john adams decided to negotiate his way out of it. they went to meet with the minister of foreign affairs. an intermediary told them you are going to need to give us money. and john jay came back without paying the bribe . people were very upset with france for understandable reasons. congress eventually declared a naval war passing a series of statute's and that-- allowing naval vessels to attack french naval vessels. so that first foray did not work out so well but apparently john adams was impressed with john marshall. he offered to make a john marshall secretary of war. john adams sent his name to the senate anyway and before the senate could act, the secretary of state position opened up and john marshall finally said yes and agreed to serve. as secretary of state he successfully oversaw negotiations and helped the convention of 1800 and rebuild the federalist party which was in tatters. john adams had enemies within his cabinet that were working with-- john adams had enemies that were working behind the scenes with alexander hami

then there is john adams. john adams, not from pennsylvania, but probably one of the strongest critics of the pennsylvania government. and too, one of the greatest defenders of mixed government. massachusetts, when they write their constitution, adams is the primary author, it is governor, upper house, lower house, all checking one another. adams is conservative in this sense. he is about order, structure. with adams in favor of independence, of course. they parts ways with pennsylvania. we live in the age of political experiments, many will fail, some will succeed. but pennsylvania will be divided and weakened. no fan of democracy. no fan of giving the people so much power. we have got to love adams on the pennsylvania constitution. people cannot be free or happy whose government is one assembly. totally right to the pennsylvania constitution, a single assembly is liable to all devices, follies and frailties of an individual. subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, enthusiasm, partiality, prejudice. focu

the french to not like john adams because they were suspicious of federalists.hey had seized ships. brian: what would they do with them once they had seized them? joel: they would basically attach them as prizes, which meant they would sell the ships off, they would convert them into naval vessels, they would take the goods off of the ship. brian: why did that not create an immediate war? joel: that is the point. the french by seizing these ships created a lot of friction, but the u.s. was not in a position to fight the french at that point, we did not have a navy. so marshall and pinckney and garrett are sent to negotiate with the french foreign minister, and this is during the french revolution when everything is chaotic in france and no one is really in charge. so they sit down and he says, before i negotiate with you, i want you to give me a bribe of $4 million. a personal bribe. and pinckney is equivocal, and gary thinks maybe we should, and marshall says absolutely not. the foreign minister seizes their passports and does not let them leave the country. ba

john adams suffered from a problem many suffered from, and expanding waistline. and order to cover that missus adams soda purple robe. he didn't like the way it looks so he had her old gold. he was as wide as he was tall. you see this purple mountain walking in the mud marsh of prehistoric washington, d.c. they come up to the president says, good morning your pomposity. [laughter] that didn't work. next day he shows up with the press and says good morning your rotunda t. with that congressman lyons was prosecuted under the alien act and was convicted for bringing the government and the president into disrepute for mocking the president's waistline. he was sentenced to two years in a federal prison and then a strange thing happened. if you're from boston, chicago, new orleans hudson county, new jersey you know about this. he ran from reelection from his jail cell. and he want. when he got out he couldn't wait to go back to d.c. and attack the president again. instead of the short fat john adams it was thomas jefferson and return the 480 acres the federal government

a pretty good idea, when you read david's book you feel like you're at the elbow of abigail and john adams. we had the best possible blueprint . >> they only lived there for a few months, it said that abigail adams used to hide in the east room, is there any truth to that? >> from what david told us, yes, that was part of what we were trying to capture in the show, in the series, how -- we didn't want to do a costume drama. we wanted it to seem like this was something gritty and difficult, this was -- by that point it was the early 19th century, so what was life really like at that time? david always said to us, none of this was foreordained, it wasn't foreordained that we would declare independence etc. we always kept that in mind . >> where did you shoot that? back we shot primarily in virginia, not too far, in richland, some of it in hungary but most of it in richland -- richmond . >> when you build the sets, what happens to the afterwards, do you sell them off for --? >> the state of virginia still uses them. i think they use them for lincoln if i'm not -- yeah right. i will say in ter

he was not john adams first choice. he wanted to -- john adams wanted to reappoint jon jay. he declined saying that the court lacked energy, weight, and dignity. probably a fair assessment. they do run john adams refer to his appointment of chief justice marshall as the greatest act of my life. marshall honestly expended the influence of the courts and the federal government because he was a federalist, appointed by a federalist president, and was of the view that we needed a very strong national government and so decisions that concerned the powers of the government were almost invariably decided in favor of the national government. he did something more, something that stays with us every day today. in 1803, the supreme court decided the case, -- versus madison. maybe the most important case ever decided. this is what the course said, an act of the legislature apart from the constitution is void. should there be any doubt, it is emphatic that the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. the court established the principles that any government ac

in the most bitter political -- was talking about lookentennial and he said no further than john adams and thomas jefferson and a bitter .ivalry and how they reconciled said abigail is not a part of this. [laughter] i don't want to hear from her. she did not know. , sheshe discovered it started writing to him. so, go ahead. >> good afternoon, thank you so much. of educationctor at the reagan presidential library and museum. -- reagan presidential library museum. here with all of my colleagues and many of us are as one woman bands alone in the wilderness. creating what are some exceptional opportunities across the country, engaging young people so that they can see themselves in history and can find their voice and feel empowered. at the reagan library as well as the bush library and hopefully at the truman library, we have -- thanks to the tireless efforts of the people who raised the funds to create the opportunity for students who actually participate in a , theylogically simulation work as members of the press and government. they are finding their voice and exploring their roles. t

constitution let it be clear that america does not exist apart from the constitution even our founder john adams that the constitution is made for religious and moral people in holy an adequate or any other kind of evil meaning people understand the difference between right and wrong and most of the things that we are seeing that transpire in our country today where we're not talking about our sleeves we're not talking about the well i'm sorry god and many and the republican party are talking about policy and money talk about with china and the rest of the world when we talk about the now and the only now that policy when we talk about howard will have to interact with iran and with other guests like north korea. so the more i talk about securing our border. so the right and represented by president outsmart is talking about policy all the time but then we have it you may not want to call it radical but there is a significant radical alabama we have senator homegrown no democrat ron why telling people that it's ok but they couldn't even do that but i mean it's as if it seems to me there's a funn

and john quincy adams' papers. we have the adams family. our wonderful national park service oversees the family homes in peacefield. when we open up the idea -- and open up the idea of family and household. we can now talk, even if you just wanted to keep that story to the president's family, women, children, slaves, servants, other people that are around. so, i think the idea if you're in presidential site and you say, i want to open this story up a bit, look around the at the family and see who's around and what interesting characters pop up. >> have you found that connects with audiences? >> oh, yes, absolutely. in fact, shifting to the stories we tell, this idea of audience. i think if you have a compelling story, you can connect to any kind of audience. we're getting ready to -- we have an abigail adams anniversary coming up, the anniversary of her death and then birth. we're trying to think of all the different ways we can tell the story of abigail, abigail and john and how we can connect our collections to

john quincy adams has a stroke in the house, french not long after is going his hand.coln's assassination, who was at the bedside? benjamin brown french. the gettysburg address. benjamin brown french. for someone who has not been heard of and in and of himself to not do anything to be remembered today, he is the most amazing, motives, sensitive, and intelligent eyewitness that a writer could hope for. so he really is at the heart of the book. brian: where is the diary? joanne: the library of congress. brian: were you allowed to put your hands on it? joanne: i was. and he was a wonderful source. not only did he have the 11 volume diary, and i have a picture in the book because i wanted people to see what it looked like. he had a newspaper column and he pasted some of the columns he wrote into the diary, which is wonderful. extensive correspondence. and he wrote poetry about politics. he was beyond wonderful. there was the point when i was writing it 20 and come his diary is not as juicy in the last few years for the civil war. i'm getting to the end of the book, and i'm

even our founder john adams that the constitution is made for our religious and moral people in the wholly inadequate for any other kind of evil people understand the difference between right and wrong and most of the things that we see that transpire in our country today where we're not talking about policies. we're not talking about the well i'm sorry dogs run and many and that republican party are talking about policy talk about with china and the rest of the world when we talk about that now that i'm doing now that policy when we talk about howard will have to interact with iran when other just like north korea. so i'm going to talk about securing our border. so that the right and represented by the president is talking about how all the time but then we have you may not want to call it radical but there is a significant radical alabama we have in our home around our. ally. that it's ok to get up in the face is that you are in let's get a feel for basically anyone who doesn't agree with you and you resist that as. a race back now that radical and that is what it will go away i don't i

joanne: one person in the late 1830's and 1840's is john quincy adams.rian: you say he taunted the southerners. joanne: he did. he's kind of a magical character for me as far as the story goes. by the time he goes to the house, he has already been president, he is elderly in age, he is the son of a founder and another president. he is not the kind of guy you are going to be able to slug. he is violence proof, and he knows it. he uses it. constantly taunting and bullying southerners, well aware that they cannot slug him. sometimes the southerners say so, and henry wise and adams go at it. adams writes, today, henry weiss threatened to kill me in my sleep. -- seat. he took advantage of his reputation to defend the right of petition and against slavery. he was incredibly powerful. he also was a brilliant parliamentarian. he had a lifetime of experience and politics and he was fearless. you put that together and he was a force to be reckoned with. brian: would you describe the tobacco, the carpeting, the smoke, the dirt? joanne: yeah, the tobacco. i started

>> if he wants the to insult me that's fine but john adam famously said facts are stubborn things. >>s away from midterm elections, o'rourke is trailing senator cruz in the polling. >>> turning to another midterm battle ground, spec of red in sea of blue, democrats vying to meet the only republican in new york city. staten island trying to fend off veteran rose. more from the voters an the district. >> as lower manhattan doesn't get much more democratic than that but we're heading to the one place in new york city represented by a republican in congress and democrats hoping it won't last. >> going to port richland where could find famous pizza. >> meat ball onion ric obstacle tta so good. >> what kind of jobs do we have. >> we have construction pizza in the back. >> will you introduce me. >> sure. >> what do you get sense from people that matter to people out here. >> jobs. >> jobs. >> yeah. they care when business, jobs, taxes, and a voice within the five burrows. >> because staten island is different from the rest of the five burrows. >> yep this is the only burroughs that will but

some i said, wait a minute, this hasn't happened since john adams and john quincy, and they did not have cameras? let us have a picture of this! [laughter] pictures with former president bush and president bush. there was one good decision, however, there is always a little. bad one good decision in 1999 ey, in olmsted v ols georgia case. 2 women who were put in an arguedtion and they had that they did not want to be there, that they should be free to live on their own in their community. tos made its way all the way the supreme court and the supreme court sided with him and said, yeah, the constitution, the least restrictive avironment is constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. that means, persons with disabilities, they have a right to live out in the community in group homes or wherever, but not in an institution. now, i have to close up. where are we now? we are now, we have to remain always vigilant how persons with providedies are accessibility and accommodation. we still have cases all the time, we had one in des moines 2 years ago. a restaurant re

se >> brian: they signed it, and wthey signed a deal in -- and john quincy adams put this deal together. when word came back that the white house burned to the ground, what's the rush, the british were like hey, i like the way this is going. so they not knowing the battle of the new orleans. we didn't have satellite television. the reports and the americans who were in this treaty conference. they thought they were going to lose this. the battle of new orleans the word comes back before theme treaty is signed. t becomes a national celebration. so jackson didn't buy it, so he thought they were going to come back again, through tennessee and take another shot at new orleans. so jackson kept everybody together, and just before a major battle was about to take place. word came out to the british, it's over, and they left. so it was the final battle, but the treaty and people did celebrate but the treata wasn't relaid back to us this that the peace was there. that's how it ended. the fighting didn't stop, the last major battle stopped in the battle of noarldz. e. >> host: 1815, that happened

we can crash this problem a little bit because were not just the holders of john adams papers, but the adams family, so we have abigail, luisa katherine johnson adams, the family homes in peace field, so when we open up the idea, and open up the idea of family, we can now talk, even if you want to keep the story to the president, the idea, if you're in the presidential site is when we open the story up a bit, look around at the family to see who's around and what interesting characters pop up . >> have you found that connects the audience is? >> absolutely. >> in fact, speaking a little bit and shifting to the stories we tell, this idea of audience, i think if you have a story, you can connect to any kind of audience, so were getting ready to have an abigail adams anniversary year on the anniversary of her death and her birth, and we are trying to think about all the different ways that we can tell the story of abigail and john and how we can connect the connections, it doesn't have to include the entire cast of characters, but you can connect people to the story . >> i want to connect

engine and franklin, john adams, thomas jefferson, know!nd the other two? roger sherman... livingston! i feel sorry for them. robert livingston. who has heard of them? what year was at? she has gone! she doesn't know! this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news... the new york times says donald trump helped his parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes. we'll take a look at their report. a lot of cloud today with sunshine ata a lot of cloud today with sunshine at a premium but if you have been lucky enough to see sunshine, we are starting to get beautiful autumn colours coming through and temperatures peaking at 21 degrees across the south coast for the beautiful afternoon in ealing. the best breaks in the cloud through the day could allow for mist and fog patches to form overnight. across central and southern areas we keep clear skies and further west, always more in away of cloud and more of a breeze for the far north—west and here, outbreaks of rain, particularly by the end of t

even our founder john adams that the constitution is made for religious and moral people in holy had adequate or any other kind of evil meaning people understand the difference between right and wrong and most of the things that we are seeing that transpire in our country today. we're not talking about policies we're not talking about the well i'm sorry not try and many and that republican party are talking about policy and money talk about with china and the rest of the world when we talk about that now that i'm doing now that policy when we talk about how we're going to interact with iran and with other guests like north korea. so the more i talk about securing our border that some of the right and represented by the president now it's not it is talking about policy all the time but then we have you may not want to call it radical when there is a significant radical alabama we have to go home around our. ally telling people that it's ok to get up in the face is that you are an elected official or basically anyone who doesn't agree with you and you resist as many who are best of thi

not unprecedented because we'd barely begun when we had someone screaming fake news, and that was john adams. sorry the brain tree people are probably upset. but, 1798, the acs were about closing down presses that they believed were dell tear you to the country in the opinion of the federal government. so there's -- there is a tradition of people wanting to suppress decent. in 19 -- from 1918 to 1920, the postmaster general closed down 400 publications in this country because they disagreed with president wilson's views on the war. so within the last 100 years, 400 newspapers were closed down. eugene debb went to jail. palmer, who makes jeff sessions looks like oliver wendle holmes, had raids. so within the last 100 years we had the power of the federal government be martialed to curb decent in the press and the public arena. so this is a difficult moment, but it's party of a tradition of reaction that requires, if i may, people like you and me, people who believe that ultimately america, for all its faults, is right to understand that having this cacophony of voices is good. and to attack t

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could have done what he did diplomatically but franklin's diplomatic career and then i think about john adamsso i'm not sure maybe it's because his reputation proceeded him as a man of genius but i think you sell him a little short in that assumption. >> diplomacy in paris was possible because the french really did like him coming out of his scientific work. may often say the greatest country of the world was great britain but that's not true. so there is certain things and the french have the respects but diplomacy has to be done. . >> so is there anything left with franklin? with a complete understanding to close the book on him? . >> and exactly what role they played but i only wanted to write him because that. that was the easiest was that. but once you move beyond 1750 that source material explodes and actually it becomes unmanageable. you take the big project for the edison franklin papers they began that 1952 wasn't published until 59 so that means the 70 year project. >> that's why i was always happy with hamilton. [laughter] now they will have to go back to the beginning. and the two

john quincy adams had a rare victory against slavery in the case. all right here in this building.et's hope as we celebrate this occasion that we will all do honor to the memories. that we will rectify the bonds and pick the rights to champion. that this place will always live up ultimately to the beacon of hope it represents, not only for our people, but for those struggling for liberty and freedom around the world. that is what the cornerstone ultimately came to symbolize. that is what inspires those of us who serve here. thank you so much for being here today for this great anniversary. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states senator from wyoming, the honorable michael enzi. brothers and friends, i have been a master mason for over 50 years. [applause] be one of my biggest historical memories. the 225th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone. i was mayor of gillette, wyoming when we got to build a new city hall and i ask the masons to come and dedicate that building. masons only dedicate public buildings and masonic temples. is a very interesting ceremony, a very

of scots who have brussels and i say he said quietly that when john adams correspondent max max given the pressure to race and i even if she and the yukon agree a future relationship it doesn't look as though she's going to have a problem selling it to politicians and even to our own party. you know last week and we almost all thought here in brussels that the deal was on the table or at least the crucial elements for a deal were on the table here in brussels and that we did have that breakthrough but then it became clear very quickly that the reaction in london wouldn't be very positive on that deal and it just fell apart and this shows us still that the real front line is no longer between the european union and to reset main but it's within the united kingdom because whatever theresa may brings home it seems at least at the moment it would be or it will be torn apart but there is some glimmer of optimism there is movement with talk of extending the transition period why don't we go say to saying that might be necessary. because it just takes a very long time to you know to negotiat

there was no supreme court to intervene and stop john adams who was using the law to criminalize opposition speech that just opposed him. but later, due to mickle john and several court decisions the rule came about that no person, no congress, no executive order, no president can make a law that punishes based on opinions. now you start to see one of the delemas. a president has to respect even speech that opposes to constitution. even speech like the klu klux klan, the recent jurisprudence has brought about. how can it do it through the criminal law? and one answer is in the bully pulpit. so when you think of the second president bush after 9/11, he said islam is a religion of peace. he spoke in favor of it, protecting it, even though many were have criticizing it. president obama didn't burn the burning of a koran on the west coast of the united states. he said we have the protect it but he also like bush sought to condemn it. a president has to recognize that you can't use the presidency to make speech ilile, but a president also has to use his or her own speech to protect, preserve, an

with the possible exception of john quincy adams you have an abraham lincoln the first president who given the right set of circumstances, if it seems broke right might take the sites of action against slavery. i bring up john quincy adams because he is relevant to what lincoln does during the war in using his presidential war powers to forge a policy of military emancipation. because the idea that a president in the event of a sexual war over slavery and a rebellion of the southern states might have the authority to emancipate slaves as a military pressure predates the civil war it's articulated by john quincy adams on many occasions. he's defeated in 1828 in his bid for reelection by andrew jackson and he returned to the house of representatives at a long career and he became something of a continual thorn in the side of proslavery interests. if you remember from earlier he led the fight against the gag rule which prevents the discussion of anti-slavery petitions in congress. one of the other things quincy adams did was respond to southern threats about secession and war over the is

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john adams famously said "facts are stubborn things." >> beto o'rourke's brand has been to be a nicettack, even using "lying ted," which was the president's mon y moniker in 2016. >> when you're running behind in the race, you have to do something to mix it up. o'rourke is trying to change it up a bit. this has been about his promise of a different kind of politics. he really didn't want to get into the mix of the trump tweet of the day or to take on cruz personally and directly. that seems to be out the window, not just in that debate that you just played where it was on clear display. he actually employed, took a page right out of the playbook of donald trump. and straight to camera, going right at ted cruz on immigration and education and health care, sort of the gloves are off now. there are only 19 days left. like i said, he's running from behind and trying to catch up so he's trying a different approach. >> quickly, david, why isn't ted cruz showing up tonight? he has declined our invitation. did they say why? >> they didn't say why. they were afforded the opportunity to do thi

. >> john adams stubbornly said facts are stubborn things.eporter: the president is endorsing ted cruz. the dems believe they can get this state back based on demographics and urbanization. it will be heated. presidential candidate senator does beth warren firing back at president trump after his dismissal of her dna test where she claims she is part native american. she said he's scared. he's trying to do what he always does to women who scare him. attack us personally. it may soothe his ego, but it won't hurt. let's by in her contender. let's get to the dna test. it's made even more meaningless because the genetics researcher compared them with people from latin america, not native america. meaning south america a. this is about credibility, right? >> it is. it's all about making sure you have got someone with integrity. i don't care about the ancestry. i think elizabeth warren needs to confess she used this claim of american heritage to advance her career. she says she didn't. but she had herself listed in law schools as native american wh

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. >> it's clear his pollsters have told him to come out on the attack, and that's fine, but john adam'ssly said, facts are stubborn things. >> there's stark contrasts between issues, and the affects the tax cuts will have on the federal budget deficit. this debate was the last time both candidates would share a stage before election day, a final chance to deliver face-to-face political jabs. >> congressman o'rourke sides with liberal extremist on the national level instead of the people of texas, and the jobs in texas. >> you have somebody who is all talk and no action, so if he's not showing up in texas and d.c. to vote, who is he showing up for? >> the television ad wars have come out. cruz going after o'rourke on issues like taxes and border security. >> senator cruz always stood with us shoulder to shoulder with a secure border. >> o'rourke has been on the defense. >> if somebody called my wife and dog and said my daddy was in on the kennedy assassination, i would not be kissing their ass. >> ted cruz claims says if o'rourke were elected, he would immediately call for a partisan cir

john adams famously said, facts are stubborn things.want to see the vote he cast for a $10 a tax barrel on oil, go to our website. >> reporter: immigration, tariffs, healthcare and the economy all top issues for texas voters. while the republican incumbent is pulling ahead in the polls, nine points when you look at the latest numbers, beto o'rourke continues setting these records when it comes to fund-raising totals. his coffers were stuffed with $38 million, and that was just in the last quarter. he has come under fire, however, for not sharing his haul with fellow democrats in tighter races. his response to that has been that the majority of his donors are texans. he hasn't taken money from super pacts, and it would not be fair to them, those who contributed to o'rourke to see o'rourke win. dana? >> dana: fair point. all right, casey, thank you for that. joining me, colin reed, senior vice president of steiner public affairs and jamu green former candidate for dnc chair and fox news contributor. since you're there in texas, let's star

john adams famously said facts are stubborn things. >> morgan: dana, that was a nasty debate last nighting someone who used to work on campaigns, everyone is talking about the race, $40 million in the last quarter. beto o'rourke has spent an unprecedented amount. he spent 29 million. he spent about $3 to raise $4. we know he is behind in the polls. it looks like is flowing through his money. is it just a lot of pomp and circumstance? >> dana: it could be a really good down payment on a 2020 run. spend $30 million in estate or you come short in the end, but your name ideas way up high. you have an excited base around you. he might say in the end, the last laugh might be on all of us because of the ends of figuring out a way to turn it into a national race. i think he's going negative on ted cruz very late. he's not been negative all along in this campaign. had a very positive campaign and then he decides late that he has to go negative. not running a lot of negative ads against ted cruz so i think those polls are probably correct. now the democrats have registered a lot of new voters in

my understanding, i am sure david rubenstein has more, was that john adams was the first. he had and hosted the marine band that was just barely in existence back on new year's day, 1801. and president eisenhower was the first to welcome broadway to the white house. but it was really president kennedy and mrs. kennedy who hosted so much. whether it was individual artists or institutions like the metropolitan opera, american ballet theatre, or shakespeare festival, they were the ones that really turned it into a living, are stiff -- living, artistic place as well. that is the reason this building became a living memorial to john f. kennedy. when congress asked mrs. kennedy, what shall we do to recognize your husband, she asked that they name the national cultural center in his honor and that inspired the contributions that made it possible for us to build this building we are in today. the kennedy center has three elements to its mission. obviously, world-class art. but also, powerful education and programs that reach across the country. we are well known in almost all 50 s

. >> if you go to back to john adams, when he said, this constitution, included by that time, the second amendment, this constitution is intended for a moral and religious people. it is fully adequate for the government of any other. the truth of the matter is, if we don't get back to teaching right and wrong, rather than relativity, we are going to have to let the second amendment go. freedom of speech, we are already losing -- if we are not going to be able to be morally upright country, that light on the hill, as former president was telling me, i think, you guys used to be the light on the hill. you set the moral tone for the world. you disappeared from the hill. you are not the light anymore. you don't have the good morality once showed the world. i get the feeling that that's a lot of what you are getting at in this book. we have got to get back to common sense and right and wrong. >> you great great. >> that's where i'm getting it from. >> one of the really important thing to note, again, back to the psychology of the matter, is that the current standards would qualify. again, i u

john adams, our second president of the united states, he wrote -- listen to this mr. president. this is a quote. he said, but if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say whether i do good or whether i do evil is immaterial for innocence itself is no protection and if such an idea is that we were to take a hold in the mind of a citizen, that would be the end of security whatsoever. that's what he said. let's look at what scriptures say. it's in numbers 35:30. if anyone kills, the murderers should be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. now think about that. that's a direct violation of what they're trying to do. so you have john adams. you've got the bible. you've got -- and then there's our judicial system. it's reflected in our judicial system as well. quote, innocent until proven guilty, unquote. it's more than just a phrase. it's a cornerstone of the rule of law since before our founding and it's wisdom has been borne out time and time again throug

john adams when he was vice president noted the president was the object of all eyes and the subjecttion. this has been true for a long time. and the way in which you comport yourself in these moments matters enormously. and so one of the things we know is that the presidency has not changed donald trump. what we don't yet know is has donald trump changed the presidency permanently? what is unquestionable is that he has coarsened the culture of the moment. >> john meacham, in my struggle for perspective yesterday and today i knew i wanted to talk to you tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> and when we come back that new york magazine cover story on what it is like to be shot by a mass murderer and survive. the story includes sherry zelsdorf injured at age 33. a 12 year old student brought a handgun to school. she said the shooter was my student. i came back to work on the 14th of february, on the same day of the shooting in florida. power of 1-2-3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved 3-in-1 copd treatment. ♪ trelegy. the power of 1-2-3 ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 trel

john adams famously said, "facts are stubborn things. kwft. >> a new cnn shows cruz with a solid seven-point lead over o'rourke's. less than three weeks to go. our dana bash moderates a texas senate town hall with o'rourke tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. eastern. senator cruz declined to participate. >>> north dakota senator heidi heitkamp personally apologizing after a newspaper ad for her re-election campaign listed several women as survivors of abuse without their consent. the ad was an open letter slamming her opponent, kevin kramer, for saying "tough people do not identify with the me too movement." amon120 signers include women who said they were identified without permission or were not survivors of sexual or domestic abuse. some say they are looking for a lawyer because the ad, quote, ruined their lives. >>> no winner in last night's mega millions drawing, bringing friday's jackpot to a mind-boggling $868 million. if you were to take a lump sum, you would walk away with shy of half a billion bucks. the winning or rather nonwinning numbers