we had a president who was a great republican, abe lincoln. that is like his rejecting the gettysburg address. this is serious. i have my brother greg. the reason we are able to do this is because we have relationship with the man connecting the dots. it is about the future of our kids and grandkids. greg floyd, local 237. brief, because we all want to go in march and we want to hear martin luther speeds.i's uigher round of applause to reverend al sharpton for putting this together. -- to give a round of applause to reverend al sharpton. the teachers are here to support it.'s dream and reclaim we stand in solidarity with the social movement, and the civil- rights movement and labor are one in the same. thank you. to oure a hand ou councilman. ed, i want you to introduce on the other side. as we get ready to line up, i need it the teamsters to help us. and the movement, back in the day, they used to saying. as we line up, the national action network choir will sing "your change will come." ♪ ♪ change will come ♪ ♪ change will come change will c

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we heard the language used over and over about abe lincoln rolling over in his grave. one out of 24 counts. that's not a very good batting average. >> this is a huge setback. something patrick fitzgerald could never have imagined in his worst nightmares. i thought his face was telling and incredibly subdued. this is not what they expected. they have to start all over again and we can see the former governor gloating about it. >> is it possible blagojevich is really only guilty of being a blow-hard and in terms of the actual log here, the -- he may not be prosecutable? >> well, you know, certainly i think the prosecution really failed to prove as we saw yesterday, a great sense of overconfidence by the prosecution because they never were able to show that he was a criminal. he was just a bad governor. they thought that the juror would be shocked by the tapes. we saw how profane he was. what they really showed was he was a profane loud-mouthed guy. jurors in chicago are not surprised by politicians that talk that way. the defense kept it simple. follow the money. they we

. >> well patrick fitzgerald said, the stories that you will hear, would make abe lincoln roll over ino prove it in court. you have to get people to say you proved it in court. it sounds like a mistrial. it sounds like they'll try it again. we'll see what happens. like what we did on prop 8. you can say what you want in the media. but you ultimately have to come into a courtroom. and that's where the truth is. you can't just spew things. you have to have facts, backed up by evidence. >> of course, you had a judge, not a jury in california, for proposition 8. on the issue of gay marriage, it does seem as if, over time, the country's moving in this direction. it's still a risky strategy. you need five votes on the supreme court. >> yeah. well, we feel we're going to get more than five. and we got a great team. we've got, you know the bush v. gore team. ted olson versus david boies. ted olson got five votes in bush v. gore. and david boies got four. if we put them together we're looking for nine. yeah. >> do they get your vote? >> well, ted olson and david boies, i think are two of the mo

the paraphrase ab ham lincoln, the world will little note nor long remember what we said here.our country, of our faith. we must, we must seal them in clay pots. we must make sure that they are protected just as the dead sea scrols were. protect them. but we have our clay pots. they're our children. teach them these things. i ask you to bring your son or daughter, stand here, i know -- i know that if you do your job, if you pledge to yourself that you will restore honor in your own life, we will leave freedom better than how we found it. so our children can find the giant inside of them somewhere in this crowd, i know it, i have been looking for that george washington. i can't find him. i know he is in this crowd. he may be eight years old, but this is the moment. this is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him. [cheers and applause] and 25 years from now he will come up to this stair or to those stairs. and he can proclaim "i have a new dream" that must be our goal. to raise the next great monument. america is at a cross roads and this is the poin

lincoln would be rolling in his grave. as i sat in the trough of wonder how much honest abe would be rolling in grave because there was no moreggressive proponent of patronage than abraham lincoln. no more aggressive proponent of getting your enemies out and in fact, but the time of his first inaugural day, he had between the election and inauguration he had gotten rid of one half, 50%, of the federal bureaucracy. but what was the point? i think historians will tell you, he had a higher in the. he wanted to save the union -- and slavery, and his mind, having strong and supportive progress party group was the way to get about it. there was nothing like that at least in the face of it on the blagojevich case, the charlie rangel case, the maxine waters case. it is all about personal aggrandizement. so long windedly, coming back to say, yes, when we elect these folks they should be held to a higher level of trust. and too many become, i think, a little bit infatuated. which was the case i think what dan rostenkowski and later years and mr. rangel becoming a little too infatuated with pal. you know the dynamic. and it ultimately h