

abe lincoln. >> the real splitter. >> beard three. >> dave letterman. >> much bigger now. >> santa!ve. >> zz top. >> billy gibbons. >> the handsome billy gibbons. >> those are the hardest beards we could come up with? well, i'm glad we didn't practice for that. >> i was hoping there would be a trick question, where we saw somebody below the waist. i mean, their beard would be so long, that it would -- what did you think i meant? >>> let's go to the weather. how about some inaugural weather? >> i got goosebumps. >> i got something else. last time it snowed on the inaugural, john f kennedy, january 20th, 1961. eight inches in the previous 24 hours. the snowiest inaugural of all time, william h. taft, march 4, 1909. before 1937, it was on march 4th. now, what about wet whether every? coming up last time it rained, george w. bush, january 20, 2001. over 0.3 inch of rain. rainiest inaugural ever, franklin d. roosevelt, january 20th, 1937. almost 1.75 inches of rain. the forecast for friday, 47 degrees, showers, mostly cloudy. rain developing, 0.25 inch rain. tamron has been wondering abo

. >> come on, abe lincoln. >> dave letterman. >> much bigger than that now. >> santa!. beard number five. >> zz top. >> z it's z of zz top. >> who is it? >> billy look at that. >> handsome billy givens. those were the hardest beards we could come up with? well. >> i was hoping there would be a trick question where we saw somebody below the waist. i mean, that their beard would be so long that it would -- what did you think? >> how about some inaugural weather? i got something else. last time it snowed on inauguration, john f kennedy they had eight inches in the previous 24 hours. the snowiest, most snow william h. taft march 4th 1909. befores 1937 it was on march 4t. what about wet weather? coming in last time it rained george w. bush january 20th, 2010. .3 of an inch of rain. and the forecast for friday, 47 degrees. showers mostly cloudy rain developing. about aquat .25 of a rain. tamron has been peppering me. >> poncho or umbrelumbrella. >> well, this morning temperatures are now climbing into the 50s. most areas now in the low 50s. 52 in the district. and we will be

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lincoln saw honesty. that sounds like mythmaking. like the nickname "honest abe" -- some unbelievable.he couldd, "if h falsely," come on, when i was nine years old -- but you know, if i find six or seven people saying he was really honest, that is multiple eyewitness accounts saying these things so part of this is like any source, you test it with other sources. if you have multiple account same saying roughly the thing, then you see those things are probably pretty good. i have to be honest with you, we had a wonderful conversation at dinner tonight, and i have to be honest with you, i have spent now 20 years writing about abraham lincoln. there is my gut. i will just level with you, there are just times when things feel right. the example of the illegitimacy thing. i argued in the book that nancy was illegitimate because the conversation lincoln has with billy feels right. and what i know about billy, i t sounds like the sort of conversation they had had for years, -- that they would have, and i have been reading this stuff for years. turns out, thank goodness, i was right. because t

lincoln. here he is comparing them to a hearty frontiersman. he is saying these people are different, but they are just like honest abe in the end. they are a noble race of people who is going to be able to achieve civilization. after harney's article you're going to have a series of local color writings that are going to stretch the first image, the more positive image of the mountaineer. living just like our pioneer grandfathers did in the 1700s. another good example and this will be the last one i will use to talk about this more positive image. another local color writer, rebecca harding davis, and let me give you an excerpt from her article. "they were not covered with forks, nice, dishes or bed or any other impediments of civilization. they slept on the floor. this is important. "impediments of civilization," and she is saying these people are not civilized. civilization. but they were good-natured, were honest, gentlefolk despite their dirty condition. in other words, they are good people. their ease with living in these conditions. money appears to be one of the unknown luxuries of civilization and it is startling to see

lincoln. here he is comparing them to frontiersman. he is saying these people are different, but they are like good old honest abe. they do live like our contemporary ancestors, but they have unique qualities within them. they are a noble race of people who will ultimately be able to achieve civilization. get after the article, you will have a series of local color writings that will begin to stress that first image that i was talking about. the more positive image of the mountaineer. the mountaineer being our contemporary ancestor, living like how our grandfathers did in the 1700s. -- anotherd example local color writer, let me give you another excerpt from her article here. they were not encumbered with dishes, knives, forks, beds, or other impediments of civilization. they slept in hollow logs or under straw on the floor. impedimentsrtant -- of civilization. what she is saying that these people are uncivilized. they are not yet connected to modern america. but, they were good-natured and folks- and were positive despite their condition. they are readies with living in these conditions. appears to be one of thos

blumenthal, the political life of abe lincoln. about the political forces that shaped our 16th president's views on slavery. >> the fight must go on. he wrote to a friend two weeks after his defeat, to douglas, in the 1858 senate race. the cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even 100 defeats. >> for a complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. >> every weekend within book tv brings you 48 hours of non-fiction books and authors. here is what is coming up this weekend. saturday night at 8:30 eastern, peter hays ak dem irchair at the holocaust war museum an author of why explaining the holocaust. >> so why were the jews killed? because of a long standing tradition of hatred activated mr. particular political circumstances. b by a regime thoroughly able to whip up the population able to participate in it. then undertook a war in a region where there were hundreds thousands of people it defined as enemies. and it resolves under the conditions of war time. to wipe these people out. >> and th