abigail adams you may remember she isn't asking at the time. she sends a an incrementa impree operative. she is asking for rules that would prevent husbands from beating their wives. that is what she's asking for so women's suffrage wasn't even in play but when it happens but think about abigail adams for a second because women didn't suddenly become smart in 1920. dolly madison is a political operative and so is mary todd lincoln and they have tied it. she could appeal to different group of voters and to the crusaders. that will give you bill and hillary, barack obama and michelle. so now there's two running mates. there's no way martha washington will ever be president of the united or abigail adams were dolly madison but yes it is possible hillary clinton could be or michelle obama. that was not unthinkable and that is all the story begins by letting more people vote than ever before in the founding but then the later chapters of the story. forward and you need to know not just the story of how it began that what happened between then and no

abigail adams, you may recall famously says to john adams, remember the ladies. she's not asking at the time. it's a private letter between two people who love and respect each other, and john adams takes his wife very seriously, and she's an impressive political operative. she's not asking for rights to vote, she's asking for rules that will prevent husbands from beating their lives. that's what she's asking for. remember the ladies. women's suffrage wasn't even in play. but when it eventually happens, think about abigail adams for just a second because, you know what? women didn't suddenly become smart in 1920. they always were. but abigail adams has to hide her political intelligence in some ways because it's not going to help john politically, okay? and dolley madison is a political operative. and so is mary todd lincoln. and they have to hide it. women's suffrage comes along, and now eleanor roosevelt does not have to hide it, and she can appeal to a different group of voters, to the moderates, she can appeal to the crusaders. two for the price of one. and w

abigail adams, you go up to the boston historical society and they have thousands of letters from her where she's lobbying john adams to remember the laidedies and slavery. so, you go from one extreme to the other. and the farther along you make it in time, you see the adaptation of technology, and the role of first lady begins to emerge as well. now you have a very public role. in the past, they could get away if they wanted to be behind the scenes. >> first lady, former first ladies running for president? mark: the chapter on hillary clinton, for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaigning, how she approaches politics, read that chapter. one, you know right away she is the most famous woman in the world, the most well-known woman in the world. eahy is with her when she is on the campaign trail in 1992 when things are getting sort of rough. it shows how hillary reacted. i think she would rather not have happened but she goes on the attack with republicans. it shows a very savvy first lady and politician. >> what did you learn working on the book? favorite stories are the

you had abraham lincoln, teddy roosevelt, and your abigail adams, and that would be the lincoln, right? and that's roosevelt, and that would be adams, and where is dolly? dolly, where are you? anyone? anyone? >> talking about ice cream. >> when my husband had his second inauguration, i gleefully served peppermint ice cream. i have been known to popularize strawberry ice cream and oyster ice cream, which tends not to be as well received as the others. >> oyster ice cream? >> not as well received. >> once served at the white house, and now you learned something new tonight. >> yikes! >> fried st >> you put it in a bin and set it aside because no one will eat it. >> i love oysters. >> and ice cream? >> no. >> that's going too far. >> completely separate. some things are not meant to play together. >>> you are creeping up the temperatures warmer and warmer for the weekend. >> i think we may see record highs on sunday. i don't think we will see any complaints. >> i know what you did! it's the happy dance over there. i wish we could show people your happy dance. >> boom! pow! >> that's my ha

abigail adams has thousands of letters where she is lottery -- lobbying john adams to remember the ladies. --tha washington has all of has only two letters that exist. the further along you make it in time, you see the adaptation of technology and the role of first lady begins to emerge. now, we have a very public role for the first lady. in the past, they could get away if they wanted to be behind the scenes. you can't do that anymore. >> former first ladies running for president. mark: the chapter on hillary clinton, for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaigning and politics, read that chapter. number one, you note -- you know right away, she is the most famous woman in the world. with her on the campaign trail in 1992 where things were getting rough. it shows how hillary reacted. things that she would rather not happened, but she goes on the attack with republicans. it shows a saddened first lady savvy firstan -- a lady and politician even back then. my favorite stories are the ones about theew nothing first lady. lucy hayes is knowing -- known as lemonade lucy for prohib

what we saying in the 1970's, it's the case, the same thing at abigail adams said before but societyasn't prepared to listen in the 1970's. society had already moved from the changes in the law to catching up to the changes that had already occurred in people's lives. so to be able to advocate for that cause, to see results that could not have been achieved even in the 19 0's, was a fantastic opportunity, currently ex hill rating. charlie: those briefs that you wrote and those decisions that you have influenced, the proudest achievement of your life? >> yes. i would say yes. and i thought of myself in those days as a teacher. my parents thought that teaching would be a good occupation for me because they would be welcomed there and weren't welcomed as lawyers, doctors and engineers. an lize that my facing an audience, if they were facing odious,s krim, that was but most men thought it was rid gender distinct ons. a woman didn't have to serve on a jury if she didn't want to and that was a benefit. that says something as a woman as a citizen. the citizen has rights and obligation, obli

lucretia mott, women's convention in new y"ma'e beginning point, i don't.i go be spring of that year, abigail adams wrote a remarkable letter to her husband john who was in philadelphia debating the declaration of independence and in that letter she asked him to remember the ladies in your new form of government. he little thing. we're not even going to think about this and makes a very patronizing joke out of it. i think that abigail was just articulating what was already in the air. at least one woman was calling for a voice in government and that's what a vote is." seventy two years after adams letter to her husband, america was ripe for change. but just as the suffrage movement was gaining momentuit e outbreak of the civil war in 1861. the suffragists endured and by 1917 two main factions within the movement had emerged."the my carrie chapman catt and then the radicals who were very much to the left of the mainstream headed by alice the national womens party and these are the women who by 1917 are picketing the white house and they were relentless about it. now, by today's standards, it was a v

you speak of abigail adams, she told john to remember the ladies and he did not.e 1970's, the women's movement was coming alive all over the world, not just in the united states. the united nations had declared international women's year. we had just had the experience of the civil rights movement of the 1960's, so it was possible in the 1970's to move the court away from the lines drawn based on gender. the warren court's one contribution was a woman, today we would call her battered. she had a husband who was philandering, abusive and who had humiliated her to the breaking point. she spied her young sons baseball bat and took it and hit him over the head. he fell against a hard floor. end of their fight, beginning of her murder prosecution. florida at that time did not put women on a jury rolls. her point of view was, if there were women on the jury, they might better understand what was in my mind, my rage at that moment. charlie: but she was convicted by 12 men. justice ginsberg: yes, she did not necessarily think women would acquit her, that she thought they

teddy roosevelt, abigail adams, and dolly madison. somewhere along there. oyster ice cream was also a topic. >> so cool to see all of those old characters from history, and we've got halloween coming up in a couple of days. i want to show a final check of the trick-or-treating forecast for the kiddos monday. just be safe out there, they will need light jackets, temperatures in the 50s for trick-or-treating. and as we go into both dates this weekend, it's going to be warmer. cooler for trick-or-treating, 74 this afternoon after startiff sunday, we are looking at a shower late in the evening, most of us to stay dry tomorrow, 80 degrees and cooler as we go into halloween on monday. >> that is unbelievable. go and enjoy your weekend. thanks for joining must. john delaney: this was my dad's pickup - he was a union electrician. i grew up working on his jobsites where he taught me the value of hard work and teamwork. that's how i built two businesses from scratch in congress, i work across party lines - from rebuilding roads to creating jobs and to strengthening s

70s, successfully winning case after case, exactly the same thing that women had said ever since abigail adams and even before, but society wasn't prepared to listen, in the '70s. society had already moved so the changes in the law, were catching up to the judges that had already occurred in people's lives. so to be able to advocate for that cause, to see results that could not have been achieved even in the '60s was a fantastic opportunity, totally exhilarating, also exhausting. >> rose: but if those, that argument that you made, those briefs that you wrote, and those decisions that you had influenced, the ploweddest-- proudest achievement of your life? >> yes. i would say, yes. and i thought of myself in those days as a teacher. my parents thought the teaching would be a good occupation for me because women were welcomed there and they weren't welcome as doctors, lawyers, engineers. i realized that i was facing an audience that didn't know what i was talking about. and as they understood race discrimination. but most men at that time thought that yes, the law was riddled in women's favor. a

teddy roosevelt is spooking folks in the grand foyer while abigail adams with her arms outstretched eternallyapparently in the east room. of course today's white house tours are getting entertained by actors but over the decades visitors, staff members and sitting presidents from tooft reagan have reported strange noises, unexplained phenomenon and ghost sightings. president abraham lincoln is the most common apparition. of course most recently i think abe lincoln was killing vampires, i think, on belaugh of moviegoers as a former president. >>> enjoy halloween, we will see you on halloween but first with all due respect starts right now. >>> i'm john hielman. >> and i'm mark halperin. with all due respect to james comey, really? >>> once again it's friday and once again, as if on cue, this presidential race has been rocked, by another head scratching

abigail adams gave a performance in the east room. jean: and they're all being politically correct there. if you're thinking about s you'll want to see our next story. tom: the expensive record reached by this popular type of plastic. jean: also ahead, would you buy a haunted house? on this halloween we look at the real world laws for homes that some say have other worldly guests. mike: dry most of this week. one rain chance, a look at that timeline ahead. tom: halloween health news, being scared may be good for this is where the oil billionaire koch brothers hosted a fundraiser for kelly ayotte... this is where ayotte voted with the koch brothers 90% of the time. ayotte's campaigns collected millions from corporate interests. and voted for them, not you. she voted wall street banks billions in write offs for executive bonuses. voted big oil billions in tax breaks. but kelly ayotte voted against letting families refinance student loans. and against lowering the cost of prescription drugs. for new hampshire. dscc is responsible for the

think of abigail adams told john to remember the ladies, and he didn't. but in the '70s, the women's movement was coming alive all over the world, not just in the united states. the united nations had declared international women's year. >> rose: right. and we had just had the experience of the civil rights movement of the '60s. so it was possible in the '70s to move the court away from the notion that whatever sex lines are drawn in the law, they are okay. >> rose: this was the berger court. >> yes. >> rose: not the warren court. the warren court's one contribution was, in the case gwendolyn hoit's case, we would today called her battered. she had a husband who was philandering, who was abusive, who one day had humiliated her to the breaking point. she spied her young son's baseball bat in the corner of the room, she took it and with all her might, she hit him over the head, he fell against a hard floor, and at the end of their fight, beginning of her murder prosecution. florida, at that time, didn't put women on the jury rolls, and gwendolyn hoit's view

. >> abigail adams you go to the historical society and they have thousands of letters where she is lobbyingall the letters and there's only two that exist so you go from one extreme to the other end of the further along you see the adaptation of technology and the role of first lady begins to merge. if they want to be behind the scenes i don't think you can do that anymore. >> for a first lady is running for president. >> for anybody that wants to know how she approaches campaigning and politics. you know right away she is the most well-known women in the world, david marinus and biographer. it's when things are getting sort of rough and shows how hilleary reacted. it shows a very savvy first lady and politician. >> what did you learn during the series? >> the ones where i knew nothing about them whatsoever. there is lemonade lucy for prohibiting alcohol in the white house. she's in some ways ahead of her time and pushing cost. there is a silence calvin coolidge and then a rock shower debate costar and you learn about lady byrd johnson and all first ladies go back as a role model because sh

>> abigail adams, boston massachusetts historical society, thousands of letters between her and john adams where she is lobbying him to remember the ladies and lobbying him on slavery. martha washington burned all her papers. only to exist will stop you go from one extreme to another and the farther along you make it in time, you see the adaptation of technology and the role of first lady begins to emerge as well. now there is a very public role for most of these first ladies. in the past they could get away a they wanted to be behind the scenes but not anymore. >> former first lady is running for president. >> the chapter on hillary for anyone who once you know how she approaches campaigning, politics, read that chapter. away, you know she is the most well-known woman in the world. is withton biographer her on the campaign trail in 1992 when things are getting sort of rough for the clintons. it shows how hillary reacted. things i think she would've rather not had happened but she goes on the attack. ladyas a very gabby first in 1992. >> what did you learn during the series and worki

abigail adams, you go up to the massachusetts historical society and they have thousands of letters between her and john adams, where she's lobbying him to remember the ladies. then she's lobbying on the issues of slavery. so you go from one extreme to the other. the farther along you make it in time you see the -- i think the adaptation of technology and the role of first ladies begins to american, as well. so now you have a very public role for most of these first ladies. >> former first lady running for president. >> the chapter on hillary clinton, for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaigning and politics, you read that chapter, one, you know right away she's the most famous, well-known woman in the world. when she's on the campaign trail in '92, when things are getting rough for the clintons, it shows how hillary reacted. she goes on the attack with republicans. so it shows a very savvy first lady. >> mark, what did you learn during the series and working on the book? >> my favorite stories are the ones where i knew nothing about these first ladies. lucy hayes is known as

the presidential inspired names get to choose from names like truman, adams, abigail and jackie.ure you take out your phone and shoot it. make sure you use the fresco app to send it to our newsroom. >> dawn. >>> you're right. i like that story, chris. >>> in your health tonight, parents, listen up. if your children are too plugged in less likely to get their homework done. that's according to new research from brown university. researchers say the more time children devote to their smart phones, tablets and tv, well, the less likely they are to do their homework and other tasks. the team analyzed data on more than 60,000, six to 717 year olds. chocolate does have health benefits but evidence on eating it daily for health reasons, well that's not so clear. researchers reviewed date to at a from 19 controlled trials involving more than 1100 people about eating cocoa flavonoids a component of cocoa in chocolate. those who ate foods containing it compared to those who ate a placebo had lower levels of triglycerides which could potentially boost cardiovascular health. bodies do a bett

>> some first ladies it's easy, abigail adams you go up to the massachusetts historical society and they have thousands of letters between her and john adams where she's lobbying him to remember the ladies and she's lobbying him on issues of slavery. martha washington burns all of her papers, all of her letters between her and george washington, there is only two that exist. you go from one extreme to the other and the farther along you make it in time you see the -- i think the adaptation of technology and the role of first lady begins to merge as well. so now you've got a public role for most of these first ladies. in the past think could get away if this he wanted to be behind the scenes and not do too much, i don't think you can do that anymore. >> former first ladies running for president. >> the chapter on hillary clinton for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaigning, how she approaches politics, you read that chapter, one you know right away she's the most famous woman in the world, the most well known woman in the world, david mariness is a political biography. gail

abigail adams had thousands of letters between her and john hims where she is lobbying to remember the ladies. then she is lobbying him on slavery. martha washington burned almost all of his -- george washington burned almost all of his letters with marcia washington, so only to exist. go further in time, and you see the adaptation of technology. a very publicis role for most of these first ladies. >> former first ladies running for president. on hillaryter clinton, for anybody who wants to know how she approaches campaigning and politics, if one,e read that chapter, you know right away, she is the most well-known woman in the world. trail in 1992, things were getting rough for bill clinton. it shows how hillary reacted. >> what did you learn working on the book? >> my favorite stories were ones where i knew nothing about the first ladies whatsoever. lucy hayes, known as lemonade lucy for prohibiting alcohol in the white house. someone like grace coolidge, you have the silent calvin coolidge, and then grace coolidge is almost a rock star. she is the opposite. you learn even about moder

if you graduated in the top quarter of your class, we gave you a john and abigail adams scholarship, four years tuition free in the college of your choice in massachusetts, it's a public institution. i want to make sure we keep our pell grant program growing. we're also going to have our loan program, so that people are able to afford school. but the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when you get out of school. and what's happened over the last four years has been very, very hard for america's young people. i want you to be able to get a job. i know what it takes to get this economy going. with half of college kids graduating this year without a college -- excuse me, without a job. and without a college level job, that's just unacceptable. and likewise you've got more and more debt on your back. so more debt and less jobs. i'm going to change that. i know what it takes to create good jobs again. i know what it takes to make sure that you have the kind of opportunity you deserve. and kids across this country are going to recognize, we're bringing back an economy. it's not go

abigail adams, a have thousands of letters from her and john adams where she is lobbying him to remember the ladies and lobbying him on issues of slavery. martha washington burns all of her papers. there are only two that exist. you go from one extreme to the other. farther along you make it in time, you see the adaptation of technology and the role of first lady begins as well. past. runningr first ladies for president? >> the chapter on hillary clinton, for anyone he wants to know how she approaches campaigning, how she approaches politics, read that chapter. you know right away that she's most famous woman in the world. she is on the campaign trail in 92 and things are getting rough for the clintons and it shows how hillary reacted. ratheri think she would not have happened, but she goes on the attack. jazzy firstery lady. even back in 1992. >> what did you learn in the series and working on the book? >> my favorite stories are the ones where i knew nothing about these first lady's. lucy hayes was known as lemonade iny for prohibiting alcohol the white house. she was in some ways ahea

abigail adams, go to the massachusetts historical society, and they have thousands of letters between remember the ladies and issues of slave erie. martha washington, letters between her and george washington, only two exist. you go from one extreme to the other. and the farther along you make it in time, you see the, i think the a dap take adaptation of te. the past could get away if they wanted to be behind the scenes and not do too much. i don't think you can do that any more. >> former first ladies running for president? >> the chapter on hillary clinton, for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaigning, politics, you read that chapter, one, you know right way, she is the most famous woman in the world. gayle shehey is with her, and it shows how hillary reacted to things i think she would rather not have happened, but she goes on the attack with republicans, and so it shows a very savvy first lady and politician even back in 92''92. >> what did you learn? >> i knew nothing about these first ladies whatsoever. lucy hayes is known as lemonade lucy for prohibiting alcohol

abigail adams you go up to the massachusetts historical society and they have thousands of letters betweenremember the ladies. she is lobbing him on issues of slavery. martha washington had lots not so many letters. you go from one extreme to the other. the further further in time you see the adaptation of technology on the role of the first lady begins to emerge as well. now you have a very public role for most first ladies. in the past they could get away if they wanted to be behind the scenes and not due to much. they can't do that anymore. >> former first lady is running for president. >> the chapter on hillary clinton for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaign, how she approaches politics, you read that chapter, one you know right away that she is the most famous women of the the world. the most well-known woman in the world. gail sheet she is with her on the campaign trail. it shows how hillary reacted. the things that i think she would rather not have happened but she goes on the attack. it shows a very savvy first lady and politician even back in 92. >> host: what did

brandon in adam, in her last court appearance, she appeared too -- 22-year-old abigail hannh broke down in court and pled guilty to kidnapping and touring a toddler. police say last november hannah kidnapped the toddler from her home in the middle of the night, shaved her head, burned her with cigarettes and left her naked on the side of the road. she was spotted by a couple who saw her in a pile of leaves 8 miles from the little girl's home in south hamilton. hannah was sentenced to five to 7 years in prison and 10 years probation after her release. >> child's family had asked for privacy and said they wanted to thank first responders and the couple up saved their little gil and said she is recovering as well. >> we're live in salem, massachusetts, brandon gunnoe, 7news. >> turning to the two officers shot in east boston. investigators still pulling crucial clues from the home nearly two days after the byron burnt live in east boston to bring us more on the latest developments. >> yeah, nearly two days after the shootout, police -- it looks like they're getting ready to wrap things up