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Selling the war in iraq. now information on how the bush administration decided from the very start to link saddam hussein to 9/11 to justify a u.s. invasion of that country. ten years later the administrations shameless deceit remains as disturbing as ever. also, is it time to get rid of the voting rights act? i wonder. i doubt it. an alabama county has filed a suit thats reached the supreme court saying with a black man in the white house, theres no need for federal protection of minority vo...

Death, president abraham lincoln is still fighting slavery. if it wasnt for the film "lincoln," the 13th amendment may have never been ratified in the state of mississippi. tonight in our survey, i asked you will republicans hurt average americans just to spite the president? 99% of you say yes. 1% of you say no. coming up, a brilliant, and i mean brilliant movie about an american family has received eight oscar nominations. oscar-nominated director of "silver linings playbook" david o. russ...

Was curious on what happened when the states voted for ratification. and learned the 13th amendment abolishing slavery was ratified with the required vote. but mississippi was among those to reject the measure. in months and years that followed many more states approved the amendment ceremoniously. even though that rejected it at first, eventually voted for it. except mississippi. which never officially ratified it. the state did pass a measure to ratify the amendment in 1995, but due to an over...

An alabama county has filed a suit thats reached the supreme court saying with a black man in the white house, theres no need for federal protection of m north votes. tell that to reince priebus. as you imagine, not everyone agrees. teams of rivals. the rivalries between presidents, obama versus clinton, bush versus bush. our different takes on presidents. and this just in mississippi ratifies the 13th amendment. the one ending slavery. what took so long? what do you think? details coming up...

Hung over energy secretary wakes up next to solar panel and thats a pretty good picture. not true, of course, but chu posted this on his facebook page with this cheeky message. >> i want my decision to not serve as energy secretary has absolutely nothing to do with the faux scandal. and connecticut congressman not pleased with the factual error in the movie lincoln that put his home state on the wrong side, and he sent dreamworks studios telling him so. you know this. connecticut congressmen all...

13th amendment banning slavery. if you asked most americans about lincoln, theyd say, i know that he was president during the civil war, that he was assassinated and they know about the gettysburg address and thats about it. maybe they know that the second inaugural address was an attempt to heal the country and i think by a fine stretch, the finest inaugural address ever given. but almost nobody knows the story of the 13th amendment. most americans dont even know the emancipation proclamation c...

Foundation of our democracy. >> steve: sure. and this was something bipartisan. there were democrats joining republicans. they wanted to read this. i know that democrat from georgia, john lewis, read the 14th -- rather the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery. applause from fellow house members afterward. and then the list went on and on of the in fact, you ran out of constitution before you ran out of members who wanted to read it. what, to you, congressman, strikes you as one of the things ...

The story was based. >> really this award is about tony mendez, hes an american history, he represents the clandestine service and the foreign service that is making sacrifices on behalf of americans every day. the troops serving overseas. i want to thank them. >> the movie "lincoln" about the politics of passing the 13th amendment was introduced by president bill clinton who could empathize with the 16th president. lets listen. >> a tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided house of...

Press so much. i want to thank you for encouraging people to talk more about politics. its a great year for that obviously and all the films. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was the director of game change jay roach. they got us talking about politics. ben affleck won for "argo" about the rescue of six americans who fled the u.s. embassy in tehran in 1979. he thanked the cia agent on whom the story was based. >> really this award is about tony mendez, hes an american history, he represents t...