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

but at the end of the book, as i said, carl sandburg is in here off and on. it's through his eyes as a journalist. he happened to be writing a series for the chicago daily news on the black belt of chicago when the race riot erupted. he was on the third or fourth week of that assignment, so he had great sources and did a great, incredibly insightful job of covering that race riot. but at any rate, he was also involved in some problems with civil liberties. he was arrested. he was detained. his notebooks from his war coverage were confisicated when he walked off the ship from stockholm on christmas day, 1918, and he spent a lot of time negotiatating with the government to get his notebooks back and be released. you need to know those things. of, in theso a touch science strained, two aviators, navigated brown who the nonstop transatlantic fight, first and alcock ironically, and sadly, died in a plane crash in december of 1919 after achieving that great goal. in 1919,paragraph -- america would remember a few heroes and legends, but most of the true heroes would

sandburg spoke to our caroline hyde exclusively. >> there are one billion people in the world who are. let's talk about what that means. if you have a dollar and nowhere to keep it, that is a cure? it is bad for everyone and in particular women. there are 100 million women in the world, most of them are leaving their homes. working often in other peoples homes to send money back to their families and they are paying huge fees and 20% more than men. we want technology to help everyone. what we announced yesterday is the formation of a global association. it will be based in geneva. we have 27 partners. paypal, mastercard, visa, spotify, uber, lyft. what we would like to do is help make a global cryptocurrency. we are a long way from launch. we have a lot of work to do but this is an announcement of what we would like to do with a roadmap for people to jump in and help us do it. this will be an association, not reporting to facebook. carol: your immediate response to the regulatory scrutiny? we have already have maxine waters speaking out. mara connie saying the door is mindfully open.

not and that is up to you and we need to make it clearer how that works >>> facebook coo sheryl sandburgacebook responsibility in protecting user data they take down a million fake accounts every day >> we talk about the dark side of that moderation work here shifting to nuance away from simply, i'm sorry. >> noting that facebook is calling for regulation, but regulation they would like to see within but, yeah, just to bring this full circle, back to your point. starting this hour with casey and that story on facebook moderation >> meanwhile, we await the fed and it is going to be quite the afternoon. buckle up. let's get to the judge. >> i'm scott wapner. the federal reserve deciding this afternoon whether to cut interest rates or signal it will in the months ahead. so much riding on that move. it is 12:00 noon, this is "halftime report." >>> decision day clarity or confusion we will start getting details in the feds thinking in two hours >>> plus, one of wall street's most respected investors weighs in avenue capital's marc lasry is with us live see where he's putting his money. >>> ji

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it was as carl sandburg had so astutely assume did to be, a path to a more progressive future. i have no criticism of all the he wrote to his wife, in a letter. that is when he was in the midst of problems with the government. the end of the avalon brings the -- the end debate -- of the epilogue brings the hero him --ebate -- hero is heroism debate. this issue of who is the good guy and who is the bad guy, trying to sort this out. ray baker was the journalist and , thebest-selling author press secretary for woodrow wilson. he wrote several autobiographies. at the end of his last one, right before he died, he wrote a poem that i ended the book with. curious in time i stand, noting the efforts of heroes. is the deferment long? better the slander, poverty, death? uprising in the night, it sprouts, looms, and fills the earth with beauty. that's it. thank you. [applause] i have a lot more on my not fair, but that is to you to keep reading. i need to take questions because this is the interactive part of the program. so, ok. right there. one of the things i was struck by is that in 1