even in keeping with what we re talking about tonight, to lincoln, his word was his bond. the most important thing to him was that he kept his word. for example, once he said he was going to issue the emancipation proclamation, there was huge outcry in the north. he said my word is out. it cannot come back. on the night he died, he had already told people he was going to go to the fords theater. he didn t want to go. the war was coming to an end. but he said my word is out, i told the people i d be there. i have to go. that is the most important thing of who linkon was. he had almost suicidal depression when he failed on an infrastructure project. to compare that with what s happening today when words mean nothing, they re taken back. we saw that hollywood access tape and we heard his voice.
steve: president trump did say and we just heard the sound bite from ford s theater last night this blood shed must end. this blood shed will end. he wants to do everything in his power to stop the violence. obviously one of the reasons he was elected president is a lot of people liked the idea of the temporary travel ban. and, in fact, that is the subject of something he was tweeting about last night. ainsley: that s right. this is what he said. we must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. if we don t get smart, it will only get worse. and then he goes on to tweet this, brian. brian: we need to be smart, vigilant and tough. we need the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as an extra level of safety. i understand the sentiment, but the travel ban would have halted in six or seven nations any type of travel because they don t have the proper background checks because we don t know who exactly they are. which you
performance of aladdin at grover s theater. [watch ticking]. tom hanks: with little more than 24 hours to live, abraham lincoln rises at 7:00 am and writes four brief messages, including one instructing acting secretary of state frederick seward to call a cabinet meeting for 11:00 am, then joins his family at breakfast to find his eldest son, robert, just returned from witnessing the surrender at appomattox. robert todd lincoln: general lee, stately, elegant. his uniform spotless. with a jeweled sword and shining spurs. and general grant, so shabby in a muddy blue uniform, borrowed from a private. abraham lincoln: [laughs]
dr. charles leale: stop, stop! [grunts]. abraham lincoln: [gasping breath]. dr. charles leale: [grunts]. william h. flood: the house opposite is closed. henry s. stafford: here, here! bring him here. dr. charles leale: go, go, go. man: clear the way, please. out of the way, please. tom hanks: lincoln is taken to a boarding house directly across the street from the theater and, due to his 6 4 height, laid diagonally on the bed of absent boarder, william clark. shorty after 11:00 pm, secretary of war edwin stanton sets up a headquarters in the back parlor of the house and establishes relays between there and the war department telegraph operators. he alerts general grant and calls him back to washington, issues emergency directives to police and military authorities, orders the national detective police, to initiate a manhunt for the as-yet unknown
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