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Voted for president obama until november of 2016. i was not able to vote before that because i hadnt yet turned 18. i was raised up in the political space where he was the president, and he is saying he wants to enable young people to take on their civic responsibilities. part of that is coming back in and giving us the tools to navigate a situation that we were not prepared to navigate. theres talk about the 25 th amendment being pulled out. the president after obama being a president where peo...

State department, national archives, national constitution center and the new york historical society. he also owns one of only four surviving copies of magna carta. also on display at the archives. the 13th amendment and emans pags proclamation is amongst his possessions as well. the owner of all these and more, david rubenstein, the billionaire businessman, who made his money as the co-founder and co-ceo of the equity firm the carlyle group. i sat down to ask him why he collects these pieces o...

So-called stone engraving. he doesnt keep them in his living room, they are on display in washington, d.c. he also owns one of only four surviving copies of magna carta, also on display at the archives. the 13th amendment and the emancipation proclamation are on display at the new museum of african-american history and culture. the owner of all these and more, david rubenstein, the billionaire businessman who made his money as co-founder and co-ceo of the carlyle group. i sat down and asked him ...

York and los angeles combined. this lead to chicagos all new nick nak chiraq. this narrative -- many are painting this city with one big scary black brush when in fact like all cities with crime problems the violence is coming from specific areas with specific reasons. in chicago its the south a side and west side. while there are many factors the other that shouldnt be overlooked is being known as one of the most segregated cities in america. how segregated is it? im headed to the predominantly...

Segregated, im going to go ahead and bring my copy of the 13th amendment. do people talk about the notorious neighborhoods of chicago the south side and the west side? >> not really. >> so, why do you think those neighborhoods are so much worse? >> lower income, lower development, no jobs. >> yeah, and those seem to be the black neighborhoods. >> theyre not the white neighborhoods. i actually used to work over there. police would stop, id catch the bus. the police would stop and ask me if i need...

At the beginning of the war, robert e. lee freed his slafs. so its a little bit of not fair on history when the most popular southern general got rid of his slaves who were inherited. and when you look at the emancipation proclamation they freed the slaves in the south but didnt in the north. some of those states even after the 13th amendment, still kept slaves almost to the turn of the century going against the united states constitution. >> so theres so many things wrong with those claims, but...

>> it completely fits, though, i have to say, chris. and it fits sessions and his world view because its interesting that spicer and the executive order talking about the executive order was talking about this is a states rights matter, that this should be left to the states. what we decided at the time of the civil war and then had to tremendous decide again at the time of the civil rights movement in the 60s is that the federal government has a role to define what civil rights are and how we p...

Justice as the unique tool of the government, the police, the locus of power by which the federal government reaches down sometimes into the states to force compliance with federal civil rights law. >> absolutely. it is our -- it is their core role to ensure that the states are complying with the 13th amendment, the 14th amendment. look, the states were defined -- when we had the constitutional amendments, states spent a lot of time defying compliance and it was only when we had federal laws and...

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Wonderful movie called "lincoln." it was a master class watching president lincoln getting the congress to approve the 13th amendment. it was principled and it was strategic. >> she lied. now shes blaming the lie on the late great abraham lincoln. honest abe never lied. thats the difference between abraham lincoln and you. point trump. all know, abe lied a lot. rudy giuliani appearing on this network to say in no uncertain terms that hillary clinton was lying. >> she was completely lying about t...