from their homeland. this is history in a personal record defies the statement that he would have done anything to prevent the civil war. i think that is factually inaccurate on the part of this president but it does open up a conversation that maybe it's time for us to have. the conversation is wrong. >> we know this president is a lot less red than the last two presidents, bush and obama. is he ignorant about history? >> certainly in this case. the gotcha moment is not the president's affinity with andrew jackson. it's the exchange where he says the civil war why? people are asking why did this happen? but people are not asking that. we know why the civil war happened. it happened because of slavery. the states fought a war over slavery. it's almost, don, like he's learning american history on the