john adams garden in quincy can be in the same sense. the summer of 1796 adams was redesigning his garden. he was concerned with the appearance of his garden at that time because he was kind of approaching and new state in his life. there were rumors that washington was considering to retire after his second term. adams was considering the office of president himself. this is a picture of his farm. his farm was rather modest compared to washington or jefferson's politician. they had several thousand acres. adams only had a run 500 acres. but nonetheless he was very much inspired by what he had seen on his garden tour in england, and he wanted to recreate an ornamental farm bringing together the kind of useful and the beautiful. the first thing he did is he made a ha ha, a ditch which has -- provide the same security as a fence or wall. it keeps of cattle, but it allows sweeping views across the surrounding countryside, including fields but also mountains. but adams is doing is opening what he calls a prospect so that he could see the mead

shrubbery entirely planted with native species that it's very much and all american garden, and john adamsn can be read in the same since. in the summer of seven to 96, adams was redesigning his garden, and he was concerned with the appearance of the establishment that was approaching a new state washington was considering to retire after his second term, and adams was considering at the office of the president himself and the picture of his farm was rather modest and jefferson's plantation the of several thousand acres and only heather of 500 acres. but nonetheless, he was very much inspired by what he had seen of jefferson on his garden to work in england, and he wanted to build or recreate an ornamental far. together the kind of useful and the beautiful. the first thing he did is he made a part. it is a deutsch which provides the same security as a cents or wall so it keeps out cattle but allows sweeping views of the surrounding countryside including fields but also mountains. so, what adams is also doing is either opening or what he calls the prospect so that he can see the meadows and

odd pair walking through the gardens because tall and gangly in towering almost 7 inches above john adams. despite the truth of the compared to being held accountable but despite they're differences it was the adored garden. maybe in a slightly different ways so you have adams who loves to get his the and sturdy and whenever he is away from the guarded guarded, it is terribly missing his farm and discarded it always putting himself into the orchard and whenever he is involved in political battles i would rather be digging in my put it lowered. he is a ball with tile temper and works of his temper by digging in the tour. jefferson, but a little more theoretical but spends a lot of time coming up with very elaborate garden designs that never quite make it from his notebook to the soil. he is the obsessive list make your of certain types of vegetables harvest times over the years, when to plant them, counts the number of ps to fit into a glass. [laughter] but we also know from it isn't accounts that he is also out in the garden, baby dinosaurs backbreaking work but he is really out there enj

almost as tragic as john adams. but i digress. we have today an opportunity to talk about regnery publishing and a new division. a wonderful new division on history. i of course loved history, the history of science, the history of our country, the history of religion. history is one we can look into and learn about ourselves and learn about others. it was with great pleasure that several jurors ago my sixth generation grandson completed my autobiography. you must understand that he that boasts of his ancestors does but advertise his own and sycophants it is most agreeable to me that he has completed this because my own grandson, william temple franklin had promised me he was going to complete the autobiography. you understand that all i only wrote the part until the first 51 years of my life in the that the autobiography if you've read it and by a show of hands, how many have read my autobiography? tremendous. there will be a quiz afterwards at the table where i will be autographing the completed autobiography that my great, grea

mentions. >> well, washington and lincoln, f.d.r., theodore roosevelt, truman. >> rose: here's what john adams said once, that his generation-- his generation-- should study war and politics so that their grandchildren could pursue fine arts. >> that' exactly what this book is about. this is pursuing the dream that adam's had for the fute generation. i'm going in saying what did they do? how have they done? and of crse one ofis descendents is in the book, henry adams, who may have been our greatest historian. >> rose: tell me the people you mealong this journey. who is it that you most want to tell us we would be part in if we had been in paris at this time. >> rose: oliver wendellwendall holmes senior. who's one of the most engaging fellows i ever sat in a cafe with. holmes was aoet and essayist. a very small man physically. he said 5'4 in a pair of heavy boots. he was a poet, a published poet already and he was a medical student. and he saw no incongress grewty in devoting his life to medical science and writing poetry and essays and founding the "atlantic" monthly magazine. holmes was one o

didn't back down said incorrectly john quincy yamds was one of the founders when it was his father john adams that was. >> john quincy adams was a part of the revolutionary warrera. a young boy but was actively involved. >> in 2005 she called for an investigation into whether members of congress had anti-american views. bachmann is making the splash in the republican field. the minnesota congress woman is at the top of the latest iowa poll and iowa has an overwhelmingly favorable view of her making her more popular than sara palin back in iowa today as the star of a new documentary that is a flattering portrayal of her political career in alaska. and top republicans say there there are no signs she's jumping into the race. >> and the cover of the latest news week magazine is causing a stir. showing a kputser-again rated image of the late princess diana aged to look as if she's 50 and walking with kate middle ton. the article was written by diana biographer tina brown, and mainly speculates on what diana would have been like if she were alive today. some are calling it offensive and jarring. p

john quincy adams, she said. >> he did work to end slavery, decades later. by this comment that the founding fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery? >> john quincy adams was most certainly part of the revolutionary war era. he was a young boy but he was actively involved. >> reporter: tuesday evening sarah palin said she was still contemplating a presidential run and said she spent the day meeting with activists in iowa, activists who work for various causes. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >>> president obama has scheduled a conference with the news media later this morning. george stephanopoulos will anchor our coverage live at 11:30 eastern time. big victory at the women's world cup in germany. this is going on by the way, it doesn't get a lot of attention. >> and it should. very, very exciting. the number one-ranked americans won their opening match yesterday by shutting out north korea 2-0. both games came in the second half courtesy of lauren cheney and rachel buehler. the women say it was a total team effort. remember, what do we have to do,

john adams compared it to a mausoleum. [laughter] and it's very dull, t very hard to get through, it's very long, and it created a washington who's very distant, who is that man of marble, that statue, that image. the genius of parson weems was that he understood that was not enough. the statue was not enough. the painting, the image, the face was not enough. washington needed to be real for us. he needed to bring washington to school children, to grandparents, to farmers, to pioneers, to workers, to everybody. and the best way he knew to do that was to tell a series of stories, a series of anecdotes about george. that would make him into a real human being, it would make him into somebody that everybody could feel they could shake his hand, they could look him in the eye, they could tell him their story. and george washington would understand. it's almost as if they could feel, i'm a farmer. i want to tell george washington , to share with him what it's like to be a farmer, what it's like to till the land, what it's like

john quincy adams, she said. >> he did work to end slavery decades later. but -- so, you're standing by this comment that the founding fathers worked to end slavery? >> well, john quincy adams most certainly was part of the revolutionary war era. he was a young boy, but he was actively involved. >> reporter: this evening in iowa, former governor sarah palin said she is still, quote, contemplating a presidential run. she said she spent much of the day in iowa meeting with republican activists, activists who work for a number of causes. george? >> keeping the speculation alive. okay, jake, thanks. >>> and still ahead on "world news," tiny cameras planted at intersections are supposed to prevent accidents like this one. but are they doing more harm thth good? >>> and, a new way to make a big difference in someone's life. how americans are helping their neighbors in need, one pizza at a time. ♪ [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil. here's one story. my name is lacey calvert and i train professional athletes with yoga. i know how m

bigotry that many of the early settlers in this country were fleeing from in europe is what president john adams opposed when he opened the treaty of tripoli ratified by the united states senate and signed in seventeen ninety seven adams their second president with the words as the government of the united states of america is not in any sense founded on the christian religion as it has in itself no character of empty against the laws religion or tranquility of muslims and as the said states never entered into any war or act still ity against any mohammad to be a nation is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions show ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries or when thomas jefferson wrote the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious to others but it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god if god who picks my pocket or breaks my leg if founders understood religious intolerance and how dangerous it is which is why i do stablished one clause in the constitution makes her

madison was a princeton man, john adams, harvard. washington wasn't a conditional guy. very impressed by webster. he said that's a very interesting idea. and he is a great delegator, so he says, i'll give it to mr. maddison as soon as possible. he gives it to madson, and webster's pamphlet is instrumental in the drafting of the constitution. and in 1787, webster is at the constitutional convention -- these are moments involving into mover and shaker moments. in 1787, at the constitutional convention. as soon as washington arrives, the first thing he does is knock on webster's door. he is washington's policy -- he is not a delegate, he is there as a journalist, and the convention men realize his talents, and right after the convention they ask him to draft a pamphlet in support of the constitution. he does that, and historians have compared that pamphlet to the federalist papers papers any have been more influential because webster's pamphlet was circulated throughout the entire country and was published right after the convention, as opposed to the federalist papers whi

eight hundred three then president thomas jefferson was horrified they were letter to the wife of john adams saying the opinion which gives to the just judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the legislative and executive also in their spears would make the judiciary a despotic branch despotic like keynes in another letter to his old friend spencer rowan and chief justice of the virginia supreme court patrick henry's uncle your nephew thomas jefferson wrote if this decision be sound that indeed is our constitution a complete suicide pact for the constitution on this hypothesis jefferson said is a mere thing of blacks in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape in any form they please and today the roberts court has twisted and shaped our waxy constitution into a corporate charter for rich c.e.o.'s to run amok in our electoral politics had jefferson known in one thousand nine hundred three just how far the supreme court would go and enshrining corporate power in america he likely would

john adams warned us about that. if you do not assume these responsibilities, it won't work. we are not quite willing to assume it. sam you'll adams said you don't have to worry. what you need is an irate, tireless minority to stir up the brush fires of freedom in the brush fires of man. this is where i can report we are making progress. there are many, many thousands brush fires going on in the country. i would like to think i contributed to it a little bit. but one thing i can tell you is that i cannot tell you i know how many there are. everywhere i go, there are more here and here sam you'll adams had one big fight. he gave us one vice. he says no long faces. there's every reason not to have a long face. leadership starting to loose our language. great. good to see everybody. >> c-span has launched a new easy to navigate website with the latest events from the campaign trail, twitter feeds and facebook updates. links to c-span media partners. visit us at c-span.org/campaign 2012. >> coming up, washington journal. we'll take your questions and comments.

and two american muslim communities how long until republicans just make it official bring back john adams alien sedition acts and begin putting bloggers in jail like adams did with newspaper editors he didn't like yours that you could great liberal hopes internment camps but. what i think what i've been doing what is right what i think what he was saying is that he might have misspoken at the end of it but what he was saying is that you know if someone's going to yemen and going to listen to anwar a lot we're going to his his mosque maybe we should watch out for that. i don't think it's particularly crazy and he has to walk that people are going for here's the other question is what does that mean for people attending political speeches in our country and you can necessarily be responsible for what a speaker says on the stage or you know ted nugent says something crazy if you're going to be enemies of god or anything you can challenge you know it's different had you didn't preface it with what he did he said where they travel you want to take pay attention where they're traveling if you'r

i didn't write it this way but when i was reading and writing about them together i thought of john adams and thomas jefferson. there was a friendship that was always there but a friendship sorter fraught with difficulties and strong opinions and certainly brian and darrow were like that. >> mencken also wrote an absolutely scathing obituary of ryan, which if i have my history right was the only time he was talking to retracting something. he was not sure if retracting what he he said bailout the paper to eliminate that version perform further additions of the paper and did a kinder one which is very unmencken like. in chicago's darrow figure greatly in chicago politics and andrew contends that the move to chicago was central and darrow's development. why don't you talk a little bit about that. >> the trouble about writing about the early parts of clarence darrow is we only had darrow's words for what happened and what he thought about his childhood. and in some of the other biographies which are very good and i encourage you to read them, we tend to draw direct line between his freethink

john adams was a harvard man. washington wasn't a college guy. he's very impressed by webster. he said that's a very interesting idea. and he's a great delegator and so he says i'll give it to mr. madison as soon as possible. he gives it to madison and webster's pamphlet becomes instrumental in the drafting of the constitution. and then in 1787, webster's at the constitutional convention, again these are the from us gump moments are evolving to move and shaker movements. in 1787 he's at the constitutional convention. as soon as washington arrives, the first thing he does is knock on webster's door. he's washington's policy wonk. he's not a delegate. he's there as a journalist and then the so-called convention man realizes talents and right after the convention they ask him to draft a pamphlet in support of the constitution. he does that and historians have compared that pamphlet to the federalist papers and actually may well have been more influential because webster's pamphlet was circulated throughout the entire country and it was ready -- it was published right after the con

she went on to clarify her statement and she said john quincy adams worked to end slavery and that hed a founding father though he was 8 years old when the declaration of independence was signed. a founding father should be old enough to be a father, right? i love when politicians use a single sentence as their defense, as if that's what they meant t e whole time. and that's what she's doing. and not only is she sticking to it, she's working on, i don't know if it's a documentary or an educational film, but something to teach kids about american history. >> in 1775, thomas jefferson and john quincy adams set sail across the delaware river to tell the king of england they had enough of his liberal agenda. king james called that pole jeon and together, decided to kill america. they sent the nina, the pinata and the santa maria to fight. but then, george washington and abraham lincoln gathered an army to turn back the big government dictators. they told paul revere to ride his horse to frodo. but then, john wilks booth showed up and killed lincoln. but there was still hope, because jesus

. >> needafriendtotalkto is really 25-year-old john adam daniels, a carpenter. he's here to meet a 13-year-old virgin named nina. he asked her if she wants to try anal sex and if he can perform oral sex on her. after the decoy agrees, she tells him she's home alone. and he asks to spend the night. he comes prepared. >> he's brought his overnight bag, looks like. >> i had to do laundry right away. i have something cute to wear tonight. did you try some of my sweet tea? sorry, i'm almost done. >> okay, babe. >> did you bring me anything? >> yes, i did. >> what did you bring me? >> i have a drink and some kit-kats. >> looks like you brought enough stuff to move in. why don't you have a seat there. and like some of the others, needafriendtotalkto appears to know what he's walked into. >> am i being taped? >> you are being taped. >> oh, crap. am i going to be arrested? >> that's not up to me. you admit right here that you could be in trouble if anybody found out that a 25-year-old -- >> yes. >> -- was with a 13-year-old? >> yes, sir. i thought it was a bad idea. >> i

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this morning, john quincy adams, one of our founding fathers.l scrutiny? robert? >> in defense of michele bachmann, she did have a fact checker. sarah palin. it's not just -- it's not just michele bachmann's stubborn refusal to accept history. the climate change, evolution are beyond her. she will with stabd stand -- >> jerry. >> michele bachmann cannot afford to make gas, the john wayne controversy, the actor was born in iowa. his parents lived in waterloo until the time he was born, so she has to be careful because people are are going to be hard on her, but as long as we have joe biden out there in public life, anybody else is on safeguard. >> john. >> the pattern is the problem. when she said the founding fathers fought to end slavery, that's a problem. folks on the far right want to cast this between george washington and barack obama. they've got to get their history right. and can't keep falling on their face. >> okay. number two. today, sarah palin heading to iowa for the premier of her movie about her. so does a movie star run for presi

founding principles of america which is that government does not go abroad in search of what john quincy adams called monsters to destroy we don't go abroad to save people to regime change or kill invade and whatever what we do instead is we liberate the private sector the cultural groups the business from an economic groups to exchange and to. raiden interact with the people of the world so we want to isolate the government which obviously upsets the big government advocates in the republican the democratic party we want to liberate the private sector they want to do the exact opposite but how do you know this wouldn't work well because we've had a history of it i mean from you know seven hundred eighty seven the u.s. government did not have a huge standing army it did not have a military industrial complex it didn't have this in pirates seven hundred eight hundred bases around the world and yet we were building trying to build a model society here from big exception slavery in tariffs and so forth but it worked very well in terms of keeping america out of these foreign wars so what's differe

>> well, john quincy adams was part of the revolutionary war era. he was a young boy.ut he was actively involved. >> let me move on to another one of your statements, on the issue of jobs, which is so central to this campaign. you said back in 2005, that taking away the minimum wage could potentially, virtually, wipe out unemployment. where is the evidence for that? >> people are upset that the president has us at 9.1% unemployment. that's unacceptable. he promised us that we wouldn't see unemployment go above 8%. we lost millions of jobs. people are suffering right now. they're hurting. and i feel their pain. and i want to make sure what we do going forward is actually to address this and turn the economy around. >> let me try one more time. you're saying that the minimum wage is one of those regulations you'd take a look at? you'd try to eliminate it? >> what i'm saying is that i think we need to lock at all regulations. whatever ones are inhibiting job growth, that's what we need -- >> and the minimum wage is one of them? >> all regulations, george. i think every de

as john adams once quipped facts are stubborn things, and the facts tell us that washington must change our direction if we are to grow our economy and put people to work. the failed economy we are experiencing and the financial collapse around the corner is the most expected economic crisis in a lifetime. we know what is going to happen if we don't act and it would be immoral for us to look the other way or to kick the can down the road because the politics of these issues are too difficult to deal with. americans deserve leadership here in our nation's capital to confront these challenges and not to push them off to the next generation of americans. if we do so, if we confront these issues correctly in a responsible way businesses will succeed, profits will be made, employees hired and americans will again be able to live and pursue the american dream. mr. speaker -- or, mr. president, i thank you and i notice the absence of a quorum. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: i would like to ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vi

then president john adams and signed into law the public health service to treat those merchant marines who had the yellow fever. it is an example of the president responding to the health needs of the country. that is what we are trying to do right now. so, the surgeon general serves as the nation that a doctor, america's dr., but also the public health service with 6500 officers who protect public health. just like the air force protect your skies, the navy protects our seas and oceans, public health protect your help. host: are you and those 6500 workers military? guest: we are a uniformed service or branches. we do not carry guns. but we are part of military, so we are active duty. they are all officers. they all have degrees in some sort of health and science. they are doing everything from medicine, nursing, administrative medicine. host: who are they doing the services for? guest: there are agents throughout the country and throughout the world. when cdc response to an outbreak, many of those are our officers working at cdc, fda, or hhs. host: all medical degrees? guest: health d

john adams warned us about that. he said, "you have a free society. you have a republic. but if you not assume these responsibilities, it will not work." we are not willing to assume its, but we are certainly moving in that direction, which makes me very happy about it. samuel adams said that -- a lot of people worry about how we get a majority to agree. we do not need a majority. we need what he said was an irate minority willing to start the brush fires of freedom in the minds of man. [applause] and this -- [crowd chanting and this i report to you is where we're making great progress. there are many, many thousands of brushfires going on in this country. i would like to think i contributed a little bit. one thing i can't tell you is that i -- i cannot -- i cannot tell you that i know how many there are because every place i go, i find out there is another brushfire here and here and more organizations and individuals who have caught on. samuel adams ha one more bit of advice about this fight and he was in a much tougher fight than we are today. he gave us one advice, he

john adams said we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions, unbridledn, because our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. it is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. the attack on our judeo-christian faith heritage is an attack on our american cause. their aim is not just about separation of church and state, then aim is to separate faith from the individual. and that is why the title of this gathering is so important. because where there is no faith, there certainly will not be freedom. our founding fathers knew that, and this move to develop a secular state in america is the antithesis to the traditions and foundations of our america, of our cause. in psalm 11, three, it asked a simple question. if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? you are here seeking the answer to that question. first you must educate yourselves on our american cause. understand its principles, then secondly, you must recognize the ideological struggle which says in 10 of our america, and must see clearly and be able to art

and i think people, you know, -- i mean -- as, you know, john adams said facts are stubborn things. people aren't entitled to their own facts. a lot of folks around here in washington keep making them up or sticking with their own facts. it makes it very, very hard to proceed forward. now as i said earlier, there are a lot of issues that fall before this committee and there are a lot of things that i we're to how does the chair of the communications technology subcommittee. we are working on privacy and the whole information management issue and there's a lot to talk to you about on that. but i don't want to do that today. i trust that we are going to do it. i do want to focus for a minute if i can, i informed you i would do this. and it's an issue of enormous concern to us. fishing in new england as a whole for maine all the way down through new york is an old time, long-standing way of making a living. it's a huge part of our culture and history and our tourism and it's a big thing. we have two of the largest ports in the nation for the landing of fish. and so -- but the relations

john adams warned us about that. he said, "you have a free society. you have a republic. but if you not assume these responsibilities, it will not work." we are not willing to assume its, but we are certainly moving in that direction, which makes me very happy about it. samuel adams said that -- a lot of people worry about how we get a majority to agree. we do not need a majority. we need what he said was an irate minority willing to start the brush fires of freedom in the minds of man. [applause] and this -- [crowd chanting and this i report to you is where we're making great progress. there are many, many thousands of brushfires going on in this country. i would like to think i contributed a little bit. one thing i can't tell you is that i -- i cannot -- i cannot tell you that i know how many there are because every place i go, i find out there is another brushfire here and here and more organizations and individuals who have caught on. samuel adams ha one more bit of advice about this fight and he was in a much tougher fight than we are today. he gave us one advice, he

fox news even though most american school children learn that paul revere rode to warn samuel adams and johnhancock that the british were coming to arrest them. >> i didn't mess up about paul revere. he did warn the british, and in a shout out, got ya type of question that was asked of me, i answered candidly and i know my american history. >> of course you did. joining me now sheri jacobus. good afternoon to you, cheri. >> good afternoon. >> how damaging is this latest gaffe for miss palin? >> it's not helpful. when she made the gaffe, i don't think it was all that serious. she was -- it looked like she was putting some food items on a tray and thinking out loud but it shows the peril in sort of answering questions off the cuff if you're really a serious candidate for president. i think you need to show a little more respect, have some well thought out responses. what i thought was damaging was her response. i think technically there is some truth in it. i don't think that she should be wasting her time responding to these things or saying it was a gotcha question. i think that she could ha

it says paul revere rode through lexington on a secret mission to warn samuel adams and john hancockthat british troops were marching to arrest them. palin told chris wallace on fox news sunday, quote, part of his ride was to warn the british that we're already there, that, hey, you're not going to succeed, you're not going to take american arms, you're not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. sarah palin went on to say, quote, and in a shout out, gotta type of question that was asked of me i answered candidly, i know my american history. >>> 67 years ago today, allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy france to free nazi occupied europe during world war ii. senator john kerry and veterans are commemorating the d-day landing across the coast of france. eisenhower gave the go ahead for d-day. the u.s. joined western allies with a total of 155,000 forces on the beaches in normandy. the operation, of course, was a success. >>> right now in arizona, the weather is not helping firefighters battle a massive fire there. forecasters are cal

ride out of boston, where he warned the american patriots, not the british, in particular sam adams and johnthat the british troops were marching to lexington to arrest them. and revere was trying to mobilize the countryside. i think she got mixed up that later he was arrested and told the british, you know, that the americans had guns and that they were going to defend themselves after revere got arrested. so i think in her guided tours, and this was all done very quickly in boston, she kind of took little bits and put them into her own sarah palin version of history. and it's not good history. it's convoluted. >> i mean, again, we didn't cover this initially because you know, we just thought look, she misspoke. but then to double down and insist she is getting it right, this is why we're now even talking about it. part of her explanation yesterday was that she meant revere was trying to make a statement about the individual private militia that the british were facing and about american arms. could she have a point there? >> no, it's just all a -- it's like just taking up things and puttin

john adams warned about that.ys you have a free society, you have a republic, but if you do not assume these responsibilities, it will not work. that is what our challenges today. we are not quite willing to assume it. as i started out, let me say that we are certainly moving in that direction, which makes me very happy about it. samuel adams said that a lot of people worry. how are we ever going to get a majority to agree on this? you do not need a majority, you need what he said was an irate, tireless minority willing to start the brush fires of freedom in the minds of man. [cheers and applause] this, i can report to you, is where we are making great progress. there are many, many thousands of brush fires going on in this country. i would like to think i have contributed a little bit, but one thing i can tell you is -- i cannot tell you that i know how many there are, because every place i go, i find out there is another brush fire here and here. more organizations and individuals who have caught on. samuel adam

ride out of boston, where he warned the american patriots, not the british, in particular sam adams and johncock, that the british troops were marching to lexington to arrest them. and revere was trying to mobilize the countryside. i think she got mixed up that later he was arrested and told the british, you know, that the americans had guns and that they were going to defend themselves after revere got arrested. so i think in her guided tours, and this was all done very quickly in boston, she kind of took little bits and put them into her own sarah palin version of history. and it's not good history. it's convoluted. >> doug brinkley, i appreciate you being on. doug, thanks very much. quick programming note. a week from tonight monday june 13th cnn's going to have live coverage of the republican presidential primary debate in new hampshire. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> coming up, crime and punishment. dramatic testimony in the casey anthony murder trial. today a scientist talked about the smell in anthony's car, saying there was only one plausible explanation for it, that there was a bo

and then she refused to admit she made a mistake as history says it, revere rode to warn samuel adams and johnancock the british were coming to arrest them. >> i didn't mess up about paul revere. he did warn the british. and in a shoutout, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, i answered candidly and i know my american history. >> well, joining me now, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director karen finney as well as d.c. bureau chief for the comcast network robert trainer. they're both smiling. you're both avid historians. robert, we'll start with you. history, as i was saying, does not seem to agree with what she is saying. what do you make of this? >> i think she was probably saying the british are coming, the british are coming, the media are coming, the media are coming. sarah palin obviously has her own interpretation of what happened. we know what the facts are based on our history books. we also know what the facts are just based on -- just simply knowing all of our american history. sarah palin has a right to think whatever she thinks. she's not a candidat

. >> he admitted to what he did, but he's adamant about one thing he didn't do. john edwards response to accusation he is broke law. assisted suicide, has died. the 83 year old had been hospitalized for kidney problems and pneumonia. kevorkian claimed to have helped 130 people kill themselves, using his homemade suicide machine. terminally ill patients were able administer a fatal drug dose at the push of a button. kevorkian claimed top help 138 people kill themselves using his suicide machine. terminally i ill patients were able to -- it's a rare human being who can take on an entire society and force it to focus on the suffering of other human beings. >> kevorkian was put on trial four different types, never convicted until he recorded himself assisting in the suicide of a man with lou gehrig's disease. he spent 8 years in prison for second degree hurt. he was paroled in 2007. >> john edwards is fighting charges that he violated federal election law in his 2008 campaign. prosecutors say he used donations to cover up an affair. they say hundreds of thousands of dolla

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