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and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so m ....
Done. but he got it done just barely. he got it done, courthouse, april 9th, 1865. less than a week later, abraham lincoln is dead a 30-year fight, and it was a 30-year fight, michael beschloss. and this doesn t just apply to lincoln. you look at, for instance, lbj who actually chided richard nixon for being too self-righteous on civil rights in 1957 when he was vice president. who did not have a great background fighting for civil rights, and yet what he did in 64 and 65, absolutely extraordinary. with lincoln, you had somebody who represented a run away slave ....
Ralph peters joins us strategic analyst and author of the new book judgment and appomattox which comes out next week. always good speaking to you. eric: speaking of appomattox, the final battle of the civil war, april 9th, 1865, just before robert e lee surrendered to general grant. is there any parallel between that and afghanistan today? what are the chances of the taliban even getting to the negotiating table, let alone surrender? i don t see any parallels there. but thanks for mentioning the book. there was an argument about the fate of our nation. for the taliban, it s really about faith, which goes even deeper. in afghanistan, as far as this problem goes, every american writer left has to hope that this works out. that the president s new plan designed by general mattis and the pentagon, that it really brings us forward towards something that looks like peace. but it s hard not to be skeptical. when one that you are the ....