this is alice paul, the founder and leader of the national women's party. who, after the suffrage amendment was won wanted to guarantee that in the law that laws could not men and women differently. the equal rights amendment was supposed to achieve that goal, make it impossible for laws to treat men and women differently. that's the would have allowed employers and everyone else to treat men and women differently, but it would not have allowed law to treat men and women differently. the overwhelming majority of ,omen activists in the 1920's 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, and early 1960's adamantly opposed the e.r.a. most of the women we would consider feminist today opposed the e.r.a. and for extremely good reason to they thought they were right here that they would undermine protective labor let -- legislation for women workers. in the late 19th century and through the early 20th century, activists in the labor movement and their middle-class and delete allies worked like demons to get laws that set limits on the hours that women workers had to work, gave minimu

reason we associate that to the constitution in the 1970's was in fact it was penned in 1923 by alice paul who -- the founder this is her. the founder and leader of the national women's party. wasr the suffrage of women one she wanted to guarantee that in the law. the law could not change women differently. the equal rights event was trying to achieve that goal. make it impossible for laws to treat men and women differently. that would still not allow employers to treat people differently. the overwhelming majority of women activists in the 1920's, 60's40's, 50's, and early adamantly opposed the equal rights amendment. many of the women we know today would have opposed the e.r.a. for extremely good reasons. would undermine protective labor legislation for voters. in the late 19th century and early 20th century activists in the labor movement and their allies worked to get laws that set limits on the number of hours they would work and set minimum wage for women who had such a hard time organizing. they did not give them much support. there were the powers of collective bargaining. it was m

and one of other folks we want to tell with this -- quaker who has been such as alice paul. she was in prison for speaking outside the white house for women suffrage. she wanted the right to vote and she was standing outside and she got -- there. and this is also sort of these experiences in prison also got quakers involved in prison reform movement. the penitentiary which is in pennsylvania, that was founded with help from wakers who had these sort of experiences firsthand. the dye rama is william penn making a treaty. back to the -- william penn and other quakers viewed native americans as equal where other europeans in the united states may not have taken the same approach. this here is to tell that story of fair dealing with native americans and how that was different in pennsylvania versus other plays. this diagram tell the story of the family in pennsylvania. penn had a big -- in designer supervision f century. quakers would have preferred to have the may knotty of the treats after themselves but -- close to names. so in philadelphia you see there's -- and chestnut, th

alice stewart. first of all, paul, what do you make of this "washington post" trump asked about his power to pardonides, family members, even himself. one adviser declared this isn't a context of can't wait to pardon myself. >> they time it every night with your show, anderson. you don't look into pardoning an innocent person. if they have done nothing wrong. we're running out of benign explanations. >> but couldn't you make the argument, any president, donald trump has no experience in this, would just ask his legal advisers, you know, if it gets to that and what are my options? >> oh, by the way how do i use this nuclear button? yeah, but we would rather you not. i don't think this just like how do you work the air conditioning in the west wing. i think this is a man who is plainly acting like he knows that they're going to find something. he never has released his taxes. never will. he flips out about the slightest question that mueller might look at his finances. he goes on and on with maggie haberman about russia there is something going on here. pardon me if it looks like the guy is preparing

alice in rhode island. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. thank you. i'll tell you the problem he's got there. the people he has around them are not in his corner. paul ryan should spend more time dealing with the freedom caucus, mark meadows, jim jordan, he should spend more time with them because they are more in his train of thought. the remark the guy just made communications director, i think he's a little slick looking. i think that's the wrong kind of look, but these republicans, they should be voted out of office if they don't back him. that's the trouble. they've had no backbone. they have no backbone. i feel sorry for mccain, but i'll tell you one thing, i don't trust him. he's a republican in name only. paul ryan has not done any favors for president trump and i think he should be gotten away from. >> host: the president tweeted this morning, what's on his mind, saying drain the swamp should be changed to drain the sewer. it's much worse than anyone ever thought and he begins with fake news. and then tweeting five minutes ago, chuck sure just stated democrats should blame ourselves, not russia. the president talk about chuck schumer who ha

extraordinary because they were voting for something with the promise from paul ryan it would never become law. which was sort of alice in wonderland, you know, legislative action. this is what chuck schumer had to say not too long ago this morning. >> i hope what john mccain will be regarded as a turning point. sometimes you need a spark that inspires the forces of coming together to outweight the forces of pulling apart. john mccain may have done that. >> and kristen welker, in the midst of the turmoil at the white house, you've got this vulgar rant from the new communications director, sanctioned by the president. and now heading towards air force one that hasn't left for long island where he's going to give the speech on these gang and the latest killings. he is going to be out there on long island accompanied by a chief of staff, reince priebus as well as anthony scaramucci. how do they get along on one airplane? >> it's going to be an interesting one, that's for sure. look, let's just take this in the wake of this stunning healthcare defeat. they're regrouping here at the white house as well. officials still try

paul manafort has a lot of questions to answer about ukraine. i think this is, you know, just a lot of dust that's getting kicked up. >> alice i want to play for you what one of the top counsellors, kellyanne conway said about this on new day, listen. >> you have don junior -- >> i think america matters. >> i never met with anybody to have anything to do with russia, now he's saying he met with someone to get research on hillary clinton who was connected to the kremlin. >> he never said the word opposition research. vomit words like collusion and russian interference. all of which you have no evidence. >> for me this was opposition research. they had something, you know, may be concrete evidence to all the stories i had been hearing -- >> what do you think about their responses to all of this? >> i think it needs to be a lot more concise and from their standpoint if they say there's there, put it all out on the table. let's get it all out there. let's let mule tr do his investigation and put this behind us. it is a tremendous, tremendous distraction and i think we can't continue to say that trump junior's naivety backs in the time makes this okay.