ben franklin. you know, my first book, i didn't have a whole lot of nice things to say about him, but you know ben franklin. yes. you're right, david. that that benjamin was to many people, the epitome of what an american was. and part of that was, as a kind of a masquerade. so when ben franklin went to europe, he presented himself in a way that he thought europeans thought america was dressed. so he went around with the coonskin cap at the. isn't that daniel webster? i don't know what for the coonskin cap, but he he had a coonskin cap. he wore old clothes. he dressed like a farmer because he thought that's what europeans thought americans looked like. so even though he was a rich man, franklin sort of played on this idea. and to many europeans, he definitely represented what an american was. and what the difference i think, between what franklin was versus what webster was is that franklin was still a pennsylvanian. he was still a quaker. he was a quaker. he was not quaker. but he he was thought o

. >> ben franklin. >> that is not the real ben franklin. >> what is abe lincoln famous for? said it stopped slavery but -- >> you're not too sure? >> let's look around. >> i don't see any slaves here. >> lincoln had a very famous line. he said a house divided cannot -- >> multiply? >> prosper? >> survive? ♪ >> who was president during world war ii. >> this is so embarrassing for me. no idea. >> john f. kennedy? >> president bush? >> franklin d. roosevelt. >> what does the d. stand for? >> democrat. [laughter] >> f.d.r. had a famous line. there's nothing to fear but -- >> death. >> yourself. >> fear itself. >> i fear nothing so i don't know. >> hey. i'm not afraid anymore. >> who was president in the 1980s? >> president douglas? >> steve adams. >> clinton? >> ronald reagan? >> ronald mcdonald? >> what was ronald reagan's job before the president. >> photographer. >> sell oil maybe? >> an actor? >> a chef? >> nothing for you. >> ronald reagan famously said mr. gorbachev, tear down this -- >> statue, >> wall. >> tree. >> oh, yeah. she's cutting like fire. >> how is joe biden do

s. secretary of state antony blank and was an explanation to the reporters in the ben franklin room as well as to the public watching those press conference world wide. why he is not traveling to bay jane this coming weekend at the request of the u. s. president joe biden, it's a because the biden administration has taken the position that the deployment of what it considers to be a chinese surveillance on aircraft is a violation of usaa air space, a violation of u. s. sovereignty. and thus it would be inappropriate for the usaa to send its top diplomat to beijing at that time. what tub lincoln told of those watching was that he had a conversation with his chinese counterpart, won ye on friday morning, explaining why he was a postponing the trip. and definitely officials have briefed reporters throughout the day. not just here at the stake department, but also at the white house, indicating that this is a situation where the usaa does not believe that the agenda that had been anticipated for discussion could be adequately addressed. that things would become very narrowly focused becaus

to the azores and spain and a whaling voyage in. 1754, en route from north carolina, he meets ben franklin in philadelphia. his father is facing difficulties collecting on those debts and advises bob to become a lawyer and do it as fast as possible and help him out. bob takes his advice to heart and reads the law. excuse me, no law schools existed and he reads the law with a distant cousin named samuel willard and joins him during the french and indian war at crown point, a hot spot in the now raging french indian war of eight of 1755 for willard's regiment, bob serves as chaplain, and he gives a sermon. there is a time for war and a time for peace in which he uses the term true sons of liberty. a decade before that term becomes a household word back in boston, in the very months that his father dies, he is admitted to the bar in 1757 and promptly goes out and buys a wig, properly trained and now properly attired. he qualifies as for practicing before the superior court. in 1758 and can now fraternize with fellow members of the bar in the judicial chambers in the townhouse today, known as

it's another political cartoon with ben franklin, with some quakers in a tavern in philadelphia. okay, so the public sphere is really growing in the colonies. more and more people are engaging in political discussions and taking part in these discourses. now, the second way that this atlantic annexation was significant was the importation of specifically english political ideas into the colonies. okay, so colonies, after all, they'd never felt so british, right? we talked about this a lot last week. they began to see measures taken by the crown as impositions on their unique rights as englishmen. so they start to take up british political rhetoric english political thought and assert their rights. essentially, alec colonies believe that their liberty meant that they could only be taxed with their expressed through representative of their choosing, so they defended their rights as englishmen consent to taxes. they argue that parliament could not tax them because they didn't vote for any members of parliament. they didn't vote and send members there to be part of that process. if w

i tell you, as ben franklin said, the two things you can't escape, death and taxes.vative groups. tax records haven't been kept secure and protected the way they should have been. we have basically awoke and a weaponized irs and the money that they put in to this is tax and spending to pay for the green new deal. tax revenues are at an all-time high. our problem is not that we tax too little, we spend too much and we need to get the spending under control, neil. >> neil: if you think we had a flat tax that that would solve this and negate all of these controversies? >> well, a simplified system is better. we certainly tried to do this with the tax and jobs act. we did a good job there. but the more and more complicated it gets andown can't get through the irs helpline. we try to help all across the country. we got lots of calling in wyoming for people that sat on hold with the irs. so much of the money going to the irs is a result of this tax bill and spending bill that the democrats pass on a party line vote. very little goes and i ask questions about this. very lit

. >> ben franklin of the hall county sheriff's department got the call. so, valentines night all but groping. as he drove in a dark road by the muddy going by the river. >> -- and, so that creates a special kind of dark that you just can't appreciate and tell you in the middle of it. >> detective franklin is an experienced man. but this? >> this is one of the very few cases where the more i dug, the less sense that it made. >> no. nothing made sense about this. >> coming up, a murder so sudden and so brutal. was it a robbery gone bad? tire tracks, the mud that belong to neither richard nor stacey. >> you could see richardson pressure to pass over those, and then you could see those pass back over richards. that let's us know that that vehicle was here before they got here and likely left after a little bit. >> had to be the killer. when dateline continues. kn ow how i feel.♪ ♪breeze driftin' on by...♪ ♪...you know how i feel.♪ you don't have to take... [coughing] ...copd sitting down. ♪it's a new dawn,...♪ ♪...it's a new day,♪ it's time to make a stand. ♪

my question when he did that in 1838, you know, ben franklin, of course, said, here's your democracyeeper. well, i think lincoln was seeing a little bit of that lyceum speech. so what is lincoln's speech? how that relevant today and what especially can lincoln teach us in our present difficulties? and can that be realistically an influence today? wow. well, i see him speech. absolutely. to me takeaway political religion, his worries about, the founding generation disappearing and therefore living memory of that struggle fade and his sense that it would not be a foreign power that would undo the american republic, but that there could be a towering genius who would from among our number. and so in an age where democracy and autocracy are in competition, our own time, and in an age when our of the founding generation would be those generations from world war two and the postwar era. through the civil rights era, that those were people who saw the public sector deliver late, painfully incompletely, but did deliver the living. and people like us either grew up living in that or a step aw

ben franklin. all were slave holders. john jay's influence on the founding of the republic is is hard to underestimate. he was the inaugural chief justice of the us supreme court. he was president the continental congress during the war. he was secretary of foreign affairs after the war, and he negotiated two of the nation's most important early treaties, the 1783 piece of paris that confirmed our independence and the 1795 treaty with great britain that bears his name, the jay treaty, to this nature, to this day. he's also one of the principal authors of new york's first constitution and one of the leading advocates of the ratification of the us constitution in this state. and as i already mentioned, he was a two term governor of new york, his anti-slavery resume is not quite as spectacular, but really important. as i said, was the first president of, the new york manumission society, one of the first anti-slavery societies in the western world. he was governor, as i mentioned, when new york passed its gradual emancipate

with great freedom comes great responsibility >> okay, uncle ben franklin. >> you have to wear the big boy pants. >> mixing a lot of stuff >> okay. you win. you get to keep control. >> i don't this was it. you are waiting to hear. faber is out there >> he did the exit interview the last time. >> the first time he has spoken. kudos to our friend from "squawk on the street. all part of the "squawk" family. it is a franchise. why would you take that name away at 11:00? whose idea was that? it was called "squawk alley. ridiculous. >>> let's talk about earnings that are out this morning. pepsi out with earnings of $1.67 a share. that beat heexpectation by 2 cents. revenue beat the company is raising dividend by 10% and buying back $1 billion of stock the vice chair and ceo hugh johnston is joining us this morning. >>> coming up, morning movers. we show you what is behind the drops in affirm and mattel and gain in the shares of robinhood. >>> if you missed it yesterday, woz made a surprise walk-on appe appearance he is back today for a formal interview. he will join us at 6:30. we will inter

this week will feature several ben franklin speeches.941 speech to a joint session of congress following the attack on pearl harbor. yesterday december 7, 1921 >> will talk about the rail and chemical spill and buyer there in ohio. guest: mostly have a lot of regulation all things and commodities as well as chemicals. it really falls under the purview of the safety administration and acronym for you in the sense of working closely with industry, the chemical industry as well as commodities industry. in homeland security s of the transport of the chemicals in order to regulate the labeling, marking, and what information is delivered to communities or agencies at the state level and private industries and secretary of transportation is the one that works to ensure the sub agency are in direct content with private industries. host: in response to an incident like this, we will see comments from the epa administrator in a bit. the primary response in term of federal level is the federal redwall administration? guest: when it comes to commerc