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To make things work, to make government of, by and for the people be just that. the movie "lincoln," especially the second half of the movie, the part about winning congressional passage of the 13th amendment to outlaw slavery is about washington doing its job. people get squeezed. they get paid off with jobs. in short, they get worked. go see "lincoln," or go back and watch "recount" and see how things work on the inside. thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "the ed show" with ed...

Lincoln because any of our presidents are going to come out lacking from that come parson. and i think what the movie showed is even this sainted figure in our history had to deal things like horstraiting and lots of ambiguity. we learned he prolonged bloodshed in the war so he could get the 13th amendment through. we saw he tried to buy out democrats by offering them federal jobs. what i think you would know now is if that sort of thing were going on, the tea party would stand up against lincol...

Lot of the bill fufilibuster. i heard from both sides about that. and i feel i came up with a view that was more balanced than it might have otherwise been. i hope i can play that role. and thats certainly the role i hope to play. im going to be on the rules committee, for example, to talk about things like campaign finance reform. this budget thing, the reason its not being resolved is the hard part is left to do. theres got to be more revenues. theres got to be more significant cuts. and there...

Lot of the bill fufilibuster. i heard from both sides about that. and i feel i came up with a view that was more balanced than it might have otherwise been. i hope i can play that role. and thats certainly the role i hope to play. im going to be on the rules committee, for example, to talk about things like campaign finance reform. this budget thing, the reason its not being resolved is the hard part is left to do. theres got to be more revenues. theres got to be more significant cuts. and there...

Hard. nobody wants to do it. >> heres where i agree with senator mcconnell. i think the president needs to take an affirmative step and say, look, weve got to do something here. he keeps saying it will involve revenue and cuts. call some people together. i dont know who they are. and start working on. weve all seen "lincoln." lincoln got his hands dirty negotiating the 13th amendment. and the president cant do it by remote control. i think he ought to call them up to camp david, lock the door an...

Before you said i have to put this up on the screen? >> i produced a segment of the millennial celebration for the clinton white house. during that time i convened a think tank including steven ambrose and burns and invited doris and she told me she was writing a book about lincolns presidency. at that moment, i said, are the film rights available? that day, i said are they available? i always wanted to do something on lincoln but not until i knew doris was the one to put it down on paper i thre...

Long -- >> i think three hours. >> on and on. it is amazing what -- >> lincoln, you see a little bit of this in the movie because it was an era you could make gaffes also. the longer lincoln was in office the shorter his speeches became because he didnt want to give people an opportunity to pick at things he said. the get tis berg address lasted a minute and a half and and the speech before lasted 2 1/2 hours. the other thing the movie does in the context of this election, you realize lincoln is...

Our deeds make those lives worthwhile. and that was the general tone of president obamas address. i dont think he had to go into the specifics. i think he had to make sure i have a lot of power, im going to use that power, exactly as lincoln says in the movie, im clothed with immense power, you get this 13th amendment passed and then in the days that follow you follow up with what youre going to do about video games, about gun control, the internet, et cetera. i think the tone of it was absolute...

Thank you and god bless america. >> coming up from our next hour, from the gettysburg address to the passage of the 13th amendment, well go inside the movie "lincoln." >> its absolutely an amazing movie. we have director steven spielberg here and historian doris kearns goodwin. theyre going to join us in a moment. >> stay with us. ♪ really? yep, and their network is super fast. so fast that i reacted to how fast it was but you missed it. ill show you in slow-mo. woooooooaaah. powww! well take ...

Make life better for people. we have such a cynical view right now of our politician bus what lincoln shows and what movie reveals is in the hands of people like abraham lincoln, who was a man, not an icon, its possible to have deep convictions. he was willing to go to war to save the union, to screw his second term to get that 13th amendment passed but decide those convictions, he was willing to compromise to do whatever was necessary to reach the goals. he never lo his connection it that popul...