he even tried to hire carl sandburg to be a consultant on his film but it turned out the sandburg was too expensive. i think he found someone else. lincolness, griffiths has nothing of the sandburg lincoln about it. he is a bland and monotonous figure in the film. he is your standard issue person. as one reviewer explained, lincoln made a notable attempt to be fair to the two has of our nation. abrahamot of the lincoln's who were betrayed in this earlier. or before class and had been aiting, lincoln was also crude frontiersman. in one scene, the president flops down on the white house floor to take a nap. neutral,very bland, and fatigue lincoln who was portrayed. i think that image of lincoln in this. reflected the reluctance on the part of many white americans to the president with substantial power. precisely because lincoln in these years had to be safe. he had to be moderate and someone who could heal the ones of sectional division. in this way, lincoln was being called on to play a part that he had been playing since the end of the 19th century when the story of the civil war was

>> no, carl sandburg talks about him is very funny. maybe he didn't publish all of those jokes, but he still talks about him as being somebody with a big sense of humor. there were definitely popular news stories in the 30's that talked about lincoln as very funny. that was something missing in the 1930's. i don't know. is it just me to think that it has disappeared? >> no, i think when i tell british friends that i was writing about lincoln, they said, that will be a very short book. they had no sense that he had this sense of humor. , the image ofits lincoln is shaped by statues and by great speeches. if you don't know anything about lincoln but what you see in the public arena, statues, and what he is most remembered by, the gettysburg address, the second inaugural, and his capacity for words, it is perhaps no surprise that you are unaware that there was this capacity for wit and humor. i'm a bit surprised that it has gone quite so blank in the united states, because there are still books that you can find of compilations of his wit

sandburg had discovered the off-color stories. i ransacked the papers of sandburg at the university of illinois and found good material for my book, but no off-color stories. i was very disappointed. i was doing research at the newberry library and a small collection of sandberg materials in their they were. the off-color stories. i was very excited. carl sandburg was a man of anye, so he did not include of the stories in his six volume biography of lincoln, but i have no taste whatsoever. included them in the green monster. they are not all in one spot and they are not indexed. if you want to get them, you have to read the whole thing. by the way he has a very fine book on lincoln's sense of humor that won a book prize last year and should have won the lincoln prize at the lincoln and soldiers foundation at gettysburg college. i think it was considered too short, and therefore was not eligible, which i think was unfortunate. is book last year was clearly the best book on lincoln that had been published. before i go into the annou

top execs at the company, ceo mark zuckerberg and cheryl sandburg talked about ways to sell user datathey did trade information with other companies and new reporting on facebook this morning from over "wired" magazine. 15 months of fresh hell inside facebook. back stabbing, record profits, time bombs. nicholas thompson is here to talk about that cover story and an here is how that turned out. talk through some of the top lines of your sort of bomb dep shell piece here looking back over the last year and a half of what facebook did and more importantly, did not do. >> right. fred and i who wrote the story together tried to piece together the whole story of the last year and three months. it's hard to go into all the details. we talked to 65 people and 12,000 words long, but the top line is that this is a company that had a whole bunch of problems arise because of past priorities. as you had seen in the court documents, they prioriexploded wht both the company and the industry as a whole lost the trust of the public and lost the trust of regulators and media. faced with crisis after cr

cheryl sandburg wrote in the new zealand herald facebook had to get better at policing the platform addingidering restricting who can stream live video after the new zealand attack. a company that's $16 billion, $17 billion in revenue, people think it needs to do better with or without government regulation. >> they are such glaring problems they have not figured out how to address. >> most industries want self-regulation. the fact they are saying, hey, regulate us means they know it is coming. >> thank you very much. >>> a new law takes effect wednesday that punishes adultery and homosexuality with death by stoning. d sultan of brunei has no plans to reconsider. alexander field joins us with more. what have you learned? >> reporter: there are no signs the government will change course. they put out a statement over the weekend reaffirming the fact they are a sovereign country with the right to enforce their own laws. but the international outreach is mounting before the laws become in shienshrined. george clooney has been leading a boycott of hotels owned by the brunei investment group co

top executives at the company including ceo mark zuckerberg and coo cheryl sandburg discussed ways to2012, documents show zuckerberg wanted to figure out the real market value of user data to set a public rate, a plan seemingly at odds with zuckerbe zuckerberg's public message. >> we offer these extremely robust pricing controls where literally any piece of information can control exactly who uses it. >> facebook never sold data but did trade information with other companies. >> facebook is being strategic in terms of trading user data in order to get, you know, stuff in return. >> reporter: the documents show that facebook allowed special access to data for companies described as friends of zuckerberg. like amazon. which received special treatment in june of 2013 because it was a facebook advertiser. while another messaging app seen as a competitor to facebook messenger was restricted from accessing facetop bobook data. they said they were cherry picked writing the sets of documents by design, tells only one side of the story and omits important context. we still stand by the platfor

grant papers once said that carl sandburg made lincoln safe for democrats, capital d. african-americans were a significant element in the republican party in this period. is there any evidence of pushback from partisan republicans that the democrats were trying to steal their guy? >> yes. absolutely. republicanslot of who say explicitly -- one of the most interesting speeches i of theas by will hayes motion picture industry. as in the hays code. also a prominent republican politician who talks explicitly about this kind of democratic appropriation of lincoln. that they have totally misused lincoln. there were a lot of republicans who were right on that specific theme. partly, he is our president, a republican president. but really feeling that the himcrats had appropriated totally to their agenda. >> also, it is worth pointing out that the republican party in the 1930's was not necessarily any longer the party of lincoln, so to speak. one of my favorite newspaper headlines of all time was 1936, which is the year that african-americans for the first .ime could vote they