sam chase gave money to brown, and here's lincoln, who then very deftly uses brown as a foil, really. he criticizes brown to position himself as the safe moderate choice in the republican field. here we have these quite out there guys who are a little like brown. that's not what the republican party is about. we're not about taking on slavery in the states where it exists. we're not john browns. he talks about this quite explicitly in his famous union speech. he talks about john brown at length. so i think it contributes to getting the other nomination and the other effect it has is that it begins the furry in the south. we can't trust any northerner, so that steven douglas, who has sort of seemed the likely democratic nominee, who could unite north and south, the party is split. douglas is one nominee, and then another democratic nominee, breckenridge. and then a whole other party forms. when you have the november election, no for candidates in the field and lincoln wins with less than 40% of the vote. if i had to guess i would say if you hadn't had the raid, probably douglas would h

he talks about john brown at length. so, one, i think it contributes thim o getting the other nomination and the other effect it has is that it begins the fury in the south. we can't trust any northerner, so that steven douglas, who has sort of seemed the likely democratic nominee, who could unite north and south, the party is split. douglas is one nominee. there is another democratic nominee, breckenridge. and then a whole other party forms. when you have the november election, no for candidates in the field and lincoln wins with less than 40% of the vote. if i had to guess, i would say if you hadn't had the raid, probably douglas would have become president who was a northerner who was very conciliatory towards the south, and this whole war would have been deferred for at least another four years. and who knows. i mean, then any number of other scenarios could have unfolded. so that's just a guess. i mean, but it's a significant -- >> it's more than significant, and it's so compelling. because that, of course, you just

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and i think it came partly from john brown's temperament. most abolitionists of this era are really pacifists, and they believe that the way to fight slavery is through education and moral uplift. john brown is something -- nothing galvanizes him more than bullying goes unanswered throughout his life. he can't stand cravenness in the face of evil. he's someone who wants to punch back. and i think there's this temperamental part of him as well, that he looks around and sees the nation really being bullied by the slave-holding south throughout his life. and he wants to stand up to it. so i think that's part of it, too. so i wouldn't say there's any one experience or any one part of him that results in this militant abolitionism. >> you know, some suggest -- and you addressed this in your book -- that he knew when he had only 18 men, to go in and take over an armory, which washington himself said, in then virginia, that it was not going to be successful and his ultimate goal was to be a martyr. what is your opinion about that? because what -- i

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thank you. >> brown: once again today, u.s.icials found themselves apologizing for pictures of american troops in afghanistan. they emerged as the u.s. tries to wind down the afghan war and the taliban tries to step up the pressure. >> i've strongly condemned what we see in those photos. >> brown: defense secretary leon panetta spoke just hours after the "los angeles times" published two images. in one, u.s. soldiers and afghan police posed with the severed legs of a suicide bomber-- seen here, partially blurred. the other appeared to show the hand of a dead insurgent, atop the shoulder of a smiling american. the incidents, from 2010, involved members of the u.s. army's 82nd airborne division. they were tasked with identifying dead afghan insurgents through iris scans and fingerprinting. panetta addressed the issue from brussels, where he and secretary of state hillary clinton attended a nato meeting on afghanistan. >> that behavior that was depicted in those photos absolutely violates both our regulations and, more importantly

drug dealer augustus brown. >> did you ever know augustus brown?. >> you had no relationship with him prior? >> absolutely not. >> velazquez's lawyers say finding out why brown picked him out in the first place may be the only way to know if velazquez got justice. >> augustus brown, the 20-year-old heroin dealer is this case. >> we're on our way to elmyra prison right now to go see augustus brown. we found augustus brown in state prison where he is serving time for forgery. we were led into a conference room and turned on our hidden camera. he told us about the day of the crime, how he met lorenzo woodford at the club. >> he was a heroin addict. >> brown said he fled right after the shooting, but two mornings later, detectives tracked him down. >> they snatched me up off the street early. >> he said he was in the precinct all day. that police sat him in front of a computer screen and asked him to look at pages of mug shots. he was shown 230 pages, eight photos per page. that's more than 1800 photographs. finally he says he spotted someone. you just

scott brown cannot support that. there is a commonality they share in terms of their views of where the country is headed. >> the consumer protection bureau is what scott brown advocated for. going after millionaires of fax more taxpayers. this election is not about the gimmicks. this is all the democratic party will talk about all these things are gimmicks. this country has serious problems. we are $16 trillion in desperate we have a $2 trillion budget deficit and these guys want to operate with very little revenue and this will not stop progress. one party and one person have voted against, got $500 billion of medicare. not to save the program, but to create new government program which nobody likes. where more than happy to talk and we have a couple of big issues, the direction of the country and want to talk about that makes but we feel great about where we are. >> i think it is important to note the fact thaof what happened during that vote. the reason scott brown botha for the consumer protection bureau is beca

brown >> brown: and for an opposing view, we're joined by douglas holtz-eakin. he's a former director of the congressional budget office, served on the council of economic advisers for president george w. bush, and was chief economics adviser to john mccain's presidential campaign. he now heads the american action forum, a policy think tank. >> welcome to you. >> thank you. >> brown: you heard the argument. what is wrong with having the wealthiest pay the same rate as middle-class americans. >> well, let's look at the problems gene identified and ask how it does. it creates not one new job. indeed, it will hit some small businesses. it amounts to one tenth of one cent of every dollar of deficit that we have this year. so it does nothing for our budget problems. and it doesn't get rid of the alternative minimum tax, it doesn't get rid of any special loophole, it doesn't get rid of any special tax preference. so it doesn't move the ball on tax reform, either. >> brown: wait a minute, i asked a question about fairness. is there a fairness argument here? is it a pro

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