i read "the scorpion's sting." the idea i would find all kinds of flaws with it because often get to disagree about the civil war. and i have to say i couldn't find very many things i disagreed with, but there are a few and we will talk about those this evening. the thing i think i disliked about the book was it's now requiring you to rethink everything i ever thought i knew about the civil war. so to start, professor oakes, if you could give us an overview of "the scorpion's sting." and please relate it to your book of last year, freedom national. >> it's a continuation of project that began with the previous book that was mentioned on abraham lincoln, frederick douglass. that book prompted me to think the process by which slavery was destroyed during the civil war, and ended up producing the book, you mentioned, freedom national last year. this is the rethinking of that process of slavery destruction. before i continue -- the more i continue to think about the more i have to revise my freedom -- previous thinking

and still focusing on the scorpion part.l us about how you cam can up with this idea to create this. >> it was a 17-year-old girl who had undergone an all day long operation 2004. at the end of the day even though she was operated on by a world famous surgeon, she still had a big piece of cancer left in her brain because using the best tools available at the time, still the best tools available now, you couldn't distinguish what was cancer and what was normal in her brain. so we had a difficulty of taking her back to the operating room or radiation and chemotherapy knowing she can die if they are resistant to those therapies. asking if i could create a molecule making a cancer light up so they could see exactly what is cancer and what is not cancer. the subsequent 10 years we have been working on not focusing on one molecule from the scorpion toxin. jenna: a personal experience extreme pain, paralysis and death. what did you see in this particular protein that you thought is going to work and not harm the patient? >> it is i

i don't think the scorpion's sting would have worked without a war. on the other hand, wars don't automatically lead to slavery's abolition. they never did in the past and there's no reason to think it would have during the civil war. had it not been for the fact that republicans began implementing these two very different policies right from the start of the war. the one that we're familiar with, military emancipation, slaves run to union lines and the union will emancipate them. that's what armies have always done during wars. happened in the american revolution, in the war of 1812, during the seminole war, and the unions started doing that early during the civil war, by the summer of 1861, it's emancipating slaves coming into union lines. >> but it's not universal. >> not universal. >> emancipation here and there. >> that's right. emancipation -- military emancipation initially implemented is more like the military emancipation from the revolution, from the war of 1812. they're following the practice. but you need to know that's what they're doing.

but his artwork provides a unique insight. >> here's a scorpion that he's made.asically just taking thread from various types of items, socks and t-shirts and towels and he creates it and uses a marker to color it. this is probably one of the items that he makes the most of, would be scorpions and spiders. this is, i would assume, something like a harp and he's made it out of coil let paper and newspaper. this looks like some dental floss, a small stick and probably for the colors he used cool aid to get the coloring for it. >> why do you guys have this stuff? >> he's not allowed to have it. 0 occasionally we go through and do cell searches and confiscate all items. he doesn't have a hobby card. other inmates try to sneak it out and put it on ebay so we go in and confiscate it. >> how does he react when you guys take his stuff. >> sometimes he's passive, occasionally he gets pretty angry and threatens us. but for the most part he's pretty passive because he knows all he's going to do is make some more. >> there's one other reck innocent of the artist tick interes

this is fear. >> sounds like the lady who lives above me. >> she's killing scorpions every night. >> got pinchers up. it's like this. >> pinchers and that tail thing. >> oh, my gosh! it's moving! [ bleep ] >> no word on if the standoff continues, but i'm with her. you don't want one in your house. >> you're our show, everybody. we'll see you for the next >> you're our show, everybody. we'll see you for the next edition of "right this minute." troutmap troutman, a you l bebesp best video web, we' ggotr got themgot th t" >>> a cop tries to pin a isn't who puts up an aggressive struggle. >> what happens when they try to help the man in blue. >>> the crowd's at a safe distance, but then somebody said ouch. why watching implosions can be a pain. >> the sign says no dumping, but he's backing in. >> you know he's going to make a deposit. >> see what's in the truck that's really got to go. >>

. >> here's a scorpion that he's made.ng thread from various types of items, socks and t-shirts and towels and he creates it and uses, looks like a marker to color it. this is probably one of the items that he makes the most of would be scorpions and spiders. other inmates try to sneak it out and put it on ebay and sell it and whatnot, so we confiscate it. >> another all-too-common discovery in these searches is a variety of handmade weapons. since corcoran opened in 1988, there have been over 250 stabbings, many of them fatal, using knives like these. >> this one is made from a desenex can. >> i've seen stabbings over drugs, i've seen stabbings over money owed for canteen. i've seen child molesters get stabbed. i've seen a guy get both eyes gouged out with a toothbrush and stabbed 15 times by his celly. >> as far as the gangsters, once they start doing drugs and get in debt, the only way to get out of debt is usually is to do a hit and sooner or later, the right person is going to come along, they want to hit him and if t

to fried scorpions on a stick. yum. and they wandered through the marketplaces. >> i got lost in a chinese mall. [ chuckles ] and i only knew my host sister's english name, so i kept going around, going, "chloe zai nar?", which is like, "where is chloe?" and everyone was like, "i don't know who you're talking about." >> there was a lot that was wonderfully strange and a lot that was strangely familiar. >> and when i got to stay with a chinese family and see, like, what their daily routine is like and going to school and seeing that there's a lot more similarities than i thought between our two cultures. >> china was a lot more open than i expected. i expected it to be a lot -- you know, a lot more police and, like, a "government presence" kind of thing, but it seemed a lot more similar to the u.s. than i was expecting. >> and they did beautifully. whether it was from the schools that we partnered with to the vendors at the pearl market, the kids were really actively using their language and being understood. >> you can

scorpion slide you call that, mike? he was trying to, you know, make his way there. yeah.aybe we can slow it down a little bit slower. i don't know if we're getting the full action here. all right. so the world cup final is this weekend. but first, we wanted to show you the reaction in buenos aires after the final win. >> the city goes crazy. while they're certainly excited, the same can't be said for the vatican. hopes for a papal soccer party, papal soccer party. try to say that fast, have gone down the drain as the pontiff. this goes past the usual bedtime of 10:00 p.m. that's just after kickoff. meanwhile, he can kick up his heels. argentina and germany will square off on sunday. but on saturday, the netherlands will play brazil to decide who gets third place. we'll be watching that over the weekend. let's get a check of your weather. raphael miranda. >> brazil tomorrow and then -- >> in the final? >> germany. i can't root for argentina, it's not allowed. >> that's what big mike is saying. >> i can't do it. >> you can't justify it? >> no, goes against everything -- >>

. >> they were put in maximum security terrorist prison called the scorpion unit because --. >> jon:things in egypt these days, our c.i.a.? [laughter] 200 days. now, there's a big deal made that people have appealed to cici, the pharaoh there. [laughter] he says he can't do anything because the judiciary is a separate entity from... it's not under his auspices. >> he was making the point it's an independent judicial system. we were all hoping that was the case. we had 12 sessions of trial, which i was on trial as well because i've been tried in absentia. a number of us, even though we weren't in the country, we're also accused of helping terrorists, the muslim brotherhood. >> jon: these guys are merely reporting some negative things just objectively that the regime would find objectionable. >> well, were we reporting negative things? we don't know. they didn't show anything in court that had anything to do with our reporting. there was a horse galloping in a yard that they pulled from the hard drive that they showed in court. there was footage from different countries that some of ou

why does a scorpion sting? this is why. they are going to do it. they are going to do it at some point. i used to think maybe if they got the -- didn't get the senate back they probably wouldn't bother because they couldn't get a senate conviction. i have changed that. >> they don't have to impeach. >> there would be an a asterisk by his name. >> they have used benghazi, the death ceiling, gitmo, the border crisis, syria, you name it, to threaten president obama. people in the white house never appeared to take them seriously. it's changing. this is dan pfeiffer friday speaking about the republican party's impeachment fever. >> a lot of people in town laugh that off. i would not discount the possibility. speaker boehner, by going down the path of the lawsuit has opened the door to considering impeachment at some point in the future. i think the president acting on immigration reform will up the likelihood that they would contemplate impeachment at some point. >> wow. white house press secretary josh ernest isn't laughing it off. he's sparring with

kind of like, two scorpions in a battle, each one knowing if one stings the other, they both died.nd that is why i wanted you to watch "dr. strangelove." on one hand it is a comedic farce, black comedy, and i think one of stanley kubrick's best movies ever. and he had a lot of them. but it really gives you a sense of what the cold war was like. it is not a coincidence, if you notice that the very beginning of the movie, there is a disclaimer that says "this is fictional and the u.s. military says there is no way this could actually happen." but the notion of a b-52 bomber being poised to take off and deliver unbelievable destruction was for real. i do not believe there was really a doomsday machine, but the doomsday scenario was real. i grew up in columbus. i was there when the base was closed during the cuban missile crisis as depicted in "dr. strangelove." they had people ready to go in a b-52 to go nuke everything. this is the war room. one of my favorite lines is "there is no fighting the war with each other." what did you think of "dr. strangelove"? did you like it? this is th

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i read "the scorpion's sting." the idea i would find all kinds of flaws with it because often get to disagree about the civil war. and i have to say i couldn't find very many things i disagreed with, but there are a few and we will talk about those this evening. the thing i think i disliked about the book was it's now requiring you to rethink everything i ever thought i knew about the civil war. so to start, professor oakes, if you could give us an overview of "the scorpion's sting." and please relate it to your book of last year, freedom national. >> it's a