i would like to ask her about the impeachment of andrew johnson. i was a history major in college, but i didn't read much about his impeachment. i was just curious if she could enlighten me regarding that situation. >> guest: well, i think what the context for the impeachment was is that there was a big split in the cabinet and the country between the radicals and the more conservatives into how to handle the south. lincoln had hoped before he died that there'd be a sort of gentleness toward the south, that we should allow people to come in and come back into the union so long as the rights of the freed blacks were respected. and his war secretary, edwin stanton, was on radical side. he loved lincoln, but he was probably willing to push the south more to give more possibilities to the blacks and make sure that the southerners didn't override them. so he was actually fired from the cabinet. and there was a tenure of office act that supposedly didn't allow you to do that. it was a big fight between congress and the presidency over the firing of this

when this andrew johnson get impeached? >> the problem began right away with the inaccuracy shown, it entered johnson before lincoln was going to get the famous second inaugural in his speech was really a terrible speech. he started saying how he came for the people and they looked out and he thought a win against them. since ikea too much to drink and people are putting their hand. at turns out she had some illness oric medicine. lincoln had just worried from that moment on. the trouble sort of began producing and that it clear that even though he's been the governor of tennessee >> that is lincoln's second natural. doris kearns goodwin talks about the four months betweenen withington's first election and disperse the mackerel and mark and what have been in the country and not a solid leadership >> i just was calling to see if mrs. goodwin would be interested in george washington because of the great leadership he showed found in this country to of independence in hearing before the constitution convention and during the co

the american civil war in the 19th century, which nearly led to the impeachment of president andrew johnsont that time. >> richard johnson speaking to us from lancaster university. thank you. next, prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordered the closure of israeli embassy in paraguay hours after paraguay announced plans to move its embassy in israel back to tel aviv. they announced wednesday they would rerse the decision to move the embassy to jerusalem. paraguay wants to achieve lasting peace in the middle east. for more on this, let's cross the lines to our colleague. benjamin netanyahu not happy about this decision. what has been the reaction? >> he is not happy because it is a humiliation for him personally. it is only three and a half months since paraguay moved the embassy to jerusalem and he said they were a good friend of israel. thatso told the public this would be the beginning of a wave of other countries moving their embassies to jerusalem. it started with washington, then there was quite a mullah, then there was paraguay -- what a ala, then guatem there was paraguay. he is the fo

i would like to ask her about the impeachment of andrew johnson. i was a history major in college, but i didn't read much about his impeachment. i was just curious if she could enlighten me regarding that situation. >> guest: well, i think what the context for the impeachment was is that there was a big split in the cabinet and the country between the radicals and the more conservatives into how to handle the south. lincoln had hoped before he died that there'd be a sort of gentleness toward the south, that we should allow people to come in and come back into the union so long as the rights of the freed blacks were respected. and his war secretary, edwin stanton, was on radical side. he loved lincoln, but he was probably willing to push the south more to give more possibilities to the blacks and make sure that the southerners didn't override them. so he was actually fired from the cabinet. and there was a tenure of office act that supposedly didn't allow you to do that. it was a big fight between congress and the presidency over the firing of this

i would like to ask her about the impeachment of andrew johnson.i was a history major in college but i didn't read much about his impeachment. i was just curious if she could enlighten me regarding that situation. >> i think what's the content for the impeachment was there was a big split in the cabin and the country between the radicals and the more conservatives and how to handle the south. lincoln had hoped before he died that there would be a gentleness toward the south. that we should allow people to come and come back into the union so long as the rights for free black were respected. secretary edward stanton was on the radical side that he loved lincoln but he was probably willing to push the south more to give more possibilities to the blacks and make sure the southerners didn't override them. and so he was actually fired from the cabinet and there was a tenure of office act that supposedly didn't allow you to do that. it was a big fight between congress and the presidency over the filing of this guy. but much more importantly, it had to do

the 14th amendment because you have a radical republican majority in congress that and thes andrew johnsonpresidency and we of the 14th amendment ratified in 1868. and then have the 15th amendment ratified in 1870 which gives african-american men the vote. it will take another 50 years to give women the vote. anderson along with --visionia child they also print "romance of the republic." it becomes a very popular read. it is about an interracial couple as a model for the new america. it did not sell that well. vision.as a radical but it very much upheld all of the markers of respectability. and jordan anderson comes right into that. we can see in his lithograph. hold on a second. here is his beard. that is jordan anderson. and here is millie, jane, and grundy and mrs. anderson. even the parlor -- that is a really important space. there is a banjo on the wall. an ohio parlor. you can see that his letter forms the backbone of what will be the republican respectability checklist. this goes right into the political agenda. what are you looking for from slaves?llion former they are proto-citize

so andrew johnson is a disaster i say that as a tennessean. he is impeached the right thing to do the wrong cause stay tuned. [laughter] coming soon. and basically he argued it was the historian calls the most racist statement ever written by an american president that black americans were congenitally genetically incapable of self-government. to do everything to stop the forces of reconstruction to veto the reconstruction bill and oppose the 14th and 15th amendment to the constitution. doing everything he could to carry on the battle. the clan is founded to terrorize the south and president grant is the right thing early on to break the first but then the curtain descends 1877 with rutherford b hayes that we never talk about the election of 1876 it is important in american history because as a part of the price of that victory the republican rather bared --dash brother ford b hayes ended reconstruction to secure the presidency of course that was decided in florida. i don't know what it is down there maybe it's the humidity. take so people say

because you have a radical republican majority in congress that can override a farmer-conservative andrew johnsonn the presidency, and we get the 14th amendment ratified in 1868. that ratified citizenship. and then have the 15th amendment ratified in 1870 which gives african-american men the vote. it will take another 50 years to give women the vote. but, jordan anderson along with lydia maria child's vision -- she also, right on the heels of book,hing the freedman's she also publishes "romance of the republic." it becomes a very popular read. it is about an interracial couple as a model for the new america. it did not sell that well. but it was a radical vision. but it very much upheld all of the markers of respectability. and jordan anderson comes right into that. we can see in his lithograph. hold on a second. here is his beard. that is jordan anderson. and here is millie, jane, and grundy and mandy/mrs. anderson. even the parlor -- that is a really important space. there is a banjo on the wall. little markers of southern this -- of southernness. this is an ohio parlor. you can see that his le

. >> yeah, even andrew johnson didn't deal with this kind of ridiculous invention, especially from prosecutors and i think you alluded to in the introduction, but you've got strzok and page we now find out about the attacks were strzok is congratulating her on the great media leak strategy and these are going around, back-and-forth april 10th through the 12th. and shazam, april 11th there is a big article blasting carter page that led to so many other things. it is unbelievable the way the fbi has westernized. i was hoping that christopher ray would be good for the fbi, but it appears he's more interested in protect in the reputation that is gone now that he has cleaning up the office. and we know this because after it was put in print by richard pollock, reporter doing some great again and he got some independent verification of the things i last strzok about, that hillary we know with 100% certainty that she was hacked. the fbi releases the statement that we didn't find any evidence of a personal server being hacked. well, that was fraud eye omission and for them to allow that to go out. rea

only picture that i can find with all three generals and it, including the subsequent president andrew johnson. .rand, sherman, and meade ones are indispensable? grantble question, but obviously has to be up there. if you think about it, what about the parts to the veterans? what does it mean to them? there is a reason that the veterans choose the original five civil war parks. do the others merit inclusion, yes. there, the through later parks didn't buy as big a plot of land. sometimes that is why you see houses next to the park. your five original parks, in no certain order, vicksburg, shiloh, chickamauga, gettysburg, antietam. when they congregate after the war, they are going to be at these original battlefields when they do that. reunion, actually the war department, the u.s. army ordered in several hundred anticipation of some of the veterans dying at the reunion. i am happy to say, i hear the murmur in the crowd over this one, you should be prepared, he is a boy scout. [laughter] was actually right off the top of my head right there. [laughter] died, i am happy to report. i think one pe

doesn't make it -- >> they are not entitled what they did when lincoln was shot and replaced by andrew johnson, they didn't like him and they were right not to like him. he did horrible things to america, set back reconstruction, fired the secretary of the war even though you couldn't firing without congressional approval but he didn't commit a crime. >> the lenity question is a broader argument you make that doesn't make a great deal of sense to me which is you analogize this to a criminal proceeding. and convicted, tries words, it doesn't have to be found after a hearing but has to be tried by the senate and convicted based on 2 thirds of a vote. can you remove him for that? how can you remove him if he didn't start substantive criteria? >> it is important we don't ignore the constitution, protected rights of individuals even if those individuals or government officials are subjected to impeachment. i don't understand the rights that are implicated, and allowed to impose, to criminally try them. >> does that support my argument? >> you can't -- can't imprison them after they leave office. >>

only picture that i could find with all three generals in it, including the subsequent president andrew johnson. grand, sherman, and meade. out of those three commanders, which one, which ones, are indispensable? debatable question, but grant obviously has got to be up there. if you think about it, ladies and gentlemen, what about the about the parks to the veterans? what does it mean to them? there is a reason that the veterans choose the original five civil war parks. do the other parks merit inclusion? yes. especially around fredericksburg, or petersburg, for that matter. always ride through there. the later parks did not buy as big a swath of land. sometimes that is why you see houses next to the park. but your five original parks, in no certain order, vicksburg, shiloh, chickamauga, gettysburg, antietam. so when they congregate after the war, they are going to be at these original battlefields when they do that. the 1938 reunion, actually, the war department, the u.s. army ordered in several hundred coffins in anticipation of some of the veterans dying at the reunion. and i am happy to say

maybe someone in the andrew johnson administration may have written something with his quill pen what life was like then. this is totally extraordinary, someone who was inside. i would be shocked if it were not someone quite high ranking. i don't think "the new york times" would have granted anonymity to someone who was a midlevel official. >> how high do you think? >> i think very high. it would have to be somebody very high. if i were the editor of the editorial page of the "new york times," i wouldn't grant anonymity except to somebody who was at the senior level. >> this is important because you're in rooms that many of us and many of our viewers are not in as a journalist making this determination. you don't think "the new york times" would give this out to somebody who's 120 on the list? >> no, i don't think so, and i've been in plenty of meetings. i've been a senior editor at the post before. that's just -- that's my opinion. you know, it fleshes out what we suspected, what we knew, actually, that that is crazy town inside the white house. and it's a dangerous crazy town. what

andrew johnson comes as the secretary -- she just meets people. there he often, i think the people she is associated with were from the south. north.ve now migrated up as they are traveling from the they woulde north, have to stop somewhere. they could not stay in a hotel. the spencer home was not on the directory but it was open to people that they were associated with. hughes runs into her in new orleans. she is working on her anthologies project and langston hughes is working on a project. he took the train there. she says well i'm going back up north, why don't we just drive together? he says i need to stop over in lynchburg. he stops in lynchburg and she meets anne spencer. they go on up to philadelphia. there was so much during this. -- there were so much during this period of time. it was a movement. time too, was a fun relax, think, write, whatever was going on here. you are now in the living room of the anne spencer museum. there are several things in the parlor that are of interest. we have a letter here from w.e.b. dubois, dated 1934. t

so andrew johnson is a disaster i say that as a tennessean.he is impeached the right thing to do the wrong cause stay tuned. [laughter] coming soon. and basically he argued it was the historian calls the most racist statement ever written by an american president that black americans were congenitally genetically incapable of self-government. to do everything to stop the forces of reconstruction to veto the reconstruction bill and oppose the 14th and 15th amendment to the constitution. doing everything he could to carry on the battle. the clan is founded to terrorize the south and president grant is the right thing early on to break the first but then the curtain descends 1877 with rutherford b hayes that we never talk about the election of 1876 it is important in american history because as a part of the price of that victory the republican rather bared --dash brother ford b hayes ended reconstruction to secure the presidency of course that was decided in florida. i don't know what it is down there maybe it's the humidity. take so people say

they did impeach andrew johnson which weakened -- not convicted, lost by a single vote which weakened the radical republicans in congress. grant was in a position to straddle both of the wings of the republican party, still has his immense prestige of the war. and he did that campaign openly. grant had a funny kind of way of not campaigning for things and putting him in a position where things just happened to him. >> and in his first term of office the 15th amendment is enacted and ratified and there's a backlash in the south come violence escalates and their strengthening of the ku klux klan. you spent a lot of time in the book and you handle it definitely, what did grant do to combat the claim, and was a successful. it starts out as as a social cb of confederate veterans and they start wearing their old uniforms and drilling and it becomes militaristic secret organization. and that then of course they st putting on roads and hoods at night on horseback and terrorizing people. you are right, prompted by the 15th amendment. nothing terrified the white south more than the black man co

johnson reports. a casualty of the extreme weather which lashed the west coast of ireland. but for pa pa but for papa hospitality tent at st andrewsring northern ireland's strongest ever september gailes. there were near misses the roads. this pilot trying to land in dublin thought better of it. 100 miles per hour winds brought down powerlines. there are still homes without electricity. some engineers on site can't stand up. that stopped us and delayed us from getting some of our customers back on. a woman died when this caravan was blown over a cliff on the irish coast. and then looking to northern ireland water was killed bya to northern ireland water was killed by a falling tree. storm ali made its mark and wins were still blowing strong. an inquiry into the disruption caused by the introduction of new train timetables in may has criticised network rail, the department of transport and the train companies involved — saying no—one took charge. hundreds of trains were cancelled on a daily basis by northern and govia thameslink. the rail regulator has highlighted a "lack of clarity" about roles and responsibilities. for those stor

that was the home secretary on the andrew marr show, he may say the party is not looking for a new leader but boris johnsons not looking for a new leader but borisjohnson may have other ideas, there is speculation he is preparing a leadership bid and this article on some would say, paves the way for that leadership bid. absolutely, most things boris johnson says at the moment are being viewed through that prism of his leadership ambitions, this was certainly an article designed to cause a stir and there will be those who love this tone of phrase and those who hated as we have seen but what it does it gets him on the front pages and he is a politician that has come through with the public that many other aspiring conservative leaders can only dream of. all of this at a time in his private life has been under scrutiny. claims in the sunday times today that downing street have a sort of dossier, 4000 word oscillate to use against him. this is what the sunday times describes as a 4000 word board book which covers areas like his love life, other personal matters and it was said to have started circulating in we

johnson? an important thing to note is what we heard from liam fox earlier on today on the andrew marr show.ader is the arithmetic does not change. he means the conservative party does not have the numbers in parliament to be able to push through whatever it wants to push through on brexit. it needs consensus from within parliament from across different parties. whoever the leader is, they would have to do that. although theresa may is constantly under pressure and talk of plots, at this stage it does not look as though this would happen, certainly before we get to the point where there is or is not a deal. new figures show that hundreds of prison staff have been caught smuggling drugs, weapons and other banned items into jails in england and wales. the figures — obtained through a freedom of information request by the observer newspaper — show a 50% rise over the last six years. the prison service says it represents less than one per cent of all staff. ben ando reports. in july, inspectors found that wandsworth prison in london, the most overcrowded in britain, had stopped scanning visitors

johnson? an important thing to note is what we heard from liam fox earlier on today on the andrew marr show.he thing about changing the leader is the arithmetic does not change. he means the conservative party does not have the numbers in parliament to be able to push through whatever it wants to push through on brexit. it needs consensus from within parliament from across different parties. whoever the leader is, they would have to do that. although theresa may is constantly under pressure and talk of plots, at this stage it does not look as though this would happen, certainly before we get to the point where there is or is not a deal. the former labour prime minister gordon brown has weighed into his party's antisemitism row, saying it should adopt an internationally agreed definition of antisemitism. tensions within labour over the issue have intensified following the decision by the long—serving mp, frank field, to resign the party whip in parliament. mr brown has been addressing a meeting this lunchtime of the labourjewish movement in north london. i want to say to you very clearly toda

johnson, they say it's offensive and 100% untrue to suggest they leaked it. that was our political correspondent, helen catt, talking to me a little earlier. let's get more on this now from andrew bridgen, the conservative mp for north west leicestershire. hejoins me down the line from millbank. thank you for being with us. what do you make of the comments from boris johnson? they have been criticised by the home secretary today, saying he needs to use more measured language than talking about suicide vests. one of the things i most admire about boris johnson vests. one of the things i most admire about borisjohnson and something that endears him to a lot of the british public is the fact that he says it how he sees it, and speaks truth to power. the fact that those in power don't appreciate that i think is understandable. is that language you would use? is not necessarily, but i'm not a great rate or a journalist, unlike boris johnson. he articulates he was that are held by the great swathe of our population and i think they find it refreshing that someone in a position, a public position, says it has a see it. the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, who saw a suici

andrew cosgrove and sebastien page. david: we welcome from london, bloomberg's guy johnson.re the headlines as we know them -- no, not yet. here are the headlines as we know them. theresa may was to give a statement at 10 downing street. the question is, what will she say? david: it strikes me how many of these talks she has had to give, that everyone is waiting for. remember when she went to italy to lay out her plan? she has had so many of these, now we will know the answer. as you pointed out, she is between a rock and a hard place. tox: this time is ticking november with a meeting that may never happen. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ taylor: this is bloomberg daybreak. coming up later today, glenn hubbard, columbia and graduate school of business -- columbia graduate school of business dean. south africa is taking new steps to revive its on economy -- alix: south africa is taking new steps to revive its economy. easier visa requirements. joining us as mark bohland. you have the rand whip sawing on that news. what is your biggest tape away? -- take away? not: it is a reallocation

johnson. sajid controversial suicide vest remarks from borisjohnson. sajid javid i think it is fair to say has rebuked the former foreign secretary. we can listen in on the andrewto articulate differences and it is a reminderfor articulate differences and it is a reminder for all of us on public policy, which other party we represent, to use measured language because that is what the public want to see. would you approve of the comparison of the niqab to letterbox ? comparison of the niqab to letterbox? no. is it... is he islamophobic? not in the slightest. borisjohnson is someone i have known over a number of years and i think he loves all of britain's communities no matter where they come from. would he be leader of the party? the conservative party is not looking for a leader because we are lucky to have a very good leader and she is also the prime minister of this country and is doing a great job. that was the home secretary speaking earlier. and the next leader of the tory party! possibly. saying there is a need for measured language, i think the chances of borisjohnson using language, i think the chances of boris johnson using measured language are not hi