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Vice president and vice chairwoman of the board of directors of the african american veterans monument. thank you for joining me tonight, miss hodges. let me ask you this, a monument like this is the first of its kind. the date is also significant as this event came two days after the anniversary of the preliminary emancipation proclamation, the document was issued by president abraham lincoln on september 22nd 1862, that set a date for the end of slavery. first of, all congratulations on finally being able to see this project coming to fruition. but talk to me about what this monument intends...

The midterm elections we republicans lost something like 23 seats in the house. they lost their working majority in the house. think about that for a second, abraham lincoln lost a clear majority in the house of representatives in 1862. and so they lost the governorships of new york and new jersey. and we forget this, the civil war now feels in memory like an episode of star wars right. it was good guy versus bad guys. not the case. in the sense that there was a significant element in the north that wanted to end the war, that were not ferociously anti slavery and thought lincoln was too anti ...

Office. almost as though we are discussing the peloponnesian more, it's so long ago. in political time. those institutions held. again they held so far, but there are frail and fragile infallible. and we often pay as much attention as possible. >> i find fascinating that you say these might be the most consequential midterm elections since the civil war. how so? what are you expecting, what do you mean by that? >> in 1862, we are a nation at war. abraham lincoln has bravely both rejected compromise in the secession winter of 1860 61. there was an entirely rational deal on the table to preserve...

Your wallet than carrying around ones. it's cleaner because it's not used as much. throughout the history since 1862. $2 bill, a lot of misconceptions around it. it was viewed as unlucky. people used to cut off corners. they thought that would reverse the bad luck. today people think they're rare and scarce. that's not true. the treasury department still prints them. they're still in circulation. i've spoken to some $2 bill ambassador and there are $2 bill communities and subcultures. >> really? >> i spoke with a filmmaker who made a documentary about $2 bills. he said it's completely unapprec...

Candidates leaning into trump, getting them more to be more engaged. walk us through what you think the president is interacting in this midterm cycle? >> on the portrait part, if i were president, i would not commission a hyperrealist painter. something to obscure all this. i actually think there's something of a symbiotic corelationship between the current president and the former president in the fact that joe biden very much wants to make the race about donald trump. donald trump wants to make everything about donald trump. it serves both of their purposes. it sucks all the oxygen out of t...