good evening. i'm chris matthews in very snowy washington. that's the white house behind me. back to the future. last night president obama grabbed the torch from jack kennedy. he took the majestic team of a resurgent america and brought it alive. that speech was about the future, about the american future. it was a gung ho, early 1960s type declaration of can do. we have solved the seemingly unsolvable, we can do it again. i remember those words. jfk delivered them right across the street from here at the american university. last night the spirit was alive again, with education and research and smart investment, we can drive our country right past our global rivals like china, just like we flew past the russians on the way to the moon. plus rewriting history. we want to look at michele bachmann's dangerous and nonsensical claim that the founding father themselves eradicated slavery, yes, a member of the united states congress who has no basic grasp the american history.