if aaron burr becomes president it's hard to imagine -- but he doesn't and he doesn't because in large part people realize that aaron burris not summoned they want anywhere near the white house at jefferson becomes president and then jefferson, the question is how much does it matter? if you look at the jefferson administration historians are overwhelmingly, the most important event of the jefferson administration was the louisiana purchase. not surprising. if you double the size of the country peacefully and at almost no cost it's an enormous achievement for any president. any president would want that on their resume. so is jefferson a high-impact president? that is what i want to know. if jefferson is not there just louisiana purchase happen anyway? what you see is jefferson sent an emissary to france to buy the louisiana territory from france except he sent an emissary to buy bye-bye the city of new orleans from france. the louisiana territory as a whole was not mentioned by anyone in the united states is even a possibility. the emissary travel across the atlantic and lands in fran

i did not know that about aaron burr. he both gave us the filibuster and dueling as a way to resolve disputes. the guy has extensive process clearly not what ours is. bob edgar ceo of common cause. michael waldman president of brennan center for justice. thank you for joining us tonight. another teenager senselessly gunned down in florida raising questions again about the scope of the stand your ground law. >> eliot: a detailed report on corruption within the murdoch media empire and what must be done about it. that's next. but later join jennifer granholm in "the war room" for more on the so-called fiscal cliff with laura tyson congresswoman donna edwards at 10:00 p.m. eastern in "the war room." more "viewpoint" coming right up. >>questions, of course, need to be answered. >>we will not settle for the easy answers.

i did not know that about aaron burr. he both gave us the filibuster and dueling as a way to resolve disputes. the guy has extensive process clearly not what ours is. bob edgar ceo of common cause. michael waldman president of brennan center for justice. thank you for joining us tonight. another teenager senselessly gunned down in florida raising questions again about the scope of the >> eliot: a detailed report on corruption within the murdoch media empire and what must be done about it. that's next. but later join jennifer granholm in "the war room" for more on the so-called fiscal cliff with laura tyson congresswoman donna edwards at >> eliot: as monti python used to say and now for something completely different. not something about the fiscal cliff or the benghazi kerfuffle let's talk british press scandals or the scope of rupert murdoch's media empire's breach of trust integrity and the law. today, lord justice levinson released his report detailing the scope of what he discovered in the british media especially foc

of the united states it is hard to imagine but he doesn't because in large part people realize aaron burr isn't somebody they want near the white house and so jefferson -- the question is how much does it matter. if you look at the jefferson administration, they are overwhelming on this the most important event in the administration was the louisiana purchase. that isn't surprising. if you double the size of the country peacefully and almost no cost, this is an enormous achievement for any president. any president would want them on their resume. so is jefferson high impact president? if jefferson hadn't been there with the louisiana purchase have in any way? so if you look there what you see is jefferson sent an emissary to france to buy the louisiana territory from france except he didn't. he sent an emissary to by the city of new orleans from france. the louisiana territory as a whole wasn't mentioned by anyone in the united states as even a possibility so he lands in france and starts traveling towards paris and before he even arrives in paris, the american ambassador who is already t

there is voodoo economics, alger hiss, aaron burr and alexander hamilton, virtuoso cover the topic of the whigs in the republican party. what happened to the whig party? >> guest: is so interesting to see the abolition of politics and political parties of this 225 year. since the presidency was invented because when we look back at it from the founders starting with george washington wrote about it. washington gives his farewell address and says beware the action as they sometimes call them. james madison had written against a party in the federalist papers. one of his arguments for the ratification of the constitution of coors. so you have these men talking about how dangerous parties are and they tended to think of parties more along regional and religious lines as opposed to philosophical lines to that point. but they did not see this coming as the parties emerged. 1796, the lines are clearly drawn in the sand as i mentioned earlier in the interview. john adams and hamilton, very, very shaky allies in the federalist party. thomas jefferson leading what would become the democratic r

jefferson, who was supposed to be candidates for the president had 73 and aaron burr of new york, supposedice- president also was 73. that allowed the federalists to fish in troubled waters and it took the house of representatives 36 ballots to do the right thing. and to confirm jefferson. among other things, it strayed any relationship between jefferson and burr. and it kept the constitution from being amended to have the constitution that we have senate. host: you have a presidential history question, here is a chance to talk to our guest. the numbers are on your screen. you can send us a tweet @cspan2012. how were the people reacting to the process back then in 1800? guest: it was much more elite, frankly. some cases, the legislature's only voted. there was no doubt that people recognize that this exposed hidden flaws in the system. it was rectified. host: 1876. guest: that is a bizarre collection, not least of all because in so many ways, it foreshadows what we all lived through in 2000. the same state in some cases all in the balance of power. this was after the civil war. reconstruct

jefferson, who was supposed to be candidates for the president had 73 and aaron burr of new york, supposed to be vice- president also was 73. that allowed the federalists to fish in troubled waters and it took the house of representatives 36 ballots to do the right thing. and to confirm jefferson. among other things, it strayed any relationship between jefferson and burr. and it kept the constitution from being amended to have the constitution that we have senate. host: you have a presidential history question, here is a chance to talk to our guest. the numbers are on your screen. you can send us a tweet at @cspan2012. how were the people reacting to the process back then in 1800? guest: it was much more elite, frankly. some cases, the legislature's only voted. there was no doubt that people recognize that this exposed hidden flaws in the system. it was rectified. host: 1876. guest: that is a bizarre collection, not least of all because in so many ways, it foreshadows what we all lived through in 2000. the same state in some cases all in the balance of power. this was after the civil war.

in 18 05, the president of the senate, aaron burr, went for his farewell to the senate and said you got rule book, it is -- it has already become encrusted with a bunch of things, duplicative, and many of them you did not even use. why don't you clean up the world book and here are some ideas. they basically said, ok, and adopted the set of rules that took out the motion on the previous question. it was not clear in the senate for a while what that meant, that it basically meant that if one senator took the floor and kept talking or a group of senators did that that you could block action and block it indefinitely. there was no way to stop it until 1917 when we had a crisis over the farming prior to the entry into the first world war, which is the first time we had a rule that created a process where you could and that they pick it has been amended and number of times since then, but a lot of people think it is untried in the constitution, and is not, nor was the super majority pick that out of the way, let me just add a couple appeared observations. the rule has been changed a number o