Susan steve inskeep, your book is entitled imperfect union how john and Jesse Fremont helped cause the civil war. Why did you believe the story of a 19thcentury power couple would have resonance today . Steve it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closest together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people
Late night bull session last night which a lot of my democratic colleagues in detroit did as well. Im sure a few of you stood up to watch the democratic debates. I have to admit, i did not. I read the recaps this morning and seems like much seasoning and thoughts by the democrats have not yet made them come to their senses. Understand were still advocating for decriminalized just decriminalizing our border illegally and deporting no one and in the meantime giving taxpayerfunded healthcare, too. In fact, one of my colleagues in the congress recently said that we have to provide taxpayerfunded abortion to illegal immigrants. Which, i have to say, sounds like something some of you might come up with at a late night bull session when youre thinking of a parity about the Democratic Party positions might be. I could go on and on about our democratic friends and what they were saying last night but i see that on your tables you all have a fascinated book in front of you. It is called sacred d
tonight, but also getting to nikki haley. i saw your coverage of nikki haley in the last hour. just a little before you started that. in new hampshire tonight. she was asked a pretty simple question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer that did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour, and explain why she gave that answer. lawrence, i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he dn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world, and while he
question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer they did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour. and explain. why she gave that answer. lawrence i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77 year old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he didn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world and while he was at it, he said the president s united states should rot in hell. the 77 year old criminal defendant is also the leading republican candidate for president of united states. thanks to t
books is doing on the president. i said i don t have time. he said i want you to do one thing. he said alan evans has done a paperback that excerpts his diary, his presidential direry. take the diary. take the weekend and read it. i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldn t say know no. i was fascinated. did you know much about him? i knew he was a tennesseeian. i m a tennessean. i knew his grave shined the capitol. there is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. his old home place in columbia is preserved and i ve been there many times and been there since. i knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. his reputation as a result of what was done to him during his presidency over the mexican-american war left him a bad reputation. a reputation as a warmonger and the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great deal of the attacks on lyndon johnson at the end of his