Phillips discusses his historical narrativnarrative. Kevin phillips, at the end of your preference, you have a paragraph that says the year 177417 steny 5 had more than their fair share of unsung heroes. 1775 had more than their fair share of unsung heroes. What are you getting at . One of the things i like best about 1775, which was a much more spurned group of people, granted the Founding Fathers more Inspiring Group of people, granted, the Founding Fathers were not always seven out of the 10 counties, metropolitan washington, it is the country did is still great but a capital that is not. Would have predicted that . If anyone would have guessed that there would be a country of 300 million people, they may wouldnt come up with a bit of cynicism. But they were dedicated people. You say, during the last four years, during the campaign of 2012, you stuck your nose at this. The first time i did Something Like that was back in the 1990s. I wrote a book about the English Speaking civil war
Fair share of unsung heroes. What are you getting at . One of the things i like best more Inspiring Group of people, granted, the Founding Fathers were not always seven out of the 10 counties, metropolitan washington, it is the country that is still great but a capital that is not. Who back then would have predicted that . If anyone would have guessed that there would be a country of 300 million people, they may would have come up with a bit of cynicism. But they were dedicated people. You say, during the last four years, during the campaign of 2012, you stuck your nose at this. The first time i did Something Like that was back in the 1990s. I wrote a book about the English Speaking civil wars, the American Revolution. I did it thinking about bill clinton and newt gingrich. It was nice to take a vacation from those guys. When i ran out of gas writing books about politics and economics, which i did a number of between 2002 and 2008, i said it is time to go back in history again. Hop in
150th anniversary of the battle of the crater, thank you, and welcome to those who have not attended the program this evening. I want to, before we get started, thank yous, specifically for st. Pauls church for allowing us this wonderful venue for our programs earlier today and for the one were about to have here this evening. I would like to thank the rector of the church, rick greenwood. I would also like to thank this evening the senior warden of the church, steven tuck, and steven is in the back, so give him a round of applause because hes keeping this open for tonight. But again, its one of the things we try to do with the programs that weve been offering, especially today, and i dont think we could have had better venues being indoors today with the weather, but we were at Guilfoyle Baptist and i see, mr. Powell, youre here this evening and we appreciate the courtesy we were given this morning with your congregation and here tonight at st. Paul. We chose these two locations becau
Are what can only be described as a weekend of campaign chaos. Rally canceled, trump here on cnn accusing Bernie Sanders of instigating all of it. I say things like id like to punch him, frankly, this was a person that was absolutely violent, and was like a crazed individual. Lot of them are, you know, i dont call them protesters. I call them disrupters. Lot of them come from Bernie Sanders, whether he wants to say it or not and if he says no then hes lying. We have every angle of this covered. Senior washington correspondent brk bring is with us, executive editor for cnn politics mark preston, cnn political reporter niamalika henderson and bill press, Bernie Sanders supporter and political contributor to n cnn, Michael Nutter a Hillary Clinton supporter and former mayor as well. Thank you all for being with us. Brianna, give us the lay of the land. What can we expect tonight . Reporter i think were expecting perhaps fireworks. You remember the last couple of debates the most testy exc
And what if you reach the white house and theres no nation left to save . The United States is on the brink of civil war. The dispute is about whether the New Territories should become free states like the north or slave states like the south. Nowhere is the debate fiercer than in ottawa, illinois. Thousands have descended on this little town. Its the campaign for the u. S. Senate, and theyve come to hear Abraham Lincoln confront senator stephen a. Douglas on the issue that threatens to tear america apart slavery. The debates between lincoln and douglas drew enormous crowds. People are drinking. People are cheering. People are fighting. It was almost pugilistic, as if people were coming to a boxing match to watch these two heavyweights slug it out. Lincoln is a rookie politician, a member of the brandnew Republican Party. Just four years old, it was formed to end slavery. Hes an unknown, Abraham Lincolns career as a politician has been almost nonexistent. The only thing lincoln has is