fortunately for john wilkes and both sides of the atlantic, john wilks emerged victorious. today, we doesn't have general warrants. at least nothing masquerading under that title in the united states. the fact that we have a fourth amendment is a testament to his vigorous defense of the rights of english subjects. what we do have is something that ought to concern every american. we have a foreign intelligence surveillance act, which we know has been abused and we've known for a long time is ripe for opportunities for abuse among government officials. in fact, what we've seen is that the current president of the united states has himself become the target of abuse under fisa. back in 2016 when this started being abuse and when we saw the emergence of things like operation cross-fire hurricane, you had the campaign of a man who become the 45th president of the united states targeted and singled out quite unfairly, using these practices, these procedures that were designed originally for use in detecting and thwarting the efforts of agents of foreign powers. as the name of th

died, we were supposed to get abraham lincoln's vision of reconstruction but instead the bullet of john wilkes move gives us johnson was a man born racist, died a racist, the last president to own slaves, a man who didn't anticipate his own slaves until 7 months after the emancipation proclamation, a man who has president ended up resurrecting every moment of the confederacy paving way for the jim crow laws which gave us segregation. if i look at the story of civil rights and post-civil war america it can be described as a story of two presidential assassinations beginning with abraham lincoln and ending with james garfield. when i set out to write the chapter about andrew johnson you think what can i write that great scholars haven't written about this sort of seminal moment in history and i decided to vindicate the one stanley can's record which is putting andrew johnson a heartbeat away from the president. back in the vice -- the president didn't choose the runway but this is an important moment in lincoln was a service he would lose the election in 1864 that he engaged in massive intrigue

we all know john wilkes booth's store, how he ended abraham again's life and his presidency and this is the first secret plot to kill abraham lincoln is at the start of the presidency, before it begins. why does it happen? when abraham i can is going to raise his right hand and become the sixteenth president of the united states the only way he can do that is take a train from his home in springfield and go to washington dc. he goes to washington dc and the only way to get from illinois to dc is on any train, you have to go through baltimore and baltimore was a slave state. the plot of the book is very simple. a secret society is planning to kill abraham lincoln, and ambition when he comes to baltimore in and his friend is -- presidency before it begins. that is the setup but what i think is interesting is the action, just where it begins. we open on this train and it is speeding through the middle of the night and on this train passengers focused, this just for, one of them is a businessman, two business men and then a woman and she's got brothers and hunched over. one of them is al

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the fact when abraham lincoln dies, we were supposed to get the vision of reconstruction instead john wilkes booth gives us andrew johnson born and raised a racist and i racist the last president to own slaves did not emancipate his own until seven months after the emancipation proclamation and as president resurrecting almost every old element of the confederacy paving the way for the jim crow laws which gave us segregation. if i look post- civil war america, that can be described as the story of two presidential assassinations beginning with abraham lincoln ending with garfield. when i set out to ride a chapter about lincoln and andrew johnson you think what could i write the scholars have not at this moment in history? and then to vindicate the one stain on the record a heartbeat away from the presidency. he did not choose a running mate back then this was so important lincoln was so certain he would lose the election that he engaged in a massive intrigue outside of his circle to move hannibal hamlin off the ticket and replace him with johnson. if you look at who andrew johnson was 1864 v

1865 standards, lincoln is making a statement that was so shocking to one member of the audience, john wilkesooth, that he vowed on the spot to kill him rather than accept racial equality. brian: you have a question? >> i have been watching c-span for 35 years. i love all the programming. i can't help but ask, if you were to continue to update the book, as we go further in history, where would president trump fit in with these same leadership qualities? where would he fit in, in the top five, the bottom five, in the ranking? [laughter] harold: first of all, you have to let him finish. presidents are not judged in midstream in the historian survey. so he is ineligible and we are unprepared to answer. time will tell. communication, i would rate him as one of the greatest communicators in the presidency. whatever the policies are. he knows how to do scrums with reporters. an example of a ratings factor. you never know. brian: let me ask amity, is this the most divided the country has ever been? amity: the civil war was the most divided this country has ever been. i think in our adulthood, in my

i mean, the lindbergh baby kidnapping, john wilkes booth, i don't know what else he is going to look at that happened a long time ago. the time for investigating misconduct is much more contemporaneous than four years. >> martha: yeah, i mean, you make a great point. everything that has been revealed with the declassification of these memos and information, you know, obviously was known to the fbi before we all found out about it and the rest of the country, and christopher wray do say that when he came in, he wanted to be a reformer and look into all of that stuff, but obviously it's just the public display of these things, i would imagine, that has nudged this perhaps to a different level at the fbi now. one of the things, i think it's interesting you are hearing for a call on all sides from general flynn lawyer to the other side of the fence, from the fbi, everybody wants the kislyak-flynn on call transcript released so everyone can see it. i don't know what is taking so long. do you think we are going to actually get to look at it? >> i think that you -- i think that you will loo

we all know it didn't turn out that way thanks in large part to john wilkes booth with the assassination lincoln but the story is illustrative nonetheless if chamberlain his troops can find it in their heart to be that forgiving and a generous, respectful of men then only days before they are mortal enemies we ought to extend a similar generosity to men that is now a far more distant past we can be encouraged by lincoln himself who said something similar at a cabinet meeting april 14 the very day of his assassination which is so haunting. he said i hope there will be no persecution or bodywork after the war is over enough lives have been sacrificed we must extinguish our resentment if we expect harmony and union there has been too much of a desire on our good friends to be masters and interfere with and dictate to treat the people not as fellow citizens. there is too little respect for their lives i do not sympathize in these feelings. perhaps his hopes were unrealistic perhaps such the outcome was is impossible perhaps it would have entailed too many concessions with a defeated south we

. >> i have to say, i did find it chilling the phrase that was there, attributed to john wilkes boothssinated abraham lincoln, which basically means thus always the tyrants. >> it was a celebration of assassination. but, you know what, i'm not going to be afraid. i'm not going to let these folks bully me or bully the state of kentucky. we're more united than we have ever been in how we are addressing this virus. we have saved tens of thousands of lives. i'm committed to doing what i can to address this healthcare inequality moving forward and i will not let these folks that want to ultimately try to force or pressure and really create fear and terror, which is what they're doing, to make us do the wrong things. they will not intimidate me or us. >> in terms of rhetoric, i want to also ask you about a tweet that was put out by the president, is now on the official white house twitter account. it is is about the demonstrations we have seen across the country, these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i won't let that happen, just spoke to governor tim walz of minnesota.

with the lincoln conspiracy because at this point we all know the john wilkes booth a story with his wife in the presidency of course the first was the start of the presidency truly before it begins because abraham lincoln will raise his right hand and become the 16th president of the united states he must take a train and then to go to washington dc and the only way to get from illinois to dc is any train you have to go through baltimore and at the time it was a slave state. so the plot is very simple the secret society is planning to kill abraham lincoln and ambush when he comes to baltimore and in the presidency before it ever begins. that is the set up. what i think is interesting is the action just where it begins and on this train to be more focused and then there is a woman none of them are who they say they are because allan pinkerton of the detective agency and the woman is kate warren the first female pie that i but her so-called brother not the invalid because that is abraham lincoln. that is the codename. and with that secret society you don't have to read chapter one the

john wilkes booth shot abraham lincoln in order to kill abraham lincoln. john kennedy was shot in order to kill john kennedy. what charles gateau was trying to do -- he had nothing personal against james garfield. he liked the man. he met the man, he met the man, met his wife. he wasn't so much trying to get garfield out of office as to put someone else in office. he was trying to make chester alan arthur and his circle of friends the president and ruling circle in the united states. it was a regime change. that's a very scary thought when you think about it, and he was successful in doing it. >> and getting back to andrew johnson, i'm going to steal a question that was asked of other historians. abraham lincoln, of course, is ranked the number one president. james buchanan, who preceded him, and andrew johnson who came after him, are consistently ranked the last two. how do you explain that? >> lincoln is sort of historical kryptonite. you don't want to be close to him. he had the greatest challenges of any president, i think, and did such a wonderful job,

john wilkes booth -- what charles was trying to do, he had nothing personal against james garfield.he liked the man, he had met his wife. what he was trying to do was reverse the election of 1880. he was not so much trying to get garfield out of office as to put someone else in office. it was a regime change. and that's a very scary thought when you think about it, and he was successful in doing it. >> and getting back to andrew johnson i'm going to steal a question susan asked earlier this week. abraham lincoln, of course, is ranked the number one president. james buchanan who preceded him and andrew johnson who came after him are ranked the last two. how do you explain that? >> well, lincoln is sort of historical kryptonite. you don't want to be close to him because he had the greatest challenges of any president i think and did such a wonderful job. it's hard to look good next to that. but both buchanan and johnson were cosmically unsuccessful. buchanan slid into war and almost did nothing to stop it. it was tragic. and johnson remaid the nation after the war and historical reput

john wilkes booth shot abraham lincoln in order to kill abraham lincoln. lee harvey oswald shot john kennedy in order to kill john kennedy. the other man shot william mckinley in order to kill william mckinley. what charles guiteau was trying to do, he had nothing personal against james garfield. he liked the man. he had met his wife. what he was trying to do was reverse the election of 1880. he was not so much trying to get garfield out of office as to put someone else in office. he was trying to make chester alan arthur and his circle of friends the president and the ruling circle in the united states. it was a regime change. and that's a very scary thought when you think about it. and he was successful in doing it. john: and getting back to andrew johnson, i am going to steal a question that susan asked at an earlier event. lincoln of course is ranked the number one president. james buchanan, who preceeded, and andrew johnson, who came after, are consistently ranked the last two. how do you explain that? is historical kryptonite and you don't want to be

because at this point we all know the john wilkes booth story. story. we know how he ended abraham lincoln slice and his presidency. this is of course the first secret plot to kill abraham lincoln is a total. >> of his presidency truly before begins. why does it happen? when every lincoln is going to raise his right in and become the 16th president of the united states, the only way he can do that is he must take a train. just to go from his home in springfield and then he would go to washington, d.c. he us to go to washington, d.c., and the only way to get from illinois to d.c. is you got to go in any train the matter which one to take you have to go through baltimore. in the at the time marilyn was a slave state. the plot of the book is very simple. i secret society is planning to kill abraham lincoln and ambush in when he comes to baltimore and that is presidency before ever is. that's the setup. but what i think is really interesting is the action. just where it begins. we open on this train and is speeding to the middle of the night and on this tra

john wilkes booth, school kids go to ford's theatre and you stu dit. but you realize that when lincoln's body originally moved back to springfield, buried there in springfield, the train ride with his casket went across the country at the same moment that the soldiers were laying down their arms and coming home as a kind of homecoming. so lincoln is kind of in a category unto his own. and if you want to also -- if you're a book lover go to the lincoln book shop, that sells nothing but books about lincoln. all scholars want to write a book about lincoln, i never have, but if i could i'd write about him going two trips down the mississippi river. >> let's pickn$ç up from what sn asked about u.s. grant and you can throw in your comments on mr. lincoln if you'd like, but can you explain why general grant has done so well in the survey? >> i think every generation decides how they're going to rate and interpret presidents and at this time in our history, things that really matter to us are integrity. i know this is a scandal filled administration supposedly

and we all know the story of john wilkes booth ending abraham lincoln's presidency. the story of the first secret plot to kill abraham lincoln at the very start. to be sworn in as the 16th president, abraham lincoln had to take a train from his home in springfield, illinois to washington, d.c. but the only way to get there he had to go through baltimore. and maryland at the time was a slave state. so the problem was simple. a secret society planned to kill abraham lincoln when he came through baltimore and end his presidency before it even began. this is the story of the lincoln conspiracy. brian: all right. when they get word of it, what do they do? >> in the middle of the night, there is a speeding train filled with passengers, four of them. and among them are two business members. there is a woman and she has a brother who is an invalid. but none of them are who they say they are. the man is actually allen pinkerton, the head of the famed pink kerrton detective agency. the woman is warren the first private i in america. he is not invalid. his name is ab abraham li

and so just as we see that john wilkes through his publication of north briton number 45 solidified a set of preexisting civil rights, we now see that president number 45, donald john trump, has the opportunity to strengthen this right protected in our fourth amendment, hearkening back to the example of john wilkes in the publication of north briton number 45. my amendment with senator leahy would make reforms to applications for surveillance across the foreign intelligence surveillance act, including both section 215, the authority that recently expired, and under title 1, which happens to be the authority that was abused in order to surveil president trump's campaign. first the amendment would strengthen the role of the friend of court provisions, the amicus curea provisions we adopted in 2016 with the act introduced by senator leahy and myself back then. it would strengthen the provisions and make them applicable in circumstances in which there are sensitivities inherently at play. now these amicus curiae or friends of the court are people who as contemplated under the proposed leg