he had a mentor in that whole vision, robert morris. a name while it's known i believe at the museum of american finance is not widely known by the people who see the show or read the bios because morris is a problematic character for a lot of reasons. he becomes hamilton's i think most important mentor in this area i'm trred because of course there are other areas of hamilton's life, the area of his creative period. but morris is a difficult character sometimes for us to deal with because while he was the financier as the revolution -- that's how he's known and he certainly was that spending his own vast welt on financing the revolution out of his own pocket, the revolution some people say financed him. he did not have any problem with mingling private and public funds. he was a shipping and casually corrupt, obese, witty, charming and quite a character. and really the first major banker the country had, and this was someone who hamilton -- who saw the brilliance of hamilton, the young hamilton and to whom hamilton gravitated. they're

this idea is not new but this was an idea that robert morris had. the idea was to get a tax going, a national tax. so it was a national style tax and get the states to agree to go beyond the powers they had granted under consideration and impose a post on imported goods. and this in post and he thought if we could get them to do that we can get other taxes as well. and this is the vision for forming nationhood. you can tie the country together by collecting and interstate manner taxes earmarked for federal bonds. that does not sound exactly like what we think of when we think of a unified american nation, but to mars and hamilton that is what they thought would gather up all of this economic force, all of this wealth and power and make it grow and become dynamic. so, that's a skeletal idea of things they began to develop in the 17 eighties. and hamilton far more nuanced more than morris ever could've. and i put it into effect in 17 nineties. so what else can we talk about here on how this went. let me sip some water while i cogitate. in the 1783 and

a line from his letter, to robert morris. the line was given, as quote, a national debt dot dot dot, would be to us a national blessing. that rendition was designed by hamilton's enemies, to paint him as a debt optimist in a country that was, due to the long struggle with debt dependent, pessimistic about sovereign debt. but the part left out of the quotation, shows that hamilton was a debt realist. and it consisted of just five words, quote if it is not excessive. unquote. so hamilton believe the national debt would be a blessing if, and only if it was within reasonable bounds. a concept to which we will return in due time. but first it is important to understand the concept of the debt as hamilton understood it. he was not advocating that the government should always borough money to stimulate the economy, or to transfer wealth to the poor to increase the nations the nations coefficient see. rather hamilton was arguing for the eventual repayment of a debt already incurred but the state and federal government to win the amer

enforcement correspondent whitney wild and former head prosecutor from morris county new jersey and a host on the law and crime network robertll us what has happened in this -- it's procedural but it's important. >> right, right. robert can get into the meating of the procedural moment. but i'll tick through the facts. dominion is bringing this lawsuit against sidney powell, rudy giuliani, mike lindell basically saying the damage they did spreading this misinformation about their voting machines somehow rigging the 2020 election was so damaging that they should have to cough up $1.5 billion, $1.3 billion. that is in addition to the two other lawsuits that dominion filed earlier this week against these right wing outlooks perpetuating this election law, their machines rigged this election for joe biden, which is obviously not true. in those lawsuits they're going for 1.6 billion. so 3.1 billion i guess between all of these five lawsuits is enormous. and right now the judge is basically saying i think there's enough information here, enough evidence to go on so he's tossing out this push by rudy giuliani, mike lindell and sidn