pruitt so i would say nothing about my connection to mr. pruitt. as lincoln sat in his office reviewing the letter, many thoughts may have flashed through his mind. his own genealogy had striking similarities. lincoln believed his own mother's con cement was the result of a wealthy virginia planter taken advantage of a poor young girl. lincoln's partner said this was a poor memory for him. he thought it was unjust that women received more blame than men who participated in sexual indiscretions and he wrote a poem about this in the 1830s. whatever spiteful fools may say, each jealous ramping yelper. no one was ever a whore without a man to help her. he knew the grief of losing a child. he had lost two sons of his own. considering all of the evidence on hand, lincoln issued a pardon on november 5th before she could be sent to new york for imprisonment. the was is probably the faster that lincoln ever issued . all the more remarkable is the timing. the story of elizabeth short is an important one. it confirms lincoln's belief that all people deserved

pruitt on condition they would say nothing of myself and mr. pruitt. at the end of the letter she marked her name with an "x." as lincoln sat in his white house office holding lizzie's letter and reviewing her case file, many thoughts may have flashed through his mind. his own genealogy had striking similarities to the story of lizzie shorter. lincoln believed that his own mother's conception was the result of a wealthy virginia planter taking sexual advantage of a poor young girl and lincoln's law partner said that this was a painful memory for lincoln. lincoln also had strong misgivings about society's double standards when it came to cases of seduction or extra marital sex. he thought it was unjust that women received more blame than men who participated in sexual indiscretions and he wrote a poem about this in the 1830s and these are a few lines of that poem. whatever spiteful fools may say, each jealous ranting yelper, no woman ever played the whore unless she had a man to help her. that one's not on the lincoln memorial. [ laughter ] pruitt's sex

pruitt gave her money. the next morning, a monday at 7:00 a.m., she went to find a local judge and wanted to file a complaint against pruitt. the judge refused. she went to another judge. unfortunately when prewitt found out, he decided to act and he had lizzie arrested for grand larceny that same night. money the wife had given to her was stolen. she spent the rest of the week in jail and was finally released on bail. on june 16, 1864, a judge heard the case against pruitt. lizzie testified and told her story and it's a remarkable moment. prior to the civil war african americans were not allowed to testify against whites in state or federal court. we are in the district of columbia. the war changed that. she told her story. several white witnesses offered their own account of what they had seen or thought happened. the judge decided to acquit prewitt. sometime around when the trial took place, lizzie posey -- lizzie's baby died. lizzie went to trial herself. it would have been her baby's first birthday. sh

pruitt fim studied hundreds of spiders to find out why they would behave in this particular way so i figure out the consequences of his behavior by manipulating these individuals ability to engage in the behavior i love some individuals to engage in almost sex in his little plastic cups and then others that are prevented from ever having those experiences. and one of the interesting things that i found is that females that had had experience in gauging in place sex early on in life produced heavier egg cases later on and that that affects scaled to how much experience they had the more experience in play these females had the larger edge cases not only do playful females have more young they live longer and they're less aggressive they're much less likely to kill their partners after mating something that's common in the extraordinary world that spiders. when you start to consider weird sorts of behavior exhibited by lots of kinds of animals you suddenly realize that things like play occur all over the animal kingdom and that it might not be such a sophisticated thing that's in demic

pruitt and his colleagues were especially interested in a kind of dating game the social spiders play. mature males recruit to the labs in mature females who aren't mature yet they can't mate and these males will do their part just a little worship dances for the female. but then the females respond to this courtship dance by approaching the male assuming a posture of receptivity the male just puts his genitals on the outside of the female genitals and then just sits there and over and over there they are just attempting this copula 3 posture and they could be off spending their time doing other things like getting through or pulling down more soap to protect to protect them from predators. and so i thought oh it's sort of like gaining experience for later on in life that might be pertinent like motor skills or or are social skills social intelligence and then later on as i've conducted morse that is i just became more and more comfortable with thinking yeah actually this thing is kind of behavior we're seeing in a spider might just be play. pruitt's team studied hundreds of spiders t

pruitt gave her money. the next morning, she went to find a local judge and wanted to file a complaint. she went to another judge. unfortunately when prewitt found out, he decided to act and he had lizzie arrested for grand larceny and he claimed the wife does the money his wife had given to her had been stolen. she spent the rest of the week in jail and was finally released on ale. -- released on bail. lizzie testified and told her story. prior to the civil war african americans were not allowed to testify against whites in state or federal court. the war changed that. the judge decided to acquit prewitt. some time again when this trial took place, her baby died. lizzie went to trial herself. it would have been her baby's first birthday. she was convicted and sentenced. she sent a letter to abraham lincoln. she was not able to write it herself. she said, i must solemnly declare i am guilty of no crime. she said that she became guilty of having his child. she implored lincoln for mercy, saying the money i a

pruitt. with that shename marked her name with an x. as lincoln sat in his office reviewing her case file, many thoughts flashed through his mind. genealogy head striking similarities. se believed his own mother' conception was the result of a wealthy planter taking advantage of a poor young girl and lincoln's law partner said this was a painful memory for lincoln. he had concerns over society double standards when it came to premarital sex. he thought it was unjust out women received more blame the men. he wrote a poem in the 1830's and here are a few lines. what ever spiteful fools may say, each jealous, ranting yelp or, no woman ever played the unless she had a man to help her. that one is not on the lincoln memorial. [laughter] white: prewitt's exploitation of elizabeth shorter clearly preyed on lincoln's sense of justice. pardon before she could even be sent to new york and this is what he wrote on the .ack of the letter elizabeth shorter's case is hebably the fastest pardon ever issued. she was convicted on november 3, wrote the l

south america seems a very heavy rain lately across into northern pruitt across into ecuador but rain is a go through sunday monday we have got one or 2 shots but a lot in nature is still plenty of activity across central areas of brazil and that could just produce wanted to at the same time further to the east maybe into $29.00 and again further to the south. much of argentina it is dry and warm and it's fighting quite picture throughout much of the caribbean and central america we've got some winds coming in from the east what you will see is that all the course is the rain which is developing the severe thunderstorms possibly into southern areas of the united states and that will bring want to. northern areas of the bahamas that again say it's a quiet picture as we started the workweek. into united states we have of course been seeing some snow and also rain developing and in particular if you will snow flurries up into the northeast this is boston massachusetts as i say flurries not really settling on the ground but the main story through sunday monday is going to be across the so

one headline i saw, is that scott pruitt, who lobbies for a company, a coal company, that they managedo get a $1o million business loan, despite having more than 500 employees. is there sufficient oversight right now, sufficient scrutiny to your mind about who is getting this money and who is not? >> yeah, we worked hard in the last bill to make sure we had inspectors general, some oversight. the president is pushing back on that, but this is exactly why we negotiated a different package this time. there was a real debate whether we do a straight renewal of the ppp program or make a carveout for the smallest businesses. we got $60 billion that are carved out for small and medium sized businesses. that was an important piece for us, because we're picking up the phone at home and hearing from our smallest businesses saying i can't get in the door with the bank. i can't get in there. i'm not competing with my biggest businesses. we've helped, at least in the interim, to open up the capture -- aperture of the program. >> congresswoman elissa slotkin of michigan, thank you for making time f

what the vibe of a nation state as a pruitt cal operative -- political operative. >> a small question is such a thing. one reason i defend the word nationalism. some people want to say patriotism. don't like the word nationism. i that's an american inaguration and an american nation state as a matter of fact, just like other nation states. there is a state and there's a nation. now, we like the fact that in america it tends to be bottom up, not authoritarian. it's democratic. we'd like to keep it that we about but there is historically an american nation statement talk but the u.s. civil war. probably heard the line that before the u.s. civil war these united states, multiple. one thing the war revealed under lincoln was it was a single united states and the insisted on it. ed bodied that determination. going to be an american nation state with the able to defend its territory and integrity by force ifing ifing in necessary t it's an idea and also a place. it's a place. so there's a forceful element to it. so i don't think that we should assume -- there have for decades a tendency so