holzer pleaded guilty to attempting to destroy the temple emanuel synagogue in pueblo, colorado with an explosive to stop people from exercising their religion. judge raymond p. moore described holzer's life as filled with violent and hateful imagery, and described the case as dripping with nazism and supremacy. the anti-defamation league mountain states region says the bomb plot against colorado's second oldest synagogue was one of 61 anti-semitic harassment and vandalism cases it tracked in 2019. in myanmar, protests continued today in several cities against the military coup that ousted the civilian-led government. in central myanmar, police fire tear gas at protestors forcing many to flee. in yangon, police cracked down on demonstrators who gathered to chant and sing, calling for the country's detained civilian leader, aung san suu kyi to be released. one protestor said she came out to show support for myanmar's ambassador to the united nations who made an impassioned plea for help from the international community yesterday. according to myanmar state tv, the ambassador was fired

[ inaudible question ] >> lincoln president-elect by harold holzer. >> continuing on to the general election, lincoln ended up winning, but was less than 47 votes. >> we'll make this the last question. go ahead. >> if he had lost that election, would we still have had the civil war? [ laughter ] >> if he had lost the election to who? because -- here's -- let me answer this way. if you want the civil war to begin the day after the election, okay, rather than four months later, think about this, all right. lincoln -- here's a new number for you. 303 electoral votes are there for the taking so you need half of that. like, you know, do the math. you're at 152, i suppose, to win. lincoln only had 39% of the popular vote between four candidates, but he had 182 electoral college votes. in other words, if you added up the electoral college votes of everybody else and you put their popular vote and you said, just statistically, i'm going to put it all on one guy, let's say breckenridge in the south, lincoln would have still had 39% of the vote by this easy math thing. i know it would change if you on

francisca holzer font successfully to stay in the social insurance scheme for artists one year into the pandemic everything else is uncertain for her and for an entire job sector. and let's go over to my colleague scott roxboro in bonn who's been looking into this for us hi scott it's it's really tough times for so many industries but particularly of course for freelancers in the culture and events industry you know germany as we know has put lots of money out there why is it that only 10 percent of needy artists have gotten support. yeah well it's a very complicated actually very big question you're asking where but without going into all the details and the complexities of it one of the main issues in germany has been that the german system initially for support for covert relief wasn't designed with with artists it wasn't even designed with freelancers in mind it was mainly targeting initially targeting full time salaried employees now germany has has updated that since and they have promised billions in support for for freelancers but the system that you have to go through is quite

lincoln on the verge 13 days to washington talks about this tumultuous period in us history with harold holzer of the lincoln forum which hosted this conversation and provided the video. in one hour and 10 minutes world war ii veteran ira rigger where counts his time as a us navy seabee with the 301st construction battalion in the pacific theater. in two hours on lectures in history military historian, victor davis hanson teaches a class as a visiting professor at hillsdale college on leadership during world war ii. so i have the honor now of introducing our first guest. ted widmer ted has worked at the intersection of presidential politics and history for many years making him perfectly positioned to contemplate the idea of presidential transitions a subject on which we're all focused in 2020 as we meet. ted is a distinguished lecture at the macaulay honors program at the city university of new york and has been a contributor to such publications as the washington post and the new yorker and well as the new york

holzer as well on that. maybe i can start with one of lincoln's stories. he told of an ugly man riding through the woods when he met a lady on horseback. and he waited for her to pass but instead she scrutinized him carefully before saying. well for land's sake you are the homeless man i ever saw. yes, madam, but i can't help but he replied. no, i suppose not she said but you might stay at home. and i suppose i can relate to that story because i feel like a bit of an interloper in the field of lincoln scholarship. i might have stayed at home, too. i'm not an academic with a phd and although i've studied lincoln since i was a kid, i was as harold mentioned a baseball historian with 41 years in journalism. including a stint at as a washington correspondent. so in addition to the two outstanding books you mentioned there were over 16,000 books published about lincoln. that's more than any human being except jesus christ. so i guess like the ugly man. i might have stayed at home. but i thought there was a gripping story about lincoln that has never been told t

this comes from our chairman harold holzer and he asked how did you first decide to portray harriet tubman? and what sources did you use at the time to begin to put together your portrayal? i'll try to make this brief because it is a long secure to story but i had presented phoebe floorville. who was the wife of mr. lincoln's barber billy the barber at our sangamon county historical society and he was the head of the allstate capital and they had an outreach program with a local elementary school about the antebellum period and the civil war and one of the things the students wanted to know about was harriet tubman. well, they didn't have a person of color on their staff to present as harriet tubman, so she had seen me make phoebe full orville come alive, so she asked me if i could come up with something for her students. this was in october and her program was in march. so in between october and march, i read every book in the illinois state historical library where i worked that we had about a harriet tubman and newspaper articles that i could find the internet was kind of in its infancy

gary: "lincoln: president-elect" by harold holzer. >> continuing on to the general election -- gary: we will make this the last question. >> if he had lost that election, would we still have the civil war? [laughter] gary: if he had lost the election to who? let me answer it this way. if you want the civil war to begin the day after the election, rather than four months later, think about this. you need -- here is a new number -- 303 electoral votes are there for the taking. you need half of that and you are at 152, i suppose, to win. lincoln only had 39% of the popular vote between four candidates, but he had 182 electoral college votes. if you added up the college votes of everybody else and with the popular vote and said that , statistically, i'm going to put it all on one guy, let's say breckenridge in the south, lincoln still would have had 39% of the vote by this easy math thing. if you only had two people you would vote differently, but follow along my argument. he would have won the election with 172 electoral votes but only taken 39% of the popular vote. someone that took 61