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Joining us now is presidential historian, pulitzer prize-winning author, doris kearns goodwin. her latest book is called leadership in turbulent time. miss goodwin, it's really great that you made time to be with us here tonight. thank you for making this time on this weekday. >> very glad to be with you rachel. >> let me ask if i misconstrued the point that you were making today. i tried to play it without interruption. without any internal ended so people get here at the way that you presented it. because it sort of knock me off my share a little bit. let me just ask if i interpreted that lo...

Last night, the historian doris currents goodwin told rachael that passing the voting rights bill in the senate is the most important thing that can be done, right now, to prevent this slide into authoritarianism. we have big news on that effort. we'll talk about it next. t next hey joshie... wrinkles send the wrong message. help prevent them with downy wrinkleguard. feel the difference with downy. with clean, fresh ingredients, panera's new chicken sausage and pepperoni flatbread is a mouthwatering explosion of yes. craft? yes! heartiness? yes! living life to the flavor-fullest? heck yes. pan...

She brought it up, because of the unique resonance of that violence, that famous back to violence, having happened inside the capitol. that happened inside congress. the way the violence happened inside congress, on january 6th. we have had a lot of violence, in this country, a lot of political violence. but, inside the congress, inside the capitol? that resonates in a different way, in this country. just watch this. watch what goodwin says. >> -- i think the chilling thing about 1850s, when i think about the attack on senator sumner, anti slavery says -- the south carolinian congressman. it h...

When lincoln would be in his debates with stephen douglas, and the republican paper would be reporting on the very same debate, that the democratic party would be reporting on, when they report on the lincoln part of it, they say he was so triumphant he, was carrying doubt on this arms of his supporters. on the republican paper, it was that it was embarrassing -- we have some of those pearls are from the 1850s, the only hope is -- you're right it ended badly, obviously it ended badly with the seven war -- but out of that came would had to be done, which was to undo that original sin of slavery...