my question is where does lincoln stand on the continuum of republican and radical republican, or was there tension, or was it difficult or easy political decision for him? >> that's a great question. you know, lincolning is regarded as a moderate and was regarded as a moderate or a conservative. i take issue with that a little, saying that when he makes his sort of debut in politics in the 1850s -- he'd been in politics before, but when he sort of enters into this antebellum moment, the first words that come out of his mouth are house divided cannot stand. and that is a radical statement, right? we have become inured to the idea that a house divided cannot stand and that lincoln's going to throw all of his power towards making that house cease to be divided, right? that's actually quite a problem in 1857 when he makes the comment. -- there's going to be complication and that the -- [inaudible] are going to win. and he is so chastised by having made that statement that he doesn't say anything radical again really for the rest of his career, not til the very last peach that he makes. -

supreme court also sided with the state republicans with, oh, you'll never get this, with five republicanominees, partially blocking a lower court's extension of the absentee ballot deadline. in her dissent to that ruling, ruth bader ginsburg laid out how insane this is. insane this is >> now, you might be sitting there watching all of this, and wondering why? why the hell would wisconsin republicans, who have already used anti-democratic gerrymandering to stay in power, why are they insistent on holding this primary election today? and here's the answer. it's because there's a conservative state supreme court justice on the ballot, who they really, really want to win. in part, they want him to win to stay on the supreme court, and help them purge voters. and they think a low turnout election amidst a pandemic will probably help them. the scene in milwaukee today, where the population is largely black or hispanic, would seem to back that up, all right? milwaukee is the epicenter of the outbreak in the state of wisconsin. it also has 16% of the state's population, but half of the coronavir

conference of mayors is a republican the chair of the national association of governors is a republican. the chair of the president of the national association of state secretaries of state calling for them to lift their obstruction they put in their bill to vote by mail, these initiatives are bipartisan and that's what i rather dwell on than the unpsychable. >> speaker nancy pelosi, thank you for spending some time with us.

voting for a republican and a democrat. we're going to prosecute this war fully. this would have dire repercussions when lincoln is assassinated and johnson becomes president. they are not from the same political party. they don't have the same political philosophy. and this is seen within just several months of johnson taking power to becoming president. many radical republicans incredib initially thought johnson would work better with them than lincoln had. lincoln pocket vetoed one of the radical republicans attempts at reconstruction. but he was starting to negotiate with them to try to figure out how to go forward. johnson had been very severe throughout the war against southern planters. against the southern aristocracy and pushed hard to fight a war. but as this quote explains damn the negros. i'm fighting these traitors their masters. he was not fighting the war to end slavery he was fighting the war to preserve the union and possibly punish the people he thought were responsible for the war. we see this carry out,

there will be seven democrats and five republicans. this committee was announced before they even told you the mission of what this committee should do. they even announced the chair of the committee. now, i respect the chair greatly, madam speaker. he has one of the best political minds i know. joe biden will tell you that. you see, our dear friend, congressman clyburn, he should be credited for getting joe biden the nomination. why he failed in all the other states, south carolina was critical -- while he failed in all the other states, south carolina was critical. he did poll v.i.x. very well in the endorse -- politics very well in the endorsement. he turned the tide in the democratic nom -- nomination. you'll have a nominee and a lot of that goes to jim clyburn and he deserves the credit for what he was able to politically accomplish. we don't question his political abilities, he's the majority whip, he knows how to gather votes, he knows how to make the political argument. but, madam speaker, this is the that ndividual who said th

fremont is the first republican nominee, then when the republicans take power, he is very well politicallyconnected and he is appointed to command a military district in the west. out there he decides to issue a proclamation on his own without consulting lincoln, freeing slaves of confederates. keep in mind the timing of this. this is in 1861. lincoln has worried about the border states, kentucky and missouri, that have slaves but have not left the union but keeping them in the union. he does not want to move too fast on slavery. at this point it is not even -- it is not even in the wording. it is not part of the war yet officially. lincoln asks him to rescind his proclamation. fremont says no. lincoln asks him again. fremont says no. finally lincoln removes fremont from command and revokes the proclamation. we talked about that balancing act with the constitution and slavery. there is also a political balancing act he has. on one hand he is trying to keep the border states in the union. he is trying to pacify and keep happy democrats and moderate, conservative republicans, but radical rep

watch the republicans will come under severe criticism for this. >> not one republican voted for it. turning a cold shoulder to the president. >> so much for the president's charm offensive, today was all partisan rancor. >> i think from that point forward, we saw a very downward tilt towards the possibility of bipartisanship. that was very odd. that was very early on. that was in january and february of '09. >> i hope the stimulus bill fails. >> he is addicting this country to heroin, the heroin that is government slavery. it is -- >> i want once and for all the american people to see full frontal nudity what liberalism is and what a lie it is. >> they wanted it to fail. that was week one of the obama presidency. you hear a tone from republicans that thank goodness you do not hear from democrats today. either we have the power or the country burns down. adam wrote, quote, mcconnell and the republican leadership saw prolonging the great recession as a political opportunity to be exploited. the longer and more grueling the economic recovery, the more easy it would be to evict obama fr

there's a pretty big gap there too between democrats and republicans.e even paid people up to $100 if they got the answer right, and still democrats predicted a lot more cases in april than republicans. >> and you said, we should look, ron, to another study in "the atlantic" tomorrow, right? >> yeah, absolutely. if you look at the polling in march, republicans were much less likely to say this was going to be a serious challenge than democrats. that narrowed -- we saw that reflected in the differential ax tifts of the republican governors in many stays versus the democratic governors, even the democratic mayors that moved early to shut things down. we saw polling gaps narrow from late march through now as president trump is kind of reluctantly coming along to the idea of closing down the country and virtually all republican governors have as well. it is easy to imagine as soon as he changes direction and the whole fox machinery gets behind the idea that we have to reopen the country and this is kind of, you know, nanny state run a muck,that republican o

my question is, as a republican, what steps do you see in the party for the republican and what options do you see for them to become more competitive? so much, and thank you for being a republican in new york. yay. i'm passionate about this. i was passionate when i was the michigan chair. our party for too long has not gone into community that has not heard our message. with this president, what he has done is loan forgiveness, what he has done with criminal justice reform and the first steps act. there are so many things we can count. on top of the latino community and african-american community, there are so many things we can talk about. you cannot talk if you don't show up. when i was chair in michigan, we had an office in detroit we were , there all year-round. it's not like we set up before an election and say shell out before the election. that is not how it works. being part of the community and having breakfast with the pastors and being part of the community long-term, after three years of being in detroit, it was a different circumstance. people said there are the , republic

george, republican leadership is resisting.big fight on capitol hill. >> but jon karl, this seems to be one of those places where president trump is going to be at odds with at least his base in the senate. he sure seems to be on the path of spend whatever it takes now. >> he's never been particularly concerned about deficits either in his career as a real estate developer or his career as a politician. my sense is his attitude is let's get as much money out there. he wants to inject this economy with as much stimulus as it he can possibly do because he knows that this is a big factor in his election. this has been the case all along, george. i think that what has driven largely the bipartisan agreement is the president has made it very clear that he's willing to spend whatever needs to be spent and for now republicans have gone along with it. >> patrick, you've been especially concerned at the open society foundation with workers who are still falling through the cracks despite this massive several trillion dollars in spending

it can accommodate conservative republicans as well as liberal republicans like nelson rockefeller. listen to the voice of ronald reagan from 1962. >> now we hear from one who has served his country all his adult life. crowning that service with two terms as president of the united states, dwight d. eisenhower. >> thank you, mr. reagan. dr. kopelson: that is 1962. a lot happens. the next year is the john f. kennedy assassination. his vice president lyndon johnson becomes president. now it is 1964. lyndon johnson is running for the presidency. the republican candidate is barry goldwater. it is now a week before that general election. barry goldwater is not doing well. the polls do not look good. it is going to probably be and -- an lbj landslide. reagan being the famous actor, he has crisscrossed the country for a long time delivering speeches as the spokesperson of general electric because he was the host of general electric theater. the public knows him as the actor and speechmaker for ge. this is the first time he will be seen from the american public as delivering a political spe

pelosi: we did on pensions from republicans. sen. schumer: on the pensions bill which we really care about, the blockage there, we did get some republican support. even president trump, i called the president on president trump, and urged him. the block was mitch mcconnell. there is a lot of republican senators want to help with this issue. on others, we may not have support now, but we will get it. rep. pelosi: we had a large number helping us on the hospital issues. although we didn't get anything we always want more, because the , crisis continues to grow. but they have 11 republican senators who shared the view on how to go forward with the hospitals and i think it helped us make the progress we have to make. remember, this one principle here that the leader has been a champion on, and that is when we are talking about meeting the needs of our hospitals and meeting the needs of our heroes, first responders and health care people, is that we have to recognize the lost revenue that they have. lost revenue for the public sector of t

all of these are states governed by republicans. it is hard to see the donald trump theory that voting by mail is some kind of giant liberal conspiracy. is last point i would make that our bill does not federalize the fall elections, nor does it perpetrate any other kind of nonsense that some constitutionally illiterate politicians are peddling. if anybody following us tonight once the details and wants to i have simple it is, actually demonstrated voting by mail in my dining room in a nned tonight have pi at the top of my feed. big, big thanks for all you are doing. i understand we may have a question. let me also think hakim and elizabeth because we are all jana: thank you, so much. we do have a question for you from mike, a senior fellow at the union of concerned scientists. theou know, oregon was first state to adopt or -- universal vote by mail and you made it happen. how has voter turnout been affected by this and what lessons could other states learn from oregon system? sen. wyden: we have a unique offering for the country. a

i'm still a republican i still got my long term. goal as a socialist. but this is not a version of future events. subscribed to. it is this absence of trust dating back centuries. the walls of belfast in place. protestants parade through the streets of belfast but this is no carnival bending on which side you're on the marching season is either celebration. of the patient. or the marches the victory of the protestant king william of the irish catholics in 6090 was at the very core of their conviction. will always remain part of the united kingdom. will prevail in this very much a way of life a cultural expression of oppression take down but especially from the problem community. that's a celebration of a battle which took place over 300 years ago with the boy. it's celebration expression of freedom expression of liberty expression fraternity. and something which is not on the label to american independence day to. the celebrations at the boston and france to the celebrations which we have and see and many other countries where people celebrate their lib

and for me having stood in the speakers lobby with open to republicans in control and a lot of the guys would go out and smoke cigars on the balcony and they wouldn't pay attention to them watching something like that that is symbolic in the political conversation in a sense. in watching what is remarkable with all the very interesting background and you let your experiences in the newness of it unfold pretty openly, i don't think people try to hide the fact, many people thought it was a badge of honor to not be in politics especially in washington and to let your fresh opinions on how things should begin, even when it did not work out in your favor. you talked about the motion to commit again i was talking with angie craig, the minneapolis suburbs in the coffee shop and she said i kinda regretted that, i realized only after the fact what that actually did, everyone is learning and front of the country and i think that is very different than ten years ago. >> i think it is very important transparency is really important, is particular important to me anything a lot of my freshman class

but the republican party is insisting on doing this again and again this year. there's a special election for congress, trisha zunker, an extraordinary candidate, she is running for congress in northern wisconsin. their election was on may 12th. because republicans are so intent on following donald trump's personal orders that people not be allowed to vote absentee, they're going to force this vast rural community in northern wisconsin where a vote by mail would make sense to vote on may 12th. we're going to organize for that again. >> wait, hold up, they're not going to allow vote by mail absentee voting for a may 12th special congressional election? >> i should be clear. we have no excuse absentee voting but you have to upload a photo of your voter id and get a witness to sign your ballot envelope to cast your ballot. we sued in court. democrats sued in court to change those rules, and ultimately to try to postpone the election and switch to a vote by mail election where everyone receives a ballot in the mail and republicans said no, and they sued to our state

the republican platform had conceded that and white southerners didn't believe it. they said stewart and lincoln are on record in 1858 saying it will be all one thing or the other. the republican platform is saying we will accept slavery for everywhere and they will say they are liars and might have had harsh words in that description beyond just modifiers that would upset some people. i won't use them. >> don't trigger me. >> i am not going to. but they would have used them. >> i really think it speaks to our feeling of profound sadness when we think of all the death and destruction wreaked by this war. but they did not know it. you all know the narrative of the civil war, and at every stage, the other side thought the other side would give up. war broke out, but they thought it would be a short or. that was something to be considered. >> i was unaware of the financial panic of 1857. could you explain how this might have figured into the picture? and also, given the extreme lawlessness of this administration, could we be inching towards some kind of civil war? >> i

she represents the main republican party. the 1st republican to strike in. the gulf that still exists between her and her colleagues. and certainly i think. that the republican that i know is in this process that they are taking this here. but this is not a version of future events. subscribe to. it is this absence of trust. the walls of. place. the walls of this. northern irish protestants parade through the streets of belfast but this is no carnival bending on which side you're on the marching season is either celebration pool for the creation. or the marches the victory of the protestant king william of the irish catholics in 6090 was at the very core of their conviction that they are and will always remain part of the united kingdom. is very much a way of life a cultural expression of a partial. especially from the problem community. that's a celebration of a battle which took place over 300 years ago at the boy. it's celebration expression of freedom expression of liberty expression for tornadoes. and something which is not on the level to american inde

over republican resistance, but they knew they needed us. the one thing we did not get was state and local government. we are deeply disappointed. it is not state and local government, it is policeman environment, bus drivers, people who work in municipal hospitals and many others who are vital. they should not be laid off. that is why we wanted to help state and local governments. we got one change, just one, but it is important. we got a commitment from the president and secretary mnuchin that they will be able to use their state and local money that them to are giving deal with revenue losses. that was the second most important thing they wanted other than more money. one final thing. broad, bolde a big, covid form. for anyone who thinks this is the last train out of the station, that is not the case. the speaker and i will work on that very soon and very quickly. it will have a lot of stuff too long to list, but i want to mention a few of the priorities -- election reform, money for housing. there is three months of rent forbearance, but

in lincoln and his party potter cautions against assuming that the republican leaders as they debated how to deal with the threat of cessation in 1860 must have known that war was possible. in as much as they had been the first to foresee a conflict, potter remarks regarding a common perception about republicans, quote, it seems impossible that they should have been the last to recognize that the conflict was on the eve of materializing. but potter's discussion of evidence reveals how republicans easily could have misjudged the likelihood of cessation and war. sources from the time indicate as he puts it the only reliable indices of the future were the warnings of secession that came from southern politicians, editors and legislators. and republicans as well as democrats as potter put it have long experience of southern threats that had never led to action. for 40 years the republic flourished and expanded under constant threats of disillusion. it was remarked that members of the democratic party, quote, have so often cried wolf that it's very difficult to make people believe it. and

but georgia comes into play of how to be our radical republican. with the famous sherman field order that is 30 miles from the coast i can only be occupied by market forces. and that formally establishes to get in practice as part of the order itself. and that they have access to. that this is a problematic thing to present because p-letter general sherman, william tecumseh sherman. he is definitely not a radical. and is quoted many times of extremely racist things. and yet i want to argue tonight that the policy which happened is the work radicals so in fact at least to our present. james d lynch and african-american visionary the republican activist i happened to be into them and in 1864 and also present is weekend secretary for and in fact so much so and the fundamental issue that looked at the impeachment and his mere removal would help. and to be present behind the scenes and the typical place to find. as a backroom operative. and a sneaky radical who put his mark and of course one of the most famous members and you may be familiar with how im

she is not a republican. i want her to succeed more than anyone. i want every state to open and be healthy. i am not looking for anyone to fail based on partisanship. this is a time where we should all be rooting for every politician, and hoping they have the best resources and information as they are navigating this totally difficult time for our country. >> we are just about out of time, so i want to wrap up with one last question, the same last question i asked tom perez the other night. is the time of year when college students build a lot of anxiety. what is my summer internship going to be, if i'm graduating, what is my first job? most years, my office hours are full of students that want to work on a campaign and don't know how to do it. this year, the anxiety level for those wanting to get involved in politics is much higher. students who come in and say i want to get involved but don't know how. what would you say to those young people that want to get involved in a republican campaign this year, wherever it it -- wherever it is on the tic

basically, these republicans believe in the free market for everything, except themselves.ean, think about it. if someone was getting bad scores at the olympics, what would they do. they would probably work harder to improve their routine. but republicans would be like, "why are you wasting your time? just steal the judges' scorecards. problem solved!" for years people have suspected but now republicans are saying it out loud-- we don't want more people to vote because we will lose. i don't know why they're saying it outdoors. maybe it's being quarantined. you lock people up long enough, and the truth comes out. "i'll tell you what i really think of your cooking." so the battle around voting is shaping up to not only affect the primaries in the months to come but also potentially in the general election in november. because the coronavirus might go away in the summer, but just like pumpkin spice, it could make a comeback in the fall. if some republicans have their way with how all americans can and cannot vote, believe those panda bears in hong kong won't be the only ones g

republicans were willing to push people into a lethal pandemic because they thought republican votersld understand less clearlydangers of this pandemic than democratic voters. but grassroots organizations across the state, groups led by people of color, african-american and latino leaders, rural leaders and democratic party of wisconsin volunteers made millions of phone calls, text messages, outreach on social media, talked to voters how to request an absentee ballot for the first time in their lives. we could see the fruits of that, in an election where we more than quadrupled the record of absentee ballots. it was 220,000 in 2016 for a presidential election. this was a state supreme court race and this was over a million. >> it was such a travesty that this election took place, and i've seen that the supreme court justices themselves are meeting, they voted absentee, all of them in the state assembly are practicing physical distancing. has there been fallout locally there in the aftermath of this undertaking? like let's not do that again? >> i wish that i could tell you that after s

now between them but divide democrats from democrats and republicans from republicans.mmigration, health care, gun control those types of issues. ,then you have a leader that wants to run the senate like lyndon johnson did in this environment. i don't think it can work. case in point, the senate now is probably the most unproductive it has ever been in its history. it is a little bit ironic, because the second you have someone who truly conceives of their job as a factory foreman, if i am correct, the outcome -- they are not getting any widgets. susan: one area it has been anonymously successful is in judicial appointments. -- norma sleep successful is in -- enormously successful is in judicial appointments. james: correct. most of them are passing with bipartisan support. most of them are passing with democrats and republicans voting for them. you might have someone like brett kavanaugh, for instance, for the supreme court. there was some partisan there, but they are largely bipartisan. and this specter, the specter of obstruction, i have not yet seen it. mitch mcconne

one, i try to say that it's wrong to say that free enterprise was a republican discourse. because, you know, both parties were far more ideologically diverse in the 1930s. but i do think that a lot of -- well free enterprise had a number of different meanings and you're referring to a antitrust version of free enterprise that ralph nader embraced as well. i think that tradition is there. but one of the interesting things about free enterprise discourse of the sort that i'm writing about is it's almost the reverse of what you're talking about which is that ate lot of big business people speaking as if they were small business people. that's the essence of my "i pencil" chapter. one thing you constantly see from people like the president of gm is that gm is really no different than the corner grocer, the peanut vendor and so forth and a lot of these business lobbies used that language repeatedly where the economy is made up of entrepreneurs and individuals but not of large corporations. the free enterprise discourse i'm talking about completely, it's usually spoken by people

republican speaker said if you get more people out voting, republicans won't win elections. well, that same president who we've been showing you this week all the lies when he says things like, oh, nobody ever saw this coming. we saw all the lies how in early january nerve h january everybody in his administration saw this coming. azar said the coming pandemic is keeping me awake at night when we have the next pandemic and it's keeping everybody in this room awake at night. how in 2015 bill gates predicted exactly what's happening now is going to hoop a going to happen and we were ill prepared for it. george w. bush being obsessed with the next pandemic come together united states. they saw it coming. yesterday donald trump lying and we'll show you this saying i believe the same thing peter navarro believed, this was going to be a terrible pandemic that could kill up to 500,000 people. we've got all the quotes, mr. president, we've got all the results, we've got you saying, of course, at the same exact time that there's nothing to do it, it's one person, then you said it was

republicans challenged that and by a 5-4 decision just now the supreme court with the five republican appointees sided with the state republican saying no, we're not going to extend the deadline, right? >> that's correct. and what this does, it's really a one, two punch today for wisconsin voters. fi first, the state supreme court said they do not have the power to move to june 9th and the u.s. supreme court said not only that but you can't vote f. you haven't received your absentee ballot in the mail, which many who requested ballots have not, your only chance of voting is to go to the polls tomorrow, which means people are faced with just a terrible amount of pressure to do something very dangerous. >> just an absolute outrage from the public health perspective from the perspective. it's astounding this is happening. thank you for explaining it and we're going to keep following this story. we'll see what happens tomorrow. thanks a lot. >> thanks, chris. >>> ahead, is the government at all prepared for what comes next? a look at what it could take to get the country to return to some

they divide democrats from democrats and republicans from republicans.mmigration, health care, gun control, those types of issues. you have a leadership that wants to run the senate like lyndon johnson did. i don't think it can work. case in point, the senate is the most unproductive it has ever been in its history. it's ironic, because the second you have someone who can see their job as a factory foreman, the outcome -- you are not getting any widgets. susan: one area that is suggest -- that is successful is in judicial appointments. >> most of them are passing with bipartisan support. most of them are passing with democrats and republicans voting for them. you have someone like brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. there was some bipartisan there, but they are largely bipartisan. the specter of obstruction, i have not yet seen it. mitch mcconnell gave an interview and a 115th congress and said it's the best congress he ever had. he simultaneously said it's the worst historic obstruction i have ever seen. those two things don't add up. there is not hi

georgia's republican governor brian kemp is now alone on a very dangerous island. he has decided with great fanfare you've seen it on our show and covered in the news to have his state georgia reopen first. starting tomorrow, governor kemp is reopening tattoo parlors, gyms, nail salons and massage studios. on monday restaurants are set to open or at least allowed to open. governor kemp presumably thought he would get a make america great again that a boy and the grass roots would rise up in his defense which is not crazy to think because if you turn on trump tv every day, you'll see them covering reopen the country and let us work protest all over the u.s. and so, you can understand why governor kemp would think there is some great american awakening happening as he sees americans on his tv screen rise up to say let's get back out to work and sacrifice our bodies to the virus in pursuit of economic growth. guess what? there is not. that is not where the american people are at at all. we live in an extremely polarized country where americans are split on just about

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republicans then were slow to act. do you sense -- keeping that in mind, do you see some leeway to get a deal in this consensus environment? it would've been very difficult with john boehner or the tea party with nothing else along with it. >> remember what we are dealing with. you cannot put a similar scenario to the pandemic we are dealing with right now. in modern history outside of a 9/11. you have more death now affecting more than the entire nation. you just had a third bill we walked through in bipartisanship that got held up for a week. the idea that more things had to be added. remember, you follow this closely. when we did our second bill, even though the language was not correct, republicans moved that bill forward because they did not want to delay that. we moved it forward with an overwhelming vote on the idea that on a handshake we would fix it on monday. we wanted to put the american public first. and we did that and made it happen. and the senate took it up and it het to the president and signed it into

he was joined members of his cabinet and republican greg -- republican congressional leaders. -- weare gathered today are grateful to be joined by vice president mike pence and also with us our secretary steve mnuchin come senators roy blunt, john curran, dan sullivan as well as kevin mccarthy

>> republicans are nervous. that includes holding on to the senate and the president's re-election campaign, too. the polls have trended against him the last week or two. i talked about it on the show last week, some in the trump camp are worried michigan might be slipping away. other states are going to be harder to retain. they are trying to revaluable thi re-evaluate things. we reported, and others, as well, how frustrated he is couped up in the white house. he misses the rallies. through the briefings, he's gotten his talking points out there, but it is a disaster for him. people around him are asking to cut those out. white house is hoping to get him out there in other ways. maybe ramp up travel. no rallies, but some events. they expect him to do more interviews, whether with fox news or oann, to get out there so he has the outlet. we saw over the weekend he is still using twitter, of course. there is also this. this is a president without much discipline. he is expected to go out there today in front of th

i love republicans.e should set up another line, .-800-boo-hoo they always complain about you being biased to democrats. i'm an independent. i think you're slightly kind of conservative, but you are second-bestand away to free speech tv, of course. anyway. know, he andou this other guy, james from denver, and there was one other fellow, i think it was bob in michigan. i got it written down here somewhere. they complain about the way you have the lines. i love the way you have it. now the republicans can't claim to call on the independent and democrat line and say i used to be this and i used to, now i'm a republican. then call on the appropriate line and quit jumping the line with the 30 day rule. aboutway, it >> me up every time we get republicans in control, we go into recession. cities and states need bailing out and they say no, we can't do that. when they are the ones that create the problem, it has to be a democrat that comes in and cleans up the mess. they are masters of deception. f goes, i'mrump