the parallels between donald trump and andrew jackson are interesting. i think they are mostly stylistic. they are mostly stylistic. and if you look at the rhetoric, jackson was at times a loose cannon. he was hot tempered. he could prove a bit stubborn on many points. there was one instance toward, it was in 1834, henry clay was a senator at the time and moved for the u.s. senate to censure president jackson, and in reply "asson said clay was reckless as a drunken man in a brothel." you can very easily imagine trump saying something very similar in a tweet. but the end of jackson's presidency, he said he regretted that he had, he said he had to shott, that he had not john c calhoun and that they had not shot henry calhoun, that he didn't hang john c calhoun. did he mean that literally? probably not. but again, there is a stylistic similarity there. although it is important to note that a lot of trump positions, if you look at them, share more in common with the party that opposed andrew jackson. it was the whig party, the opposition party that supported

andrew jackson is a populist. andrew jackson is inaugurated in 1829. in celebration of his presidency, he throws a party. opens up the white house lawn to the public. hundreds of people from the -- around the country pour into the white house lawn. common, ordinary, everyday americans, sleeping on hotel room floors and hallways, packed into the white house lawn. a spiked punch bowl and whiskey is being passed around. the people are ready for a jackson administration. as you can imagine, these guys don't like it one bit. this disgusts them. can you imagine what daniel webster thought of something like this? he is not going to like it too much. the country is ready for jackson. the question is, what is this man going to do? there is no telling. he is a loose cannon. what is going to happen? henry clay says all right, we lost that election. fine, clay says. with internal improvements. clay says, we need a road. we've got all these farmers from my home state of kentucky, we need a road that stretches from need a road that stretches from lexington, kentucky

andrew jackson. they had slaves.this is something in our day and age you cannot get your head around how kid mentals more and ahead of their times be so twisted to rationalize this behavior but i can't but i do know they've done enough great to deserve the statues they have. but you should talk about the whole man and that'swhy andrew jackson was controversial in his day. what i try to say in the paperback is take me , take trump out of it. i will put in ronald reagan, abraham lincoln, harry truman, teddy roosevelt. i will tell you what they thought of him. they knew about his battles with indians. the city in times of trouble when i'm looking for leadership, i want jackson. so did lincoln. how do i stop the division of our country? how did fdr get his country ready for war? he looked at - - and insisted on walking up the steps that he diwanted to feel jackson. if these are great americans and i think weall agree they are great americans, they saw something great in jackson and uthat's what i bring out in th paperbac

this berm, this protection was built in a matter of weeks, miles long to protect andrew jackson and theamerican troops. over there were thousands of british troops. they wanted new orleans. the future of the country was at stake. >> they are not going to go out and engage the british. jackson knows that would be suicide. >> any expert would tell you jackson's ragtag army would be the miracle from stopping the british from spending christmas on bourbon street in jackson knew where to go to ask for. what i'm tied-- trying to tell us about love new orleans. this is the home that dates back hundreds of years. they trade for jackson's success among the people who think these unknowns brought him a victory, major general andrew jackson himself to make it's a miracle. praying for a miracle took the catholic church and the battle of new orleans, i mean, that is when we know that there was divine intervention. >> that divine intervention would reveal itself in the final by january 8, 1850. >> this becomes a bloodbath here it was the beginning of the end of britain and in many ways the birth of m

here at the hermitage major general andrew jackson was seeking and to schedule is losing war badly. america needed a leader without a standing army for patient madison america's at a future hung in the balance. he found his leader in jackson come his greatest challenge of stopping the british forces from taking new orleans. >> we lost new orleans and if the british controlled the great city, you lose the entire mississippi river interludes all of our western frontier that we acquired through the purchased we would never able to do western expansion. >> the plan, though the welcome they get could conoco vote with water and wait for a british charge. this protection, this wall was built in the matter of weeks miles long to protect predict r jackson and the american troops. over there where thousands of british troops. what they wanted, that was new orleans but what's at stake? the future of the country. >> is ms. nash of troops to come in, but choctaw indians, they're not going to go out and engage the british jackson knows that would be suicide. >> in expiratory jackson's acting army

and would center on andrew jackson. that was the second biggest holiday. but was the brother-in-law. but instead to say we will stop them from growing it with that threat not that eventual ally. the rest of the world would know america is not an experience but then what jefferson said and vice versa and with the rest of the world america is not going anywhere. in fact what we write about this is a humble superpower. we play it ahead with the midwestin expansion but it would not happen without new orleans then to fight the war and with that 75 year mark in with my hodgepodge army then you will t understand, history those were the exact words. and believe it or not even know america -- side it was a good move but they would do that and take it back. >>host: now let's take some calls. you are on booktv. >> caller: thank you. i have read all three of his books high school algebra teacher i was taking college history that is so relevant to what is going on today. what is the next project? and i thank you you made my day. i'm working on project but i will say oc

half to get through is on the alamo and how texas got created , how it was invested by andrew jackson and how jackson wanted texas, new he couldn't grab texas because he had another war again. some of the things i tried to unwind and i'mfinding it fascinating so hopefully you will like it . >> john yeager your co-author is working on that book? >> guest: this one will be just me so i'm working on now and texas has been great so far. they kept great records, even back then. >> host: doug is calling in from fort michigan. >> caller: i have a comment and the question. i've been struck by how tough that sop jackson was, whether you likehim or not, he was a man of his time . he didn't like slavery, didn't like indians too much man who was he ever talk and he had those people, there's a little statichere for some reason .

. -- andrew jackson is elected him a send about 1400 back. -- andrew jackson's elected, they send about 1400 back. , the starvation was overwhelming. it is hardly something comforting if you are being colonized a you're dying at the mortality rate is extremely high. it is not something you want to pursue. , anothere a gradualist group of people, the probably most radical, you would say at the time, these are called the immediate people. they want to end slavery now. want a gradual approach. they want to do it now. abolitionists want to destroy the infrastructure of slavery they want to do it now. put something in your notes. abolitionists, they are protestant christians. there is a biblical impulse to end slavery. what do i mean biblical impulse to end slavery? how do you appeal to somebody's emotions that slavery is wrong? how would you do that? ,hey are reading the good book the bible. these are protestant ministers, what is about the bible you can appeal to to suggest that slavery is wrong? >> [inaudible] there areharris: passages in the bible that suggests there's something intrinsi

madison finally said, andrew jackson. munro, back jackson and jackson did his thing. >> this is your third history book and you take a little bit of a twist. george washington's - - thomas jefferson and other war of 1812. >> you just had - - on. john meacham. i never read one of their books and thought i could do it better. i just loved it. so i tried to produce something and that is focus on what matters that i believe is not getting enough attention. besides the fame of former president and founding fathers. you will learn more about andrew jackson. you will learn about bainbridge. you will learn about william eaton. and george washington's spy ring. you learn about a bomber, bartender, grocery store worker. a british analyst was a printer who was working for us. i believe this country, as much as welove our founding fathers , they were so-called average everyday americans doing extraordinary things who were patriotic at their core. doesn't matter democrat or republican, patriotic. >> from your book, the victory in new o

on friday when we come back, we will finish andrew jackson. and we'll talk about nat turner, the slave narrative. that will be due next week, those questions, ok? you're going to get a strong look at what life is like for a slave on a plantation. that nat turner book is about a slave revolt that does not end well for mr. turner. so it's a pretty gruesome event. like a lot of these slaves and a lot of these abolitionists, mr. turner is intensely religious. so he thinks that god is telling him something about slavery. we'll dive into that interesting narrative. i think you'll find it very captivating. hey, good session today. so, i'll see you guys on friday, all right? [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> american history tv is in primetime next week on c-span3. starting monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, a discussion on the role of black teachers in the south who fought against full segregation with emory university professor, civil water. tuesday,

on friday when we come back, we will finish andrew jackson. we will talk about nat turner, the slave narrative. those questions will be due next week, ok? you will get a strong look at what life is like for a slave on a plantation. that next turner -- nat turner book you will read is about a ende revolt that does not well for mr. turner. like a lot of these slaves and a lot of these abolitionists, mr. turner is intensely religious. he says god is telling him something about slavery. we will dive into that interesting narrative. i think you'll find it captivating. hey, good session today. so, i will see you guys on friday, all right? >> join us every saturday evening>>, as we joint students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics, ranging from the american revolution to 9/11 lectures in history are also available as podcasts. ,isit our website c-span.org/history,/podcast, or download them from itunes. announcer: this year marks the 70th anniversary of president harry truman's executive order to desegregate the u.s. military on july 26,

if you do that, i will pull andrew jackson, he said there are multiple ways to spell words. but as my favorite jackson quote. but moral suasion is the idea that you will convince slaveholders that slavery is a sin, is morally wrong. it is a tactic they use, moral suasion. slavery is a sin, it is morally wrong. all right. we have got some examples of these abolitionists. does anybody know who this guy is here? i have used this, his writing in this class over the years. i do not assign it this semester because we did another slave narrative. have you heard of this guy before? you seen him? yeah? anybody read this book before? of life of the narrative frederick douglass. this is one of the most, he is one of my most interesting of the abolitionists, i think. away onebly by far and , of the most accomplished and articulate of the abolitionists. if you read his slave narrative, which is an abolitionist tract, if you read his slave narrative, you will learn about his life in slavery, and you will learn that he runs away from slavery and he writes this book. there is a passage in he

so i wanted to rebuild jackson's journey to that moment. >> we will get into andrew of jackson and the war of 1812 in a second. brian kill meis our guest . if you have a question, 200-2748 401 for those of you in the mountains and the pacific time zone. brian kill need to, what was andrew jackson doing prior? was he had of the army at the point? >> he was a major general and he wanted revenge on the british and there's a good reason why. his brother died in the revolutionary war, his mother died during the revolutionary war, he and his brother were taken prisoner and his brother died after his mom lobbied to get them out as 14 and 15 years old and he took a blow to the head that he had from a soldier accusing a british officer saying clean my shoes, and he ended up saying i'm not going to do that, i'm a prisoner of war. however, he put his hand up. his brother didn't. the story goes his brother never fully recovered from the head blow. he had ends up signing as soon as he got to his house so that one brother died of heatstroke and the other died after being a prisoner of war, the mom d

andrew jackson, where did his idea of how to relate to the press come from? because he ended up inviting reporters to what? to be advisers? >> his basic idea of how to deal with the press came from the nra -- oh, wait, that's actually good. so, you know, he did what every president wants to do. he did not like the democratic paper that was in -- at work when he came to washington in 1829. so he founded a new one. "the washington globe" was his newspaper. imagine if every president could just start their own thing -- we may be getting there. jackson was ahead of his time. people would bring him editorials, he would edit them. it was a partisan act. it was how he communicated with the country. it's beyond our kin now, but as one of the great architects of democrat culture, that understanding that you had to be in more or less constant communication with a democratic populace foreshadowed the modern world. i think he would have used twitter. you use the means of your day. and it's no mistake that our greatest presidents, our most effective presidents, have been

it's murder. >> he was andrew jackson, a genocidal maniac. i don't think he would be elected in 2018. >> a duel wasn't considered murder. >> it wasn't considered the same kind of crime as straight up killing, which shows how far we have come. but it was a crime known to everyone at the time it was committed. like i said, open question, if it's pre-office activity. >> how far we have come but we now have a guy who reveres andrew jackson. >> all right. coming up, it's not just mrof manafort who is dumping trump. the man who said he would defend trump is now singing like a bird. that's next. it's easy to trust geico! thank you todd. it's not just easy. it's-being-a-master-of-hypnotism easy. hey, i got your text- sleep! doug, when i snap my fingers you're going to clean my gutters. ooh i should clean your gutters! great idea. it's not just easy. it's geico easy. todd, you will go make me a frittata. if you're waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transp

if you do that, i'm going to pull an andrew jackson. he said, quote, there are multiple ways to spell words. okay. the idea you'll convince slave holder that's slavery is a sin. it's morally wrong. this does anyone know who this guy is here? i've used this in class over the years. have you seen him? this guy? yeah? narrative of frederick douglass. he's one of the most interesting i think. and one of the most accomplished f you read his narrative which is an ab bol ligsist tract you'll learn that he runs and writes this book. there is a what do you think is the consequence of a slave striking an overseer? >> death? >> could be death. a black man is never supposed to strike a white man in slavery. do you think he made this up? we can't resolve this. he made it up, punching his overseer why do you suppose he's write it and publish it? >> positive propaganda? the idea if this individual in this book can fight an overseer so can others? and lead up rise? or the positive force out of it? >> well said. if this this is not a hard thing to read.

one of the statues that senator mccain spent last night under the gaze of, was andrew jackson. and believe me, they had a good bit in common including a temper, but he said that we were one great family. another statute was gerald ford that put us back together after a very divisive crisis. another was ronald reagan who respected, like mccain, someone that went west and found joy and brought that joy back to the country itself. . so it is a sacred hour, a journey that will move from that row tund rotundra, he will be brought on the ground, the theater roosevelt, to build this lumt to both faith and to unity. and on that day, when theodore roosevelt, the theater of mccain, he wrote to the generpe of our time and any other time, he is a doer of the word as john mccain was. >> steve schmidt, i want to bring you in here and pay attention to the family here. meghan in crying, and we don't have steve yet, look at the family here. this is a human being, i want to bring you in, another young person here. we have watched jaump in here. the way he was destroyed in scare, we have all been

president andrew jackson said quote, all the rights secured to the citizens under the constitution are worth nothing and a mere bubble except guaranteed to them by an independent in virtuous judiciary and of quote. the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominees are independent and they're very important opportunities to discuss the appropriate role of judges. as i see it and expect many of my colleagues will agree the role of the judges to apply the law as written even if thehe legal result is not the one the judge personally likes. justice scalia has been quoted because he was fond of saying if a judge always likes the outcome of the cases he decides he is probably doing something wrong i don't want judges who always reach a liberal result or a conservative result. i want a to judge who rules the law the way it requires. judges must leave lawmaking to the congress and the people. judges and justices have lifetime appointments they can't be voted out of office if they legislate where as if congress legislates something the people don't like then you can vote them out of office. t

and with a pulitzer prize-winning biography of andrew jackson a complicated figure who considered himself an embodiment of the people he helped although his view was exclusionary. so that doesn't flinch from the full record it showcases his background as a journalist. as a longtime staffer at newsweek eventually becoming its editor. in fact the trajectory of his career shows that the fast-paced journalism and gradual history is not as connected as it may seem. it is not only a theme in the past but also has startling relevance to lay the foundation for how we got to the are now. to reflect undoubtedly has a gift for accessibility and even though i would say his books are short, he clearly makes point to to keep his storytelling shark. more recently as a contributing writer. and often finds those angles that are surprising for instance one year ago after heller me clinton published her best-selling book what happened he examined other books by other present candidates that were not triumphant stories about winning elections but instead more candid reflections about losing. his newest book

brian tell meet with his book andrew jackson, and a miracle of new orleans.he battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival, live on c-span two book tv. saturday at 10 am eastern. >>> up next on american artifacts,

you mentioned po lit si case -- po litization of access to credit, i recall andrew jackson's warning that if we had a central bank, the largest political interests would conjure more and more credit money into existence until the wealth of those who labored was stolen and precious liberties stolen, sold, or bartered away. so question, are the words that are still in the constitution new york state shall make anything but gold and silver coin for tendering payment and debts, is it still possible or relevant to pay attention to those and bring back an honest unit of monetary account using monetary metals? mr. hensarling: you have an advantage on me. i have not read jackson's fair well address. i will say this, a little relate to the g.s.e. argument. one of the the -- i learned a few things in my political career. sometimes -- one thing i have learned is there are a thousand ways i can fight for freedom and prosperity every day. i've got the band width to handle four, maybe five fights at any given time. so taking on the fight of our current fiat currency controlled by a federal reserve

if i can recall the worlds of former president andrew jackson , after he ended the second bank of the u.s. he warned that if we had another central-bank the largest corporations of powerful financial and political interest would put more financial existence until the wealth of those -- and most precious liberties either sold or bartered away. the question, are the words in the institution is there anything but gold and silver coin. is a still possible or relevant -- to bring back an honest account using that? >> you have an advantage on me. i have not read jackson's farewell address. i will say this. somewhat related to the dns argument. i've learned to live few things -- a few things in my political career. one thing i learned there 1000 ways i could fight for freedom and prosperity every day. we have the bandwidth to handle 45 fights at any given time. so taking on the fight of our current currency controlled by a federal reserve, i've chosen to take on that fight, i have not been an advocate of returning to the gold standard. i have been intrigued at times with the currency to the

brian tell meet with his book andrew jackson, and a miracle of new orleans. the battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival, live on c-span two book tv. saturday at 10 am eastern. >>> up next on american artifacts, we travel to northeastern france to trace these steps american soldiers during the spring and early summer of 1918. first, a portion of the 1960 u.s. army film describing the military situation at the time. >>> the germans rolled across the aim river stretching from -- in a driving relentless force that struck panic into the french nation. in three days, the german tied had crossed the river and was less than 40 miles from paris. purging moved to second and third u.s. division into the area around jacko sherry to stem the flow. division responded with spec collector that's spectacular fury. the battle for the crossing brought the brilliant pages of our military annals. the 30th industry -- infantry the second division holding the roads between chbteau gary and paris began pushing the german

and the cohost of fox and friends, the author of andrew jackson in the article of new orleans which willout in paper book. it's a brian. >> thank you for having me on. i tammy. >> steve: what you think, google in china? are you happy with that? >> you totally covered it. we want to emphasize the fact that google had a contract with the pentagon. they thought it would be a direction from their employees, they dumped the contract because some people believed they would be working with weaponry that would eventually work to kill people. they do not want to be part of it. you say goodbye, red, white, blue and then he going to china. you say what would it take to get into this business. they throw all of their values and ethics in order to get a big check in return. i think it's a huge problem. i think the president is onto something when he attacked them. whether cecilia vice president or the ceo, the world will be watching. as don junior said yesterday, he has 3 million, his dad has a lot of people. what if all of those people pulled off to another vehicle in a free market system and they n

but when you talk about pop film this country from andrew jackson to donald trump and the charactersn between. it's concise and you have such a wonderful grasp of history and language. >> i am not even going to steal one of your pens now, that was so nice. kennedy: well done on your multi-faceted career. the carolinas bracing for a potentially catastrophic hurricane. the newly released text messages between peter strzok and lisa page reveal a coordinated media leak strategy. the panel is here to get to the bottom of things. they are next. ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. i'start at the new carfax.comar. show me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com. is important t

history, arizona state university professor jonathan barth teaches a class about the rise of andrew jackson and his presidency. it focuses on jackson's clashes with wig party members henry -- webster and the bank wars of the 1830's. class is about 55 minutes. >> good morning everybody, and welcome to american history. my name is jonathan barth. you all know me as professor barth. i am a history professor at arizona state university, in conjio

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they came up as an opposition to andrew jackson. they had a program too.enry clay was the great .hilosopher of the whig party i guess you could say the intellectual and policy leader. . very strong leader the american bank, the u.s. bank, and henry clay was one of benjamin harrison's heroes. whigs in 1852 had a disastrous election. the party basically fell apart. in large part because of the slavery issue. it was a national party, there were northern whigs and southern whigs. did not want to continue to affiliate with people who felt that way. the party fell apart. elements, theer temperance movement had to look for the whigs to being part of the temperance movement. immigration sentiment was rising in the 1850's. had more or less fallen in with that kind of attitude. some people who felt they were anti-immigrant felt they were not doing an effective job. those elements of the whig party fell apart. they felt they were not getting what they wanted from the whig party and it did collapse. washe north, the whig party replaced by the republican party. the bir

you ought to start doing what andrew jackson or abraham lincoln did, find out who is responsible and fire him. >> laura: broadway actresss are wishing john wilkes booth was still around, level of discourse and dialogue they blame trump for. he is the one that wanted to punch someone at a rally. >> steve bannon: i have a prologue in the film, five minutes long, if this was put into theaters, it would probably be x-rated for violence and language. what we did, went back to rallies and what antifa has done to trump supporters, show the violence. it is left is out of control right now across the bared r board. >> laura: is it by any means necessary? >> steve bannon: they are, any means necessary. they have cohorts in the administration and i think broader than the white house. remember what the "new york times" said was senior administration officials, what that means for the new york time system cabinet secretaries and deputies, major agency heads and assistants to the president, 40 or 50 people. >> laura: nikki haley came out with "new york times" op ed that said, when i want to challe

he had fought with andrew jackson in new orleans. he was a great talker. life, a womane in 26 years younger than him, pendleton, and they had two small children, and they moved up to canada originally and they lost their capital that he invested in a brewery that burned down. he found himself in debt. he moved down and probably worked on the erie canal. he was a brick mason by trade. he could never seem to catch on. he was a heavy drinker. he was particular he noted for his drinking. risecided that one way to in the world was to join the freemasons. the freemasons were of fraternity of men interested in the and enlightenment, fornce, and so forth, and morgan, it was networking, a way to associate with the better people that tended to join the freemasons and make some contacts, so he asked he did make a contact and was hired to work on a building in new york, which was not on the canal will but south of the canal in far western new york state. in 1825,with his wife canal washe erie completed across the entire state. reason, we don't know why, he was thrown

a dozen years later, the seventh, andrew jackson, lets a drunken mob trash the place during his inauguralor piece of wood was part of the collateral damage. who knows? over the years, presidents come and presidents go, redecorating, repainting, and renovating to suit their individual tastes. then, in 1902, theodore roosevelt begins the first wholesale restoration of the mansion that he officially names "the white house." it's time to pick up the thread of this strange inheritance story. according to mike meister, in 1902, his great-uncle, joseph williamson jr., is a law student at georgetown university in d.c. one day, he strolls down pennsylvania avenue, spots the piece of wood in a junk pile, and thinks, "it's pretty neat." >> joseph jr. picked it up. >> like a yard sale? did they buy it? >> no, it was scrap. i mean, it was things that were gonna be eventually hauled off to landfills, burned, whatever. >> he brings it home to illinois from law school and gives it to his father as a memento. his dad inscribes his name and writes the date on the back. the piece is handed down in the famil

as andrew jackson different, it was abraham lincoln different?ery closely with ronald reagan and he was different. and there was tension in the reagan white house all the time. so i think we ought to be clear about this. yes, there are things that you can write about. if you can make things look goofy, but notice what's happening. the people who have the greatest standard for honesty are standing up and saying, this book is not true. and that should bother woodward a lot. his legacy is that his last great book is just a big lie. that's a sad commentary. >> martha: newt gingrich, thank you sir. >> thank you. >> martha: when we come back, the white house responds here alive. help prevent this! talk to your doctor or pharmacist today about getting vaccinated against whooping cough. talk to your doctor or pharmacist today it wpizza lovers everywhere meet o, that's good! frozen pizza one third of our classic crust is made with cauliflower but that's not stopping anyone o, that's good! but let's be honest, nobody likes dealing with insurance. which is

no vice president had been elected president since martin van buren followed andrew jackson in 1836.most of nixon's rivals for the republican nomination had been wiped out in the democratic landslide of 1958 during the recession. a sense of liberal optimism in 1958, 1959, in 1960 was in the air, and democrats had maintained outside the south, particularly in industrial areas, and especially in the northeast which had been heavily republican since the civil war. however, one republican superstar had been born in 1958 when the billionaire nelson rockefeller spent tons of money to win in a landslide against the lackluster incumbent in new york state for the governorship. new york was not only the most populous state in 1960, but no republican had won the white house since 1876 without carrying new york state. rockefeller could and did make the argument that he could carry new york. it was far less certain that richard nixon could carry new york. nixon was from california and it was presumed that california and new york were rivals, the rising of the west against the east. in december of

president andrew jackson said, quote, all the rights secured to the citizens under the constitution are worth nothing. and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous judiciary. end of quote. confirmation hearings for supreme court nominees nominees independent, are a very important opportunity to discuss the appropriate rule of judges. as i see it and i expect many of my colleagues will agree, the role of the judge is to apply the law as written even if the legal result is not one the judge personally likes. justice scalia has often been quoted because he was fond of saying, if a judge always likes the outcome of the cases he decides, he is probably doing something wrong. i don't want judges who always reach a liberal result or conservative result. i want a judge who rules the law the way the law requires. judgments lust leave law making to the congress. the electorate representatives of the people. judges and justice versus lifetime appointments. they can't be voted off of office if they legislate, whereas if congress legislates something that people don't

have an independent judiciary to when thatudges government exceeds lawful authority. ,resident andrew jackson said all the rights secured to the citizens under the constitution are worth nothing. and in your bubble accept guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous judiciary. confirmation hearings for nominees are an independent and very important opportunity to discuss the appropriate role of judges. as i see it, and i expect many of my colleagues will agree, the role of the nominees are an independent and very important judge is to apply the law as written even if the legal result is not one the judge personally likes. justice scalia has often been quoted because he was fond of saying if a judge always like the outcome of the cases he decides, he's probably doing something wrong. i don't want judges who always reach a liberal result or a conservative result. lawnt a judge who rules the the law requires. judges must leave lawmaking to the congress. the elected representatives of the people. judges and justices have lifetime appointments. they can't be voted out of office if they legisl

you have to go back to the 1830s to find a precedent when president andrew jackson put his politicalperative, roger tawny, on the supreme court, and, of course, tawny was the one who gave us the red scott decision that ruled that slaves were property with no rights, even if they fled to free states. finally, we are threatening to put on the supreme court someone who's made it clear that he is going to rubber stamp whatever executive power the president assumes undermining fundamental checks and balances. >> the stakes couldn't be any higher. shot out to american university in d.c. liz, i'm going to ask to you stick around for us a little bit longer. >>> coming up, kavanaugh in the battle of the bases. rallying his voters at a west virginia rally, a rally where he also announced the new love of his life. >> i was really being tough and so was he. we go back and forth. and then we fell in love, okay? new york city really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they're great letters. we fell in love. got directions to the nightclub here. and if you get lost, just hit me on the old horn. man

and andrew jackson had a lot of difficulty, abraham lincoln had a lot of difficulty, but nobody a yearheir presidency had this many people that the president was praising, then thrown aside like trash. >> and that is striking. you see it really relevant here, so many are involved in the investigation of what is a criminal operation in the sense of so many guilty pleas, whether the crime dwgoes to the top, we don't know yet. dan, i hope you'll come back. >> thank you. >> thank you, as always. still to come, the man who brokered this trump tower meeting speaking about what donald trump knew. but first -- [ crowd chanting ] >> we're looking at that fiery scene. protesters swarming washington as a second kavanaugh accuser steps forward. major pressure on republicans. what will they do? that's next. what will they do? that's next. people tell me all the time i have the craziest job, the riskiest job. the consequences underwater can escalate quickly. the next thing i know, she swam off with the camera. it's like, hey, thats mine! i want to keep doing what i love. that's the retirement plan.

i think it is six to a dozen people and i think you ought to immediately start to do what andrew jackson, do what abraham lincoln did, find out who is responsible, and fire them. >> laura: people are wishing she met john welch's booth was still around. i mean, this is the level of discourse and dialogue are they always blame trump for previously, he is the one who wanted to punch out a rally. >> you can see -- i have a prologue in this film that is 5 minutes long. if this was put into theaters, because it is going to be distributed otherwise, it'll probably be x-rated for violence and language. what we did is went back to the rallies, we went back to what ntb has done to the trump supporters. we show the violence. the left is out of control right now. across across the board. >> laura: is it by any means necessary? >> absolutely. now they have cohorts, cohorts across the administration i think it is broader than the white house. remember, what "the new york times" it said was senior administration officials and what that basically means for "the new york times"'s cabinet secretaries or d

president andrew jackson said, quote, all the right secured to the citizens under the constitution are worth nothing and a mere bubble except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous judiciary, end of quote. confirmation hearings for supreme court nominees are an independent -- are a very important opportunity to discuss appropriate role of judges. as i see it and i expect many of my colleagues will agree, the role of the judge is to apply the law as written even if the legal result is not one the judge personally likes. justice scalia has often been quoted because he was fond of saying, if a judge always likes the outcome of the cases he decides, he is probably doing something wrong. i don't want judges who always reach a liberal result or conservative result. i want a judge who rules the law the way the law requires. judges must leave law making to the congress, the elected representatives of the people. judges and justices have lifetime appointments. they can't be voted out of office if they legislate, whereas if congress legislates something the people don't like, then you

louisiana gave birth from the battlefield where andrew jackson if you did the british in 1815, and so on. then, the national commander of the world war ii war tank association presented the bronze plaque to general parks. it bore a simple inscription, seen here. states army tank corps. this spot marks the site of camp colt, a place of the united states army in 1918. hind marker stand trees planted in soil from all 48 states, dedicated to commanding officer whoain dwight d. eisenhower on january 2, 1953 was inaugurated the 34th president of the united states of america. this living testament is a tribute to the affection and high esteem of his 1918 tank corps comrades." in a 1954, the world war ii tank corps association. the plaque also includes the organization's insignia, encircled by a wreath. it is addressed to the general. mech in his address, general parks remarked "we are in the heart of american military traditions. ." i can think of no appropriate spot in america to plan to this fine tree which will commemorate the birthplace of the tank corps and which will be a testimony to

war of 1812, the battle of new orleans when a lot of kentucky militia came down to fight with andrew jackson, some of them were given land in southern louisiana. others who came here were the french canadians, the creoles who came here. this was the area where la fit had his forays. he provide sort of an amazon/ups service to the -- he was the one who actually brought goods to trade because nobody else would trade in this area, it was so sparsely populated. those very early settlers were, essentially, cattlemen. they ran cattle on the wide open prairies of southwest louisiana, branded cattle on unfenced rangeland. and there's a very strong tradition of creole cowboys, black cowboys beginning in the 18th century, going into the 19th century conducting trail rides and cattle drives of these wild range cattle from here to the eastern ports, to new orleans, the eastern part of louisiana. cowboy culture starts in southwest louisiana. because southwest louisiana was no man's land by actual agreement of the two closest forts, the spanish fort in texas and the fort jesup which is not far from louisi

for the spurrallel of the question is andrew jackson, and the birth of the penny press. the birth of a partisan press, which jackson exploited fully and generated enormous anxiety cut through a washington establishment as he intended to do. just to finish the point and bring it back, the moral of the story is the most gifted people are those who can find audiences and mobilize people you didn't know existed as a community. donald trump is a media genius, he just is. whatever else you have to say about him, he has been a media genius for the last 20 years. he has been on the cutting edge of every single change that popular media made. it doesn't surprise me that he understands twitter the way he does. i would say some of our horror about somebody lying on the internet, in the 19th century, they took days to resolve elections. sometimes, a candidate went to another town to say the opposition had been killed, so nobody should bother voting. manipulatio but we have a very long history of this sort of opposition between free speech. what happens when you let people speak free