0 presidential candidate who did not have peerns in washington? from the left, i m van jones. from the right, i am s.e. cup. out front next, george zimmerman arrested and charged. he had broken a table and at one point pointed a long-barrelled shotgun at her. and toronto s crack-smoking mayor acts out again and again. i didn t push her. plus lady gaga s revelation. i was speaking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front we begin with george zimmerman busted again. aresd on domestic violence charges after he allegedly pointed a shotgun at his new girlfriend. he s being held without bail in the seminole county jail. he s had multiple run ins with police. david, you were in that courtroom every day during the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman seems to have had a lot of trouble staying out of trouble. what are all the charges and allegations here? reporter: the one thing everyo
all of these interesting answers about how we lead up to 1861, contingencies and circumstances we might not have thought about before. frank, i d like to you take us to maryland during the succession crisis. some say abraham lincoln took a constitutional stand to prevent the succession of maryland. think of one thing i would like for to you add, something i ve always wondered about, i don t think we ve discussed it, should he have done the same thing in virginia, if he could, prevent the cesstion convention just down the road. it s an interesting question. what the president did was to take certain acts to keep maryland as a border state, slave state, in the union. he was certainly hoping that the old dominion, common wealth of virginia would not vote to us is seed and they did, they were tilting more towards it than maryland was at the time i think of firing on ft. sumpter in april. with congress not in session, lincoln was apaplectic in that he feared for the safety of
reasons but for military reasons. and virginia, i think he was treating more politically, hoping he wouldn t have the votes when they met in convention to vote for cessation. unfortunately, that did not turn out. this continues the theme of that jack alluded to, the surprising burst of confederate nationalism, the desire to other a union some states were not authorized to do, while lincoln in washington sees the maryland event as a security issue and, perhaps, overestimates union sentiment in virginia, or might have reacted the same way. that s an imponderable, i think. i want to stay on the lincoln question for everybody to weigh in on. because, you know, adam has written that 61 is a result of the failure of compromise in some ways. certainly the peace convention was a failure of compromise, but since we are the lincoln forum, i want to get back to lincoln. and this is a period that i ve written about, at least until march 4, 1861, when lincoln determinedly, some say s