exhibit a, kansas. yeah, kansas/nebraska bill did a lot of good in kansas, didn't it? what did it get, slacker laurnllaurnl lawrence, john brown. oh, yeah, kansas/nebraska really brought peace, didn't it? in my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis. that's brown and not just john brown, until a crisis has been reached and passed. why? because a house divided cannot stand. the real issue here? the real issue here is not the political disposition of the kansas story. the real question is not just the philip compton constitution. the real question here is slavery and freedom. again, lincoln wants to take you back to first principal as he did in the peoria speech of 1854. let me tell you what is really at stake here, lincoln says. i believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. i do not expect the union to be dissolved. i do not expect the house to fall, but i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other, that's where we are tending. even the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it

kansas was going to break the tie. believe that's where the state motto kind of comes from, our state motto stands for to the stars through difficulty. just kind of talking about how kansas ans are tough, they can get through anything, and no matter what happens, they're going to make it through. >> we are currently on the second floor of the kansas state capitol, this floor has the most famous mural on it, in our capital, the tragic prelude, that was painted by jon stewart curry, in the late 1930s, when jon stewart curry was painting the tragic prelude, he was commissioned to paint the story of kansas. he started off. coronado was in that painting showing the early days and the first person who described the area now known as kansas. the buffalo hunters who were clearing the way for the railroads, there is progress, he included some covered wagons that are painted heading west, the tragic prelude is in the east wing of the building, and then the covered wagons are painted heading west. representing that westward expan

we talk about bleeding kansas. the admission of kansas.uchanan putting his thumb on the side of admitting kansas as a slave state. john points out in one of our sections of our book that buchanan had a little bit of a sul fistic view that you would admit kansas as a slave state and the people would turn around and make it a free state, which was not a very realistic way of understanding the political environment in the country at that time. buchanan essentially gets off on the wrong foot and stays on the wrong foot. not only does he not recognize the growing, i would call it, f fervor in the north aimed at slave power but he is also not willing to acknowledge interests of the northern democrats who are with that constituency. so he is increasingly finding himself besieged and finding himself in the camp of southerners. one quick thing and i'll turn it over to john, is the cabinet. some supporters of buchanan, notably phil klein talk about how, quote, able his cabinet was. but anybody who looks at the cabinet in a serious way will notice th

you voted yes to repeal, and how does that jibe with what western kansas, central kansas people need? and are you going to ever take a stand with our president since the falsehoods that he says? that's my opinion, that's correct. ask first of all -- >> first of of, i'm on supporter additional funding for i.d.e.a., it is a very expensive proposition. today in kansas,, i would guess the number is 15, 16, 17%, not 40% come from us as federal taxpayers. we have a mandate that is hugely expensive mandated by the federal government. you have no choice but to comply with it. to do so, you got to go back to encourage the legislature to give you more money so you cant -- so you can take it out of the regular education classroom to the special needs kids, or come we needpatrons and say to raise the local option budget to meet this federal mandate. much of my time in education is spent trying to get rid of mandates. this is not a mandate out to get rid of. i'm out to see that it is affordable for school districts and their taxpayers across kansas. the issue of, the vote on the skinny repeal, i v

dred scott, kansas, secession. buchanan and his presidency go into a black hole except those three issues. we are not going to go into it at length, but it is worth saying quickly that there are other things going on. buchanan acquits himself quite well in a couple of areas. in aals with filibustering forceful and effective way. you might be surprised. the filibusters were advancing agents of celebrity. -- slavery. he works very well as president with the british. that's not an inconsiderable fact considering they are the most powerful country in the world and we have a civil war on the horizon. where england goes in terms of the north south division is going to be very important to the outcome of that war. you could say he really does make it easier for lincoln and charles francis adams to work with the british during the war and not side with the south. john is talked about the corruption in the presidency. it's a reality and it sustained. he himself was personally honest and worked extremely hard and did his bes

so kansas was going to break the tie.nd i believe that's where the state motee kind of comes from. our state motto stands for to the stars through difficulty and just kind of talking about how kansasans are tough, they can get through anything and no matter what they're going to make it through. we are currently on the second floor of the kansas state capitol. this floor has the most famous mural on it that's in our capitol, the tragic prelude in the late 1930s. when john stuart curry was painting the prelude, he was commissioned to participate the story of kansas. so he started off, coronado was in that participating showing the first days of the person who described kansas. and then the buffalo hunters who are clearing the way for the railroads. so there was progress. the tragic prelude is in the east wing of the building. and then the covered wagons are participated heading west re representing that western expansion unit. we were kind of the last country before people headed out to california. again, the main figure i

that brought him back to kansas. as we look at this map, at the time of the fight down at the bottom here, you see about 100 miles northwest over here is where custer rescued the captors.- the this is where carr was stationed during those months. he was ordered to fort mcpherson on platte river just above the nebraska border from the texas panhandle. on his way up, he stopped at fort lyon at the end of the arkansas river. as he began to go up to fort mcpherson, by coincidence he had , may 13 and 16th, at elephant rock and spring creek. 25 warriors were killed and four soldiers at the first fight, and at least that many indians were wounded and unknown dead in the second fight. it was the second fight at spring creek where cody really made an impression upon carr. scoutte this, "our william cody, who has been with the detachment since last september, display great skill in following that, and also deserves great credit for fighting in both engagements. his marksmanship very conspicuous. he deserves honorable mention f

dred scott, kansas secession.'ve said in other speech nas buchanan and his presidency go into a black hole except for those three issues. and there's more to the presidency, we're not going to go into it at length. it is worth just saying quickly that there are other things going on. and buchanan actually acquits himself quite well in a couple of areas. he deals with filibustering in central america in a forceful and effective way. and you might be surprised. because the filibusters were essentially advanced agents of slavery. and he's checking them. so good on him for that he works very well as president, as he had as minister to england with the british. that's not an inconsiderable factor given that britain is the most powerful country in the world and b, we have a civil war on of the horizon and where england goes in terms of the north/south division is going to be very important to the outcome of that war. you could say that he really does make it easier for lincoln and charles francis adams to work with the

very different when he gets to kansas. i saw indians and they were dark skinned and rather fantastically dressed people, and i tried to talk to them, he says, but i could not understand them. when he lived there though, he plays with the kickapoo children and learns their language, learns how to shoot a bow and arrow. he is much more consistent by -- more interested 1879 about what is going on with the indians. he does mention the missourians. and he describes them in typical northern settler free state fashion as" ruffians." they swore a lot. they swaggered about. it does say their interactions with his father -- they act with honor and fairness, but this was a very northern stereotype. border ruffians is what the northerners called him. then when he joins the jayhawkers, he admits the point was to retaliate and get even with the persecutors of kansas. he admits he was a horse thief when he was a jayhawker, but the jayhawkers also liberated slaves. he does not talk about that. and he does not talk about his service with t

that gives you an idea of how the fighting in kansas, which becomes known as bleeding kansas, is making people militant. they're seizing a federal arsenal inside missouri. now, what happens is that this mobilization divides people within missouri. this is an underreported, under discussed aspect of the bleeding kansas fight where there's 200 people killed in the civil war in kansas in the 1850s. within missouri, there is a real polarization that is created. for example, as i mentioned on the screen, on july 29, 1854, a preacher who is perceived as anti-slavery is put on trial in his own church. the man who organizes this is a strident pro-slavery e rry i ha who argues slavery is necessary for white people to be free. he says every man who works for a living is slave and every poor while working woman is a whore. we have to have slavery so we can be free and not engage in menial work. there are boycotts called of those who are opposed -- not opposed to slavery but those who don't think there should be warfare over it. in kansas. that preacher was driven out of the county in 1855. also in

that gives you an idea of how the fighting in kansas, which becomes known as bleeding kansas, is making people militant. they're actually seizing an arsenal inside missouri. what happens is that this mobilization divides peoplepin missouri. so this is an underreported, under discussed aspect of the bleeding kansas fight. but in missouri there's a real polarization that's being created. as i mentioned on the screen, on april 9, 1864, a preacher put on trials in his own church. the man who organizes this is a strident pro-slavery idelog who argues that slavery is necessary for every white person to be free. he says we have to have slavery so that we can be free and not engage in menial work. there are boycotts called for not those opposed to slavery but those who don't think there should be warfare over it in kansas. that preacher was driven out of the county in 1855. also in 1855 a mob destroyed a newspaper that was -- in clay county a mass meeting denounced traitors in our midst. and in july 12, 1855, a pro-slavery convention in lexington actually endorses secession six years before the

he is a kansas indian warrior, he's 22 feet 2 inches tall.e's a bronze statue and i guess even though i mentioned earlier, it took us 37 years to complete our capitol, some people might say it wasn't completed until 2002, that is the year we put ed astor on top of the building. there was always notes that there should be a statue on top of the building, for a while the goddess series was considered, she's the goddess of agriculture. she was considered a little too promiscuous for the state of kansas, she was not chosen. it is an iconic tribute to the original people who were here first, and so the colination did send representatives and there was a big ceremony when he was placed on top of the building. there's a little tie in for the old and the new. >>> this is the archival collections for the nebraska state capitol. we house the architectural materials related to the design and construction of the present state capitol. one of the things that makes our

you voted yes to repeal, and how does that jibe with what western kansas, central kansas people need? and are you ever going to take the stand with our president such as the falsehoods that he says? >> first of all, i am a supporter of additional funding for i.d.e.a., special education. the federal government 50 years ago mandated that every school district in the country provide special needs kids with special needs services. it is a very expensive proposition. the federal government recognize that andos said we will pay for 40% of the additional cost it takes to educate one of the special needs students. today in kansas i would guessana the number is 15, 16, 17%, not 40% come from come from us as federal taxpayers. we hadad a mandate that is hugey expensive mandated by the federal government you have no choice but to comply with it. and to do so you got toe go bak to encourage the legislature to give you more money so you can take it out of the regular education classroom to them to the sp special needs kid, or, to yourao patrons and say we need to raise the local option budget to m

they hooked up in kansas around -- somewhere in southeast kansas. they plotted it out and road all the way to southwest city to pull it off and came back to kansas and were arrested near their hometown in kansas and taken back to pineville for arraignment. eventually tried, and they received varying terms and -- terms in prison, anywhere from 10 to 12 years. each one of them did. she was called the second belle star or something. it was sensationalized because she was a woman. they turned her into a hero. jumping from the old west to the gangster era, this is henry star. he started out in the old west, he was an outlaw. he was belle starr's nephew by marriage. and trainank robber robber during the old west, and graduated from fast horses to fast cars and started robbing banks. in the 1900s. one that i talk about in my book, he robbed a bentonville bank in 1893, before cars. but then one with cars is the one i talk about most is when he tried to rob the bank of harrison, arkansas in like february of 1921, he ended up getting killed. that is the man t

board of education historic site in topeka, kansas.s was one of the four elementary schools operating in topeka in 1951 when the brown v. board of education case was filed in district court. the brown v. board of education case is really a small piece of a much larger case that started really back in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which was part of the national association for the advancement of colored people's or naacp's struggle to overturn it. so they were attempting to file cases that would eventual lead to overturning a case called plessy v. ferguson. and that was a supreme court decision that allowed the state of louisiana to segregate rail cars by race. and once the supreme court made that decision that was constitutional, what you saw was an explosion of laws in the south especially that permitted segregated facilities in all sectors of public life. so the naacp was attempting to overturn that precedent. and they knew they could try to do in one case, but if they lost that would be the end of their attempt. so really beginnin

they hooked up in kansas around -- somewhere in southeast kansas. they plotted it out and wrote all the way to southwest city to pull it off and came back to kansas and were arrested near their hometown in kansas and taken back to pineville for arraignment. eventually tried. and received varying terms present. anywhere from 10-12 years, each one of them. she was called the second bill second belle star because she was ar woman they turned. second -- arr this man was a belle st nephew by marriage. he graduated from past courses 19-fast cars around the teens. one that i talk about in my book was a bank you robbed in like 1893, before cars. but then one with cars is the one i talk about most is when he tried to rob the bank of paris in arkansas. in like february of 1921, he ended up getting killed. that is the man that killed him. the former president of the bank who just happened to be there on the day it happened will stop by , he was the former president and he knew where there was a gun stashed and he grabbed a gun and killed him. that is henry sta

we are going to kansas city. dennis is already there. the weather a little bit of late summer in kansas city. they will get snow later the 49ers game against the kansas city chiefs right here on kpix 5. don't change your channel. outside lands will not be 78 degrees. it will be cool, maybe so afternoon sunshine. 64 degrees. if you want an outdoor event that's warmer, the sonoma county fair santa rosa 86. beautiful in sonoma county and santa rosa this weekend. los. cloudy night upper 50s to 1 tonight for you. 57 for a low in redwood city. 60 degrees. now let's talk about why things change. all we did was change the wind direction from southwest to west-northwest and you added about 7 eedegrs away from the water. you 5 will lotose most of that tomorrow because one low pressure area moves out. that's why the wind changes. a newer bigger, stronger area of low pressure is diving down from the gulf of alaska. it will turn the winds back to a southwesterly flow once again. by monday, some of you away from the water that hit 90 today won't even

of the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. the museum is the nation's museum for the history of world war i. it is a global museum. we talk about all the belligerence involved in world war i. it is not just about the united states during the war. everything from the summer of 1914 to the peace treaty of june 1919. our collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i materials in the world. it is not the largest, but it is comprehensive in that we do deal with all nations involved in the war. we are not just centric to the country we are located in. in the museum, when you are going to the exhibition, you see about 10% of the museum collection at one time. the rest we use for research, references, loans to other institutions, and just to make sure we have an encyclopedic collection of the war. when we are teaching about the history of it, we want to cover everything. point z.t a to where i am standing right now is in front of a wall that depicts the various shoulder sleeve insignia worn by the american expeditiona

that a group of business leaders gathered and said let's do something to honor the war heroes of kansas city and create a tribute to peace. what you see behind me is that. the fundraising campaign that lasted only two weeks that raised more than $2.5 million, the equivalent today of $40 million. the people gathering on the side in 1921 where the five allied commanders. a city of about 250,000. the remarkable memorial being constructed and opening in 1926 with president calvin coolidge. the people of the community gathering here. at that time about 150,000 people, said to be the largest crowd that a president of the united states had spoken to up until that time. i think the outpouring of honor for those who had served in world war i across the nation. also, a yearning for peace and a different sort of future than the most recent past. this memorial with many complexities, is a striking architectural feature. then served as a gathering place for many years. early 1990's, some deferred maintenance issued that needed to be addressed. the people of the region responded to that having been t

i have called this the kansas approach, the kansas approach to legislating. he has been a lifelong advocate for the disabled and was a key figure in the passing of the americans with disability act back in 1990. after his appointment as majority leader, bob dole set the record as the nation's longest-serving republican leader in the senate of the united states. several presidents of the united states have especially honored bob for his hard work and public leadership in the public sector. president reagan awarded him a medal in 1989 and president reagan stated whether on the battlefield or capitol hill, senator dole has served america heroic heroically serving as senate majority leader during one of the most productive congresses of recent time, he has been a friend to veterans, farmers and americans from every walk of life. bob dole has stood for integrity , straight talk, and achievement throughout his years of distinguished public service. so said our former president ronald reagan. as i said, kansas values. likewise, in 1997, president clinton awarded sen

you were born in kansas?est: i was actually born in buffalo new york. >> armstrong: bump know new york. >> guest: and moved to canada for a few years. and in 1977 when i was 4-year-old i moved to pa parsons kansas, from from there i until high school i was there. >> what were your doctors. >> my dad is a urologist and my mom is an anesthesiologist. >> when you take interest in becoming a lawyer? >> it wasn't until i got into college. i started out premed, and i remember the first year being in the chemistry lab, an of this work and thinking i don't really enjoy this this much. i was in classes write was writing and debating, and the law seems very much in keeping with that. over time as i pursued my academic studies and i was on the debate team as well, went and applied for law school. i didn't have any lawyers in my family and flying blind and ended up going to the university of chicago and enjoyed that, too. >>> there's a lot of institutions and the university and chicago law school. did you see yourself gr

he is a kansas indian warrior, he's 22 feet 2 inches tall. he's a bronze statue and i guess even though i mentioned earlier, it took us 37 years to complete our capitol, some people might say it wasn't completed until 2002, that is the year we put ed astor on top of the building. there was always notes that there should be a statue on top of the building, for a while the goddess series was considered, she's the goddess of agriculture. she was considered a little too promiscuous for the state of kansas, she was not chosen. it is an iconic tribute to the original people who were here first, and so the colination did send representatives and there was a big ceremony when he was placed on top of the building. there's a little tie in for the old and the new. >>> this is the archival collections for the nebraska state capitol. we house the architectural materials related to the design and construction of the present state capitol. one of the things that makes our building unique, we have this amazing collection of materials that document the constr

editorial page editor for the kansas city star. jam he'll smith is about a being us contributing wroir for the daley beast. colleen i'd like to begin with you. we just got finished talking about leaks. i'd like to leave the topic there because it's germane. how do you think your readers took to the story of the leaked transcripts of donald trump and importantly where members of the base are concerned who live around kansas city, do you think it -- it hurt his relationship with them when they saw he was perhaps less than serious about building that wall and having mexico pay for it? >> well, that certainly started to chip away at some supporters belief in donald trump because they're counting on him to build a wall. the of a avalanche of leaks charlie talked about a moment ago starts to become a blur for readers in kansas city particularly on the russia investigation and all the swirl of what robert mueller is look into. and for a lot of readers here they want to focus on trump's agenda and they want trump to be able to advance his

they were eventually confined to a reservation kansas. then in the 1860s they were once more under siege by white settlers. among those was none other than the family of laura ingalls wilder. who later wrote as i'm sure you all know, little house on the prairie. a novel loosely based on her experience. and in one scene she asked her mother, why don't you like indians? i just do not like them. and don't lick your fingers laura. this is indian country, isn't it laura said? what did becomes this country for if you do not like them? one evening, laura's father explains to her that the government will soon make the osage move away. that is why we are here laura. white people are going to settle all this country. we get the best land because we get here first and take our pick. in fact, many squatters began to seize the land by force. massacring several osage. us government officials said at the time, the question will suggest itself which of these people are the savages. in the 1870s, the osage agreed to sell their land in kansas. they searche

. >> kansas. >> i'm sorry. kst can. geez louise. thank you so much. >> kansas. - >> kansas.hank you. >> i happily embarrass myself but it's a good example. thank you. thank you. >> should .asking questions. >> i know. i know. >> kansas. >> they dramatically increased spending at the same time that they were cutting taxes and revenues are up in kansas. they've just dramatically expanded, especially on k-12 education because it's court ordered in kansas, i'm sure you're familiar, court-ordered the additional spending in kst can beyond eve whan the legislature spends. revenues are up for the government in kansas after the cuts. >>> walk me through corporate tax reform because this beautiful argument is made if corporations in the u.s. could pay less taxes man, would they be hiring. i watched someone like. ibm go on television and talk about the pain they have to pay in taxes. company like ibm isn't paying anything because they have deduction after deduction after deduction. so to say that u.s. corporations are paying 29%, 30%, that's simply not true. >>> let's gt rid of the deu

a flash flood emergency in the kansas city area. a family of seven right there, and their pets trapped on their roof. the path of that possible tornado threat right now from ginger in a moment, but first, alex perez from the storm zone. >> reporter: tonight, the powerful storm system on the move, now threatening millions in t emergency in the midwest, families trapped in their homes. tonight, the deadly flash flood emergency trapping families in their homes. parts of the kansas city metro area getting up to 10 inches of ea immediately. evacuate the >> reporter: more than 160 water rescues, one man caught in high water losing his life. >> rushing water is a whole other animal, and it can move a great deal of weight with its force and can literally sweep those cars off the road very quickly. >> reporter: firefighters using this ladder trucks to save a woman clinging to a tree after flood waters pinned her vehicle. >> they got her safely out of the tree. >> reporter: and that family of seven, with their pets, trapped on their roof for

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of kansas city.e areas have picked up over half a foot of rain. later on today this cold front heads to the east. it's going to be hot. it's going to be computer today from new york city to philadelphia to washington d.c. all up and down the eastern seaboard. then this cold front rolls through 27 million people at risk of severe storms. maybe even an isolated tornado or two. central new york and central pennsylvania, keep in mind late this afternoon. here's the timing of it. this is where we are this morning with the storms. then as we go throughout the day, we'll take the storms through the ohio valley, into areas. there's the central new york threat and also central pennsylvania. this is at 7:00 p.m. pittsburgh, it looks like about 4:00 to 5:00 for you. state college, the binghamton area, syracuse, utica, sometime around 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. is when the worst of that storm will roll through. kind of weakens by the time it makes it to i-95, and then tomorrow we'll do it again in the southeast, but not

they were eventually complying to a reservation in kansas. in the 1860s, they were once more under siege by white settlers. among those was not another in the family of laura inglis wilder. she later wrote little house on perry, a novel loosely based on her experience. in the scene, she asked herd mom, whether you like indians. i just don't like them and don't pick your fingers. >> this is indian country, isn't it. >> what did we come to this country for if you don't liker them. one evening her father explained to her that the government will soon make the osage move away. that's why we are here laura, white people are going to settle all this country and we get the best land because we get here first and take our pick. in fact, many squatters began to seize the land by force. the u.s. government official said at the time, it will suggest which of the savages. in the 1870s, the osage agreed to sell the land in kansas and they searched once more for homeland. it was then that this osage chiefs stood up at a meeting. he said we should move this