dr. jennifer lincoln based in portland, oregon.have questions for our two doctors, please go ahead and ask on facebook live. dr. lincoln and dr. patel, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for talking about this. thank you for joining us. kristen: we do need to talk about it because i think there is a lot of misinformation out there. it's important to know that nothing has changed in california except for maybe efforts to expand abortion access. for women in the 26 states were abortion rights are being rolled back or eliminated, what is the range of restrictions that they now face? >> so we are seeing states that have trigger laws that are going into effect as we speak. people are panicking and are wondering if they will be a part of the schedule. they are wondering about other kinds of access, like access to their birth control and emergency contraception. there's a lot of fear, misinformation and anxiety, but is still hard toing. kristen: can i ask you, some of these states, trigger laws are the ones that have laws that w

and her most recent book was called lincoln and emancipation. so dr. merford will trace for us the ever-evolving meeting of the lincoln memorial where over its hundred year history. it's grown from something focused initially on national unity to its growing role in civil rights and a symbol of hope for all americans and i might add a baseball team that i took a picture of this morning on the steps a wedding ceremony that took place and they're throughout their pictures with the lincoln memorial and you might see the remnants of some of the local colleges who have had their graduation pictures taken out here on the lincoln memorial with that, please welcome dr. edna green medford. thank you, mr. kent. and thank you to the lincoln group of dc for the invitation to speak to this wonderful audience this morning. i believe you're all baking just like i am. so i'll try to be brief. on may 30th 1922 a diverse group of americans gathered at the site to honor the most celebrated man ever elected to national office at least in this country. in attendance were to

dr. king, abraham lincoln. it is dolly parton. it is i am pay. you need to get these right. white, gay, straight, rich, poor. she loves them all. there's no judgment. we need this as a culture right now. i want my kids to have this lesson. i want my daughter to have those less, my sense to have this lesson. >> my daughter's favorite is i am sonia sotomayor. she will love that one. >> for your writing gave you, you wrote a legal thriller. it was the tenth justice. it is about a law clerk that accidentally, inadvertently leaks the opinion for a controversial scotus decision. we've got that going on with this draft dobbs decision. putting aside the seriousness of what happens, how did you know, years ago, that this was going to happen. >> this is a proof that i am a time traveler. the moment that lee cap and i got phone calls from my friends. they were like you know what just happened? i know we just happened. honestly, when i wrote this book 25 years ago, the only thing that i am thrilled that is that the reviewer who said it couldn't have been is eating his words today. the t

about preventing the reemergence of brush out of the global power and stopping dr. china faith of russia and china, or lincoln. we can see the u. s. it's agonizing both nations and multiple front and ukraine. it's just among the many europe could face fuel shortages this. some of us have stock warning from the international energy agency chief, as he cautioned that the current european energy crisis, which was much bigger than the oil shocks of the $900.00 seventies. when the main holiday season starts in europe and the u. s. fuel demand will rise, then we could see shortages, for example, with the diesel petro or kerosene, particularly in europe, back in the 1970s, it was just about oil. now we have an oil crisis, a gas crisis in an electricity crisis simultaneously. the past year has already seen gasoline prices. thor in europe rising nearly 40 percent wont. diesel prices have seen an even shopping increase of almost 45 percent hitting all time european highs and the rising price is the you. leaders are preoccupied with a fresh rounds of anti moscow sanctions. as they announce a ban on the majority of russi

. >> and lincoln's second inaugural address again handwritten first but then printed out by the government printing office. drrather than let the nation survive and the other would rather accept war rather than let the country perish, and the war came. >> i've only seen these documents inscribed on the side of the lincoln memorial. >> exactly. >> reporter: the library is in the process of dij digitalizing 61 million items. so everyone can view these documents on the loc website. >>our podcast is about reading and so authors' original manuscripts, well, they've got those too. >> here you have the walt whitman collection. >> one of his poems. >> you can see his notations and crossouts and that's another thing with the original documents and the crossouts, you see the process of creation. what intrigues young people the most when you're showing them original documents and things are the crossouts. >> oh, yes. >> and saying, oh, well, this is a famous person and this is what they did but they changed things and crossed out, yes. and then speaking of good silver. >> yeah. >> the collection. >> ralph ellison. >> "i

you had the lincoln monument, the structure, the pools, and dr. speech that was great, the "i have a dream " speech. how good was that? it was massive! tremendous numbers of people. they said it was one million people. then i gave my speech, and they showed the same thing. it's hard to believe, many decades later, but it is identical architecture, identical pools. you look at it, the lincoln, everything was identical, but it was many years later. his, they said, one million people! my pictures were exactly the same, but the people were slightly closer together. they were more compact, but exactly the same, but there were more people. they were "tighter together" if you look at it. donald trump has 25,000 today. dr. martin luther king had one million, and that's fine. donald trump, with more people, had 25,000. i have it in my office, and it says, one million, 25,000, but that is what we have to pull through. [applause] he understands that, and his speech was great. i would say my speech is better. i like my speech. if it were an insurrection that

lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. it didn't become a federal holiday until last year with a stroke of president biden's pen. in ft. worth, texas, dr. opal lee head a 2 1/2-mile walk to start the juneteenth celebration there. she's knownas the grandmother of juneteenth, a leading advocate of making it a federal holiday. in chicago, the juneteenth market event put a spotlight on black-owned businesses in buffalo, new york, site of one of the nation's largest juneteenth festivals, the state's governor paused to remember the victims of last month's racist attack at a crowded grocery store. in washington, the national museum of african american history and culture has been holding juneteenth commemorations in person and online >> i hope people understand not only the importance of juneteenth to african american culture but also its relevance to all of american culture and history. >> reporter: also this weekend, the national archives museum is displaying the original emancipation proclamation alongside the juneteenth order in a statement, president biden said great nations don't ignore their most painful moments, they confront them to

dr. king invoked the unfinished promise of the emancipation, i think frankly it was a watershed meant, principally for the civil rights movement but also for the lincoln memorial. it now became the symbol of what lincoln himself called, in the words of the gettysburg address, the unfinished work of equality in america. host: back to the phone lines. we had the special phone lines for those who visited the lincoln memorial on the west end of the national mall. ted on the line from ocean, hawaii. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was just joining the merchant and washington and i remember it was close to midnight going to the memorial and just being in awe, just stood there and looked at all of the things he accomplished and what a great president he was and he absolutely deserves to be number one. i was lucky to be there. that is what i wanted to say. guest: that's a beautiful sentiment. the reason point worth sharing. though he did not know it when he installed the statue here in 1919, three years before the dedication, the statue is open, the memorial is open day and nights. it is beautifully lit with the highest grade electric lighting which f

dr. king invoked the unfinished promise of the emancipation, i think frankly it was a watershed meant, principally for the civil rights movement but also for the lincoln memorial. it now became the symbol of what lincoln himself called, in the words of the gettysburg address, the unfinished work of equality in america. host: back to the phone lines. we had the special phone lines for those who visited the lincoln memorial on the west end of the national mall. ted on the line from ocean, hawaii. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was just joining the merchant and washington and i remember it was close to midnight going to the memorial and just being in awe, just stood there and looked at all of the things he accomplished and what a great president he was and he absolutely deserves to be number one. i was lucky to be there. that is what i wanted to say. guest: that's a beautiful sentiment. the reason point worth sharing. though he did not know it when he installed the statue here in 1919, three years before the dedication, the statue is open, the memorial is open day and nights. it is beautifully lit with the highest grade electric lighting which f

dr. king invoked the unfinished promise of the emancipation, i think, frankly, it was a watershed moment for the civil rights movement, but also for the lincoln memorial. it now became the symbol of lincoln himself had called, in the words of the gettysburg address, incised on this wall, the unfinished work of equality in america. >> back to the phone lines, a special line for those who have visited the lincoln memorial in washington, d. c., there on the west end of the national mall. tenth on that line, ocean view, hawaii. good morning. >> good morning, sir. thank you for taking my call. it has been, well, i was just joining the merchant marine in the united states and i had gone from washington state back to washington, d. c., to go to college. i remember one night, close to midnight, going to the memorial over there. and i was just in our, stood there and thought about all of the things he had accomplished and what a great president he was, and he absolutely does deserve to be number one. a great person. lucky to be there, lucky to be there. that is what i want to say. >> it