had -- hannibal had and when napoleon had done years earlier. who does that? germans. [laughter] millions of germans then slogged it out for four years in the mud and the trenches, having no wartegy to win the long they had started. men52 months 70 million plot at each other, murder and carnage increasing. brutality in a rising tide of hate, in whose wake we are all still living. they fought through seas of mud and blood, through mutual slaughter and reckless mayhem. they fought for the dissolution of empires and an end to law. german leaders had succumbed to the allure of battle, to the delusion that their tactical and operational skill was sufficient to win, right at the outset, all at once. there's no need for strategic planning. were so committed to this that even after that failed could -- failed catastrophically they did it again and again and again. they looked for the annihilation battle in the east in 1915. they turned back to the west in 1916. -- finally defeated and exhausted russia, then back to the west in 1918. wars, as hgnd all we

the end of the none of hannibal we know you know no one is usually the and i will show show record closing the deal. patriots businesses said on brunswick. morning indicate cases that people should read victories remaining on sunday. but he said it was a surprise rise of several several people yeah eminem and and he also said that that the but i don't. see you in a minute. but it did did need to go on that is that my line the duty as well so certain no. not not have to be to be a laser i is nice but but intense very frank i think i should. do we be able to get you got that alicia rue [inaudible] john j john. or is it is it no no really ill or not rarace it. hello my nameme [inaudible] getting any -- of these which weeeek she ay any [inaudible] sections [inaudible] home [inaudible] it's initiation. hey hey. soul i don't know [inaudible] now. insensitivity have been that coming coming. they say that you know you know what. i've done. yeah but if a anything is on and they will be a able. to to i mean. what is is what is going? to say things. well. because they will bring jews are saturdays. e

hannibal one at can i. henry v one at austin corbett napoleon one at austerlitz. hitler one at kyiv. carthage lost to rome, england lost to france, napoleon lost to the grand alliance, and is -- and hitler lost it all in the end catastrophically as his short word delusions ran into longmore attrition and the allies capacity for endurance of defeat. there were exceptions. of course, there are always exceptions. woke the -- sedan and meds over the french. these bill for victories i think we also has learned more from the american civil war. we do see now and look back and see the american civil war and see that it was a precursor of what was to come along with the crimea in the 20th century brick that is not the conclusion they made at the topic unfortunate, the civil war ended in 65 and the austrians were defeated in seven weeks in 1876 and the french in 1870. those are the wars that then dominated military imagination heading into the 20 does the 20th century. in other words, the german victories of the midcentury point to the 19 century. i think it did so much da

had -- hannibal had and when napoleon had done years earlier. does that? germans. [laughter] millions of germans then slogged it out for four years in the mud and the trenches, having no wartegy to win the long they had started. men52 months 70 million plot at each other, murder and carnage increasing. brutality in a rising tide of hate, in whose wake we are all still living. they fought through seas of mud and blood, through mutual slaughter and reckless mayhem. they fought for the dissolution of empires and an end to law. german leaders had succumbed to the allure of battle, to the delusion that their tactical and operational skill was sufficient to win, right at the outset, all at once. there's no need for strategic planning. were so committed to this that even after that failed could -- failed catastrophically they did it again and again and again. they looked for the annihilation battle in the east in 1915. they turned back to the west in 1916. -- finally defeated and exhausted russia, then back to the west in 1918. wars, as hgnd all wells

mate, and the convention usually sews the running mate, and we have ,braham lincoln of illinois hannibal hamlin of maine. you can't get more balanced than that come away out in new england. , hamlinis a former whig is a former democrat peered hamlin is close to be considered a radical republican, and he is in fact one, lincoln moderate. almost immediately after the convention, lincoln writes, i will take the first step and introduce myself. how does it look? they end up corresponding during the campaign. and from the nomination in mid-may of 1860 two november, there is a campaign, and lincoln is going out of his mind. first, because everyone wants a piece of him. he is getting letters by the bushel. speak,etting requests to but he knows he can't. he knows he is not supposed to. maybe he knows they just know spell his name, i don't know -- they just misspelled his name, i don't know. right, get the guys name and abraham lincoln. who? they also have him tilted. so as we consider here their positions on slavery, and we have been talking about that. work as aes to political manager, and this

lincoln replaces hannibal hamlin who was from maine who didn't give him any kind of political clout so there he is as a vice president, this person, as i said, who started out illiterate, up until his early manhood is the vice president of the united states. and people hated that. there were many, many people who said, this is -- he is not the kind of man who should be in this office. this is a disgrace. and when you're reading these kinds of things -- and i even managed to feel a bit sorry for him as you hear people ragging about him and at the ragging about him and at the inauguration he's drunk. it was kind of fun doing this. he had been ill, and in those days i think they i thought whisky was a cure for everything. maybe people think that now. [laughter] >> and he draining too much whisky and so there's than spectacle and it would have been amazing if something like that happened like that today. you could imagine on youtube, on cable tv, everything. so all of these things -- people said see, we told you. you let those kind of people responsibilities kinds of positions this is what

so i'm like a relatable hannibal lecter, but it's all real, man.nny is that's an extreme, right? like, that's a really extreme thing -- to have a sleep sheet and to your holes in -- your head in a hole. but what's interesting is, and this harkens back to what we were saying earlier, people relate to it. there's a recognition laughter. and the reason is not because they sleep in a sheet that has holes in it, but because everybody has their thing. everybody has their thing they're embarrassed about and they don't want to talk about it. and then they see you talk about it, they go, "oh, i guess i could talk about that." >> mike, thanks so much. >> [ laughing ] thank you. >> yes, indeed, everyone has their thing. some refreshing honesty to end this week. and that is it for our program tonight. thanks for watching "amanpour & co." on pbs, and join us again next time. ♪ >> uniworld is a proud sponsor of "amanpour & co." when bea tollman founded a collection of boutique hotels, she had bigger dreams, and those dreams were on the water -- a river, specific

dave was at radio city, and he'd been curating these great shows, and he had chance the rapper and hannibaless and john mayer -- they were on this one show, and i came out because i'd been watching charlottesville all day, and i came on and i said, "dave, can i just come on and do, like, 10?" great. and i just remembered how much i loved that forum and the immediacy of it and the hang of it and being surrounded by your peers. >> i got to say, one thing that's very impressive -- the fact that he hasn't been doing stand-up and would come back and perform at the level that he has been... >> muscle memory. >> it's beyond muscle memory. that's badass. >> we've had great shows. just great. and the way that the crowd reacts, it's just been an amazing experience. we've done stuff in atlanta and houston and el paso and europe and iceland. >> and you're gonna direct again, is that right? >> yeah, that's -- i wrote something that i'm gonna direct. >> yeah? do we know what it is? >> i don't. i haven't read it. i wrote it, but i haven't read it. >> so you haven't -- you don't want to tell us. >> don't t