address and the battle of gettysburg or his death for that matter. he talked to the cabinet that day and he had the dream that my before and that was a big surprise me at the beginning when you have that beautiful scene of him on that ship in the definable shore. but before that scene, just before, was lincoln with a couple of black soldiers in a couple of white soldiers and talking to them, to him, and said the gettysburg address to him, portions of it and to me it seemed, and i have a shrink in the audience here, that was part of the dream that he had himsele he remember the last part of the earlier part was what he was proud of him saw perhaps being embedded into the culture already and so we have now from cleveland saying tony did you ever consider -- the gettysburg address? well, yes. >> well originally my first attempt to narrow the story down i started in september of 1863 which is around the time that his secretary of the treasury began to make it very sort of publicly known that he intended to challenge lincoln from within the cabinet for th

they were not at gettysburg. if they were captured they would have been sentenced to slavery. >> confederates decided not to take prisoners if they captured black soldiers. killed them in very brutal ways. >> i do want to say hello to the ken northern should civil war museum. a spectacular museum. if you have never been it to, you should. it's just up north of chicago about an hour and a half, and they're online with us today, and as well my hometown, holm land park become public library, hello, neighbors, welcome to our shop. i appreciate you being online as well. i was -- peter from milwaukee asked was there a character that was especially difficult to write for? >> well, no one ever asked me that. lincoln. that was the hardest -- once i got over the fear of doing it, it became easier, although you have to be very, very careful when you putting word thursday the mouth of lincoln. >> what about seward? >> the difference between -- seward is obviously an immensely gifted politician and an incredible figure, but n

from cape cod national seashore to the historic battlefield at gettysburg, to yellowstone and yosemite, national parks across the country are bracing for huge budget cuts. potential impacts are outlined in this national park service memo. fewer park rangers, reduced hours of operation, closed facilities. some parks could be forced to close hiking trails and campgrounds. >> places like gettysburg, they will have to turn away 2400 children who were there for school programs. >> the bathrooms are going to be dirty. some of the trash cans are not going to be emptied. >> part visitor john henderson says the spending cuts are needed. >> i think sequestration is a good thing. >> one republican congressman says the park service will have to do more with less in these tough times. >> maryland's newest millionaire has stepped forward. the 48-year-old said before going to bed tuesday night, her fiance told her they would wake up richer, and they certainly did. she said she plans to buy a beach house. the winning ticket was sold at a shell station on lakeview drive. congratulations. >> now, your i

this could also impact student education at gettysburg. >> we are feeling the impact of the storm that hit the midwest this week. a winter weather advisory is in effect in parts of arlington through tomorrow. >> let's get right to doug for what we can expect. >> 32 right now in arlington. precipitation is very light. because we are so close to freezing just the risk of a little freezing rain can be big. there is some patchy, light drizzle around the area. if it the venture is 34, it could reign forever and never -- temperature is 34, it could reign forever and never freeze. the bigger story will be tomorrow. there is the area under advisory until 10:00 a.m. for a touch of freezing drizzle. temperatures in the metro area should not change much and might actually rise a degree or two as we head through the evening hours. we have a lot more on what to expect coming up in a couple of minutes. >> check out the snow that fell in chicago overnight and earlier today. this is the same storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in the great plains. it lost some of its punch as it moved west but

after the gettysburg address after gettysburg itself and atlanta and shenandoah valley, lincoln has shown himself to be the great leader he is, nearly half of the population will support abraham lincoln. so i guess it strikes me as necessary to look at the whole universe. if you look at the republican party and its policy of leaders, jim is exactly right. if you pull the camera back and say who i was on board with this, i think this is one thing the movie does a pretty good job of showing the democrats who are just apoplectic that lincoln didn't win. i don't think reconstruction -- at the beginning. you asked before it annette, about what is gained and lost in the prospectus today. i think it's the danger of seeing this as the unfolding, a vision come a plan a policy is that we forget how opposed he was, how risky it was, i think the election of 1864 is the turning point in the war. so nobody can do it on in one frame. jim has put down the frame of what drove people about. another free web eat, let's look at the northern population as a whole. and then look at the southern population. the

pulitzer-prize winning author of many books including "why i am a catholic" "paipel sins" and "lincoln at gettysburg." your new book is called "why preach: a failed tradition." what do you mean failed snl it's been over thousands of years. what is failed about that? >> well, they continue to pretend to turn bread and wine into the body and blood of jesus which doesn't happen. >> stephen: you hold it right there, buddy? are you a catholic? >> yes. >> stephen: you don't believe in it? >> was augustine a catholic. >> stephen: early catholic hadn't developed yet. third century. >> he said it's ridiculous that we eat god, digest god and excreate god. said the body of christ is us, the followers of jesus. >> stephen: of course, you are what you eat. if we take the eucharist we become the body of christ. >> we don't consume him, he consumes us. >> stephen: he said this is my body this, is my blood. >> there he was in his body. he said eat this bred, it's my body. he didn't say take a chunk out of my arm or tap my blood. [laughter] >> stephen: if jesus is in heaven and on earth how can they be in two place

gettysburg is 36. westminster is 37.onight when the rain starts coming in, these readings may get below the freezing point. the rain may turn to freezing rain. most of the area will be warm enough that this will be a rainmaker. here is the storm moving in. release released on storm activity -- release strong storm activity in alabama. it is in minnesota and the dakotas. most of the snow will be up there. overnight, places north of us may have to deal with freezing rain. high pressure is moving out of the picture. here is the front coming in. how low is headed to the northeast toward canada. the front will be coming through our area and generate rain ahead of it. overnight tonight, 30 to 35. most of the readings should stay above freezing. alights southeast wind at two to 7 miles an hour. rain showers in the general forecast. freezing conditions to the north in pennsylvania. each day, it is getting longer as far as the sunlight is concerned. pennsylvania and north, they have a freeze advisories because of the risk overnig

. ♪ growing up in pennsylvania, you have to go to gettysburg when you go to school.o have to come home to your farm after there had been a battle waged. and the story's about a woman who comes home to her farm, and she finds a fallen rebel soldier in her field, and he needs a proper burial. ♪ i tend to his grave every sunday. ♪ ♪ i think his kin would approve of this place. ♪ then she takes care of him, she buries him, and she puts him in a spot that's special to her. ♪ the sweet mountain laurel blooms just the same. ♪ a ballad also has an element of romance to it. there is a romantic notion about how she takes care of him, and how she's doing the right thing because as a christian woman, that is how she would want someone to treat her. i mean, how can we even imagine what went on in the civil war, so we have to find the common denominator, which is decency, and let that be the thing that transports us to that time, so we can actually feel it. and ballads do that. ♪ only god knows his name. ♪ only god knows his name. (narrator) music can also be integral to religious

. >> places like gettysburg will have to turn away 2400 children that are there for school purposes. the bathrooms will be dirty. some of those trash cans will not be emptied. these are the places that speak to who we are as americans, and we are going to cut that budget? >> bullets flying, a maserati and a range rover racing toward a red light on the las vegas strip. it sounds like something from an action movie, but it ended with three people dead. the maserati ran a red light and smashed into a group of vehicles. for more vehicles than collided, injuring six more people, while the range rover is better off. police -- the range rover sped off. check out this stunning video from san of fate, new mexico. a 17-rope links to make scale lift chair at -- a 17-year-old. then he plummets on to the steep run below. reports are that he is ok add at home now. he was trying to throw snowballs at nearby friends and somehow momentum got the upper hand. >> cooking waffles can be hazardous to your help, at least for one florida woman. she preheated the oven to cook waffles. unfortunately, her frie

canyon, yosemite, but also stewarding america's history and that would include independence hall, gettysburg, mount rush more, and most recently flight 93. my dress uniform and that famous hat is really derived from the world war i uniform from 1916, little changed from that time. the first rangers that patroled our parks before there was a park service were calvary soldiers. the presidio here in san francisco sent buffalo soldiers up to yosemite and sequoia every summer to control the parks, to keep the poachers out and to begin the construction of roads. the first federal superintendent of sequoia national park was colonel charles young. he happened to be the third african-american to graduate from west point. he went on to become the first black colonel in the army. amazing story. i believe he'll be honored sometime later this year by some sort of a national monument at his home in ohio. so, pretty interesting fellow and pretty amazing leadership demonstrated. today our rangers across the country perform modern-day public services, often away from municipalities. so, we're the only game i

but if your house gettysburg layerized. again they are saying these are cases where the danger supposedly is gone. but think about it you come in it's the most personal intrusion, your stuff is every where. you want a professional experienced law enforcement officer that you pay taxes for to be there to take fishing prints to look at what's going on to find any clues. was it forced entry or somebody who had the keys to your house he wants to start solving the crimes. hello 911. i am just going to take a report. my how the just got burglarized you are going to take a report. >> what message does this send to the burglar as soon as>> alarm is going no big deal they are going to take a report. let me find the jewelry cabinet. >> this opens up the officers to cover the more serious crimes. >> look, if you are talking a lewd phone call, they are correct. if you are talking about a robbery. forceable taking of your property. that means someone grabbed you around the throat and took your property. someone put a weapon at you. that

>> the gettysburg address, i think. >> want to recite it? >> four score -- >> and seven years ago.hink i know this. can we do this together? >> four score and seven years ago, my father came upon this nation. >> my father came upon this nation. >> fourscore. >> and to the republic for which it stand. >> to the republic nor which it stands. >> with -- >> with -- >> with his majesty. >> with his majesty. >> and justice for all. >> and justice for all. >> jimmy: amen. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thank you. i learned a lot. >> jimmy: what, what was the most interesting thing you learned today about the presidents? >> that he dieden ein a movie t t -- theater. >> you didn't know that. you know what he was watching president? first "toy story." >> good for him. he went out strong. >> jimmy: that's cousin mickie, everybody. [ applause ] and then in the future you can say yeah, i was there the first night that they did that. a huge meteor exploded over russia on friday. it smashed hundreds of windows. thousand of vodka bottles were destroyed. more than, more than 1,100 people wer

lincoln, writing such eloquent pieces as, you know, the gettysburg address, able to communicate the emotionstime to the american people. washington was different because he was first: wae wa came in and didn't know what foreign policy he should be. should he be doing business with britain? he didn't know how to organize government. that's why washington usually follows lincoln as number two. >> now, even republicans give president obama credit for being a great communicator. >> yeah, and i particularly think that last -- the second inaugural barack obama is going to be quite famous. >> and also on the state of the union address. this last one was very well written. some day, somebody could do a book on the speeches of barack obama. >> no, w, if you look at a comparison, a tale of two presidents, you compare the president and his predecessor. president obama is ending two wars. president bush started two wars. president obama got bin laden, bush lost bin laden. president obama got 63,000 private jobs, president bush lost 63,000 jobs. so if you compare him to his predecessor, yes, a lot of peo

one in the shape of a pillow with a four star general sabre was sent by general meade the hero of gettysburg. >> reporter: they're mementos of the outpouring of grief that came from every part of the country. one-and-a-half million people lined the streets of new york city for his funeral procession. just how admired was grant? two of his pall bearers were former confederate generals. as for the memoir? at more than 600 pages it was a run-away best seller. the family was saved from financial ruin. >> the memoirs brought in ultimately something like $400,000 in cash which is millions and millions of dollars today. >> reporter: ulysses grant beats is the general's great great grandson. >> it was a point of pride that the family clung to for the next generation. still do i suppose. grant's memoir was the first really successful celebrity memoir in american history. it was the first published memoir by a president that made an impact. >> reporter: its success would have surprised no one more than grant. >> he was a very modest man despite the great accomplishments he made. despite the fact that

did you think it would be iconic like the gettysburg address or fdr's speech? >> guest: no, not that point. for those of us who were there it was the final speech in a long day of speeches so yes i was very pleased to see martin luther king in person. i had heard about him and everyone kind of looks forward to what was martin luther king going to say because he had already been noted as a great orator, but his speech was very short. it wasn't one of his long-winded long-winded -- he spoke for an hour or so. this was 15 or 16 minutes and it wasn't -- actually it was planned to be less that seven or eight minutes. that is what he actually wrote out his speech to be. >> host: why was it longer? did he decide to add -- tell that story. >> guest: one of the things i tell about later that i didn't know then was that when he got his repaired remarks he's thought this occasion requires something more and he laid out a new objective and now i can look at these advanced text. he's talking about don't go back to the south. go back to these places and taken the protest but

then he became an officer and was wounded in gettysburg again and promoted to captain.a lot of his memorabilia at home his swords his wedding pictures. appraiser: you know anything about the pistol itself? guest: well, it's a colt dragoon. i know that it's a rare gun. i don't have a great idea what it's worth. i know it's an expensive piece and i know that it's that eight inch barrel which they only made 150 of. but that's about it. appraiser: this is a colt third model dragoon. as you said, eight inch barrel. it's had -- probably at the time he had it as an officer, ivory grips put on it, which are beautiful. the case that it's in, i would guess he probably had made but it's got an original colt bullet mold, and caps, and an oiler and a tool for it. the flask, i believe probably he had put in it. i think it's a rifleman's flask. anyway, it's a beautiful pistol. it's got the scene engraving on the cylinder, which is fantastic. you can see everything. i checked the serial number for you and it dates from 1860. guest: right before when the war starts. appraiser: right bef

he's the guy who wrote the gettysburg address. sixteenth president of the united states. the president who led the union during america's greatest moral and political crisis. and also during america's most tragic war. so this is the missing piece of the lincoln puzzle. the first thing that i want to talk about is the ambition of abraham lincoln. you know, we like to associate ambition with a negative thing. someone who wants to go into politics we think about it as a negative thing. so as a result, we try to think of him as being above the muck and the politics and the dirty campaigning and the negative campaigning. the first chapter in my book is called the most ambitious man in the world. it is a quote about abraham lincoln from his law partner, william herndon. abraham lincoln, from the earliest time in his life, his family members would've told you that he was also hungry to be somebody. once he got in trouble, she said behaving like that, the president of the united states, as president, there was never a time in his life where i can believe that someday be someday b

. >> like the gettysburg address, it is a remarkably short speech by presidential standards. kennedy just 14 minutes to conclude the speech, including the applause, so as written, i can't watch that speech without crying. it is not a sad speech, but full of hope and well-placed confidence and humility. but it was the knowledge that that presidency lasted only a thousand days that gives the speech the tragic undertone. harvard tweeted a new link of the version of the speech today. it is not a rewrite of kennedy's inaugural address. it is a re-interpretation. we'll show you some of it now, to see the full version, go to our website, thelastword.com. if you don't cry at the last sentence, you are not less sensitive than i, it just means you're younger. >> we observed today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom. symbolizing an end as well as a beginning. signifying renewal as well as change. for i have sworn before you an ---almighty god, the world is very different now. >> for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms against human life. >> the

they know about the gettysburg address. that is about it. maybe they know the second inaugural address -- the finest inaugural address ever given. almost nobody knows the story of the 13th amendment. most americans do not even know the emancipation proclamation could only free the slaves and seceded. almost nobody knows why he decided to try to get it through congress when if he had waited until after he was inaugurated, it would have been much easier to pass. he was mortified by the fact that he could not get 75% of the states to ratify the amendment. he practiced politics. what you are doing is a noble thing, but everybody will be watching. if you were doing that, there will be live coverage around the clock. we would all know, but would we understand it? it requires us to maintain a level of direct relationships with the voters that in former times was mediated by the way politicians related to leaders and newspaper editors and other things. i would like to talk about this. the last election was an election where people chose an inclusive

know that he was president during the civil war, that he was assassinated and they know about the gettysburgddress and that's about it. maybe they know that the second inaugural address was an attempt to heal the country and i think by a fine stretch, the finest inaugural address ever given. but almost nobody knows the story of the 13th amendment. most americans don't even know the emancipation proclamation could only free the slaves? the southern states that had seceded. nobody knows why he decided to try to get it through congress when, if he had waited until after he was innag grated and had a new congress, it would have been much easier to pass. he was mortified by the fact that he couldn't get 75% of the states to ratify the amendment if, as even he wanted, we got all of the states that had been part of the rebel general back in the union. and he practiced politics. what you are doing is a noble thing. today if he were doing that, there would be live coverage around the clock. we would all know it. but would we understand it? it requires us to maintain a level of direct relationship wit

-- and the gettysburg to defer their deployment. i regret that you have to sacrifice this nation's readiness. you decided to keep this home because of budgetary concerns. the matters we are talking about is at stake. the ability of our military to respond, you did not canceled because the land as part of the world was suddenly safer. as you pointed out, it also affects individual morale of individuals to subleased apartments. there was an article this morning "she had been excited to go on the first deployment. i am disappointed. i join the navy in office. she wonders whether that is realistic. the military today is filled with newly minted the tenants will be the future leadership. there's probably somewhere in the military that will be head of the joint chiefs of staff. the wonder of them wonder whether a career in the military is realistic given what they have seen from this body in terms of the budget. >> i hope congress is taking notice. the decision regarding the truman will be the first of many a message to something to repla

did you think it would be iconic like the gettysburg address or fdr's speech? >> guest: no, not that point. for those of us who were there it was the final speech in a long day of speeches so yes i was very pleased to see martin luther king in person. i had heard about him and everyone kind of looks forward to what was martin luther king going to say because he had already been noted as a great orator, but his speech was very short. it wasn't one of his long-winded long-winded -- he spoke for an hour or so. this was 15 or 16 minutes and it wasn't -- actually it was planned to be less that seven or eight minutes. that is what he actually wrote out his speech to be. >> host: why was it longer? did he decide to add -- tell that story. >> guest: one of the things i tell about later that i didn't know then was that when he got his repaired remarks he's thought this occasion requires something more and he laid out a new objective and now i can look at these advanced text. he's talking about don't go back to the south. go back to these places and taken the protest but

which is amazing after they have lankan transform the "gettysburg address" and after shenandoah valley so it strikes me as necessary to look at the whole universe look at the republican party and the policy and leaders jim is right people the camera back this is one thing to do a good job to show the democrats, i don't think reconstructionists understandable until you understand 45% are not in the program in the beginning. so what is gained and lost from a different historical perspective today? i think the danger of seeing this as a vision and our plan our policy is we forget how opposed it was, how risky it was coming and the election of 1864 was a turning point* but nobody can do little, and as gm has brilliantly put down down, another frame would be looked at the population as a whole and a look at the southern population that lee 1,000 white men in virginia fought for the union after so many voted for it people are constantly redefining loyalties so i just want to stimulate. >> you could say isn't it remarkable after the incredible casualty's of 1864 that lincoln still carried eve

phrases in there, talk about the unfinished task before us, reminiscent of what lincoln said in the gettysburg address but all in all i thought this was a much better speech than we heard on his inauguration. >> pelley: and norah owe donnell, a much more conciliatory speech. >> o'donnell: a much more conciliatory speech and there was sustained applause when he talked about immigration reform and we saw senator mccain, a republican, and senator schumer, a democrat, senator lindsey graham, republican, harsh critic of the president there united trying to find a solution on immigration reform, sitting together. and the president said "let's get it done." that was one of the monikers of the night. the other big one, scott, was "they deserve a vote." he left the most emotional and perhaps the most controversial issue to the end of his speech which is on gun control, something that has not been mentioned in any of his inaugural -- state of the union addresses, nor even in -- since president clinton has it been mentioned and personalizing it with all of the victims and saying gabrielle giffords deserv

they know about the gettysburg address. that is about it. maybe they know the second inaugural address -- the finest inaugural address ever given. almost nobody knows the story of the 13th amendment. most americans do not even know the emancipation proclamation could only free the slaves and the southern states that have seceded. almost nobody knows why he decided to try to get it through congress when if he had waited until after he was inaugurated, it would have been much easier to pass. he was mortified by the fact that he could not get 75% of the states to ratify the amendment. he practiced politics. what you are doing is a noble thing, but everybody will be watching. if you were doing that, there will be live coverage around the clock. we would all know, but would we understand it? it requires us to maintain a level of direct relationships with the voters that in former times was mediated by the way politicians related to leaders and newspaper editors and other things. i would like to talk about this. the last election was an election w

the things that will affect us, kids won't see gettysburg in the middle east fewer airports. one that's due to the economy, there's a chance it could weaken the economy this year. >> one other thing that sets the economy apart is the joblessness in the recovery. things have improved but the jobless rate remains unfortunately high. what happens with the for lows and jobless rate in this country? >> it's going to make it harder to bring down the unemployment rate. in part because of how much cutting there's been and now we're going to see some at several levels. we don't know for sure. but this is the reason to be more pessimistic. >> you mentioned the possibility of a bigger deal down the road. i mean how likely is that? >> oh, well eventually we're going to have to solve our deficit, right? we don't have any choice about that. and we promised ourselves more deficits than we're ll to pay for. we're going to have to solve that. eventually we night to and as a result either we're going to get a big deal or have big problems. >> thank you very much. >>> there are new concerns thi

if we look at the words of lincoln at the gettysburg address he talked about liberty and the creation all immigrants want. over a decade i have been engaged in the whole issue of comprehensive immigration reform on the immigration subcommittee on judiciary and now the border are security committee. we have to overcome the skimping and scheming of those who really don't want a comprehensive plan. we will not be able to finish the job if we do not look at the value and contributions of immigrants over is the years. the 1900s it was the italians, the germans, the russians who came and they are now third generation or more. it is a simple process. earned access to legalization includes all undocumented persons. some of my republican friends have announced a plan. we want to just deal with children. others are afraid of the word amnesty. this is not that. earned access means that you stand in line, you pay a penalty of sorts that has been looked at by many, many groups and then you process into a position that you can come from out of the shadows. that is what we need to do. border securit

truman, and gettysburg which is a cruiser were set to deploy for tomorrow for what was probably goingn 8 to 10 month deployment into the persian gulf. up to this point we've had a requirement to have two carrier battle group presence in that fleet area of responsibility. well they told them yesterday, never mind all the work ups you went through, all the planning, your deployment is on hold. now you've got all these people, and their families, and this asset, these national assets leaning on a pier because we don't have the money to deploy them, and the threat is not going down. jenna: so if we're not there, if we don't have an aircraft carrier, first time in two years we won't have one in the persian gulf, then who fills that void? >> that is a great question. go back to senator now secretary of state kerry who wagged his finger at the iranians the other day and told them if they don't stop working on their nuclear program that the international community is going to be very upset with them and at the same time we are standing down carrier groups that are supposed to go to that very