Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121117:16:36:00
Claim him. he's become a universal symbol in that way. >> congressman meeks, earlier in the show you were talking about our history as a history of compromise. and i think you know, there's a kind of discourse about lincoln that is he wasn't stephens, right the kind of radical republican who was completely for social equality. he was maybe even himself personally a racist. and yet, lincoln gets the 13th amendment that ends slavery in this country. makes it unconstitutional. what is lincoln as a strategist teaches us for today. >> because of our president and just what he is. he's strategizing ...