i had met him stateside when i was in springfield, he was friends with a guy in springfield there. remind me to talk more about elmo later, ok, if i forget. i hadn't thought about this until now. anyway, what had happened was the boat came in. so the class ahead of me, the swift boat class ahead of me, my friend kenny, there were two officers, three officers in that class. i was one of two in my class. anyway, another officer, not my friend kenny but one of his classmates, john hakey, he was getting ready to take that boat out. and the -- there was an experienced officer who was breaking in john hakey or hagey's crew, breaking them in. he was standing on the mortar box, explaining, this is this, whatever he was trying to get across. and the machine gun back aft was pointed, you know, it always pointed back aft. and the mortar box was behind the barrel. and this officer, i know his name and i'm just drawing a blank, i never met him, and he was standing on the box, just so he could look down and everybody could hear him. and the -- this gunner's mate was getting ready to i guess clea

the chancellor naomi lynn distinguished chair in lincoln studies at the university of illinois, springfield he was born right here in washington, dc. attended phillips. okay academy andover. and he graduated from princeton and the phd from johns hopkins. as a freshman at princeton dr. berlin game took the civil war course. dot book taught by somebody we all know in the lincoln group david donald david herbert donald who took and took him under his wing and made him a research assistant in 1968. he then joined the history department at connecticut college in new london. where he taught in the may buckley sadowski, he was the may buckley sandowski professor of history emeritus. he retired in 2001. he retirement didn't agree with him apparently because he joined the faculty of the university of illinois at springfield in 2009. of course. he's the author of numerous books in publications including abraham lincoln a life the two volume green monster that he referred to in the inner world of abraham lincoln. so it grace gives me great pleasure to introduce to everyone dr. michael burlingame. well

this young man was abraham lincoln, he took another trip on a springfield illinois, 1828 is a really important here because that's when the canal opened. that gave new york city which became one of the greatest ports in the world access to the market west into the great lakes at the time chicago wasn't even the city, it was swampy trading post very inaccessible because the only way getting down to the mississippi river was through an ugly portage called mud lake which even in 1673 to explore father market said there should be a canal here because the chicago river to lake michigan and great lakes near a canal in new york city, you can get to new orleans because when you can get to the river and the mississippi and on to the crescent city. so that was one of the first impressions abraham lincoln had as the nation was growing in 1830s, it was a time we don't reallye study a whole lot becaue we mostly skip from the revolution to the civil war, a lot of history in between, one reason i wrote the book because i wanted to know, how did our country developed? what did we need to do to get t

took another trip out of springfield, illinois. 1828 is a really important here though.the erie canal opened. that gave new york city, which became of course with the greatest imports in the world, access to the markets west into the great lakes brit at the time chicago was not even a city it was a swampy trading post a very inaccessible because the only way of getting down to the mississippi river was through an ugly portage called bud lake. even in 1673, two explorers said hey there should be a canal here. if you connect the chicago river to lake michigan, the great lakes, the erie canal, new york city you can get to new orleans because internet to the illinois river, then the mississippi and onto the chosen city. that was on the first impressions that young abraham lincoln had as the nation was growing in the 1830s, it was really a time that we don't really study a whole lot. because we mostly skip from the revolution to the civil war, there is a lot of history in between. one of the reasons i wrote the book was because i wanted to know, how did our country developed?

>> i wanted to do what the springfield used to do.ted to play rock and roll as well. >> reporter: he settled on band mate neil young. you were not in favor originally. >> i was not in favor of it at all. we had created between me and david and stephen a vocal sound that was completely unique. >> reporter: but nash agreed to meet young for breakfast in new york. >> i said why should we invite you in to the band and he looked at me and he said, have you heard me and stephen play guitar together? i went, yeah, i have. of he was in the band from that moment on. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but the band was entering a dark period. stills just broken up with na relationship with joany mitchell was growing rocky. and crosby's girlfriend christine hinton had been killed in a car crash. >> i was in terrible shape. >> reporter: yeah. >> i was damn near destroyed and it's what kept me alive. >> reporter: how would you describe the period of recording that album? >> chaotic. >> reporter: you talk about how you guys butt heads all the time. >> well, it was gl

he wrote it in springfield because we find it attached to a first draft of his first inaugural speech and you can tell from the speech, and we know from other factors, that he had this great affinity for kentucky. perhaps he was overly optimistic in the beginning of 1861 about union in kentucky, but it was certainly divided. so he keeps talking about "my fellow kentuckians", and the kentuckians had crossed the ohio river so he had a great hope somehow he could give this speech. he never did. i imagine as he took the train and the train arrived coming into cincinnati he would have looked across the ohio river towards kentucky so i think it's fascinating to say what would he say to his fellow kentuckians and in a sense, on the one hand, he's wanting to let them know that he has a great affinity, affection for them. on the other hand, he wants them to know that he is not going to step back from the policies and the ideas that he's announced all through his life and during his public words, and if they don't agree with them, why then, that's the whole point of elections, that you can elec

relevant at this challenging moment and that is 1837, lincolns speech to the young man's lyceum of springfield. it is time of mob violence. elijah lovejoy, abolitionist minister has been murdered by a mob as has been an african-american man in st. louis. and lincoln uses the word mom or mom's eight times and he refers to an ill owned bowman developing in the nation by which he means the increasing disregard for the law which pervades the country, growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in lieu of the sober judgment of the courts. and inflamed mom passions and says only reason, sober cool and impassioned reason can save us along with allegiance to the rule of law. obvious modern residences but this distinction between reason and hassan was one medicine used in the constitution and you say lincoln is on one hand the dangers against the rule of mobocracy and embracing a rule of reason he attributes to henry kwai . some are among the five mentors you identify in this book so how is it lincoln is denouncing jackson clay and what can this book tell us about? >> i'll try to ke

he's speaking at the women's march in springfield in 2017. usually he is very soft-spoken, until he gets in front of a microphone. that's when he turns up the volume. oh, there is one other time. if he is watching his fighting irish and they score a touch down. always, always bill houlihan is the voice for people whose hopes and needs aren't heard enough within the halls of the senate or the halls of power. he has a voice of compassion, encouragement, wisdom, and decency. loretta and i are lucky to call bill and cindy some of our best and dearest friends. so it is hard to say that this is his last day on the job with the united states senate. it hurts to lose a montana had a has i have goin' me -- it hurts to lose a man who has given me the best years of his life. it is going to take a big toll on my office, my politics, and my life. but i can guarantee you that i will be calling bill just as often as i always have. he may not be on the payroll, but i know he'll take my call. bill and cindy want to move on to the next chapter in their lives.

what were you looking to add to the band. >> i wanted to be able to do what the springfield used to dol as well. >> reporter: he settled on his former buffalo springfield bandmate neil young. you were not in favor originally? >> i wasn't in favor of it at all. we had created between me and david and stephen a vocal sound that was completely unique. >> reporter: but nash agreed to meet young for breakfast in new york. >> why should we invite you into this band? and he looked at me and he said, have you ever heard me and stephen play guitar together? and i went, yeah, i have. he was in the band from that moment on. ♪ >> reporter: but the period.s entering a d stills had just broken up with judy collins. nash's relationship with joni mitchell was growing rocky. and crosby's girlfriend, christine hinton, had been killed in a car crash. >> i was in terrible shape. >> yeah. >> i was dam near destroyed. i'm just really lucky we were making that record because it gave me a reason to -- >> reporter: to get up in the morning? >> dam right. and it's what kept me alive. >> reporter: how would you

could you bring it to me in springfield. amat decided to have a few who for the over 4000 african-americans good men in the united states to close that chapter and move for. america has to do the same. to help heal this country. your guess who pushed back people why you want to start out. as mr good enough. people saying that's so depressing i say well if you think it's a present try hanging from a tree. what can i do i can't bring them back but i can give them a prayer. the a. good evening to you. and dr shirley jackson would occur and the question we asked the night is why do we need to be here we need to be here because our country needs to heal and some bad things happen in this country we americans talk shit other americans do to the color of their skin that went on so long in america what are you going to do about it because i remember as a little girl when we went to a funeral and in law that casket in the ground the minister was say ashes to ashes . a lot of people never got there. so we're looking back at history so

history in springfield, massachusetts tonight, nba legend kobe bryant. >> officially a hall of fameray remember bryant died in helicopter crash along with this daughter gianna in january of last year. the laker legend a 5 time nba champion 2 time. nba finals mvp 18 time nba, all-star and league mvp. in 2008. his wife vanessa taking to the podium tonight in his honor accompanied by the goat himself. michael george, the logo. here's part of her emotional speech. >> congratulations baby all of your hard work and sacrifices paid off. he once told me if you're going to bet on someone. but on yourself. i'm glad he bet on yourself. you overachiever. you did it. you're in the hall of fame now. you're to chant. you're not just an mvp, you're an all-time great. i'm so proud of you. i love you forever and always. kobe being right. >> so many folks still rallying around her family also entering the hall of fame players, tim duncan, kevin garnet, tamika catchings along with coaches rudy kim mulkey. and any sudden we actually finished his legendary college career at the university of san francisco

and he had two younger brothers back in springfield. joseph and james. and it was going to be their understanding of the new york worked it so is going to drive them into eventually creating as we now know as the chisel trail. see, there were changing tastes in dining at this time. particularly, motivated by restaurants like adele monaco is in new york. one of abraham lincoln's favorite treats when he went to dine at del monaco's was that the mongol monica steak. about a 20 ounce cut of sirloin. it still amazes me that lincoln could eat that and still not put on much weight. the dining at del monaco's was amazing. and very elaborate. many courses. but beef was starting to replace other cuts, particularly lamb, but also seafood, as beef became more popular. when mccoy also realized that with all the poor people in the city, that this was also a potential market for cheap meat, if you could get it into that market. these were the stock trains that came into the city on a daily basis. bringing cattle from particularly one state altogether and that was illin

k, or could you bring it to me in springfield, me, i decided to have a feel for the over 4000 and african americans who would lynched in the united states to close that chapter and move forward. america has to do the same thing to help heal this country. you again, have pushback. people why you want to student has enough people say that so depressing. i think you just to press and try hang up on the train. me. what can i do? i can't bring them back, but i can give them a prayer. ah, let me ah, ah, ah, ah, good evening. good evening. i'm dr. shirley jackson would occur. and the question we asked tonight is, why do we need to be here? we need to be here because our country needs to heal and some bad things happen in this country where americans tortured other americans due to the color of their skin that went on so long in america. what are you going to do about it? because i remember as a little girl, when we went to a funeral, in lieu of that cask in the ground, the minister was se ashes to ashes. the lot of people never got back. so we look back in history. so this patient can leo. we lo

if your springfield if you would can you so like any. future issues that are in the bush or through. these difficult issues of war. or start your job. what moses in the world to see where you are but initially your knowledge should draw you in the possibility was more than i see a little bit of. this but as well. as let me just put the. resolution is a bit out of your course really mr ryan let's solve. riskily. oh yeah after watching sleazy he declares that he's the curse is all. but only a show. or the g.m. will be. trying to keep greenlee soon. why nothing i do can you. see all slew of you 1000000000 mooney said misty maisie's next door to being near my feet down the east invades in your room leave the union keep the bambi timey media to the tickle my thinking is all get down but i think. she says that he could hatch watch it and this chimney butcher inequal king you could call it i'm sure to look at them. yet they took a queen with them to put him back which gave them to him this may change get them with the attack with. many a man ha

fastest growing markets is coeur d'alene, idaho, a city of 44,000 people austin, texas, spring springfield, ohio, billings montana, and spokane, washington, round occupy out the top five. erare being priced out. >> reporter: in bozeman, montana, a book store o ariano paliobagis hopes to buy a home but instead found she's been priced out of the market. >> i'm the owner of a successful business but can i not afford to buy a home in this community. his hovefer to o great community feeling, beautiful surroundings, has been discovered by so many more people that i don't think that this is a temporary trend. >> reporter: across the country home prices are red hot, up more than 17 percent from a year ago. take this three bedroom, two bath home in berkeley, california. it got 29 offers in 11 days. and sold for $1 million and sold for $1 million above the asking price. >> it's unbelievable, michael. it's unbelievable. rep new jsey oker >> there are more buyers than there is inventory right now. r >> reporter: but why is it low-interest rates. a new focus on a work from home culture, and young famil

the radar shows the heavy action in the watches, oklahoma city to tulsa to springfield, 70-mile-an-hour wind gust along i-44. the low, the fronts spreads everything out pushing through memphis, rainy, cincinnati, pittsburgh and heavy storms in d.c. and mid-atlantic and heavy rain across new york by tomorrow night and that hangs around, puts on the brakes and looks like a spoiler for the northeast this weekend. david. >> we don't want to hear that but we trust you and thank you, rob. >>> we move on to the other news, the vote in the senate this evening so will there be an independent commission to look into the january 6th attack on the capitol? today we watched as the mother of the officer brian sicknick who later died going from office to office asking republicans to support it. saying her son was just serving the country protecting the capitol and all officers deserve answers. rachel scott with late reporting from the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight the mother of brian sicknick who died after the january 6th riot going begg commission to investigate what happened that day. >> usual

host: greg is calling from springfield, missouri. good morning. caller: something your guest said changed my question a little bit. i was going to ask about the -- whether or not the democrat's refusal would embolden the radical wing, but he repeated the republican talking point about election integrity. we just had the cleanest, most fair election in our history. this is unanimous. 50 secretaries of state, the federal department of justice, and over 60 courts have said so. yet republicans have introduced hundreds of laws designed to limit the vote, to make it more difficult to vote, and i don't understand -- well, i think i have made my point. they can talk about election integrity all they want. he can talk about how committed the republican party is to "democratic values." they are not, and everybody sees that. i am aghast that they continue to repeat the lie that they need to have all of this voter suppression. i am just flabbergasted. host: let's get a response. guest: i would be happy to -- in this short time i can't possibly describe why vo

the detroit mgm, springfield, national harbor. the third reason is the sports betting. i-gaming, that's the growth area right now we have about 12 states a loy you it. in addition -- in addition to that, we have someone investing into in mgm, barry diller with interactive corp, they have invested 12% into mgm they spent about 9% with diverse suppliers. also, they have a so we like mgm. >> you mentioned energy. pete, you love energy, we talk a bit about inflation. you like energy. tom lee says energy is his favorite sector. -- by the way, happy birthday, tom lee. ubs says new momentum tell me about energy, pete we started to ramp it up to the up sigh, and specifically the beta names that have been crushed started to get a bit of a bid. here we are, like we were talking about, pushing toward 70, not quite there yet. i would be curious what joe thinking i think we'll see closer to 75 or 80 in the not that distant future, in my opinion. if i'm right, it make sense to be in some of these names. i continue to own chevron, it's a great company, great different yields and selli

>> just that our hearts [inaudible] springfield, oregon and did a great job and i think highly seasoned and qualified marine, very empathetic and very sensitive to our needs so we did have a positive experience with him and so we do appreciate that but we do recognize that that job is hard, i'm sure it is for the first sergeant worked with it was the first time he had to do a casualty assistance call and he did a great job so we very much appreciated him and everything he has done for us. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you. mr. courtney. >> thank you, mr. chairman and i just want to join you in thanking our two witnesses this morning and just want to share how much i appreciate the powerful testimony that you presented this morning and i think the challenge all of us on the subcommittee and full committee of armed services to do more in terms of action. i just want to share with you that unfortunately this is not been the first time that the subcommittee has experienced a hearing like this and i chair the committee and we jointly did this inves

journalists of color who are typically excluded from these beats such as politics, city hall, springfield not saying she will not ever have an interview with journalists who are not of color. she is simply saying that she wants to make sure that they get first crack since they have traditionally been excluded. >> help me understand and help all o all of us understand. is this a new protocol for her owner doing for her second inauguration? >> this is absolutely simply for this particular mark. she knows that at the two-year mark, at the halfway mark, journalists begin to clamor for one-on-one interviews to do a retrospective and she knows she is is going to be held for her accomplishments and make sure communities of color which traditionally be small journalist outlets which are in community newspapers, small digital start-ups and a very small viewership and readership but target towards communities of colors, she wants to make sure that that audience is one of the first to hear her take on these past two years. because they were very vested in jo voting her in. >> absolutely. let me ask

so i moved up to springfield and had an apartment, above the liquor store and ambulances would go byf the time and i wonder what the guys were doing and i saw an ad and i said, i would try that. i went back and i worked for him to become governor and worked for him. but i had caught the bug. i still worked at night in the ems and became a paramedic. we had a big party. we were all standing around talking about what we were going to do and i stood up and i said i'm going to become a paramedic. i can't help people with my words anymore, i will try to help them with my hands. so i really found my true calling. i've been a paramedic in hartford ever since. the benefit of being a writer, it gave me interesting things to write about and this book just sort of after a while, i carry a laptop in the ambulance so that in between calls, i would write words and i would get amazing stories of the people that i met that the book sort of came together rather easily. >> yeah, absolutely. sounds like your words are still helping people today, you know, hopefully this book will continue to aid in bre

the chancellor naomi lynn distinguished chair in lincoln studies at the university of illinois, springfield he was born right here in washington, dc. attended phillips. okay academy andover. and he graduated from princeton and the phd from johns hopkins. as a freshman at princeton dr. berlin game took the civil war course.

. >> this is steve pokin, who writes a column in the springfield news -- called poking around. which he did. and discovered that leases sister, sean, got busy, soon after that deadly christmas morning. >> in early january, she went to the office of the missouri state highway patrol to express their belief that this in fact was a murder. >> she looked into a highly experience detective name dan nash. >> longtime investigator who has been involved in several high-profile murder cases in the ozarks. >> and when sergeant nash took one look at that file, something forensic seemed off. he was inclined to agree with sean. it didn't look like suicide at all. >> he was just struck by the fact that if lisa jennings had shot herself using her right hand, there would be more blow back from that, then one drop of blood. >> three months after that christmas eve, investigator nash drove over to brad's farm, told him he was looking at the case again. >> and wanted to went into the bathroom that mr. jennings was wearing that. like the >> the real piano on he said when he said he found this a de

speaker, i rise today to recognize knights action park in springfield, illinois, which is celebrating 91 years of business this year. it was founded in 1930 as a golf driving range by george knight sr. after he spent a few years touring the country as a caddie for willie anderson. he started an archery range in 1941 and later opened the entertainment center. it spans three generations of the knight family. over the years it added a water park, pub, and drive-in theater. like many businesses that rely on large attendans, they -- attendance, they credited the paycheck protection program so they could provide job for 10 permanent staff, family fun for me, my family, and my constituents. hopefully they will be able to fully reopen soon. again, congratulations, knights, on your 91st anniversary, and i wish them all the best in the years to come. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize my friend, dr. larry dietz, the 19th president of illinois state university, who will retire on june 30 after a remarkable 50-year academic career. dr. dietz began his career at i.s.u. in 2011 as the vice pres

beginning in springfield in 1908, but also east st. in 1917, basically white residence in east st. louis attacked black worktime factory workers in one of the bloodiest race riots of the 20 century, forcing black families to choose between being shot to death or burned alive. and then the red summer of 1919, she mentioned, with returning gis who fought for democracy abroad, returning gis of color wanting to stake a claim for citizenship and saying, ok, with proper democracy abroad now let's realize democracy at home when faced with segregation and white vigilante terror and violence, we saw the outbreak not only of racial strife and industries of american cities like chicago and washington, d.c., but also the continued attack by white vigilante forces on black communities. then of course we are coming up next week i the 100 year commemoration of the tulsa massacre where thousands of white men who work deputized by the county government destroyed completely the thriving greenwood community in tulsa. let me also emphasize deeply entwined

so i moved up to springfield and had an apartment on the main street above the liquor store, and the ambulances would go by and i would look at out and go i wonder what those guys are doing and i sea an ad in the paper to be an emt and i decided to try that. i became an emt and then riker ran for a governor and i went back and worked for him to become governor, and worked for him and wrote speeches for him but i had caught the bug, so i still work at night in the ems and i became a paramedic so when he left office in 1995, we had a big party, and we're all standing around and talking about what we are going to do and i said i'm going to become a paramedic, and it was like -- help people with my words anymore. i will try to help them with my hands. so i really found my true calling. i've been a paramedic in hartford ever since. the benefit to being a writer gave me interesting things to write about. and this book just sort of after a while -- i carry a laptop with me in the ambulance so in between calls i'll write about the calls i've had to try to understand them and i was getting so

shelbyville, ogdenville, ogdenville tech, and springfield elementary, and lastly, springfield elementary, which is closed. >> everyone's off but us. >> ahh. the snow day. one of the classic joys of childhood. but in new york city, the department of education just announced this week that all snow days next year will be replaced by remote learning! thanks, pandemic. joining us now, columnist for "the new york times" and msnbc contributor, michelle goldberg. your latest piece, michelle, is called, save our snow days. and you write in part, there were weeks in 2020 where one of my children just a few years into elementary school would fall asleep crying almost every night, listing all the things they'd lost and the months which then turned into a year they'd never get back. so i was apoplectic, perhaps, unreasonably so, when the new york city department of education announced on tuesday that it was replacing snow days with remote learning days for the coming school year. it seems like callousness, bordering on cruelty to scrap one of childhood's greatest pleasures in favor of a rehash of pa

we don't go in and consciously say let's make this a buffalo springfield song. keep writing songs. >> i think that there was a little bit of an attitude like they're okay for chicks. they can play okay for girls. they can play okay for girls. we didn't understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. >> "people" magazine this week says it will take an act of congress to keep this woman from becoming a megastar. whitney houston! ♪ how will i know if he really loves me ♪ ♪ i say a prayer with every heartbeat ♪ >> whether she was doing a dance song or she was doing a ballad ♪ the greatest love of all ♪ >> it kind of stopped in you your tracks because you couldn't believe one woman could be blessed with that much, with the looks and the talent. >> this lady started out as a dancer, went to new york, went to paris, worked with bands, came back as a single. and is she hot. this is madonna. >> if you saw madonna then, she looked just like the girls who hung out at the club called the funhouse. all the girls there had the mesh thing and they had the boots. and i

this tree in springfield, massachusetts tonight. nba legend kobe bryant now officially a hall of famer. >> you may remember he died 15 months ago in a helicopter crash along with his daughter gianna january of last year, the laker legend retiring a 5 time nba champion 2 time. nba finals mvp 18 time nba, all-star and also league mvp in 2008. his wife vanessa taking to the podium tonight during the enshrinement ceremony in his honor accompanied by the goat himself. michael jordan. here's what vanessa had to say. and her emotional speech. >> congratulations baby all of your hard work and sacrifices paid off. he once told me if you're going to bet on someone. but on yourself. i'm glad he bet on yourself. you overachiever. you did it. you're in the hall of fame now. you're to chant. you're not just an mvp, you're an all-time great. i'm so proud of you. i love you forever and always. kobe being right. >> so many folks still rallying around her family in there. graif also entering the hall of fame along with kobe bryant, tim duncan. kevin

one market that saw last springfield, illinois and i'm like, who lives.up 16.2% year-over-year blows my mind average home right now is 319,000. we've never seen this facet of creation appreciation, 4th quarter of 2021. i'm ty 4th quarter of 2020, right. and then we beat it again in the 1st quarter of 2021. so the momentum getting crazier, low rates. people moving to the suburbs. people trying to get homes just in case. the great work from home ase the pandemic kind of extends and just bidding wars everywhere. there's no inventory. the cost of lumber is going up so this, too will but right now it's as hot as it gets. kind and then one quick final story in your loser column. we have mcdonald's also touting the dangers of inflation saying if things keep going the way they're going. what. >> price of a big macs going to go up to. >> yeah. and it's not just mcdonald's its support way it's kara sushi its cheesecake factory all sand higher menu prices and higher menu. prices are tied towards higher labor costs. the pandemic probably and i don't have to be very c

son, we're sending you down to springfield. >> frenchie?springfield. >> just keep going, keep going on the mass turnpike until it turns on a dirt rude. you expect one of our pitchers is a double agent from the yankees. >> adam yanavino? >> yeah. >> he probably is. he throws a really heavy curveball. last night's baseball, i'm told, weighed six pounds. kluber was throwing a six-pound baseball. >> i love how all of your concerns suddenly come out the day a yankee pitcher throws a no-hitter. i don't hear it when the reds or the white sox or the padres were throwing their no-hitters. you know what's happening here -- just for our viewers >> it's not in the eastern time zone. >> the red sox here the footsteps of new york yankees. four teams within a game and a half of each other. the rays, jays, and yankees all coming up on the red sox who had a sweet moment early in the season when the games don't matter. and now here come the big boys. >> it looks like the yankees are in fourth place. looks like the yankees are in fourth place right now, willi

it's nice to see you again and i hail from northern ohio , toledo and springfield. >> thank you for everything you've done to help us with this pandemic situation andon january 6 . i want to draw attention to a few areas. number one your statement worship program which i support. i'd appreciate a one or two page summary on what we can do to expand that program based on your vast experience . our region is connected to hungary and serbia and we have issues in half. i'd be interested in recommendations you might have. i helped cofound the hungarian chapter in congress and would look for recommendations there if possible . number two in the area is youth challenge, thank you so much for expanding that reach across our country. we like a report there and in ohio we tried to stand up to youth challenge, it's the only one being anticipated as being established in ohio. we can't seem to lift that off the ground. if somebody in your staff and tell me why we can't do that and also thank you foryour help on starbase . isupport your efforts there very much . i wanted to ask for recommendations on two are

forth, but i really surprised by his sincere closeness to african-americans that stretched from springfieldn he lived in the neighborhood where w where there were some 20 african-americans through this presidency where frederick douglass who met him in the white house and sojourner truth, the african-american feminist and martin delany, a real radical and med him and they found him really the least prejudiced person they had met and they were quite honest about that, and so it kind of helped for me to understand why he does become the first president to publicly endorse the vote for african-americans. >> thank you for that answer 'the next question from martha for professor varon, the question what did researching and writing for your book illuminate for you the endeavor of changing heartses and minds in a moment of polarization? >> so, i think that this -- in a sense brings us back to lincoln. lincoln put forward over the course of the war a vision of american reunion, one that i think grant would eventually take up after the disastrous presidency of andrew johnson in which he attempted to

. >> bruce rushton covered the case for the springfield "register." >> any time we write about this inaper, it's the most clicked on thing, or close to the most clicked on thing. it's a puzzler. it's almost a game of three card monte. >> rushton said no one thought stephen instigated the violence. everyone the reporter spoke to had only good things to say about stephen including two teachers who taught his daughter alex. >> both agreed they had never in their teaching careers seen a father so devoted to his children. when i talked to his co-workers, he would talk about his kids at work. they all knew alex and sydney had a pretend bake session. he had animal crackers he was putting in the toy oven and playing with his kids. how many fathers do that? >> everyone thought stephen was such a great guy, such a great dad. who would kill him? ultimately mike vujovich, then with the state attorney's appellate prosecutors office and sergeant kelly walter, now a colonel with the illinois state police took over the investigation. they focused on a key question, who pulled the trigger. the forensic

i was raise and had brought up in queens, new york, jamaica high school, springfield high school.ou my son went to school down near tampa, florida, and i naught stoofment pete as a teacher. from my perspective, when i was growing up, we had a class of about 45 students, which was normal. students need one-on-one teaching. that's the first point. second point is a lot of teachers, majority of the teachers were white who were going through the motions, which was whoever wants to learn, teach, and the ones that had difficult times, get thrown by the wayside. then you have to bring the cultural aspect of you can't teach a person unless you can relate to their social and economic status to where what's going on with their life. host: you bring up a couple of points. mr. rowe, let you respond to those. guest: a couple of thifpblgts the point about segregated schools, again, the schools i lead in the heart of the south bronx, they are virtually 100% scomblack hispanic kids, almost exclusively low income. we're not waiting for white kids to suddenly show up. but now it's going to be a bet

i felt, after hearing obama launched his campaign in springfield, that he had a very good chance of winning because of having steeped myself in douglass and lincoln. so i want to share that with you at the end. first, background. this book began as a chapter in a larger project that i am working on on interracial friendships in american society. my previous work has focused on some aspect of interracial friendship. why do i think they are important? i think friendship throughout history, throughout western culture, has been a central theme for philosophers, political thinkers and writers, because friendship was seen as a symbol of democracy. from plato and aristotle through the quakers, who self-consciously defined themselves as friends, to the founding fathers, through people like walt whitman, emerson, thoreau, frederick douglass. friendship was seen as a kind of test case of how well democracy was working. throughout western culture, people believed a virtuous society was one in which friendships flourished. in a new united states, which was unlike classical greece or rome, which america

i hail from northern ohio, toledo and springfield. thank you for everything you've done to help us with this pandemic situation and also in january 6c. i want to draw attention to a few areas, number one, your estate on a ship program for which i fully support. i would appreciate a one or two-page summary of what we can do to expand and improve that program based on your vast experience. our region is connected to hungary and serbia and we have issues in hungary. i would be interested in recommendations you might have. i chair the hungary and caucus in the congress and we would look for recommendations there in possible. number two in the area of youth challenge, thank you for expanding that reach across our country. in ohio, we tried to stand up youth challenge. the only one that has been anticipated -- somebody in your staff, please tell me what is missing, where we can't do that? also, thank you for your help on starbase. i support your efforts there very much. i wanted your recommendations on two areas on a cross governmental appr

he is a member of the basketball hall of fame in springfield, massachusetts.and a member of the san francisco prep hall of fame. as we all know, the playground at third and armstrong was named in his honor in 2003. these are facts that many of you know about kacey jones. but i'm going to share with you a couple of facts you may not know about him. in 1955, u.s. f. was the first school in the history of the naacp tournament to start three black players in a tournament game. and kacey jones was one of those players. in the 1963/'64 nba season, the boston celtics were the first time in the history to start five black players. again, kacey jones was one of those starters. it is these last two facts that i felt qualified kacey jones, among many other things, for a racial equity mention today because he was a pioneer in not only the world of college basketball, but pro basketball as well. he was a great man. we had many conversations over the years, and i really appreciate the opportunity today to mention him and to keep him alive in our memories. thank you, commiss

they want all the benefits to living in springfield, but they ain't even bothered to learn themselvese. >> yeah, those are exactly my sentimonies. >> rar gar! >> i think one of the governing things that's happening with "the simpsons" is a distrust of anyone who tells us we should trust them and doesn't earn that trust. >> i'll take that statue of justice too. >> sold. >> when they make fun of how fox works -- >> you are watching fox. >> we are watching fox. >> they are telling you don't trust us either. >> eat my shorts. >> all right. i'll eat -- eat your shorts? >> "the simpsons" is like shakespeare in the sense that we quote the simpsons all the time, very often without even knowing it. >> excellent! >> i wish i could create something that culturally indelible. it's unlike anything else tv has ever run. >> "twin peaks" showed up out of nowhere at the beginning of the decade. the pilot episode of that was one of the strangest and most exciting things i have ever seen. >> i'm at the twin peaks county morgue with the body of the victim. what's her name? >> laura palmer. [ screaming ]

he is a member of the basketball hall of fame in springfield, massachusetts.and a member of the san francisco prep hall of fame. as we all know, the playground at third and armstrong was named in his honor in 2003. these are facts that many of you know about kacey jones. but i'm going to share with you a couple of facts you may not know about him. in 1955, u.s. f. was the first school in the history of the naacp tournament to start three black players in a tournament game. and kacey jones was one of those players. in the 1963/'64 nba season, the boston celtics were the first time in the history to start five black players. again, kacey jones was one of those starters. it is these last two facts that i felt qualified kacey jones, among many other things, for a racial equity mention today because he was a pioneer in not only the world of college basketball, but pro basketball as well. he was a great man. we had many conversations over the years, and i really appreciate the opportunity today to mention him and to keep him alive in our memories. thank you, commiss