she worked at the harold newspaper that has been absorbed by the "washington post" and she was a columnist and had a column every day called did you happen to see where she interviewed top people in washington, d.c. would come to participate in the war effort such as j. edgar hoover pointed out was a great cover as a nazi spy but she was fascinating and beautiful and was also quite skilled he found that fascinating but found everything about her enthralling and wanted to marry her but it couldn't have been. >> why did the romance of all attentioattention from the fbi? >> in 1934 she'd been married and divorced once and she tried her hand at film acting falling in love with a man who would become her second husband a film director who charlie chaplin was the greatest geniuses of cinema she plays in so many different parts of the world it's a very wild story that she turned out to be a great actress so she decided it was a great deal of charm so she went to a couple newspapers and said would you give me press credentials so i can become a foreign correspondent because that was her potential

. >> host: referred to the newspapers, and there's so many newspapers and the time, harold holzer wrote a wonderful become about newspapers and lincoln, and lincoln wrote a platform at a meeting of the antislavery editors. can you talk below the role of the newspapers -- about the role of the newspapers at the time and lincoln? >> guest: well, lincoln had a close relationship with the media of his day. he played media politics. he was an avid reader of newspapers since he was a boy. partly how he self-educated himself, reading newspapers. and then the telegraph came into existence. the internet of the day. so it made daily newspapers -- you could really follow the news every day. they were very current, and people kept up, and in the northern united states was the most literate area in the entire world, and had the greatest number of newspapers anywhere in the world. all the newspapers were partisan one way oar another. >> host: very. >> guest: very partisan. they were idiosyncratic, eccentric editors but partisan. lincoln was in this law office and is more or less the coeditor of the i

there are 70 newspapers at the time. harold halter wrote a wonderful book about newspapers and lincoln. and lincoln wrote a platform at a meeting of the antislavery editors. but, can you just talk about the role of the newspapers at that time? and lincoln? >> well, lincoln had a close relationship with the media of his day. and he played media politics. he was an avid reader of newspapers and since he was a boy. it was partly how he self educated himself. reading newspapers.and then the telegraph came into existence. it was the internet of the day. so it may daily newspapers - you can really follow the news every day. they were very current. and people kept up and in the northern united states, it was the most literate area and the entire world. and have the greatest number of newspapers anywhere in the world. and, all the newspapers were partisan one way or another. >> very! >> very partisan. they were idiosyncratic. that eccentric editors but they were partisan. one way or another. and lincoln in his little law office is sitt

. >> bragg's poor relationship with the media, with newspaper men, it reminds me a little bit of harold's book who's right behind me, "lincoln and the power of the press" the newspaper men wielded so much influence and so responsible for the distortions that the public had of generals, particularly when it cams to expectations. so i'd like for you to reflect maybe your work and harold's work should remind us that the emphasis on the battlefield and on command decisions are, of course, extraordinarily important but if we wanted to try to understand military operations dysfunctional element and it's a democracy that cannot come to grips with the reallistic nature of warfare so these generals have the command decisions and they have the issues of having to manage their army but there is something beyond their control that does, in fact, impact operations and that's the press, which seems to be an influence no matter where you turn. >> very good point. i'm glad you brought it up. it was one of the more fascinating aspects of doing this book. i looked at newspaper editorials, the reporting sit

last month, local businesses told the times harold they were upset with the lack of enforcement on downtown parking rules. as for the municipal lot. the newspapereports that daily permits cost 5 bucks, monthly cost 20. >>> this morning, commercial fibbermen in san francisco gearing up for a big day. >> kmervel salmon season got under way after a delay. fishermen are hoping for a successful season after years of hardship while crews prepared lures for opening day, some federal lawmakers were fighting for disaster relief funds for the fishing fleet. lawmakers say the shorter salmon season paired with the recent shut down of crab fisheries leaves many fishermen struggling to stay aloet. >>> hi, scott and laura, good tuesday morning. wall street is poised to start off in positive territory. the dow is now about 100 points away from the 22,000 mark. but yesterday investors continue to be optimistic about earnings season. the nasdaq however did slip a bit as big tech names such as facebook and alphabet pulled back. investors look at data on personal income and spending and auto sales also apple reports earnings after the bell this afternoon. the dow

harold ford, democrat of tennessee, now an msnbc political analyst. and from washington, charlottesville native anita kumar, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers. welcome to you all. jonathan, i'd like to begin with you. you are neither the president's apologist nor therapist, but this will call for all your donald trump knowledge. what in his psyche prevents him from going out to make this right for two days, resist calling out nazis, alt right, white supremacists, white nationalists and forces him to ad lib on many sides the part of his remarks that caused the most trouble? >> president trump is never one to acknowledge a mistake. it is very rare that he accepts responsibility. it's very rare that he wants to publicly second guess himself or seem like he's caving to public pressure. he's susceptible to flattery. these are groups who speak highly of him. he knows that he's people, some of them, support him. he recognizes that they are small but energize part of the coalition of people that backed him last november. on saturday, when he came out to give his initial statement in bedminster. he told people around him he wanted to focus on the la