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tonight, but also getting to nikki haley. i saw your coverage of nikki haley in the last hour. just a little before you started that. in new hampshire tonight. she was asked a pretty simple question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer that did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour, and explain why she gave that answer. lawrence, i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he dn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world, and wh ....
question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer they did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour. and explain. why she gave that answer. lawrence i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77 year old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he didn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world and while he was at it, he said the president s united states should rot in hell. the 77 year old criminal defendant is also the leading republican candidate for president of united states. thank ....
books is doing on the president. i said i don t have time. he said i want you to do one thing. he said alan evans has done a paperback that excerpts his diary, his presidential direry. take the diary. take the weekend and read it. i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldn t say know no. i was fascinated. did you know much about him? i knew he was a tennesseeian. i m a tennessean. i knew his grave shined the capitol. there is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. his old home place in columbia is preserved and i ve been there many times and been there since. i knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. his reputation as a result of what was done to him during his presidency over the mexican-american war left him a bad reputation. a reputation as a warmonger and the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great deal of the attacks on lyndon johnson at the end ....
that does seem particularly appropriate because she will be discussing her new book capital dames: the civil war and the women of washington, 1848-1868 . cokie roberts is best known as one of our nation s most respected broadcast journalist. her broadcasts on in the our offer critical insight into the world s politics, government and washington, and as is the case with every campaign season she will be one of the most important voices we all listen to in the months ahead as the 2016 presidential race unfold and i know how busy you will be trying to cover by that time i was going to say the candidates that keeps growing forever. i do want to mention in the r and nbc are her day job. you know the cokie roberts grew up in a political family she has seen political life from the inside and out and understand where political dynamics fitting to american history and for that reason it is not surprising that along with her commentaries on contemporary politics she s a ....
celebrate one of them today. this inauguration is a reminder of our common story as americans, and on this most uniquely american of occasions, i ask you to stand and join me in raising a glass. mr. president, may you find every success in the years ahead. may you unite our country behind a common vision and renew the promise that makes our country so great. hear, hear. . . thank you very much, mitch, and paul and our great vice president. i don t think anybody wants to so we ll cut it short. but we have so many of our cabinet members here. i see my generals that are going to keep us so safe. they re going to have a lot of problems, the other side. they re going to look at a couple of them. if i m doing a movie, i pick you, general. general mattis is doing really well. even chuck likes general mattis and general kelly. we had a very interesting talk. kiddingly, he thinks we re doing great at the cabinet level, but we re going to do just fine. we re going to do just fi ....