we have stephen douglas representing northern democrats. john breckinridge representing southern democrats, then you have a portion of the country that's still not happy. they organize themselves into a political party for this election. they are the constitutional unionists. their slogan is the constitution as it is, the union as it is. first time i ever read about the constitutional unionists, i was sitting where y'all are now. i always thought of the head in the sand party. i was like, well, there's a solution for you. all right? there's the constitution as it is. great. ya, we got that. it's not working. what's interesting about the constitutional unionists, is the more you read about them, the more you'll notice is what they want to do is fragment this vote to the point where it gets thrown into the house. now we can debate it out of the house. get it out of the passions of the american people and debate it among the experts. what they also are are a bunch of wealthy guys who have a heck of a lot to lose if war actually comes from this

congressman stephen a. douglas said anyone who criticized the war was no friend of the united states and was a traitor in their hearts. so war opponents were forced to walk a tight rope, voting for war funds to show they supported the troops while criticizing the policies that necessitated these expenditures. we've seen this happen, too, during the vietnam and iraq wars. mexico had struggled from coup to coup since winning independence from spain in 1821, so they'd just been an independent country for 25 years when the war started. cynical generals such as antonio lopez desanta ana rose to power again and again by forming shifting coalitions among the wealthy landowners, catholic church, and the military. when they were toppled from power, they looted the treasury on the way out the door. santa ana had already been president three times and was exile in cuba in 1846. he promised polk he would stop the war and negotiate a treaty if polk led santa ana through the american blockade of mexico. polk did so, and an that

. >> stephen douglas. >> kevin wayne weaver jr.. >> catherine barack -- brooke. >> benjamin carlson gomez. >> eleanor. >> paul david. >> austin taylor moore. >> tristan. >> christopher carl martin. >> michael edward o'donnell. >> marie. >> nicholas andrew smith. >> christina danielle england. >> michael. [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen, joining president obama on stage, to your left, the secretary of the air force, and to your right, general schwartz, chief of staff of the air force. will the remainder of the graduates of the class of 2012 please rise and come forward by a squadron. >> cadet squadron one. >> robert frances. >> bethany page blackburn. >> michael j. tom brown. -- michael brown. >> spencer buck. >> alan. >> christopher. >> david kostin. -- austin. >> michael david cousins. >> james matthew dunlap. >> michael david. >> jeremiah luke. >> lou -- lindsay. >> catherine. >> victoria marie martinez. >> michael james mckinley. >> christopher. >> airing shake-up -- erin -- up. >> kyle edward. >> nicole singletary. >> paul ryan steven taylor. -- ryan stephen taylor. >> anthony m. w

and a senator named stephen a. douglas from illinois, the home of our instant democratic leader, came to the floor and introduced the clay compromise section by section, and each section passed with a different coalition with senator sam houston being the only senator who voted for each one of them. so my hope is that with the broad support that we have for this very simple idea, pin a green card on the lapel of a gifted graduate of an advanced program in science, technology, engineering, and math, allow them to stay here and create jobs here instead of forcing them to go home, i hope that we have such strong support for this idea we can go ahead and pass it and then we can follow that up with the other necessary steps that we need to do on immigration and hopefully we can do that with a coalition that represents democrats and republicans as well. so this is a great idea, and somebody might say why don't they just do it the way we're doing it now? right now it it's h-1-b visas. they're complicated, not enough of them. this

douglas l. wright, 26, brandon baxter, 20, 23-year-old joshua stafford and 20-year-old connor steve stephens.oke grenades, but the informant suggested he had access to plastic explosionive c, 4 they decided according to the complaint to take down to t route 82 north bridge over the cayoga valley national park. they purchased what they thought were eight-pound bricks but it was inert material actually. last night after months of surveillance and recorded conversations by the informant, the cosponnors went to work. >> they placed the two at the concrete support for this. northfield, high level bridge. they attempted to detonate devices from the location they deem safe. one to give them an alibi. >> they were all five arrested. ranging from conspiracy to use o explosive material. >> thank you. >> bret: secret service agents will be receiving ethics training this week. the class was expanded. >> a report by british lawmakers says the charity of news corporation, which owns this network, is unfit to run major international company. that comes days after rupert murdock testified he didn't know the

douglas l. wright, brandon baxter, 20, and anthony haney, 35 years old. also arrests connor stephens joshua s. stafford. their plan began as a series of evolving plots over several months. the initial plot involved the use of smoke grenades to distract law enforcement in order for the co-conspirators to topple signs atop of high-rise buildings in cleveland. the defendants later discussed bridges and targets in and around the metropolitan area. they ultimately decided to target the northfield bridge which crosses from brooksville, ohio over the high hoe georgia national -- chi hoe georgia national valley park. they placed these ieds and attempted to remotely detonated the devices from a location that they thought was safe and would give them an alibi. that detonation did not work, and that's when they were arrested. jon? jon: well, all right. glad they got 'em, i guess. thanks very much. >> reporter: absolutely. >> rick folbaum in the control room, stories all new in the next 6 minutes on "happening now," tens of thousands of u.s. taxpayer dollars stolen, wait until you hear about the