We are now in our third week in this course, and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover today, because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. Now we touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself was born in hodgenville, kentucky, in a log cabin, yes, quite literally. He doesnt stay in kentucky. In 1818, his parents uproot from kentucky and move northwards across the ohio river into southern indiana. That is where lincol
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. This is a great day for us. Of course it began well in the Supreme Court of the United States when the constitution was upheld and that was a beautiful thing and now we are here to talk about how we go into the future. When we won in 2018, we said to the American People that for the people, we would lower the cost of health care by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and preserving the preexisting condition. Low er health care costs. Bigger paychecks by building the infrastructure of america ain a green and resilient way and third, we would have cleaner government. Cleaner government by improving, enhancing the voice of small donors and the grass roots in our political process. Between now and fourth of july, we will bring the aca enhancement legislation to the floor on june 29th. Next week, we will bring the justice and policing act, part of our bill initiatives to the floor. Before the fourth of july, well bring this important l
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He serves the ninth district. That includes houston and here to talk about his efforts on impeachment of the president. Good morning to you. Good morning. Its an honor to be with you. Pleased to receive your 40year mug. 40 years of allowing the loyal opposition to have a voice. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. The third attempt at this. What makes this different than the previous two times . Well, its different this time because were now engaged in a bifurcated process. Yesterday there was a vote of condemnation. The president was condemned. Today well have a vote to punish. You see, when you go to court, this is similar to going to court, not the same. The first phase is to determine whether a person is guilty or not. Clearly 240 votes, he was found guilty. Today we have the opportunity to punish. Yesterday there was no fine imposed. The president is not going to lose his job. You and i might lose our jobs if we did such a thing. But the president wont lose his job. So we have to