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And competent secretary of state, henry seward. henry was more worldly than lincoln was, had traveled abroad quite a bit. that's why there's not a book about lincoln's foreign policy. if you put him at the center of foreign policy, lincoln didn't do everything. the things he did do were important. my goal in this book was to take a very episodic view of things and looked at things that lincoln did do in foreign policy without saying he did everything. >> now is lincoln's greatest challenge, i would guess, his greatest challenge is to stop the powers in europe from intervening on the side of th...

♪ here we are. well, hello there. >> hey, carl. we got to test our system. test our systems out. >> mccarthy -- >> erick cantor. >> robert taft. >> mr. taft's grandson wrote the book how the republican party of today had become like the republican party of mccarthy. i rest my case. >> you said mccarthy. >> bing. robert taft. let's talk about taft. >> with us from washington, we have nbc washington political

Toy store. >> toys "r" us has really captured the magic of having a stranger take your kids on a bus, lie about where they are going and then take off his clothes and promise them toys. >> that's terrible. oh, my gosh. coming up we all know president lincoln had his hands fulton domestic front but now a new book explains how his of end overlooked foreign policy had a huge impact on the rise of american power. the author joins us next on "morning joe". ♪

The beauty of a perfectly thrown assist. and the guy who said don't touch my junk became an american hero. there's a lot of writing about physics and space but in the end, and i intended to do a book entirely on that, in the end i realized that you can't do that because all these things, all the beautiful and elegant things, in the end depend on getting the politics right. you can have the most flourishing of cultures. you get the politics wrong and you got germany 1933. you get china during the cultural revolution. or if you don't want to look back historically you get today. north korea wher...

Elevated things in life and the other would be the writings i have done on politics, because in the end politics is the mode, it's the wall. i write this in the introduction which keeps away the barbarians and not just the foreign one, the internal ones, the barbarism inside. >> your life was shaped by some things but one person that had a huge impact on your life was your brother who you lost in 2006 to a bout of cancer. and he was doctor. talk about how he shaped your life. >> i write about him. it's the first column in the book. when he died, at the grave site i talked about him. and the re...