his opponent, who was thomas jefferson, these two had been friends.ly, they wrote the declaration of independence together. now opposite sides of, the fence. they don't even want to talk to each other. so the is very ugly. it's very nasty. it's very close. it's sort of for us today a normal presidential election. john adams wins by three electoral votes. never had a president who got only half the votes. we've never had president who had to really fight for an election. and of course, the other problem those early days is if you come in second, you are vice, which means the new president is one party. the new vice the party. just pick any modern you like. put the two opponents together for four years as the executive and you can see how neither of so john adams and thomas jefferson are not happy to be standing up in the front of the room together. this is a full house. that day, the balco seats. you've got most of the here a lot of curious ity but you can also figure about half of the men in this room are vhappy seep there. the other half of the men i

but people suspect rightfully so that thomas jefferson and fdr should probably be up here front and centere big three. and i don't disagree with that. so i finally asked the owner why andrew jackson ended up here front center, and his response me was very interesting. he said, well, that's simple. he's got really pretty hair and i like hisnyhow, and he does, 't nice hair and great epaulets. i started these tours and fttalking legitimate presidentil accomplishments and nobody cared. people entertained. then i started how andrew jackson's parrot squared and people love this stuff. people want to hear silly odd stuff. president lincoln, the tallest of all of presidents at six foot four, which pretty darn tall for back in the day, contrary to that shortest president was a president, james madison, who was four foot shorter than that. he was five foot four and 99 pounds. president lincoln. obviously in the ford theater. and he he actually predicted his at it the night before ulysses grant was supposed to have been his guest that night who h bail at the last and on president lincoln's desk in th

well, thomas jefferson.e's of coming up with the idea for this train corps of engineers. also is talking to a little guy, no offense named napoleon about this. louisa can a territory that exists to the west of the limits of american expansion right to the west of the mississippi river. remember we'd had that proclamation line of 1763 and the americans very quickly been like, yeah, we're going past by this point. they reached the mississippi saint louis is becoming a prominent river town. remember that americans agreed to unimpeded of the mississippi. they would share that river. well, france is on the oj2ther side and france is in possession. this territory of louisiana, which basically hugs the mississippi from its headwaters in minnesota to where it discharges in the gulf of mexico, at the city of, new orleans and france wants to get rid of it. it is bogged down in a series of wars. the european continent. france doesn't have the or bureaucratic capacity to continue to administer. louisiana. and so they sa

heform with thomas jefferson also at front of the room, outgoing president george.is a big deal changing presidents for today is a fairly normal thing. we have big parades and parties and it's you know, it's a big thing. but this was a really important because this is where we are proving that the system where we we change them when we vote we're proving that that system works because the john adams election is a lot of firsts it's the first time we're going tonor president. george washington is the only man to unanimously elected president, which he was twice. he did not end of his first term. he didn't even want a second term. he was kind of talked into it essentially kind of almost on both sides. talk him into another four years. he doesn't really run. he's unanimously reelected at the end of that second term, people try talk him into a third, but he's not having it. he just wants to retire at this in time. it's somebody else's turn. so he will step aside. john adams now we know if this works, we've never done before, we've never actually changed our presidents.

a few weeks later i was on the uva campus and saw that thomas jefferson had made a list of 12 virtuesghter to practice, and they are almost identical to franklin's. if angry count to 10, a very angry, count to 100. at jefferson to pop, when he was asked for the core meaning of virtue and asked to define happiness would give a passage from cicero from this book that says that he who has a mind was neither exalted by wanton exuberance or unduly despondent, he is the tranquil soul who has a happy man. so i figured up got to read this book, it was so important to franklin and jefferson. found this golden reading list that jefferson would send out to kids who were going to law school and people who asked life how should i be educated? it has a rigorous schedule where you have to wake up before read until sunrise, watch the sunrise, moral philosophy early in the morning, history in the late morning, lunch, then geography and astronomy and lighter subjects, and after dinner, some shakespeare and then tday. what drew my eye was the section called ethics for natural religion. at the top of was

speaking of thomas jefferson, yes, here hes. lowing well, after jefferson's death. and to create the#w likeness, french artist borrowed a likeness from mark lafayette and created a statue and certainly that is provided us with this copy that we have here and the original the us capitol and he's holding it looks like the independence. absolutely. there we go. a couple of portraits of jefferson. i want to ask you again, this one seems almost a primitive style. oh, well, this is the work of charles peale and it dates to 1791 when thomas jefferson was serving as secretary of state. now, charles wilson peale, an artist, but prior to that, he served in our revolution and brought his paints onto the battlefield and afterwards went on to establish america's first museum. one other jefferson portrait want to ask you about this is a copy done by gilbert stuart. he was the original artist. the who is better known as the architect of the capitol. and he and jefferson worked on that commission. state.son was secretary of kind of roman it is.

uh -- not thomas jefferson.h -- thomas jefferson. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: didn't you just say thomas jefferson? >> that's the only name going through my brain right now. >> jimmy: do you think he's on all the coins? >> no. >> jimmy: no. give it one more try, jeff. think of a different president. >> uh -- let's see -- jfk? >> jimmy: oh, no, i'm so sorry. wow. you know what, you lose all 6 of those cents. it was roosevelt. fdr. and what do we have for jeff there? >> lou: a ps-5. >> jimmy: i'm so sorry, jeff, you'll have to take this ps-5. [ cheers ] thank you for playing "on the money." wow, we've got to really work on that. we're going to have to -- the mint's got to get an ad campaign going, we've got a problem on our hands here. [ laughter ] we have a good show for you tonight. from "abbott elementary," tyler james williams is here. [ cheers and applause ] we have music from the beaches, and we'll be right back with jeff goldblum. and we'll be right back with jeff ghead & shoulders is so launching something huge

oh, well, this is the work of charles peale and it dates to 1791 when thomas jefferson was serving as prior te served in our revolution and brought his paints onto the battlefield and afterwards went on t establish america's first museum. one other jefferson portrait want to ask you about this is a copy done by gilbert stuart. he was the original artist. the artist of this one is william thorton, who is better known as the architect of the at commission. jefferson was secretary of state. kind of roman it is. it's based on roman cameo and it is neoclassical and was jefferson's favorite portrait of himself, his lifetime. before we leave this room, there'co above. the doors. yes. so here we have john paul jones and george washington. andthat we have the head of the navy and the head the army. so you've indicated that ahe afr secretaries state who become president. but now we're about to go in to the ben franklin. yes. how es well he was the father of the american service. and important to our diplomatic history. this looks like a ballroom. what's itfor? well, we again have reception and

the animal is named for president thomas jefferson.e found fossilized bones from the same animal in west virginia in the late 1700s. >> it is a part of americana. thomas jefferson brought the bones to philadelphia. he carried them with him when he went to accept the vice presidency. >>> the santa cruz museum of natural history is still working to figure out the age of that fossil. it will be on display at the museum until the end of may. >> that is really cool. >>> up next, he went from uber driver to >>> even if you don't know much about college basketball, you know that it is march madness. tomorrow, stanford women open the ncaa tournament. the cardinal host norfolk. >> on the men's side, the st. mary's gaels are red-hot. they are the fifth seed, they play grand canyon tomorrow in spokane, washington. the big upset, tonight, what a story this is that this is oakland university, not our oakland, this is a public school near detroit. head coach greg cambi has been there 40 years. 's star player was an uber and jordache driver last year

it's with thomas jefferson's reading list. just read the books on jefferson's reading and found that they all contain the phrase the pursuit of happiness and found that they all cited the same ancient sources. so i thought it was revelatory. i've also come to understand that. i mean, i wouldn't have thought that a channeling core moral philosophy of the founding would be controversial, but there is a division just as there is on between the left and the right, among conservative it is between. common, good and virtue. crowd conservatives really take an augustinian approach and think that there's a single revealed truth that people should embrace. and it's the revealed truths of the christian church and and those and classical liberals. and i think i hit a nerve. i want to ask you this large question of shifting topics, a bit as i'm reading this, i'm listening to you and we're in this place. we're looking at what, we're looking at. we know that our our politicians 250 years ago and it's almost 250 years ago, actually were grappl

host: speaker johnson referenced a letter from thomas jefferson. there is more information on that.he letter that johnson referred to is thomas jefferson's 1802 letter to the danbury baptist association that expressed concerns about religious liberty. in his reply, jefferson said that the first amendment which barred congress from prohibiting the free exercise of religion built a wall of separation between the church and the state. johnson was also referencing the desired that they should be no establishment of a religion, and it should be mentioned that we are still celebrating ramadan this month if you are a muslim in this country. more than two thirds of muslim americans refer giving charity during ramadan. a new survey shows that nearly 70% of muslims in the united states practice -- during ramadan, the muslim month of fasting. the survey conducted by the muslim philanthropy initiative found that gender, age, race, income, marital status, religiosity and voter registration status with the factors that influence mobile -- muslim american's preferences for paying the cot during ra

host: speaker johnson referenced a letter from thomas jefferson. there is more information on that.he letter that johnson referred to is thomas jefferson's 1802 letter to the danbury baptist association that expressed concerns about religious liberty. in his reply, jefferson said that the first amendment which barred congress from prohibiting the free exercise of religion built a wall of separation between the church and the state. johnson was also referencing the desired that they should be no establishment of a religion, and it should be mentioned that we are still celebrating ramadan this month if you are a muslim in this country. more than two thirds of slim americans refer giving charity during ramadan. a new survey shows that nearly 70% of muslims in the united states practice -- during ramadan, the muslim month of fasting. the survey conducted by the muslim philanthropy initiative found that gender, age, race, income, marital status, religiosity and voter registration status with the factors that influence mobile -- muslim american's preferences for paying the cot during rama

thomas jefferson. look it up. hold on. let me get -- but that is the press.r the enemy of the people. how do trump feel about freedom of assembly? >> he says, "can't you just shoot them? just shoot them in the legs or something." and he's suggesting that that's what we should do, that we should bring in the troops and shoot the protesters. >> the commander in chief was suggesting that the u.s. military shoot protesters, american protesters? >> yes, in the streets of our nation's capital. that's right. >> jon: huh. they'd still be free to assemble. just the assembly would be more a pile, that's all. but that's just hearsay from trump's secretary of defense at the time. look, how about the fifth amendment? due process? >> very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. >> jon: what the [bleep] are we doing? [cheers and applause] you know, i am pretty sure that shooting a guy on suspicion of stealing a pair of khakis violates not only the constitution, but the ten commandments, and the gap employee handbook! [laugh

thomas jefferson said it smacks too much of the monarchy. why does that matter? he also thought it was a hassle to walk over there. but this is important. that's what he wrote in his letter. this is what's really interesting to me is when you look at that and then woodrow wilson brought it back doing it in person than lbj figured out he knew how to put on a show its way made into a theatrical moment. the former president is arguing he should have total immunity in the office. this speech, that thomas jefferson looked too much like the monarchy so i don't want to give it in person, that's the way the founders thought about the office. it shouldn't look anything like a monarchy, so the idea that a president would have total immunity in an office that thomas jefferson thought would look too much like a king if you spoke before congress, that gives you a sense of the distance between what a claim of total immunity is on the way the founders thought about the job in the beginning. >> st[cheering] >> stephen: well framed, well framed. >> john: i didn't realize we were

kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls among his most powerful and revealing writings throughout his masterly pen, kaplan brings a skilled biographers attention to how jefferson reveals himself through his writing, often without without intending to, as kaplan says of notes on the state of virginia. it's a book about jefferson partly because jefferson did not want it to, a book about himself. the jefferson we meet here is not surprisingly learned and forceful. but kaplan also shows this jefferson as a writer who's often evasive with holding anxious self-pity and inconsistent, eager to shield himself from responsibility and, blame kaplan's biography also a great read in its own right. jefferson is not the o