lincoln? not enough of it to be a really compelling argument. not a gold digger argument. she sees qualities and him that others at first don't. most of the time when they met lincoln, what they thought they were meeting as one illinois acquaintance described it, when you met lincoln for the first time, it was like meeting a rough, intelligent farmer. and that of course could easily make you underestimate him. he made jokes about his own looks. and why shouldn't he? if he didn't, someone else would, so he would be them to the punch. a photographer said, as photographers will, just look natural. lincoln's reply was, that is what i am trying to avoid. on another occasion he told a joke about a man riding through the forest on the path and coming from the other direction on the path, a woman on a horse who stops and stares at him. very rude thing to do. he says, madam, what are you staring at? she says, you are about the ugliest man i have ever met. to which he says, well, i can't help that. but

that is where lincoln grows up. alas, that is also where lincoln's mother dies. lincoln's father goes back to kentucky, remarries, and lincoln now has a stepmother, sarah bush johnston. and what is almost an inversion of the old hansel and gretel story of the wicked stepmother, is actually something of the reverse for abraham lincoln, because sarah bush johnston really becomes his mother fully as much as a mother could be. she and her stepson abraham, they were copacetic, something that cannot be said about lincoln's relationship with his father, thomas. where the relationship being a good deal more tense. lincoln would once described his father his -- as the man who could bunglingly sign his own name. that is not a compliment. they are two different qualities. so different that when thomas lincoln once again picks up the family and moves westward across the wabash river to illinois, at that point young abraham, having turned 21, decides he is going to strike out on his own. and the moment he strikes out -- the home that he strikes out upon has very little in com

so he got on a train the day that lincoln was nominated in chicago, lincoln was not there. he was home, tradition of the day. and he got to lincoln's home town of springfield, the day after the nomination, and he said now i'd like to cast your hands, as well, because you are a national figure now and i want to make a full-length statue of you as i have done of my cousin, stephen douglas, who you just defeated. and he financed my art education in rome but you're the man. valerie: let's look at a picture of lincoln. can we throw that up on the screen. this is the photograph of the animal himself. harold: whatever the caption says it's 1864. it's not 1865. valerie: that's the mark on the print. in pen. you say in your essay that lincoln realized that in order to be taken seriously as a statesman, he needed to subject himself to make himself more readily available to painters and sculptors, artists. why is that? harold: he had been photographed from time to time. when that picture was taken, he was one of the most photographed men in the country. what a great choice because it

matt also says that lincoln was seldom forthcoming. lincoln did not lie to people. what lincoln told you was the truth. he didn't always tell you what was going on but he was someone that you could believe in in that particular way. it shows how he built those relationships and that trust with other people. i mentioned the harvard business review article talking about how do u.s. a leader get people through the situation? a lot of it comes down to trust. people have to believe you and believe that they know where you are going and why. >> is all the questions in the chat for now. if people have additional questions, now is the time to let us know so we can get them answered for you. >> joy, i have one if that's all right, again. i'm curious, we hear a lot about lincoln's relationship with his generals and the public. i'm curious if there are counts of his relationship with surviving children that show his emotional intelligence and that dimension of his intimate interpersonal leadership. >> i would say that my one complaint about the 2012 spielberg lincoln movie is

the first is, did lincoln ever newspaper, and if so, what was lincoln's reaction? harold: we have no evidence that douglasdescribed the dougla -- that lincoln ever subscribed to douglass's monthly. in those days having a subscription to an abolitionist newspaper, much less a subscription to an adolescent is -- an abolitionist newspaper published by an african-american was akin to subscribing to pornography. i'm not equating them. lincoln saw newspapers subscribed to by his liberal law .artner back in illinois he did not see "the liberator comical he did not see 's newspapers in their various names, but he surely knew what douglass would write. douglasy knew that called him a slave catcher. he pushed him. he was on of those nudging him along. did he read the newspaper that we know of, no. the valerie: next question, since most, or many slaves, were not permitted to read, was frederick douglass' broadside read by a few and then the words read or how was the word disseminated? harold: that is a great question. "men of colorat to arms" was aimed at free african-america

lincoln was always american. i would like to thank the men and women on the stage are always america. the a change in our policies required each of us to walk away from relationships and friendships and work. in the have built them over years. decades, that's how like a lot of minds. and i am old. it required all of us to walk away from comforts of our tribal past. placing great and not so great, men and women that we work for and fought for. they base themselves and abandon their principles. in diversified about low corruption and high treason and since in the white house today. but we have some great political philosopher once said. a particular set of skills. [laughter]. skills that make us a nightmare for people like donald trump. [applause]. we are called to this task. we fight hard. we fight very hard. sometimes you might think we fight a little dirty. that is the battle that we are in today. but we fight hard and we strive. we dare, but is called the station to do, to do our duty pretty ladies and gentleme

that lincoln did enough? harold: in 18 sick to fight at in 1865 atn, -- douglass said lincoln was emphatically the black man's president. of abraham a statue lincoln and said he was predominately the white man's president. but he adds, and he had 11 years the foundations of reconstruction and black lives were crumbling now, before or about tos, crumble, and it is hard to maintain black rights in the former confederacy. and he says that lincoln was predominately they white man's president. but, he may have seemed cool and indifferent at the time. but compared to the vast majority of his white brethren, he was radical, fierce and determined. message. a very mixed think, the greatest speech ever given about abraham lincoln, and one worth reading and rereading because it is so nuanced. basically, the other thing that makes it so challenging is he is unveiling the statue that is by today's standards politically correct. it shows the kneeling slave rising through the beneficence of abraham lincoln, it is clearly a

a huge fan of lincoln. my question is lincoln's ability to reach out to his political rivals and incorporate into a larger scheme, can you comment on that happening now? >> that's a great question. it would be much harder now because we have a permanent campaign he's already thinking of the second terminated lincoln's day those had a single term so today i think they are worried about giving a platform for their arrival to be used against them. these are all rivals of one another so they said terrible things about one another and they weren't talking to postmaster blair. can you imagine what would happen tonight the guys in the cabinet say these things about each other? unless you had lincoln to hold it together. i wish it was possible. with all the different aspects of the republican party all together in the same tent so it was easier to deal with them because they were outside. >>cspan: "washington post" says it's comparable to george w. bush is defense secretary. >> exactly knowing he was getting a plat

prize fore received a the best work on a bram lincoln. -- abraham lincoln. he is the author of a book on leadership lessons from gettysburg. he is currently working on a book about the battle of gettysburg. a certificate in experiential education from the national society of experiential education. please join me in welcoming jared. you everybodyhank for being here. i'm hoping that this can be kind of an interactive presentation as we go. several times i will ask questions and we will analyze a few things together. one will be via the chat function. we would like to have some of you be able to unmute yours elves and engage here live as well. the first question i would like when we saybody is, emotional intelligence, what is that mean for you? how would you define it? what are the examples that come to mind? i would love to see your thoughts around that. if you want to put one in the chat, that is great and if you want to alert us that you have some thing to share with us verbally, that would be great as well. i will be quiet for a few seconds to let you thin

we have the life-sized for the lincoln memorial. this is a famous sculpture of lincoln. i'd like you to tell us a bit about the reach of the casts that volk did and how subsequent generations of sculptors oh e aat debt of gratitude -- ow great debt of gratitude to volk for what he did. harold: in the absence of the living model, sculptors relied on volk. volk went on to create his statue. there's one in rochester and one in springfield. not enormously successful as public works of art. but he did reproduce busts, draped busts, non-draped busts, the hands themselves, the life mask itself. and he did very well manufacturing these reproductions so that sculptors eventually bought copies of their own. augustus saint-gaudens used the mask and the hands for his great standing lincoln in chicago and daniel chester french, of course, used the mask and the hands, which are preserved at chester wood, in stockbridge, massachusetts, to model the great lincoln memorial sculpture and no, they don't say "a.l." in sign language which is one of the myths about the hands in the lincoln me

resident lincoln was a builder. frederick douglass was a builder, elizabeth cady stanton was a builder. not builtave buildings, but they built belief, and they built movements, and in their own ways, they built the politics that so many of us knew about and expected for so long, and it is in that tradition and in their tradition and in their hallowed footsteps that we stand here and sit before you tonight, thatso what i asked is you permit me just a couple of minutes to talk about that building. we like to think about america as a home. for many of us who were born here, it was a home we have taken for granted. for those who have come here, like my ancestors and many of your ancestors, it was a home they could only dream of, and when they got here, they made the best they could of, but we must build a new political home in this country. the home we have is pretty ratty. it has got two sides that do not talk to each other. one side is actually blatantly on fire at the moment. [laughter] and so we must decide what tha

as of lincoln had to manage a divided order. and i was interested to learn more about how he built coalition and sustained a coalition. that is also interested in the third major question on slavery. in the emancipation policy and how it took shape in the degree to which emancipation gained political traction. so over the course of my research, i discovered the northerners were around the theme of deliverance. this was the union victories, that would uplift both southern whites and blacks alike. by delivering them from their elite slave holding secessionists who had held them under the thumb. as the northerners saw it rated to deliver to them, the blessings the free society. to put it another way, the soldiers marched off to war in 1961 believing that their purpose is not to conquer the south, but to save it. to save the southern masses from their own leaders. so i argue over the course of the book that this theme of deliverance was such a struggle the drew followers like a magnet to this cause and permitted lincoln not only to

lincoln center. >> you can't imagine a new york without lincoln center. it stands for the city. >> reporter: when president 1959, lincoln center was conceived as a world class complex. >> are you eager to perform in the new building here? >> excited as i can be. i can't wait. >> reporter: lincoln center's campus now spreads across some 16 acres. it's like a small city for the arts with the new york city ballet over there, the metropolitan opera over here, and across the plaza there, the new york philharmonic. but that's just the beginning. you have how many different stages here? >> there is 30 different stages. there is 11 different organizations. there is thousands of different people, and there is millions of audience members. >> reporter: you're completely shut down? >> well, the buildings are closed. but kind of the hearts of lincoln center are very much open. >> reporter: in solidarity with protesters on the city streets, lincoln center has devoted all of its signage on an entire block to black lives matter. and in weekly concerts on social media ca

it is white centered in lincoln's version of that. in the context of what had come before the argument that emancipation will have broad aspect is quite radical because it is a refutation of a 0-sum game about race relations and arguing defenders of slavery had made since colonial period with gains for african-americans who come at the expense of whites in lincoln and his allies rejected that. it is a big break with the past to reject this. it has to be noted and emphasized that lincoln has in a sense been following the lead of the true anti-slavery vanguard, and those enslaved people who have taken matters into their own hands, to flee from slavery and eventually joined the union. also very much "in depth" to figures like frederick douglas and other abolitionists who were building a case for abolition. if he didn't embrace it he embraced it in a way that was quite a thing from what had come before. >> emancipation also seem to play domestically and internationally and the concept of deliverance you are talking about that lincoln had

so lincoln the legal instrument that lincoln crafted to begin the destruction of slavery was crucial. and i think it accomplished the preservation of the union and the end of slavery in america. as the caller was calling from cleveland. cleveland soldiers and sailors monument in the civil war from which i once spoke has a really extraordinary acskping figure. there is a lincoln there but there's an african american there. the african american is not naked, not in a loin cloth and not in chains. he's holding a rifle. nd that is more than a nod but a tribute to the united states colored troops that with lincoln's encouragement and legislation and the words of the emancipation were recruited into the army and in fact fought for their own freedom, fought to make the paper of the -- the paper docket rin of the emancipation into a reality. host: shane, maryland on with our guest. caller: good morning, sir. i find it concerning that right now we're seeing the rampant blatant criminal destruction of american eye con graphy, which is supported by very local minority who praise the action of cr

and evidence that that private lincoln always load slavery on some level, up public lincoln driven by prop pragmatic concerns and balancing act of keeping his coalition together. we eventually on the eve of his assassination in his second inaugural in the last speech he gives he converging of that private and public lincoln as he really in some sense the key thing is once he knows Ãbhe can having learned what he learned he can speak in truly anti-slavery cadences to invoke the abolition in douglas it can't be emphasized enough how much the performance of african-american troops as a factor in lincoln coming to defend emancipation the way that he does in moral terms. >> our next question comes from joseph, joseph would like to know, how do you address those who continue to Ãbabout the cause of the war as opposed to economics and political power of slavery. >> this is something that we as educators about the civil war deal with all the time we observe, for example, about states rights states rights is not separate from the issue of slavery. that's a false dichotomy that the states rig

the lincoln memorial changed. after that it became the site for naacp meetings and the truman administration and forever transformed in 1963 when dr. king stood there and said he stands in the shadow of the man who wrote the emancipation proclamation to express his dream for a better world. so statue ks have meaning and they can inspire. they don't all have to come down with respect i say to the caller from louisiana. we have to be selective and we have to understand how powerful the impact of public monments are. host: so something a little bit in the modern day. princeton university professor deciding to remove the name woodrow wilson. what do you think might happen with the former president as far as where he stays or goes concerning his name? guest: well, woodrow wilson's certainly undergoing a reexamination. i'm going to be looking at his relation to the black press in my forth coming book and he was pretty bad on african american rights. he was born in virginia, he grew up in columbia, south carolina where s

on one hand, some people have been very critical of the lincoln memorial, saying look, abraham lincoln grew up in a log cabin, he had no money, he had no learning, and here we are representing him as a godlike figure. kirk savage, in his book a lot abouts talks how do we build monument said what should we say? he's quite critical of this idealizing, almost deifying of abraham lincoln. on the other hand, the lincoln memorial has become a very important location, not just because it is raised up on a podium with a great view of the mall, but because of its association with lincoln and the emancipation proclamation. so we saw marion anderson, a black anderson -- a black opera singer who sang on the steps of the memorial in 1939 and now we see martin luther king in 1963, speaking at the march on washington for jobs and freedom assembled before thousands and hundreds of thousands of people assembled. now, that spot has been marked by an inscription in the steps exactly where he stood. haven't seen it, it is a little hard to find because it's just an inscription in the pavement. sometimes if

and as a core war aid it emphasizes lincoln's pragmatism. to keep this entity together and not to alienate he knew those that identify themselves as an abolitionist so we know that link and experiments with those policies and with the emancipation. and to go back into the union. and with the series of appeals a long tradition of antislavery understand it - - standard narrative is where lincoln comes around when he observes the slavery against the enslaved. and with this activism is resistant that is eroding the institution and then is driven by a pragmatic believe that the abolition means on behalf of emancipation that is pragmatic and then to say as a means to an end written by pragmatism because of military necessity to take resources away from our enemy. i recognize the value of that narrative but as it comes around where abolition on --dash evolution but with the emancipation so it would benefit opening the way free speech and economic prosperity. and then to remove the source of contention, it will displace that slaveholding society. an

lincoln succeeded by andrew johnson. his vice president, became president when lincoln was assassinated. in the old view of reconstruction, johnson was sort of the hero pretty strike to step to the radical republicans pretty try to keep the south from under control of the white americans. in the radicals fulton. but he was defender of the constitution. now johnson is considered, one of the worst, maybe the worst president in american history. there were other contenders for being considered the worst president in american history. johnson is one. it was deeply, completely different from lincoln in every way. he was deeply racist. he was stubborn and unable to listen to criticism. unable to change his mind pretty didn't know how to work with congress. no sense of public sentiment. i ended up getting himself impeached, first president tried before the senate. he was acquitted. inconceivable that lincoln would have gotten him something to that kind of pics. so what might have happened. the battle between johnson and congres

lincoln -- the members of lincoln's cabinet, very often groaned when lincoln would start to tell a story. because they knew these stories would go on and on and there was business to be done. sometimes the stories had a point, a moral. for example, at the end of the civil war, when jefferson davis was on the run and nobody could quite figure out what to do with him, lincoln did not want to try him for treason. lincoln wished that the davis problem would simply go away. lincoln was all in favor of a very speedy and lenient reconstruction. but he had to have sort of some policy about what to do with confederate leaders. lincoln said it brings me in mind of this baptist that i used to know. this baptist was quite opposed to the use of any alcoholic beverages. but he came down with a fever. and his doctor prescribed a certain amount of whiskey, once a day. and the baptist couldn't decide whether to follow his consequence conscious or his doctors orders. he told his wife, there's a punch bowl over there and if unbeknownst to me you could slip a little bit of that whiskey into the bunch, then

ultimately, abraham lincoln was totally silent on this. the governor was sort of friendly to the rioters, because he called them my friends, but ultimately, lincoln authorized the deployment, this is going to sound eerily familiar, the deployment of federal troops, who were dispatched from the gettysburg area north on trains, and they ultimately fired their weapons downtown, and that ended the riots. valerie: we have one more image of fires. there were lots of burning buildings. is the armyhere facing off against the rioters. i think the rioters here are a little better armed, to give you a sense of the chaos. but we will never know the fatality rate. they say there were 120 deaths and 8000 injuries. you is a lot in 1863, when are dealing with a portion of the population. but i don't believe the 120 figure. i don't think african-americans pushed off the docks were counted, and people whose bodies were burned weren't counted, so i would say it was 10 times as high as we have been led to believe. valerie: what happened to the three heaven do

what was lincoln's response? >>'s initial response is "not my decision, let's go over to the navy board tomorrow and show it to the sages of naval warfare," which they did. they met and showed it to the naval board. they all looked at lincoln for his cue, he looked at them, and finally lincoln, in his immortal words, not the greatest of theon, "it reminds me story of the young woman who pulled out her stockings and said i think there is something in it." i don't know if they got this, there is something in it, but they went to work immediately. i think it was a yes. >> that's a go. it was a good thing, because the confederates were building this ship. they rushed to new york with the model and got to work on the actual ship. shows image that sort of the launch of the monitor. i feel a certain kinship to the monitor, because it was built in my mother's ancestral home of greenpoint. there is still an ericsson park there. my mother went to the monitor school in 1921. it is still there, built in the 1890's. ships a b

i represent lincoln's tomb. lincoln's home. the old state capitol where abraham lincoln delivered his ouse divided speech in 1858. it's in my congressional district. it was there where lincoln not only spoke out against slavery and specifically the dred scott decision, but stood unequivocally in support of a free country, famously saying, a house divided against itself cannot stand. i believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. i do not expect the union to be dissolved. i do not expect the house to fall. but i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other. lincoln and many others who stood for freedom are represented throughout this capitol. there are others that symbolize the opposite. while we cannot erase our past, and should do everything we can as whip clyburn just stated, we should do everything we can to learn from it instead, the statues in the u.s. capitol represent to visitors throughout the world what we stand for as a nation. i support this impor

the lincoln memorial changed. after that it became the site for naacp meetings and the truman administration and forever transformed in 1963 when dr. king stood there and said he stands in the shadow of the man who wrote the emancipation proclamation to express his dream for a better world. so statue ks have meaning and they can inspire. they don't all have to come down with respect i say to the caller from louisiana. we have to be selective and we have to understand how powerful the impact of public monments are. host: so something a little bit in the modern day. princeton university professor deciding to remove the name woodrow wilson. what do you think might happen with the former president as far as where he stays or goes concerning his name? guest: well, woodrow wilson's certainly undergoing a reexamination. i'm going to be looking at his relation to the black press in my forth coming book and he was pretty bad on african american rights. he was born in virginia, he grew up in columbia, south carolina where s

first, the lincoln memorial for a quick pause. you may know that lewis spoke at the 1963 march on washington, criticizing kennedy liberals for inaction on civil rights and calling for massive help for the poor. the speakers addressed the march attendees from lincoln memorial. a very quick pause there, but the first stop, we are told, will be the mlk memorial. john lewis rode to reverend ralph abernathy for help in suing for the right to enter troy state college. he met the doctor king when he was 18 years old, and lewis was also at the dedication ceremony for the statute in 2006. significant for him, mlk memorial, after a brief pause at the lincoln memorial and then, as i understand it, they will revisit that lincoln memorial on the days events today. now we will continue on with "outnumbered." alveda king, the niece of dr. king, is with us now. the mlk memorial, i was just talking about, alveda, why it was so important to go there and make that the first full stop for the congressman's casket. >> alveda: well, my uncle, dr. marti

the draft was introduced by abraham lincoln. he introduced us to the military draft and to federal income taxes. and again, the rich man's exemption was a big mistake and it was never employed again. >> the next question is did the wealthy people flee during the riots? >> there wasn't as much mobility as there is now. the new york exhibition, we came across a count of wealthy people who were terrorized and hidden in their attics. most of the rioters who went after private homes were interested in property and we of peopleeat story finding engraved portraits of abraham lincoln in someone's home and throwing them out the window and seeing them trampled in the streets. so i don't think people had the mobility that they do today. horace greeley on the other hand got out of town and went to his country home. >> why were black men not eligible for conscription? eligible forwere conscription and enlistment. the new york culture was not yet ready to organize black regiments. you don't just join the union army. you have to sign up with a

marching boy scouts that carried flags of the united states from the lincoln memorial to near the white house. here, the largest american flag in the capitol flew above the flags of the 56 states and territories. citizens of all ages brought their small american flags to place them in beds of white sand which formed letters usa. >> in the evening, there was a two hour, 45 minute show featuring american film, television and recording stars and hosted by world famous comedian bob hope. >> we have to run along. here's a gal we are so happy to have with us. she's one of the most beautiful gals in the world. she's miss black america. ms. g.o. smith. right here. [applause] ♪ i run to washington square no matter where i run i meet myself there looking inside me what do i see anger and hope and doubt what am i all about new and where am i going where am i going where am i going ♪u tell me >> the minstrels sang, this land is your land. >> ♪ this land is your land this land is my land from california to the new york island from the mountains and forest this land was made for you and me this

lincoln furniture in it. when lincoln lived here, the room was his office. when truman redid the house in the late '40s and early '50s, he set up that room, the room we now call the lincoln bedroom, to commemorate the fact it was lincoln's office, and it was the room that he signed the emancipation proclamation in. so the room itself is really a shrine, i think, to american history. truman redid the room then, in that renovation, and it had never been refurbished since. and really needed it. the carpet was over 50 years old, and so i worked with the white house historical association, the preservation board, who are furniture curators, art historians, wallpaper specialists. the real scholars. and the white house curator, of course, and we looked back at the wallpaper lincoln had in his office, at the carpet he had in his office, and we did reproductions of those. and then we had old photographs of the way mary todd lincoln had draped the lincoln bed with the purple and gold and fringe and lace. really high vi

abe lincoln, honest abe. i've always said i could be more presidential than anybody, but i'm not sure i could beat honest abe when he wears the hat. that hat is too much. >> the 45th president of the united states commenting on the 16th to take us off the air tonight. that is our broadcast for this friday evening and for this week. thank you so very much for being here with us. please have a good and safe weekend. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >> i just walked in like i normally would. i notice kim lying at the base of the bed, facedown, then i saw zip ties tied around her ankles and her feet. still can't wrap my head around it. she was always helping others. now she needed help. >> i don't know what happened. please send an ambulance fast. his beautiful wife, dead in their bedroom. >> something very violent had occurred here. >> you could see the bullet holes in the wall. had he been keeping secrets. >> i said, "what about a girlfriend? he said, "there's a lot going

have you heard of this anti-trump group named the lincoln project? "the ingraham angle" dig some digging and we will bring you theou findings. and then jeanine pirro will be here to respond. that t is next. ♪ inin ♪ >> laura: there is a new media darling out there. >> we have the toughest and most creative anti-trump ads out of this election cycle are being made by republicans. >> the lincoln project is out with another devastating ad targeting donald trump. >> anti-trump ads with the president ads seem to be driving the trump world crazy. >> laura: thatrg is fun. you have seen the ads, but what do we really know about this group called the lincoln project? of course, with a name like that the hope is to tricked the republicanshi by giving mony to staunch conservatives. while they try to save the country, don't be fooled. the lincoln project was not pounded by principled conservatives but disgruntled never trumpers and bush utopias with big government and globalism on the vast majority of republicans. and make no mistake, they have nothing but ut

abe lincoln, honest abe. i've always said i could be more presidential than anybody, but i'm not sure i could beat honest abe when he wears the hat. that hat is too much. >> the 45th president of the united states commenting on the 16th to take us off the air tonight. that is our broadcast for this friday evening and for this week. thank you so very much for being here with us. please have a good and safe weekend. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. if it is, you know, late on a friday night in the late stages of the donald trump administration, then, yes, you guessed it. we've just had a new adventure in the decline and fall of the rule of law. one of the things that has happened tonight, which actually has been squoze out of the headlines is the president's attorney general has just ousted another federal prosecutor whose office was handling sensitive cases related to the president. this

john revered president lincoln. his identification with lincoln was clear. 57 years ago at the shadow of the lincoln memorial where john declared our minds, souls and hearts cannot rest until freedom and justice exist for all people. words that rang true today. mr. leader, i too was there that day. between then and now, john lewis became a at a tititan of the ci rights movement and then the conscience of the congress. here in congress john was revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the capitol. we knew that he always worked on the that he is with them. we are comforted to know that he is with his beloved lillian. may it be a comfort to john's son, john miles, and the entire lewis family, michael collins, the entire staff, that so many mourn their loss and are praying for them at this sad time. god truly blessed america with the life and leadership of john lewis. we thank you for sharing him with us. may he rest in peace. john lewis often spoke of a beloved community, a vision that he shared

have you heard of this anti-trump group named the lincoln project? "the ingraham angle" takes him some digging and we will bring you to your findings. and then jeanine should pyro will be here to respond. that is next look here, it's your very own all-in-one entertainment experience: xfinity x1. it's the easiest way to watch live tv and all your favorite streaming apps. plus, x1 also includes peacock premium at no extra cost. this baby is the total package. it streams exclusive originals, the full peacock movie library, complete collections of iconic tv shows, and more. yup, the best really did get better. magnificent. xfinity x1 just got even better, with peacock premium included at no additional cost. no strings attached. ♪ >> laura: there is a new media darling out there. >> we have the toughest and most creative anti-trump ads out of this election cycle are being made by republicans. >> the lincoln project is out with another devastating ad targeting donald trump. speak with anti-trump ads with the president ads seem to be driving the trump wor

john revered president lincoln, his identification with lincoln was clear. 57 years ago, at the shadow of the lincoln memorial, where john declared our minds, souls, and hearts cannot rest until freedom and justice exist for all people. words that ring true today. mr. leader, between then and now, john lewis became a tielten of the civil rights movement and then the conscience of the congress. here in congress, john was revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the capitol. we knew that he always worked on the side of the angels, and now we know that he is with them. and we are comforted to know that he is with his beloved lillian. and may be a comfort to john's son, john miles, and the entire lewis family, michael collins, the entire staff that so many mourn their loss and are praying for them at this sad time. god truly blessed america with the life and leadership of john lewis. we thank you for sharing him with us. may he rest in peace. john lewis often spoke of a beloved community, a vision he shared with reverend martin luther king jr., of a community connec

let's be clear, i think there's nuance, abraham lincoln in this particular statue. there's nothing wrong with the statute dedicated to abraham lincoln and his work emancipating the slaves but there's a problem with the statue that has a newly freed african-american man kneeling to him. lincoln himself when he went to richmond in april 1865 said don't kneel to me, that's not right. you must kneel to god only and thank him for the liberty you will enjoy. lincoln didn't agree with the idea of the statue and that's the important part for viewers to understand. >> julie: that is very important. where do you draw the line when it comes to taking down the statues or is it a no win situation from some democrats like biden? >> i think the key is, you're right, we need to tear down statues of confederate generals and leaders. they are traitors. but the process needs to be with any of these things, the proper channels. it's not mobs in the middle of the night. it's the governor, the mayor and the like. mobs in the middle of the night, they tear down the statue like they did of

lincoln had known it would not. pre--- such a decree, surely, could not be more binding than the constitution, and that cannot be enforced in the part of the country right now. the proclamation would only free the slaves after union and peace. and on august 6, 18 64, it was said that peace must come through the negotiations of grant and sherman. william tecumseh sherman, red bearded and perhaps half mad, but seeing in a way that perhaps only the half mad to see. sherman realized hatred had become the driving force of the work. he accepted this. thename, he said was to rip rebels, humble their pride, follow them to their recesses and make them fear and dread us. he did. atlanta, georgia. sherman, first to realize technology had changed the classics of warfare, was the first to strike at the source of the armed power instead of the armed power itself. 99 years ago today, he battered his way into atlanta and began the ruthless disruption of the city. rail lines were ripped up. bonfires were dealt with the ties and the

the lincoln of the 1850s is not the lincoln of 186 had 3, the time of the emancipation pr proclamation. so incon also said that slavery was evil. the question is what to do about it. and during the sooifl war, he decided to make the big play. we wish that he could have made that decision before. he didn't. but in the context of the civil war, he did, so lincoln would never have said that slavery was a necessary evil when he was president and overseeing the fight. >> before we run out of time, we talked about it just a little bit. senator cotton wants to stop the 1619 project, and the 1619 project is left wing propaganda. it's revisionist history at its worst. some of the stories did take issue with the project, and slavery was a main reason why the columnist reclaired independence. give me a response to that? >> we should be concerned that a powerful senator wants to use the force of a government to stop the work of journalism from being taught in public schools. that to me is in direct con ticket witext with the first amendment that we hold near and dear. it was not intended to replac

throughout the civil war, the nation was led by abraham lincoln, a politician from the declaration of independence has played an incredibly important part throughout the course of his political career. he often asserted his believed that the declaration is the great fun of a principal upon rests in itsedom labor is a violation of those principles. lincoln called on the american people to read off the declaration of independence and limit the practices and policies with statements. war,e time of the civil lincoln could have allowed confederate states back into the youth if they had simply want to reenter. even if they had not denounced slavery. but all that changed in 1953 with in 1863 with the emancipation reclamation. that same year, during lincoln's renowned gettysburg address, he drew the nation's attention to the commitment of the declaration of independence, stating, "our fathers brought forth in this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." raising the conflict to idealistic pinnacle union victory came linked

lincoln won the civil war. he issued the emancipation proclamation. he led the passage of the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery for all time. and ultimately his determination to preserve our nation and our union cost him his life. for as long as we move americans will uphold and revere the immortal memory of president abraham lincoln. theodore roosevelt exemplified the unbridled confidence of our national culture and identity. he saw the tower, grandeur of america's mission in the world and he pursued it with overwhelming energy and zeal. as a lieutenant colonel during the spanish-american war he led the famous rough riders to defeat the enemy at san juan hill, cleaned up corruption as police commissioner of new york city, then served as the governor of new york, vice president and at 42 years old became the youngest ever president of the united states. he sent our great new naval fleet around the globe to announce america's arrival as a world power. he gave us many of our national parks including the grand canyon. he oversaw the construction of

the location was the front of the memorial to abraham lincoln. and it was here that american entertainer pat boone opened the proceedings by introducing the star-spangled banner. america's national anthem. >> friends, this song was written at a crossroads time, a time of crisis in our nations over 100 50 years helped unite americans, and we stand today at a crossroads and in a crisis time let's all sing the song with love and conviction. ♪ oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we , watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ >> eagle scout don pickets, an indian of the pawnee tribe, led the large audience in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states

his identification with lincoln was clear. 57 years ago, at the shadow of the lincoln memorial where john declared our minds, souls and hearts cannot rest until freedom and justice exist for all people. words that ring true today. mr. leader, i see -- between then and now, john lewis became a titan of the civil rights movement and then the conscience of the congress. here in congress, john was revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the capitol. we knew that he always worked on the side of the angels and now we know that he is with them. and we are comforted to know that he is with his beloved lillian. it may be comfort to john's home and the entire lewis family, michael collins, the entire staff that so many mourn their loss and are praying for them at this sad time. god truly blessed america with the life and leadership of john lewis. we thank you for sharing him with us. may he rest in peace. john lewis often spoke of a beloved community, a vision he shared with reverend dr. martin luther king jr., of a community connected and uplifted by faith, hope, and

i represent lincoln's tomb. lincoln's home. the old state capitol where abraham lincoln delivered his ouse divided speech in 1858. it's in my congressional district. it was there where lincoln not only spoke out against slavery and specifically the dred scott decision, but stood unequivocally in support of a free country, famously saying, a house divided against itself cannot stand. i believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. i do not expect the union to be dissolved. i do not expect the house to fall. but i do expect it will cease to be divided. it will become all one thing or all the other. lincoln and many others who stood for freedom are represented throughout this capitol. there are others that symbolize the opposite. while we cannot erase our past, and should do everything we can as whip clyburn just stated, we should do everything we can to learn from it instead, the statues in the u.s. capitol represent to visitors throughout the world what we stand for as a nation. i support this impor

the location was at the lincoln memorial and it was here that pat boonee opened the proceedings by introducing the "star spangled banner," america's national anthem. >> this song was written at a crossroads sign, at a time of crisis in our nation's history. we stand today at the crossroads and a crisis time. let's all sing this song with love and conviction. ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ramparts we watched were so gallantly gleaming and the rockets red glare the bombs burting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ >> an eagle scout led the large already pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands. one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> it was a time for recalling the words of the man at whose memorial they had as

lincolnered president in the shadow of the lycan memorial, where john declared that the lincoln memorial, where john declared that -- the lincoln memorial, where john declared words that ring true to this day. [indiscernible] between then and now, john lewis became a titan of the civil rights movement and the conscience of the congress. --e in congress, genres in congress, john was revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the capitol. we know he worked on the side of the angels, and now we know he is with them. we are comforted to know he is with his beloved lillian. it should be a comfort to his son john miles, the entire family, and the entire staff that so many mourn their loss and are praying for them at this sad time. god truly blessed america but the life and leadership of john lewis. we thank you for sharing him with us. may he rest in peace. john lewis often spoke of a beloved community that he shared with the reverend dr. martin luther king jr., of a community connected and uplifted by faith, hope and charity. indeed, john had deep faith, believing that e

the lincoln project, friend, foe or fraud? there is this kind of strange alliance between anti-trump republicans and democrats. what happens to that alliance if the president does lose in november? how long does this strange marriage last? >> well, craig, look pal, we burned our boats and bridges when we did this. there's no going back here. when we announced what we were doing, we said we wanted to be part of a grand coalition that dispatched trump and trumpism. people forgot about the trumpism part, and that includes the senators who, out of cowardice or careerism, self subjugated themselves to donald trump. if we're so fortunate to get rid of the main zombie, there's still other zombies rolling around the body politics, people like tom cotton and josh holly and these maga governors in florida, texas, georgia and arizona, who are so afraid of defending the president that they were literally willing to sacrifice their citizens as opposed to doing the right thing in terms of the covid pandemic. we're not going back. we have a

the lincoln of the 1850s is not the lincoln of 1863, the time of the emancipation proclamation. his ideas on slave of african americans has shifted by then. lincoln always said slavery was evil. the question is what to do about it. and during the civil war, he decided to make the big play. we wish that he could have made that decision before. he didn't. but in the context of the civil war, he did, so lincoln would never have said that slavery was a necessary evil when he was president and overseeing the fight for our union. >> before we run out of time, we want to make sure we get this. we talked about it just a little bit. nikole, senator cotton wants to stop the 1619 project being taught at school, as school curriculum. saying the 1619 project is left-wing propaganda. it's revisionist history at its worst. some historians did take issue with the project mainly, that slavery was the main reason wthy declared their independence. give me a response to that? >> we should be concerned that a powerful senator wants to use the force of a government to stop the work of journalism from

just as lincoln did, he warned the confederacy. i want to be part of you but if you don't want to be part of me, it's not a very wise decision on your part because we have bluera state mayors and governors who deliberately do not enforce the law. we have corporate ceos, we have retired generals, we have university presidents who know better. but either out of weakness or timidity or fear, they are allowing people to change our customs, our traditions, our icons, and our reverence. and somebody has to say, we are not going to do that. we don't want to offend you, we don't want to go to war with you, but we are not going to let you, a minority, dictate to a majority that is trying to keepp all wonderful nation, the only multiracial democracy that has ever worked in the last 244 years. >> raymond: i want to share this with you all. a sioux tribe leader, julian bear runner, says the president doesn't have permission from mount rushmore is original, sovereign owners to be here tonight. listen.od >> i sent out a letter today to mr. trump