but the whigs countered. lincoln said of winfield scott that he was as noble hearted man and christian gentleman who did basically a good job and was no fool. there is very little in the documentary record to believe that abraham lincoln deviated much from widespread assumptions about american indians and u.s. indian removal policies. policies of concentrating them on reservations, and insisting on their cultural transformation. jumping ahead, when he is president, for example, he once told a visiting delegation of plains indians. this delegation that visited in march of 1863, pay attention to that date, march of 1863. he said to these native visitors, the paleface people are numerous and prosperous because they cultivate the earth, produce bread, and depend upon the products of the earth rather than wild game for a subsistence. this is the chief reason of the difference. but there's another. although we are now engaged in a great war between one another. we are not as a race so much disposed to fight and kil

so, again, remember the whigs. the whig writers have been telling people over and over again, how do you lose your liberty? you lose it to your own government. you lose it to some ambitious politician or group of politicians who decide to gradually start snipping away at it. you are far more likely to fall prey to your own government than to a foreign enemy. and so if you have this sort of generalized suspicion of government and you see things happen like, hey, they're trying to tax us without our consent, hey, they're trying to take away our right of a jury trial here, hey, they've got troops here and there's no war going on, it does make some people start to wonder. and then, the boston massacre, of course, only brings the fear of a standing army to an even greater peak. here they are shooting down our own people. but there's more even going on than that. the church of england is the established church back home. it is the state church in most of the southern colonies and parts of new york. and the anglicans in a

he was a whig. a member of the whig party during the indian removals of the 1830's and 1840's. but he seemed to say very little about indian removal. the one thing he did say was a criticism of the democrats, for being inefficient or spending too much money on removals of groups like the cherokee, and wars against the seminoles. he praised winfield scott, the military commander who oversaw cherokee removal, that we have learned about already. he said of winfield scott, and coming to winfield scott's defense. winfield scott was actually a whig. but he was ordered to oversee cherokee removal. by president van buren, democrat. and he came under scrutiny for his operations for being too lenient about the cherokee, as i mentioned. he got criticized by the democrats. countered.gs lincoln said of winfield scott that he was as noble hearted man and christian gentleman who did basically a good job and was no fool. there is very little in the documentary record to believe that abraham lincoln deviated much from widespread assumptions about american indians and u.s. indian removal policie

he was not even a whig to begin with. so it was a completely failed administration, yet that sticks around. i don't know. i just don't know. >> anyone else? we do have some more time. [laughter] eager as you might be. i want to ask about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. is it a slogan, is it a catch phrase. or none of the above? >> just as all men are created equal, they are not in the book because the one thing i figured everybody did know was the declaration of independence. but it is probably the most powerful catch phrase -- slogan, it is, "all men are created equal." we started going back to that when jackson started to enlarge the democracy and went back to it when lincoln was debating douglas and could not justify his switch, his feelings on segregation by the constitution because it was in the constitution. so he switched the focus of the argument to the declaration of independence, which he saw as a prior and more important document. every rights group in this country have started by touching on "all

. >> host: what was a whig and what did he believe? >> guest: a whig. you're talking -- i'll answer the question by moving ahead in time to whigs. so, this gets back to your earlier question but parties and categories, now people like to go back' thyme and draw straight lines between the parties of the present and the parties the past and like so say if your a republican, republican, republican, goes back to jefferson. there are no straight lines in history and there certainly no straight lines when it comes to political parties. so, parties bounce back and forth, names change all the time. the whig party, for a while you had the democratic party, which was it own thing. on the one hand and you had what was known more than anything as the anti-jacksonians. wasn't a people but people who aren't that. don't like jackson, don't like what they represent. that becomes the whig party and you end up in the mid-19th mid-19th century with essentially for a while two many parties and one of them is jackson, democratic, supposedly popular, supposedly the common ma

fast was on the whigs good bye to pope francis he holds him asked with a message warning of the dangers of corruption we'll hear from our correspondent in michael to. i am at the michael jr you're welcome to the show zimbabwe's former president robert mugabe has died at the age of 95 nearly 2 years after being forced to resign well gobby was about weise fast post independence leader and many remember him as the country's liberate tough but during almost 4 decades in office he ruled zimbabwe with an iron fist crushing dissent and laying waste economy in a moment we'll hear what life was like on the mugabe but 1st let's take a look at his somewhat complex legacy. robert mugabe's political career began in the 1960 s. with the formation of a radical anti colonialist movement dedicated to fighting white minority rule. to zimbabwe became independent 980 any actions were held and robert mugabe's son who can't keep warm by a landslide. he became the country's 1st black prime minister striking a turn a free conciliation and forgiveness despite his militant past. but hopes for a peaceful politica

officials would have very little to answer for on the send jang story as we heard from a lean say r f a whig or beijing is now saying that the vast majority of the wiggers interned have since been freed their thoughts transformed however no evidence has been offered to back up those numbers so you can expect the journalists working out of washington and researchers combing the net for the truth in vancouver and strict guard will be fact checking that claim as they have so many others in the coverage of this story you've been watching a special edition of our program on sin jang and the media we'll see you next time here at the listening post. finally we'll ask about that but that's the balls about what i see that the set says the last wonder rather doubt about my book as a bunch is a bit on the bottom. in part one of this 2 part series al-jazeera explores the world of performance enhancing drugs. sports doping the endless chase on al-jazeera. the 15 year old boy tortured in the world's most notorious prison finally released after 13 years i wouldn't wish this experience on anybody but i have

. >> what was the whig party and what do they d believe. >> i will answer by moving ahead in time. so with parties and categories people like to go back in time between the parties present it goes all the way back to jefferson. and there are no lines and it comes to political b parties but the whig party for a while we had the democratic party and then the anti- jacksonians people who really are not that but that becomes the whig party two main parties to jackson democratic with the common man and then on the other side with the bigen national government and with a erdifferent point of view. >> if you are governor of massachusetts or president of the united states who had more political power? whenever you want it to be. ll[laughter] >> going back to the real founding there are people like the federalist who assume the bulk of the power is with the state and not with the national governmentt and if that it compassed really above and beyond the constitution is brief on what it does they'll but they probably the governor of massachusetts with their loyalties and sense of belonging an

i'm a whig. [laughter] a henry clay type. i'm going to change that. i'll tell you how. there is this wonderful story told of margaret thatcher after she'd been elected head of the parliamentary party but before she was prime minister. she's meeting with members and one of them is nattering on and infuriating her by talking about the glories of sent rhythm and transcending political philosophy and all the rest. finally exasperated she reaches into her capacious pocketbook, pulls out hayek's constitution of liberty, slams it down on the table and said, this is what we believe. my vision of the future is that someday an american president is going to pick up the conservative sensibility, slam it on the presidential desk and say this is what we believe. until that great dawn, conservatism is homeless and shouldn't pretend otherwise. >> do you see a return to conservatism in your lifetime? george: i'm 78. so my lifetime has a short horizon. >> in the next two generations? george: i don't know. very clearly, some of the rising stars of the republican party think trump is onto

our f a whig or beijing is now saying that the vast majority of the wiggers interned have since been freed their thoughts transformed however no evidence has been offered to back up those numbers so you can expect the journalists working out of washington and researchers combing the net for the truth in vancouver and strict guard we'll be fact checking that claim as they have so many others in the coverage of this story you've been watching a special edition of our program on sin jang and the media we'll see you next time here at the listening post. rewind returns with a new series and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera missed documentaries take it. easy on the little. rewind continues with saving some seeing the line 10 years later the plot of a rich person. it's all there for a little bit this is a great motivator for us to keep giving back to these communities on al-jazeera new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. with a plummeting birthrate and famili

i am a whig. a henry clay type. i am going to change that, and i will tell you how. there was a wonderful story told of margaret thatcher. after she had been elected head of the party but before she was prime minister. she is meeting with her members and one of them is nattering on and talking about the glories of centrism and transcending political philosophy. finally she reaches into her theetbook, pulls out constitution of liberty, slams it down and says this is what we believe. my vision of the future is that someday an american president will pick up the conservative sensibility, slam it on the presidential desk and say this is what we believe. then, conservatism is homeless and we should not pretend otherwise. mark: do you see a return in your lifetime? george: i am 78, so my lifetime is a short horizon. mark: next two generations? george: i do not know. very clearly some of the rising stars in the republican party think trump is onto something, but populism is everything that conservatism is not. it is here to stay. i am thinking of tom cotton, and senator haw

. >> james clapper, director of intelligence, says the whig the blower report is one of the best he has ever seen. here he is. >> i have seen a lot of whistle-blower complaints in the time i was dni and this had to be the best composed, best written, the best documented such complaint i have ever seen. alsoly done by a seasoned, mature, capable intelligence professional. >> a seasoned, capable, intelligence professional. what does it tell you just behind the report itself? >> to me, i have never seen anything like this. it's a bill of indictment, well put together much better than the mueller report. it gets right to the point. it sites the law. you know this is unusual in the report. normally what happens in the intelligence community is someone says something they don't like and they run in and they dump it orally on the inspector general and may type up. but not this complete, and not only that, it awards and and i wonder if they didn't get legal help and a lot of editing. because it's truly brilliant. >> maybe that person had experience gathering intelligence before working at the w

. >> 60 minutes reports the whig whistle blower is now under federal protection because he or she fears r their safety. >>> time is 5:04. some push-back against president trump from a republican congressman after a president tweeted a quote warning of possible civil war if he is impeached. the president completed a comment passed by robert jeffers saying if the democrats are successful in removing the president for office, it will cause a civil-war-like fracture from our nation in which our country will never heal. now, illinois congressman, an iraq war veteran responded saying, quote, i have visited nations ravaged by civil war. i have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a president. this is beyond repugnant. >>> presidential candidate senator kamala harris made a stop here in the bay area to open her first campaign office in california. ktvu political reporter greg lee tells us senator harris has me catching up to do in her home state. >> a warm welcome for senator kamala harris in the city where she was born. the democratic presidential candidate spoke to a crowd of support

that is at the heart of the whig post. it could be the plot of a spy novel. as we speak they are briefing the house intelligence community. we're watching to see if any new information comes out of that. according to nbc news. the whistle-blower's complaint stems from a phone call that the president made this our. the conversation was with a foreign leader. according to foreign officials include some sort of promise. we know the inspector general deemed the complaint credible and troubling enough to be a matter of urgent concern and he passed that on to joseph mcguire. that is where things went off track. democrats say the law iraqs the dni to forward that complaint to the congressional intelligence committees. that has not happened. instead they are refusing to share the details with lawmakers prompting several days of harsh criticism. schiff is suggesting the orders came straight from the white house. >> according to the director of national intelligence the reason she not acting to provide it, even though the statute mandates that he do so, is because she

he was a member of the whig party. that was during the indian removals of the 1830's and 1840's. he seemed to say very little about indian removal. one thing he did say was a criticism of the democrats for being inefficient, or spending too much money on removals of groups like the cherokees and wars against the seminoles. scott, theinfield military commander who oversaw the cherokee removal. coming to his defense, winfield scott was actually a wig. he was ordered to oversee cherokee removal by president martin van buren. he came under scrutiny for his operations for being too lenient about the cherokees. he got criticized by the democrats. and abrahamuntered lincoln said of winfield scott that he was a noble hearted man and christian gentleman who did basically a good job and was no fool. there is very little in the documentary record to believe that abraham lincoln deviated much from widespread assumptions about american indians and u.s. indian removal policies. policies of concentrating them on reservations, and insisting on their cultural transformation. jumping ahead, when h

the becomes the whig party and become in the mid- 19th century with essentially for a while, two main parties in one of them is jackson and democratics supposedly popular supposedly the common man or the common white man on the one side and then on the other side you have the whigs which are more centralized and more sort of pig national government. represent in a way sort of two threads that we can see. really represented a different.of view. >> if you were governor of massachusetts or president of the united states at the time, who held more political power. joanne: at the time, whenever i wanted to be. okay yes, if you all of the way back, to the real founding moments, that's a good question. there were people like housing in the federalists who assumed that the bulk of the power was with the state. not with the national government which was new and who knew what it encompassed beyond the very skeletal constitution. our constitution is really brief for what it does. the governor of massachusetts probably on paper might say the president has a lot of power, the fact of the matter is

i think we are in a moment in time, for me this looks like the whigs, like the populist era where youd populous parties it looks like 1932 and 36 when there's a democratic party. this is the time to govern. we've had a decade of not being able to address a massive rise of inequality. weight stagnation, climate change, gun violence, massive gun violence, slaughter. we been infinite politics has made it infinite and we are desperate to address those problems. we actually had our very unified on one new address those big problems. if you look at democrats this is the democrats Ãbif you look at democrats they want to address these problems as their economic, cultural and the unify democrats. if you look at the democrats about 75 to 80% on any issue that you put out on the table they want us to address. they want the political leaders to address.after they been blocked by governing i think by a tea party evangelical revolt, to keep them from governing i think we been stopped for a decade, trump has taken it to the most extreme to keep us from governing. i actually think it's a moment to be

[laughter] that becomes the whig party and you end tough in the mid- 19th century with essentially for a while two main parties, one is jackson the democratic supposedly popular supposedly the common man or on one side and on the other side, you have the whigs which are more centralized sort of big national government and represent and a way sorted two threads that we can see the really represent a very different.of view. >> if you were government of the united states at that time, who had more political power of whatever you wanted it to be. >> if you all the way back to the founding men that's a good question and there were people like the federalists who assumed that the powers with the state and not with the nationall government which was immune and who knew what it encompassed reallync above and beyond the vy skeletal constitution. our constitution is really brief. answer to that cap question would be the governor of massachusetts probably but although on paper you might say the president has a lot of paper. for people there is loyalties and extensivef belongingness and their unde

the whig party and the democratic party. the weight party breaks apart into the northern and southern parts. but it breaks apart into more parts. and a lot of waves in the north in the border states join another party. in a movement called the know nothing party or the american party. this is an anti-immigrant nativist party. this party is a reaction to the great wave of immigration of the irish and germans. they come for different reasons. the irish come because of the potato famine and the germans come because of the failed liberal revolutions of 1848. they are politically liberal. they come into the united states. and the know nothing party has a platform. it's one plank. the plank is only nativeborn protestants, protestants, should hold public office in the united states. no catholics. and you have to be nativeborn. so it excluded all the immigrants from ever running for office in the united states. >> lincoln was pro-immigrant. >> lincoln lowe's at need --loathed nativism but he didn't denounce them publicly. because th

many northern pol pot -- politicians abandoned their politics.ry begin ton whigs dominate the way party to keep tabs on textiles hi and prices on -- taxes on cotton low. i wander through the streets of boston, by 1820's, was less likely to hear someone talking about the rights of man and more likely to hear them discussing the price of cotton. this is thatnce of it began to seem with the legal institutions and customs of slavery were coming north. unable tolacks were freely travel between the states. one of the central rights protected by the u.s. constitution. that wasn't all. couldrn african-americans not easily travel abroad. the refused to grant african-americans passports, refusing to acknowledge the possibility of black citizenship. a fugitive slave international claims " after they degraded us, sawdust, mobbed us, did everything in their power to process, then, we wish -- to oppress us, then we wish to leave the country, the refuse us passports on the grounds we are citizens." the legal power southern slaveowners have over boston african-americans was worse after the 1850 fugitiv

our f a whig or beijing is now saying that the vast majority of the wiggers interned have since been freed their thoughts transformed however no evidence has been offered to back up those numbers so you can expect the journalists working out of washington and researchers combing the net for the truth in vancouver and strict guard we'll be fact checking that claim as they have so many others in the coverage of this story you've been watching a special edition of our program on sin jang and the media we'll see you next time here at the listening post. with the plummeting birthrate and families moving to the cities south korea's rule schools are shutting down one no one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools finally getting an education on al-jazeera september on al-jazeera with ethiopia taking its 1st steps into democracy al-jazeera meets for diversity europeans who are reshaping the country's political landscape world leaders gather in new york for the united nations general assembly global issues are on the table listening post dissects the world's media how they operate

so 2340b has to put any weight on this whigs other than to follow the leads. >> right. it exists in the computer system and in the memories of those people. >> so richard, why does it become complicated? what devlin said would solve this problem entirely. we wouldn't have to have the right and left on this, we wouldn't have to have republicans and democrats. i mean i'm sure we would, but the fact is we could just check this information out. >> well, absolutely. and house of representatives needs to do that immediately. and start drafting articles of impeachment so this can go over to the senate. we have a president who has been caught red handed and now he is saying that whistleblowers should be shot. this is the man who is in charge of our military. this is a very dangerous situation unless the house of representatives moves quickly to impeach him and the senate has a trial, we need to find out the facts. it is right there in the records. they can call those people to testify. rudy giuliani, attorney general, everyone else mentioned can get the electronic records and b

officials would have very little to answer for on the send jang story as we heard from a lean say of r f a whig or beijing is now saying that the vast majority of the wiggers interned have since been freed their thoughts transformed however no evidence has been offered to back up those numbers so you can expect the journalists working out of washington and researchers combing the net for the truth in vancouver and strict guard will be fact checking that claim as they have so many others in the coverage of this story you've been watching a special edition of our program on sin jang and the media we'll see you next time here at the listening post. with the plummeting birthrate and families moving to the cities south korea's rule schools are shutting down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools while finally getting an education on al-jazeera. the cost of priceless results under threat the amazon rain forest is a blaze and its links to brazil strive for peace and soil production look at that bus as yet oh it's global ambitions which have left investors missing some big losse

our f a whig or beijing is now saying that the vast majority of the wiggers interned have since been freed their thoughts transformed however no evidence has been offered to back up those numbers so you can expect the journalists working out of washington and researchers combing the net for the truth in vancouver and strict guard we'll be fact checking that claim as they have so many others in the coverage of this story you've been watching a special edition of our program on sin jang and the media we'll see you next time here at the listening post. with the plummeting birthrate and families moving to the cities south korea's rule schools are shutting down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools finally getting an education on al-jazeera. for the last 2 years the students have been collecting rubbish every day it's helped clean up the campus and helped build some of its facilities for every 2 kilo's of plastic waste they collect this school receives a brick made of plastic and cement. for some activists this may not be the most ecological way to eliminate the p

run-up to the 1800 campaign, thomas jefferson put a notorious slander and libelous article on the whigs. he proceeded to write the first editorial that mr. jefferson had sired a child by a slave, so jefferson got a comeuppance for having hired the notorious mr. caulder. but we went through this age, and we went through an age of technological change. think about the moment and then 1840's when selling information began to be shared instantaneously across the country. before, it took weeks for something to go from boston to new orleans, but they invention of the telegraph brought an instantaneous national news network. talk about the technological change of 1870's one along comes cheap steam powered machines and we have a proliferation of every kind of newspaper. there are 13 daily newspapers in new york in 1896, which was down from their previous high. and again, you picked the kind of information he wanted. imaginative political revolutions of radio in the 1920's and television in the 1950's. so, our entire country's history has been one way or, how we receive information -- has been o

was interesting read whig a re sort of taking it as broad agreement.uld be some reparatory talks that should happen this month. four more talks would happen in in washington. getting back on this footing of having talks in the first place, seen as a very positive market development for trade. certainly a step forward. the problem, though. the problem is the same underlying issues between the now are thena right same ones they were in about like april and may. really been a t lot done since then, so there is amount of pressure for both sides, really, since we've kind of been in a holding for several months to actually show that there is some progress being made on any these key points, that could be intellectual property. pharmaceuticals, which the u.s. is annoyed about importation. it could be all sorts of various things there. as to be some sign of actual, tangible progress ahead of ctober 1 and what is another threatened tariff escalation on moment.rd at that paul: so derek, while the be as ina talks seem to intractable as ever, there seems o be at l

offered the whigs apology to the people of southhampton, mildly deplored that human nature urged them to but thosemities, concerned said another such insurrection would be a signal for the extermination of the whole black population in the quarter of the state where it occurred. threat,rds were no idle as white former resident mr. robinson confirmed that there was not a virginian whose mind would revolt at any accrual to -- at any cruelty, however atrocious, of which blacks might be the object. robinson, he assumed blacks were not men and ought all to be exterminated. they had declared war first, let them be hunted like wild beast. moreover, the idea that all slaveowners valued the lives of their slaves is perhaps troubled by one woman, a pious methodist who said she would willingly cast her own slaves into the there to be shot, provided others who had slaves would agree to do the same. northerners in their newspapers also expressed concerns over the plight of black people after theer's efforts to destroy institution. "the liberator" printed countless articles that affirmed the experi