there's teddy roosevelt, there's abraham like it by george thistle. come and see if on the website, a lincoln book shop. com. we will be able to see this interview and other past interviews on our youtube page. does that sound like i'm blowing the horn enough for abraham lincoln bookshop? more cap on it it isn't independent bookstore and if you can get your book. a house built by slaves if you wa it is an independent bookstore. and if you can get your book, a house built by slaves, if you want to order it to us, we will send it to you. if you want john spoke, find it at your local independent bookstore. you know who i am talking about, someone in your neighborhood is selling this book to you. all right, john, let's talk about a house built by slaves, african american visitors to the lincoln white house. what made you want to look at abraham lincoln's white house visits with african americans? and write a book about that? >> yeah, so, it started in 2014. i don't know why but for some reason in 2014 i started collecting letters from african americans to

you can get them from abraham lincoln bookshop. we also have many other historical artifacts that you can get from us, art autographs, photographs, prints, statuary, see a couple of busts here. it is teddy roosevelt, there's abraham like it by george thistle. come and see if on the website, a a book shop.com. we will be able to see this interview and other past interviews on our youtube page. does that sound like i'm blowing the horn enough for abraham lincoln bookshop? >> it's a great place, i have to say, to visitors who have never been. go to chicago and stop, and it's really an incredible store. >> thank you very much. to put one more cap on it, it is an independent bookstore. if you can get your book, a house built by slaves, if you want to order from us will send it to you with the signed book plate. but if you want john's book, find it at your local independent bookstore, you know who i'm talking about. someone in your neighborhood is selling this book to you. all right, john, let's talk about a house built by slaves, africa

you can get from abraham lincoln book shop. we also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. you see a couple of bus here there's teddy roosevelt. there's abraham lincoln by george bissell our website come and see us on the website. it's a lincoln book shop.com you will be able to see this author interview and other past interviews our youtube page. does that sound like i've blown the horn enough for abraham lincoln book shop. it's a great place. i have to say to visitors who've never been go to chicago and stop in. it's really an incredible store. thank you very much and and to put one more cap on it it isn't independent bookstore and if you can get your book. a house built by slaves if you want to order it from us, we'll send it to you with the signed book plate. but if you want john's book find it at your local independent bookstore, you know who i'm talking about someone in your neighborhood is selling this book to you. all right, john, let's talk about a house built b

of the abraham lincoln papers. and that has the bulk of the papers. and some of the richest material, including very speeches, his farewell address, to springfield. also, the two gettysburg addresses. and the second inaugural address, they are actually technically in series three. because they came from the surviving children. that came from helen nicolay, because they donated him to the library of congress. that's why want to start out with generosity. the richness and the financial value of the papers and these were given to the american people by those family members. and included in that series is that letter from william de fleurville who wrote to lincoln in 1863, december 27th. and we know he knew about gettysburg. and we know he knew about lincoln's illness because he found them from a letter that had been back in springfield, lincoln's barber and friend. these things tend to go. and he wrote to this mutual friend that he spoke to, being sorry to hear about lincoln's illness. and you can also tell that they

how do we make sense of quotes like this when we think about abraham lincoln? yeah, those those are troubling especially to the modern ear and it were these were comments that he repeated in in charleston and i think in jonesboro to other debates of the seven and i think fundamentally one thing we need to think about which is rarely mentioned today and you guys are going to laugh when i say why we don't use the word statesmanship much today, and that was the last line in other words, of course not have you seen what we've got in our major parties, but one thing i'm trying to do with my students is to get them to gain a greater appreciation for the art of politics, which is not simply for lack of a better phrase moral grandstanding you have to gain consent in this country to get justice done and my great teacher harry jaffa once wrote in his great book crisis of the house divided which was about the lincoln douglas debates. is that the mark of statesmanship which is you know, to define his political prudence the mark of statesmanship is gaining as much justice a

the memory of abraham lincoln is enshrined forever. thank you. okay, we're gonna have felicia curry come come back and sing another song. and she'll be followed up by a song from the president's own marine band marine band, and i think you'll recognize both of these. sure. my sweet land of to thee we see. land where my father's died land of thy pilgrims pride for all every mountain inside let here here if if if here i hope everybody here recognized first song that felicia curry sang as america. although most of us probably know it as my country tears t and the battle hymn of the republic we will hear again from the marine bass band after we're finished. they will play us out. so when they play again you can thank them and but that will be time for you to get up and and get and leave. but were almost finished. i know everybody's seeing out here. it's very hot. and we've had the look of having the sun come out just in time for the beginning of our of our program. so we we've heard some some words from lincoln today and stephen lang's powerful prese

abraham lincoln gand their battle to save america's soul. to get the 13 states together we've got to make certain compromises and then we had to beat the british. we did both but it's put off the problem that had to be dealt with that went right down to the 1860s. all through time we had three people stand up and lead us and sometimes in the most unlikely circumstances. andrew jackson an orphan kid in the midwest. this guy should have been a criminal. he and not being a war hero, two-term president and dominic 50 years of american politics. take lincoln and douglas, the way they started and when he ended up you would never idpredict either one would be the people to save our country i would argue they did. can i take a step back a little star about where i started with fox? you guys been watching me on fox? so if there's does anyone remember i started fox as a sports guy . i was a sports guy. i would do the weather and before it was fox and friends . it was all fox express so we would do the sports or do the weather, but then go to the green

it puts abraham lincoln as the top president, ranking number one. and not just in the latest survey which came out in 2000, abraham i didn't even see the top 2021, but every time this survey has been done, back in 2017, 2009, abraham lincoln always comes in first in that survey, ahead of george washington, franklin roosevelt, theodore roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, those are the top five in this survey. why do you think he is always number one? >> because he not only saved the union at its most precarious moment, he also articulated the vision of the american dream in his writing. a nd aside from that, represented the american dream in his own rise from the impoverished, remote circumstances all of the way to the white house. so, he lived his dream, he articulated the ream and preserved it for everyone else. this country could've easily been balkanized, to use a later term. we might have easily been five countries. it might have not just been north and south, but north, south, east, west, south west, and northwest. and how would we have fared against

to $5 million, to build a memorial to abraham lincoln. and then the debate started about where to put it. this site, in the swamps of west potomac park, was not the first choice. people talked about union station, the base of the capital, the naval observatory, meridian park up near the maryland border, the soldiers home where lincoln spent his summers. and finally, john hey, lincoln's former private secretary, later secretary of state, suggested the spot. said it should be remote but not too remote. and the sculptor daniel chester french, who is head of the fine arts commission of washington, put the rubber stamp on this area. by the, way the speaker of the house, joe cannon said famously, i will never let a memorial to my hero be built on that blank blank spot in the swamp. he even threatened to take it to arlington if people insisted on here. so, here it was finally cited and then french picked his collaborator, henry bacon, who did the architecture for many of the sculptures, as the architect. there was no competition. but the design

not a lot of political connections with abraham lincoln. he started running for office to become a one-term congressman. nobody is looking at linking to lead us to freedom to the most difficult time for frederick douglass. he's got to escape for freedom. he's got to stand up to his slave master. he's got it once free. he could still be arrested for years later seven years after that. he writes his autobiography then he goes to europe for 21 months. they still have statues for him with him and plaques in ireland, scotland and london of what he did and what he said and they saw the promise he could have stayed there sent for his family. going back because i'm gonna bring that message because he he wanted to be an american. and a man that was born into slavery that was told the constitution had to be destroyed. but the more he worked the more he read the more he realized the constitution was the key to freedom. we weren't living up to it. we didn't have to tear it down. it was built to be brave. it was for perfect. we just weren't living the p

year dedication of the lincoln mario we are joined by author and abraham harold holzer lincoln to -- joined by author and lincoln expert harold holzer to discuss. what sets it apart? guest: one is just the beauty, the building and the magnificence of the marble statue, the largest marble monument portrait in the united states, then and now. what further has set it apart is the use of this space i am sitting on all the way to the steps as a platform for the discussion of grievances, for the aspirations for a more perfect union, for what reagan called unfinished -- what lincoln called unfinished work. it has evolved into the setting for demonstrations, gatherings, meetings, concerts that all point to completing that unfinished business of his. host: describe where you are and for those who haven't been there, with the should know. guest: i am sitting about 50, 40 feet from the reflecting pool on the far end of the monument. and of course the memorial is behind me up 87 steps, i think i have that right. finished in 19 and they waited for it to settle on the soft ground before it settled

just my love why now she line and abraham july. thank you for watching . you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha, inside story. you can also turn the conversation on twitter. our handle is at a j inside story, for how much jerome and the whole team here, bye for now. ah. joined the debate, wonderful as it is that the paramedic language. it really means nothing on the ground, on air or online at your voice. the queen is be removed as head of safe because she's done absolutely nothing. what these country white man, where is the progress i haven't seen in operations. do see sports journalist i look like me if you need to listen to those voice perspectives even when it's hard and when it challenges some of our foundational thinking. this green on al jazeera, the answer was an arabic. my name is how i was abducted by the cia in 2004, a german citizen was kidnapped and tortured by the cia. the came up with handcuffs, led me int

the hundred year dedication of the lincoln mario we are joined by author and abraham harold holzer lincoln to -- joined by author and lincoln expert harold holzer to discuss. what sets it apart? guest: one is just the beauty, the building and the magnificence of the marble statue, the largest marble monument portrait in the united states, then and now. what further has set it apart is the use of this space i am sitting on all the way to the steps as a platform for the discussion of grievances, for the aspirations for a more perfect union, for what reagan called unfinished -- what lincoln called unfinished work. it has evolved into the setting for demonstrations, gatherings, meetings, concerts that all point to completing that unfinished business of his. host: describe where you are and for those who haven't been there, with the should know. guest: i am sitting about 50, 40 feet from the reflecting pool on the far end of the monument. and of course the memorial is behind me up 87 steps, i think i have that right. finished in 19 and they waited for it to settle on the soft ground before it s

including abraham lincoln he and they believed the constitution was an anti-slavery document. as early as 1813 the prominent black leader james fortune defended our noble constitution as that as quote that glorious fabric of collective wisdom of fabric that fortune believed incorporated the principle of human rights universal rights proclaimed in the declaration of independence. anti-slavery politicians had a saying within the constitution freedom is the rule slavery is the exception. what did that mean? it meant that the founders had produced a constitution that overwhelmingly favored freedom. but which in order to create a unified new nation made a couple of deplorable, but alas necessary exceptions notably the three-fifths and fugitive slave clauses, but again, they were considered exceptions in a constitution that as a general rule favored freedom over slavery. this morning. i want to reconstruct that anti-slavery interpretation of the constitution a constitution lincoln believed in and in which and which profoundly shaped his approach to slavery and to racial equality whi

just my love was and she line and abraham july, thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha, inside story. you can also turn the conversation on twitter. our handle is at a j inside story, for how much of jerome and the whole team here, bye for now. ah ah. and a from the ruins of mosul, music as re emerged. these are some of 40 musicians who make up the weather orchestra in iraq, 2nd largest city, despite being banned, when mosul was occupied by i. so the melodies arrived, derfin christian curd are obscene needs and she has these young men and women represent the diversity of europe to be able to hear music amid the ruins of muscles. all city feel strange, but it brings home the resilience of residents who say that despite the destruction and lack of help, they remain committed to bringing the city back to life. on the streets of greece, anti immigrant violence is on the rise. the road you have to go

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ron white we know that you came to him by way of abraham lincoln. of course, but what did you see as the greatest misconception about him as you conducted your research of this great, man? well, certainly there's a caricature of grant. yeah that he is not mentally endowed and this begins really with his finishing 21st out of 39 at west point. it needs to be said that when he entered he had a much larger class. and so that set in motion the perception in his lifetime. that he was not a thoughtful person not an intellectual person. not a reader. now that then becomes countered in our own time when we have these two wonderful annotated versions of grants memoirs, and i believe that grant good writers are inevitably good readers, so i was curious to find out was grant a reader. you may recall if you've read his memoirs that he will say something like i must apologize for his 21st out of 39. i spent my time reading novels. so i read the novels that he read and don't do that anymore. point which was they were not in the library. so grant contacted the pub

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this is including abraham lincoln. he and they believed that the constitution was an anti slavery document. as early as 1813, the prominent black leader, james forton, defended our noble constitution as that glorious fabric of collective wisdom. a fabric that 14 believed incorporated the, principle of human rights, universal rights, proclaimed in the declaration of independence. anti slavery politicians had a saying. within the constitution, freedom is the role, slavery is the exception. what does this mean? it meant that the founders had produced a constitution that overwhelmingly favored freedom. which, to create a unified nation, made a couple of deplorable but alas, necessary exceptions, notably the three fifths and slavery clauses. again, they were considered exceptions in a constitution that, as a general rule, favored freedom over slavery. which this moment i want to re-can destruct this interpretation of the constitution, a constitution that lincoln believed in and which profoundly shaped his approach to slaver

abraham lincoln, redeemer president in 99.lincoln's emancipation proclamation and 04, lincoln and douglass, the debates that defined america, came out no eight. abraham lincoln as a man of ideas cannot know nine. lincoln, a short introduction, 2009 as well. and, then a look at the civil war and reconstruction in fateful lightning, followed by gettysburg the last invasion, is how allen guelzo looks at that back in 2013. redeeming degrade emancipator in 2016. reconstruction, i concise a, story came out in 2018. and his most recent, from a different point of view, robert e. lee, a life. if we could, allen guelzo, let's go to the year of 1863. which kicked off with the emancipation proclamation, very tumultuous year and nation's history. but i want to quote from your book, redeeming the great emancipator. quote, the emancipation proclamation, which was delivered on january 1st 1863, is surely the unhappiest of all of abraham lincoln's great presidential papers. >> and of the word unhappiest is that when you focus, on right? >>, we

abraham's work entered the guinness book of records as the largest jellyfish in the world?reative workshop of abraham barczewski located in the center of one of the oldest cities in the world of jerusalem, archaeologists prove that the settlement here was already 7,000 years ago. some of the earliest written records date back to the 20th century bc . hundreds of christian muslim and jewish shrines are concentrated on this territory. the climate in jerusalem is mediterranean. it is hot in summer. it rains cool in winter and sometimes it snows in last winter according to local meteorologists. in just one day, more than 30 cm of snow fell in the city, as it was sung in the old song such a snowfall. for a long time he does not remember these places, according to scientists, the last time something like this happened in 1879. old jerusalem is located behind high fortress walls erected in the middle of the 16th century. under suleiman the magnificent, one of the ancient gates of zion is traditionally located in the south, the old city is divided into four quarters, jewish christi

accord. >> a whole bunch of us did the abraham accord. >> possible to expand them? >> yes absolutely possible. maybe discounts are my christian faith. although my wife would deny i am an optimist by nature. yes i think they will be expanded. will be expanded because they make sense for just as we put america first every leader in the world puts her own nation first. we often get shorthanded or criticized for that has historic connotations. we are always focused on how to deliver on the promises we made to the american people in her oath to our constitution. that's how we spent our day, right? leaders of big muslim nations it's out of their best interest to continue to have a support foreign policy prescription the disruption of the nation of israel. there's an incentive to get it right. but things have to come together pray to handle things have to come together. one really good american leadership that started with a foundational understanding of a deep connection between the united states and israel and their paramount importance to the united states of america. w

accord. >> a whole bunch of us did the abraham accord. >> possible to expand them? >> yes absolutely possible. maybe discounts are my christian faith. although my wife would deny i am an optimist by nature. yes i think they will be expanded. will be expanded because they make sense for just as we put america first every leader in the world puts her own nation first. we often get shorthanded or criticized for that has historic connotations. we are always focused on how to deliver on the promises we made to the american people in her oath to our constitution. that's how we spent our day, right? leaders of big muslim nations it's out of their best interest to continue to have a support foreign policy prescription the disruption of the nation of israel. there's an incentive to get it right. but things have to come together pray to handle things have to come together. one really good american leadership that started with a foundational understanding of a deep connection between the united states and israel and their paramount importance to the united states of america. w

>> there were a whole bunch of us did the abraham accords. >> possible to expand them? >> absolutely possible. maybe this comes from a christian faith although my wife would deny i am and i am an optimist by nature. [laughter] yes i think they will be expanded. they will be expanded because they make sense. just as we put america first you should know every leader in the world puts their ownwn nation first. we often get shorthanded or criticized for that. has historic connotations. how do we deliver on the promises we made to the american people under oath to a constitution? how we spent our days. thank neighbors and a muslim nation is not in their best interest to have as a foreign-policy a prescription for the destruction of the nation of israel for this an incentive to get it right. things have to come together pretty handful of things come together.ri one comment really good american leadership that started with a foundational understanding of the deep connections between the united states, israel and their paramount importance to the united states of america. when

the black man's president abraham lincoln african americans and the pursuit of racial equality. noah. feldman is the felix frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the julis rabinowitz program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. he's the author of nine books including the three lives of james madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincoln's slavery and the re-founding of america diana. shall is professor of political science at loyola university, maryland and a non-resident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where she focuses on american political thought and history. she is the author of several books including what so proudly we hail the american soul and story speech and song and her new book is his greatest speeches how lincoln moved the nation welcome michael burlingame noah feldman and diana schaub. michael berlin. let us begin with you. tell our friends why you argue in your new book that lincoln was the black man's president and you have

she did the abraham accords are. >> there were a whole bunch of us the did the abraham cord. >> possible to expand them? >> yes absolutelypo possible. maybe this comes to my christian faith although my wife would deny this i am an optimist by nature. yes i think they will be expanded where they will be expanded because they makee sense. just as we put america first every leader in their world puts her own nation first. we often get shorthanded or criticized for that has historic connotations we are always focused on how do we deliver on the promises that we made to the american people enter oath to our country? that's how we spent ourat days, elliott right? leaders big muslim nations can see is not in their best interest to continue to have as a foreign policy a prescription the destruction of the nation of israel. there is an incentive to get it right but things have to come together. a handful things came together one really good american leadership that started with a foundational understanding of the deep connection between the united states and israel and their paramount importance

the next morning, while the youngest are still sleeping, abraham bohack and the others are packing. what used to be loaded onto the drama dairies is now loaded onto the trailer belongings, provisions and on top of it all the sit guts. squadron. good la donna. this is elizabeth young. we packed and are moving on. but weather will find a place to stay in the evening remains to be seen and will of elizabeth. we used to be able to let the animals graze there on the wooded slopes. yes, one of them. good. you got it, but now that's been banned with us. and we have to keep them within these baron areas of the month. oh, what about the forest is fenced off. so the cattle don't damage it because i use your zip with all along. but the trees have long since grown to 4 or 5 meters high . good fish method old. we'll kill de ja milan. so nothing. this is all we leave behind at our camp site. after it rains, even the ashes will be gone. with them, a shave of everything we use comes from nature. then they're off again, some one foot. others on the tractor up front but after just a few kilometers, m

there are several 100 goats in the herd who are joined by half a dozen drama dairies. abraham by chuck has been a nomadic herder since his youth either yet in winter they live with their animals on a farm. was was, wasn't, he takes care of the grandchildren with his wife while their son graces some of the herd further away. humongous, even the children see few visitors in the summer of miss hosted recited westmore but sovereign is expecting the telephone of our boot. she's brought extra provisions. we'll get you hit you in the nomad sustenance on the journey comes from milk and meat from their herd on their way to the main camp, farther up in the mountains. mm hm. they always stay only one night at each camp site. totally. i guess you said half of them, the life of a nomad is becoming increasingly difficult, says boucher individual did feel true. you will come up here. we have our peace and quiet amar. there's no noise and no pollution. you understood. what do you think? well, the eligible little work, what they want, leave us in peace or work little one on the fuel. linda? yes, they'v

the next tie goes to the first birthday cake for the north carolina sixth-grader named abraham walkerfrom sierra leone from the walker family in charlotte. >> happy birthday dear abraham ♪ happy birthday to you. >> abraham never had a birthday party of his own, so he didn't know how to blowout the candles and he said he wasn't even sure how old he is. his adopted dad met them at an orphanage in sierra leone. later when they were about to be separated and forced out onto the street, they and the four kids met and decided quickly and unanimously that abraham and joe should join their family in america. >> for me to have a family to love me and care about me and they said wait, i have a perfect and beautiful family. >> happy birthday, abraham and that is a beautiful family. the final little goes to getting a lot more than you bargained for with a good deed. a man named robert brantley pulled over the other day when he saw kittens wandering along the road in rural pioneer louisiana. >> look, they are on the side of the road. they're going to get killed for sure. all know, oh, my gosh. i c

the next morning, while the youngest are still sleeping, abraham botches and the others are packing. what used to be loaded onto the drama dairies is now loaded onto the trailer belongings provisions. and on top of it all the sit guts, barbara. oh, hello donna. this is oliver young. we packed and are moving on. you said it's still a go. but whether we'll find a place to stay in the evening remains to be seen and will we used to be able to let the animals graze there on the wooded slopes? yes, one of them. good. but now that's been banned with us. and we have to keep them within these baron areas. it? oh well, but the forest is fenced off so the cattle don't damage it because i just looked at all. but the trees have long since grown to 4 or 5 meters high. good fish method. all right, we'll kill de ya, milan. so no, this is all we leave behind at our camp site. after it rains, even the ashes will be gone. with them, a shave of everything we use comes from nature. then they're off again, some on foot. others on the tractor of fronting but after just a few kilometers, batch i can soverei

and then, kenny, abraham's wife bore him no children.hold now, the lord hath restrained me from bearing. i pray thee, go into my mate." - [muffled] mm-hmm. - abraham begat isaac, who the lord then said to kill, but that was just a little silly trick to see if abraham would do it. - [muffled] mm-hmm! - [burbling] - no, ike! ma, ike keeps taking off his squirt uniform! - ike, you behave! - four... - no, ike! - ba-ba, ba-ba. - i don't think ike wants to go to squirts. - ike, your brother kyle was in squirts, and so was i. you have to go, so someday you can be a big brave jew scout. - no! - tell ike how much fun squirts is, kyle. - what, you want me to lie? - yeah, lie. - oh. ike, squirts is so much fun. - oh, my god, what is that? [tires screeching] - hey, it's a bear! - [growling] - wow! cool! this retreat really is out of the way, isn't it?

one of the most important things you led, was the "abraham accords."ou did a lot in the past administration as well as running the cia at your time in congress, when you look at middle east, what took place on your watch, now the president is traveling to saudi arabia to get them to put more oil on the market. how do you think that meeting plays out? >> well, i'm glad that the president recognizes that we need more energy in the marketplace. so check that one. i said something good about president biden this morning but the first place he should go to midland, texas, bakken shale or pennsylvania. american energy is the right place to start. instead they started with the iranians, the venezuelans and now moved to the saudis. i hope the fact he is taking a trip there will convince the saud i dids more broadly, even opec to produce more energy. i think that would be a good thing for the american people but when you side with the iranians, world's largest state response sore of terror against the emirates, those leaders no longer have confidence in the uni

andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, maybe -- i don't know, thomas jefferson if you like him. james polk have his fan club. but for the most part, presidents of the 19th century are on memorable by design. but things change in the 20th century, when, and because the united states, for the first time, as a full-time foreign policy. i've written about 19th century presidents, and when i write about a presidency, i sort of have this idea, because i started writing the history in the 20th century, about dwight eisenhower's presidency, and so i think that there's got to be a lot on foreign policy. so, when i was writing about andrew jackson, when i was writing about ulysses grant, i was [inaudible] there's gotta be at least a chapter on foreign policy. but there's not that much foreign policy. it's only in the 20th century, when the united states becomes a walkout, that the united states has a full downpour foreign policy. and then the president has to take charge. the president's commander in chief of the armed forces and he's the defector diplomatic chief form with foreign countr

it reminded me very much of abraham lincoln, who toured richmond right after the war. well, the war was still going on. but he went there at the end of march, beginning of april -- april 4th, to be exact. what were truman's thoughts on this visit to berlin? did he change anything, did it anger him? how did he feel? >> i kept hoping that he would say something really interesting. he wasn't very interesting on the subject. he didn't seem terribly moved by what he had seen, either. others were -- berlin was basically rubble. you can see some amazing footage from that period. you can watch people lining up and passing food and water and bricks and so on. and churchill actually rather enjoyed it, i think after what they had been through. i couldn't compare it to lincoln's visit to richmond. first place, lincoln was visiting his -- they were his countrymen still, and he was the president. this was the enemy. it was a really hated enemy, so i think truman just said, well, this is what happens when you overstep. >> did he go through any of the camps at the time? >> no, never.

they maybe got them a part of the abraham accord.hem in the, you know what? >> bret: it's possible they could still put something together with israel and saudi arabia. also possible on this trip. also possible they get saudis to get engaged with russia on grain export from ukraine that deals with the world food program, juan, but democrats, as i mentioned, you just heard congresswoman sheila jackson lee. here is from others about this split. >> they play a major role in the release of petroleum products for the purposes of costs. yes, i think there is a reason to have those conversations. >> i don't see any evidence that the saudis are going to significantly lower gasoline prices. >> i wouldn't go and if i had to go to the country for some other reason, i wouldn't meet with the crowned prince. i think he should be shunned. >> bret: juan, the question is why not turn the spotlight on domestic oil energy and i asked that for the congresswoman. i have asked it to others, why not open the spigots here more than they are? >> i think ther