t volunteer1s infantry, was one of the troops -- one of the first massachusetts -- on the massachusetts to jump on "the black diamond". he realized he had jumped out of the frying plan into the fire. when he went up and said, is this all right? no, it is sinking. he thought "the black diamond" had hit bottom and he went that on the massachusetts and found three or four other men up the -- up there, and they all survived by climbing up and out of the water. the river was not all that deep at that point. t sank at 3.5 fattest board. -- 3.5 fathoms of water. 18, so low tide at 12: the water was going out and the water was not that deep at that time. about 150 men jumped off the massachusetts, ultimately 87 were lost by drowning. and the more that jumped from "the black diamond", the faster she sang. they have less time to rescue some of these people. in spite of her damage is the massachusetts ended up traveling down to point lookout, maryland arriving there the next morning. she stayed on site near the wreck all might picking up as many survivors as possible. on her way down there, she pa

i think massachusetts has a chance with state-level reforms. for that humane criminal you mean criminal justice system going forward. i am very happy to try to engage in do more. >> our next question. what is the position on the decriminalization of drugs. what will you do to address the legacy of the racist war on drugs. great question. i've come out for the legalization of marijuana. because of my work with an addiction community. it gave me some of the potentials. some of the issues around medicinal use of certain things that show some promise. it allows to address the issues. i think more study there is needed but the initial research out of at is actually quite promising which is wonderful news for folks suffering from those conditions and others. we have seen an enormous desperate impact. every means re-examining art federal criminal justice system. and addressing the ways it has led to the some static injustice for families that had lost a father or mother to incarceration. i'm happy to engage more obviously. i do think there is a lesson

in 1973 there is no black senate seat in massachusetts. i had to side with king and bunty to cast about to defy the democratic leadership is not going to allow black senate seat to be created in the state of massachusetts. i did so jeopardizing my own relationship with the leadership rate i did that. on the issue of ensuring every child gets the internet on their desk for learning that's my program. rich report every child gets that on their desperate that is my program. with cory booker i have introduced the next step dark to overhaul the criminal justice system in our country purred with kamala harris i've introduced legislation to provide $2000. individuals. month to make sure they get what they need for healthcare. that they get what they need for food, for rent, for the mortgage so they can pay the bills every single month. that is my leadership on those issues. >>> a mom and dad came to you to ask for justice for their murdered son. they came to you as a united states senator. as someone in a position of power who they thought would

welp, the massachusetts don't need to make a choice.ecause i represent experience and change at the same time. i do both. i am inspiring a generation of young people to rise up on the green nude deal and other issues that get into politics in our country. congressman kennedy when he uses the word change he means something different. pace changes position on medicare for all. he have changed his position on the issue of super pacs. he's changes position on the racist, that's his own words that he was in for 20 years and he only. [inaudible] one month before this campaign, you can it is a paternity inspired by robert e lee. >>> open rebuttal for let's gutter open rebuttal go-ahead. >>> you've known me my whole life. it is sad to hear you say those things. you are running on your records let's examine that record. he sayest and for racial justic justice. you voted for three strikes you're out. you voted for mass incarceration. you impose the integration of the boston public schools. when a mom and dad came to you to ask for justice for the

in massachusetts.ith bill owens and doris king to cast a vote to defy the democratic leadership that was not going to allow a black senate seat to be created in the state of massachusetts. i did so jeopardize in my own relationship with the leadership. on the issue that ensuring every child get the internet for learning, that is my program. internet.d has the that is my program. with cory booker, i have introduced the next step act to overhaul the criminal justice system. with kamala harris, i have health carehe justice act to make sure that people get the money they need to pay the bills every single month. that is my leadership on those issues. >> this is important. you to askad came to for justice for their murdered son. they came to you as their u.s. senator, a position of power they thought could help them rectify what had happened to their young boy. when they asked for help, you did nothing. the only thing you did a month later is sign onto a letter that my office put together. i have stood by t

thank you to the gentleman from massachusetts. this president is on a warpath to destroy the postal service and through that our elections. after months of hearing this president and now republican members of congress spread conspiracy theories and misinformation about voting by mail, he has made g.o.p. megadonor louis dejoy his new chief of chaos and voter suppression. an attack on the postal service, dejoy has removed mail processing equipment, collection boxes, and cut back on overtime. 90 democrats led by congressman cart run clark and have i demanded his immediate rerolf. ton of this plateant voter suppression, trump and dejoy are hurting millions who depend on the postal service every day. seniors and veterans waiting for lifesaving medication. families waiting for paychecks. small businesses with delayed packages whose very survival is already threatened by covid-19. on thursday the progressive caucus held a hearing and heard from david williams, the former vp -- vice president of the pofltse service board of directors. wha

a puritan a promised jurist in massachusetts. he writes on a pamphlet called the selling of joseph, which is against slavery. it's concern about slavery is that enslaved people constitute -- they could never be incorporated into the body politic. they are always foreign, alien. that is why we have to get rid of slavery. it would disrupt the community. a sort of abolition isn't that we recognize a such as advocating for the end of slavery, perhaps the enfranchisement if -- that's much more kind of towards the revolution in the 17 sixties and 17 seventies. one of the things i talk about, the way -- so much of that is individual initiative. them filing lawsuits. things like that. there is a community of abolitionist lawyers who helped them to file suits and petitions, things like that. the question of reparations. i'm not comfortable answering this, first of all. i draw from -- the question is, what constitutes reparations? that's the first question. one of the thing tani says as we all will share in any sort of reparations that wou

file papers for the colony of massachusetts as a whole. and then there's hundreds of testimonies and depositions from enslaved people. and certainly, they're biased. they're talking, they're testifying on a certain case as a witness or as a plaintiff or as a defendant, but they're also talking about their everyday lives. who they encounter, who they know, what they know. you can actually kind of hear their voices through these documents. that's unique for understanding slavery in the english speaking world until the 19th century. so the records here are really rich. and you can find them everywhere. anywhere you look, in the records from 17th and 18th century new england, you'll find the presence of slavery in the documentary record. so that allows us to kind of narrate and tell the stories of enslaved people, what their lives were like, what they did for work, who they married, what their relationship between enslaved parents and their children were. you can see all of these facets in the documents and the book takes those up in turn. the

we think about the massachusetts bay company. these are companies with power to design their own laws. they kind of do whatever they want, within reason. and they're 3,000 miles away from any royal oversight. so they can craft laws. so what happens in the colony of massachusetts, in 1641, they actually openly legalize slavery. ironically, it's called the body of liberties, article 91 of the body of liberties deals with bond slavery. with slavery. if you read it, you'd first thing they outlaw slavery. because it says bond slavery is banned -- except, and they this three exemptions. it's people who are captured in just wars, i.e., noncollisionhr. native people can be enslaved. people who are strangers, foreigners as a language. or those sold to us is a third. so, now, you've just accounted for the ability to capture native people as slaves because they're captured in just wars. i'll come back to that in a second. and two, selling people as slaves, either african or indigenous. and those who are foreign or strangers so africans. it

the massachusetts. we are privileged to work with the massachusetts tribe, a member of whom is with you tonight, to work on this exhibit, to be sure for the first time in the hang in historical society history, we present the voices correctly. but how do we do this? how do we tell the story of slavery? how do we tell the story of our native peoples we? well and cola correctly? >> it's a joy to be here tonight with all of you. all the voices at the table, thank you for coming to tonight's program. i would like to introduce michelle coffin, head of the board at the abigail adams historical society who will introduce our speakers. thanks for coming tonight. (applause) -- welcome thank you so much for coming this evening. i want to thank the andrew and michael sincerely, and the rest of the ham historical society for again, partnering with us on a program that we are so happy to do this. and before i get into the introduction, i just want to tell you about another program that you might find of interest. on

and he's from hamilton, massachusetts, in northern massachusetts. he's kind of an every man. he's a lawyer, he's a mer chant, the subject of many might know david mcculloch's book on the development of ohio country because he's one of the main lobbyist for the company that promoted settlement to the ohio river valley. so from now on, most of the letters, most of the voices, the primary voices you're hearing are nathan reed and manasseh cutler. fortunately for us they both left letters and other writings, mostly up in salem, massachusetts. and they're also besides being colleagued in terms of the record they left behind, they're colleagues spatially. they inhabit the same boardinghouse room here, i don't flow if you could see my cursor, but it is right here and it is where the library of congress jefferson build sits now. for those who are familiar with d.c., know this is carol row. they occupied the southern most, this one here on the far right, it is a boardinghouse run by jessa king. this is the way that cutler described it to his daughter betsy. this is the first session o

maine was part of massachusetts at that time. he gives up his seat in congress, and his old roommate is now representing maine or massachusetts rather with nathan reed. you see nathan reed on the right here. nathan reed was a scientist from salem, massachusetts. he starts out as apothecary, but he's really interested in steam engines. he applies for patents from congress before he's elected there in 1800. he only serves one session. and he and thatcher and wadsworth reside in a boardinghouse. the seventh congress meets and thatcher is gone. wadsworth finds other housing. and reed's roommate now is a guy reverend cutler. he's from northern massachusetts. he's kind of an every man. he's a lawyer. he's a merchant. he's the subject of -- many of you might know him as the subject on the latest book on the development of the ohio country because he's one of the main lobbyists through the ohio company who promotes settlement to the ohio river valley. from now on, most of the letters, most of the voices, the primary voices you're going t

how do you structure that if you're massachusetts >> who i do i structure that if i'm massachusetts? don't come start taxing people across the boarder. you don't create new rules and gym min gimmicks that's why they're flooding over here they're putting their headquarters here. they're moving here, working remotely here. my problem is my job isn't to worry about how massachusetts taxes. they've created a structure where they've become dependent on taxes, dependent on abusing citizens and businesses, dependent on a system that puts government first and not the individual that's where new hampshire succeeds we believe government is there to enhance the individual. let's create a path for you and get the heck out of your way when you do that, you can create massive efficiencies locals are making the decision when you do have taxes at a localized level, you as an individual have a lot more say in terms of how those dollars are spent and creates a massively more efficient system. you know, when it comes to the new yorks, massachusetts, californias trying to pick the pockets of people in n

mostly up in salem , massachusetts. besides being colleagues in terms of the record they left behind they are colleagues , spatially. they inhabit the same boardinghouse room. i don't know if you can see my cursor. it is right here, it is where the library of congress jefferson building sits now. those of you know this is carol low, they occupied the southern most on the far right. a boardinghouse won by just highest king. -- jusias king. just the way he described it to his daughter. this is the first session of the seven congress. this is the first entire congress that is called washington, d.c. home. he wrote it is situated east of , the capital. nathan read and myself have the most pleasant room in the house. it is a third story, commending a delightful prospect of the capital, on the president house, all the houses in the city, along the river and city of alexandria. you can imagine how beautiful that must've been. exceedingly happy with mr. reed. if i had made my choice of all the members of the congress to live wi

so, you know, you are from massachusetts and we've already spoken far too much about massachusetts, so let's talk about wisconsin. in the 1946 campaign that brought mccarthy to the u.s. senate, you took on senator robert junior who had come back into the republican party after having been out of it for a dozen years as a leading figure with his brother in the progressive party. mccarthy was making an opportunistic run. he had the backing of the party establishment, but he was a figure in the state and it appears that at least early on, he didn't take mccarthy seriously or didn't take him seriously enough. >> guest: you just captured the through line. his opponents seldom took him seriously. tom coleman who was the dean of the republicans in the states never taken seriouslstatenever e guide to kerry and against. tom coleman's dream i'm convinced kept him up at night for somehow beating him. mccarthy would be his vehicle for doing it. it's something he didn't accept until he watched mccarthy and he watched mccarthy go out and hustle all of the republican activists and especially young re

he's a congregation minister from hamilton, massachusetts. that's northern massachusetts. he's an every man. he's a lawyer, is a merchant, he's a subject of david mccaul is the latest book on the development of the ohio country. he's one of the main lobbyists for the ohio company that promotes settlement of the ohio river valley. from now on, most of the letters and most of the voices we will be hearing our nathan reid and monastic cuddler. fortunately for us, they both left voluminous records of their ridings and other letters. beside being caused leagues, they are colleagues specialty. they actually can have it the same boarding house room. if you can see my cursor, it's right here. it's where the library of congress jefferson building sits now. those of you who are antiquarians of the seat know this is carolyn road. this is a boarding house run by joe size king. this is the way that it is described. this is the first session out of the seventh congress. this is the first entire congress that is calling washington, d.c. home. color writes about life on carroll road. it i

states that allowed prisoners to vote and then prisoners behind bars and in a state prison in massachusetts organized a political action committee and one of them was going to run for a some state office and that just galvanized the liberal deep blue state voters in massachusetts to take away the right prisoners to vote because there's a fundamental sense of unfair in this in saying the people who have victimized their fellow citizens who have committed crimes who have gone through the due process. system who have been found by a judge and a jury and there are all the appeal in the case i will take will whoever i'm there are i guess what i mean i think that's what i'm curious at all because i mean anybody that would be really going to people who are in prisons right now never even faced and jury people end up taking plea deal so 1st of all that's not true 2nd of all it's a response to joshua's question around i'm do i think that this is racism is based into our criminal justice system 100 percent absolutely in 850 only one 3rd of states have found any disenfranchisement lost after the 13th

and you -- we have already spoken far too much but massachusetts so let's talk but wisconsin. in the 1946 campaign that product mccarthy to the u.s. senate he took on senator robert follett junior who came backbar the republican party of having been out for a dozen years as a leading figure with his brother in the progressive party. mccarthy obviously was making an on continuistic run. but follett was an epic figure in the state and he -- it appears that at least early on, la follett did not take mccarthy seriously or did not take him seriously enough. >> you captured what -- the through line for all after mccarthy's campaigns hitches opponents seldom took him seriously. tom coleman, the dean of the stalwart republicans in the state, never took him seriously as the guy to carry their cudgel against la follett. tom colemans dream was somehow beating la follett. joe mccarthy would be his vehicle for doing it, is something he didn't accept until he watched mccarthy and watched mccarthy go out and hustle the -- all of the republican activist and especially young republicans, in a

but in massachusetts, numbers have started going back up as the state has opened back up. and, yeah, the positivity rate in massachusetts right now is roughly one-tenth the rate they've got in mississippi, but the trend is in the wrong direction. it is starting to go back up. positivity rates are starting to rise. case numbers are starting to rise. anecdotal information about hospitalizations suggests that the uptick in hospitalizations in massachusetts is starting to become systematic as well. and so epidemiologists in the state of massachusetts are now telling that state's republican governor charlie baker that he should go back to what works. he should go back to the so-called phase two operations the state was under before when the case numbers were being held very low and slow and massachusetts looked like a model for the nation. go back to that. since governor baker said, no, i want to move forward and go to phase three with indoor dining and all the rest of it, well, that's when the numbers have started going back up. so why would you stick with na? one expert from

. >> thank you, let's go to richard from massachusetts good evening. us?ard, are you with what i have right now is when the coronavirus took over, president trump and all his cronies in that white house went and took their money out of the stock market. nobody is doing anything about it. out of the stock market is back up, they put the money back in and know he has caught that yet. the other thing is that we need to move this world ahead. tomorrow and i don't understand why we are not in star wars. we can make movies about it, but we can't be there? why are our rains not moving that forward? why is all this money going to all these people that are way up high and none of it is being put back into our society. move us ahead. get out of this debt. move us forward. we should be in star trek. why 50 understand million people over 50 million years can't move us forward. i'm all for that ticket though >> phoning from massachusetts on c-span2, live coverage of the second to last debate and ascent rate between congressman joe kennedy and ed markey. it is also stre

massachusetts is next. connecticut, oklahoma, minnesota, kansas, illinois, iowa, missouri, and kentucky. what i hope you can see is that there is a huge variation depending on where you lived and what women's turnout looked like in 1920. in some places, women's turnout was incredibly low. fewer than 10% of women turned out to vote in virginia in 1920. only a little bit higher, just around 20% here in massachusetts and connecticut. on the other hand, there were other places where the turnout of women was actually quite impressive. more than half of women took advantage of the right to vote, the first time they were able to do so in both missouri and kentucky. the question is, what is different about missouri and kentucky, compared to massachusetts, virginia and connecticut? what is happening in these three different states? we have patterns among men. turnout is much higher here on your right. then on my left. what are the things that this data reminds us of? the united states, we have the right to vote, but

he was a democrat in politics and massachusetts. he was a businessman. he owned a middle. very successful. he was a white supremacist in as late as 1860. he supported jefferson davis, the president of the united states at the democratic convention of 1860. even supported stephen douglas, the southern democrat john -- 1860. he ran for governor and lost. when the more breaks out, he is such a staunch unionist that he raises a militia brigade in massachusetts, and immediately touches on controversy, because he has the army by his units and uniforms from his own unit. not a cool move. there is a little bit of corruption and his story as well. >> why does lincoln appoint a major general in the union army? >> because lincoln did not want the war to be a professional war -- west point soldiers. he did not just wanted to be a war of republican generals. he made a big effort to recruit democratic generals. unfortunately, they appointed butler so quickly, that he had high rank in the military, which turned out to be a problem. >> he was a real character, though. he was very grotesqu

senior political correspondent mike emanuel. >> there's a political proxy were underway in the massachusettsrace with prominent democrats on either side. trying to hold onto the seat with progressive senator elizabeth warren and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez supporting him. >> we have to have conversations not just about holding this administration accountable for changing the democratic party for the future. >> house speaker nancy pelosi is backing a young member of a political dynasty, congressman joe kennedy. >> massachusetts and america need joe kennedy's courage and leadership in the senate. >> democrat leadership headers progressives not to challenge democratic incumbents but in this race come race, pelosi is backing the challenger. aoc called the speaker route calling it less a policy and more cherry picking activity. >> the great alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> early voting is already underway in massachusetts and ahead of primary day with kennedy arguing it is time for new leadership. >> i believe you deserve more. we have a government that is disconnected from its people. we

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he was a democrat in politics in massachusetts. he was a businessman. he owned a mill. very successful. he was white supremacist as late as 1860. he supported jefferson davis for president of the united states in 1960 and he didn't support steven douglas. he supported the southern democrat, john breckenridge and he ran for governor on a breckenridge ticket and lost. when the war breaks out, he's a staunch unionist that he raises a militia brigade in massachusetts and touches off controversy because he has the army buy their uniforms from his own mill. there's a little bit of corruption in this as -- >> why did lincoln appoint him a major general in the union army, then? >> because lincoln did not want the war to just be a war of professional, west point-troined soldiers and he did not want it to be a war of republican generals. he made a big effort to recruit democratic generals and unfortunately he appointed butler so quickly that he had a high rank in the hierarchy of the military which turned out to be a problem. >> he was a real character, though. he was very homely

i'm attorney general of massachusetts they grew up in new hampshire but found my way down here for college and ultimately law school and never left. i found my calling and home in the attorney general's office when i left practice back many years ago and became head of the civil rights division in the office. i saw what it was like to work with kamala harris and tank on big predatory lenders, not only consumer protection suit but a civil rights suit against those lenders whose practices have such a disparate impact on the brown and black community. i later was counsel only brought a challenge that sued president obama and did not sue him that often but we did and ultimately that case went all the way up to the supreme court and the law of the land changed forever with marriage equality. those are my experiences as a lawyer in the office and what led me to run back in 2014 i one in what ended up being a landslide even though it was an unknown candidate to never run for office and was up against a political establishment votes but the reason why i love being with you there today it's because

know-nothings which held a convention nominating john bell of tennessee and everett edwards of massachusetts. >> guest: that's correct. the democratic party was really split in three. you have douglas as the predominant democratic candidate but then these other two union parties, more conservative and different aspects. that's one of the reasons why lincoln was able to win the election. because of the split. >> host: what was the final vote count, do you remember? >> guest: it was enough at the very end what lincoln was afraid of was new york with its electoral votes went for douglas. there were a lot of irish-catholics in the city, a lot of conservative merchants in the cities who wanted to keep trading with the south, didn't want slavery to be such an issue, and they did yeoman work in new york even though he was told, he said until i hear new york's totals because if he he's

massachusetts, for example, massachusetts brought its case numbers way, way down from what had been a scary peak in late april. but in massachusetts, numbers have started going up as the numbers have gone back up. yeah, the positivity rate is roughly one-tenth the rate they've got in mississippi but the trend is going in the wrong direction. positivity cases are starting to rise. case numbers are starting to rise. anecdotal information suggests that hospitalizations are starting to become systematic as well. so epidemiologists in the state of massachusetts are now telling that state's governor charlie baker that he should go back to what works. he should go back to the so-called phase two operations, under before, where the case numbers were being held very low, and massachusetts was a model for the nation. go back to that. since governor baker said, no, i want to move forward, go to phase three, with in-door dining and the rest of it, that's when the numbers started going up. so why would you stick with that? one experting telling t"the boston globe", i would back up to when i knew i

and cambridge massachusetts. are people as he could count on pretty one was nathaniel green rated was a 303 -year-old quaker but and made a major general. having no military experience at all in the second one was henry knox. involved 25. in no military experience at all. but both of them had been reading books. in the new about the military , was entirely from books those nara those are the best ways to learn things produced three books at the age of enlightenment. anyway, wonderful examples personifications of the enlightenment faith. if you want to learn something, pick up a book, several books. is during both physically and intellectually, is remarkable. he ingrained were the only two general officers. who became generals. estate with the war and with washington. through the entire war, not necessarily physically, personally. but with him in the sense of still fighting the war. all the other seated dropped out widely for some other reason. and with those two, right beginning, and he admired for the perseveran

today we are focusing on massachusetts senator elizabeth warren.ficult to find anybody who would be more pleasing to the progressive left then elizabeth warren. it's also difficult to find anybody who's gotten under joe biden's skin more than elizabeth warren. >> i find it outrageous, such a statement. maybe you can tell me. >> in 2005, then-senator joe biden confronts a witness in front of the senate judiciary committee. that witness, then college professor and future political rival elizabeth warren. >the fiery exchange was over a bankruptcy law it was a precursor to many battles that would emerge between the pro-business biden and the antibusiness warrior warren. >> why is it that everyone else on the stage think it's more important to protect billionaires than it is to invest in at an entire generation of americans? >> they disagreed on monetary policy, college tuition and most recently on medicare for all which is exactly what makes warren an attractive vice presidential pig. one who could most reassure the democratic party's progressive left

we're also monitoring massive power outages, stretching from the carolinas up to massachusetts. coty, . ll iffk several people running out of the way as strong winds downed trees in their neighborhood. the storm unleashing a tornado outbreak. that mother protecting her daughter in the bathtub. they survived. a hospital day care center in bucks county, pennsylvania, damaged. several children are being treated for injuries tonight. this system is now a tropical storm, it's racing north across parts of upstate new york and into new england, so, we'll have the current track for you. and of course, the damage. and so, we begin with our chief national affairs correspondent tom llamas right here in new york. >> reporter: tonight, the winds, rain and storm surge from isaias taking lives, carving the east coast and hitting major cities in the northeast as a powerful tropical storm.oss new york cit. this one killing a 60-year-old man in queens. strong and damaging winds from isaias tore through parts of brooklyn. a line of sycamore trees in this park split in half. the massive branches cr

he and his wife live in massachusetts.o on s behalf of laura bush, the "washington post" book world, my employer,. [laughter] and all readers everywhere please welcome david mccullough.pplae] [applause] [applause] boomac thank you, what a warm welcome. thank you for your introduction. i am thrilled to be here. thrilled to take part very honored to take part in this historic marvelous event. what ahr thrilling day this is. this is beautiful day to see thousands of people here on capitol hill. our american acropolis. right in the heart of the greatest library in the world. and to see it all with thousands of people out there today. all ages from all parts of the city, all part of the country. all in celebration of the book, that miraculous contrivance called the book. and high time, it is a historic first. there has never been a national book festival,. never in all the history of our country. and there has never been a first lady who was a librarian to start. and who got behind books, made a vessel like this happen. never b

massachusetts general hospital. doctor, good to see you. what is your take? a smart move from the cdc is doing essentially relaxing guidance for testing who should get a test and when? or does it trouble you? >> good afternoon, john. i think we need to fully understand one of the best interal veninte interinterventions against covid-19 is testing in addition to social distancing and mac masking. anything more is probably the wrong move. to be clear, though. after a contact people were not always testing in the right time. we need to be smart about testing. we need to test smart. need to test during the right time. it you're exposed yesterday testing today is not the right time to be testing. so i think that the cdc guidance, i question the guidelines and say after exposure you need a test. i advocate for calling for in addition, public health authority saying when is the best time to get the test after being exposed? finally, i want to say where the cdc guidance really falls short is that they speak about anti-body testing, speak about diagnostic testing and

democrat and politics in massachusetts. he was a businessman. he owned a mill. he was a white supremacist in as late as 1860. he supported jefferson davis for president of united states as -- at the democratic convention of 1860. then, he didn't support stephen douglas. he supported breckenridge. he ran for governor on the breckenridge ticket and lost. when the war broke out, he was such a staunch unionist that he raised a militia brigade in massachusetts and immediately touches on controversy because you have the army purchase his units uniforms from his own mill. not a cool move. there's a little bit of corruption and his story. valerie: why does lincoln appoint him major general of the union army? harold: lincoln did not want the war to just be a war of professional west point trained soldiers. he did not want to be a war of only republican generals. he made a big effort to recruit democratic generals. unfortunately, they imported butler so quickly that he had a high rank in the hierarchy of the military which turned out to be a problem. valerie: he was a rea

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from state of massachusetts seek massachusetts? mr. clarke: representative omar will vote yes on h.r. 8015. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does distinguished the gentlewoman from state of pennsylvania seek recognition? > mr. bradley schneider of illinois, i inform the house mr. schneider will vote yes on h.r. 8015. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania. >> as the member designated by i inform the house ms. spir will vote yes on h.r. 8015. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from state of pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker as the member designated by as mr. case of hawaii, pursuant to house resolution 65, i inform the house that mr. case will vote yes on h.r. 8015. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. lawson of florida, pursuant to house resolution 65, i inform the house mr. lawson otes yea on final passage. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose

i am here in boston, massachusetts. i grew up in new hampshire. i found my calling and my home in the attorney general's office when i left a big firm practice many years ago. i became head of the civil rights division. i saw what it was like to work with kamala harris and take on the predatory lenders. a were the first to file civil rights suit against those lenders who had such disparate impact on black and brown communities. of theght the challenge defense of marriage act and sued president obama. ultimately, that case went all the way to the supreme court. the law of the land changed forever. those are my experiences as a lawyer. run, it ended up being a landslide even though i was an unknown candidate and had never run for office. the thing that got me there and why i love being with you today is it's all about grassroots. people,ut working with being out there and engaging. that what makes this so powerful. see the norms of democracy and our institutions being whittled away, this is how we build. i don't even use that language. i talked abou

hill,kathleen in chestnut massachusetts, supporting the former vice president. caller: he has a lack of empathy. i mean, people are hanging on their own -- with the flooding. and people are hungry. they are worried about their kids' safety. they do not trust donald trump with their lives of their children. he puts a rosy glow on everything. everything will be fine, it will be perfect. just follow me, i am the pied piper. no matter what, no matter what they just are not in touch with reality. you know, they are in this ivory tower up there. you know, all his friends are billionaires and he just -- anybody that does not agree with him, he says they are people vil, almost.e e they are going to destroy the country. they are going to move into your neighborhood. i live in chestnut hill and people from all over the world are welcome. that is what makes us great. this fear, the fear mongering is -- i -- and all those flags. and using the white house for all of this pageantry. i just think of people in other countries -- the europeans must be going crazy with watching j

he was a democrat in politics in massachusetts. he was a businessman. he owned a mill. very successful. he was a white supremacist in as late white supremacist as late as 1860. he supported jefferson davis as president of the united states for the democratic convention in 1860 and then he didn't even support steven douglas. and he ran for governor on a brok bre breckinridge ticket and lost. and immediately touches off controversy because he has the army buy his unit's uniforms from his own. not a cool move. so he has a little corruption in his story as well. >> but why does lincoln appoint him major general in the army then? >> because lincoln did not want the war to just be a war of professional west point trained soldiers, and they did not want it to be a war only of republican generals. he made a big effort to recruit democratic generals. and unfortunately he appointed butler so quickly that he had a high rank in the hierarchy of the military which turned out to be a problem. >> he was a real character, though. he was very homily, as you say practically grotesque. he

this can be seen in massachusetts.states is the attorney general there. last november, voters elected edward w brooke over a white opponent. he speaks as a negro who must appeal to every kind of voter. >> a negro, if he aspires to high elected office, must member that he represents all of the people, not just the negro people but the white people also, and he must campaign on the issues of his particular office. i did so campaign on the issues of massachusetts. i talked about the ills of massachusetts government. i talked to people up and down the commonwealth. i listened to their problems with housing and education, and with feeding and clothing, and i directed my campaign toward them. i think when this is done, the white community will accept mn regardless of his race or creed to elective that. >> congressman william dawson, for a time the most powerful negro in the country, is an old-style political boss. his power base is an efficient machine on chicago's south side, a district which is 99% negro and economically d

he was a democrat in politics in massachusetts. he was a businessman. he owned a bail. very successful. he was a white supremacist, it is late as 1860. he supported jefferson david, davis sorry in 1860, and then he didn't even support stephen douglas. he supported john breckenridge, a southern democrat at southern democrat. and then when the war breaks out, he's such a staunch unionist, but he races a militia brigade, in massachusetts, and immediately touches on controversy, because he has the army by his unit uniforms from his own mill. not a cool move. so a little bit of corruption in his story as well. can >> but why does lincoln appoint a major general in the union army. >> because lincoln did not want the war, to just be a war web west point trained soldiers, and he did it not wanted to be one of only republican generals. he made a point of recruiting democratic generals, unfortunately he put in butler so quickly, he had the high rank in the hierarchy of the military. which turned out to be a problem. >> he was a real character though, and he was very homely as you

some places in massachusetts do meet those marks. then you have to sort of de-dense any your classroom. you have to make sure you don't have kids on top of each other. you have to ensure that people are wearing masks. i also want to remind people, we're talking about our kids here. we also have to remember that there are 4 million teachers who teach in these schools. we have facility workers in these schools. we have to not just keep the children safe, we have to keep everybody safe. >> so sanjay, one of the questions we ask in my household is, what is sanjay doing? how does sanjay see this when it comes to how we navigate the public health crisis. i promise, i'm not kidding. my wife asks that when it comes to school. you wrote an op-ed about how you are approaching this school year. and people should know, you live in georgia, which is seeing obviously a much higher case rate than other places. >> yeah, and i'll preface by saying, these are some of the toughest decisions, not because of the science and public health, i think that is

. >> we belong to the most liberal state in the country with massachusetts and rhodeho island. i'm worried for years from now a leader in the democratic party that looks pretty damn good but then the next marine and i wonder what you're feeling is for the next leader of the democratic party would be? >> i can tell you personally absolutely. joe biden. b [applause] he's a man of character and also has experience personal and professional. >> that somebody will come forth and strong character and admirable attitude. to come forth in the republican party. if this present occupant doesn't last much longer. >> i'm so glad you cited ford it was the first time i had a chance to be a white house reporter when ford was president. that the decency to try to do that his first sentence in the chamber of the house the day he assumed the presidency our national nightmare is over and it's amazing the genius to bring the people. >> he was a grown up. [laughter] and a gentle man. >> i know that chuckle. >> your book is based largely on newspapers andle documents and so few people write letters

i did so campaign in the commonwealth of massachusetts.the ills of massachusetts government, talked to people up and down the commonwealth, listened to their problems of housing and education and feeding and clothing and i directed my campaign towards them. i think when this is done, that the white community will accept a man regardless of his race or creed to elected office and i think my election has proved it. >> congressman dawson for a time the most powerful politician in the country is an old-style mill boss. his power base is an efficient machine on chicago's south side, a district 99% negro and economically depressed. he can command margins of votes enough to carry the state of illinois. dawson has never been a race leader. like many congressmen he has accommodated to the rules of the club an enjoyed relations even with colleagues from the deep south. in new york city, the leader of the democratic club is councilman jay raymond jones, sometimes called the fox, considered by many as the most powerful politician in new york state. jo

in just a moment massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, who was among joe biden's rivals during the primary and recently on the short list of women he considered as a running mate. >> that's right. elizabeth warren is a proud member of the party's progressive wing and she was known for saying i've got a plan for that during her campaign. well, she's going to talk about plans tonight, but tonight they'll be talking about joe biden's plans. she is going to be at a live feed coming from a schoolhouse in springfield, mass. let's take a listen. >> tonight we heard from the people who make america work. people who put their lives on the line to keep our country going and since covid-19 hit, they have taken one gut punch after another. and what has the covid fallout done to our babies? well, i'm here at the early childhood education center in springfield, massachusetts, which has been closed for months. child care was already hard to find before the pandemic, and now parents are stuck. no idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer child care options. the devastation is enormous. an

the attorney general of massachusetts said they will not be deterred by the blatant attempts to underminethe enintegrity of our elections. >>> and the democratic national convention starts today and they will have spiers th espeakers t coronavirus and racial injustice. because of the pandemic, most of the speeches will be given virtually. today's speakers include amy klobuchar and bernie sanders and also michelle obama. senator kamala harris and former president barack obama will deliver speeches on wednesday and joe biden will officially accept the nomination on thursday. according to a new poll, biden holds a 12 point lead over president trump. the republican national convention starts one week from today. >>> abc news is the first kne network to land a joint interview with biden and harris and you can watch it sunday at 8:00 p.m. the candidates will sit down with david muir and robin roberts to talk about their history-making presidential ticket. >>> and some salon bes are reopening today despite public health orders. they say they need to reopen or else they would go out of business.