abe lincoln costs advisers advised him to buy the rails from england. he asked, why? he said, we can import them into this country then -- for cheaper than we can do the same thing here. sound familiar? lincoln thought about that, and he said, well, i understand that. but it seems to me that if we buy the rails from england than we have the rails and they have our money. and if we build the rails here, we have got our rails and we have got our money. [applause] a lot of people say, you don't give any credit to republicans. there is one republican i like. lincoln had his head screwed on right in more ways than one. i will tell you, that is the way we will do it. people say howie -- how are you going to pay for this? i will go to the american people, and i'm going to say, it is time to make a choice. this is a free country. here is your choice. it is called the ballot. if you believe, if you want to continue to spend $160 billion per year of your money defending europe from the soviet union or whatever it is called now forget about the fact that the german economy is gr

. ♪ >> happy birthday, abe lincoln. ann romney remake? first, cheesecake.ust off the tri-quarter hats democrats. we are going to philadelphia. philly beat out columbus, ohio, possibly because republicans are having their convention in ohio and brooklyn lost probably because jay-z and beyonce wanted to keep the riffraff out of the 718. picture this, late july, city of brotherly love, good idea or bad idea? >> my view has always been that the convention should have been in brooklyn, four one million reasons. this is not a bad idea. philadelphia has done these things before. philadelphia, pennsylvania, not much of a swing state, but it will provide a lot of support. >> there are four reasons to pick your convention season -- city. they are logistics, logistics logistics, and fundraising. i'm not sure philadelphia will raise the money easily, but they will raise it in the end. brooklyn always made me skeptical. the arena -- what do you call that arena? the berkeley center -- barclay's center, there is too much around it. philadelphia, they basically turned the

. >>> on his birthday today, a new town hall program honoring abe lincoln will debut at the national constitution center. the event is called lincoln's legacy, the 13th amendment 150 years later. it marks lincoln's constitutional push to end slavery in america. the event will feature a panel discussion by scholars humanitarians and philanthropists. you can also get a rare viewing of the 13th amendment. philadelphia will hold its annual lincoln day parade this afternoon. it starts at 1:55 at union league. it will wind up at independence hall for a ceremony there. today marks lincoln's 206th birthday. >>> students in the east falls neighborhood got a visit from a living legend. one of the tuskegee airmen spoke yesterday. dr. eugene richardson gave a lecture about desegregation in the military. he was there when truman ended racial segregation, opening up a world of opportunity for african-american men. >>> in boston look at this. street crews dealing with tons of snow are trying to get the city back in ship shape, but that's tough to do when a ship is blocking the way. look at this. a

. ♪ >> happy birthday, abe lincoln. ann romney remake? first, cheesecake.ff the tri-quarter hats, democrats. we are going to philadelphia. philly beat out columbus, ohio possibly because republicans are having their convention in ohio, and brooklyn lost probably

lot of the ivy league education we had one guy who did really well and that was ronaldr e know abe lincolncollege, george washington didn't go to college. >> the number of individuals, jimmy carter and barack obama. >> they endow the professors. and these students have good hair. [laughter] >> what is going to tip the scale for you? >> but at this stage what are you looking for is you look for in? >> i am making a bet rightly or wrongly that we are going to be in this movement in the next campaign and i like jeb bush i say good things about them, but i think that the bush and clinton thing, that is an entire game either and people are interested in making the right choices and right decisions and ending all of that corporate political speak and we are getting tired of it. so scott represents that and i think that he will be an interesting candidate. if i am right, i'm going to be ahead of my wall street peers who have gone the other way. >> that is why you keep inviting me back. >> this includes the typical thing. and scott brown doesn't fit that. >> scott walker. neil: i'm sorry, that's r

> we started off presidents day with celebrating a birthday of, your george washington and your abe lincolnhen we have combined those together. >> now we are celebrating all president. >> as we should. >> thinks a live lot at constitution center. >> i will be here later on today. so hopefully they will be there, a lot of kid, like 200 kid. >> by the the way, fish face, thinks one day that place is free. >> even better. >> no reason not to go. >> i have to make sure i have the the the right time here. >> you said noon. >> you did say noon. >> yes, programs starts at noon at the kirby auditorium and town hall. we will have thomas jefferson abe link ham and tom adams. >> shocking news. >> somehow i will be there moderating you are presidential. >> you are our first lady. >> oh, please. >> her first cumquat. >> did you like it. >> yes. >> it is very tiny. >> anyway lets talk about valentines day. >> saturday, big valentines day night. all of the restaurants were book. i know who took this picture. she was it ising next to me at a concert in atlantic city. >> charlie wilson. he said my name is c

. >> abe lincoln would have been 106. >> wow. >> no. >> that can't be. >> no. >> because marion is 100. >> 200? >> odd lip, he was killed in the ford theater. there is a connection. >> that's true, okay, 206 honest abe. all right so, alex, one of the first people in america to see 50 shades of gray, she ran to the premiere last night here in philadelphia. was first in line. now, it is rated r right? >> oh, it is rated r. yes. that's here in america though. but overseas, different story. yes, where kids as young as 12 years old are going to see 50 shades of gray. >> what country would that be? >> twelve years old. >> okay? >> plus, still looking for a gift this valentine day you're in trouble. but it is okay, because we've got you covered. different stages of relationship it can be hard, we know, to find a gift for someone, especially if you just started dating. >> okay? >> and then also if you're dating 20 years, what do you get someone? probably gotten everything there is. >> so we have gift for whatever stage of your relationship basey? >> that's right. >> so the perfect gift for you

. >> something out there in the negative but in global picture -- david: doesn't he look like abe lincoln without his beard. yes he does. >> hello everyone, i'm gerri willis and this is "the willis report. the show where consumers are our business. >>> americans are taking on more debt. some consumers are getting in over their heads again. two types of debt have economists especially worried. >> we're well over a trillion, closing in on trillion 1/2 dollars of student debt. that is one of biggest scams in america. gerri: early college admissions becoming very popular but it is not always a good thing. we'll examine the upside and the downside. >>> the best time of year to get a great deal on all sorts of products. "consumer reports" is here with the ultimate guide to items on deep discount if february. >>> also it is the most popular way to save for retirement, the ira. the there is a lot investors need to know. tonight we'll answer some of the most common questions. >>> countdown to the masters what is happening with golf's biggest stars tiger, mickelson furyk? >> my putt something beyon

is it me or did abe lincoln look like he was suppressing a giggle this morning?e legal to smoke and grow your own weed in washington, d.c. the capital of the country that still does not allow that on a federal level and some on capitol hill are none too happy about it. you could even call them buzz kills were you so inclined. they threatened to put the mayor in jail if she allows washingtonians to light up. miguel marquez was at a midnight pot party as the use and possession of marijuana became legal. i usually get a contact high just from being near my crew but tell me what the scene was like. >> i'm now the senior pot correspondent for the network. >> congratulations on that. >> look it is a brave new world out there. people who were afraid to talk about this on camera yesterday, today they are celebrating openly and completely. >> are you guys happy to be here? >> yeah. beyond happy. >> reporter: happily and legally, smoking up in the nation's capital. >> for the first time ever recreational marijuana is being smoked without regulation without taxation in bara

hawk would play nothing but comedian, meaning low level of humor the shuffling kind of humor that abe lincoln loved. the interesting thing about harry hawk is he goes on to the most successful career later, touring wildly. it affected him and he did travel under an assumed name when he would register in at hotels and i was never able to discover that name that he used so i'm sure there are hotel registers and records having his name all over the u.s. but i just was never able to discover it. harry hawk, though, is the one that spoke the last words abraham lincoln ever heard. there is i think, a misrepresentation that he finished the line and the laughter covered the sound of the gunshot. harry hawk maintained to his dying day that he never finished the line. he was turning upstage delivering his retort to that curtained archway that you saw when he heard the gunshot. and he spun around, and his friend -- and he knew him well -- john booth was standing there holding this 12-inch buoy knife -- he had left the derringer up in the box -- and harry hawk is terrified. he backpedals, runs up the sta

. >> something out there in the negative but in global picture -- david: doesn't he look like abe lincolnd. yes he does. >> hello, everyone, i'm gerri willis and this is "the willis report. the show where consumers are our business. >>> americans are taking on more debt. some consumers are getting in over their heads again. two types of debt have economists especially worried. >> we're well over a trillion, closing in on trillion 1/2 dollars of student debt. that is one of biggest scams in america. gerri: early college admissions becoming very popular but it is not always a good thing. we'll examine the upside and the downside. >>> the best time of year to get a great deal on all sorts of products. "consumer reports" is here with the ultimate guide to items on deep discount if february. >>> also it is the most popular way to save for retirement, the ira. the there is a lotn

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. >> i have seen him in the moon with abe lincoln and civil war.ean you name it. >> yes. >> rocky steps. >>> speaking of rocky sylvester stallone is here shooting that rocky movie and this weekend he made one local boy's dream come true. do you want to see it. >> yeah. >> oh, my god. >> thank you so much. >> it made the mom's dream come true. kid doesn't know hoe is. >> he is five years old. his name is lloyd blake. his mom tracie sent thus video and picture. family saw sly while what he was stiming shots outside grocery store right there. our own guy hughe dylan sent him the video. >> so great he is going out and talking to people, even though he is here on business. >> he had to move hotels because people started to know he was there. >> why not come here lets talk to him. >> maybe, look into that, and ask him to come. >> all right, sylvester come in we just want to talk to you, say hello. i'm new here. i would love to meet you. you are a legend. >> please good thinks yours, nice try. >> i almost dit. i realized. >> tevin campbell. >> can we talk

in lincoln was meeting with his economic advisers planning the finishing of the transcontinental railroad. his advisers advised to buy it from england. ava asked why? -- abe asked why? sound familiar? lincoln thought about this for a minute and 05, it seems to me that if we buy the rails from england, then we've got the rails, and they've got our money. but if we build the rails here we've got our rails, and we've got our money. [applause] now, a lot of people accuse me they say i don't give any credit to republicans. now that's one republican i like. i'll tell you, that's the way we will do it. people ask me, they say, harkin, how will you pay for this? where will you get the money? i will go to the american people and i will say, it is time you make a choice. you have to make the choice. this is a free country. here is your choice. it's called, a ballot. if you think we need to continue to spend $160 billion to defend europe from the soviet union, or whatever it's called now, forget the fact that europe is rich and powerful. if you want to continue to defend europe, you put your ballot in the bush box. but if you believe like i do that europe is strong

abe lincoln walt disney henry ford and mark twain among others. the thing about al sharpton in addition to his checkered past, he's an embarrassment, if he's such a great leader why doesn't anybody watch that show of his? >> david axlerod says he's a respected leader, if you look at al sharpton's past the tawana brawley case, throok at that. i'm not sure why the white house would want him hanging around. another important point, he owes, some say up to $4 million between his personal and national action network. this is the guy who says he helped pick the next attorney general. the attorney general will prosecute tax fraud and tax cheats. think about that for one minute. >> yeah, but the i.r.s. is not busy looking at al sharpton because they're busy still looking at the tea party people. >> we kind of need to connect those dots. >> coming up, it was a texas-size insult. >> i don't know about in your state, which i think is a crazy state to begin with -- >> now texas lawmakers say, yeah we're crazy. crazy about jobs. breaking down the numbers for y

abe lincoln didn't go to college at all.dn't go to college. >> steve jobs. what has he accomplished? >> bill gates. >> do you want somebody who went to a fantastic college and got great grades as our president did, and he got a great education. he never ran anything though until he ran the country. >> does it matter to you? let us know. >> do you want something who has run something like scott walker. or another example founder of twitter. >> let us know do you require a college education of your president? >> think how much better twitter would be if that guy graduated. >> he might have been able to do 200 characters. >> imagine that. >> i actually admire scott walker about being so hope open about his story. >> how many times, you get a great offer you have done your four years, you switch majors in the middle. >> i can't wait to get in the world corps. didn't like college. >> we had a lot of fun. >>> now we have news to bring you. it is a fax news alert. panic at a u.s. consulate in shanghai, china. a guy purposely smashi

lincoln. >> babes who like abe. >> if you were president babera hamlin con. >> did that go out. >> no.u are looking at a man with a tremendous problem. >> all right, who is this? >> george washington. >> he was the biggest pot farmer in american history. >> sexy. [ laughter ] >> what bill is he on? >> hundred? 10? he is not on the one. >> he is on the one. >> oh, he is on the one. >> talk to you about freedom? >> who is this? >> john f. kennedy. >> very good what's the f stand for? >> franklin or something. >> francisco. >> francisco. >> he was hispanic. >> fits jeralds. >> nailed it. >> who is this? >> abraham lincoln. >> do you remember around when he was president? >> 1786? [ buzzer ] >> no, that's not right. >> do you remember who won the civil war? >> i think we won. >> who is we? california? >> yeah. >> i don't know. america? >> north or the south? >> the south? [ buzzer ] ♪ ♪ >> your boy. >> reagan. he looks sharp. >> ronnie. he acted with a lot of monkeys, remember? >> real ones? >> is there any way you could let me keep him for a while? [ laughter ] >> he just seems like the t

lincoln." and then honest abe sent seward down the road to negotiate with these peace commissioners who aren't going to be in the city. the vote on abolition of slavery carried in the house by a margin of two votes. there is no way that would have happened without this deception by lincoln. the peace commissioners crossed the lines from lee's army into grant's at the very hour that this vote was taken. too late for the truth to be known on capitol hill. i'm going to spend a few moments on how that came to pass. i think it's a fascinating story. it's what really drew me to the book to begin with. stanton again was dead set against peace negotiations and when he heard that these negotiators were coming, he convinces lincoln to send down to see them first major thomas eckert, who was stanton's watch dog. he was the head of the military telegraph, he had an office adjacent to stanton's, the personification of a petty bureaucrat. never wore a uniform, had never been truly a military man, had the rank of a major but was basically stanton's hatchet man is what it comes down to. and lincoln gave him i

lincoln" took in 85 million the opening weekend. that's double what i make in a year, jo, that's all i though. jaime dornan celebrated by eating his own abs. >> look at that. look at that. >> that is great. >> i was doing well and now i am just tunneling. >> this is you. >> how do you taste? >> better than i imagined. >> isn't that cute with the accepts -- accents. >> and three women attacked a man when he asked them to quiet down. they hit him with a glass bottle. the drunk women were vomiting in the aisles. i think we have mug shots of two of the women here. they do look familiar. anyway, is there thig more to add? all right joe, did you see the movie? >> no. >> do you plan on it? >> i don't think so. >> it is not your it up of tea? >> no, i don't enjoy 6 or erotica and moving pictures. this guy is in a show called "the fall" which is a fantastic show. >> i hate. it i have seen every episode and i hate it. >> you are hate watching it? >> it is so slow. >> we are not doing this. you are correct. >> i'm sorry. >> move on, move on. >> he murders women for sport. that's all i can think of when i see him in the posters for "50 shades of grey