douglas. >> douglas was like this tremendously institutionalized figure.he author of the kansas-nebraska act. >> everybody thought that lincoln was a sacrificial lamb in that race. >> douglas spent a fortune in this campaign in rallies and bands and travel arrangements. >> stephen douglas has his own campaign train. the back of the train has got a cannon on it. so every time the train gets into a town, they set off the cannon as if to announce the great man has arrived. douglas is drawing big crowds wherever he campaigns. so lincoln begins to show up at douglas' speeches and rallies. he's getting bigger crowds than ever by campaigning in stephen douglas' wake. >> the democratic press marks lincoln for appropriating douglas' crowds. so his advisers come up with an alternative. >> lincoln writes a letter that will change his career and really change politics. >> he challenges douglas to debates. >> here was a onetime congressman, abraham lincoln. he was going to take on stephen a. douglas? oh, my goodness, you could hear the laughter. whether you're curling

lamb in that race. >> douglas spent a fortune in the campaign. >> douglas has his own campaign trainck of the train has a cannon on it. every time the train gets into a town, they set off the cannon, as if to announce the great man has arrived. douglas is drawing big crowds. wherever he campaigns. so lincoln begins to show up at douglas speeches and rallies. he's getting bigger crowds than ever by campaigning in steven douglas' wake. >> the democratic press mocks lincoln for appropriating the crowds. so he comes up with an alternative. >> he writes a letter that will change his career, and really change politics. >> he challenges douglas to debates. >> here was a one-time congressman, abraham lincoln, he was going to take on steven a. douglas? oh, my goodness, you could hear the laughter. (naj) at fisher investments, we do things differently and other money managers don't understand why. (money manager) because our way works great for us! (naj) but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. (money manager) so, what do you provide? cookie cutte

steven douglas.ouglas was the author of the ka kansas/nebraska act. >> everybody saw lincoln was a sacrificial lamb in that race. >> douglas spends a fortune. douglas had his own campaign train. the back of the train got a cannon on it. every time the train gets into a town, they set off the cannon as if to announce the great man has arrived. douglas is joined by big crowds where ever he campaigns. so lincoln begins to show up at douglas' speeches and rallies. he's getting bigger crowds than ever by campaigning at douglas' wake. >> so his advisers come up with an alternative. >> lincoln writes a letter that'll change his career and really changed politics. he challenges douglas to debates. here was a one time congressman, abraham lincoln, he was going to take on steven a. douglas. oh my goodness, you can hear the laughter. the fastest 5g in the world. available in parts of many cities. it's not just a great network. it's ridiculously fast. (vo) stream your favorite shows in ultra hd. i'm so excited a

douglas, go at once! >> >> go quickly mr. douglas, and godspeed.erik, the women in your counsel know that you've been fighting this cause for half a century? >> it's the man i'm trying to reach. if any of them are still -- unlimited must have the right to vote. >> do you really think you can change their minds? >> perhaps. i've changed a few in my time. >> perfect. >> let us stop the war of on the soil. and among the rebels that attack it. organize yourselves and to societies and communities. purchase arms for yourselves. learn how to use them. let us not only be ready when called, but let us have the opportunity to strike for the freedom of the slaves and the rights of human nature. for we shall be called, and we must be ready. >> thank you! >> thank you sir for accepting this visit. >> mr. douglas, your reputation precedes you. we appreciate your efforts for so many negro troops. now, tell me your concerns. >> to put it bluntly, mister president, our negro soldiers are receiving inferior training, lower pay and in other ways of being unfairly tre

douglas. back then, they chose senators not by a popular vote like they have done since the 17th amendment was ratified in 1913, i believe, but before then, it was done indirectly. you chose your state legislators, house and senate representatives who would meet in the general assembly and then have the official vote in the winter after the november election. so on january 5, 1859, abraham lincoln officially lost that second senate race to douglas in the 21st general assembly of illinois by a vote of 54-46. what a lot of people do not realize is his bid for the presidency began the very next day informally. ,he gets together with a group of prominent republicans who were therefore part of the general assembly, a lot of his lawyer friends in illinois, and the republican party in illinois has just gone through the wringer because he just lost. they are in debt. they are meeting in the basement of the state capitol and in the basement was the state library. so they used the library on a snowy thu

douglas. back then it was done as -- indirectly you chose your state legislators, house and senate representatives who would meet in a general assembly and have the official vote usually in the winter after the november election. know in november of 1959 lincoln officially lost that senate race by a vote of 54-46. what a lot of people don't realize is his bid for the presidency began the very next day, informally. he gets together with a group of prominent republicans who were there for the general assembly, either to witness it or be a part of i. a lot of his lawyer friends in illinois. and the republican party in illinois had just gone through the ringer because he had just lost, they are in debt. and they are meeting in the basement of the state capital which now is the old state capital which you can visit as tourist. in the base men was the state library. they use the state library on a snowy thursday. and they get down there and they are talking about the state of the party. and they are

lincoln takes apart the douglas argument.they are in cincinnati there is a small part of kentucky north of them and if you follow the river course down, this little bro will -- old here, there are ohio elements south of this bold. lincoln comes out and says pray, what made you free, could it be climate and soil? he abolishes that idea by saying no, if that was the reason, we are in a region where north of us are parts of kentucky, why are they riddled with slavery and ohio is free of it? the only reason is because ohio was art of a territory that disallowed slavery and kentucky was not bound by that same ordinance. he said that is why you have to have the same kind of laws across the mississippi river because the chances of having a slave free state in those territories would be much less if they were slavery territories. the argument worked brilliantly, because he gave a different speech, that is the speech that traveled the most. those are the kind of messages that lincoln established for the middle ground edition -- positi

first he's meeting with douglas is not really getting douglas anything he wants and by the end he's pretty much giving douglas all that you want. which is both reflecting how the war is progressing but also showing lincoln is not afraid to really hear what douglas is saying trying to maybe go that direction. if that will work. i think john slade is reportedly there is the only person tolincoln practicing the gettysburg address . slade's daughter will write that slade mentions lincoln would read it out loud which by the way is exactly how lincoln would practice. he was possibly reading aloud to the people around him so he would do that and we know thatgettysburg address , however short it was may well be the greatest two-minute oration in american history so the person that seems to have been the primary sounding board was an african-american who hadknown him for years . so that's all part of the lincoln story. the book is not endless, it's about 4 to 500 pages. i wish i could get everything but i'd like to think i got to some of it thank you so much, michael gerhart and judy for a wonderfu

so douglas came to see that. lincoln's slow plotting methodical means of moving the country forward was actually crucial to freeing four million black americans and i think that's a very poignant moment when? douglas discovers my god this guy is is saying exactly what this war was about it was about ending slavery. and that was not the you know, that was not the overarching of interpretation of the war at the time. and you did an immense amount of research for this for this book and it shows and did you come across anything in in your sources that surprised you? yeah chief justice i think the thing that surprised me most was just how bitterly hate hated lincoln was and how he he got it from all sides. i mean he the south of course viewed him is a terrible tyrant, but so did many democrats in the north. they they viewed him as somebody who had sort of trash the constitution you served powers. he shouldn't. have put people in jail. worded constitutional liberties and so forth so they were very upset with them and i

which douglas knew him most of his life. i think that meant he was there in the moment, he knew what was going on and they would he be able to figure out what may be the path forward from this point? so throughout his life, one of the things i think i might have identified or at least found interesting is there is a pattern blinken goes back to you. it's not so much their more important than anyone else they each have influence and their influence throughout his life. she mentioned andrew jackson, one of the founders of the democrat party. henry clay one of the founders of the whig party. also, zachary taylor the winning a general in the mexican war blinken supports over clay for the presidential nomination in the late 1840s. clay and taylor are in many respects the two most prominent kentuckians and blinken's lifetime. so if blinken is looking on the state were he's born thinking who might there be that would be prominent and become president for my state, they are clay and taylor. he likes taylor's oneness, his down-to-ear

douglas originally agreed espouse that view for ten years. himself. he interpreted if it ought to be interpreted the constitution is a glorious liberty document. look at the preambles secure the first month the second the fifth amendment, due process of law, all of these great principles coursing to the constitution pretty take all of those who enforce them and slavery has to fall. >> and their anti- constitution they were also pacifists. but douglas grew to realize that slavery could only be ended through force. how did that manifest >> douglass was no pacifists. his biography tells a remarkable story went on to a slave breaker, and douglas defends himself. they have this brawl, this fight, douglas prevails after two hours and said that guyton never raised a hand against me after that. and he took that lesson to heart and he believed in armed self-defense big champion of second amendment gun rights. and used throughout the civil war also as he told that blinken administration armed the slaves, take the slaveholders it's the one they have to

douglas for the illinois senate seat. he said about half the people of our country today with people from some place else. they are poem from germany, from france, from scandinavia, from what have you, and they don't have -- they are not descended from the american revolutionaries and they don't know much about the american revolutionaries. only read about the american revolution, they are real reading about a history, but lincoln said when they look into that declaration of independence and when they read there, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. right then lincoln said they feel thereby flesh of the flesh and blood of the blood of those men who wrote the declaration. he believed that principle was a non-negotiable one and that the declaration and the constitution acted together as what he described as being apples of gold in pictures of silver. you didn't take the constitution and try to set it against the

here is an excerpt from justice douglas. the example usually given by those who would punish speech is one of a person who shouts fire in a crowded theater. this is one where speech is brigade with action. they are inseparable. they are indeed inseparable and prosecution can be launched for the overt acts actually cost. -- actually caused. >> douglas was the most absolutist in protecting freedom of speech. black, who joined in douglas' concurrence, used to quote the first amendment. congress shall make "no law" abridging the freedom of speech. blackwood say and -- black would say and douglas echoed, no law means no law. they tried to make this distinction between speech and conduct, but not quite. it is speech that is so closely tied or brigaded, as douglas said, to conduct, that the only way you could prevent the dangerous conduct is by suppressing the speech. but, again, it has to be an emergency situation. it has to be suppression only as a last resort if persuasion or law enforcement does not do the job. >> what came out

his name is douglas stuart and he is my guest today.as stuart in new york state, welcome to hardtalk. hi, stephen. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you on the show. douglas, i think people right around the world are still discovering your extraordinary novel, shuggie bain. they may be surprised to learn that it took you pretty much a decade, maybe a little bit more than a decade, to actually complete this novel. now, that makes it sound like it was very difficult to write. was it difficult? it was at times quite difficult to write, because it draws on a lot of experience from my own life. but like many writers, i had to juggle the writing of it with some real—world needs of being in employment and earning a living. but also a big part of why it took me ten years to write — because ijust loved the writing of it and i didn't want to close the book, as it were, or say goodbye to the characters at the heart of it. you wrote it, interestingly, very far from where it is set because, of course, you were born and raised i

the curious thing is that in that respect, douglas was right. he take lincoln starting point and it will be in fact no place to stop. when you start talking about the equality of natural rights, the line that separates natural rights from civil rights or social rights is a very porous one. once you grab that equality of natural rights people are gonna start pressing through that to all these other kinds of rights, and in that perverse way stephen a douglas saw the future. it was a future that lincoln believed had to come because it was going to be based on what the declaration of independence set. so all those things were going to come. now with a come right away? no. but lincoln said what you read in the good book, it says be as perfect as your father in heaven is perfect. now does that all mean that we're gonna be perfect just like that? no, it means that we aspire more and more and more towards that kind of spiritual perfection, they're like was as lincoln. said this is what we are doing as a people. our government, our people we are an exper

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i would also like to compliment justice douglas. he was very happy to try and greatly starts in my draft case in 1972. as for the lady from aclu, very nice lady, i would like to ask her what she is doing about the crippling of free speech. at my parents alma mater at berkeley in california. and the conservative speakers that have been banned there. >> >> thank you so much, charles. i wish i had the power to control what happens at berkeley. i am doing what i can, speaking on many campuses, including hopefully berkeley soon. the whole reason i spent much of the last year writing my book, which is defending freedom of speech or hate speech, advocating counter speech and other measures to deal with actual problems of hatred and discrimination. but the reason i felt it was necessary was, clearly we free speech advocates have not persuaded too many college students and members of the public. i hope this book will make the case more persuasively and the berkeley students will start showing more respect on free speech. >> we are on a campu

the kansas-nebraska act of 1854 the work primarily of illinois center steven douglas this is one that blue the tops off the heads of many northerners and especially people oppose to slavery the the crux of the kansas-nebraska act was to repeal that portion of the missouri compromise 1820 that had barred slavery from the northern part of the louisiana purchase. that was 18 20. this is 1854 it fell in the category of what the juris called settled law. it's been around for a long time and northerners those people who are opposed to slavery. they presume that that was the permanent deal and their hope was still that if the growth of slavery could be contained then slavery eventually would fall under its own weight, but the kansas-nebraska act says sorry we're taking that lid off of slavery. and this was compounded three years later when the dreads got case the grotes got decision said that. the missouri compromise that part of the missouri compromise had been unconstitutional from the beginning because it after the the kansas nebraska act. it was possible for people like abraham lincoln w

he chose to use six pins for douglas, mac, and arthur and douglas macarthur on the second document. he did this for a simple reason and one that we still do today if you look at lawmakers when they sign important laws. what do you want them to do? give these pens away as souvenirs. he stepped up to the microphone and said simply, these proceedings are closed. he gave a signal and above the missouri 1000 aircraft flew in formation. the beginning to the ends from -- [interpreter] it took 23 minutes. it is all it took to end the bloodiest conflict in your history. >> at the end of the war, the united states would emerge as the world's first nuclear power. soon afterward, the soviet union would join the arms race. that led to a protracted cold war with each country adding to their nuclear arsenals. in the united states, testing of these weapons would take place at a site just outside of las vegas. the national atomic testing museum shares how the atomic age which began on august 6, 1945, would capture the imagination of the americans. >> the museum focuses on atomic testing over a perio

i mean douglas, as you know, had -- he was off and on on lincoln. he basically said at the end that he was the only person that treated me like a human being, even if he was impatient with some of his tactics. then he wasn't in office. it was very difficult. it was people like us on the outside agitating for things and you're not the person that has to make the decisions. it is sometimes tough to understand what what people are doing, but he did not change his assessment of andrew johnson. >> i'm going to ask you a washington related question. >> washington the city? >> yes, as you know he survived impeachment by one vote from edmond ross who got into "profiles of courage" because of that, but were you able to tell if ross really voted his conscious or if he was bought off? or if he came under the influence of his former commander. or if it was the brother tom ewing, was it really a profile in courage? >> no, and i talk a little bit about the charges that there were, in fact, instances where people were bought off. i was not able to find anything de

douglas took a look at his throat, and grant looked at douglas's face and said, is it cancer? and unfortunately the doctor had to tell them that it was cancer. grant worked on his memoirs throughout the winter of 1884-85. towards the spring of 1885, it was really touch and go. he had a couple of near-death experiences and his doctors believed the only way he would survive long enough to finish his book was to get him out of the city, which was humid and dusty and hot, to a mountaintop environment. that's what they did with a lot of ailing people in that time period. so they were looking for opportunities, and a friend of the family, joseph drexel, approached the doctors and the grant family to offer them the use of his cottage he had just purchased on the top of mount macgregor, just above saratoga springs. the cottage he offered to the grants was fairly modest in size. but did have six rooms upstairs and a few rooms downstairs. it had been originally a small inn tilt by the first owner of the mountain, duncan macgregor. it was moved to accommodate the expansion of the resort

the highly acclaimed book also won 15 additional awards including the frederick douglas prize. her 2011 study of andrew johnson, the subject of her talk this morning was praised as brilliantly written and fair-minded. the book is not available in the bookstore today. you'll have to order it, but i do have her most recent book, and that is coauthored, and it is titled "the most blessed of patriarchs." she will be available for a few minutes after her presentation to sign a few books for you. so please help me welcome one of my favorite augers annette gordon reid. >> thank you so much. it's great to be here. last night was just fabulous. the talk about stanton, the army chorus and the energy of the place. i'm usually in a room full of people who are enthusiastic about or interested in or obsessed about thomas jefferson. and it's strange to be in a room with people who are interested, obsessed with somebody else. there are other people, other subjects, other things. and it was great. and i did a facebook post about it, and i said now i know what we must look like to other people.

texas is just out to lunch right now. >> thank you, douglas, be safe. we wish you well, hope the power comes back on. thank you very much. >> okay, thanks. >>> check back in with sylvia, a texas mother of five, three children with special needs who has been devastated by the texas power outages and she joins us now. it's so good to see you, last night we were by phone and now i get to see you and your beautiful family. thank you so much. so we spoke last night on the show about how hard the situation is, hitting your family and one of our viewers reached out to help today. so tell us about that. >> well first of all i want to say thank you to everybody. we've just had an overwhelming response from all over the world. all your viewers, we had a viewer, mr. raymond boyd, reached out and he was able to use his diamond membership and pull some strings and he got us into a hotel. the light has not been back on at the house. it came on for three minutes, and then it powered back down. but there's a smile on our face tonight because we're sleeping warm, and we

. >> douglas is active in the pro-democracy movement.e fled hong kong after the security law was introduced. he was born after 1997 and is not eligible for the visa without his parents. his savings are running out. and now so to is his tour visa. he will soon have to leave the u.k. paired with travel restrictions and a around the world, he and others like him are finding that doors are firmly closed. >> as we always say during protests, no matter we go up or down, we go together. i hope those who are eligible will think about those who are not and bear in mind that some are still struggling to find a safe place to settle. >> another douglas nor he knows when they will go back to hong kong. he is hopeful his children's futures are secure appeared for douglas, even the next few weeks are unclear. brent: here's a reminder of the top story we are following for you. myanmar's military has seized control of the country, declaring a one-year state of emergency. soldiers have arrested leader aung san suu kyi. the united states is threatening san

i now want to bring in douglas brinkley. he has been without water and power in austin, texas, for days. so, douglas, we see the candles again and the flashlight behind you. first of all, it's good to see you. i hope you're holding up well, and i know it's below freezing in austin tonight. >> yeah. we're holding up well in my family. the water has been off for just days, and this whole boil-water scenario is real. our power had been off all day. about two hours ago, the power came on, and it was a lot of cheers. people in our neighborhood walking out and getting to see lights. then it went back down again. so there's still rolling blackouts going on right now. but the whole state is in a sense of real crisis, don. the roads of austin have not been plowed properly. most businesses are shut because people can't go anywhere, so you've got look for the one lone pizza place that might be open to serve utility workers or the one grocery store when you get there, there's nothing left on the shelves. >> boy. i've got to ask you beca

so was it was a civil war that inspired douglas to write and speak on photography like many americans. he believed that photographs and pictures greatly contributed to the succession and a war over slavery during the civil war douglas wrote a number of lectures. he also had created this sense of man the sense of commitment to the war and he wrote once you the black man get upon his person the breath letter us. let him get an eagle on his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket and there's no power on earth or under earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the united states. finding that quote and i use it often just in terms of in the aspect of the visuality of the experience of being photographed harry may weems is a contemporary artist who is central to my research. so i look she as we think about the missing history of images carrie may weems. creates this self-portraits and an antebellum dress style with with a quilt and she says i looked and looked to see what's so terrified you she's looking at the history of images of black peopl

and douglas said lincoln used to be an alcoholic. it's ironic because lincoln never drank but douglas was an alcoholic unfortunately. even then, lincoln made a joke. he said i think i once worked in a distillery in kentucky. he didn't even say no i don't drink. douglas was someone who really used nasty language. he said it's going to be a white man's government forever and ever and that's all. he use the n word left and right and lincoln never use that kind of language. host: you mentioned the second inaugural address. i want to read from your book about that. both sides now is the chapter. one of lincoln's remarkable statements in the second inaugural address describes the religious views of the north and south. both through the same bible and pray to the same god, the prayers of both cannot be answered and that of neither has been answered fully. you write these deceptively simple words contain a world of wisdom, religion was the main driver of the civil war, each side was convinced of god's favor. very few participants in the war

me that douglas nor little know when they'll go back to hong kong. longs hopeful that his children's futures and now secure. but for douglas even the next few weeks are unclear we have hung activist nathan la with us he lives and works in exile in the u.k. nathan beijing is not happy about this and has threatened to retaliate what realistically can it do well for now beijing. not recognising the n.o.'s of the hong government follows this process so we can see if there are just a little bit inconvenienced attitude or wanting to use of you know trouble because of they have to use our hope or as they are asked to leave the border in hong kong but i think in general there are very limited retaliation measures that beijing boy so on our. student observing how the situation escalate the most possible on retaliation would be. doing something on the notion of double nationality and on but i don't think it will come in any time sir. that's very interesting so beijing will have to be creative if it wants to do something now on the british front what else would

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but for douglas even the next few weeks are unclear. streamliner the top story we're following for you here today on t.w. news the military has carried out a coup that could a time in myanmar they have seized control of the country and detained key government officials including de facto leader aung sun suu cheap they cues the government of failing to act on voter fraud in last november's election where. you are watching d.w. news rob watts is coming up next with all the latest business news remember our website d.w. dot com you can get news information there any time he wants to also find us on twitter and instagram that means my name is terry mark thanks for being with us. the for. the fun. it's a symbol of failed refugee policies in the new movie the more young refugee camp. it was planned to be a transit station and yet people are stuck here often for years. trapped in the true moyle of european politics. who is to blame for the drama in mourning. in 45 minutes on g.w. . cutting through the noise. floor i come from people are known

but for douglas even the next few weeks are unclear. and here's a reminder of the top story that we're following for you and me and mars military has seized control of the country declaring a one year state of emergency soldiers have arrested leader on song suchi western leaders have condemned the coups the united states is threatening sanctions and the u.n. security council has called an emergency meeting for tuesday. you're watching e.w. news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight they're calling it europe's vaccine war we'll take you to the front lines will be right back. you know that 77 percent. are younger than 6 o'clock. that's me and me and. you know what time of all forces. the 77 percent talk about the peace you got. from politics to fashion from housing to feed to top this is where they are. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend on t w. i cannot sleep because who. isn't. in those smaller and smaller. rooms the rules. there's no use. for the we're. using the. can't sleep. study. in the u.k. 12 p

douglas was someone who use nasty language. douglas said it will be a white man's government forever. he used the n word. lincoln never used that kind of language. host: i just want to read some from your book about that. both sides now is the title of the chapter. one of lincoln's remarkable statements in the second inaugural address describes the religious views of the north and south. they both prayed to the same god, the prayers of both could not be answered and that of neither has been answered fully. you write, these deceptively simple words contain a world of wisdom. each side was convinced of god's favor. very few participants in the war could detach themselves from their convictions to grasp the paradox lincoln perceived. northerners and southerners were going at one another's throats with similar prayers on their hearts and similar hymns on their lips. lincoln in the second inaugural made a dramatic move beyond destructive partisanship. final thoughts on that and your book? david reynolds? guest: too many people today

hughton and i think douglas schubert said they were using it was a scottish nationalist in his heart but a unionist in his head and got the past wrong with a ewing. the hat side of the pair that my access wrecked a wrong quoting the bob himself and finally john cooper said that's going to be a good read easter offending to the new brooklyn jimmy reed by brian mcguigan coming out in time for the festival a vast sea of the u.c. s. work and he can't wait says says john and now we turn to a topic of the day is sure the topic has dominated conversation across the planet over the last year of the the pandemic the coronavirus professor look at deal of trinity college dublin is a man who knows more about vaccines and more sed professor neal in your assessment where are we with this struggle that's developing between the vaccines in the one hand and the virus on the other. well that's a big question alex in a way i mean we're making great progress last night now no doubt about that i mean the rate a vaccination in the u.k. for example is spectacular we the c.n.n. israel every country is happe

we have seen that again just today. >> that's absolutely brilliant, douglas. i am tired of half of these muslim islam-a -phobe deteriorates. corners deaths are down but the restrictions are ramping up and students can no longer outdoors or even leave their dorm rooms. that's next on "fox news primetime." straining, and bloating, again and again. no way. more exercise. more water. and more fiber is the only way to manage it. is it? maybe you think... it's occasional constipation. maybe it's not. it could be a chronic medical condition called ibs-c, and time to say yesss! to linzess. linzess works differently than laxatives. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to children less than six and it should not be given to children six to less than 18, it may harm them. do not take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain, especially with bloody or black stools. the most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. if it's severe,

douglas agrees with him and i was thinking to myself when i contemplated that meeting, these two guys, both of them completely committed at that time to the abolitionist slavery and certain it wasn't. if the democrats, one that election were sure he would. civil war would have ended without abolition. it wasn't over until it was over. there was nothing inevitable without this. getting those steps, to understand how complicated and difficult the process was is something i've been trying to get out for a very long time. >> i want to digress for a moment and ask about the relationship between lincoln, two extraordinary people, how did they feel toward one another? >> it changed over time. not entirely easy to tell because these two guys are pretty shut down about their private feelings about things. we know them from their public speeches but it looks to me, i said this in my book, over the course of the they had, they grew affection toward one another. douglas first initiates the meeting in the summer of 1862, is going to complain you haven't done enough, the confederates are killing bl

but for douglas even the next few weeks are unclear. we have hong kong activist nathan la with us he lives and works in exile in the u.k. nathan beijing is not happy about this and has threatened to retaliate what realistically can it do well for now beijing. not recognising the n.o.'s of the hong kong government follows these practices so we can see if there are just a little bit inconvenienced attitude people or wanting to use of you know trouble because of they have to use our whole point of say our passports to leave the border in home but i think in general there are very limited retaliation measures that beijing people boy so when our. student observing how the situation escalates the most possible retaliation will be doing something on the notion of double nationality and i don't think it will come in any time soon. that's very interesting so beijing will have to be creative if it wants to do something now on the british front what else would you like to see the government do there. after they had them in the national security lo

douglas ollivant senior fellow at new america future of war project good to have you with us douglas i want to stop asking for your reaction to this u.n. report which finds that erik prince violated the arms embargo on libya. not terribly surprised when mr prince got to pop up all kinds of places new company into your services group has been that reste implicated in some amends and in the reader is a china. doesn't work or to be u.a.e. bihu are not terminally surprised this is what you guys all freelance fights is more prevalent today than in previous decades all thanks to the media we just more aware of their presence in the world's conflict zones now. i think just more aware there have been groups in africa for a long time former her arms like us sandline executive outcomes played a significant role in africa in the last century certainly we're more aware since the beginning of the afghanistan and iraq wars and the prevalence of firms like that no longer exist in blackwater all of groups of that nature to what extent are they acting as proxies then in the interests of external act.

yes, it is all but certain they will vote to acquit donald trump. >> douglas herbert.hanks so much as always for your insight. u.s. president joe biden has announced there will be new sanctions against the military regime in myanmar in the wake of a coup there last week. biden said his administration is working to identify the first round of measures this week, and that they would include strong export ctrols. he also did not rule out imposing additional sanctions if the country's military does not standdown. president biden: i again call on the burmese military to immediately release the democratic political leaders and activists they are now detaining including aung san suu kyi. she is -- also the president. the military must relinquish power and demonstrate respect for the rule of the people of burma. as expressed and then november 8 election. so, today, i'm announcing a series of actions that are worth taking to begin imposing consequences on the leaders of the coup. >> meantime, it is the fifth day of protests in myanmar. so far at least two people have been injur