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in louisiana they decided is a write off. >> that poleon thinks the united states is going grab louisiana they are too concerned to protect it. and he cede with the sort of foresight that gives the repetition of a gene use. jen use. it might make them so powerful no one in europe can stand up to this em. a century from now is not my problem. the news goes back. they take the news of the purchase back. the news arrives in boston. boston is the federalist tear toy. it's the opposition for the jefferson administration. that want to deprive jefferson of try yumple. they set off a fireworks display. it wasn't a controversial thing in american politics. no. american politicians were really enthusiastic about this. news gets to washington, and the senate starts to debate the ratification of this and the only nature of the obstacle arises jefferson himself lead him to believe that the federal government did not have the power to acquire a territory. and he starts to hem and haw say we need a constitutional amendment to give the government the power. napoleon back in france had overthrown the gove

central time for much of southern louisiana. this includes baton rouge, hammond, new orleans,i nickel-sized hail across texas. look at the frequent lightning hammering the dallas area right now. you're seeing that sweeping across mississippi and into jackson and this is a very dangerous situation for travel, not just in terms of damages areas where we're having strong wind but we could likely see tornados. the area in orange indicates a moderate risk for tornados. what does that mean? it means that we have a 30 to 60% escalated risk in this region right here for severe weather to break out for today. so the weather is likely to get worse as we go through the afternoon when we're talking about the threat of severe thunderstorms. if that's not enough, we're also watching for the snowstorm to develop and get worse throughout the day. you saw reports of the accident on i-40 west of oklahoma city. we had freezing rain in oklahoma throughout the night on christmas eve and then sleet on top of that. now we're going to see this all chan

say louisiana or there's no dessert.s invitation is brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. >>> i'm don lemon with a look at your headlines. hillary clinton will spend new year's eve in a new york city hospital with a blood clot. she was admitted sunday after a medical exam. the clot is believed to be related to the concussion she suffered earlier this month. when she fainted from the effects of a stomach virus. doctors want to keep her and a close eye on her for 48 hours. the other big story tonight is the action or inaction on capitol hill. if lawmakers do not reach a fiscal cliff agreement, you could see your taxes skyrocket. the major sticking points or entitlements and tax increases. house republicans met into the evening and we'll find out in the morning whether joe biden and mitch mcconnell made any progress in their talks. both houses will be back in session tomorrow. those are your headlines this hour, i'm don lemon, keeping you informed. cnn, the most trusted name in news. >>> three, two, one

the other benchmark that i would like to point out is the louisiana purchase. there was a great opening of the west, great opening of the empire of the liberty, or when we acquired a territory that was great debate in congress. should we have slavery there? and congress came very close to banning it and then passed prescription's that so outraged the slaveholders who were already there that they threatened secession. they threatened to call in napoleon back in. people said if you don't allow slavery on lands there, they will depreciate in value by 50%. as all this is going on, it was a fresh mama, congress still have the will to restrict slavery. jefferson sent a message saying slaves to be admitted to the territory. and then he went on in the creation of the legal system and bureaucracy that manage slavery in the new territory to the point where the historian robert macauley referred to him as the father of slavery in louisiana. so it was only 20 years later from the man who tried to stop the slavery from getting into the west to the man who helped to extend i

very strong storms back through louisiana and northeastern texas, as well. you go further north. we have winter weather warnings and advisories and watches basically from texas all the way up into northern new england and slowly going to see this thing start to spread eastward. however, for the gulf coast area, especially right along the coast where we are going to see the biggest threat for tornadoes. even the shading of yellow here from eastern texas all the way into western south carolina, we have the potential of very strong storms with wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour and also the chance of seeing a lot of cloud to ground lightning, as well. here's a look at our snowfall forecast. parts of oklahoma picking up 3 to 6 inches of snow. from arkansas all the way up into northern naernd, we could see 3 to 6 inches of snow. the purple is an area of buffalo into cleveland, we could end up seeing a foot of snow. we're really talking about everything with this big storm system. >> we'll keep our fingers crossed. thank you, dillon. folks outside the upstate new york city of rochester

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on the louisiana purchase, the louisiana purchase led to the first really sustained secession thinking and movement in american history which was new england, because new england saw the touch, and they didn't -- future, and they didn't like it. it's a little bit like my, i have three children, and my son and then we had a second daughter and then we were having a third, and we found out it was going to be a girl, and my son said to me, we're gonna be outnumbered, and i don't like our chances. [laughter] and he was right. four years on. timothy pickering didn't like his chances, and basically, jefferson had -- the last time he tried to do anything significant about slavery was in 1784-rhee 85 when he wrote in an ordnance for the organization of the existing territories that slavery would be prohibited. and it lost by a single vote in the con confederation congress. and in one of those wonderful jeffersonian phrases, he said -- i think it was a dell bait from -- delegate from new jersey that didn't make it. he said for lack of a single voice, the fate of millions hung in the balance, an

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so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was described by many foreigners, in particular british and irish who lived in havana at the time, as one of the best order and most elegant cafes in the world. its large door led to a main floor with a fantastic stone floor. i saw it in the 50's, i was very little but i still was there in the 50's, and have a fountain that all that water really produce a refreshing sound that drown the patrons' loud conversations. but what made dominica famous, according to some foreigners and historians, was its ice cream of countless flavors and its famous fruit ices: guava and other flavors were served according to an irish travel

one goes to louisiana which is jefferson understood the clock wasn't like a normal clock. it moved faster and asked the president's clock ticks even in the first term, everybody else in the system, the congressmen, senators, their clocks are ticking towards election. they have to face the voters again particularly in the second term presidents don't have to. so as presidents began to look longer, everyone else in the system begins to look more narrow and the wider the gap gets, the harder it is to get things done. so moving fast, doing things as quickly as you reasonably can is an important thing to do. the other is to depart from dogma. jefferson fundamentally believe in the success come in the survival of america. he what, short of that he would cut any deal. he would do what he had to do. and he was very explicit and spoke in modern terms about it. he says that what is practical must control what is pure theory, and it is the habits of the governed the often determined what is practical. the habits of the governed that depend what is practical. this is not an eerie pant

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the kaiser family foundation talks about how much louisiana will get. it will actually cost our state 1.6 -- $1.8 billion over 10 years. >> we expect the figures are understated and do not capture the full cost. >> they probably overstate the amount of taxes that will have -- understate the amount of taxes that will have to be raised for the cost. >> likely. when we looked at the study, we recognized there were very large ships in winners and losers. some ended up reducing the burden, and some increased. a good part of the discussion today is how states will save money by medicaid expansion, it is just shifting costs from one place to the other. >> i agree with that. one more question. >> we better cut it off. you can submit it to an interesting. thing. -- you can submit it in writing. >> i want to give you a chance to respond to the comments. grant? >> whatever you like. >> a couple of things to say. thank you for the opportunity. mr. smith harkened back to note in the children's health insurance program functions as a block grant. that is true. what w

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say louisiana or there's no dessert.s invitation is brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. [ticking] >> when steve jobs returned to apple in 1997, the company had just 5% of the computer market and was almost broke. when jobs died of cancer 14 years later, apple was the second most valuable corporation in the world. in his best-selling biography of jobs, walter isaacson writes that he revolutionized or reimagined seven industries. he did it, isaacson says, by standing at the crossroads of science and the humanities, connecting creativity with technology, and combining leaps of imagination with feats of engineering to produce new devices that consumers hadn't even thought of. >> thank you for coming. we're gonna make some history together today. >> if you had to pick a day where it all came together, january 9, 2007, is not a bad one. jobs is in san francisco at the macworld conference in full pitchman mode as he unveils his latest product to the faithful. >> these are not three separate devices. this

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purchase which was much more than the state of louisiana that cover almost all the territory. the missouri compromise. 1832 and 33, the nullification controversy between the state of south carolina and the federal government was also settled by compromise. finally, from late 1840's, the battle over the future of slavery and the territory one from mexico and as the mexican cession following the mexican war was settled by the compromise of 1850. and does he look at these four examples, precedent and tradition replace another such settlement to take place in 1860-61. the chief issue between the republicans and the south involved slavery, but not slavery in the 15 states where it existed. almost all americans in 1860, republicans included cult believed that the constitution protected slavery in the states where it existed. the critical questions was slavery in the national territories. the territories and by the nation that have not yet become states. the great plains and rocky mountains, west of the rocky mountains to california. it did not include california because california,

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sutherland of florida and john fleming of louisiana. both of they see men are going to vote against your leader, against the speaker on this. why? >> well, we have great concerns that this doesn't go far enough to really solve the problems that we face. i would lean no yesterday. nothing that i've seen today really changes me wanting to go the in the other direction. america needs to understand we have significant problems that we face, a mountain of unfunded mandates. closing in on $100 trillion, and this does nothing to prevent us from continuing to move towards a crash course. >> now, there are probably people saying how could these two members of congress vote against keeping taxes in place for everybody except millionaires? what's wrong with raising taxes on millionaires? >> you have to understand that the higher income earners are smul business owners and they hire people. we have a very steep, aggressive tax system, and for us to pull

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