here abraham lincoln exactly now i'm going around your founding fathers i'm one of the most important i'm on your five dollar bill yeah now i am an american a while so that's what went on when i was president there was a civil war going on a very contentious a lot of anger but every sold out concert in correlate that. as far as the liberals and conservatives just want to put a little bit of us some political disputes of knowing north korea a little bit of russia also all right what's going on leisure they were watching a player back on monday yeah well the currently we're all friends in the. liberals on trying to say that we reveal what should be a trump and all the liberals are the russians the liberals and then we're cool russia is not right and then russia pissed because they are not revealing right and then now they're on our. well i had top link it was my son to school them from time to time for stealing up lloyd island i retire at a. young tot he died tragically young man is trying to mind really upset my life i have a lost the serval. so some liberals are saying that russia has

i'm going to stay just for the record abraham lincoln did not look like that picket fence me. people have all the warmth for a blink and i see that in their faces so you know i am. abraham lincoln exactly now i'm going around your founding fathers i'm one of the most important i'm on your time don't know it now i am an american a while so that's now what's been going up with a. i was present there is a civil war going on you very contentious a lot of anger but every soul now and so you can correlate that. as far as the liberals and conservatives just want to put a little bit of us some political disputes of knowing north korea but a little bit of russia also all right what's going on last year they were launching a plane back on monday yeah won't pick up currently we're all friends and that. the liberals on trying to say that we reveal what should be a trump an office the liberals or the russian liberals and then we're cool russia is not right and then russia pissed because they did not create a luncheon right and then now they're on our no they're well i had top blanket my so

this is my buddy william tecumseh sherman wearing a .ourning for abraham lincoln he was mourning theath of a cornel. he has his accoutrements and armband on. -- colonel. he has his accoutrements and armband on. they mostly wore sashes. some wore armbands. these were the different stops trainhe lincoln funeral went through. this is what they would see, groups of men wearing their mourning attire. ok? children in mourning. this is sad because many of the children are in mourning because their mother passed away giving birth to them. they had no idea what was going on. whitehe boys, they where dresses with black ribbons on them. the bed sheets would have black ribbons on them. as the kids got older, they would wear gray or black like the adults, but the children all more black ribbons and bows. but the thought of mourning, a baby mourning the death of their mother because they were born is a very sad thing. ok? ok. civil war. civil war altered the rules of mourning. people were used to having a comfortable death at home. they had a body. they had closure. they would have the wake. they

you could trust me i was the president i think that if it was just for the record abraham lincoln did not look like that he kept us may look at it. people have all the warmth for a blink and i see that in their faces so you know i and other. abraham lincoln exactly now i'm going around your founding fathers i'm one of the most important i'm on your find don't know yet now i am an american a while so asked me what went on when i was president there was a civil war going on a very contentious a lot of anger but every sold out concert in correlate that. is far as the liberals and conservatives just want to put a little bit of us some political disputes of knowing north korea but a little bit of russia also all right what's going on leisure they were launching a plane back on monday yeah well the currently we're all friends of. the liberals on trying to say that we reveal much to trump and all the liberals of the russian liberals and we're cool that russia is not right and then russia pissed because they did not read the luncheon right and that now they're on our no they're well i have to

going to say just for the record abraham lincoln did not look like that he said trust me. people have will grow warm for a blink and i see that in their faces so you know i am. here abraham lincoln exactly now i'm going around your founding fathers i'm one of the most important problem on your farm don't know yet now i am an american a while so when i was president there was a civil war going on the very contentious a lot of anger but every soul now and so you can correlate that. is far as the liberals and conservatives just a little bit of some political disputes with knowing north korea. all right what's going on leisure they were launching a plane back on monday yeah well apparently we're all friends and that. the liberals on trying to sit rigged election to trump and all the liberals of the russian liberals and we're cool russia is not right and then russia pissed because they are not treated like shit right and then now they're on our. well i have top blanket with my son to school them from time to time for stealing up oh i know i'm . young he died tragically young an

i understood just for the record abraham lincoln did not look like that he kept us may look at it. people have all the warmth for a blink and i see that in their faces so you know i am. abraham lincoln exactly now i'm not around your friend and father i'm one of the most important i'm on your five dollar bill. now i am an american a while so that's what's going on. when i was president there was a civil war going on a very contentious a lot of anger but every sold out all right so you can correlate that. as far as the liberals and conservatives just want to win a little bit of us some political disputes of knowing north korea but a little bit of russia also all right what's going on leisure they were watching a player back on monday night yeah well pick up currently we're all friends and that. the liberals on trying to say that we rigged election to trump and all the liberals are the russian the liberals and then we're cool russia is not right and then russia pissed because they did not create a luncheon right and then now they're on our own there well i have toppling him as my son

more than 2200 of some 16,000 total of abraham lincoln, almost 1200 of john f. kennedy, 800 of franklin delano roosevelt and recently, significant biographies of ulysses s. grant that include gene edward smith, ronald white, ron chernow and chuck calhoun, who is with us this afternoon, as well as the annotated memoirs of ulysses s. grant. these have been a major factor in improving the ranking of president grant in the 2017c-span presidential historian survey. his rank went from 33 to 22. abraham lincoln remains at position one, as he was in all prior c-span surveys. historians have long looked to a few criteria in evaluating a president's administration. first and foremost, any new president should execute public duties with a commanding civility and poise befitting the nation's chief executive, but without appearing aloof or haughty. as george washington observed at the outset of his presidency in 1789, a president cannot in any way demean himself in his public character, and must act in such a manner as to maintain the dignity of office. presidents also try t

it wasn't until after the tragic events of the assassination of president abraham lincoln in 1885 the museum moved into its first long time residence. they actually moved into ford's theater where they stayed for four years until they moved into what became the national mall in a building built in the 1880s that we call the old red brick in a building that is now no longer there. but was in the location where the hershon gallery is today. and the museum moved in 1968 from its now former location on the national mall to walter reed army medical center in washington, d.c. where it was housed for about 30 years before moving to its new home here in silver spring where we are today. the museum today is a museum of 25 million objects. most of those are in five major collections. but the genesis of that, that collection the core of the 25 million objects is in civil war medicine. and that's the tour that we're about to senator today. and so, come along. we are inside our civil war medicine exhibit here at the national museum of health and medicine. we're starting our visit in front of the s

landowners hundreds of people have been rallying in mali's capital against their reelection of president abraham go back arcade many of them are supporters of the opposition leader so majlis he said last thing from this runoff vote as he says dismiss the results ask parody analyze his campaign team have filed an appeal to mali's top court for some ballots to be council. the u.s. migration agency says more than sixty three thousand migrants and refugees have entered europe by sea this year

it's always good to understand the history and political genius of abraham lincoln. these are just some of the books that i'm reading an interested in reading. the last time we had this conversation i learned that the most successful ceos read 60 books. year. it's something i'm trying to do and i also try to get young kids. it for all the moms and dad watching, make sure your kidsf are reading five books. >> booken tv wants to know whatl you're reading. send us your reading look list on book tv or twitter, facebook or instagram. >> we want to introduce you to professor richard weichert. where do you teach and what you teach - i teach at california state university and i teach modern european history, 19th and 20th century europe. >> how many books have you written. >> have written six so far. >> and your most recent. >> the case for humanity and hitler's decision for both of them came out wit in 2016. >> let's start with the death of humanity. what's the premise. >> since the enlightenment. , secular philosophies, i cover a whole range of ideologies have undermined t

international thriller sandra rocks so for us in kuala lumpur thanks very much molly's president abraham boubacar cato has been officially reelected for another five year term was declared the winner of the country's elections securing sixty seven percent of the vote the opposition led by small sissay have already said that they will reject the results of the presidential runoff the campaign was marred by accusations of fraud by violence and low turnout . kate and now faces the amends task of lifting this west african country out of a spiral of islamist and i think violence is more on the many challenges that await them. chaos on the streets of mali's capital bamako. mutinous soldiers locked up several ministers and took control of government buildings. at the two thousand and twelve coup d'etat a dangerous turning point for the young democracy but for sixty six year old ibrahim. the coup represented an opportunity in twenty thirteen after a year and a half of upheaval new elections were held it. became for short had the support of both religious leaders and the army in part perhaps beca

i would for go all the others just to have abraham lincoln allowed. i would want dolly madison to host it. there's this great story about harry truman who goes driving down for a meeting. treatment sitting in the front seat and he sees this woman whose pigs had gotten loose. they are running all around. truman stopped the car and he jumps out and helps the lady get the pigs back. the reporter gets wind of this and the reporter asks him i was true. he said remember i was a farmer before i was president. he was so down to earth. >> tying into your comments mark and i appreciate you guys. one of the things we did a year ago was to come up with the idea to take resident ford story standing up for diversity in his senior year at university of michigan where his traveling roommate because of the color of his skin cannot play on the football team. there's a historical group that put this thing together and students would fall asleep. we said let's turn it into a 40 minute play. half my board is ready to launch me. what am i doing? we did 10 productions of th

abraham lincoln, the only transcript that exists in no one's talking about it. and yet we looked into it and it's true. this article -- small article in "the new york times" on the box was discovered. there was an aba article analyzing the legal issues, but no one really dug into the story and the story itself is fascinating that the trial is fascinating. as a say in the introduction, this would have been a high profile case in this day and age. it had to neighbors and friends, young men involved in a long-standing quarrel. one was the much larger than the defendant, so the defendant are as a night friend to his commentaries are written just in case the larger man comes after him. they are both sort of talking trash so to speak with each other through france did not directly, but what will happen if a fight ensues, and veteran. a 90s in a drugstore in he's reading the paper, talking to the owner of the drugstore. the victim's brother is in the back of the drugstore. comes in, immediately goes. the greek crafting pt queen harrison. great names from the mid-1800s

and you referenced abraham lincoln. with abraham lincoln, it was a greenback issue by the central treasury, not by a bank. of course, our currency today is issued by the federal reserve, not by the u.s. treasury. as far as andrew jackson in the oval office, the portrait, i think it is obvious. he sees himself as a jacksonian president. a populist. he admires qualities about andrew jackson that he has made evident. >> not only does the portrait of andrew jackson hang in his office, but early in his presidency, donald trump traveling to the hermitage in tennessee. the significance is? >> the significance is that he sees himself as jacksonian. in the last couple years, we have seen -- if you'll recall the way that the broadway musical on hamilton brought attention to alexander hamilton and the way people think about him. talking about parallels between donald trump and andrew jackson has people thinking about the legacy of andrew jackson. the parallels are interesting and i think they are mostly stylistic. if you look at t

abraham lincoln, john kennedy and doctor king. for different reasons they are all great american heroes. the series felt incomplete until i did this book. i've always wanted to do that. >> reading through this, you focus a lot on how he and martin luther king jr. finally intersected. what did you learn about james earl ray that you didn't know. the story has been told over and over but i found so many things in here that i personally did not know. what did you discover. >> much of ray's life reveals 1960s america. i always thought of him as a cipher, a mysterious nobility who came out of nowhere almost like a super oswald who we almost know less about him but he was a man on a quest that reflects were american was in the 60s. he grew up poor missourian lived in illinois. his family was poor. he had no shoes, torn clothes, teacher said he was repulsive dirty child. he was treated terribly as a boy. then he committed petty crimes and was imprisoned for 13 years. he held up a grocery store and they stole $120 and split $60. for that

and i would forego all of the other, just to have, you know, abraham lincoln alone. but i would certainly want dolly madison to host it. going back to the trumans. just what anita said, there's this great story about harry truman who goes bounding with his driver/bodyguard, mike westwood, down from independence to jefferson city for a meeting. skpr and truman is in the front seat and spies this woman whose pigs have gotten loose and they're running all around. and truman demands that westwood stop the car and he hops -- truman hops out and helps her to coral these pigs. a reporter gets wind of this when truman, you know, arrives at his destination in jefferson city. and they ask him if it's true. he said, yeah, of course it's true, but remember, i was a farmer before i was president. >> see. >> so down to earth. >> i think we have a question. >> yeah, trying to tie into your comments, and i appreciate that gerald r. ford story. one of the things we did a year ago was to come up with the idea to take president ford's story of standing up for diversity in his senior ye

of america's best story tellers doris team of rivals, i'm talking about the the administration of abraham lincoln this is something -- it's always good to understand the history and how a -- and really understand the political genius of abraham lincoln. so these are just some of the books that i'm reading and interested in reading. i learned i think, last time we had this conversation that -- a lot of the most successful ceos read 60 books year and something that we're trying to do and i also try to get young kids to release five books in the summer. because that's something that prevents the summer slide. and so for all of those moms and dads watching, make sure your kids are -- are reading five books. >> booktv wants to know what you'ree? reading, sending us yor summer reading list at booktv on twitter, instagram, or on facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. [applause] hi everyone, welcome. my name is heather and i'm executive director of -- of -- [laughter] i'm the executive director and ceo of six and i. wow. i know. [laughter] how many of you are here for the ve

i came down and talk to the deputy chief of staff spencer abraham. he was later a senator from michigan and then secretary of energy. they hired me. i was a speechwriter. spencer abraham told me the vice president has not had a speechwriter like the one we are hiring. that is someone to work on political speeches and things other than major addresses. he had a guy who was a foreign policy expert and did the speeches. they need someone to do everything else. vice president quayle had not had someone full-time doing that. he had done his own thing. he was a senator prior to being vice president. this is the midterm elections in 1990. they said we will see how it works out. i was hired in august. if this works out will keep you after the election. let's see how things go. i thought, the worst possible scenario is that i work for two and half months on the white house staff. the best scenario played out which is they hired me for two months and forgot about the two months. they kept me on. i mentioned to spencer abraham, wasn't this a probation job, he s

agent of your freedom is abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln is not your freedom. the giving of the gift diminishes the status of the person giving the gift. >> are you meaning something physical or the gift of freedom together? prof. greenberg: both. >> he gave us freedom for certain people. prof. greenberg: we are talking in different times, but the king is a different example. king is a pacifist, yet we all know, everything we know about king's that he was extremely brave and willing to die. in a sense, even though he is not intending to, he is speaking the language which could speak to the masters. that's why he becomes a national figure. it cuts across a lot of lines that way, but that's unusual. if you are a pacifist and you get stepped on, you don't get the status. >> is it considered honorable? prof. greenberg: i consider him by modern terms as honorable, but whether the master class wha would have thought of him that way, i don't know. but the willingness to die is a central feature of a man of honor. that is what the duel is about and he's dueling all the

west african nation of mali voting has begun in the second round of presidential elections incumbent abraham will buy a car seen here on the left is expected to win security is tight the first round of voting was overshadowed by violence at polling stations in romania tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across the country in renewed anti-government demonstrations in the capital bucharest huge crowds gathered in victory square just a day after clashes with riot police left hundreds injured protesters blame the government for entrenched corruption wages and a lack of opportunities. the celebrated british author v.s. naipaul has died at the age of eighty five nepal was born in trinidad in one nine hundred thirty two to parents of indian origin he wrote to dozens of books many of which dealt with colonialism and its legacy and he won many of literature's most prestigious awards including the nobel prize. now seven days after a powerful earthquake struck the indonesian island of lombok the death toll continues to rise more than four hundred people are now confirmed dead many sur

the same year abraham lincoln was elected president. gump's filed for bankruptcy last week. retail analysts say the store couldn't keep up with the changing fashions. >> really makes me feel bad. it's part of san francisco history. it's part of old san francisco that we don't have anymore. >> it's just so hard to lose something that just feels so much a part of people's past. >> it goes way back. no one from the company was willing to comment, but off camera they said the store expects to remain open until the end of this year or until all the merchandias sold. >>> all this week nbc bay area and telemundo 48 are working together to clear the shelters. it's our annual event helping pets find forever homes. one of the participating shelters is sonoma county animal services. staff and volunteers went into overdrive last october when the fires broke out, including a cat separated from its owner, but as luck would have it, the owner found the cat. it was posted on the shelter's website. this was the reaction when they reunited. >> oh, my god. i'm so happy. but we didn't lose our

you you say that hindu ism clearly accepts the possibility that abrahamic religions ups are all fine judaism christianity and islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred centuries made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea so also always of worship lead to the same god he said that i'm proud to speak of a feat that has taught the world not just tolerance but acceptance and so profoundly important idea because tolerance we are taught is a virtue but it's ultimately rather patronizing it says tolerance says i have the truth you are in error but i will make known i'm mostly indulging in your right to be wrong very different except where is accepted says much for it says actually i believe i have the truth you believe you have the truth i will respect your truth please respect my truth and by that logic hindu ism is willing to see the merit in every way of worship what it doesn't accept as the clip of any o

group in northern mali this as millions vote in a presidential runoff likely to return incumbent abraham go back to power on the first round of voting in july was marred by violence three election workers killed and voting materials destroyed opposition leaders so my life who won nearly eighteen percent in the first round alleges voting fraud mom at valhalla more from the capital bamako. the final hours of sunday have seen a little better turnout here in this holding center where i'm standing in marco in comparison to earlier in the day and also to what we saw on july twenty ninth body has a bad history of turnouts and this one is not different apparently the opposition has been largely demoralized by the results that many of the opposition leaders got in the first round and many of them have refused to stand behind. the c.c. who is now running against the president in the run of. we have reports of some incidents in the north including the killing of the head of a polling station in the region of timbuktu not clear yet why this man was killed nor the identity of the people who killed hi

four months after the battle, abraham lincoln came to gettysburg. he met abraham lincoln. a few days after the battle, the famous photographer took his photograph in front of his house. he enjoyed at large popularity after the battle. there were articles written about him in newspapers that i will talk about. he traveled the united states, it he was a well-known figure. he had some well known for notice -- well-known promoters. when i started to write this book years ago, i realized that no one had ever really written anything in detail or in length about him. by his story as a historian, because of the fact that he survived the battle and told a lot of people about what happened to him during the fighting. he was interviewed several times. of course, as a challenge to historians, when you compare all of the things he said about the battle, they are different. that he told a story and it got better as time goes by. it was different every time he told it. one of the things i really wanted to do when i set out to write a book on john burns, was to lay out his story. discusse

counting is underway in mali to the presidential runoff vote president abraham but kater is pitted against opposition leaders. the opposition accuse the ruling party of fraud during the first round on sunday they claimed further violations. u.s. president donald trump's decision to reimpose sanctions on iran is expected to have an impact on its neighbor iraq it shares a fifteen hundred kilometer border with iran with goods and people crossing the. any attention of the name reports now from the border district of pens when in iraq . each day trucks slowly wind around treacherous roads in the zagg gross mountains carrying goods from iran to iraq since the u.s. announced it was reimposing sanctions against iran rumors and uncertainty are also traveling back and forth across the border iranian bus driver rahman a bella is worried soon the border will close and his job of six years will disappear. as a bit of washing again yes when he chats really i don't know because you can expect anything here the politicians haven't made any agreements if they make an agreement it should be for the sake of

you you say that hindu ism clearly accepts the possibility that abrahamic religions ups are all fine judaism christianity and islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred centuries made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea so also always of worship lead to the same god he said that i'm proud to speak of a feat that has taught the world not just tolerance but acceptance and so profoundly important idea because tolerance we are taught is a virtue but it's ultimately rather patronizing it says tolerance says i have the truth you are in error but i will make none i'm mostly indulge you in your right to be wrong very different except where is except and says much for it says actually i believe i have the truth you believe you have the truth i will respect your truth please respect my truth and by that logic hindu ism is willing to see the merit in every way of worship what it doesn't accept is the clip of an

and each of each of us finds our seven a position where in western religions for example or the abrahamic feeds the body has a soul in hinduism the soul has a body the soul exists it adopts your body or mine for a finite period of time then it discards our bodies and moves on the ultimate goal of the soul is to be able to move into god into brahman and that is what we consider salvation in the philosophy of course what most critics and people who praise the book have been talking about and that is. the tolerant version of india is a given it verse is obviously what has been seen as intolerance associated with the current indian government. you you say that hindu ism clearly accepts the possibility the abrahamic religions ups are all fine judaism christianity and islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred century made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea so also always of worship lead to the same god he sai

to rally behind him in when you know united front against president abraham. so so my list is it got only eighteen percent in the first round he was he was capitalizing on probably a unified opposition behind me in the second that i know of but that doesn't seem to be happening and many people are you know feeling that there is a fait accompli here in front of millions they have to accept the fact that the president. is going to when to win this election we'll see what does happen still a few more hours to go before the polls close and look about two through the day thanks moment israel's palestinian minority has that they must protest in tel aviv or.

finds are seven a position where in western religions for example or the abrahamic feeds the body has a soul in hinduism the soul has a body the soul exists it adopts your body your mind for a finite period of time then it discards our bodies and moves on the ultimate goal of the soul is to be able to move into god into brahman and that his is is what we consider salvation in the philosophy of course war most critics and people who praise the book have been talking about and that is. the tolerant version of india is a given it verse is obviously what has been seen as intolerance associated with the current indian government. you you say that hindu ism clearly accepts the possibility the abrahamic religions ups are all fine judaism christianity and islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred centuries made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea so also always of worship lead to the same god he said that i'

when you talk about the history, it goes back to abraham lincoln. john mccain would have thought he was unworthy of that. that's how he described himself often, as you know. today will be a day for the capitol community to remember, to honor. expect nom lausome laughter but of talk about the senator. >> i want to bring in steve dupree, a close friend to mccain, a close adviser to his presidential campaign, and also a pallbearer earlier for the services in arizona. thank you for sharing memories about your long-time friend. we, moments ago, saw senator mccain's casket leaving the funeral home and heading toward the capitol. you had a chance to visit with him regularly before his death. can you tell me what the moments were like for you? >> john mccain had a great last year, as you know. he was effective as a member of the senate. even when he was at his cabin in sedona, he stayed in the game and made a lot of important policy announcements. he was great to visit with. he was -- we had a great last year of his life. got to see a lot of folks he wanted

there's just a few hours left in mali's presidential runoff which pits president abraham boubacar cater against opposition candidates to say security is a major issue with some six thousand troops deployed for the vote. and hundreds of protesters are gathering in washington d.c. where white supremacists are staging a white civil rights rally it comes on the anniversary of deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in the u.s. city charlottesville in which one woman was run over by a car. now taliban fighters have attacked police headquarters and other government buildings and gaza me as the battle for the southeastern afghan city enters its third day u.s. aircraft have conducted at least four as strikes in support of afghan national forces who insist the city is not under the threat of collapse but lawmakers from gaza new say the taliban is in control of much of the city after launching an attack in the early hours of friday morning over one hundred people many of them members of the security forces have been killed. or correspondent eunice i seen sent us this update from kabul. the s

for example, my -- my favorite story in the bible is when god appears to abraham.ike "whoa, okay." [ laughter ] and then the very next thing, god says, without missing a beat is, "circumcise your penis." [ laughter ] he goes straight to it. so, there's this 99-year-old man. he's just met god and now he's got to -- gotta do this thing. and so, the whole bible is just full of madness. [ laughter ] and i always thought, you know, wouldn't it be funny -- isn't it funny, you imagine somebody with all this power who is a little bit irrational. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> and that's -- and that's why i'm so excited we got to cast steve buscemi. [ laughter ] >> seth: that is a -- a perfect person to encapsulate that. thank you so much for being here, buddy. >> thanks so much. >> seth: congrats on the book. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: i can't wait for the show. simon rich, everybody! "hits and misses" is available now. we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ when your blanket's freshness fades before the binge-watching begins... that's when you

four months after the battle, abraham lincoln came to gettysburg and met abraham lincoln. a few days after the battle, the famous photographer matthew brady took his photograph in front of his house. popularitylarge after the battle. there were articles were to know about him and newspapers that we will talk about -- there were articles written about him into a newspaper so we will talk about. he had some very good promoters. and there was an illustration done of him and a poem rio tinto about him. -- in nepal written -- and a written about him. as a taken by his story historian because he survived the battle and told a lot of peoples about what happened during the fighting. he was interviewed several times. and of course, as a challenge to historians, when you compare all the things he said about the battle, they are different. told don't mean that he his story and it got better as time goes by. it was just different every time he told it. so, one of the things i really wanted to do when i set out to write a book about john burns is to lay out his story. discuss each thin

opposition cry foul eighteen of the twenty three presidential candidates for run against president abrahamsay his supporters have manipulated the media misused the state funds bought votes and allowed widespread violence and deceptions in polling stations. we have noticed live in multiple anomalies including abusive utilization of state means by the president massive appropriation of what accounts for the wrong people corruption and pledges of words stopping ballot boxes attribution a fake assault certain candidate and absence of water guards and numerous polling stations. the candidates jointly read the declaration rejecting sunday's vote in all polling stations where disruptions or irregularities took place. we demand that result of every polling station be published separately that the constitutional court disprove the grave accusations leveled against it that a legal investigation be launched and we will not accept results from any polling stations where boarding been take place properly. the announcement came as reports of alleged leaked results give president a big win in the first r

. >> host: what did you learn about abraham lincoln? >> guest: the ingesting thing is his ambition was so fierce that the age of 23 when he ran for the state legislature for the her son, which is where i start his story. .. he said i may lose this election and i am use to loss. but i think i'll try five or six times. then maybe i will be disgraced. he tries again, he wins, loses more, it's an extraordinary story of resilience. >> were they thinking patterns a little bit? maybe your eye? >> is an interesting question. interesting thing for teddy roosevelt for example, he was able to think about where he wanted the career to go.so did fdr. they thought ahead. but teddy lost his wife and mother on the same day in the same house. then went into a depression. from then on he decided i'm not going to look ahead with the next title is that i want to reach. i'll just take whatever job to make me feel worthy at the time. so i guess his friend's advice he becomes a civil service commissioner. state legislator and obviously governor, but that path

abraham lincoln said the following. slavery can be reduced to a simple slogan. that's slavery. you're stealing another guys labor the key point is that lincoln said this is the freedom not of the south but of the democratic party in the north and south. stealing and confiscating the fruits of somebody else's labor is there thing . and has four republicans according to lincoln, they stand for the opposite. what's the opposite? in lincoln's words, the hand that makes the corn has a right to eat the corn. people have a right to keep the fruits of what they earn. there we go. let's fast-forward him 50 years and this is not a fact that today if the republican party as a single four core principle at the minute, it is the idea and makes the corn has the right to put the corn into its own mass. that is still what we republicans believe which means we are the party of lincoln . [applause] >> and as for the democrats, yes, as my movie shows it's gone from one scheme to another bottom line is here's what they do and it's an annual form today that was before. when you agree that the princ

so, abraham is like "whoa, okay."ht to it. so, there's this 99-yearld man. he's just met god and now he's got to -- gotta do this thing.e and so, ole bible is just full of madness. [ laughter ] owd i always thought, you wouldn't it be funny -- isn't it funny, you imagine somebody wi all this power who is a little bit irrational. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> and that's -- and that's why i'm so excited we got to cast steve buscemi. [ laughter ] t >> sett is a -- a perfect person to encapsulate that. thank you so much for being here, buddy. >> thanks so much. >> set >> thank you.the book. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: i can't wait for the show. simon rich, everybody! "hits and misses" is available now.be we'light back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ broke my personal record. aflac!? no-good break. gooood break. i'm so sorry we can't make your barbecue. i'm just sick about it. aflac!? different kind of sick. if i can't work after surgery, how am i gonna pay my rent? all these bills? aflac! oh, aflac! and they pay you cash

time, abraham lincoln freeing the slaves. and enslaved person in chains, lincoln standing up, he is higher, and he breaks the change. he is the gift giver. whichhave a mythology draws on that image, which is duplicating what the southern masters thought about this. you cannot get free that way. the agent of your freedom is abraham lincoln, you are not the agent of your freedom. so the giving of a gift diminishes the status of the person receiving the gift and adds to the status of the person giving the gift. student: are you meaning something physical or like freedom? prof. greenberg: both. student: martin luther king jr. gave us freedom. prof. greenberg: that is an interesting example. , yet we allcifist know, everything we know about king's that he was extremely brave and willing to die. in a sense, even though he is not intending to, he is speaking the language that could speak to the masters. that's why he becomes a national figure, it cuts across a lot of lines that way. but that is unusual. if you are a pacifist and you

has on abraham lincoln. i just love stories of what i think is your greatest president. but some of the greatest challenges. also just finished. i loved unloved that. highly recommend that. the true story of revolution. the picture of what that crossing that looked like. and it was pretty different. and then have a few others that i'm working on. most of them i just want to understand history. i want to recognize again the great privilege we head of working in this country. those who made it too difficult times in the past and how hopefully that we can make it through challenging times as well. .. what was their relationship of john and bobby to teddy? "washington journal" continues. host: we welcome author and syndicated columnist ann coulter who is out with a new book, "resistance is futile.". we will get to the book but first i want to make use of your legal background and get your thoughts. caller: i was wondering if that might come up. [laughter] -- guest: i was wondering if that might come up. [laughter] guest: i write a little about both cases in the book. the pau

always to understand the history that political genius of abraham lincoln. in the last time we had this conversation it is something we are trying to do. so with the moms and dads >> watching . . . . >> host: we are here to talk about your book. it's something i think it would've people need to read and people in the military take note, "fight like a girl. there's a lot to go over and we will take time to do that. set the stage for people who may