calhoun is aware of that.hey are all try to figure out how to translate this into political power. van buren has some good moments when he figures it out better than calhoun. calhoun tried to bring texas and to make van buren look ineffectual. the rivalry between these two very intelligent man is a fascinating feature of american life for 30 years. host: where did you grow up? mr. widmer: providence, rhode island. host: what were your parents doing? mr. widmer: they were both academics. they taught chinese and russian history. they worked at universities in new england. i grew up surrounded by books, but they were mostly in languages i could not read. so i loved books, and i will never forget, when i was eight years old i came on a train with my dad to washington. it was a sleeper car. you cannot do that anymore from providence. but i caps on in the evening and walk upright across the street from union station. i walked into statuary hall. which you could do back then without in the security guards. it was an

calhoun knew it would.sident, he was able to cast the deciding vote and he his formerinst friend van buren and he famously said it will kill him, he will never kick. that was supposed to be the end of van buren's career. but the opposite happened. he came back stronger than ever. deadun had killed him too and as vice president. calvin was very angry for a long time. a lot of the growing debate around slavery was tied up in these personal aspirations. they both wanted to be president. host: you say in the book that there were 17 million people in the united states. that's when van buren was active and there were 13 slave states and 13 free states? mr. widmer: yes. it was balanced for a long time. that is what expansion into the west is so crucial. it really was the undoing of the union. it was the inability of north and south to agree on how slavery would expand west but even before kansas and nebraska in the there is an intense 1850's, anxiety over texas. it becomes an independent republic just before van b

calhoun and henry clay. maybe this complicates things a little. >> for sure it complicates things. that fwoets back to the idea i said before that people think back to the era, they call it the golden age, a burcham of guys in black coats and mr. clay, and that's how we imagine the period. you know, there were -- there was speech fieing. americaning memorizing the speech fies. but happening around that was the stuff going on in in book. congress was a human institution, not a monument, not a sort of bastion of eloquence all the time. people went to hear the speeches. but then this they said that wasn't that good. >> but i don't want to say all the time it was two guys slugging each other. but that said, i think for sure if our history books tell us that congress is this beautiful

he did reach out to calhoun. people at the company say they are friends but he's reaching out to a guy that is one of the top people at one of the biggest private equity firms which has a lot of interest in ge assets. we should point out the spokesman for ge and blackstone had no comment on this, but like i said, there's a lot of stuff going on in ge regarding wall street and asset sales and blackstone is looking at it and jpmorgan and goldman sachs are looking to do the deals. back to you. liz: i was doing a search on ge board of directors members who have bought stock in the last year, probably thinking that it's got to get better. james tisch, who was a board member, had purchased nearly $54 million worth of ge stock one year ago. >> that's when flannery took over and it looked like nelson peltz, the activist investor, was getting his hands around the throat of the company but it just got worse, if you look at it. you look at the stock chart, one of the reasons why flannery is out, because there was more discl

reportedly listened to a recording of khashoggi is death so let's try to tiles together with patty calhoun she's on capitol hill there with the hearing is taking place any information coming out so. we're starting to see senators trickle out if you want to explain just the geography of the situation the senators of we think all one hundred of them are receiving this classified briefing in a secure setting from secretary of state. paon secretary of defense jim mattis they are starting to slowly trickle past the cameras where the cameras can be we're hoping that they all have to pass by there so they're starting to react but before the hearing got underway we basically heard the unclassified prepared remarks from the sec both of the secretaries and it basically boils down to this saudi arabia is not perfect but it's better than iran if we don't back saudi in the war in yemen then the war second stop more civilians will die and basically there's a peace to. on the horizon if we step away. that could impact the peace talks and they say this is really about iran and it's also about israeli secu

european commission presidential coach jim calhoun marks what he said was a sad day for the european union. british prime minister theresa may however says she does not share that sadness and is calling on her country to move on may now faces the challenge of pushing the deal through her own party.

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we have the initial story and they denied this that gave calhoun, the former vice chairman, long-time ge consecutive who's now at blackstone, that they would bring him back here they denied it, but they had the meeting. he is now talking to former legacy people to figure out what to do with the company and just what the future is. the bottom line is that this thing has been shopped like there's no tomorrow. being shopped up from every piece that can be sold will try to be sold and the reason is that, listen, if we had them on right now he'd be an air of complacency. everything is great. you know, moving forward in a coherent manner. i hear it's not quite like that internally. i hear this is like they know they got an issue here. and by the way, the more stuff you sell, the less revenues you get to basically serve as -- service the debt and everything. their cash flow needs. this guy would walk an incredible typo, but the bottom line is we hear that his main, main emphasis is on telling stuff. i can't tell you what's going to be sold next. baker hughes. >> it's not helping the stock th

you can go to calhoun county. desantis is going to win this by a huge margin. still plenty of vote to come in there. democrats have big, densely populated areas with a lot of votes and gillum can make up lot of ground. but there are around the states precincts and big chunks of the smaller republican counties will be able to counter not all of that, but some of that. when he goes in 90,000 votes ahead, that's worth keeping in mind. also on the senate side, you can see the margin, 58,000 here for rick scott over bill nelson. keep in mind the basic turnout math i just took you through right there. nelson may be a little closer than gillum in this thing. >> steve kornacki at the big board for us, thank you. a little bit of news out of florida. one of the ballot initiatives in florida that has raised a lot of national attention, including statewide effort has been amendment 4, which would restore voting rights to felons. this affects over a potential million voters in florida, and that is now we've got a projected answer on amendment 4 in florida. it looks to be --

. >> people like daniel webster and calhoun and henry clay maybe complicateds things a little. >> that kind of goes back to the idea that people think back to this era and that's what they call it, the golden age. it is a bunch of guys wearing black coats and, you know, mr. clay. and that's how we imagine the period. and, you know, there were -- there was speech, there were americans memorizing the speech. happening all around that is the stuff happening in the book. congress is a human institution. it is not a monument. it is not a of eloquence all the time. i don't mean to say that everything all the time was two guys slugging each other. but that said, for sure i think we need to -- if our history books are telling us that congress is this beautiful place in this period and we just need to get back there, there is a golden beautiful place to get back to. broad statement. democracy is a struggle. always has been. and you have to stand up for what you believe in and you have to watch out for things you that feel are going to be threats to the republic. and that is some of what is goin

i tell it through the lives of three great members of congress in the era, clay, calhoun and webster.e approach to politics in this flyover section of the country, as you call it? are there any parallels you see erupting now? >> the era was when compromise was understood as the way to move things forward. what happened after they died, the spirit of compromise died with them. within ten years, the country was at civil war. there was a period in the 20th century was compromise was admirable. even the reagan administration. all the big pictures were passed with bipartisan majorities. since then, it's largely gone by the boards. i don't want to say exactly a civil war ahead but i do see alarming parallels. >> what were there achievements that compromise played into? >> there's one big controversy on the tariff. this is before president trump was elected, i thought, i'm going to have a hard time getting readers to engage in this. but the tariff was a big issue. the abiding issue was slavery. how does slavery fit into the promise that all men are created equal? the missouri compromise. the

reaction so far to the murder of jamal khashoggi and as patty calhoun was telling us a little bit earlier. very much. questioning the fact that the cia director gina haskell has not been part of these proceedings and i think it was dick durbin actually who said. pass but was not there they were told gina haskell was not there at the direction of the white house. is with us here in studio as we listen to all it's all coming about thick and fast and that's not the way think we need to just pause for a moment look at all is this criticism it is strong as patty and i were talking about. in the end how much comfort if i can use that word does mohamed bin salmon still take from the fact that he knows he's got donald trump civil he knows he's got the executive support in the united states even if all the senate has a piling up against him but let me just. two quick points one is the monitor used by the congressman was basically pursue a sieve and that one is important not to pursue it and also they used the impression of the secretaries so that is important actually the what what they were tryin

he said he is that chauvinistic in the tradition of folks like john calhoun and pat buchanan, that's not a conservative tradition i'd want to be a part of but that is the tradition he represents and unfortunately i think that is becoming the dominant tradition in america right now. it's heartbreaking for me to it see that. i think the democrats have the potential to steal some of the thunder of classical conservatism available and mobilize it against this party if they stand up and champion individual liberty above all. unfortunately i think a lot of the problem on the progressive side of the ledger is that there is both focus on group identity. the idea of political correctness has been vastly exaggerated by donald trump and he basically uses political incorrectness as the excuse for racism or sexism. there generally is a problem with political correctness trying to correct speech on college campus. the right tries to squelch and the left tries to squelch so what i would love to see is a democratic party, also think there's a tendency with some progressive to rundown america. i wrot

calhoun is close because they have students that go to the bar.ere students from pepperdine in the bar as well. cal state northridge, and moorpark college as well. you can see all of these young people inside. this man was a marine with a marine tattoo on his chest. a lot of people got out and had scrapes and bruises. they had to jump out of windows to get through. we will pull up some of the sound. you can hear people talking about what they did when the shots rang out. we will try to get that soundbite for you. in the meantime, i know that if you are a that are going to school there in southern california or perhaps in this area. if you have not heard from your child this morning, and you want to try to find out the very latest information, they have established a hotline. we will put that up in just a second. that hotline for you to call to find out the very latest is (805)465-6650. i believe we have that in the form and i will repeat it in case you are grabbing a pen or pencil right now. that is 80546566 five oh. - - at 805-46-5650. a lot of p

supposed to be off-broadway this summer the same who has done kinky boots has been directed by jeff calhoun as an amazing songwriting team and have such a great time to turn this into a musical. >> host: we want to show you jodi picoult and her daughter samantha talking about working on their books. our life conversation with jodi picoult will continue after the. >>. >> i am jodi picoult. [laughter] hi i am jodi picoult. >> i am saying that we are the authors of the companion piece that we began writing about the fairytale and "the reader" on the outside to get them out into the real world. what happens when you get your wish and when it comes true? how do you do it? . >> i think i learned in the process my father is weird. [laughter] . >> there was a moment when i was seriously considering to throw it out the window. >>. >> because of that there are characters that our richer in this book as well. >> you can hear the story of the sideline characters i think it's a much better book it's tighter it is very educating. >> host: and we are back live with jodi picoult we have an hour left in our

and has been directed by jeff calhoun. we've an amazing songwriting team in the book writer. we had had such a great time working as a family with themrk to turn this into a musical. >> we want to show you a little bit of jody and her daughter samantha talking our life conversation withks. jodi picoult will continue after this. >> hi, i'm jodi. we are the authors of across the page. it's a companion piece to between the lines. we began writing this about prince oliver who is trapped in a fairytale. and one is outside. and manages to get them out into the real world. can you still create happily ever after. and more importantly, how do you do it. i think igh learned in the process that my mother is incredibly weird. there was actually a moment when i was considering putting her out the window. i have your death plotted. i think that meant we are really close to producing our absolute best work at the moment. w because of that there are characters that are new to this book.chto they are richer to this book as well. you get to hear the stories of people. they were just sidelined