he was a member of the house with abraham lincoln. so many of these people that would later become critical in the civil war would become important to lincoln and his rise to the presidency, they were there in the 30th congress with him. it is fascinating to watch him interact with these people before any of them could imagine what role they would play later in history. so what are the major issues when he goes to congress? nothing is bigger than the mexican-american war. they were trying to figure out , what is the endgame in mexico? this is something we could never imagine being in a prolonged war without ideas of how we are going to wrap it up. [laughter] chris: that was something that lincoln and his colleagues had to confront. lincoln was very content to let the matter lay until a result. president james polk said he would treat silence as acquiescence and support for the war. and lincoln could not be silent anymore. so his first major address as a member of congress, he gives something that would be known as the spot resolution s

alexander stephens wrote a letter to abraham lincoln while lincoln was waiting to come to washington just after he was elected to be president wondering if there is anything they could do, if he had any suggestion. lincoln wrote back to him, i would really like to to be able to work this out he said but we don't seem to be able to agree on the extension of slavery. he said in his letter, that's the rub you want to extend slavery and make slavery national while we want to restrict it. >> host: is your book written for a general audience or scholarly audience? >> host: we wrote this book for students that we have been teaching for gary gallagher has been teaching for over 30 years and i have been teaching for over 20 years. he's teaching at uva, and i am teaching at ucla. we thought a lot about the fact that there is no short, distinct, and yet provocative book, textbook on the civil war that would combine the chronological in the political and economic, the progress of the battles, but also have somatic chapters on emancipation of soldiers, and women, chapters on reconstruction, and a

abraham lincoln was on his way to the nation's capital for his first inauguration.ladelphia long enough to say, i had never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the bodies of the deck -- declaration of independence. in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. >> ♪ >> in the distance, the white house, where abraham lincoln lived and worked. 1600 pennsylvania avenue, eighth -- a famous address. home of our presidents office who dedicates their very lives to the preservation of our sacred heritage. this legacy and magnificent inheritance has not been handed to us on a silver platter, not by a long shot. >> the price of life, liberty and freedom comes dear, very dear. when the chips are down, we are prepared always to defend these sacred principles upon which our nation was founded. the hope of our world rests on our faith and the destiny of our country. through such faith our forefathers built this country. it has been costly, oh, so costly. there have scarcely a period of time all of our history has not -- in all of our history

president except abraham lincoln. and an open microphone captures two senators ridiculing a fellow lawmaker. we have that audio for you. let's begin on capitol hill. another busy day. >> reporter: >> reporter: senate republicans won an important legislative victory but it underskoend the painful process of trying to unite the gop around one particular plan, a comprehensive plan to repeal and replace obamacare. it was one in a series of amendments and proposals and that fell short. >> suffering its first setback, the senate decisively rejecting the gop's most comprehensive replacement plan, nine republicans voting against the measure. the senate expected to take up today senator rand paul's proposal to repeal obamacare with the delay on the replacement plan for two years, a measure the cbo estimates will leave 32 million more americans uninsured and is also expected to fail. >> this is just the beginning. we're not out here to spike the football. this is just a long way, we'll finish at the end of the week hopefully. >

abraham lincoln was fully aware of every word in the declaration of independence.1861. abe lincoln was on his way to the nations capital for his first inauguration. in philadelphia longer to say to a gathering at independence hall, i have never had a feeling of liberty that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence. it was a sentiment in that document which gave promise that in due time, the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. in the distance, the white house where abraham lincoln lived and .orked 1600 pennsylvania avenue, a famous address, home of our presidents whose solemn oath of office dedicates their very lives to the preservation of our sacred heritage. this legacy, this magnificent inheritance has not been handed to us on a silver platter, not by a long shot. the price of liberty and freedom comes here -- dear. very dear. when the chips are down, we are prepared always to defend this sacred principles upon which our nation was founded. rests onof our world our faith in the destiny of our country. throug

let's providential that leon and amy attempted to name their child abraham lincoln cath. when one of -- when they were gifted with two girls, they named one of them marian. lincoln is set to -- is said to have made tribute to plaintiff songs. marion was the sister of abraham who sung the song's of freedom from egyptian bondage. there are obvious parallels to american slavery. it forms the subtext of lincoln's speech. before hazarding further interpretation, we unfortunately do not have the entire speech. we do have portions of the speech which are thought to be separate efforts. so, a first lecture on discovery and invention, and a second lecture on discovery and invention. they may in fact be part of a larger whole. it is also important to mention how this fits into the quite gas into the chronology of the 1850's. over the two-year period, from early 1858 to early 1860, it was first presented -- presented before the house divided speech where he sketches the contours of the national crisis and accepts the republican nomination for the illinois senate seat. it was presente

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. >> with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> meanwhile, senator john mccain, a former presidential candidate, returns to the senate just 11 days after brain surgery and he says this. >> i hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other, to learn how to trust each other again, and by so doing better serve the people who elected us. >> two speeches, two american leaders. which one sounds presidential to you? let's get right to cnn's presidential historian, timothy natali, political analyst kirsten powers, rick san tore 'em, and cnn political commentator matt louis. tim, you are first. here is what president trump said. >> political correctness for me is easy. sometimes they say, "he doesn't act presidential." and i say, "hey, look, great schools, smart guy." it is so easy to act presidential, but it is not going to get it done. in fact, i said, it is much easier, by the way, to act presidential than what we're doing here tonight, be

president trump tells a cheering crowd in ohio this -- >> with the expectation of the late great abraham lincoln i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. >> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. how presidential is he really? president trump starting his day at the crack of dawn, where else, on twitter. target. attorney general jeff sessions. quote, ukraine yum sabotage -- quietly to boast clinton. attorney general jeff sessions has taken a weak position on hillary clinton crimes. where e-mails and dnc servers and intel leakers. mr. president those e-mails and the servers did hillary no favors during the election she lost because of that, you've won. we all know that we've moved on. shouldn't you. then in a wall street journal the president downplayed senator sessions -- say it was really about the crowd size. here's the quote. he was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably said, what do i have to lose. and he endorsed me. here's the truth, session's endorsement came two days before a critical tuesday in the primary when president trump was being h

. >> with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> this is cnn. sorry, i'm don lemon. how presidential is he really. >> reporter: president trump starting his day at the crack of dawn where else? on twitter. targeting? attorney general jeff sessions "ukrainian efforts to sab bo taj trump campaign quietly working to investigate clinton. where is the investigation, ag? then attorney general sessions has taken a weak president on hillary clinton crimes? mr. president, those e-mails and the servers did hillary clinton no favors during the election. she lost in part because of that. you won. we all know that. we've moved on. shouldn't you? then in an interview with the "wall street journal," the president downplayed then senator sessions' valuable early endorse the saying it was really all about the crowd size. here's a quote. "he was a senator. he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says what do i have to lose? and he endorsed me." here's the truth. sessions' endorsement came at a c

w createde a fake website for abraham lincoln. i basically used all of his own words. if lincoln were using the web to communicate, we think this is what it would've looked like. american watching history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span 3. c-span us on twitter @ history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. 50 years ago on july 23, 1967, detroit erupted in five days of civil disorder that led to 43 deaths, hundreds of injuries. and 7000 arrest. the next day president johnson announced 5000 federals were sent to detroit in an attempt to restore order. this is about 10 minutes. president johnson: in the early morning today governor romney communicated with ramsey clark and told him of the extreme disorder in detroit, michigan. the attorney general kept me advised her of the morning. at 10:56 this morning i received a wire from governor romney officially requesting that federal troops be dispatched to michigan. this wire was sent at 10:46 a.m. this morning i instructed the secretary of defense t

abraham lincoln would have approved. in a version of the speech now reported inut detail in a newspaper account, lincoln was said to pay tribute. the triumphant exultation of miriam. miriam was the sister of moses and aaron who led the women in song. abrasion of their deliverance from egyptian bondage. the course of hebrew enslavement and emancipation had of this parallels to american history and american slavery had formed the pretext of lincoln's speech. before further interpretation, want to point out with fortunately don't have the speech in its entire day. but we do have is to substantial portions 8-10 pages each, long efforts.o be separate they may, in fact, be parts of a larger whole. it is also important to be aware of how the speech fits into the chronology. it was delivered multiple times over the two-year time between 18 60.858 to early it was presented a couple months before the house divided speech lincoln accepted the republican nomination for the illinois senate seat and it was presented again on a number

would go through a series of roll-call of votes to get the required number of delegates to win abraham lincoln was nominated on the third there was a democratic convention in the early 1900's with over 100 ballots so there could be a more extended race so within the convention generally they're not even supposed to campaign. it was even more in journal to the convention. >> they have been tinkering with the rules the republicans between 2012 and 2016 made it so those delegates selected would reflect that initial caucus vote and not what is happening after the fact the democrats tinkered with the number of the super delegates so a widespread reform is not very likely because it is difficult to do that and nobody can control that process. >> booktv on c-span2 speaking with professor and her book the imperfect primary is herblock. >> next on my list is a fantastic book everything i have heard about it is wonderful talks about life in america of an issue i have been looking into and the struggles of the people and napoli shut and throughout the country. [inaudible conversations]

they have a wonderful portrait of abraham lincoln. he was in that day the big picture. it was quite a honor that you have painted. however she was very disappointed. she said she looks like a old relic. in 1872 there was a terrible disaster. she thought she stepped out of that fire. interesting a likeness. is the original model and little women. those are whose names do not change in the account. this is the life we have of her. , they were excited about this. it was going to be the finest work. new that perhaps she would not be living here. she said it might be her new home. archway it at this leads into the parlor. wereirls even young women working all throughout their earlier. they hung a curtain. stageould become their area they had many wonderful sets and scenery. they really worked hard on this. then they would sit here. and little women towards the beginning of the book that girls are going to begin to put on a play. that is really a play. she did perform this, she played the role of roderigo. they played it in that dining room. these things really happened all o

. >> with the exception of abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president -- >> donald trump is presidential in the same way that kid rock will be senatorial. >> this is "new day" with quchr cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> a shot at one of your favorites, kid rock. >> up first, one step forward, another step back for gop senators. they voted to begin debate over health care. their first vote on the plan to repeal and replace obamacare failed. nine republicans voting against that first major proposal. the senate continues debate today on a repeal with a two-year delay replacement plan. >> president trump is intensifying public attacks over his attorney general jeff sessions. the president started z this and seeded this discussion about whether or not sessions is out and now is say, well, he doesn't know whether or not sessions has to go. he does call the russian investigation and sessions' recusal unfair to the presidency. cnn has everything covered for you. let's begin with cnn's suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning, chris. senate republicans o

scaramucci from abraham lincoln himself and i'm paraphrasing. abraham lincoln said, if i paid attention much less tried to answer all of the criticisms that come into this office and that are directed against me, i might as well close down this shop and stop doing any other business. you just got to ignore that stuff. >> hum. easier said than done, but i want to talk about the new chief-of-staff, john kelly. he was a marine, he served in the military for nearly five decades. he's entering a very top heavy west wing. there are at least 23 assistants to the president, the highest ranking title, jared kushner, anthony scaramucci, they all report directly to the president, kellyanne conway also have direct lines of communication to the president. so my question to you, mike, is how can kelly effectively serve as chief-of-staff if so many people have a direct line to the president? >> look, i mean, it's interesting being on with a historians, all these comparisons being made. trump is unique. his management style is unique. it served him very well. y

and i said -- with the exception of the late, great, abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> now, clearly president trump has been taking flak including from members of his party for treatment of jeff sessions. that seemed like a not very veiled riff about what was going on there. as for session' fate, from trump gave no clue. >> joining me, michael bender, "wall street journal" reporter, asked the president about attorney general sessions. attorney general sessions the first sitting senator to endorse the president during the campaign. you had a fascinating exchange with him about sessions and about, loyalty. and about that early endorsement. what did he say? >> well we tried to ask him a couple times about what he was going to do with sessions. he wouldn't take the bait. just kept saying he was disappointed. and then he started talking a little bit about white house personnel and mentioned anthony scaramucci. trump wanted to tell how scaramucci didn't endorse walker. he endorsed jeb bush. when jeb bush quit

the what i am struck by is not that i'm most presidential other than abraham lincoln.s what he first said. i can be presidential. that's easy. but that's not going to get it done. what does that mean to you? >> well, to me, i think what it means to millions of people who were kind of like captured by the idea that we would consider electing this first outsider as president, the idea was that it would take an outside voice who was a littlest respectful of the way things are always done in washington, someone ha had a hewn niq unique and aggressive view on how you get your agenda done to take on what he views as the liberal bias in the media, to take on the swamp, as he calls it. the rbureaucracy in washington, d.c. and all of those foes that stand in the way of republican president es. >> i argue with you. i think he's telling us that. but, his public opinion polls might beg to differ. >> i don't know. i mean the one thing we have in this country i was on the presidential campaign in 2,000 which was settled in a that recount in florida. we are incredibly polarized. we'v

. >> with the exception of the late, great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that has ever held this office, that i can tell you. went on: the president to praise ice and said enforcement teams are cleaning up games. -- gangs. destroying the bloodthirsty criminal gangs and i will just tell you this, we are not doing it in a politically correct fashion. we are doing it rough. our guys are rougher than their guys. adrianna: president trump tweeted his banks last night after he left that rally. so far, his 2020 campaign is already up and running, raising money and hosting events across the country. larry: a heads up driving in landover tonight, heavy congestion around fedex field because of an international soccer match. barcelona united and playing tonight at 7:30. the beltway and central avenue are expected to be a mess anytime afternoon, and they are suggesting you work from home if you can. if you will be in that area tonight, wjla.com/text and sign up for our traffic alerts. autria: a deadly situation down south with ties to our area, people are found cramme

and i said -- [ applause ] >> and i said, with the exception of the late great abe r -- abraham lincoln, i can be more great than any president that's held this office. >> also making the claim that no president has done anywhere near what he's done in his first six months in office. he's also boasted he's passed more legislation than anybody else. >> he said that again last night. it was an interesting speech. he also said we all believe in the rule of law and support the incredible men and women of law enforcement. he might not realize that the attorney general is the top cop in the united states. he certainly does not support that law enforcement office. >> his target this time, apple. we'll tell you how the company responded. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare? that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could save you in out-of-pock

. >> did jefferson davis have any relationship with abraham lincoln?. >> yes. there was a lot written and i cannot recall if they ever met. i doubt it but jefferson davis vice president had a friendship when he served as a congressman and. and they were friends and lincoln wrote a letter i mean stevens wrote a letter while he was waiting to come to washington just after he was elected to be president wondering if there is anything they could do and he wrote back, i would really like to be able to work this out but we don't seem to be able to agree on the extension of slavery. and he said that is the route to the one to extend to make it national and we want to restructure that. >> is a written for a scholarly audience?. >> we rode for our students gary gallagher has been teaching over 30 i have been teaching over 20. there was no short worse instinct for provocative textbook to combine in a the chronological of political economic to have those and the chapters on reconstruction and also in memory. and the progress of the of for reconstruction and memory and the

that speech, abraham lincoln style, i guess. >> no. far from abraham lincoln style. i wish it were easy for donald trump to act presidential. we have six months of saying he's a failure of doing. as many people think he should be impeached as not. is approv his approval rating hovering at all time lows for someone at this stage of his presidency, 36, 37%. you have conservatives saying enough is enough. it is not fake news to say this president should be investigated and that he is treated a member of senate terribly, shamefully. and republicans come together defense of jeff sessions, people like lindsey graham saying enough is enough and saying what every republican senator should say and underline every day, that in america the bedrock belief of our constitution is has always been that no man is above the law. donald trump may not believe that, if you look at the way he's treated james comey and now his attorney general. so that's a big story. obviously the vote yesterday also very significant. john mccain giving a very moving speech. but mika, at the end of the day

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but republicans are the party of abraham lincoln. >> at love. people don't realize that abraham lincoln. >> most people don't know he was a republican. >> people forget. >> a lot of people don't know that. >> a lot of people don't know that. introducing listerine® zero alcohol™. it delivers a whole mouth clean with a less intense taste. so it has the bad breath germ-killing power of this... with the lighter feel... of this. try listerine® zero alcohol™. >>> a strange thing started happening in conservative media a few weeks ago. instead of saying there's no evidence of collusion, people started saying what if there is collusion. is that even a crime? >> i've been scratching my head about this for months. what is the crime? if the russian kgb chief is talking to paul manafort and the chief says you know i got this dirt here that says hillary clinton was this or that -- >> but this's no evidence any way. >> and paul manafort says next wednesday i want you to release that. that would be great for us. i don't know if that's the crime at all. >> coll

hard not to be a huge abraham lincoln fan. this had so much information as i really enjoyed.lso, growing up in chicago, huge cubs fan. really fun story about the last 108 years of struggle for the cubs to find that when last year and walking through the early game by game of the world series. it was a fun read i couldn't put down. and also eric went past us, if you can keep it, really referencing the question benjamin franklin had walking out of the hall of what self-governance is all about and what do we have to do to protect our liberty and discredit government we enjoyed a bizarre three things i just finished. getting into a couple other books. just started senator michael b. spoke, written out of history, which is an interesting book about many founders week kind of forgotten about and i've enjoyed that even though i'm just a few chapters into it, something i really enjoyed. another one i'm reading that it's tough to read this so important written by gary haugen who heads up international justice commission, ij on. they do a lot of fighting against human rights abuses, po

abraham lincoln's autograph. a. lincoln, member of congress. a copy of a fountain i got from the library of congress that's the copy on the only photograph of lincoln when he was in office. and i love lincoln and i have read just about every biography. i read one by thomas that won the pulitzer prize so might be a recommendation there on the bomb is an autograph. james mad -- madison, to remind me what we're doing here. and he is not as well known others other president but one of this did indicated -- dedicated individuals who started our country and is a great president. now to get to the answer to your question, what have i read recently, yesterday morning i finished a book about the chiefs of staffs of presidents and it is this book right here, by chris whipple. i hope he won't take this personally, think he might have benefited a little bit by having his own chief of staff. this is a very good book. think it could have been maybe slightly better if he had had a chief of staff himself who said maybe better not put the these half dozen parag

some political leaders, such as the young abraham lincoln, new whig congress momentum front illinois and a friend of the donner party bleeped the content of the country national character was changed and for the worse. but some of lincoln's acquaintances back in springfield did not share those feelings. as more than a million starving refugees from ireland's potato blight and killing famine came to america, thousands of americans experienced a different sort of hunger. theirs was an appetite for land and opportunity. a wave of people, including the band of citizens who gathered in springfield, were eager to become part of what they thought to be a grand adventure. but donner party's collective dream, however, marked into a collective night nightmare when because of poor timing, terrible advice, and even worse weather, only part of those who started the journey reached their final destination. after becoming snow-bound in the sierra nevada mountains near the border of aren't day nevada and california, the party soon ran out of food and ultimately resorted to feeding off the flesh of t

. >> abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation in 1863. any affect? >> one of the things that's interesting is they are so interested in so invested in freetown the forces arrived and they go behind union lines. any time a force came down to fight the masses. the proclamation of 1863 did give legitimacy to those that were allowing those military men who were allowing slaves to come and stand behind the lines and work behind the lines. april 65 is when the war ended. what happened to this leaves the next day? >> in some places like texas for example they were free into june and they never thought it would impact them in texas and that's why you see this gap in time. some people left the plantations immediately because of the notion of being able to walk free. some people went on to the next plantation to get away from the person who defend their owner and some people stayed. they didn't feel like they have any other place to go. there were all kinds of responses and it did take a bath of organizing by the societies who came down initially to establish

dining room with george healy on it, at the white house where there is a wonderful portrait of abraham lincoln by george healy. he was in that day the big painter summoned to paint presidents. it was an honor she was painted by mister healy that she was very disappointed. i look like a relic from the boston fire. there had been a fire in 1872, a terrible disaster in boston. she thought she looked like she stepped right out of that fire. she said we should hang it behind the door and we have an interesting likeness of elizabeth alcott, the actual model for best in little woman and the only one whose name does not change in the little women accounts. this is the only likeness we have of her and she is the one who died before going into this house, they spent a whole year fixing the house up and she came many times and saw the work they were doing, the finest home for this. she was so ill, perhaps she would not be living here and thought sleepy hollow might be her new home and that is what happened. if you look at this archway leads into the parlor, the girl even as young women, putting on plates

you site so much verbatim evidence from historical american political giants, from abraham lincoln to so that people on the right can say, we are right, even abraham lincoln agrees. unfortunately, as a scholar, i didn't have the opportunity to think of the effect of this definition. i wanted to create a definition of a racist idea which is very simple, any idea that suggests a racial group is superior or inferior to another racial group in anyway. that definition ended up becoming applied to people i didn't realise it was going to be. but again i think that has been one of the problems. that we... so many people have tried to define their ideas outside of racism. and it has left us with a nearer —— and it has left us with an inaccurate idea of it. why don't americans challenge racism? if we actually look at american history. during the enslavement era, by the time of the end of slavery, 4 million, 5 million poor whites, largely kept in poverty due to the riches of slave holders. then you have the reconstruction era which was a boon for many working class and poor whites, as it was for

many -- abraham lincoln did. many great presidents did. >> neil: i'm glad you point this out.ot unique to this administration. barack obama was good at twisting arms. and bill clinton did it. i guess how it's done. sometimes it's subtle, sometimes not so much. >> not so much. donald trump, once again, channelling andrew jackson who was at war with the media, at war with his own cabinet and at war with his senate. the senate got so tired of him mouthing off that they censured him and he was the first president that the senate actually blocked one of his own cabinet officers, wouldn't approve it. they did it to one of his ambassador appointments. that made jackson mad, so he took that would-be ambassador under the ticket with him when he ran for re-election and became the eighth president of the united states, martin van buren. you just couldn't win with andrew jackson. >> neil: amazing. one of the things i ask about with this stuff, we're so startled about donald trump and in your face. you mentioned this with andrew jackson with his own cabinet. but jackson had a pretty succes

and i said -- and i said with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. it's really easy. every single president on mount rushmore -- here is what i do. i ask whether or not you think i will some day be on mount rushmore. but -- no. but here is the problem. if i did it joking, totally joking, having fun, the fake news media will say, he believes he should be on mount rushmore. so i won't say it, okay. >> again, as you heard there trump did say tonight with the exception of late great abraham lincoln he can be more presidential than any president that's ever held the office. tonight's speech came as senate republicans voted to start the debate on a bill or bills of some sort to repeal and replace obamacare. the vote was close. vice president mike pence had to break the tie. the dramatic entrance of the day belonged to this man. senator mccain who was flown to washington to cast his vote 12 days after surgery. of course a subsequent diagnosis of malig ant brain cans after vetting yes he m

one of the quotes they tweeted from abraham lincoln was an error. it was, "let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe." the tweet storm, this collection of quotes from cnn was widely interpreted as yet another attack on donald trump. "the independent" ran a story "cnn tauntsdlined trump on july 4 with abraham lincoln quote on facts." they had a funny feeling about the quote, he dug into it. it turned out the quote was inaccurate, and even so, it was based on hearsay. the real quote was, "let them know the truth, and the country safe." the context was people would have accepted disunion over a continued fight to victory. the fake quote relates to facts, the hearsay quote related to truth. it was a perfect conflation or error for journalists with cnn to make and one that speaks to modern journalism problems. facts can be manipulated. truth is much more difficult to obtain. it might be factual that obama's intelligence team briefed president-elect trump about the russian dossier, for instance, but whether that fact is used to spin a ru

i know of with a george healy in it is the white house where there's a wonderful portrait of abraham lincoln. he was in that day the big painter who would be summoned to paint presidents so it was quite an honor that she was painted by mister healy, however he was very disappointed, said i look like a smoky relic from a boston fire, there should've been a fire in 1872 and it was a terrible disaster in boston and she thought that she looked she had stepped out of that fire, said we should hang it behind the door. and we have an interesting likeness of elizabeth alcott, the actual best in little women and she's the only one whose name does not change in the little women account. this is the only likeness that we have of her and she's the one who died just before they moved into this house. they spent a whole year fixing this house up and she came many times, she saw the work they were doing, they were excited this was going to be the finest home, this is the place they live the longest and yet she sort of knew because she was so ill that perhaps she would not be living here. she even said she

as cyclos on not talking about praying for a cause origen the but when abraham lincoln said when askedith a great struggle with god was on the side of the army the 16th president simply said my concern is and if god is on our side but if we're on god's side. so pray for america and for this country because america matters. [applause] i will let you get back where it is cooler and get to work but i didn't come here to talking and you did not come here to listen. i promise you we are dedicated with these elected officials to keep the promises we made to the american people i believe in all of my heart with boundless faith to put the miracle of democracy on the shoulders and with president job in the warehouse together we will make america safe again and prosperous again in to borrow a phrase, but tomorrow we will make -- together we will make america of the great again. god bless kentucky and the united states of america. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪

>> again, as you heard there, trump did say tonight with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, he can be more presidential than any president that's ever head the office. tonight's speech came as senate republicans voted to start the debate on a bill or bills of some sort to repeal and replace obamacare. the vote was close. vice president mike pence had to break the tie. the dramatic entrance of the day belonged to this man, senator john mccain who was flown to washington to cast his vote just 12 days after surgery and, of course, a subsequent diagnosis of malignant brain cancer. after voting yes, he made a passionate plea to his colleagues, his friends for a return to bipartisanship and civility. >> our deliberations can still be important and useful. but i think we'd all agree, they haven't been overburdened by greatness lately. and right now, they aren't producing much for the american people. both sides have let this happen. i hope we can again rely on humility on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other to, learn how to trust each other again and by so doing

. >> seth: that's right, trump's team is just like abraham lincoln's "team of rivals." forget lincoln's stirring words denouncing slavery. >> a house divided against itself cannot stand. i believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free. election victory was the biggest election victory of all time and no one believed i could do it. [ light laughter ] the fake news, the fake polls, terrible people. terrible dishonest people but we won. oh, we won all right. isn't that right, mooch? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: so now -- now, with gop leaders scrambling to scrounge together the votes for some kind of new, undisclosed plan, trump is personally going after republicans who are bucking him, like alaska senator lisa murkowski who voted no on tuesday. and it's not just trump going after his fellow republicans who are against this bill, georgia gop congressman, buddy carter, who was asked about murkowski voting no. and he seemed to threaten her with physical violence. >> what do you think about the president going after lisa murkowski for her no v

next he said he was more presidential than every president except abraham lincoln. >> abraham lincoln later apologized. >> on wednesday he seemed to surprise the joint chiefs by banning transgender soldiers from the military. on thursday -- well, that was the scaramucci explosion day, and that went public. on friday, obamacare, the repeal and replace failed and reince priebus resigned. i think there was actually more that actually happened that week. that's just a starter course for where we are. >> there really was. two other things, one is that jared kushner came out publicly, put a public face after operating largely behind the scenes and said he didn't collude at all with the russians. the other, of course, the president had to come forward and signal at least with a brief statement he was going to ultimately sign that sanctions legislation. look, this really is a reset week for the president. last week was fairly catastrophic week. i think everyone inside the west wing recognize that, not only an opportunity, but a mandatory opportunity to take back control of the process. >> i w

abraham lincoln brought that to mind.o many things that can happen on your watch over which very little control, but humbles you. this president would be humbled probably by the process but he's not saying that. we're not taking any of -- he's not taking any of the brunt of it. >> a moment during 19 hyundai marker, i think we talked about it, he seemed rather wishtful and he said this has been a lot harder than i thought it would be. >> neil: i loved that. >> you could feel for him. i worked hard my whole life ishgsd hah a lot of things going, i had fun. this is difficult. i think people like to hear that. one of the things that fdr said, is there one of the things that made the terrible depression first months of his possible was that he spent two years trying to move his big toe when he was paralyzed. if you spend two years you're humbled by that. he hasn't had adversity in his life. trump says during the campaign, that he had the best temperament of anybody who had ever wun run for president because he had always won.