that story largely comes from nikolai. now, as an antebellum politician lincoln was not an abolitionist or radical, but he did only a firm that african-americans are human beings and entitled to all the natural rights of human beings. the secretary fall of that moral and intellectual even entering the war they had actually not been as liberal. that was something he gave to them posthumously and something that they came to believe in pretty strongly. one of the things you gain a sense of when you read there diaries and letters against their history was that they often missed the significance of events that they had witnessed and participated in in real time they were actors in stirring times, though i hardly realized. in november 1863 the secretaries that the company's lincoln to gettysburg, pennsylvania, where he delivered the memorial address dedicating a soldier cemetery, they did not remember much of it because they had been out drinking and were severely hung over the next morning. they had done so partly because this

that story largely comes from nikolai. now, as an antebellum politician lincoln was not an abolitionist or radical, but he did only a firm that african-americans are human beings and entitled to all the natural rights of human beings. the secretary fall of that moral and intellectual even entering the war they had actually not been as liberal. that was something he gave to them posthumously and something that they came to believe in pretty strongly. one of the things you gain a sense of when you read there diaries and letters against their history was that they often missed the significance of events that they had witnessed and participated in in real time they were actors in stirring times, though i hardly realized. in november 1863 the secretaries that the company's lincoln to gettysburg, pennsylvania, where he delivered the memorial address dedicating a soldier cemetery, they did not remember much of it because they had been out drinking and were severely hung over the next morning. they had done so partly because this

nikolai was really his political handler. the sentence to be his eyes and ears to make sure he was renominated and actually as well to oversee that messy business of replacing hannibal hamlin with andrew johnson's. he also counted on nikolai to become -- to go to new york and sort out a mass of patronage appointments, the political boss of new york, the key to reelection because new york would not have gone for lincoln without him. he trusted neck latigo handle this. the relationship between the boys and lincoln was pretty incident. frequently sent out for weeks at a time on these kinds of sensitive political and military missions but careful to make sure that one was always at the white house, they kept in close contact with each other and exchanged frequent humorous observations about the first couple, the cabinet, leading military figures. in private they referred to lincoln as the tycoon or the ancient. their relationship with mary todd lincoln was a little less affectionate. they dubbed her the hellcat. by their own esti

they went on to diplomatic posts nikolai stay there until 6869 and then came back. hey did a turn in paris and then came home. he kind of mark about at his parents' house and went to see william seward who got him a diplomatic post in vienna. he went back to madrid and did a year there and came home. also by this point he had done three diplomatic posts in new everybody. he came back and became the foreign affairs correspondent for the new york tribune making a lot of money living in new york. then he married a very wealthy woman from cleveland which is now the hay adams mansions got built. it was not with money from writing class. thank you so much, view, for coming out. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> wednesday night book tv in prime time featuring books about exploring america. at 8:00 peter stark on astoria >> on our next washington journal a conversation on prison sentencing. joining us from texas. a food company general mills announced last week and it was reversing plans to make consumers forfeit their right to sue the company. you will talk to the co

no nikolai bogart koff stated through translator. escalation is inevitable.could missile defense for protection senator cranston probed star wars plans for u.s. missile defenses be the issue of the day? know he responded matter-of-factly after waiting for the translation. offense is cheaper than defense. interceptors can always be overwhelmed. could either side ever when once a nuclear launch was initiated? ogarkov pause before interrupting no, mutual suicide. he said it in english more in sorrow than in anger. so as you can see i wanted to sum up explicitly some of the lessons i learned on the senate floor or in moscow for the cloak rooms in white house negotiations. some of the lessons were taught the hard way making mistakes in the public eye when stakes were quite high. others were monetary triumphs. each serve to educate me. some were embarrassing but i included them anyway. and i trust they reveal more troops with more universal applications for readers. the narrative tries at times to to offer third persons perspectives but the authors voice out there

. >> it is an interesting point to turn to you, because you heard what nikolai was saying about a large number of ethnic russians not wanting to join russia. does that create an opening for a way to live inside the country, be russian, but still be ukrainian citizens? >> yes, of course. it's very similar situation in crimea too. because all developments in crimea, were not in accordance to the legislation, and international norms. talk about the crimea referendum, it is impossible to conduct with a military presence. with pressure of military on the citizen ises. including the point that crimea didn't want -- a lot of ukrainian people didn't want the referendum, and a lot of russian people are gnetales very happy from the decision to joining russia. of course we have room for positive development for more conditions to russia people, specifically talking about usage of russia language on their territories. as a local language, and of course, one of the mostn't political forces issues which is now discussed here in kiev, and the regions is the reform of the centralization. offering more

nikolai calls himself the commissar of the eastern front. he tells me that the pro-russian taken controlhave here are modern-day oliver cromwell's. the peoples republic has a people's counsel, but is not very popular with he have -- with kiev. now, the peoples republic doesn't extend very far beyond this square, but people here say they hope that with russia's help, they will be able to hold their own crimea style referendum conducted by russian flags and soviet music here, they're making it very clear which country they would like to join. it's not just here where pro-russia activist have been storming buildings. in recent days, there have been clashes across eastern ukraine. last night as police struggled to secure the regional administration headquarters. there were similar scenes here. extra police units have been drafted into the region. there were clashes in ukraine's parliament today and brawling after an argument erupted about who bears responsibility for the unrest in the country. with activists having seized his met us at agovernor

there is a russian ship called the nikolai cheeker cruising around off the eastern coast of florida right now as we speak. it is a russian flagged vessel, it was built in finland apparently. it's a tough little ship. an ocean going tug and for the last few days it seems it has been cruising around just off the east coast of florida. and what it is doing there, it's not illegal, but what it is doing their is raising some eyebrows given the status of things between russia and the united states right now. and, what it is doing there, at least what it seems to be doing there, at least to me, it's kind of a surprising thing. and i think it has something to do with ronald reagan. one of the underappreciated things about the weirdness of the ronald reagan presidency is how much ronald reagan as president liked to talk about space aliens. not like just in casual conversation. he brought it up at the united nations. >> i occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. >> everybody in the united nations is like, did he

nikolai and now they say could taste time for the nest and logan's where the regional government building and dad the national bank atms at the local security office to remain taking by the anti kiev activists well people here and that the nats can seem to be very good time and not to go way be heard at home to a would be called people's town so the index and a row in the people's government. they declared an ad scan people's sovereign republic and old sailboat it's for a referendum to get independence from kiev. this is something they've been calling for for several weeks well cent thought the situation is peaceful but no one can say how it's made and. very honest hard outside with protesters in taking photos of showing how the city center was today fined on the wii. as we heard from or in donetsk on arresting eastern ukraine as stoke even further by key as a counter operation the region. anti war activist daniel patrick welch things control slipping out of the hands of the interim government. the important thing that you can see it. is that they are having trouble holding power even in

nikolai took us up to the roof to show us the flag they raised, the flag of the autonomous eastern ukraine he said he prays russia will help them if things turn violent here, too. the regional governor here in donetsk told us today he fears the use of force could provoke a military intervention from russia, just like we saw in crimea last month. and, scott, he believes the only solution is to negotiate with the separatists. >> pelley: holly williams covering for us in eastern ukraine. thank you, holly. turning to syria's civil war, which is now in its fourth year, tomorrow, a british university will put out the first report detailing a remarkable number of westerners who have joined the fight there, including americans. many of them are inspired by fiery speeches on the internet, and clarissa ward got a preview. >> we can kill anyone who comes >> we can kill anyone who comes our way. >> reporter: he is known as abu dujana al amriki, the american, and he's one of an estimated 100 u.s. citizens who have gone to fight in syria's civil war. on twitter and facebook, westerners now brag openly a

there is a russian ship called the nikolai chiker cruising around off the eastern coast of florida right as we speak. it is a russian flagged vessel, it was built in finland apparently. it's a tough little ship. an ocean going tug and for the last few days it seems it has been cruising around just off you the east coast of florida. and what it is doing there, it's not illegal, but what it is doing their is raising some eyebrows given the status of things between russia and the united states right now. and, what it is doing there, at least what it seems to be doing there, at least to me, it's kind of a surprising thing. and i think it has something to do with ronald reagan. one ofhe

in nikolai of russian activists that fact to internally as it had been during the demonstration for a concession to the russian federation. one of the airport as was cold and punched by a group of aggressive people. the port vale and green are very inventive than a mile long held that oz or torture journaling far claimed it all happened in front of police in prayer. the day before the district court to allow people to continue demonstrations and the name rl to the hero is what the heck it's a bad upon her the ten thousand with that again. aaron taylor law enforcement top round and that bans guns and they are equal and next knives and clubs. it really lemons that they print nineteen c in the day saying but then spread on the trains in service of russia for the residents of the peninsula's and didn't want to get russian citizenship. if people did not confer any right to eat there in pencil to catch their train and prosper consign they will magically become russians. currently in the tent as there are only three points except in such applications. so the red bananas are forced to queue f

further investigation showed that this is the nikolai, a russian spy ship to cuba that peeled off onarch 15th and came long side where the flight was supposed to take off from. then it was delayed. that tug, this russian ship has been going up and down the seaboard hanging out in the caribbean until the launch was recycled. the speculation is is it watching this craft go up? is it spying on the space-x program? >> that's terrific. jake ward for us. mountain view, california, jake, as always, it's good to talk to you. appreciate your time. we'll see you back here at 6:00. that is all of our time for this news hour. i'm tony harris wishing you a great weekend. if you want to learn more, go to our website at www.aljazeera.com. . >> back in october the hoped for 7 million enrollments under the affordable care act looked pretty doubtful. 8 million sign ups later, is the president's initiative working well enough to run on in november? that's the inside story.

as i told nikolai, russia cannot be explained in 25 words or less. everything about russia is long.ong history, long church service, long names. it takes a little time. i will not take your time today explaining what the administration says has happened. you can find it out yourself. it is not secret. we will go on to what we can do. that is very long. i see of course -- i was very sad and am sad about this. i have always believed since the very beginning that russia and the united states belong together. if man and woman are complementary in the united states and we can find some common language and we did find some, remember i like to think about this. we are up there in space. a russian and un-american are circling us as we be. -- speak. the other thing where we really understand each other's music. russians love our music. we love there is. in fact, i can tell you because i have lectured all over the united they -- united states is that many americans, for them, the not cracker has become an american custom. many americans asked if tchaikovsky is american. i have been confronted

there is a russian ship called the nikolai cheeker cruising around off the eastern coast of florida right russian flagged vessel, it was built in finland apparently. it's a tough little ship. an ocean going tug and for the last few days it seems it has been cruising around just off the east coast of florida. and what it is doing there, it's not illegal, but what it is doing their is raising some eyebrows given the status of things between russia and the united states right now. and, what it is

i mean the southern city of nikolai of supporters of the author he is in kiev forcibly dismantled a protest camp set up by those who oppose the interim government. according to local media up to ten people injured when my ban activists clashed with production protestors stun grenades and firecrackers were used we discussed the rest of the east if ukraine with foreign affairs expert an abortion he says as alienated the south and east of the country with this anti russian rhetoric. what is done is tear the country apart while there was a task even a tacit understanding that there was a constitution that there were rules that were going to be obeyed and that the interests of. all ukrainians whether russian speakers or ukrainian speaker should whatever would be respected. there john she was able to pull together at the moment it became obvious that he might done which is still really hear first from what is false and only really care for the war they want guns and everybody else decided to take guns up as well and if you were right see me and this is the consequence of that action from the very

shortly and as the unrest spreads south at least twenty acts of its have been arrested in the city of nikolai of after clashing with supporters of the interim government in kiev and we spoke to one activist in had called who saw the events unfolding there firsthand. get a particular church or mission critical like some ukrainian media have been showing molotov cocktails thrown at the building the same that it was os activists who provoked the conflict in reality a group of men who introduced themselves as policemen from poltava and sumach entered the building and started attacking unarmed people there using stun grenades and rubber bullets but they never showed their i.d.'s for there were many injured among us they pushed us so but that's when we made more tough cocktails and threw them inside trying to smoke the moat but unlike them we never attempted to hurt them we were aiming for the walls later they saw our reinforcements arriving at the building and fled. meanwhile according to care of all those detained and then rest all ukrainian citizens foreign affairs expert knowledge says if the i

the story of three women who team up to take down a villain who is cheating on all three of them, nikolai cameron diaz team up. all three of these girls need to take down every villain in the history of movies. where would they have the most fun? this is what they had to say. >> i want to see them take down any villain. >> i think i want to be, turn these women into superheroes. >> like the green goblins. or "lord of the rings" we could be -- >> yes! >> you are wiping the drool off. you say the creme industhemistr. but the problem is, this comedy is way too long. you have to think, how much longer is it going to be? mann and diaz did save the film. kate upton, not so great for her first acting job, in my opinion. >> do you really focus on upton for her actions? >> i know. i gave it a three out of five, which is a "c." don't pay full ticket for it, but if you want a couple laughs, check it out in theaters. >> kevin mccarthy. >> thank you so much. when are we going to talk amazing spider-man? >> you will text until friday. i review the movie next friday, but i'm seeing brian cranston on bro

of a desk and nikolai the now to stalin for didn't ask and lugansk it was another eastern ukraine in town where local security office building and the vision of national banks to remain. protesters who've the north recognize authorities in kiev and say they will not debate the orders and say they are waiting for a referendum to be held here to get more independence from my career so far the situation is peaceful but no one can guarantee that it will stay this way no one can predict what may happen next. from donetsk in eastern ukraine. moscow has expressed concern could be using mercenaries to quell on rast in eastern ukraine russia claims around one hundred fifty western military contractors have been reportedly brought in from a private security firm called greystone the us denies the reports are to scan a church of khan has the details. in a span of less than two months we've seen washington go from cheering for protests with takeovers of government buildings in kiev to exactly the opposite now trying to help quell the uprising in these than part of ukraine thanks. moscow has accu