abe lincoln would never have done a viral web video. the most-- the most that president lincoln ever did was sit for a da guer type mim. but nation-- the worst part, the very worst part about this disaster is that it worked. it's gotten over 13 million views and what with everybody talking about it, it's boosted traffic to health care.gov by 40%. well, that's-- that stops here and now. they're not tricking me into talking about health care.gov and the president's affordable care act. jimmy put the web site on the screen so i know what i am not talking about, okay. you see that right there health care.gov. that is the last time that i ever say healthcare.gov. jimmy, jimmy y do i keep saying healthcare.gov. cut my mike, jimmy, jimmy, cut my-- (laughter) (cheers and applause) back on, thank you very much, jimmy. all right. no free ride, healthcare.gov. [bleep] (laughter) now folks, if you watch my show you know the cold warner ended. if it did, then who nuked detroit? and ever since-- i know it's sad, it's sad. ever since the fall of crimea

all i can tell you is abe lincoln would not have done it. >> abe lincoln would not have worked for foxressman randy weber of texas said the president should be spending more time on benghazi. instead of wasting time with a parody interview should be focused on finding answers regarding benghazi. her column today titled president obama's unbecoming performance and co-host of the cycle. kathleen, you young about to be great man. if either one of you get serious i'm going to get upset here. make a light -- by the way, always think if this was the other party would you be making the same critique? in other words, is it good for the goose, good for the gander? or is this only something you take a shot at if it's someone on the other side of the spectrum? kathleen? the truth sear rum first for you. would you be saying the same thing if this were a republican who had done the precise same thing? >> absolutely, chris. come on, you know me better than that, and i cannot be lined up in the same paragraph with people like bill o'reilly or the far right wing, come on. and i'm an equal opportunity

would not have done it. >> galifianakis says abe lincoln wouldn't have gone on fox, either.nge how it made people laugh at msnbc. >> it was so what laborious. what i loved about it is you run the risk on doing a video like that where it's so funny that you forget what the message is supposed to be. but not with this, man, they nailed it. >> president obama did something this week that was qualitatively unprecedented in terms of degrading the dignity of the white house. is that true or is that false? sorry, david gurgen, sorry, abc news, you're completely and totally wrong. >> my take is come on, it was fine for obama to attempt this given the traditions stretching back to richard nixon on laugh in and bill clinton on mtv and it did produce 32,000 referrals to healthcare.gov. the problem is, it wasn't very funny. i get that united states outside the demo with this sort of thing, but if you ask me, it was painfully awkward. maybe the president is thinking about his next career. >>> more tweets on the missing plane, only the news media with k glob together endless speculation o

. >> all i can tell you is abe lincoln would not have done it.omes a point when serious times call for serious action. we are a divided nation which talking points believes is in decline. >> abe lincoln would not have done it. first of all, how does he know? is this for real? >> we also live in a world with tvs where men don't walk around with top hats on and women can vote. when i heard that i thought there are folks who feel this diminishes the presidency. that is fair argument. i thought this weakened his argument because lincoln was known as a funny guy and someone who reached out to people. who knows if lincoln would have done this or not. i thought it was funny. maybe it is a generational thing. this is where obama shines. he knows this hits the population that they need to hit for obamacare. >> when you talk about beneath the office, 2004 which i remember well, president george w. bush went to the white house correspondence dinner and joked about not finding weapons of mass destruction in iraq. listen to this. >> those weapons of mass dest

and why woodson selected february has to do with the birthdays of two very important americans, abe lincoln and frederick douglas whose birthdays are february 12 and 13. he chose this week because of tradition because since lincoln's assassination and after the death of frederick douglas, after americans have been celebrating their birthdays across the country so there was a preexisting tradition of celebrating this time that woodson built black history month around. i used to think why are they going to give black months the shortest month of the year? there's not a conspiracy. there's no secret plot behind it. there's a reason. woodson realize third-degree this event could not just be about lincoln and douglas. he believed history was made by the people, not just a story of great men. , and this is very important. as one of my professors used to always remind us, that history is about the folks that the family stone call everyday people -- the mothers, fathers, garbage men, sharecroppers, domestic workers, students, teachers, hustlers, players, all these folks who make up the wonderfully

abe lincoln would never have gone on "funny or die." true but that's best also because news then was disseminated by individually printed newspapers delivered on horseback. a new nuanced approach is now the hallmark of any advertising campaign. me? i thought the jokes on "between two ferns" were lame. and i say, it doesn't matter if 4 million sign up, it's who those 4 million are. the economic viability of the affordable care act is dependent upon having a sufficient number of young invincibles enrolled to offset those who have pre-existing conditions. that was the target audience on "between two ferns" not me and not bill o'reilly. no, the intended audience was 26-year-old kaitlyn. and judging from her e-mail, the president hit the target. thanks for watching. please come back next saturday. >>> it is good to see you. we're always grateful for your company. good saturday to you. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 10:00 here on the east coast. you're in the "cnn newsroom." ♪ if you're just waking up this morn and you thought whe

about abe lincoln so he should know. friends, conservatives are still claiming to be worried that the president's highly rated interview with zach galifnaikis will demean the office. the president was finally asked about it in an espn interview today. >> one network suggested lincoln couldn't do this. it's obviously a different time. but you embrace young and different. why? >> well, first of all, if you read back on lincoln, he loved telling the occasional bawdy joke. being out among regular folks. and, you know, up with of the hardest things about being president is being in this bubble. that is artificial and unless you make a conscious effort, you start sounding like some washington stiff. >> it's true. lincoln was so well known as a jokester that in 1864, take a look at this, democrats circulated a novelty business card that promised that after he lost the election, he could go back to springfield and do what he was known for, quote, make joke, split rail fences and dispense law. of course, lincoln won, even with th

. >> you can see that is abe lincoln.d be ben franklin mean, someone bleached a 5-year-old bill and printed $100 over it the bill counterfeited most is the 20. these were spent many times. >> this could be a water mark here. >> and we should see andrew jackson. he's not there. >> the fake is on the bottom. >> make money back, take a second or two and this adds up to not becoming a victim. >> it's often passed in small stores, gas stations and restaurants. i've posted a link with that information it's hard and that is happening quickly. >> thank you, michael. >> coming up next, graduation day at a north bay swim club. >> reward that must have made the swimmers feel like olympians. >>> a dozen kids from the scomboiz girls club took part in the childrens program. that program aimed at inner city young people teaching kids how to swim and be safe in the water. >> now, to see them swimming back and forth is awesome. >> remember to figure out while they're swimming. >> a field trip may have started female middle schoolers. for

. >> you can see that is abe lincoln.should be ben franklin mean, someone bleached a 5-year-old bill and printed $100 over it the bill counterfeited most is the 20. these were spent many times. >> this could be a water mark here. >> and we should see andrew jackson. he's not there. >> the fake is on the bottom. >> make money back, take a second or two and this adds up to not becoming a victim. >> it's often passed in small stores, gas stations and restaurants. i've posted a link with that information it's hard and that is happening quickly. >> thank you, michael. >> coming up next, graduation day at a north bay swim club. >> reward that must have made the >>> a dozen kids from the scomboiz girls club took part in the childrens program. that program aimed at inner city young people teaching kids how to swim and be safe in the water. >> now, to see them swimming back and forth is awesome. >> remember to figure out while they're swimming. >> a field trip may have started female middle schoolers. for many, this was their firs

that put his birth date around 1832 when andrew jackson was president and abe lincoln in his early 20sis is jan than now. look at him in his younger days around the 1900s. before ford rolled out the first model t. now to the picture of the day. the emergency landing. passengers had to evacuate a flight after the pile was forced to abort land off. a tire's front landing gear blew out. 149 passengers and crews not injured and got off the plane just fine. headlines just after this. >> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm richelle carey. here are the top stories. six days after malaysia airlines flight 307 vanished there are no signs of the plane. al jazeera confirmed a report by the "wall street journal" that says the plane sent electronic transmissions after disappearing from radar. malaysian authorities deny that, as well as a report that it may have kept flying after it disappeared. on friday a round of diplomacy aimed at diffusing the crisis in ukraine. the secretary of state is set to meet its counterpart a day after moscow started drills near the ukrainian boarder. another in control

all i can tell you is abe lincoln would not have done it. >> bill o'reilly doing his best get off myn routine in reaction to the president's bizarre but hilarious appearance with zach galifianakis on between two ferns. >> did you hear of the affordable care act? >> yeah, i heard of it, that's the thing that doesn't work. >> that appearance caused all kinds of consternation from conservatives. bill o'reilly found the whole thing unpresidential. and as a guy who co wrote a book about lincoln, if he says lincoln wouldn't have gone on an internet comedy show, he would know, or would he? historians stepped forward and said, one of abraham lincoln's defining features was odd. he was fond of jokes anecdotes and stories. he loved to hear them, and tell them himself out of the supply provided by his good memory. there would have been no harm in this but for the fact the courser the joke, the more risky the anecdote, the more he enjoyed them requesting a funny song in the middle of a battlefield or being reminded of a joke. one of his most striking defining features was his oddness, strangenes

all i can tell is you abe lincoln would not have done it.re comes a point when serious times call for serious action. we're a divided nation which talking points believes is in decline. mr. obama is quick, has a good sense of humor. those are assets. but he needs to be aware. he needs to be aware of how his enemies perceive him because i believe the testing of america is just getting started. >> and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction. joining us from washington chris, a democratic consultant from nashville, tennessee chip, a republican strategist. you are up first. what say you? >> well, i get where the president was trying to go and the video was kind of funny, like you said, we are at serious times and there are serious problems. and at a time when russian troops have strategic assets outs their borders. european leaders are unsure where to go. they are looking to the united states and our president for leadership and get a stand up comedic routine. it's bad optics all across the world. >> we have to be fair, this is

all i can say is abe lincoln would not have done it. >> time pour the sideshow.reilly criticizing president obama for appearing with zach galifianakis in the now famous "between two ferns" video earlier this week. but o'reilly's conjecture that lincoln wouldn't have done it is being challenged on the daily beast. greenfield points out that lincoln's sharp sense of humor was a political asset, and one that his foes also criticized him for during the civil war. but critics of the president's interview should take a long look through history. many presidents have engaged with pop culture icons. nixon famously posed with elvis in 1970 after the king, that's elvis presley, asked him to make him a federal agent at large. and as a candidate before that, nixon appeared on "laugh-in" where he delivered this famous line. >> sock it to me? >> in 1992, president bush hammed it up with dana carvey at the white house after inviting the "snl" funny man to mimic him in front of his staffers. there he was doing it. >> start out with mr. rogers. ♪ it's a beautiful day in the neigh

he makes other famous faces, abe lincoln, ben franklin. bernanke. >> that was commissioned by "time." >> they rejected it. senn sold to the smithsonian. the national portrait gallery. >> always moving having somewhere between the drawing elements. >> at new york's gallery, wagner's collages can fetch tens of thousands of dollars, it shows usually sell out immediately. >> how many pieces do you have? >> probably a dozen. >> frank williams is a collector. >> i keep findings things that i like to bring hem toe look at them a little longer than i can in a gallery. >> is it expensive to work with money. you cut up a lot of bills. >> i like to think people think it's expensive but bills aren't the expensive part of the operation. it's the time. >> the very act of cutting up money raises the question of, what it's worth. mark wagner's art is a conversation about the nature of money and american identity. >> i am not making posters. i'm not making protest signs. art happens in two places. art happens in my brain when i'm making these things, and t

all i can tell you is abe lincoln would not have done it becomes now he would jesus do i think alwaysgood there wasn't such a program yeah i believe it was rather famous for telling off color jokes i mean is funny jokes and his and his pigs and nipples i guess is the word i could say on the air jokes. you know our legendary it's people were shocked at the time chart but abe lincoln many that you could pick the different person so well first of all it wasn't even funny but maybe the stoners in colorado and washington state may have gone to the web site but you know they had so many hits on the website but of course i thought there was some funny moments they can you tell us they cannot tell us how many people have actually enrolled because of that they can be very you know thirty two thousand visited the website doesn't mean they signed up they only know how many hits it got five six o'clock last night from from directed from that but the real question is how many of the four point two million people that have signed up well less than the seven million that sebelius wouldn't talk about

. >> abe lincoln would not have done it. point where serious times call for serious action. >> that was this week. it's not the first time we've heard this kind of things recently. two weeks ago when the president spent part of his weekend on a 90-minute phone call with vladimir putin, he was criticized for conducting it in a den anymore shirt. there have been other sin stances for obama being accused of dressing more casual. that may have had something to do why as a candidate, george w. bush made the dignity of the office of the president an expolicive campaign issue. >> honor and dignity in the white house is an issue in this campaign. >> the objective has got to bring some common sense and integrity into washington, d.c. >> i will swear to uphold the honor and dignity to the office which i've been selected so help me god. >> i learned the hard way that the entire town places a lot of emphasis onward robe, even folks who aren't conservative in poll sicks are conservative to clothing. what i thought was to be a casual sitd

. >> i've never seen a black woman play abe lincoln before. >> she did a great job. >> in a way.ice for you. >> if you look at that person's budget and looked at their cable bill, cell phone bill, other things they're spending on, it turns out they just haven't prioritized health care. >> is the president out of touch with working-class americans? we'll report. you decide. have a hobby? why not turn it into a boomingç business? that is what ricky shoulder s' wife did. she joins us live with her secret to success. ♪ ♪ is this the bacon and cheese diet? this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. did i tell you i am on the... [ both ] chicken pot pie diet! me too! [ male announcer ] so indulgent, you'll never believe they're light. 100-calorie progresso light soups. what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together the fastest internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further analytics are necessary. beam us up. ♪ that

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one finds the following inscription: in the hour of the nation's peril, he conducted abe hamlin con -- the abraham lincoln safely through the ranks of treason to the scene of his first inauguration as president. now, i'm guessing that many people who come to this story will know that abraham lincoln survived to become president of the united states. and and that soon afterwards the nation was plunged into civil war. i mean, why tell the story, why now? well, there are three reasons. one, it's barn burner of a story. it reads like one of the yellow-backed adventure novels of the day that pinkerton himself loved to read. you've got conspirators taking blood oaths at mud night, you've got detectives -- at midnight, you've got detectives jumping off of trains, you've got the president of the united states stealing through town in disguise, past the scene of danger as pinkerton called it under the sable wig of night. sable wing of night. two, the civil war is full of moments where the whole shooting match came down to a matter of inches, you know, pickets charge. there stands jackson like a stone wall rally be

i put on twitter, i said i hid a copy of i am abe amylin con somewhere in -- abraham lincoln in disney world, come find it. wanted to see if you could find it. and so, of course, thousands of people started tweeting back on facebook and on twitter, you know, or where it is, where do you guys think i put it? hall of presidents. that was, like, i host a show called decoded. do i look that obvious that i'm going to put it in the hall of presidents? my wife was like put it in the hall of presidents. and so i hid -- i said it's not the hall of presidents, and i said think of of my other book. and then someone concern it's amazing what you see when the universe uses its collective information, and your book the millionaires, the last hundred pages were in the underground tunnels under disney world. and someone in virginia, that guy right there started getting on to whatever he was going on, it was like in the bat cave, he basically goes and finds where the tunnel entrances are, and he puts that out there, and i tweet his tweet, and slowly people are honing in on it. they're getting to the ba