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What i think trump was doing he was conflating the nullification crisis in 1832-33 with the later march to war. and that was a moment where jackson, if he had been a pure states rights slave-owning man without any nuance, he would have actually been more on the side of those who wanted to pick and choose which federal laws they followed. but he believed instead, as he put it in his nullification proclamation, a document by the way that abraham lincoln called for as he was composing his own first inaugural, he said that the country was one great family and that we had to work out our difference...

What is i think unsettling, if you will, is that -- and with all respect to my friend gene, i think jackson has a lot to teach him if he would pause and think about it for just a moment a two. andrew jackson was a great unionist. his mother and his brothers died in the revolution. he believed that their blood had sanctified the union. what i think trump was doing he was conflating the nullification crisis in 1832-33 with the later march to war. and that was a moment where jackson, if he had been a pure states rights slave-owning man without any nuance, he would have actually been more on the s...

I still have friends trying to win the war, still talk about it, it doesn't make sense. and i can tell you, as somebody, as a press secretary, where my job was to do cleanup on aisle five when politicians would say dumb or crazy things, this one makes no sense. there doesn't seem to be any reason behind it. obviously, we can talk about history and andrew jackson and so forth, and i understand salena's point extremely well, but i don't understand why the president continues to go down either this rabbit hole or other rabbit holes that he goes down to. focus on jobs. americans are going to reson...

The constitutional sankty of that union. during his presidency, south carolina was threatening to us is seed from the union, and had that happen, other states would have gone with it. there was called the nullification crisis of 1832 when south carolina was alleging that it didn't have to follow federal law. that states were sovereign and didn't have to follow federal law. if the federal government required it to it would secede. it was jackson who famously said, this union is treason. and also said our federal union must be preserved. so jackson's connection here and i believe what the presid...

>> you mock me. >> no, i'm just kidding. >> it' crazy. >> i am not mocking you. i happen to read very short biography of andrew jackson. and here is the crazy thing. first of all. there was a compromise. it was called the missouri compromise. >> two of them. >> and -- right. two of them. >> and it blew up in the end, the face of the union and it created a lot of the problems that we had. also historically, the ironny of this is that 25 years before the civil war, andrew jackson was willing to go to war against the state of south carolina during the nullification crisis. when calhoun who was a ...