and that was part of a strategy of steven a. douglas. when steven a. douglas comes to you and says let's let popular sovereignty solve the slavery in the territories, what does that sound like? that's self-government, isn't it? that's democracy. they're going to let the people on the ground make the choices, right? self-government. all right. yes. the doctrine of self-government is right, absolutely and eter l eternally right, but it has no just application. or perhaps i should rather say that whether it has such application depends on whether a negro is or not is a man. if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government, to say that he, too, shall not govern himself? you talk about popular sovereignty as an example of self-government, and then you take a whole category of people and you exclude them from governing themselves. that's not really self-government. that's a fraud. that's a bad imitation of self-government. you know what the problem is, lincoln says, it's not just that steven a. douglas is a clever politic

would there be a lincoln without steven a. douglas? well, let me address mary and then douglas. the answer is mary todd and steve steven a. douglas are completely indispensable figures for the creation of abraham lincoln. there's no lincoln without these two people in illinois. mary doesn't play quite the same role as she did earlier in the first volume, but she plays a very important role here, and it's a little known incident in which lincoln runs for the senate in 1855, not 1858 against douglas. he runs for the senate in 1855. she pushes him to run. he was slated to run for the state legislature, and she -- he's elected again, and she -- he's been a congressman in the legislature, she thinks -- the senate seat opens up, and she thinks this is completely beneath him. his ambition is a little engine that knew no rest, and mary's was real are knew no rest, and lincoln's friend describe a period of two days of yelling and shouting and lincoln hanging his head and at the end of which he drops his being elected to the state legislature and announces for the senate because his wife s

succomb to the trope of many northern democrats of using race as a way of changing the conversation away from slavery, as steven douglasten did. but a lot of northern voters i'd say still couldn't get away from slavery, because as some contemporary sources note, slavery really seemed to enter just about everything during the 1850s. even if one lived hundreds of miles away from him. >> cal mackie from mechanicsberg, pennsylvania. >> buchanan, it strikes me he's smart enough to understand the duty of the president is to execute the laws as the constitution says. and his final address, he did say that secession were legal, then the constitution is nothing but a rope of sand. i look at his response to the, with sending out the mormon expedition, i hope you can help us understand, what was he thinking in saying that he could not while secession was illegal, he couldn't do anything about it? >> i think fundamentally he's operating on this constitutional notion that the government is not necessarily indisoluable. i think fundamentally, what he's thinking in response to your question, is that you've got five or six states that

buchanan didn't succumb to northern democrats of using race as a way of changing the conversation away from slavery as steven douglas often did. baa lot of northern voters i would say still couldn't get away from slavery because some contemporary, slaivery seemed even if one lived hundreds of miles away from it. >> buchanan, he strikes me, he is smart enough to understand that the duty of the president is to execute the laws of the constitution. in his final address he did say that if succession were legal then the constitution was nothing but sand. i look at his response and i have to think -- and i hope you can help us understand what was he thinking in saying that he could not -- while it was with illegal he couldn't do anything about it? >> well, i think he is operating on this constitutional notion that the government is not necessarily -- he wanted to be indesirable but there's no definitive statement that there is. that is what the civil war will determine. i think you have got about five or six states that have already left the union. texas i don't think goes out until march in 1861. you don't even have seve

evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that trainer had criminal intent or used re and killed sterling near this intersection last september. sterling's friend steven douglassaddened. >> distraught at the fact we have no indictment and no charges being filed against this murderer. >> reporter: prosecutors say trainer and his partner pursued sterling on his motorcycle, that sterling eventually drove into trainer's cruiser door when the cruiser blocked his path and he fired. he said sterling was trying to avoid the cruiser. he only turned on his body camera after he shot and killed sterling a violation of the police department policy. sterling was not armed. >> i'm very upset we didn't have the benefit of that footage to tell us what happened. >> reporter: the mayor said officer trainer should resign. >> mpd has already reached out to his lawyers, asking the officer to resign. >> what about you, what do you think? >> that is exactly what i think. >> reporter: d.c. police have 90 ys see if department policies were violated. the police union says that they will cooperate with the investigation. meanwhile, we reached out to the attorney representing the sterlin

a little bit of repair. >> well, i don't have the heart to touch it. >> that's because the creator of the auto art is his dearly departed brother, steven douglas hooper. >> this is me and my brother. >> steven is born in 1946 and raised in clifton, new jersey. according to big brother hugh, he's a cutup from an early age. >> my brother was normal until he was about 8, and then he changed. >> uh-oh. what happened? >> he started acting like stan laurel and mugging and dancing around. and he always had this crazy sense of humor. >> the brothers are drawn down two very different paths. hugh joins the army. little steven idolizes pop-art sensation andy warhol and the psychedelic painters of the 1960s. he wants to be part of that scene. >> as he got into high school, he just got totally into art. >> steven takes a few classes at a small art college. big brother hugh gets married and starts a family. >> where did he get the money to pursue a passion and not have to get a real job like the rest of us? >> well, steven had a job. he worked in a book binder. he operated a forklift. >> but when their mother has a serious health setback, the brothers must figure

with certain justices who are in a direct line, and so my chair, there's me and then my predecessor is justice stevens, and then the justice before that was justice douglas, and then the justice before that was justice brandeis. so four justices in that 100 years since justice brandeis was confirmed. i call it, knockwood, the longevity chair. that's the way think about it. you know, it is an honor to sit on this court obviously, but a special honor for me to sit in this particular chair, to be given the brandeis truth. truth be told, your a he n're n supposed to have favorites, but truth be told -- and excluding all of the justices i have known personally -- if you ask me who was my favorite supreme court justice i would say beyond a doubt it is justice brandeis. why is that? i was trying think of how to explain this, and he is, for one thing, one of the greatest writers on the court, you know, one of the three or four best writers. but it is not style alone with justice brandeis. he married style, to this great analytic power, analytic force in his opinions. he was very ground even at his most visionary, and he had visionary moments. it was always conne