after a while, said dickey, we went upstairs to bed. there were two beds in our room, and i remember that lincoln set up in his nightshirt on the edge of the bed arguing the point with me. at last, we went to sleep. early in the morning, i woke up, and there was lincoln half sitting up in bed. dickey, said lincoln, i tell you, this nation cannot exist half slave and half free. oh, lincoln, replied dickey. go to sleep. thank you. [applause] >> questions? right here, come up to the microphone. sidney blumenthal: dan. >> well, first of all, welcome to the 19th century. [laughter] sidney blumenthal: i may not leave. >> and also, i hope that this speech will become the epilogue of your last volume. sidney blumenthal: this contains a lot of the story of the next volume which is coming out. >> now, my own feeling i have come to is that among the important things that lincoln has done in his life, it was nice that he ended slavery, great that he kept the union, but it seems the most important thing was, he, in the face of his own lyrical party

joining me is christopher dickey from editor at daily beast.hristopher, great to have you with us. merkel and hollande together in berlin. speaking out in a press conference against president trump. in a sense representing the eu, just as theresa may was meeting in washington. sort of a geopolitical push, what's it been like in the past 24 hours? >> reporter: i think the biggest concern will be nato. there will be issues over trade. there will be issues over brexit. obviously, theresa may taking one position and merkel and hollande taking another. nato is a position that they're all united on, they don't want to seat credibilie the credibil undermined. they have a situation where donald trump is saying maybe we'll support nato. maybe we won't. maybe we'll support the baltic states if russia screws around with them. maybe we won't. all of that is completely acceptable, all of these european leaders including theresa may from britain is pushing back from that. >> obviously, the past 24 hours has been the ban on refugees and others coming into the

. >> brian dickey is the guy at the bar. the only guy at the bar. at a place that's usually jammed with fans watching 9ers games. >> i can see the reflection here with the business here. hopefully it will pick up next year, and we'll see a better season. >> it's the hope for the future that keeps 49ers flanz afloat. >> every team has our rough period. give us two or three years. we'll be making the playoffs. >> any nfl team with rebuild within five years, and i'm really hoping that we do in the next five years. >> maybe we get the new general manager, you know, then we can start rebuilding the team and get back where we're supposed to be at. >> you have to stay faithful. >> 9ers for life. >> tickets were sold out long ago, of course, but after a 13-game losing streak earlier this season, many seats have been empty. s santa clara counts on the revenue. 9ers loyalty runs deeper than just winning. >> they did a lot for the city of san francisco, and the bay area communities. you know what i mean? they came and gave back to the neighborhoods. zploog on

. >> brian dickey is the guy at the bar. the only guy at the bar. at a place that's usually jammed with fans watching 9ers games. >> i can see the reflection here with the business here. hopefully it will pick up next year, and we'll see a better season. >> it's the hope for the future that keeps 49ers flanz afloat. >> every team has our rough period. give us two or three years. we'll be making the playoffs. >> any nfl team with rebuild within five years, and i'm really hoping that we do in the next five years. >> maybe we get the new general manager, you know, then we can start rebuilding the team and get back where we're supposed to be at. >> you have to stay faithful. >> 9ers for life. >> tickets were sold out long ago, of course, but after a 13-game losing streak earlier this season, many seats have been empty. s santa clara counts on the revenue. 9ers loyalty runs deeper than just winning. >> they did a lot for the city of san francisco, and the bay area communities. you know what i mean? they came and gave back to the neighborhoods. zploog on

. >> the dickey villa grotto, there's a number of places. and thank you for doing this. >> thank you. [inaudible] >> this is for tall people. we are actually going to new zealand for the first time. what would you recommend, or should i just buy the book? >> that would be the main version. there are so many things. if you go to a museum in wellington where i was born, he will see a giant squid that has been a colossal squid that has been beautifully mummified or that is a great place to go. what else is in the book? there is something all craters of the moon which is wonderful to walk around. it's a lunar landscape and very strange. then have places like if you are interested in the economy there is a machine called the imo near machine which uses water to demonstrate how the economy works. which is, think it's at the university of -- is in the book. i would definitely recommend that. it's a magical experience. >> where's the university? >> on the south islands. i should really notice. >> thank you. >> was there a wonder that you wanted in t

joining me now from paris is msnbc contributor and daily beast world news editor christopher dickey. start with giving us a round robin of the reaction around europe to what the united states has done. >> reporter: well, not to put too fine a point on it people here generally and especially in european governments think trump has lost his mind and the united states government is rapidly moving out of any kind of control, any kind of stability that's been known in the past. i think people are really genuinely worried. the people who are really enthusiastic about this are the hard liners in iran, the leaders of the so-called islamic state, they think this is just great because they see america as an idea being undermined hugely by trump's policies and they also see the basic chaos in the way the country is running as he tries to act like an autocrat in what has traditionally been a genuine democracy. i think that's the general reaction. obviously there are specific things. angela merkel, for instance, theresa may in britain, they are very interested in seeing that nato continues to get

. >> reporter: brian dickey is the guy at the bar, the only guy at the bar at a place that is usually jammed with fans watching 9ers games. >> a lot of the customers we've talked about it, and including even the waitresses here and waiters. it is kind of a sad thing to see, but there's always next year, and hopefully it will be a better season. >> it's that hope for the future that keeps 49ers fans afloat. >> every team has their rough periods. our down year. we'll come back in a year or two. give it a year. we'll be making the playoffs. >> maybe we get a new general manager. then we can start rebuilding the time e team. >> 9ers for life. 9ers for life. >> tickets were sold out long ago, of course, but after a 13-game losing streak, many seats have been empty. santa clara counts on attendance for revenue. almost $9 million a year from a slice of ticket sales and parking. >> even though they look bad on the field, we look good at the tailgate. don't forget it. >> so 2017 kicks off with new leadership to get the team back on track and to reignite faith among the faithful. in santa clara

. >> and a dickey. >> i've worn a dickey or two in my life.at dickeys are. >> it's a thing you wear under your shirt and looks like a turtleneck but goes like this. >> i have a whole new view of the hard news you did this morning knowing you were wearing that underneath everything. >> let's get to pop start. >> not yet. >> bring you up to date on instagraming this young lady has been doing. this one, you put up this morning, you're in the mirror taking selfies. >> wow. >> oh, that's so scary. >> day three of the today show, time to make the donuts. >> >> your husband says this might be overshare. >> what did he ask alexa? >> i'm sure he'll be talking to alexa. >> carson? >> okay. good news, janet jackson is officially a mom, the 50-year-old and her husband announcing the birth of their son eissa. it was a stress free and healthy delivery. speculation over the meaning of the baby's name is running rampant. congratulations to the jackson family. mariah carey has broken her silence. the pop star telling entertainment weekly dick clark never would

two men to the right is shortstop dickey pearce, who's credited with inventing the bunt.ks like a straitjacket. baseball uniforms have really changed over the years. i can see why. got to love this cap, though. take me out to the ballgame. so this is the bat. i see they're not playing with gloves. what about the balls? >> well, i have just the man to talk to for that. wild horse. >> wait. wild horse? >> that's his nickname. he runs the bases with wild abandon. >> you make those? >> i start with a rubber center, two cords of yarn. everything was handmade. >> ready? >> all right. >> really? oh, no. no gloves. aah! oh. it didn't hurt that bad. have you heard of the name archibald mcmahon? >> he's listed in the roster of the 1860 atlantics. actually, he played center field, and he batted third. so that's an indicatn that he was one of the better hitters. >> after the 1860 season, however, he becomes a bit of an enigma. he may have played for a pro team in manhattan, but census records after the civil war show him working as a butcher in san francisco. after that, his only app

daniel benjamin now director of the john sloan dickey center for international understanding at dartmouth college. first your reaction to what donald trump has told "the wall street journal," which is that, you know, he's willing to consider removing the sanctions that have been put in place about a month ago or so. what does that signal to our allies if he comes in and immediately removes those sapgss? >> before we get to what it will signal to our allies it will only underscore for the american people the concerns that they have about the let le jgitimacyf donald trump's election and raise questions about his ties to russia because after all our elections are, you know, a true vital interest and the fact that he would let russia off the hook for meddling in those e lks in a really extensive and to my mind unconscionable way would be really extraordinary. i think there are a lot of questions being raid by trump's continued leaning over backward for putin. >> let me get your take on the effectiveness of russia's capabilities in doing something like this. we know they may hack into the e-m

msnbc contributor and foreign editor for the daily beast, chris dickey, thank you for being with us. >>> want to turn to presidential politics and president-elect donald trump weighing in on the latest news of alleged russian hacking. this time, in malware found on a laptop at a vermont utility company. facing reporters' questions as he walked into his new year's eve party at mar-a-lago, he still raised doubts about intelligence reports that suggested russia hacked the u.s. election. >> i just want them to be sure. because it is a pretty serious charge and i want them to be sure. and if you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster. and they were wrong. and so i want them to be sure. i think it is unfair if they don't know and i know a lot about hacking, and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. so it could be somebody else. and i also know things that other people don't know. and so they cannot be sure of this situation. >> what do you know that other people don't know? >> you'll find out on tuesday or wednesday. >> also, new today, the department of homeland sec

. >> christopher dickey who joins us live from paris.ou and i have been on the scene in the last year actually on a number of attacks. what is your sense and what are you hearing about possible isis connections? >> well i think it's pretty clear that isis is behind this for a number of reasons. first of all, isis has a grudge against erdogan and against turkey at the moment. remember, chris, if we were talking about this in 2014 or 2015 we would have been talking about the way turkey was being used as a rear base by isis, people from europe going to join isis, went through turkey all the time, almost free passage through turkey to syria, to join the ranks of the islamic state. that started to end about a yearniyear ago and in the last few months finally the turks moved their military force against isis in its strongholds particularly around the now besieged city of al baab in northern syria. isis sees this as a betrayal. they see this as erdogan going back on whatever agreements they had with him, so they are taunting him. we haven't tal