Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170502:06:25:00
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 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 ...