roscoe conkling was an enormously proud man. very handsome. dressed to the nines. strutted about in a way that made some of the members uncomfortable were so maybe sort of kept it on the way of this man who never had a particularly good word for anyone. but james g. blaine, who is a young upcoming politician for maine, was not afraid to take out anyone. in a debate, at one point in 1866, he launched into one of the most savage attacks on another member of congress. you really could not attack another member. it was full of sarcasm and with delusions to the hyperion curl that roscoe conkling high into the turkey gobbler strut in which he walked around. it was terrific. first off, it made all of roscoe conkling's life out of him because was all true. second, it gave tremendous amount to the editorial cartoonists because from that on they were always making roscoe conkling into a turkey or some other figure. >> senate historian don richie. what you are looking at on your screen is here in the blaine house in augusta, maine. blaine's study that is actually a she lounge

rosco was an enormously proud vain man, very handsome.rutted about in a way that made some of the rest of the members uncomfortable. sort of kept out of the way of this man who never had a good word for anyone. james g. blaine was a young upcoming politician from maine and wasn't afraid to take on anyone. in the debate in 1866 he launched into one of the most savage attacks. today under the rules you couldn't attack another member that way. it was full of sarcasm and with illusions to the hyperion curl that rosco had. it made all his opponents laugh at him because it was true. it gave ammunition to the editorial cartoonists. from then on they were making him into a turkey or some other figure. >> senate historian don ritchie. what you're looking at is in the blaine house in augusta, maine and blaine's study. that's a lounger from the capitol that is preserved here in a house that's very much in use. interesting to listen to the characterization there. turkey gobbler strut. was it wildly reported in the press? how did the stories get passe

the leader of the stalwarts is roscoe conkling. he's a loyal supporter of president grant so much so that grant allowed conkling to pick anyone he wants to be the port collector of new york. a very, very lucrative position. and if you get this job, the only thing you have to do is give money to roscoe conkling and the republican party. show loyalty. and so roscoe conkling is making so much money from the port of new york and his buddies running it are making so much money that when president grant offers to appoint conkling to the supreme court, he turns it down and says i can't afford it. it would rather be senator from new york and control the port of new york currency coming in. the customs house of new york, conkling appoints his good buddy to be in charge, a man by the name of chester a. arthur. the same guy who becomes president of the united states. who is seen as so corrupt but he run it is port customs house in new york. hayes then tries to remove chester arthur as the port collector of new york and conkling blocks him. ha

had to pass some responsibility for contract the virus anybody who can track the virus sensually say rosco rather social distancing doesn't matter. i think is is it responsible those words will not be enough to deter the president in one of his many tweets on a day of high drama trump pledge to be back on the campaign trail soon. let's get the latest now stuff and simon's joining us from washington good day to you simon the president may be back at the white house sounding upbeat but that does not and all the uncertainty about his health doesn't stuff on. no it doesn't and let's remind our viewers this is a president on steroids not figuratively literally steroids and maybe that explains why he feels so strong and so good after just 2 days well most 3 days in care of a tough team of physicians and doctors who has given him any possible treatment the best treatment possible medic medicines is that which are not at this point all the early in the disease available to all the americans who are infected by covert 19 who were not available which were not available to all the americans who died

party, saying they're more focused on the supreme court than on helping people suffering. >> ayesha roscoe, vice president biden went to gettysburg yesterday to give an address about division in this country and a way forward, but he also spoke about the health crisis in this country, particularly on the issue of mask wearing. i want to play his sound and ask you a quick question. >> wearing a mask is not a political statement. it's a scientific recommendation. social distancing isn't a political statement, it's a scientific recommendation. this pandemic is not a red state or blue state issue. this virus doesn't care whether you live or where you live, what political party you belong to. it affects us all. it will take anyone's life. it's a virus. it's not a political weapon. >> has the biden campaign in your view determined that the response to the virus, the outbreak, is the central issue in this election? >> absolutely. and i think that's what you're going to see tonight in the debate with kamala harris versus mike pence. you're going to hear them driving that home because that is a big

his wife died shortly before, so he moved in with roscoe conkling.o roscoe conkling at the time had a place in new york and that's who he was living with. when he first got the news, he said i hope, my god, i hope it is a mistake, but it was not a mistake. he travelled from new york to new jersey to be with mrs. garfield, and to pay his respects. we'll come back to him and his -- when we go over what happened to the various folks. time to move on to the trial. the case of the united states versus charles guiteau started in 1881 less than two months after garfield's death. they feared he would be let off. he would be able to have a plea of insanity and they would let him off. the insanity defense was known at the time and used. and they were quite fearful. for white awhile he could not find an attorney to representative because no one wanted to represent the asas s assassin. that is not who you want as your attorney. he was a patent attorney, he had never tried a criminal case. he was, however, the only attorney willing to take take the case. he said,

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responsibility for contracting the virus anybody who can tracks the virus for essentially saying roscoe rather social distancing doesn't matter. i think is is responsible those words will not be enough to deter the president in one of his many tweets on a day of high drama trump pledge to be back on the campaign trail soon. well with that election less than a month away i asked our washington correspondent stephan simons to tell us how cope at 19 is affecting lives in the united states. from where i am every day between 800 or 700000 americans die from where i am thousands are out of work a 1000000 are out of work 60000 people lost work just in the other few days 34 days ago airlines are shutting down again laying off 30000 disney disney and disney resorts and always comes with it is laying off permanently 20000 people people have to say goodbye to their loved ones via cell phone before they then die and then they never can see them being buried and people get still sick and people still die and america is still wrecked in a pandemic let's not kid ourselves this is all good and great th

i'm joining us roscoe with the sports teenager. if it can end when the french open title and become partners 1st grand slam singles champ. 1500 hours g.m.t. and it's been 5 hours since a cease fire officially came into effect in the disputed region of karabakh but both armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating the truce the as a remote tree released a video on saturday showing what it says is an armored vehicle. destroyed for violating the agreements this ceasefire was announced by russia on friday following 10 hours of talks and allows both sides to exchange prisoners and recover bodies we have set up because of all who is standing by him in just a fear that's in azerbaijan 1st will bring in bernard smith bernard joining us from gora's that's across the border in armenia so is the cease fire holding bernard it's shaky this cease fire we were in step out of the main city of no go no karabakh earlier today and while we were there we heard shelling in the distance and there are accusations that both sides actually h

and joining us roscoe with the sports i'll have the latest from the women's semifinals at the french open plus one on one of the histories of the last 4 at roland garros after being made to work hard 7 by public arena in paris. in the last donald trump has said he will not take part in the 2nd u.s. presidential debate if it's held virtually the debate commission has changed the format because of covert 19 and said it wanted to protect the health of all people involved in the event next week president trump is still recovering from his covert infection. i heard that the commissioner a little while ago changed the debate style. that's not acceptable to beat him easily in the 1st debate according to the polls that i've seen but i beat him easily and i felt they'd beat him easily i think he felt it too now i'm not going to waste my time in a virtual debate that's not what debating is all about you sit behind a computer and do it debates ridiculous and then they cut you off whenever they want ok this is still developing committee health care tracking it for us out of washington kimberly i

cater reporter baggage the rosco drama new york herald. as you probably noted before reporters include a newspaperman out a magazine report. these two selected by a lot by the press secretaries of the candidates from among the reporters problem with the candidates. broadcasting representatives were chosen by their company. the rules for this evening i've been agreed upon by the representatives of both candidates in the radio and television networks and i should like to read. there will be no opening statements by the candidates nor any closing some the entire hour will be devoted to answering questions from the report. each candidate to be show less text questioned in turn with opportunity for comment. by the other. each answer will be limited to two and one after bennett's eight comment to one and a half months. re starters are free to ask any question they choose. on any subject. neither candidate knows what questions be will asked time alone will be determined who will be the final question. the first question is from mr mcguinty and as

and joining us roscoe with the sports at the french open women's final gets underway plus jamie bartlett puts in a performance where the the case in the miami heat beats the l.a. his to keep the n.b.a. final series tonight. by media and i will by john they're accusing each other of violating the cease fire in the disputed region of no go no cutback hours after it came into force the military released a video on saturday showing what it says is an armored vehicle the destroyed for violating the agreement the cease fire was announced by russia on friday following 10 hours of talks and allows both sides to exchange prisoners and recover bodies simcoe see all those standing by in touch by john 1st let's go to bernard smith who's in bern store in nagorno-karabakh. bernard give us an indication how the ceasefire is holding and what's been happening in the last few hours. there have definitely been some breaches of the cease fire and the been plenty of reports of that people will say you can't for a cease fire like this to fully take effect it can take some hours to bed down and we think in the

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reality is that joe biden's coalition includes a lot of people who look to stanley mcchrystal and mark roscoed normal figures in politics -- they didn't mind that trump was crass or that trump was more plain spoken, but they didn't want him to break democracy itself. >> you are seeing a significant movement. this is who we're talking to at our event. you saw in a recent poll in pennsylvania, 22% of people in suburban philly and suburban pittsburgh who identify as republicans are voting for joe biden. you are seeing movement on the ground. this is real. i do need to comment on something that bob said here and those in that "new york times" story, i'm sick and tired of these people expressing unease privately. honestly, i wish they would just say they like it. it's been five years now. you know exactly what you're getting with this president. he has defended white supremacists time and time again since the day he came down the escalator. i can't tolerate this, this sense of oh, i'm being uneasy or i wish in the next debate he would phrase things better. this is donald trump. if donald trump wan

i think it was suggesting that roscoe combined, colluded, if i can use that word, in a historical context, colluded with other forces to have him assassinated because they were afraid of the reforms that he was on the threshold of promoting. does that ring a bell with anyone? >> do you remember which book that is? >> having read. i concentrated more on him. he seemed to be a random character. he came to washington, participated a little bit -- a little bit in the republican campaign. i think he gave half of a speech, got stage fright, ran off. wrote a pamphlet, wrote and published a pamphlet. based on that contribution, he decided that he should be the envoy to paris, to france, which seems a little bit overgenerous for his efforts. he would go from office to office lobbying. i think he took his request down to just vienna, ultimately he. he would be satisfied with vienna. he was the guy sitting in the outer office waiting to talk to whatever secretary -- waiting to talk to james t. blaine saying i'm here, i'm waiting to be an envoy to france. here is a pamphlet i published as part of the