Henry halleck and advice to link and establish something called the lieber code, what was acceptable, unacceptable, which included a bunch a much wider territory that was acceptable in terms of civil society, the freeing of slaves, seizing of private property, the attack upon civilians under certain circumstances. And lieber was a very important person to the history of the rest of the war. So is a lot to be read into the. I dont think lincoln was looking ahead to what would happen after the war. He had a lot in front of him to conduct in the war he had at hand, so i doubt that he was thinking about the Historical Perspective going forward. But its interesting to contemplate. May be one more question i gue guess. Are we done . When the proclamation was issued, what was the nature of the debate subsequently in congress, particularly with regard to the legal and constitutional questions that lincoln was working over in the previous sixmonth . Im not sure i know enough to speak the debate
Everyone thought hillary would win. Obama comes out of the blue from nowhere and swedes everything away. He with two terms. Leave it to the democrats to come up with someone on the left of Hillary Clinton. Host which is what we talked about yesterday. Think the Democratic Party has a lot of the same internal divisions but the democrats are more cohesive. They are poised to run for president on the democratic side that tend to be, if you look at haveon and warren, probably a lot more support within the wings of the party than the republicans do and the republican field is a little more unsettled. Really near the end of his second term, and i mean in the final year as the up, the issue is does hillary run or not. If she does not, it is probably a wideopen yield on their spot. And you the presidency, have a political figure that at least appears to be a consensus candidate at this time. It is different for republicans are now. They have been out of power for a while. They have not had imm
Tracy the president says he has the veto pen already. Here is what the disagree. I havent used the veto pen very often when ive been in office. I suspect there will be times i have to pull the pen out. Here with us now david asman of fox business, James Freeman of wall street journal. Kmele foster of the independents. David he hasnt had to . No he had everything locked up by harry reid who controlled the senate. House would pass something and senator reid would sit on it. The good thing what is happening. We dont have to have more lip service from the president how he is moderator and how he tries we know he has not wanted to come to december. That is why he had harry reid lock it up. He empowers panels like simpsonbowles to look attacks reform without any intention of passing meaningful tax reform. Now we have the honest obama. Tracy we have his true colors where we will say no to everything. Not no to everything but not looking like honeymoon for the Republican Senate of the it is od
Motivated by resentment and the sense of being put upon. And, you know those people really dont understand us. And heres a guy who does understand us, and hes going to stick it to em. And that happens on both sides. Hillary clinton will give her own version of that a kind of thing. And i dont think that was actually true 30 years ago. I mean resentment has always been part of politics obviously, but the degree to which its almost exclusively the motivating factor in truly committed republicans and democrats. Sunday night at eight eastern and pacific on cspans q a. And now on booktv this prime time, after words. William bennett, former director of the office of National Drug control policy under george h. W. Bush argues against the legalization of marijuana with jonah goldberg, Senior Editor of national review. Host hi, bill. Guest jonah. Host good to see you. Were going to talk about your book going to pot. First, we should have the full disclosure, we know each other. We are longtime
Later, the Consumer Confidence number is released for september. We were originally speccing Housing Starts at 8 30 eastern today. Permits will hit the tape, but the government is delaying the starts and completions again. They are still blaming the shutdown for this. The Commerce Department now plans to share that information on december 18th. We go from the economy to earnings. This mornings horts include hormel, tiffanys, and barns noble. Also, other market related news, takeover premiums are shrink to go historic lows. The wall street journal reports more than 9300 deals and so far this year the average premium has only by 19 of a target the week before. That compares to a historic average of 30 . Among those factor tos are booming economy, a worry Interest Rates will rise. Market vaum is an issue. You have to look in two different places to figure out what that word might be. Beyond the market is the other top story, the severe storm threatening parts of the country. The big mess