the seward lobby that seward had activated is actually in motion in new york on his own initiative in many ways. i'm not clear lincoln was involved much at all in that business. he was lobbying border state representatives like james rollins who doesn't appear in the movie but was one of the swing votes. seward is operating in new york at this moment without even the apparent partnership of philip weed. he thought this was a misfake. not clear at all he was involved even in this much of the operation. now, i think there's something else going on with seward, and i'll talk about that a little bit later. but this is not the impression the lincoln movie gets. you remember in the lincoln movie, the seward lobbyists hired and they operate independent of lincoln and at a certain important, he meets with them in their swill infested seedy attic of a hotel room, and he makes a comment on how to get things done, and later when he hears about their efforts to bribe a congressman from ohio named clay hawkins, he says, this is the guy who goes bird hunting with james spader and he's got this dope

there is a wonderful passage in the novel in which there is an exchange between lincoln and seward and says that he says politics by other means and being a very brilliant writer he is something to the fact that the john hay, the secretary to lincoln did read german and maybe had whispered to what he had read in the original form. it probably happens more organically that you saw the application of the series in america not working and combined with the fact that as lincoln described mcclellan having a case because he wouldn't move and he could train the army really well and execute as a fighting force and lincoln's frustration both with the fact he wasn't getting results. a lot of people believed in that in the end he became quite a sophisticated war strategist and that he did form the basis you know this from grant and sherman and the march to the 20th century in what we now refer to a brutal and there was a fascinating book called the lieberman code that came out about the story who was a political scientist and the aid to lincoln who was very much a proponent of this hard war. he b

cause can be just as difficult as our crews found out at the spring creek correctional center in seward, alaska. >> slow down. slow down. slow down. >> there's blood on floor over there that we need to clean up. >> you really need to respond to me so i know you're all right. let's go a little bit more. okay. okay. >> joel brooks is doing 12 years for assault. his adversary, john slaku, is serving a six-year sentence for sexual assault. our cameras were there when officers interrogated them about the fight. >> what was this all about? >> well, he's a rapist, and i was talking to the inmate, in the meal line about it with him. >> you're talking about his crime with another person. >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> and i was talking with another prisoner about him being a rapist, and he came up to me and said you ain't [ bleep ] i said you're not. >> i told him to stop talking about me. i repeated it. he said what are you going to do? and i just repeated it again, stop talking about me. and then he walked up to me in my face, and said now what are you going to do? >> five minutes later, he rushed

." ♪ >>> nestled at the base of majestic glaciers, the small coastal town of seward, alaska is home ofreathtaking bout. also home to springfield prison. here we encountered carl able, one of the most memorable killers ever profiled on "lock up." it didn't take long to make clear his opinions of some of his fellow inmates. >> all of these inmates can say what they want to say. they're punks. people in control know they're punks. abuhl first came in 2003 after convicted of murdering a co-worker. >> i caved his head in. caved it in totally. i think the biggest fragment of bone they found was a size of a half dollar. i kept hanging out and beating on him some more. there was -- it was -- are you really interested in the gory stuff? i was interested in how the decomposition would be. it was pretty nasty. it was kind of twisted there. >> the raw interview footage goes on to reveal the most grisly aspect of abuhl's crime. >> your sense is? >> 70 years. >> i got years for cruelty to animals. i knew the guy's cat that he had, the guy was nuked the cat. >> how did you nuke the cat. >> i stuck hi

the country and he becomes the leading possibility of a leading advocate of the hopes of william seward, former governor of new york, senator from the york. they thought he was to extremely anti slavery when. silicon is the surprise nominee of the republican convention in the city of chicago. all five to five all four former presidents who are alive at that time will oppose action. even bill millard fillmore for whom he had contained the election of 1848 him he had known personally because the four former presidents were concerned that lincoln's election, the election of his party opposed to the expansion of slavery would trigger civil war. they're worried the link of what actually destroy the institution of the presidency itself. despite those differences the former presidents of the presidency as the conciliator and chief, the person who contains the elements hostile to the union, the elements that tend to drive the union apart. so regardless is our presidents were always willing to make concessions and to do what was necessary to try to prevent civil war. in lincoln's face of very re

the country and he becomes the leading possibility of a leading advocate of the hopes of william seward, former governor of new york, senator from the york. they thought he was to extremely anti slavery when. silicon is the surprise nominee of the republican convention in the city of chicago. all five to five all four former presidents who are alive at that time will oppose action. even bill millard fillmore for whom he had contained the election of 1848 him he had known personally because the four former presidents were concerned that lincoln's election, the election of his party opposed to the expansion of slavery would trigger civil war. they're worried the link of what actually destroy the institution of the presidency itself. despite those differences the former presidents of the presidency as the conciliator and chief, the person who contains the elements hostile to the union, the elements that tend to drive the union apart. so regardless is our presidents were always willing to make concessions and to do what was necessary to try to prevent civil war. in lincoln's face of very re

the secretary of state, of course, is william seward.aben, where in the 1960s they'll put up a monument there. the principle speaker there will be one of breckenridge's soldiers that they put up that monument to commemorate where lincoln is standing there in his top hat, seven feet tall, looking out over the sloping ground in front of him, where the confederates have taken shelter in the house in a grove about a quarter of a mile away. as he's standing there, there's a spat. standing next to him is dr. crawford of the 102nd pennsylvania. he is shot in the thigh and blood spurts over the president. now i often wonder what the secret service would do now, because the president has blood on him and now horacio g. wright has a tough job. that is, he's got to get the president off the banquet, the firing step, getting him down where he's not exposed. there's two versions of how he does it. one, that he will ask the president politely to please step down. the other is, that he will put his hand on him, might have been bad for him in the days w

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so she becomes the leading possibility advocate in the hopes of people that would oppose william seward of the former governor of new york, senator from new york who thought he was extremely anti-slavery to winning. so lincoln some lincoln is the surprise nominee of the convention in the city of chicago. all four former presidents that arrived including president buchanan would oppose his elections even know where the fillmore for whom he had campaigned in 1848 so the former presidents were concerned that his election opposed to the expansion of slavery would trigger a civil war. they would despite the differences the former president sought the presidency as the chief person who sat and continued the elements hostile to the union that threatened to drive the union apart so regardless they were always going to make concessions to the southern interesting to do what was necessary to try to prevent a civil war in lincoln they saw a possibility of the civil war and so fillmore would get behind the constitution union party and buchanan would support john breckenridge as what franklin pierce

alan seward began work today more than two months ahead of schedule.tesco suspended watch her executives after discovering a profit estimates were overstated by more than $400 million. theirance pilots say strikes were not and any time soon. they rejected a proposal from management to developing a low-cost european strategy until the end of this year. the strike has grounded thousands of passengers and wiped out millions of dollars in revenue. that is today's company news. arab ally attacks syria. the islamic state, this of course grows across much of eastern and north-central syria on the turkish border. with us willem marx of bloomberg news. indira lakshmanan. >> i have heard from sources that the president is possibly going to address the nation from the white house before he even travels to new york. the white house has not come from that, but we do believe that some sort of statement will come out explaining what they are doing, and this is something that willem and i were discussing before. in the course of the attacks against isis in syria, very

that's an seward to me. >> mrs. you do if you were in congress securing come needs to make sure what we're -- >> what would you be urging? >> i would not be urging taking away their passports. i think we need to make sure we work through the system and look through it very diligently. >> let's move to -- from being the world's policeman, if you will to perhaps being the world's doctor. there's an ebola outbreak in africa. mr. young, what role should the u.s. play in outbreaks sun as this? has there been not enough done to curb the threat of a pandemic? >> this is so new, this pandemic, that it could possibly be. right here in our backyard, across the river, in omaha. there's a biocontainment unit and there's a patient there with ebola. it's kind of unnerving, it can be, because what happens if this gets out? i believe we need to push forward with a vaccination as fast as we can. the fda has a role, the cdc. we need work with other countries as well and expedite this. >> does congress need to provide more money for t