throughout this book, abraham lincoln makes annotations.he most written about american of all time, and there are some 18,000 books written about abraham lincoln. many of them are great. many of them are inaccuracies. just think about it mr. lincoln gone through each of those 18,000 books and wrote about the inaccuracies. he prevailed over stephen douglas and the other two candidates. during the campaign, his wife, went to new york city where she bought her husband a new suit of clothes, s for she bought clothe herself and little boys. what she also bought was this leather bound set of the complete works of washington irving. what is interesting about this set, we know, this is the set that mary took with her to the white house because mary was so good about writing antedating the books that she owned. she writes in here, mary lincoln, 1860. she brought them to new york, and she brought them back to springfield and i bet you she bought them thinking our husband would prevail in 1860, and she want to see this sophisticated volume sitting on

bound bible belonged to the 16th president and is a newly discovered surprise addition to the abraham lincoln. >> it's the raw material of history and artifacts. it allows you to go back in time and be there with them in a way. >> reporter: gifted to lincoln in 1864, the bible has been on a 155-year long journey, homed in springfield, illinois. >> well, i'll tell you i really grew up with the bible >> reporter: sandra willingham lives in the remote mining town of triumph, idaho, far from her parents' new york home where the bible was a fixture they want to share. given after the assassination to the widow to reverend minor who spoke at the funeral and handed down ever since. >> my grandfather's grandfather -- so, my great, great, great grandfather >> he's unlocking the vault. what's inside? >> all the lincoln treasures >> reporter: when the family donated the bible, it was ian hunt's job to bring it >> as i was unwrapping the united representative actually burst into tears >> reporter: a house divided against itself shall not stand which he used to condemn slavery. >> it's a reminder of who t

first, she never is able to meet with abraham lincoln face to face. she goes to the whouite house o two occasions. she's unable to meet with the president. he is too busy as the war is wrapping up and the beginning of reconstruction is looming. and so she is never able to sit down face to face, but she has powerful friends in washington. one of them is named henry wilson. henry wilson is a very powerful senator on capitol hill from barton's home state of massachusetts. barton writes to henry wilson, talks with him, and is able to get communications to president lincoln saying what barton wants to do and ultimately, in march of 1865, he does give approval for barton to begin the work of the missing soldiers office. essentially, a press release goes out to the northern press, is published in newspapers saying that families of missing union soldiers, please write to clara barton in washington, wa information about your loved one. and that is name, state, what unit they fought with, any other iefgt information. and that information then will be gathered b

the location was the front of the memorial to abraham lincoln. and it was here that american entertainer pat boone opened the proceedings by introducing the star-spangled banner. americas national anthem. >> this song was written at a crossroads time, a time of crisis that i think for over 150 years it helped unite americans and we stand today at a crossroads and in a crisis time let's all sing the song with love and conviction. oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ >>> eagle scout don pickets led the large audience in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it sta

. >>> we're back with the new found bible that belonged to president abraham lincoln, hidden away foran 150 years. that is, until now here's nbc's kevin tibbles >> reporter: handle with care, because this intricate leather-bound bible belonged to the 16th president and is a newly discovered surprise edition to the abraham lincoln presidential museum and library. >> it's the raw material oit ale and be there with them in a way. >> reporter: giftetogfie, illins >> well, i'll tell you, i really grew up with the bible >> reporter: sandrt in i'd eye. far from her grandparents oyster bay, new york, home. where the bible was a fixture they want to share given after the assassination to mary todd lincoln, it was handed down ever since. >> my grandfather's grandfather. so he's my great, great, great grandfather. >> reporter: he's unlocking the vault. what's inside? >> all of the lincoln treasures. >> reporter: when the family donated the bible, it was ian hunt's job to fetch it shepherding the bible through airport security >> as i was unwrapping it, the united representative actually burst in

abraham lincoln remains a retired politician. could the panel discuss the 1854 act in a little more detail? michael b.: we thought you knew all about it. [laughter] nicole: absolutely. it is incredibly important and incredibly ironic because stephen douglas plays a big role in bringing about the compromise of 1850, and in 1854 he undoes it. they say the compromise of 1850 is going to last forever, and it lasts four years. and the very person, stephen douglas, who made the compromise of 1850, or at least got it through congress, undoes it. it is, again, rachel talked about language. northerners will say the compromise was sacred. it was a sacred pact between north and south about what we will do with the territories. and now the sacred pact has been violated, and they don't just say that stephen douglas is a conniving, hypocritical congressman. they say he is judas, who has sold his own section, the north, and the 30 pieces of silver he expects to collect is southern support for an eventual presidential run. and it does an enormou

he is like, mom, it is a movie about abraham lincoln. you have to go see it. [laughter] nicole: so i agreed to go, but before we went, i got cold feet and i said, you have to tell me -- i don't want stephen douglas to be a vampire. i cannot take that. he cannot be a vampire. that is too much for me. my son said, don't worry, mom. stephen douglas is not a vampire. he is merely the vampire's useful idiot. [laughter] nicole: and i think that was perfect. he was the slave powers' useful idiot. michael w.: i spent seven weeks reading douglas' mail, which in history is not creepy. if you was live, it -- if he was alive, it would be. [laughter] michael w.: i don't want to peddle my own wares, but look for it in early 2020 about stephen douglas and jefferson davis and their rivalry over the democratic party. want to go onon't record as loving or hating douglas, because i think he is a complicated figure. i think he was really out of place in the time in which he lived. i think he would have made an excellent gilded age politician. what he wanted to talk about was rail

scientists have understood burning fossil fuels causes our planet to heat up since the days when abraham lincoln was riding around washington in his top hat. this is not new news. ago, exxon'secades own scientists reported to exxon management there is quote little that atmospheric co2 concentrations were increasing due to fossil fuel burning. they said back in 1982 that the resulting greenhouse effect, and this is a quote from exxon, would warm the earth's surface, causing changes in climate. affecting atmosphere and ocean temperatures. soil moisture. and, potentially melting the polar ice caps. debateas no legitimate over the science when i started in 2012. there is no legitimate debate over the science today. indeed, the science has only strengthened. and each passing year senator merkley said we rely on climate models and forecasts. more in straightforward real-time measurements of the changes. own eyese with our what recently was predicted. collapse and retreat. arctic warming. increasingly extreme weather. constant since two --usand 12 is the fossil constant since 2012 is the fossil fuel in

since the days when abraham lincoln was riding on washington, d.c. in his top hat. this is not new news. nearly four decades ago exxon's own scientists reported to exxon management that, quote, there is little doubt that atmospheric co2 concentrations were increasing due to fossil fuel burning. they said back in 1982 that the resulting greenhouse effect -- and this is a quote from exxon -- would warm the earth's surface causing changes in climate affecting atmospheric and ocean temperatures, rainfall patterns, soil moisture, and potentially melting the polar ice caps. there was no legitimate debate over the science when i started in 2012, and there is no legitimate debate over the science today. indeed the science has only strengthened. and with each passing year, as senator merkley said, we rely less on complicated climate models and on scientific forecasts, and unfortunately more on straightforward real time measurement of the changes. today we observe with our own eyes what recently was predict predicted, glacial collapse and retreat, sea level rise, arctic warmi

i custom embroidered and gave to to thehen we prayed spirit of abraham lincoln to heal us. mr.t abraham, but i'm going to try. you know what that is? a jewish wedding. that's how it works. i know because my daughter had the only catholic wedding with a rabbi officiating at the altar. not a joke. [indiscernible] mr. biden: you're kidding me. [indiscernible] mr. biden: your son or daughter or whoever can tell you that agriculture -- [indiscernible] mr. biden: holy mackerel. fourth of july, right? hello. i love it. >> you know what that stands for? [indiscernible] mr. biden: god love you. the whole foundation my son set --before he died >> we put a guy behind bars. [indiscernible] mr. biden: you ready, john? come on. do you know how to work that thing? >> i do. mr. biden: all right. [indiscernible] mr. biden: how are you? alex, how are you doing? >> you went to denver in 2008. mr. biden: do you want to get in? [indiscernible] >> ok, here we go. how do we do this? mr. biden: thank you. >> thank you. [indiscernible] this is my husband ron. mr. biden: hi ron, how are you? [indiscerni

good fortune of reading law and his uncle's law office just down the hall from an attorney named abraham lincolnnd hay ended up in lincoln's white house. he was then briefly in europe as a young diplomat. he came back to the states and landed at the new york tribune about the time clemens came to new york. he was very much on the make. he was really out to make a name for himself and out to make some money. the new york city media was full of young men like john hay and sam clemens. they were all around the city, together having as much fun as they had worked. when booth used to hang -- as they had worked. edwin booth used to hang out with them, it was almost a nightly round of fun and good cheer and it was like early networking you would say and they became pretty fast friends. that was probably the most time they ever spent together in the early 1860s and 1870s when he would come into new york and try to dustup a little interest in his own self. so clemens has out and takes his tour of europe and hay does some interesting things as well, but that leads us to marriage for both men and from your

his blooming interest in history, particularly the life of abraham lincoln, and he was considered a good scholar of abraham lincoln, was surmounted by none other than harry truman, at that time, not president harry truman. after delivering his speech in 1934, the future president learned about this iowa republican's interest in history. when introduced, truman grabbed the lapels of fred's coat and said something like "you have to know your history, young man, if you want to be a good citizen." fred took that advice to heart. when he was elected to congress in 1954, he immersed himself in legislative affairs to commemorate history. in 1962, he launched the u.s. capital historical society. since then, the society has led an outstanding effort to educate the public about the history and heritage of our nation's legislative branch and the u.s. capitol. stories are told that you never had a dig around the u.s. capitol building. if there was a hole, fred was in the hole trying to find the original cornerstone of the u.s. capitol. i don't know how many times he took me on tours of the capitol a

on the uss abraham lincoln, we had a chance to thank our servicemen and women for their incredible sacrificer country and make enclosure that -- clear that we stand ready to provide them with everything they need to be successful in their missions. it's up to the political leadership to make the right decisions and keep the united states out of unnecessary conflicts. >> senator, thank you so much for being with us today. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> senator chris van hollen. >>> we have breaking news now out of new york. we are learning that convicted sex offender and billionaire jeffrey epstein has just arrived to federal court. this is his first court appearance since federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment which accuses epstein of sexually abusing underage girls as young as 14 in an alleged sex trafficking ring. we have cnn's shimon there now. what are you learning? >> reporter: epstein appearing in court, still under way just moments ago. he pleaded not guilty to the charges. he walked into the courtroom. we're told by our reporter inside that he's wearing navy prison garb, h

abraham lincoln was your liberator. martin luther king spoke of your dreams and the flag that flies on the moon is your flag. you have as much freedom and rights as i do, but you also have the same responsibility. that responsibility is about a country that is exceptional, that everyone is created equal, and when i watched this last week, a transformation of this house that people are not held to the same account as others, i watched a bill get introduced that talked about bds against israel, the complete opposite of where both parties have ever been, it is a clear sign there is no longer a democratic party in the house of representatives. it is only on the senate side. this is a socialist democratic party and what the fight is about and what it will continue to be about. with howu comfortable house democrats handled the accusations about [ indiscernible] ♪ journal.'s washington coming up this morning, robert bixby of the concord coalition joins us to talk about the debate over federal spending and the rising debt limit

and abraham lincoln, when the war comes he's campaigned for lincoln and brought the german immunity overto lincoln and when war comes, lincoln makes him the equivalent of a canadian ambassador to spain, the head of madrid. he knows what the fighting means, he knows what it's like to be on the losing end but if lincoln says i need you to go to spain, in january can't campaign anymore, he has to be in the fight . he resides the position of ambassadorship and is a general star, he's given another because he was not a high-ranking officer, people aren't sure about him. he performs very well, he's an inspirational leader but among the subordinates inhis division , and any other divisions around the court, there are numerous trained russian officers, brunswick officers, baden officers and these guys have read klausentiz. there's noamerican translations, they're all reading napoleonic wars . and their reading john of course in west point.these men who have battlefield experience, their officers who deserted the prussian army in many cases to come over to the freedom fighters, they got a stake i

abraham lincoln was your liberator. martin luther king spoke of your dreams and the flag that flies on the moon is sure flag. andhave as much freedom right as i do, but you also have the same responsibility and in that responsibility is about a country that is exceptional. equalveryone is created and when i watched this last week a transformation of this house and people are not held to the same account of others, when i watched a bill get introduced that talked about bds against israel, the complete opposite of where both parties have ever been, it is a clear sign that there is no longer a democratic party in the house of representatives. this is a socialist democratic party and this is what the fight is about and what the fight will continue to be about. >> are you comfortable with how house democrats handled the --usations against [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] this weekend, american history tv features the 50th

[cheers and applause] this is a noble purpose that inspired abraham lincoln to rededicate our nationh of freedom, and to resolve that we will always have a government of, by, and for the people. [cheers and applause] our quest for greatness unleashed a culture of discovery that led thomas edison to imagine his light bulb, alexander graham bell to create the telephone, the wright brothers to look to the sky and see the next great frontier. we are americans. nothing is impossible. [cheers and applause] exactly 50 years ago this month the world watched in awe as apollo 11 astronauts launched into space with a wake of fire and nerves of steel, and planted our great american flag on the face of the moon. half a century later, we are thrilled to have here tonight the famed nasa flight director who led mission control during that historic endeavor, the renowned jean krantz. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: gene, i want you to know that we are going to be back on the moon very soon, and someday soon we will plant the american flag on mars. it's happening, gene. it's happening. our n

on the second floor and spread very quickly check this out bible belonging to former president abraham lincoln. it is on display at the lincoln presidential museum in illinois for the first time in 150 years. >>most families will have a bible home something that's easily recognizable for them. so to see something that is so up part of their daily lives and then to see something that was part of the president's daily life that creates that unique a unique connection that really pushes people. >>the bible has been in san francisco with the minor family, the president's wife had given the bible to a family friend and neighbor ever noise, minor after the president's death. the world's first floating dairy farm is now reality in the netherlands, 32 cows have set up home on and the 3 story high structure in rotterdam that's a design following a circular design principle. the farm process is that male into dairy products while also collecting their or in addition to this the farm also a decelerate sea water and produces energy due to its solar panels so much so in fact that most of the facilities are

decade before nearly as the fighting ended residents had laid the former neighbor mart reported abraham lincoln a in a crypt a few miles north of state capital where he serve four timbers in the state legislature only blocks in which a new capital building was unconstruction. the graveside had offered town people a painful repipelineder of the cost that had been exacted only the night before a public dead tags of a new buryial tomb and monument marked the as we find out not so permanent resting place of lincoln and three of his sons. this evening the newest remainder -- or reminder of the bloody struggle was a reunion of union veterans. many of them officers of the society of the army of tennessee. the most decorated of the union's western armies who met at the leeland house, springfield's toniest hotel near the bustling capital square to commemorate the murdered president by celebrating his or mow rightly some of his military force's victory. the coincidence of the meeting and meeting demanded distinguished illinoisans especially republicans be prominent among speaker beside the secretary of w

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just as abraham lincoln is being inaugurated, the spanish empire, which had been receding in the new world, re-annexed the dominican republic. there is no doubt they are taking advantage of the chaos in the united states to move back into the new world. was the moment for the french. napoleon the third in the 1850's had through a coup d'etat, taken power in france, he was committed to reestablishing the french empire, not just in algeria but in the western hemisphere. he was not an admirer of the united states. he visited the united states when he was a young man, and from a french perspective, he found america to be greedy, materialistic, and uncultured. he did not want to see them dominating the western hemisphere. so he developed his grand design. the invasion of mexico, which unfolded first with the cooperation of spain and great britain in the first year of the civil war, and then extending throughout the first half of the 1860's. europe, italian unification as the words breaking out. a nation unifying. there is quite a bit there on european powers minds. one angle that is not t

just as abraham lincoln is being inaugurated, the spanish empire, which had been receding in the new world, re-annexed the dominican republic, and there's no doubt they are taking advantage of the chaos in the united states to move back into the new world. moment fors the the french. napoleon iii in the 1850's had through a coup d'etat taken power in france. he was very committed to reestablishing a french empire, not just in algeria, but in the western hemisphere. an admirer of the united states. he had visited the united states as a young man. he found americans to be greedy, materialistic, and uncultured, and he did not want to see them dominating the western hemisphere. so he developed his grand design, the invasion of mexico, which unfolded first with the cooperation of spain and great britain, in the first year of the civil war, then expanding throughout the first half of the 1860's. see italiane unification as the war is breaking out. so there's quite a bit on the minds of european powers at this time. >> one angle not quite as often talked about, but really important in this

i just thank god abraham lincoln was shot to death before he read that tweet. - okay, but-- but justo we're clear, this is the same side that cheered on corey lewandowski when he mocked a girl with down syndrome being taken away from her parents. - do you even have jokes in africa, trevor? [laughter] lewandowski wasn't mocking the girl, he was mocking people who think a girl with down's syndrome being separated from her family is sad. - but it is sad. if you don't think that, you're heartless. - oh, really, trevor, you're calling trump voters heartless? guess what? they just got ten more trump votes, right there. - wait, wait. i just got him ten more votes? that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard. - oh, and now they're stupid too? now those ten people are definitely voting for trump. - didn't you just say that they were already voting for trump? - they might have forgotten. those people are kind of stupid. - so--so, let me get this straight, if liberals criticize trump, he'll get more votes, but if they don't do anything, then he wins anyway. so how can they win the situation? - d

eastern, comparisons between abraham lincoln and andrew johnson on the constitution. >> you take a lookt the whole cartoon, a very different impression, what people thought about johnson in the constitution at a time. not that he was a defender but that he did not understand the constitution. it was above his ability, and he was acting in unconstitutional ways. on american 6:00 artifacts, a preview of the american -- >> beginning in 1776, when new the newecame a state, jersey state constitution made no mention of sex when discussing qualifications. it only had -- women who owned enough property, primarily widows and single women, so not all women in new jersey, could and did vote in

compare that to abraham lincoln. there is a huge market for all marketlincoln, a small for suffragettes. i will tell you a story about a historical colleague who was trying to come up with a subject for his third book. member ata faculty one of the colleges in the philadelphia area. he wanted to write and he was trying to think of some general he could write about, he wrote military history. his area was world war ii and he presented joseph stillwell. the editor did not think there was much of a market. he mentioned some second-ranked loss, hisand at a field was particularly the pacific theater, so he just threw up his hands and said in a tone of throwaway, i guess i could write another biography of douglas macarthur. but there have been a dozen biographies of douglas macarthur. in the editor said yes, that's because people are interested in douglas macarthur. so if i were sufficiently imaginative, and i had sufficient sources, perhaps i could elevate a relatively obscure woman to a level that would grab people's att

because compare that to, i don't know, let's say abraham lincoln. there's a huge market for all things lincoln. there's quite a small market for studies of the suffragists. i'm going to tell you a story about a historical colleague of mine who had written, he was trying to come up with a subject for his third book. he got tenure, he was faculty member at one of the colleges in the philadelphia area, and he wanted to write for a broader audience. his field is military history. so he was thinking, he was trying to come up with some general that he could write about. and his area was world war ii, so he presented, oh, joseph stillwell and the editors he's talking with, ah, not that many people know the name of stillwell, and i don't think there's much of a market. and he mentioned a couple of other sort of second-ranked generals. and then sort of at a loss -- and his field was in particular the pacific theater of the war -- and so he couldn't think of anything else, he just kind of threw up his hands and said this a tone, a throwaway line, he said, well

it's the word used in the original false claims act signed into law by abraham lincoln, march 2, 1863 at the height of the american revolution. revolutionary one. again, it was president, it was congress looking to the american people to enforce these anticorruption laws so that was the term they used for whistleblower in 1863 p at the question is what's the influence? there is no doubt there is influence. money in politics et cetera. what we have actually found is the biggest problem is when the federal government employee colludes with the contractor. so the qui tam law lets you sue the contractor for government fraud in getting a contract and implementing. if there is collusion, what you find is that the federal bureaucracy doesn't like those cases. they don't want to pursue a case where the federal government itself, where employees facilitate it. and there has been a movement to try to get federal employee rights to file these qui tam false claims so they can identify these rotten apples. again, that was stalled. within the world of whistleblowing, the biggest weakness today are

want to be the center attention and want to tell this american story, you want to be compared to abraham lincolnended up being, i think, just kind of another normal fourth of july day and in some ways because all of this led up to, all of this consternation about what does thisean? at is he doing? why is he celebrating tanks and things like that?e and then ended up actually being presidential yesterday. so he won all o all those levels. in the leadup and also in nail, being kind of boring. l robert: i feee we had a strong day on friday at the white house because of jobsns y were brian: strong jobs numbers came out after a couple of months where jobsumbers seemed to be softening. they'll be out trying to trumpet that a trumpet the economy, an issue he loves to step on even when his advisors tell him not to talk about it. robert: does it mean the trade war is other or at least the fears about it ruining the economy or hurting the economy? rip it may embolden him on the china talks. he was worried about a softening economy might have made him offer more conce oion osr accept less than he was demand

trump: this is the noble purpose that inspired abraham lincoln to rededicate our nation to a new birthand to resolve that we will always have a government of, by, and for the people. [cheers and applause] our quest for greatness unleashed a culture of discovery that led thomas edison to imagine his lightbulb, alexander greenbelt to create the telephone, the wright brothers to look through the sky and see the next great frontier. for americans, nothing is impossible. [cheers and applause] exactly 50 years ago this month, the world watched in as apollo 11 astronauts launched into space with a wake of fire and nerves of steel and planted our great american lag on the face of the moon -- american flag on the face of the moon. half a century later, we are thrilled to have tonight the nassau fight -- flight director who led mission control during that historic endeavor, the renowned jean krantz -- gene krantz. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i want you to know that we are going to be back on the moon very soon, and someday soon we will plant the american flag on mars. [cheers and applause

host: the answer he used is the word used in the original false claims act signed into law by abraham lincoln on march 2, 18 63 at the height of the american revolution. similar to the revolutionary was president and congress looking to the american people to enforce these anticorruption laws. that was a term they used for whistleblower in 1863. the question is, what is the influence? money and politics, connections, et cetera. what we have found is the biggest problem in the qui tam area, is when the federal government employee colludes with the contractor, the qui tam law allows you to sue the contractor for government fraud, collusion, what you a contracts find is that the federal bureaucracy doesn't like those cases. they don't want to pursue a case where the federal government itself, where employees facilitate it. and there has been a movement to try to get federal employee rights to file these qui tam false claims so they can identify these rotten apples. in the world of whistleblowing, the biggest weakness today are the rights of federal employees and they have been stalled out. but t

when mississippi seceded from the union in 1860, it'd not just do so because abraham lincoln was elected president. seized the popular mind of the north, texas said the same thing. what was dangerous about the republicans was not because they had this and that on their platform about what they would or would not do toward slavery, they had roused millions in the north to view slavery with contempt and fear. in that sense, the republican achievement was something we shrewdjust attribute to political operators or virtuous activators -- activists, but to the majority of the people of the north, who had determined to overthrow the slave power. what i'm trying to do is concept of theld abolition democracy, his word for the alliance between northern republicans and freed slaves in the south during reconstruction that accomplished the unfinished revolution of reconstruction and the american south. i think it began, as he also notes elsewhere, with the origin of the republican party in the north. before you were preconditioned to the civil war and the radical transformation of emancipation, it w

jesse: abraham lincoln? why is he your favorite founder?hat about george washington, what did he do? >> money. >> george washington is one of the presidents. jesse: which president. >> the second president after lincoln? >> some folks have to learn the hard way he was a general or something. he didn't work with horses, did he? jesse: god bless you. the revolutionary war. who did america fight? >> countries. jesse: countries? >> china. >> great britain. >> that's right. jesse: what year did we declare our irnd even? >> 1984? >> 1884. jesse: 1776. >> 1776. >> july 4. >> 1776? jesse: what did the declaration of independence do? >> i have no idea. that's awful. >> i am not that knowledgeable on those declarations and the constitutions and all of that. jesse: what country did we declare our independence from? >> virginia. jesse: the name our national even them is. >> isn't it called the national even them? -- national anthem? >> the star spangled banner. >> o say can you see by the dawns early light -- >> what so proudly we hailed by the twiligh

lincoln memorial very famous not only because it honors one of america's most revered presidents abraham lincoln but at the same time it's also in 1963 the site of where dr martin luther king delivered his i have a dream speech it's very cherished by so many americans on both the left and the right and they feel that donald trump is not only injecting himself into this but potentially violating what's known as the hatch act and that is turning this into a de facto political rally the hatch act says that you could not use federal resources or federal money for political purposes so yes there are going to be protests not sure how big will be there could be some that to be burning american flags the concern in all of this is what essential looks like a collision course of supporters who are very it's favor of the president doing this and those that oppose that as part of the ongoing resistance movement of his presidency since day one and that this is a political holiday can somehow become a flashpoint for a very divided america ok for now thank you very much indeed. to come on al-jazeera including

man people think slavery was ended in 1863 by abraham lincoln, but many slaves weren't actually freedwo and a half years later, proving that even black people's freedom runs on c.p. time. ( laughter ) so in celebration of juneteenth, i'd like to talk about some of the slaves who celebrated their freedom early by escaping from slavery on their own. slaves, like henry brown, a virginian slave who snuck of a wooden crate and shipped himself to philadelphia where he could lives is a free man. the trip took 27 grueling hours. it could have been same bay, but he couldn't afford amazon prime. luckily, henry brown arrived safely in philadelphia and turned his story into a stage act. every night, henry would climb into that same wooden crate to re-enact the arduous journey that carried him to freedom, which was brave of him. i don't know if i could relive a traumatic experience like that over and over again. and i've had bad experiences with packages. ( laughter ) back in the day, i used to work for a moving company. one time i moved all of a customer's possessions to the wrong apartment. my c

henry david thoreau and abraham lincoln play a large role in your book.admire for his recognition that solitude is crucial if you want to make hard decisions. he would spend time at a summer house. beyonda little up petworth, it's still there. they are gaetz you go through and you car us -- there are gates you go through and you cross through the gates and there is a house. he used to to go through the house almost every night during the summer. he would work at the white house, ride to his house to get some solitude, and come back. a lot of the moral questions he was grappling with about the direction of the civil war as well as a love the thought that went into the gettysburg address, also his struggle on understanding what to do with emancipation, a lot about thinking he did at his summer house. he did it because he could get away from the 19th century equivalent of social media, which was the open white house and office seekers and petitioners bothering you at all times. he needed space to grapple with what's important. we all need that. we all need a

for example, when abraham lincoln was a member of the house of representatives he introduced a resolution criticizing president polk's initiating in his opinion the illegal mexican war. his resolution didn't pass. but he did vote for a resolutioning that did pass. 8221, holding president polk accountable for unnecessarily initiating an unlawful war. that's good enough for me. president lincoln thinks it's good enough for the house, i think it's long-standing authority we can follow. other mechanisms, of course, involve possible lawsuits. civil lawsuits based on unofficial misconduct have been recognized in clinton versus jones as legitimate. and they may proceed. in addition, of course, there may be the possibility of criminal trials. one thing to understand about the possibility of criminal trials is as dr. eastman just suggested that there's a long-standing debate on whether or not a sitting president may be subject to criminal process. i believe so. i've set forth my arguments in my written statement. i won't expound on them here but i'm happy to answer questions about it, and, of cour

row andnry david the abraham lincoln play a large role in your book. prof.ewport: lincoln, i admire for his recognition. if you want to have an port -- important thoughts or make decisions. it is essentially a summer house. you are not far from the capital. host: in washington, d.c. prof. newport: you go to a busy part of the city and there is a gate you go through and suddenly it is quiet with trees and birds and up on a hill. he used to go to his house almost every night during the summer. he would work at the white house to get solitude and come back. moral questions he was grappling with about the direction of the civil war and the thought that went into the gettysburg address, also understanding what to do with emancipation. a lot of that thinking he did at his summerhouse. could getbecause he away from the 19th century equivalent of social media, which was the open white house and the people that were bothering you at all times. he needed space to be alone with himself. we all needthat, space away to deal with our own thoughts so we can have a creative

abraham lincoln." you can constantly see iran iia. we have seen some major tensions there. u.s. tankers getting attacked. it happened almost a day before the iranians were shooting down an american zone. the iranians say it had entered there. nobody knows it better for you, fred. >>> president trump wants you to believe this made him unhappy. >> send her back. send her back. send her back. >> the president inspired those chants by denigrating congresswoman ilhan omar. now that he's facing a backlash he's trying to rewrite history. >> it really was a loud -- i disagree with it by the way, but tavis smiley quite a little bit badly about it. i started speaking very quickly. >> let's break down all of that and the cnn timer. will it's find out how quickly he moved. >> they have a shot the doing something about the screens. she talked about the evil israel. >> h'm. seems like mr. trump milked every moment, in fact bathed in it. didn't say a word until the chanting end the. after he left north carolina and returned to the white house he tweeted, quote. what a crowd. what great people.

abraham lincoln wrote, quote,ed god bless you and all with you. he and stanton assured him whatever he wanted he would get and hold them to that promise and they would regret it pb, as long as he was in command your country owes you immense wrote his ben factor saman clays. god grant you make gaud quad drubl the obligation. the leading republican newspaper harper's weekly praised the war democrat rosecrans as a strategist quote second to none and "the new york times" declared him they said at the present moment general rosecrans it success be the standard stands at the very head of the union generals. end quote. and there were all kinds of comparison to napoleon, frederick the great, et cetera, et cetera. rosecrans spent most of the spripg of 1863 reorganizing his army. standardize attention regimental arms. repairing his lal network and amassing supplies. as the months wore on, washington became impatient. they wanted to know why he wouldn't advance. he explained that he didn't have sufficient cavalry, sufficient replies high pressure his supply

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revolution john quincy adams claimed america's glory is not dominion, but liberty. 1861, abraham lincoln voted to make the case for the civil thereeminding congress will be struggled to maintain the warrior -- the world whose meaning is to elevate the condition of all men. i know it is high sounding words he learned in school, but it is how it supposed to be. 1962, i was getting out of high school and john quincy the clarity this nation conceived by liberty and maturing independence as no intention of advocating its leadership to any society committed to systematic human oppression. we are united in the face and idea, constantis dedication to pursue humankind's highest a deal which is liberty. i wondered, what would donald trump say this evening? inn he speaks to the nation an event designed to stroke his .go more than america's ideals he offer democratic values to strengthen the times in crisis? celebratingble of what makes america great because i don't think he gets it. [applause] he has trouble distinguishing between our enemies and our allies because he doesn't undergird -- he doesn'