times and the way to snop size it, what happens when one sees the president s word as no good anywhere. the ie debitity of ourselves as a people depends on a common political truth. we ve got an erosion of trust in the institutions, in the president, the congress, the judicial system. different people are saying different things. fake news turn into facts. misspoken truths and outright lies. there s a trouble pattern. it reminds me of a scary way. in 1950s. people read partisan newspapers. lincoln-douglas debates. the democrats would say lincoln was so bad he fell on the floor and they had to carry him off. that led to alternative cultures, the deepening distrust
i think the greatest danger as you were saying earlier to our democracy is the identity of ourselves as a people depends upon truth. what we have got is an erosion because you ve got different people saying different things, fake news, alternative facts, misspoker statements, truth and outright lies. it reminds me of the scare days of the 1850s. lincoln douglas debates, in one paper that would say lincoln was so terrible he fell on the floor in humiliation they had to carry him out. in the republican paper they would say he was so trim fingerprint he fell and they carried him out in their arms. we re in a very serious situation.
that tribed the lincoln-douglas debates. that was like lincoln s guy, the transcriber. he is sitting there getting every word lincoln said on behalf of this client. peachy quinn harrison. yes. what will we learn that we didn t know? we will see how methodical, smart he was as an attorney. and you will see something that people don t see very often and think about with lincoln. which is at one point in the book he gets so angry and so furious at a judge s ruling the descriptions we have real descriptions from people who were there at the time. it is almost as if he is going to jump over the bench. i will give away this part of it. eventually he was able to change the judge s mind. it is a really compelling story. just the case. it is a self-defense case where lincoln is representing the defendant. it was a really exciting
criticized jefferson davis. the fact that the president calls for jailing of his political opponents is not normal. lincoln douglas debates got nasty, though. oh, they did. pitch you with a large here is james comey talking to npr about rod rosenstein and whether the deputy attorney general should be fired by the president. here it is with respect to the deputy attorney general, i think it is very important that he stay. because i do think he has conducted himself hon rably with respect to his appointment of a special counsel and the assertion of that special counsel s work to the rule of law. so i really do think it would be an attack on the rule of law for him to be fired or for the special counsel to be fired. he thinks rod rosenstein was deeply irresponsible by writing that memo that trump ostensibly
didn t want black people marrying their kids and most of them didn t want a lot of them around, and douglas exploited that, and the charleston debate here, said did you know, he says to the people, that lincoln s friend fred douglas who spoke on our campus twice and there s a statue of him now, rode through this town last week in a carriage driven by a white man. mark: this is the great frederick douglas, an escaped slave, brilliant man. brilliant. mark: who helped lead the abolition movement. that s right, and the lincoln-douglas debates, only lincoln rises to great heights. douglas s health was destroyed by this experience, but lincoln says, you know, maybe the black woman is not my equal. you think. why don t you let her alone? because isn t she the equal of every one of us, and the right