And now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely extinguished panel of leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael, Michael Burlingame chancellor know b lynn, distinguished at the university of illinois, springfield, is the author of many books on lincoln including the enrolled of Abraham Lincoln, and to volume american Abraham Lincoln, a life. As well as his new book which will be discussing tonight. The black mans president. Abraham, lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah feldman it is the frankfurter professor of law, chair of the society of fellows, and founding director of the program and jewish and israeli law at harvard university. He wrote nine books including the three lives of james madison, genius as president , and his latest book we will be discussing tonight, the broken constitution, lincoln s and they refounding of america. Diana schaub it is professor of Political Science at maryland university
From abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. And we begin with the horrifying news breaking overnight in florida. What appears to be the deadliest terror attack on american soil since 9 11. Around 2 00 a. M. , a gunman exchanged gun fire with police, took hostages at a nightclub in orlando. Three hours later, police s. W. A. T. Teams move in, kill the gunman. Find a scene of carnage. Police believe the gunman acted alone. He was organized and well prepared. Armed with an assault rifle. A handgun. At least one other suspicious device. They believe he traveled to orlando from outside the area. And he may have been motivated by radical ideology. Officials calling this an incident of domestic terror. Lauren list sir on the ground in orlando. Reporter good morning, george. This is where it all happened. Theres still a plins the side streets. Thaw that its cleared, we can see the sign for the nightclub, pulse. Just down a block and half. It was a fun night of d
From abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. And we begin with the horrifying news breaking overnight in florida. What appears to be the deadliest terror attack on american soil since 9 11. Around 2 00 a. M. , a gunman exchanged gun fire with police, took hostages at a nightclub in orlando. Three hours later, police s. W. A. T. Teams move in, kill the gunman. Find a scene of carnage. Police believe the gunman acted alone. He was organized and well prepared. Armed with an assault rifle. A handgun. At least one other suspicious device. They believe he traveled to orlando from outside the area. And he may have been motivated by radical ideology. Officials calling this an incident of domestic terror. Lauren list sir on the ground in orlando. Reporter good morning, george. This is where it all happened. Theres still a plins presence. Still crime tape blocking off the side streets. Thaw that its cleared, we can see the sign for the nightclub, pulse. Just down a
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unfolded over minutes, you know? this was not it didn t happen sort of instantaneously like a gunshot to have hacked this british soldier to death. it took time. and so, you know, you really you no doubt that the british government is going to look at a chronology of how this happened, you know. there are cameras all over london. the city of london now is part of their security program. they will try to understand who was in the area, what steps were taken to stop this attack. and, exactly what happened. as you point out, one of the questions would be is he connected to, you know, a larger terrorist group? what are some of the questions what would be some of the investigations happening right now as police are clearly responding to this incident in lond london? no question, brooke, they will look at this guy s cell phone and the cell phone contact, his internet interactions and contacts, not only inside the uk, for possible