Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110412:17:40:00
To remember that the four days -- five days earlier, confederate general lee surrendered to grant. so the war was still ongoing. trial took place one month after the assassination of president lincoln. >> i was going to say, jim, here is a clip from the movie with tom wilkinson's character. take a watch. >> this is a frightened country, ed. you don't need to scare us anymore. >> who is to say that none of these things could happen? the unspeakable already has. our president assassinated, 600,000 dead, the world has changed. >> abandoning the constitution is not the answer. >> well, that's -- >...