he says is this lincoln wilson. yes, it is. and he said the secretary of state has filed three felony charges. >> wilson was charged with double voting in three recent elections. >> are you part of a vast conspiracy to sway the election? >> no, not by any means. >> wilson is a businessman who owns real estate in kansas and colorado. since 2004, he's made the drive back and forth across state lines. he maintains that he never voted twice on a presidential or national ballot. but believed he had the right to vote in local elections. >> why did you think you could vote on two different ballots in two different states? >> because the state of colorado law says that if you meet certain requirements, you are allowed to vote for those local issues in the county that you own those taxes on. >> but the state of kansas didn't see it that way. >> the state of kansas does not see it that way. >> that misunderstanding he says shattered his reputation. >> if i was robbing banks, i know at some point they're going to show up. this was a total

he said is this lincoln wilson? yes, it is. secretary of state has filed three felony charges. >> so learn more about what is happening to the fundamental american right to vote tonight, wolf. >> we certainly will. looking forward to it, kyung. thank you so much for cdoing ths special work. and catch "democracy in peril" tonight at 11 p.m. eastern. "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> all right, wolf. thank you so much. hi, everyone, i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me on this friday afternoon. let's get to it. four days to go until the nation votes and america's first black president is trying to make history again, specifically for democrats in florida and in georgia. soon former president barack obama will speak for florida's andrew gillum, aiming to make him the state's first african-american governor, as well keeping bill nelson in his

at least that is the narrative he told when he stumbled upon lincoln l. wilson a 66-year-old republican who owned homes in both kansas and colorado. wilson felt that he was well within his rights to vote in local elections in both states. [laughter] i would vote for president in one state and local issues in both places. he explained -- especially when he saw his property tax bill skyrocket and resolve that there was no taxation without representation. now what looked logical to wilson, however, and frankly not that much of a big deal to the local prosecutor, was a red flag to coback who pursued charges against man with a vein vengeance he needed to make an example of him. 18 months and nearly 50,000 dollars in legal fee, a 6,000 dollar fine, 150 dollars in court costs, and a guilty plea to 3 misdemeanors later he had his victory. wilson simmered, chris came after me for an honest mistake. damn right i'm upset i'm a convicted man now. wilson, however, was in many ways a fluke. cross-check is such a fund mentally flawed database that it success rate is actually e

[laughter] at least, that is the narrative that kris kobach told when he stumbled upon lincoln l wilson. a 66-year-old republican that owned homes in both kansas and colorado. wilson thought he was well within his rights to vote in local elections in both states. i would vote for president in one state and local issues in both places, he explained. especially when he saw his property tax bill skyrocket. and resolve there would be no taxation without representation. now, what looked logical to wilson however, and friendly not that much of a big deal to the local prosecutor, was a red flag to kris kobach. to pursue charges against the man with a vengeance. kris kobach simply needed to make an example of him. 18 months and nearly $50,000 in legal fees. a $6000 fine, $158 in court costs. and a guilty plea to three misdemeanors later. kris kobach had his victory. wilson simmered. kris kobach came after me for an honest mistake. damn right i am upset! i'm a convicted man now. wilson however, was in many ways, a fluke. crosscheck is such a fundamentally flawed database that its success rate is

the american flag, washington, wilson, abraham lincoln -- lincoln was always the big guy in terms of marketing to african-american community. very proud and patriotic. probably if we think about it, not that popular of an image. -- not that spectacular and image. i will tell you where the image is so important. we have the official propaganda posters because the governments are good collectors. at the end of the war, some intoy that those things paper, slid them into a jar, so that hundred decades later, we n come back and look at it. these things at the end of the war, they are trash. i'm sure you all had posters in your room, you went to college, your mom ripped them down. the end of the war, most of this stuff goes into the trash. so why do we have this poster? a postmastercause from melbourne, florida sent it to the postmaster general to ask him if this was the kind of seditious material that should be banned from the mail under the terms of the espionage act. let that sink in there for a second. she considers this seditious material. what is seditious about this poster to her? >

unlike john adams in the sedition act back when he was president or abraham lincoln in his executive order or woodrow wilson and the sedition act of 1918. we don't have a sedition act that the president is enforcing. he's not putting journalists and reporters in prison. he's not shutting down newspapers as those presidents did. the only threat he poses to the media is he fights back. president's not attacking any part of the constitution. he's trying to defend the constitution. but it's up to us now, it's up to you and me. the question is this: we have young men and women who volunteer to fight through this country. throughout our history and we have men and women today in one hell hole after another. what are they fighting for? the fundamental transformation of america? are they fighting for this government program or that government program? are they fighting for some bigots who are running for office as democrats. are they fighting for a so-called free press that continues to trash this country? no! they're fighting for you and your principles and the least we can do here at home is not only vote but mak

things, and being such a hardliner on immigration policy in the white house, from lincoln to cleveland to taft to wilson to treatment to jfk come in some ways reagan, all spoke and acted in favor of immigration and immigrants. cleveland, taft, wilson, president was in twice all the diversions of a literacy test that passed congress. it had passed congress a few times before the dillingham commission recommended it and then it was vetoed three times after they recommended it until it became law over wilson's second veto. one way to understand this dynamic is to re-situated be dillingham commission -- the dillingham commission away from the immigration history which has tended until the last take it or so to look at the social history of immigrants to part of a larger global perspective on internationalism and federal power in the early 20th century. that was a mouthful. in other words, the dillingham commission is well-known among historians and almost always associated with the eastern and southern europeans i mentioned, the new immigrants, but the reality is the commission itself owes its very existenc

i think it is fair to say that woodrow wilson is the most consequential president from the time of abraham lincoln until franklin roosevelt. i say that because he was our president during this remarkable event in world history. really, a reflection point in world history and american history. not only dealing with world war i, but the rise of the united states as a force in the world. by 1900 the united states had the largest economy in the world, but the consequences of that were not fully appreciated until the end of world war i one america's role as a military power and as a diplomatic power understood and acknowledged, and it was woodrow wilson who is our president during that entire time, who really brought that change in america's role up to the floor. wilson was a remarkable person, who executed this change, he was a deeply religious person, he was a religious man, he felt like we had a duty to do better than to collapse into war every generation. he was a political scientist one of these founders of discipline of thought one of the first presidents of the american political science associa

lincoln putton executive order. they shutdown 300 newspapers and put the journalists and editors in prison. and woodrow wilsontion act of 1918 and did the same thing. put journalists in prison and some of his opponents. donald trump has not done anything like this. he is not rounding up legal immigrants or putting journalists in prison. they refer to him as hitler and stalin. then, we have this policy where we separate children from their parents who come here illegally not because we want to put them in cages like obama did but to protect the children from coyotes and kid snapper. -- kidnappers. it was roosevelt who put japanese-americans in internment campus. they don't call him hitler or stalin. i will even go here. they attack our president. they say a womanizer and bring stormy daniels in front of tv left and right. this president has been our president. he conducted himself in the oval office with great accumen. people are laughing. jfk had affairs constantly with a german spy and a 17-year-old intern and he was out done by ridlb lbj. they are campaigning against var values and against the constitution.

locked up journalists, be a abrm lincoln order, new york news paper prinked printed a fake pt at proclamation, he ordered his generals to arrest the journalists. woodrow wilson set up an intelligence operation again the media, and obama after reporters, trump has not done that. >> he has an affect psychologically on the journalists, he conveys idea he has no respect for him, he has contempt they have violated their journallive -- journalistic ethical. you remember obama went after ap reporters and james rosen at fox, he said in a campaign trail, you should debate sean hannity, i think he said you will tear him up, if trump said, you would tear somebody up, for them, something about trump, his speech, mannerism, appear answer, is not just journalists he is an a4 affront to their -- >> could it be his existent because he fights back and calls them out by name. saying fake news that is the enemy of the people. >> i think so. sources -- we know a lot of cases it did not happen, a person writes a creative story and calls it journalism, then they hide behind a facade, it is like a chain, in weakest link destroys it it they have not doe anything in their generation

abraham lincoln put out an executive order they shut down almost 300 papers. not only that, the great progressive leader woodrow wilson, he had the sedition act of 1918 did the same thing. put some journalist in prison and some of his opponents, donald trump hasn't donepo anything like this, he's not rounding out illegal immigrants in this country by the hundreds of thousands, he's not shutting down newspapers is not putting journalists in prison, yet they refer to him as hitler and stalin, and then we have this policy where we separate children from their parents to come here illegally not because we want to put them in cages like obama did but because we want to protect these children from coyotes, from kidnappers who got to sort them out figure out who is who since their hero illegally. they said well, he's putting them in an internment camps. they've a japanese americans an japanese descent in internment camps. they don't callnm him hitler. they don't call him stalin. they attack our president. they say a womanizer. they bring stormi daniels in front of tv left and right. this president has conducted himself in th

wilson is the first southern president elected after the civil war. he is a surrendering, illinois democrat who wants to rip underneath the lincoln presidency. the same steak ascension the civil war there was a kind of tests we were undergoing. peace without victory total literally adopted a slogan from 1864. >> it kills roosevelt that wilson is want to be them into war and run them into war. that was supposed to be him. his son died in the war . >> we don't have that much more time. we have five minutes at the end for, two minutes of the and to get some closing remarks. so take a lightning round for the lady here at the second row. >> thank you. retired economists fascinated with all these kinds of programs. but this one was so overwhelming because there are so many pieces in retrospect different from the way we thought of it. trying to put the pieces together and connected to today. my question, specifically is how do we deal with not just this administration but later on when the state department has been devastated by lack of personnel and power and so forth. and the entire government, white house sector has no structure. there is no stra

wilson's decision. second, although he did not use the word adequate, white's opinion was within the parameters of the adequacy of constitution theory on which lincoln had relied and paralleled the speech that professor waxman will talk about next week. no rushhe court was in to hear the case. it had not been argued until may 5 1919 and argued -- and decided a month later. the case did not involve wives and the government it already promised the railroad owners to compensate them. the labor act proved to be the only wartime statute to ratify -- cords and added only one the courts and added only one provision. the grossman company was charging -- and $19 and $.50 for a 100 pound bag. prices that were outrageously high during the inflation. amended thegress section for it leave her act, which criminalized the making of -- it was intended to prevent rates theyterest so high that were completely unfair and unethical. it also made it illegal to charge unreasonably high rates for necessities. congress failed to define what constituted an unreasonable price and delegated it to the courts. congress couldat not assign its powers to another branch and that th

important to recognize wilson is the first president elected from the southern since the war and the abuse is that you are surrendering to wants to direct the fallout from the lincolnresidency. it's literally adopted a slogan you. he's the one to lead them into the war. we don't have that much time, five minutes at the end or two minutes at the end to get some closing remarks. a lightning round for the second abn -- lady in this row. to put the pieces together and connect through to today. for the entire government white house structure it has no structure he, no strategic plan especially in the foreign policy or the economic policy everything is just ad hoc and i see things tumbling down making for even greater chaos. >> as a reference for my question, benjamin friedman at t age 71 gave a talk at the hotel in 1961 and was connected to the administration and was president of her sigh in 1919. written in 1956 it is published and you mentioned the power circa 1900 arguing that our is named in the person to whom the declaration was addressed and freedman would argue -- >> is this a question? >> was it not negotiate as a reward for bringing the u.s. into the war, and w

wilson's decision. second, although he did not use the word adequate, white's opinion is definitely within the parameters of the adequacy of constitutional theory, on which lincoln had relied, and very much paralleled the speech that professor waxman will talk about next week. third, the court had been in no rush to hear this case. it had not been argued until may 5, 1919, and decided a month later. the case did not involve bribes, and the government had already promised the railroad owners to compensate them. the labor act, which governed the production and distribution of food, proves to be the only wartime statute to run afoul of the courts, and that in only one provision. the grocery company was charging $10.07 for 50 pounds of sugar, and $19.50 for 100 pound bag. prices that were outrageously high, even during the inflation that followed before. -- of the war. in 1919, they'll -- amended section 4 of the labor act, which criminalized the making of any unjust or unreasonable rate. the law was intended to prevent serious rates of interest, that is rates so high as to be completely and where and unethical. but it also made it illegal to charge unreasonably hig

bright program, the woodrow wilson international center and the library of congress and as a scholar, he and i used to discuss many things from the center's mission to the lincoln'sgettysburg address, and the special music we find in it. i was impressed he was able to recall from memory another ismall. the figure, and his books including fire in the heards of man, and others, as well as his russian culture programs were an inspiration, but i leave others to speak on these facet's his enormously productive career. a few things he did and at a great impact on me, starting from before i became the librarian of alexdrina in 2005. i'm a life-long byeow file and used to get nightmare at the idea of so many becomes published on acidic paper, falling into dust around the world and it was jim billington who launched a mass deacidiccation program which expand the life span of 4 million volumes and 12 million manuscript sheets and provide new collection storage facilities and opened that in 2002 and 4 million items are now available there during his tenure at the library of congress, jim billington double the size of the library's traditional analog collections and to more

lincoln presidency. the stakes in this war the same stakes in the civil war and the kind of test we are undergoing here, and with your piece about victory talk, and then, >> it kills roosevelt that wilson is a one to lead them into war and win the war. and his son died in the war. >> we don't have that time and we have a bunch of hands and we have five minutes at the end to get some closing remarks. we will take a lightning round from the lady here in the second row. >> all of the questions seem to be on the side. >> i am fascinated with all these kinds of programs, but this one was so overwhelming because there is so many pieces in retrospect, different from the way we thought of it. trying to put the pieces together and to connect them to today. my question specifically though is how do we deal with not just this administration, but later on when the state department has been devastated by lack of personnel and power and so forth, and the entire government of white house structure has no structure. there is no strategic plan, especially in foreign policy come or in economic policy. everything is just ad hoc, and i see things tumbling down, making for even greater chaos. >> ideal, and