Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121126:20:48:00
Allow it to be taken seriously as a book that tells us anything new about thomas jefferson and slavery, and what it does say is it's a book about henry wiencek with jefferson, enslaved people and the mountain thrown into slavery. she has -- her argument really is not with me but with mr. jefferson because what i did was simply to quote documents that she and other leading jefferson historians preferred to ignore. i brought them before the public. they're startling. they're ugly. they change our view of jefferson. i didn't like it when i found it. i didn't like writing about it. but there it is...