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excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. >> they think war is a glorious thing and let's go and do it. >> but in the spring, lincoln's overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from the top of a hotel. and ellsworth, for one, was offended. >> ellsworth led a band across the river ...

This evening, the Rachel Maddow show starts now. Early for a change. I have something to spend this time doing. Exactly. Thanks, my friend, appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Very happy to have you here tonight. Who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter . I took typing class and it was on a typewriter. Im that old. Typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. You pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm, a little bar would swing up from the guts of the keyboard and smack that letter into the inked typ...

Detail. committee chairman bennie thompson made it plain, saying donald trump spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the constitution to march down the capitol and subvert american democracy. he also laid out why insurrectionists should not serve in official positions, highlighting the post civil war change to the federal oath of office. >> in 1862, when american citizens had taken up arms against this country, congress adopted a new oath to help make sure no person who had supported the rebellion could hold a position of public trust. therefore, congress persons and united states federal govern...

>> no question. the clause was stated in an absolute categorical terms that the president, and no federal official can take any money of any kind whatsoever in the monumental office where the president has a title from the prince, king, or foreign government without the explicit consent of congress. and every other president in our history has scrupulously obeyed that command. abraham lincoln, in 1862, in the middle of the civil war was given to elephantiasic by the king of santa. he turned them over to >> -- it appears he wanted to keep somebody said no you can keep, them turn them over to th...

Event includes discussion on the Fort Snelling concentration camp during the U.S. Dakota War of 1862.