coakley. to his coakley? i do know. i'm only guessing. i haven't been able to find them in historical records. my guess is he was the overseer working there. the only thing we can tell is to think. one, he was a strong man, a powerful man. must've been very powerful is -- if he was more powerful than bartlett. and he did something to try to abstract this escape, and then the most wonderful phrase in this letter from historians perspective is that shanklin says subtlety is superior to strength. this is a theme that many historians working in slavery and resistance to slavery have emphasized. the ways in which enslaved people had to be clever to hide the resistance to make it more effective, and here we have a former slave putting it out there explicitly that that's exactly what had happened. somehow shanklin had fooled coakley in order to pull off this escape and achieve freedom for 17 people. a final question. how is it that this letter survived? first off, i'm not surprised to find a letter written by a former slave. this is a period bef

margaret coakley won that. three weeks, brown crept up in the polls. suddenly he wins that race.ic question when you look at new jersey and booker and these polls this week, is there any chance this race has that kind of trajectory that lonegan could win this thing? >> the huge wild card is it is held on a wednesday in october. a lot of people won't know they will be voting or can vote. turnout is everything. when we were talking about the tea party earlier, steve lonegan is a tea partier and did what they did effectively, campaign, campaign, campaign, get out l. sell your message. cory booker has spent a lot of time fund raising i think because he feels he is going to win this race and run again if 2014. i talked to a sporter of booker, i said, cory, you got to got back here. steve lonegan invites people to his house. saying here i am, i'm accessible. cory booker is doing a red carpet event in california. he needs to do one in newark. he has done an aggressive job. as you saw in the poll, people aren't sure who cory booker is. >> we invited him on this show, we will still put th

. >> ryan, one of the cases that the premium court is going to be taking up is mcculland versus coakley court has struck down landmark legislation in the name of free speech. i think a lot of people who are concerned about this shame and humiliation and intimidation factor in and around the choice of abortion are worried that they will rule, quote/unquote, in favor of free speech and strike down these kind of limits that are in place. >> yeah, well, john roberts more or less lied to congress when was going through the confirmation process when he was asked whether or not he respects precedent. and he said he does. people who are worried that they're overturn this have good reason to believe that he will. >> remember, people who congregate outside of clinics have a sort of mob-like mentality. their job is, again, to shame the woman, make it as hard as possible to get in there. it's not about free speech exactly. it is about shaming and making it harder to access something that is your legal rights. >> and many of the young women who went to gosnell cited the terrible protesters. >> it su

of course, it was martha coakley who was on the side of women on that case.rtant that we put women in positions of leadership. so we have that firewall. so it's not dependent on where you live or who happens to sit on the supreme court. we have advocates in every state at every level. and the sad thing is, you're totally right about the shame. so much of what the right has done on this issue is just rooted in a profound disrespect and mistrust of women. >> yep. >> i think that women understand that. we saw them come out in 2012 after they almost shut down the government over planned parenthood and all of the disgusting things that got said about sandra fluke, et cetera. women turned out in record numbers for democrats. we saw historic margins. they doubled down. >> i think with this case it also, for women, it is literally we're talking about physical safety for yourself, for the people who work at these clinics. thank you so much to senator nina turner. good luck with your race. and jess mcintosh. >> thank you. >>> when we come back, he may be the one man th

looking ahead, attorney general martha coakley. remember her?ing. she is ahead by 50 point. in 2010, that appears to be a significant turn around. so what has changed to make massachusetts more friendly to women candidates and how they are able to break the glass ceiling. this is about massachusetts. this is about states that have these entrenched political cultures. we were talking about new jersey, new jersey comes to mind. they tend to be dominated by men or you know white, white guys urgely. and seeing some significant changes in massachusetts, i wonder if that's a part of something broader that's happening? >> i think so. you look at new york city, christine quinn didn't when for mayor, but we have our first african-american female elected at this time-wide. we till have a long way to go. cory booker is only the fourth elected black member of the senate. we've only had four black governors in this country's history, one elected since duval patrick. we still have a ways to go. in new york, it took hillary clinton to brake that. as the demogr

this decision was based on a motion to dismiss and there is a huge coakley about what happens colloquy't -- a huge quality e about what happens and what doesn't. it is hard to think that any candidate doesn't know a contributor who has enough money to give not only to himself or herself, but to any of his or her affiliates who are supporting him are her. sense hardy common to dispute. so you are saying it can't happen, but i don't see charges of coordination going on that much. >> i guess i'm not sure where you talking about happening. if we are talking about knowing that some individuals are making contributions to other candidates for state parties who are not going to share those contributions with a particular candidate, then i don't see how that gives rise -- actual -- i won't give the name of the candidate. you see a picture of the candidate and you see a sign that says smith pac. that's what it says. donation to make a help smith pac support republican if you like your democratic. and then it has an address. it doesn't take a genius to figure that they will do with the money and t