as it is during world war two the city just completely changes overnight lincoln having been a whig party member prior to being a republican was big on internal improvements as people may recall being on infrastructure began setting the ground for what would eventually be the trans pacific railroad railway act that he would pass an eight hundred sixty three so some of the deathly we have to give lincoln back in the day a lot of credit for being a real visionary for being a practical politician and that sense when he signed the pacific railway act of eight hundred sixty three that leads a direct line to chicago where chicago was far behind st louis a direct result of this of the civil war and that act by lincoln leads to chicago being a major metropolis that is eventually connected to the west so as a whig former whig party member and as a brand new republican party president that was an important facet of the republican party platform back in the day and that ended up actually helping the north when the civil war in the south had. lots of con cotton plantations expectorate but the infrast

as it is during world war two the city just completely changes overnight lincoln having been a whig party member prior to being a republican was big on internal improvements as people may recall being on infrastructure began setting the ground for what would eventually be the trans pacific railroad railway act that he would pass an eight hundred sixty three so some of the deathly we have to give lincoln back in the day a lot of credit for being a real visionary for being a practical politician and that sense when he signed the pacific railway act of eight hundred sixty three that leaves a direct line to chicago or chicago was far behind st louis a direct result of this of the civil war and that act by lincoln leads to chicago being the major metropolis that is eventually connecting to the west so is a whig former whig party member and as a brand new republican party president that was an important facet of the republican party platform back in the day and that ended up actually helping the north when the civil war in the south had. lots of con cotton plantations expectorate but the infras

i am going to have you tell the story of the dissent of the whigs and the rise of the republican party. christopher: you have lincoln who is now in a position to take the moral high ground. he can say something new, in the public discourse, that slavery is evil. that gives him a new standing. he argued with douglas on this point. he says, just because i don't want a woman to be my slave doesn't mean that i also want her to be my wife. she can be left alone. he is beginning to change the discourse. he is not saying slavery is morally evil, but he is hedging -- he isbit on the suggesting that slavery is morally evil, but also hedging on the citizenship question. he is suggesting that maybe conservative unions are right, that emancipation doesn't necessarily mean equal citizenship. host: what about dred and harriet scott? martha: it ends with them ultimately winning their freedom, not a way of the court but by way of their long-standing relationship with the blow family. ultimately, emerson's family will feed their property interest in the scotts back to the blows. they will take their co

divide d eisenhower -- henry clay was a whig but that would predecessor party of the republicans, dwight d. eisenhower, republican president in the 50s, started the interstate highway premier which has benefited so much america, and ronald reagan never cut back on infrastructure, even though he cut back on lots of other programs. it's brand new that president trump is about the first president in a long, long line of democrats and republicans, who doesn't really believe that the federal government should be at the forefront of billing our infrastructure, whether it's highways, roads, bridges, water, sewer, power grid, high-speed internet. president trump is way off base on this and we should come together ourselves because people on both side offered the aisle have always believed in investing in infrastructure. now, a final word on the president's budget request. for next year we already now have debt with this year's budget request but he nut a budget request for next year which was just sent to congress. we just passed a two-year budget on friday. so the trump administration should ha

as i've mentioned, republicans, henry clay, a whig, that was the predecessor party. but henry clay, dwight eisenhowers, ronald reagan believed that we needed investment in infrastructure. democrats still believe it. i hope that our mutual desire to fix the nation's crumbling infrastructure without shifting the burden on to taxpayers and local governments motivates us to put the president's proposal to the side as we did with budget and come up with one ourselves. now yesterday on the budget, the trump administration delivered a budget to congress that would drastically slash funding for education, environmental protection, transportation, medicare, medicaid. yes, folks, despite the president's promise he would never cut medicare, medicaid and social security, he's cutting two out of the three in this budget, or so he proposes. even with all those cuts, though, the trump budget actually increases the deficit. even in the realm of budgetary magic, the trump budget pulls a trick so absurd that it would even make hudini blush. cut medicare. cut medicaid. and yet increase