ilyon woo: daniel webster is an interesting character. one of the ones i can't say i enjoyed getting to know in this process, he is a difficult person to know. but he's somebody who is known for his powerful and stirring beautiful words about liberty. he was a leader through so many different kinds of compromises in our nation. he was able to work across party lines, but in the end he was secretary of state. he is in the senate, he does not actually get to vote for the fugitive slave act, but he does speak for it. he becomes the voice of the north that changes the tide and as one historian has put it when it daniel webster gets up to say that the north has to support the south on the fugitive slave act and the compromise must be passed, that is the point in which civil war is averted for the time being. so this is a man who embodies so many different contradictions personally as well and i go into that in the book. there's actually scandalous things that he experiences personally, he is balancing all of this within his own life. and then

ilyon woo: daniel webster is an interesting character. one of the ones i can't say i enjoyed getting to know in this process, he is a difficult person to know. but he's somebody who is known for his powerful and stirring beautiful words about liberty. he was a leader through so many different kinds of compromises in our nation. he was able to work across party lines, but in the end he was secretary of state. he is in the senate, he does not actually get to vote for the fugitive slave act, but he does speak for it. he becomes the voice of the north that changes the tide and as one historian has put it when it daniel webster gets up to say that the north has to support the south on the fugitive slave act and the compromise must be passed, that is the point in which civil war is averted for the time being. so this is a man who embodies so many different contradictions personally as well and i go into that in the book. there's actually scandalous things that he experiences personally, he is balancing all of this within his own life. and then

there are the president of the united states and secretary of state daniel webster who have to figureow they are going to recapture the crafts, there are international celebrities who get to know the crafts abroad. lots of people who go in and out of the story and if you take a look at the book, the book jacket, and you undress the book and you read the jacket. you will see there are a lot of people on the inside of the pages, you can see that. but these are some of the many people who you will meet along the way. susan: so the story opens in 1848 make the point that this year is a real seminal one in not only american history but globally, what are the important things that were happening in this country in 1848, that makes this a real focal point of their ability to make the escape that they did? ilyon woo: well 1848 is one of those crazy years were so many things are happening, worldwide you have democratic revolutions sweeping across europe and those revolutions are being celebrated in the united states and sheared and toasted in washington dc by people who are holding enslaved pe

i'm live here at daniel webster elementary in san francisco.wartz, back to you in the studio, alice. >> thank you. a growing number of people are buying properties with friends or family. it comes as the real estate market continues to become out of reach for many, as prices and interest rates remain high, according to zillow's housing trends report, 1 in 7 people bought a property with a friend last year, while 1 in 10 bought with a relative. joining us now for more insight is austin allison, who is the ceo and co-founder of picasso, a san francisco based property broker which lists shares of vacation homes. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> you know, austin, you do this for vacation homes. and it's one thing to share a vacation home with someone you know. you're not going to be there all the time. what about sharing a house that's going to be your primary residence with someone? that has to be different, right? >> well, as you mentioned in the opening, co-ownership is a growing trend. zillow just reported that 26% of all

he never becomes a daniel webster type. you know, caliber orator, to be sure. but he learns that he becomes he's a legislative president who to capitol hill to try to persuade members of congress in many cases with with great and also many ways at a level that was just controversial in the 19th century. he was employing certain presidential tactics that we all often associate with the modern presidency. but they were employed many ways. this was just him using his own common sense. if you look at his statesman ship during the last several months, the election of 1876, and in this tremendous crisis between republican rutherford hayes and democrat samuel tilden, who is the rightfully elected president, well, there is a that almost it's the closest the country came to erupting into full blown large scale violence than, of course, the election of 1860, which immediately triggers the civil war. well, grant statesmanship and maintaining a new, even handed, cautious posture during that period. in addition, making sure behind the scenes that washington was ready they w

daniel webster, the whig politician who wrote the whole progress of the american system, is marked by a peculiar conservatism, where it was peculiar because of its exceptional status only in the american antebellum republic, the argument went, was a conservative posture necessary in order to defend liberal enlightenment values? james fenimore cooper wrote here in america, the democrat is the conservative and thank god he has something worth preserving. and this perception, by the way, was was reinforced by radical rule. it was sometimes reinforced by radical european observers and immigrants to the united states. there were important chartist figures, and i'll be referencing one later on that the radical chartist movement in britain, many of them saw all across the ocean the united states as the place which had put into effect the demands of the people's charter. already they had accomplished the great republic of the west. everything that was being demanded by the working class movement for enfranchisement and more of transparent government and republicanism in britain. and so when a

attorney general, pam bondi senator eric schmitt from the great state of missouri, congressman daniel webster, congressman dan moser. i'm sorry if i'm mispronouncing congressman ronny jackson, the former white house physician, congressmen troy nehls, congressman del strong, congresswoman maria salazar, former white house aide sebastian gorka, chuck ss ido, former saturday or lives star, and jonny dangerously co-star, joe pisco, bill white what do you to make of it all? >> well, it central casting of a different kind. >> but luck, i mean, these are now there are so many people who want to come into the trial to watch this that the campaign is regulating them. and there just aren't enough seats in the courtroom. but look, this is all to give the former president, the defendant in this case some measure of comfort that the people literally have his back. interestingly, yesterday, as caitlin was reporting his supporters were allowed to stay in the courtroom as the press and others were clear, that was certainly odd to say the least. >> but i think the bigger point is of all this up because tell i