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we've got steven douglas, john breckenridge. and then you have a portion of the country that is still not happy. and they organize themselves into a political party for this election. and they are the constitutional unionists. their slogan is the constitution as it is, the union as it is. first time i ever read about constitutional unionists, i was sitting where you are. i always thought it was a head in a sand party. yeah, we got that. it's not working. but what's interesting about the constitutional unionists is actually the more you read about them, the more you'll notice what they're hoping to do in some ways is fragment the point to where it gets thrown in the house. and what they also are are a bunch of wealthy guys who have a heck of a lot to lose if war come pheres this. if everything falls apart, these are a lot of your wealthy planter who is have investments with northern banks, they're invested with railroads. these are the guys who are going to lose a lot if it comes to war. all right? these are not your radicals. so
we've got steven douglas, john breckenridge. and then you have a portion of the country that is still not happy. and they organize themselves into a political party for this election. and they are the constitutional unionists. their slogan is the constitution as it is, the union as it is. first time i ever read about constitutional unionists, i was sitting where you are. i always thought it was a head in a sand party. yeah, we got that. it's not working. but what's interesting about the...
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breckenridge representing southern democrats. they organize themselves into a political party for this election and they're the constitutional unionists. okay. their slogan is the constitution as it is, the union as it is. first time i ever read about the constitutional unionists, i was kind of sitting where you are now. the head in the hand party. i thought, there's a solution for you. the constitution as it is. the union as it is. we got that, all right. it's not working. what's interesting about the constitutional unionists is the more you read about them, the more you'll notice what they're hoping to do in some ways is fragment this vote to the point where it gets thrown into the house and now we can debate it in the house. let's see if we can't debate this among the experts. what they also are a buh of wealthy guys who have a heck of a lot to lose if war comes from this. if everything falls apart. all right. these are a lot of your wealthy planters who have investments with northern banks. they've invested in railroads. thes
breckenridge representing southern democrats. they organize themselves into a political party for this election and they're the constitutional unionists. okay. their slogan is the constitution as it is, the union as it is. first time i ever read about the constitutional unionists, i was kind of sitting where you are now. the head in the hand party. i thought, there's a solution for you. the constitution as it is. the union as it is. we got that, all right. it's not working. what's interesting...
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breckenridge gets the slave owning south except for some of the border states. tennessee, kentucky, virginia go to john bell. okay? and what's interesting about this is how the vote breaks down. overwhelmingly lincoln wins the electoral college. he gets a clear majority of the electoral votes which is all you need to become president, okay? but in terms of the popular vote, lincoln gets about 39%, but because it was so split and the way the electoral college works, he wins the presidency. the problem is a huge portion of the country, particularly the south, is going to feel like the guy that they didn't vote for, who didn't appear on a lot of deep south ballots, state of texas lincoln wasn't even on southern ballots in the state of texas. it's not like he was getting a whole lot of write in votes. there was no way they were going to vote for the republican. no. no, he's not. he's from the north. illinois to boot, all right? there's no way they were going to do it. so a huge portion of the country feels like, forget it. we didn't even vote for this guy. there are
breckenridge gets the slave owning south except for some of the border states. tennessee, kentucky, virginia go to john bell. okay? and what's interesting about this is how the vote breaks down. overwhelmingly lincoln wins the electoral college. he gets a clear majority of the electoral votes which is all you need to become president, okay? but in terms of the popular vote, lincoln gets about 39%, but because it was so split and the way the electoral college works, he wins the presidency. the...
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at her facebook page, somebody on her page wrote get well soon, rachel, stay away from the fish and breckenridge later on. >> maybe she had food poisoning, who knows. a lot of people are telling her to get well as well as it happens to everyone. you're a professional. no need to apologize. she's gotten a lot of support. >> our show is not live, and we would be lying if we didn't say we messed up. especially gayle. >> hey. >> potty mouth. put that in there. >>> high school kids seem to want to do stuff that will make them a legend. >> that's exactly what 18-year-old christopher day thought would happen. this is a video christopher made to invite people to come to a human house party inspired by the movie that came out earlier this month called project x. >> this guy wanted to have a house party that -- like this house party? >> that's exactly correct. >> here are some images from wsvn in miami and ft. lauderdale. >> as you can see in the video, they vandalized the house. so christopher broke into an unoccupied home and thought this is a great location. listen to more of what say. >> you can do an
at her facebook page, somebody on her page wrote get well soon, rachel, stay away from the fish and breckenridge later on. >> maybe she had food poisoning, who knows. a lot of people are telling her to get well as well as it happens to everyone. you're a professional. no need to apologize. she's gotten a lot of support. >> our show is not live, and we would be lying if we didn't say we messed up. especially gayle. >> hey. >> potty mouth. put that in there. >>>...
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yes, there are weirdos like breckenridge who i quote in roosevelt sometimes, but i think a my point is guantÁnamo serves all of our interest even if we don't like to admit it. you know, it's jack nicholson the do you want the truth? you can't stand the truth but i think there's an element of the a lot of one of people i met with in guantÁnamo and the military said that, even though they didn't have to. please. >> just a couple of points if i may. i was probably at guantÁnamo before you were born so i can envision which were talking about. >> 1970. >> really? i was there in the '50s. >> i was born before the '70s. [laughter] >> i guess i would like to say what is your solution to the present problem? because i would say that turning prisoners and the bay over to cuba is not a solution in my point of view, because they will let the prisoners go back home. and as somebody once said, how do you get rid of a prisoner of war? the idea is you surrender. now, in world war ii when italy surrendered, boston was loaded with italian prisoners of war. they didn't just say go home, they stayed he
yes, there are weirdos like breckenridge who i quote in roosevelt sometimes, but i think a my point is guantÁnamo serves all of our interest even if we don't like to admit it. you know, it's jack nicholson the do you want the truth? you can't stand the truth but i think there's an element of the a lot of one of people i met with in guantÁnamo and the military said that, even though they didn't have to. please. >> just a couple of points if i may. i was probably at guantÁnamo before you...