. >> after lincoln's assassination you have andrew johnson to office of president. does is create turmoil in the u.s. because of johnson's approach to thing. brett: a congressional recess. johnson granted southern states amnesty and allowed them to hold election. >> reestablish a southern legitimacy. he is reestablish people with two characteristics, one, they were traitors, two many were slave holders. reporter: brett: leaders of the confederacy including vice president stephens were poised to join congress as democrats in good standing, this distress the nation's top general. >> he tried hard at first to be difference shall to johnson, it does not take long before he realizes he cannot be. >> he said, we need to do something to make sure that victory that was won in combat is preserved for nation in civil society post wash. brett: when congress returned for recess, incensed republicans refused to -- >> they passed a bunch of laws that were discriminatory and tried to return former slave to a status that was close as possible to slavery. >> some so-called black cov

the secretary of the state vice president andrew johnson help with the city. always about booth that helped him commit the act and after all, assassination plus, nasties ran who wanted to kill lincoln. and with alone among the would-be assassins had long been immersed in identifying the americans of intent. but today might be called exaggerated method acting right to complain identification was the technique that he learned from his intense actor father booth right there. because become overrun with fellow that he nearly suffocated to death is the owner with ability had people away and another time, he chose his opponent out of the theater and continued to sword fight him in the streets. as the american scholar of acting and of the three, the children became prominent actors. and john wilkes is on the left and general the right and only john, doctor their fathers american-style of acting rated they said that john had more of the native fire and fury of his father in any of his family prayed in john wilkes booth relished violence roles and someone who loved mur

earlier this evening i spoke to andrew johnson, a kellogg's assembly line worker on strike in lancasteria. andrew, thank you so much for joining us. as we saw in the piece, across the country.re striking - tell me why you're on strike. >> i'm on strike for my family, my children. they deserve, when they get to the workforce, to be able to earn a fair wage, have good health care, and be able to retire someday. and the way corporate america's going, it's not going to be there for them unless us, the working class, stand up and fight for them. >> talk to me about being an essentialer worker during the pandemic. >> it was a lot of long hours, hard days. when you go in there at the beginning they told us we were essential workers there was a sense of pride behind that, that america needs us. and it felt good because we were taking care of america.ponly a were nothing, that the company needed us to give them more concessions. >> kellogg's is such a well-known american brand. what is it you want consumers to know about the company? >> that they need to stop being so greedy. kellogg's was a fab

johnson even consulted grant before he fired his war secretary. >> andrew johnson triggered a battle f war, which violated the 10-year of office act that congress had passed. dubious constitutional grounds. >> bret: congress impeached johnson for violating the law that everyone knew the real issue was who would control the fate of the freed slaves, and while he was acquitted by one vote he was dead, politically. >> bret: are specials available anytime on fox nation. a fragile nation in the crisis of 1876 is available right now wherever you purchase books. up next, the panel on the president's struggles and the vice president's p.r. headaches. ♪ ♪ >> says she needs to do a better job at messaging and going forward how do you sell this? >> i think you all could do a better job of selling it to be frank with you but it is true, it is hard to break through when you have such a comprehensive package. >> there are choices that need to be made, that is where we are at now given that there will be fewer dollars that will be spent. we can still do something historic that will fundamentally cha

under president andrew johnson and of course under president obama in 2016. >> also the congress has the power to limited jurisdiction of the corn and you can say that the court would need a simple majority to overrule any decisions or make the mandate a court in so many different ways which is interesting and we think somehow that is protected in the constitution but it is not so congress could have not only change the number of justices, but reorganize the responsibilities. >> how to get into something that john was talking about, the second administration and second term of administration and the disappointed of eight justices read going to ask you both a difficult question who is your favorite child, but he think was the most exact and significant of women he made in terms about changing court and changing america. >> john you first. >> i am biased but i thank you so well-founded in favor of robert jackson who i think was a special an incredible talent, a beautiful pan and probably the best writer and course history and a case-by-case generous he did in the easily and he turned o

donald trump was always an andrew johnson figure to me and had the same contempt for the system that supposedly under gerds american democracy but in this case, the andrew johnsons are all over congress trying to wipe away the evidence of the insurrection in order to restore themselves. this is the redemption era. if you liken the theme the obama era to something like reconstruction, this is redemption and i wonder how -- whether it's too late to stop it in your view. >> i hope not. redemption on steroids. i love the analogy of johnson and trump. there is a lot there. you know, it has a lot of examples of these kinds of events from reconstruction right through the end of the 19th century. the perpetrators of something like january 6th kind of have two choices of what to do nour -- now or supporters of it. they can walk away, go quiet, say it was nothing really to worry about, it was bad weather blew into washington. not a big deal. or they can embrace it. as charlie said. they can build their martyrs, build their mmemorials, build their monuments and make it the identifying story of

what is more interesting is the people i missed, i wish i'd been able to write about andrew johnson, for instance. didn't get around to him. >> would you be willing to read one of my favorites for us? >>sure. you get to pick. >> "boxweed" perhaps at the end -- >> uh-huh -- yep. >> this is called "nasty business" the tale of boxweed and not box weed and his opposite number thomas nast, the cartoonist who brought him down. the subject that was particularly dear to my heart since i ---ants since you illustrated. >> since i illustrated the book, t too. >> exactly. the perfect. >> we now introduce the aforesaid cartoonist who brought down the boss like a punctured balloonist. the depictions of tweed by the great thomas nast were scathing sat tieric and destined to last. nast pictured a slob of falsestaffian bulk, bailful bidi eyed towering hulk, tweed frantically raged at his impotent goons, my people can't read but they see them cartoons! so what did we learn from tweed's gloomy demise? what prudent perception to open our eyes? a lesson to teach both defendant and jurist from youngest be

because you have a radical republican majority in congress, and you can override a conservative andrew johnsonresidency and the 14th amendment ratifies in 1868 for citizenship and we have the 16th amendment ratified nations which is african-american men and of course another 50 years to get women to vote. and jordan anderson, along with libya maria child, she's actually on the heels of republican freedoms and publishes and she and her publishers will be the stove uncle - cabin and it is written to be a popular read that everyone just has to get it is about an interracial couple basically is a model for the new america. it did not sell that well but it was a radical vision. it very much upheld the respectability. jordan anderson plays right into that and you can see this photograph. hold on. so, we have, here's his beard and then here is millie and jane and grundy and mandy and what we have is even the parlor, is a really important space and you have a banjo on the wall so there's some southern this. this is an ohio parlor. you can see that his letter forms the backbone of what will be the repu

amendment because you have a radical republican majority in congress who can override, conservative andrew johnsonand the presidency and we get the 14th amendment ratified in 1868 which grants citizenship and then we have the 15th amendment ratified in 1870 which gives african-american men the vote, of course, it will take 50 years to get women to vote. anderson and lydia child, romance of the republic and written to be a popular read that everyone has to get sink their teeth into and it's about an interracial couple as a model for america. it didn't sell that well but it was a radical vision but it very much upheld all of the markers of respectability and jordan anderson plugs right into that. you can see in this lithograph. i mean, you have -- oops. going up and down. hold on a second. so we have -- so here is his beard. jordan anderson's beard and here is milly and jane and grundy. and what we have is even the parlor, the parlor is really important space and we have markers of southernness and this is a wholesome, an ohio parlor and you can see that his letter forms the backbone of what's going

kennedy: so we don't repeat it because andrew johnson was such a horrible person and grant had to comeitician as a humble person whose history has been totally misunderstood. it's a great piece of work so thank you. coming up from a brooklyn star banned from playing with them the team until he's fascinated. what happens to his paycheck? plus china shoddy of investigations out, what are they trying to hide? i'll break that down, next. ♪♪ the history of paranoid commies, china has denied world health organization into entry farming since facilities six hours. granted the who giving recovery here because they are naÏvely clinging to the human crews china pushed to explain the global pandemic on pandora's red state. china knew something was up on the 2020 but the spring of 2019 when they started stockpiling pcr test to places like the wuhan university of science and technology eight times as many as a covid detectors in the year before. also unsurprisingly while china was ready to scream, of the buyers originated anywhere else off a band selling live animals from the wet market in december

his name is andrew johnson. he's going places. his future is i guess bright but nonetheless he says if you're going to secede than were going to secede and go back to that name of the state of franklin. so what do the legislators from national do? they start appropriating money to build roads in west tennessee and east tennessee. but in spite of this granted, the streets were pretty much nonexistent, and you would have some boardwalks for sidewalks and you would have some transportation. but over all, living in the city was really kind of a a dirty e to live because you've got chickens running loose and you've got all manner, you don't have a good sewage system. so living in the city was in some ways kind of unhealthy. so that's why people built these houses, if they had any wealth they would build the houses out like all of these houses out in this area that the donald sends built and travelers rest like the overtones built, glenn levin, the thompson's house, eventually -- that's close to the civil war when that house gets built

. >> and also andrew johnson, after lincoln, was a racist kind of president. >> stephen: yeah, deeply that at all? >> yes, and we deal with all of the corruption. he trusted a lot of people. he wasn't a politician before, and he had a lot of foibles, a lot of flaws. but he, if you look at the big picture, was a big leader. and the book ends-- it begins on january 6, but it ends with protesters in san francisco ripping down a grant tatue. and then being asked, "why are you ripping this down?" and they didn't know why they were doing it. and i just think it's important for people to look back in history and realize who did what and how we can learn from it going forward. >> stephen: well, bret, lovely to have you again, thanks so much. >> thanks a lot, stephen. >> stephen: the book, "to rescue the republic" is available october 12. the man is bret baier, everybody. we'll be right back with "curb your enthusiasm" star, susie essman. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause ) (walking in snow) are we in nature? is that a tree? this gold is so extra. i am so cold. uh, i can't. but this gold is extra warm. because

for some reason, i thought i was supposed to speak about andrew johnson. lincoln successor, rather than abraham lincoln. but when one thinks of the most despised american presidents, one usually does not think of lincoln. but johnson is consistently placed at the bottom of historians ranking of american presidents. lincoln is usually in contention for number one or two. luckily, i read the description of the roundtable again, and the description i had sent. before preparing my remarks today. and i realized i was supposed to talk about lincoln. often one of the most beloved presidents, around the globe. this is not the case, as lincoln was elected president in 1860. he remains the only president in american history whose election caused nearly half the states in the republic to succeed and inaugurated a bloody civil war that ended 800,000 american lives. just that fact alone, i think, winds him the most despise category. abraham lincoln was not an abolitionist. that is, a person who believed in the immediate abolition of slavery and black citizenship before

feel they should have a say in what happened, certainly more of a say than the white southerners andrew johnson was pardoning in 1865. all but 1500 of the former confederates received presidential pardons or were part of that proclamation and they look at that and i like how come these guys to pick up guns and tried to destroy the us government have a say and we don't? you will see a similar pattern after world war ii, no coincidence, the second wave of women's activism after world war ii so what happens coming out of the war, women expect they are going to have a say in the new reconstructed government and that is not what happens. what happens coming out of the war the focus is for various reasons as we talked about on african-american male suffrage especially women suffragists look at this and they are willing to let that happen but also expect they are going to be included as well. you already heard about the award how, who said when we are writing the fourteenth amendment women should be included. we are talking about having a say in american society, women belong in that amendment. they s

the power to sit on a nomination -- [inaudible conversations] >> that happened urn president andrew johnson and, of course, under president obama for a stretch in 2016. >> and also congress has the our to limit the jurisdiction of the court. i mean, it could say that the court would need a supermajority to overrule any decisions or, i mean, they could tinker with the mandate of the court in so many different ways which is interesting. we think somehow that's protected in the constitution, but it's not. so congress could have not only changed the number of justices, but reorganized their responsibilities. >> i want to go back to something that john was talking about which was this -- in the second administration, second term of the administration, the disappointment of eight justices. i'm going to ask you a difficult question. who's your favorite child, of those eight, who do you think was the most significant appointment that he made in terms of changing the court and changing america? >> john, to you first. [laughter] >> i've got a bias, but it's, i think, well founded in favor of robert j

certainly more of a say those white southerners that andrew johnson was pardoning by the fall of 1865 all but about 1500 of the former confederates had received presidential pardons or had been part of the blanket proclamation. they look at that and say wait a minute, wait a minute. how come these guys who picked up guns and tried to destroy the u.s. government have a say and we don't? you are going to seat similar pattern incidentally after world war ii. it's no coincidence you get the second wave of women activism after world war ii out of a very similar set of circumstances. what happens coming out of the war, women expect the going to be able to have a say in this new reconstructed government. that of course is not what happened. what happened is coming out of the war the focus for various reasons as we talk about is on african american mail suffrage. especially women suffer just look at this. they are willing to let that happen but they also expect they will be included as well. you're going to hear more from me about julia warren howe put it this way. she said when we are writin

my charge with the meetings in the pandemic it is team hate and for some reason to speak about andrew johnson through abraham lincoln and the most despised american president but then we consistently pay for the historian rankings is at the bottom lincoln is usually number one or two now luckily i read the description from the one that i have sent before preparing my remarks today and i realized i was supposed to talk about lincoln when the most beloved presidents around the globe not just the united states. of course this was not the case when they hit president in 1860 he remains the only president in american history that has half the states in the republic to secede and inaugurated that blood he civil war claiming lives but just that fact alone wins the most despised category of us president. but abraham lincoln was not an abolitionist to believe in the immediate abolition of said line of slavery and i should say before i continue slight i am showing right now is an excerpt from south carolina that shows or announces the union has been dissolved south carolina and seeded from the union on

for some reason, i thought i was supposed to speak about andrew johnson, lincoln's successor, rather than abraham lincoln. when one thinks of the most despised american presidents, one usually does not think of lincoln. but presidents like johnson continually at the bottom of historians' rankings for american presidents. lincoln is usually in spot one or two. luckily i read the description of the roundtable and the description i had sent jeff before preparing my remarks today, and i realized that i was supposed to talk about lincoln, arguably one of the most beloved american presidents not just in the united states but around the globe. this of course was not the case when lincoln was elected president in 1860. he remains the only president in american history whose election caused nearly half of the states in the republic to secede and a inaugurated bloody civil war that claimed nearly 800,000 american lives, according to the latest count. just that fact alone, i think, wins him the most despised category of u.s. presidents. abraham lincoln was not an abolitionist, that is, a person

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lincoln is shot, andrew johnson takes over and he does a terrible job, gets impeached and has no intereston, and then, in comes grant to save the day and after eight years, he kind of did. then what happens? >> well listen first of all, the assassination, lincoln invites grant and mrs. grant to ford theatre to go with him that night, and they go visit their kids up in new jersey, they don't go. that would have changed everything, and so he takes over , grant does, from johnson who arguably is one of our worst if not our worst president, racist, and takes the country away from lincoln's vision. grant takes over, and starts trying to put lincoln's vision into action. unify the country, give blacks the right to citizenship, and vote the 14th, 15th amendment and fights the kkk with federal troops. steve: so his whole mission was to keep the united states united , but he did some controversial things to do it. >> he did. he had a lot of executive orders that weren't popular. the south hated all of this , but in the end, reconstruction was kind of running its course, and when this election happ

andrews, did you want to chime in? >> yes, ms. johnson. thank you so much for that question. just i echo the sentiments of my colleagues and one other thing would just be so vitally important forcu that informatio if there is prosecution, if there is something done, for that information be conveyed back to the flight attendant that would encourage them to report in the future. >> well, thank you very much. and i'll yield back the last 30 seconds of my time, mr. chairman. thank you. >> thank you. the chair would like to now recognize mr. stallworth for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair. first off, i would like to thank you all for stepping up over the last year and a half, especially in thens early days of covid. the early days of the covid shutdowns. you know, i flew several times during the earlyth months of th pandemic and thend front facing workforce each of you represent were always positive and professional, despite massive -- mass layoffs and suspensions due to an industry that had effectively been put on pause. as many of you likely know, i have a son. myha wife an

andrews. >> congressman johnson, i think clarity about what we expect, absolute respect among each other. i want to note all of the witnesses here today, and all of the representatives across the industry, have worked closely together. unions, companies, airports, airlines -- we have worked closely together during this pandemic, and we have fared better because of that. when we have the backing of the government, that made it possible for flight attendants to feel more empowered to report these events regardless of the way they have been dismissed or disposed of based on gender or their race. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here. prior to coming to congress, i was an organized crime prosecutor for 20 years. i have an immense amount of respect for the rule of law. what i'm hearing today from both sides is not so much a focus on that as it is trying to blame someone. the problem on airplanes is troubling. it is very real. it is not a democratic issue, it is not a republican issue, it is not a political issue. i believe it is a general disrespect for the rule of law that perm