. >>> well, thomas jefferson's mountaintop virginia home is being renovated.ticello restoration project aims to restore not just the building but the full history of america's third president and his ties to slavery. here's chip reid. >> monticello, thomas jeffers jefferson's mountaintop home has served as a december tell nation guide. >> reporter: sally hemmings is one of jefferson's slaves. they had six children and some of their names are found with their mothers in jefferson's meticulous expense records but for decades their relationship was rarely mentioned out of fear it would tanlts jefferson's reputation. that started to change in the 1990s. and now a transformation is in the works. gardn gardn gardner halak is in charge of the restoration. it was once a public restroom. now it's being restored so visitors can see how she linked. >> you can imagine sally building fires here and her children and sally huddled around many the wintertime staying warm at this entire hearth. >> reporter: nia bates is historian of african-american life. she said hemming's ro

jefferson wants people to come to this capitol building. he himself said -- where are the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. this chamber begin functioning for the senate in 1906, and continues functioning today. dias is an original 1906 center state with an elevated platform for the clerks and lieutenant governor who presides over our senate. our members of the senate have a four year term and are eligible for reelection. they each represent upwards of 200,000 constituents person under the -- for senator. -- per senator. it has always been, by conscious design, a part-time legislature. this chamber, in terms of its visual presentation, takes you back 100 years to the beginning of the 20th century. in terms of its ongoing function , it is a valid place every single year when the lawmakers come to do the public business. i am remembering that we had, in this chamber, a lieutenant governor by the name of lawrence douglas wilder, who as lieutenant governor presided over the senate and ran for, successfully

fathered sally hemings' children. >> reporter: sally hmmings was one of jefferson's slaves.ix children, and some of their names are found with their mothers in jefferson's meticulous expense records, but for decades their relationship was rarely mentioned here out of fear it would taint jefferson's reputation. that started to change in the 1990s. and now a transformation is in the works. hallock is monticello's director of restoration. >> she lived right here? >> we believe she lived right here. >> reporter: hemmings room was once a public rest room. now it's being restored so visitors can see how she lived. >> you can imagine sally building fires here and her children and sally huddled around here in the wintertime staying warm at this very hearth. >> his entire life depended upon savory. >> niya bates is historian of atrican american life she said hemmings room is part of one life that will accurately portray daily life here, including stories of some of the 600 slaves jefferson owned over the course of his life. what exactly are you trying the change about the narrative o

that's why they sent us to jefferson city. they were sick of the politics - >> what about the intimacy at this whe sit -- constituent. >> in the town also i would go n and we did this all over the so state of missouri. i would talk for 2010 to 12 minutes and we would take questions for an hour. >> people -- a lot of times shea would come. they would see me, they would se the family. they got a chance to see who i was and they could ask any question they wanted on any subject at all. what ended up happening was as people asked these questions, they saw the kind of vision that we had more the state of missouri. they saw that we were going to fight for them. and they compared us to what they'd seen with politics as usual and they all made a very clear decision that it was time for a change. >> so this is a new shift for elected officials. younow, i know about your leadership, because you were one of our celebrated leaders and ended up at the department of housing and urban development. i've always felt from that experience that t

jefferson was teesed about having this french, half virginia style. the fact they get this knowledge and impart it on others who would cook for him shows this ongoing legacy of french cooking in the white house. we have alternating presidents. there are some that are big in french food and others don't. james monroe, big fan of french food. >> host: james' training staff had indications the neighboring plantations were being influenced and how it spreads and catches up with the chef that we all -- some people don't know of eddie lewis, who comes to new york in the 1930s and opens up a restaurant and is a huge inflounuence on the appreciation of southern cusine. they say the ice cream was like a shake and he finds out to make it firmer and puts it inside baked pastries. all of innovative tech necks that show up -- techniques -- in fine dining restaurants to this day. there is a link between the plantations and that. >> guest: the conversation between french and american food and wine is another way that plays out. the kennedy's got a lot of flack for j

. >> we believe jefferson fathered sally hemings' children. >> reporter: sally hemings was one of jefferson'slaves. it's widely accepted by historians they had six children, and some of their names are found with their mothers in jefferson's meticulous expense records, but for decades their relationship was rarely mentioned here out of fear it would taint jefferson's reputation. that started to change in the 1990s. and now a transformation is in the works. gardener hallock is monticello's director of restoration. >> she lived right here? >> we believe she lived right here. >> reporter: hemings room was once a public rest room. now it's being restored so visitors can see how she lived. >> you can imagine sally building fires here and her children and sally huddled around here in the wintertime staying warm at this very hearth. >> his entire life depended upon slavery. >> niya bates is historian of african american life at monticello. she said hemings room is part of a major project that will accurately portray daily life here. including stories of some of the 600 slaves jefferson owned over th

they might be as brave and bold as adams and jefferson and madison.as willing to risk and when or risk and lose at the same level. abraham lincoln said let's every american, every lover of liberty, every well-wishers swear by the blood of the revolution never to violate and at least particular the laws of the country and never to tolerate the violation by others. lincoln said that as the patriots of 76 did, they supported the declarations of independence and supported the constitution and law, let every american pledge its life, prosperity and sacred honor. lincoln said let's every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father and to tear the character of his own and his children's liberty.abraham lincoln is among our greatest examples of the courage of conviction and the powers of morality and resolute belief. and reasons surely. but merely as notably and respect for the law. she lincoln, not just the president by the legislator and -- the law itself was justice. it was morality. it was providence. and all that was goo

in their great founding declaration, thomas jefferson spoke for those patriots and the price that mighte levied in writing, "and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." and to what purpose did our founding fathers and soldidiersf our great continental army strive? the horrible mistakes of what progressive democrats call the great society, a place of cradle to grave reliance of government as the father, the mother, the breadwinner and the teacher? i think not. you see, general washington was rightly and fiercely proud of the nation that he believe lay within the grasp of the colonists as they struggled to tear it away are from the corpulent arms of an overbearing king of england. george washington wrote to benjamin franklin that "no country upon earth had it more in its power to attain these blessings that united america. he went on to write that wondrously strange then and much to be regretted, indeed, would it be, that we to neglect the means and to

it was a deliberate slap in the face to jefferson davis, and while davis happily appointed lee to the top command he refused to appoint joe johnston to anything. instead writing that johnston was in his words deficient in enterprise, tardy in movement, defective in preparation, and singularly neglectful of the duty of preserving our means of supply and transportation. then he did it anyway. it was lee who convinced him that if nothing else the popular johnston who was very much loved by the soldiers, might convince some of those who had desserted to return to the colors. johnston's first instinct was to refuse the appointment. he suspected this was another of davis's tricks putting him back in command just so he would be the one to bear the historical burden of making the final surrender. but just as lee had talked davis into making the appointment he also convinced johnston to accept it. others told johnston that lee now hated davis as much as he did, which was not true, and that lee still had confidence in his old friend and west point classmate, which was rue. so in that new job, j

not only did the ghost of jonathan robbins, immortalized by jefferson and the emergent republican party, as a freedom fighter against british tyranny, greatly influenced the tumultuous presidential election of 1800, but it also helped to shape the young republic's identity. how americans viewed themselves and how to hey -- they envisioned the country's larger destiny. the fact that robbins may have been the irish ringleader thomas nash, became irrelevant. more important to most americans than his birthplace were his republican convictions, republican with a small r. thereby encouraging with unprecedented power a broader definition of citizenship and national identity based on belief and on volition rather than on the accidental vagueries of birthplace. of parallel significance, the hermine crisis let directly to the young nations where momentous decision to grant political asylum to european refugees, albeit tragically, whites only, who happened to be fleeing foreign governments. including, ironically, former crew members of the hermine. the granting of political asylum, major achieveme

june 2016 event based on the historically famous 1790 reconciliation dinner prepared by thomas jefferson's and slaved chef james flemings who holds up the table for america's future please welcome adrian miller and hopkins. [applause] long time no see. the first time i met him was a southern conference in mississippi. >> i don't recall. he gets up and tells a story i'm all excited i think that it wasy first one like 15 years ago and i'm like what is he going to talk about and he gets up and tells a story about the long-lost delicacy of possum and i'm like what is he talking about. but it turns out that was great and i actually refer to that and give you props. 100 years ago that was the dish. >> guest: apparently it was. people looking for long-lost recipes, don't go for that. so tonight we are here t we're k about the latest book that i have in my security badge, the president's cabinet, untold stories of african-americans who fit our families from washington to be obama's. i thought that it was interesting you worked in the white house and you said you never even went to the kitchen? >>

such as in 1804, when jefferson of course was reelected. finally, when no branch of the federal government rushing to reestablish extradition, finally it is taken up in 1842 as one of the provisions is a major treaty between the united states and great britain, known as the. daniel webster is counseled to be careful because of the quote unquote popular clamor caused by jonathan robbins. it has an amazing lifespan. newspapers immediately invoked the robbins affair. if the only example and all of united states history of anyone having been extradited for people to refer to. it had gone horribly, horribly wrong. in part because adams never inquired whether he was an american citizen. anyway to answer your question more distinctly, the the webster ashburton treaty does include that extradition provision. after all these years promised however on the condition that anyone guilty of committing a political offense, mutiny, desertion, treason would not be extradited by either country to the other. thereafter, every extradition treaty signed by the

even jefferson said this. not so common in the north, and in new england i would say it was somewhat less, to say this problem will naturally resolve itself. >> let stand by bringing adams to the present day. what advice do you think adams would give our current administration on how to drink the swap in washington, or can it be done at all? so quickly to each of you, if you want to give any thoughts about that. >> well, it was advice for the current president -- >> or administration of washington. >> i think what i would, i think i would be better equipped to give advice to the voter. [laughing] >> so one thing that i recently discovered is that, so in spite of the aspiration to drain the swamp, the new cabinet has a combined wealth that's greater than the combined gdp of the poorest 39 countries in the world. one of the themes of adams' writings when you look back at the history of the republic was the vulnerability of chief executive in relation to the oligarch. and this long history is the way richard desc

i wanted to write something about the remarkable role reading played in jefferson's former said years -- formative years, looking for something that made a good comparison. the example of abraham lincoln made a special appeal because of the strike -- the sharp contrast of the hardscrabble life on the frontier with it less than a year of schooling and jimerson -- jefferson's privileged upbringing. he had tutors, went to boarding school and went to college. and aggressive readers, but lincoln lived in a place where there were very few books to be had while jefferson was said to have read all of the books in his father's library of several dozen books by the time he was five. i already knew a lot about , so i was hoping to find material for an instructive comparison between the two future presidents. i read my way through the microfilm of the massive archive on the life of abraham lincoln compiled by his law partner, william h. herndon. this proved to be something of a transformative experience, for it caused me ultimately to virtually abandoned my work on jefferson and provided the impe

the otherquestion question was about jefferson c. davis. i have the biography of don , who was the commander of the army at the time that jefferson davis shoots william bill nelson in the hotel lobby -- actually in the stairway. interesting case, how he gets off for murder. i don't want to go into all of the details. let's just say there was enough that nelsonsuggest .eserved what was coming to him the governor believed as much as well. so, sorry. >> some practical things. how did states finance their part in the work, and when soldiers were called up by the spare it toid they the state or the federal government? they appointed their own officers. when the war went on, what does lincoln do with the governors to federal --m with the dr. engle: state governors negotiated bank loans. >> did they raise taxes? dr. engle: there was an income tax, but they did not raise very much money. .hey chiefly relied on bankers so, most governors raised funds privately through their taxes,ture, not to raise but to appropriate funds through negotiation of loa

and i like to think of jefferson as the author. and he followed the advice of people who studied the architecture of and particular quit and put the capital on top of the hill and became the centerpiece and the first thing you would see that would make an impression on you would be this temple on the hill and faces south with a great view back in the old days of the james river. and the front of the building has eight columns that are over 40-feet tall and try and did you the nd portico and southport cow of our virginia state capital is like a piece to all virginia. the records we have today are incomplete, but we know in the course of 13 years of construction, there was a combination of free labor and slave labor involved in making the capital. skilled and unskilled workers, local art is ands and traveling art is answer some of whom who worked on the virginia capital went north to washington, d.c., and became working on the united ates capitol. when you have a good building that is accumulating good history, you don't give up on t

laura jefferson says the sound of the back door being kicked in woke her up from a nap....and she wasrified when she realized what was happening. especially since there was a similar incident in december.... that time - with a family member facing burglars who had guns. the family has upgraded its security system and reported the crimes to vallejo police....and nothing has seemed to help. jefferson says she yelled out "what are you looking for" - and the two people ran away.they later scaled a fence in her backyard to get away. there have been 'other' break-ins in the neighborhood and jefferson says she's tryingto spread the word... as for the family's frustration -- after the december robbery at gunpoint - she says she hasn't heard anything from the vallejo that they're "working on it."and grant? and grant? pam it.""working on that they're police. only the vallejo anything from hasn'tgunpoint - she robbery at december after the frustration -- the family's as for word...to spread the trying says she's and jefferson neighborhood ins in the 'other' break-have been there get away.backyar

the back door"when the two burglars realized someone one was home, they ran out of the house with jefferson hot on their tail"cause i didn't want them to come up the stairs because i thought they might have had guns, because the last time this happened they had guns"jefferson says some of her coworkers who live in vallejo have also been victims of break-ins. she wants to get the word out so the community "this could happen to us twice in two months, it could happen to anybodyin vallejo haaziq madyun kron4news still ahead... cooler temperatures are sticking around and a chance of rain is expected to hit this weekend... meteorologist lawrence karnow is back with what to expect as we get closer to the weekend. skies will be mostly clear tonight with chilly temperatures inland. clouds will increase tomorrow with cooler afternoon highs in the 50s to mid 60s. >>> joe biden family shocker. his son is dating his brother's widow. >> the jaw dropping romance revealed. >> we're just a little shocked by this. >>> and the story behind the oscar stunt that charmed the world. how this long forgotten gag i

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just ask this week's jefferson award winner. as allen martin reports, he left the classroom and found that he could help students by teaching them chess. >> you're not going to take it, are you? >> reporter: if life is like chess, chris major wants kids to learn early. >> the job is for me to help them self-manage themselves because ultimately, that's what all of us should be helping children do. >> kelvin, what is this? >> reporter: after retiring as a special ed. teacher, he started two nonprofits. in 2005 the hayward youth academy. >> the king could never move into... >> reporter: five years later, the novato chess club. middle school and elementary school students like these at st. rafael's school in san rafael meet with chris once a week for an hour. kids think they are going to learn chess, but chris says they are learning a lot more. >> focusing, visualization, decision-making, critical thinking, those are all developmental things that all young people need to learn as they get older to be successful. >> reporter: it seem

tonight's jefferson award winner knows a thing or two about playing chess.e is passing on those skills to help young people in the game of life. >> and tonight on nightbeat at 10 p.m. on this 7th anniversary of the affordable care act. we're asking you, what do you prefer, obamacare the gop healthcare bill or neither? let us know why. you can tweet me now at #veronicadlcruz. we'll have the comments coming up on nightbeat; come join us at 10:00 on our sister station, kbcw 44/cable 12. ,, just ask this week's jefferson award winner. as allen martin reports, he left the classroom... and >>> retirement can be the beginning of a whole new life. just ask this week's jefferson award winner as allen martin reports, he left the classroom and found that he could help students by teaching them chess. >> you're not going to take it, are you? >> reporter: if like is like chess, chris major wants kids to learn early. >> the job is for me to help themself-manage themselves because ultimately, that's what all of us should be helping children do. >> kelvin, what is this? >>

this happened around 4pm wednesday at laura jefferson's home on cimmaron drive in vallejo.ys that she was upstairs taking a nap when she heard the security alarm"and when i got to the bottom of the stairs i could hear them breaking in the back door"so she went back up stairs and said..."what are you looking for?"in the video you can see that when the burglars realized someone was home they took off running, out of house, into the backyard and over this fence, just moments before she walked into that room this is the second time theives targeted her home in the past 2 months "i just keep thinking they're looking for a lot of drugs or money or something and they've got the wrong house"she reported the burglary to vallejo police"they said that this has been a problem and that several houses have been hit very recently and that they are quote unquote working on it"in the meantime laura jefferson wants to alert her neighbors about the burglars "this could happen to us twice in two months, it could happen to anybody"i contacted vallejo police about this story but no one was avail

if jefferson, jefferson in particular, and washington and adams, they would be like what did you peopledo? how did you ever have a standing army this big? we understand that times have changed but are you serious? they would be afraid of that because in the context in the time that is king george. >> host: that makes a lot of sense. it goes to come interview, the idea -- in their view -- the idea of the militia was much more people oriented. it was less government oriented. >> guest: it was your neighbor. may i borrow some gunpowder because i to go hunting. >> host: the fact the government has this quote standing army, and it would be -- >> guest: violates the court principles of what you believe in. >> guest: the first principle you race in this come from benjamin franklin, quote, they would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, serves neither liberty nor safety. >> guest: one of my favorite quotes. this is one of talking about. i love these guys and a no as an african-american woman to say that, that rattles people. i open up -- what i'm trying to say is these

in other jefferson county case.our examples were i joined debated or wrote in cases for the family under our binding standards. i understand today the supreme court has indicated that the urban standard is incorrect. that is fine. i will follow the law. now, sometimes i think it was justice jackson who said, just because i made a mistake unknowingly yesterday, it does diminish make a mistake knowingly today. i was wrong similar, i was wrong because i was bound by circuit precedents and i'm sorry. i have to apply the law and i can say we were doing unanimously in all of those cases. and the supreme court is our boss and we respect their last word. they are final. >> judge dominated 10 cases before you you ruled against students with disabilities. >> i'm sure they were unanimous panels. >> the difference in this case is about a word. we know the words are important. they can make a critical difference in a person's life. you can ask us that question. where you inserted into the circuit standard when it came to these c

remember what jefferson said. it will render powerless .txt provided one government over another but one branch over another. what is the government is supposed to be checking over the other government? the states over the federal government, and he even goes on to say if the state to declare and look with apathy to say the government into the gulf which is to swallow all, we have only to weep over the character states must take control. because if the states refused to take control, then our states are simply declaring that they are not states, they are colonies and we are not free, we are subjects. then i ask why do we even need to state government if that is how they are going to operate if they were created as independent sovereign governments. if they act like colonies, why do we have them at all? if they are going to defend the constitution and our liberties, we need state and local legislations asserting the state reserve power. the state and local legislation denying the unauthorized federal power. in the

>> jefferson. >> jimmy: jefferson is right. you got six cents.o hold on to that or go for 16 cents? >> jimmy: wa >> i'll go for it. >> jimmy: who is on the dime? who is on the dime? this is where up. >> would it be adams? >> jimmy: oh, still not adams. i think what we've learned is our college students aren't that bright. well, thank you so much, erica, sorry that didn't work out. thanks for playing our game show on the money. we have a good show tonight. we have music from mondo cozmo, noah hawley is here, and we'll be right back with shaquille o'neal. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> dicky: portions of "jimmy kimmel live" are brought to you by dreamworks "the boss by," in theaters march 31st. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® ♪♪ we be way too fly,e team bout to take flight ♪ ♪ don'know what u' been told ♪ ♪ it takes two just like hot and cold ♪ ♪ it takes two to make a thing go right ♪ ♪