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Militaristic to the legislative with a panel that includes a Pulitzer Prizewinning historian annette gordonreed and james mike pearson. Its about one hour and 20 minutes. Over the new years weekend 9100 people visited the abuilding for the proclamation. Some were sitting by for hours for the time to read the words forever free and to see Abraham Lincolns signature. Although it didnt end slavery in america it fundamentally changed the character of the war. Overnight the union became a war for hum...

And after the war. Some talk of choosing a name tabare as a free person and others describe the long searches to reunite their families. Milestones denied to and enslaved population, marriage, going to school now become popular for free people and our tremendous holdings that contains stories of the struggles and achievements. Historians on the panel looked at the records and as other Research Institutions and the investigations we are lucky to have them with us tonight. Leading the discussion t...

Good morning. Im Melissa Harrisperry. If i asked you what day is november 5th and you answered, duh, melissa, its tuesday, instead of, enthusiastically offering the alternate correct answer, its election day in america well, youre in good company. Because its election day 2013, an odd number, which makes this an off year election. And well, to be honest, we tend not to get too excited about off year elections if voter turnout is any indication. In fact, its not uncommon for voter turnout percent...

Battle before the fiscal cliff . And the closings are sparking protests and outrage. Right now im terrified. Im terrified. They had to live on what most of us work at and live on, they couldnt make it. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york. Its day two of the Government Shutdown. So far Party Leaders are digging in their heels, but could they be about to break under the pressure . The president has called john boehner, nancy pelosi, Mitch Mcconnell and harry reid to the white house this after...

Hill. There is extraordinary developments unfolding on the house floor by democrats who are doing this sit in. Im going to bring in Michelle Kaczynski in a moment for new information we just gotten. It says around midnight theyre going to come back for a procedural vote to end the legislative business for the day. Usually a voice vote. But expected it will be a role call, a role call vote after that, they will adjourn for the night. Typically the lights are turned off when the house add adjourns...

Republican conference, their caucus is holding a surprise meeting on the controversial rules change. Will they change it . Stay tuned. First, fight. Today the president elect weighing in on the timing of that ethics battle, saying there are so many other things of far greater importance. And manhunt, a dragnet across turkey as Police Search for the suspect in that nightclub shooting which left nearly 40 people dead. Theyre trying to find him before it is believed he tries to escape the country a...

Going to stop. The latest being i think it was monday january 23. And so we were balancing that with the need of an Investigative Agency to be able to complete its investigation and not to have any kind of notification negatively impact that investigation. But when those final misrepresentations were made on the 23rd, the fbi then interviewed general flynn on the 24th. We got the readout of that on the 25th. Then i called first thing on the morning of the 26th to go over and make the notificatio...

Expectations, maybe even be in contention. That i mean in a trump plus 18 district, thats remarkable enough. But to have this race in georgia where trump won by less than two and where jon ossoff has been such a good candidate and karen handel has been such a bad candidate, i wouldnt want to be dealing with the kind of pressure that jon ossoff is dealing with tonight. And theres the trump factor. Tomorrow night were going to be talking about what did trump mean here in this election. We may have...

Fabulously corrupt convicted republican super lobbyist, jack abram off. He alsoer represented john edwards quhefs charged with illegal i using Campaign Contributions to pay for the Living Expenses for his secret second family that nobody knew about. Abby lowell has been the defense lawyer, he has been the defense lawyer in the middle of taunl of lurish d political scandals. Jim wright who was the first speaker of the house to ever resign in scandal, he had he abby lowell as his lawyer. And the m...

He also remitted john edwards when he was charged with using Illegal Campaign contributions to pay for the Living Expenses for his secret second family that nobody knew about. Abbe lowell has been the defense lawyer hes been the defense lawyer in the middle of taunl of lurid political scandals. Jim wright who was the first speaker of the house to ever resign in scandal, he had he abbe lowell as his lawyer. Dan ross tin kowsky who went straight from being chairman of the ways and Means Committee ...