abraham macon and his time, a beautifully written life of making said cultural context of his time newmes book review describes it as a lucidly rendered expedition of the character and thoughts of the 16th president and prism of the cultural social forces through america during his lifetime. "wall street journal" deemed a marvelous cultural biography capturing lincoln and historical moments. through innovative research, the settings playing a key role in lincoln's life and knowledge of americans vision, literature, humor and politics allows him tp populate lincolns nation and its unprecedented detail for it is a pleasure that i present the 2021 lincoln prize to david reynolds. congratulations. now i turn it over to tell us about his book's. >> thank you so much valerie for those kind remarks and thank you to the institute for his wonderful recognition. i truly appreciate any last year's winner earlier about the institute and high schools, congratulations to her and explanation for the book. i want to mention lynn, it circulated a book proposal and one paragraph in, discussing this, i r

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macon says, yeah right. this declared indifference, or what i must think, the real deal of slavery, i cannot but hate -- i hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. right, away the thing that lincoln is pretty akin here, chris problem with the chants nebraska bill is not simply that it rip meals the missouri compromise, it that it cultivates an attitude of a difference towards some think that is a monstrous injustice. i hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. and, i hate it because it deprives our republican example of its adjusting fluent in the world. what is the united states? the united states is a republic. a republic, an island of republican practice in a sea of monarchies and dictatorships. what kind of an example of do we think we are setting as a republic? if we tolerate slavery. in fact, encourages growth. what do we saying about the very idea most precious to all of us and that is the idea of republican government and which all men are created equal and wh

retired minneapolis officer mylan macon join us to weigh in. think this would look like if this were to happen, do you think citizens would vote for this. >> i'm not sure if citizens would vote for this but the city council has no idea what this is going to look like. they have no plan yet. they haven't implemented anything, haven't mentioned anything. jillian: how do you think the streets would be protected then? what would happen in minneapolis? >> it's very confusing. i don't know. they have not gotten together to advise people what to do, if they do have an idea of what to do, to change it. maybe they should start implementing it slowly right now to show the citizens so they'll have an informed information about what the vote could be. jillian: you're a retired officer there. you spent many years putting on that badge, walking out the door, not knowing if you're coming home that night. i'm curious if you were still active in that department how this would make you feel right now. because recruitment we talk about all over the country is alr

that the government itself had been engaged in a deadly deception with over 623 african americans in macon county, which tuskegee's county seat in connection with a study of untreated syphilis in the negro males and didn't tell them about it. i had to file a lawsuit against them. of course you can only file a lawsuit against the government, the way they say you can do it, and the terms and conditions of it, we were finally able to get that settled as much as we could, and then later on i found that there were some people that an apology by the government to those people and to the community should take place. a group had tried to do it. they hadn't been successful. i thought of a way of getting those men and having a press conference, and as a result of that press conference, on the 8th of april, 1997, president clinton end ed up granting the apology to them on the 17th of may of 1997, only just a little while afterwards, and then they told me as our lawyer we want you to do one more thing. we want a permanent memorial in tuskegee so people will know that we have made a contribution to thi

that the government itself had been engaged in a deadly deception of over 623 african-americans in macon county, of which tuskegee is a county seat. in connection with a study of untreated syphilis of the negro male and did not tell them about it. i had to file a lawsuit against them. you can only file a lawsuit against the government the way they say you can do it and on their terms and conditions. we finally were able to get that settled as much as we could. later on, i found there were some people who thought an apology by the government to those people and to the community should take place. a group had tried to do it and they had not been successful. i thought of a way of getting those men and getting a press conference. as a result of that press conference on the eighth of april in 1997, president clinton ended up granting the apology to them on the 17th of may, in 1997. only a little while afterwards. they told me we want you to do one more thing. we want a permanent memorial in dusky gate so people will know -- tueskegee so people will know that we have made a contribution to thi

position is that you absolutely cannot draw any conclusion beyond the fact that that may be a certain maconthis video did not even give often older. okay? >> another piece of flood evidence, according to the defense, was the cell phone data that seem to suggest tammy and sidney had been stocking heather. >> i would say you could compare earphone activity to anybody else is who worked in that area. those are where their nightclubs are. it would appear that i were stalking her as well, if you just look at where my phone went. >> the defense said that what the jury really needed to understand was a simple fact, no piece of evidence put tammy at the landing. if anything, her alibi placed her miles away. >> did tammy's children stay in the house there with you or your mother while they left? >> yes. >> tammy's sister actually told the court she was baby sitting tammy's kids on the night of december 17th, 2013. she said tammy and sidney went out together in the hours leading up to heather's disappearance. but ashley remembered when her sister came home. >> she texted me that night saying that she

my macon family's plan, and the build back better agenda, experts in wall street, analysts have said we will create millions of good paying jobs. for years and decades to come. >> political reports that bipartisan infrastructure, the bipartisan infrastructure deal could hit the senate floors early as the week of -- there's another issue on the president's agenda, biden is under increasing pressure to respond to the latest ransomware attack, believed to be the work of a russian base gain. this morning, he met with senior aides about the hack. that meeting included those from homeland security. the white house also keeping a close eye on the situation in haiti. unknown assailants overnight fatally shot the president of haiti and leaving his wife critically injured. the prime minister said the country is under a state of siege. there are fears the investigation can set off -- plunging haiti into chaos. we >> need more information, but it's a very worrisome. >> tonight, haitian officials say four suspects in the assassination have been killed, and two are under arrest. in this country, o

complicated debate and broadly it seems to be between the universalistic tradition that president macon defended in his speech and which is rooted in the american first amendment tradition as well. of allowing the multiplicity of views to flourish without regulation and well, we'll call it this more particularist tradition which president maclean associated with critical race theory which would suggest in the academy and public square that uh, there's less grounds for free speech. how would you characterize this debate and and help us understand how in this case? it's france that seems to be on the side of universalism. yeah, look, i don't think it's that simple. i think there is a kind of intimate interplay between our free speech precepts. yeah the desire to give greater recognition to other identities and experiences, you know, the emphasis that's being placed on critical race theory. the backlash against it, you know my a lot of my work and my book is about how we can reconcile the imperative of driving toward forward toward and more equal inclusive society with robust protections f

voters that voted for -- in macon, georgia, a voter that voted for joe biden and kamala harris and raphael you know, my vote counted, this election really mattered. that's why we're going to win the midterms next year. but forget about that. we're going to show people that government can be on their side and government works and their lives are going to get better. it's going to change the way this country sees about the effectiveness of government, seeing it through the eyes of who's on my side. >> speaking of the midterms, so you've got an interesting race on the senate side. rob portman is leaving. you have a collection of republicans who are arguing over who can be the most ridiculous and detached and trumpian and you have tim ryan stepping into the race as well. talk about in a state that, look, quite frankly ohio used to lean purple and now it seems to be leaning red. what has a democrat like tim ryan or other democrats have to do to make sure they can be competitive and possibly win that senate seat in ohio next year? >> ryan is a good candidate for the senate. dan whaley, the mayor

dangerous heat from billings all the way to macon.ion people looking at that heat. for today, we are going to see a few records most likely through the western and central plains from 104 in billings, bismarck, 103, cincinnati, 92. tomorrow, the heat moves farther to the south from chicago, pierre,wichita. this weekend, mid to upper 90s. feels like temperatures that will be >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. as we take a look at our temperature, we will reach the 90s today. still watching out for a chance of spotty showers. but after today we're dry and seeing our temperatures heating up reaching to the mid-90s by friday. and the weekend is going to be slightly cooler, but still pretty warm in some of the inland valleys. temperature wise for san francisco and along the coast, we're still in with the clouds and fog today. a bit more sunshine tomorrow and slightly warmer temperatures. al and craig. >>> guys, still ahead, we'll have the latest on this breaking news this morning. simone biles' decision to withdraw from that te

i don't know if you want to potentially hear from the macone director or have further dialog about that. >> sure. thank you, chair haney. and of course, my deputy city administrator who can also chime in. i think this is an item that you raised. the mascone center i believe you raised and i believe your office reached out with information in terms of the bookings. i think at a high level, the release is the competitive nbc in terms of conventions is pretty intense. every little bit does matter and we're seeing that people are offering 100% rental incentives essentially making it such that conventions do not have to pay anything for the use of the facility. what the benefit is for san francisco. if we're able to book one convention, we're able to work with the conventions to bring them back for multiple years which helps to set up visitors for a longer period of time to san francisco. in addition to the transit occupancy tax which san francisco would be collecting from all of the visitors who come. we're expecting it would impact our hotel businesses. in addition to direct spending, dire

they want legal status to come and work because they can't turn 16 times more for macon earn at home.150 dollars a day, that's what you pay farmworkers if you do the math, that's what it turns out to be as opposed to $8 a day if they work in mexico. >> i want to apologize and thank senator durbin for producing my guest. i was supposed to introduce my constituent sorensen but every wednesday at noon i always have a told him news conference back to iowa with journalists and i want someone to start with sorensen. i know national pork producers consuls and others have long called for agricultural employees with year-round employment needs to have access to the h2 a program. it's an issue i've heard my county meetings that i've had 85 so far this year. her not being able to participate in this program. >> absolutely. i counsel here repeatedly from farmers from all shapes and sizes that there are significant labor shortages on our farms because of our rural populations are declining, people are moving to urban centers and continue to recruit out of college, we continue to pray for a heavy f