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Spoke. the president is presumably in contact with his chief of staff and with white house staffers. mike pompeo just gave a no comment when he was asked if he knew what was going on with the deputy attorney general. both me and nikki haley have said they never heard about a discussion of the 25 th amendment while they were in conversations with the white house with the president. donald trump appears later this afternoon. hell be at the u.n. hes with a small pool of reporters that travel with h...

Official comes in and a month down the road curtails it, that might be behind closed doors. they may take steps to back off short of firing him that we dont see publicly for months to come. so you have to assume that this is a move against the mueller investigation, and the reason you have to assume that is because the president has made very clear in his own words what he thinks about this investigation. i think we have to treat this with the utmost seriousness as a direct attack. very similar ...

Several states are refusing to work, eat and comply with orders from officials until multiple concerns are addressed. among them, prisoner safety, amid a rash of inmate deaths and the meager wages inmates receive to work as farmers, manufacturers or major retailers and even firefighters. all for pennies on the hour. compulsory, yet legal, under the 13th amendment. joining me, a former inmate who is now a prison reform activist and douglas blockman, processor at georgedown and author of "slavery ...

Servitude with black americans that leads into what is -- the strike is all about. and what darren is talking about and i think a lot -- well, most people have no idea this was systemic, and we are still really in the middle of it being used. >> i think youre absolutely right. and you mentioned it in the setup. that the 13th amendment includes an exception, and the 13th amendment is what was supposed to end slavery in america forever, but it includes a phrase that says, slavery is still legal, i...

>> wait a minute, youve been in jail? >> yeah. >> in the county jail? >> yeah. >> center. >> mass incarceration has become an septembaccepted part of life poor people and black people in america. its so entrenched in our identity that we take it as the norm. its roots are buried deep in our troubled history. when slavery was abolished in america in 1865, the united states congress created the 13th amendment to the constitution, which essentially redefined the parameters of slavery. neither slave...

America. it is so entrenched in our nations identity we take it for granted and accept it as the norm. its roots are buried deep in our troubled history. when slavery was abolished in america in 1865, the united states congress created the 13th amendment to the constitution, which essentially redefined the parameters of slavery. neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been dully convicted exists in the united states. this clause ha...

Nations identity we take it for granted and accept it as the norm. its roots are buried deep in our troubled history. when slavery was abolished in america in 1865, the united states congress created the 13th amendment to the constitution, which essentially redefined the parameters of slavery. neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been dully convictey shall have been dully convictey exists in the united states. this clause has al...

Specially set aside to accomplish this task. he has our utmost gratitude. >> sherman orders 400,000 acres of land once owned by slaveholding planters to be divided up into 40-acres plots for freedmen, but after the war, the order is revoked and the land returned to plantation owners, just one of the many broken promises of reconstruction. >> savannah is ours, general. >> thank god no lives will be lost today. >> shermans march makes it possible for lincoln to push the 13th amendment through cong...

I must have your vote. >> the confederacy is clearly on its last leg, but lincoln works what we might call some political magic. ♪ lincoln decides that hes going to press, but these are democrats that he needs to convince to come over to the 13th amendment side of the house. >> mr. elly, im relying upon you not only for your vote but to secure two more at least. >> the 13th amendment is not desirable among all constituencies. my colleagues risk their political futures. >> i am the president of...

You dont get the votes purely from idealism, and lincoln is facing a very powerful opposition. >> lincoln and sherman are making a hard charge to the finish. shermans 285-mile crusade of terror carves a path of destruction, leaving much of georgia in ruins. now his ruthless offensive targets the heavily fortified city of savannah. >> and grant has not heard from sherman. do you think that the rebels have stopped him? >> no. >> i hope youre right, mr. president. >> mr. president. >> lincoln is re...