abraham lincoln, or ml. of 19 century women, she took the lincoln name, and she never gave it another thought. she was mary lincoln until she died. i suppose that feminist historians started this mary todd lincoln thing in an effort, i guess, to rescue her from domestic of security or something. but it is historically inaccurate, and it drives me bananas. every time i hear it. so please, just call her mary lincoln, or mrs. lincoln. she would have wanted. and you and i will get along so much better if you do. [laughter] number two, fact the lincoln marriage was a companionable one. very todd and abraham lincoln recorded in the parlor of mary's sister's house in springfield, in the context of an emerging new ideal in 19 century marriage -- companionship. looking toraham were a spouse that was share interests with them and have similar perspectives as they did. both mary and abraham loved poetry, they left reading and books. they liked children, and they loved partisan politics. and they had a very large circle

mary todd lincoln and abraham lincoln. mary and abraham were looking to a spouse that would share interests with them and have similar perspectives as they did. both mary and abraham loved poetry. they loved reading and books. they liked children and they loved partisan politics. and they had a very large circle of political friends in common. they were both smart, quick witted, and absolutely obsessed with whig politics and kentucky senator henry clay, the beau ideal of their beloved party. they were likely in love and talking about marriage by december of 1840. unlike their parents, mary and abraham saw marriage as something beyond and economic union. they aspired to find love and friendship as well. marital expectations were greatly heightened for this generation of americans, and there was much more hand wringing as a result. this is a very important context in which they suffered their famous lovers break-up in january of 1841, but it was also their shared interests, their enthusia enthusiasm, for whig politics that r

mary lincoln was the wife of abraham lincoln. mary lincoln was also a daughter, a student, a sister, a mother, a friend, and ultimately, widow. she was a 19th century woman, doing the best she could. sometimes, her efforts exceeded even her own expectations. sometimes, they were just good enough. other times, they were devastatingly insufficient. her story real is a human story. i hope my biography adequately captures mary lincoln's humanity. mostly, though, in the end, i just hope that i have written a life that mary lincoln herself might recognize. now, what i would like to do is to share 10 facts -- top 10 list -- 10 facts, 10 mary lincoln facts, that i would like all of you to take out of the room today. fact number one. there was no such person named mary todd lincoln. until her sister and was born, she was marianne, and after that, she was just plain mary. when she arrived in illinois, she was miss todd, mary todd, or molly, and that name it. when she married abraham lincoln on november 4, 1842, she became mary lincoln. she

well, abraham lincoln is probably our most important president.t was utilized was justified. we love to think that he was above politics, but he wasn't. >> lincoln now finds himself in a rematch with his arch rival, the man who beat him in the illinois state senate election two years earlier, stephen a. douglas. >> stephen a. douglas is the little giant. he's a man of physically short stature but titanic ambition, and douglas desperately wishes to be president of the united states. >> but lincoln has the advantage. after an angry convention in charleston, south carolina, douglas's democratic party has split down the middle over slavery. >> the news that the democratic party had split was an enormous boon to the republican party and to lincoln because now they faced a divided opposition, but he still has an uphill battle. >> the republicans know it's futile to put lincoln up for election in the south. no decent upstanding slave owner is going to vote for him, and slaves don't vote. now it's a double race between lincoln and douglas in the north and

well, abraham lincoln is probably our most important president.e every means that was utilized was justified. we love to think that he was above politics, but he wasn't. >> lincoln now finds himself in a rematch with his archrival, the man who beat him in the illinois state senate election two years earlier, stephen a. douglas. >> stephen a. douglas is the little giant. he's a man of physically short stature but titanic ambition, and douglas desperately wishes to be president of the united states. >> but lincoln has the advantage. after an angry convention in charleston, south carolina, douglas' democratic party has split down the middle over slavery. >> the news that the democratic party had split was an enormous boon to the republican party and to lincoln because now they faced a divided opposition, but he still has an uphill battle. >> the republicans know it's futile to put lincoln up for election in the south. no decent upstanding slave owner is going to vote for him, and slaves don't vote. now it's a double race between lincoln and douglas i

abraham lincoln, or ml. of 19 century women, she took the lincoln name, and she never gave it another thought. she was mary lincoln until she died. i suppose that feminist historians started this mary todd lincoln thing in an effort, i guess, to rescue her from domestic of security or something. but it is historically inaccurate, and it drives me bananas. every time i hear it. so please, just call her mary lincoln, or mrs. lincoln. she would have wanted. and you and i will get along so much better if you do. [laughter] number two, fact the lincoln marriage was a companionable one. very todd and abraham lincoln recorded in the parlor of mary's sister's house in springfield, in the context of an emerging new ideal in 19 century marriage -- companionship. looking toraham were a spouse that was share interests with them and have similar perspectives as they did. both mary and abraham loved poetry, they left reading and books. they liked children, and they loved partisan politics. and they had a very large circle

it also made it very hard to be abraham lincoln. worked to pass the 13th amendment even during wartime since a legal foundations for the end of slavery would be in place when the war ended. the emancipation proclamation had been a war measure. he knew, and this is interesting about the lincoln movie, it focused on that struggle. and i think wisely. this is what was able to redeem so much of have been won in the war. the ram of a former democrat. 1864 --rn union nest in unionist in 1864. andrew johnson, with whom he had had one conversation, maybe the last conversation he had for his final speech or he went to the theater. johnson thought he was doing with the signals of the national union party pointed towards. slavery is over. let's put the country back together and build a national republican party. white southerners behave differently under lincoln? with lincoln have behaved differently than johnson? lincoln misjudged the southern white majority every step of the war. he could not believe that people who love the united states di

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[applause] >> and with that, we bring to a close the 2016 abraham lincoln institute symposium. we hope you have enjoyed the day. if you did, there is still time to make a monetary contribution to the abraham lincoln institute to fund next year's symposium. you can see any board member of the ali to make a donation. we are wearing these badges. or, you can visit our website to donate. toonline lincoln-institute.org, and you can look for the date of our next symposium. wish you a safe ride home, whether your journey as long or short, and look forward to seeing you next year. we will reassemble across the street at 5:30. thank you all for coming. [applause] you don't have to invite me. >>> earlier this month, ford's theater hosted a symposium on the life and legacy of president abraham lincoln. coming up on american history tv, we will hear from sidney blumental, the author of "a self-made man." then remarks from edna greene medford. later, we will hear from the author of "mary lincoln, southern girl, northern woman." >>> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and p

abraham lincoln rarely using her own first name. her la her -- i think it is a sad scene and sweet evidence that she was retreating into the life that she mostly enjoyed. as her physical and emotional health were failing her, she welcomed death. she believed in death she would be reunited with the man she loved, the children she had lost, and the domestic life that she had lived with her beloved family. to conclude, i will just say that i find mary lincoln's life compelling. she was a complicated woman who lived an interesting life in a fascinating period of american history. but more importantly, i think the reason that mary lincoln is so compelling is because she was a complex individual. she was smart, intellectually curious, and social. yet she was insecure, petty, and reclusive. she loved with all of her heart and her soul, and she hated with all of her heart and her soul. evaluating her upbringing, her education, and her life experiences, i think makes her even more compelling because we can understand something of how she bec

perhaps it's a good thing abraham lincoln is not available to run for office this year. especially in the party he helped to found. though he was familiar with being the target of negative attacks, as a religious infidel, an aristocrat, corrupt, unpatriotic, tie ran cal, possibly black, and a proponent of ma south nation, abraham as a notorious campaign pamphlet dubbed him, but the charge against him from beginning to end was that he was a vulgar village politician. as the new york herald described him in 1860. when lincoln was 28 years old, he tried out the word politician as an accusation against his opponents. he rose on the floor of the legislature in defense of the state bank which he proposed to fund vast public works. the politician he said by unholy means is endeavoring to blow up a storm that he may ride upon and direct. mr. chairman, although lincoln could would have said cheerman in his kentucky voice, this movement is exclusively the work of politicians, a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people. and who to say the most of them ar

. >> coming up next, the second part of a series of lectures on abraham lincoln's legacy. last week, we heard from washington post journalist bob woodward who reflected on abraham lincoln and the 16th president's influence on his successors. george weltumnist looks at judicial review and the constitution. he argues that majority rule is inevitable but not inevitably reasonable. a concept he believed lincoln would support. this is an hour. host: a splendid institution where i am honored to serve as dean. i'm pleased to welcome you here to the auditorium where the second lecture in a series, hosted by the college of law entitled "the new lincoln lectures: what lincoln means to we aret century." privileged to be hearing from a remarkably accomplished and ideologically diverse set of national thought leaders on lincoln's legacy and his relevance, 100 50 years after his passing. as i said when i introduced our woodward lecture bob in january, the law school has chosen to focus these lectures on abraham lincoln in part because lincoln undeniably is among the greatest lawyers in

." >>> more now from the abraham lincoln symposium. up next, remarks from author and professor thomas carson. his book is "lincoln's ethics." >> good afternoon. my name is michael burlingame. i teach history at the university of illinois springfield, and i bring you greetings from the holy land. when i saw this set, i was startled when i came into the theater because i saw the title of the show that's being done tonight is "110 in the shade," a and i assumed it was a musical about washington, d.c. in august. it is my pleasure to introduce thomas l. carson. he's a graduate of saint olaf college and of brown university. professor carson's teaching and research focus on ethics as the titles of his books suggest. the status of morality, value and the good life, and lying and deception. professor carson has a lifelong interest in history which led him to write his most recent book "lincoln's ethics." i had the privilege of reading it in manuscript, and i commend it to your attention. i must admit i was a bit skeptical when informed that a p

i want to thank you for pointing out abraham lincoln weighed 180 pounds. sidney blumenthal: thank you, mr. lincoln. >> as someone who likes to dress up like lincoln, that tells many to get on a treadmill or split a number of rails to get down to that weight. [laughter] >> i'm going to work on that. my question to you is as an advisor of presidents and in this time of the presidential campaign in which secret communications have become an issue, has there been any scholarship regarding the lincoln era, the wartime? i saw the lincoln movie in which he walked over to the telegraph department or department of war. obviously, there were secret communications happening. there was the story about the confederacy where there was a secret message wrapped around cigars that was mishandled. my question is, are there any lessons? i always think there are lessons in lincoln's life. are there any lessons in lincoln's history that can be carried over to this issue of communications and the need to have communications be private and confidential? sidney blumenthal: well,

abraham received in that election 39% of the popular vote. the other candidate received almost 60% of the popular vote. did john brown elect abraham lincoln. i want to finish with a few wor words. first the words of brown, his final words and these become a legacy. before his execution he will write a note and tuck it away. and at some point this note to the jail. it's not open, they're busy. they have a hanging to conduct. after the execution, the jailor remembers, he gave me this. and he pulls it out of his frock coat and reads brown's final words. and this is what it said. i john brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be perched away but will blood. prophesy. you people here in shepherdstown know that prophesy better than anyone. your graveyard was small in 1859. it won't be soon very small. five miles from brown's headquarters antietam happened. 16 miles from where brown was executed, antietam happened. i john brown am certainly the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. ano

i'm scott abraham live in louisville.e are a little over 24 hours away until the maryland men's basketball team hits the court here at the yum center. appearing in their first sweet 16 in 13 years. the terps have a big-time showdown with traditional powerhouse kansas. >> maryland on the court getting ready before tomorrow night's game. the players were loose. many were smiling. joking armed. they -- joking around. they even had a swagger like they belonged on the stage. wasn't that the plan all along? high expectations for the team in the preseason. they don't plan to slow down versus the jayhawks. >> we played against the best teams in the coun best teams in the country. it is no underdog mentality. this is coming out here, competing and trying to win another game. >> we know we have another opportunity to continue to extend the season. we have the utmost confidence in ourselves and we are going against a great team tomorrow. it will be a clash of two great teams. >> both teams match up well against each other. i think i

god visited abraham. and i love how god posed a question to abraham, and in a way that abraham had to respond, evenhough his wife laughed at god when god said, "you know, your old wife, she's gonna have a baby." god is saying to you right now, that dead situation that you have said, "that this is it, it will never happen for me," god said to tell you today -- and in fact, ask you this same question. look at verse 14 of genesis 18. it says, "is anything o hard for the lord? is anything too hard for the lord?" the biggest problem we have as people is that we begin to categorize our issues and then we put them in categories and levels. "well, this is big, big, big... problem. i don't think god can handle this. this is not so big. maybe. these are some little problems. oh, sure enough god can handle that." here it is god is sang, "is there anything too hard for me?" "well, you know, i can pay your cell phone bill." that's some small problems. "well, i can get your mortgage caught up." not so bad. but oh, when

he was one of you yet he became abraham lincoln. i personally revere him the more because of out of his contradictions and inconsistencies, he fought his way to the pinnacles of earth. his fight was within as well as without. the foibles and contradictions of the great do not diminish, but enhance the meaning of their upward struggle. it was his true history that proved abraham lincoln a prince of man. men."nce of [applause] >> i think we have time for questions. >> you mentioned lincoln never stated whites were superior to blacks. he was agnostic on that. >> i think it's a this interpretation. -- that's the best interpretation. >> but he does say specifically black people are inferior to white people in one regard, color. was he being's interior -- was he being secure call -- being satirical? >> i think that was to pander to the voters. i forget the passage, you probably remember it better than i do. appearancebout the of african-americans, the appearance of whites is superior to blacks, something like that. meaningless a statement

the election of 1860 was the abraham in which lincoln was elected. many people in the south could not accept that. and they decided to secede. the onessionists were the held the vote determined whether you would remain in the union. the die was cast. it was decided that in city of montgomery we would become the capital of the confederacy. the confederate states of america were organized here in our capital. jefferson davis was sworn in as the president of the confederacy. in february of 1861. fort sumter was sitting there in trust and harbor. being re-provisioned. the confederate cabinet was hotel directly across the street in what is known as the telegraph office. fellow and itung went back-and-forth. from general beauregard and troughs in, who was sending messages to the cabinet here in montgomery. finally the unionists would not leave and they fired upon them. the orders to fire were issued from that telegraph office. it was the central bank of alabama. it was incorporated within the state laws. it was the first to loan money to the confederacy. w

a couple of times, he called him father abraham heard -- abraham. president george bush senior seemed to understand the duality of lincoln. he said, if you look at some of the paintings of lincoln, you see his "agony and his greatness." and he equates the two. he then also says, bush senior, lincoln was at once a hard and gentle person, a man of grief and yet of humor. president clinton used lincoln to argue and said lincoln saw that it was the clear duty was to revive the american dream area then clinton said now the responbility is to revive the american economy. one thing my assistant found in the research, january 1998, president clinton was here at the university of illinois talking about the land-grant colleges. it was not a particularly memorable speech. but at one point, it is hard to believe this happened, but it did. clinton said, oh, i think lincoln would have liked the pep band. [laughter] i did a little checking and someone said he spotted someone he liked in the pep band. [laughter] we will never know. george w. bush will, as president

abraham lincoln was our first republican president and he died for those principles. donald trump, i can't speak for him. , maryland you this has been badly served in the united states senate for many years. if donald trump is on the ballot or someone else, i will make it my business to make sure that democrats, independents, and republicans will understand what i will do to fill those gaps in the senate. individuals who know the rules and you have the moxie to do it needs if you send people to mar, you are going there -- they are est system ever. i trust the voters. they will work this out. america cannot take four more years of the last seven years. ballot will do a betwe have had. insiders career politicians. it is time for us to change washington. getting rid of regulations. the world customers who live overseas. i'm going to use my rebuttal time. we have to get sound money in place. if we get these four elements in place, we have growth in our economy. we can give the middle class a seat at our table. that is why donald trump succeeds. that is why rs succeeds. pe

. >> i was charged with first-degree murder of my friend abraham shakespeare.s a florida lottery winner and they said that i siphoned off his money and killed him, and i didn't do that. i don't like that and i'm not going to be a part of that. they're saying that i shot him twice in the chest and that he died and that i buried him and that i hid his death. >> moore says she's anything but a cold-blooded killer. >> i'm like a big kid. i like disney and mickey mouse and tinkerbell and stuff. i would love a world where i lived at walt disney world all day. >> but for the past eight months, moore has been living in a very different world, the jail's female confinement unit, where she is held in her cell away from other inmates, due in part to the intense media coverage of her case. >> because she's in the news and because of her charges. if you put her back in a pod, you don't know how another inmate is going to react to what she is allegedly accused of. so for her own safety, it's better that she's back here. >> moore has collected some of the many newspaper repor

osvaldo: la ilusiÓn de don abraham lo llevÓ a abrir un restaurante y poner a sus hijos a tocar allÍ,ette selena, y mi mamÁ, trabajaban en casas, y yo en carros. osvaldo: don abraham no pudo trabajar en corpus christi por lo que recurriÓ a hacer lo Único que podÍa hacer, mÚsica, nombrÓ a su banda a selena y los dinos. selena: asÍ se llamaba su banda, somos la segunda generaciÓn. osvaldo: tocaban en donde los contrataran. >> ellos batallaron mucho porque se presentaban en lugares que quizÁs no se puede ni uno imaginar, pero para llegar al lugar donde ellos llegaron tienes que empezar donde ellos empezaron. osvaldo: el esfuerzo dio resultados y cuando os selena tenÍa 12 aÑos ya tenían un autobÚs con el cual recorrÍan todo el estado de texas, cuando selena cumpliÓ 13 aÑos grabó su primer Álbum, y a los 16 cantaba en el show de televisiÓn de johnny canales, fundamental en la carrera de selena y que le cuesta creer que haya muerto. >> no podÍa creerlo, me arrancaron parte de la vida, porque selena fue parte de la vida mÍa, artística, y yo la querÍa mucho a ella. ♪ ♪ osvaldo: selena amaba a

abraham lincoln, as sydney pointed out -- abraham lincoln learned his statesmanship in the school of real estate. you insert the thin ads of the wedge into the long. you drive home the thick edge of the wedge. whatould have known lincoln was doing on april 11, 1865. inserting the thin edge of the wedge. we could count on him to drive home the thick edge of the wedge. >> i think that there is speculation in that. do we know what he would have done, had he lived longer? i don't think that is quite as clear. we haveextent, i think to say whatever we say about this, we have a degree of uncertainty. it is quite possible, perhaps likely, that he would have done so, but we don't really know. puzzled, still, and somewhat concerned, but even now, people seem to take delight, and i have heard this more often than i would like to hear, "lincoln was a racist, you know." why does that attitude persist? evicdences some for that statement in what i have said here. in some senses, he was a racist. we have to really parse that were carefully in terms of what we mean by "racism." senses, heortant clea

. >> coming up next, the second part of a series of lectures on abraham lincoln's legacy. last week, we heard from washington post journalist bob woodward who reflected on abraham lincoln and the 16th president's influence on his successors. up next, columnist george will looks at judicial review and the constitution.

this morning you taught us that abraham lincoln, a white man, described himself as a former slave. and i recall that bill clinton, a white man, has been described by some as america's first black president. based on your research and real life experience, what parallels do you see between president lincoln and president clinton? >> thank you for that question. [laughter] came fromlincoln eight poverty's -- poverty-stricken background. his father was a dirt poor farmer who competed for his wages with slaves in kentucky. he fled to indiana in order to escape that. he was unsuccessful as a farmer. he had been dispossessed in by acky by his farm wealthy person who grabbed the real estate. he was deprived a share of his father's wealth like his brother , and existing laws of primogeniture. he was often cruel and violent toward his son, who was a gifted, sensitive young man. they lived in the wilderness. the father abandoned his children, lincoln and his older sister, sarah, leaving them a four months to fend for themselves in the wilderness on their own in indiana. they were essentially

it was like abraham lincoln, he never shocked prejudices unnecessarily. he always used the thin edge of the wedge first. and the fact that he used this at all meant that he would, if need be, use the thick as well as the thin. but douglas casts his conclusion about what the death of lincoln meant for reconstruction. he said, had abraham lincoln been spared to see this day, the negro of the south would have a hope of franchisement and no rebels would hold the reigns of government in any of the states. now one can only lament for what might have been. whatever else have cause to mourn the loss of abraham lincoln to the colored people of the country, his death is an unspeakable calamity. an unspeakable calamity. but i think we have to take care to believe that all of the problems would have been solved. to be sure, as i've alluded, certain things may have turned out differently had he lived. in all likelihood, he would have revisited his amnesty proclamation and revised it once all of the confederate states has surrendered. all that can be said with certaint

next, bob coming up woodward reflects on abraham lincoln's legacy and how it has affected a number of his successors, including richard ronald reagan and barack obama. this is about an hour. vick: i am the dean of the college of law here at the university of illinois. behalf of the law school in entire university, i am pleased to welcome you here today for the first lecture in a new series hosted by the college of law and title "the new lincoln lectures, what lincoln means in the 21st century." during this series, we will come over the next few years, bring in 10 or so ideologically diverse national thought leaders to reflect openly on lincoln's legacy and his continuing relevance 150 years after his passing. i know all of us are eager to lecture, our inaugural bobbled word, but i want to take a few minutes to say little bit more about the lecture series itself. some ask me why the law school has decided to focus on lincoln. lincoln is probably america's lawyer. of course, lincoln played many roles, president, legislator, military strategist, newspaper owner, etc. at at his core, he w

the americans were known as the abraham lincoln brigade.ists years, the declared victory in 1939. world war ii did claire -- began shortly thereafter. the last known surviving veteran of the abraham lincoln brigade died in his home in california at the age of 100 earlier this year. he was also a longtime labor organizer who worked with the united farm workers. he recalled his decision to fight in an interview in 2013. by thes very affected fascist attempt to take over spain. i couldn't tell you why. i just didn't like the idea. that was my political understanding. i didn't like what them sob's were doing. i got in the army and then i did not know how to get to spain. i was going to work in hollywood as a dishwasher one day at the roosevelt hotel and i see on the side of a building, the abraham lincoln brigade. i turned the corner, went up them, i want to go to spain. amy: most of the people adam hochschild profiled thought against fascism. some supported franco, like the ceo of texaco. we will talk about this and more with adam hochschild n

i'm scott abraham live in louisville. big stage tonight for the maryland men's basketball team facing kansas in the sweet 16. it might be even bigger head coach mark turgeon who played for the jayhawks leading them to the 1986 final four. >> i'd rather play them in the national championship game than the sweet 16 game. but here we are. so we'll play it. >> it is what it is. he doesn't get points for going to kansas. >> he hasn't talked much about it. we know it's his alma mater and that is where he played. but he says it is just another game. to advance to the next round. >> opening tip is set for 9:40. let's send it up to chicago where my man robert burton is covering virginia. how is it going up there? robert: it's good. good to be home. only thing is, it's snowing. i don't like when it sno good to be back in the windy city. the situation the iowa state that u.v.a. is going to play. they are being compared to north carolina, a team that likes to get up and down the floor, play a fast-paced game and get pucketts in trans

messages as abraham lincoln? >> yes. >> seth: wow. [ light laughter ] >> yes but, i would have done that. i, too, did that. i found that not odd in the slightest bit. >> seth: so, have you done that before? for films? >> i've -- he comes from a different school of acting, but mine is, i come from the actors studio. i trained with lee strasberg, so. i, being female though, and growing up in the era that i did, i always tried to hide the fact that i stayed in character completely and utterly, i talked the same dialect. i lived the same life. but i would hide it, because they would go, "boy, is she weird, let's not hire her again." you know. >> seth: mm-hmm. >> but, you know, i think daniel, bless his heart, he lets it be known and people, you know, have to deal with the way actors really work. and so, i loved it. >> seth: that must be nice. it must create around environment where as an actor you can create whatever choice you want. >> you live in the world, you live in the era, you don't have to keep coming in and

this is a letter from -- to the b'nai b'rith to abraham lincoln in early january of 1863. as soon as lincoln heard about this he wrote to grant and told him he needed to resend these orders. grant later protested he had not read the orders, it had been written by a subordinate. a lot of people thought this might come back to haunt him when he ran for office a few years later. the thought was maybe jews would not vote for grant. we know that jews did forgive him for this. in this case here we look at several aspects of the jewish experience in the civil war. the home front, fighting in the war, as well as serving in government. fatima leavy was a particularly interesting person. she was from a prominent family in charleston area she married a man from pennsylvania it was a general in the union army. she went to war with him, as many women went to the front with her husband's. she later wrote her memoirs which we have on display, including some nice photographs about the war and her experience. in this memoirs she wrote she never fully realized the fratricidal nature of the

abraham lincoln gave his house divided speech. and that was in 1858. how are we doing on that subject today? >> we could use that speech again from a lot of leaders as well as citizens because there is a it is pushing amount of divisive rhetoric in this campaign that is playing on people's fears, engendering mean spiritedness, bigotry that i think is not only bad for politics, it's bad for our thags. and we need to stand up against it. we've had discontent and setting up us versus then them. and i feel that is part of what we're seeing in this campaign this time. >> you've called donald trump a political arsonist. do you believe he's responsible for igniting all the people? >> became both people attending as well as journalists on the floor and in the stands of his evens. so i think what happened friday in chicago is tragically a natural outgrowth of that kind of incitement. and look, all of us in public life, and you've covered all kinds of people running for office, in office. we all get protested against. somebody is always upset about something. th

person such as lee has as much faith as the rest of us although her faith is not is traditionally abrahamic, in fact one of the oldest religions zuro, also called farsee in india. predates the old testament. we all have faith. reaching out together on the basis of good in us, our soul is what is important. >> armstrong: dr. holderness, if children can't find it in the church, community, schools, where have they learned it? >> i am originally from south carolina. i am from the forgiving kind of people. i am a christian. i am pastor ame church and also a lawyer, graduated from howard in '81. separation of church and state also. it is not based on a religion, not based on anything formed by man. it is a spirit. in the book of john. all of us know the scriptures. we truth. it is not based on whether or not there is an iraq, or jewish person or sikh or muslim in the house. if we were to take all of our hearts out and put them on the table and all walked in and came back in with our hearts we wouldn't no which heart belonged to which. it is about us. an innate spirit. has nothing to do with relig

as you know, this is that room where abraham -- there is washington. abraham lincoln gave his house divided speech. and that was in 1858. how are we doing on that subject today? >> we could use that speech again from a lot of leaders as well as citizens because there is a disturbing amount of divisive rhetoric in this campaign that is playing on people's fears, engendering mean spiritedness, bigotry that i think is not only bad for politics, it's bad for our nation. and we need to stand up against it. we've had discontent and setting up us versus them. and i feel that is part of what we're seeing in this campaign this time. >> you've called donald trump a political arsonist. do you believe he's responsible for igniting all the people? >> if you go back several month, he's been building this incitement. he has been leading crowds and jeering protesters. he has been talking about punching people in the face. he's been encouraging the man handling of both people attending as well as journalists on the floor and in the stands of his events. so i think what